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 SocINDEX Full Text
 

SocINDEX with Full Text. Subscripton Database. 
SocINDEX is a new database,  created in 2005.  The great strength of SocINDEX is its coverage of modern sociological and closely related topics, with lot of full text in related contemporary fields, such as employment from business, and gender from law. SocNDEX with Full Text provides, expecially for the current world, a very useful broad and thorough coverage of both theoretical and applied work in Sociology and closely related areas. with some coverage of earlier years provided by the full text of some journals, and conference papers from 2000 forward. Although coverage before 2005 is in no way comprehensive, for the current world a powerful tool.. Non English language articles are included, but searching by language must be done by hand, for example "Russian LN" to find materials in the Russian language. Other advanced searches must be entered as special code, and are detailed below.

These include the study of: the following topics.

  • Abortion
  • Criminology and Criminal Justice
  • Demography
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Marriage and Family
  • Political Sociology
  • Racial Studies
  • Religion
  • Rural Sociology
  • Social Development
  • Social Psychology
  • Social Structure
  • Social Work
  • Socio-Cultural Anthropology
  • Sociological History
  • Sociological Research
  • Sociological Theory
  • Substance Abuse and Other Addictions
  • Urban Sociology
  • Violence

Contains mreo than 1.5 million records with subject headings from a 20,000 term sociological thesaurus.Includes abstracts for 750 core journals with a few which date back as far back as 1895. Also covered are some 575 related journals, and selected items from another 2,800 journals.Also indexes books, conference papers, and other non-periodical sources Includes cited references .Includes 10,000 Author Profiles including biographical and bibliographic information.

Full text is included for some 350 core journals, with a few dating back as far as 1895, 130 related journals, 700 books and monographs, and 6,800 conference papers. These are largely the last five years of the conference papers of the American Sociological Association.

Hint : Useful searches which must be entered in code include:
      Author Affiliation by phrase         AD Princeton *  
       Author Affliliation by word         AF  Princeton
        Language                                  French    LN 

Others codes are found under the information icon to the right of the search box in the database.


Search Examples:

  • Gender Bias in ALL FIELDS produced 630 records
  • Gender Bias in ABSTRACT produced 473 records
  • Charter School or Charter School* produced 293 records( * replaces any additional characters, to retrieve schools, schooling, and so on.)
  • Culture Technology in ABSTRACT produced 35 records
  • Culture and technology in ABSTRACT produced 1814 records
  • Culture and Technology in SUBJECT produced 414 records
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