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
Business Source Complete - business/economic focus
Academic Search Complete - broad interdisciplinary focus
Google Scholar - this proxied link to the scholarly subset of Google is helpful for interdisciplinary topics
Be sure to follow these instructions to get links from Google Scholar results to UPEI-provided full text
Canadian-specific:
If your topic involves Canada's relations with the rest of the world, use the Government search box/tab on the Library home page to find Canadian federal reports and statistics.
Citing sources:
APA (American Psychological Association) also covers MLA
Citation machine - A fill-in-the-blank online form that will give you back the citation in your choice of format
RefWorks - a system for storing your citations that will also give you back your citations in any format
AAA (American Anthropological Association) - style guide - 10 page PDF - see attached file below
ASA (American Sociological Association) - style guide - 5 page PDF - see attached file below. Full guide is available at the Information Desk
| Attachment | Size |
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| American Anthropological Association Style Guide (2009 edition) | 319.92 KB |
| American Sociological Association Style Quick Guide (as of 2011) | 67.92 KB |