Sociology: A Guide to Research

Start your Sociology research here for all aspects of sociology. Criminology, substance abuse, violence, demography, ethnic, racial and gender studies, marriage & family, religion, and many others.

Multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences, covering 1900-present.

APA database with journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports, in psychology and related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.

Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals. Deep chronological coverage.

Includes scholarly business journals back to 1886. Also includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more. Useful for Markets & Culture classes.

Online search engine by Google specializing in academic and research information. Uncovers documents from fee-based databases and digitial repositories not found when using Google. Google Scholar also links to full-text content owned by SMU library when searched on campus or from this link.

Offers exclusive, authoritative research guides that combine the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.