Guide to Human
Sciences Research
Databases
Databases
American Factfinder from the
U.S. Census Bureau
CAB Abstracts
Covers
the significant research and development literature in the
fields of agriculture, forestry, human health and nutrition,
animal health, and the management and conservation of natural
resources.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for
Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services that provides access to print and electronic
publications, websites and online databases covering a wide
range of topics including child welfare, child abuse,
neglect, adoption, search and reunion and much more.
CINAHL
(Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature).
This bibliographic database covers over 1,175 nursing and
primary journals in more than a dozen allied health disciplines.
Consumer Health Complete
Consumer Health Complete is designed to support patients'
information needs and foster an overall understanding of
health-related topics.
Current Contents
Contains the tables of contents and abstracts of articles from
thousands of journals. Current Contents is available on
WebSPIRS.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Provides full text access online
to articles in journals in a variety of disciplines.
Dissertation Abstracts International
This resource provides a subject, title, and author guide to
over 1.2 million doctoral dissertations and masters theses
written since 1861.
EBSCO
MegaFile
A database that includes
multi-disciplinary peer
reviewed journals, company profiles, business news.
EconLit
An index to articles in economics and related
journals published by the American Economic Association.
ERIC
The premier national database that provides indexing and
abstracts of educational literature from 1966 to the present. It
lists journal articles (EJs) and ERIC documents (EDs) including
research reports, project and technical reports, curriculum
guides, and more.
HaPI
Health and Psychosocial
Instruments provides access to information on measurement
instruments in the health fields, psychosocial sciences,
organizational behavior, and library and information science.
HAPI assists researchers in finding measures needed for research
studies, grant proposals, client/patient assessment, class
papers/projects, theses/dissertations, and program evaluation.
JSTOR
Provides electronic full text/image access to the back issues of
more than 125 scholarly journals in many fields including
education, sociology and anthropology.
Lexis Nexis Academic
Indexes and provides full-text articles from newspapers,
periodicals, business and legal publications.
Lexis Nexis Congressional
Comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information from
Congressional Information Service, Inc.
Lexis Nexis Statistical
An index to statistical data produced by the U.S. government;
important international intergovernmental organizations; and
knowledgeable professional and trade organizations, business
organizations, commercial publishers, independent research
organizations, state government agencies, and universities.
MarciveWeb DOCS
Provides citations to United States government publications from
July 1976 to the present.
Medline/PubMed
This National Library of Medicine database is the the premier
bibliographic database for medical journal literature.
Ovid
Provides full text access to over
250 journals in pharmaceutical, medical and health related
journals. Premier databases include CINHAL, MedLine, EBM
Reviews, Books@Ovid, Journals@OvidFullText, and YourJournals@OvidFullText.
ProQuest
ProQuest provides access to several different
bibliographic and full-text databases covering a wide variety of
disciplines and topics. The Social Sciences Module and the
Research Library Core are probably the most useful for
sociology. However other modules may be appropriate for certain
topics. Many full-text journal articles are provided.
PopLine through
Infoforhealth.org
Info For Health is the
knowledge sharing project for reproductive health from Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School Public Health. The site includes
PopLine as well as other searchable databases. PopLine
is a searchable database for citations to reproductive
health periodical literature.
PsycINFO
This American Psychological Association database covers journal
articles, book chapters, and book literature in psychology, as
well as psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as
sociology, education, anthropology, and others. It contains
citations with abstracts to journals, books, and book chapters
in psychology and the behavioral sciences.
Sage Full Text Journals- Full text
discipline specific research databases in
Communication Studies, Criminology, Education,
Health Sciences, Management & Organization Studies, Materials
Science, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Urban
Studies & Planning published by SAGE Publications and
participating societies.
Sociological Abstracts
The Sociological Abstracts database indexes and provides
abstracts for journal articles from sociology and related
disciplines. In addition, it covers relevant association papers
and PhD and Master's theses. Older journal articles are also
covered in the paper Sociological Abstracts shelved on
the library's main floor in the Abstracts & Indexes area
(305.So15).
Social Services Abstracts
Indexes the literature of social services from 1980 to the
present..
Web of Science
Multidisciplinary database of
citations and abstracts from journal literature includes
Arts & Humanities Index,
Social Science Citation Index, 2001-present and Science
Citation Index Expanded, 1992-present. |