Library Resources for SOCI 4385

2. Agenda
• Library resources & services during COVID-19
restrictions
• Conducting literature reviews
• Tools for finding peer-reviewed articles
• Creating effective searches in library databases

3. CONTACT
INFORMATION
Jennifer Holland
Instruction Librarian
Email: holland@uhcl.edu
Phone: (281) 283-3981
Rosana Salinas
Subject Librarian
Email: salinasr@uhcl.edu
Phone: (281) 283-3928

4. Library Resources &
Services during
COVID-19
Restrictions

5. Go here for
updates
Library website:
https://www.uhcl.edu/library/

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10. SOCI 4385 Course Guide:
https://uhcl.libguides.com/SOCI4385

11. Conducting literature
reviews

12. The Literature Review
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“Your research is a small piece in a complicated jigsaw puzzle;
it does not exist in isolation…Your reader needs to know about
the whole jigsaw puzzle and not simply the shade and shape
of your particular piece. In a literature review, you are
contextualizing your work; you are describing the bigger
picture that provides the background and creates the space or
gap for your research” Ridley, D. (2012). The literature review: A step-
by-step guide for students. Los Angeles: SAGE.

15. Tools for finding peer-
reviewed articles

16. scholarly articles, journal sites;
some open access, free to all Surface Web
Deep Web
restricted
• $$$
• access via library
scholarly
articles
16

19. Searching Databases
SocINDEX
with Full
Text
Sociological
Abstracts
Criminal Justice
Abstracts
WebofScience
Family Studies
Abstracts
RaceRelationsAbstracts

20. SocINDEX
with Full
Text
Sociological
Abstracts
Criminal Justice
Abstracts
WebofScience
Family Studies
Abstracts
RaceRelationsAbstractsSearching OneSearch

25. Brief record

26. Detailed record

27. Detailed record

28. SocINDEX
with Full
Text
Sociological
Abstracts
Criminal Justice
Abstracts
WebofScience
Family Studies
Abstracts
RaceRelationsAbstractsSearching OneSearch
The Origins of the Food Desert: Urban Inequality as Infrastructural Exclusion

29. Detailed record

32. How to address the problem of
food deserts in cities
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34. Creating effective
searches in library
databases

35. how to address the problem of food deserts in cities
What are the main
concepts?

36. how to address the problem of food deserts in cities
What are the main
concepts?
Concept 1
Concept 2

38. how to address the problem of
urban food deserts

39. food deserts cities
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40. food deserts cities
40

41. food deserts Sahara
41

42. food deserts
OR
food access
cities
42
synonyms or
alternative
terms for
same concept

45. Narrow focus & improve
relevance with limiters…
misses

46. Brief record
Author Journal title
Publication
year
Page rangePub date

47. Brief record
Publication
year

48. Brief record
Publication
year

49. Detailed record

50. Detailed record

52. misses

53. misses

54. misses

60. Have a Question? Need More Help?
Jennifer Holland
holland@uhcl.edu
Ask a Librarian