Selected Subscription Databases for Marriage and Family Therapy
Age Groups | Ethnic Groups | Gender | Health | Psychology/ Social Welfare / Sociology | Statistics
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 and Adoption (1965-July 2006) [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reports, conference papers, curricula, unpublished papers, organizations,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 social work in educational settings and any topics pertaining to children. Includes journal articles, books, theses, curriculi, conference papers, standards and guidelines. Covers 1966 to the present; updated monthly.
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.
HRAF Collection of Ethnography [University of Michigan] -- The Collection of Ethnography is a full-text cultural database. As of 2000, it covered all aspects of cultural and social life for 78 selected cultures from around the world. Topics range from family relationships to religious practices to ideas about gender. Updated annually.
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.
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] -- Covers all aspects of women's studies and feminism. International in scope. Includes English-language journals, books, videos, audiocassettes, etc. Covers 1972-present; updated semi-annually.
CINAHL [SilverPlatter] -- Contains abstracts to articles published in more than 950 English-language nursing and allied health journals as well as virtually all publications of the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing; covers 1982-present.
Health and Wellness Resource Center [Gale/ New York State] -- Provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Thomson Gale reference titles. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.
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.
MedlinePlus [National Library of Medicine] -- From the National Library of Medicine, this freely available resource provides authoritative health information geared to both health professionals and consumers. It includes extensive information on more than 650 diseases and conditions, as well as lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical dictionary, a medical encyclopedia, information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, and links to thousands of clinical trials. There are also over 165 interactive health tutorials. Updated daily.
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.
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.
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.
POPLINE [JHUCCP] -- Provides comprehensive coverage on population, family planning, and related health issues. Publication sources include the U.S. Government, international agencies, family-planning organizations, and databases on sociology, clinical medicine, and health. Publication types include government reports, books, journals, monographs, technical reports, laws, court decisions, theses, dissertations, conference papers, unpublished reports, newspaper articles, and training manuals. Covers 1827 - present; updated monthly.
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 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.
Sociological Abstracts [Cambridge] -- Records covering sociology, social work, and other social sciences from 3,000 journals. Covers 1963 to the present; updated six times per year.
Statistics
Statistical Universe [Lexis-Nexis Universe] -- Comprehensive access to US statistical information.
