Guide to Human Development and Family Studies Research
Databases, Indexes and Abstracts

Databases

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.

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 Academic Search Premier

A database that includes peer reviewed journals, Academic Search Premier provides full text access to over 4,600 periodicals some as far back as 1975. Over 8,000 journals are indexed. Full text coverage includes a wide variety of disciplines: biology, chemistry, engineering, humanities physics, psychology, religion, sociology, to name a few.

ERIC via CSA

ERIC on the Web
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 sociology and anthropology.

Lexis Nexis Academic Universe.
Indexes and provides full-text articles from newspapers, periodicals and legal publications.

Lexis Nexis Congressional Universe.
Comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information from Congressional Information Service, Inc.

Lexis Nexis Statistical Universe.
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.
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.

Sociological Abstracts. (1963+, via CSA)
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. (1980+, via CSA)
Indexes the literature of social services from 1980 to the present..

Web of Science

Multidisciplinary database of citations and abstracts from journal literature includes Social Science Citation Index, 2001-present and Science Citation Index Expanded, 1992-present.

Paper Resources

Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography ( 1927-1998)
Abstracts of  professional periodicals and book reviews related to the growth and development of children. Abstracts & Indexes area (136.7016 .C437)

Education Index (1952+1998)
Indexes more than 339 scholarly/professional journals covering most areas of education including broader societal conditions that affect education. Abstracts & Indexes area (370.5 .Ed81)

Exceptional Child Education Resources (1969-2001)
Abstracts of  journal articles related to handicapped and gifted children. Abstracts & Indexes area (371.905 .Ex21).

Family Index. (1995-1997)
An annual cross-disciplinary index covering articles related to family from several hundred journals. Shelved on the library's main floor in the reference collection Reference (HQ1 .F36).

Human Resources Abstracts. (1967+2001)
Formerly Poverty and Human Resources Abstracts. This interdisciplinary resource covers human, social, and manpower problems and solutions. Topics range from slum rehabilitation and job development training to compensatory education, minority group problems, and rural poverty. Abstracts & Indexes area (339.4605.P869)

International Bibliography of Anthropology. and International Bibliography of Social and Cultural Anthropology (1956+2000)

This annual bibliography provides access to worldwide social, political, and anthropological literature. Reference (HM51.A11I5).
 

Inventory of Marriage and Family Literature. (1900-1994)
Formerly the International Bibliography of Research in Marriage and the Family.  This title indexes marriage and family literature from journals in family science and allied fields. Volumes 17-20 also cover books. The library holds this resource from volume 1, 1900-1964, to volume 20, 1993/94. Shelved on the library's main floor in the reference collection (Ref HQ728 .I59).

Population Index. (1937-2000)

This bibliography covers the world's demographic and population literature, including books, journal articles, working papers, doctoral dissertations, and other types of materials. Abstracts & Indexes area (312.05.P819).

Psychological Abstracts (1927-1997)
Includes scholarly information related to psychology. Abstracts (150.5 .P959.01).

Sage Family Studies Abstracts (1979-2000).
Selectively covers journal articles, speeches, research, etc., in this field. Abstracts & Indexes area (301.4205 .SA18).

Women Studies Abstracts. (1973+2000)
A multidisciplinary guide to scholarly women's studies material. Abstracts & Indexes area (016.30141205.W84).

Women's Studies Index. (1989+2001)
A multidisciplinary index to 65 academic and popular periodicals of interest to women's studies. Shelved on the library's main floor in the reference collection Reference (HQ1180.W64).