The journal is peer reviewed and committed to publishing high quality, cutting edge research on substantive issues of fundamental importance to the study of society.
Interlibrary loan is a system that allows you to request material from other libraries to be sent to Trent for you to borrow. Normally, there are no costs to use the ILL service. Plan ahead because it can take a few days or even weeks for material to be sent, depending upon availability.
Omni finds articles, as well as books and other material.
For more control and in-depth searching, use an index (database) to find citations to articles on your topic. Follow the links to the full article. See the "Finding Articles" tutorial for details.
To find articles, you search an index (a database) for descriptions of articles on your topic.
From there, follow the links to the full article. See the "Finding Articles" tutorial for details.
Successful searching requires two things: search in the right place, and select the best search terms.
For the right place, select a database that covers your topic appropriately.
For search terms, select a few key terms that you expect to find in a description of your topic.
The most important database to use for finding articles in Sociology is Sociological Abstracts. This database covers thousands of scholarly journal in Sociology. It's available to search alone, or as part of the ProQuest Sociology Collection.
You may also want to search Scholars Portal Journals and/or Social Sciences Citation Index (from Web of Science).There will be some overlap, but you may find different results in different databases, depending on your topic.
An index to the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews from over 1,800+ serials publications, as well as to books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
Sociological Abstracts in combination with other databases covering the international literature in sociology, social services, and related fields. Together, they provide abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, & working papers.
Primarily a law and politics resource, it includes articles from more than 2,600 legal periodicals (105 Canadian), as well as the Provincial Statutes of Canada, Revised Statutes of Canada, Annual Statutes, and Canada Supreme Court Reports. International content includes historical and current constitutions from every country in the world, a collection of world trials, and more.
The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the scholarly journal literature of the social sciences. It fully indexes more than 1,725 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Part of the Web of Science / Web of Knowledge.
These databases might also be useful, depending on your topic and your research needs. They're in alphabetical order.
Free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials, including including books, research syntheses, conference papers, technical reports, policy papers, and other education-related materials. This is the same database as the free site available from the Educational Resources Information Center.
full text database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. Includes scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, non-governmental organizations, and special reports. It covers over 200 publications.
A searchable database of full-text research journals in a variety of academic disciplines. JSTOR includes the complete backruns of the journals, from the first volume to a moving wall of 2-10 years ago. Some titles include current volumes. Trent subscribes to JSTOR collections I to XI and the Life Sciences.
730 scholarly e-journals from the publisher SAGE. They can be searched as a whole, or browsed by title or discipline.
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