Barnard College Research Guide: BC3087
Sociology: Individual Senior Projects

Professors: Debra Minkoff, Elizabeth Bernstein and Peter Levin

Barnard College,
 Mid-Manhattan Library Print Collection, NYPL Digital Images

Librarian: Karen Dobrusky

Contents
Reference  | CLIO | Databases & Indexes
Electronic Subject Guides | Other Libraries & Interlibrary Loan | Consultation Request
 

REFERENCE
Use for:

• an overview of a topic
• background information
• factual information
• bibliographies
• located on the 2nd floor of the Barnard Library

CLIO
CLIO (Columbia Libraries Information Online) is the on-line catalog for the Barnard & Columbia Libraries. CLIO can be searched by author, title, subject and keyword.  Help for searching CLIO is available on the Web CLIO opening screen. 

• You can enter CLIO from the Barnard Library home page or from the Columbia University Libraries Home Page
• Help with searching (called "search tips") is available on the bottom of the opening search screen

• The holdings of the Health Sciences Library as well as the Union Theological Seminary are included in CLIO

• The Law Library's catalog is Pegasus, Teacher's College catalog is Educat and JTS' catalog is Aleph
• To search CLIO, Pegasus and Educat simultaneously click on the "Search all CU catalogs" tab on the opening CLIO
  screen

Sample Searches:
Title search:
encyclopedia of women and gender      
american journal of sociology

Author search: put last name, then first name
merton robert k

keyword search: use quotes ("  ") for a phrase, and use ? for truncation (to find variant endings of a word)
health ethnicity
immigra? "united states"

Subject search: use Library of Congress (LC) subject headings
social movements--united states
immigrants--united states
 

DATABASES: Social Science periodical &journal articles
On the Databases list, which you can access from the Barnard Library Home Page or Columbia University Libraries Home Page. Many databases have e-Links which will search to see if the full-text of a particular item is available online. I. If you are unable to locate an item full-text search CLIO directly for the journal title. 

The following indexes and databases will probably be the most relevant to your research:

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.

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

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.

DATABASES: Additional
Alt Press Watch
Full-text articles from alternative press publications.

Alternative Press Index & Archive
Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change.

America History and Life
Cites scholarly journals articles on American and Canadian history, 1954 to present.

Anthropology Plus
Broad and rich resource for research in anthropology and related fields.

AnthroSource
100 years of the American Anthropological Associations' publications in a single searchable resource.

Article First
General and current events, interdisciplinary and international in scope, 1992-1999 to present.

Black Studies Center
Gateway to Black Studies includes scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspapers, articles and more. From Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals and the Chicago Defender.

Business Full Text
Articles from a large number of business magazines, trade and research journals.

Business Source Complete
Business, marketing, management, accounting, finance, international business, econometrics/ economics; includes the Harvard Business Review.

Contemporary Women's Issues
Full-text articles and reports about women from U.S. and international sources.

Econ Lit
The American Economic Association's electronic database provides links to full text articles in all fields of economics.

Education Full Text
Citations, abstracts and full-text of articles in education periodicals and other publications.

Education Research Complete
The definitive online resource for education research.

Eric
Citations, abstracts, and full-text for articles in education periodicals and other publications.

Ethnic NewsWatch
Full-text newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from the ethnic, minority, and native press in the U.S. Coverage is from 1960 to date.

Family and Studies World Wide
Indexes, with some full text, scholarly works on marriage and the family.

Family Studies Abstracts
Covers essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce and family therapy.

Gender Studies
Journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, govt. reports, discussion and working papers, theses & dissertations and other sources.

Gender Watch
Full-text and abstracts of a wide variety of feminist and gender studies periodicals.

HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Online
citations to articles and book reviews about Latin America, the Caribbean, and Hispanic Americans.

Humanities Full Text
General humanities, Includes history as well as archaeology, art classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, performing arts and religion, 1984 to present.

International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP)
citations, abstracts and full-text for articles in music periodicals.

International Political Science Abstracts
Abstracts for articles in the field of political science, including public administration, political theory and international relations, published in journals and yearbooks worldwide, 1989 to present.

Lexis-Nexis Academic
Contains many foreign newspapers in full-text, but they are not grouped by country. Hence it is necessary to know the name of a newspaper in order to search for it.  Select the Guided News Search and the World News category, and then the appropriate region.  After that, it is possible to examine the Source List to see which newspapers are available, coverage generally begins in mid-1980s.

PsycARTICLES
Full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association.

PsychInfo
Citations and abstracts for publications about psychology and related disciplines.

Race Relations Abstracts
Cover essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, and immigration studies.

RILM: Abstracts of Music Literature
Articles about music.

Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts Online
Covers scholarship related to women's studies, gender studies, and related literary, social, and historical issues.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Abstracts of books and articles from professional journals and major news magazines, devoted to North American and International Politics, 1976 to present.

DATABASES-Multidisciplinary
Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications.

JSTOR, The Scholarly Journal Archive
An archive of full-text articles from many scholarly journals in anthropology, African studies, education, history, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology and others from each journal's first issue but excluding the most current, usually 3-5 years. Includes American Journal of Sociology and many more titles.

Project Muse
Full-text articles from many scholarly journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press in the humanities and social sciences. Included are Africa Today, Human Rights Quarterly and man more titles. Includes most recent years only.

ProQuest Direct
Full-text articles and abstracts from newspapers and periodicals in many disciplines, international affairs, law, psychology, public affairs, sociology, women's studies, from 1988 to the present. For scholarly journals, click on "scholarly journals" after results are retrieved. The advanced search is recommended.

United States Government Documents
From Lehman Library

Selected  Special Interest Resources

American Memory: Historical Collections from the National Digital Library
A rich collection, from over 80 collections, of images and full-text documents relation to U.S. history from the Library of Congress.

E-Images: Columbia University
Image databases, includes: Columbia Image Bank: History of Art & Architecture; ARTstor;  Visual Collections: Images of Art, History and Culture; and the AP Photo Archive.

Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online, 1543-1945
Full-text searchable collection of books and periodicals, the bulk of the collection dates from 1880-1920.

Gilded Age
Searchable collection of primary documents and scholarly commentaries on the Gilded Age.

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories
Provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. Composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories and interviews.

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories
Provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. Composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories and interviews.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries
North American Women's Letters and Diaries (NAWLD) includes the immediate experiences of 107 women, as revealed in more than 9,000 pages of diaries and letters. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before.

Oral History Online
Index to oral history collections in English from around the world. Includes Ellis Island and history narratives.

Rare Book and Manuscript Library Collections at CUL
Descriptions of the collections at RBML.

Social and Cultural History: Letters and diaries online
English language letters, diaries, autobiographies, oral histories and personal narratives online.

Twentieth Century Advice Literature
Instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards of personal conduct.

SUBJECT GUIDES  from Barnard & Columbia University Libraries
Clicking on these will bring you to web based research guides. These extensive area studies guides can be helpful for locating news sources, government information and more.

•American History & Studies from BC
•Economics from BC
•Education from BC
•Sociology from BC
•Women's Studies from BC
•Barnard Library Complete list of subject guides
•African American Studies from CUL
•American History & Studies from CUL
•General Statistical Sources, Background & Methodology from CUL
•General Statistical Sources, New York from CUL
•General Statistical Sources, U.S. & Canada: from CUL
•Women's Studies from CUL  
•Subject Guides from CUL complete list

OTHER LIBRARIES & INTERLIBRARY LOAN
CATNYP is the online catalog of the NYPL research library and LEO is the online catalog of the NYPL Branch Libraries.

REFWORKS & ENDNOTE
Click here for information about using RefWorks and EndNote for information and instructions on using RefWorks & EndNote.

RefWorks and EndNote are bibliographic software packages, that can be used for managing your citations. They are available, free of charge, to all current Barnard and Columbia students, faculty and staff. RefWorks is available by signing up for an individual account on the RefWorks Website.

CONSULTATIONS with Reference Librarians
Click here to complete a form you can e-mail to the library requesting a consultation on your research, or come to the Reference Desk on the second floor.  To contact a reference librarian, e-mail refdesk@barnard.edu or call 212-854-3953.  We'll be happy to help you find additional information.

Karen Dobrusky