Selected Databases

• Academic Search Complete

  Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)

  The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost. (Some fulltext)

• Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA)

  Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011

  Health services, social work, sociology and psychology - journal articlesThis database spans the literature of health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. The database abstracts and indexes over 500 journals and periodicals, from more than 16 countries. (Citation/abstract only)

• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

  Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)

  Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews contains full text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare. Data is evidence-based medicine and is often combined statistically (with meta-analysis) to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies, each too small to produce reliable results individually. (All fulltext)

• Education Research Complete

  Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)

  Education Research Complete is a full-featured online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals, as well as full text for more than 750 journals, and includes full text for more than 100 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers. (All fulltext)

• Health and Psychosocial Instruments

  Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)

  Provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. (Citation/abstract only)

• PILOTS: Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress

  Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011

  This bibliographic database, covering the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its provides citations and abstracts to the international literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events. (Citation/abstract only)

• Social Science Database

  Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011

  Social sciences - journal articlesThis database includes over 535 titles, with more than 310 available in full text. Disciplines represented range from anthropology, sociology, political science to communication, education, criminology, demography, economics and more. (Some fulltext)

• SocINDEX

  Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)

  This research database offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse and other addictions, and violence. (Some fulltext)

• Sociology Database

  Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011

  Sociology and social work - journal articlesThis database covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction and more. This collection provides full-text coverage of many core titles included in Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts. (Some fulltext)

• Wiley Online Library

  Service = Wiley

  Wiley Online Library hosts a multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It delivers integrated access to over 4 million articles from 1500 journals, almost 10,000 online books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases. (Some fulltext)

Selected eBooks

• Credo Reference: Social Sciences

  Service = Credo

  Search resources related to Social Sciences in Credo Reference, a customizable ready-reference solution for learners and librarians. Its full text, aggregated content covers every major subject from over 50 publishers of reference materials. (All fulltext)

• Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America

  Service = Cengage Learning

  Basic information about the history of social welfare in Canada, Mexico, and the United States to provide readers with information about how these three nations have dealt with social welfare issues, some similar across borders, others unique, as well as to describe important events, developments, and the lives and work of some key contributors to social welfare developments. (All fulltext)