Research Guides: Children and Families in the Social Environment: SSW 8403: Find Scholarly Articles

Article databases

The following databases index social and behavioral science journals. Use the Find Full Text links to locate the full text particular articles.

Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete provides full text scholarly publications and full text journals for academic areas of study.
Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts
Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts contains journals from various countries focusing on health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.

Child Welfare Information Gateway
Provides access to print and electronic publications covering a wide range of topics from prevention to permanency, including child welfare, child abuse and neglect, adoption, search and reunion, and more. Use the "Library Search" feature to find citations to journal articles, books, and evaluation reports on these topics.

ERIC [via ProQuest]
ERIC [via ProQuest] provides access to education-related literature. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar provides search for scholarly literature. It covers disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
ProQuest Social Science Premium Collection
Search the Social Science Premium Collection, which will conveniently run your search across everything indexed in Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, ASSIA, ERIC, Criminal Justice Abstracts, and several other relevant databases, all at once.
APA PsycInfo
APA PsycInfo contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law.
PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 37 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is the largest component of PubMed and consists primarily of journal citations; articles indexed with MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) and curated with funding, genetic, chemical and other metadata.
Social Services Abstracts
Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
Sociological Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts provides coverage of the world's literature on sociology and applied aspects of sociology.

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