- Centers for Disease Control - Data and Statistics
- National Institute of Justice
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Data Center - KIDS Count
- Data.gov

Need articles in psychology or counseling? Use PsycINFO! It's a great resource and is published by the American Psychological Association. How to export to RefWorks

Indexes more than 450 social work and human services journals. Coverage: 1965 to present. How to export to RefWorks

This database abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Coverage: 1960 to present. How to export to RefWorks.

Indexes scholarly articles published since 1960; some are full text. How to export to RefWorks
Also consider: Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text , Sociology: SAGE FullText , or JSTOR if you get stuck
Over 400 overview articles, on key topics ranging from international issues to ethical standards.

Comparable to the print version of the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology.

Includes coverage of crimes and related behaviors, law and justice, policing, forensics, corrections, victimology, punishment, sociocultural context and popular culture, international crime and punishment, research methods and information, organizations and institutions, and special populations.

Provide users with a “gender lens” on society by focusing on significant gender scholarship within commonly recognized areas of social research. Accordingly, the material in this encyclopedia focuses on basic aspects of social life from the most individual (self and identity) to the most global (transnational economics and politics).

Almost 600 entries on issues related to race and ethnicity around the world.

More than 600 entries covering such topics as aging, crime, education, family, gender, sexual orientation, health, urbanization, race and ethnicity, social movements and substance abuse.
To locate and retrieve articles or books that are cited in a bibliography or Works Cited page, use Library OneSearch or the Library Catalog to determine if Kresge Library has access to the item. For example, to find the article
Cavaiola, Alan A. (1999). Suicidal behavior in chemically dependent adolescents. Adolescence 34(136): 735-744.
The most direct ways to search are by:
- Title in Library OneSearch. Use the article title - Suicidal behavior in chemically dependent adolescents - not the title of the journal (Adolescence).
- Journal Title in the Library Catalog. Use the title of the journal - Adolescence - NOT the title of the article.

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Library OneSearch
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