Library Research Guide for Sociology Graduate Students: Find Articles

Just need the full-text of a specific article you are looking for?

How do I get my article?

Locate an article you have identified.

How do I know if RU has a particular journal?

Once you know where an article was published, use these step-by-step instructions to find out if Rutgers has access to that particular journal via RU Library Catalog.

 

Still no luck? Contact me or any librarian

Search for articles based on you topic keywords in some of these major sociological databases:

• Sociological Abstracts
• Proquest Sociology
• Academic Search Premier
• ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
• Family and Society Studies Worldwide
• PsycINFO (including PsycARTICLES)
• Social Services Abstracts
• Social Work Abstracts (EBSCO)
• Communication & Mass Media Complete
• Contemporary Women's Issues
• Women's and Gender Studies databases
• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

For more complete list of related databases click here.

The following multidisciplinary indexes cover popular and scholarly articles in a range of subject areas.  Use the option for limiting your search results to scholarly peer-reviewed journals.

QuickSearch

Use QuickSearch to find materials available from the Rutgers Libraries, including books, journals, articles, music, movies, and more.

Academic Search Premier

A multi-disciplinary database designed for academic institutions. The database offers information in nearly every area of academic study, including arts, biology, chemistry, computer sciences, ethnic studies, engineering, language and linguistics, literature, medical sciences, philosophy, physics, psychology, religion, social sciences, and more.

Web of Science (Arts, Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences)

Indexes leading scholarly journals, books, proceedings, reports, and other formats. Its major subject areas include sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

We subscribe to thousands of journals, but not to all of the journals you may find cited in our electronic databases. In certain databases, full text is available via PDF or HTML links. However, in most of our databases you will need to select the button.  This is a program overlaid on our databases that tries to match the citation to the RUL holdings.

• Ideally, when you the select thebutton, you will see a link to full text.

• If you do not see a link to full text, click the “Search the library catalog by Periodical Title (or ISSN)” link which will take you to the record in the Library Catalog for the journal title if available in the Rutgers libraries. The Library Catalog record will note the availability of the journal online  under Holdings.   The Library Catalog also indicates whether the library system owns the periodical in paper or in other formats.  
• If Rutgers University Libraries has the article but not electronically, you can request a free, electronic copy (PDF) by clicking on the Article Delivery link in the Library Catalog record.

•  If Rutgers University Libraries does not have the article at all, you can request a copy through our  Interlibrary Loan and Article Delivery Service.  Requested articles are delivered electronically as PDF files. Except in very rare cases, there is no cost, and we will never pass on a cost without your prior approval. The turnaround time is generally 1-3 days.