Best Places to Start - Interdisciplinary Databases
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Academic Search Complete (Ebsco)Search more than 13,300 periodicals, including full text for nearly 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. It features a mix of interdisciplinary scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers and books. Temporary upgrade to Academic Search Ultimate courtesy of EBSCO ended June 30th, 2020
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Research Library (ProQuest)Search more than 5,000 titles—over 3,500 in full text. It features a mix of interdisciplinary scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.
Social Work Databases
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SocINDEX with/Full TextA comprehensive sociology research database with coverage of not only sociology, but also anthropology, criminal justice, economic development, ethnic and racial studies, gender studies, social psychology, social work, substance abuse and other areas. It provides indexing for more than 600 journals with full text available for more than 300 journals.
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Social Work AbstractsSocial Work Abstracts offers extensive coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1977. The database provides citations and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems.
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Social Sciences AbstractsCitations and abstracts in a wide range of interdisciplinary fields including addiction studies, anthropology, criminal justice, economics, public administration, geography, political science, and sociology
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PsycINFO (APA PsycINFO)Provides citations and abstracts of journal articles, books, dissertations and reports in the field of psychology and other related fields.
Streaming Video Collections
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Academic Video Online: PremiumA multidisciplinary collection of videos that touch on the curriculum needs of virtually every department.
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KanopySelected streaming media titles. As of 7/1/2019 access to Kanopy is now mediated. For additional information see: Access Changes to Kanopy
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Psychotherapy.net Streaming VideoOver 300 educational training videos covering a wide range of modalities, theoretical approaches, and populations Includes the "Psychotherapy & Counseling Collections" and the "Social Work Collections."
Other Useful Databases
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Sage Research MethodsResources that assist researchers at all levels through the research process, from coming up with a research question, doing a literature review, planning a project, collecting and analyzing data and writing up a report, dissertation or thesis.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full TextCriminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text contains more than 200,000 records selected from the most important sources within the discipline. Subject areas covered include: criminology; criminal justice; criminal law and procedure; corrections and prisons; police and policing; criminal investigation; forensic sciences and investigation; history of crime; substance abuse and addiction; probation and parole
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Gender Studies DatabaseGSD includes content from Women Studies International, Men’s Studies and LGBT scholarship from a variety of sources including links to carefully selected website.
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Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)Access to information about measurement instruments in medical, behavioral, and social sciences. Includes citations to some actual test documents; bibliographic citations to journal articles containing information about specific test instruments; and a catalog of commercial test publishers and their available instruments.
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Issues & ControversiesSummarizes current issues and controversies in political, economic, social and scientific topics. From Facts on File.
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Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in printMental Measurements Yearbook provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.
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PsycARTICLESFull text access to 41 journals from the American Psychological Association.
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RefWorksRefWorks is a powerful online research management, writing and collaboration tool designed to help researchers at all levels easily gather, organize, store and share all types of information and to instantly generate citations and bibliographies. With RefWorks you can:
Create your own database of references
Export references from article databases and from the Web
Collaborate with others
Generate citations and bibliographies
Use a Word plug-in to format your citations and bibliography as you write
RefWorks is available to all SU users through the Library's online subscription.
To access the legacy Refworks interface, use this link.
Reference Books Online
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CQ ResearcherGood starting point for research on "hot topics" in the news including science, education, politics and economics.
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International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral SciencesContains articles on a wide array of social and behavioral science topics including economics, sociology, and psychology.
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Issues & ControversiesSummarizes current issues and controversies in political, economic, social and scientific topics. From Facts on File.
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Sage KnowledgeFull text reference works published by Sage Publisher.
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