Finding Articles
Databases search thousands of journals, magazines, and/ or newspapers all at once. These are the most useful in the field of Sociology, but MSU has many others that may prove helpful on the Database A-Z list!
Go here for an alphabetical listing of all the electronic databases at the library.
If the PDF or HTML link isn't provided under the result, click on the yellow "Find it @ MSU" button in order to:
The world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary database. Indexes newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals in all disciplines. Contains a significant amount of full-text. Content available from 1915-present.
The world's definitive scholarly business database, including articles from peer-reviewed journals, magazines, trade publications, and news sources. Company and industry profiles are also available. Citations available from 1880-present.
This is a full-text archive of key academic journals in many disciplines, mostly in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Being an archive, it does NOT USUALLY have the current issues of these journals. Most journals have a “lag time” of 2-5 years.
Analyze and organize a variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more. Includes multiple formats, including statistics, opinion, news, and peer-reviewed articles.
Provides 500 full-text titles which include topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
Indexing and abstracts for over one million articles in 1,700 journals from over 50 countries. Includes abstracts for dissertations, books and chapters ranging from 1887 to the present.
Provides bibliographic records and full text covering all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems. Coverage from 1965-present.
Comprehensive database on all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure.
Covers many aspects of sport, including physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport administration, facility design & management, physical therapy, nutrition, exercise physiology, sport & exercise psychology, recreation, leisure studies, tourism, occupational health & therapy, and more. Coverage from 1500-present.
Includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to violence and abuse, including family violence, sexual assault, emotional abuse, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Coverage from 1995-present.
