Sociology

This page provides a basic list of resources recommended for common research paper assignments in Sociology.

Finding Articles [help]
  More Info UW Restricted Research Library Complete - Good basic journal coverage and much full text; also includes many non-peer-reviewed magazines
  More Info UW Restricted Sociological Abstracts - The best single index for sociology journal articles; also covers conference papers and dissertations
  More Info UW Restricted Social Sciences Citation Index - Part of ISI's Web of Science; excellent interdisciplinary social science coverage; can answer "who has cited this book or article?"
   
Finding Books [help]
  More Info UW Libraries Catalog - Search all UW Libraries
  More Info Summit - A library catalog that combines information from Pacific Northwest academic libraries into a single unified database.
  More Info OCLC WorldCat Local - Search the holdings of libraries around the world.
   
Electronic Journals
  More Info Sociology E-Journals A-Z - A list of UW's ejournal subscriptions
  More Info UW Restricted JSTOR: Sociology - Backfiles of many important Sociology journals
   
Summary Literature
  More Info UW Restricted Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology - A new and highly comprehensive encyclopedia with over 1700 articles on a wide range of topics and figures.
  More Info UW Restricted Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd ed. - Outstanding source with definitive, detailed articles on sociological and related topics by recognized experts.
  More Info UW Restricted Annual Review of Sociology - Excellent, state of the art summaries of various topics; coverage 1975 to present
   
Statistics Source Sampler
  More Info University of Washington CSSCR - Data archive, computing, and statistics support for UW social science students and faculty
  More Info Statistical Resources on the Web - "This University of Michigan Documents Center site is a comprehensive portal to statistics . . ."
  More Info UW Restricted LexisNexis Statistical - Index to wide range of governmental and nongovernmental statistics; some full text
   
Sociology Web Sites and Search Engines
  More Info Yahoo! Social Science. Sociology
  More Info SocioWeb
  More Info SocioSite
   
 

"A Crowd "from The Great Depression to World War II: Black-and-White Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945.
"A Crowd"
from The Great Depression to World War II: Black-and-White Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945

 

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Created by: Tim Jewell tjewell@u.washington.edu
Last modified: Tuesday April 01, 2008 (collinsk)