Reference Materials
Reference books are a good place to start research. They can help you find background information, choose topics, and understand concepts and terminology. To access online resources from off campus you will need a your My Chemeketa user name and six-digit password; host provider students may obtain a login from the instructor or librarian.
Dictionaries
These dictionaries define specialized terms, identify important figures and concepts, and explain symbols. Dictionaries of the social sciences in general are available on Social Sciences Resources Page
- Child abuse: a medical dictionary, bibliography, and annotated research guide to Internet resources
- Child safety: a medical dictionary, bibliography and annotated research guide to Internet references
- Dictionary of Sociology
- Dictionary of the Social Sciences
- Dictionary of the Social Work
- Domestic violence: a medical dictionary, bibliography and annotated research guide to Internet references
Encyclopedias
Specialized subject encyclopedias are an excellent place to start a research project. Specialized encyclopedias, which cover a single subject area, have longer and more detailed treatments of subjects than either dictionaries or general encyclopedias. Encyclopedias of the social sciences in general are available on Social Sciences Resources Page
- REF 306.85072 B56 2004 The Blackwell companion to the sociology of families
- The Cambridge encyclopedia of child development
- REF 305.235 En1 Encyclopedia of adolescence
- Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media
- REF 305.2303 En1 2004 Encyclopedia of children and childhood in history and society
- REF 362.829203 En1 2007 Encyclopedia of domestic violence
- Encyclopedia of Education and Human Development
- REF 306.85097 En1 Encyclopedia of family life
- REF 649.1 En1 1999 The Encyclopedia of Parenting Theory and Research
- Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development
- REF 305.231 G13 The Gale encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
- REF 305.23 G445 Girlhood in America: an Ancyclopedia
- Handbook of family communication
- REF 305.23503 In8 International encyclopedia of adolescence
- REF 306.803 B79 Marriage, family, and relationships : a cross-cultural encyclopedia
- REF 306.850973 St2 Statistical handbook on the American family
- REF 331.40973 W843 Women and work: a handbook
Finding Other Books and Audiovisual Materials
Use the library catalog to look for additional materials. The Chemeketa catalog page includes instructions on using the catalog and on requesting materials through the catalog. There are also links to other library catalogs. You can search by key words, by authors, or by subject headings. A suggestion on where to find subject headings to use in the catalog is given below.
The Library of Congress has a Web site where you can search for subject headings. When you put in a search term, the results will list terms in a table. Those with a red button marked, "Authorized and references" are terms that the Library of Congress uses in subject catalogs. Clicking the button may show more specific ("narrower") terms.
Fig. 1. The catalog search
You may have to do several searches to find books that might be pertinent to your subject.
If you live in the Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS) district, you may also access the catalog online at your local public library. In addition to the books in the Chemeketa College Library, the catalog also contains the collections of the 17 public libraries located in the regional library district, and can pass your search through to Summit (see below).
Summit
Chemeketa students registered for credit may use Summit, the Orbis Cascade Alliance catalog, to request items from 36 member libraries in Oregon and Washington. Summit uses a search called WorldCat. Authorized users have access to all of the material in the Chemeketa Community College library, plus about 28 million items in Summit. Chemeketa users may request items using their student number and have them sent to Chemeketa, or they may set up a Visiting Patron account at another Alliance library.
- Summit: http://summit.worldcat.org/
- How to use Summit: http://library.chemeketa.edu/information/Summit.htm#using
- More Summit help: http://www.oclc.org/worldcatlocal/help/default.htm
- Libraries & Map: http://orbiscascade.org/index/member-map
Electronic books are available through to Chemeketa students through the library catalog, or by going to our database pages. To access these books from off campus you will need your My Chemeketa user name and six-digit password.
Databases & Indexes
All the electronic databases listed in this section may be accessed by going to the library's Database Page. If you are accessing the databases from a computer not on the Chemeketa Community College network, you will need your My Chemeketa user name and six-digit password.
Library Journal Article Databases
- Academic OneFile [Gale]
- The best place to start. Has sociology and social science journals, many in full text.
- LexisNexis Academic
- An excellent source for news and statistics.
Internet Sources
- Intute Social Sciences Resources (sociology of the family section)
- Searchable gateway of family-related sociology resources on the Internet
- Sloan Work and Family Literature Database
- The Sloan Work and Family Research Literature Database is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and maintained by Boston College Libraries. The resources abstracted include books, chapters, reports, and peer-reviewed journal articles relating to work, the workplace, and work's effects on the family. A small proportion of records have links to full text. To see whether Chemeketa has a journal indexed in Sloan, check our electronic journal lists or our catalog.
- Online Resources for statistics
- FedStats collects U.S. government statistics in one searchable portal.
To comment or request help, please e-mail Reference or call 503.399.5231.
Address of this page: http://library.chemeketa.edu/instruction/handouts/SOC210.php
Updated: 9 March 2012
