Open source resources for sociology

Open Access Resources for Sociology

Sarika Sawant, PhDSHPT School of Library Science

SNDT Women’s UniversityUGC series lecture

Department of sociology, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University

2nd March 2012

Resources• Open access journals• Blogs• Networks• Academic social networking• Open courseware• Archives• Repositories• Teaching resources

University of Oxford: Working papers available from 2000 onwards

http://www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/index.php/research/working-papers.html

Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR): preprints and postprints of journal articles

http://www.ssoar.info/home/ueber-ssoar.html

Institute for Population and Social Research: Digital Repository

http://ipsr.healthrepository.org/

OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks)

http://www.oapen.org/search?expand=subject;f1-subject=Society%20and%20social%20sciences::Sociology%20and%20anthropology::Sociology

• OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) is a collaborative initiative to develop and implement a sustainable Open Access publication model for academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences (more than 1000).

• The OAPEN Library aims to improve the visibility and usability of high quality academic research by aggregating peer reviewed Open Access publications from across Europe.

Sociology and anthropology: 14 books

Open Access Journals Search Engine (OAJSE)http://oajse.com/subjects/sociology.html

47 journals on Sociology is openly accessible

• Advances in Social Work• Americana (Hollywood) : the Journal of American Popular Culture• Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies• Australian Review of Public Affairs• Behavior and Social Issues• Crimes and Misdemeanours : Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective• Critical Race and Whiteness Studies• Culture and Society : Journal of Social Research• Culture Machine• Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology• Electronic International Journal of Time Use Research• Electronic Journal of Sociology• Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World : A Review Journal• European Journal of Spatial Development• Focus• German Journal of Urban Studies• IDEA : A Journal of Social Issues• International Indigenous Policy Journal• International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies• International Journal of Motorcycle Studies• International NGO Journal• Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture• Journal of Social Inclusion

Contd• Journal of Social Intervention : Theory and Practice• Michigan Family Review• Open Family Studies Journal• Open Sociology Journal• Other Voices : The e-Journal of Cultural Criticism• Outlines. Critical Practice Studies• Provenance : The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria• Qualitative Sociology Review• Revista de Cercetare şi Intervenţie Socială• Sociation Today• Sociologias• Sociology Mind• Sortuz : Oñati Journal of Emergent Socio-Legal Studies• Southern Rural Sociology• Studies in Sociology of Science• The Canadian Journal of Sociology• The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies• Theory and Science• Transit• tripleC : Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society• Ufahamu : a Journal of African Studies• Urban Studies Research• Vienna Yearbook of Population Research• Women's Health & Urban Life

Yale Journal of Sociology http://www.yale.edu/sociology/yjs.html

Sociation Today is the first OA journal from a regional sociology association (The North Carolina Sociological Association)

http://www.ncsociology.org/sociationtoday/v92/outline18.htm

Open Access Anthropology Journals: 72http://www.antropologi.info/links/Main/Journals

http://www.krepublishers.com/02-Journals/T%20&%20T/T%20&%20T-00-0-000-000-2003-Web/T%20&%20T-00-0-000-000-2003-1-Cover.htm

Himalayan Journal of Sociology and Anthropology http://nepjol.info/index.php/HJSA/index

Blogs

• Anthropology blog newspaper- a collection of anthropology blogs and anthropology-related blogs - updated every 3 hours .

• Family inequality • Savage Minds: group of Ph.D. students and

professors teaching and studying anthropology- Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog

Savage Minds: online forum for discussing the latest developments in the field

http://savageminds.org/

FAMILY INEQUALITY: DISCUSSION FORUM ON connections between families and inequality

http://familyinequality.wordpress.com/about/

Anthropology blog newspaper: compilation of all websites and blogs related to anthropology

http://www.antropologi.info/blog/

Cognition and Culture

Academic Social Networking

• Academia.edu allows users to upload and link to their publications. It is up to the user to comply with any copyright issues for each item they share. Anything that is uploaded is highly-visible in Google searches.

• Open Anthropology Cooperative has been growing for two years and has over 5000 members from around the world.

(Read, share, debate, collaborate, make friends)

Academia.eduhttp://www.academia.edu/

Academia.edu

Academia.edu

Open Anthropology Cooperative

University Courses: MIT Open Courseware http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/

Anthropology

Gender, Sexuality, and Societyhttp://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-231j-gender-sexuality-and-society-spring-2006/

Lecture Noteshttp://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-231j-gender-sexuality-and-society-spring-2006/lecture-notes/

Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses

• Open Culture is compiling lists of many OA resources, including this list of free courses in the social sciences from the world's top universities.

Religion• Ancient Israel - YouTube – Daniel Fleming, NYU• Faith and Globalization – YouTube – Tony Blair, Miroslav Volf, Yale• Historical Jesus – iTunes – Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University• Introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) – Download Course – Christine Hayes,

Yale.• Introduction to New Testament History and Literature –YouTube – iTunes – Download Course

– Professor Dale B. Martin, Yale• Jerusalem: The Holy City from Ancient Canaan t0 Modern Israel – iTunes Video –

iTunes Audio – Robert Cargill, UCLA• Jews and Christians Throughout History - iTunes Video - Web Video – Rabbi Michael Signer,

Notre Dame• Science, Magic and Religion: From Antiquity to Present –iTunes – YouTube - UCLA

Sociology

• Foundations of Modern Social Theory – iTunes Video - iTunes Audio - YouTube - Web Site – Iván Szelényi, Yale

• Global Sociology - YouTube – Professor Michael Burawoy, UC Berkeley• Introduction to Sociology – Web Site – Harvey Molotch, NYU• The Sociology of Race Relations – iTunes – Gianpaolo Baiocchi, UMASS Amherst

Urban Studies• Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry (Video) – iTunes – Anne Whiston Spirn, MIT

http://www.youtube.com/user/YaleCourses#g/c/DF7B08FF8564D1FE

iTunes Video

SociologyExchange.co.uk: handouts, powerpoints, quizzes, videos and other resources

Quizzes

Sociology teaching resources: 568 Free sociology resources: sociology lesson plans, sociology activities, sociology worksheets, sociology revision,

sociology teaching ideas and much more.