How to Find Information: Social Sciences

Yet again. There seem to me to be so many little books on study skills that sooner or later the market will be glutted with them. This does, however, seem to me to be quite a good one ‐ even shorter than most, with a dozen neat chapters summarising libraries, directories, encyclopaedias, current awareness, sources of statistical information, official documents, free internet sources, online journals, newspapers, and, an introduction to developing a literature search strategy.

Back in my polytechnic days we used to duplicate this sort of thing off for free distribution to dozens of sociology students. Sociology, as a...