Subject Guides: Sociology: Articles & Books

Key Sociology Databases

Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers
Social Sciences Citation Index This link opens in a new window
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Current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Indexes the literature of sociology and related disciplines.
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SAGE Journals This link opens in a new window
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Full-text access to a large number of sociology journals.
SAGE Research Methods This link opens in a new window
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Is a 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.

Multidisciplinary Search Tools

EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) This link opens in a new window
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Also known as Search the Library (University of Alberta Library). It searches for print and ebook holdings in the NEOS Libraries catalogue AND ~300 databases AND the Education and Research Archive (ERA).

Use the facets available within EDS to refine your search results to print books or electronic books, for example, or articles.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Multi-disciplinary research database with full text for many peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and other resources.
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CPI.Q (Canadian Periodicals) This link opens in a new window
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CPI.Q. indexes titles with full text articles (covering 1995 to present) as well as Gale Research reference data and the full text of selected sections of The Globe and Mail. It covers a broad range of topics, from current affairs and technology to arts and culture, geography, history,business and more.
Web of Science - All Databases This link opens in a new window
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Multidisciplinary database of journal articles and conference proceedings, used for citation analysis of research.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
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Provides indexing, abstracting of and citation linking to journals in science, technology, medicine, and the social sciences.

eBooks

Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to ebooks from scholarly sources, including University Presses and other top publishers.
Ebsco eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
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Also known as: |netLibrary| Collection of books in electronic form.
PsycBOOKS This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to the full text of books published by the American Psychological Association.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar
Search Google Scholar via the Library Homepage. Get full text articles in Google Scholar. Look for ">>" next to a result to access “GetIt @ UAlberta". Use that link to get the full text from UAlberta Library.

Sociology

Key Sociology Databases

Multidisciplinary Search Tools

Other Databases with Sociology Content

eBooks

Google Scholar