Social Sciences
Reference Resources
- Politics and Social Sciences via Oxford Reference
- Online access to a wide range of subject dictionaries and 'companions'.
- Dictionary of Social Sciences
- An online dictionary of Social Science terms and definitions.
- Gale Virtual Reference - Social Science subset
- Encyclopedia of Disability, Encyclopedia of Leadership and Family in Society:Essential Primary Sources.
Databases
- Family & Society Plus
- Australian families - research, policy and practise.
- Academic Search Complete
- A multi-disciplinary database providing full-text access to thousands of academic journals.
- Social Work Abstracts
- Produced by the National Association of Social Workers, this resource contains more than 45,000 records, spanning 1977 to the present.
- APA - Australian Public Affairs
- Multidisciplinary, including: legal studies, social work & counselling and social sciences.
- Proquest 5000
- A multi-disciplinary database providing full-text access to thousands of academic journals.
- Academic OneFile
- Extensive coverage of social sciences, the arts, theology and literature.
- PsycINFO
- More than 2.4 million records covering over 2000 journals and some books from 1800.
- Communication and Mass Media Complete
- Full-text for over 300 journals and indexes over 120 additional journals.
Web Sites
- Australian Bureau of Statistics
- American Psychological Association
- The main professional organisation representing psychology in the United States.
- Australian Institute of Family Studies
- Australia's foremost centre for research and information on family wellbeing.
Social science covers a diverse subject area. The following subject guides will also help:
