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  This page seeks to direct users chiefly to networked information sources provided by the University of Chicago Library to its users. For links to free services and resources on the web, see Selected Internet Guides for Sociologists, below.
  
  
• Abstracting and indexing services for sociology
• Yearbook -- Sociology
• Other sources for journal articles
• Encyclopedias of sociology and social sciences
• Biographical sources
• Statistics
• Population and demography
• Public opinion
• Women's studies
• Gay and Lesbian studies
  
• Aging studies
• Criminology
• Union catalogs and library catalogs
• Full-text sources for government documents
• Electronic books
• ICPSR data files
• Dissertations
• Newspapers, news reports
• Archives, manuscripts, special collections
• Selected internet guides for sociologists
  

  ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING SERVICE FOR SOCIOLOGY
  

  Sociological Abstracts. Updated quarterly. Fundamental guide to literature of sociology. Abstracts journal articles, books, and conference papers; indexes book reviews. Materials published worldwide are included. File searchable by authors, words from titles, subject terms, and terms used in abstracts. Coverage on database extends back to 1963. For earlier references, consult print equivalent: Sociological abstracts. v. 1- Nov. 1952- New York. Entries arranged under 33 major subject headings and various subheadings. Annual cumulative indexes. HM1.S57 RR2
  
  

  For social history, including contemporary history, consult:

  • Historical Abstracts. The fundamental indexing and abstracting tool for modern history. Abstracts and indexes articles appearing in 2,000 journals published worldwide, from 1954, covering world history since 1450 (except United States and Canada). Includes key historical journals from nearly every country, and selective coverage of social science and humanities journals in related fields. Database is updated monthly.

  • America: History and Life. The fundamental indexing and abstracting tool for American and Canadian history. Abstracts and indexes articles and reviews from 2,000 journals published worldwide from 1954. Database also includes citations to abstracts of dissertations published in these areas. Database updated monthly.
    
    

  YEARBOOK -- SOCIOLOGY

  Annual review of sociology. v. 1- 1975- Palo Alto, Calif. Contains articles reviewing research in various topics in sociology in categories such as theory and methods, institutions and culture, organizations, political and economic sociology, demography, etc.

  CITATION INDEX FOR SOCIOLOGY AND OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES

  Web of Science (via Web of Knowledge). Provides access to the very extensive ISI citation databases Social Science Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Coverage from 1956. By use of the keyword index a subject search may be undertaken. In addition, one may identify related works by identifying works in which a known work has been cited.

  OTHER SOURCES FOR JOURNAL ARTICLES
  

  Electronic Journals List. An alphabetic listing of electronic journals available through the University of Chicago Library. Provides information on availability of full-text coverage. Identifies titles available directly from publishers' websites (such as the University of Chicago Press), and from aggregators, such as Johns Hopkins' Project Muse, The History Cooperative, and the indexing and full-text services listed immediately below.
  
  The JSTOR Journal Browser. Search the full text the entire run of each title included in the database from its first volume until the last five years; images of each page may be viewed, downloaded or printed. At this writing, titles in sociology and population studies include:
  
  

  Academy of Management Journal 1963-1996; earlier, Journal of the Academy of Management 1958-1962
  Academy of Management Review 1976-1996
  Administrative Science Quarterly 1956-1998
  American Journal of Sociology 1895-2000
  American Sociological Review 1936-1996
  Annual Review of Sociology 1975-1996
  British Journal of Sociology 1950-1996
  Comparative Studies in Society and History 1958-1996
  Contemporary Sociology 1972-1996
  European Sociological Review 1985-1996
  Family Relations 1980-1999; earlier, Family Coordinator 1968-1979, Family Life Coordinator 1959-1967, Coordinator 1952-1959
  Gender and Society 1987-1998
  Industrial and Labor Relations Review 1947-1996
  Journal of Black Studies 1970-1998
  Journal of Health and Social Behavior 1967-1996; earlier, Journal of Health and Human Behavior 1960-1966
  Journal of Human Resources 1966-1999
  Journal of Marriage and the Family 1964-1999; earlier, Marriage and Family Living 1941-1963, Living 1939-1940
  Journal of Modern African Studies 1963-1996
  Journal of Palestine Studies 1971-1997
  Middle East Report 1988-1996; earlier, MERIP Middle East Report 1986-1988, MERIP Reports 1971-1985
  Political Behavior 1979-1996
  Public Opinion Quarterly 1937-1999
  Social Forces 1925-2000 (plus links to recent content 2001-2002); earlier, Journal of Social Forces 1922-1925
  Social Psychology Quarterly 1979-1996; earlier, Social Psychology 1978
  Sociometry 1937-1977
  Sociological Forum 1986-1996
  Sociological Methodology 1969-1996
  Sociological Theory 1983-1996
  Sociology of Education 1963-1996; earlier, Journal of Educational Sociology 1927-1963
  Theory and Society 1974-1996
  

   

  A growing number of other important journals in other fields, such as economics, finance, history, political science, population studies, statistics, etc., are also searchable from this location.
  
  Periodicals Archive Online (formerly known as Periodicals Contents Index Full Text -- PCI). Provides full-text articles from some 350 periodicals in 37 subject areas in the humanities and social sciences, in many cases from the first issues through the mid-1990's. One may search by author, title, or words appearing in the full text.
  
  Periodicals Index Online (formerly known as Periodicals Contents Index -- PCI). Indexes articles published in over 4,500 periodicals in 37 subject areas in the humanities and social sciences, indexing each included title from the first issue to its terminal date, or through the mid-1990's. Includes numerous foreign-language titles, and many older, long-ceased titles. Topical indexing appears to be mainly from title words, or translations of words in the article titles.
  
  Ebsco Academic Search Premier. Includes indexing and full text for more than 300 journals for sociology, as well as full text for an additional 3,000 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study in the social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Coverage varies considerably, title by title. Increasingly full text is available for important titles for the last decade; full text for some titles in history is available for more than 20 years.
  
  Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe. Contains full-text selections from hundreds of newspapers, and thousands of current affairs, business, legal, medical and trade publications, and government documents. Also contains data profiles on countries of the world, biographical information for world leaders, polls and surveys from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.
  
  Wilson Select Plus. Provides indexed and abstracted records with accompanying full text in periodicals from General Science Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Readers' Guide Abstracts, Wilson Business Abstracts and many other databases produced by H.W. Wilson, 1994+.
  
  

  PAIS International. Indexes articles from over 3000 journals, US and foreign, since 1972. Subject coverage: administration of justice; agriculture, forestry and fishing, and; agricultural policy; banking and public and private finance; business and service sector; culture and religion; economic conditions and policy; education and education policy; energy resources and policy; environment and environmental policy; government; health conditions and policy; human rights; international relations; labor conditions and policy; law and ethics; manufacturing and heavy industry; media, telecommunications, and; information policy; military and defense policy; politics; population groups, population policy; and demographics; science and technology policy; social conditions and policy; trade and trade policy; transportation and transportation policy.
  
  ArticleFirst. Describes items listed on the table of contents page of individual issues of more than 11,000 journals in a wide range of subject fields. Covers January 1990 to the present for most journals; covers July 1992 to the present for others. Some full text included. Complete tables of contents for individual journal issues are also provided.
  
  Readers Guide Retrospective, 1890-1982. Indexes the contents of some 375 of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States, covering such subjects as aeronautics, African-Americans, aging, archeology, astronomy, automobiles, biographies, business, children, education, environment, fashion, film, fine arts, food, foreign affairs, gardening, health, history, hobbies, home, journalism, leisure activities, literature, medicine, music, news, nutrition, photography, politics, popular culture, radio, religion, science, sports, technology, television, travel. At the same site you may simultaneously search the following:
  
  Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective 1970-1984, Indexes the contents of nearly 1200 English-language scholarly and specialized journals in fields such as addiction studies, anthropology, archaeology, area studies, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, communications & mass media, community health & medical care, corrections, criminal justice, criminology, dance, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, film, folklore, gender studies, geography, gerontology, history, international relations, journalism, law, linguistics, literary & social criticism, literature, minority studies, music, performing arts, philosophy, planning & public administration, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, religion & theology, social work, sociology, and urban studies. (Database corresponds to International Index, 1907 - March 1965; Social Sciences & Humanities Index, April 1965 – March 1974; Humanities Index, April 1974 – March 1984; and Social Sciences Index, April 1974 – March 1983). From the same site you may simultaneously search Readers Guide Retrospective, 1890-1982.
  
  American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900. Project includes digitized images of pages from 1,100 American periodicals, including 89 journals published between 1740 and 1800; more than 900 titles from 1800 to 1860; and 118 periodicals published during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, and titles beginning publication from the 1880's through 1900. As of this writing, project includes full-text content from 750 periodicals. All numbers of titles included in the project will be digitized, even those which extend well past 1900. For details of current coverage, click here, and click on "List all periodicals." Full-text is searchable, with high accuracy for 19th century materials, less accuracy for 18th century materials.
  

  ENCYCLOPEDIAS OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

  A Dictionary of Sociology. (Oxford University Press: Oxford Reference Online). Edited by Gordon Marshall. Includes 2,500 entries. Provides international coverage of terms, methods, and concepts; related terms from psychology, economics, anthropology, philosophy, and political science; and material on topics such as cultural studies and identity, mass media, and the Internet, nationalism and McDonaldization. One may search by keywords, or browse entries alphabetically. Print edition publication date: Second Edition, 1998.
  
  International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences Online. The Encyclopedia is the first attempt in a generation to map the social and behavioral sciences on a grand scale.The Encyclopedia includes approximately 4,000 signed articles, and 90,000 bibliographic references. The printed edition (H41.I58 2001, RR and Law Reference) runs to 24 volumes plus 2 index volumes. It is alphabetically organized and extensively cross-referenced throughout and is supported by a comprehensive name index and multi-level, hierarchical subject index. It also includes a classified list of entries.
  
  

  BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES
  

  The American National Biography provides scholarly biographies of more than 17,400 men and women from all eras and walks of life. The print version was published in 24 volumes in 1999, and a special effort was made to include more women and members of minority groups that had been underrepresented in previous biographical references. The signed articles are provided with bibliographies. The full text is searchable by keywords. In effect it substantially supersedes:

  The Dictionary of American Biography, a biographical classic, was published in 20 volumes between 1928 and 1934, and 10 supplements have been published between 1944 and 1995, providing scholarly biographies of over 19,000 Americans who died by December 31, 1980. In its electronic form, accessed from workstation in Joseph Regenstein Library first-floor reading room, the text is searchbable by keywords.
  
  Oxford Dictionary of National Biography presents newly commissioned scholarly biographies of more than 50,000 (deceased) individuals influential in British history. This new work (published September, 2004) also includes the full text of the classic 33-volume Dictionary of National Biography.
  
  Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press: Oxford Reference Online). Includes 2,000 entries on men and women from different countries and cultures who have contributed to the thought as well as the action of the twentieth century. One may search by keywords, or browse entries alphabetically. First published 1985 as The Longman Dictionary of 20th Century Biography. Revised Edition published 1992 by Oxford University Press as A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century World Biography. This abridged and updated edition published as an Oxford University Press paperback 1999.
  

  African American Biographical Database brings together in one resource the biographies of thousands of African Americans, many not to be found in any other reference source. These biographical sketches have been assembled from biographical dictionaries and other sources. The majority of the biographies come from titles listed in Black Biographical Dictionaries, 1790-1950, and many entries have a distinctly romantic or sentimental quality. Entries may be searched by categories, such as occupation, gender, state of origin, or by keywords appearing in the text.

  Contemporary Authors is a bio-bibliographic guide covering more than 110,000 current writers of fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, and drama whose works have been issued by commercial or university presses, who write in English are whose works have been translated into English. Emphasis is upon writers active since 1960.
  

  Biography and Genealogy Master Index indexes approximately 14,000,000 biographical sketches appearing in biographical dictionaries, encyclopedias, and similar reference works.

  World Biographical Information System Online (WBIS Online). Comprehensive retrospective biographical database, based on the digitization of K. G. Saur's Biographical Archives. It compiles biographical articles from printed reference works published from the 16th to the 20th century, and it is in the process of reproducing these original documents as facsimile images. As of this writing, it includes over two million digitized biographical articles from 8 regional Biographical Archives. It also provides an index to 30 Biographical Archives containing biographies on more than 3.6 million persons from all centuries as well as all countries and regions worldwide. If the original documents corresponding to for whom biographical information is sought are not yet digitized, consult the Library's fiche editions of the Biographical Archives.

  The Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography. Compiled and edited by Jennifer Uglow, Frances Hinton, Revised by Maggy Hendry. Includes more than 2000 entries. One may search by keywords, or browse entries alphabetically. Print edition publication date: 1999.

  The Penguin Biographical Dictionary of Women. 1600 concise biographies of women in all fields, all periods, all parts of the world. One may search by keywords, or browse entries alphabetically. Print edition publication date: 1998.
  
  HeritageQuest. Searchable database of images of US census enumerators' schedules and full text of 25,000 US local and family histories. Also includes an extensive index of periodical articles in the fields of family and local history.

  
  

  STATISTICS

  Statistical Universe. Comprehensive guide to statistics published in federal government publications from about 1970, with many additional references to statistical reports published by states, intergovernmental organizations, and private organizations. Gives sources of statistics, and data elements in tables. Full tables are available for many statistical reports, often both as digitized images and in downloadable spreadsheet formats.
  
  Historical Statistics of the United States. Millennial Edition online. Represents a vast expansion of earlier editions of this work, now with over 37,000 data series. Users may download data series, compose their own custom tables drawing from various data series, and save data. Chapters include evaluative introductory essays describing the sources of the data and often assessing their reliability. Text is searchable; there is a topical index. There is a 5-volume print edition held in the first floor Reading Room of JRL. Contents: A. Population: Aa. Population Characteristics; Ab. Vital Statistics; Ac. Internal Migration; Ad. International Migration; Ae. Family and Household Composition; Af. Cohorts; Ag. American Indians. B. Work and Welfare: Ba. Labor; Bb. Slavery; Bc. Education; Bd. Health; Be. Economic Inequality and Poverty; Bf. Social Insurance and Public Assistance; Bg. Nonprofit, Voluntary, and Religious Entities. C. Economic Structure and Performance: Ca. National Income and Product; Cb. Business Fluctuations and Cycles; Cc. Prices; Cd. Consumer Expenditures; Ce. Saving, Capital, and Wealth; Cf. Geography and the Environment; Cg. Science, Technology, and Productivity; Ch. Business Organization; Cj. Financial Markets and Institutions. D. Economic Sectors: Introduction, Industrial Classification; Da. Agriculture; Db. Natural Resource Industries; Dc. Construction, Housing, and Mortgages; Dd. Manufacturing; De. Distribution; Df. Transportation; Dg. Communications; Dh. Services and Utilities. E. Governance and International Relations: Ea. Government Finance and Employment; Eb. Elections and Politics; Ec. Crime, Law Enforcement, and Justice; Ed. National Defense, Wars, Armed Forces, and Veterans; Ee. International Trade and Exchange Rates; Ef. Outlying Areas; Eg. Colonial Statistics; Eh. Confederate States of America.
  
  Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1878--. The basic annual statistical reporter for the United States. Typical chapters: Area and population; vital statistics, health, and nutrition; immigration, emigration, and naturalization; education; law enforcement and federal courts; climate; public lands and National Park System; labor force, employment, and earnings; military service and veterans' affairs; social security and related programs; income and expenditures; prices; elections; federal government finances; state and local government finances and employment; banking and finance; business enterprise; communications; power; public roads and motor vehicles; transportation, air and land; waterways, water traffic, and shipping; irrigation, drainage, and soil conservation; agriculture; forests and forest products; fisheries; mining; construction and housing; manufactures; foreign commerce; distribution and services. For many years subtitled "....and Guide to Sources": the various tables in the abstract cite the full statistical publication from which the data are abstracted. -- The documents linked hereto are pdf's, with chapters and topical indexes, but the individual volumes are not electronically searchable.
  
  Statesman's Yearbook. Provides 192 country profiles rich in statistical material, covering political parties and leaders; population; economics; climate; natural resources; military capabilities; education and legal systems; culture and communications; health and environment; international affairs. Permits preparation of customized statistical tables, charts, comparing countries' population, GDP, etc. International chronology; data on international organizations. Updated monthly. Library holds backfiles of Statesman's Yearbook providing national economic, political, and social statistics in more or less consistent categories back to 1865, at JA51.S79 Gen and other locations.
  
  For economic statistics, see University of Chicago Library Business and Economics web page.
  
  For education statistics, see University of Chicago Library educational statistics web page.
  

  POPULATION AND DEMOGRAPHY

  Search U. S. Census Bureau web site, for an ever-increasing database of on-line documents and files.
  
  See also Statistics section immediately preceding this one.
  
  Social Explorer. One may produce and display maps and reports derived from US Census data starting with 1940, including basic demographic and social characteristics for areas as small as census tracts.
  
  Population index, an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics. This website provides a searchable and browsable database containing 46,035 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986-2000. For electronic full text for 1937-1985, see JSTOR website.
  
  The Center for Research Libraries holds, and lends to member libraries, stocks of specialized research materials, including backfiles of foreign and domestic newspapers; foreign and US state government documents; scholarly journals; foreign dissertations; archival materials in microform; large microform research collections; and other specialized collections, including many US and foreign censuses. The Center's Catalog includes records for serials, archival materials, large microform research collections, and for many newspapers. (Records for US National Archives microfilms and some newspapers are not yet included in the catalog, and state documents and foreign dissertations are generally not cataloged.) The Center's Handbook describes specialized research materials in various fields, including its collection of censuses.
  

  PUBLIC OPINION

  Polling the Nations. A compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries from 1986 to the present. Each of the nearly 350,000 records reports a question asked and the responses given. Also included in each record is the polling organization responsible for the work, the date the information was released, the sample size, and universe, i.e., the groups or areas included in the interview.
  
  Gallup Brain. Database of 136,000 questions, and responses from more than 3.5 million people interviewed by the Gallup Poll since 1935. Searchable by keywords and phrases.
  
  Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. Archives thousands of polls and surveys from the United States and some 70 foreign countries undertaken by many polling organizations on a very wide range of topics. Many datasets may be downloaded.
  
  Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe. Includes polls and surveys from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.
  

  WOMEN'S STUDIES

  Contemporary Women's Issues. Provides full text access to global information on women, 1992--. Journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, along with fact sheets are easily accessed through CWI. Information on women in over 150 countries is compiled in a single collection bringing together such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health, education and human rights.
  
  North American Women's Letters and Diaries includes more than 150,000 pages of diaries and letters, dating from colonial times to 1950, drawn from more than 1,000 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, and 7,000 pages of previously unpublished materials. The full text can be searched by words and phrases, as well as by characteristics of the authors, such as age, marital status, number of children, residence, etc.
  
  Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000. More than 30,000 pages of text selected from a wide variety of sources, including some complete works. The full text can be searched by words and phrases, including subject terms, dates, characteristics of authors, etc.
  
  British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries currently includes approximately 38,000 pages of diaries and letters written by 201 women. With subsequent releases, the collection will include more than 100,000 pages of primary materials spanning more than 300 years. The full text can be searched by words and phrases, as well as by characteristics of the authors, such as age, marital status, number of children, residence, etc.
  
  Black Women Writers. Will contain approximately 100,000 pages of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by women from North America, Africa and the Caribbean. It will also present essays by scholars and feminists about the history of feminism and genre studies in these regions.
  
  

  GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES
  

  GLBT Life with Full Text. (To access, click on this link, then "EBSCOhost Databases Available," uncheck other sources and then select GLBT Life.) The database includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage of popular as well as scholarly print, electronic, and Internet publications of the GLBT press. Most topics of interest to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered community are covered in depth. Includes full text from 50 of the most important and historically significant GLBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, including The Advocate, Gay Parent Magazine, Girlfriends, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies, James White Review, ISNA News, Ladder, Lesbian Tide, New York Blade, ONE, Tangents, Washington Blade, and many more, as well as dozens of full text monographs.
  

  
  

  AGING STUDIES

  AgeLine. Provides bibliographic coverage of social gerontology--the study of aging in social, psychological, health-related, and economic contexts. The delivery of health care for the older population and its associated costs and policies is particularly well covered, as are public policy, employment, and consumer issues.
  

  CRIMINOLOGY

  Criminal Justice Abstracts. (Also accessible from workstation in SSA Library.)
  
  National Criminal Justice Reference Service Virtual Library. Text text text text.
  
  National Criminal Justice Reference Service Document Data Base. Access from workstation in Social Service Administration Library (or Access from workstation in D'Angelo Law Library)
  

  UNION CATALOGS, LIBRARY CATALOGS, GUIDE TO SPECIAL RESEARCH COLLECTIONS OF THE CENTER FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES

  WorldCat. About 90 million records of all types of materials cataloged by many libraries worldwide, identifying the location of over one billion copies. Searchable in a variety of ways.

  Library of Congress catalog is a truly fundamental reference source. It provides information on the unparalleled collections of the Library of Congress by authors, subjects, titles, series, and other added entries.
  
  British Library catalog provides information on the remarkable collections of the British Library. May require special care to retrieve materials cataloged prior to 1975.
  
  Other national libraries' online catalogs
  
  Center for Research Libraries. The Center for Reseach Libraries holds, and lends to member libraries, very large stocks of specialized research materials, including backfiles of foreign and domestic newspapers; foreign and US state government documents; scholarly journals; foreign dissertations; archival materials in microform; large microform research collections; and other specialized collections. The Center's Catalog includes records for serials, archival materials, large microform research collections, and for many newspapers. (Records for US National Archives microfilms and some newspapers are not yet included in the catalog, and state documents and foreign dissertations are generally not cataloged.) The Center's Handbook describes specialized research materials in various fields, including the following: African Studies; Austria; Black Studies; Business; Canada; Censuses; China; Dissertations; Eastern Europe; France; Germany; Government Publications - Foreign; Government Publications - U.S.; Greece; Great Britain; Italy; Indians of North America; Japan; Korea; Labor; Latin American Studies; Law; Middle Eastern Studies; Netherlands; Newspapers; Railroads; Religion & Philosophy; Russia & Former Soviet Republics; Socialism & Communism ; South Asian Studies ; Spain & Portugal ; State Publications ; Turkey ; United Nations; United States -History; Urban Studies; and World War II & Aftermath.
  

  FULL-TEXT SOURCES FOR GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS

  Congressional Universe. Provides indexing for Congressional reports, documents, hearings, prints and other Congressional papers from 1789. After 1970 detailed abstracts of Congressional hearings, reports, documents, and prints are provided. Provides full texts of Congressional committee reports since 1990; of House and Senate Documents since 1995; of selected committee prints since 1995; of bills since 1989; and of the Congressional Record since 1985.
  
  Government Printing Office GPO Access Service. Search the Monthly Catalog for government documents published since January 1994; and search the Federal Register, 1994+, the Congressional Record, 1994+, Congressional Record Index, 1983+, Congressional Documents and Reports, 1995+, Congressional Directory, 1995+, the Economic Report of the President, GAO Reports, History of Bills, 1983+, Government Manual, 1995+, Supreme Court Decisions, 1937-1975, United States Code, 1994 and supplements, etc. Conduct advanced searches of the Congressional Record and the Federal Register, 1995+. Use the Government Information Locator Service to identify and use other government sources of electronic information.

  The Library of Congress's Thomas site provides information on current floor action in Congress, bill summaries and status for the current Congress, texts of bills and public laws (1993+), text of Congressional Record (1993+), Committee reports, (1995+), other committee information, and historical documents.
  
  Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe. Contains full-text of federal code, federal regulations, state codes, and case law, from about 1980 onward.
  
  Century of Lawmaking: U. S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873. (American Memory Project, Library of Congress.) Includes searchable texts of House and Senate Journals, with links to digitized images of Annals of Congress, Register of Debates, and Congressional Globe. Also includes searchable texts of Statutes at Large, 1789-1873, selected volumes of the Congressional Serial Set, the Journals of the Continental Congress and additional sources for the early Congress.
  
  State Capital Universe. Contains information on recent state legislative action, bills, status of bills, statutes, regulations, and membership of state legislatures; and articles on state legislative activities from specialized reporters and state newspapers of record.
  
  British House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 1801-2004. As the working documents of government, the parliamentary papers encompass all areas of social, political, economic and foreign policy, showing how issues were explored and legislation was formed. Major types of documents in the House of Commons papers include: Bills - drafts of legislation, to be reviewed through various parliamentary stages; Reports of Committees - Select or the Whole House; Reports of Commissioners (Commissions appointed by the Crown to investigate social problems, to conduct inquiries into events, and as a preparation for legislation; membership was made up of experts in the field in question, who are not usually MPs); Accounts: statistical information, originating primarily from the Treasury, the Board of Trade and the War Office/Admiralty; and Papers, including such types as correspondence from ambassadors, governors, army officers abroad; commercial, trade and navigation accounts; statistical abstracts: judicial, taxation, etc.; census data; slavery and slave trade documents; and treaties. When completely digitized, in 2007, the collection will consist of a fully-searchable database of 9.5 million pages of papers, corresponding to some 14,000 large bound volumes and including over 184,000 distinct parliamentary papers. The November 2006 release will include documents of the period 1946-ca. 1975; and the final release in Spring of 2007 will complete the project through 2004. The product includes an index covering 1801-2004.
  

  GOVERMENT DOCUMENTS, OTHER SOURCES

  Lexis-Nexis Congressional. Provides indexing for Congressional reports, documents, hearings, prints and other Congressional papers from 1789. After 1970 detailed abstracts of Congressional hearings, reports, documents, and prints are provided. Provides full texts of Congressional committee reports since 1990; of House and Senate Documents since 1995; of selected committee prints since 1995; of bills since 1989; and of the Congressional Record since 1985. This site also includes:

  Lexis-Nexis U. S. Serial Set Digital Collection (1789-1969). Provides full text of the U.S. Serial Set, an ongoing collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under the directive of Congress that reflects every aspect of American life from the early 19th century onward, from farming, to westward expansion, relations with Indians, scientific exploration, public lands, politics, national defense, international relations, internal improvements, business, and manufacturing. It includes Congressional reports and documents as well as executive agency and departmental reports ordered to be printed by Congress. Including the American State Papers (1789-1838), this collection consists of more than 325,000 documents and 52,000 maps (comprising approximately 11,000,000 pages). -- To limit search to Serial Set, clear all check marks except for "Serial Set."
  
  Lexis-Nexis Congressional Committee Hearings and Prints (1824 to present). When complete, will provide full text of Congressional committee hearings since 1824, all Congressional committee prints since 1830, and Congressional Research Service reports since 1916. -- To limit search to any of these forms, clear all check marks and check only desired forms. Earliest years and latest years are being digitized first; full texts of all hearings will be available by 2008, and everything after 1970 will be complete by November, 2007.
  

  Lexis-Nexis Academic. Contains U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information, as well as full-text articles from many newspapers, from about 1980 onward.
  
  Government Printing Office GPO Access Service. Search the Monthly Catalog for government documents published since January 1994; and search the Federal Register, 1994+, the Congressional Record, 1994+, Congressional Record Index, 1983+, Congressional Documents and Reports, 1995+, Congressional Directory, 1995+, the Economic Report of the President, GAO Reports, History of Bills, 1983+, Government Manual, 1995+, Supreme Court Decisions, 1937-1975, United States Code, 1994 and supplements, etc. Conduct advanced searches of the Congressional Record and the Federal Register, 1995+. Use the Government Information Locator Service to identify and use other government sources of electronic information.

  The Library of Congress's Thomas site provides information on current floor action in Congress, bill summaries and status for the current Congress, texts of bills and public laws (1993+), text of Congressional Record (1993+), Committee reports, (1995+), other committee information, and historical documents.
  
  GPO. Index listing Federal documents issued from July, 1976, to the present.
  
  Century of Lawmaking: U. S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873. (American Memory Project, Library of Congress.) Includes searchable texts of House and Senate Journals, with links to digitized images of Annals of Congress, Register of Debates, and Congressional Globe. Also includes searchable texts of Statutes at Large, 1789-1873, selected volumes of the Congressional Serial Set, the Journals of the Continental Congress and additional sources for the early Congress.
  
  Nineteenth Century Masterfile. Provides index for federal documents issued 1774-1897, and debates of British parliament, 1803-1830. Titles covered: Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897; Index to Hickox’s Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, 1885-1894; Government Publications of the U.S., 1774-1881(Poore’s); Annals of Congress, 1789-1824 ("Congressional Record"); Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1849-1961; Cobbett’s Parliamentary History of England, 1066-1803; Cumulative Title Index to United States Public Documents, 1789-1900; Hansard’s British Parliamentary Debates, 1803 to 1830 (Commons); Hansard’s British Parliamentary Debates, 1803 to 1830 (Lords); Index of Patents Issued from the U.S P. O. 1790-1873.
  
  Public Documents Masterfile. Provides indexing to US public documents based upon 19th century printed indexes, Monthly Catalog (1895+), and other sources. Links to full texts found in Library of Congress' Century of Lawmaking, 1774-1873 and some recent web-based documents. Also provides indexing to foreign and international documents found in Library of Congress records.
  
  Digital National Security Archive, a collection of more than 35,000 important declassified U. S. government documents that provide the background for government decisions. Currently comprises fifteen collections: Afghanistan, Berlin Crisis 1958-1962, Cuban Missile Crisis, El Salvador, Iran-Contra Affair, Intelligence Community, Iran Revolution, Iraqgate, Military Uses of Space, Nicaragua, Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Philippines, Presidential Directives from Truman to Clinton, South Africa, and Soviet Estimate. Page images are digitized; documents are searchable by keywords, subject terms, titles, creator/recipient, date, cable number, and collection.
  
  Declassified Documents Reference System. Dates of Coverage: 1941-1997. Provides online access to over 500,000 pages of previously classified government documents. Covering major international events from the Cold War to the Vietnam War and beyond.
  
  Lexis-Nexis State Capital. Bills, statutes, regulations; information about state legislators; texts from state newspapers of record.
  
  British House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 1801-2004. As the working documents of government, the parliamentary papers encompass all areas of social, political, economic and foreign policy, showing how issues were explored and legislation was formed. Major types of documents in the House of Commons papers include: Bills - drafts of legislation, to be reviewed through various parliamentary stages; Reports of Committees - Select or the Whole House; Reports of Commissioners (Commissions appointed by the Crown to investigate social problems, to conduct inquiries into events, and as a preparation for legislation; membership was made up of experts in the field in question, who are not usually MPs); Accounts: statistical information, originating primarily from the Treasury, the Board of Trade and the War Office/Admiralty; and Papers, including such types as correspondence from ambassadors, governors, army officers abroad; commercial, trade and navigation accounts; statistical abstracts: judicial, taxation, etc.; census data; slavery and slave trade documents; and treaties. Collection consists of a fully-searchable database of 9.5 million pages of papers, corresponding to some 14,000 large bound volumes and including over 184,000 distinct parliamentary papers. Includes an index covering 1801-2004.
  
  Government Documents at University of Chicago Library. A brief introduction to government documents at the University of Chicago.
  
  The Center for Research Libraries possesses, and lends to member libraries, a large stock of government foreign and domestic government documents, including a fairly comprehensive collection of US state government documents prior to 1950. For a general description of the CRL's government document collections, see its Handbook, sections on US documents, foreign documents, and documents of US states. The CRL's catalog only lists portions of these collections.
  
  Government Resources on the Web, from University of Michigan. An extensive guide to sites for federal, state, and foreign government information; also international agency sites. Includes links to sites providing access to texts of Congressional Record, Federal Register, GAO reports, Congressional bills, government publications, etc., directories of agencies and web sites in all branches of government. Includes links to sites maintained by foreign governments.
  
  

  ELECTRONIC BOOKS
  

  Brookings Institution Press Full-Text Books Online. Provides online access to full-text version of growing list of titles in government and politics, general economics, international economics, international affairs, defense policy, education, and urban affairs. At this writing, approximately 190 titles are available.
  

  History E-Book Project. Project offers electronic texts selected from the current output of American university presses, as well as those from a specially selected backlist of titles. The initial release of 500 titles in 2002 is to be enhanced by approximately 250 additional titles each year, and some works originating as electronic books. Available titles may be browsed by author, title, specific subject headings, or general category (e. g., European history, 1400-1800); and the texts may be searched by words or phrases. At present, downloads and copying are limited to one page at a time: To save a page as an "image," using Internet Explorer, you may using floating tool-bar to copy, email, or print the page image; or right-click on a page and click on "copy," and paste into an editor like "Paint" or "Word." Using Netscape, right-click on a page, and then click on "save image." The result will be a scrollable gif. Or right-click on the page, and select "copy," and then paste into an editor or email application.
  
  Early English Books Online. When complete in 2007, will provide full text in the form of digital page images of titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640), and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), as well as titles in the Thomason Tracts collection. Database is searchable by words from titles, authors, publishers, places of publication, dates of publication, etc. PDF copies of titles are downloadable as PDF files. In addition, full text is searchable for about 3,000 selected titles.
  
  Early American Imprints, 1639-1800 (Evans Digital Edition). Project digitizes essentially every known monograph published in what is now the United States from 1639 through 1800. Includes books, pamphlets, broadsheets, etc., though neither serials nor newspapers. (For digitized early American serials, see American Periodical Series Online. In addition, the library has extensive holdings of early American newspapers in microform.) The full text of digitized titles is also searchable, though the accuracy of searchable files of early imprints with difficult typefaces is rather lower than for later texts: Please take note of the "search hints" on the main search page.
  
  Early American Imprints, 1801-1819 (Shaw-Shoemaker). Continuation of the preceding resource.

  American History and Culture Online: Sabin Americana, 1500-1926. A large (26,000 volumes, 6 million pages) collection of digitized books (and some serials) on "American" history published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Collection includes a very considerable amount of material for Latin America, particularly for the earlier years. Full text is searchable.

  The Making of the Modern World: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection of Economic Literature 1450-1850. The Collection is formed from the holdings of the Kress Library at Harvard University and Goldsmiths' Library at the University of London. This remarkably comprehensive collection of almost 12,000,000 pages consists of about 61,000 printed books, about half published before 1801, and half between 1800 and 1850. Also included are 466 pre-1906 serials. Texts are fully digitized and searchable by authors, titles, subject terms, and words appearing in the text. The collection is somewhat misleadingly titled in that "economic literature" must be understood very broadly to comprehend all the following categories:

  * Agriculture — fishing, mining, surveying, and landed property
  * Colonies — the entire story of the rise of the West, the expansion of Europe, to origins of European Empires and other colonial imperial relations
  * Commerce — shipping, piracy, and smuggling
  * Corn Laws/Navigation Acts/Mercantilism — their agricultural, financial, and commercial aspects
  * Finance — coinage, numismatics, and titles
  * General — treatises on sociology and political science as well as economics, topography, and the theoretical and general aspects of emigration
  * Miscellaneous — national defense, local government, subjects not relevant to the social sciences (e.g., theology), and the unclassifiable
  * Politics — political theory
  * Population — observations on the state of population in a variety of countries
  * Slavery — contains more than 1,100 titles on slavery and moves toward its abolition in the western democracies
  * Social Conditions — public order, public utilities, debtor and creditor, penology, criminology, trade unions, and temperance
  * Socialism — theoretical works on the subject
  * Trades and Manufactures — practical manuals and technology in general
  * Transport — transport technology
  When doing keyword searches, bear in mind that languages represented in the collection include Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

  Eighteenth Century Collections Online. When complete, will provide full text for 150,000 printed works (33 million pages), including virtually every significant work published in the Great Britain and Ireland in the 18th century, plus thousands of works published in the 18th century in the Americas. Each work will be fully word-searchable. For films of titles not yet digitized in this project, consult:

  English Short Title Catalogue. The English Short Title Catalogue contains over 450,000 bibliographic records and holdings details for books, pamphlets, broadsides, and ephemera printed in any language in England or its dependencies from the beginning of printing through the end of the eighteenth century, as well as works printed in English anywhere else in the world during that period. This database incorporates the listings in STC I, 1475-1640 (Pollard and Redgrave); STC II, 1641-1700 (Wing); the Thomason Tracts; and The Eighteenth Century, as well as other items discovered to be in scope. The University of Chicago Library holds microfilms of all 26,500 titles listed in STC I, and more than 50,000 titles filmed so far in STC II, all the 22,000 titles in the Thomason Tracts, and essentially all the 105,000 titles filmed so far from the Eighteenth Century collection, selected from the ESTC. The listings in the ESTC typically, but not always, include reel numbers and item numbers for items that have been filmed as part of these collections. In addition, the catalog of the University of Chicago Library includes records for all the titles listed in STC I, over 42,000 items listed in STC II, and over 81,000 items that are part of the Eighteenth Century. To obtain film copies of these items, consult the library's catalog, the ESTC database, or the appropriate print catalog cited below, and take the reel and item number to the General Microforms section (JRL 3rd Floor).

  HeritageQuest. Includes searchable full text of 25,000 US local and family histories, and searchable images of US census enumerators' schedules. Also includes Periodicals Source Index (Persi), an extensive index of periodical articles in the fields of family and local history.
  

  Making of America. (University of Michigan.) A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection, whose texts are searchable, currently contains approximately 8,500 books with 19th century imprints (as well as extensive runs of 19th century journals -- see list of titles above.)
  
  Making of America. (Cornell University). In addition to its extensive collection of 19th century journals (see list of titles above), Cornell's contributions to the MOA include an additional 267 monographs with 19th century imprints.

  Gallica, a project of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, includes fully searchable digital versions of tens of thousands of works in French or about French culture and history, as well as many tens of thousands of maps and other images. The collection also includes a growing collection of online reproductions of major French journals since the 19th century.
  
  La Révolution et l'Empire is a collection that brings together the works of fifty-two of the best known and most influential historians of the French Revolution and Empire from the 19th century, including Constant, Jaurès, Michelet, and Taine. Comprised of sixty-two complete works (and approximately 150 volumes), this database presents a wide range of historical writing from this period, fully-browsable and searchable by words and phrases.

  Google Book Search (as of this writing in Beta). Searches contents of a very large and growing but entirely undefined collection of digitized books. For books out of copyright, and certain other texts, searchable full text is available. One may restrict one's search just to these "full view" texts, or also search texts of other books, only snippets of which will be presented online.
  
  Microsoft's Live Search -- Books (as of this writing in Beta). Searches contents of a very large and growing but entirely undefined collection of digitized books. Provides searchable full text of many older books and other titles not in copyright. [Beta seems to require use of Internet Explorer. In Beta version, put your query in query box. Thereafter, click on "Books" tab to restrict your search to contents of books.]
  
  Project Gutenberg. An archive of thousands of out of copyright texts transcribed into plain ASCII format, including hundreds of historical works. Includes numbers of texts of 19th century English-language historiography, and earlier classic texts. Searchable by author, title, subject, and LC class.
  

  Oxford Text Archive. Collects, catalogs, and preserves high-quality electronic texts for research and teaching. Includes 2500 resources in 25 languages, most of literary interest.

  American Memory (Library of Congress). A large and growing collection of digitized manuscript, print, photographic, and mapping materials for United States history.
  

  The Online Books Page (Pennsylvania). An online guide to more than 16,000 electronic books available on the web.
  
  For other titles, readers may search the web using a typical search engine, or consult the WWW-VL History Index Network to indentify sources of other texts.
  

  ICPSR DATA FILES

  Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Lists tens of thousands of discrete files curently on deposit with ICPSR, with detailed descriptions of the holdings. To determine which ICPSR files the University owns, or to obtain access to additional ones, consult the Data Library of the Social Science and Public Policy Computing Center.

  DISSERTATIONS

  ProQuest Dissertations and Theses/Dissertation Abstracts. Indexes North American dissertations and some European ones, 1861- to date, as well as many master's theses. Provides full texts of almost all dissertations from 1997, and many earlier ones as well. After 1980 database contains abstracts in addition to bibliographic information. Searchable in various ways. Updated monthly.
  
  Center for Research Libraries. The Center for Reseach Libraries holds, and lends to member libraries, very large stocks of specialized research materials, including in particular foreign dissertations. The collections are described in the Center's Handbook section on dissertations. Foreign dissertations, however, generally are not included in the Center's Catalog.
  

  NEWSPAPERS, NEWS REPORTS

  ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Provides full text of New York Times starting with v. 1, no. 1, 1851; Washington Post, 1871-1987; Wall Street Journal, 1889-1985; Chicago Tribune, 1849-1984; Chicago Defender, from 1905 to 1975; Los Angeles Times, from 1881 to 1986; and the Boston Globe, from 1872 to 1924. Click on "clear all databases"; scroll down to "Historical Newspapers" and checkmark the ones you want to search.
  
  New York Times Full Text on ProQuest. Provides full text of the New York Times starting with v. 1, no. 1, 1851. Images of each article, and each page are available; text is word-searchable.
  
  Washington Post Full Text on ProQuest. Provides full text of the Washington Post, from v. 1., no. 1, 1871 to 1987. Images of each article and each page are available; text is word-searchable.

  Chicago Tribune Full Text on ProQuest. When complete, will provide full text of the Chicago Tribune, from v. 1., no. 1, 1849 to 1984. Images of each article and each page are available; text is word-searchable. For full-text articles since 1985, click here.
  
  Chicago Defender Full Text on ProQuest. Provides full text of the Chicago Defender, from 1905 to 1975. Images of each article and each page are available; text is word-searchable.
  
  Los Angeles Times Full Text on ProQuest. Provides full text of the Los Angeles Times, from 1881 to 1986. Images of each article and each page are available; text is word-searchable.
  
  Boston Globe Full Text on ProQuest. Provides full text of the Boston Globe, from v. 1., no. 1, March 4, 1872 to 1924. Images of each article and each page are available; text is word-searchable.
  

  Wall Street Journal Full Text on ProQuest. Provides full text of the Wall Street Journal starting with v. 1, no. 1, 1889 to 1985. Images of each article, and each page are available; text is word-searchable.
  
  America's Historical Newspapers. Provides full text of issues from hundreds of American newspapers published between 1699 and 1922, with near exhaustive coverage for newspapers that began publication before 1820. Also includes long runs for such newspapers as Baltimore Sun, 1817-1922; Philadelphia Inquirer, 1860-1922; and the San Francisco Bulletin, 1855-1891. Provides page images and images of individual articles. Texts are word searchable.
  
  Nineteenth Century U. S. Newspapers. Digitized articles and pages from approximately 250 American newspapers. Most titles are represented by comparatively short runs or only a few issues, but some titles are more extensive, including the [Chicago] Inter Ocean, 1874-1896; California Daily Bulletin, 1855-1893; [Denver] Rocky Mountain News, 1873-1898; Indiana State Journal, 1825-1899; [New Orleans] Picayune, 1861-1899; Boston Daily Advertiser, 1855-1899; New York Herald, 1830-1863; Cleveland Daily Herald, 1835-1884; [Philadelphia] North American, 1801-1899; Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, 1844-1899; United States Telegraph [Washington], 1818-1839; Washington Globe, 1822-1868; and many others.
  
  Times (of London) Digital Archive, 1785-1985. Provides full text of the Times of London. Images of each article and each page are available; text is word-searchable.
  
  Eighteenth Century Journals II. Full text of more than 60 British and Irish journals and newspapers dating from 1683 to 1799, not duplicating any material in Early English Books Online, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, or Early English Newspapers.
  
  Austrian Newspapers Online: Historische österreichische Zeitungen und Zeitschriften Online. Digital images of newspapers from the Habsburg Monarchy and Austria provided by the Austrian National Library. As of this writing, coverage includes selected titles for 1780-81; 1808-1938; and 1985.
  
  Spanish Newspapers Online: Hemeroteca Digital of the National Library of Spain. Includes fully-searchable digital images of some 143 newspaper titles, and over 500,000 digitized pages, a wide variety of Spanish press of all types: political, satirical, technical, literary, sports, religious, etc., ranging from 1772 to 1933. Also includes this link to other Spanish digitized newspaper collections.
  
  Historical Newspapers Online Indexes the Times (London) from 1790 to 1980) and the New York Times, 1851-1922.

  Keesing's Record of World Events. Provides full text international news reports since 1960. A particularly useful source for 'foreign' political and economic reports.
  

  Lexis-Nexis Academic. Contains full-text articles from many newspapers, including the New York Times, from about 1980 onward. One may restrict searching to specific foreign-language newspapers.

  ProQuest Newstand. Full text articles from some 500 U.S. and international news sources. Includes coverage of 150+ major U.S. and international newspapers such as The New York Times and the Times of London, Chicago Tribune (1985+), plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires. Coverage varies from title to title with respect to years covered and comprehensiveness. For particulars, click here.
  
  Ebsco Newspaper Source. Provides full-text articles from recent years from about 200 international and regional newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune.
  
  Ethnic NewsWatch. Full text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic, minority and native press in the U.S. Coverage is from 1960 to date.
  
  Factiva, merging content from Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters. Strong business focus. Search full text content from over 6,000 newswires, papers, magazines, & trade journals.
  
  Facts on File. Includes a "World News Digest," 1940 to present, and World Almanac Reference Database, and World Almanac Encyclopedia.
  

  U. S. Newspapers held by the University of Chicago Library. Detailed holdings of all U. S. newspapers held by the University of Chicago in any format, as of April, 1999. Searchable by title, place of publication, date, and readership.
  
  The Center for Research Libraries possesses, and lends to member libraries, a very large stock of newspaper backfiles, foreign and domestic, black, ethnic, and general circulation. Most, but not all, are listed in the CRL's catalog. For a general description of the CRL's newspaper collections, see its Handbook.

  ARCHIVES, MANUSCRIPTS, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

  ArchivesUSA. Comprises a current directory of over 5,400 repositories and over 124,400 collections of primary source material across the United States. It includes the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC), comprising information gathered and indexed by the Library of Congress, covering more than 88,700 collections; and names and detailed subject indexing for over 52,000 collections whose finding aids have been published separately in the microfiche series, National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS).

  ArchiveGrid. ArchiveGrid includes over one million collection records and tens of thousands of collection guides. Users may search entire file for names, keywords, subjects, etc., and also view detailed digitized finding guides, including scores of finding guides for University of Chicago manuscript collections.
  
  National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC). The NUCMC includes information on manuscript collections gathered and indexed by the Library of Congress, and provided with names and detailed subject indexing. From this site you may search the NUCMC via either OCLC or RLG through LC gateways that automatically limit your searches to archives and manuscripts. It is recommended that you search both databases, in that you are very likely to get different result sets. You may prefer to search these two large databases directly (WorldCat or RLG). [Choose "Advanced Search," and limit type to "Archival materials."]
  
  University of Chicago Library Department of Special Collections. Includes descriptions of rare book and manuscript collections, and lists of online finding guides.

  Guide to the National Archives of the United States. Brief description of record groups held.

  National archives microfilm resources for research: a comprehensive catalog. Most filmed materials are available for loan.

  Conaway, Frank. Guide to microform sources for history and political science in the University of Chicago Library. Chicago, 2004. Includes some 900 annotated citations to collections of personal papers, governmental and organizational archives, and collections of publications. Lists important sources for history of women, minorities, immigrants, and social and reform movements; and accounts of travelers, diplomats, and missionaries. Indexed by authors, titles, and subjects.
  
  Center for Research Libraries. The Center for Reseach Libraries holds, and lends to member libraries, very large stocks of specialized research materials, including archival materials in microform. The Center's Catalog includes records for archival materials, though records for US National Archives microfilms are not yet included in the catalog. The Center's Handbook describes specialized research materials in various fields, including the following: African Studies; Austria; Black Studies; Business; Canada; Censuses; China; Dissertations; Eastern Europe; France; Germany; Government Publications - Foreign; Government Publications - U.S.; Greece; Great Britain; Italy; Indians of North America; Japan; Korea; Labor; Latin American Studies; Law; Middle Eastern Studies; Netherlands; Newspapers; Railroads; Religion & Philosophy; Russia & Former Soviet Republics; Socialism & Communism ; South Asian Studies ; Spain & Portugal ; State Publications ; Turkey ; United Nations; United States -History; Urban Studies; and World War II & Aftermath.
  

  SELECTED INTERNET GUIDES FOR SOCIOLOGISTS
  

  Sociolog. Offers links to journals, associations, departments, and other resources.
  
  DMOZ Open Directory Project Sociology guide.
  
  WWW Virtual Library: Sociology. Comprehensive when last updated, 2 August 2000.
  
  Sociology: A Guide to Internet Resources. (University of Delaware Library; updated 30 May 2000)
  
  University of Chicago Department of sociology home page.