Sociology
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Library One SearchSearch for your topic of interest in Library One Search, which includes books, articles, and streaming media.
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Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new windowSocial Sciences Full Text™ provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language journals published in the social sciences. This resource provides detailed indexing for over 625 periodicals dating back as far as 1983—nearly 400 of which are peer-reviewed.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Statista This link opens in a new windowBusiness statistics portal with data from more than 18,000 sources. Results include lists of statistics, studies and reports (sometimes including completed PowerPoint presentations) that place these statistics within a broader context. Data and statistics can be exported as PDFs or Excel files.
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CQ Researcher This link opens in a new windowCQ Researcher offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important issues. Each report is on a single topic—more than 12,000 words of text and extensive bibliographies. ... Each weekly issue provides up-to-date information on controversial subjects written by CQ's staff of experienced reporters.
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HeinOnline This link opens in a new windowHeinOnline Academic includes more than 100 million pages of multidisciplinary content in more than 100 subject areas, including history, political science, criminal justice, religious studies, international relations, women’s studies, pre-law, and many more. With more historical content than any other database, HeinOnline provides access to 300+ years of information on political development and the complete history of the creation of government and legal systems around the world. Among the many databases included, HeinOnline’s journal collection features nearly 2,800 periodicals relating to a variety of subject areas, with all coverage dating from inception to the most currently published issues in most cases.
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Points of View Reference Source This link opens in a new windowPoints of View Reference Source™ is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 200 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument). Access provided by the New Jersey State Library.
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SocArXiv"Open archive of the social sciences. SocArXiv papers are moderated before appearing." Be aware that this database contains working papers and pre-prints that are not yet be peer-reviewed.
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Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new windowCommunication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. This database originated with the acquisition and subsequent merging of two popular databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies -- CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). Communication & Mass Media Complete provides an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in any and all aspects of communication and mass media.
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ERIC This link opens in a new window
The most comprehensive education database. Access provided by the New Jersey State Library.
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GenderWatch This link opens in a new windowGender studies - scholarly journal articles, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books and NGO, government and special reports
This is a database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. With its archival material, dating back to 1970 in some cases, GenderWatch is a repository of important historical perspectives on the evolution of the women's movement, men's studies, the transgender community and the changes in gender roles over the years. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books and NGO, government and special reports. -
PsycInfo (APA PsycInfo) This link opens in a new windowThe PsycInfo® database, American Psychological Association’s (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with one of the highest DOI matching rates in the publishing industry. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from periodicals in dozens of languages.
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MLA International Bibliography with Full Text This link opens in a new windowAn index to the content of journals, books, proceedings, and other resources in the disciplines of languages, literature, linguistics and folklore.
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CINAHL Complete (Starting July, Cinahl Complete will be Cinahl Plus with Full Text) This link opens in a new window"CINAHL Complete is the world’s most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. ... CINAHL Complete is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing & allied health literature and supports nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers."
Capitalize your connectors AND/OR
1. Phrase Search-keep a phrase together so it will not get separated and lose intended meaning
Examples
"yellowstone park"
"sandy hook"
2. Truncations - to search words of various endings
Examples
comput* -computer, computers, computerize computerized, computerinzing, computational, computation
wom?n - woman or women
girl*-girl, girls, girlish
3. Boolean Operators - use AND/ OR/ NOT to connect your keywords - Boolean Machine.
Examples- AND
california AND parks
"yellowstone park" AND "wild life"
Examples- OR
women OR girl* OR female*
research OR survey or case stud*
Examples- NOT (AND NOT)
yellowstone NOT park
clinton AND NOT hillary
4. Use parenthesis and quotation marks for logical execution of search terms
"sex* harassment" AND ("work place" OR office)
Sample One Search: Find articles on "discriminate gays in the workplace"
Separate your concepts into individual boxes and combine synonyms in each search box,
Search strategies:
(discriminat* OR prejudice) AND (gay* OR lesbian* OR homosexual*) AND (employ* OR work*)
Capitalize AND and OR to connect your keywords
Select the pull down to the right of the search box. Here we've chosen Subject, but you can consider other fields (i.e. Title, Abstract). 
On the search results page, we can set some limits right under the search box.
Use Academic (Peer-Reviewed) Journals - or use Source Types to include other sources (books, ebooks, reports, magazine articles, etc).
Use All time to select dates
When reviewing you can see the Source Types, also look at the subject terms used. These can help narrow or expand your search.
You may limit to Content providers (databases)
Click on All Filters under the search box and the box to the right will show.
There, expand Content provide to limit to individual databases
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Choosing & Identifying the Best Source Types for Your Research
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Scholarly/Peer-Reviewed vs. Popular?
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You found a perfect resource, but how do you know if you have access to the text?
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Finding the Full Text of Articles
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If the library does not have a journal or book you are looking for, you may request it via Interlibrary Loan.
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Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
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Sample topic: Find library's books on "discriminate gays in the workplace"
Library Catalog ( Tutorial on How to Search Online Catalog )
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The Moore Library is a Federal Depository Library. The Library selects federal documents offered by the Government Printing Office (GPO) and provides free access of these documents to the Rider University community and the general public. |
Use Libraries' Government Resources Research Guide to locate Federal State and International government documents.
The following are some major search engines for government documents:
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usa.govAccess locate federal, state and local government information.
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Science.govaccess to more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information including research and development results.
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Data.census.govThe new Census platform searching for U.S. population, housing, and economic conditions.
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American FactFinderSearch engine for population, housing and economic statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau. After July 1, 2019, all new data (previously released on American Fact Finder) will be released on https://data.census.gov. AFF will remain as an archive system for data and functionality that are not yet available in https://data.census.gov until March 31, 2020.
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Catalog of U.S. Government PublicationsComprehensive government documents catalog covering Government Publications Office (GPO) since 1994. Links to documents available online.
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govinfoOfficial mobile friendly federal government website for the public to access critical federal documents easily. Included are documents from all three government branches: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. Executive: Budget and Presidential materials. Legislative: Congressional Bills, Public and Private Laws, Statues At Large, U.S. Code. Judicial: U.S. Courts Opinions, Independent Counsel Investigations.
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Congress.govCongress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information. The site provides access to accurate, timely, and complete legislative information for Members of Congress, legislative agencies, and the public. The scope of data begins in January 1995, when the 104th Congress convened. Congressional documents from the first 100 years of the U.S. Congress (1774-1875) can be accessed through A Century of
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Government Resources of Rider UniversityIncluding Federal, NJ state and international documents.
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Rider University Library CatalogDocuments are integrated with the Library's other materials and can be searched using the Library Catalog. Use Advanced search interface, enter keyword(s) in the first search box. In the second search box, enter the issuing agency as the author - a department or a committee, started with "United States." Use the abbreviated "dept" instead of the whole word "department" (e.g. dept of homeland security). If you do not know which department is the issuing agency, enter "United States." Choose "Author" in the drop down menu (as shown in the image below).
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StatistaA Rider subscription database for researching statistical information. Need to log in with Rider Easy Pass if you access this from an off-campus site
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Previous U.S. Census and PopulationCheck the individual Decennial Census publications.
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Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2013 - CurrentThis database includes U.S. statistics from 2013 to current.
Rider's print Statistical Abstract of the United States (2013-2019) are on the Reference shelf by the book number
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Statistical Abstract of the United States - HistoricalStatistical Abstract of the U.S. from 1889 to 2012 and Historical Statistics of the U. S suppliments.
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Data.govThe central clearinghouse for federal open data, including hosting the Public Data Listings required under the 2013 Federal Open Data Policy, but Data.gov also hosts state, local, and tribal government sources voluntarily.
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Government Resources of Rider UniversityIncluding other statistics on national, New Jersey, and international topics.
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HeinOnline This link opens in a new windowHeinOnline Academic includes more than 100 million pages of multidisciplinary content in more than 100 subject areas, including history, political science, criminal justice, religious studies, international relations, women’s studies, pre-law, and many more. With more historical content than any other database, HeinOnline provides access to 300+ years of information on political development and the complete history of the creation of government and legal systems around the world. Among the many databases included, HeinOnline’s journal collection features nearly 2,800 periodicals relating to a variety of subject areas, with all coverage dating from inception to the most currently published issues in most cases.
General Social Survey (GSS) is a sociological survey used to collect information and keep a historic record of the concerns, experiences, attitudes, and practices of residents of the United States. GSS results are made freely available to interested parties over the internet, and are widely used in sociological research.
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GSS Data ExplorerOn this site, you can explore and analyze the GSS data you need, create data visualizations, and generate custom extracts to analyze in your statistical program. You need to register to extract data on this site.
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GSS tutorialFrom YouTube
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National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD)This online Survey Documentation and Analysis uses the Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA) program developed and maintained by the Computer-Assisted Survey Methods Program at the University of California, Berkeley. A selection of NACJD data collections is available for online data analysis. Users can perform certain statistical procedures on the data, create custom subsets, or browse the codebook on the Web, without downloading the entire collection and importing the data into a statistical package.
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World Values SurveyThe WVS seeks to help scientists and policy makers understand changes in the beliefs, values and motivations of people throughout the world.
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International DocumentsUnder Rider's Government Resources research guide.
Information can also be found under the individual country's official government websites.