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- APA PsycInfo
Provides comprehensive coverage for the field of psychology. Contains abstracts from articles, books, book chapters, journals, dissertations, and other sources. Links to full text in PsycARTICLES. Coverage: 1806-. Format: Articles: Scholarly Journals
- Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science)
"Social Sciences Citation Index indexes over 1,700 journals in the social sciences including anthropology, communications, history, law, management, political science, psychology, sociology, and women's studies. It provides bibliographic data, author abstracts, and cited references. Social Sciences Citation Index is most useful for searching for articles that cite a known author or work. Citation searching also allows a researcher to use a given work as a subject term in order to identify more recent articles about the same topic." Coverage: 1956-. Format: Articles: Scholarly Journals
- Mental Measurements Yearbook
Contains descriptions of nearly 1900 commercially published standardized educational, personality, vocational aptitude, and psychological tests. Each record provides authors, publishers, time requirements, score descriptions, intended populations, validity/reliability data, and critical reviews. Coverage: 9th edition through present. Format: Encyclopedias & Reference
Articles: Newspapers & Magazines (5)
- ERIC (via EBSCO)
Citations and abstracts of journals on education and of related documents from the Educational Resource Information Center. Coverage: 1967-.
- ERIC (via ProQuest)
Citations and abstracts of journals on education and of related documents from the Educational Resource Information Center. Coverage: 1967-.
- ProQuest Education Database
ProQuest® Education Journals gives users access to over 900 top educational publications, including more than 600 of the titles in full text. The coverage spans the literature on primary, secondary and higher education as well as special education, home schooling and adult education. Many titles are indexed in the ERIC database. Coverage: 1988 - current.
- ProQuest Psychology Database
This database provides abstracts and indexing for more than 640 titles, with over 540 titles available in full text. Many titles are indexed in PsycINFO. Coverage ranges from behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial and social psychology, along with personality, psychobiology and psychometrics. Coverage: 1990-.
- SAGE Journals
Online access to over 600 peer-reviewed journals published by SAGE, including journals published on behalf of over 245 scholarly and professional societies. Covers a variety of topics, with particular emphasis on the social sciences. Coverage: Varies.
Articles: Scholarly Journals (14)
- APA PsycArticles
PsycARTICLES offers access to the complete electronic catalog of APA peer-reviewed journals, giving researchers the ability to explore more than a century of trusted research across the full collection.
- APA PsycInfo
Provides comprehensive coverage for the field of psychology. Contains abstracts from articles, books, book chapters, journals, dissertations, and other sources. Links to full text in PsycARTICLES. Coverage: 1806-.
- Criminal Justice Database
A database of U.S. and international criminal justice journals supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. Covers such areas as Criminology; Corrections & Law Enforcement; Criminal Justice; Addictions, Alcoholism, Gambling, Child Abuse; and Criminal Rehabilitation. Coverage: 1995-.
- ERIC (via EBSCO)
Citations and abstracts of journals on education and of related documents from the Educational Resource Information Center. Coverage: 1967-.
- ERIC (via ProQuest)
Citations and abstracts of journals on education and of related documents from the Educational Resource Information Center. Coverage: 1967-.
- Ethnic Diversity Source
Ethnic Diversity Source is a full-text database that covers the culture, traditions, social treatment and lived experiences of many ethnic populations in North America.
- ProQuest Education Database
ProQuest® Education Journals gives users access to over 900 top educational publications, including more than 600 of the titles in full text. The coverage spans the literature on primary, secondary and higher education as well as special education, home schooling and adult education. Many titles are indexed in the ERIC database. Coverage: 1988 - current.
- ProQuest Psychology Database
This database provides abstracts and indexing for more than 640 titles, with over 540 titles available in full text. Many titles are indexed in PsycINFO. Coverage ranges from behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial and social psychology, along with personality, psychobiology and psychometrics. Coverage: 1990-.
- ProQuest Social Science Database
This database offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work and sociology. Coverage: 1987-.
- PubMed
PubMed provides access to MEDLINE, a database of citations covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. Other services within PubMed include the Journal Browser, MeSH (Medical Subject Heading) Browser, Citation Matcher, and Clinical Queries. A user-friendly online tutorial is available at the site. PubMed also provides access to molecular biology databases in the National Center for Biotechnology Information s (NCBI) Entrez retrieval system with components for searching DNA and protein sequences, 3-D protein structure data, population study data sets, and assemblies of complete genomes. Coverage: 1946-.
- SAGE Journals
Online access to over 600 peer-reviewed journals published by SAGE, including journals published on behalf of over 245 scholarly and professional societies. Covers a variety of topics, with particular emphasis on the social sciences. Coverage: Varies.
- ScienceDirect
Access to over 1,000 full text journals published by Elsevier. Search individual title or browse multiple titles. Coverage includes Biochemistry and Biology, Business & Management, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering & Technology, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Mathematics & Computer science, Medicine & Pharmacology, Neurosciences, Physics, Social Sciences. Coverage: varies.
- Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science)
"Social Sciences Citation Index indexes over 1,700 journals in the social sciences including anthropology, communications, history, law, management, political science, psychology, sociology, and women's studies. It provides bibliographic data, author abstracts, and cited references. Social Sciences Citation Index is most useful for searching for articles that cite a known author or work. Citation searching also allows a researcher to use a given work as a subject term in order to identify more recent articles about the same topic." Coverage: 1956-.
- Web of Science
Contains three ISI Citation Databases (Science Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index), plus Biological Abstracts, Emerging Sources Citation Index, MEDLINE (PubMed), and the SciELO Citation Index, which together index over 8,000 peer-reviewed journals. Provides bibliographic data, author abstracts, and cited references. Useful for searching databases for articles that cite a known author or work. Citation searching also allows a researcher to use a given work as a subject term in order to identify more recent articles about the same topic. Coverage: 1945-.
Books & E-Books (1)
- Ethnic Diversity Source
Ethnic Diversity Source is a full-text database that covers the culture, traditions, social treatment and lived experiences of many ethnic populations in North America.
Encyclopedias & Reference (3)
- DSM-5 Library
Online edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5®), used by clinicians and researchers to diagnose and classify mental disorders. WFU access includes DSM-5, the DSM-5 Handbook of Differential Diagnosis, and DSM-5 Clinical Cases.
- Mental Measurements Yearbook
Contains descriptions of nearly 1900 commercially published standardized educational, personality, vocational aptitude, and psychological tests. Each record provides authors, publishers, time requirements, score descriptions, intended populations, validity/reliability data, and critical reviews. Coverage: 9th edition through present.
- Routledge Handbooks Online
Overviews of research and trends in the Social Sciences and Humanities. WFU access includes the following subject collections: Asian Studies; Communication, Journalism, Media & Culture; Environment & Sustainability; Law; Philosophy; Politics; Religion; Security Studies; and Sociology.
Primary Sources (1)
- Psychological Experiments Online
A multimedia resource that synthesizes the most important psychological experiments of the 20th and 21st centuries. The collection pairs audio and video recordings of original experiments (when existent) with primary-source documents. Includes exclusive and hard-to-find materials such as notes from experiment participants, journal articles, books, field notes, letters penned by the lead psychologist, videos of modern-day replications, and modifications to the original experiments.
Video & Multimedia (8)
- Counseling and Therapy in Video
Streaming video collection for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. Includes filmed footage of actual, re-enacted, and scripted therapy sessions; videos of experts in particular courses of therapy advising other therapists; lectures; and documentaries. Many videos include downloadable supplementary materials.
- JoVE Essentials of Behavioral Science
This collection is sub-divided on the basis of different aspects of human behavior such as learning, memory, cognition, movement, addiction and behavioral disorders. The videos briefly explain the neurobiology of behavior, discuss concepts behind prominent techniques, introduce important questions being asked by scientists and provide protocols to run behavioral experiments.
- JoVE Essentials of Neuroscience
These videos offer a glimpse of neuroscience at the professional level, through an exploration of five major branches of study: neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, cell and molecular neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, and developmental neuroscience. In addition to presenting the key questions asked by scientists from these subfields, the collection describes some prominent methods used by today’s most brainy researchers, while making exciting discoveries regarding nervous system function.
- JoVE Neuroscience
JoVE Neuroscience is a multidisciplinary section devoted to investigations of the structure, function, physiology, and pathophysiology of the brain and nervous system. Included methodologies range from molecular and cellular level studies to full central and peripheral neural systems. Potential treatment platforms and surgical techniques for neurological diseases and disorders are also presented in this section.
- Kanopy Video
Kanopy is a distributor of educational videos for online viewing. Content is available across multiple subject areas.
- Psychological Experiments Online
A multimedia resource that synthesizes the most important psychological experiments of the 20th and 21st centuries. The collection pairs audio and video recordings of original experiments (when existent) with primary-source documents. Includes exclusive and hard-to-find materials such as notes from experiment participants, journal articles, books, field notes, letters penned by the lead psychologist, videos of modern-day replications, and modifications to the original experiments.
- SAGE Video Counseling & Psychotherapy
This collection of 136 hours and 420 videos draws upon a vast network of SAGE’s authors and editors. It includes many tutorials, such as Mick Cooper on Empathy and Listening, multiple interviews with leading experts such as Jerrold Lee Shapiro on Existential Psychotherapy and John McLeod on Evidence-Based Practice, along with many more films addressing teaching, learning and practitioner issues.
- SAGE Video Psychology
This collection features videos of current professional psychologists in action. Or, venture back to the field’s beginnings via footage of John B. Watson or Muzafer Sherif’s early experiments.