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- Interlibrary LoanInformation on the process and policies for borrowing books and other sources from other libraries.
- Link Google Scholar to Tufts ResourcesFollow these directions so that Google Scholar will automatically check to see if Tufts provides access to full-text articles.
How to use this guide
Welcome to the research guide for SOC 190 with Professor Marrow! Within the different tabs of this guide, you'll find resources to help you with your research and tips for improving your research skills. The Data and Archived Data tabs will open to other Tisch research guides.
If you have any questions about any part of the research process, especially if you are struggling to find data, you can always reach out to Cece, your subject librarian via the box in the right column of this page.
Best Bets for finding articles (sorted alphabetically)
- Communication & Mass Media CompleteFind scholarly resources on communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study.
- Film & Television Literature IndexFind scholarly resources on film, television, and other media.
- International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)This database includes over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951.
- PAIS IndexThis resource covers issues in public policy, combining both PAIS Archive and PAIS International, with coverage from 1915 to present.
- Political Science DatabaseProQuest Political Science Database provides access to hundreds of leading political science and international relations journals.
- Social Science Premium CollectionThe ProQuest Social Science Premium Collection combines discipline specific collections in politics and sociology with resources that cut across the entire spectrum of the social sciences.
- Social Science Research NetworkSocial Science Research Network (SSRN) is an open access resource devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.
- Sociological AbstractsAbstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
- Sociology CollectionThis collection, which includes Applied social sciences index and abstracts (ASSIA), Sociological Abstracts, and Sociology Database, provides abstracts, indexing and full-text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, and more.
