Anthro, Education & Sociology Librarian
Amy Witzel
Contact:
230 Baker (Research & Learning)
HB 6025 Baker-Berry Library
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
HB 6025 Baker-Berry Library
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
Phone: (603) 646-0790
Key tools
- Dartmouth Library Search (home page)Broad search across our library catalog as well as many (but not all!) full-text article & book collections. Excludes searching bibliographic databases (other than our catalog).
- Dartmouth College Library Catalog - Advanced SearchSearch inventory of our library collection, database and periodical subscriptions, media.
Entires in our subject encyclopedias generally are written by scholars in the discipline and provide extensive overviews with bibliographies.
Blackwell Encyclopedia of SociologyPlatform: Wiley Online Library
First published 2007, with ongoing updates.
Corsini Encyclopedia of PsychologyPlatform: Wiley Online Library,
Revised & expanded edition (2010)
Encyclopedia of Research DesignPlatform: Sage Knowledge
Sage Publications, 2010
Encyclopedia of Social MeasurementCall Number: Baker-Berry Ref. H62 .E538 2005 (vols. 1-3)Elsevier/Academic Press, 2005
Covers history, theory, and methodology (both qualitative and quantitative).
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2nd edition)Platform: ScienceDirect
Elsevier, 2015 (2nd ed.)
This massive, broad-coverage work is great for in-depth overviews - particularly social theory.
Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An EncyclopediaPlatform: Sage Knowledge
Sage Publications, 2013
Quick overviews of key theories and theorists within the field.
Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social TheoryPlatform: Wiley Online Library
Wiley, 2017
"interdisciplinary compendium of original entries focusing on the origins, evolution, and global development of contemporary social theory"
Just a few suggestions for handbooks on methodology.
APA Handbook of Research Methods in PsychologyCall Number: BF76.5 .A73 2012 (volumes 1-3)
Decolonizing Methodologies (3rd ed., 2021) by ISBN: 1786998149
The Politics and Ethics of Representation in Qualitative Research (2022)ISBN: 9780367281014
The Process of Social ResearchCall Number: H61 .D588 2016
- Try this subject search in our library catalog:Subject: research AND (methodology OR handbooks), sorted by date.
- Annual ReviewsOnline suite of publications providing literature review of a wide range of social sciences & sciences, including Annual Review of Anthropology, Annual Review of Public Health, Annual Review of Psychology, Annual Review of Sociology, and more!
Includes tie-in with citation tracking in the Web of Science database.
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Creative searching in Sociological Abstracts & other databasesMost of our databases (bibliographic and full text) do not have specific filters or categories for review articles. You'll have to search terms such as "literature review", "review of the literature", etc.
But realize that most scholarly articles will include a brief lit review in the introduction. A recent article relevant to your topic can be a goldmine of bibliographic citations to additional research.
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowContains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
Search filter "Methodology = Literature Review" - PubMed This link opens in a new windowPubMed is the freely accessible version of MEDLINE, which indexes approximately 5,600 scholarly journals published around the world, and some additional life science journals and books.
Search filter "Article Types = Review" (also try Meta-Analysis or Systematic Review) - Scopus This link opens in a new windowCitation database with multidisciplinary coverage of journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Indexes the journal literature and tracks article citation histories.
Search filter "Document Type = Review" - Web of Science This link opens in a new windowCitation database with multidisciplinary coverage of journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Indexes the journal literature and tracks article citation histories.
Search filter "Document Type = Review" - Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global This link opens in a new windowProQuest Dissertations and Theses is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. The official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. PQDT — Full Text includes millions of searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.
The library home page's main search tool is a great place to start, but there are many additional tools that allow you to conduct more targeted searching.
Multidisciplinary databases
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowProvides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, biology, ecology, and other fields of the sciences, humanities, and social sciences.
- Project Musefull-text archive of selected university press books and journals in the humanities and social sciences.
- ProQuest - search full databaseWe subscribe to more than 70 different databases through the ProQuest company. You can search across all of them simultaneously by starting at their main "Search.ProQuest.Com" page.
- Sage Journals OnlineSage publishes the journals of the American Sociological Association, along with many other social science journals. Note we do not subscribe to all content Some journals are available through other services (check our catalog) or interlibrary loan.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowCitation database with multidisciplinary coverage of journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Indexes the journal literature and tracks article citation histories.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowCitation database with multidisciplinary coverage of journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Indexes the journal literature and tracks article citation histories.
- Wiley Online LibraryWiley publishes the American Anthropological Association's journals, along with the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and more. Warning: While Wiley allows you to browse a list of their anthropology journals, you cannot easily limit searches to that set of titles.
Key Social Science Databases
- AnthroSource This link opens in a new windowFull-text archive of American Anthropological Association's journals, newsletters and bulletins.
- Anthropological Literature This link opens in a new windowBibliographic index to articles in journals and edited works received by the Tozzer Library, the anthropology library of Harvard University. Covers publications dating from the early 19th century to the present.
- ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) This link opens in a new windowBibliographic database with broad coverage of education literature -- pedagogy, cognition, policy, and social conditions of school-aged populations. Includes scholarly journals as well as reports, lesson plans, and more.
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowThis is the main index to the peer-reviewed literature for psychology and neuroscience. It indexes citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines.
- Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowCitations and abstracts to international literature in sociology and related disciplines from 1952 to the present.
If We Don't Own It
or if our copy is checked out...
- BorrowDirect
Request books (only) from small, but strong, group of libraries (Ivies, plus Duke, Johns Hopkins, MIT, & U. Chicago) - Interlibrary LoanRequest articles, books, and other publications you need from a huge network of other libraries.