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.
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.
Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covers a wide range of interdisciplinary fields; includes a broad array of social sciences journals. Content from 1983 - present.
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Peer-reviewed journals and popular publications covering business; includes trade journals, monographs, economic and industry reports, and market research.

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

HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Includes law periodicals, the Congressional Record, U.S. Reports, trials, legal classics, the United Nations and League of Nations Treaty Series, all United States treaties, the Federal Register and more.