Lafayette College Library

Essays on problems related to social movements and social change. Includes "dialogues" between scholars and activists.

Index of major journals in the humanities and social sciences

Provides abstracts and indexes of statistical information from U.S. government publications from 1973, state and private sources from 1980, and documents from international organizations from 1983.

Searchable database of results from Gallup polls.

Quantitative and qualitative data about the Lehigh Valley. Includes public opinion data, election polls, and research papers (e.g.,"The Effects of Gambling in the Lehigh Valley"). Requires free registration.

Contains data from the 1790-1960 US Housing and Population censuses. Browse by state or county by topic, produce tables, and/or create ratios. Also includes "Map it" feature which generates interactive maps at the national, state or county levels.

Collegial online meeting place for sociology. Includes links to prominent international journals, key readings from major sociologists, newsgroups, more. From the University of Amsterdam.

Data on international migration and refugee trends by country. Includes country profiles with discussions of migration policies and patterns and detailed data on foreign-born residents of the U.S.

Full text of articles reviewing the scholarly literature for a variety of topics in the physical, biomedical, and social sciences.

Social science datasets available for download and analysis in statistical software. Datasets are made available through the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. Note: ICPSR data downloads from off-campus are currently not possible. If you would like to access ICPSR from off-campus for searching only, use this link instead of the one above.