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Databases by topic
For counseling-related topics, start with PsycINFO.
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APA PsycInfoDefinitive database for psychology, psychiatry, and related mental health disciplines (including social, behavioral, and health sciences). Also includes material in related fields such as management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work.
The DSM is available online. You can also borrow a physical copy of the DSM-V for 2 hours at a time, from the reserves shelf - just ask at the library help desk.
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DSM-5 and DSM Legacy CollectionA powerful web-based portal that features DSM-5®—the most widely used psychiatric reference in the world—and The American Journal of Psychiatry as the cornerstones of an unsurpassed collection of psychiatric references from American Psychiatric Publishing, the most trusted and respected name in psychiatric publishing.
Inter-disciplinary:
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Academic Search CompleteMulti-disciplinary database providing full text for more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed titles. Subject coverage includes (but is not limited to) animal science, anthropology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology, and many other fields.
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Climate Change and Human Health Literature PortalThis database is open access, so the searching is free. But many of the resources are not free. If there's no link to the full text, just search for the journal title in the Catalog.
Education:
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ERIC via EBSCOhostEducational Resource Information Center database. Provides access to education literature and resources from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
Sociology:
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SocINDEX with Full TextFull-text access to over 700 journals in sociology and its sub-disciplines. Subjects covered include criminology & criminal justice, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, substance abuse & other addictions, and violence. Also includes full-text access to nearly 800 books and over 9,000 conference papers.
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SAGE PremierFull-text access to over 900 SAGE journals in the areas of business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology, and medicine.
Gender studies:
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GenderWatchA full text database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. With its archival material, dating back to 1970 in some cases, GenderWatch is a repository of important historical perspectives on the evolution of the women's movement, men's studies, the transgender community, and the changes in gender roles over the years. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, and NGO, government and special reports.
Medical:
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MEDLINE (Ovid)MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine® (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains more than 25 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. A distinctive feature of MEDLINE is that the records are indexed with NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®).
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Health Source: Consumer EditionA collection of consumer health information providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic EditionDatabase of nearly 550 scholarly full text journals (including nearly 450 peer-reviewed) from medical disciplines, with particularly strong coverage of nursing and allied health. Also includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs.
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This guide was created by Frances Brady for Adler University.