Research @ Albright College

 

 

 

1.     Library Homepages

 

2.     DATABASES In Albright College Library

·        Sociological Abstracts (SocAbs), This is the finest database for sociology and always the best place to start.  Available via FirstSearch, provides access to the latest research in sociology and related disciplines. It includes citations to articles in more than 1,500 journals.   

·        ProQuest Research Library, available via ProQuest, covers a broad range of topics and is one of the best sources for finding articles in popular magazines and newspapers.

·        Humanities Index, available via WilsonWeb, indexes articles from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of humanities journals including Popular Music and Society, The Journal of Popular Culture, and Journal of American Culture.  

·        Social Science Index, available via WilsonWeb, indexes articles from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals.

·        PsycINFO, available via Ebsco, covers all areas of psychology and is particularly useful in the areas of victimization, juvenile delinquency, domestic violence, and deviant behaviors.

·        Education Index, available via WilsonWeb, indexes articles from English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere.

·        PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service), available via FirstSearch, provides selective subjects and bibliographic access to periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, Internet resources, and other publications from 120 countries.

·        Alternative Press Index (AltPressIndex), available via FirstSearch, indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines in journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change.

·        Index to Legal Periodicals (ILP), available via WilsonWeb, covers all areas of law including domestic relations, drug law, minorities, and international law.

·        Lexis Nexis Legal Research and Lexis Nexis News, available via Lexis Nexis Universe, provide fulltext of legal news, cases, and newspaper coverage.

 

3.   databases the Albright library doesn’t have (but Other Libraries like Kutztown & Penn State Might)

·        Criminology Penology and Police Science Abstracts, An index of articles with abstracts from 1992-1997 covering the causes of crime and juvenile delinquency, the control and treatment of offenders, criminal procedure, the administration of justice, and police science.  Subject divisions are criminology and other disciplines, offenses: deviant behavior, victims, juvenile justice and delinquency, criminal law, crime policy, police, courts, and corrections, followed by both an author and a subject index.

·        Social Sciences Citation Index, Indexes articles and citations from over 1,700 international social science journals.  Fields covered include anthropology, archaeology, area studies, business, communication, criminology, demography, economics, education, environment, ergonomics, ethnic studies, family studies, geography, geriatrics and gerontology, health policy, history, industrial relations, information science and library science, international relations, law, language and linguistics, management, nursing, philosophy, planning and development, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public administration, public health, rehabilitation, social issues, social work, sociology, substance abuse, transportation, urban studies, and women's studies.  Also includes: bibliographies, fiction and prose, book reviews, items about individuals, corrections, and additions, poetry, discussions, review papers, editorials, reviews of computer hardware and software, letters, meeting abstracts, and notes.

·        Anthropological Literature, Indexes articles and essays in anthropology and archaeology published in English or other European languages.  Produced by Tozzer Library, Harvard University.

·        J-Store,

 

4.   Important Websites

o        Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace, (http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/index.html)

o        The Socioweb, (http://www.socioweb.com/~markbl/socioweb/)

o        The Sociolog, (http://www.sociolog.com/)

o        The Department of Sociology At Albright Links Page, (http://faculty.albright.edu/sociology/brownc/socanth/links.htm)

o        U-Mass Sociological Data Download Site, (http://www.umass.edu/sociol/links.html#soc_data)

o        Criminal Justice Mega-Links, (http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/)

 

5.   Important journals that the library has in paper form

 

6.   Important journals that the library has in pdf format

 

7.   Gingrich Interlibrary Loan

INTERLIBRARY LOAN BOOKS:  Click here to be taken to the Interlibrary loan form for books 

      INTERLIBRARY LOAN ARTICLES:  Ahh, one of the best kept secrets of the library.  Suppose you try to track down an article in our library only to find out our library doesn't have the magazine or journal that the article is in?  what then?  Interlibrary loan, of course.  The library will track down the article, photocopy it, and send it to you at, I believe, NO CHARGE (at least they've never charged me for the service).   They will not photocopy anything from a journal or magazine that we have in our library, however, so I'm afraid you can't rely on them to do all of your photocopying.  Expect anywhere from 2-7 days for an article to be sent to you.  

 

8.   Software (click on any one of the links to learn more about the software and download free trial versions)

          Express Scribe (Free)
          Bytescribe WavPlayer (Approx. $170)
          WavPedal (Approximately $190)

 

9.   Newspapers online

Several Newspapers have editions online including:

 

10.   Bookstores

Need a book that the library doesn't have?  You can order directly from these stores via the Internet  (You'll need a credit card though).  You can also do a search of the books that they carry and find out how much they cost before buying.

      Amazon.com  (New & Used Books.  They often have the best selection for used books at the best prices)
      Barnes & Noble
      Powells New & Used

 

  

**REMOTE USERS:  Albright students, faculty and staff who wish to access the library databases from off-campus, must click here.  (http://felix.albright.edu/login) and have your student ID ready to input the numbers on the back of your card. THIS IS A NEW LINK--please change any bookmarks you have made to this link!

 

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