Sociology 476: Methods of Social Research: Finding Articles

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 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.

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justice, including federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research.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.

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.

JSTOR is multidisciplinary electronic journal archival project which provides full-text access to complete runs of back issues of scholarly journal titles. The Arts & Sciences I Collection currently offers access to 120 journals in these disciplines: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, and Sociology. The Arts & Sciences II Collection includes 122 journals, in disciplines such as History, Economics, Asian Studies, Classics, Archaeology, and African, Latin American, Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies. The Arts & Sciences III Collection focuses on the arts and humanities and contains 150 titles. The collection makes available additional journals in language and literature, as well as important titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture. JSTOR Arts & Sciences IV Collection has a strong focus on business, education, and law and also includes titles in psychology and public policy and administration. Arts & Sciences V Collection includes important literary reviews and state historical titles and widens the scope of core disciplines in the arts and humanities. Arts & Sciences VI Collection extends coverage in disciplines across the social sciences and adds international depth to disciplines extensively covered in other Arts & Sciences collections. JSTOR Arts & Sciences VII focuses on more than 30 arts, humanities, and social science disciplines on JSTOR, as well as business, finance, and health science fields; captures titles that cross discipline boundaries, with titles in more disciplines than in any other JSTOR collection. This database also includes the JSTOR Life Sciences collection.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This database abstracts and indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. It provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from thousands of publications and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and working papers.

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.

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.