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Indigenous Resources For Sociology/Anthropology

Research about Canada's indigenous peoples spans several academic disciplines, including sociology/anthropology, Canadian history and politics, health, and religious studies, as well as PEI local research tools.

Fall 2022 update: we now have a proper separate Indigenous Studies guide in support of the new Faculty and courses in that field. In addition to the advice below, please check that out for the latest updates and new research tools in this area.

Journal Articles: Theatre Studies

Theatre Studies databases:

Title Description
Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television

Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television
Biographical and career information on people currently working in the entertainment industry. For general and trade audiences.

Gale OneFile: Fine Arts

Search millions of articles about drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Diverse resource for serious fine arts students.

Places 10.4 million articles at the fingertips of serious students of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. More than 250 journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) index are available in full text.


(Description provided by the database publisher, Gale/Cengage)

Theatre in Video Contains over 400 plays & over 100 documentaries available online in streaming video, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors & directors.
Academic Videos Online (AVON)

Over 60,000 academic videos, including the Nursing Education Collection.

Alexander Street Press is a division of Proquest.

 

Project MUSE Includes the full text of over 320 scholarly journals in the Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences fields.
Robertson Library Catalogue

 

What's in the Catalogue?

The Catalogue contains information about many of the print, borrowable, and reference materials at the Robertson Library. It contains

What's not in the Catalogue?

Many of our resources are outside of the catalogue. These include:

Can I log in?

Yes, you can log in to the Catalogue to place holds or renew your borrowed items. Use your UPEI username and password.

Who supports the Catalogue?

The Metadata and Systems teams at the Robertson Library support the Catalogue. Contact Rosie Le Faive for metadata issues and Courtney Matthews for technical concerns.

The Catalogue has been self-hosted on Evergreen, an open-source ILS software, since 2008.

 

 

Web Resources for Fine Arts

These sites provide access to a range of art related resources ...

Finding Data and Statistics: Family Science

Canadian Social Trends
Articles and statistics about the social issues and trends in Canada.

Statistics Canada: Families, households, and housing
Data and studies on households and housing as well as census families and economic families.

Statistics - Diversity and Social Justice Studies (DSJS)

Statistics relating to women (e.g. demographics, health, education, violence)

For statistics specific to Canada, see Canadian women

United Nations - world statistics

Statistics on Women and Men

Directory of UN resources on gender and women's issues

 

 

Find Articles in Diversity and Social Justice Studies (DSJS)

Top choices to find research articles:

Women's Studies International

Covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research.  Coverage includes more than 871,000 records and spans from 1972 and earlier to present, from over 2,000 periodicals.

Canadian women - statistics, biographies, etc.

Resources for specific Canadian women and Canadian women's issues:

Basic information (encyclopedias, etc.) - Diversity and Social Justice Studies (DSJS)

General:

Concise Glossary of Feminist Theory
Cross-referenced entries on terms relating to feminist theory; contains an extensive bibliography.

REF: HQ1115.L68 1997

Dictionary of Feminist Theory
"...guide to the terminology and history of feminist theory relating the categories of feminist thinking to mainstream scholarship as it is practised in the western world".

REF: HQ1115.H86 1995

Diversity and Social Justice Studies (DSJS)

 

Diversity and Social Justice Studies (DSJS) is an interdisciplinary area.
Also check the resources in sociology, psychology, history, business, education, and so on depending on your topic.

Citing Sources: Veterinary Medicine

When information is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized, the source of that information must be documented and acknowledged.

Various standards have been created for citing sources in different disciplines such as AMA (American Medical Association) and CSE (Council of Science Editors). Please note that standards for citing electronic information are still evolving, and many print and electronic style guides may appear to be inconsistent in their instructions.

Web Resources: Veterinary Medicine

There are many web resources relating to Veterinary Medicine. To locate authoritative sites look for those created by professional organizations, academic institutions, research agencies, or government departments.

Journal Articles: Veterinary Medicine

The most current research on any academic topic is usually found in journal articles. Indexes and databases pertinent to Veterinary Medicine include:

Books and eBooks: Veterinary Medicine

Find Books

To find books or video materials on a particular topic, begin with a keyword search in OneSearch and use the "Source Type" limiter under the search box to find Books, eBooks, and/or Videos as needed. 

You need to select both "Books" and "eBooks"--some of our ebooks are "eBooks" and some of our ebooks are "Books."

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Handbooks: Veterinary Medicine

When you are doing research on a topic, you will often require a quick definition of a term, a specific fact, or condensed, detailed information about particular topics. Reference books and tools like dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, and manuals can be useful in those instances. Here are some of the reference tools we have:

 General Reference Tools

Veterinary Medicine

Welcome to the veterinary medicine subject guide. Here you will find sources for reliable veterinary medicine information in a variety of formats. Check the links below.

Reference Sources - Dictionaries and Encyclopedias: Theatre Studies

The A to Z Postmodernist Literature and Theater
“…examines the different areas of postmodernist literature and theater and the variety of forms that have been produced.  It contains a list of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on individual writers, important aesthetic practices, significant texts, and important movements and ideas that have created a variety of literary approaches within the form.” (Publisher)
REF: PN771M36 2009

Reference Sources - Companions, Guides, Videos, and Sourcebooks: Theatre Studies

Analytical Sourcebook of Concepts in Dramatic Theory
Under 73 "categories" of dramatic theory (e.g., action, catharsis, unity, plot, tragedy) brief excerpts from the writings of some 33 theorists of drama from Aristotle to Brecht are arranged in chronological order. Hundreds of additional concepts are traceable through a terms and topics index. Brief biographies, bibliographies, and index to quotations for all authors cited.
REF: PN1631.B75 1981

Finding Books: Theatre Studies

To find print or electronic books or online videos, use OneSearch; to find print books, microforms, or physical audiovisual materials about your subject, use the Library Catalogue. Location codes and call numbers are included for each item.

Examples of subject headings to check:

Theatre Studies
Soc/Anth 3740 - Tourism - Resources

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:

Soc/Anth 3550 - Globalization

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

Citing Sources: Sociology and Anthropology

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

Finding Web Resources: Sociology/Anthropology

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.

Finding Information About Organizations: Sociology/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:

Finding Information About Sociologists and Anthropologists

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

Finding Journal Articles in Sociology/Anthropology

 

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:

Finding Books - Sociology/Anthropology

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:

Sociology/Anthropology
Citing Sources: Religious Studies

Any time you are using information from other sources (including articles, books, and websites), you must include a citation. A citation acknowledges the author(s) you learned from and gives the reader information about where to find their work.

Finding Web Resources: Religious Studies

The quality of information found on the Internet varies widely. It is important to choose sites that are scholarly and current. To locate authoritative sites look for those created by professional organizations, academic institutions, research agencies, and government departments. For help in using search tools and in evaluating information found on the Web, see Finding Quality Web Information.

Finding Information About People: Religious Studies

Information about people can be found in books, journals, and websites. To see what information is available, try searching for the person's name in OneSearch. You may want to put their name in quotation marks ("Thomas Aquinas" or "Brigham Young"); if you are searching for books, you may also want to try searching with their surname first ("Aquinas, Thomas" or "Young, Brigham").

Finding Journal Articles: Religious Studies

One of the most common ways that scholars share their research is through academic journal articles (which are also called "scholarly journal articles," "peer-reviewed journal articles," and other similar terms).

For most topics, OneSearch is a good place to start. 

To find a specific article (for example, if it's on a reading list or you have a citation), put the title in "quotation marks" and search.

Finding Books: Religious Studies

The Library has introduced OneSearch as a single search option. Resources currently included in a OneSearch search are: the Library's catalogue (includes books, musical scores, audio recordings, etc.), all EBSCOhost products, all of the full text journals licensed from Elsevier/ScienceDirect, JSTOR, Sage, Wiley, Springer, ACS, IOP, BioOne, and ProjectMuse, many of the specialty historical full text databases (Alexander Street Press), and millions of index-only article and book records from various sources.

Finding Background Information: Religious Studies
Religious Studies
Citing Sources: Psychology

When information is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized, the source of that information must be documented. Otherwise, you are guilty of plagiarism. To help you in avoiding plagiarism, see this tutorial.

Finding Web Resources: Psychology

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

Sites created by research agencies, government departments, and professional organizations, such as the American Psychological Association and the Canadian Psychological Association can be regarded as authoritative.

Starting points for locating Psychology information on the Web. 

Finding Information About People: Psychology

First, see the "background information" page and search Gale by the person's name.

Entire books: To find entire books on a single person, 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.

Finding Journal Articles: Psychology

Use databases to find articles on your topic.

The most important database for psychology is PsycINFO.

Finding Books: Psychology

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:

Finding Background Information: Psychology

Books with background info are often called "reference books".

Psychology

Top Resources: 
PsycINFO and OneSearch (New Summer 2024 platform!)  
                          OneSearch (Classic)
OneSearch includes PsycINFO, PsycArticles, and more.

Very quick guide to using PsycINFO at UPEI 

Citing Sources: Political Science

When information is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized, the source of that information must be documented. Otherwise, you are guilty of plagiarism. To help you in avoiding plagiarism, see this tutorial.

Finding Web Resources: Political Science

There are many WWW sites relating to Political Science. To locate authoritative sites look for those created by professional organizations, academic institutions, research agencies, and government departments. Evaluate the sites with a view to accuracy and currency.

Finding Government Information: Political Science

Government documents can be useful in researching many Political Science topics. At the Robertson Library, some government documents are catalogued; use the Library Catalogue to locate these. For those government documents which are not catalogued, check Finding Government Information for sites which may be useful in identifying relevant documents.

Finding Information About Organizations: Political Science

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 political organizations and associations, use directories such as:

Finding Quotations: Political Science

Dictionary of Political Quotations on Ireland 1886-1987 Phrases Make History Here
"The quotations in this book have been selected to give a chronology of the remembered and the telling phrases of the last hundred years, touching on the great issues and arguments of the day, the political and social pre-occupations and the passing distractions" (Introduction). Begins with an historical summary and is followed by a chronological arrangement of the quotations. Includes an Index to Speakers and a Subject Index.
REF: DA959.O25 1987

Finding Information About People: Political Science

Information about people can be found in books, journals, and websites.

Finding Information About Political Parties/Movements: Political Science

Information about political parties and political movements can be located in books and journal articles. A number of political parties will also have a website.

Canadian Party Platforms 1867-1968 Provides a compilation of the platforms and policy statements issued by Canadian political parties or their leaders for federal elections from 1867-1968. Also includes a breakdown of the election results for each province.
REF: JL195.C3 1968b

Finding Statistics: Political Science