- 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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- PsycINFO
Scholarly articles in psychology. Includes medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, social science, and organizational behavior. From the American Psychological Association.
1872-present.
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Covers the academic, research and practice literature from over 45 countries in more than 30 languages. PsycINFO includes relevant materials from related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, social science, and organizational behavior.
Indexes journals, dissertations, book chapters, books, technical reports, and other documents.
Subjects:
- Business (advertising & marketing)
- Communication Sciences
- Education
- Medicine
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
- Sociology
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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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- 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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