Key Resources
Journal Articles
Sociology researchers rely heavily on journal articles. Library Quick Search is a great place to find these: use search terms related to your topic and limit to journal articles under 'Content Type' and 'Sociology' under discipline.
Library Quick Search
eBooks
Google Scholar is a great tool for finding journal articles and books in sociology. Its strengths are search alerts and the interlinking of sources through citations.
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Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)Indexes and abstracts more than 9,300 journals with full-text content for more than 5,300. Also indexes/abstracts over 10,000 monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. Highly multidisciplinary, this resource covers social sciences, humanities, computer science, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
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Global Index MedicusThis World Health Organization abstract database focuses on developing regions. Search results can be limited to six regions (the Americas, Europe, Western Pacific, Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Eastern Mediterranean). Many abstracts link to PubMed Linkout .
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Global Library of Women's MedicineProvides access to information on current clinical practices and therapeutic options in women's medicine. The site was developed from the six-volume, encyclopedic textbook Gynecology & Obstetrics first published in 1934.
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JSTORJSTOR is a multidisciplinary database that contains 81 specialized sociology journals. JSTOR is an archive. Each journal is available full-text back to the very first issue. However, it includes no current issues.
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ProQuest Research LibraryOffers indexing/abstracting to articles in over 3,300 journals across a wide range of subject areas, more than 1,700 of which are also available in full text. Subject strengths include the arts and humanities, business, education, health, international studies, law, literature, multicultural studies, psychology, the sciences, and the social sciences.
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SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO)Indexes and abstracts nearly 2,000 journals in all subdisciplines of sociology, over 300 of which have full text. Also includes 550 full-text books and monographs and 6,700 conference papers. Topics include anthropology, criminal justice, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, social work, and urban studies, among others. Coverage for some "core" titles begins in 1895, but most coverage begins in the mid-1990s.
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Sociological AbstractsFocuses on sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences, drawing from more than 1,800 journals as well as conference papers, books, and dissertations.
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Sociology: A Sage Full-Text CollectionProvides full-text access to 37 journals published by Sage on topics in sociology, including contemporary and comparative sociology, consumer culture, childhood, classical sociology, ethnic studies, gender studies, leisure studies, social theory, sociology of sport, and labor studies.