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• Who's Who for quick biographies.

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• The article databases listed below give you book reviews:  that's an easy way to learn of books on your topic.  Search also Book Review Index Online.
• Dissertations & Theses:  many of these are full-text.

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• Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
• PsycInfo (EBSCOhost)
• America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts (EBSCOhost)
• Sociological Abstracts and Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (ProQuest)
• Social Work Abstracts (OvidSP)
• Gender Watch / Alt-Press Watch / Ethnic News Watch (ProQuest)
• Web of Science covers a wide range of disciplines while indexing scholarly journals exclusively; you can search article footnotes using a Cited Ref search.  From here, using Journal Citation Reports, you can get details on the top 100 or so sociology journals.
• JSTOR covers many disciplines; provides full-text of scholarly journals.
• WorldCat Local: results include books and articles.
• Google Scholar (UK): results include books and articles. For full-text of journal articles, look for "Get Text @ UK"; otherwise, click "Other UK means of access" or go directly to InfoKat or ILLiad. (If you are off-campus, look for Scholar Preferences and set it to UK.)
• Information on journals in Ulrich's Directory.

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• Statistics: Statistical Search; Social Explorer.
• Government reports: Monthly Catalog (pre-1976) and Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (since 1976).  Government reports are also listed in InfoKat.
• Survey results: Polling the Nation.
• Legal cases, reviews, laws can be found in LexisNexis.
• Newspaper and broadcast articles: LexisNexis, Lexington Herald-Leader.
• Words:  definitions and extensive histories: Oxford English Dictionary.