Recommended Databases
Access to journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA).
Coverage: 1894 - current
The
PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology as
well as specialized, applied, clinical and theoretical research. It includes all
journal articles, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Most APA
journals are available from Volume 1, Issue 1.
Includes most scholarly titles published by American Psychological Association.
Coverage: 1953 to 2006
PsycBOOKS contains more than 16,000 chapters in PDF
from over 1,000 books published by American Psychological Association (APA) and
other distinguished publishers. It also includes 100 out-of-print books
and a total of more than 400 classic books of landmark historical impact in
psychology along with more than 1,500 authored
entries from the APA/Oxford University Press
Encyclopedia of Psychology.
PsycBOOKS is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA’s Thesaurus of
Psychological Index Terms.
Content from journals, books, dissertations, and reports related to psychology.
Coverage: 1887 to present
From the American Psychological Association (APA),
PsycINFO contains nearly 2.3
million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters,
books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as
far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. The
database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related
fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education,
pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others.
Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material
selected from more than 2,100 periodicals in more than 25 languages.
Databases
Citations and abstracts addressing aging issues from the individual to the global.
AgeLine indexes over 600 journals, books, book chapters, reports,
dissertations, consumer guides, and educational videos.
Produced by AARP, AgeLine focuses exclusively on the
population aged 50+ and issues of aging. It includes aging-related content from
the health sciences, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, and public
policy. AgeLine also includes information for professionals working in
aging-related fields and for consumers. AARP generates original abstracts for
every citation, with index terms drawn from AgeLine's Thesaurus of Aging
Terminology.
Covers subjects such as aggression, learning, foraging and ingestion.
Coverage: 1982 - current
Under the editorial guidance of one of the world's leading ethologists,
Animal Behavior Abstracts surveys all of the important journals dealing
with the biology of particular taxonomic groups. Significant papers relevant to animal behavior,
with subjects ranging from neurophysiology to behavioral ecology, from genetics to applied ethology,
are covered. Both field and laboratory inquiries are summarized.
Analytic reviews within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences fields.
Coverage: 1996 - current
Annual Reviews synthesizes the vast amount of primary research literature and
identifying the principal contributions in 32 focused disciplines within the
Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Editorial committees comprised of
distinguished scholars in the discipline critically review, synthesize, and
filter the vast amount of primary research in specific disciplines. Each AR
article is written by authors who are recognized experts in the field. Each
article is its own search engine, providing a gateway to the essential primary
research literature referenced within each topic. These AR publications are
among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute
for Scientific Information® (ISI).
Collected information related to child welfare, abuse, neglect, and adoption.
Coverage: 1965 - current
Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to print and electronic publications, websites,
and online databases covering a wide range of topics related to child welfare, child abuse and neglect,
and adoption, search and reunion, and much more.
A national service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services, Child Welfare Information Gateway consolidates and expands upon the services
formerly provided by the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse and the National Clearinghouse
on Child Abuse and Neglect Information.
Indexing for 2,928 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health.
Coverage: 1982 - current
CINAHL offers complete coverage of English-language
nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the
American Nurses’ Association, covering nursing, biomedicine, health sciences
librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied
health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care
books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of
practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable cited
references for more than 1,170 journals are also included. Full text material
includes 70 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths,
drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.
Over 750,000 full text dissertations with abstracts for over two million.
Coverage: 1861 - current
Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written
by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts.
Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861, and
more than 60,000 new citations are added to the database every year. Over 1.9
million dissertations and theses are available from the UMI vaults on microfilm
or in hardcopy, and researchers can preview many recent titles electronically.
Where available, PQDT provides 24 Page Previews of dissertations and theses. In
addition, more than 750,000 are available for download in PDF format (Digital
dissertations and theses are archived as submitted by the degree-granting
institution. Some will be Native PDF, some PDF Image).
Citations for documents and journals relating to test instruments.
Coverage: 1985 - current
HaPI features material on unpublished information-gathering tools for clinicians
that are discussed in journal articles, such as questionnaires, interview
schedules, tests, checklists, rating and other scales, coding schemes, and
projective techniques. Over 2/3 of the tools are in medical and nursing areas
such as pain measurement, quality of life assessment, and drug efficacy evaluation.
In addition to medical measurement instruments, HaPI presents tests used in
medically related disciplines including psychology, social work, occupational
therapy, physical therapy, and speech & hearing therapy. Also included is a
catalog of commercial test publishers and their available instruments.
Citations and abstracts covering medicine, nursing, dentistry, and much more.
Coverage: 1860 - present
MEDLINE, created by the National Library of Medicine,
contains over 4 million records covering a broad range of medical topics
relating to research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and
health care services. It uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with
tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations
from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
Comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments.
Coverage: 1916 - 2006 (Yearbook 9 - current)
Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced
professionals, the
Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY)series contains
information for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas
as psychology, education, business, and leadership. All MMY entries contain
descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited
review(s) written by leading content area experts. To be included in the MMY, a
test must be commercially available, be published in the English language, and
be new or revised since it last appeared in the series. MMY provides coverage
from Volume 9 to the present.
Over 500 journals covering areas of medicine, the social sciences and much more.
Coverage: 1999 - current
The
Sage Premier eJournal Collection is particularly strong in areas of Health Care and Social Sciences,
but also covers the Life Sciences (biochemistry, endocrinology, neuroscience, and pharmacology);
the Physical Sciences (computer science, engineering, and materias science); along with the Humanities
(music, religion, international studies and language studies).
Search for books, journals and non-print materials.
Commercial tests and measures from journals and books available in UML Libraries.
Coverage: 1885 to 1999
MIT Press encyclopedias, handbooks, and other reference titles on Neuroscience.
Coverage: Publication dates 2001 - 2004
The
CogNet Library is a growing, searchable collection of books, journals, reference works, OpenCourseWare links and conference
materials. Content and resources are provided by The MIT Press and other publishers, professional associations, institutions,
and individuals who are willing to share public access to online work:
* Full-text of 6 MIT Press journals plus searchable abstracts of over 30 journals from other publishers.
* Full-text of 7 major reference works from the MIT Press.
* Over 450 full-text books in cognitive science from The MIT Press are included.
* Links to relevant MIT OpenCourseWare in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
* On-demand video relevant to the Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
In addition, CogNet contains a growing variety of helpful academic information: News, Profiles of Graduate Programs,
Graduate Application information and Funding Resources, Conference Schedules, Conference Proceedings, Virtual poster sessions,
Calls for Papers, Seminar Series, and Job Listings.
Ebooks covering topics in Psychology, Neuroscience, Linguistics, and much more.
Coverage: Publication dates 1992 - current
The
CogNet Library is a growing, searchable collection of books, journals, reference works, OpenCourseWare links and conference
materials. Content and resources are provided by The MIT Press and other publishers, professional associations, institutions,
and individuals who are willing to share public access to online work:
* Full-text of 6 MIT Press journals plus searchable abstracts of over 30 journals from other publishers.
* Full-text of 7 major reference works from the MIT Press.
* Over 450 full-text books in cognitive science from The MIT Press are included.
* Links to relevant MIT OpenCourseWare in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
* On-demand video relevant to the Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
In addition, CogNet contains a growing variety of helpful academic information: News, Profiles of Graduate Programs,
Graduate Application information and Funding Resources, Conference Schedules, Conference Proceedings, Virtual poster sessions,
Calls for Papers, Seminar Series, and Job Listings.
Four-volume set includes over 1,200 articles from over 700 expert contributors.
Coverage: third edition 2001
Signup for your own personal account so that you can create a personal bookshelf in order to
create and save highlights, notes, and more. Download the ebrary Reader in order to take notes, highlight, and use
other advanced features. Click on the help icon above for information on how to take advantage of the
many special features in ebrary.
Over 4,400 ebooks covering all major subject areas.
Coverage: Publication dates 1963 - current
NetLibrary eBook titles are searchable by using up to four
criteria including title, author, keyword, ISBN, or publisher plus limiting by
publication year and language. Individual titles can then be read online in the
Online Reader, browsed by table or contents, or keyword searched. Up to four
books can be held in the Reader simultaneously. Books cannot be read offline,
downloaded, or "checked out." The Reader is cleared at the end of each session.
By creating a free account, access is available from anywhere using your
personal login and titles can then be saved to your Favorites list.
Covers all branches of psychology with over 11,000 entries.
Coverage: second edition 2006
48 encyclopedias and handbooks covering the Social Sciences and Humanities.
Coverage: Publication dates 2002 - 2008
Sage eReference titles, including the
Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods,
can be searched together or separately by keyword or browsed by subject. Individual
titles have a Reader's Guide that combines entries into thematic categories. You can also limit searches by images, tables,
or sidebars. Subjects covered include African American Studies, Anthropology, Business and
Management, Criminal Justice, Economics, Education, Geography, Health, History, Politics, Psychology, Research Methods,
Social Issues, Sociology, and much more.
