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ABI/INFORM Global
Articles in business, finance, management, accounting, advertising, banking, insurance, marketing, public administration, real estate, and telecommunications. 1991-current (fulltext); 1971-current (index & abstracts).
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- ProQuest ABI/Inform Global
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Indexes over 2700 business publications. Subject coverage includes:
- advertising and sales management
- banking
- business and management, including accounting and auditing economics
- electronic data processing systems and information science
- engineering management
- finance and financial management
- health care
- insurance
- law and taxation
- management science
- marketing
- personnel, employee benefits, and labor relations
- public administration and government
- real estate
- telecommunications
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Academic Search Premier
Scholarly journal articles and popular magazines covering all topics. A great database for beginning searches. 1980s-present (dates may vary).
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Topics include news and current events, politics, literature, communication science, business, medicine, psychology, the arts, and many more.
- Summaries of articles in over 8,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers
- Full-text of articles in over 4,000 journals
- Summaries of scholarly articles in over 6,000 journals
- Full-text of scholarly articles in over 3,000 journals
While subject-specific databases may offer more depth, this one may be more up-to-date.
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HAPI (Health & Psychosocial Instruments)

Citations to measurement instruments such as questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, and tests. 1985-current.
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Health and Psychosocial Instruments 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.
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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
Indexes scholarly articles in linguistics; language (speech sounds, sentence and word structure, meaning in language forms, spelling, phonetics); and speech, language, and hearing. 1973-current.
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Covers three fundamental areas: research in linguistics (the nature and structure of human speech); research in language (speech sounds, sentence and word structure, meaning in language forms, spelling, phonetics); and research in speech, language, and hearing pathology. Summarizes journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and reviews of books and other media Updated quarterly. Subjects:
- Anthropology
- Artificial Intelligence
- Communications
- Education
- Language
- Linguistics
- Neurology
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Mental Measurements Yearbook

Information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas. 1989 to present.
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For each test, the database provides the name of the test author, publication information, scoring information, and the number of the Mental Measurements Yearbook in which the test was described originally. The full text for each record includes an overview of the test, a description of the test materials and time needed, and one or more reviews of the test.
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
Indexes every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. 1861-present; full-text 1997 to present.
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- Dissertation Abstracts
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PsycArticles

Academic, research and practice literature in psychology and related disciplines. 1985-present.
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Covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research. Full-text journals include American Psychologist, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Educational Psychology, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and more.
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Psychiatry Online
Full-text books and journals in psychiatry. 1998-present.
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Access to
- APA Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders - (both comprehensive, and quick reference practice guidelines)
- DSM-IV-TR - the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and related tools
- PsychiatryOnline Journals - full content of each issue of five American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. (APPI) journals
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Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

Covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
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This database provides 575 full text publications, including 550 peer-reviewed titles. Updated daily via EBSCOhost.
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Psychology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection

Full-text of 30 psychology journals covering Applied Psychology, Child Development, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Counseling Psychology, and Cross-Cultural Psychology. 1982-.
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Includes the full text of 30 journals published by SAGE. Covers Applied Psychology, Assessment, Child Development, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Cross-Cultural Psychology, Cultural Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology, Environmental Psychology, Family Studies, Group Work, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Language Acquisition, Latin American Studies, Learning Disabilities, Measurement, Neuropsychology, Personality, Philosophical Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychology of Diversity, School Psychology, Social Psychology, and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. A browseable, searchable list of journals in this collection is available here. A quick reference guide is available at http://www.csa.com/csa/support/sage_quickref.pdf
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PsycINFO
Scholarly articles in psychology, plus medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, criminology, social science, business, & organizational behavior. Search Tips! 1872-present.
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Covers the academic, research and practice literature -- including journal articles, dissertations, book chapters, books, technical reports -- from over 45 countries in more than 30 languages. From the American Psychological Association.
Subjects include:
- Business (advertising & marketing)
- Communication Sciences
- Education
- Medicine
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
- Sociology
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PubMed
Scholarly journal articles about health and medicine, nursing, audiology, and biology. Includes entire MEDLINE via EBSCO database plus more than 1 million additional life sciences article citations that are not in MEDLINE via EBSCO. 1950s-current.
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- Medline via PubMed
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PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier database of scholarly citations covering nearly 4,500 journals published in the U.S. and more than 70 other countries. New citations are added weekly. PubMed is more current than MEDLINE via EBSCO and in addition to providing access to MEDLINE, PubMed provides access to:
- The out-of-scope citations (e.g., articles on plate tectonics or astrophysics) from certain MEDLINE journals, primarily general science and chemistry journals, for which the life sciences articles are indexed for MEDLINE
- Citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing
- Some additional life science journals that submit full text to PubMedCentral(c) and receive a qualitative review by NLM.
Scopus

Scholarly journal articles with a heavy emphasis on science topics. A great database for high quality scholarly articles on any topic. International scope. Excellent for citation searching. 1996-present for citation searching; 1966 to present for general searching.
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Because UConn holds a license to Beilstein CrossFire, users can see summaries of compounds and reaction information in Scopus for any article that is also indexed in Beilstein Crossfire.
Using the Papers application from Mekentosj to search Scopus? Papers should prompt you for the Scopus ID (36298) when you do a Scopus search. If it doesn't, or if you need to change it, it go to Preferences, Plugins, Search Engines. Also, Papers can also be configured to use our off campus authentication system (EZproxy), so you might want to add http://ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/login?url=%@ in the "library proxy" box under "Preferences, Sources".
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Web of Science
Scholarly journal articles in the sciences, social sciences, arts & humanities. A great database for high quality scholarly articles on any topic. Excellent for citation searching. 1994- present.
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Science Citation Index

Subjects include:
- Agriculture
- Astronomy
- Biochemistry
- Biology
- Biotechnology
- Chemistry
- Computer Science
- Materials Science
- Mathematics
- Medicine
- Neuroscience
- Oncology
- Patents, when a patent is part of the record
- Pediatrics
- Pharmacology
- Physics
- Plant Sciences
- Psychiatry
- Veterinary Science & Zoology
Social Sciences Citation Index
Subjects include:
- Anthropology
- History
- Information Science & Library Science
- Law
- Linguistics
- Philosophy
- Political Science & Industrial Relations
- Psychiatry & Psychology
- Public Health
- Social Work & Sociology
- Substance Abuse
- Urban Studies
- Women's Studies
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Subjects include:
- Art & Architecture
- Archaeology
- Asian Studies
- Classics
- Dance
- Folklore
- History
- Language & Linguistics
- Literature & Literary Reviews
- Music
- Philosophy
- Poetry
- Radio, Television, & Film
- Religion
- Theater
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WorldCat

Catalog of books, journals, DVDs, CDs, scores, and sound recordings from over 9,000 libraries. 40 million records representing 400 languages. Covers information back to the 11th Century. Includes items at the University of Connecticut Libraries. Request items not at UConn via Interlibrary Loan..
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WorldCat indicates if UConn owns the item, but it does not have UConn’s specific call numbers for books, music, and scripts, and it does not have any AV call numbers.
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