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This article reports on SocINDEX databases offered by EBSCO Publishing as of June 2005. SocINDEX and SocINDEX with Full Text are now available via EBSCOhost. SoclNDEX features more than 1.3 million records with subject headings from a 15,000-term sociology-specific thesaurus as welt as abstracts for more than 620 core journals dating back to 1895. It also provides priority coverage of more than 500 journals and selective coverage of more than 1,070 other journals. Indexing for books, conference papers, and other sources is included, as are searchable cited references. SoclNDEX with Full Text provides the same indexing and abstracts as Soc-lNDEX, as well as the full text of 72 priority journals and 241 core journals dating back to 1895. The database also includes the full text of 545 books and 6,711 conference papers.

The article presents the Pew Internet & American Life Project of the American Sociological Association. A background is offered on the project that is considered to be the first survey on the use of internet and email in March 2000. It explores the effects of the internet on users and non-users based on the study published in a report titled "Tracking Online Life."

Reports that Sociological Abstracts Incorporated announced that the SAI Web Search Service, offers subscription access to subsets of Sociological Abstracts, Social Planning/Policy & Development Abstracts, and Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts. Time span of all subsets; Contact information.