LibGuides: Social Science: Key resources

General Social Science databases

See links on the left to specific subject areas to find other recommended databases

Australian Bureau of Statistics
Full text of statistical publications covering such topics as health, housing, ethnicity, family, leisure, and crime, in relation to the Australian population.

Ebsco (Humanities International Complete and Academic Search Premier)
International multi-disciplinary databases. You can expand to search additional Ebsco databases from the Choose databases link

Factiva
Full text of regional and national Australian, and international, newspapers.
InfoRMIT
An Australian group of databases. Select these: APA-FT (Australian Public Affairs Full Text), the Humanities & Social Sciences Collection, and the Families & Society Collection - for social science topics.
JSTOR - Arts and Sciences
Provides access to the complete archives of core scholarly journals in the areas of arts, humanities, music and social sciences.
ProQuest
Mainly full-text databases, international in scope, and covering a range of disciplines, including the arts and humanities.
PsycArticles (Ebsco)
Full-text database of journals published by APA and other publishers in subject areas such as applied psychology, health, theory, research, social/personality, and more.
PsycInfo (Ebsco)
A database of abstracts covering scholarly books, journals, and dissertations. More than 2 million records from the early 1800s to the present.
Wiley Online Library
Provides full-text access to journals in a range of disciplines, including social sciences and psychology.

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Research Ready

Research Ready is a series of online learning modules that will help you to understand more about:

finding resources in the Library
what makes a 'scholarly' source
what makes a good or reliable source
what is referencing and plagiarism

The modules include videos, live webpage searching, and short quiz questions to check your knowledge. A good understanding of these topics may help you to improve your marks and save time.

Social Science titles

Social research: Issues, methods and process by Tim May
Publication Date: 2011
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods by Michael S. Lewis-Beck, Alan E. Bryman, Tim Futing Liao (Eds)
Publication Date: 2003
Doing Your Research Project by Judith Bell
Publication Date: 2010
Ethics in Qualitative Research by Melanie Mauthner, Julie Jessop, Tina Miller & Maxine Birch (Eds)
Publication Date: 2012
Writing Readable Research: A Guide for Students of Social Science by Beverly A Lewin
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2009
What Is Online Research? Using the Internet for Social Science Research by Tristram Hooley; Jane Wellens; John Marriott
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2012
Making Sense of Statistical Methods in Social Research by Keming Yang
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2010
Qualitative Research Methods by Sarah J. Tracy
Publication Date: 2012

Applying social Science: The Role of Social Research in Politics, Policy and Practice by David Byrne
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2011
Introduction to Contemporary Social Theory by Anthony Elliott; Charles Lemert
Publication Date: 2014
The Natural Law Foundations of Modern Social Theory by Daniel Chernilo
Publication Date: 2013
The SAGE Handbook of Feminist Theory by Mary Evans et al. (eds)
Publication Date: 2014

You can browse the Library shelves for books in your area. These location (or Dewey) numbers are relevant for the broad area of Social Science:

300 Social sciences
301 Sociology
302 Social interaction
303 Social processes
304 Factors affecting social behavior
305 Social groups
306 Culture & institutions