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Key Resources for Sociology

• Sociological Abstracts- sociology journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, etc.
  
  
• Family & Society Studies Worldwide - articles from a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, sociology, psychology, demography, health sciences, education, economics, law, history and social work.

Statistical databases at MHC

Check this guide for a listing of licensed and open web resources for data

• MHC Guide to Statistical and Data Sources

& try the other TABS along the top for more resources!!

• PsycInfo 1970 - present.  Published research in Psychology. Linked from PsycINFO is access to PsycARTICLES, an ejournal collection that contains recent issues of journals published by the APA.
• Academic Search Premier (EBSCO):  scholarly, multi-disciplinary database containing full text for more than 3,600 scholarly publications, including more than 2,700 peer-reviewed publications.  
• International Bibliography of Social Sciences 1951-present. A comprehensive online index of journal articles and books in Economics, Sociology, Politics and Anthropology. The IBSS includes the Int'l Bib. of Social and Cultural Anthropology which we also have in print (older years)...   
• Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI) 1956 - present. Provides bibliographic information to over 1,725 social science journals spanning 50 disciplines.  Special feature: users can follow the cited references of one article to locate additional relevant sources.  
• Ethnic NewsWatch - An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses.
• Alternative Press Index - Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines
• Population Index- A tool published by the Office of Population Research, Princeton University, to access scholarly literature on populations worldwide. "It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics."

The library offers a team of specialists to help you with your research. 

by phone: x2212

by email: ris-d@mtholyoke.edu

in person: Research Help Desk- 4th floor, Williston library

• Monday-Wednesday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  and 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
• Thursday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  and 7 p.m. - 11 p.m.
• Friday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
• Saturday 1-5 p.m.
• Sunday 1-5 p.m. and
  7 p.m. - 9 p.m.