E-Resources for Sociology

Index of legislative information, including congressional publications from 1789 to the present, legislative histories for public laws dating back to 1970, testimony from congressional hearings, bill histories, the Congressional Record and Federal Register, Congressional Research Service reports, information about congressional members and committees, and executive documents (1789-1931). Some full text is available.

Indexes a variety of materials from journal articles to fact sheets that focus on contemporary and international women's issues in areas such as education, health, legal status, reproductive rights, and feminism. Some full text is available.

A collection of databases available on various subjects, including the American government, current affairs, history, politics, public policy, and the social sciences. Databases include CQ Politics in America, CQ Researcher plus Archive, CQ Almanac, and CQ Magazine. Full text is available.

The Current Index to Statistics (CIS) is an open access bibliographic index of publications in statistics, probability, and related fields. Resources indexed include journals, books, and proceedings.

Ethnic NewsWatch provides access to full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. Subject coverage includes culture, religion, independent press, and ethnic studies. The database also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.

This bibliographic database is an index of journal articles and book reviews covering the humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary fields. Subjects include anthropology, art, communication, law, music, sociology, gender studies, environmental studies, performing arts, political science, urban studies, international relations, criminal justice, and more. 

Provides access to an archive of raw social science data for research and instruction. As a member of ICPSR, the OU community has unlimited access and downloads; sign up for an ICPSR login to access content. All questions about ICPSR should be directed to the campus Official Representative for ICPSR, Dr. Ann Beutel, Department of Sociology. Electronic access to ICPSR is funded by the College of Arts and Sciences.

Provides access to streaming video supporting classes in the arts, business, health, media/communication, science, humanities and education. 

NOTE: Kanopy video access is mediated. This means that any video not currently licensed for use will require the user to request access. Access is being enabled for class use with instructor approval.

A digital collection of full-text and color images of rare books, ephemera, maps, posters, slag dictionaries, children's chapbooks, street cries, playbills, cartoons, and other materials relating to the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century Victorian London. This database also includes a chronology, interactive map, essays, visual galleries, and exhibitions. Topics covered include the underworld, religion, women and gender, politics, popular music, urban topography, slang, working-class culture, prostitution, the Temperance Movement, and police and criminality.

Provides access to current news pertaining to all branches of the military. Resources include academic journals, popular magazines, trade publications, and military publications. This database includes nearly 300 full text journals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.

Index to public and social policy issues, foreign and domestic. Materials indexed include journal articles, government documents, books, pamphlets, yearbooks, and directories.

Index of legislative information, including congressional publications from 1789 to the present, legislative histories for public laws dating back to 1970, testimony from congressional hearings, bill histories, the Congressional Record and Federal Register, Congressional Research Service reports, information about congressional members and committees, and executive documents (1789-1931). Some full text is available.

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research provides public opinion data from polls conducted by major U.S. and international polling organizations. Roper iPoll includes broad topical coverage of opinions and behavior on social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, the environment, science, and more. Questions, charts, demographic crosstabs, and datasets are all 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 literature in sociology, criminology, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Includes journal articles, books, and conference papers.

Covers a broad range of subjects relevant to sociology and its related disciplines including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, social and cultural structure and more. Some full text is available.

Provides access to the archival holdings of the World Bank, along with tools that enable the discovery of World Bank historical information. Resources include archival findings aids, online exhibits, a photo catalog, digital collections, oral histories, archived projects, archived World Bank websites from 1998 to the present, and more.   

This website allows users to browse development topics across all major sectors of global development and easily access data and project resources in one place. Topics include agriculture and food, gender, climate change, debt, education, environment, health, infrastructure, poverty, nutrition, urban development, trade, and many more. 

This repository contains official documents and reports which are made available to the public to better share the institution's knowledge base. Resources include formal publications, working papers, legal agreements, loan/credit related documents, board documents, and in depth background studies. 

This database provides access to over 2,000 World Development Indicators (WDI) from the World Bank data sets covering over 200 countries.