Social & Behavioral Sciences Resources

Related Databases

Offers the ability to search a wide range of important journals in the humanities and social sciences as far back as 1907. This collection is a retrospective of the Humanities Full Text and Social Sciences Full Text databases.
Nature Reviews Neuroscience covers the breadth and depth of modern neuroscience by providing an authoritative, accessible, topical, and engaging first port of call for scientists who are interested in all aspect of neuroscience -- from molecules to the mind.
Search from approximately 200 psychology-related periodicals on subjects such as human development, learning, psychiatry, and much more. Many of these periodicals are available full text.
Search from approximately 500 social sciences-related periodicals on subjects such as anthropology, culture, criminology, political science, social welfare, urban development, and much more. Many of these periodicals are available full text.
Provides full text articles on current issues in psychology from respected sources, spanning from 1988 to the present. Also includes more than 39,000 full text articles from 53 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. All journals included in this database are indexed in the database PsycINFO.
This database, from the American Psychological Association, contains over two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, all in the field of psychology, dating as far back as 1840. Journal coverage, which dates back to the 1800s, includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in over 35 languages. More than 65,000 records are added each year.
Indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere plus the full text of selected periodicals. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals. Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in January 1994 and full text coverage starts in January 1995. To search for abstracts of articles published between 1907 and 1984, please use The Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective Collection.

Books

To locate books and other resources relevant to social & behavioral sciences, please use the library's online catalog to conduct searches by keyword, title, or author. Additionally, you may conduct a search set to a "subject browse" and searching the phrase "social sciences." Then you can browse through the subject headings related to "social sciences" by clicking the "NEXT" button at the top or bottom of the page.

You may also try browsing through the collection on the first floor of the library to find reference works. The following reference books may be a good start.

General

  • Encyclopedia of Social Theory: REF HM425 .E47 2005
  • Encyclopedia of Sociology: REF HM425 .E5 2000
  • Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology: REF HM425 .J64 2000
  • APA Dictionary of Psychology: REF BF31 .A63 2007

Specialized

  • Encyclopedia of Community: REF HM756 .E533 2003
  • Enyclopedia of Violence, Peace, & Conflict: REF HM886 .E53 1999
  • Encyclopedia of European Social History: REF HN373 .E63 2001
  • International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family: REF HQ9 .I676 2003
  • The Encyclopedia of Aging: REF HQ1061 .E53 2001
  • Encyclopedia of Women and Gender: REF HQ1115 .E43 2001
  • Encyclopedia of Crime & Justice: REF HV6017 .E52 2002
  • Dictionary of Family Psychology and Family Therapy: REF RC488.5 .D525 1993

Online Journals in Social Sciences

Online education journals by subject -- Social Sciences

Websites

American Sociological Association
http://www.asanet.org/

APA FAQ/Finding Information About Psychological Tests
http://www.apa.org/science/faq-findtests.html

Buros Institute Test Reviews Online
http://buros.unl.edu/buros/jsp/search.jsp

Classics in the History of Psychology
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/

Current Topics in Psychology
http://www.fenichel.com/Current.shtml

Electronic Journal of Sociology (EJS)
http://www.sociology.org/

Encyclopedia of Psychology
http://www.psychology.org/

ETS Test Collection
http://www.ets.org/testcoll/index.html

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research – University of Michigan
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/

Internet Resources in Psychology and Related Disciplines
http://www.princeton.edu/~psychlib/links.htm

Psychology WWW Virtual Library
http://www.dialogical.net/psychology/index.html

SOSIG - Psychology
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/roads/subject-listing/World-cat/psych.html

SOSIG - Sociology
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/sociology/

SocioSite – University of Amsterdam
http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/sociosite/

SocioWeb
http://www.socioweb.com/

Thomas – Legislative Information on the Internet
http://thomas.loc.gov/

U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/

 

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