Links for Researching Sociology
- UW Madison Journal Search Data Bases (require UW ID):
- Proquest Research Library – indexes periodocals going back to 1988
- Academic Search – multidisciplinary database that provides access to thousands of journals
- Sociological Abstracts – indexes 2000 worldwide sociology journals and dissertations
- EthnicNewsWatch – newspapers, magazines, and journals of ethnic minority presses
- Social Science Index – full text for “core” sociology journals
- Web of Science – citation index and impact studies for social science, arts and humanities, and science
- LexisNexis Academic Universe – legal, news, reference and business sources, mostly full text
- Electronic Journal Lists – UW Madison Libraries, over 100,000 periodicals
- Ask A Librarian
- Social Science Information Gateway
- Social Sciences Virtual Library
- Evaluation & Research Methods site hosted by Gene Shackman
- GSS (General Social Survey) – You can extract data for analysis here.
- Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA) A program developed and maintained by the Survey Methods Program at the University of California, Berkeley, that enables the user to do quick and easy analyses of GSS data from the 1972-1996 GSS cumulative data file.
- Census Bureau
- UW’s Data and Information Services Center has a collection of electronic data sets and links
to others. - Gallup Poll
- Code of Ethics of the American Sociological Association
- Code of Ethics of the American Psychological Association