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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.
ProQuest
Social Science Journals - ProQuest CSA
1990s-
Updated Daily
Provides access to a variety of social science journals. The database
includes over 510 titles, with more than 280 available in full text.
Coverage extends back to the early 1990s. Search
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The
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology - Blackwell Reference
2007
The reference for students, researchers, librarians, and academics
in the field. This 11-volume set includes 1800 entries written and edited
by an international team of the world's best scholars and teachers.
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.
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
& Behavioral Sciences Collection - Ebsco
1975-
Updated Daily
Provides 503 full text titles including 478peer-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
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NASW
Clinical Directory - NASW
Current Directory
Includes The Register of Clinical Social Workers, a searchable
directory of clinical social workers in the USA. Search
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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
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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
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Expanded
Academic ASAP– IAC
1980-
Updated Daily
Access to 3,526 journals and magazines including 2,172 in full text.
WWW. Search
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JSTOR-
Jstor Inc.
Coverage Varies
Updated Daily
A full-text collection in PDF format of retrospective issues from 162
scholarly journals of prime importance in their fields. Subject coverage
includes African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology
and Botany, Economics, Education, Finance, General Science, History,
Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population
/ Demography, Sociology, and Statistics. Dates of coverage: Varies
depending on journal title; most have a moving wall that excludes the most
recent 2-5 years of coverage. Search
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In
the First Person - Alexander Street Press
Current File Updated Quarterly
An index to letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narrative,
this database covers more than 2,500 collections of oral history from around
the world. With upcoming releases, the index will broaden to cover other
formats and the proprietary content in the Alexander Street collections.
The index points to 350,000 pages of full text and 3,500 collections—more
than a million pages of editorially selected materials spanning 400 years.
Links to full text in other Alexander Street databases.
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.