This is a good resource for browsing (you'll see sociology in the HMs) but books covering sociological topics can be found in many other areas of the library, including political science, psychology, history, and more.

Search It is the Libraries catalog - you can use it to find books, articles, media materials, and more. You can order books from other WSU libraries around the state. The Summit system lets you order books from 37 academic libraries in Washington and Oregon, as well as the University of Idaho.
Important, for Start of Fall, 2023!
(and this is important!) Rapido (our new interlibrary loan system) messed up the Search It catalog a bit and for now (until its fixed) when you search the default “Articles, Books, and More” scope it will only return items we have in print or fulltext which leaves out all the stuff we can get you quickly (Rapidioly?) via ILL. At the top of your results, you will see this message: Didn't find what you are looking for? Click here to expand your search.

When you click it to expand the search, now you will see stuff we have access to and everything else, under a new “Everything” scope. OR you can just use the Everything Scope instead of the default, which I recommend unless you want the limited results (which you can get with filters anyway). I wish Everything were the default, but I don’t make the rules. This is being worked on and I will update this when it is.

Use for finding books not available at WSU or through Summit. You can get to it directly from search results in Search It. The Libraries' upgraded interlibrary loan system is integrated into the database.

"DOAB is a discovery service for peer reviewed open access books and book publishers that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed books."

Academic libraries version of Google Books - "...is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world." Be Sure To Log In with Your WSU credentials
Has a lot of missing metadata/bibliographical data

Fully accessible books and texts

Google Books is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition, and stored in its digital database. Some magazines too. No access to fulltext in-copyright material.

"Open archive of the social sciences
SocArXiv papers are moderated before appearing. Visit SocOpen.org for more information."

"...a continuously-updated database of thousands of citations of works using data held in the ICPSR archive. The works include journal articles, books, book chapters, government and agency reports, working papers, dissertations, conference papers, meeting presentations, unpublished manuscripts, magazine and newspaper articles, and audiovisual materials."

"This is a bibliography of publications that use data from the Roper Center. Some cite information on overall responses obtained from iPOLL; some are based on individual-level analyses of datasets held by the Roper Center, and others use our Presidential approval series or other indexes constructed from Roper Center data." Research articles only.
Note: We no longer have access to the Roper Center or its iPoll database, but this bibliography is still useful.

Citations and abstracts to publications on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes journals, books, reviews, and dissertations. Covers 1964-present.

Citations and abstracts to publications covering the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.

Online fulltext library of sources - history, image, primary sources, analysis, and more.

Online fulltext library of sources - history, image, primary sources, analysis, and more.

Includes letters and diaries on Westward Expansion.

Reference resources (encyclopedias, handbooks, and more). Good for social science. Includes reference works on research methods.

Fulltext and searchable content from reference books published by Gale.

Includes links to streaming media databases including Academic Video Online (AVON) and Kanopy.

Filmakers Library Online provides documentaries for streaming video use across the university's curriculum. There are 1,018 titles covering all academic areas. Particular strengths include history, health, and social science topics. You can create short clips.

Use this to find DVDs, CDs, and other kinds of media available for check-out from the WSU Libraries. Hint: in a simple search after you do your search you can filter by the Video and/or Audio "Type" options. In Advanced Search you can pre-filter by Material Type - options include Audio, Video for physical items, i.e. DVDs, and "eAudio and eVideo" for streaming video, music, and audiobooks.