Sociology Research Guide
Finding Books (and Journal
Titles) Using the
Online Catalog
Use the NCSU Libraries catalog to
locate books in our collection. You may also use it to check for holdings at
UNC-CH, Duke, and NC Central. The book catalog is available from any computer on the
Internet.
You can search for books by author, title, subject, keyword, and by a
variety of alpha-numeric control numbers.
Standardized subject headings are used for subject searches. For example,
these are some some sample subject headings for subjects relating to
sociology:
| Clinical sociology |
Mass society |
| Communication |
Political sociology |
| Crime -- Sociological aspects |
Population |
| Educational sociology |
Power (Social sciences) |
| Ethnic relations |
Social systems |
| Exchange theory (Sociology) |
Sociology |
| Forensic sociology |
Sociology, Rural |
| Industrial sociology |
Sociology of disability |
| Knowledge, Sociology of |
War and society |
If you know the title of a relevant book, you can also search this title in
the online catalog, look at what subject headings were used to index it, and
then search those subject headings for further books on the topic.
A second way to discover what subject terms have been chosen for use in the
library's catalog is to do a keyword search, display the results, and examine
the subject heading lines that appear in each record's display. Note any
subject terms that interest you, and use them to perform a subject search.
Records for the journals the library holds are contained in the library's
catalog. The catalog also shows which years are available in the building in
hard-copy. A periodical title's catalog record provides a link to an
electronic copy of the title, if we have access to it in that format.
The library's catalog does not contain references to the articles
within periodicals. It only records the titles of periodicals. You must use
databases, like those noted above, to search the contents of journals. In
some cases, you can find full-text of a periodical's contents using these
databases. But that is not always possible. When full-text electronic access
is not available, search the library's catalog under the name of the journal
you want, obtain its call number, and then get the volume from the
bookstack.
While this is a large library, it does not have all the books and journals
you may want to use in your studies. The Interlibrary and Document Delivery Services (IL/DDS) Office facilitates access to materials not available in the NCSU Libraries. Requests for material in other Triangle libraries can usually be filled in three to four days; items that must be obtained from a greater distance may take several weeks to arrive.
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