Contains reports and analysis on issues in the news including health, social trends and issues, criminal justice, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Great resource for background information on current news, hot topics, and social issues. Coverage back to 1923.

Contains supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, and litigation and crime trends. It also includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, crime blogs, and other material relevant for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice, law enforcement, and related fields.

Provides access to peer-reviewed journals, magazines, e-books, biographies and primary source documents that explore the culture, traditions, social treatment, and lived experiences of many ethnic populations in North America.

Essays that provide a deeper understanding of how current issues stem from actions and policies of the past.

Information about countries geared towards those traveling (personally or professionally) or researching current issues. Contains informaiton on travel, cuisine, government, society, and more.

Provides hundreds of millions of pages of law and law-adjacent periodicals, essential government documents (federal, state, and international), international resources, case law, and more.

Cultural, political, and social history of indigenous peoples from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.

Contains the full text of surveys, budgets, statistical records, case studies, planning documents, training manuals, policy guidelines, reports, and news from the five hundred largest cities in North America. It also includes select materials from hundreds of related agencies and non-governmental organizations.

This collection includes a selection of student and community newspapers, as well as African-American newspapers, from schools and towns around North Carolina.

A searchable index of public policy documents, guidelines, think tank publications, and working papers from around the world. Allows institutions and researchers to trace their research impact on public policy with researcher and institution filters.

Offers authoritative research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Subjects covered include media and children, childhood across the globe, children’s mental health, public policies around children, and more.

Offers authoritative research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia with concise treatment of topics in Criminology.

Offers authoritative research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Subjects covered include sociological theories, sociology of gender and sexuality, race, ethnicity, contemporary societal issues, key researchers in the field, and more.

Offers authoritative research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Subjects covered include social sciences as well as architecture, planning, engineering, environmental science, and legal studies.

A U.S. national data and mapping tool and analytics platform with multidisciplinary applications related to social sciences, urban studies, real estate and housing analysis, community and economic development, public administration, public health, policy and political science, education, business, economics, statistics, and geography, among others.

Primary sources on political extremism and radicalism across the globe. Covers 1900-2010. Includes monographs and manuscripts by and about these movements. Content Warning: This collection contains images and documents that may be triggering or disturbing to some.

“Population Index, published since 1935, is the primary reference tool to the world’s population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other material on population topics. It is a searchable and browsable database containing more than 40,000 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index.”

This database covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction and more. This collection provides full-text coverage of many core titles included in Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts.

Overviews of research and trends and background information in the Social Sciences and Humanities. WFU access includes the following subject collections: Asian Studies; Communication, Journalism, Media & Culture; Environment & Sustainability; Law; Philosophy; Politics; Religion; Security Studies; and Sociology.

Provides access to social science ebooks published by Sage, including scholarly books, textbooks, and professional development titles.

SAGE Explorer includes over 40,000 cases, videos, data, and more related to social and behavioral sciences.

Provides access to ebook versions of encyclopedias and handbooks in the social and behavioral sciences.

Provides access to book, reference, and journal content, as well as multimedia resources, to support researchers at all stages of a research project. Includes information on the full range of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods for the social and behavioral sciences, as well as many methods commonly used in the hard sciences.

This offering of comprehensive, easy-to-use, and interactive resources supports students in gaining the skills relevant to their academic and professional success. Develop and practice real-world business and professional skills needed to transition from campus to the modern workplace. Relatable narratives of real workplace experiences allow for practical context to be applied to academic content, preparing students to navigate professional opportunities and challenges.

Provides access to videos on social science topics. Browse by discipline or by video type, including case study, definition, interview, demonstration, and more.

Provides background and current analysis necessary for research and understanding of hundreds of current issues. Analysis and opinions cover the pros, cons, and everything in between on the most researched and debated social issues.

Social Explorer allows users to visually explore demographic information, from census and economic data to election and religion data. The site includes data from the entire US Census from 1790 to 2010, all annual updates from the American Community Survey to 2008, and other data sets.

Indexes journals in the social sciences. Provides links to full-text when available. Useful for searching for articles that cite a known author or work (citation searching). Citation searching also allows you to use a given work as a subject term in order to identify more recent articles about the same topic.

Provides access to scholarly journal coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.

Provides citations and abstracts to articles published in sociology, social welfare, and social policy, as well as other related topics in the social and behavioral sciences. Also includes citations to some books and many dissertations. Includes Social Services Abstracts.

Authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States.

This database aggregates the statistical abstracts of over 40 countries (and growing) and makes the content available through a single-search interface. These statistical abstracts are generally issued by the national statistical offices of foreign governments and contain country-level data not easily found elsewhere. Global and regional statistical compendia issued by international organizations and research firms are also included.