Sarika Sawant, PhD
SHPT School of Library Science
SNDT Women’s University
UGC series lecture
Department of sociology, Dr. Babasaheb
Ambedkar Marathwada University
2nd March 2012

Resources
• Open access journals
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• Academic social networking
• Open courseware
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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: 72
http://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.edu
http://www.academia.edu/

Academia.edu

Academia.edu

Open Anthropology Cooperative

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

Anthropology

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

Lecture Notes
http://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/YaleCo
urses#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.