Sociology information resources: Books & articles

Library guides

Library Catalogue search guide
How to find journal articles
Evaluating sources
Once you've found a web resource related to your topic, evaluating its reliability is the critically important final step. Make sure to ask the basic questions: Who? What? Where? When? and Why?
Understanding and avoiding plagiarism [interactive tutorial]

Books

Sociological Abstracts - theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and policy science.
Social Sciences Full Text
Social Theory - documents from prominent social sciences theorists.
For Canadian perspective:
- CBCA Complete
- Canadian Electronic Library from desLibris
  Contains the full text of public policy documents from Canadian institutes, think-tanks and research groups.>
- Canadian Newsstream
- Canadian Research Index (government reports)
- Globe and Mail Newspaper
- Globe & Mail Canada's Heritage from 1844,
GEOBASE - for human geography, labour, migration, refugees, etc.

For a longer list, try Sociology Databases. For Primary documents, check the guide to "publication types" and choose Primary sources.

To see who is citing your "key" authors or to identify a cluster of people working in an area, try "citation searching."

Last Modified: September 27, 2018