Library Research Guides: SOC 290: Methods of Social Research: Scholarly Articles

SuperSearch

SuperSearch is a great place to start for journal articles, books and almost everything else the library has, in one easy to use interface.

For searching with more focus and precision, try one of the databases recommended on this guide.

Why Write a Literature Review?

The Gentlement Crafter. Used via Creative Common License.

Excellent resource from the University of Queensland on the purpose of literature reviews. Also discusses how to write one, some of the common pitfalls, and how to make sense of the process.

Scholarly Journal Articles

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
covers all branches of knowledge. Use this to trace reference back from an article, or find more articles that cite that particular article.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Indexes international scholarly literature in sociology, 1952 to present.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
articles on all aspects of psychology.

Project Muse
full text academic journals in the humanities & social sciences, from the past five years. Use JSTOR for prior years.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
full text of scholarly articles in all fields, up to 3 to 5 years ago (not recent articles).

Search Statements!!

Crafting Keywords from Topics

Help by marc falardeau on April 22, 2011. Creative commons license.

Putting together a search statement can seem like a dauting task but it doesn't have to be!

Check out my guide on how to do truncation with connecting words!

Easy!

For additional help in crafting search statements, download this worksheet: