SOC 405 - Senior Capstone in Sociology - *Sociology - Research Guides at Bates College

Article Indexes

SocINDEX with Full Text
Sociology and related disciplines.
Gender Studies Database

Combines Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, theses & dissertations and other sources.
HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)
ERIC
Education.

ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, is a national information system supported by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Library of Education, and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. It provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1000 educational and education-related journals.
Scopus
Sciences and social sciences.
CogPrints
ArXiv.org
OAI
US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
European Patent Office
Japan Patent Office
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
UK Intellectual Property Office

SCOPUS offers coverage from 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from over 4,000 international publishers including 531 Open Access journals. in addition Scopus offers coverage of relevant scientific information on the Web, including author homepages, university sites, corporate information and other resources such as Preprint servers, CogPrints, ArXiv.org, OAI compliant resources, as well as the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the European Patent Office, the Japan Patent Office, the World Intellectual Property Organization and the UK Intellectual Property Office.

Top Five Things You Should Know About the Library

Interlibrary loan
Even if Bates doesn't own the book or journal you need...we can almost always get it for you from another library.
EndNote
You don't have to type up your citations by hand--EndNote can format them for you.
Primary sources and data
Do you need datasets, official documents, personal narratives and other things that aren't scholarly journal articles? Christine can help you find them.
Thesis Writers' Guide
Handy templates and guides on formatting.
One-on-one consultations
We can meet with you to discuss your research in depth.

The literature review process. From Diana Ridley, The Literature Review: A Step-by-Step Guide for Students (2008), p. 81

Comparing literature reviews and annotated bibliographies

The following are examples of an annotated bibliography, a stand-alone literature review journal article, and a literature review within an empirical study.

Oxford Bibliography: Poverty
Desmond, Matthew and Bruce Western. "Poverty in America: New Directions and Debates." Annual Review of Sociology 44, no. 1 (2018): 305-318. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-soc-060116-053411
Edin, Kathryn. "What Do Low-Income Single Mothers Say about Marriage?" Social Problems 47, no. 1 (2000): 112-33. doi:10.2307/3097154. (just the introduction and lit review)

With a group, discuss one of the above sources, focusing on the following questions:

Can you find an example of theory mentioned in the text?
Can you find an example of a debate in the field described in the text?
Can you find an example of a methodology mentioned in the text?
How is it structured? Specifically, what headings do you see and how do they organize the content?
What purpose does this lit review or bibliography serve? Is it making an argument?

Don't be stuck in the past. Try citation searching.

Scouring bibliographies is a great idea. But that will only find you older sources. What if you want newer sources?

Google Scholar
Click on "Cited By" to see citing articles.

From academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Scopus
Huge database of articles in science and social sciences. Will tell you who has cited a particular article.

SCOPUS offers coverage from 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from over 4,000 international publishers including 531 Open Access journals. in addition Scopus offers coverage of relevant scientific information on the Web, including author homepages, university sites, corporate information and other resources such as Preprint servers, CogPrints, ArXiv.org, OAI compliant resources, as well as the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the European Patent Office, the Japan Patent Office, the World Intellectual Property Organization and the UK Intellectual Property Office.
Semantic Scholar
In addition to listing citing articles, this search engine uses AI to identify highly influenced papers.

Citation information can be exported in BibTex and EndNote formats.
Developed and supported by the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2). A complete list of data sources used by SemanticScholar can be obtained by visiting SemanticScholar.org and clicking 'Sources' located at the bottom of the page above our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

Christine Murray

Contact:

Ladd Library 132
(207) 786-6268
cmurray2@bates.edu

Subjects:African Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Chinese, Economics, Environmental Studies, European Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, History, Japanese, Latin American Studies, Legal Studies, Politics, Psychology, Sociology, U. S. History

*Sociology: SOC 405 - Senior Capstone in Sociology

Article Indexes

Top Five Things You Should Know About the Library

Comparing literature reviews and annotated bibliographies

Don't be stuck in the past. Try citation searching.