Sociological Abstracts in Europe

Index Database details: San Diego, CA: Sociological Abstracts, Inc., 1957-. Six times per year.

Sociological Abstracts Review

According to “Introduction to Research in International Law, Research Guide” (see Further Reading), this database is international in scope, and it “indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences such as the most comprehensive index to the literature of sociology and related disciplines such as economics, community development, political science and public policy.

The database provides annotations for books, selected book chapters, journal articles, and selected papers presented at professional conferences as well as citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and non-evaluative abstracts of journal articles. Many records from key journals in sociology, published since 2001, also include the references cited in the bibliography of the source article. Each individual reference may also have links to an abstract and/or to other papers that cite that reference; these links increase the possibility of finding more potentially relevant articles. Also indexed are relevant dissertations. Includes an author index and subject index.”

See Also

• How to search legal journal indexes?
• Non-law databases with law content
• List of Legal Databases and Indexes
• HeinOnline’s Law Journal Library
• Anthropology PLUS
• Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
• Communication and Mass Media Complete
• EconLit
• Ethnic NewsWatch
• Historical Abstracts
• Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
• International Bibliography of Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General
• Peace Research Abstracts Journal
• PAIS: Public Affairs Information Service
• Web of Knowledge Citation Indexing Service
• Women Studies International
• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
• AccessUN

Further Reading

• Hoffman, Marci, International and Foreign Legal Research : a Coursebook. Leiden ; Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008.
• Introduction to Research in International Law, Research Guide,University of Southern California Libraries, available at https://www.usc.edu/libraries/locations/vkc/history/documents/INTLAWB.pdf
• European law databases: an experiment in retrieval, PJ O’Shea, E Wilson
• How to find the law, ML Cohen, RC Berring, KC Olson
• The Death of the Digest and the Pitfalls of Electronic Research: What Is the Modern Legal Researcher to Do?. LF Peoples – 97 Law Library Journal 661-679, 2005
• Law library evaluation standards: how will we evaluate the virtual library. GM Daly – J. Legal Educ., 1995
• Forty-Two: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Teaching Legal Research to the Google Generation.I Gallacher – bepress Legal Series, 2005
• Legal research in the computer age: A paradigm shift. CM Bast, RC Pyle – Law Libr. J., 2001
• LawBot: a multiagent assistant for legal research. S Debnath, S Sen, B Blackstock
• Electronic Databases in Legal Research: Beyond Lexis and Westlaw. SB Kauffman – Rutgers Computer & Tech. LJ, 1987
• Collapse of the Structure of the Legal Research Universe: The Imperative of Digital Information. RC Berring – Wash. L. Rev., 1994
• Full-text databases and legal research: Backing into the future. RC Berring – High Tech. LJ, 1986