Comprehensive article database with abstracts for more than 590 "core" Sociology journals dating back to 1895. In addition, this file provides data mined from more than 500 "priority" coverage journals as well as 1,040 "selective" coverage journals. Also includes indexing for books, monographs, conference papers, and other sources.

SocINDEX offers coverage from all subdisciplines of sociology, including abortion, anthropology, criminology, criminal justice, cultural sociology, demography, economic development, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, politics, religion, rural sociology, social psychology, social structure, social work, sociological theory, sociology of education, substance abuse, urban studies, violence, welfare, and many others.

As of July 2005 SocINDEX supersedes Sociological Abstracts, which will remain available but no longer updated.

Contains biographical data on the most prolific, most cited, and most searched-for authors. This data includes name, title, institutional affiliation, contact information, and URL for an author's personal web page.

Journals indexed in SocINDEX with Full Text.