Core Databases for Sociology
Major index for sociology: Sociology Collection
Includes Sociological Abstracts, Sociology Database (full text of articles) plus Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA).
Other indexes . . .
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowMulti-disciplinary research database with full text for many peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and other resources.
- Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) This link opens in a new windowIncludes journals, magazines, and newspapers published in Canada in the fields of business, current events, education and general reference.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowWorld's largest academic search engine providing free searching to a full range of scholarly literature (ie. peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, pre-prints, abstracts, technical reports).
- Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science Core Collection) This link opens in a new window
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Multidisciplinary index. Can be used to determine where and how many times an article has been cited.
- SocArXiv PreprintsOpen access platform for social scientists to upload working papers, preprints, and published papers. Part of the Center for Open Science.
Additional Databases
- Alternative Press Index (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowAlternative Press Index (API) is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals
- CAB Direct (CAB Abstracts & Global Health) This link opens in a new windowInternational coverage of articles in agriculture, forestry, global health, human nutrition, animal health, natural resources management and conservation.
- Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new windowCanadian Newsstream offers the full text of almost 400 Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers, including The Globe and Mail, National Post and the Vancouver Sun.
- Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new windowA research and reference resource in the communication and mass media fields. Indexes and abstracts over 800 journals, and includes access to 500 full text journals.
- Des LibrisCanadian public policy documents including reports, briefings, evidence, reviews, etc.
- Geobase This link opens in a new windowResearch literature with abstracts on human and physical geography, ecology, geology, oceanography, geomechanics and development studies.
- GreenFILE This link opens in a new windowApproximately 300,000 articles on green issues, including green building, global warming, etc.
- LGBTQ+ Source This link opens in a new windowThe premier resource to the world's literature regarding Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender issues.
- LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940 (Part II) This link opens in a new windowRare and unique documentation of LGBTQ history through fully-searchable newsletters, government documents, manuscripts, pamphlets, and other primary sources.
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service This link opens in a new windowNational Criminal Justice Reference Service, founded in 1972, is a U.S. Federal information clearinghouse on criminal justice, juvenile justice, and drug policy.
- PTSD Pubs (Formerly PILOTS)Multi-disciplinary index on traumatic stress and mental health.
- Social Sciences in Forestry This link opens in a new windowSocial Sciences in Forestry from the University of Minnesota Natural Resources Library indexes publications in the areas of legislation, policy and planning, management, economic development, investment and finance.
- Social Science Research Network (SSRN)Nearly 1 million articles from a wide range of social sciences. Some articles, reports, chapters, etc. have not been published in a peer reviewed journal.
- Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary database of journal articles and conference proceedings, used for citation analysis of research. Includes access to EndNote Basic, a web-based version of EndNote.
Student Journals
Sojourners
Sojourners showcases "exemplary papers written by students with a sociological perspective".
Also available in print at HM1 .S82, Koerner Library
Health Professional Student Journal (HPSJ)
HPSJ is a student-run peer-reviewed journal for students in health and human service professional programs or allied research, including the social determinants of health, etc.
How to Read a Journal Article
Laubepin, Frederique. (2013) How to Read (and Understand) a Social Science Journal Article. Retrieved from http:bit.ly.231MKDc.