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Social Science Research in the Information Age: Online Databases for Social Scientists

Census data, consumer price indices, problem-solving advice for public administrators, current and retrospective journal titles, news reports of the Wall Street Journal, full-text articles from the Harvard Business Review-all of these and more are instantly accessible to the microcomputer user who knows how to exploit the nation’s proliferating online databases. The telecommunications function of the microcomputer can tap these vast storehouses of bibliographic, numeric, and full-text data. Many online databases, such as Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS), are well known to social scientists in their printed forms. However, the characteristics of the electronic databases can differ considerably from their print counterparts, and their potential for researchers is much greater. This article introduces microcomputer users to some major commercial online information sources, and it emphasizes their potential uses by social science researchers. It discusses: