Books  |  Reference | Databases  |  Web Resources 

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

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

Reference Works
available in Barnard Library Reference Area

Databases

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

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences 
Social sciences, includes anthropology, sociology, history, demography, psychology and social issues. Includes international journals.

JSTOR, the Scholarly Journal Archive
Multidisplinary, A full text database of articles from many 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.

PAIS :Public Affairs Information Service database
Public Affairs, Social Sciences, Political Science. Citations and abstracts for articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs and social sciences.

Project Muse
Multidisciplinary, Full-text articles from many scholarly journals in the social sciences, arts, humanities, and sciences. 

ProQuest Direct
Multidisciplinary, journal articles and citations from a vast array of sources.

Social Sciences Citation Index
Citations and abstracts for articles in social sciences periodicals, including psychology.

Social Sciences Full Text
Social sciences periodicals, including sociology.

Sociological Abstracts
Sociology, 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.

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

Web Resources

• Barnard College, Department of Sociology
• Columbia University, Department of Sociology
• American Sociological Associations
• International Sociological Association
• Internet Public Library, lists of internet sites: sociology
• Social Science Data Collection from UC,SanDiego
• Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) 
• 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
• Sociology: Information Resources from Columbia University
• 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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07/25/08 Karen Dobrusky,
Reference Librarian, Barnard College