Find Articles and More: Sociology Databases
Though journal articles covering issues of interest to sociologists and sociology students can be found in resources from virtually all subject areas, the databases below are often the best places to start for sociology courses and topics:
- SOCIndex: focused on sociological articles
- Academic Search Complete: large, multidisciplinary and easy to use; includes lots of full-text articles.
- Web of Science: multidisciplinary and sophisticated. Includes social sciences, humanities, arts. Offers citation searching.
- Google Scholar: a simple and powerful way to broadly search for scholarly articles, theses and books. Not everything here is peer-reviewed.
Databases in related subject areas
For news, magazine and journal articles of Canadian origin or covering Canadian subjects start with these general sources:
- Canadian Newsstream: full-text access to Canadian daily newspapers including the Gazette.
- ProQuest Combined Canadian: indexes a wide variety of Canadian sources, from newspapers, transcripts and newsletters, to academic journals and theses.
- Canadian Periodical Index (CPI-Q): newspapers, magazines, journals.
- Factiva: Full text of international newspapers (including Canadian), transcripts and newswires (license for only one user at a time).
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Encyclopedias
Encyclopedias can provide that all-important background and context for research papers. Here is a sampling:
- Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology: Often the very best place to start for your paper.
- Gale eBooks and Oxford Reference Online search multiple subject encyclopedias simultaneously.
- Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
- See also our Encyclopedia finding guide
Review & Survey Journals
These journals provide overviews of topics or research areas, and provide long lists of references.
- See our guide How to find theses for a list of databases and details on searching for theses at Concordia and at specific institutions beyond.
- To find Concordia theses only:
- Search or browse SPECTRUM