Sociology
A Quick Guide

Books and Other Media 

• Reed Library Catalog: Locate materials in Reed Library.
• WorldCat: Locate materials in other libraries, and request via interlibrary loan.

Journals/Articles 

• SocIndex Plus Full Text: Provides journal articles for all areas of Sociology, with coverage for some journals dating back to 1895.
• Elsevier ScienceDirect: Access the full text of over 700 Elsevier titles in the sciences, social sciences and mathematics.
• JSTOR: Provides a comprehensive backfile of major scholarly journals in the Arts and Sciences, Business, Ecology & Botany, General Science, Language & Literature, Mathematics, Statistics and Music.  Journals are not current, most having a "moving wall" or "embargo" of three to five years, depending on publication.
• Annual Review of Sociology: Provides analytic reviews of research in the field of sociology.

Reference

• Sociology Titles in Reed Library's Reference Collection
• Oxford Reference: Includes over 175 subject reference works.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library: a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Includes the Encyclopedia of Social Science.

Other Tools

• American Sociological Association