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Research Methods for Social & Behavioral Sciences

Main Search Box

The Explore RSU Libraries box is a great place to start your research. It searches all of the libraries' resources including books/ebooks, scholarly and news articles, government publications and streaming video.

Enter keywords into the search box. On the results page, you can refine your search. 

1. Refine your search   limit search results to peer-reviewed journal articles or full text articles.  It also allows you to add results that are not in the library's collection, which can be requested through interlibrary loan. 

2. Content type  limit to books/ebooks, journal articles or newspapers & magazines

3.  Publication date  limit by date or date range

4. Subject terms   limit by subject, such as social sciences, psychology, etc. 

         

Each search result has options for citing, saving or emailing the article in the top right corner. 

          

Recommended Databases

Databases that RSU Libraries subscribe to that provide access to core research in the social and behavioral sciences. Find a complete alphabetical list of databases at this link.