About Databases
Use databases to find articles on your topic. Some databases will have the full text of the entire article available within the database, others will only have a citation for the article. Use the Find-It button to determine how to access the full article when there is no electronic full-text.
Multidisciplinary Databases
MULTIDISCIPLINARY & NEWSPAPERS:
- Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new windowOffers access to an unprecedented collection of resources including journals, magazines, reports, books, and videos. Many are peer-reviewed and full-text. Subjects range from astronomy to zoology.
- JSTOR (including ARTSTOR) This link opens in a new windowProvides full-text access to a broad range of resources about the humanities, sciences, and social sciences, including primary sources, images, articles, and books. Does not contain the most recent journal articles.
Social Work Abstracts
Subject-specific Databases
- Social Work Abstracts This link opens in a new windowOffers extensive coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1965. Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the database provides indexing and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems.
- Social Sciences Abstracts This link opens in a new windowIncludes indexing and abstracts for over 700 active peer-reviewed journals (and over 700 more that are not peer reviewed), covering the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.
- APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new windowProvides access to a comprehensive index for publications in psychology and related fields, containing more than 1.7 million citations and abstracts of journal articles, book chapters and books, technical reports, and dissertations.
- ERIC This link opens in a new windowis an online library of education research and information, including the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.
- Health Source: Consumer Edition This link opens in a new windowIs a full-text database focused on health information for consumers and patients.
Related Databases
- CQ WeeklyCoverage of the US Congress
- ABI/INFORM Global This link opens in a new windowProvides indexing and abstracting for 1000 periodicals with full text for more than 600 publications.
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowCovers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance and more. Content includes many full-text journals and topical video content
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new windowIs a comprehensive source for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 770 journals indexed in CINAHL® (Cumulated Index in Nursing and Allied Health Literature).
- America: History and Life This link opens in a new windowContains scholarly articles, book reviews, and dissertations on U.S. and Canadian history from prehistory to the present. Â
- African American Communities This link opens in a new windowFeatures many different types of primary sources about African American communities.
- Health Source: Nursing Academic This link opens in a new windowIncludes nearly 600 scholarly full text titles and an additional 400 indexed titles that focus on nursing and allied health topics.
Freely available
- Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) - Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the world’s largest online resource of documents and articles devoted to research, analysis, and scholarship on international politics and related fields, including security studies, global finance, diplomatic practice, humanitarian law, global governance, development studies, and environmental studies.The material in CIAO encompasses working papers, policy briefs, and current analysis and commentary, as well as scholarly journal articles, e-books, and videos. The Economist Intelligence Unit supplies comprehensive country surveys, including in-depth political and economic data and detailed maps.
The Find It Button
The Find-It Button
It's a bit like magic, really! The Find It button does three things:
- Looks in all of our databases to see if the document you want is available full-text in another of our databases. If so, it links you to it!
- Links you to the library catalog when we have the item you want in print or microform (you need to check Holdings to see if we have the particular issue of the journal)
- Links you to ILLiad (interlibrary loan) so you can borrow the item from another library if we don't have access electronically or in print.
So the moral of the story -- DO NOT give up if the full text is not available in the database you are searching in.The Find It button is YOUR FRIEND!
Citation Linker
You can also use the Citation Linker, another fabulously cool tool. It is useful when you are reading an article and it cites another article that looks like it would be super useful for your research. You plug in the citation information for that article and can find out how to access it, whether it be electronically, physically in the library, or through Interlibrary Loan. It works the same way as Find It, but you don't have to be in a database.
