Find Books & Articles - SOC 207 - Social Research Methods

Searching Techniques

SOC 207 Searching Techniques
This Pp demonstrates examples of Boolean operators, phrase searching nesting, and truncation.

Library Databases

Sherlock
Sherlock combines the Whitman Library Catalog, Summit and many of our electronic journal subscriptions into one searchable interface.
SocINDEX with Full Text
Full-text database for Sociology and sub-disciplines.
Sociological Abstracts
International literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Social Science Citation Index
Web of Science social science collection.

Other Resources

Journal Search
Use this browsing feature to see a variety of journals in various sub-disciplines of sociology. This can be helpful when developing a topic or when trying to see major literature in a field.
Google Scholar
Use Google Scholar to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

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SOC 207 - Social Research Methods: Find Books & Articles

Searching Techniques

Library Databases

Other Resources

Inter-Library Loan (ILLiad)

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