Evaluating websites
Evaluate all information found on the internet as anyone can publish on any topic.
- Author authority
- Web address (URL)
- Currency
Searching the web
Developed by Commoncraft and available from youtube
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Sociology sites to try
Aged & elderly
- Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
- Councils on the Ageing (COTA)
in partnership with National Seniors Association. Includes policy submissions and journal articles - NSW Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care
- National Ageing Research
Institute
Affiliated with Melbourne Health and University of Melbourne
Crime & justice
- Australian Institute of
Criminology
National crime and criminal justice research agency - Crime and Criminal Justice
Statistics
Australian and international statistics - NSW Department of Juvenile Justice
Disability
- Disability Rights home page
- Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
- NSW Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care
- Australian Institute of Family
Studies
Independent statutory authority promoting the identification and understanding of factors affecting marital and family stability in Australia - Commonwealth
Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
includes links to their publications
Race & ethnicity
Research
- Australian Policy Online
Australian social, economic, cultural and political research. Maintained by the Institute of Social Research at Swinburne University of Technology - Australian Social Science Data
Archive
Australian National University - Social Policy Research Centre
(SPRC)
University of New South Wales - Social Science Data
and Resources for Researchers
International inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Social Justice
- CorpWatch - 'holding corporations responsible
- Australian Development Gateway
- Amnesty International
- Amnesty International - news updates
Youth
- Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies
Resources and information on youth issues
UOW sites
- Faculty of Arts - Sociology
What's the difference?
| Library databases | |
| University focus | Useful results hidden in a jungle |
| Target journal articles | Everything and anything! |
| Better results in less pages | Results in 1000s of pages |
| Fulltext scholarly articles |
May need to pay for scholarly articles $$$ |
| Refines your search by subject area, date and lots more! | Fewer limits available |
| UOW quota free | Runs down your quota |
Google scholar
(search results open in a new window)
Beyond Google
Other search engines and directories
Sociology directories
- Academic Info: Sociology Gateway
- SocioSite based at the University of Amsterdam
- SocioWeb Guide to Sociological resources on the Internet
- Social Science Information Gateway (Intute)
- WWW Virtual Library: Social Sciences
- WWW Virtual Library: Sociology
Associations/organisations
American Sociological Association (ASA)
Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS)
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) includes a large range of publications
Australian Sociological Association (TASA)
International Sociological Association (ISA)
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