News
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Washington Post This link opens in a new windowIndexes, abstracts, and provides online full text for the Washington Post newspaper 1987-present.
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New York Times This link opens in a new windowIndexes, abstracts, and provides online full text for the New York Times newspaper (1980-present), the New York Times Book Review (1988-present), and the New York Times Magazine (1997-present).
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The Guardian - International Edition
The Guardian provides free access to their US, UK, Australian, and International Editions of their newspaper. You can toggle through the various editions in the top right corner. -
Al Jazeera
Commercial news, Qatar-based. This link goes to their "World News" section.
Sociological Sources
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SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new windowIs a robust sociology research database with hundreds of journals, including many that are peer-reviewed. Also includes 899 journals with searchable cited references as well as a growing collection of global Open Access journals.
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Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new windowOffers access to an unprecedented collection of resources including journals, magazines, reports, books, and videos. Many are peer-reviewed and full-text. Subjects range from astronomy to zoology.
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JSTOR (including ARTSTOR) This link opens in a new windowProvides full-text access to a broad range of resources about the humanities, sciences, and social sciences, including primary sources, images, articles, and books. Does not contain the most recent journal articles.
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Social Sciences Abstracts This link opens in a new windowSU no longer subscribes to this resource. Due to overlap in content, we suggest searching the following resources instead: Academic Search Ultimate, JSTOR. Read more information about the 2025 library cancellation process.
Data Resources
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Statista This link opens in a new windowProvides data and infographics on over 60,000 topics from over 18,000 sources, categorized into 21 market sectors with quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas.
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United Nations Datasets
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OECD Data
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Their mission, "is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world."
Additional Resources
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Pew Research Center
"Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research." -
Dr. McEntee's Suggested Semi-Scholarly ResourcesDr. McEntee's website listing many potential resources for semi-scholarly needs (television, radio, news, sociology blogs, and reporting agencies.
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Journals Published by the ASAList of journals published by the American Sociological Association. For any that we have access to, you could try searching these journals directly.
