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SOCI 071: The Pursuit of Happiness: Social Science Approaches to Well-Being: Research Process

Develop Your Topic & Choose Keywords

Blackwell encyclopedia of sociology
Encyclopedia of sociology terms covering contemporary knowledge and classical sociology with global coverage.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: Current information only
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of reference books and encyclopedias in electronic format. The titles cover a wide range of subjects, from the arts to medicine, and from multicultural studies to social science. You can search one title at a time, up to 10 titles that you select, or by broad grouping such as biography, education, or history.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users. North Carolina residents with a borrower's card may access from off campus by visiting NCLive directly. Contact the Davis Library Service Desk for the NCLive password (instructions).
Coverage: 1999 -

Keywords and Boolean search
This webpage explains the process of selecting keywords and using Boolean searching (AND, OR, NOT and so on). University of Colorado, Boulder

Anatomy of a scholarly article
Popular vs. Trade vs. Scholarly
Handy chart from University Libraries to help you determine if your resource is from a popular magazine, trade/professional publication or a scholarly journal.