Books and Journals

• UL catalogue
• Acquisitions
• Collection Profile Social Sciences
• Dutch Central Catalogue (NCC)
• Worldcat

Top journals in the field of Sociology

Based on the Journal Citation Reports.
Some journals are available from more than one provider! Always check the complete list of electronic journals on the UL website.

• American Journal of Sociology
• American Sociological Review
• British Journal of Sociology
• Annual Review of Sociology
• Sociology of Health and Illness
• Journal of Marriage and the Family
• Social Networks
• Social Problems
• Gender & Society
• Sociology

Articles and bibliographical databases

• Online Contents
• PiCarta
• Sociological Abstracts
• Social Services Abstracts
• Web of Science

Some Dutch sociology journals

• Mens & Maatschappij
• Migrantenstudies
• Netherlands' Journal of Social Sciences
• Sociale staat van Nederland
• Sociologie
• Sociologie magazine
• Tijdschrift voor arbeidsvraagstukken
• Tijdschrift voor Sociologie (Vlaams)

Closed Dutch bibliographical database

• Sociaal Wetenschappelijke Literatuurdatabank SWL (1978 - 2001)

Internet Sources

• Sociosite (e.g., famous sociologists)
• Intute: Sociology
• Rotterdam Desk

Full-text journals

• Full-text periodicals in the field of Sociology
  Select the discipline 'Sociology and social issues' and 'Health sociology' and click on 'Search'.
• Complete list of full-text periodicals

Statistical information and datasets

• Statline: Statistics Netherlands
• Eurostat: Government Finance Statistics
• SourceOECD
• UNSTAT: United Nations Statistics Division
• DANS: Data Archiving and Networked Services (Netherlands)
• ICPSR:Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
• Databases for the social sciences (EDSC)

Full-text databases

• ABI/Inform Global
• JSTOR: archives
• Project Muse: scholarly journals online
• Complete list of UL databases

Search engines

• Google scholar
• Yahoo
• Scirus: for scientific information only (Elsevier)
  sEURch (to search both the University Library catalogue and many databases simultaneously)

Other resources

Reference works

• A Dictionary of Sociology (Oxford reference online)
• Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
• Encyclopedia of Urban Studies
• International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences

Graduation papers, dissertations and working papers

• Graduation papers EUR on Sociology
• Repub: EUR repository
• Narcis: Gateway to Dutch scientific Information
• Social Science Research Network

Newspapers

• Newspapers: Dutch and International
• Press Display

Online instructions

• Getting to know the University Library
• Searching for scholarly information/Social sciences
• Using Refworks
• Internet research
  
• Internet for sociology (Intute: Virtual Training Suite)
• Internet Detective: a free online tutorial

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