General Social Science Resources

General Social Science Resources

Electronic and printed resources listed below follow a three tier scholarly communications model: knowledge, new research information, and reference tools. Knowledge and New Information are partitioned into Content (reports, articles, books) and Finding Aids to content. -- More on how to use this subject guide

Content

Finding Aids to Content

(1) Summarizing Knowledge
(Encyclopedic Articles, Textbooks, Handbooks, Research Reviews)

(2) Selective Bibliography
(Research & Subject Guides, Selective & Didactic Bibliography, Subject Directories)

(3) New Information
(Scholarly Journals, Electronic Texts, Government Information, Books & Monographs, News & Newspapers, Article Databases)

(4) Comprehensive Bibliography
(Abstracts & Indexes, Comprehensive Bibliographies, Library & Book Catalogs, Archives, Search Engines, Metasearch Engines)

(5) Reference Tools, Data, Facts
(Almanacs, Biographical Sources, Dictionaries, Directories, Grants & Scholarships, Job Resources, Statistical Resources)

*Guide to*	Title link . . . . . . . . electronic / full-text	or . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .on the Web or at OU
Notation	Call number link . . item's OU catalog record	. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . special note

(1) Summarizing Knowledge
(Encyclopedic Articles, Textbooks & Histories, Handbooks, Research Reviews)

Encyclopedias

International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences H 41.I58 2001

Social Science Encyclopedia. H 41.S63 1996

Textbooks & Histories
Amazon's Top Selling New & Used Textbooks in Social Sciences

Handbooks
Handbook of Social Science Research. H 62 .D583 1995

Research Reviews

(2) Selective Bibliography
(Research & Subject Guides, Selective & Didactic Bibliographies, Subject Directories)

Research & Subject Guides
The Social Sciences: A Cross-Disciplinary Guide to Selected Sources. H61.S76 2002
Social Science Reference Sources. H 61.L5 2000
Syracuse University Library Subject Guides: Social Science
Penn Library: Resources in Social Sciences (General)

Selective & Didactic Bibliographies

Subject Directories

Academic Info: Social Sciences Gateway
Librarians' Index to the Internet: Society & Social Issues
Research Resources for the Social Sciences

Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG)

Social Sciences Virtual Library

SRM-Site (Statistics, Research, Methodology for the social & behavioral sciences)

University of Miami Libraries: Research Methods in the Social Sciences: an Internet Resource List

(3) New Information
(Most frequently cited journals, electronic texts, government information, books & monographs, news & newspapers, article databases)

Journals (most frequently cited)

International social science journal H 1.A2
Philosophy of the social sciences H 1.P55
Reports and papers in the social sciences H 62.U475
Social science history H 1.S59
Social science information HN 1 .I542
Social science research H 1.S613
Social science quarterly H 1.S65

Electronic Texts

Government Information

Books & Monographs

News & Newspapers
Newsbank Full Text Newspapers
Newspaper Source

Article Databases
ABI/INFORM Global

Academic Search Elite

LexisNexis Academic

(4) Comprehensive Bibliography
(Abstracts & Indexes, Comprehensive Bibliographies, Library & Book, Catalogs, Archives, Search Engines, Metasearch Engines)

Abstracts & Indexes
ArticleFirst
Dissertations Abstracts
PAIS International

Comprehensive, Recurrent Bibliographies
See Comprehensive Recurrent Bibliography for the SS

Library & Book Catalogs, Archives
London Bibliography of the Social Sciences. 4 vols. London: School of Economics and Political Science, 1931-1932. Z 7161.L84

Search Engines (see our search engine guides also)
AllSearchEngines.com
FirstGov
University of Leiden (Netherlands): A Collection of Special Search Engines

Metasearch Engines
Beaucoup's Meta and Parallel Engines
ixquick

(5) Reference Resources, Facts & Data
(Almanacs, Biographical Sources, Dictionaries , Directories, Grants & Scholarships, Job Resources, Statistical Resources)

Almanacs
InfoPlease Almanacs

Biographical Sources

Data Collections
Yahoo Social Research/Data Collections

Dictionaries
Dictionary of Qualitative Inquiry. H 61.S4435 2001
Dictionary of Statistics & Methodology. HA 17.V64 1999
Dictionary of the Social Sciences. H 41.D53 2002

Directories -- Associations, Organizations & Societies
Encyclopedia of Associations, National Organizations of the United States. HS 17 .G3341
Encyclopedia of Associations, International Organizations. HS 17.G3341
Encyclopedia of Associations. Regional, State, and Local Organizations. AS 22.E53

Directories -- Companies, Vendors, etc.

Directories -- Discussion Groups

Directories -- Research Centers & Institutes

Grants & Scholarships

Job Resources

Statistical Resources
Dictionary of Statistics & Methodology. HA 17.V64 1999
FebStats
U.S. Bureau of the Census