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Sociology and Social Work

This page provides access to recommended resources for research in sociology and social work.

Finding Articles [help]

Sociological Abstracts - Indexes journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers

Social Sciences Abstracts - Abstracts and full-text articles on the social sciences

Social Services Abstracts - Indexes journal articles and dissertations in social work

Web of Science - Citation index for all disciplines (1977-present)

Finding Books

HopeCAT - Materials in the collections of Hope College Libraries and Western Theological Seminary
MeLCat - Materials in participating Michigan libraries
WorldCat - Materials in U.S. and international libraries

Online Reference Sources

FirstGov: Gateway to official state websites, federal agencies and more

Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America (2000)

ICPSR - The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) provides access to social science datasets to promote current quantitative and qualitative research techniques and statistical methods.

Oxford Reference Online - Politics & Social Sciences

including: Dictionary of the Social Sciences (2002), Dictionary of Sociology (2005), and others

THOMAS: Legislative information on the internet

U.S. Census Bureau