Child Abuse and Neglect
Over 32,000 documents, searchable by author, title & keyword. Also has links to statutes, statistics and other information sources.

CQ Researcher (CQ Press)
Offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important social, economic, political, and environmental issues. Each report is divided into specific sections to guide research. The online database covers reports back to 1991. Each weekly issue provides up-to-date information on controversial subjects written by CQ's staff of experienced reporters. Click on "full report" to see all sections; be sure to read the overview and pro/con sections. Includes a citation generator which creates a citation for use in a works cited list.

Criminal Justice Periodicals Index (Proquest) 
Detailed abstracts and indexing for over 190 U.S. and international journals from 1981 to the present. Over 55 journals are FULL TEXT. Covers alcoholism, drug abuse, domestic and forensic science, and law enforcement.

CSA Social Science Core   
ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts, ERIC,Sociological Abstracts,Social Services Abstracts, Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS),PAIS Archive,PAIS International,Political Science Abstracts,Physical Education Indexand more -- indexes the international literature in sociology, political science and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

Harvard Open Collection Program (Women Working, 1800 - 1930)
Provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. It includes 7,500 pages of manuscripts, 3,500 books and pamphlets, and 1,200 photographs.

Social Sciences Abstracts
use Wilson OmniFile

Social Science Journals (Proquest) 1994-
Provides access to full text journal articles in social science.

Social Work Abstracts 1977-
Produced by the National Association of Social Workers, this database contains abstracts from journals in social work and related areas, such as homelessness, child and family welfare, aging and similar subjects.

General Databases

Academic Search Premier- Funded by the New Jersey State Library and the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative     
Indexes journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, computer science, ethnic studies and more. Provides full-text articles from more than 3200 scholarly periodicals.

JSTOR
Full-image archival database of scholarly journals. The most current issues, 2-5 years, are not included due to publishers' restrictions.

LEXIS/NEXIS Academic Universe
Access to information on business, political, legal & other topics; many full-text articles; years of coverage vary by title.

ScienceDirect 1996-
Full-text of 300+ journals in the sciences, social sciences, psychology & business from Elsevier Science, with indexing and abstracts of more than 700 additional journals.

WestLaw Campus
Legal database containing the full-text of cases, statutes, federal regulations and American Jurisprudence, 2nd ed. (AmJur 2d)

Wilson OmniFile 1982-
Abstracts and indexing for over 4,000 periodicals in many subjects. Full-text for over 2,000 periodicals. To search the literature section of the database, click on the arrow to the right of the Subject Area box and select "Humanities.”

Related Internet Links

Monthly Catalog of U. S. Government Publications 1994-
Indexes a wide variety of publications produced by the federal government, with some documents available in full-text.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Provides access to over 160,000 abstracts of journal articles, government reports, books, & other publications, as well as a database of more than 1,500 full-text publications.

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online
Over 600 tables display statistics on all aspects of criminal justice in the U.S.; updated regularly to include new data and new information sources. Supported by the U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics.

U. S. Census Bureau
Data from the 1990 and earlier census counts, population estimates and related information, including graphs and maps.

U. S. Census Historical Census Data Browser
Population and economic data from census years 1790-1970 for states and counties may be viewed and manipulated to create customized tables and graphs.

Subject Guide: Sociology/Anthropology
A guide to web sites & print resources available in the S. Mary Joseph Cunningham Library.