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Sociological Abstracts, and its companion file Social Services Abstracts, covers the international literature on sociology, social work, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. It provides abstracting and indexing of articles and book reviews drawn from thousands of serials publications, plus books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and working papers.

Published since 1964, the index of literature covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present, with over 1,700 indexed journals dated as far back to 1910.

Annual Reviews provides over 50 journals that cover many disciplines, with access to both current and archived journal volumes.

The Biography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains nearly 900,000 records on all subjects (specifically humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia since it started publishing in 1971.

The database covers all aspects of indigenous culture, history, and life in North America, with more than 350,000 citations for newspapers, magazines, books, journals, etc. dating all the way back to the 16th century,

CQ Researcher provides original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news.

The Educational Resources Information Center is an index that contains education-related literature and research.

Provides full-text access to current ethnic and minority press newspapers, magazines, and journals, plus historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.

An index that contains over 45,000 bibliographic records exploring family studies from 1930 to today.

Oxford Bibliographies offer in-depth research guides and overview articles within academic subjects. Topic areas in the African American Studies bibliography include art, music, drama, and culture; history; individuals; law; literature; politics; religion; and sports.

Oxford Bibliographies offer in-depth research guides and overview articles within academic subjects. Topic areas in the criminology bibliography include corrections, courts and sentencing, crime prevention, criminal behavior, criminologists and criminological theories, environmental criminology, international criminology, organizational and white collar crime, policing, public response to crime, race, gender, ethnicity and crime, research methods, and victimology.

Oxford Bibliographies offer in-depth research guides and overview articles within academic subjects. Topic areas in the Political Science bibliography include African politics, Asian politics, comparative politics, European politics, international relations, Latin American politics, methodologies, Middle Eastern politics, political psychology, political theory, and US politics.

Oxford Bibliographies offer in-depth research guides and overview articles within academic subjects. Topic areas in the sociology bibliography include crime and social justice, cultural sociology, economic sociology, gender and sexuality, health sociology, political sociology, race and ethnicity, research methods, social psychology, social theory, sociology of religion, and sociology of the family and life course.

American Psychological Association's comprehensive index of international psychological literature from the 1800s to the present. Covers journal articles, books, and dissertations with abstracts. The majority of indexed titles are peer-reviewed.

The PubMed database contains more than 38 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. It does not include full text journal articles; however, links to the full text are often present when available from other sources, such as the publisher's website or PubMed Central (PMC).

This database provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes thousands of serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.

This database covers over 500 full-text journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles. Sociological Collection offers information in all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture, and social structure. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 2,000 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Premier offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis.

With an OSU login, the Google Scholar interface allows users to search library holdings and peer-reviewed articles.

Full-text access for over 17 million journal articles, books, documents, and research reports in a variety of disciplines.

JSTOR's AI-based interactive research tool is currently in beta. Users can visit this page for more information and sign up to use the tool.

Kanopy offers more than 30,000 films, including critically acclaimed movies, inspiring documentaries, award-winning foreign films, and more.

One-stop access to thousands of full-text periodicals from ProQuest's broadest general reference database. Features scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines covering 150+ subjects with highly respected, diversified content.

Scopus is a large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.

The U.S. Census Bureau is the nation’s leading provider of authoritative data about its people, economy, and health. See Topics for key topics and subtopics, and Data & Maps for Data Profiles (statistics by state, county, town), also tables, maps, and charts, from data.census.gov.

A data archive of over 17,000 studies, 6 million variables, and 100,000 publications that cover the broad topic of social science. To get full access, login to ICPSR from on campus to validate the account for the next 6 months.

A database of public opinion research and response with over 825,000 questions and 25,000 studies dating back to the 1930s.

PolicyMap is a U.S. national data and mapping tool that combines a curated, comprehensive geographic data library with simple, robust mapping and analytics tools. University faculty, researchers, and students use it to create compelling maps of up to five layers, export trend charts with key benchmarks, download data for use in other tools, generate on-the-fly reports and upload your own data to view it with ours.

Statista consolidates statistical data on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources. It includes insights and facts across 600 industries and 50+ countries.