Research Guides: SOCI 300 Sociological Analysis: Find Peer Reviewed Academic Sources

ASA Style

ASA Citation Style Guide
This guide provides instructions and examples for citing resources using American Sociological Association (ASA) style.

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Subjects: Anthropology, Criminal Justice, Family Studies, Kinesiology, Physical Education, Sociology

Find Scholarly/Academic Articles

Published research (empirical studies, theoretical articles, and literature reviews) in sociology and related disciplines will be indexed in these databases.

SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The index features more than 1,300,000 records with subject headings from a 15,000 term sociology-specific thesaurus designed by expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 235 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 545 books and monographs, and full text for 6,601 conference papers.
Criminal Justice Database This link opens in a new window
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Full-text coverage for 45 of the titles most frequently accessed by criminal justice researchers, and complete indexing and abstracts for another 140 relevant U.S. and international journals.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Digital image archive of over 450 core scholarly journals in JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II, III, and IV collections. Coverage begins with the first volume and issue of the title. There is usually an embargo on the most recent issues. Articles contain full text plus graphics, charts, tables etc.
In the Advanced Search you can use the Journal filter to limit your search to articles in the 221 different titles in sociology.
Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
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Indexing and abstracts for over 7,000 journals. Full text of articles for over 4,000 scholarly publications, including more than 3,100 peer-reviewed publications. Multidisciplinary subject coverage, including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language & linguistics, arts & literature, medicine, and ethnic studies.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar enables users to search for scholarly literature from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, repositories and universities. Use Google Scholar to find journal articles, peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, technical reports and preprints on the web.

Getting Full Text Articles

If you do not see a full text article link look for the button in order to:

Access online full text (when available)
See if the journal is available in print (library catalog)
Request a pdf of the article if full text is not available online (Interlibrary Loan)

If you have the citation for the article you are trying to access, search the Journal List to check if the library subscribes to your specific article.

Find Books

Cook OneSearch This link opens in a new window
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Find books, articles, media, government information, and other library resources all in one place. Search what Towson owns as well as resources at other USMAI Libraries.

Cook Library Catalog
An alternative to OneSearch is to use the Cook Library Catalog to search for books available at Cook Library (including e-books).
WorldCat TU
WorldCat TU is a great way to find books not only at our library, but also through the USMAI system, and libraries worldwide. The books available at Towson will show up first in your search results and then USMAI, followed by other WorldCat Libraries.
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Get the call number and location information for the item in order to find it in Cook Library. For books owned by USMAI libraries, use the 'Request Item' button to get it. For books at other WorldCat Libraries, click the "Request Item through Interlibrary Loan."

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SOCI 300 Sociological Analysis

ASA Style

Research & Instruction Librarian

Find Scholarly/Academic Articles

Getting Full Text Articles

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