ANTH 495: Contemporary Issues in Anthropology

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Check out the library's self-paced online tutorial What Are Library Databases and Why Should I Use Them? for more info about library databases.

Annual Reviews: keep up to date with critical reviews of the most significant research of the year in the Annual Review of Sociology.

Black Studies Center: gateway to historical and current material for researching the past, present, and future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself.

JSTOR: Journal articles from core scholarly journals in anthropology, sociology, history, and other key fields in the humanities and social sciences.

Gender Studies: provides interdisciplinary coverage of gender-related topics, including sexual diversity and LGBTQ topics

GenderWatch: provides interdisciplinary coverage of the evolution of gender roles, including LGBTQ topics

LGBTQ+ Source: Full text for 130 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines, and regional newspapers, as well as more than 170 full text monographs/books. 

Sage Journals: Search full-text SAGE journals in sociology, urban studies, communications, criminology, psychology, and other disciplines..​

Social Sciences Abstracts: Covering the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences, this database provides indexing and abstracts for the most important English-language social science journals.

Social Sciences Citation Index: A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines. Requires VPN for access.

Sociological Abstracts: covers the international literature of sociology, social work, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. 

Sociology Database: covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including related fields like social policy, social anthropology, social care, gender studies, social psychology, and population studies. 

Web of Science: use to identify related articles in your research area: Requires VPN for access.

• Linked Times Cited lists (articles that have since cited the research article)
• Related records (articles in the same research area)
• Linked Cited Reference lists (articles cited in the research article)

Click here to see the full list of Mardigian Library's Sociology databases.