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Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Internet Database Service

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ERIC

Educational Resources Information Center represents the most complete bibliography of educational materials available since 1966. The ERIC database is a guide to published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics, with information from RIE (Resources in Education) and CIJE (Current Index to Journals in Education). CIJE covers over 1,000 journals.

PsycINFO (1887 to present):

PsycInfo contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linquistics, anthropology, business, and law. Journal coverage includes international material selected from more than 1300 periodicals written in over 25 languages. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English language material published from 1987 to the present. The database is updated monthly.

Social Services Abstracts (1980 to present):

Social Services Abstracts 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 in over 25 languages and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews. The database is updated monthly.

Sociological Abstracts (1963 to present):

Sociological abstracts contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in the fields of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Disciplines include religion and science, social psychology and group interaction, studies in violence and power, substance abuse and addiction, and many other areas. Journal coverage includes international material selected from more than 1300 periodicals written in over 25 languages. Abstracts included since 1974. Many articles since 2001 include sources cited. The database is updated monthly.

EBSCOhost

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Alt-Health Watch

Alt HealthWatch focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries an immediate resource of full text articles, from more than 170 international, and often peer reviewed, reports, proceedings, association and consumer newsletters.

OCLC FirstSearch

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Alternative Press Index 1991-present

Alternative Press Index Archive 1969-1990

Comprehensive guide to alternative sources of information: international, interdisciplinary and in-depth coverage in the humanities and social sciences. Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines.

ArticleFirst Database

Contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the tables of contents pages of approximately 12,600 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Each record describes one article, news story, letter, or other item.

Clase Periodica

An index of Latin American journals in the humanities, sciences and technology. Publications in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English from twenty-four countries.

ERIC

Educational Resources Information Center represents the most complete bibliography of educational materials available since 1966. The ERIC database is a guide to published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics, with information from RIE (Resources in Education) and CIJE (Current Index to Journals in Education). CIJE covers over 1,000 journals.

GPO Monthly Catalog

Consists of records published by the GPO since July 1976. Includes references to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and more.

MEDLINE

Covers all areas of medicine, including clinical medicine, experimental medicine, dentistry, nursing, health services administration, nutrition, and much more. Indexes over 3,900 journals (most with abstracts). Now includes a backfile covering 1965-1984, increasing the coverage to 1965-present. (Also available at CIIS through WebSPIRS.)

PapersFirst

Provides access to individual papers presented at conferences worldwide. A major research aid covering every congress, symposium, exposition, workshop, and meeting added to The British Library Document Supply Centre's (BLDC) vast proceedings collection since October 1993.

ProceedingsFirst

Provides tables of contents of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Each record contains a list of the papers presented at each conference. Like its companion, PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst provides access to The British Library Document Supply Centre's vast collection of conference proceedings.

Wilson Select Plus

Indexes and abstracts over 800 high-quality periodicals. It is comprised of records from Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts, and Wilson Business Abstracts.

World Almanac

Includes some full text of all of the Almanac titles: The World Almanac, providing key facts on a wide variety of subjects internationally; The World Almanac of the U.S.A. with essential facts about the United States-current and historical; The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, a guidebook to federal, state, and local governments; and TheWorld Almanac for Kids, covering information and facts of interest to middle-school children and teachers.

WorldCat Database

The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with 40 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages. Covers information back to the 11th Century. Includes holdings information from the world's libraries.

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ProQuest Direct

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GenderWatch

A full text database of 140 international publications plus reports, pamphlets, papers and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues. Archival material dating back to the mid 1970's.

ProQuest Psychology Journals

Nearly 300 academic journals in psychology and related fields, all in full text.

PsycArticles

Includes over 28,000 full-text articles from 43 peer reviewed journals and chapters from selected APA books. Journal issues available from 1988 to present.

Religious Periodicals

Coverage of religious affairs and religious thinking from the top periodicals.

Research Library Complete

Over 2500 journals, magazines and newpapers in a broad range of general reference subjects including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.

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WebSPIRS
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WebSPIRS tutorials provided by Ovid

AOL Users: WebSPIRS Technical Support recommends that, once you establish a dialup or other connection to AOL, you open a separate Internet Explorer browser to access WebSPIRS.

Medline (1966 to present)

MEDLINE is the bibliographic database of the National Library of Medicine. It is the primary source in the United States for information from the biomedical literature, containing references to articles from more than 3500 journals. Catagories covered in MEDLINE include biological sciences, psychiatry and psychology, health care and others. The database is international in scope; approximately 75% of the citations are published in English.

Mental Measurements Yearbook (1989 to present)

MMY contains fulltext information about and reviews of all English language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks

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