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The ABS is Australia’s national statistical
agency, collecting and disseminating statistics
relating to all aspects of Australian society.
The best way to access ABS publications
is to connect to the ABS website via
the UTAS website. The UTAS Library
maintains a subscription which allows staff
and students of UTAS to access many ABS
publications in full and free of charge.
Follow the link above and select 'Australian
Bureau of Statistics' or 'AusStats' from
the alphabetical list.
As the range of available ABS data is
enormous, it can be difficult to find what
you are looking for. As a subscriber under
the UTAS agreement, you may phone the ABS
National Information and Referral Service
on 1300 135 170 for assistance.
Mention that you are a UTAS student and
that the UTAS library has an AusStats subscription
and they will be happy to help. It is best
to phone from in front of your computer
while you are logged into the AusStats site
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British Journal of Sociology of Education
Prestigious peer-reviewed journal of
theory and research in educational sociology.
This journal is available in full-text
to UTAS staff and students. Select the Table
of Contents on the home page to browse issues
published since 1999. Click on the bold
title of your selected article then follow
the instructions in the box on the right
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OECD Education
Statistics and publications collected
by the OECD. The information relates to both
OECD and some non OECD countries.
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National Centre for Vocational Education
Research
Australia's principal provider of vocational
education and training (VET) statistics
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Employment
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The Centre for Labour Market Research
Research consortium supported by a
number of Australian universities.
Select 'Publications' from the home page
to access full-text discussion papers.
Select 'About Us' from the home page, then
select 'Reports' (at the right of the page)
to access full-text reports of the Centre.
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Employment Studies Centre
Research and consultancy centre located
within the University of Newcastle. The
focus of the centre is work, employment
and industrial relations.
Select the 'Completed Projects' link from
the home page to access a list of publications
produced by the Centre, some of which are
available in full-text.
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ACIRRT
Research and training centre located
at the University of Sydney which monitors
and analyses the changing nature of work.
Select the 'Publications' link from the
home page to access an extensive list of
publications, many of which are available
in full-text. Select 'Resources and Reports'
and 'Working Papers' for easily accessible
publications.
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| Crime
and Deviance |
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The Australian Institute of Criminology
National centre for the study of crime
and criminal justice in Australia and for
the dissemination of criminal justice information.
Select 'AIC Publications' from the home
page to see an extensive list of full-text
papers organised into categories such as
'Australian Crime: Facts and Figures'.
Select 'Criminology Research Council' link
from the home page to see additional full-text
publications.
Select 'About Crime and Criminal Justice'
link from the home page to access full-text
publications, government statements and
links to websites relevant to crime and
criminal justice in Australia.
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National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling
NATSEM is a research centre associated
with the University of Canberra. It undertakes
research and analysis specialising in social
and economic modelling. Many of the publications
of NATSEM are highly technical and focus strongly
on economics. Choose your article/s carefully
and make sure you understand what you are
reading.
Select the 'Publications' link from the
home page to access an extensive range of
full-text and abstracts listed by year or
by type.
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Australian Council of Social Services
ACOSS is an umbrella organisation for
the state based councils of social service
which act as peak bodies for community welfare
organisations in Australia.
Select the 'Publications' option from
the home page to access a list of ACOSS
publications. Publications are sorted by
category such as Health, Housing etc.
Select the category you are interested
in, then select the highlighted title of
the article you wish to read. Ignore the
'Purchase this Item' box and select the
highlighted pdf link below it. This will
take you through to the full-text document.
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Brotherhood of St Laurence
Charitable organisation which also conducts
and disseminates research into poverty and
associated issues in Australia.
Select the 'Research and Library' option,
then select one of three options: 'Library',
'Publications' or 'Research' to access a
wide range of publications in full-text.
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| Gender
and Sexuality |
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Institute for Women's Policy Research
Research and policy institution affiliated
with the George Washington University in the
United States.
Navigate the website using the topic menus.
Many reports, briefing papers and issues
papers are available for download.
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Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
Statutory government body set up to investigate
infringements of anti-discrimination and human
rights protection legislation in Australia.
HREOC investigates a wide variety of human
rights abuses, but the section on Sex Discrimination
has reports on gender discrimination in
the workplace which may be particularly
useful.
The section on 'Human Rights for Australia's
Gays and Lesbians' is less up-to-date.
Select the 'Publications' link from the
home page to see a list of HREOC and associated
publications, most of which are available
online.
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| Health |
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Australia's national agency for health
and welfare statistics and information.
Select the 'Publications' link from the
home page, then select either the 'here
on our website' link or the 'click here
to enter our online catalogue' link to access
a list of mostly full-text publications
available for download.
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Health Sociology Review
An international peer-reviewed journal
published in associated with The Australian
Sociological Association.
Follow the menu options to access current
or past issues of this journal. Each issue
offers some full-text access, although the
majority of articles are available in abstract
only. One full-text sample issue is available.
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Women's Health Australia
Also known as the Australian Longitudinal
Study on Women's Health, this project is an
interdisciplinary collaborative effort between
staff at the University of Newcastle and the
University of Queensland. This project is
examining the health of 40 000 Australian
women over a 20 year period. The project is
designed to explore the factors that influence
health among women who are broadly representative
of the entire Australian population.
View abstracts of papers published or presented
at conferences by selecting the 'publications
+ presentations' link from the home page.
If you identify a paper that you would like
to read in full, check the UTAS library
catalogue to see if the source publication
is in the collection.
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Research Centre for Gender and Health
Located at the University of Newcastle,
this multi-disciplinary centre conducts research
into the way gender affects health.
View abstracts of papers published or presented
at conferences by selecting the 'publications'
link from the home page. If you identify
a paper that you would like to read in full,
check the UTAS library catalogue to see
if the source publication is in the collection.
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| Age
and ageing |
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OECD Aging Society
Collection of statistics and research
produced by and for the OECD.
Select the 'Social Effects of Aging' option
from the menu on the left of the page for
a selection of full-text publications.
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Australian National University Demography
and Sociology Program
Describes the research of the staff and
students of the ANU Demography and Sociology
disciplines.
Select the 'Publications' link from the
menu on the left side of the home page for
a selection of publications from staff and
students of the ANU and affiliated research
organisations. Some publications are available
for free full-text download. Otherwise,
use the citation provided to search the
UTAS library catalogue.
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Methods |
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Association for Qualitative Research
International organisation which aims
to further the practice of qualitative research.
View the full-text of the Qualitative Research
Journal by selecting the 'Journals' link
from the home page. Only the most recent
issue is password protected, previous issues
can be downloaded in full-text for free.
Select 'The Web Links' for a list of links
to other websites relevant to qualitative
research.
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| Rurality |
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Centre for Rural Social Research
A national centre for rural social research
located at Charles Sturt University.
Select the 'Journal' link from the home
page to access the Centre's refereed journal
'Rural Society'. Some past issues of the
journal are available in full-text; more
recent issues show only the contents pages.
Select the 'Publications' link from the
home page to access a list of Centre publications.
If you identify a publication you would
like to read, check the UTAS library catalogue
to see if the publication is in the collection.
Select 'Links' from the home page for a
list of other websites relevant to rural
research.
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| Risk |
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The Centre for Cultural Research into Risk
The aim of this centre is to investigate
socio-cultural bases of differences in individual
and institutional perceptions of what constitutes
'risk'.
Select the 'Publications' link from the
home page to access a list of centre publications.
If you identify a publication you would
like to read, check the UTAS library catalogue
to see if the publication is in the collection.
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Australian Institute of Family Studies
An independent statutory authority, the
Institute is Australia's leading provider
of family-related research and information.
Select the 'Publications' link from the
home page to access an extensive list of
publications and conference papers available
in full-text.
The home page also has a number of links
to projects under the heading 'Project Websites'.
These projects include: National Child Protection
Clearinghouse; Growing up in Australia;
Stronger Families Learning Exchange; and
the Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual
Assault. Select the links to access the
websites of each of these projects, where
more full-text publications and papers are
available.
Select the 'Resources' link from the home
page to access an extensive list of online
resources in relevant areas. Under the heading
'Full Text Resources' there is a link to
the AIFS journal 'Family Matters', with
past issues available in full-text.
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Policy |
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Social Policy Research Centre
Conducts research and fosters discussion
on all aspects of social policy in Australia
and is part of the Faculty of Arts and Social
Sciences at the University of NSW.
Recent reports are listed on the home page
with links to the full-text publication,
while selecting the 'Publications' link
from the home page will connect to a list
of mostly full-text publications including
discussion papers, reports and a limited
number of reprints of papers published in
journals or other publications.
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| Globalisation |
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Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
Research centre located at Yale University
in the United States.
The website is currently being redesigned,
so the current arrangements are temporary.
However you can still access some Center
publications in pdf by selecting the links
on the home page. Click also on Yale Global
Online Magazine' to access this non-peer-reviewed
free online magazine. The magazine includes
a section on 'Academic Papers' which may
be useful.
Select 'Related Websites' from the Yale
Global Online magazine site for links to
a large number of very useful globalisation
resources online.
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The Globalism Institute
This institute at the Royal Melbourne
Institute of Technology (RMIT) conducts research
into globalisation and associated issues.
Select the 'Documents and Publications'
link to see a comprehensive list of research
publications citations. They are not available
in full-text, however you can use the citation
to search the UTAS Library for access.
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Identity / Socialisation / Multiculturalism |
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Department of Immigration: Multiculturalism
The Federal Government's Multiculturalism
website.
Select 'Useful Multicultural Websites'
to access some government and non-government
sites. Some of these sites have publications
sections.
Select 'Frequently Asked Questions', then
select 'Publications', then select 'Research
and Statistics' for useful full-text documents.
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| Electronic
Journals |
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Sociological Research Online
An international peer-reviewed journal
which is published online. While the UTAS
Library does not currently subscribe to this
journal, staff and students with their own
internet connections at home may be able to
obtain access free-of-charge. Follow the instructions
on the Sociological Research Online homepage
to determine or establish access.
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Full text electronic journals in Sociology
A listing of scholarly full-text sociology
journals which are available free online.
Use the list to locate a journal which may
be relevant to the topic you are researching.
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UTAS Library E-Journals
The alphabetical list of all the electronic
journals to which the University of Tasmania
Library subscribes.
This list includes hundreds of journals
in dozens of different subject areas. Each
title in the list links to the e-journal
home page. If you don't want to browse through
all the titles, trying searching under 'S'
for Sociology or 'J' for Journal of or 'I'
for International Journal of. Once you have
located a useful journal, write down the
title or the website address. If using your
own computer, bookmark the site.
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International Sociological Association Publications
list
An easy to use alphabetical list of the
core sociological journals from around the
world.
Select the journal title to link to the journal's
website. Do this from a university computer
and the system will automatically log you
in if UTAS subscribes to that journal.
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UTAS Library Sociology Subject Guide
A one-stop listing of all the library
resources relevant to sociology.
Scroll down to 'How do I find Journal Articles'
for a list of sociology-specific or multi-disciplinary
databases to which the Library subscribes.
Follow the instructions or ask the Reference
Librarian for assistance in searching each
database. Most databases store a combination
of full-text and abstracted articles; it
is worth searching all the sociology databases
as you may find that an article which is
abstracted in one is available in full-text
in another.
Most databases work in the same basic way,
so once you become comfortable using them
you will have the skills to search other
databases throughout your academic career.
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| Professional
Associations |
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Professional Associations and Online Gateways
(see below) can be useful tools for reading
about sociology and finding links to interesting
sociology websites. However they
cannot be used instead of your text: Sociology:
Themes and Perspectives by van Krieken
et al.
While you can paraphrase and quote from
some documents which are published on the
internet, such as reports, briefing papers,
issues papers, conference presentations,
journal articles and even book chapters,
you cannot paraphrase or quote from statements
which simply appear on websites and are
not formally published documents.
If you are not sure about
whether or not you should be using some
particular information you found on the
web, you must check with
your tutor or lecturer before you proceed.
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The Australian Sociological Association
TASA is the national professional association
for sociologists in Australia.
From the home page select 'View Journal
of Sociology' to access the TASA journal,
which is Australia's most prestigious peer-reviewed
sociology journal. All University of Tasmania
staff and students have access to this journal
in full-text.
It is worthwhile exploring the TASA website
which provides a lot of information about
sociology in Australia. Select the 'Resources'
link from the home page to access a very
extensive list of sociology related websites
from Australia and overseas, listed under
a number of different categories.
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American Sociological Association
This is the national professional association
for 14 000 sociologists in the USA.
Select the 'Publications' link from the
home page to access a list of ASA online
journals. Some of these journals have past
issues available in full-text, with more
recent issues showing abstracts.
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British Sociological Association
The national professional association
for British sociologists.
Select the 'Publications' link from the
home page to access the two major publications
of the British Sociological Association:
'Sociology' and 'Work Employment and Society'.
As UTAS maintains subscriptions to both
of these journals, full-text access is available.
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Gateways |
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Like Professional Associations, Online
Gateways can be useful tools for reading
about sociology and finding links to interesting
sociology websites. However they
cannot be used instead of your text;Sociology:
Themes and Perspectives by van Krieken
et al.
While you can paraphrase and quote from
some documents which are published on the
internet, such as reports, briefing papers,
issues papers, conference presentations,
journal articles and even book chapters,
you cannot paraphrase or quote from statements
which simply appear on websites and are
not formally published documents.
If you are not sure about
whether or not you should be using some
particular information you found on the
web, you must check with
your tutor or lecturer before you proceed.
(You might save yourself a lot of time and
effort!) |
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Sociology Online
A website put together by a guy in Nottingham
in the United Kingdom. It is not an
academic, scholarly site.
Select the 'Sociology' menu option for
a list of interesting and easy to understand
summaries of some key issues in contemporary
sociology, as well as an introduction to
classic sociological theory.
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Sociosite
A website put together by staff and students
at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
While the site is run by an academic faculty,
it contains links to sites which are not subjected
to scholarly peer-review.
A very plain looking but comprehensive
collection of links to websites and documents
which cover a range of topics including
a variety of sociological issues, well-known
sociologists, research and academic institutions,
online databases and journals.
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Social Science Information Gateway
SOSIG is a commercial (but free) resource
network which is published by a business.
It is not an academic, scholarly site.
Users need to register but registration
is free. This site provides links to electronic
journals, online databases, government and
industry reports, research centres and other
sources of 'selected, high quality Internet
information'. It is an excellent resource.
Try the 'What's New' section or 'Top 50
sites' to find some fantastic links.
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The Socioweb
Website maintained by a guy who studied
undergraduate sociology and now works for
a website design company in California, U.S.
Provides a number of links to journals
databases and other websites, organised
under a few categories. Many of the links
no longer work. An interesting and easy
to use site without information-overload.
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