Research Guides: Sociology: Articles

Start with these Databases

The following three databases are the best starting point for research related to the topic of sociology:

Proquest Databases - ALL This link opens in a new window All Proquest Databases SMSU subscribes to are available for searching at once through this link.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window Abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations. Contains over 2.5 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the early 1800s. Journal coverage includes material selected from more than 2,200 periodicals in more than 27 languages.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window This database abstracts and indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

Advanced Databases

These three databases are more advanced, but include a wealth of information related to sociology. Use the Advanced Search options in each database to narrow to resources in the Social Sciences.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window Full-text archive of leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select books and other materials.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window Full-text articles in humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window Covers authoritative titles from the core scientific literature.

Need More Options?

If you didn't find everything you were looking for in the three recommended databases, do some searching in these additional databases or peruse the A-Z List :

CINAHL Ultimate This link opens in a new window CINAHL Ultimate is a key resource for nursing and allied health research, providing full text for more of the most used journals in the CINAHL index than any other database. It covers more than 50 nursing specialties and includes quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, CEU modules and research instruments.
Newsstream: US News Sources This link opens in a new window U.S. Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format.