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Many Databases from Many Fields Could Apply
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PAIS: Public Affairs Information Service InternationalStrong on government policy, international relations, political slant on a topic. Also has thesaurus for power searchers.
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Public Affairs IndexThis database covers national and global contemporary public policy issues. Sources includes scholarly journals, conference papers, trade publications, and government documents.
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PsycInfoThe standard database for the field of psychology.
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Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collectioncovers on emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
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CQ ResearcherFull-text reports on health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. This is a great resource when you are beginning your topic or you are comparing two sides of a topic.
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Opposing Viewpoints-Really good for current issues and hot topics.
-Includes images, statistics, audio, and video files.
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Sociological AbstractsFrom Proquest, which means it is NOT indexed in Articles Plus.Formerly social services abstracts.
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SocINDEXUseful for socio-cultural anthropology. Provides full text of journal articles, as well as indexing for books, monographs, conference papers, and other sources. EBSCO database, included in Articles Plus.
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Sociological CollectionThis database provides coverage of more than 500 full text journals in areas of sociology including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure.
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PubMedPubMed comprises more than 20 million citations from biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life sciences journals, and online books. One of the most used health and medicine resources.
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Consumer Health CompleteInformation lay people can understand about health topics.
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CINAHLUseful for its patient advocacy information. Covers nursing, alternative and complementary medicine, nutrition, physical therapy, and consumer health.
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Nexis Uni
The most comprehensive legal research database we subscribe to. While sometimes difficult to use, it includes legislative history, law, case law, and regulation, for every state & federal. Ask for help if you get stuck.
We've added links several other places on this guide for subsets of NexisUni; this links to the main page.
Nexis Uni is the new version of Lexis Nexis.
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Gender Studies DatabaseMost comprehensive coverage of core titles, both in number and depth. Some full text.A combination of Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases (1972 to the present).EBSCO.
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GenderWatchGender Watch covers Gender studies, Women’s Studies, LGBT, Queer studies, and related interests. Proquest: i.e., NOT included in Articles Plus results. Full text for many core WGS journals, but not as comprehensive in coverage as GSD.
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LGBT Life with Full Text"...covering major journals, magazines and regional newspapers on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues." EBSCO
Articles and More or Subject-Specific Databases?
Which is better?
Example Keyword Search: (image AND media AND women)
- in Articles and More (type: Articles) yields 19,900 hits
- in Gender Studies Database: 2,475 hits
But you can't use all 2,000 hits, let alone 20,000.
What do you want?
- If you want every possible point of view, use Articles and More.
- If you want pointed, especially feminist writing, use gender databases.