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Finding Books
Use library catalogs to find books, videos, government documents, journals, magazines, and newspapers. The Davidson College Library Catalog contains information about materials owned by Davidson. WorldCat lists materials held in libraries around the world. If Davidson does not have a copy of what you need, use Interlibrary Loan to request it.
When searching for books and other materials in a catalog, try searching by keyword, author, or title. You may also search by Library of Congress subject headings. To locate appropriate subject headings, do a keyword search and then browse records. Helpful subject headings include:
- Community organization
- Demonstrations
- Direct action
- Dissenters
- Feminism
- Globalization – Social aspects
- Group decision making
- Ideology
- Political participation
- Political sociology
- Protest movements
- Social change
- Social justice
- Social movements
- Social movements – Case studies
- Social movements – History
- Social movements –International cooperation
- Social movements – Latin America
- Social movements – Political aspects
- Social movements – United States
- Women political activists
For a list of helpful reference materials held by the Davidson College Library, click here.
Finding Scholarly Journals and Articles
To find journals owned by the library, go to the Library Catalog, do a subject keyword search for your topic ("social movements," for instance), and limit your search by format to newspapers and periodicals. Clicking on the Periodicals link in the red bar on the library catalog search page will also allow you to browse journals by subject category.
Use the Library’s online indexes and databases to find articles from scholarly journals. Depending on your research interest, you may wish to search in general databases or discipline-specific ones. Here are some suggested databases:
Starting Points
- Academic Search Premier
(1975 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also includes citations to book reviews and citations to articles several national newspapers.
- OmniFile Full Text Mega
(1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 scholarly and popular periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences; also includes the full text of selected articles from over 1,650 of these periodicals.
Sociology Databases
- ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
(1987 to present) Indexes articles on topics related to health, economics, education, psychology, race relations, social services, and sociology. International in scope.
- Contemporary Women's Issues
(1992 to present) Provides full text articles from over 130 periodicals, as well as texts of newsletters, reports, pamphlets, fact sheets, and guides on a whide range of gender-related issues.
- Sociological Abstracts
(1963 to present) Provides indexing and abstracting for articles in 1,500 journals and serial publications in the field of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Also provides coverage of reviews, monographs, and conference reports in these areas.
Anthropology Databases
- Anthropology Plus
(Late 19th century to the present) Includes citations to journal articles, reports, edited works, and commentaries in the fields of biological, cultural, linguistic, physical, and social anthropology as well as archaeology, ethnology, folklore, and material culture. Combines Anthropological Literature and Anthropological Index from the Royal Anthropological Institute in London.
- AnthroSource
(1880 to present) Provides current issues of 15 American Anthropological Association (AAA) journals, including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, and Cultural Anthropology, as well as an archive of selected back issues, with links to JSTOR where appropriate.
History Databases
- Historical Abstracts and America: History & Life
(Time period covered: 1450 to present [world history]; prehistory to present [U.S. and Canadian history]. Publication coverage: 1954 to present). Indexes journal articles, book chapters, doctoral dissertations, and book reviews.
Other Databases
- Essay and General Literature Index
(1900 to present) Indexes essays published in books and edited collections. Covers the fields of art, economics, education, history, law, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, political science, and religion, among others. Particularly strong in the humanities and social sciences.
- JSTOR
A searchable archive of the back issues of major scholarly journals.
- Periodicals Index Online
(1665 to 1995) Indexes articles from humanities and social sciences periodicals from their first issues to 1995. Particularly useful for locating references to articles from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. International in scope.
- Project Muse
(c. mid-1990s to present) A searchable collection of full-text articles from journals published by university and scholarly presses.
- Social Sciences Abstracts Full Text & Social Sciences Index Retrospective
(1907 to present) Indexes articles in over 500 English-language periodicals in the fields of anthropology, communication, corrections, economics, environmental studies, ethics, gender studies, geography, international relations, law, political science, psychology, sociology, and related subjects. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present.
- Web of Knowledge
(c. 1900 to present) A multidisciplinary resource that provides citations to articles in over 10,000 journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
Finding the Full-Text Copy of an Article
If you’ve found a citation in an online index or database:
Many of our indexes and databases contain full-text copies of the articles they index. Look first for a link to the full-text (either in HTML or PDF).
If the database does not contain a link to the full-text, look for the gray Search for Article button in the online citation. This button will lead you to the Davidson Library Catalog, which will display the holdings for the journal. Using your citation information, check to see if the library owns the appropriate journal and volume number. If it does not, you can request it from Interlibrary Loan.
If you found the citation somewhere else:
Go to the Davidson Library Catalog. Look for the red periodicals button on the right side of the page. Click on that button and enter the first few words of the journal title in the search box. Then, do a Title beginning with search. The library’s holdings for the journal will appear on the page. Using your citation information, check to see if the library owns (in print or electronic form) the volume you need. If the library does not own it, you can request the article from Interlibrary Loan.
Finding Popular Media
- Academic Search Premier
(1975 to present) Indexes over 8,000 popular and scholarly periodicals and provides the full text of articles from 4,500 of these periodicals. Also indexes several newspapers, including the Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
- Alternative Press Index
Reference R050 A466
(1995-Present) Produced by the Alternative Press Center. Indexes almost 300 alternative and radical newspapers and magazines.
- AP Images
(1826 to present [photographs]; 1920 to present [audio clips]; 1990 to present [charts and maps]; 1997 to present [text]) A collection of over 2 million photographs, 1 million audio clips, 48,000 diagrams, charts, maps, and timelines, and 2.8 million news briefs from the Associated Press (AP). Updated daily.
Note: Only one person can search this database at any one time; if you are unable to login because this limit has been reached, please wait a few minutes and try again.
Photographs and graphics from the Archive cannot be sold, syndicated, loaned or used for advertising or for trade without the written consent of AP. In addition, users cannot republish any of the photographs on a Web page.
- Historical Newspapers: New York Times
(1851 - 2005) Provides the full text of the New York Times; page images can be viewed and downloaded as pdf files.
- LexisNexis Academic
(c. 1980 to present) Provides the full text of articles from local, national, and international newspapers, magazines, and trade journals as well as newswires, business information, patents, legal documents, and transcripts of radio and television broadcasts.
- Library PressDisplay
Contains full-page, full-color images of over 400 national and international newspapers, including many foreign-language newspapers; includes the current day's papers as well as a 60-day archive.
Note: Up to three people can search this database at any one time; if you are unable to login because this limit has been reached, please wait a few minutes and try again.
- Newspaper Source Plus
Contains the full text of articles in over 149 national and international newspapers, including The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, and the Washington Post; also contains selected full text from 410 additional U.S. newspapers and transcripts of radio and television broadcasts.
- Readers' Guide Abstracts
(1890 to present) Indexes articles in over 300 popular magazines published in the United States. Covers a wide variety of subjects, including art, business, education, food, foreign affairs, political science, religion, science, sports, and health and nutrition. Also indexes book and film reviews.
- Wall Street Journal Index
(1981 to present) Provides indexing for the newspaper. Some full text is available beginning in 1984.
- Westlaw Campus Research
Contains full text news and legal materials. The "News & Information" section contains articles from magazines, national and international newspapers, and business, professional, and trade journals as well as newswires, newsletters, and transcripts of television broadcasts. The "Law" section contains important primary law sources as well as analytical sources, including state statutes, federal statutes published in the U.S. Code Annotated, federal and state cases, including Supreme Court cases, federal regulations published in the Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations, European Union law, American Law Reports, American Jurisprudence, 2nd, an important encyclopedia covering state and federal law, and over 800 law reviews and journals.
Note: you will need to accept the terms of the Westlaw "Agreement" before you can search Westlaw Campus Research.
- World News Connection
(1995 to present) Contains full-text, English-language summaries and translations of foreign news reports, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals, non-classified technical reports, and other local media sources from around the world. Covers political, scientific, socioeconomic, technical, and environmental issues and events. These materials are provided by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). Earlier years of the FBIS Reports are available on microfiche and CD-ROM.
Finding Websites
Search engines (like Google) can be helpful when searching for documents from social movements. If you have a website address, but would like to see earlier versions of the website, try the Internet Archive. Use the Wayback Machine to view archived webpages (some going back to the mid-1990s).
Some useful websites for finding primary sources are:
- Globalization and the Workplace
This collection, from the Cornell University ILR School, is a digital repository for online documents related to the effects of globalization on the workplace.
- Librarians' Internet Index: Social Movements
Contains a list of digital collections related to social movements.
- Social Movements Collection
From the University of Hawaii, this
collection contains brochures, pamphlets, and other emphemera related to the American labor movement, as well as other documents from global radical political movements. Most of the collection is pre-1960.
- Sophia Smith Collection
This digital collection, from Smith College, contains primary sources related to women's history and related social movements.
For information about how to evaluate websites, see our Web Resources: Evaluation guide.
Reference Resources
To find reference resources held in the Davidson College Library, enter the appropriate keywords in the library catalog and limit Material Type to Reference Resources. You may also try the Reference Universe database to see which reference works contain information on your topic.
- Animal Rights: A Subject Guide, Bibliography, and Internet Companion. John M. Kistler. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000.
Reference R 016.179 K61a
- Dictionary of the Social Sciences. Ed. Craig Calhoun. New York: Oxford UP, 2202.
Reference R 300.3 D554
- The Digest of Social Experiments. David Greenberg and Mark Shroder. 3rd ed. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press, 2004.
Reference R 361 G798d
- Education and Sociology: An Encyclopedia. Ed. David L. Levinson. New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2002.
Reference R 306.43 E24
- Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice. Eds. Gary L. Anderson and Kathryn G. Herr. 3 vols. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2007.
- Encyclopedia of American Prisons. Eds. Marilyn D. McShane and Frank P. Williams III. New York: Garland Pub, 1996.
Reference R 365 E56
- Encyclopedia of American Social Movements. Ed. Immanuel Ness. 4 vols. Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 2004.
Reference R 303.484 E56
- Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare. Eds. Marc Bekoff and Carron A. Meaney. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.
Reference R 179.3 E56
- Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World. Eds. Karen Christensen and David Levinson. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2003.
- Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. Eds. David Levinson and Melvin Ember. 4 vols. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1996.
Reference R 305.8 E56
- Encyclopedia of Disability. Ed. Gary L. Albrecht. 5 vols. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006.
Reference R 362.4 E5262
- Encyclopedia of European Social History from 1350 to 2000. Ed. Peter N. Stearns. 6 vols. New York: Scribner, 2001.
Reference R 306.094 E56
- Encyclopedia of Human Rights. Comp. Edward Lawson. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis, 1996.
Reference R 323.4 E56
- Encyclopedia of Human Rights Issues Since 1945. Winston E. Langley. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.
Reference R 323 L283e
- Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered History in America. Ed. Marc Stein. 3 vols. New York: Thomson Learning, 2004.
Reference R 306.76 E56
- Encyclopedia of Modern American Extremists and Extremist Groups. Stephen E. Atkins. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.
Reference R 320.5 A873e
- Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. Ed. John Hartwell Moore. 3 vols. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008.
- Encyclopedia of Religion. Ed. Lindsay Jones. 2nd ed. 15 vols. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005.
Reference R 203 E562 2005
- Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Culture, Society, History. Ed. Fedwa Malti-Douglas. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007.
- Encyclopedia of Social History. Ed. Peter N. Stearns. New York: Garland, 1994.
Reference R 306 E561
- Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Ed. George Ritzer. 2 vols. Thousand Oaks, Ca: Sage Publications, 2005.
Reference R 301.01 E56
- Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America. Eds. John M. Herrick and Paul H. Stuart. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2005.
- Encyclopedia of Sociology. Ed. Edgar F. Borgatta. 2nd ed. 5 vols. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2000.
Reference R 301.03 E561
- Encyclopedia of Student and Youth Movements. David F. Burg. New York: Facts on File, 1998.
Reference R 371.81 B954e
- Encyclopedia of Third Parties in America. Eds. Immanuel Ness and James Ciment. 3 vols. Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 2000.
Reference R 324.27 E561
- Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, & Conflict. Ed. Lester Kurtz. 3 vols. San Diego: Academic Press, 1999.
Reference R 303.6 E56
- Encyclopedia of Women’s History in America. Kathryn Cullen-DuPont. 2nd ed. New York: Facts on File, 2000.
Reference R 305.4 C967e
- Encyclopedia of World Poverty. Ed. Mehmet Odekon. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006.
- Environmental Encyclopedia. Ed. Marci Bortman. 3rd ed. 2 vols. Detroit: Thomson-Gale, 2003.
Reference R 363.7 E564
- Gay Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia. Ed. George E. Haggerty. New York: Garland, 2000.
Reference R 306.76 G285
- Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy. Eds. Natalia Mirovitskaya and William Ascher. Durham: Duke UP, 2001.
Reference R 338.92 G946
- Higher Education in the United States: An Encyclopedia. Eds. James J.F. Forest and Kevin Kinser. 2 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002.
Reference R 378.73 H638
- Historical Dictionary of Feminism. Janet K. Boles and Diane Long Hoeveler. 2nd ed. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2004.
Reference R 305.42 B688h
- Historical Dictionary of North American Environmentalism. Edward R. Wells and Alan M. Schwartz. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1997.
Reference R 363.7 W453h
- Historical Dictionary of Organized Labor. James C. Docherty. 2nd ed. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2004.
Reference R 331.88 D637h
- Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Issues: An Encyclopedia. Bruce E. Johansen. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003.
Reference R 304.2 J65i
- International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics. Ed. John Barry and E. Gene Frankland. New York: Routledge, 2002.
Reference R 363.7 I61
- International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Ed. David L. Sills. 17 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1968.
- Men and Masculinities: A Social, Cultural, and Historical Encyclopedia. Ed. Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson. 2 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2004.
Reference R 305.31 M534
- Native America in the Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Mary B. Davis. New York: Garland Pub., 1994.
Reference R 970.4 N278
- New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Ed. Maryanne Cline Horowitz. 6 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005.
Reference R 901.9 D554 2005
- Reader’s Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies. Ed. Timothy F. Murphy. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000.
Reference R 305.9 R286
- Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women’s Issues and Knowledge. Eds. Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender. 4 vols. New York: Routledge, 2000.
Reference R 305.4 R869
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos & Latinas in the United States. Eds. Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. Gonzalez. 4 vols. New York: Oxford UP, 2005.
Reference R 973.04 O98
- Social Movement Theory and Research: An Annotated Bibliographical Guide. Roberta Garner and John Tenuto. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1997.
Reference R 016.3 G234s
- St. James Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide: Major Events in Labor History and their Impact. Ed. Neil Schlager. 2 vols. Detroit: St. James Press/Thomson Gale, 2004.
Reference R 331.88 S132
- Statistical Abstracts of the United States. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1995-.
- The U.S. Labor Movement: Reference and Resources. Robert N. Stern and Daniel B. Cornfield. New York: Prentice Hall International, 1996.
Reference R 016.331 S839u
- Women in the Third World: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Issues. Ed. Nelly P. Stromquist. New York: Garland Pub., 1998
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