Library Resources for Sociology 398
Sources for articles from scholarly journals—
This database provides citations and abstracts to articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and other reports published in the field of sociology. Use the
button to check for the full text of articles cited in Sociological Abstracts in other electronic sources.
Citation indexes covering virtually all areas of scholarship. Search by cited reference in order to learn who has cited whom and how many times. Citations may also be searched by topic, author or source title.
Multi-disciplinary indexes including some full text articles online
The above two databases cover a large number of scholarly journals in a wide variety of disciplines and are often good places to start your literature search. Both allow searching by keywords, but also have subject thesauri for more precise searching. Academic OneFile in particular has an excellent thesaurus of subject headings. Both databases include links to online, full-text versions of many of the articles indexed. Dates of coverage vary for each journal, but in general each database has indexing dating back to the mid-1980s.
Sources for newspapers
Other Specialized Sources
Legal database with good access to law review articles.
Database of Gallup public opinion polls dating back to the 1930s.
Proquest Dissertations and Theses
Database of citations and abstracts, of the dissertations and theses from universities and colleges from around the world. PDF versions of many of these dissertations and theses are available for free download.
Social Science Data Services —
Social Science Data Services (SSDS) supports research and instruction in the social sciences by collecting, managing and facilitating access to data for secondary analysis. SSDS provides reference and technical consultation to help users identify and use data accessible online, through different repositories and on CD or DVD. Located in Government Information in the lower level of Deering, SSDS staff consultation or assistance in using the data collection is usually available Monday through Friday by appointment. For further information, go to the SSDS home page or contact SSDS at: kemurphy@northwestern.edu.
Locating books and other full-text materials—
Use NUcat, the catalog of all the Northwestern libraries, to search for books on your topic, using either the Subject Heading search or one of the Keyword search options. You may need to use broader, less specific terms than you would when searching one of the article databases.
Also, remember to use NUcat to verify whether or not the NU Libraries have access to items you identified using the article databases listed up above. Use the Journal Title search and type in the name of the journal or magazine, not the name of the article. If a citation is for an association paper or other report, try a guided search in NUcat on either the citation title, name of institute, or name of association.
You may also search Proquest Dissertations and Theses to find abstracts and, in many cases, link to the full text of dissertations from NU and other institutions.WorldCat
If an item of interest is not available from NU, either electronically or in
hard copy, you may be able to locate it locally at another institution by
searching it in WorldCat, a consortial catalog of holdings from hundreds
of libraries around the US and the world.
Interlibrary Loan for materials not owned by Northwestern
WorldCat
Materials can be requested directly via WorldCat. The requests go through our
ILL department.
Interlibrary
Loan Department at NU Library
You may also request materials from other universities and institutions from
our ILL department. You do not need to know the holding institution. ILL can
locate the nearest, quickest copy for you.
Help available from the Reference Department
The Reference Department offers walk-in assistance, research consultations, email help, and other services.
Kathleen Murphy
Social Science Data Services Librarian
847-491-4090
kemurphy@northwestern.edu
Natalie Pelster
Reference Librarian
847-491-8735
n-pelster@northwestern.edu
Reference Department
847-491-7656
refdept@northwestern.edu
