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Humanities & Social Sciences
Sociology
Gateway Sites
- Julian Dierkes' Sociolog.
- A Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace
- Sociosite: Going Dutch in Sociology
- An excellent English-language project based at the University of Amsterdam (a Dutch version is under construction). "The intention is to provide a comprehensive listing of all sociology resources on the Internet."This admittedly ambitious goal means that this site will "always be 'under construction.'" (See "About Us" for further programmatic statements.)A number of standard categories ["Subject Areas," "Sociologists (over eighty links here alone)]," "Journals," "Libraries," "Data Archives," "Research Centers," etc) provide links to hundreds of destinations.The worldwide directory ("Who's Where") would be more useful if the addresses were updated more frequently, but that may be impossible, given the scope of the project.
- WWW Virtual Library: Sociology.
- One of the earliest and largest gateways in the field (established on January 15, 1995). The search engine can be set for this site only or can range over the entire WWW Virtual Library domain. Sections for departments, associations and organizations, research centers, databases and archives (twenty nine links here alone), courses and curricular resources, journals, theories, and software resources.
Electronic Journals
Although there is still no single way to easily locate and identify a subject population of electronic journals, the library's Harvest catalog goes some distance in fulfilling this need. Searches by keyword or subject keyword (e.g "sociology-periodicals"), along with a limit to electronic format, can help isolate titles held at UC Davis.
Only a few anecdotal illustrations are provided here. The first are examples of individual journal titles; the last two in this group appear in electronic format only, while the first appears in both electronic and paper formats. The last entry in the list is a service providing access to several dozen leading periodicals in the humanities and social sciences.
- Annual Review of Sociology
- This Annual Reviews, Inc. site access to Annual Reviews in Anthropology, Energy and the Environment, Political Science, Psychology, and Public Health as well as Sociology.
- Postmodern Culture
- Essays and reviews encouraging alternatives to traditional forms of writing and publishing.
- Sociological Research Online
- Project Muse
- Journals from a substantial number ofmajor university presses are now online; this service emphasizes periodicals in the humanities and social sciences.
Specialized Sites
- American Sociological Association
- Changing America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being by Race and Hispanic Origin
- (President's Council of Economic Advisers)
- Criminal Justice Links (Florida State University)
- National Institute of Drug Abuse/National Institutes of Health
- Popcultures.com
- A useful site providing a comprehensive, general overview of academic and nonacademic cultural studies. A good student-oriented site, with lists of periodicals, links to articles in electronic formats, book reviews, and news groups and list serves.
- Poverty-Related Resources
- Selected Sociology and Demography Resources on the Web
- Sociological Abstracts Home Page
- Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI) Homepage
- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
- U.S. Census Bureau
Discussion Lists
- ABSLST-L.
- The list of the Association of Black Sociologists.
- DEMOGRAPHIC-LIST
- FAMILY-SCI.
- Behavioral and social science aspects of marriage and the family.
- METHODS
- POR.
- Forum for public opinion and survey research.
- PSN.
- The Progressive Sociologists Network, addressing issues of class, race, gender, social justice, community, and the environment. Overlaps with the American Sociological Association's Marxist Sociology section.
- QUALRS-L.
- A qualitative research methods list.