Research Guides: Sociology: Find Articles

Recommended Databases for Research

SocIndex This link opens in a new window
Main subject area covered: Sociology.
SocIndex indexes the literature of sociology, indexing over 4,000 journals covering all areas of sociological research.
Social Explorer This link opens in a new window
Social Explorer provides interactive demographic data. Its mapping tools allow data to be easily visualized, and it also allows users to extract data table reports. Users may generate custom reports and maps, and they may create personal accounts to save their reports and maps.
Social Explorer’s U.S. data sources include the U.S. Decennial Census, the American Community Survey, the FBI Uniform Crime Report, American election results, Religious Congregations and Membership Study, Vulcan Project carbon emissions data, U.S. Business Patterns, and County Health Rankings and Roadmaps Program data. It also includes international data from the United Kingdom Census, Canadian Census, Eurostat, World Development Indicators, and Irish religion and population data.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Main subject area covered: All subjects.
Academic Search Premier provides indexing and abstracting of almost 7,000 peer-reviewed journals, with full text for over 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. All major academic subject areas are covered.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Main subject areas covered: Social Sciences, Sciences, Literature, Business, Arts, History, Economics, Political Science
JSTOR offers full text of over 3,700 important scholarly journals in numerous subject areas. The complete archives of these journals are available starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s. The most recent 3-5 years of each journal are not included.
PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
Main subject area covered: Psychology.
PsycInfo contains citations and abstracts from over 1,300 psychology journals from more than 50 countries. Also contains references to books, book chapters, and dissertations.
Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Main subject area covered: All subjects
The Academic OneFile database from Gale contains over 7,000 peer-reviewed scholarly journals covering all major subject areas, with over 5,000 of these titles available in full-text. Coverage ranges from 1980 to the present. Trying to access this from outside of NY State? If you're a Wagner College student or employee, enter password: wagner
Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new window
Opposing Viewpoints in Context provides contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the database features continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.
Trying to access this from outside of NY State? If you're a Wagner College student or employee, enter password: wagner
OneSearch This link opens in a new window
OneSearch is the library's comprehensive search tool. Search it to find all of our books, ebooks, articles, and more.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Main Subject Area Covered: All subjects
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature on the Web. It provides links to thousands of full-text articles, and allows users to set Scholar Preferences such as linking to sources available in the Wagner College Library.

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