LibGuides: Sociology: Journals & Databases

Key Databases for Sociology

These databases are highly recommended for finding Sociology related articles. Some are highly specialized while others contain diverse literature. If your research has a New Zealand focus, also check out the NZ Databases tab.

IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences The IBSS database includes over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It focuses on anthropology, economics, politics and sociology with broad coverage of international material from 100 countries and in 60 languages.
Informit Humanities & Social Sciences Collection Covers agriculture, arts, Asian studies, business, cultural studies, education, history, indigenous studies, law, media, political science, reference, social sciences, science and technology. Content sources include peer reviewed journals, monographs and books, conference proceedings, research papers and reference materials sourced and indexed by RMIT Publishing.
JSTOR Provides full-text access to back issues (delay in coverage generally 3-5 years) of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities, social sciences, and life sciences.
Social Science Database (ProQuest) A database that provides full-text access to a variety of scientific journals. Subject coverage includes: Anthropology, Communication science, Demography, Economics, Human services, Political science, Policy studies, Psychology, and Sociology.
Social Sciences Collection (ProQuest) Searches across ProQuests Social Science databases, including IBSS, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I: Social Sciences, ProQuest Social Science Journals and more...
Social Theory A selection of documents that explore the complexities and interpret the nature of social behavior and organization. The database includes content by such major theorists as Theodor Adorno, Jean Baudrillard, Simone de Beauvoir, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Émile Durkheim, Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, Robert Merton, Dorothy E. Smith , and Talcott Parsons.
Sociology Database (ProQuest) This database covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction and more. This collection provides full-text coverage of many core titles included in Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts.
Google Scholar

Academic OneFile (Gale Cengage)
Academic Search Complete (via EBSCOhost) Provides indexing and abstracting for more than 10,000 journals, with full-text coverage for more than 6.000 titles. Covers a wide range of areas of academic study from the sciences to the arts.
Google Scholar
Informit Complete Includes access to the followings databases: Humanities & Social Sciences Collection, Health Collection, Engineering Collection, Business Collection, Australian Public Affairs - Full Text, AGIS Plus Text, A+ Education, as well as Informit Indexes (over 70). Provides access to core and unique research from Australia, New Zealand and the wider Asia Pacific region.
JSTOR Provides full-text access to back issues (delay in coverage generally 3-5 years) of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities, social sciences, and life sciences. The Library's access includes all Arts & Sciences Collections, the Life Sciences Collection, Business IV, and the Ireland Collection.
Periodicals Archive Online Foundation Collection The PAO Foundation Collection is an archive of 215 digitised academic journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Coverage is from first issue to the end of 2000, or final issue (whichever is first).
Periodicals Index Online: PIO PIO is an international index to millions of articles published in over 6,000 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences as far back as 1665. Every article in each journal is indexed, from volume 1 issue 1 to recent times. Includes periodicals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages.
Project MUSE Full-text access to over 400 high quality, peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journals from over 100 scholarly publishers.
ProQuest Central A leading electronic database providing indexing/abstracting and full-text access to scholarly and general interest publications. It combines information from a number of leading online databases with subjects covering: business, law, education, computing, science, technology, engineering, arts, medicine, and religion.
ScienceDirect Full-text, peer reviewed journals, books, and reference works. Covers a broad range of subjects in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Health Sciences, Life Sciences, and, Physical Sciences and Engineering.
Full-text articles are also available via CrossRef to other publishers' platforms. Articles are available online before appearing in print and includes multimedia features such as video files, audio files, Excel spreadsheets and Word files.
Scopus A multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of research literature and web sources. Over 16,500 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 publishers. Includes some full text links. Access Scopus Tutorials online.
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) SSRN is composed of a number of specialised research networks in each of the social sciences. It includes an Abstract Database containing abstracts for over 273,200 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 224,300 full-text documents.
Taylor & Francis Online A collection of full text journals (1400+) in humanities, social sciences, science and technology from Taylor & Francis, Routledge and Psychology Press, including access to back issues from 1997 where available.

IndexNZ
Abstracts and descriptions for articles from a huge range of New Zealand periodicals and newspapers since the 1950s to 2024

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DigitalNZ Aims to make New Zealand digital content easy to find, share and use. This includes content from government departments, publicly funded organisations, the private sector, and community groups.

FindNZArticles findNZarticles indexes New Zealand journal, magazine and newspaper articles, and books from across different regions. Does not include fulltext.
The Hub The Hub is a one-stop-shop for New Zealand social science government research related to education, health and wellbeing, crime and justice, families, children and young people.

Informit New Zealand Collection Access to full text New Zealand content relating to arts, business, education, environment and conservation, family studies, sociology, Indigenous and Maori peoples, law and music.

Knowledge Basket New Zealand's news and information archive; providing researchers, information professionals and library users with access to New Zealand information resources since 1994.

LexisNexis NZ A law resource that includes a broad range of New Zealand subject areas including Family, Land Laws, Laws of New Zealand, Sentencing and Transport, and NZ Acts and Regulations.

National Library of New Zealand Search Collections Simultaneously searches across the National Library Catalogue, AtoJsOnline, findNZarticles, Index NZ, Papers Past, Publications NZ, MacLean Papers, TAPUHI, Te Ao Hou, and Transactions & Proceedings of Royal Society of NZ.

NZ Research Research documents produced at universities, polytechnics, and other research institutions throughout New Zealand; now hosted by DigitalNZ
Te Puna Search: New Zealand National Union Catalogue Search the National Union Catalogue for items held in libraries throughout New Zealand.

Factiva
Access to a wide range of global and NZ news and business information content from more than 28,000 sources, from 157 countries in 23 languages.
Newspaper Source Plus (via EBSCOhost)
PressReader
Access to over 1,000 newspapers from over 80 countries in 40 different languages. The newspapers are presented exactly as they are in print format and are available to read at the same time (often earlier) than the print versions. NOTE: Only goes back 90 days.
News & Newspapers Collection (ProQuest)
Search and access these collections: ProQuest Newsstand, Canadian Newsstand Complete, Australia & New Zealand Newsstand, and historical content for the Guardian, the Observer, the Irish Times, the Weekly Irish Times, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Scotsman, and the Wall Street Journal.

Newspapers - Library Guide Visit the Newspapers guide for more NZ and International newspaper sources, both current and historical.

Vogue Archive (ProQuest)
The entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition), from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution colour page images.
Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out is included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand names. The Archive is a rich source of the history of fashion and also for other areas of modern culture, providing a record of changing social tastes, mores and aspirations in the modern world.
British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture (NCCO)
From Nineteenth Century Collections Online, this archive covers a range of primary sources related to the arts in the Victorian era, from playbills and scripts to operas and complete scores. It includes such topics as Victorian popular culture, street literature, social history, music, bloods and penny dreadfuls, the history of the English stage, the Royal Literary Fund, and British dramatic works. Totalling approximately 1 million pages, it was sourced from the British Library and other institutions.
Informit Literature & Culture Collection
A collection of fiction, poetry, cultural politics and the ideas that have helped define the Australian identity from Australia’s best known literary and cultural magazines, 1939+.
Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975
Popular Culture explores social, political and cultural change between 1950-1975, through colour images of manuscript and rare printed material, as photographs, ephemera, memorabilia and video footage.

Clothing, Textile, and Dress Sources at Hocken Collections Research Guide
Hocken Collections’ holdings of local clothing, textile and dress sources are extensive, with resources in archives, publications, art, photography, and ephemera collections. These sources cover various aspects of the garment trade including merchandise, fashion design, and educational records.

Journal of New Zealand Studies The Journal of New Zealand Studies is published annually in October by the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, Victoria University of Wellington. It is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journal which welcomes papers from any discipline which has a New Zealand focus
Journal of Sociology (Australia)
Kōtuitui New Zealand journal of social science online
Mai Journal MAI Journal publishes multidisciplinary peer-reviewed articles around indigenous knowledge and development in the context of Aotearoa New Zealand.
New Zealand Sociology Disseminates & promotes research & thought that has the clarification & development of theoretically informed research in sociology & related disciplines with a predominant, though not exclusive, concern with New Zealand.
Sites: a journal of social anthropology and cultural studies Sites seeks multidisciplinary perspectives on the study of societies and cultures of the wider Pacific region. We welcome work from authors in the fields of anthropology, culture studies, indigenous studies, Maori studies, sociology, history, gender, linguistics, and ethnomusicology.

Google Scholar Metrics: Sociology Google Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications.
Scimago Journal & Country Rank: Sociology & Political Science The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a publicly available portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.).

Learn more by visiting Journal Metrics on the Research Publishing & Impact Guide.

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