Scholarly Research in Sociology: Overview

General tips:

• Start with a broad keyword search in the databases at left and use the limiters (usually along the left side) to narrow and focus your results.
• Read the abstracts of several articles and save those that might be of interest. 
• Use those first few to glean additional keywords and subject terms to re-run your search. 
• Collect more than you are planning to use and evaluate and examine their references. 
• Discard the less useful articles and repeat this process.
• To expand your research, do a citation search for articles that cite your articles.

To cross-search the databases below (search more than one at a time), select "Choose databases" on the EBSCO screen next to the database name and select additional databases from the list. This will dramatically enlarge your search results.