Research Services

Phone: (704) 687-2241

Sunday: 2:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Monday - Thursday: 10:30 AM - 7:00 PM
Friday: 10:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Saturday: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Library Hours

This guide is intended to provide an overview of Sociological resources available in the library.

This guide has been created to help you with your research efforts. It is a work in progress so please be patient as I add additional resources

• AEI
  American Enterprise Institute for public policy research
• Brookings Institution Papers
  The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC.
• CQ Researcher Online
  Comprehensive reporting and analysis on current issues
• Econlib
   
• European Union Gateway
  EUROPA is the portal site of the European Union
• Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
   
• Financial Crisis News Center
  News updates and links to information on the current financial crisis
• History of Economic Thought Website
   
• Human Rights Watch
   
• Institute for Quantitative Social Science
  Statistical and analytical tools for the social and health sciences
• Intute:Social Science
  Web resources for education and research for the social sciences, including law, business, hospitality, sport and tourism.
• National Journal Online
  Nonpartisan reporting on the current political environment and emerging policy trends.
• NBER
  National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works.
• OECD Online
  Statistics, economic and social data, analysis and forecasts
• THOMAS (Library of Congress)
  Legislative information from the Library of Congress
• U.S. Department of the Treasury
   
• USA.gov
  Official information and services from the U.S. government

Access From Home or Work
You can access all of our electronic research databases to find full-text articles and reports. The link to connect from home is below. 

You may also use the "Request" button feature within the catalog to request that a book be held for you at the Circulation desk.  Once you click this button and login to your library account, you will be able to easily request the book to be retrieved. 

Research Help
Have questions or need assistance doing research? Email or call me in my office and I will walk you through the research process.

Please take a minute to become familiar with the resources and services that I have listed in this section. And do not hesitate to contact me if I can provide library assistance.
 

• J. Murrey Atkins Library Homepage
• Connect from home
• Atkins Express Book and Article Delivery
• Course Reserve Readings
• Citing Your Sources