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Getting Started:

  • Academic Search Elite
    Index to over 8 million articles published in over 3000 periodicals, including 2500 peer-reviewed journals representing all disciplines. Also includes the full-text of the artices from over 1500 peer-reviewed journals and 500 general periodicals.

  • Social Sciences Full Text
    Searches the abstracts (descriptions) of 700,000 articles published in 600 leading social science journals from 1984 to the present.


  • See also: Subject Guide to Social Work Resources

Most Comprehensive:

  • Social Services Abstracts
    Citations to and abstracts of articles published in social work journals from 1977 - present.

  • ERIC
    Citations and abstracts for research published in education journals and documents from 1966 - present. (Also available via FirstSearch.)

  • PsycINFO
    Citations and abstracts for research published in psychology journals (1887 - present), dissertations and select books (1987 - present).

  • Sociological Abstracts
    Citations and abstracts for research published in sociology journals and dissertations from 1963 - present.


Other Useful Databases:

  • Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Database
    Citations and abstracts for journal articles, books, dissertations, conference papers and proceedings, and reports from the 1960's - present.

  • Annual Reviews
    Includes full-text (1996 - present) and table of contents (1984-1995) of articles in the annual reviews of psychology, public health, and sociology.

  • Child Welfare Information Gateway: Library Search
    Citations and abstracts for journal articles, books, dissertations, conference papers and proceedings, and reports, compiled by the Child Welfare Information Gateway of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

  • Family Studies Abstracts ( via FirstSearch or EBSCO)
    Citations to and abstracts of articles, reports, books and other materials on policy, theory and research relating to the family, traditional and alternative lifestyles, therapy and counseling from 1999 - present.

  • PILOTS - Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress
    Describes a range of research on post-traumatic stress disorder.

  • Science Direct
    Includes the full-text of articles from several dozen psychology and sociology journals compiled by Elsevier, 2001 - present.

  • Substance Abuse, National Web Index
    Index to over two dozens of the most authoritative public interest and U.S. government web sites reagaring prevention, treatment, alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs.

  • Wiley InterScience
    Full-text of articles from over two dozen psychology journals compiled by Wiley.

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