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Finding Books

• Use CLIO to find books, journals, links to online journals, and other materials, in the Columbia and Barnard libraries.
• Teachers College Library has a separate catalog named EDUCAT

Useful call numbers:
  HM Sociology
  HN  Social history and conditions
  HQ Family, marriage, women
  HS Societies, secret, benevolent etc.
  HT Communities, classes, races
  HV Social pathology, welfare and criminology
  HX Socialism, communism, utopias, anarchism

Useful subject headings in CLIO:
   great britain social conditions
   religion and society
   social movements
   social systems
   united states social life and customs
   women china
  

Major Reference Works
available in Barnard Library Reference Area

Major Databases
available with Columbia ID

Annual Review of Sociology (Online)
Full text of the articles in these volumes from 1975 to present.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences 
Core social sciences, includes anthropology, sociology, history, demography, psychology and social issues. Includes international journals. Citations only, 1951- present.
Search Tips: Phrase is assumed; Use "and" if not a phrase; * for truncation.

JSTOR, the Scholarly Journal Archive
A full text database of articles from over 1,000 scholarly journals, from the beginning of the journal but excluding the most recent 3-5 years; includes Sociology, African American studies, anthropology, education, history, political science, and more. Sociology journals include: American Journal of Sociology, Contemporary Sociology, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Social Forces and many more.
Search Tips: Use the Advanced Search for more precise searching.

PAIS :Public Affairs Information Service database
Citations and abstracts for articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs and social sciences, 1972 to present.
Search Tips: Phrase is assumed; *for truncation.

Project Muse Scholarly Journals Online
Full-text articles from more than 200 scholarly journals in the social sciences, arts, humanities, and sciences. 
Search Tips: Use " " for a phrase; * for truncation.

ProQuest Direct
Online journal articles and citations, as well as the full text of the New York Times from 1857 to the present. Multidisciplinary.
Search Tips: Select scholarly materials by clicking on "Databases Selected" then select "Research Library." 
Two words are assumed to be a phrase; use " " for phrases of more than two words.  Use * for truncation.

Social Sciences Citation Index Expanded
Cited references and bibliographic information for the social sciences. Useful for tracing who cited a given article or book, or for tracing an idea. Includes anthropology, links to full-text articles, 1965 to present.
Search Tips: Select "Social Science Citation Index", the General Search has search tips

Social Sciences Full Text
Indexes articles in the Social sciences. Includes sociology, social history, anthropology and other social sciences,  Citations only. e-Link enabled, from 1983 to present.
Search Tips: Use keywords, " " for a phrase; * for truncation.

Sociological Abstracts
Abstracts and indexes the international literature of sociology, as well as related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Indexes journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and conference proceedings, 1963 to present.
Search Tips: Phrase is assumed; *for truncation.

Please note that there are also databases and resources for the fields of: education (ERIC and education full text), women's studies, anthropology, religion, political science, and history and more.

Web Resources

• Barnard College, Department of Sociology
• Columbia University, Department of Sociology
• American Sociological Associations
• International Sociological Association
• Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) 
• Sociology: Information Resources from Columbia University
• Internet Public Library, lists of internet sites: sociology
• Social Science Data Collection from UC,SanDiego
• Sociolog; a comprehensive guide to sociology online developed by Julian Dierkes
• Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace, developed by Michael C. Kearl, Trinity Univ, San Antonio, Texas
• SocioSite; a sociological information system based at the University of Amsterdam, Holland
• Voice of the Shuttle: General Sociology Resources
• WWW Virtual Library: Sociology, Carl Cuneo Department of Sociology, McMaster University, Hamilton

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02/23/07 Karen Dobrusky,
Reference Librarian, Barnard College