My Subject: Sociology: Useful Databases

Useful sociology databases

These databases allow you to search for material including articles, conference proceedings and books. Some, but not all, databases provide links to the full text of articles, where the university has a subscription to that title.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences This link opens in a new window Subject Scope: Anthropology, Economics, Politics, Sociology, Development Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Human Geography and Environment, Development Studies, Business and Management, Social Policy, Health, Education, International relations, Media and communication, Psychology, History, Law and Philosophy.
CIAO This link opens in a new window Description: A wide range of scholarship including working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. Subject Scope: Theory and research in international affairs Full Text: Yes
ESO (European Sources Online) This link opens in a new window Description: Information on institutions, policies and activities relating to the European Union. Provides commentaries, analysis ,summaries, news of interest to students, researchers, NGO's, corporate and professional organisations. Subject Scope: Law, Politics, International Development, Business Date Range: Current Full Text: Yes
Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window Description: Newspaper database Subject Scope: Local and national UK newspapers Date Range: ~1986 onwards Full Text: Yes
Web of Science This link opens in a new window Subject Scope: Arts, Humanities, Science, and Social Sciences Date Range: Varied Not full text
Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new window Subject Scope: Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine. Full Text: Full text availability to a large number of Sage journals.
APA PsycINFO This link opens in a new window Subject Scope: Full breadth of psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
Social Policy and Practice This link opens in a new window
Statista This link opens in a new window An extensive collection of statistics, reports and insights.

News Databases

Use these databases to search for print or broadcast media. May be useful for assignments and dissertations using content analysis

Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Features full-text global news content from the present time to 1980s, from newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites.
Lexis+ UK Newspapers This link opens in a new window
BoB (Box of Broadcasts) This link opens in a new window
The first time you use this you will have to sign in with your Middlesex email address.

Description: BoB (Box of Broadcasts) National is a shared online off-air TV and radio recording service we subscribe to. BoB enables all staff and students to choose and record any broadcast programme from 60+ TV and radio channels from the last 30 days plus access to BBC TV and radio Archive going back to 2007.

News Sources

Law databases

JustisOne, now vLexJustis This link opens in a new window JustisOne has changed to vLexJustis from 1st June 2021. If you still wish to use JustisOne, you can use this link: http://ezproxy.mdx.ac.uk/login?url=https://app.justis.com/ This access will be withdrawn soon, given the move to the new product. Please update your links.
Heinonline - Law Journal Library This link opens in a new window Description: Database of law and law-related issues including articles, comments, notes,book reviews,cases and decisions. Covers more than 90 subject areas published in 29 countries. Also an image-based database providing exact page images as they originally appear in hardcopy Subject Scope: Legal journals and pre 1865 case reports(The English Reports)
Lexis+ This link opens in a new window Description: Database of full text law reports, legislation and many full text journals from the UK, Europe , the United States and many jurisdictions. Also includes commentary, notes ,current awareness and Halsbury's Laws of England. Date Range: UK case law since 1865. Journal coverage varies depending on publishers. US case law(State and Federal)-dates vary. Large collection of full text US law reviews/journals-again dates vary.
Westlaw This link opens in a new window Description: Database of full text law reports, legislation and many full text journals from the UK, Europe , the United States and many jurisdictions. Also includes commentary, notes and current awareness. Subject Scope: Legal journals, cases, legislation, commentary and current awareness. Date Range: UK cases begin with 1865 and EU cases 1954. UK case law Official Transcripts begin with 1955. Commentary is the current edition.

Library Search: Finding journal articles

Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Online

Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Online If you need a quick summary of a topic or a definition please use Blackwell encyclopedia of sociology online, making sure you have logged in first.

Images

Use these sites to search for copyright free or creative commons licensed images you can use in presentations

Open Access Search Engines

BASE This link opens in a new window Description: BASE searches university repositories worldwide and currently covers some 64,000,000 papers. It is useful for searching for Open Access copies of papers which we do not subscribe to. Subject Scope: Covering all academic subject areas Date Range: N/A Full Text: Yes
CORE (Open Access Resource) This link opens in a new window Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. CORE (COnnecting REpositories) aims to facilitate free access to scholarly publications distributed across many systems. CORE gives you access to millions of scholarly articles aggregated from many Open Access repositories.
Google Scholar (Open Access Resource) This link opens in a new window Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses and books, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.