Social Science

WebLinks gives you useful social sciences web sites
At the Reference books online collections you can search general and specialist works for social science subjects:

Credo Reference includes over fifty works on social science, including, for example, the 'Cambridge dictionary of sociology', 'Reader's guide to the social sciences' and the 'World of sociology', a comprehensive, subject-specific guide to the concepts, theories, discoveries, developments and pioneers related to the field of sociology

Oxford Reference Online includes several quick reference works including dictionaries of politics and political biography

For more general articles, images and web links, see the Encyclopaedia Britannica online
At Newspapers online you can search for articles from daily and Sunday newspapers, including the 'Financial times', from July 1985 onwards; for historical information there is also the 'Times digital archive' covering 1785-1985

Further information

Library catalogue
Contact us - for help to find information, from your local librarians
'Enquire' - a 24-hour chat enquiry service from the national People's Network. Local librarians take part in 'Enquire' on a rota basis but it is likely that you would be answered by a librarian from another library service

Brightly coloured textile

Indian fabrics

Page last updated: 15th December 2011