University Library

Sociology

Chris AdamsLibrarian: Chris Adams
Location: Murray Liaison & Research Services
Room: LIB 122.8
Phone: 966-7262
Email: Chris.Adams@usask.ca

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Sociological Abstracts 1963 - present
International literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences [details]
SocINDEX with Full Text Indexing & Abstracts: 1895 - present; Full text: 1908 - present
A multi- and cross-disciplinary service with approx 800 journals title full-text as well as a further 1200 "core" jouranl titles and approx. 3,000 journals with selective coverage. [details]
Social Services Abstracts 1980 - present
Research on social work, human services, and related areas [details]
Social Sciences Citation Index® (SSCI) Web of Science 1981 - present

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Academic Search Complete (ASC) 1887 - present
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. [details]
ArticleFirst OCLC FirstSearch 1990 - present
Index of articles from the contents pages of journals in business, science, humanities, social science, medicine, technology and popular culture [details]
Expanded Academic ASAP 1980 - present
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this full text database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images! [details]
International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA) 1989 - present
A bibliographic database of political science articles fomr over 900 scholarly journals and yearbooks worldwide. [details]
JSTOR Volume 1 through to a "moving wall" embargo period of the last 2 to 5 years that varies by title
Fulltext archive of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences, as well as 19th century British pamphlets. A unique e-journal database of complete backfiles of core scholarly journals in the arts and sciences. [details]
OCLC FirstSearch Coverage varies by database
A portal service to OCLC bibliographic databases and reference sources. Permits cross-searching. [details]
PAIS International and PAIS Archive Public Affairs Information Service 1915 - present
Bibliographic database covering public affairs, public and social policies, international relations. It has an archive going back to 1915. [details]
PapersFirst OCLC PapersFirst 1993 - present
OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre. [details]
Project Muse Varies [1995 - present
Access to the full text (HTML and PDF formats)of over 380 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 90 scholarly publishers, covering the fields of literature, history, arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and more. [details]
PsycINFO 1806 - present
Bibliographic database "providing abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences."
Library Guide (pdf) [details]
Public Administration Abstracts 1974 - present
Index and abstracting bibliographic database covering essential areas related to public administration, including public administration theory, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. [details]

Aging & Elders

Abstracts in Social Gerontology [Journal] Electronic Collections Online (ECO) 1995 - present
An electronic journal index with abstracts, providing a comprehensive summary of current literature in the field of social gerontology. [details]
Ageline Database
"Abstracts of social gerontology and aging-related articles, books, and reports." Ageline webpage

Black Studies

Black Thought and Culture African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present Historical - present
A collection of nearly 800 "monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present." [details]
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007 1490 - 2007
A portal to an extensive collection of digitized documents and collections related to slavery and abolition studies from libraries across the Atlantic world. Topics include" the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today. This resource will be released in three phases between 2007 and 2009. [details]

Canadian content

America: History & Life (AHL) 1964 - present
Definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. [details]
CBCA Complete Canadian Business & Current Affairs Index: 1971 - present; full text: 1985 - present.
Search across all Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) databases: CBCA Business, CBCA Current Events, CBCA Education, CBCA Reference and over 1,665 periodicals and television and radio transcripts, as well as ebooks and dissertations. [details]
Canadian Newsstand Varies; 1985 - present
Major Canadian dailies and news sources and newspapers from across Canada and the Prairie region. [details]
CPI.Q (Canadian Periodicals Index Quarterly) Indexing: 1980 - present; full text 1983 - present
A full text database of articles from Canadian and International journals, magazines and reference content from Gale, all with a Canadian focus. Includes Canada's national newspaper, The Globe and Mail; Maclean's weekly magazine; Canadian News Facts; and reference materials, such as the Canadian Parliamentary Guide and Canadian Newsmakers. [details]

Criminology

Criminal Justice Abstracts 1968 - present
Bibliographic database indexing and providing abstracts for international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on a wide range of topics in criminal justice. [details]

Culture Studies

Hapi Online Hispanic American Periodicals Index 1970 - present
An authoritative source for worldwide information about Latin American issues, including analyses of current political, economic, and social issues, as well as coverage of arts and letters. Includes some full text. [details]
Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies (MECAS) 1900 - present
A bibliographic index of research, policy and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa. Includes abstracts and links to full text. [details]
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories 1840 - present
A collection of personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories, providing a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada. [details]
Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 1500 - 1926
Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography of the history of the Western Hemisphere, Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time, this collection of over 29,000 digitized works, "contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more." [details]

Education, Sociology of

ERIC (CSA) 1966 - present
Articles in the field of education [details]

Family Studies & Abuse

Family & Society Studies Worldwide (FSSW) 1970 - present
An anthology of four databases providing comprehensive coverage of "research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, Human Development, and Social Welfare." [details]
Family Studies Abstracts 1979 - present
Index and abstracting bibliographic database covering essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. [details]
Violence & Abuse Abstracts 1995 - present
Index and abstracting bibliographic database covering essential areas related to violence and abuse, including family violence, sexual assault, emotional abuse, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. [details]

Historical Sociology

Empire Online Varies by collection; 1492 - 2007
A digitzed collection of original documents relating to Empire Studies, sourced from libraries and archives around the world. It covers: cultural contact, empire writing and literature of empire, the visible empire, religion and empire, race, class & colonialism [details]
Mass Observation Online 1937 - 1972
Digitized manuscripts and typescript papers created and collected by the Mass-Observation organisation, a pioneering social research organisation whose papers cover the cultural and social history of Britain primarily from 1937 to 1965. [details]
Victorian Popular Culture 1779 to 1930
A portal to digitized books and documents describing Victorian popular culture and popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930 and shows how interconnected these worlds were. It welcomes the reader to "the darkened halls, small backrooms and travelling venues that hosted everything from spectacular shows and bawdy burlesque, to the world of magic and spiritualist séances." [details]
Historical Abstracts (HA) 1955 - present
Comprehensive index of the literature covering "the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada, covered in America: History & Life) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. [details]

Medicine, Sociology of

AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine) 1985 - present
A bibliographic database indexing over 500 journals in complementary medicine, palliative care, and several professions allied to medicine. [details]
MEDLINE® Ovid MEDLINE 1950 - present
Major bibliographic database for clinical medicine, including: internal medicine, general medicine, primary care, family medicine, and general practice, as well as: veterinary medicine, nursing, allied health, dentistry, and pre-clinical sciences. [details]
Nursing & Allied Health Collection: Comprehensive Edition FT: 1975 - present
A bibliographic database ,including nearly 400 full text journals (nearly 300 are peer-reviewed), covering the areas of "nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines. ACCESS NOTE: some titles do not include current year. [details]
SAGE JOURNALS Online & SAGE Deep Backfile Premier Collection Includes backfiles to volume 1, issue 1; 1879 - present
Full text collection of over 500 SAGE electronic journal titles in business, social sciences, humanities, medicine, engineering, and physical and life sciences, with a deep backfile to volume 1, issue 1. [details]
ScienceDirect 1995 - present; selected complete backfiles from volume 1, issue 1
Portal to scholarly journals, book series, and ebooks published by Elsevier and affiliated publishers primarily covering science, technology, and medicine and the social sciences. The University of Saskatchewan Library has a current license to the full text of over 2270 of the journal titles back to 1995 (1993 for Academic Press titles) as well as access to several subject backfile collections with coverage from from volume 1, issue 1. Also includes several major reference works and ebook collections. [details]
Scopus Cover-to-cover: 1996 - present; selected coverage may go back to 1966.
A very large abstract and index database of research literature and quality web sources covering the science, technolgy, and medicine (STM), and social sciences. [details]

Native Studies & Aboriginal Peoples

First Nations Periodical Index 1970 - present
This resource indexes twenty First Nations journals and magazines, largely from the 1990's to 2005. The Saskatchewan Indian has indexing from 1979 to 2005, with selected full text articles going back to 1970. [details]
iPortal indigenous studies portal, research tool
Online full text resources for indigenous studies in all the disciplines, including articles, books, book reviews, websites, archival materials, and theses and dissertations.
Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) 16th C. - present
Bibliographic database covering all aspects of native culture, history and life in North America, Greenland, and eastern Siberia, including: archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. [details]
North American Indian Thought and Culture 17th century - present
A collection of biographical information on indigenous peoples from all areas of North America. With over 119,000 pages of content, including biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories, reference works, manuscripts, and photographs. [details]

Rural/Urban Sociology

CAB Abstracts® & CAB Abstracts® Archive 1910 - present
Index and abstract database to agriculture, forestry, and biosciences literature, including: journals, books, conference proceedings, reports, and patents. [details]

Sexuality & Gender Studies

Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI) 1992 - present
A multidisciplinary, full-text database "that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press -- with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries." [details]
Defining Gender, 1450-1910 1450 - 1910
A digitized collection of original documents relating to Gender Studies, sourced from libraries and archives around the world. It has five thematic sections: Conduct and Politeness, Domesticity and the Family, Consumption and Leisure, Education and Sensibility, and The Body. [details]
Gender Studies Database 1972 & earlier - present
Combines NISC's Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with coverage of sexual diversity studies issues. [details]
LGBT Life with Full Text Coverage varies by title
Index to literature covering lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender (LGBT) issues and including the full text of 50 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens of full text monographs. [details]
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 1600 - 2000
A collection of documents, images, and links to other websites, covering the history of women in social movements in the United States. [details]
North American Women's Letters and Diaries Colonial to 1950 Colonial period - 1950
A collection of over 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries of women writing in North America. [details]

Socialism, Communism

Alternative Press Index 1991 - present
A bibliographic database indexing and abstracting (selectively) nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines, covering cultural, economic, political & social change. [details]
Left Index 1982 and earlier - present
A bibliographic abstract and index database with some full text covering the "diverse literature of the left, with an emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia." [details]

Terrorism, Anarchism & Peace Studies

Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources 2006 edition
A collection of primary source documents from the Social Issues Primary Source Collection focusing on the issue of terrorism in the last three centuries. [details]
Peace Research Abstracts 1964 - present
Index and abstracting bibliographic database covering essential areas related to peace research, including conflict resolution, international affairs, peace psychology, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. [details]
International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center (ISCTRC) Current
Full text resource covering security and counter-terrorism issues, combining news sources and scholarly writings with expert commentary from across the international political, military, economic, social and technical spectrum. [details]

Proceedings