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Peer Reviewed Journals

To determine whether a journal is peer reviewed, search for it in Ulrich's Periodicals Directory and look for the little referee symbol: .

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Articles

Use these databases to find journal articles, book chapters, and more.

Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window This site indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. It includes the companion file Social Services Abstracts, which provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas.
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SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window Indexes the literature of sociology and related disciplines. Includes full text for selected journals, monographs, conference papers.
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Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window This database includes the contents of Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index from the Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. It provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies.
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Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window Covers communication and mass media. Originated with the merging of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University).
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Criminal Justice Abstracts This link opens in a new window Covers the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, books, and reports from government and nongovernmental agencies. For each document, a summary of the findings, methodology, and conclusions is provided. Topics include crime trends, prevention projects, corrections, juvenile delinquency, police, courts, offenders, victims, and sentencing.
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Social Sciences Citation Index This link opens in a new window Coverage from 1900 to present.
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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Also known as: |Academic Search Premier| Academic Search Complete provides indexing and abstracts for a large number of scholarly journals in a variety of disciplines, and full text for a subset of these journals.
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For additional information, go to the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library information site.

Search Strategies

Visit the Starting Your Research Guide to learn about finding specific books and articles, choosing a topic and keywords, putting a search together, evaluating information sources, and more.

Background Information

Are you looking for an overview of a sociological concept or a definition of a term? These are examples of the types of information you can find using the resources below. For more resources, visit Finding Background Information.

A Dictionary of Sociology Wide-ranging dictionary covering all aspects of sociology, including key figures in the field.
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Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Online This link opens in a new window The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology provides comprehensive coverage of sociology and related disciplines.
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The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology Over 1,000 entries, ranging from concise summaries to longer writings, present the reader with in-depth discussions of hundreds of key topics, including: ecology, human evolution, gender, health, language and education, kinship, politics, and power, as well as biographical entries of many of the world’s most influential founding anthropologists.

Gale Ebooks This link opens in a new window Also known as Gale Virtual Reference Library, this is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research
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Research Methods

The following resources include definitions and guidelines for both qualitative and quantitative research.

SAGE Research Methods This link opens in a new window SAGE Research Methods is a web-based research methods tool that covers quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods. Researchers can explore methods and concepts to help design research projects, understand a particular method or identify a new method, and write up research. Sage Research Methods focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, and is of potential use to researchers from the social sciences, health sciences and other research areas.
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Sociological Methods & Research (Journal) Each issue of SMR presents new techniques and innovative approaches to recurring research challenges and clarifies existing methods.
Principles of Sociological Inquiry: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods Open textbook that emphasizes the relevance of research methods for the everyday lives of its readers, undergraduate students
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