Key Databases for Journal Articles:
- PAIS Index (previously PAIS International)
- Sociological Abstracts
- Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database (previously CBCA Complete)
Key Databases:
Additional Databases:
- Policy File Index
- Canadian Research Index
- Gender Studies Database
- World Development Indicators
- AccessUN
- Search <odesi> for social data.
- Canada
- Canadian Council on Social Development - Statistics Archives of tables (Archived at Internet Archive Feb. 5, 2014)
- Open Data Portal of Open Government
- Statistics Canada
- Foreign
- Afrobarometer
- The Pew Project - Global Attitudes Project
- UK Data Archive
- UK Data Service
- United States
- International
- Eurostat - Population and social conditions
- Sustainable Development Goals (formerly Millennium Development Goals statistics)
- OECD iLibrary Statistics
- Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (requires login to download data - free)
- UN Data
- World Bank Data Catalog
- World Health Organization
- Canada Social Report
- Canadian Council on Social Development - Policy initiatives
- Department of Finance - Social Issues
- Employment and Social Development Canada
- Library of Parliament research publications
- Policy Horizons Canada
- Statistics Canada - Canadian Social Trends
- Congress.gov (formerly Thomas.gov)
- Federal Digital Systems (FDsys)
- USA.gov (search across all levels of government)
- 2014 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report (listing of top international think tanks)
- Brookings Institute
- European Union European Social Policy Network
- International Labour Organization
- International Social Security Association
- Organisation for Economic co-operation and Development (OECD) - social and welfare issues
- PolicyArchive
- Political Party Platforms at Elections
- Think Tank Search (custom Google search, Harvard Library)
- United Nations
- World Bank Social Development / Social Protection and Labor
- World Health Organization