SOC 497: Sociology Senior Research Seminar

Trying to access library resources online? Follow the instructions on the Online Access to Library Resources page to:

• access library databases, articles, and ebooks, both on-campus and off-campus
• troubleshoot error messages or other issues with accessing online sources from the library

Library eBook collections that include Sociology books:

• EBSCO eBook Collection
• ebrary Academic Complete
• Sage Knowledge
• Springer eBooks

1. How do I search for my topic?

• Identify the keywords of your topic and use those as your search words. 
• Each book, ebook, and handbook has tags assigned to it, words or shorts phrases that make them searchable - you want your search words to match those tags. 
• Example: The topic for your research project is: What challenges do university students graduating in a recession face?
• A search about this topic could be: graduating university students recession
  

2. How do I focus the search hits to just books?

• Use Refine Your Search in Summon to focus your search results to just books
• Check the box beside Book/ebook and Book chapter under Content Type