Sometimes it's easier to go straight to the database if you know what you're looking for. Here are direct links to specific databases related to the field of Sociology.   There may be more (we have hundreds on subscription)... but these few should get you started.   Contact the library if you have any questions. 

Academic Search Complete  (EBSCO)  - UNM netID.
Designed for academic libraries, this database is a leading resource for scholarly research. It supports high-level research in the key areas of academic study.

Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts ASSIA UNM - UNM netID.
Citations and abstracts to social science and health information journal articles published in multiple countries.

Black Studies Center  (Proquest) - UNM netID.
A collection of scholarly essays, time-lines, images and more covering interdisciplinary topics on the Black experience. Includes full text coverage of core journals, periodicals and newspapers dating as far back to the 1820's.

Communication and Mass Media Complete   (EBSCO)  - UNM netID.
A robust communication studies database, CMMC provides full-text, indexing and abstracts for many top communication journals covering all related disciplines, including media studies, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse.

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text   (EBSCO)  - UNM netID.
This is the leading bibliographic database for criminal justice and criminology research. It provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for hundreds of journals covering all related subjects, including forensic sciences, corrections, policing, criminal law and investigation.

Diversity Studies Collection (GALE) - UNM netID.

A must-have for social science, history and liberal arts coursework, this collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community.

eBook Collection (EBSCO)  - UNM netID.
Provides full access to over 200K titles in the sciences, social sciences, humanities and business.

Ethnic News Watch (Proquest) -UNM netID.
A current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, indigenous, and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives.

Gender Studies Collection (GALE)
Provides balanced coverage of this significant aspect of culture and society. This database includes topics related to gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.

Gender Watch (PROQUEST)
GenderWatch is collection of curated research centered around issues such as gender identities, women, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues and other gender related topics. 

Informe Académico (GALE)  
Search in Spanish across full-text Spanish and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines from and about Latin America. A fully Spanish language interface.

Opposing Viewpoints (GALE)
This is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues.

Pop Culture Studies(GALE)
It's all around us and influences our lives every day. This collection provides useful information for any social science, history, art or liberal arts course. It analyzes and contributes to popular culture by offering useful information for researchers in social science, history, art, and liberal arts courses.

PsycARTICLES  (EBSCOhost)  *Authenticate with your UNM netID.

Psychology Collection (GALE) 
This collection explores what makes people tick from childhood to death, and gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops -- and diminishes -- over time.

War and Terrorism (GALE)  
This collection contains millions of articles to help researchers gain valuable insight into conflicts and their causes, impact, and perception on a global scale. This definitive collection is intended for analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science. ts

Created by your friendly librarians all across UNM, there are over 600 guides for specific research skills and subjects.  Their subject experts are available to help you too. Email to make an appointment.  We are all working from home and enjoy the chance to help you do some research!  

• UNMV Research Guides (all guides)

• Sociology & Criminology Libguide from UNM Central Campus Libraries

• Legal Research Guides from UNM Law Library

• UNM (Bureau of Business and Economic Research) BBER Data Links

• UNM Institute for Social Research

UNM BBER (Bureau of Business and Economic Research) Data Links
NM socioeconomic and population statistics. BBER staff are friendly and willing to consult.

Bureau of Justice Statistics

City of Albuquerque's ABQ Data
The city's clearing house for open data. Includes crime incident data.

Data.Census.Gov (Explore Census Data)
Provides access to Census Bureau data, including data on population, economic, education, business, housing, income & poverty, and more.

FBI - Uniform Crime Reports  &   FBI - Reports and Publications 
Statistics and information on crime in the United States.

Federal Judicial Center: Civil Rights Litigation  

Homeland SecurityDigital Library
The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation's premier collection of homeland security policy and strategy related documents. It supports local, state and federal analysis and decision-making needs and assists academics of all disciplines in homeland defense and security related research.

JSTOR Open Access eBooks 

(JSTOR) has made their entire collection accessible to the Public until the US National Emergency is determined to be over).

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data

The National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) archives and disseminates primary data on crime and justice for secondary analysis. The archive contains data from over 2,700 curated studies or statistical data series and is home to several large-scale and well known datasets, including the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), and the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN).

National Crime Victimization Survey 

The Bureau of Justice Statistics' (BJS) National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is the nation's primary source of information on criminal victimization. Each year, data are obtained from a nationally representative sample of about 135,000 households, composed of nearly 225,000 persons, on the frequency, characteristics, and consequences of criminal victimization in the United States.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service     Contains summaries of more than 160,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research.

National Emergency Library

The Internet Archive has opened access for all students to over 1.4 million books until the US National Emergency is determined to be over. This includes TEXTBOOKS!  

National Juvenile Court Data
The National Juvenile Court Data Archive houses automated records of cases handled by courts with juvenile jurisdiction. The Archive was established by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, within the U.S. Department of Justice, to promote access to automated juvenile court data sets for juvenile justice research and policymaking efforts. This web site was developed to inform researchers about the available data sets and the procedures for use and access.

NCVS Victimization Analysis Tool
This dynamic analysis tool allows you to examine National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) data on both violent and property victimization by select victim, household, and incident characteristics. Use this tool for more detailed data.

Race and Justice Clearinghouse
A resource for information, analysis, and commentary on race and ethnicity as they interact with the criminal justice and juvenile justice systems. The Clearinghouse contains information and tools for policymakers, practitioners, and advocates to understand racial disparities so they can be addressed, and make the criminal justice system more fair and effective. Courtesy of the Sentencing Project.

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
The BJS's powerful compendium of tables in PDF or Excel format on the criminal justice system, crime, courts, public opinion, and more. Links to the archived web page collected at the request of University at Albany SUNY using Archive-It. This page was captured on 01:03:17 Nov 12, 2023; after this timestamp some information on this web page may be out of date.

Terrorism and Crime Studies
This is a powerful online collection provided by the Library of Congress.   Definitely worth checking it out!

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
UNODC research constitutes the key global authority in the fields of drugs and crime, providing high-quality, essential evidence to inform policy-making and valuable sources of knowledge in drugs and crime domains, including in the framework of the Sustainable Development Agenda.

Western Society of Criminology (WSC)
The WSC is a regional professional society devoted to the scientific study of crime.  Access their peer-reviewed journal, The Journal of Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society, full text from their website.

World Criminal Justice Library Electronic Network

World Prison Brief Data

The World Prison Brief (WPB) is a unique database that provides free access to information about prison systems throughout the world. Country information is updated on a monthly basis, using data largely derived from governmental or other official sources.

 UNM Institutes/Centers
The work of our institutes and research centers at UNM focuses on our local populations and issues. Each is open to the public and welcome our students to visit.

• UNM Institute for Social Research

• UNM Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR)

• UNM Southwest Hispanic Research Institute

• UNM Center for Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addications (CASAA)

• UNM Latin American & Iberian Institute

• UNM Resource Geographic Information System (RGIS)

• Traffic Research Unit

New Mexico Data

• • City of Albuquerque's ABQ Data
    The city's clearing house for open data. Includes crime incident data.

  • Albuquerque Police Department
    Includes crime mapping and statistics as well as reports.

National Data Sources (USA)

Census Data, Demographics, Population Surveys

• U.S. Census Bureau  Gathers social, demographic and economic information about the US through many censuses and surveys. Browse their massive amounts of data by using either the "Topics" tab or the "Index A-Z" link. Click on the "Data" tab to view a list of the Census Bureau "Data Tools and Apps" for finding and using the data.

• Data.Census.Gov One of the best tools to access US Census Bureau data and statistics from these censuses and surveys. Users can create data tables and download them into spreadsheet files.

• Data.gov Portal for datasets (statistical and geospatial) produced by the US federal government. The site is not exhaustive but does include data from many agencies.

• Current Population Survey
  A joint project between the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the US Census Bureau (not included in American FactFinder). The CPS is a monthly survey that collects basic socio-demographic information and labor force characteristics. To access CPS data files, users can go through the Data Ferrett (see link below). Alternately, they can go to the National Bureau of Economic Research's CPS site or to the IPUMS CPS site.

• Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
  (From the Univ of Minnesota Population Center) Excellent source for US Census data in the form of microdata samples (i.e. NOT compiled statistics) from each decennial Census from 1850-2000 and from the American Community Survey from 2001 on. View a list of the samples available. IPUMS also adds value to this data by assigning uniform codes across all the samples and bringing relevant documentation into a coherent form to facilitate analysis of social and economic change. IPUMS also hosts a growing collection of microdata census files from foreign countries as well as a microdata from the CPS.

• NHGIS (National Historical Geographic Information System)
  Access to summary statistics and GIS boundary files for U.S. censuses and other nationwide surveys from 1790 through the present. (From the Minnesota Population Center)

Global Data Sources

• • World Bank Data
    Open access to data about development from countries around the globe. You can search via country, topic, indicator OR click on the "Data Catalog" tab for a list of all available data sets OR click on the "Microdata" tab for available microdata.

  • World Development Indicators (World Bank)
    One of the data sets available from the World Bank - allows you to quickly create tables comparing time series data on a variety of indicators by country.

  • Statistical Capacity Building Project (World Bank)
    "Provides resources to help ... develop better statistical capacity that advances the national and international monitoring of development policies and goals." The resources here include various reports on the quality of gathering of data/statistics in individual countries, as well as a database of "statistical capacity indicator" scores. Keep this site in mind when considering different topics for research - it will help you get a sense of where data availability will be a problem for a particular country.

  • Global Health Observatory (GHO) Data (WHO)
    The World Health Organization's gateway to health-related statistics and data. Includes a data repository, country statistics and reports.

  • UNdata
    Portal for many UN agency statistics (see the UN's COMTRADE database for more detailed international trade statistics/information).

  • eurostat
    From the statistical office of the EU, provides statistics at the European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions.

  • OECD iLibrary
    The online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data

Data by Topics

In addition to the links on this page, Princeton University Library's Data & Statistical Services librarians have created a Data Catalog for identifying data sets on specific topics. As the links on the site are via Princeton’s servers some of their subscirption links will not work for us at UNM, but iif you identify a useful data set that is not freely available, check if UNM might have access by contacting me

Agriculture

• • USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service

Criminology & Criminal Justice Studies

• • Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text
    Find articles from over 590 journals related to criminal justice and criminology from around the world.

  • National Criminal Justice Reference Service Virtual Library
    Contains summaries of more than 160,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. (Free on the WWW)

Relevant Research Guides

• UNM LAW  - Criminal Law Research Guide 

• Michigan State University Criminal Justice Libguide
  Here you will find general information about locating resources on Criminal Justice in both in the MSU Libraries and beyond. Note the many tabs at the top of the page. Click on the appropriate tab for more information.

• ProQuest Social Sciences Research Guides

Economics

• US Bureau of Economic Analysis
  From the US Department of Commerce.

• Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

• Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)

• USDA Economic Research Service

Education

• National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
  The primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.

• Stanford Education Data Archive (SEDA)
  Includes a range of detailed data on educational conditions, contexts, and outcomes in schools and school districts across the United States. It includes data at a range of institutional and geographic levels of aggregation, including schools, districts, counties, commuting zones, metropolitan areas, and states. It includes measures of academic achievement, achievement gaps, school and neighborhood racial and socioeconomic composition, school and neighborhood racial and socioeconomic segregation patterns, and other features of the schooling system.

Gender Studies

Health

• • National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
    From the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, this is the nation's principal health statistics agency.

  • CDC WONDER
    CDC WONDER, the Center for Disease Control's "Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research," is the CDC's platform for sharing its data and reports.

  • Kaiser Family Foundation
    Health related data and statistics about the US and individual states.

Indigenous Research

• • Institute for American Indian Research (UNM)

  • Sage Research Methods database module "Diversifying and Decolonizing Research"

Religion

• Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA)

• Pew Research Center's Religion and Life Project

In sociology, ASA Style is usually the preferred citation style for bibliographies and in-text citations.  However, check with your professor to be sure this is the style they recommend for your work. Sometimes you may be asked to use the APA Style. You can find help in the Purdue OWL, and we have several resources in the Library. 

• Style Guide, 6th edition by American Sociological Association
  Print. Call Number: UNMV Reserves BF 76.7 .P83 2010
  Publication Date: 2010
  Consult this book for detailed guidelines on using ASA style. Try using the link to the Purdue OWL (below) first. if your question is not answered there, reach out to your Librarians, or to your Writing Center - we'll be happy to help you out!

• APA style simplified : writing in psychology, education, nursing, and sociology
  View eBook. UNMV Library Database: Ebook Central Perpetual Titles 
  Publication Date: 2012
  This helpful text demonstrates how to write objective scientific research papers using interesting prose, incorporates guidelines from the 6th edition of the APA publication manual, and explores how to develop ideas, connect them to what others have written, and express them clearly.

• Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab), ASA References Page Formatting
  Great website with tips and examples on how to use the ASA Style. This is a great place to start to find an overview of the style and examples (for detailed style information, consult the actual style guide above).

Visit the UNM Valencia Writing Center for additional help with citations.  

UNM Libraries Guide to Citing Sources in Sociology and Criminology

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