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The following is a
list of databases that can be searched for articles relating to WOMEN.
Different databases should be used depending on the focus and scope of
your search. Once you are in a specific database, you should be
certain that you are using valid terms. To
obtain the best results, browse the "subject" or "thesaurus" tab within
each database. If you need assistance with this, narrowing your search
or any other question, please feel free to ask a librarian.
The
following databases may be found on the
Databases
page of the CNR Library Website arranged
alphabetically and in subject lists.
Academic
Search Premier
- provides full text for
nearly 3,180 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study
including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences,
engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical
sciences, and ethnic studies.
Biography Reference Bank
- contains approximately 95,000 biographies
and obituaries and more than 26,000 photographs of various subjects
which have appeared in periodicals indexed in Wilson Company databases and
also in additional selected periodicals, current books of individual and collective
biography, and incidental biographical material in otherwise non-biographical
books.
Communications
and Mass Media - originated with the acquisition and subsequent merging of two popular databases
in the fields of communication and mass media studies -- CommSearch
(formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass
Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University).
EBSCO Host - EBSCO
-
selected full text (Allows you to search multiple EBSCO databases simultaneously) provides
full text for nearly 1,380 journals with many dating back to 1990, abstracts and
indexing for nearly 2,930 scholarly journals with many dating back to 1984,
coverage of nearly 1,780 peer-reviewed journals charts and graphs converted to
keyword-searchable ASCII text, over 1.4 million company records from Dun &
Bradstreet, coverage of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The
Christian Science Monitor, and over 1,000 journals with images.
Humanities
Abstracts - with selected full text is an- H. W. Wilson database that covers over 500 English
language periodicals in the diverse subject area of the humanities. Among the
disciplines included are literature and language, history, philosophy,
archaeology, classical studies, folklore, gender studies, performing arts,
history, religion, and theology. Humanities Abstracts includes abstracting of
periodicals from March 1994 and indexing from 1984.
In the First
Person - provides full text for
nearly 3,180 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study
including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences,
engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical
sciences, and ethnic studies.
PsycArticles - is an online database containing more than
25,000 searchable full-text articles from 42 journals published by APA
and allied organizations from 1987 to the present, with earlier years in
production. The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and
specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in
psychology.
PsycInfo - provides indexing and abstracts for over one
million articles in 1,500 journals from over 50 countries. This
database, provided by the American Psychological Association, also
includes abstracts for dissertations, books and book chapters ranging in
date from 1887 to the present.
Social
Sciences Abstracts - H. W. Wilson's Social
Sciences Abstracts covers 518 English language periodicals. Topics
include anthropology, area studies, community health and medical
care, criminal justice and criminology, economics, family studies,
geography, gerontology, international relations, law, minority studies,
planning and public administration, policy sciences, political science,
psychiatry, psychology, social work and public welfare, sociology, urban
studies, women's studies, and related subjects. Social Sciences
Abstracts includes abstracts from January 1994 and indexes from February
1983.
Note: Database information taken
from provider pages.
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