Use OneSearch to search across almost all of the library's databases at once for newspaper, magazine, and scholarly journal articles, as well as books and DVDs.
Find Background Information
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
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Find background information and learn the main ideas of your topic in this collection of over 900 reference books, including dictionaries and encyclopedias. - Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new window
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Pro/con viewpoint essays and topic overviews on hot social issues. Link to articles, reference entries, and primary sources supporting each argument. - CQ Researcher Plus Archive This link opens in a new window
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In-depth coverage of significant current issues. Reports are written by experienced journalists and are professionally fact-checked. Thorough overview of topics with links to more resources.
- Congressional Research Service (CRS) ReportsCongress needs access to the best available information to make their decisions. The Congressional Research Service conducts research and analysis for Congress on a broad range of issues of national policy.
Tips for Searching Library Databases
Start with the databases to your right to locate scholarly articles and remember the following tips:
- Limit results to full-text.
- Look for peer-reviewed journals.
- Check your spelling!
- Select PDF over HTML format.
- Check references or bibliographies to expand your search.
- Look at subject terms to identify new keywords.
Best Databases for Scholarly Articles in Sociology
- Duke Journals This link opens in a new window
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Journals in the humanities and social sciences from Duke University Press. - JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Full text access to scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, business, and sciences, with an embargo for current issues of 2-5 years. - Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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Full text scholarly articles in the humanities and social sciences. - Sage Journals This link opens in a new window
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Find peer-reviewed journals in the humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine. - Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences (not full text, but linked to other full-text collections).
Try These, Too
- Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
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Reviews of research literature in the biomedical, physical science, and social science fields. - Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new windowComprehensive coverage for communications, mass media, linguistics, and related areas.
- Contemporary Women's Issues This link opens in a new window
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Mainstream and alternative periodicals with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries.
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
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Open access (freely accessible), quality, peer-reviewed academic journals covering all subjects.
- LGBTQ+ Source This link opens in a new windowA variety of scholarly, popular and regional resources for the most important literature regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues.
- Oxford Journals This link opens in a new window
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Journal articles in the social sciences, law, humanities, life sciences, economics, mathematical and physical sciences, and medicine. - ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
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Access full-text articles from journals covering a wide variety of subjects and fields, as well as newspapers, dissertations, and more. - Taylor & Francis This link opens in a new windowFull-text scholarly articles in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Be sure to refine your search to Only show content I have full access to.
- Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
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Extensive multidisciplinary collection of online peer-reviewed journals covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. - Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Political science and its complementary fields: international relations, law, and public administration/policy (not full text).
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