Child and Family Studies - Databases
Age Groups
AgeLine [SilverPlatter]
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.
Child Abuse, Child Welfare, & Adoption [Biblioline]
Covers all aspects of child abuse: definitions, etiology, identification, socioeconomics, legal issues, prevention, programs, etc. Includes journals, books, government reports, conference papers, curricula, unpublished papers, organizations, audiocassettes, and videocassettes. Covers 1965-present; updated annually.
Education Full Text [H.W. Wilson]
Index of more than 400 English-language education journals and yearbooks. Indexing from June 1983 to the present, abstracts from August 1994; updated monthly.
ERIC [FirstSearch]
Useful for any topics related to education in any setting or to children. Includes journal articles, books, theses, curriculi, conference papers, standards and guidelines. Covers 1966 to the present; updated monthly.
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 [RLG Eureka]
Bibliographic materials on Mexican-American topics 1960 to the present. Scope expanded 1992 to include the broader Latino experience, including , Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants. Includes the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database.
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 [Chadwick- Healy]
IIBP Full Text includes content from over 150 international scholarly and popular periodicals in Black studies. It covers a wide array of humanities and social science disciplines including art, cultural criticism, economics, education, health, history, language and literature, law, philosophy, politics, religion, and sociology among others.
SAGE Race Relations Abstracts [SAGE]
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 [RDS]
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.
GenderWatch [Softline]
Provides full-text, international coverage of women's and gender issues, including family, childbirth, childcare, sexual harassment, aging, body image, eating disorders, and social roles. It also includes content on the impact of gender and gender roles on areas such as the arts, popular culture and media, business and work, crime, education, research and scholarship, family, health care, politics, religion, and sports. Covers 1974 to the present; updated quarterly.
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 [Metapress]
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 Studies International [Biblioline]
Includes materials ranging from core writings to ground-breaking feminist scholarship in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, gender studies, arts & humanities, business and education. Full text resources are compiled from over 800 sources including journal articles, books, newspapers, dissertations and theses and grey literature. The database covers from 1972 - present. Access Note: SU Only
Psychology/Social Welfare/Sociology
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.
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.
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.
Social Work Abstracts [SilverPlatter]
Indexes journal literature on social work and human services from 1977 to present. Provides coverage of more than 450 journals.
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 Sciences Abstracts [FirstSearch]
Index with abstracts to more than 400 international, English-language periodicals. Indexing from February 1983 to the present. Abstracts from January 1994. Updated monthly.
