LibGuides: Sociology: Finding Articles

Find Articles

You can search Omni for articles, books and other sources of information. Sometimes it can be difficult to narrow your search to just sociology sources. Or if you are looking for newspaper articles, you need to run a separate search. In these cases, use the databases listed below. Link to a more detailed guide to Omni.

Scholarly / Academic / Peer-reviewed Articles

The recommended database for sociology is Sociological Abstracts. The other two databases contain non-Sociology content.

Sociological Abstracts
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from thousands of serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
Social Sciences Index
Provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language journals published in the U.S. and elsewhere, with abstracting and indexing of over 625 periodicals as far back as 1983, nearly 400 of which are peer-reviewed. Social Sciences Abstracts covers the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.

Sociology Database This link opens in a new window
This is a small database, containing only a portion of the records from Sociological Abstracts. About 700 journals and other publications are indexed.
Creating permalinks to articles in Sociology Database.

Newspaper and Magazine Articles

To find articles from popular or mainstream media (for example, Toronto Star, Newsweek, Chatelaine) use the following databases.

Factiva
For Canadian and international publications.
Canadian Major Dailies