Sociology Resources 

Find books | Find Journals | Find Journal Articles | Grammar and Style Guides Other Links | Find Background Information | Library Home | Framingham State College Library Catalogs Framingham State College Library Catalog Owned by FSC and 40+ area libraries, FSC online library catalog provides access to information about books and other materials. World Cat                    Off-campus World Catalog indexes books and electronic resources owned by over 10,000 libraries worldwide, including Internet sites, by name and subject via First Search. FirstSearch provides online access to more than 30 databases.  Find Journals Full-Text Electronic Journal Finder The Full Text Electronic Journal Finder helps you locate full text journals by title that are in the online periodical databases held by FSC's Whittemore Library. Use this if you know the name of a particular journal and want to see if the library has full-text access online.   Interdisciplinary Full Text Databases Academic Search Premier (1965 - present)           Off Campus Full text reference database. Includes about 4000 journals of which 3100 are peer reviewed journals. Current and multi-disciplinary database. (over 7900 journals are indexed). Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI) (FirstSearch) (1992 - present)      Off Campus Full-text access to global information on women in over 150 countries. Expanded Academic ASAP (1980 - present)           Off Campus Research topics in the arts, humanities and social sciences with access to some images. Anthrosource (2003 - present)  Off Campus Developed by the American Anthropological Association, this includes a complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003. SocINDEX with full text (1908-present)  Off Campus Sociology research database includes full text of 397 "core" and 150 "priority" journals; also includes full-text of 720+ monographs and 6,7000+ conference papers. JSTOR           Off Campus Search back issues of 117 core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Back issues of journals are included, but the three most recent years of a journal may not be available. PsycINFO(1887 to present)          Off Campus Abstracts and indexes 1,000+ journals in psychology and related fields. International source for journal articles, books, and dissertations in psychology and related fields including sociology, linguistics, law and anthropology. Grammar & Style Guides Cite a Source Provides examples for bibliography lists for the APA, Chicago, and MLA style formats.   Bibliographies & Works Cited Pages A list of websites that contain rules and examples for bibliography lists in the APA, CBE, Chicago, MLA, Turabian, and other styles.    Other Recommended Links Sociology websites on Del.icio.us Websites recommended by Framingham State College.   American FactFinder Useful information and facts on US population, history, industry and business statistics from the U.S. Dept of the Census. American Sociological Association  American Anthropological Association Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences  Population Index WWW Virtual Library: Sociology Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG): Sociology A sociological tour through cyberspace Framingham State College Sociology Department   Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Handbooks                               Encyclopedia of Sociology. 2nd ed. (Ref HM17 .E5 1991). International Encyclopedia of Sociology. (Ref HM17 .I53 1984). The Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology.  (Ref HM17 .J64 1995) A Modern Dictionary of Sociology (Ref HM17 .T5 1969) Library Research Guide to Sociology: Illustrated Search Strategy and Sources. (Ref HM48 .M37) Sociology: A Guide to Reference and Information Sources. (Ref HM51 .A24 1997) Created by Shin Freedman, Henry Whittemore Library, Framingham State College Comments and feedback to: sfreedman@frc.mass.edu