Subject Guide: Sociology
Finding Articles
Major Journals
Reference Books
Web-Based Resources
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Electronic Indexes and Abstracts
Full-Text/Full Image Databases
Electronic Indexes and Abstracts
To locate journal articles on your topic, you will need to use an index
(which usually, but not always, includes abstracts as well). The following
are available as on-line electronic indexes and abstracts accessible from
Newman Library'sFind a Database
page.
Dissertation Abstracts contains abstracts of doctoral dissertations and master's theses from all disciplines. The database contains records for dissertations from 1861-present with abstracts beginning in 1980; abstracts for master's theses begin in 1988.
PolicyFile: Public Policy Research and Analysis
PolicyFile indexes research and publication abstracts of public policy think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers. It covers all public policy issues from trade with Asia to health care reform, from telecommunications regulation to the European Union, from terrorism to intelligence reform, from Bosnia to Superfund. It is updated weekly and at the abstract level, Profile provides users with web links to contributing organization's home page, electronic mail address, scholar biographies, and full text. (Guide to Searching Policy File prepared by Yale University)
Social Sciences Abstracts, produced by The H. W. Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals. Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in January 1994. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Major subject areas covered include: Addiction Studies, Anthropology, Area Studies, Community Health & Medical Care, Corrections, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Economics, Environmental Studies, Ethics, Family Studies, Gender Studies, Geography, Gerontology, International Relations, Law, Minority Studies, Planning & Public Administration, Policy Sciences, Political Science, Psychiatry, Psychology, Public Welfare, Social Work, Sociology, and Urban Studies.
Social Services Abstracts is published by Sociological Abstracts, a division of Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. Social Services Abstracts provide bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Major areas of coverage include: community development, crisis intervention, evaluation research, the family and social welfare, gerontology, policy, planning, forecasting, poverty and homelessness, professional issues in social work, social development, social work education, support groups/networks, violence, abuse, neglect, and welfare services. Dates of coverage: 1980 - current. It is updated monthly, with approximately 350 new records added.
Full-Text and Full-Image Databases
This database features more than 1,600,000 records with subject headings
from a 15,600 term sociology-specific thesaurus. Abstracts are included
for more than 620 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895. In addition,
there is coverage for more than 500 "priority" coverage journals as well
as over 1,390 "selective" journals. It contains full text for 253 "core"
coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals.
This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full
text for 6,711 conference papers. All sub disciplines of sociology are covered.
This is a multi-disciplinary, full text database designed specifically for academic institutions. With the most numerous collection of peer-reviewed full text journals, this database offers critical information from many sources found in no other database. This resource contains full text for 3,606 scholarly publications with more than 100 going back to 1975 or further. It also includes PDF images for the great majority of journals. This scholarly collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, etc.
Alt-PressWatch is a full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press. As a current and retrospective collection, Alt-PressWatch serves a broad spectrum of subject areas including the arts, media and popular culture, business and labor studies, education, environmental studies and ecology, global studies, history, journalism, literary and critical studies, political science, government and public policy, social science and more.
Annual Reviews-Sociology provides systematic, periodic examinations of scholarly advances in the field of sociology through critical authoritative reviews. Newman Library also subscribes to Annual Reviews in the following fields: Anthropology, Genetics, Microbiology, Political Science, and Psychology. Full text coverage: 1996 to date; Tables of contents only, 1984-1995. Back issues of Annual Review of Sociology (1975-1996), excluding the most recent five years, are available online through JSTOR - a full text archive of the back files of scholarly journals.
The CQ Researcher provides factual and objective information on current,
emerging and controversial topics. This full-text database, updated weekly,
presents various opinions, provides milestone dates, explores the merits
of opposite viewpoints, and leads to more sources for research. Coverage
begins with 1991.
Ethnic NewsWatch contains a full-text collection of articles, editorials, and reviews published in the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic minority and native press. Ethnic NewsWatch, which is available in both English and Spanish, provides multicultural coverage of subjects of general interest with special focus on African-American, Hispanic, Latino, Chicano, Native American, Asian-American, Jewish, Arab-American and European-American news.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information
on a wide variety of social issues. By choosing from a large list of topics,
or using the basic or advanced search function, one can find viewpoint
essays, topic overviews, statistics, newspaper and magazine articles, images,
primary documents, and links to websites for the social issue selected.
This database draws on the popular Opposing Viewpoints series by Greenhaven
Press, as well as Macmillan Reference USA and Gale reference materials.
The "Research Guide" section discusses how to analyze social issues and
use critical thinking. The "Toolbox" section gives you tips on how to write
a paper.
Provides online, full-text access to more than 300 scholarly journals in arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
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Baruch & Other CUNY Sociology Academic Programs
Baruch College Sociology and Anthropology DepartmentMA in Sociology at Brooklyn College
MS in Applied Social Research at Hunter College
MA in Applied Social Research at Queens College
Ph.D. in Sociology Program at CUNY Graduate Center
Graduate Schools Directory: Sociology
Web-Based Resources on Women and Society
Women in EducationWomen in the Military
Women's Human Rights
Women's Studies Bibliography
Gateways to Women-related Sites
Women in Education
American Association of University WomenThe American Association of University Women is a national organization that promotes education and equity for all women and girls. The site's "Research" and "Issues" sections provide useful information.
Curricular Crossings: Women's Studies and Area Studies
This is a Web anthology for the college classroom from Five College Women's
Studies Research Center edited and coordinated by Margaret R. Hunt.
National Women's Studies Association
The National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) was founded in 1977 to further the development of Women's Studies throughout the world at every educational level and in every setting.
Syllabi on the Web for Women- and Gender-Related Courses
Created and maintained by Joan Koreman, Director of the Center for Women
and Information Technology, Professor of English, and Affiliate Professor
of Women's Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, this
site contains approximately 600 syllabi for women- and gender-related courses.
Women's Human Rights
Center for Women's Global
Leadership
The Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University develops and facilitates women's leadership for women's human rights and social justice worldwide. The Center's programs promote the leadership of women and advance feminist perspectives in policy-making processes in local, national and international arenas. You will find articles and other publications, and resource links.
Center for Women's Policy Studies
Founded in 1972, the Center is a unique resource for policy makers, researchers, advocates and community leaders. It manages six major programs including violence against women and girls; educational reform, welfare reform; and work, family, and workplace diversity.
Commission on Status of Women (United Nations)
The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) was established as a functional commission of the Economic and Social Council by Council resolution 11(II) of 21 June 1946 to prepare recommendations and reports to the Council on promoting women's rights in political, economic, civil, social and educational fields. The site contains information about women and the economy, the environment, education and training, domestic violence, and girls. Access to UN publications, Beijing +5 initiatives, and the work of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is also available from this site.
The Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU) grew out of the women's movement, the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement and the other social movements of the time. From 1969-1977, CWLU members dedicated themselves to developing grassroots programs for women while working toward a long term revolution in American society. The site's Historical Aarchive contains memos, newsletters, leaflets, position papers, general documents, recordings, and announcements.
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement
This is a project of The Digital Scriptorium, Special Collections Library, Duke University. This on-line archival collection document various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, and focus specifically on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Items range from radical theoretical writings to humorous plays to the minutes of an actual grassroots group. The items in this on-line collection are scanned and transcribed from original documents held in Duke's Special Collections Library.
An international human rights organization dedicated to action for the
civil, political, economic and social rights of girls and women, this
site provides its women's actions archives around the world.
Human Rights Watch: Women's Rights
Human Rights Watch is an independent, nongovernmental organization, supported by contributions from private individuals and foundations worldwide. This site provides news, international legal standards, publications, and resources links.
International Archives of the Second Wave of Feminism
The Second Wave Archives is an effort to conserve and communicate the original spirit of the Second Wave of Feminism, also known as the women's liberation movement. The time period of focus in 1966-79 in the U.S. and any time frame of original energy and importance in other nations.
MADRE is an international women’s human rights organization that works in partnership with women’s community-based groups in conflict areas worldwide to address issues of health, education, economic development and other human rights. MADRE provides resources and training to enable its sister organizations to meet immediate needs in their communities and develop long-term solutions to the crises they face. The "Articles & Factsheets" section contains MADRE’s publications that explore the impact of US policies on women and families around the world and highlight women’s work for human rights in their communities and internationally.
National Organization for Women
The National Organization for Women is the largest organization of feminist
activists in the United States.
The site contains current issues, legislative updates, news, and more.
National Women's Political Caucus
Founded in 1971, the National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC) is the only national, grassroots membership organization dedicated to increasing the number of pro-choice women in elected and appointed office regardless of party affiliation. The site provides access to political news, speeches, opinion pieces, a monthly calendar of events, and political action committees.
HAWHO (The National Asian Women's Health Organization)
The National Asian Women's Health Organization was founded in 1993 to achieve health equity for Asian Americans. The site provides daily public health news from around the world, program updates from HAWHO's new health portals, ongoing editorial coverage featuring commentary on policy news, articles, case studies and reports, community activities including polls, bulletin boards, and calendar of events, resource library, national archive, links and much more.
Women Against Violence Europe (WAVE) Network
WAVE is a network of European women's non-governmental organizations working in the field of combating violence against women and children. The Newsletter is the WAVE Network's most comprehensive information channel. The articles derive primarily from NGOs in a variety of different countries. They cover the widest possible range of topics dealt with from various standpoints.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775 - 2000
This site is a project of the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Currently it contains 41 mini-monographs that interpret documents. Each mini-monograph poses an interpretive question and provides a collection of documents that address the question. Altogether the site includes almost 900 documents, nearly 400 images, and 350 links to other websites.
Women Living Under Muslim Laws
The London-based Women Living Under Muslim Laws is an international Network that provides information, solidarity and support for all women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to derive from Islam. The Network aims to increase the autonomy of women by supporting the local struggles of women from within Muslim countries and communities and linking them with feminist and progressive groups at large; facilitating interaction, exchanges and contacts and providing information as well as a channel of communication.
Women's Human Rights
This is the Amnesty International USA Women's Human Rights program page. It contains news, issues, news releases, and online resources.
Women's Human Rights Net (WHRnet)
Founded in 1997, WHRnet is an international network of women's human rights organizations that seeks the effective utilization of all available information and communication technologies toward the advancement of Women's human rights. The site contains a variety of international information on women's issues.
This is the United Nations' Internet gateway on the advancement and empowerment
of women.
Launched in 1996 by Captain Barbara A. Wilson, USAF (Ret)., this page contains the the history and accomplishments of women who have served this country in military.
A content-rich site on military women.
Located in Fort Lee, Virginia, the mission of the Army Women's Museum is to collect, preserve, research, exhibit and interpret historically significant properties related to service of women across all branches and organizations of the United States Army from inception to present day. The site's "History Page" contains online exhibits; the "Notable Women" section contains short biography of notable army women. Historical photos, costume collections, and links to military history can also be found from the site.
The site contains a slightly expanded and fully searchable version of the
print publication American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study
of Women's History and Culture in the United States (Washington, D.C.: Library
of Congress, 2001). The site also provides practical search tips, detailed
collection summaries of the Library's voluminous multiformat holdings, and
links to fuller catalog record descriptions and digitized material
Diotman: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
Diotima provides an unparalleled source for information about women and gender in the ancient world. The site includes among other things bibliographies, course materials such as full syllabi, access to many sources of visual images, and an anthology with recent translations and full texts of essays. Those specifically interested in gender and women as well as those more generally interested in the ancient world need to consult this resource early on.
Maintained by the East Lansing, Michigan-based H-Net, this site provides a comprehensive bibliography on women, covering gender issues and relations, ethnicity and class, feminism, general history, religion, sexuality, war, individuals and others.
Magazines and Newsletters on the Web (Women-Focused)
This page maintained by the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies
Librarian. It provides links to over 100 web-based magazines and newsletters
on women.
Women's Studies Bibliography and Webliography (University of South
Carolina)
Gateways to Women-Related Sites
Best of
WWWomen Sites
Contains links to women-related sites.
Maintained by Joan Korenman, this site written in book format provides detailed information about women-related e-mail discussion forums, archives, and web sites containing syllabi, bibliographies, essays, and other useful curriculum transformation resources of particular use to educators and students.
Reference Resources for Women's Studies (Duke University)
Contains a comprehensive resource guide to women's studies available at Duke University Libraries.
Women's Studies (CUNY Graduate Center Mina Rees Library)
This site provides comprehensive links to resources on women's studies.
Women's Studies/Women's Issues Resource Sites
This is a selective, annotated listing of web sites containing resources and information about women's studies / women's issues, with an emphasis on sites of particular use to an academic women's studies program.
Women's Studies Database (University of Maryland)
The University of Maryland women's studies web site, begun in September 1992, serves those people interested in the women's studies profession and in general women's issues.
WSSLINKS Women and Gender Studies Web Sites
Developed and maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, this site provides a gateway to a wide range of Web resources in support of Women's Studies.
Sociological Associations and Organizations
American Sociological Association
The American Sociological Association (ASA), founded in 1905, is a non-profit membership association dedicated to advancing sociology as a scientific discipline and profession serving the public good. With approximately 13,000 members, ASA encompasses sociologists who are faculty members at colleges and universities, researchers, practitioners, and students. About 20 percent of the members work in government, business, or non-profit organizations.
The Eastern Sociological Society is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting excellence in sociological scholarship and instruction. It has approximately 1000 members, most of whom live and work in the Northeastern United States. The site contains an online newsletter and information on membership and annual meetings.
International Sociological Association
The International Sociological Association (ISA) is a non-profit association for scientific purposes. The ISA was founded in 1949 under the auspices of UNESCO. The goal of the Association is to represent sociologists everywhere, regardless of their school of thought, scientific approaches or ideological opinion, and to advance sociological knowledge throughout the world. The site contains publications and resource links.
Population Association of America
The Population Association of America (PAA) is a nonprofit, scientific, professional organization established to promote the improvement, advancement and progress of the human race through research of problems related to human population. PAA members include demographers, sociologists, economists and public health professionals. The site contains the full-text quarterly newsletter PAA Affairs and information on memberships and annual meetings.
The major purposes of Society for Applied Sociology (SAS) is to provide a forum for sociologists and others interested in applications of sociological knowledge; to enhance the understanding of the interrelationship between sociological knowledge and sociological practice; and to increase the effectiveness of sociological research and training. The site contains information on memberships, annual meeting, governance structure, publications, awards, archives, and posted papers.
Gateways to Sociology Resources
The site provides comprehensive links to Internet resources on sociology.
Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG): Sociology
The Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) is a freely available Internet service which aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for students, academics, researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law. It is part of the UK Resource Discovery Network.
Social Sciences Virtual Library
Maintained by Gene Thursby and affiliated with World-Wide Web Virtual Library, this site provides links to almost every social science disciplines.
Maintained by Julian Dierkes, this searchable site includes listings of
university sociology departments, professional associations, research
institutes, and links to international and multilingual sites in a wide
range of categories.
SocioSite
The SocioSite is a project based at the faculty of Social Sciences at the
University of Amsterdam. It is designed to get access to information and
resources which are relevant for sociologists and other social scientists.
It has been designed from a global point of view. It gives access to the
world wide scene of social sciences.
A Sociological
Tour Through Cyberspace
Developed by Michael C. Kearl of Trinity University in San Antonio, this site is an invitation to thoughtful exploration and research in sociology. The tour begins with general sociological links followed by links to resources for theory construction; data sets; materials on research methods and statistics; resources on writing the research paper; and finally, selected sites in cognate subject areas. The site is oriented to undergraduate sociology students, though its usefulness extends to other levels.
SOCNET: Courses and Curricular Resources
Maintained by WWW Virtual Library, this site provides courses and curricular resources on sociology.
This is an independent guide to the sociological resources available on the Internet and is founded in the belief that the Internet can help to unite the sociological community in ways never before possible. The SocioWeb is designed and maintained primarily by Mark Blair of Pacific Web. He is a graduate of Sociology at Sonoma State University and is currently an active partner in a leading Web development firm in Sonoma County, California.
Maintained by the Columbus, Ohio-based Connect Online, LLC, this site provides comprehensive Web links to sociology resources.
WWW Virtual Library: Sociology
Maintained by Carl Cuneo, Dept. of Sociology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, this site provides links to many sociology resources, including course, journals, databases, research centers, directories, newsgroups, etc.
Web-based
Resources on Public Opinion Polls
American Association for Public Opinion Research
Founded in 1947 and based in Lenexa, Kansas, AAPOR is a membership organization that supports more than 1,600 individuals who share an interest in public opinion and survey research. The site contains information on survey research standards, best practices for survey and public opinion research, code for professional ethics, graduate degree programs in survey methods, response rate calculator, news and issues, and conferences.
Maintained by Program on International Policy Attitudes, this site is a source of comprehensive information on US public opinion on international issues. The site includes The Digest, which provides comprehensive analyses of polling on various international topics. Over the coming months we will periodically release analyses of US public opinion on other international topics.
The Gallup Organization web site contains an archive of Gallup poll news releases, Gallup pole data, special reports, information about the organization's marketing and management services, the Gallup School of Management, the worldwide offices and employment opportunities.
Harris Interactive is a worldwide market research and consulting firm
best known for The Harris Poll, and for pioneering the Internet method to
conduct scientifically accurate market research. Headquartered in Rochester,
New York, U.S.A., Harris Interactive combines proprietary methodologies
and technology with expertise in predictive, custom and strategic research.
The site provides Harris polls since 1998.
Kaiser Health Poll Search is the result of a partnership between the Kaiser Family Foundation and The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut. The Roper Center houses an archive of more than 350,000 public opinion questions dating back to 1935. The Health Poll Search archive covers 29 topics and more than 300 subtopics, and holds more than 60,000 questions on health issues from health care surveys that have included questions on health. These questions provide information on public perceptions of HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, health policy and health reform, Medicare and Medicaid, women's health, the uninsured, minority health, and children's health. Response percentages and source information are provided for all questions.
National Election Studies (NES)
NES conducts national surveys of the American electorate in presidential and midterm election years and carries out research and development work through pilot studies in odd-numbered years. The NES time-series now encompasses 23 biennial election studies spanning five decades since 1948. This guide provides a portion of all the data collected by the National Election Studies, Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan.
National Network of State Polls
The National Network of State Polls (NNSP) is a confederation of organizations that conduct state-level surveys. Membership is diverse, consisting of more than 50 members from 38 states. The institutions that make up the network range from private research firms to large universities. Some members do only occasional state polling; others do several state surveys per year. The Survey Research Center at the University of Kentucky serves as the NNSP headquarters. The NNSP archive currently contains over 350 state-level studies (consisting of over 31,000 questions) from 22 survey organizations in 19 states.
The ODUM
Institute: Public Opinion Poll Question Database
Founded by Howard W. Odum in 1924 for the "cooperative study of problems in the general field of social science," University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Howard W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science has evolved into a center offering many diverse services to support the research and training of social science faculty and graduate students. The Institute maintains the country's third-largest archive of computer-readable social science data. Holdings include national and international economic, electoral, demographic, financial, health, public opinion, and other types of data to meet a variety of research and teaching needs. The site contains Harris Polls, the National Network of State Polls, some polls from Spain and Latin America, the Odum Institute's own Carolina Polls and Southern Focus Polls, and others.
Pew Research Center For The People & The Press: Data Archive
Pew Research Center for the People & The Press is an independent opinion research group that studies attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues. It is best known for regular national surveys that measure public attentiveness to major news stories, and for its polling that charts trends in values and fundamental political and social attitudes. This page contains links to the Center's survey data which are currently available on the web. Survey data are released six months after the reports are issued and are posted on the web as quickly as possible.
The web site for the bi-weekly newsletter Polling Report. This site provides polls from over 36 sources, including Gallup, Harris, Pew Research, and media organizations. Recent polls are listed in the center of the homepage. To browse polls by topic, use the links for Politics and Policy, Business/Economy, or The American Scene on the left. Note that many polls are listed on the same page, so scroll down to see all of them. Polls go back to 1998, in most cases.
Public Agenda is a nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization based in New York City. The web site focuses on around 20 high-profile controversial issues. For each issue, background information and public opinion polls are provided. The polls are from many sources.
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research ( part of Lexis/Nexis Academic
Universe database) (Baruch only)
Provides the full text of polls from 1936 to the present, covering
politics and government, public institutions, international relations, business,
social affairs and consumer behavior and preferences. The file includes
sources in opinion polling such as Gallup, Harris, Roper; ABC, CBS, CNN and
NBC; Los Angeles Times, New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal.
The file is maintained by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research,
a non-profit education and research organization in the field of public
opinion and public policy.
Web-Based Resources on Native Americans
Native American Portals and Gateway
to Resources
Native American History and
Cultures
Native American News
Native American
Organizations/Associations
Native American Tribes
Native American Portals and Gateway to Resources
Digital Librarian: American Indian Studies
Maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson a librarian in Cortland, New York, this site contains extensive links to resources on American Indians.
Index of Native American Resources on the Internet
Part of the WWW Virtual Library, this is a great starting point to diverse
areas of topics including culture,
health, history, language and indigenous knowledge. Like Native History
Magazine, sites are prescreened
before addition to the data base links.
Maintained by Lisa Mitten, this site provides access to the home pages of individual Native Americans and Nations and to other sites that provide solid information about Native Americans.
Native American Studies (Yale University Library)
Maintained by Amy Shapiro, Yale University Libraries, this site contains a guide to research, Internet resources and links to departments and associations.
NativeWeb is an international, nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to using telecommunications including computer technology and the Internet to disseminate information from and about indigenous nations, peoples, and organizations around the world. Through NativeWeb, indigenous people become visible to each other and themselves and organize actions in a multitude of local, national, and international institutions. This site contains a variety of links to other websites and references to resources available through government, nonprofit, and commercial entities.
Native American History and Cultures
20th Century Warriors: Native American Participation in the United States Military
Prepared for the United States Department of Defense by CEHIP Incorporated, Washington, DC, this site provides a short history about Native American participation in the military.
This site is about debunking the stereotypical Indian and protecting the cultural property of indigenous peoples. Cultural property belongs to the cultural group, rather than to an individual. As an individual has the right to control use of his/her property, the cultural group has the right to control the use of its property.
American Indian and Alaska Native Populations (U.S. Census Bureau)
Contains census data on population estimates, projections, historical census statistics, and statistical briefs on American Indians.
American Indian History and Related Issues
This is a developing site supervised by Professor Troy Johnson, American
Indian Studies Program at California State University at Long Beach, and
is dedicated to the presentation of unique artwork, photographs, video and
sound recordings which accurately reflect the history, culture and richness
of the Native American experience in North America and has been expanded
to include Indian people of Central America and Mexico. Contains comprehensive
resources links.
American Indians and the Natural World
This Web site was developed and designed by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History to complement the opening of the Alcoa Foundation Hall of American Indians, which is the only major museum exhibit organized around American Indians' relationships with the natural world. These relationships are illustrated through case studies of societies living in four major geographical areas - the Tlingit of the Northwest Coast, Hopi of the Southwest, Lakota of the Plains and Iroquois of the Northeast. The majority of this Web site is based on the exhibition catalogue North, South, East, West: American Indians and the Natural World, a dramatic, full-color depiction of how Native Americans relate to the world around them. The catalogue shows both the contrasts and the striking continuity between the art, objects, and people of different Indian groups.
American Indians of the Pacific Northwest
This digital collection integrates over 2,300 photographs and 7,700 pages
of text relating to the American Indians in two cultural areas of the
Pacific Northwest, the Northwest Coast and Plateau. These resources illustrate
many aspects of life and work, including housing, clothing, crafts, transportation,
education, and employment. The materials are drawn from the extensive
collections of the University of Washington Libraries, the Cheney Cowles
Museum/Eastern Washington State Historical Society in Spokane, and the
Museum of History and Industry in Seattle.
Archaeology
and the Native Peoples of Tennessee
Contains an online exhibition by University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Camping with the Sioux: Fieldwork Diary of Alice Cunningham Fletcher
This online exhibit was designed and produced by Robert Leopold of the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Created by PBS, Circle of Stories uses documentary film, photography, artwork and music to honor and explore Native American storytelling.
The Cherokee "Trail of Tears" 1838-1839
The site contains the Trail of Tears index and other Cherokee links.
Edward Curtis's North America Indian
The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis is one of the most significant
and controversial representations of traditional American Indian culture
ever produced. Issued in a limited edition from 1907-1930, the publication
continues to exert a major influence on the image of Indians in popular
culture. As part of the Library of Congress's digital collection, the 20
volumes portray a region of the American West, Canada, and Alaska as well
as some specific Native American nations. The site can be easily searched
by topics including artifacts, social activities, settlements and buildings,
weapons, travel, clothing, jewelry, tools and equipment, customs and rituals,
and other key words.
Elkus Indian Papers
The Elkuses are also known for the collection of Indian arts and crafts they amassed between 1922 and 1967. The site contains exhibits, bibliographies and database of Elkus Indians based on the collection of over 3,300 documents at the California Academy of Sciences.
Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux History
These web pages were originally produced by Jim Turning Bear, Roxann Bighorn, Irvin Rising Sun, Terry Driscoll, Kirby Cobb, Mike Jetty, Sharon Lacey-Black, Jim and Alberta Miller, Christian Stryker, and Margie Loud Hawk at the Burns Telecommunication Center on the MSU Bozeman campus.
This site provides full-text documents related to Native Americans.
Imaging and Imagining the Ghost Dance: James Mooney's Illustrations and Photographs, 1891-1893
Online exhibition of James Mooney's study of the 1890 Ghost Dance at Wounded Knee, comparing his 78 photographs of the Dance with eight illustrations he later prepared. From the William Hammond Mathers Museum of Indiana University.
This site is maintained by O.N. Eddins of Wyoming. This site is for the collecting and sharing of information on the effects of the fur trade on Native American Indians. Much of Native American and fur trade history from the late seventeen hundreds to eighteen forty reflects the prejudices of the times rather than factual information on the fur trade and its effects on the Plains, Rocky Mountain, and Canadian Native American Cultures.
Lewis and Clark Among the Indians of the Pacific Northwest
Developed by Washington State University's Department of History, this site is a curriculum project for the History of the Pacific Northwest in Washington State Schools. It contains sections on Introduction, Lesson Activities, Journal Excerpts, Annotated Bibliography and Related Links.
Memories Come To Us In the Rain and the Wind
This site contains extracts from the book "Memories Come To Us In the
Rain and the Wind",Oral Histories and Photographs of Navajo Uranium Miners
& Their Families. The book of 25 interviews is part of the campaign
of Navajo uranium miners and their families to gain compensation for the
great loss in death and illness brought about by mining uranium, with no
warning of its ill effects, during the Cold War era of 1947- 1971. Doug
Brugge was director and photographer for the book project and Timothy Benally
and Phil Harrison were interviewers.
Native American Authors
Maintained by the University of Michigan-based Internet Public Library, this site provides a very useful tool for finding information on Native North American authors with bibliographies of their published works, biographical information, and links to online resources including interviews, online texts and tribal websites. Currently the website primarily contains information on contemporary Native American authors, although some historical authors are represented.
Native American History and Culture
Created and maintained by Smithsonian Institution, this site provides online resources, selected exhibitions, and recommended readings on Native Americans.
Native American Press Archives
The American Native Press Archives began in 1983 as a clearinghouse for information on American Indian and Alaska Native newspapers and periodicals. In the ensuing years, it has evolved as a joint effort of the Department of English and the Ottenheimer Library of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. It stands today as one of the world's largest repositories of Native thought.
Contains online exhibits about famous native American women.
NativeTech is an educational web site that covers topics of Native American technology and emphasizes the Eastern Woodlands region. The web site is organized into categories of Beadwork, Birds & Feathers, Clay & Pottery, Leather & Clothes, Metalwork, Plants & Trees, Porcupine Quills, Stonework & Tools, and Weaving & Cordage. This site is dedicated to disconnecting the term 'primitive' from peoples' perceptions of Native American technology and art.
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian
The site contains current and the past exhibitions and other information.
U.S. Code Title 25 contains most, but not all, laws in the United States covering Native American Indian tribes. An understanding of the laws and its affects on native people goes a long way to understanding both the past and the present.
Associations and Organizations on Native Americans
The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) is a non-profit organization that provides legal representation and technical assistance to Indian tribes, organizations and individuals nationwide. The site provides court watch, cases updates, annual reports, newsletters, legal review, press releases, and National Indian Law Library.
National Congress of American Indians
The National Congress of American Indians was founded in 1944 and is the oldest and largest tribal government organization in the United States. NCAI serves as a forum for consensus-based policy development among its membership of over 250 tribal governments from every region of the country.
National Indian Child Welfare Association
The National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) is the most comprehensive source of information on American Indian child welfare and works on behalf of Indian children and families. NICWA provides public policy, research, and advocacy; information and training relating to Indian child welfare; and community development services to a broad national audience including tribal governments and programs, state child welfare agencies, and other organizations, agencies, and professionals interested in the field of Indian child welfare.
National Indian Education Association
Founded in 1969, National Indian Education Association is the largest Indian organization in the nation. Its mission is to support traditional Native cultures and values, to enable Native learners to become contributing members of their communities, to promote Native control of educational institutions, and to improve educational opportunities and resources for American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians throughout the United States.
National Indian Gaming Association
The National Indian Gaming Association (NIGA), established in 1985, is a non-profit organization of 168 Indian Nations with other non-voting associate members representing organizations, tribes and businesses engaged in tribal gaming enterprises from around the country. The common commitment and purpose of NIGA is to advance the lives of Indian peoples economically, socially and politically. NIGA operates as a clearinghouse and educational, legislative and public policy resource for tribes, policymakers and the public on Indian gaming issues and tribal community development.
National Tribal Environmental Council
National Tribal Environmental Control is a membership organization. It
provides services to its members and all federally recognized tribes.
The site contains contains the newsletter back to 1997 and resource links.
Indian Country Today
Indianz.com
Independent
Navajo Times
Navajo-Hopi Observer
Pechanga.Net
Selected Sites of Native American Tribes and Nations
The Alaska Native Heritage Center is a gathering place that celebrates, perpetuates and shares Alaska Native cultures. Since opening in 1999, the Center has become Alaska's premier interactive cultural destination. The "Learn" section contains information Alaska Native cultures.
This website is intended to give you a head-start in your research on the historical background of many American Indian tribes. It presents an overview of available resources as well as short histories of the tribes.
This page has been designed and put together by Ann Maloney. It contains texts of tribes, settlement, colonies, and territories related to Oklahoma.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is part of the United States Department of the Interior and oversees certain aspects of federally recognized tribes in the United States. When first created, the BIA was part of the U.S. War Department. This is the place to verify names of federally recognized tribes and tribes or groups that have applied for recognition.
Connecticut Paugaussett Indians
Contains full-text documents on Paugaussett Indians.
This is the official website of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, the descendants of the people who walked the Trail of Tears which began in 1838. The Cherokee are the largest tribe in the United States, according U.S. census records. You'll find Cherokee language aids and information on how to obtain applications for enrollment as well as current news of the nation.
Chickasaw Historical Research Page
This site is a project of Kerry M. Armstrong, a Chickasaw. It contains comprehensive research materials on Chickasaw Nation.
The Chinook Indians - tribe of Chinookan linguistic stock, lived in villages on the embankments of the Columbia River, from British Columbia, Canada to Eastern Washington State, all the way to the Pacific Ocean. The site covers the Chinook Nation, language, and books.
This is the official source of news and information from the Haudenosaunee, comprised of the traditional leadership of the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk and Tuscarora Nations. Haudenosaunee means People Building a Long House. That Long House is a way of life where the many native nations live in peace under one common law. The site provides history, culture, great law of peace, lessons from history, grand council, and threats to traditional governments.
This site contains the Chapter 2 of the extensive series undertaken by Newsday, "Long Island: Our Story", which documents local history from the Ice Age to the Space Age. The Chapter 2 provides detailed historical documents on the Indians of the Long Island.
This is the official web site of the Metis Nation of the South. Metis is a French word meaning "mixed." In times past, members of this nation would have been called half-breeds or mixed breeds. These "mixed" indigenous people have banded together and formed a sovereign nation under international law. Native American Indian heritage is a pre-requisite for citizenship; but, they also welcome lost birds. There are articles on Metis history and culture at this site as well as Native American learning stories.
The Narragansett Indians are the descendants of the aboriginal people of the State of Rhode Island. Archaeological evidence and the oral history of the Narragansett People establish their existence in this region more than 30,000 years ago.
Official Web Page of United South and Eastern Tribes
United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc. is a non-profit, inter-tribal organization that collectively represents its member Tribes at the regional and national level. USET has grown to include twenty-four federally recognized Tribes, operating through various workgroups and committees and providing a forum for the exchange of ideas and information amongst Tribes, agencies and governments.
Anasazi is a Navajo word meaning "Ancient Ones." The modern day Pueblo People would prefer them to be called "Ancient Puebloans"This site was developed as part of a Granite (Utah) School District project. It is divided into sections: Anasazi Symbolism, Culture Periods, Great Pueblo Period, Historic Period, Bibliography, and New Information. There is a great deal of information.
Maintained by Lee Sultzman, this site is dedicated to Winnebago location, history, population, names, language and culture beginning with the early 1600s. The homeland of the Winnebago was between Green Bay and Lake Winnebago in northeast Wisconsin, however, the tribe also dominated the area from Upper Michigan south to present-day Milwaukee and extending west to the Mississippi River.
The Official web site of the Wyandot Nation of Kansas. The Wyandot and the Hurons are the same people. The Wyandot Nation of Kansas is made up of those Wyandot formerly known as "absentee" or "citizen class" Indians. That means the Bureau of Indian Affairs took away this group's status as a federally-recognized tribe, basically saying the people no longer exist. They have petitioned the BIA for federal recognition.Internet Resources on African Americans
This is an online exhibition by the Library of Congress. This site is organized into nine sections, among them, Slavery--The Peculiar Institution; Abolition; The Civil War; Reconstruction; Booker T. Washington Era; Depression, New Deal, and World War II; and Civil Rights.
Part of the Smithsonian Institution's American Social and Cultural History, this site provides lots of online resources and links on African Americans.
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
This special collection on the Web has been prepared by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library. This site makes available several dozen works, each text scrupulously reprinted with no posthumous editing, each preface intact. A unique collection of diverse literature (essays, fiction, journals, poetry, autobiographical narratives, etc.), it is also one of the most comprehensive of its kind.
The Mosaic is the first Library of Congress-wide resource guide to the institution's African- American collections. Covering the nearly 500 years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere, the Mosaic surveys the full range size, and variety of the Library's collections, including books, periodicals, prints, photographs, music, film, and recorded sound.
Produced by WGBH Interactive for PBS Online, this site is a collection of images, documents, stories, biographies, and commentaries on the history of slavery and abolition.
The AFRO-American Almanac is an on-line presentation of the African in America. A historical perspective of a nation, its people, and its cultural evolution. From the beginning of the slave trade through the Civil Rights movement, to the present. Information that will give you a better understanding of the problems we face today as a nation.
A diverse collection of over 800 historic and contemporary Hollywood and independent films; black & white and color, silent and sound; features, documentaries, dramatic and musical shorts, comedy shorts, newsreels and animations in 35mm, 16mm, 8mm, DVD, and videocassette formats at Indiana University.
This site is the brainchild of C. Arthur Blair. It provides a gateway to the legacy of the African American's rich heritage, experiences, contributions and achievements that have generally gone unrecognized or omitted as part of the American experience beginning in the year 1492 to the present.
The Black Population in the United States
The site contains the Current Population Survey (CPS) Reports on black population by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Founded in 1968, California Newsreel is the oldest and most notable non-profit documentary production and distribution center in the nation. Newsreel has played a leading role in placing culturally diverse, intellectually demanding film and video in colleges, schools, and public libraries across the United States. California Newsreel is the site for educational videos on African American life and history, race relations and diversity training, African cinema, Media and Society, labor studies, campus life and much more.
Classic African American Literature
Developed and maintained by Paul C. Gorski, Ph.D, this site contains electronic full-text of the classic literature by famous African Americans, including Frederick Douglas, H.H. Chalmers, Charles W. Chesnutt, Lucy A. Delany, Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King, Jr., W.E.B. DuBois, Maya Angelou, and more.
The Church in the Southern Black Community
A part of the Documenting the American South Project at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, this electronic text collection "traces how Southern African Americans experienced and transformed Protestant Christianity into the central institution of community life".
Howard University Library System: Afro-American Studies
This site contains comprehensive links to resources on African Americans.
Javanoir: A Selected Guide to African American Resources on the Internet
Maintained by Noir Productions, this site provides a directory of resources on the Internet of interest to African Americans.
LSU Libraries: African American
Maintained by the Louisiana State University Libraries, this site provides extensive links to resources on African American.
The National Civil Rights Museum (NCRM) was opened in 1991 at the site of the Lorraine Motel in downtown Memphis, Tennessee. The Museum exists to assist the public in understanding the lessons of the Civil Rights Movement and its impact and influence on the human rights movement worldwide, through its collections, exhibitions, research and educational programs. The site provides news, and exhibits and gallery.
This site focuses on the philosophy of Dr. Karenga, the African-American professor who created the holiday in 1966. It describes in detail the African roots of the holiday, the seven principles, and the seven basic symbols. Includes a comprehensive guide for those celebrating Kwanzaa for the first time.
This website was developed by the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College, Columbia University, in collaboration with the Education Department of the New-York Historical Society and The New York Public Library, Office of Young Adult Services. It is based in large part on the book The Park and the People: A History of Central Park by Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar. It contains materials on the history of Central Park and the African American community that pre-dated the park
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Part of New York Public Library, this site provides comprehensive texts and images on African Americans' history and culture.
The Two Nations of Black America
Contains a PBS Frontline program, including discussions, an essay, audio excerpts, and interviews.
The W.E.B. Du Bois Virtual University
Developed by Jennifer Wager, a graduate of the Department of African-American and African Studies at The Ohio State University, the W.E.B. Du Bois Virtual University is a series of pages detailing various aspects of Du Bois studies.Internet Resources on Asian Americans
Created and maintained by University of California, Santa Barbara Library, this site contains lots of useful links to resources on Asian Americans. Major sections of the site include the following: Archives, Historical Societies, & Museums; Arts, Culture, & Literature; Associations and Organizations; Departments and Programs; and Online Magazines & Journals
Created and maintained by Cuong Nguyen Le, a Ph.D candidate at SUNY at Albany, this is a one-stop information source on the historical, political, demographic, and cultural issues that make up today's diverse Asian American community.
Asian Pacific American History and Culture
Created and maintained by Smithsonian Institution, this site contains selected links to Smithsonian programs and sources on Asian Pacific Americans.
Maintained by Asia Society, a national nonprofit, nonpartisan public educational organization dedicated to increasing American understanding of Asia and broadening the dialogue between Americans and Asians, this site serves as a gateway to enormous resources of information on Asia for those with a variety of interests and backgrounds.
East and Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources
Maintained by Robert Y. Eng, the Asian Studies program at the University of Redlands in California, this directory allows you to access annotated links by country and by political, historical, and cultural topics. The site specifies seventeen East and Southeast Asian countries and hundreds of specific subjects, including sections on academic and library research sites.
Recommended Asian American Websites Diversity & Ethnic Studies
Compiled by Susan A. Vega Garcia, Iowa State University, this page includes selected Asian American web resources useful for academic research and information purposes, containing annotated listing of authoritative and useful scholarly web resources for Asian American studies, with a focus on web indexes and electronic journals. Also includes links to a current bibliography of reference books and other materials for library research on Asian American topics.Internet Resources on Hispanic Americans
This is a comprehensive site intended to empower African, Hispanic (Latino), and Asian Americans to achieve advancement in politics, business, at work, and society in general. It contains demographics, news, and critical issues in business, politics, civil rights, workplace and more.
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook is a selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America. Continuously published since 1935, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources. Disciplines covered include anthropology, art, economics, electronic resources, geography, government and politics, international relations, literature, music, philosophy and sociology. Site also provides links to the Library of Congress Hispanic Reading Room and additional Internet resources.
The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU)
HACU was established in 1986 with a founding membership of eighteen institutions. Today, HACU represents more than 300 colleges and universities committed to Hispanic higher education success in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Latin America and Spain. The "Data, Statistics and Research" section under "HACU News" provides facts on hispanic higher education.
HispanicBusiness.comThis is the site of Hispanic Business Inc., the nation’s preeminent Hispanic publishing, information services, recruitment services, and events company.
This site is owned by Hispanic Publishing Corporation, which owns HISPANIC Magazine as well as Vista Magazine. It offers news, resources and entertainment options that are relevant to Latinos. The content for the website is produced by HispanicOnline's staff as well as freelance writers, wire services, and the staffs of Vista Magazine and HISPANIC Magazine.
Hispanic Population of the United States
This U.S. Census Bureau site presents recent Current Population Survey publications, which include selected social and economic characteristics such as, income, education, age, sex, and more.
Developed and maintained by the University of Texas Institute of Latin American Studies, this site provides comprehensive links to academic resources on the Internet and helps interested users throughout the world to access information on and from the region.
This is an information and entertainment site for Latinos featuring politics, commentary and Los Angeles community news.
LatinWorld: The Premier Search Engine for Iberoamerica & the Caribbean
LatinWorld is building a community of information and resources about Latin America, its wonders, and its people. Its objective is to serve as a communication platform for Latin Americans and people interested in Latin America. LatinWorld is represented by NetFuerza, an advertising network dedicated to the Hispanic market in the U.S., and to the Latin American market.
League of United Latin American Citizens
Founded in 1929, the mission of the League of United Latin American Citizens is to advance the economic condition, educational attainment, political influence, health and civil rights of the Hispanic population of the United States. The site contains the latest issues, publications, programs, events, and links.
Netmío.comThis is a news-oriented site, covering the happenings in some of the largest U.S. Hispanic communities, in Spanish and English, including Chicago, Dallas, El Paso, Fresno, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, The Valley (Texas).
U.S. Latino History and Culture
Maintained by Smithsonian Institution, this site provides online resources, selected links, and exhibitions.
Web-Based Resources on Child Welfare
The Administration for Children and Families
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is a federal agency funding state, local, and tribal organizations to provide family assistance (welfare), child support, child care, Head Start, child welfare, and other programs relating to children and families. The site provides information on ACF's programs, grants, research and publications, data and statistics, such as adoption statistics, child abuse statistics, child care research.
Since 1948, the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) has worked to build better futures for disadvantaged children and their families in the United States. The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families. The site contains information on the current projects and initivatives. It also contains various publications in pdf file format.
The Center for Child and Family Studies
The Center for Child and Family Studies was created in 1986 in the College of Social Work, University of South Carolina, to address issues related to children and families. Since that time, the Center has gained prominence for its curriculum development and training, research and program evaluation, conference planning, and social work education initiatives. The site contains full-text research papers.
Chapin Hall Center for Children
The Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago was established in 1985 as a research and development center dedicated to bringing sound information, rigorous analyses, innovative ideas, and an independent perspective to the ongoing public debate about the needs of children and the ways in which those needs can best be met. The site contains information on the center's research publications and projects.
Child Abuse Prevention Network
Based at Cornell University's College of Human Ecology, and it's Family Life Development Center, this site provides comprehensive information and statistics on child abuse prevention.
Child Rights Information Network
Established in 1995, CRIN is a fully established global information network that disseminates information about the Convention on the Rights of the Child and child rights amongst non-governmental organisations (NGOs), United Nations agencies, inter-governmental organisation (IGOs), educational institutions, and other child rights experts. The Coordinating Unit is based in London, United Kingdom. The site contains annual reports, research papers, and working papers.
Childstats.gov - America's Children
Gathered by a forum of representatives from many federal agencies and private experts, the information at this Web site focuses on 24 indicators of children's well-being and eight contextual issues. These issues and indicators include demographics; childcare; family, health, and educational experiences; children's behavior; and the child's social environment. The data are largely quantitative in nature and come from many well-designed cross-sectional and longitudinal sources.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Formerly the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information and the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families.
Child Welfare League of America
The Child Welfare League of America is the nation's oldest and largest membership-based child welfare organization committed to engaging people everywhere in promoting the well-being of children, youth, and their families, and protecting every child from harm. The site contains information on its programs, publications, conferences, trainings, and legislative agenda.
The Children’s Bureau (CB) is the oldest federal agency for children and is located within the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families. It is responsible for assisting States in the delivery of child welfare services - services designed to protect children and strengthen families. The agency provides grants to States, Tribes and communities to operate a range of child welfare services including child protective services (child abuse and neglect) family preservation and support, foster care, adoption and independent living. In addition, the agency makes major investments in staff training, technology and innovative programs. the "Date & Info System" and "Factsheets & Publication" provide useful data and research information on childen's welfare.
Family Support America, formerly Family Resource Coalition of America, promotes family support as the nationally recognized movement to strengthen and support families and places the principles of family support practice at the heart of every setting in which children and families are present. The site provides the latest policy agenda, legislative alerts, advocacy, and publications.
National Center for Children in Poverty
National Center for Children in Poverty of the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University aims to identify and promote strategies that prevent child poverty in the United States and that improve the lives of low-income children and their families. The Center places a special emphasis on preventing or alleviating poverty among children under age six; conducts and synthesizes relevant research to meet the needs of key audiences that work on issues affecting low-income families; uses sound research to identify and promote wise investments in low-income families that have important long-term benefits for children, families, their communities, their states, and the nation as a whole; and employs a multi-disciplinary approach to build bridges between academic research, field-based knowledge of the experiences of low-income families raising children, attitudinal research, and the development of public and private sector initiatives for low-income families with children. You can read the full-text newsletter Child Poverty News & Issues and many child poverty statistics.
National Center for Youth Law is a private, non-profit law office serving
the legal needs of children and their families by using the law to protect
children from the harms caused by poverty, and to improve the lives of
children living in poverty. The site contains articles and analysis related
to child welfare and links to resources.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services
The Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) serves New York's public by promoting the well-being and safety of our children, families and communities. OCFS has numerous responsibilities including: foster care, adoption and adoption assistance, child protective services, preventive services for children and families, services for pregnant adolescents, child care and referral programs, and protective programs for vulnerable adults. The site contains information on child care, child care retention, adoption, child protective services, and much more.
NYC Administration for Children's Services
Administration for Children's Services is New York City's first agency devoted solely to serving children and their families.
State of New York Family Court
The "Introductory Guide to NYC Family Court" section contains information on children at risk, custody and visitation, family offense, planning for a child's future, and referrals.
The site provides the full-text version of the Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989.Internet
Resources in Social Work and Human Services
American Board of Examiners in
Clinical Social Work (ABE)
The American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work sets national practice standards, issues an advanced-practice credential, and publishes reference information about its board-certified clinicians. You will find information on ABE's BCD's credential, services, organization, and informative position papers.
Association of Social Work Boards
The Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) is the association of boards that regulate social work. ASWB develops and maintains the social work licensing examination used across the country, and is a central resource for information on the legal regulation of social work. Through the association, social work boards can share information and work together. ASWB is also available to help individual social workers and social work students with questions they may have about licensing and the social work examinations.
Code of Ethics of the National Association of Social Workers
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics serves as the professional code of conduct for social workers. The site contains full-text version approved by the 1996 NASW Delegate Assembly and revised by the 1999 NASW Delegate Assembly.
Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)
CSWE is a national association that preserves and enhances the quality of social work education for practice that promotes the goals of individual and community well-being and social justice. CSWE pursues this mission through setting and maintaining policy and program standards, accrediting bachelor's and master's degree programs in social work, promoting research and faculty development, and advocating for social work education. The site provides news, features, and announcements.
National Association of Social Workers: New Jersey Chapter
NASW-NJ is a diverse membership organization that promotes, develops, and strengthens the professional practice of social work and social workers. Through advocacy and public policy, NASW-NJ affects progressive social change and social justice for individuals, families, and communities. The site contains resources on education and training, news and events.
National Association of Social Workers: New York City Chapter
This site offers a wide variety of information about concerns to the profession, and will be helpful to all social workers and the public.
National Association of Social Workers: New York State Chapter
Founded in 1955, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is the largest membership association for professional social workers in the world, with 160,000 members in the United States and overseas. In New York alone their are more than 22,000 NASW members; the New York State (NYS) chapter, which encompasses all New York except the five boroughs of New York City, has over 12,000, while the New York City chapter has the remainder. The two chapters work together to carry out the mission and goals of the Association. The site contains information on its policy and legislation, membership services, and continuing education.
The Regional Research Institute for Human Services
The Regional Research Institute for Human Services was established in
1972 by the School of Social Work at Portland State University, Oregon. In
the twenty-five years since its inception, the RRI has undertaken more than
110 projects and received awards of more than $25 million in grants and
contracts. The aim of the Regional Research Institute, then and now, is
to improve human services through applied social research. This site contains
lists of publications since 1970s.
Web-Based Resources on Health and Society
AEGIS: AIDS Education Global Information System
Maintained by the Sisters of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, this site is one of the most comprehensive HIV-related Web site on the Internet. Since its inception in 1990, the service has become a fully operational service with a global network of users. Numerous links arranged by subject headings provide access to other Web sites. This site is updated daily.
Dr. John Grohol's Psych Central
Regularly maintained by John and an assistant, it is one of the Net's best annotated guides to the most useful Websites, newsgroups, and mailing lists online in mental health, psychology, social work, and psychiatry.
Launched in 1997 as a project of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) AIDS Research Institute, this site is the only source of information on the Internet about HIV disease written and edited by researchers from a leading health science institution. The information is comprehensive, current, and readily accessible.
National Institute of Mental Health
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is a governmental agency that conducts and supports research nationwide on mental illness and mental health. NIMH is a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The site provides information on a variety of NIMH topics on mental health and disorders. This information, designed to help the general public gain a better understanding of mental disorders, is written in easy-to-understand language. The site is a useful resource for mental health researchers and scholars as well as undergraduate and graduate students.
This government site serves as an Internet portal to hundreds of nutrition and health information. The linked Web sites are well organized and presented in a simplified format with subheadings, a plethora of links, and pleasant graphics. Health care professionals will also find the "Research" and "Resources" sections useful for locating information about grant opportunities and health-related statistics.
This is an online news digest produced by the Center for Health Communication at the Harvard School of Public Health. Covering critical public health issues, it is an excellent resource for those who are interested in public health and related issues. Drawing on newspapers and magazines, the site offers a digest of news and information with links to the complete story.Web-based Resources on Health Statistics
American Cancer Society: Statistics
The American Cancer Society (ACS) is a nationwide, community- based voluntary health organization. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the ACS has state divisions and more than 3,400 local offices. This site provides national cancer statistics since 1997 and also state-level statistics.
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
The BRFSS, the world’s largest telephone survey, tracks attitudes, behaviors and trends at the state level. Based on about 125,000 interviews per year, between 100 and 600 each month per state. Information from the survey is used to improve the health of the American people. Prevalence data tracks behavior and attitudes on 24 topics, ranging from alcohol to hypertension to women's health. Trend data tracks time series data for sixteen negative behaviors or circumstances.
Comprehensive sources of health-related data collected by the Federal government.
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
As the Nation's principal health statistics agency, the NCHS’s site provides a rich source of statistical information about America's health. This site is designed to provide you with quick and easy access to the wide range of information and data available.
National Institute on Drug Abuse: Trends and Statistics
This site provides the latest statistics on drug abuse and drug problems.
SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center
The site of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services contains comprehensive information covering children's mental health, homelessness, anxiety, disaster, school violence prevention, and more.
Statistics Resources on the Web – Health
Created and maintained by the University of Michigan Documents Center, this site links comprehensive health-related statistics on the Internet.
Social Statistics Briefing Room - Health
The White House Statistics Briefing Room is to provide easy access to current Federal social statistics. It provides links to information produced by a number of Federal agencies. You will find the latest statistics on crime, demography, education and health. All of the information included in the Social Statistics Briefing Room is maintained and updated by the statistical units of those agencies.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive
The goal of the SAMHDA is to provide ready access to substance abuse and mental health research data and to promote the sharing of these data among researchers, academics, policymakers, service providers, and others, thereby increasing the use of the data in understanding and assessing substance abuse and mental health problems and the impact of related treatment systems. The data archive is also intended to expand the variety of media on which data are available and ensure that data are in user-friendly format.
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services: Reference Collections: Statistics
This site provides comprehensive links to resources on health-related statistics.
United States Cancer Statistics: 1999 Incidence
United States Cancer Statistics: 1999 Incidence (PDF–2.06Mb) is a joint publication of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), in collaboration with the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR). This report is the first set of official federal cancer incidence statistics from each state that meets high-quality data standards.Web-Based Resources on Religion
Academic Info Religion Gateway
Maintained and compiled by Mike Madin, a graduate of the University of Washington's Comparative Religion program, this site provides comprehensive links to religious studies.
Adherents.com is a growing collection of over 41,000 adherent statistics and religious geography citations -- references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, and ultimate concerns. One can use this site to answer such questions as "How many Quakers live in Indiana?", "What are the major religions of Nigeria?", or "What percentage of the world is Buddhist?" Data are collected from both primary research sources such as government census reports, statistical sampling surveys and organizational reporting, as well as citations from secondary literature which mention adherent statistics.
American Academy of Religion (AAR)
Founded in 1909, the AAR is the world's largest association of academics who research or teach topics related to religion. AAR is dedicated to furthering knowledge of religion and religious institutions in all their forms and manifestations through Academy-wide and regional conferences and meetings, publications, programs, and membership services.
American Religion Data Archives (ARDA)
ARDA is a project funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc. and acts to preserve quantitative data on American religion, to improve access to this data, to increase the use of the data, and to allow comparisons across data files. The ARDA collection includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations). The site allows you to search using keywords or phrases to find a file or survey questions.
Beliefnet, Inc. is a privately held company funded by employees, individual investors and Blue Chip Venture Company. This site is a multi-faith e-community designed to help meet people's religious and spiritual needs in an interesting, captivating and engaging way with features such as religious discussion, prayer circles, and information on all major religions.
Created and maintained by Rutgers University Religion Department, this site provides comprehensive links to resources on Buddhist studies.
Crosswalk.com: Bible Study Tools
Created and maintained by the Christ-centered, for-profit religious corporation, Crosswalk.com, this well-organized site dedicated to biblical studies has nine main components: Bibles, commentaries, concordances, dictionaries, encyclopedias, lexicons, sermon helps, history, and other resources. All resources are full text.
Provides links to the sites of religious bodies listed in the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches.
Hartford Institute for Religious Research
Hartford Seminary's Hartford Institute for Religion Research has a twenty-six year record of rigorous, policy-relevant research, anticipation of emerging issues and commitment to the creative dissemination of learning. This site is a portal to sociology of religion resources and religious research findings. At this site you will find online articles, religious statistics, research resources, and links to the web pages and work of hundreds of scholars in the field of religious research.
The Material History of American Religion Project
Working from 1995 through 2001, the Material History of American Religion Project studied the history of American religion in all its complexity by focusing on material objects and economic themes. This site concentrates on material objects and economic themes in American religion, including documents and pictures collected by religious scholars.
National Study of Youth and Religion
The National Study of Youth and Religion is a research project being conducted at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill under the direction of Dr. Christian Smith, Professor in the Department of Sociology. This 4-year project, funded by Lilly Endowment, Inc., began in August 2001 and will continue until August 2005. This site contains various research reports and articles and other publications on youth and religion.
Resources for American Christianity
The web site is owned and managed by Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. It seeks to assist leaders and participants in Christian communities, scholars and other interested publics in better understanding the impact, trends and trajectories of Christianity in American society. By providing both information and reflection on selected projects funded by the Lilly Endowment Inc., it offers a unique vantage point for discerning the character and contributions of this tradition within American religion and culture. The site supports a database of information on the projects selected (including essays and interviews on the topic), search tools for locating desired information.
Religion Online is designed to assist teachers, scholars and general "seekers" who are interested in exploring religious issues. The aim is to develop an extensive library of resources, representing many different points of view, but all written from the perspective of sound scholarship. At present this digital library contains more than 4,500 chapters, monographs, speeches and articles on line.
This Religious Movements Page site provides a foundation for understanding
how religious groups emerge, grow, stagnate, reinvigorate themselves,
and sometimes die. The resources on this site are rather considerable.
Students in Professor Jeffrey K. Haddenmy courses on the sociology of
religion at the University of Virginia have created profiles on more than
two hundred groups. These profile pages provide links to significant web
sites on each group, selected because they offer content that will better
help the reader understand specific issues or traditions. In addition,
each profile page presents a print bibliography for those who wish to explore
a particular group in depth.
Religious World
This site offers information about religious traditions that developed
in the Middle East or West Asia as well as others from South and
East Asia, too.
Virtual Religious Index
Created and maintained by Rutgers University Religion Department, this Virtual Religion Index is a tool for students with little time. It analyzes & highlights important content of religion-related websites to speed research. Hyperlinks are provided not only to homepages but to major directories & documents within.
Wabash Center Guide to Internet Resources
The creator of this guide is Charles K. Bellinger, Theological Librarian and Asst. Prof. of Theology and Ethics at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas. This website is a selective, annotated guide to a wide variety of electronic resources of interest to those who are teaching or studying religion and theology at the undergraduate or graduate level. The basic principle of organization used here is the course area heading. Under these headings, one will find materials divided into types: syllabi, electronic texts, electronic journals, websites, bibliographies, listserv discussion groups, and (for some pages) liturgical resources. These material types may also be browsed on their own pages. Information is also provided on ways in which electronic resources may be integrated into teaching.Web-Based Resources on Social Psychology
Based at Wesleyan University, this site contains links to thousands of social psychological and psychology-related resources. This site is a very useful and user friendly tool for exploring the world of social psychology.Web-Based Resources on Crime and Criminal Justice
The Bureau of Justice Statistics collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. The statistical data are critical to Federal, State, and local policymakers in combating crime and ensuring that justice is both efficient and evenhanded. The statistical information of the site is current, organized usefully, and presented in a clear and coherent format.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI's site contains a lof of information, reports and publications on crime and criminal justice.
Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center
The Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center (FJSRC) maintains the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP) database, which contains information about suspects and defendants processed in the Federal criminal justice system. Using