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Other databases besides PubMed/Medline to search for research literature

APA PsycInfo (Ovid)

APA PsycInfo (ProQuest)

Produced by: American Psychological Association
About: About APA PsycInfo, "The premier abstracting and indexing database covering the behavioral and social sciences from the authority in psychology"

  • Includes articles, books, and dissertations

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)

About: This scholarly collection provides journal coverage for most academic areas of study, including biological sciences, economics, communications, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences and women's studies.


Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)

About: Communication and Mass Media Complete (CMMC) incorporates CommSearch produced by the National Communication Association and Mass Media Articles Index produced by Penn State.


GenderWatch (ProQuest)

About: GenderWatch is a full text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. GenderWatch contains archival material, in some cases as far back as the 1970's with additional archival material continually added. 


Health and psychosocial instruments: HaPI (EBSCO)

About: This database is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences. It provides information about behavioral measurement instruments, including those from Industrial Organizational Behavior and Education. Records contained in HAPI provide information on questionnaires, interview schedules, vignettes/scenarios, coding schemes, rating and other scales, checklists, indexes, tests, projective techniques and more.


Social Sciences Abstracts (EBSCO)

About: Indexes articles and book reviews in the key English language periodicals in the fields of social sciences. 


SocINDEX (EBSCO)

About: SocINDEX is a comprehensive sociology database featuring citations with subject headings from a sociology specific thesaurus. It contains informative abstracts for more than 590 core journals dating back to 1985. 

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