The main index to journal articles in Sociology and related fields. Start here most of the time for this class.

Full text of journals -- but not many criminology journals -- up to 3-5 years ago. These are considered the "core" journals of many fields, but the "core" does not always reflect the breadth of scholarship and theoretical approach. Also, the newest research will never be found here.

A broad, interdisciplinary index to journals, newspapers and other publications. Good for searching across disciplines and narrowing down from a general search.

(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
Covers current research focused on social work and human services and related fields of social welfare, social policy, and community development. Covers 1979 - current.

A quick way to search across disciplines. Highly cited works tend to appear at the top of the search results. Look for the "Full Text" link to find library access.

(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
Available through the Web of Knowledge. Search through current and historical literature in the social sciences, and perform cited reference searching to see who has cite a particular document. Covers 1898 - current.
Note: To do cited reference searching, click on "cited reference search," fill in an author's last name and publication date, figure out which of the resulting list of citations match the work you're looking for, and then "finish search" to see who has cited that work.

(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
The key database for educational-related literature. You may also search ERIC through the free U.S. Department of Education website. 1966 - current. An ELM Database.

Key index to journal articles in psychology.

Broad index to scholarly literature, great for interdisciplinary topics. The only index that lets you search broadly for articles that cite a given work or dataset.