anthropology

Tips and Resources for Sociology/Anthropology 3740 - Tourism

Best Bet: Use OneSearch to combine SocIndex, CAB Abstracts and many other useful indexes into a single search. Limit to peer-reviewed articles as needed.

Articles:

Tips and resources for Soc/Anth 3550: Globalization

Best Bet: Use OneSearch to search for books, scholarly articles, magazine articles, newspaper articles, etc.  Use the "show more" limit link to limit to the discipline of Sociology (or add Anthropology and Political Science as appropriate)

Articles:

SocINDEX, a comprehensive scholarly research database for sociology

The four most commonly used citation formats in Sociology and Anthropology are:

For help in evaluating Web information and using search tools, see Finding Quality Web Information.

Anthropology:

Anthropology on the Web
A great collection of links arranged by subdisciplines within anthropology.

Organizations and associations may supply specialized information on a topic. DIRECTORIES can be useful for identifying these, and provide information such as personnel, addresses, telephone numbers, and publications.

To locate information about sociology and anthropology organizations and associations, use directories such as:

Information about notable people in sociology or anthropology can be found in:

Books and E-Books:

Fifty key sociologists: the formative theorists

Fifty key sociologists: the contemporary theorists

Sociology

The first-choice search engine for finding scholarly sociology journal articles is:

SocINDEX with Full Text

All sociology/anthropology-related databases available through Robertson Library:

To find books or video materials on a particular topic, begin with a keyword search in OneSearch and use the limiter for Books Only, or do your search first then use the "Source Type" limiter on the left side for Books, eBooks, and/or Videos as needed.

Examples of subject headings (aka keyword phrases) to try, in combination with your own more specific terms:

• Best starting point for books and articles: OneSearch . Under the "Limits...Show more" link you can limit your results to "Sociology" or "Anthropology".
• The first-choice search engine for finding scholarly sociology journal articles is SocINDEX with Full Text
• Getting started narrowing a big paper topic down
• Materials on reserve for sociology/an