Sociology

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• Sociology
• A guide to reference sources
• by
• Hayati Abdul
• BA (Univ of Spore)
• Grad Dip Info Sc (Univ of Wales, UK)
• Senior Librarian
• RIS Central Library
• 5 August 2003

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Objectives

• To help you
• Search for information
• Search LINC more effectively
• Familiarise with Reference materials
• Interpret citation formats

to explain Concept of search strategy Search
LINC more efficiently Basic reference materials
in Library Interpreting noting citations
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Search Strategy
List terms to describe concepts Care -- Home,
Hospital Aged -- Elderly, Senior citizens Spore
--1990s
START
START
Get materials from DDS or other libraries
List concepts in topic Care of the aged in Spore
N
Search for Materials -facts -books -articles
Note location call no. to get materials
Use references in books or articles
Y
Check LINC Digital Library
Sufficient?
N
Consult supervisor or librarian
Y
END
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Boolean Operators

• AND is used to indicate that both terms must be
  present
• OR is used to indicate that either terms may be
  present
• is used to truncate the terme.g. ethic will
  retrieve ethic, ethics, ethical

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Sources of Information

• Current
• Last week
• Last month
• Last year

• Newspapers
• Current Contents
• Conference papers
• Journal articles

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Search for Information
What to use

• Type of Materials

Chapters in Books Journal Article Conference
papers

• Indexes/Abstracts
• Digital Library
• CD-ROMs

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Research Tools

• LINC
• Digital Library
• CD-ROMs
• Reference Sources

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LINC

• Library Integrated Catalogue
• NUS Libraries online public access catalogue
• Accessible in all NUS libraries
• Via WWW http//linc.nus.edu.sg

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How to search LINC?

• when you know the ...
• title of a book or journal use TITLE
• author use AUTHOR
• organisation, company and conference name use
  AUTHOR
• keyword in title, corporate name, conference name
  and contents note use KEYWORD

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How to search LINC?
when you want
use

• Materials on a topic
• Theses by
• department
• Theses on a topic

Subject or Keyword Call Number (HM15
200) Keyword then Limit by Theses collection

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LINC Demo
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Research Tools

• Digital Library
• CD-ROM Databases
• Other reference sources
• - Indexes, abstracts, bibliographies

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Digital Library
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NUS Library Proxy
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Bibliography (General)

• Survey research methodology, 1990-1999 an
  annotated bibliography
• International bibliography of anthropology
• Sociology, anthropology, and development an
  annotated bibliography of World Bank
  publications, 1975-1993        
• (Kept in CL Reference 9)

     
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Bibliography (General)

International Bibliography of Social Science

• Bibliographies, references to journal articles,
  books, reviews and selected chapters
• Full text links to almost 700 journal titles

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Bibliography (Specialised)

• Annotated bibliography on ageing and the elderly
  in Singapore
• Family disintegration a bibliography with
  indexes
• The sociology of emotions an annotated
  bibliography
• Women a selective bibliography 1988-1999
•   (Kept in CL Reference 9)
•                     

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Encyclopedias Dictionaries

• Provides outline or overview
• Includes definitions explanations
• Includes bibliography for further reading
• Short cut for gathering background information
• Examples
• International encyclopedia of social
• and behavioral sciences
• Encyclopedia of world cultures

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Dictionaries (Online)

• Entries cover the disciplines of Sociology,
• Criminology, Political Science and Women's
• Study with a commitment to Canadian
• examples and events and names

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Indexes Abstracts

• Identify journal articles, conference papers,
  book chapters, book reviews
• Give bibliographic citation of item
• For abstracts, summary of item included
• Covers hundreds of journals
• 
  

Printed copies are located at Reference 10 For
CD-ROMs, request at Info Desk
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Indexes Abstracts (General)
Social Sciences Citation Index
(via Digital Library)

• Access to current and retrospective bibliographic
  information, author abstracts, and cited
  references to leading scholarly Social Science
  journals

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Indexes and Abstracts (General)
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Indexes Abstracts
PERIND
(via Digital Library)

• Index to periodical articles relating to
  Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and ASEAN
• Humanities and Social Sciences
• Covers book reviews, book chapters and
  conference papers

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Indexes Abstracts
(via Digital Library)

• online bibliography of Association For Asian
  Studies
• western-language monographs, articles and book
• chapters
• Humanities and Social Sciences resources
  pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia
• BAS Fast-Track Journals given priority
  indexing

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Indexes Abstracts (Specialised)
Sociological Abstracts 
(via Digital Library)

• Produced by Sociological Abstracts In
• Coverage from 1974
• Subjects

• Anthropology
• Gender studies
• Racial interactions
• Social psychology
• Sociological theory
• Substance abuse

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Expanded Academic ASAP Int'l Ed
via Digital Library

• 1980 to present
• Provides abstracts or references for articles
  from more than 1,500 scholarly, trade and
  general-interest publications covering
• Cultural studies
• Social sciences
• Education
• Ethnics
• Sociology
• Women's studies
• ASAP version adds full text for many titles.

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Newspapers(via Digital Library)

• Factiva
• LexisNexis Academic
• Newspapers on CD-ROMs
• Press Clippings
• Microforms

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Factiva
Newspapers

• Access over 8,000 full-text sources including
  newspapers (local and international), newswires
  and trade journals
• Includes The Straits Times, Business Times and
  Bangkok Post

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Newspapers

• LexisNexis Academic

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Press Clippings

• In-house collection of newspaper articles from
  the Straits Times and Business Times
• Articles about Singapore, Malaysia, ASEAN
• Articles grouped by broad headings
• Economic conditions
• Labour
• Public finance
• Transport communications

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Statistical Sources

• Specialised
• The world's women 2000 trends and statistics
• Statistical handbook on the worlds children
• Statistical handbook on violence in America
• (Materials kept at CL Reference 3)

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Statistics on Singapore

• Annotated list of publications in NUS Libraries
• Statistical data on Singapore
• Includes web sites
• Arranged by topic

http//www.lib.nus.edu.sg/bib/ss/

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Statistical Sources
Inter-university Consortium for Political and
Social Research

• supplies data files for use with statistical
  software e.g. SAS or SPSS
• access to archive of social science data for
  research and instruction, e.g.
• What is the average age at which men versus
  women begin smoking?
• Whether age at marriage differs between one
  country and another?
• What about differences in political attitudes
  based on age, gender, education, race,
  or ethnicity?

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ProQuest Digital Dissertations
Theses

• access to citations and abstracts from the
  Dissertation Abstracts database
• PDF digital format for titles from 1997
  onwards
• 24 page previews available

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Theses
Index to Theses with Abstracts accepted for
Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great
Britain and Ireland

• Equivalent to print publication Index to
  Theses
• Theses accepted from 1970 to 2001

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Theses
NUS masters and PhD theses in Central Library

• Selected titles in Central Library Closed Stacks
• Request for materials via LINC
• To be used within the library
• Search for
• call no under HM15 200
• for topics under Keyword search
• Use Boolean logic AND, OR as well as
• truncation sign

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Electronic journals

• Full-text of journal articles
• Accessible via NUS Digital Library
• select Ejournals
• search by Title, Subject or Publisher
• for search by Publisher, select JSTOR
• Articles can be printed or downloaded

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EJournals

• By ISI Impact factor
• American Sociological Review
• Annual Review of Sociology
• The American Journal of Sociology
• Journal of Marriage and the Family
• British Journal of Sociology
• Work and Occupations
• Sociological Methodology
• Social Forces
• Social Problems
• Sociology (the Journal of the
• British Sociological Association)
• Sociological methods research
• Theory and Society
• Politics Society
• Sociological theory
• Sociology of Education
• more

Ejournals by Subject Social Sciences  
Sociology  Ejournals by Subject Social
Sciences   Anthropology 
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EJournals on the Internet
EJS International Consortium for Alternative
Academic Publication (ICAAP).

• Provides free full text, electronic journals
  in Sociology to individuals, libraries,
  academic and commercial organizations
• Scholars retain control over all aspects of
  the scholarly communication process.

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Internet EJournals

• Directories of EJournals on the Web

WWW Virtual Library Sociology Electronic
Journals and Newsletters
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Internet EJournals

• Many libraries, consortia, organizations and
  individuals are developing lists guides to
  electronic journals on the Internet.
• No site has a comprehensive listing and each has
  its areas of specialty.

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Downloading citations

• Note details of relevant entries
• Title of article
• Author of article
• Source title, volume, page number
• Conference number
• Check for journal abbreviations
• Bring a diskette for downloading or email records
• Use LINC to check whether library has the
  journal, book or conference proceeding

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Websites

• Member of UK Resource Discovery Network
• SOSIG Internet Catalogue of internet resource
• selected by librarians, academics
• Social Science Search Engine for about 50,000
• Social Science Web pages via Harvester
• Social Science Grapevine - lists R D
  programs
• researchers CVs employment opportunities
• forum for exchange of ideas partnerships, etc.

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Websites

• Based at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the
• University of Amsterdam
• Member of the International Consortium for the
• Advancement of Academic Publication (ICAAP)
• Distributed free in order to promote
• uncommercialized scholarly communication
• Links sociology students to many interesting,
• sociologically relevant locations in
  cyberspace

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Websites

• Started by Tim Berners-Lee (creator of html
  web)
• Run by a loose confederation of volunteer
  experts
• Widely recognized as amongst highest- quality
  guides to particular web sections
• Maintained at East Anglia, Geneva and
  Argentina
• Virtual Library Social Science Virtual
  Library Sociology

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Websites

• Independent guide to the Sociological resources
  
• Has no funding and is essentially a one-man
  effort
• Designed and maintained primarily by Mark Blair
• Chat _at_ Socioweb

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Websites

• Anthropology on the World Wide Web
• Maintained by Eric J. White, Dept of
  Anthropology University of California, Santa
  Barbara
• Awarded 2000 Academic Resource Channel
  Award Winner for Anthropology
• Provides links and references for
  anthropology, archaeology, history,
  linguistics, sociology, etc.

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American Sociological Association
Websites
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Websites

• British Sociological Association

• Professional association for sociologists in
  Britain
• provides updated information on issues, policy
  and practice, teaching research in Sociology
• Maintain and encourage links with sociologists

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Websites

• The Society for Applied Sociology

• Provides a forum for sociologists in applied
  sociological research and training
• Publications serve to support applied Sociology
  needs

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On-line Search Tips

• Choose relevant CD-ROMs/databases
• List terms to describe topic/concepts
• Refine search by using Boolean operators ie. AND,
  OR, NOT
• Check citations

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Online Search Tips

• Too many retrieved
• limit by additional concepts
• Too little retrieved
• include synonyms / alternate terms
• Too many irrelevant ones
• exclude terms that cause irrelevancy
• Nothing retrieved
• use more general search terms
• reduce number of concepts used
• refocus search

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Materials Not Found in Library

• Request for DDS (Document Delivery Services)
• journal articles
• book chapters
• published conference papers
• Request for ILL (Interlibrary loan)
• books
• Request for purchase of new titles
• books
• foreign theses

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Materials Not Found in Library

• Document Delivery Services (DDS)
• Use the e-form at
• Electronic Forms for Library Services via
  Digital Library
• Print the completed form
• Get your supervisors signature
• Submit it in person to the Library
• Use another library which has the item
• Check holdings of other libraries via OPAC
• http//www.lib.nus.edu.sg/clb/sub/libsinga.html
• Get letter of introduction from supervisor or
  call library for conditions of access

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Citing References

• American Sociological Association. ASA style
  guide.
• The Chicago manual of style. 15th ed.
• Turabian, Kate L.
• A manual for writers of term papers, theses and
  dissertations. 6th ed.
• (Materials kept in CL Reference 8)

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Citing Book
Author
Title
Edition

• Aby, Stephen H. Sociology a guide to
• reference and information sources. 2nd ed.
• Englewood, Colo. Libraries Unlimited, 1997.

Year
Publication details
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Citing Conference Paper
Author
Article article
Source title
Tsi, Danielle. (2002). Walking Orchard Road. In
Proceedings of Great Asian Streets Symposium
Public Space, 25-26 July 2002, Singapore.
Singapore National University of Singapore,
Centre for Advanced Studies in Architecture.
66-73.
Publication details
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Citing Journal Article
Author of article
Article title
Source year

• Ho, Kong Chong. (2000). Mixed emotions negative
  and positive consequences of our enthusiasm for
  the internet. Innovations 1(1) 54-55.

Source title
Volume, issue no.
Page
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Help readers verify your claims
Show the research done
Back-up your arguments
Why cite?
Acknowledge intellectual debt
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Library Instruction OnLinewww.lib.nus.edu.sg/lion
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Tips for researchers

• Be patient
• Be systematic
• Keep proper records of sources checked
• Record full details of every citation found
• Write clearly
• Ask librarian for help if you have problems

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Student Advisory Service

• Personal help for your thesis topic
• Help with using indexes
• Help with sources of information
• Email clbha_at_nus.edu.sg

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Good Luck in your research!
Remember! Make full use of the Librarys
Resources !
My
Thesis
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• "The sociologist, in his quest for understanding,
  moves through the world of men without respect
  for the usual lines of demarcation."
• - Peter L. Berger

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Demonstration

• Query 1 I need information on the 1964 racial
  riots in Singapore. I am writing a paper for
  my Ethnic relations module.
• Keywords 1964 AND Riot AND Singapore
• Possible sources Sociological Abstracts, IBSS
  PERIND, LINC, Factiva,
  Web of Science

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Demonstration

• Query 2 I am looking for literature on Gender
  differences in retirement and caregiving for
  the elderly.
• Keywords
• gender AND differen AND retir AND caregiv
• Possible sources Proquest Digital Dissertations
  Sociological abstracts, IBSS,
• PERIND, Web of Science

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Demonstration

• Query 3 I need literature on the emergence of
  civil society in Southeast Asian
  countries. Is there any link between
  the existence of these societies and
  the emergence of social movements?
• Possible keywords civil society AND asia AND
  southeast
• Query 4 What are the main contributions of
  Sociology and Anthropology to the
  study of emotion? What is the
  difference between emotion and feeling?

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Demonstration

• Query 4 Singapore is often described as a food
  paradise where the variety of food
  reflects multiracial composition of
  Singapore. Discuss.
• Query 5 Resilience of young mothers at risk
  coping with motherhood?
• Keywords Young AND mothers, at risk, resilien