INDV 102 - sections 82 & 83:
Social Issues in America: Library Research Guide
Spring Semester 2008
Decide Where to Start Searching
Journal and Magazine Indexes:
Academic Search Complete (1980-present)
Is the world's largest scholarly academic multi-disciplinary database, and covers a broad range of disciplines including general academic, business, social sciences, humanities, general sciences, education, and multi-cultural topics. Offers full text coverage for more than 3,600 journals and indexing and abstracts for all 4,500 journals.
Sociological Abstracts (1973-present)
Indexes articles from an international collection of journal titles, dissertations, and conference proceedings. Subject focus includes sociology, family studies, gerontology, sociolinguistics and related fields.
Search for Articles
Provides access to all of the journal indexes that the Library provides access to.
Finding Articles in the Library
Many of the indexes such as Academic Search Complete provide the full-text of articles directly in the database. The following is an example of an article citation from Academic Search Complete that does not directly provide full-text of the article.
Health and behavioral consequences of binge drinking in college. By: Wechler, Henry; Davenport, Andrea. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 12/7/94, Vol. 272 Issue 21, p1672, 6p, 4 charts, 1 graph; Abstract: Investigates the extent of binge drinking by college students. Health and behavioral problems that binge drinkers create for themselves; Sampling procedures; Overview of the questionnaire; Response rate; Drinking patterns of binge drinkers.
Notes: This title is held locally Search the UA Library Catalog  Check Article Linker for more information |
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Sorry, this article was not found online Please see additional options below for finding this article. Step 1 - Search the Library Catalog:
If the article is not available, search the Library Catalog. Search by ISSN. If we have the journal that the article is in, you will need to write down the call number and find it on the shelf in the Library. If ISSN does not connect, try journal title.
Step 2 - Ask the Library to get the article for you:
This step will allow you to submit an InterLibrary Loan request, a free service through which the library will get a copy of the article for you from another library and deliver it to you electronically. |
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