Sociology

American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020 (Open Access)
American Prison Newspapers brings together hundreds of newspapers published within prisons by incarcerated people over the past 200 years. When complete, the collection will contain newspapers from prisons in every state, representing penal institutions of all kinds, including women-only institutions. 

Credo Reference
This resource provides access to the contents of 600 reference titles covering every major subject.
 
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Criminal Justice Collection
This resource provices information for students who are studying law, law enforcement, or terrorism, training for paralegal service, preparing for a career in homeland security, delving into forensic science, investigating crime scenes, developing policy, going to court, and writing sociological reports.

Films On Demand Master Academic Package
This resource allows web-based streaming videos 24/7.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences I
Arts and Sciences I includes 119 core titles in twenty-one disciplines such as ecology, economics, history, mathematics, political science, and sociology, statistics.
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MyJSTOR accounts allow you to read up to six articles a month online for free (not subscribed to by the college)  and save your citations to My Workspace.

Student Activism (JSTOR Open Access)
The Student Activism collection is intended to serve as a scholarly bridge from the extensive history of student protest in the United States to the study of today's vibrant, continually unfolding actions. The collection captures the voices of students across the great range of protest, political actions, and equal-rights advocacy from the 20th and early 21st century United States. The primary sources are broad-based across time, geography, and political viewpoint — from conservative to anarchist.

Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence - Resources
prevention science to create a world where individuals, families, and schools flourish in communities free from the harms of violence.

Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek - Frei zugangliche E-Journals
a service to facilitate the use of scholarly journals on the internet. It offers a fast, structured and unified interface to access full-text articles online.

Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP)
IRP researches, translates, and desseminates research about the causes and consequences of poverty and inequality in the United States.

International Labour Organization (ILO)
The ILO brings together governments, employers and workers of 187 member States, to set labour standards, develop policies and devise programs promoting decent work for all women and men.

Making of America (MoA)
Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.

Pew Research Center
This source is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research but does not take policy positions.
Research Areas: U.S. Politics & Policy, Journalism & Media, Internet & Technology, Science & Society, Religion & Public Life, Hispanic Trends, Global Attitudes & Trends, Social & Demographic Trends.

Scientific Research Journals
An academic publisher of open access journals. It also publishes academic books and conference proceedings. SCIRP currently has more than 200 open access journals in the areas of science, technology and medicine.

Social Gerontology and the Aging Revolution
Comprehensive site on gerontological issues. Offers links to almost every issue regarding older people. Site provides information on statistics, organizations, cultural experiences, associations, policy, and theories of aging, as well as links to material on the biological, social, and psychological aspects of aging. Useful for students, faculty, and practitioners alike.

SOCIOLOGY A Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace
General sociological links covering the major subject directories of the discipline. Other areas of interest cover resources for theory construction, data sets, research methods and statistics, resources for research papers, and sites concerning cognate subject areas.. Holds an excellent selection of useful links. Coverage is comprehensive, links are kept current, and the site is "appealing." Developed by Michael C. Kearl of Trinity College at San Antonio, Texas.

SocioSite
This site "gives access to the European and worldwide scene of academic sociology" and includes an extensive list of sociology resources on the Internet arranged by subject. Designed to get access to information and resources which are relevant for sociologists and other social scientists it has been designed from a global point of view - it gives access to the world wide scene of social sciences. The intention is to provide a comprehensive listing of all sociology resources on the Internet. The SocioSite is a project based at the faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam.

The Williams Institute
This site is a think tank that conducts and provides research on issues of sexual orientation and gender identity related to public policy. The institute’s website provides access to rigorous research under 13 broad categories, topics include census data as it relates to the LGBT+ community, military and education issues, discrimination, and more. The research goes back nearly two decades up to the present.

World Bank-Understanding Poverty
This group researches and publishes more than 200,000 publicly available documents and reports, as well as global development data on reducing poverty and building prosperity in developing countries.