Friedsam Memorial Library

Reference Books

American Sociological Association Style Guide    Ready REF HM 586 .A54 1997
Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology                      REF HM 425 .C36 2006
Encyclopedia of Sociology 5 vols.                      REF HM 17 .E5 2000
Family in America 2 vols.                                  REF HQ 536 .H365 2001
World of Sociology     2 vols.                              REF HM 585 .W67 2001

Databases (consult password sheet--- copy is found in “Electronic Reserves”—Library page

Academic Search Premier (EbscoHOST)

Multi-disciplinary, full-text for more than 4,500 journals and more than 3,700 peer reviewed journals.
Some titles have embargos of up to a year—indexing of articles supplied during that time period but no full-text.

ProQuest

Multi-disciplinary, full-text for thousands of journals. Use limiting options: scholarly/Full-text as needed to avoid results containing newspapers; book reviews and citations for PhD dissertations.

JSTOR

This is not a current issues database. It is meant to be an archive of important scholarly journals. Typically there is a 1 – 5 year gap between the most recently published journal issue and the back issue available in JSTOR.

Print Indexes/Abstracts:

Sociological Abstracts

Women Studies Abstracts

Print Journals (Select)—Friedsam Library Periodicals Department

American Journal of Sociology
Gender Work and Organization
Human Organization
Inquiry
*Contemporary Sociology
Rural Sociology
Sociological Perspectives
Sociological Quarterly
Sociological Spectrum
Sociology and Social Research
*Sociology of Sport

Journals (Select) in Subscription Databases

Adolescence
American Journal of Sociology
Child and Adolescent Social Work
Gender Work and Organization
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare
Sociology of Education
Sociology of Religion
Rural Sociology

Interlibrary Loan requests should be submitted to tshaffer@sbu.edu or a form filled out at the Reference Desk for books or journal articles not available at Friedsam Library either in print or full-text in one of our subscription databases.

Contact one of the reference librarians for help with your research project—stop by the Reference Desk, send email—ref@sbu.edu or make an appointment with one of the reference librarians!