Social Research : a guide to library resources Contents: Starting Points
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Handbooks
When you need to define your topic and/or get some background reading try consulting a specialised dictionary or encyclopedia. Social researchEncyclopedia of survey research methods (2008) [print] International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences (2004) [electronic access]
Australian issues Australian feminism : a companion (1998) [print]
Australian encyclopaedia (1996) [print] Australian people : an encyclopedia of the nation, its people and their origins (2001) [print]
Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture (1994) [print]
Searching The Library Catalogue For Books
Books can be found by searching the library catalogue. Keyword searching is probably the best way of identifying material, and your results will be maximised by using keyword searching techniques such as truncation and Boolean operators and by incorporating subject headings into your search where appropriate. "documentary analysis"
"literature review" and "social sciences"
questionnaire* and design Subject headings:
Discourse analysis
Social sciences Methodology
Social sciences Research
Social policy
Qualitative research
Research Methodology Finding Journal Articles Using DatabasesAustraliaAustralian public affairs - full text: APA-FT.
Citations 1978- , and full text for selected articles 1995-
Interdisciplinary. Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre
An interdisciplinary database of popular and scholarly publications, including some newspapers, online full text with a strong Australian emphasis AEI : Australian Education Index
Gives comprehensive coverage of educational topics InternationalSociological abstracts
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Academic OneFile
20 million peer-reviewed articles, a large proportion of which are
full-text from more than 8000 interdisciplinaryjournals.
Coverage 1980- Academic Search Premier
Full text for over 4000 of the 8000 journals aross all subject areas StatisticsAustralian Bureau of Statistics website. Statistics section Statistics - a Guide to Library Resources Web ResourcesAustralian Policy online
Australian Institute of Family Studies Australian Sociological Association (TASA)
Last update: 27 July 2009 Helen Attar
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