LibGuides: Sociology: Databases/e-resources/articles/journals

Databases & e-resources: A to Mc

Academic Search Premier via EBSCOhost
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Multi-disciplinary journals
African Journal Archive from Sabinet
A retrospective digitisation project focusing on exclusively African Journals comprising of an online collection of full text articles in the Sciences, Social Sciences and African affairs.
African Journals Online
African-published research
Aluka
International, collaborative initiative building an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa
Anthrosource
100 years of anthropological material online to scholars and the public, including: current issues for 15 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications
Communication and Mass Media Complete via EBSCOhost
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Areas related to communication and mass media. Indexing and abstracts for more than 450 journals, and selected coverage of nearly 200 more. Includes full text for over 300 journals.
Anthropology Online and Ethnographic Video Online I
Alexander Street Anthropology brings together a wide range of streaming video, written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies, covering human behavior the world over. Essential for study in the areas of politics, economics, history, psychology, environmental studies, religion, area studies, linguistics, and geography, the database will contain more than 1,800 documentary films and over 100,000 pages of full-text material at completion, including tens of thousands of pages of previously unpublished material from major archives.
EBSCOhost Research Databases
Multidisciplinary content.

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Emerald
Business, Management and Economics, Education, Information Systems, Language and Linguistics, Library and Information Studies, Social Sciences, Transport,
GoogleScholar
Multidisciplinary content. The academic content of Google. Use in conjuction with Scopus and ISI Web of Science
Health Source via EBSCOhost
Consumer edition: consumer health information. Academic edition: over 500 medical journals.
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JSTOR
Multidisciplinary content. Archived to first issues. Current issues embargoed.

Kanopy
Kanopy is the best video streaming service for quality, thoughtful entertainment. Find movies, documentaries, foreign films, classic cinema, independent films...

MasterFILE Premier via EBSCOhost
Multidisciplinary: general reference publications, reference books, maps, biographies, images & more. Select from the list of databases

Databases & e-resources: Mi-W

Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations
International organization dedicated to promoting adoption, creation, use, dissemination & preservation of electronic theses & dissertations
Newspaper Source via EBSCOhost
Full text for more than 40 US & international papers.Selective text: regional US newspapers. TV & radio news transcripts. Select from the list of databases
OpenDOAR
OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.
Oxford English Dictionary
covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean.
Oxford Reference Online Premium
Range of fully-indexed, extensively linked, up to date &cross-searchable dictionary, language reference & subject reference works published by OUP, Detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the Oxford Companions series
Oxford Scholarship Online
Full-text access to academic OUP monographs from key disciplines in the humanities, social sciences & science.
Proquest Ebook Central
Provides access to over 150 000 authoritative ebooks.
Sabinet African Journals Core Collection
Searchable collection of full-text South African journals
SA Media News Clippings
Newsclippings: Covers over 120 SA newspapers. More than 500 articles are selected daily.
ScienceDirect
Leading full-text database offering journal articles from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals
Scopus
Highly recommended: Multidisciplinary journal articles
SocINDEX with Full Text via EBSCOhost
Comprehensive sociology research database. Journals, book and conferences.
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Web of Science
Web of Science is a citation index for scientific and scholarly research. It is a curated collection of over 21,000 peer-reviewed, high-quality scholarly journals published worldwide (including Open Access journals) in over 250 science, social sciences, and humanities disciplines. Conference proceedings and book data are also available.
World Newspaper Archive: Africa 1800 - 1922 via Readex
19th & 20th cent. African papers: Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda &Zimbabwe.

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American Chemical Society This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text articles in American Chemical Society journals. Includes articles from the first issue of each journal to the present.
Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
The Annual Reviews service provides searchable, full-text access to original scholarly review articles. These review articles provide periodic examination of scholarly advances in a number of scientific fields as well as reviews of the current state of research literature.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Access to peer-reviewed scholarly scientific, technical and health content from Elsevier.
Royal Society of Chemistry This link opens in a new window
The Royal Society of Chemistry publishes 44 peer-reviewed journals, more than 1,500 print books and a collection of online databases and literature updating services.
Their international publishing portfolio covers the core chemical sciences including related fields such as biology, biophysics, energy and environment, engineering, materials, medicine and physics. Subscription includes access to the Archives 1841-2004.
SAGE Journals This link opens in a new window
Sage Journals Online provides access to over 400 leading international peer-reviewed titles, including high-impact research journals published on behalf of scholarly and professional societies.
SAGE Journals Online covers a wide range of subject areas in the Arts & Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences and Scientific, Technical and Medical fields.
Springerlink This link opens in a new window
Provides access to Springer Nature journals in the fields of Science, Technology, Health, Engineering, Environment, Economics and Law.
Taylor & Francis online This link opens in a new window
Search and explore the millions of quality, peer-reviewed journal articles published under the Taylor & Francis, Routledge and Dove Medical Press imprints.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Provides access to journal articles, online books, and major reference works, in science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences.

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