MEDICAL & PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES

PsycINFO 1887 (Ebsco) Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]

PsycINFO , 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.

PsycARTICLES (Ebsco) Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]
PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 100,000 articles from 59 journals - 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (Ebsco) Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]
This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

Psychology Collection (SAGE Full Text Collection) Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]
 Psychology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full text of 35 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 37 years, and encompasses over 21,600 articles. It covers such subjects as Applied Psychology, Assessment, Child Development, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Cross-Cultural Psychology, Cultural Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology, Environmental Psychology, Family Studies, Group Work, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Language Acquisition, Latin American Studies, Learning Disabilities, Measurement, Neuropsychology, Personality, Philosophical Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychology of Diversity, School Psychology, Social Psychology, and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.

The searchable database consists of bibliographic records (indexed summaries or abstracts) as well as the complete text of each journal article. Every bibliographic record in the Collection links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format.

CINAHL [Ebsco] Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]

Includes abstracts of nursing and allied health articles from worldwide, scientific literature presented for the needs of health professionals. Includes abstracts of articles from nursing, allied health, biomedical, consumer health journals, and publications of the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing. Covers health care books, nursing dissertations, standards of professional practice, nurse practice acts and educational software. Although a bibliographic database, the CINAHL database continues to include selected original and full-text material. Full text is included for selected state nursing journals and some newsletters, standards of practice, practice acts, government publications, research instruments and patient education material. Coverage begins in 1982; currently over 1170 sources are included. The database contains over 4 million records. LINKS TO FULL TEXT MATERIALS IN OTHER SUBSCRIBED EBSCO DATABASES.

Health Sciences (SAGE Full Text Collection) Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]
Health Sciences: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full text of 26 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back to 1982, encompassing over 7,000 articles. It covers such subjects as nursing, social studies of health, nursing research, health services & administration, community / public health nursing, qualitative research, cultural studies, child psychiatry, transcultural psychiatry, adult health nursing, public health, public policy & public administration, health psychology, aging and gerontology, health communication, family studies, physiology, physical medicine & rehabilitation, pediatrics, holistic nursing, nursing theory, pediatric nursing, autism, mental disorders & learning disability, health education & health promotion, clinical psychology, developmental psychology, psychopathology, health evaluation, research methods & evaluation, dementia, and sociology of the family. The searchable database consists of bibliographic records (indexed summaries or abstracts) as well as the complete text of each journal article. Every bibliographic record in the Collection links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (Ebsco) Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides abstracts and indexing for more than 830 journals, of which 550 are availabile in full text. About 450 of the journals are peer-reviewed. This database includes Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1975.

Health and Wellness Resource Center (Gale)

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Provides access to information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, Prescription Drugs, etc. Sources include journals, books and Internet links.

PubMed Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related materials.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Includes multidisciplinary databases as well as information/news databases.

Wiley InterScience Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]

Blackwell Synergy titles are now included in the Wiley Interscience database. Blackwell Synergy contains the online versions of more than 870 scholarly journals published by Blackwell. As of July, 2008, nearly 885,000 full text Blackwell articles are included. Full text is available for all of these journals from at least 2001 (except for new journals) and coverage for some goes back to the 1970s. Listings and indexing on InterScience include ALL Wiley journals as well as the former Blackwell Synergy titles, but with few exceptions, only the Blackwell titles are availaible in full text.

CSA (Cambridge Scientific) Databases Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]
CSA databases include the following Sage full text collections: SAGE Materials Science, SAGE Communication Studies, SAGE Education Full-Text Collection, SAGE Management & Organization Studies, SAGE Nursing & Health Science, Political Science: A Sage-Full Text Collection, SAGE Criminology Full-Text Collection, SAGE Sociology Full-Text Collection, SAGE Urban Studies & Planning Abstracts and SAGE Psychology Full-Text Collection.

In addition, CSA provides access to: Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, ERIC, PAIS International, and Philosopher's Index.

Each of these databases can be selected from this link and are listed individually in the complete database list.

General OneFile (Gale) Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]

General OneFile includes more than 6,300 full-text titles, 400 major newspapers -- a total of nearly 11,000 titles in all with more than 20 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to present for selected titles. The database contains more than 87 million records including wire services covering agriculture, general news, broadcast news, government, business press releases, industry topics, sports and current events; indexing of The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor; and general interest magazines, refereed academic journals, business publications, technology periodicals, and specialty titles in law, health care and computers.

JSTOR Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]

Full text of over 1,200 core academic journals in most disciplines. Coverage starts with the first issue puiblished, and continues, ending 3-5 years before the current year. An additional year is journals published is added annually. The Libraries own current paper issues of many titles in the collections.

WilsonSelectPlus (FirstSearch) Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]

Wilson SelectPlus indexes and abstracts records with accompanying full-text periodical articles, many of which are linked to citations in other FirstSearch databases. Includes US and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines. Links to full-text articles. The database contains more that 1.1 million full-text articles from 2,100 journals.

SOCIAL ISSUES

EMPLOYMENT & WORKPLACE ISSUES
Includes: Impact of addiction in the workplace, EAPs, personnel counseling, business and economic issues.

Business Source Premier (Ebsco) Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]

Business Source Premier is a powereful business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost. The database includes thousands of  company profiles, country reports, industry and marketing reports and SWOT analyses.

To use the Enhanced Business Searching Interface, which incorporates additional search options, follow this link: search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx

Emerald Fulltext Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]
Emerald Fulltext is a collection of over 42,000 articles from over 100 management and information science journals, complete with full text archives back to 1994 and abstracts back to 1989. The database covers all major management disciplines from marketing, human resources management, library and information management and quality to operations management and more.

Management and Organization Studies (SAGE Full Text Collection) Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]
Management & Organization Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full text of 38 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 57 years, encompassing over 10,000 articles. It covers such subjects as: Business & Management, Organizations Studies, Management, Strategic Management and Business Policy, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Development, , Marketing, Analytical Marketing, Sociology, Sociology of Work, Public Policy and Public Administration, Hospitality, Travel and Tourism Management, Labor Economics, Industrial Relations, Small Business/Entrepreneurship, Organizational Communication and Interpersonal Communication. The searchable database consists of bibliographic records (indexed summaries or abstracts) as well as the complete text of each journal article. Every bibliographic record in the Collection links to the appropriate full text in PDF format.

LEGAL & POLITICAL ISSUES

Includes: legislation, law enforcement, criminal justice issues, court cases, political and diplomatic issues.

Criminal Justice Periodicals Index - CJPI (ProQuest) Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]
Criminal Justice Periodicals Index provides information on virtually any criminal justice topic, including corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and family law. 190 journals are indexed; coverage begins in 1981.

Criminology Collection (SAGE Full Text Collection) Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]
 Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full-text of 23 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 24 years, encompassing over 5,500 articles. It covers such subjects as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.

The searchable database consists of bibliographic records (indexed summaries or abstracts) as well as the complete text of each journal article. Every bibliographic record in the Collection links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format.

LegalTrac (Gale) Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]

LegalTrac™ provides indexing for approximately 875 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Each title included in LegalTrac™ is selected on the basis of criteria provided by a special advisory committee of the American Association of Law Libraries. LegalTrac™ also contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles

Westlaw Campus Research Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]
Campus Research™ is a research service for news, business and law-related information.It includes full-text information and access to both current and archived materials from thousands of news databases arranged geographically and topically, and law-related resources, including both primary law and analysis.

GOVERNMENTAL/STATISTICAL INFORMATION

Includes government agencies, government research, local(especially Michigan) information, and statistics.

FedStats Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]

FedStats, which has been available to the public since 1997, provides access to the full range of official statistical information produced by the Federal Government without having to know in advance which Federal agency produces which particular statistic. With convenient searching and linking capablilties to more than 100 agencies that provide data and trend information on such topics as economic and population trends, crime, education, health care, aviation safety, energy use, farm production and more, FedStats is your one location for access to the full breadth of Federal statistical information.

Health Statistics and Reports. Michigan Department of Community Health Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]
The Department of Community Health is responsible for the collection of information on a range of health related issues. The information is collected to monitor the general health and well-being of Michigan's citizens. These data are useful for health program development, targeting and evaluation of program progress. The information is used to identify emerging health issues and trends and can be made available for epidemiological research. Statistics are developed from the data collected to provide basic information on these health events in Michigan. The data are provided at the state, county and community level. Included are data on: Natality, Mortality and Other Vital Statistics; Communicable Diseases; Health Care Statistics; Community Health Information; Birth Defect Statistics; Cancer Statistics; Population Trends. Published reports of the Department are also available.

Science.gov Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]
Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development .

STAT-USA Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]
STAT-USA/Internet, a service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is the site for the U.S. business, economic and trade community, providing authoritative information from the Federal government. Data is collected from all government agencies. Full access to the data in the site requires a subscription.

EDUCATION

Includes substance abuse education; the impact of addiction on students.

Education Full Text (WilsonWeb) Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]

Indexes and abstracts over 625 education-related journals, starting in 1983, with full text starting in 1996. Encompasses all areas of concern to today's educators, including administration, teaching methods, and curriculum. Covers every age and sector of the educational community from preschool through college. Includes selected series and supplements and book review citations.

TOPICS | DATABASE HELP

PHARMACOLOGY

EVIDENCE-BASED MATERIALS

Cochrane Library Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]

Contains articles and cbstracts/citations from the following evidence- based medicine databases:

• The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Cochrane Reviews) Includes Complete Reviews and Protocols. [FULL TEXT]
• Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
• The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL)
• The Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews (Methodology Reviews)
• Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA)

CONFERENCES, PROCEEDINGS & REPORTS

Citation Machine Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]
The Citation Machine helps writers by formatting bibliographic citations in APA (American Psychological Association) and MLA (Modern Language Association) formats. A more complete service for using these formats, including notes, is RefWorks, also available in these database listings. Disclaimer: The Library system has made every effort to provide appropriate and accurate information to serve the research and writing needs of the University of Detroit Mercy community. The Library system is not liable for inaccurate or incomplete information delivered by the licensing vendors databases or summary information prepared herein from databases, more specifically:  for loss or damage to any research or personal work of a student, faculty member, or staff member should a citation be created improperly for a researcher' use or acceptance of the completeness of information provided on developing a citation  for the users violation of the U.S. Copyright Law in citing the content of any research or personal work . Please also note the disclaimer on the introductory page for The Citation Machine.

Full Text Journal Finder

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This website will link you to all individual journals or magazines which are Full Text in any UDM subscription database.

RefWorks Bookmark this on Delicious [BETA]

RefWorks is a web-based database and bibliography creator. RefWorks users can import references from online databases and use these references in writing their papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds.

See the Quick Start Guides and Tutorials for assistance using RefWorks.