Research Guides: SOC 489: The Research Experience: Sources

Suggested Places to Start

Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Includes feature that allows researcher to follow citations forward and backward in time. Covers international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Content from 1952 - present.
Birmingham News This link opens in a new window
Birmingham history through the current and archived issues with full-color newspaper pages, full-text articles and content only published online.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Back issues of periodicals in economics, math and science, the humanities, and social sciences.
ERIC (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Documents and journal literature on education; sponsored by the US Department of Education.
PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
Over seventy journal titles published by the APA, APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber. 1894-present.
OneFile: Contemporary Women's Issues This link opens in a new window
Find timely and historically relevant content on issues that influence women’s lives across the globe.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) This link opens in a new window
Federally-funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
SimplyAnalytics This link opens in a new window
Web-based mapping application where users can quickly collect data to create thematic maps and custom reports using demographic, business, and marketing data. Includes D&B US Company Data, SimmonsLOCAL Data & EASI Health Data.
ICPSR This link opens in a new window
An archive of social science data for research and instruction.

See related Research Guide: ICPSR

Contact UAB Librarian Brooke Becker at babecker@uab.edu, or send an email to icpsr-help@umich.edu if you experience issues.

UAB School of Public Health - Resources
In line with the Lister Hill Center for Health Policy’s mission statement, the LHC sponsors resources which UAB researchers can use to further support their investigations into issues of health policy.

Birmingham City Profile - Census Bureau
Food Environment Atlas - USDA
The objectives of the Food Environment Atlas are to assemble statistics on food environment indicators to stimulate research on the determinants of food choices and diet quality and to provide a spatial overview of a community's ability to access healthy food and its success in doing so.
Country, Metro, and Other Local Areas -- Bureau of Economic Analysis
Crime in the U.S. - FBI
113 Cause of Death by Country, Race and Sex (2021)-- Alabama Public Health

Data by County - Alabama - County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
Health Outcomes tell us how long people live on average within a community, and how much physical and mental health people experience in a community while they are alive.
diversitydatakids.org
Established in 2014 with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, diversitydatakids.org set out to fill an urgent need for a rigorous, equity-focused research program with a clear mission to help improve child wellbeing and increase racial and ethnic equity in opportunities for children.
Better Basics -- Advancing Educational Equity in Central Alabama
Better Basics works to eradicate illiteracy among children in Central Alabama. We deliver reading and math instruction and resources to empower the educationally vulnerable.
Birmingham Watch -- Alabama Initiative for Independent Journalism
The Alabama Initiative for Independent Journalism is a non-profit, non-partisan organization serving the civic good of Birmingham and Alabama by supporting journalism that makes a difference and citizen engagement with news that is fair, factual, unflinching and focused on important matters.
National Alliance on Mental Illness -- Birmingham
Dedicated to improving the quality of life for people with mental illness and their families through support, education and advocacy.
National Center for Health Housing
Through partnerships, community-based research, and advocacy, NCHH seeks to reduce health disparities by translating credible science into tools and catalyzing systems change in low-income communities.