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Research Guide: Sociology & Anthropology

  • Current Course Reserves

    Reserves lists for SOAN courses

  • SOAN Indexes and Databases

    Abstracts in Anthropology
    Abstracts from over 2,000 scholarly journals that cover topics in archaeology, cultural anthropology, linguistics and physical anthropology. (more info)
    AnthropologyPlus
    Searches Anthropological Index and Anthropological Literature simultaneously. (more info)
    AnthroSource
    Online access to about thirty American Anthropological Association (AAA) journals. (more info)
    Sociological Abstracts
    One of the most important indexes to the literature of sociology, cultural anthropology and related disciplines. Indexes 1800+ journals and other literature. (more info)
    SocINDEX with full text
    Sociology and anthropology research database with over 2000 journals. (more info)

  • SOAN Image Resources

    British Museum Collections
    Images of art and artifacts held by The British Museum, including extensive descriptions, metadata, resources, and links. (more info)
    California Academy of Sciences Collections
    This site provides access to over collection data housed in the Department of Anthropology, California Academy of Sciences. The collection includes over 16,000 items. (more info)
    Ethnographic Video Online
    The collection covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more. (more info)
    Native American History
    Multi-media collections from the American Memory Project. (more info)
    Smithsonian Anthropology Collections
    This online database provides access to information on over 420,000 archaeology and ethnology catalog records, representing some 2 million individual objects documenting world cultures. (more info)
    Sociological Images
    Sociological Images: Seeing is Believing is designed to encourage all kinds of people to exercise and develop their sociological imagination by presenting brief sociological discussions of compelling and timely imagery that spans the breadth of sociological inquiry. (more info)
    Visual Anthopology on Flickr
    Over 14,000 public images on the subject of visual anthropology. (more info)

  • Multi-Disciplinary Databases

    Academic Search Complete
    Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive, scholarly, and multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. (more info)
    Academic OneFile
    Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. (more info)
    JSTOR
    Use the advanced search function to search within the folklore discipline.   (more info)
    LexisNexis Academic
    Full text of national, regional, and international newspapers, business, and legal sources and more. (more info)
    Project Muse
    A unique collaboration between libraries and the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, providing 100% full-text, online access to over 400 titles from prestigious humanities and social sciences journals and nearly 100 not-for-profit publishers. Browse by discipline and select folklore under social sciences (more info)
    WorldCat via FirstSearch
    WorldCat FirstSearch does not include journal articles but has some search functionality that Lewis & Clark WorldCat lacks. (more info)
    Left Index
    Leads to articles in left-leaning periodicals about politics, economics, and society. (more info)

  • SOAN Data Sources

    General Social Survey
    The General Social Survey (GSS) is an annual personal interview survey of U.S. households conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) and "is widely regarded as the single best source of data on societal trends". The first survey took place in 1972 and since then more than 35,000 respondents have answered over 2500 different questions. The website gives access to the data itself, as well as survey documentation, reports on methodological issues & uses of the data, quick downloads (by year), a bibliography and information on the variables.
    Pew Global Attitudes Project
    Reports on cross-cultural public opinion surveys and public data sets. Since its inception in 2001, the project has conducted 44 surveys. Survey reports from 2001-2006 are free and are easy to download. The 17 survey reports focus on U.S. image abroad, but include other topics related to globalization including computer use, democratic values, satisfaction with life, and religiosity. Original datasets (2001-2005) contain interviews of more than 100,000 people in 50 countries. Datasets and codebooks are available in SPSS format (with a .sav extension). If you do not have SPSS software, you can use it on any L&C Lab machine. Download data to the Desktop for easier access, then open .sav files in SPSS. (more info)
    Statistical Abstract of the United States
    Contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. Selected international data are also included.
    Statistical Datasets
    Over 590 licensed and public domain datasets from over 50 sources, within a single interface. (more info)
    Statistical Insight (formerly LexisNexis Statistical)
    Includes statistics produced by the U.S. government, major international and intergovernmental organizations, and other sources. (more info)
    U.S. Census Bureau
    "One of the most user-friendly, high quality, and comprehensive web site maintained by any government agency," according to CHOICE. Primary data collected by the Census Bureau with private and commercial analysis of that data. Includes Statistical Abstract in its entirety going back to 1878 and the Historical Statistics of the U.S. 1790-1970. (more info)
    World Development Indicators
    The World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. (more info)

  • For Thesis and Capstone Students

    Watzek Wants YOUR thesis
    Follow these guidelines to electronically submit your senior thesis to the Lewis & Clark College Libraries. Your thesis will then be in our collection and available to the L&C college community. See available theses at http://library.lclark.edu/theses/ (more info)

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