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Last Updated: 11-Sep-2012

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Literature review guidebooks

Doing a literature search : a comprehensive guide for the social sciences

Doing a literature search : a comprehensive guide for the social sciences / Chris Hart.
London : SAGE, 2001.
Green » Stacks » H61.9 .H37 2001

Evaluating information : a guide for users of social science research

Evaluating information : a guide for users of social science research / Jeffrey Katzer, Kenneth H. Cook, Wayne W. Crouch.
4th ed. Boston, Mass. : McGraw-Hill, c1998.
Green » Stacks » H62 .K378 1998

Overviews

Blackwell companions to sociology - series

General books on various topics in sociology.

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  1. The new Blackwell companion to social theory

    edited by Bryan S. Turner. 2009

    Green » Stacks » H61 .B4773 2009

  2. The Blackwell companion to social movements

    edited by David Snow, Sarah A. Soule and Hanspeter Kriesi. 2007

    Crown (Law) » Basement » HM881 .B53 2007

  3. The Blackwell companion to medical sociology [electronic resource]

    edited by William C. Cockerham. 2005

  4. The Blackwell companion to law and society

    edited by Austin Sarat. 2004

    Green » Stacks » K370 .B554 2004

  5. The Blackwell companion to law and society

    edited by Austin Sarat. 2004

    Crown (Law) » Request at Loan Desk » K370 .B554 2004

  6. The new Blackwell companion to medical sociology [electronic resource]

    edited by William C. Cockerham. 2010

  7. The Blackwell companion to social inequalities

    edited by Mary Romero and Eric Margolis. 2005

    Green » Stacks » HM821 .B55 2005

  8. The Blackwell companion to criminology

    edited by Colin Sumner ; advisory editor William J. Chambliss. 2004

    Crown (Law) » Basement » HV6025 .B544 2004

  9. The Blackwell companion to criminology [electronic resource]

    edited by Colin Sumner ; advisory editor William J. Chambliss. 2004

  10. The Blackwell companion to political sociology [electronic resource]

    edited by Kate Nash and Alan Scott. 2004

  11. The Blackwell companion to social movements

    edited by David A. Snow, Sarah A. Soule, and Hanspeter Kriesi. 2004

    Green » Social Sciences Resource Center (Non-circulating) » HM881 .B53 2004

  12. The Blackwell companion to sociology [electronic resource]

    edited by Judith R. Blau. 2004

  13. The Blackwell companion to major classical social theorists [electronic resource]

    edited by George Ritzer. 2003

  14. The Blackwell companion to political sociology

    edited by Kate Nash and Alan Scott. 2001

    Green » Stacks » JA76 .B58 2001

  15. The Blackwell companion to sociology

    edited by Judith R. Blau. 2001

    Green » Stacks » HM585 .B53 2001B

  16. The Blackwell companion to major social theorists

    edited by George Ritzer. 2000

    Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating)Social Sciences Resource Center (Non-circulating) » HM478 .B583 2000HM478 .B583 2000

  17. The Blackwell companion to the sociology of families [electronic resource]

    edited by Jacqueline L. Scott, Judith K. Treas, and Martin Richards. 2004

  18. The Blackwell companion to major contemporary social theorists [electronic resource]

    edited by George Ritzer. 2003

  19. The Wiley-Blackwell companion to major social theorists [electronic resource]

    edited by George Ritzer, Jeffrey Stepnisky. 2011

  20. The Blackwell companion to the sociology of culture

    edited by Mark D. Jacobs and Nancy Weiss Hanrahan. 2005

    Green » Social Sciences Resource Center (Non-circulating) » HM621 .B58 2005

  21. The Wiley-Blackwell companion to major social theorists

    edited by George Ritzer and Jeffrey Stepnisky. 2011

    Green » Social Sciences Resource Center (Non-circulating) » HM478 .B583 2011 ...

Databases

  • Academic Search Premier
    Academic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary database which provides full-text for over 4,650 scholarly publications, more than 3,600 of them peer-reviewed. Includes topics in the social sciences, humanities, general science, education and most areas of academic study. Abstracts and indexing provided for 8,200 journals in the collection. Coverage is from 1965 to the present
  • Alternative Press Index
    http://firstsearch.oclc.org/fsip?dbname=AltPressIndex&done=referer
    This is a licensed database for Stanford Affiliates. Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change.
  • Ethnic News Watch
    Ethnic News Watch is a licensed database available to Stanford Affiliates. Covers full text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic, minority and native press in the U.S. Coverage is from 1960 to date.
  • IBSS International Bibliography
    Bibliographic database compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Contains bibliographic information from an international selection of publications (including over 2600 journals and books, book reviews, and book chapters) in the fields of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology
  • Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research [electronic resource] : ICPSR direct
    ICPSR is a membership-based, not-for-profit organization serving member colleges and universities by providing access to a large archive of machine-readable social science data, training facilities in basic and advanced techniques of quantitative social analysis, and resources that facilitate the use of advanced computer technology by social scientists.
  • JSTOR
    Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title
  • PolicyFile
    http://www.policyfile.com/
    PolicyFile is a licensed resource provide by the library. This database covers U.S. foreign and domestic policy papers and gray literature, with abstracts and links to the latest reports, papers, and documents from think tanks, research institutes, and agencies.
  • Project Muse
    Features a collection of online scholarly journals that focuses on the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics
  • Scopus
    Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database, including peer-reviewed titles from international publishers, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, quality web sources
  • Social explorer
    This database's primary functions include Demographic Data Analysis, Interactive Map/Report Design and Software Development. The main goal is to visually display the demographic change that has occurred in the U.S. since 1790 through the present, for the country over all down to the level of the county.
  • Social Science Module by ProQuest
    Citiations to journal articles in the social sciences; some full text
  • Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
    Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is composed of a number of specialized research networks in the social sciences.
  • Social theory [electronic resource].
    Alexander Street Press Social Theory offers an extensive selection of documents that explore the complexities and interpret the nature of social behavior and organization. It features more than 150,000 pages of content by such major theorists as Theodor Adorno, Jean Baudrillard, Simone de Beauvoir, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Émile Durkheim, Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, Robert Merton, Dorothy E. Smith , and Talcott Parsons.
  • Sociological Abstracts
    CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
  • Sociology -SAGE JOURNALS Full-Test
    http://online.sagepub.com/collection.dtl?coll=SOCI
    Sage database covering Sociology.

Journals

American journal of sociology (RSS feed)

American sociological review (RSS feed of current issue)