Links for Sociology

Study Aids

• Academic Skills Leaflets - Flinders Student Learning Centre
• Evaluating Internet Resources from Georgetown University
• Googling to the Max - pdf - University of California Berkeley Library
• How do I find theses and dissertations
• Searching databases using AND, OR, NOT (Colorado State Uni tutorial on Boolean searching)

Online Reference Material for Flinders students (FAN and password access)

• Databases and article searching- includes Informit ( for Australian research), Sociological Abstracts, and Current Contents. Also included are full text databases Sage Journals Online, Proquest, Expanded Academic ASAP, ScienceDirect, JSTOR.
• Online Journals - Select Social Sciences as Category, then Sociology as SubCategory to see a list of journals for Sociology
• Factiva - Newspaper database
• Factiva Guide - pdf - simple guide to newspaper database
• Oxford English Dictionary online
• Sage eReference Encyclopedia - includes several titles on sociology

.Sociology Organisations

• TASA - Australian Sociological Association
• ASA - American Sociological Association
• BSA - British Sociological Association
• International Sociological Association

Australian Research Sites

• ABS - Australian Bureau of Statistics
• Australian Clearinghouse of Youth Studies
• Australian Housing & Urban Research Institute
• Australian Institute of Criminology
• Australian Institute of Family Studies
• Office for Women (Australian Government)
• South Australian Policy Online

News

• Australian newspaperssite for daily feature articles
• Factiva - Newspaper database (need FAN and password)
• World Wide Newspapers Online for global news.
• ABC Onlinefor transcripts of news items as well as links to other sites

General Sociology Research Sites

• INTUTE Sociology - UK based sociology directory
• Sociology 5th ed. - Companion site for Giddens' text
• Socioweb - US based sociology directory operated by Mark Blair

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