Library Guides: Sociology Research Guide: Find Articles

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This list contains the most popular indexes for locating scholarly articles in Sociology. More subject-specific indexes are listed below.

Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Sociological Abstracts includes journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and working papers in sociology, social work, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
SAGE Research Methods Cases This link opens in a new window
SAGE Research Methods Cases includes over 700 case studies of social research, reviewing how methods are applied in real research projects.
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
This is the leading full-text database for criminal justice research. It offers an essential collection of journals for students and scholars researching criminal justice and criminology.
-More than 320 full-text magazines and journals
-More than 570,000 records
-Coverage of more than 600 journals from around the world

Google Scholar
Enables you to search Google specifically for scholarly literature. Fast and easy resource, but remember that it is not comprehensive and may not be the best choice for some disciplines.

Other Article Indexes & Databases

Use the indexes and abstracts listed here to begin your research. Some of the articles you locate will be available online and some will only be available in print. Remember to check Quick Search to see if we own the journal/book before ordering the article through interlibrary loan.

America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
Focused on the histories of the United States and Canada this database indexes over 1,700 journals from 1964-present.
Child Development & Adolescent Studies This link opens in a new window
Source for references to current and historical literature related to the growth and development of children through age 21.
Family Studies Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Provides bibliographic records for essential information sources related to family studies.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Provides bibliographic citations and abstracts of journal articles relevant to the study of the history of the World from 1450 to the present. Also includes citations to books and dissertations. Coverage: 1952 to present.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts This link opens in a new window
This index provides access to citations and abstracts of books and book chapters, dissertations, and articles culled from over 1300 scholarly journals in the fields of linguistic research, language research, and research in the areas of speech, hearing, and language pathology.
PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
PsycINFO is the premier database for scholarly articles in Psychology and its related disciplines.
Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new window
This database provides bibliographic citations to current research in social work, human services and related areas.

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