Databases, Grey Lit. and Other Sources
- Human Rights Studies Online This link opens in a new windowHuman Rights Studies Online is a research and learning database providing comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010. The collection includes primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event, including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more than thirty additional subjects. Our editorial board includes Laetitia Atlani-Duault (IRD; Hunter College/CUNY), Olivier Bercault (University of San Francisco), Phillip Cantrell (Longwood University), Catherine Filloux (Playwright), Pamela Graham (Columbia University), Adam Jones (University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus), Laura McGrew (Consultant, Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation), David Scheffer (Northwestern University), and Ruti Teitel (New York Law School; London School of Economics.)
In Library Search - Migration to New Worlds: The Century of Immigration This link opens in a new windowFrom the century of immigration, through to the modern era, Migration to New Worlds charts the emigration experience of millions across 200 years of turbulent history. Investigate unique primary source personal accounts, shipping logs, printed literature and organisational papers supplemented by carefully compiled teaching and research aids.
In Library Search - Social Care Online This link opens in a new windowSocial Care Online is the UK's largest online database of information on all aspects of social work and social care. It includes legislation, government documents, practice and guidance, systematic reviews, research briefings, UK grey (informally-published) literature, reports, and journal articles. The database is updated daily and contains over 160,000 records from the 1980s onwards.
Not in Library Search - Religion Database This link opens in a new windowReligion Database provides a wide range of primarily full-text periodicals and other sources for diverse religious and spiritual studies, covering formal theological studies and commentary on topics of general interest from the perspectives of many worldwide religions. As well as scholarly journals there are many titles from religious publishing bodies and nondenominational organizations. The resource reflects a wide spectrum of religious belief systems and supports the global study of religion.
In Library Search - Social Theory This link opens in a new windowSocial Theory offers an extensive selection of documents that explore the complexities and interpret the nature of social behavior and organization. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. This final release features more than 150,000 pages of content by such major theorists as Theodor Adorno, Jean Baudrillard, Simone de Beauvoir, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Émile Durkheim, Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, Robert Merton, Dorothy E. Smith , and Talcott Parsons.
In Library Search - Philosophers Index This link opens in a new window
To access this resource please register for free membership to Senate House Library.
The Philosopher's Index is a bibliographic database with informative author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in the fifteen fields of philosophy, published in journals and books since 1940. Records cite journal articles, books, contributions to anthologies, and book reviews.
Serving philosophers worldwide, it contains over 600,000 records from publications that date back to 1902 and originate from 139 countries in 37 languages. The Index features high-quality content with complete and accurate citations, and author-written abstracts for most articles. Many of these abstracts cannot be found in other reference resources; they are unique to The Index.
Not in Library Search - British Online Archives This link opens in a new windowBritish Online Archives is home to over seventy digitised primary source collections, dedicated to teaching and research within the Humanities and Social Sciences with collections ranging from colonial, missionary and transatlantic relations to twentieth century political and social development, cover four-hundred years of world history. A video guide to the resource can be found here.
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- Nexis This link opens in a new windowNexis contains thousands of national and international newspapers and other news sources. It also provides international company and industry information and biographical data for many individuals. A video guide to using the resource can be found here.
Not in Library Search - International Newsstream This link opens in a new window To access this resource please register for free membership to Senate House Library.
ProQuest International Newsstream provides information from more than 660 of the world's top newspapers, including The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications.
Not in Library Search - Gale OneFile: News This link opens in a new window To access this resource please register for free membership to Senate House Library.
This innovative full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, and many other fields. Gale OneFile: News provides access to more than 2,300 major world newspapers, and includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.
Not in Library Search - Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new windowGale Primary Sources is a site which allows you to easily cross-search our Gale newspaper archives:
* 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
* 19th Century UK Periodicals: New Readerships
* British Library Newspapers, part I and II
Not in Library Search - Independent Voices This link opens in a new windowIndependent Voices is a digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.
Not in Library Search - LGBT Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window To access this resource please register for free membership to Senate House Library.
LGBT Magazine Archive provides access to back issues of 26 of the most influential, longest-running serial publications covering LGBT interests. Includes the pre-eminent US and UK titles – The Advocate and Gay Times, respectively. Chronicles more than six decades of the history and culture of the LGBT community. In addition to LGBT/gender/sexuality studies, this material also serves related disciplines such as sociology, political science, psychology, health, and the arts. Some publications may contain explicit content. Not in Library Search - Vogue Archive This link opens in a new windowA complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand names. The Vogue Archive preserves the work of the world's greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers and is a unique record of American and international fashion, culture and society from the dawn of the modern era to the present day.
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- UK Official Publications This link opens in a new windowIncludes links to UK Government Departments and related organisations. Includes access to full text publications.
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- Google Advanced SearchGoogle is very useful for finding government publications. Type ‘gov.uk’ in the 'Search within a site or domain’ field to retrieve results from the UK government.
- UK Official Publications This link opens in a new windowIncludes links to UK Government Departments and related organisations. Includes access to full text publications.
In Library Search - UK Data Archive This link opens in a new windowThe UK's largest collection of digital research data in the social sciences. To access the datasets go to sign up. The first time you login you will be required to register.
Not in Library Search - UK Data Service This link opens in a new windowThe UK Data Service is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to meet the data needs of researchers, students and teachers from all sectors, including academia, central and local government, charities and foundations, independent research centres, think tanks, and business consultants and the commercial sector.
The UK Data Service collection includes major UK government-sponsored surveys, cross-national surveys, longitudinal studies, UK census data, international aggregate, business data, and qualitative data.
You will need to sign in with your Goldsmiths' details, and then register for an account.
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- EThOS This link opens in a new windowSearch over 400,000 doctoral theses. Download instantly for your research, or order a scanned copy quickly and easily.
In Library Search - Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland This link opens in a new windowThis database is the most comprehensive available record of doctoral theses from the United Kingdom and Ireland. The collection offers the most comprehensive available listing of theses, with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland, since 1716.
Not in Library Search - Open Access Theses and Dissertations This link opens in a new windowAn index of over 2.5 million graduate theses and dissertations from around the world, freely available online.
Not in Library Search - Goldsmiths Research Online This link opens in a new windowOur repository for College researchers and their research outputs, freely available on the web.
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- Ethnographic Video Online: Vols.1-2 This link opens in a new windowEthnographic Video Online is a comprehensive online resource for the study of human culture, behavior and society around the world. The collections contain over 2,000 hours of streaming video, including ethnographic films, documentaries, select feature films, and previously unpublished fieldwork. It’s also a resource for a study of the discipline itself: By placing examples of traditional ethnographic methodologies alongside indigenous-made films representing previously overlooked perspectives, scholars, teachers and students of anthropology can gain a sense of the discipline’s history and of its future direction. In Library Search
- Box of Broadcasts (BoB) This link opens in a new windowBoB is Learning on Screen’s on demand TV and radio service for education. Our academically-focused system allows staff and students at subscribing institutions to record programmes from over 65 free-to-air channels, and search our extensive archive.
Please note that due to licensing restrictions users can only access this resource from within the UK
Not in Library Search - TRILT (Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching) This link opens in a new windowIndexes all television and radio programmes broadcast in the UK from 1995 onwards.
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- London Community Video ArchiveBased at Goldsmiths, University of London, the London Community Video Archive (LCVA) will preserve, archive and share community videos made in the 1970s/80s in London and the South East. Portable video recording — now a technology routinely embodied in smartphones — became available for the very first time back in the early 1970s, making it possible for individuals and communities to make their own television. The medium was taken up by people ignored or under-represented in the mainstream media – tenants on housing estates, community action groups, women, black and minority ethnic groups, youth, gay and lesbian people, and the disabled. With an overriding commitment to social empowerment and to combating exclusion, 'Community Video' dealt with issues which still have a contemporary resonance — housing, play-space, discrimination, youth arts.
Other places to search
It may also be useful to look at the Library Guides for other related subjects such as law, politics or art for visual sociology, to identify other useful databases and resources.
Some other online resources for Sociology
- Socialsciencespace - online community hosted by SAGE as a professional networking site with space for collaboration (sharing documents, videos and events information) through blogs and forums.
- Social Science Bites - a podcast series of interviews with leading social scientists on different aspects of the social world. Hosted by SAGE.
- Foundations of British Sociology: The Sociological Review Archive - at Keele University. Materials dates from 1880s to 1950s and consists of papers from organisations including: the Sociological Society, LePlay House and the Institute of Sociology.
- British Sociological Association
- American Sociological Association
- European Sociological Association (ESA)
- International Sociological Association (ISA)
