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Use this box to search the Library catalogue NewCat+ which gathers material from several journal databases. Enter the author and words from the title to find a specific article, or keywords to find articles on a topic.

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If you can't find what you want in NewCat+ try searching a journal database. Here are links for the most useful multi-disciplinary databases containing material relevant to research in Sociology and Anthropology

EBSCO megafile premier
Contains more than 50 databases featuring full-text journals (many peer reviewed). Databases include: Academic Search Complete, MasterFILE Premier, Education Research Complete, Humanities International Complete, Historical Abstracts Full-Text and SocINDEX Full-Text.
ProQuest databases
Contains several journal databases of abstracted and full-text articles including: ABI/INFORM, Academic Research Library, Nursing and Allied Health Source, Proquest Education Journals and Proquest Social Science Journals.
JSTOR
Archival access to scholarly journals published in the Arts and Humanities, Sciences and Social Sciences, music, business, mathematics and statistics.
SAGE journals online
Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine
Scopus
More than 20,000 peer-reviewed journals, including 2,800 gold open access journals. Over 365 trade publications, Articles-in-press (i.e., articles that have been accepted for publication) from more than 3,750 journals and publishers. 6.5 million conference papers from over 17,000 worldwide events. Plus Patents.
Taylor and Francis
Full text journal articles from the publishers of Taylor and Francis, Routledge and Psychology Press. Subject areas including science and technology, social sciences and humanities.

Top Databases

Databases may contain full-text journals (many peer-reviewed), reference works and primary sources

Anthropology Plus
EBSCO index to Anthropology journals from the early 19th century to today. 5 concurrent users
Australian Public Affairs Full Text
Informit database of articles from Australian journals and newspapers covering business, health, current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences. Limited full text.
SAGE research methods online
Research methods tool to help researchers gather full-text resources, design research projects, understand a particular method and write up their research.
The video component is not part of this subscription.
Social science journals (Proquest)
Covers: addiction, gender, gerontology, econometrics, international relations, minority studies, urban studies etc.
SocINDEX with full text
EBSCO sociology research database, predominantly full text.
Sociological abstracts (Proquest)
Proquest index to international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

Other Databases

Other useful databases

Full list of journal databases

Databases by subject

Cambridge journals online
Full text access to over over 300 peer-reviewed academic journals in the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
Common Ground Complete Collection of Journals
Access to over 24 ejournals in the subject areas of arts and humanities, health, environment, architecture, design and education. Also known as University Press Collection of Journals
Informit database collection
Provides access to over 70 databases across a wide range of subjects.
Oxford journals
Provides access to journals covering economics, humanities, law, life sciences, mathematics and physical sciences, medicine and social sciences.
Project MUSE
Full-text scholarly journals and books covering: literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science and gender studies.
SpringerLink journals
Springer/Verlag and Birkhauser publications in a variety of subject areas including: biology/biomedicine, chemistry, geosciences, computer sciences, mathematics, medicine, physics, engineering, ecology, and the social sciences
Web of science
Indexes high impact journals through ISI's citation indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded - 1956 to present; Social Sciences Citation Index - 1956 to present; Arts and Humanities Citation Index - 1975 to present.
Wiley Online library
Journals, books, reference works, laboratory manuals and the Cochrane Library. Content covers a wide range of subjects including: Medicine, science, engineering and the social sciences.

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If the library has the journal, the catalogue record for the journal will be in the results list. It will include details of years that are available, and for journals which are available online there will be a link to the journal database.

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Sociology and Anthropology: Find Journal Articles

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