Sociology

Locating Journal Articles

Locating articles within the journal literature and collections can be challenging. A wide variety of indexing and abstracting resources in different formats can be used to locate articles in periodicals, collected works, and newspapers.

Electronic Resources | Print Resources

Electronic Resources

All indexes noted below are in electronic format, except C.R.I.S.: The Combined Retrospective Index Set to Journals in Sociology, 1895-1974. Coverage varies for the electronic resources, but most are limited to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

JSTOR
A searchable digital archive of major scholarly journals including many in social sciences, such as American Journal of Sociology and American Sociological Review.

Project Muse
Electronic publishing of major academic journals, including many titles in social sciences like Cultural Critique, Social Forces, and Social Text.

America: History and Life
Indexes and abstracts of scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada. Includes books, reviews, dissertations, and articles.

Anthropological Literature
Indexes articles and essays in anthropology and related fields, including sociology, archaeology, religion, linguistics, and art history.

ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials
This resource contains citations to articles, books, and book reviews from journals specializing in religion church history, and theology; the full text is supplied for many articles. Useful for its inclusion of materials relating to the sociology of religion and the anthropology of religion.

FRANCIS
Bibliographic database covering the social sciences and humanities.

Left Index
Indexes a wide range of politically left and radical periodicals.

Social Sciences Abstracts
Indexes publications covering a wide range of interdisciplinary fields of the social sciences.

Social Sciences Citation Index
Indexes citations from journals in the social sciences, including sociology, anthropology, ethnic studies, and cognate disciplines.

SOCIndex
SOCIndex with full text is the world’s most comprehensive sociology research database, which features nearly two billion records covering a broad spectrum of sociological study.

Sociological Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts literature in theoretical and applied sociology, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

Wile, Annadel, ed., C.R.I.S.: The Combined Retrospective Index Set to Journals in Sociology, 1895-1975, 6 vols. (Washington, DC: Carrollton Press, 1978), JLF 86-1798. Retrospective indexing of over 100 major sociology journals, providing subject and author access.