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PsycINFO  (Ebsco)  - American Psychological Association             1806-            Updated Monthly
Coverage has been expanded back to 1806. PsycINFO provide abstracts from dissertations, books, book chapters, technical reports, and approximately 2,000 journals on psychology published in 50 countries. Chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987 to the present; however, there is a substantial number of records covering books published earlier. WWW

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection  - Ebsco               1975-                    Updated Daily
Provides 503 full text titles including 478 peer-reviewed journals. The database covers information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry ? psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. WWW  Search Guide

ProQuest Psychology Journals -  ProQuest CSA                    1990s-                         Updated Daily
Provides abstracts and indexing for more than 575 titles, with over 485 titles available in full text. Users get access to charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements essential to psychological research. Coverage extends back to the early 1990s, This database covers a wide range of topics from leading psychology and psychosomatic publications. Many of the titles are heavily cited and have a strong set of ISI impact factors.Search Guide

Sociological Abstracts - Cambridge Scientific Abstracts     1963-    Updated Monthly
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles. Many records from key journals in sociology, published since 2001, also include the references cited in the bibliography of the source article. Each individual reference may also have links to an abstract and/or to other papers that cite that reference; these links increase the possibility of finding more potentially relevant articles.

Social Work Abstracts Plus   N.A.S.W.   1977-             Updated Monthly
Contains records from more than 450 journal in the fields of social work and human services from 1977 to present. Coverage includes theory and practice, areas of service, social issues,and social problems. Also includes  The Register of Clinical Social Workers,  a searchable directory of clinical social workers in the United States. WWW Search Guide

Social Service Abstracts -  Cambridge Scientific Abstracts     1980-      Updated Monthly
Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services,and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,500 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.

Families in Society database - Alliance for Children and Families        1980-        Updated Monthly
Over 3,000 articles, commentaries, essays, editorials, field notes, research briefs, and book reviews back to 1980 from the journals Families in Society and its predecessor, Social Casework.

PILOTS (Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress) - 1871 -    Cambridge Sceintific Abstracts     Updated Monthly
The PILOTS database, produced by the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and to offer both current and retrospective coverage. More than 31,033 records are included as of February 2007

ERIC ( EBSCO Version)   - U. S. Department of Education    1966 -   Updated Monthly
ERIC®, the Educational Resource Information Center, is a national information system supported by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Library of Education, and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. It provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. This version provides access to the full text of articles from more than 540 journals indexed in ERIC plus the full text of more than 2,200 ERIC Digests along with  references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals. Search Guide

ERIC (CSA Version) - U. S. Department of Education    1966 -   Updated Monthly
Educational Resources Information Center database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide access to educational-related literature. The ERIC database corresponds to two printed journals: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Both journals provide access to some 14,000 documents and over 20,000 journal articles per year. In addition, ERIC provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.

Exceptional Child Education Resources - Council for  Exceptional Children  1969-2004   Closed File
This database was discontinued by the CEC after October 2004 and is no longer available online after  August 2006.

Mental Measurements Yearbook - Buros Institute 1989- (9th - 16th Yearbooks)  Updated Semi-Annually
Contains descriptive information and critical reviews of more than 2,000 commercially-available standardized English-language educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement and intelligence tests. Each entry includes test name and classification; author(s); publisher, publication date; price; time requirements; existence of validity and reliability data; score descriptions; levels; and intended populations. Contains the text of the Buros Institute's 9th - 16th Yearbooks.  WWW  Search Guide

Contemporary Women's Issues - Responsive Database Services     1992 -     Updated Monthly.
A multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from 150 mainstream periodicals, plus 2,000 sources for “gray” literature, and the alternative press with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women’s lives in more than 190 countries. CWI provides extensive international coverage of women’s issues with English-language titles from East and West Africa, Asia, and South and Central America, the Caribbean, North America and Europe.

Other Periodical Indexes and Databases

Academic Search Premier - Ebsco               1975-                    Updated Daily
The world’s largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database designed specifically for academic institutions. With a collection of 4,000 peer-reviewed, scholarly full text journals, this database offers critical information from many sources found in no other database. The database includes full-page images as well as color embedded images.  Scholarly, full text resources are provided for nearly all academic areas of study: social  sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts ? literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.  WWW  Search Guide

Academic Search Elite  -   Ebsco            1990-          Updated Daily
Covers a wide range of academic areas: business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science,education, multi-cultural and general reference including: Full text for over 1,000 journals, and abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals; Coverage of 1,700 peer-reviewed journals; and coverage of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Christian Science Monitor. WWW.  Search Guide

Academic OneFile - Gale                     1995-                                     Updated Daily
Contains more than 3,000 full text journals, including peer-reviewed journals and reference sources with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.  Search Guide

General OneFile  -  Gale                1980-                Updated Daily
Provides desktop access to more than 6,000 full text periodical titles including 121 wire services; full indexing of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor newspapers; and a total of more than 10,000 periodical titles with 25 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to present.  The database uses the same search engine as our other InfoTrac databases.  Content includes more than 508 million records from  periodical and news content and indexing from a variety of mainstream and specialized sources including refereed academic journals. WWW Search Guide

Expanded Academic ASAP– IAC                      1980-                Updated Daily
Access to 3,526 journals and magazines including 2,172 in full text. WWW. Search Guide

Child Abuse, Child Welfare, and Adoption Database           1965-               Updated Monthly
Contains over 22,300 citations and abstracts of professional literature, primarily of U.S. origin.  Includes books, journals, government reports, conference papers, state annual reports, curricula, and unpublished papers. Includes the Prevention Programs Database, The Treatment Directory, and the National Organizations Database. Contact the Reference Desk for Login information. WWW

Alcohol Studies Database - Rutgers University Center of Alcohol Studies     1987-
Searchable database containing bibliographic citations only for over 60,000 documents indexed by the Rutgers University Center of Alcohol Studies since 1987. The primary focus  is on research and professional materials dealing with beverage alcohol, its use and related consequences. In addition to the research and professional material, the database also includes a small collection of educational and prevention materials, including audiovisuals, suitable for students and educators K-12, parents, community workers, and the general public. Users may search by authors, keyword(s) in title, or subject headings.


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