Use DELCAT, the catalog of the University of Delaware Library, to locate books on your subject. Also, DELCAT lists the titles of the library subscriptions to serials: magazines, journals, and newspapers.
Explores a single “hot” issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology.
CQ Weekly provides in-depth reports on issues looming on the congressional horizon, plus a complete wrapup of the previous week’s news, including the status of bills in play, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, debates and all roll-call votes.
Provides full-text information from newspapers, the legal literature, and other sources on a variety of topics.
It is organized into five major areas: News, Business, Legal Research, Medical, and Reference.
Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to Web sites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles on a variety of topics including abortion, domestic violence, eating disorders, and welfare reform.
Comprehensive database of more than 8,000 journals covering the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and other subjects.
This database brings together essential historical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself.
A comprehensive, full text database of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and
native American press. It provides a rich collection of articles, editorials, and reviews with a broad diversity of
perspectives often at variance with the mainstream media.
Provides citations, with abstracts, to research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of family science,
human ecology, and human development.
GenderWatch is a full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications,
special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues.
Provides access to the backfiles of scholarly journals in Asian
studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, mathematics, philosophy,
political science, population studies, and sociology. Full text and graphics
are available.
Includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers, and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean—and full-text coverage of 40 core Black Studies periodicals (1998 forward).
Provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals, and international legal journals.
An interdisciplinary combination of eight important files, containing over
116,000 records, most of which are not otherwise available electronically.
Includes the following databases: Women Studies Abstracts (1984-present), Women's
Studies Database (1972-present), Women of Color & Southern
Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research (1975-present), Women's
Health & Development:An Annotated Bibliography (1995), and four
databases from the University of Wisconsin.
Statistical Sources
American FactFinder. Bureau of the Census.
Location: Internet (http://factfinder.census.gov/)
Statistical data from Census 2000, the 1990 Census, the Economic Censuses, and many Census surveys.
County and City Data Book. Washington: U.S. Dept. Of Commerce, Bureau of the Census: U.S. G.P.O.
Location: (http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS31661)
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HA202 .A36)
Presents a variety of statistical information on states, counties, cities and places in the United States. Data are gathered from many federal agencies.
A 70-year archive of public opinion, from the Gallup Organization. Gallup Brain contains the answers to more than 136,000 questions, and responses from more than 3.5 million people interviewed by The Gallup Poll since 1935.
Indexes and abstracts statistical publications issued by the federal government
(ASI), state governments and private publishers (SRI), and intergovernmental
organizations, such as the United Nations (IIS).
Statistical Abstract of the United States. Washington: Bureau of the Census. Annual.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HA202 .A1) Latest ed. at Reference
Desk
Location: Morris Library - U.S. Documents (U.S. Doc Census Area, first row)
Location: Internet (http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/)
Contains a wealth of statistics including crime statistics. This volume serves as a prime source for U.S. industrial, social, political, and economic statistics. There is a subject index to tables in the back.The original sources of each table's statistics is included in a footnote following the tables.
The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology. Bryan S. Turner, ed. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HM425 .C36 2006)
Encyclopedia of Sociology. Edgar F. Borgatta, ed. New York: Macmillan, 2000.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HM17 .E5 2000)
Articles of varied length about sociological terms and concepts. A bibliography is provided after each article.
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