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Sociology
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Sociology Databases
Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest)
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles, citations, book reviews, abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
Social Services Abstracts (ProQuest)
Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services and related areas, including social welfare, social policy and community development.
Multidisciplinary Databases
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, including full text from 1975-present for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles.
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) Complete (EBSCO)
This is the definitive research tool for nursing and allied health professionals. Full text for more than 1,300 journals, CINAHL provides broad content coverage including over 50 nursing specialties, speech and language pathology, nutrition, general health and medicine and more.
Google Scholar (Google)
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Here is a tutorial which explains how to set your preferences in Google Scholar: http://library.ndsu.edu/setting-your-preferences-google-scholar
JSTOR - Journal Storage (ITHAKA)
JSTOR includes academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
NDSU subscribes to the following archival journal collections: Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, VII, and VIII, as well as the Language and Literature and Life Sciences collections. For more information on collection subject coverage and title lists, please visit http://about.jstor.org/journals.
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) - 1900-present (Clarivate Analytics)
Accessed via Web of Science®, this database provides access to the bibliographic and citation information needed to find research data, analyze trends, journals and researchers, and share findings in the social sciences.
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Research Collection
H Social sciences (general)
HA Statistics
HA 154 - 4737 Statistical data
HM Sociology
HM 435 - 477 History of Sociology (schools of sociology)
HN Social history and conditions
HQ The Family, Marriage, Women
HQ 12 - 449 Sexual life
HQ 503 - 1064 The family (parents, children, adults, etc...)
HQ 1101 - 2030.7 Women (feminism)
HS Societies
HT Communities, Classes, Races
HT 101 - 395 Urban groups (metropolitan areas, etc...)
HT 401 - 485 Rural groups
HT 601 - 1445 Classes
HT 1501 - 1595 Races
HV Social pathology, Social and public welfare
HV 6001 - 7220.5 Criminology
HX Socialism
Print Government Information
Physical government documents are shelved using the SuDocs (Superintendent of Documents) Classification Scheme.
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HE Health and Human Services Department
HH Housing and Urban Development Department
J Justice Department
VA Veterans Affairs Department
X-Y Congress
Find Data, Reports, and Statistics
North Dakota Compass is a social indicators project that measures progress in North Dakota. It tracks trends in topic areas such as children and youth, economy, health, housing, and workforce.
Consists of more than fifty high-precision samples of the American population drawn from fifteen federal censuses and from the American Community Surveys of 2000-present. IPUMS is a collection of microdata; to download the data you will need to register and create a free account.
Provides comprehensive data by topic (theme) and country.
Provides cross-national statistics on education, science and technology, culture, and communication.
Provides demographic and socioeconomic data, including information on gender inequality, poverty, and education.
Provides relevant data on population and housing, the economy, governments, and other demographic indicators.
Provides data on the development of countries.
DataBank is an analysis and visualisation tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics. You can create your own queries; generate tables, charts, and maps; and easily save, embed, and share them.
The Data Catalog includes data from the World Bank's microdata, finances and energy data platforms, as well as datasets from the open data catalog.
Gathers data on contemporary American society in order to monitor and explain trends and constants in attitudes, behaviors, and attributes.
Provides information about national and international issues, attitudes, and trends including U.S. national conditions, political attitudes, media and technology, and demographics.
Provides economic information including labor market activity, working conditions, employment/unemployment, and pay/benefits.
Publishes a range of time series data on lending, exchange rates and other economic and financial indicators.
Provides data and statistics by topic including illness/disease, birth, death, and health.
Run by the World Health Organization (WHO)
Provides data on national (U.S.) health issues. Is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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