Research, Citation, & Class Guides: Sociology 476: Methods of Social Research: Finding Articles

Article Databases

For articles in magazines, journals, and newspapers, use the Library's article databases. Choose the database(s) you need based on your topic. Some databases cover a variety of subject areas, while others are more specialized.

A full list of the available article databases at Andersen Library can be found here.

Women's Studies International
Women's Studies International provides indexing and abstracts for 800 essential sources including journals, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, reports, theses, dissertations, and grey literature. Coverage includes more than 960,000 records spanning from 1972 to the present.
Project Muse
Project Muse provides access to the full text of over 600 scholarly journals and over 30,000 books in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics published by university presses and scholarly societies.

Partial funding provided by UW System Shared Electronic Collection.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts
This database contains summaries of more than 190,000 publications on criminal justice, including federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Subject areas include corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, and victims of crime. The time period covered is from the early 1970's to the present.

Partial funding provided by Student Technology Fees.
Nexis Uni
Nexis Uni is an online service composed of legal, news, reference, and business sources, most full text. It includes international and U.S. newspapers, ethnic and regional news sources, magazines, wire services, newsletters, trade journals, company and industry analyst reports, polls, almanacs, biographical tools, and broadcast transcripts. Advertisements, obituaries, graphics, and non-local (syndicated) features are typically not included. Of particular interest are the New York Times, June, 1980-to date; The Wisconsin State Journal, 1992-to date; and The Capital Times, 1992-to date. Years of coverage vary, but many sources begin with the late 1980's or early 1990's. Note: Use Firefox for best access.

Partial funding provided by UW System Shared Electronic Collection.
JSTOR
(JSTOR has temporarily activated all archive and primary source collections until June 2021 due to COVID-19.)
An archival full-text multi-disciplinary journal database, coverage varies by publication but typically begins with volume one of each title and continues to within 3 to 5 years of the most current issue. Covering over 60 academic disciplines in more than 2400 scholarly journals, UW-Whitewater Library has acquired Arts & Sciences I-VII Collections as well as the JSTOR Life Science Collection.

Partial funding for Collections V and VI from the Russell Moratz estate. Partial funding for Collection VII provided by Student Technology Fees.
GenderWatch
GenderWatch is a database of diverse publications, such as scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books and NGO, government, and special reports, that focus on how gender affects a broad array of subject areas. Its archival material, dating back to 1970 in some cases, is a repository of historical perspectives on the evolution of the women's movement, men's studies, the transgendered community and the changes in gender roles over the years.
CQ Researcher
A database of in-depth, authoritative reports on a full range of political and social-policy issues extending back to 1923. Each report is footnoted and includes an overview, background section, chronology, bibliography, and debate-style pro-con feature, plus tools to study the evolution of the topic over time.
Academic Search Complete
This multidisciplinary database provides full-text access to articles from over 7,000 journals (including nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals), magazines, and reference sources.

Partial funding provided by Student Technology Fees.
PsycINFO
PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, and books in psychology and related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, and social work.

Partial funding provided by UW System Shared Electronic Collection.
SocINDEX with Full Text
SocINDEX with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. In addition to full-text journals, it contains informative abstracts for core coverage journals dating as far back as 1895.

Partial funding provided by Student Technology Fees.
ERIC (via EBSCOhost)
The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information. The database contains more than 950,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. Many citations link out to full text of the resource.

Access provided by Wisconsin DPI via Badgerlink.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch includes journals, magazines, and newspapers from ethnic and minority presses. The current collection, Ethnic NewsWatch, covers 1990-present, and the historical collection, Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, spans 1959-1989. Ethnicities include: African American/Caribbean/African; Arab/Middle Eastern; Asian/Pacific Islander; European/Eastern European; Hispanic; Jewish; Native People.

Find the Full Text

Most databases have both full text articles and article citations. When an article is not available in full text, use the button to determine if Andersen Library has the article.

Click the Find It button displayed near article citation.

You will be linked to Research@UWW away from the database you are searching in.

1 of 3 options will be available to you:

1.) If we have access to the article, a link to the article in the database that it is available will display under the View It tab.

Simply click on the link provided, and you will be linked to the full text article to view in a library database.

2.)If we only have access to the article in print, the Get It tab will display. This will show you the location of where you can find the article in Andersen Library.

3.) If neither of the first two options are available, you will see a link that says We can get it for you! (Document Delivery/Illiad) under the Get It tab.

Simply login with your Net ID, and click request. We will do our best to find the article for you by requesting a copy from another library. This is available free of charge to students and faculty. Please allow up to 3-4 days for your request to be filled. Articles can be accessed by logging into My ILLiad located on the library homepage. You will receive an e-mail to your UWW e-mail account when the article becomes available.

Finding Journals in Research@UWW

Watch this short video for instruction on looking up whether or not we have access to a particular journal publication.