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Bibliographic
and Internet Resources
Students launching
research—whether a term paper project or a doctoral dissertation—in
the Sociology of Health and Illness face a bewildering mountain of
information. The Internet has made entire books, data sets, and scholarly
journals accessible to scholars. At
the same time, however, the Worldwide Web is full of misinformation,
because the vast majority of sites are self-published and their content is
unverifiable. Thus, you will
get better references by narrowing your searches to:
 | Indexes (electronic or print) of
Scholarly Journals |
| Catalogues of University Libraries
(available on-line) |
| Government documents and statistics (on
the Web and in print) |
| Critically selected academically
oriented websites and non-governmental organization websites |
| Web subject directories sponsored by
academic institutions |
Always start your preliminary
search of resources early -- as soon as you are clear about your research
topic. In the preliminary
search, you do not need to read the articles or books yet, but you do need
to identify potential information sources and find out how to
obtain them. Many databases
have abstracts or additional catalogue information to help you weed out
irrelevant references before you try to obtain them.
If you start promptly, you will increase your chances of getting
ample good references, even from remote libraries.
Click on the following links
to review some recommended sources:
  
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