
Rita Moss
Davis Library Reference
moss@email.unc.edu
919-962-1151
Introduction to Library Research
FilmFinder
Search the films available in the Media Resources Center, located on the lower level of the R.B. House Undergraduate
Library.
Need journal articles? Try your search in these databases:
Academic Search Premier
Indexes thousands of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and multi-cultural topics.
Scholarly and popular sources. Includes full-text.
Sociological Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts provides access to the world's literature in sociology and related disciplines.
Family and Society Studies Worldwide
Comprises three databases which cover journal and other literature in the area of family studies and related topics.
Academic OneFile
Over 8,000 academic and general-interest journals, 3,000 of which are full text.
International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text
Scholarly and popular journals, newspapers, and newsletters from the US, Africa, and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of 40 core Black Studies periodicals
Ethnic NewsWatch
A full-text collection of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press
HAPI, Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Provides periodicals indexing for Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the US-Mexico border region and Hispanics in the US
More Article Databases | How Do I Find Articles? | How Do I Find an Article if it is not Full-Text? | How Do I Distinguish Different Types of Journals?
Search the UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries' Catalog
Example of an academic book (at least the catalog record for one)
Advanced Search | Search Tips | How Do I Find Books? | How Do I Read a Call Number?
LexisNexis Academic
Full-text access to general, regional and international news, and more.
Background, context, definitions:
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
Oxford Dictionary of Sociology
Stats DataFinder
Browse or search for statistics and data.
American Factfinder
Census population, housing, economic and geographic data.
Census Tables & Reports:
Black Population in the US
Asian and Pacific Islander
Hispanic Population
American Indian & Alaska Native
iPoll
Full-text database of 500,000 Polling questions.
Polling the Nations
12,000 national, state, local and special surveys, conducted by 700 polling organizations in the United States and 70 other countries from 1986 through the present