Reference Sources

• The MIT encyclopedia of the cognitive sciences
• Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience
• International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences
• The Blackwell encyclopedia of social psychology
• Encyclopedia of cognitive science [electronic resource]
• Encyclopedias in the Information Center, SSRC and Stacks

Suggested Databases for Sociology or Psychology topics:

• Annual Reviews Social Sciences: Annual Reviews in Psychology and Sociology. Articles provide overviews of current scholarship on key topics.
• Buros Institute of Mental Measurements online keyword search: Search by Keyword Anywhere for commercially published tests. Results indicate which volume of Mental Measurements Yearbook provide scholarly reviews and summaries of the test.
• Communication & mass media complete: Offers information from over 600 journals in communication, mass media and related fields
• Communication Studies: A Sage Full-Text Collection: covers such subjects as Journalism, Public Opinion, Political Communication, Mass Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Cultural Studies / Intercultural Communication, Television / Film Studies, Media Studies, Business Communication, Organizational / Management Communication, Written Communication, Rhetoric, and Literacy Studies
• PsycINFO: Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law
• Sociological Abstracts: Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Full text available through Find it @ Stanford link.
• Sociology: Full text of articles on such subjects as Childhood, Contemporary Sociology, Comparative Sociology, Consumer Culture, Classical Sociology, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Leisure Studies, Social Theory, Sociology of Sport, and Sociology of Work and Employment (Labor Studies).
• Social Science Research Network "Tomorrow's Research Today": working papers and open access scholarly articles

Question:

I would like a pictorial history of American society from 1947-1963 to assist with researching media coverage and public perception of John F. Kennedy.

mchris@stanford.edu
IM: mchris4duke (Yahoo, AIM)
Assistant University Librarian for Public Services
PhD & MA Sociology, Stanford University
BA Sociology, Duke University

Areas of expertise: Sociology, social psychology, social inequality, gender, LGBT issues, military sociology, social research methods

See also:

• Chris Bourg CV (Word Doc)
• Chris Bourg blog posts on IC site
• Feral Librarian:Chris Bourg personal blog