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Library guides
- Library Catalogue search guide
- How to find journal articles
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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
Search the Library Catalogue to find books | Library Catalogue search guide
Journal articles
Find a Peer-Reviewed Article in Social Science Journals Oct 2017
- Sociological Abstracts - theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and policy science.
- Social Sciences Full Text
- Social Theory - documents from prominent social sciences theorists.
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For Canadian perspective:
- CBCA Complete
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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.
Citation searching
To see who is citing your "key" authors or to identify a cluster of people working in an area, try "citation searching."