Databases & E-Reference Materials

Simmons Insights provides access to U.S. adult consumer data on product and brand usage, spending behavior, media habits, and more. It can be used to create customized reports analyzing the demographic and psychographic characteristics of product users and their media behavior.

A mapping, analytics, and data visualization application with 100,000+ data variables, including demographic data from the US Census and American Community Survey, consumer spending data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey, and Dun & Bradstreet's point of interest business file providing detailed information on over 5 million businesses. Also includes the AGS Health Care dataset and the MRI-SimmonsLOCAL consumer behavior dataset with data on over 8,000 brands, psychographics, and MOSAIC market segments.

NOTE: Faculty, staff, and students are not required to log-in with a user name and password, however, your work will not be saved unless an individual account is created.

Brings together, for the first time, all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world, including more than 1,000 books and pamphlets.

SlaveVoyages is the world's largest archive of data related to the trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave trades. This database includes data on over 30,000 British, French, and Dutch ships that forced roughly 12 million Africans across the Atlantic between the 16th -19th centuries as well as data on hundreds of thousands of enslaved peoples that were trafficked within the Americas. This resource also includes images, maps, ship routes, information on morality rates aboard the ships, the number of children transported, the names of ship captains, and information related to resistance and rebellions. 

Provides access to a variety of tools and resources addressing small business topics. Resources include reference books, journals, business videos, case studies, and sample business plans.

Includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. This resource also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University, as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE).

The revised edition of the Smithsonian Physical Tables is comprised of 901 tables concentrating on a broad scope of common physical and chemical data. The information provided is of general interest to scientists and engineers, and of particular interest to those involved with physics in its larger sense. Full text is available.

Provides access to a selection of documents that focus on the nature of social behavior and organization. Includes full text materials by theorists from the eighteenth century to the present day, including Herbert Spencer, Émile Durkheim, Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau, and Karl Marx.

Indexes and abstracts journals in all areas of the profession, including theory and practice, areas of service, social issues, and social problems.

Indexes literature in sociology, criminology, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Includes journal articles, books, and conference papers.