Subject Guide
Pre-class Poll
Pre-class Question
- Pre-session question: PollEv.com/kpartAnswer this quick question before we get started.
- Wrap-up QuestionsAnswer these 3 questions at the end of class.
Find Articles in Journals
This is a short list of what is available. Talk to a librarian for ideas of other places to search or peruse the Databases list.
- ProQuest Sociology Collection This link opens in a new windowSearches across research literature in sociology, social work and social services, and related fields.
- Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowLooks just like ProQuest Research Library, but is actually much narrower. The key index to literature in sociology and related fields, here you have a better chance of finding what sociologists have written. Subject terms let you quickly find all work on a topic with less keyword guesswork. Not for full-text searching.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowAlso known as Social Sciences Citation Index, this broadly interdisciplinary index is a great way find research, see how much it has been cited, and search based on citation relationships rather than keyword.
- ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new windowBroad, interdisciplinary coverage. Great place to start. For some topics, may be necessary to find ways to limit to sociology articles.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and the full text)
Search through the full text of key books and journals from across the disciplines, with emphasis on recent scholarship. - Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowAnother broad, interdisciplinary resource with a familiar interface. Great for natural language searching of full text, and for finding related articles.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowFull text of core journals in many academic fields. Narrow to sociology and you'll get your best full-text search of the most influential journals. Can be hard to search on broad topics because there are no subject headings.
- Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new windowA mix of scholarly and journalistic full-text content, the titles you find here are written for or by ethnic, minority, and native groups.
- Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
Covers current research focused on social work and human services and related fields of social welfare, social policy, and community development. Covers 1979 - current.
Primary Documents: News, Magazines and More
- ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new windowLimit to magazines, news articles, and trade literature. Searching by ranges of time is often helpful. Remember that some magazines will be available in print in the library, once you discover the articles here.
- ProQuest Newsstream This link opens in a new windowEven more newspapers than ProQuest Research Library!
- Readers' Guide Retrospective This link opens in a new windowDiscover articles written in popular publications from 1890 to 1982.
- Academic Video Online This link opens in a new windowA great way to find documentary and ethnographic videos on a broad range of topics interesting to sociologists.
- Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new windowA mix of scholarly and journalistic full-text content, the titles you find here are written for or by ethnic, minority, and native groups.
