Electronic Databases
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- Academic Search Elite Abstracts and full text journal articles in all subject categories.
- Arts & Humanities Citation IndexA citation index can be searched by author, topic and citation.
- Child Abuse, Child Welfare, and Adoption DatabaseContains citations and abstracts to books, journals and papers in the area of child abuse.
- Contemporary Women's IssuesProvides full text access to global information on women.
- Gender WatchInternational publications devoted to women and gender issues. Full text.
- GPO Monthly CatalogAn index to information published by the U.S. Government. Also available in print (Government Documents, 3rd Floor - Index Tables)
- Humanities Full TextCovers the fields of art, history, communications, language and literature, literary and political criticism, philosophy and relgion. Full text.
- JSTOR: Arts and Sciences Collections 1 & 2 Archives of scholarly electronic journals in Sociology, Political Science, Economics, Mathematics, History, and more.
- Periodical Abstracts General and academic journals in business, current affairs, economics, literature, religion, psychology, women's studies, etc.
- Project Muse 300+ of the Johns Hopkins University Press's journals are offered online via Project Muse. Subject areas include the arts, culture, history, literature, philosophy and politics. Many titles have coverage back to 1995. Available on campus only.
- Readers' Guide Full Text
Indexes and abstracts from more than 400 popular journals, from as far back as 1983. Also available in print, Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, 1900 - 1982 (Reference Area)
- SIRSResearcher General reference database exploring social, scientific, historic, economic, political and global issues.
- Social Sciences Full Text Abstracts to social science journals. Full text.
- Social Sciences Citation IndexA citation index can be searched by author, topic or citation.
- Women's Studies InternationalIncludes citations and abstracts drawn from a variety of women's studies databases.
- General Electronic Databases
Comprehensive Sites on Sociology
Related Sites at UW-Platteville/Karrmann Library
Sociology at UW-Platteville
- The Sociology Office is located in 324 Warner Hall and the contact person is Thomas Waters. For a listing of courses or for more information call, (608) 342-1893.
- James Hibbard is the Karrmann Library's liaison to the Sociology program. Contact James at (608) 342-1229 for individualized consultations and/or library instruction sessions in sociology. His e-mail address is hibbardj@uwplatt.edu.