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Sociology

Research Starters-Sociology

Research Starters™ - Sociology provides students with a solid foundation for their research and assignments, as well as overview information on topics relevant to their studies. Comprehensive summaries of discipline-specific topics help students to grasp the broad outlines of a subject, realize its real world applications, critically engage it, and locate sources for advanced research. Articles average 3,000 words, providing concise yet more in-depth content than most textbook or encyclopedia entries.

ePrints and eTheses Institutional Repository

Showcases the research output of staff and postgraduate students of NUI Maynooth and St Patrick's College Maynooth.

RIAN

The Irish word for path, is your route to Open Access Irish Research Publications

SCOPUS

The Library and the Research Office jointly purchased SCOPUS. This is the largest abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. With over 18,000 titles from more than 5,000 publishers, Scopus offers researchers a quick, easy and comprehensive resource to support their research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and, more recently, also in the arts and humanities.

LexisNexis - News & Business

Contains over 34,000 full-text sources including 12,000 news sources (eg. the Irish Times, Sunday Business Post, Business & Finance, Financial Times;) and a huge range of company, financial and industry sources.

JSTOR

Journal Storage Database - full text archival database of covering 900 scholarly journals in the areas of arts & humanities, social sciences and science.

Journal Citation Reports

A comprehensive and unique resource tool that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,000 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,000 publishers in over 60 countries.

Index to Theses

Provides abstracts of postgraduate theses accepted by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716. Irish theses now have their own collection and this collection can be searched separately by clicking on Irish Theses from the Index to Theses homepage.

IngentaConnect

Provides access over 136 full text journals covering a wide range of subjects. The database has full browse and search capabilities of all articles.

ebrary Academic Complete

A highly interactive eBook database that spans all academic subject areas. There are over 70,000 titles available for you to view in full text format. Many of these titles are also listed in the library catalogue.

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