Research Guides: SOCI 454: Seminar Fall 2016

Your SOCI 454 Class Research Project

Research Project, Fall 2017

Sociology-strong Databases Worth Your While

Academic Search Complete
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with full-text periodicals, peer-reviewed journals, monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. It features PDF content going back as far as 1887.
Alt Health Watch
focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
AnthroSource
more than a century of full-text anthropological knowledge, across the breadth and depth of the discipline.

(off-campus access)
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
Written and edited by an international team of the world's best scholars and teachers. This encyclopedia's entries ranging from short definitions of key terms to extended explorations of major topics.
Films on Demand Master Academic Collection
a web-based digital video delivery platform that allows you to view streaming videos from Films Media Group anytime, anywhere, 24/7! Thousands of videos are available for in-class use and remote viewing from the library, in the dorm, or at home.
JSTOR
Full text journals, many back to the original issue. Provides access to journals in the arts & sciences, business, ecology & botany, and languages & literature. JSTOR's coverage typically begins 3 -5 years after the current year.
OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson)
Contains full text of articles from over 2,500 publications, and indexing and abstracts from nearly 3,600 publications, supporting research in all core undergraduate subjects and for cross-disciplinary work. Also contains the old database "Applied Sciences & Technology Index".
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Covers today's hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration.
Oxford Reference Online
Brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest and most trusted reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.
Population Index
primary index for world's population literature
Project Muse
Offers a large collection of online scholarly journals and books in the humanities and social sciences. Resources are available for reading online, printing, and/or downloading and using off-line.
SocINDEX with full text
Sociology, contains full text for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908.
Women's Studies International
Covers the core disciplines in Women?s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research.

Google Scholar

Looking for a specific journal? Read this!

The Library's Find a Journal link is listed on the Library's homepage under the research column. If you are off-campus please follow the off-campus link to use Find a Journal. If we do not have full text access to a journal that you are interested in, the option to use our interlibrary loan service is free and convenient!

You can use the Find a Journal database to find a specific title, or browse by subjects. To begin searching for a specific journal, visit our Find a Journal page.

find a journal page

ILLiad and Worldcat

ILLiad is the name of the software the library uses to borrow journal articles (and some books) from other libraries. To use ILLiad, you must first create an account.

If you forget your ILLiad account password, contact Jeffrey Martin and ask him to reset your password. If you have any other interlibrary questions, please feel free to call Jeffrey at 540-375-2298.

Your results from some databases set up to automatically fill in an ILLiad request form for you if the database doesn't have the full-text article. Some databases have a link reading Request through interlibrary loan.

Other important things to know about Interlibrary Loan:

No cost to you
Delivery time can be 2 days to 2 weeks; we’re at the mercy of the library sending it. Procrastinators should take this into consideration and keep in mind that delivery times are longer later in the semester!

Secondary Data and Data Sets

American FactFinder
American FactFinder provides access to data about the United States, Puerto Rico and the Island Areas. The data in American FactFinder come from several censuses and surveys.
Data.gov
The home of the U.S. government's open data. Tools, and resources to conduct research, design data visualizations, etc.
The General Social Survey
The GSS contains a standard 'core' of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest. Many of the core questions have remained unchanged since 1972 to facilitate time-trend studies as well as replication of earlier findings. The GSS takes the pulse of America, and is a unique and valuable resource. It has tracked the opinions of Americans over the last four decades.
ICPSR
The The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research offers more than 500,000 digital files containing social science research data from around the world, accessible to researchers affiliated with member institutions.
The International Social Survey Programme
The ISSP is a continuing annual program of cross-national collaboration on surveys covering topics important for social science research
It brings together pre-existing social science projects and coordinates research goals, thereby adding a cross-national, cross-cultural perspective to the individual national studies.
The ISSP researchers especially concentrate on developing questions that are meaningful and relevant to all countries, and can be expressed in an equivalent manner in all relevant languages.
UNESCO Institute for Statistics Data Centre
Provides access to UIS.Stat, where you can build your own tables, graphs and maps. The data base contains all the latest available data and indicators, for education, literacy, science, technology and innovation, as well as culture.

Endnote. What is it and why should I use it?

What is EndNote?

EndNote is a reference management software that requires a subscription to use. Lucky for you, Roanoke College has a subscription. Create an EndNote account and keep track of your research, manage your bibliographies, and best of all, plug in citations as you write your paper. No more stressing over how to properly cite your sources. It's all done for you!

How to use Endnote
No more worrying about citations! This will help you rest assured that you are attributing information accurately in your assignments!
EndNote
Search, organize and share research. And automatically format bibliographies with the
only patented bibliography technology.