Doing Sociological & Social Work Research:
Search by 1) author, searching personal and institutional names; 2) title, if you know the name of the book, periodical, or item; 3) subject heading, searching the assigned Library of Congress subject heading; and 4) keyword, searching combined words of your choosing. Note call numbers to locate items on shelves.
PALNI - Private Academic Library Network of Indiana:
The
PALNI catalog contains bibliographic records from twenty-five private,
Indiana, academic and seminary libraries. Most of the material found in the
PALNI catalog is available for free interlibrary loan. Additionally, most
public, Indiana, academic libraries loan their materials without charge. For
more information about PALNI
and its member institutions, click
here.
The First Search: WorldCat union catalog contains bibliographic records from all types of libraries worldwide. Here you will find public, Indiana, university libraries from which you may borrow books and articles through interlibrary loan. There may be some exceptions such as archival materials, but generally, most of the materials may be borrowed.
III. Interlibrary Loans
Now, if you cannot find a book or journal article in RichLyn Library, go to RichLyn Library's home page. Next, link to Library Services on the left side of the screen. Scroll down to Interlibrary Loan and choose either book form* or article form. Complete the form, submit it, wait to be contacted, and pick up your ILL.
*Notice that the book ILL form should not be completed until you have set up My Account and a New User Registration in First Search. Follow the instructions for New User as given on the ILL (book) page. When you submit the registered ILL form, the book will be sent to the lending library. You will be borrowing the book directly from the lending library. When an ILL item comes to the library, you will be notified by RichLyn Library. Then go to the library to get the item; if it is a book, return it to the library according to the due date. If it is an article, there is no need to return it. The ILL process takes from overnight to two weeks. If you wish to see how many books you have checked out through ILL, go into your book borrowing Account and click on the Resource Sharing tab. A listing of your ILLs and their due dates will appear.
IV. Internet Databases: Now, look for journal articles.
Most of your research resources will likely consist of journal articles. RichLyn Library subscribes to a number of database services for the research needs of our patrons. Several of the databases are indexes to periodical articles but many also index newspapers, reports, pamphlets, books, and various other media. The services include the following database vendors and print subscriptions:
Databases:
A.1. EbscoHost: General & Related:
1.
Academic Search Premier
The world’s largest
academic multi-disciplinary database,
Academic Search Premier
provides full
text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600
peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well
over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more
than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
2.
ERIC
ERIC,
the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests
along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts
from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
3.
Health Business FullTEXT
This database provides full
text coverage for nearly 130 well-known administrative journals. Critical for
hospital administrators and managers, this database includes publications
covering the business of health care administration and much more.
4.
Health Source - Consumer Edition
This database is the
richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries
worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical
sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general
health. Health
Source: Consumer Edition
features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals. This database is updated
on a daily basis.
5.
MasterFILE Premier
Designed specifically for
public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more
than 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as
far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest,
MasterFILE
Premier also
includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554
primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and
flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
6.
MEDLINE
MEDLINE
provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry,
veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much
more. Created by the National Library of Medicine,
MEDLINE
uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy,
subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800
current biomedical journals.
7.
TOPICsearch
This current events
database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues,
scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms.
TOPICsearch
contains full text for over 139,800 articles from more than 4,800 diverse
sources.
A.2. EbscoHost: Directly or Closely Related:
1.
PsycINFO
PsycINFO ,
from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.3 million
citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and
dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as
the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Journal
coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected
from more than 2,100 periodicals in more than 25 languages.
2.
PsycARTICLES
PsycARTICLES,
from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of
full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The
database contains more than 45,000 articles from 57 journals - 46 published by
the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations.
It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each
journal. Coverage spans 1985 to present.
3.
SocINDEX with Full Text
SocINDEX with Full Text
is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research
database. The database features more than 1,660,000 records with subject
headings from a 19,300 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts
and expert lexicographers.
SocINDEX with Full Text
contains full text for 344 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 129
"priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more
than 700 books and monographs, and full text for 6,800 conference papers.
B. Thomson/Gale Databases: General & Related:
1.
Expanded Academic ASAP 1980 - Oct 2006 (7 advanced
search: "social work policy") [623 "social work AND policy]
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science
and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic
disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many
with full text and images!
2.
Health Reference Center Academic 1980 - Oct 2006 (9
advanced search: "social work policy") [226 "social work
AND policy]
Multi-source database provides access to the full text of
nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health
information sources in InfoTrac's award-winning Health Reference Center. All in
a single, easy-to-use database, The material contained in this database is
intended for informational purposes only.
3.
InfoTrac OneFile 1980 - OCT, 2006 (2 advanced
search: "social work policy") [614 "social work AND policy]
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a
wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education,
environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art,
politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general
interest topics. Millions of full-text articles. Updated daily.
4.
LegalTrac 1980 - Oct 2006 (0 advanced search:
"social work policy") [19 "social work"
AND policy]
Students, law school faculty and legal researchers will
all find the legal publications they need in LegalTrac®. Drawing on a
wide variety of the most highly regarded legal publications, LegalTrac®
provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal
newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Each
title included in LegalTrac® is selected on the basis of criteria
provided by a special advisory committee of the American Association of Law
Libraries. LegalTrac® also contains law-related articles from over
1,000 additional business and general interest titles.
5.
Professional Collection (2 advanced search: "social
work policy") [71 "social work" AND policy]
Custom Journals
C. Credo Reference: The "world's largest full-text, online, reference book database."
D. JSTOR Arts & Sciences and JSTOR Mathematics & Statistics: An excellent resource of full text journal articles.
E. Westlaw Campus Research: Anything legal and 100s of newspapers including the New York Times.
F. Free Databases (non-subscription):
When looking for journal articles, also consider the free, Internet/web-based, general databases when researching. Look Smart's Find Articles is a large database of free, full-text periodical articles. IngentaConnect, HighBeam.com, Open J-Gate, DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals, and High Wire Press are very large periodical databases covering many subjects. They retrieve free, full-text, abstracted, and previewed articles. If you want a particular article that is not full text, check our other databases. If you do not find an article you need in the library's collections, simply fill out the correct online interlibrary loan form located through the library's home page and clicking on Library Services. After opening Library Services, scroll down to the appropriate ILL site.
Once the catalogs and databases have been searched, open the Reference Shelf from the library's home page. Choose the Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Normally, a general encyclopedia is used to obtain background information for a topic about which not much is known. Also, general encyclopedias are used to help develop personal bibliographies. Simply check the bibliographies (Works Cited or References) for each article read. Then include those items from the bibliography that applies to your topic. With this said, however, it is important to note that most professors do not want their students citing from general encyclopedias. Encyclopedia Britannica Online helps researchers in other ways also. On their web site, you may choose several ways to search: Encyclopedia Britannica Online, Internet sites (professionally chosen), and journal articles (professionally chosen). Among other things, they also offer a dictionary and an atlas.
V. Print Journal Subscriptions: Social Work and Related Areas:
1. American Behavioral Scientist
2. American Sociological Review
3. Childhood Education
4. Christian Education Journal
5. FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
6. FDA Consumer
7. Gifted Child Quarterly
8. Habitat World
9. Journal of Marriage and Family
10 The Journal of Religion
11 Journal of Research in Childhood Education
12 Journal of Special Education
13 Leadership
14 Public Health Reports
15 Signs—Journal of Women in Culture and Society
16 Social Education
17 Social Psychology Quarterly
18 Social Security Bulletin
19 Social Work Research
20 Sociology of Education
21 Super Vision—The Magazine of Industrial Relations and Operating Management
22 Workforce Management
23 Youthworker Magazine
VI. Internet World Wide Web
Lastly, consider using applicable web sites. Always be a bit skeptical of the authenticity of web sites. Check the authority of the creator of the site. Who developed the site? Does the site have a current date of creation? Investigate the organization and/or author who sponsors the site. Below you will find sites that are approved as authoritative:
A. Search Engines:
B. Online Periodicals from the Web (Free):
C. Online Books, Monographs, Essays, etc. from the Web (Free): (In addition to free Internet books below, always consult our paid subscription to CredoReference, the "world's largest online reference database.")
An
Essay on the Principle of Population, Thomas Robert Malthus (1798)
— Population growth limited by virtue and vice: From the Constitution
Society's, Liberty Library of Constitutional Classics The
Moral Equivalent of War, William James (1906) — Seeks solution to
problem of how to sustain political unity and civic virtue without war or a
credible threat: From the Constitution Society's, Liberty of
Constitutional ClassicsD. Statistical & Survey Information
E. Online Web Sites of General Interest:
F. Reference Books Online
G. Directories@grass-roots.org Community improvement organizations in the U.S.
VII. GOVERNMENT SITES, SELECTIVE:
VIII. Citations in MLA and APA, etc.
Citation Makers
IX. Reference Books in RichLyn Library (In addition to the print books below, always consult CredoReference, the "world's largest online reference database.") It is important to begin much of your searching using Reference books. While general encyclopedias are not to be cited in research papers, they do give generally reliable overviews of unfamiliar topics, and the end-of-articles-bibliographies are useful in building Works Cited pages. On the other hand, subject encyclopedias, handbooks and other reference tools are frequently used in writing research papers. Here are a number of sociological/social work reference books in RichLyn Library that might be helpful in developing your topics.
Aging R305.2603 A267
Baker Encyclopedia of Psychology and Counseling R150.3 B167
Childhood Sexual Abuse R362.76 K55c
A Critical Dictionary of Sociology R301.03 B756c
County and City Data Book 2000 R317.3 U58c
Dictionary of Sociology R301.03 L425d
Encyclopedia of Adoption R362.734 A197e
Encyclopedia of Aging R305.26 E56
Encyclopedia of American Prisons Carl Sifakis R365.973 S573e
Encyclopedia of American Prisons Marilyn D. McShane and Frank P.
Williams III, ed. R365.973 E56
The Encyclopedia of American Women and Religion R200.82 B473e
Encyclopedia of Child Abuse R362.76097303 C594e
Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood…history R305.2303 E56
The Encyclopedia of Christianity R230.003 E56
Encyclopedia of Criminal and Deviant Behavior R364.03 E56
Encyclopedia of Death R306.903 K19e
The Encyclopedia of Depression R616.85 R718e
Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol & Addictive Behavior R362.2903 E56
Encyclopedia of Human Rights Issues R323.03 L289e
The Encyclopedia of Judaism R296.03 E56
Encyclopedia of Marriage and the Family R306.803 E56
Encyclopedia of Marriage, Divorce and the Family R306.803 D545e
Encyclopedia of Obesity and Eating Disorders R616.8526003 C344e
Encyclopedia of Psychology R150.3 E56
Encyclopedia of Religion and Society R306.603 E56
Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion R306.36209703 E56
Encyclopedia of Social Work R361.003 E56
Encyclopedia of Sociology R301.03 E56
Encyclopedia of Suicide R362.2 E92e
Encyclopedia of Women and Crime R364.082 E56
Family Religious Involvement and the Quality of Parental Relationships for
Families with Early Adolescents R305.235 S644r
The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion 2002 R303.38 G175g
Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences R301.43 B614h
Handbook of Family Violence R362.82 H236
Handbook of Social Psychology R302 H236
Handbook of Sociology R301 H236
Handbook of Qualitative Research R300.72 H236
Harper Collins Dictionary of Sociology R301.03 J38h
Health Issues R362.1 H434
History of Zionism R320.54095694 E21h
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences R303 I61
Kids Count Data Book R305.2309 K46
The Population of the United States R304.6 B675p
Reference Encyclopedia of the American Indian R970.00497 K64r
The Shengold Jewish Encyclopedia R296.03 S546
The Social Science Encyclopedia R300.3 S678
Social Work Dictionary R361.30321 B255e
Social Work Dictionary R361.303 B255s
Statesman's Yearbook 2006 R320.03 S797
Statistical Abstract of the United States 2003 R317.3 U58
Statistical Handbook on the American Family R306.85 S797
A Statistical Portrait of the United States Social Conditions
and Trends R306.0973021 S797
Time Almanac 2003 R317.3 T583
Whitaker's Almanack 2006 R317.3 W577w
World Almanac 2005 R317.3 W927
General Stacks: (reference books)
Children and youth in adoption, orphanages, and foster care:
a historical handbook and guide
362.73 C536
Concise encyclopedia of pain
psychology 616.047203 F486c
Contemporary youth culture: an international
encyclopedia 305.23509045 C761
The Culture Study of
Work
306.36 C968
Hear Their Cries (videocassette): Sexual & Domestic
Violence:
guide
Videocassette: 362.76. H435
Youth development handbook: coming of age in
American communities
362.71 H217y
Youth ministry in the 21st century: the encyclopedia of
practical ideas
259.23 Y83
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