Human Development & Family Studies

Reference Resources | Core Databases | Additional Databases | Current Periodicals

Reference Resources

International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Available to researchers with a Penn State Access Account

Core databases

Annual Reviews
See the series Public Health and Sociology
Annual Reviews is a collection of comprehensive critical reviews of the written by leading scientists in the fields, and are heavily cited and highly ranked in terms of impact factors. Coverage is back to 1996, and is updated yearly.

Sociological Abstracts
Seminal index for English language journals in Sociology, Social Work, and other Social Sciences. Provides abstracts for articles and is international in scope. Coverage: 1963 to the present.

PsychInfo
Primary database for international literature in psychology and related disciplines. It is published by the American Psychological Association and provides coverage from 1840 to the present.

Additional Databases

Social Sciences Citation Index

ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)

Sociometrics Social Science Electronic Data Library (SSEDL)

Current Periodicals

American Sociological Review
Publishes original works of interest to the sociology discipline in general, new theoretical developments, results of research that advance our understanding of fundamental social processes, and important methodological innovations.