Sociology: Guide

SocIndex
Authoritative bibliographic database for sociology research offering indexed records from top sociology journals as well as full-text linking.
Sociological Abstracts
Contains references to articles and books in several languages and from several countries from 1952 onwards.

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Carry out your search by use of Thesaurus searching, keywords or by browsing the different indexes. Furthermore, you can search cited works. Contains anthropological material as well.
InfoMedia
Access to all major Danish tabloids and magazines.
In some cases you will be asked for a login, but access is granted via the "Autologin" feature.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences IBSS
References to books, journal articles and reviews, covering anthropology, political science, sociology and economics since 1981.

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Searches can be limited to anthropological subsets.
Web of Science. Social Sciences Citation Index
An important bibliography within the Social Sciences areas. Contains references to journal articles in several languages and form several countries from 1956 onwards.

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Search by 'topic' or search for cited works.
Scopus
Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with over 20,500 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide containing 49 million records.
Google Scholar
Interdisciplinary search for scientific literature.

Annual Reviews
In publication since 1975, covers the significant developments in the field of Sociology. Topics covered in the journal include major theoretical and methodological developments as well as current research in the major subfields.
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
A reference work that covers the social sciences broadly. Contains in-depth articles that are particularly useful for clarifying concepts and definitions of theories and scientific fields.
Wiley Online Library
A collection of journals, books and reference works within e.g. the social sciences.
Oxford Handbooks Online
Contains in-depth articles and handbooks in the field of social science.

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The references can be used for inspiration when searching for keywords and for clarification of concepts when conducting a searching.

Oxford Reference
A useful tool when you need core articles that introduce you to a scientific field and when you need definitions and descriptions of e.g. theories and schools in various scientific fields.

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Contains reference works in all fields of the social sciences. Try e.g. Dictionary of the Social Sciences, which contains definitions of social science topics and biographies of important social science scholars.
A Dictionary of Sociology
Contain 2,500 entries which give an introduction to terms taken from sociology, psychology, economics, anthropology, philosophy, and political science.

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