362.222 Contemporary African and Caribbean Migration

This guide is intended for students in Contemporary African and Caribbean Migration.  Students with additional questions should feel free to contact Ellen Keith, Librarian for Sociology.

Please note that the database links and many other links in this guide will require you to set up remote access if you are connecting from off-campus.  You do not need to do anything if you are using a computer on campus.

Finding Scholarly Articles

I'm recommending the databases below for finding scholarly articles on topics for this class:

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)  (All US JHU)

PAIS International  (All US JHU)

Sociological Abstracts  (All US JHU)

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts  (All US JHU)

All of the above come from the same vendor and can be searched simultaneously (which is a time-saver!).  Just enter one of them and then click on "Specific Databases" to get a list of all of them and then select the ones you'd like to search.

Features of these databases:

• Ability to do Advanced Searches (e.g., migration AND (africans or west indians) AND united states).  This type of keyword search will lead you to other headings such as "africans in the united states."
• Ability to limit by language and type of publication.
• Ability to truncate, e.g., immigra* picks up both immigration and immigrants
• Articles from peer-reviewed journals.  Why is this important?

Full-text?

• Some full-text links in the citations.
• If not, use the Find It link to determine if the full-text is available in another online resource or if we have the publication in print in the library.