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Specialized books such as the following titles can provide background information on your topic or help you with definitions of words you may not understand. The Reference Department of The University Libraries has several of these in sociology (HM call number), anthropology (GN), psychology (BF), education (L), and so on. Bibliographies at the end of each article may refer you to other useful sources. Note the names of authors writing extensively on the subject, then try the databases to look for journal articles they may have written.
Encyclopedia
of African-American culture and history, editor-in-chief Colin
A. Palmer.
Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006
Also in print. Location: Ref E185 .E54
Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations
Detroit: Gale, 2007
Also in print. Location: Ref G63 .W67
Encyclopedia of Latin American
history and culture, Barbara A. Tenenbaum,
editor in chief. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1996
Ref E185 .E54
Encyclopedia of World Cultures.
Timothy J. O'Leary and David Levinson,
ed. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1991-1996
Ref GN 550 .E53
Melvin and Carol Ember, ed.
Also in print. Location: Ref GN307 .C68
Encyclopedia of cultural anthropology, David Levinson, Melvin Ember, ed.
New York : Henry Holt and Co., 1996
Ref GN 307 .E52
St.
James encyclopedia of popular culture, Tom Pendergast, Sara
Pendergast, ed; with an introduction by Jim Cullen.
Detroit: St. James Press, 2000
Also in print. Location: Ref E169.1 .S764
Ref BL80.2 .L463
Religion : a cross-cultural encyclopedia, David Levinson. Santa
Barbara,
Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1996
Ref HC 59.7 .K87
Encyclopedia of the Third World. George Thomas Kurian, ed. New
York:
Facts on File, 1992
What are scholarly journals and how do I find them?
Databases are computerized subject guides to magazines, journals, newspapers, and other materials. For more choices than those listed below, go to The University Libraries home page, then click on Databases. Click on the starting letter of the database or click on a department name.
Tips:
-When searching your topic remember to try a variety of subject headings for the same concept.
-Click here for tips on using the search connectors AND, OR, and NOT in your search strategy.
REMEMBER: To get to the full
text of the journal article you must go through the Library's web pages. We
have paid for access to the journals. You cannot go to the publisher's page
to get an article. Use Journal
Finder if you have the name of the journal.
Humanities
and Social Science Retrospective
--Indexes the core scholarly, English-language journals published
between 1907 and 1984
--Includes citations to more than 1 million articles, including book reviews.
--Continued by Social Sciences Index
SocIndex
with Full Text (SIFT) (EBSCO)
--Offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines
and closely related areas of study. These include criminology & criminal
justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage
& family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology,
social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural
anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory,
substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others.
--Covers articles from over 4,000 journals and the full text of more than 700 books and 6,800 conference papers.
--Abstracts of some of the core journals date as far back as 1895.
Sociological
Abstracts
--Abstracts (no full text) for a couple thousand journals, plus books, conference
papers, and other materials in sociology, social psychology, social work,
community development, demography and feminist studies.
--International in scope. Many foreign language titles.
--Major journals in these fields
available in UNCG library but others are not.
--Dates of coverage: 1963 to present.
Expanded
Academic ASAP (InfoTrac)
--This large general and interdisciplinary database covers a wide range
of current events, news, and scholarly materials from over 8,000 journals
and magazines including some full text from about half of the titles.
--Subject areas include sociology,
social work, and family studies. Most materials are available in the UNCG
library.
--Dates of coverage: 1980 to present for the database; full text coverage
varies by title
Academic
Search Premier
--Provides citations or abstracts for over 8,000 scholarly journals covering
topics across the disciplines including sociology.
--Full-text for over half the journals
dating back to 1990 with some back to 1975.
Dates of coverage for non full-text titles: approximately 1984 to date.
ProQuest
Research Library
--Provides indexing and abstracting of approximately 2,600 periodicals and
national and regional newspapers including some full text from over half of
the periodicals.
--Covers a wide variety of subjects.
--Dates of coverage: 1971 to present
PsycINFO
--Provides citations and abstracts (no full text) for over 1300 periodicals
written in over 25 languages, as well as book chapters, books, technical reports,
and dissertations
--Covers psychology and related disciplines such as sociology, social work,
medicine, nursing, and psychiatry.
--Covers such topics as behavioral assessment, community mental health and
casework with special populations.
--Large number of foreign language titles. Jackson library owns or has access
to many of the core, English-language titles and the database links to the
full text of many of the articles..
--1872 to present
Lexis-Nexis
Academic
--Full text articles from over 7500 journals, magazines, transcripts,
newspapers, newsletters, and other sources including foreign materials.
--Especially strong in business, law, health, and general news information.
--Very useful for current information.
Family
& Society Studies Worldwide
--Over 180,000 bibliographic records and abstracts drawn from over 1,000 professional
journals as well as books, popular literature, conference papers, and government
reports.
--Includes research, policy and practice literature in the fields of family science, human ecology and human development.
--Considerable Australian material. Limited number of indexed materials available in Jackson Library.
--Covers 1970 to present.
Looking for the full text of the article? Go to Journal Finder and enter the name of the journal.
APA, Turabian, and MLA Citation Styles
APA Examples
Text of an article from a print or microfilm journal:
VandenBos, G., Knapp, S., & Doe, J. (2001). Role of reference elements in the selection of resources by psychology undergraduates. Journal of
Bibliographic Research, 5, 117-123.
Text of an
electronic journal article retrieved via a DOI number:
Smith, W.C. (1993). Role of early supervisory experience in supervisor performance.
Journal of Applied Psychology, 78(4), 443-449.
doi:10.1037/002-9432.76.4.482
Text of an article from a publisher or organization website:
VandenBos, G., Knapp, S., & Doe, J. (2001). Role of reference elements in the selection of resources by psychology undergraduates. Journal
of Bibliographic Research, 5, 117-123. Retrieved from http://www.envplan.com/epa/fulltext/a40/a38255.pdf
Electronic copy of an article retrieved from a database:
Borman, W. C., Hanson, M. A., Oppler,
S. H., Pulakos, E. D., & White, L.A. (1993). Role
of early supervisory experience in supervisor
performance. Journal of Applied
Psychology, 78 (4), 443-449. Retrieved
October 23, 2000, from PsycARTICLES database.
The title of the journal and the volume number are in bold. The issue number is not.
Remember to cite the database which actually has the article, not the database you used to find it.
ASA Style Guide ref HM586 .A54 1997
In keyword searching, the computer hunts for all of your words in the title, subject or notes lines. A subject search will tell the computer to look for your terms only in the subject headings for that book. Always use keyword searching if you want to combine terms using or and and. For example, if you are looking for an encyclopedia on culture in a particular country, try the following search strategy:
(culture or cultural) and encyclopedia? and Japan.
The ? will find the words encyclopedia of encyclopedias
The University Libraries' Catalog
Access the Internet search engines
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