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A-Z Database List - WSU Libraries'
Find the best library databases for your research. You may filter by subject, material types, and disciplines to find databases that provide resources related to your interests and topics.
Library Homepage (use the SmartSearch Advanced Search option)
Probably your BEST PLACE to begin - SmartSearch Discovery tool searches the library catalog as well as hundreds of databases (BUT NOT ALL!) and its features and filtering tools can help you discover the best search terms for locating relevant articles on your topic.

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NexisUni, formerly LexisNexis Academic, Includes access to over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical and reference publications (most full-text, the rest abstracted), primarily newspapers, magazines and journals. Covers local, regional and international newspapers (in English and non-English languages). Includes broadcast transcripts, case law, legal codes, regulations, Shepard's Citations to Supreme Court cases (back to 1789), company financial information, and SEC filings and reports.
HeinOnline: Government, Politics and Law This link opens in a new window
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For government documents, legal cases, and more related to research ethics and federal reports - HeinOnline is great
Trial ends October 2018. Purchased in Nov 2018
ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window
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Citations and abstracts of articles in thousands of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers in over 150 academic disciplines. Includes full-text access to over half of the journals. Coverage: 1971-present.
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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.
SciTech Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
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Databases in the SciTech Premium Collection include: Agricultural & Enviornmental Science Database (1946-Present), Biological Science Database (1946-Present), and Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database (1950-Present), Medline (1946-Present), Materials Science & Engineering Database (1965-Present), and Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database (1962-Present). Terms of Use
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
Scopus This link opens in a new window
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Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Terms of Use
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
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The American Psychological Association's (APA) resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations. It is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health, and contains citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s. 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.
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PubMed (Medline) This link opens in a new window
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Citations, abstracts, and some full-text from thousands of biomedical journals published worldwide in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences. Coverage: 1966-present.
ERIC (ProQuest) 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.
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GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources) This link opens in a new window
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This database focuses on the physical, social, and economic aspects of environmental issues. Topic, organization, and country portals form research centers around issues covering energy systems, health care, agriculture, climate change, population, and economic development. Portals include authoritative analysis, academic journals, news, case studies, legislation, conference proceedings, primary source documents, statistics, and rich multimedia.
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IEEE Xplore Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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IEEE All-Society Periodicals Package (ASPP) provides access to the IEEE core collection of engineering, electronics, and computer science periodicals. Including 174 IEEE online society-sponsored journals, transactions, and magazines; peer-reviewed publications, concentrating on theoretical and experimental papers; quality magazines focusing on practical applications in research, design, and specification; backfiles to 2005; and INSPEC abstract/citation and bibliographic records.
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IEEE can be accessed from off campus with your mobile device. The instructions on how to do this can be found at http://libraries.wichita.edu/remoteaccess.
IEEE now has an IEEE Xplore Image Search App for iPads. It contains over 1 million images from IEEE journals which can be browsed or searched then saved or emailed. Authorized users can access full text articles and download them to their iPad. The free download is available in the App store: http://bit.ly/1c60lFH

SAGE Research Methods This link opens in a new window
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Consult this database for IRB information, research ethics and methods, and any elements of research that you wish to conduct or don't understand in the research you are studying or conducting. 1000s of handbooks, encyclopedias, textbooks, case studies, and other guides for conducting and understanding research processes.
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SAGE Research Methods Cases This link opens in a new window
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A collection of case studies of real social research. They are designed to complement your theoretical understanding, at all levels, by exploring the difficulties, nuances and real-life decisions that researchers face. It is developed for use in class teaching or by students and researchers seeking applied understanding of research methods. Each case is equipped with learning outcomes and discussion questions.
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Institutional Review Board Written Procedures: Guidance for Institutions and IRBs
This guidance has been prepared jointly by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). To enhance human subject protection and reduce regulatory burden, OHRP and FDA have been actively working to harmonize the Agencies’ regulatory requirements and guidance for human subject research. This guidance is intended for institutions and institutional review boards (IRBs) responsible for review and oversight of human subject research under the HHS and FDA regulations.

IRB - Ethics and Human Research by IRB
Call Number: Electronic Journal
Publication Date: continuous
Ethics & Human Research (formerly IRB: Ethics & Human Research) aims to foster critical analysis of issues in science and health care that have implications for human biomedical and behavioral research, including developments that bring new challenges to existing ethical, regulatory, and policy frameworks governing research with humans in the United States and elsewhere. Six issues are published each year, containing an assortment of commentaries, case studies, peer-reviewed scholarly articles, and book reviews.
IRB advisor by American Health Consultants
Call Number: Electronic Journal
Publication Date: current

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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Research Methods by Nicholas Walliman
ISBN: 9780415489911
Publication Date: 2010-12-18
100 Questions (and Answers) about Survey Research by Erin Ruel
Call Number: Electronic book
ISBN: 9781506348827
Publication Date: 2018-11-29
Ethics in Research by Ian Gregory
ISBN: 0826464777
Publication Date: 2003-12-01
The ethics of research with human subjects : protecting people, advancing science, promoting trust by Resnik, David B.
ISBN: 3319687565
Publication Date: 2018
Research Ethics in the Real World by Martin Johnson; Tony Long
ISBN: 9780443100659
Publication Date: 2007-03-08
Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods by Paul J. Lavrakas
Call Number: Electronic book
ISBN: 9781412918084
Publication Date: 2008-09-12
An Introduction to Fully Integrated Mixed Methods Research by Elizabeth G. Creamer
ISBN: 9781483350936
Publication Date: 2017-03-15
Qualitative Research Methods by Pranee Liamputtong
ISBN: 9780195551433
Publication Date: 2009-08-03

Subject Specific Databases

To get even more specific with your searching, you will want to use a disciplinary database such as ERIC (for education) or PsycINFO (for psychology). Using these databases individually will allow you to use advanced search features, specific to that subject, to find the most relevant articles. Use the "Subject" menu on the Databases A-Z list to find the best databases in your topic's discipline.

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