Articles & Databases - SOC 410 - Sociology Senior Seminar - LibGuides at DePauw University Libraries

Sociology Databases

Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Abstracts and citations for journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers and working papers covering sociology and related disciplines, mostly published since 1952.

General Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? Great starting point, with something for every subject!
- What's included? Lots of full-text, mostly peer-reviewed and recent, with some older and popular sources
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? It’s an excellent tool for scholarly articles and books/chapters from university presses, covering most disciplines.
- What's included? The collection's strength lies in its complete back issues of journal titles covering 75 disciplines, while a weakness is a "moving wall" limiting access to the most recent journal issues - the coverage skews older, so it’s not always a great starting point for researching topics that need to have the most current sources.
SAGE Premier Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Access to over 650 full-text journals published by SAGE, 1999-present. Subjects include health and life sciences, social sciences and humanities.
Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window
Social Sciences Full Text provides sources covering a wide array of subjects, including addiction studies, ethics, public welfare, urban studies and more.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles from 500+ scholarly journals from major university presses; includes literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy and religion, political science, medicine and health, gender studies. Most coverage 1990s to present. NOTE: DePauw subscribes only to the journal coverage (Premium Collection) and not the digital book collection.

Databases from Related Disciplines

GenderWatch This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? You’re researching topics about gender issues.
- What's included? Articles from journals, magazines, newspapers (some working papers & dissertations), published since 1970. Almost all are full text. Gender studies, men's studies, & women's studies.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? You want contemporary/recent news, reported from the minority press.
- What's included? Newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, predominately in the United States, 1959-present. Includes Asian-American, Jewish-American, African-American, Native-American, Arab-American, Eastern-European-American, multi-ethnic communities and more.
AnthroSource This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? You’re researching a topic that anthropologists might have studied.
- What's included? The past, present and future publications from the American Anthropological Association - more than 250,000 articles from journals, newsletters, bulletins and monographs.
APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? You're doing research in Psychology or Neuroscience.
- What's included? Coverage back to 1600s, from 2300 journals.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? You’re researching topics related to education, from preschool to college.
- What's included? Lists 1.5 million sources dating from 1966 to the present, including scholarly articles, but also many reports and conference proceedings.
Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? You need sources for projects related to communication and media.
- What's included? Scholarly journal articles - 917 active indexed and abstracted journals, including full-text for 192 of them.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? You’re looking for journal articles for a topic related to religions.
- What's included? Full-text journals and essays from over 360 religion and theology journals. The option to find articles about specific Christian/Judaic scripture passages.

Newspapers

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? You need news, law cases and reviews, and company financial information.
- What's included? A full-text article database of popular and trade news from around the world; company profiles; accounting literature and legal information largely focusing on U.S. and North America.
U.S. Major Dailies This link opens in a new window
Includes 1985+ of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? You want contemporary/recent news, reported from the minority press.
- What's included? Newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, predominately in the United States, 1959-present. Includes Asian-American, Jewish-American, African-American, Native-American, Arab-American, Eastern-European-American, multi-ethnic communities and more.
Alt-PressWatch This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? You want news from alternative (not mainstream) media.
- What's included? Full-text of about 200 newspapers/magazines of the alternative (generally progressive) press.

DePauw newspapers
Includes The DePauw, Indiana's oldest college newspaper, and the DePauw Magazine, the University's alumni publication. The DePauw has been digitized with full-text searching back to 1970. Full issues are also available from 1932 to 1969 with selected-headline indexing only.