Social Work & Sociology
SocIndex with Full-Text
The world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. SocINDEX with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others. In addition, SocINDEX with Full Text features over 10,000 Author Profiles covering the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 428 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1908, and 163 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 735 books and monographs, and full text for 6,785 conference papers.
Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database contains indexing for over 8,000 publications covering virtually every area of academic study. More than 3,600 of these are peer-reviewed, full text journals.
· Coverage: 1975 - (for more than 100 of the journals)
· Type: citations, abstracts and full-text
ArticleFirst - OCLC
Contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of journals in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Allows you to limit your search results to a specific library's holdings (e.g. Redeemer's or McMaster's).
· Coverage and update frequency: Jan. 1990-; daily
· Citations
WorldCat Database (the OCLC Union Catalog)
The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 48 million bibliographic records representing books and other materials (but not journal articles) in 400 languages. Covers information back to 2100 B.C. Includes holdings information from libraries across the world as well as records describing selected internet resources. Includes the
Library of Congress Subject Headings as its thesaurus. Allows you to limit your search results to a specific library's holdings (e.g. Redeemer's or McMaster's).
· Coverage and update frequency: back to approx. 2100 B.C.; daily
PsycArticles- American Psychological Association
The
PsycArticles database includes full text for all journals published by the American Psychological Association.
· Type: full text
PsycInfo- American Psychological Association
The
PsycInfo database from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,100 periodicals in more than 25 languages.
Ageline [AARP site]
Citations and content summaries of books, journals, magazine articles, research reports and videos about older adults and aging.
· Coverage: 1978 - (with selected coverage from 1966-1977)
CBCA (Canadian Business & Current Affairs): Full Text Business
Provides fulltext access to Canadian industry, trade and professional periodicals and newsletters, as well as books, newspapers, company filings, directories, government documents and research reports. It also includes fulltext editorial records from three of Canada's business newspapers: National Post, Daily Commercial News, and Northern Miner.
· Coverage: 1996-
· Type: Citations and full text
IDRC (International Development Research Centre): Biblio
The library of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). The IDRC is a public corporation created by the Canadian government to help communities in the developing world find solutions to social, economic, and environmental problems through research; "science for humanity."
·1 Coverage: 1965-
·2 Type: citations with some full text
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (U.S.)
This database includes summaries of U.S. Govt. documents, books, articles and other resources related to: corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, domestic preparedness, and victims of crime.
·3 Coverage: 1970-
·4 Type: citation index / full text
Population Index
Population Index, published since 1935, is the primary reference tool to the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics.
·5 Coverage: citation index and abstracts
·6 Type: 1986-
Television News Archive - Vanderbilt University
"The world's most available, extensive and complete archive of television news. Since 1968, the Archive has consistently recorded, indexed, and preserved network television news for research, review, and study. The Archive offers: loans of duplicated tapes, loans of compiled tapes and in-archive viewing."
·7 Coverage: 1968-
·8 Type: citations and abstracts