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• Academic OneFile
  Scholarly journal articles and popular magazines covering all topics. A great database for beginning searches. 1980s-present (dates may vary).

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  • OneFile
  • Gale Academic OneFile

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  Covers

  • Periodicals -- General interest magazines; scholarly academic journals; business publications; technology periodicals; plus specialty titles in law, health care and computers
  • Newswires -- 89 wire services covering agriculture, general news, broadcast news, government, business press releases, industry topics, sports and current events from all over the world
  • Newspapers -- Indexes The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor

  This database was formerly a part of Infotrac Onefile.

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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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• AGELINE
  Summarizes articles in social gerontology (the study of aging in psychological, health-related, social, and economic contexts). 1978 to present.
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  Highlights include coverage of provision of health care to the older population and its associated costs and policies; and consumer, employment, and public policy issues. Material should interest researchers, health professionals, service planners, policymakers, employers, older adults and their families, and consumer advocates.

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• CINAHL Plus with Full Text
  Scholarly journal articles about nursing and allied health. Includes nursing interventions, management, education, theory, and history. Also includes allied health topics such as physical and occupational therapy. 1981-current.
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  CINAHL with Full Text (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) indexes over 950 English-language nursing and allied health journals and publications of the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing. Includes full-text for more than 580 journals. CINAHL also covers relevant materials from biomedicine, management, behavioral sciences, health sciences librarianship, education, and consumer health. Indexes books, book chapters, pamphlets, audiovisuals, dissertations, educational software, conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, nurse practice acts, critical paths, and research instruments. Subjects include:

  • Aging
  • AIDS
  • Cancer
  • Diseases
  • Healthcare
  • Medicine
  • Nursing
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Public Health
  • Rehabilitation

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• EconLit through EbscoHOST
  Indexes the international literature on economics. Topics include economic development, forecasting, and history; fiscal and monetary theory; business and public finance; international, health care, regional and urban economics, and more. 1969-current.
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  Produced by the American Economic Association, EconLit is the fundamental research tool in economics. The database covers the international literature on economics since 1969 and provides bibliographic citations, with selected abstracts, of journal articles, books, dissertations and working papers, as well as articles in collective works, such as conference proceedings, collected essay volumes and full text book reviews. Topics include economic development, forecasting, and history; fiscal and monetary theory; business and public finance; international, health care, regional and urban economics, and more. Subjects:

  • Business
  • Economics
  • Finance
  • Industry
  • Statistics

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• ERIC (via CSA)
  Indexes scholarly journals and magazines in all areas of education, from early intervention (birth to age three), preschool, K-12 (public and private), and higher education. Includes bilingual, special, gifted, and computer education. 1966 to present.
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  Some full-text available via UConn Links. Access via CSA interface. Search with Sociological Abstracts. Also includes child development, classroom techniques, computer education, counseling and testing, administration, arts and music education, and library science. Indexes unpublished documents such as curriculum guides, dissertations, opinion papers, conference proceedings, program descriptions, standards, and tests.

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• ERIC (via EBSCOhost)
  Indexes scholarly journals and magazines in all areas of education, from early intervention (birth to age three), preschool, K-12 (public and private), and higher education. Includes bilingual, special, gifted, and computer education. 1966-present.
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  Some full-text available via UConn Links. Access via EBSCO interface. Search together with PsycINFO or Academic Search Premier. Also includes child development, classroom techniques, computer education, counseling and testing, administration, arts and music education, and library science. Summarizes unpublished documents such as curriculum guides, dissertations, opinion papers, conference proceedings, program descriptions, standards, and tests.

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• LexisNexis News
  National and international newspapers, news transcripts from TV and radio, and company financial reports. 1980s-current.
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  Includes national and international newspapers, popular and general-interest magazines, economics and trade journals, company financial reports, and the 'Public Opinion Online' database, produced by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. See also LexisNexis Legal and LexisNexis Business Publication groups within LexisNexis News include:

  • Today's news
  • U.S. and International news
  • News transcripts from television and radio
  • Arts & sports information
  • Campus newspapers
  • Business news
  • Company financial information
  • SEC filings
  • Industry & market news and reports
  • Patents
  • Biographical information from Marquis Who's Who
  • Country profiles
  • Polls & surveys
  • Quotations
  • World Almanac

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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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• 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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• 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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• reQuest
  Catalog of books, journals, scores, sound recordings, DVDs, and more available at most Connecticut libraries (public, college, and university). Includes items at the University of Connecticut Libraries, and their call numbers. Current.
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  Data about UConn Libraries' holdings in reQuest may not include our most current items.
• 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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• Social Services Abstracts
  Summaries of current research on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. 1980-current.
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  Summarizes over 1,400 journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews. Topics include:

  • Community and mental health services
  • Crisis intervention
  • The family and social welfare
  • Gerontology
  • Poverty and homelessness
  • Professional issues in social work
  • Social and health policy
  • Social services in addiction
  • Social work education
  • Social work practice
  • Support groups/networks
  • Violence, abuse, neglect
  • Welfare services

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• Social Work Abstracts
  Summarizes articles in 450+ journals in all areas of social work, including theory and practice, areas of service, social issues, and social problems. 1966-current.
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  Subjects:

  • Alcohol Abuse
  • Crime
  • Gerontology
  • Psychology
  • Public Health
  • Social Issues
  • Social Sciences
  • Sociology
  • Welfare

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• Sociological Abstracts
  Scholarly journal articles about sociology and other social and behavioral sciences. Includes culture & social structure; economic development; evaluation research; family & social welfare; management and complex organizations; policy planning. 1963-present.
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  Some cited references included. Major areas of coverage include:

  • Culture and social structure
  • Demography and human biology
  • Economic development
  • Environmental interactions
  • Evaluation research
  • Family and social welfare
  • Health and medicine and law
  • History and theory of sociology
  • Management and complex organizations
  • Mass phenomena and political interactions
  • Methodology and research technology
  • Policy, planning, forecast and speculation
  • Radical sociology
  • Religion and science
  • Rural and urban sociology
  • Social development
  • Social differentiation
  • Social psychology and group interaction
  • Sociology of the arts, business, education
  • Studies in violence and power
  • Substance abuse and addiction
  • Welfare services
  • Women's studies

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• Westlaw Campus Research
  Due to budget cuts to state-funded library resources, access to Westlaw is no longer available to the University of Connecticut libraries. LexisNexis provides comparable news and legal content.
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  Due to budget cuts to state-funded library resources, access to Westlaw is no longer available to the University of Connecticut libraries. LexisNexis provides comparable news and legal content.

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• Women's Studies International (EBSCO)
  Core topics in women's studies as well as current topics in feminist research. Includes sociology, history, political science, public policy, business, and education. Indexes journals, newspapers, newsletters, books, proceedings, and dissertations. 1972-current.
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  Sources include: journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, important websites & web documents, and grey literature.

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