Guides: Sociology: Theses & Online Collections

Sociology Online Collections

Past Masters (CRKN - Intelex )
A collection of 117 full-text databases of the writings of leading scholars and creative writers of the past. Particularly strong for women's writings from the 18th century to the early 20th century.
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound (CRKN - Alexander Street Press)
An international collection of musical and aural traditions.

Tests & Measurements

Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print (EBSCO)
Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. It contains full-text reviews for test products in psychology, education, business and leadership, and provides a bibliography to all known commercially available English-language tests currently in print. Actual tests are not provided.

Theses & Dissertations

Theses Canada Portal
Full text electronic versions of Canadian theses and dissertations that were published since 1998.
MSVU e-Commons: MSVU Graduate Theses
Full-text versions of graduate theses produced at MSVU since 2006. Includes theses from Education, Family Studies & Gerontology, Applied Human Nutrition, Women and Gender studies, Child and Youth Study, and Public Relations.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations
An index providing access to over 1 million full-text open access graduate theses and dissertations from institutions in Canada, United States, and all over the world.
EBSCO Open Dissertations
OpenDissertations is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
The NDLTD Union Catalog contains more than one million records of electronic theses and dissertations. For students and researchers, the Union Catalog makes individual collections of NDLTD member institutions and consortia appear as one seamless digital library of ETDs.

Subject Databases
Many of our subject databases (including ERIC, PsycInfo, Ageline, MLA, SocIndex, Historical Abstracts/America: History & Life, Child Development & Adolescent Studies, Gender Studies) provide indexing of select dissertations.

Degree-granting institution
Check the home institution for an online repository/archive. More and more theses and dissertations are being made available in open access format.

Google Scholar
An academic search engine

Online Associations and Sources

American Sociological Association
The American Sociological Association is a Non-profit Membership Association Dedicated to Advancing Sociology as a Scientific Discipline and Profession Serving the Public Good
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
The CCPA is an independent, non-partisan research institute concerned with issues of social and economic justice.
International Sociological Association
The International Sociological Association is a Non-profit Association for Scientific Purposes in the Field of Sociology and Social Sciences
Population Association of America
PAA is a non-profit, scientific, professional organization that promotes research on population issues.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) is the federal agency that promotes and supports university-based research and training in the humanities and social sciences. Through its programs and policies, SSHRC enables the highest levels of research excellence in Canada, and facilitates knowledge-sharing and collaboration across research disciplines, universities and all sectors of society.
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
CIHR integrates research through a unique interdisciplinary structure made up of 13 "virtual" institutes. CIHR's Institutes are not buildings or research centres, but networks of researchers brought together to focus on important health problems.
The Canadian Sociological Association
The Canadian Sociological Association is a professional non-profit association that promotes research, publication and teaching of Sociology.

Dictionaries

Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
The accepted authority on the evolution of the English language and the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words.

A Dictionary of Sociology
Includes definitions of major concepts in Sociology and brief descriptions of the contribution of leading theorists of the past and present.
Ref. HM 17 C66 2005 (3rd edition)