7. Sociological Abstracts, subscription database, also called Sociofile.  The Sociological Abstracts database is the most useful and comprehensive index in the field of Sociology, covering the world's literature in Sociology and related disciplines, both theoretical and applied, covering the years 1952 to date, with monthly updates. Sociological Abstracts indexes over 1,800 journals, abstracts of conference papers presented at various sociological association meetings, dissertations, book reviews, and abstracts of selected sociology books.  Journals are in 30 different languages from about 55 countries, covering sociological topics in fields including anthropology, economics, education, medicine, community development, philosophy, demography, political science, and social psychology.  Journals published by sociological associations, groups, faculties, and institutes, and periodicals containing the term "sociology" in their titles, are abstracted fully, irrespective of language or country of publication.  Non-core journals are screened for articles by sociologists and/or articles of immediate interest or relevance to sociologists. .

Hint : On main search screen, go down to Specify Databases, open list, and add Sociology Sage Full Text as an "additional" database. Although it only contains about 40 titles, which are also indexed in Sociological Abstracts, adding this database produces a finer granalurity to searching: This is described as follows:

Sociology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full-text of 41 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some going back to 1967, encompassing over 12,700 articles. Subjects focus on Childhood, Contemporary Sociology, Comparative Sociology, Consumer Culture, Classical Sociology, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Leisure Studies, Social Theory, Sociology of Sport, and Sociology of Work and Employment (Labor Studies).Every bibliographic record links to full-text PDF format.

ADVANCED searching is recommended and using ABSTRACT or another specific search key. Warning: "Anywhere" searches footnotes as well as description of indexed article. Search Examples for Sociological Abstracts include the following:

•  Gender Bias in ABSTRACT produced some 350 recordss
• Charter School in ABSTRACT produced some 65 reecords
•  Charter school* in ABSTRACT produced some 100 records( * replaces any additional characters, to retrieve schools, schooling, and so on.)
•  Culture Technology in ABSTRACT produced some 50 records
•  Culture AND Technology produced some 1860 records
• All author searching is strong. Follow pattern shown on search page to enter author's name.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

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