Sociology
Finding Journal Articles
Databases enable you to search for articles on a particular topic:
- Academic OneFile on Gale A major database containing full text articles from many of the leading journals.
- Academic Search Complete on Ebscohost A comprehensive scholarly, multidisciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full text periodicals.
- Diversity Studies on Gale This collection explores issues relating to cultural differences covering policy, practice and research.
- Ejournals Database on Ebscohost Indexes thousands of electronic journal titles. Full text available online for selected titles.
- Expanded Academic on Gale A multidisciplinary database covering a wide range of subject areas
- Family Studies Abstracts on Ebscohost Provides abstracts of articles about marriage, divorce, family therapy and other family studies topics.
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Issues on Gale Collection of nearly 40 journals covering gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues.
- Humanities International Complete on Ebscohost This database includes the Humanities International Index (indexing and abstracts for more than 2,100 journals) plus unique full text content including over 800 fulltext journals in the humanities.
- Informit A set of Australian-based databases. May be a useful source of local material. Including:
- APA-FT Australian Public Affairs Full Text Index to thousands of social sciences and humanities articles, includes full text articles from more than 200 Australian journal titles.
- Family & Society Plus Fulltext articles from published and unpublished material about Australian families, covering topics such as adoption, adolescence, child development, child care, housing, marriage and divorce.
- LGBT Life on Ebscohost Index of literature on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender issues from more than 180 journals and 300 books and reference works.
- Race Relations Abstracts on Ebscohost An index containing more than 40,000 records from journal covering issues such as discrimination, ethnic studies and immigration studies.
- Sage Premier Full text access to over 450 journals published by Sage, access is generally from 1999 onwards. Includes some sociology titles.
- Scopus The world’s largest abstract and indexing database. It also includes the journals indexed by ScienceDirect. ScienceDirect is a full text science database including some sociology titles.
- SocINDEX with Full Text on Ebscohost Contains full text for more than 700 sociology journals dating back to 1908. Also includes books and conference papers.
- SpringerLink Full text articles from almost all journals published by Springer including some sociology titles.
- TVNews on Informit Provides online access to news, current affairs and selected documentary programs that have been broadcast on Australian television such as Four Corners, Catalyst and Cutting Edge.
Here's a Compass program looking at the events surrounding the abortion, at a Melbourne hospital, of a foetus diagnosed with dwarfism, The decision, 29 min.
- Urban Studies Abstracts on Ebscohost Provides references and abstracts to articles related to urban studies, covering topics such as urban affairs, community development and urban history.
- Web of Science Provides access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,700 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. You can search most disciplines and time spans back to 1982 to uncover information relevant to your research.
Tip: If full text is not provided use the Full Text? button 
to link to the full text in other databases (if available).
Ebooks
- Oxford Scholarship Online Full text of over 700 ebooks. Swinburne subscribes to the philosophy, political science, and economics and finance collections.
- EBL Ebook Library A collection of more the 30,000 online books across a wide range of subjects.
Selected eBook titles:
- Blackwell companion to medial sociology
- Blackwell companion to sociology
- Blackwell companion to the sociology of families
- Contemporary youth culture: an international encyclopedia
- Dictionary of race, ethnicity and culture
- A dictionary of sociology
- Encyclopedia of social measurement
- Encyclopedia of social theory
- Handbook of environmental sociology
- International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences
- Sage dictionary of sociology
See the ebooks guide for more ebook databases.
Internet Resources
- ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics Agency responsible for the collection of Australian statistics and conducting the Australian census. Some useful features of the ABS web site are:
- Australian Social Trends An annual series of data on contemporary social issues, looking at Australian social issues and how they have changed over time.
- Topics@ a Glance An easy way to navigate around the ABS web site. Topics include Labour, Housing, and Family and Community.
- Feature Articles ABS articles published in the Yearbooks and other ABS publications.
- Intute: Sociology
Online Tutorials
Learn how to improve your research skills and use library services effectively - watch our short online tutorials!
- Searching for an article in an Ebscohost database: basic searching (2min 38)
- How to find the readings on your reading list. Part 1: the reading list (1min 21)
- How to find the readings on your reading list. Part 2: finding an article (1min 36)
- How do I place a hold? (1min 52)
- How do I renew a loan? (1min 34)
- Booking a computer or room at Hawthorn or Prahran (2min 21)