by Paul Streby
Last Updated Jan 5, 2021
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Are you interested in People and Social Issues?
You're in the right place!
If you're interested in topics related to societies, people, cultures, or rituals, you'll find information here in this guide for the Social Sciences. Start with the resources listed below to find articles targeted to just these topics!
Another really great collection of articles that cover all issues related to social sciences. This one allows you to search full text, but you have to manually select it by clicking the box under "limit your results" for "full text."
Includes full text of articles from over 200 journals as far back as 1995. Its records describe feature articles, biographical sketches, interviews, obituaries, scholarly replies, and book reviews longer than one-half page; book reviews of government documents and letters to the editor are not included. Subject areas covered include:
• Addiction Studies
• Anthropology
• Area Studies
• Community Health & Medical Care
• Communications
• Corrections
• Criminal Justice
• Criminology
• Economics
• Environmental Studies
• Ethics
• Family Studies
• Gender Studies
• Geography
• Gerontology
• International Relations
• Law
• Mass Media
• Minority Studies
• Planning & Public Administration
• Policy Sciences
• Political Science
• Psychiatry
• Psychology
• Public Welfare
• Social Work
• Sociology
• Urban Studies
Covers 1983-present (Indexing); 1984-present (Abstracts); 1995-present (Selected full text).
Indexes 1,800 sociology-related journals & magazines back to 1895, with full text for 620 of them, plus indexing for books, etc.
Comprehensively indexes over 1,800 sociology-related journals and magazines dating back to 1895. Covers the sociology literature and many related disciplines including gender studies, criminal justice, social psychology, racial studies, religion, and social work. Provides full text for 620 journals and selectively indexes over 2,600 other journals and magazines that publish some sociology-related articles.
Also provides extensive indexing for selected books, monographs, conference papers and other non-periodical content sources, and includes searchable cited references. Articles are tagged with subjects from a sociological thesaurus to enhance searching and retrieval.
This collection allows you to narrow your search to particular areas within Social Sciences under the "search and browse by discipline" area. You can specifically select an area such as anthropology or sociology. Ask a librarian if you'd like to be shown how to go about doing this.
