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Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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The primary database for Social Work research. Focuses on social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, and community development. Includes articles from over 1,300 journals as well as dissertations and book reviews. Coverage: 1979-present. Terms of Use
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The largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Included is information on the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Contains citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s as well as book chapters, books, and dissertations. It is produced by the American Psychological Association (APA).
Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Includes over 600 periodicals and scholarly journals in all areas of the social sciences. Coverage of indexing: 1983-present; full-text: 1995-present. 99 simultaneous users.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to literature in sociology & related disciplines, both theoretical and applied. Covering sociological topics in fields such as anthropology, economics, education, medicine, community development, philosophy, demography, political science, and social psychology. Coverage: 1974 to the present.
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Subject Specific Databases

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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This resource includes bibliographic records and full text covering essential areas related to criminal justice and criminology. The increasing globalization of criminology is reflected with coverage of hundreds of journals from around the world.
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ERIC (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Core database in education with citations and abstracts of journal articles, books, research reports, conference papers, technical reports, policy papers, and other education-related materials. Coverage: 1966-present. Terms of Use
CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
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Provides indexing for more than 5,300 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health and contains records dating back to 1937. It covers the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. 30 simultaneous users. Terms of Use
PTSDPubs (formerly PILOTS) This link opens in a new window
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(Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress) Citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Produced by the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Coverage: 1871-present.
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PsycTESTS This link opens in a new window
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A repository of ready-to-use tests and measures from the APA. International in scope, this resource provides access to thousands of actual test instruments relevant to psychology and related fields, such as psychiatry, education, medicine, business, social work and more, most of which are available for immediate download and use in teaching and research. A source of structured information about tests and while focused on contemporary instances of test use, has coverage that spans more than a century.
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Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments in psychology, education, business, and leadership. Produced by Buros Institute, University of Nebraska. Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. Coverage: 1988-present. 4 simultaneous users
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Multi-Disciplinary Databases

SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new window
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Online access to journals published by SAGE Publications in a broad range of disciplines including business, humanities, medicine, social sciences, science and technology.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Online access to core scholarly journals in business, education, health, arts & humanities, life sciences, literature, physical sciences, and social sciences. Coverage begins with the first issue of each journal.
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Includes: Arts & Sciences 1-15, Business 2-4, & Life Sciences
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
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How to Use Google Scholar off-campus Provides access to scholarly sources across many disciplines including articles, theses, books, etc. from a variety of publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Links to full-text when available.

Journals and Magazines

New Social Worker Online
The Advanced Generalist: Social Work Research Journal
The Advanced Generalist: Social Work Research Journal is an online-only peer reviewed student, practitioner, and faculty research journal produced by the WSU School of Social Work.
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