Research Guides: #Sociology: Research: Scholarly

Before You Research

Scholarly articles are not the place to start your research. First, you need to get familiar enough with your topic that you can start to narrow it down, and for that you need more general information. This will help you develop context for your topic as well as get to know the specialized terms used by experts.

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Useful when you're starting out on a research project. Do simple searches to find topic introductions in a variety of subjects. The mind map tool will help you discover related ideas and terms.

Journals & Periodicals: Identifying Scholarly Sources
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This guide introduces scholarly content and how it differs from popular and trade information.

LSC Databases

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Nearly 575 full-text publications, including some 550 peer-reviewed journals, in psychiatry, psychology, and related fields.
Gender Studies (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
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Discover balanced coverage of topics related to gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Complete historical full text of all issues of peer-reviewed journals in a wide range of humanities and social science fields. (pronounced jay-store)
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Multi-disciplinary database; full text of articles from over 5,300 journals, magazines and newspapers, plus image collections.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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Full text of 285 journals in literature, history, international/cultural studies, and other fields within the humanities and social sciences.
Diversity Studies (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
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Access a range of periodical content to explore cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community.
Search all Gale databases at once with Gale PowerSearch.
Communications and Mass Media (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
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Search millions of articles covering all aspects of communications, including advertising, public relations, and more.
Search all Gale databases at once with Gale PowerSearch.
Pop Culture Studies (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
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Access scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture.

Open Access

Digital Commons Network: Sociology
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The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) : Sociology (General)
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DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. DOAJ is independent.
Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
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The open-access journal of the American Sociological Association. The goal of Socius is to make new research readily available by providing an online forum for the rapid dissemination of high-quality, peer-reviewed research, produced in time to be relevant to ongoing research and public debates.