• The Professional Index:
  
  
  • Sociological Abstracts
    • the professional index covering the international literature in sociology and related disciplines
    • indexes and abstracts 1,800+ periodicals, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers
    • coverage from 1952+
    • exports directly to RefWorks
    • Quick Reference Card (.pdf)
    • Online Tutorials
    • CSA Sociological Abstracts Database Guide (.pdf)
      
      
      
• Additional Scholarly Sources:
  
  
  • Academic Search Complete
    • 4,500+ general and academic journals, including sociology
    • coverage 1985+
    • mostly full-text
    • exports directly to RefWorks
      
      
  • JSTOR
    • 440+ scholarly journals, including sociology
    • complete run of all journals except for the most recent 3-5 years
    • full-text
    • exports directly to RefWorks
      
      
  • Project MUSE
    • 250+ scholarly journals, including sociology
    • coverage from 1983+
    • mostly full-text
    • exports directly to RefWorks
    
    
  • Social Services Abstracts
    • provides bibliographic coverage of research on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development
    • indexes over 1,300 periodicals and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews
    • coverage from 1980+
    • exports directly to RefWorks
      
      
  • WilsonWeb
    • 3,500+ general and academic journals, including sociology
    • two components: OmniFile Full Text Mega; Humanities & Social Sci Retro
    • OmniFile Full Text Mega: indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text in 1994
    • Humanities & Social Sci Retro: index only, 1907-1984
    • 1,750 journals are full-text
    • exports directly to RefWorks
      
      
• Check journal titles in the library's e-journal holdings list
  
  
• For articles not in the library, order through Interlibrary Loan
  • free, online order form, budget 2-4 weeks

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• Books in Miller Library:
  
  
  • Reference:
    
    
    • Online:
      
      
      • A Dictionary of Sociology
      • A Dictionary of the Social Sciences
        
        
    • Print:
      
      
      • Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology
      • Encyclopedia of Sociology
      • International Handbook of Sociology
        
    
    
• Books in the main collection:
  
  
  • Subject search
    
    
    • uses Library of Congress classification system
    • sociology = HM-HX
      
      
    • start with these major headings and then skim the subheadings, e.g.:
      
      
      • sociology
      • Weber, Max
        
        
        
  • keyWord search in the title, contents, series, etc., e.g.:
    
    
    • sociology
    • Weber, Max
      
      
      
  • Author search, e.g.:
    
    
    • Weber, Max
  
  

• Books outside Miller Library:
  
  
  • Other libraries:
    
    
    • U of MD libraries
    • U of DE
    • Library of Congress
      
      
  • WorldCat
    • most distinguished database of catalogued books in the world
    • searches over 52 million records held by academic libraries worldwide
      
      
  • For books not in the library, order through Interlibrary Loan
    • free, online order form, budget 2-4 weeks

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• Lexis-Nexis Academic
  • 5,900+ national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources
  • full-text
    
    
• New York Times (1851-2005)
  • the complete newspaper (text, graphs, photos, etc.) in digital form
    
    
• Washington Post (1877-1992)
  • the complete newspaper (text, graphs, photos, etc.) in digital form
    

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• American Sociological Association (A.S.A.): Available Data Sources
  
  
• Google Directory's links: Sociology
  
  
• Yahoo! Directory's links: Sociology
  
  
• WWW Virtual Library: Sociology

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• Hacker Online
  • formatting examples
    
    
• RefWorks
  • online research management and writing tool