Welcome
This guide provides resources and information for students enrolled in Social Science core courses. This guide can be used in tandem with subject-specific guides (i.e. History, Political Science, Sociology).
Refer to this guide for information about finding resources like academic books and journal articles, understanding citation methods and styles, and learning how to contact a librarian if you need help with research.
Getting Started
Below are links to popular online reference sources (encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.). Use these to acquire an introductory understanding about a topic, to identify key authors and research trends, and to help build a literature review. For additional reference sources, visit our subject guides.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online This link opens in a new windowRegularly updated annotated bibliographies in a wide variety of disciplines.
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Credo Reference This link opens in a new windowSelection of reference books including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, as well as a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law.
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Cambridge Companions Online This link opens in a new windowThe books in these series survey scholarship on individual writers or other notable people, on schools of thought, and other topics.
