The Research Page

Explanation

The amount of information available on the Internet is unlimited. Unfortunately, not all of it is appropriate for academic research. However, even there, sources that used to be more difficult to access are now easily acessible - if you know where to look. This page is intended as a help for students in doing their literature search for their Sociology papers.

For more information contact Dr. Horsfall
 (817)531-4264

EMail:shorsfall@txwes.edu


Search Tips

Traditionally academic research is done using a Library database. This is usually available only to students of the specific university. However, most journals have their own web pages, and while they usually do not allow free access to all the articles, some articles are often available. If you are lucky, the one you need may be available. It is worth checking! And you can usually do a search of their published material. Most  publishers make their Table of Contents available, and some even have a search engine of past volumes. Once you locate the paper you want, you will have to find alternative ways of getting the paper if you don't want to pay for it. To subscribe to several pricey journals in order to complete one paper is hardly worth it. The best is Interlibrary Loan. Copy the details (article title, author, journal issue, page number and date), and then go to InterLibrary Loan page and request the specified article. It can probably be in your hands in a week or less - so you will have to plan ahead. This approach won't work for last minute paper-writers!
Another possibe source for the paper is the author's web pages. Many sociologists and others make complete versions of their papers available on their web sites.  Do a Goodle search for the author, and/or the title of the paper.
Research is hard work. It takes persistence and intelligence. Don't give up if you can't find what you are looking for. Try another word, try another source, try another method. And above all, don't claim an inferior source as a legitimate academic one!



 

Journal Databases and Lists 

Search Engines

JSTOR  Yale Library of Soc Electronic Journals Search
Online Sociology Journals (Full text and free) Kluwer Online Journal Search
Elsevier (science, technology, health) Subscription - but search engine is free  Elsevier Science Direct
University of Houston's list of WWW Journals  Blackwell Synergy
Virtual Library Social Science Electronic Journals  Yale Univ Orbis Search (click on Orbis)
Cuneo List of WWW Electronic Journals for Sociology  Cambridge Journals Online
Wenzel List of Sociology Journals Oxford Journals
DMOZ List of Sociology Journals Oxford Online Journals
Adjunct Nation List of Sociology Journals (Limited)  Sage Full Text Collections (use demo)
Yale Library List of Online Journals - humongous! Ingenta Select
Yale Library List of Sociology Online Journals (enter sociolog* in search space)  University of Chicago Press Journals
Kluwer Online Journals ASA Journals Search
Elsevier Science Direct Sociosite
Blackwell Synergy IFLA Search Site
Lexis Nexis (subscription)  ARL Search
Cambridge Journals Online  JAKE Search (good)
Oxford Journals  New Jour Search
Oxford Online Journals  Project Muse (Johns Hopkins)
Sage Publications Journals
Sage Full Text Collections (use sample)
Ingenta Select
University of Chicago Press Journals
ASA Journals
Sociosite Journal list (extensive)
Electronic Journal and Text Archive
Association of Research Libraries Electronic Journal List (not updated)
EJournal Site Guide: U of British Columbia
Electronic Periodicals
Electronic Journal Database - Netherlands
Journal database list - Germany
MIT Journal List
New Jour
Serials in Cyberspace
Blackwell List of Journals
Electronic Journals from Institute of Physics Publishing
Journals and Magazines of the American Chemical Society
Virginia Polytechnic/State Univ EJournals (mostly computer -Fulltext and free)
Free Medical Journals (a month to two years after publication)
Taylor and Francis Journals (Free sample copies)

Some Individual Sociology Journals

The Electronic Journals of Sociology
PostModern Culture (Full text and free)
Disaster Research (Subscription)
Women in Literacy and Life Assembly (Fulltext and free)
British Journal of Criminology (Subscription)
Journal of World Systems Research (Fulltext and free)
Images - A Journal of Film and Popular Culture (Fulltext and free)
Annual Review of Sociology (Subscription)_
Canadian Journal of Sociology (Fulltext and free)
Edwardsville Journal of Sociology (Fulltext and free)
International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters (Subscription)
Journal of Mundane Behavior (Fulltext and free)
Sociological Forum (Abstracts only)
Sociological Methods and Research (ToC only)
Sociological Research Online (Fulltext and free)
Rural Sociology (Subscription)
American Journal of Sociology (ToC Only)
Qualitative Report
Journal of Social Structure  (Fulltext and free)
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
Noetic Science (publications, digital library, research)_(Fulltext and free)
Connections (fulltext and free)
Current Research in Social Psychology (Fulltext and free)
 
 
 
 
 
 
Thursby Social Sciences Journals Canadian Journal of Sociology American Graduate (For graduate students, published 3x yr)
BUBL Journal Collections 
BUBL Journal List
Theory & Science  (Theory, science and Social change, ICAAP quarterly mcgett@uscolo.edu) Ethnomusicology Research Digest
WWWVirtual Library of E Journals Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology Music & Anthropology: Musical Anthropology of the Mediterranean and Beyond  (English/Italian - Irregular)
New Jour  Electronic Journals and Newsletters Journal of Classroom Interaction (from Univ of Houston- semi-annual) Ethnomusicology Online (audio, video, multimedia resources. U Maryland)
U of H Scholarly Journals Online EDUCOM - Information Technology in Education Academe This Week De Proverbio (International proverb studies, paremiology (study of proverbs) and parameiography (collection of proverbs) Univ of Tasmania, Australia)
Learning Technology Journals (Canada) Student Sociologist  Folklife Center News  folklife@loc.gov (quarterly)
Complexity International Human Development & Family Life Bulletin  (Quarterly newsletter from Ohio State Univ Dept of Human Development and Family Science) KACIKE: Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology
Connections The Qualitative Report Communication (Univ of South Africa)
Social Networks Journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Journal of World Anthropology  (State Univ of NY at Buffalo - Irregular)
Anthropological Index Online  (British Museum) Social Research Update  (New Research techniques/analysis, Univ of Surrey, England sociology@soc.surrey.ac.uk - quarterly) Culture and Tradition  (Bilingual folklore journal, St. John's Newfoundland - Annual)
Journals and Newspapers Sociological Research Online (Applied sociology, U of Surrey and Stirling, quarterly) Journal of Mundane Behavior  (Soc Dept, Fullerton Calif 3x yr)
UCSD Libraries  Current Research in Social Psychology (Uof Iowa) Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology  (Rethink every aspect of the human. Eric Gans Semiannual)
Australian Journals Online Journal of World Systems Research  (Interdisciplinary) Folklore  - Folklore Dept of Institute of Estonian Language mare@haldjas.folklore.ee)
ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center  CTHEORY - Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory Postmodern Culture

Some Other Sociological Sources 

Some other Sociological Resources

Famous Sociologists  Sociometry (Jacob Levi Moreno) - downloadable sociogram software
Papers by Howard Becker  Another Sociometric Analysis downloadable software site
Dead Sociologists' Society
Barry Wellman's papers


Individual Science and Medicine Journals (Miscellaneous)

New England Journal of Medicine
British Medical Journal Online
The EMBO Journal
Journal of the American Medical Association
Journal of Neuroscience Online
Journal of Biological Chemistry
Journal of Immunology
Biochemical Journal
Journal of Nutrition
Journal of Clinical Investigation
Journal of Cell Biology
Biophysical Journal
Journal of Neurophysiology
Online Science Magazine
Journal of Bacteriology
Astrophysical Journal
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Journal of Experimental Medicine
New Journal of Physics
Journal of Chemical Physics
Journal of Applied Physics
Dermatology Online Journal (Full text and free)
The Scientist (Free Registration)
Online Journal of Issues in Nursing (Full text and free)
Journal of Physical Chemistry (Fulltext and free)
The Lancet (Subscription)
International Journal of Epidemiology (Subscription)
American Journal of Physiology (Subscription)
Canadian Medical Association Journal (Fulltext and free)
Journal of General Physiology (Subscription)
Journal of Heredity (Subscription)_
 

Some Education Journals

The Journal
Educational Technology Journal
Journal of Technology Education (Fulltext and free)
 

Law/Misc

National Law Journal (Fee required)
Journal of Online Law (Full text and free)
Web Journal of Current Legal Issues (Fulltext and free)
New York Law Journal (Subscription)
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (Fulltext and free)
American Journal of Psychiatry (Subscription)
Journal of Electronic Publishing (Fulltext and free)
Journal of Computer Mediated Communication (Fulltext and free)
Conservation Ecology (Full text and free)
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics (Math) (Fulltext and free)
The Computer Journal (Subscription)
Journal of Digital Information (Fulltext and free)
Electronic Green Journal (Fulltext and free)
Psyche:Journal of Research on Consciousness (Fulltext and free)
Mathematical Physics Electronic Journal (Maybe free)
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (Subscription)
British Journal of Psychiatry (Fulltext and free)
Health Service Journal (Fee)
Journal of the American Mathematical Society (Subscription)
A list of Psychology Journals (not all links work)
Electronic Publishing - R&D News


The West Library

You will need your library ID number to log in. Go to Sociological Sources.

The Virtual Library

A collection of web sources that may be of interest to sociologists. Most of the sites are NOT academic sources.