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Books
Reserve Books
Many of the psychology teachers have put their textbooks on reserve at the circulation desk on the top floor. Click here for a list of books on reserve for sociology.
Circulating Books
To find books that check out, click on Book Catalog from the sidebar on the right.
Reference Books
This is a selected list of books located in reference on the main floor.
HM291 .D4857 1993 The Encyclopedia of Violence : Origins, Attitudes, Consequences
HM425 .E5 Encyclopedia of Sociology
HN90 .P8 1998 American Attitudes: Who Thinks What about the Issues That Shape Our Lives
HQ534 .E53 1999 Encyclopedia of Family Life
HQ1061 .E534 2002 Encyclopedia of Aging
HV27 .H345 2002 American Social Leaders & Activists
HV6783 .A85 2000 Atlas of Crime
HV6787 .A3 Crime in the United States
HV7436 .G8783 2002 Guns in American Society
HV9104 .E58 2003 Encyclopedia of Juvenile Justice
Databases
To find periodical articles use an electronic database. Click on Databases from the sidebar on the right.
General Databases
- CQ Researcher - CQ Researcher is often the first source that librarians recommend when researchers are seeking original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Founded in 1923 as Editorial Research Reports, CQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published weekly in print and online 44 times a year by CQ Press, a division of Congressional Quarterly Inc.
- Issues & Controversies - A full-text social issues database with articles published by Facts on File. No journals.
- EBSCO - This is the place to start for general research. This group of databases includes: Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete, Computers & Applied Sciences Complete, CINAHL, PsycARTCLES, ERIC, and more. Articles may be full-text, abstracts, or citations.
Scholarly Journal Databases
- Project Muse - Current full-text journal articles in a wide variety of academic subjects.
- PsycARTICLES - Includes full-text for 63 psychology journals published by the American Psychological Association and other organizations. Coverage is for complete runs of journals going back to the earliest publication date. The earliest journal included goes back to 1894.
- PsycINFO- An abstract database of psychological literature from the 1800s to the present. Contains citations, abstracts, and cited references. Not full-text. Use the periodicals link from the home page to see if we have the journal you need on the shelf. If we do not, we can order it for you through interlibrary loan.
Periodicals
Use the electronic databases to find references to periodical articles on specific topics. If you find a reference to an article in a database that is not full-text, then check the all titles list to see if we have it in hard copy. If we do not have it in hard copy than you may order it through interlibrary loan.
As an alternative to looking for articles on specific topics you may wish to browse a particular sociology journal to get ideas for topics, to see what a journal looks like, or you may just want to read your favorite sociology journal from cover to cover. You can browse journals by title online or by coming to Brown Library and reading the hard copy subscriptions. Here is a list of our hard copy titles in sociology. The links below are for you to browse electronic journals through Project Muse.
Browse Project Muse sociology journals by title
- American Annals of the Deaf (2003-)
- Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice (2006-)
- Canadian Journal of Law and Society (2005-)
- The Canadian Journal of Sociology (2004-)
- Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement (2004-
- The Future of Children (2005-)
- Social Forces (Mar. 2001-)
- Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society (2003-)
- Southern Cultures (win 2000-)