Sociology
Different Databases to try
- Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Abstracts and indexes international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Pulled from nearly 2,000 serial publications are abstracts from a variety of sources including journal articles, conference papers, books, dissertations, and conference papers.
- Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
Provides access to critical reviews written by leading scholars in a broad range of disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical and Social Sciences. Annual Review articles transfer expert knowledge synthesized from the expanding corpus of scientific literature.
- Social Sciences Citation Index This link opens in a new window
Part of Web of Science. Indexes over 3,000 social sciences journals across 50 disciplines.
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
The American Psychological Association’s resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, contains records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from periodicals in dozens of languages.
- PsycArticles This link opens in a new window
PsycArticles offers access to the complete electronic catalog of American Psychological Association (APA) peer-reviewed journals.
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text (PDFs) for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. Backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
- Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
Current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives.
- Population IndexA 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."
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google's database of scholarly works. Much of the content is articles and books, but you will also see theses, dissertations, patents and other items here.
If you are on campus you can often access full text articles available through the library directly from Google Scholar. If you are off campus, go into the settings and set the library link to Mount Holyoke College.
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