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SOCI 210--Research Methods: Articles

This guide is a resource for students taking SOCI 210. It will lead you to databases with helpful journal articles, books, websites, and other resources.

Sociology Databases

These databases are the ones you should use to start your search for research articles.

AI in our Databases

Several of our databases have AI tools to help with your research. We are trialing 2 that are embedded into cross-disciplinary and authoritative databases.Try them out!

Scopus AI

Web of Science Research Assistant

GET IT

Click the GET IT button in any database to get the full text of an article.  If UST Libraries doesn't own it, you'll be given an option to request it from another library

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Translating Your Question into Database Language

Subject: Database's vocabulary (different for each database)

Keyword: Your vocabulary

LImiters: Special to each database ("Age Group" below)

How questions are translated into database language using keywords, subject terms, and special limiters

Databases use a grammar of AND, OR, AND NOT -- a language of mathematics. No prepositions, verbs, determiners, affixes  -- anything you learned in English or human language classes.