See also the Sociology Research Guide.

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Age

• Child Trends (children's research organization)
• U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services-Children’s Bureau

Associations, Institutions, Government Agencies

• American Society of Criminology
• American Sociological Association (ASA)
  • Employment
• International Sociological Association
• Society for the Study of Social Problems
• U.S. Federal Government Agencies

Cleveland/Ohio Resources

• Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development
• Cleveland & Ohio Statistics
• Cleveland Area Resources (directories, history, newspapers)
• Cleveland Census Information
• Neighborhood Link (directory, statistical, and governmental information about Cleveland)
• NEO CANDO: Northeast Ohio Community and Neighborhood Data for Organizing
• Office Of Policy Research & Strategic Planning (data and analysis on the economic, industrial, and demographic trends of the State of Ohio)
• Ohio Quick Facts from the U.S. Census Bureau (census information by county)
• Policy Matters Ohio (non-profit policy research organization)

CSU Sociology Department

• About the CSU Sociology Collection
• Course Reserves
• Department Home Page
• New Acquisitions

Crime

• Bureau of Justice Statistics (information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the justice system)
• Firearms Research Database
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service (federally funded resource for justice and substance abuse information)
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service abstracts database
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
• Uniform Crime Reports

Data & Survey Sources

• Data.gov
• Data Resource Center for Child & Adolescent Health
• Economic Policy Institute (research, data, and issues of social and economic importance)
• The Gallup Poll (fee for most search results)
• General Social Survey (personal interview survey of U.S. households)
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (archive of social science data)
• National Council on Public Polls (NCPP)
• Pew Research Center
• PollingReport.com
• Public Agenda
• Survey Research Center (Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University)

Domestic Violence

• Herstory of domestic violence: a timeline of the battered women's movement

E-books

• Ebrary
• EBSCO eBook Collection (formerly netLibrary)
• Electronic Book Center

International Data

• Child Rights Information Network
• World Bank Group (data on world economic indicators by country and topic)

Juvenile Delinquency

• Campaign for Youth Justice

Journals

• Social Sciences - General
• Communities - Races
• Communities - Rural Groups
• Communities - Social Classes
• Communities - Urban Groups
• Family & Marriage
• Social Change
• Social Conditions
• Societies & Clubs

Labor

• Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • National Longitudinal Surveys
  • Occupational Outlook Handbook
• Families and Work Institute
• Ohio Labor Market Information
• International Labour Organisation
• State of Working America 2006-2007 (The Economic Policy Institute)

Population & Demography

• American FactFinder
• CensusScope (easy-to-use tool for investigating U.S. demographic trends)
• Demographic Information for the Cleveland-Akron Metropolitan Area
• Ersys (demographic, environmental, economic, and scholastic information on 2,600 U.S. cities)
• NEO CANDO: Northeast Ohio Community and Neighborhood Data for Organizing
• Population Index on the Web (searchable bibliography)
• Population Reference Bureau (country statistics and reports)
• U.S. Census Bureau
• U.S. Census Bureau: Income

Poverty

• Institute for Research on Poverty (research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality)
• Poverty-Related Links
• U.S. Census Bureau: Poverty

Reference Resources

• American Sociological Association Quick Style Guide
• A Dictionary of Sociology (Oxford University Press)

Research Databases

• Core Research Databases:
  • SocINDEX with Full Text
  • Sociological Collection
• Additional Databases:
  • Academic Search Complete
  • AgeLine
  • Chicano Database
  • Contemporary Women's Issues - Available but no longer updated after July 1, 2006
  • CQ Researcher
  • Criminal Justice Abstracts
  • Electronic Journal Center: Social Sciences
  • Ethnic NewsWatch
  • FRANCIS
  • Gender Studies Database
  • GenderWatch
  • GPO Monthly Catalog
  • Health Source: Consumer Edition
  • ISI Web of Science
  • LGBT Life with Full Text
  • Research Starters: Sociology
  • Social Sciences Citation Index
  • Social Sciences Full Text
  • Social Work Abstracts
  • Urban Studies Abstracts
  • Women's Studies International

Statistics

• The Association of Religion Data Archives
• Data Central: Cleveland Ohio statistics, demographics & census
• EWG’s Drinking Water Quality Analysis and Tap Water Database (Environmental Working Group, Washington, D.C.)
• FedStats
• Historical Statistics of the United States
• International Data Base (demographic and socioeconomic data for 227 countries and areas)
• Lexis-Nexis Statistical (geographic, demographic, and economic statistics)
• National Center for Health Statistics (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)
• National Congregations Study
• ProQuest Statistical Datasets (formerly known as LexisNexis Statistical Datasets)
• Roper Center Public Opinion Archives
• Scorecard : The Pollution Information Site
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics (data from over 100 sources on all aspects of U.S. criminal justice)
• State Data on Alcohol, Tobacco, & Illegal Drug Use and Mental Health

Style Guides

• ASA Format (California State University, Los Angeles)
• Formatting in Sociology (Purdue University Online Writing Lab)

For more style and citation guides, see Citation Guides at the Virtual Reference Desk.