UNM-Valencia Library Resources for Sociology

Finding Books Basics

Finding Articles Best Database

• Advanced search for books

• Sociological Abstracts
• Social Services Abstracts

Recommended Databases

Evaluating Materials

These databases will contain articles, reports, or statistics for some areas of sociology.

• Sociological Abstracts
• Social Services Abstracts
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service
• Anthropology Plus
• Bibliography of Native North Americans
• Communication & Mass Media Complete
• PsycInfo. (Psychology)
• Education Research Complete
• Business Source Complete(Business)
• America History and Life (History)
• ProQuest STEM Database(Science)
• CINAHL (Medicine)
• Academic Search Complete (General all topic)
• Proquest Research Database (General all topic)

• Evaluating Web Pages
• "TRAP" worksheet
• Know Your Sources
• Evaluate Information Sources Fresno State Henry Madden Library
• Anatomy of a Scholarly Article
• How to read a scientific paper
• Structure of Scholarly Articles and Peer Review
• Structure of a Research Paper
• Reading Scientific Papers
• Tips for Reading Scientific Papers

Associations

• American Sociological Association
• Gerontological Society of America
• International Sociological Association
• Sociologists Without Borders
• Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology
• Council on Social Work Education
• Society for Social Research

Government Agencies and Statistics

• U. S. Census Bureau
• U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Centers for Disease Control and Preventions
• Dta.gov

Style Manuals

• Quick Tips for ASA Style (ASA)
• Purdue OWL ASA Reference Page Formatting"
• ASA Style (Harvard)
• ASA Citation Generator
• APA help from APA
• APA style from Sacramento State University Library
• APA style from the Purdue Owl
• OWL Purdue Writing Lab
• EasyBib.com

Citation Managers

• Endnote Basic
• Mendeley
• Zotero
• Evernote