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The following is a list of online databases available in the Frederick Douglass Library to assist you with research in the Social Sciences.
| General | Psychology | Sociology | Additional Resources |
Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier provides full text for more than
3,430 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including
social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering,
language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic
studies.
CQ Researcher
Full-text database which provides history and background
information, relevant pro & con arguments, bibliographies, contact
information, and outlooks on "hot topics" in current events.
International Index to Black Periodicals
International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP)
includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from
over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the
U.S., Africa and the Caribbean - and full-text coverage of 40 core Black Studies
periodicals (1998 forward).
Lexis-Nexis Primary
Sources in History
Contains the full text of primary
source material on African-American history.
Library Literature & Information Science Abstracts (LISTA)
An index of more than 600 periodicals, plus
books, research reports and proceedings coverage includes librarianship,
classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval,
information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as
the mid-1960s.
Opposing
Viewpoints
Opposing Viewpoints Resource
Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven
Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan
Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information
on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics,
primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper
articles.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
The Mental Measurements Yearbook
provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing
instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to
experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a
complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology,
education, business, and leadership.
PsycARTICLES
PsycArticles contains more than 25,000 full text articles
from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied
organizations. Coverage includes general psychology and specialized basic,
applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
This database provides coverage of
more than 500 full text journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and
behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes,
anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
PsycINFO
PsycINFO contains more than one million citations and
summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical
reports, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which spans from
1887-present, includes international material selected from more than 1,700
periodicals in over 35 languages.
Social
Science Abstracts
Social Science Abstracts (H.W. Wilson) contains indexing for more than 520
publications, including such targeted publications as AIDS & Public Policy
Journal, Child Development, Feminist Review, and Journal of Drug Issues.
Tests in Print
TIP serves as a comprehensive
bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in
print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including
test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended
test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).
JSTOR
JSTOR contains full-text journals in arts and humanities.
PsycARTICLES
PsycArticles contains more than 25,000 full text articles
from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied
organizations. Coverage includes general psychology and specialized basic,
applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.
PsycINFO
PsycINFO contains more than one million citations and summaries of journal
articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in
the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which spans from 1887-present,
includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in
over 35 languages.
Social
Science Abstracts
Social Science Abstracts (H.W. Wilson) contains indexing for more than 520
publications, including such targeted publications as AIDS & Public Policy
Journal, Child Development, Feminist Review, and Journal of Drug Issues.
Social Service Abstracts
Bibliographic coverage of current research
focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social
welfare, social policy, and community development. Coverage 1979 to present.
Sociological Abstracts
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 non-evaluative abstracts of
journal articles.
Social Work Abstracts
This scholarly database is produced by the National
Association of Social Workers, Inc. and provides access to more than 45,000
records. It covers social work and related topics such as aging, AIDS,
child and family welfare, homelessness, substance abuse and more. Coverage
1977 to present.
For assistance with these databases, please consult a Reference Librarian.
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