Selected Subscription Databases for Aging/Gerontology
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AgeLine [Ebsco] -- Provides coverage of social gerontology--the study of aging in social, psychological, health-related, and economic contexts. 1978+ with selected coverage back to 1966; updated bimonthly.
AgeLine [American Association of Retired Persons ] --Index to literature in social gerontology, which is the study of aging in psychological, health-related, social, and economic contexts. Free version via the AARP.
Econlit [FirstSearch] -- Citations for dissertations and articles on economics in more than 620 collective volumes per year. 1969 to present. Updated monthly.
Statistics
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research : ICPSR [ICPSR] -- ICPSR is a membership-based organization providing access to the world's largest archive of computer-based research and instructional data for the social sciences. The data archive includes a broad range of disciplines, including political science, sociology, demography, economics, history, education, gerontology, criminal justice, public health, foreign policy, and law. ICPSR's entire collection is online and available for downloading. However, many of the studies in the ICPSR archive are restricted to faculty, staff, and students at member institutions. Syracuse University Library is a member.
LexisNexis Statistical [LexisNexis] -- Statistical information from the Congressional Information Service, Inc. The service allows users to search summaries of statistical publications then link to the full text of selected publications on Statistical Universe and government websites. Access Note: SU and Law only.
Health
CogPrints [University of Southhampton] -- Papers related to the study of cognition, including such areas as psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, many areas of computer science, philosophy, biology, medicine, and anthropology.
CINAHL [EBSCO] -- Provides access to English language nursing journals, publications of the American Nurses' Association, the National League for Nursing, and primary journals in more than a dozen allied health disciplines. Also includes selected citations from Index Medicus, from journals in the fields of health sciences librarianship, education, behavioral sciences, management, and from popular magazines.
Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe- General Medical & Health Topics [Lexis-Nexis Universe] -- Searches the full-text of medical journals and newsletters providing information on drug interactions, cancer, poison, disease, trauma, and medical administration.
MEDLINE [FirstSearch] --Index to more than 3,500 international journals covering all areas of medicine. 1985 to the present; updated monthly.
PubMed [U.S. Government] -- 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.
Ethnic Groups
Black Studies Center [Proquest] -- Black Studies Center is a cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, literature, political science, sociology, philosophy, and religion and more
Chicano Database [First Search] -- Identifies all types of material on Mexican-American topics and about Chicanos. Updated quarterly, the Chicano Database covers at least 1967 to the present. Records added since 1992 have expanded its scope to include the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants.
HAPI [UCLA] -- Bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 400 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world since 1970. Worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the US-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States.
International Index to Black Periodicals [Chadwyck-Healy] -- Fulltext and multidisciplinary database includes over 150 international scholarly and popular periodicals in Black studies.
Race Relations Abstracts [EBSCO] -- Current information in the area of race relations. Issues covered include discrimination, education, employment, health, politics, law and legislation. 2000 to the present.
Gender
Contemporary Women's Issues [FirstSearch] -- Provides full text access to global information on women from over 150 countries, bringing together such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health, education and human rights. Covers 1992 - present; updated biweekly.
LGBT Life (Formerly GLBT Life) [Ebscohost] -- LGBT Life covers worldwide literature regarding gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues. It contains indexing and abstracts for more than 80 LGBT-specific core periodicals, with fulltext access for 50 of these titles. The database includes current coverage of these sources, as well as backfiles for key publications.
Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts [Informaworld] -- Coverage includes education, employment, women in the family and community, medicine and health, female sex and gender role socialization, social policy, the social psychology of women, female culture, media treatment of women, biography, literary criticism and historical studies. Where possible, abstracts are linked to full text. Covers 1995 - present.
Women's Resources International [BiblioLine] -- Covers all aspects of women's studies and feminism. International in scope. Includes English-language journals, books, videos, audiocassettes, etc. Covers 1972-present; updated semiannually.
Psychology/ Sociology/ Social Welfare
POPLINE [JHUCCP] -- Index with abstracts of the worldwide literature on population, family planning, and related health issues. POPLINE is maintained by the Population Information Program at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Contains over 290,000 records.
Psycarticles [Ebsco] -- Provides full text access, citations and abstracts to articles from journals published by APA, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber. Coverage for most journals begins with 1985, others have only more recent years. Covers general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology in areas including animal behavior, cognition, memory, neuroscience, perception, physiological psychology, psycholinguistics, psychometrics, social and personality psychology.
PsychiatryOnline [ American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. ] -- Offers online access to DSM-IV-TR and The American Journal of Psychiatry plus other trusted references for diagnosis, treatment, research, professional development, and lifelong learning.
PsycINFO: Psychological Abstracts (1887-present) [Ebsco]
International literature in psychology and related behavioral and social sciences, including psychiatry, sociology, anthropology, education, pharmacology, and linguistics. 1887 - present; updated monthly.
Social Services Abstracts [Cambridge] -- Bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,500 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.
Sociological Abstracts [Cambridge] -- Comprehensive sociology database; also includes some social work and social sciences. Covers 1963 to the present; updated six times per year.
Social Work Abstracts Plus [Ovid] -- Social Work Abstracts contains information on social work and human services from 1977 to present. Provides coverage of more than 450 journals.
Sociometrics Social Science Electronic Data Library [Gale] -- Data archives, an online data analysis system, and teaching modules for research in the social sciences.
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