Databases/Article Indexes for Behavioral Sciences and Therapies


Red Star indicates highly recommended databases for the subject area

 
Ageline
1978-current

Open Access
AgeLine abstracts the literature of social gerontology as well as aging-related research from psychology, sociology, social work, economics, public policy, and the health sciences.
 
Annual Reviews
Dates vary
Annual Reviews volumes, published each year in approximately 30 focused disciplines within the biological, medical, physical, and social sciences, are thorough and timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists and academicians.
 
ArticleFirst
1990-current
An index of journal article citations from over 15,000 serials across a broad subject area.
 
Blackwell Synergy
1997-current
The Blackwell Publishing Full Collection comprises 803 journals from across Science, Technology, Medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences collections.
 
DartClix is a catalog of websites and their components in a keyword-searchable interface available through Access PA.
 
Full text access to Health Sciences and Social Sciences titles from Cambridge University press.
 
Indexes books, journals, reports, etc. about women's health and human rights issues.
 
With more than 1.5 million entries, UMI's Dissertation Abstracts database is the one central, authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses.
 
ebrary
Dates vary

Required one-time download of free ebrary Reader before accessing titles.
Access to over 21,000 electronic books. One-time ebrary reader download is required.
 
Expanded Academic
1980-current
A searchable database providing access to humanitities, social science, science and technology journals.
 
Google Scholar
Dates vary

To link to Drexel full text from Google Scholar, first add Drexel in the Library Links within Scholar Preferences;Open Access
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
Recommended resource
Provides information on measurement instruments (tests, questionnaires, etc.)
 
searchable and browsable full text of 24 Health Sciences journals covering Social studies of health, public policy, health services & administration, health education, community/public health nursing
Recommended resource
Journal Citation Reports presents quantifiable statistical data that provides a systematic, objective way to evaluate journals and their impact and influence in the research community.
 
Journals@OVID
Dates vary
Provides access to hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies.
 
JSTOR
Dates vary
Interdisciplinary collection of journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
 
Pre-MEDLINE (PREM) provides basic information and abstracts before a records are indexed with MeSH heading(s) and added to MEDLINE. New records are added daily to Pre-MEDLINE completed Pre-MEDLINE records are added as citations to MEDLINE on a daily basis.
 
MEDLINE via OVID
1966-current
The premier medical literature search system, which includes Index Medicus, the International Nursing Index and the Index to Dental Literature.
 
MEDLINE via PubMed
1966-current

Open Access
NLM's search service to access MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals), and other related databases.
Recommended resource
Mental Measurements Yearbook
1985-current

1 concurrent user maximum;IMPORTANT! Be sure to logoff at the end of your session to ensure the service is available for other Drexel users.
Mental Measurements Yearbook is a major resource for descriptive information about and critical reviews of standardized tests- educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement and intelligence.
 
Proquest Research Library indexes more than 3,880 journal titlesover 2,620 in full textfrom 1971 forward.
Recommended resource
PsycBooks
1806 - present
a full-text database of over 1100 books and chapters in the American Psychological Associations array of electronic ebooks.
Recommended resource
full-text reviews of books, popular films, videos, and software relevant to psychology. Weekly releases may also include a review of a popular first-run film or a comparative review of several current trade books. Reviews focus on current media, with most being from the current year.
Recommended resource
PsycINFO
1872-current
Indexes and abstracts books, dissertations and journal articles in the psychological and behavioral sciences, including the creative arts therapies.
 
Pubmed (Medline)
1966-current

Open Access
NLM's search service to access MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals), and other related databases.
 
PubMed Central
1970-current

Open Access
PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine digital archive of life sciences journal literature.
 
Scirus
Dates vary

To link to Drexel full text from Scirus, first add Drexel University in the Library Partner Links within Scirus Preferences.;Open Access
A comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Searches open-access websites as well as peer-reviewed content from publisher sites.
 
SilverPlatter
Dates vary
Provides searching platform for a number of periodical databases covering the Food Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
 
Social Sciences Full Text : Wilson Omnifile
1982-current

Choose Social Sciences subject area
Full Text access to artcles indexed in the Social Sciences Index. Indexing begins at 1982, Abstracting begins at 1984, and fulltext coverage begins in 1994.
 
CSA 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 indexes and abstracts the literature in socology (and related disciplines) from an international selection of journals, serials, conference papers, books, and dissertations.
Recommended resource
ISI Web of Knowledge is a Web portal the ISI Citation databases through Web of Science: Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index, as well as Current Contents and Journal Citation Reports.
Recommended resource
The interface for access to the ISI Citation databases: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Science Citation Index.
 
Wiley Interscience Journals
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Drexel Libraries do not have full text access to all Wiley Interscience Journals. Any journals in this database not allowing full text access must be ordered via Interlibrary Loan.
Full text of over 300 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals and several reference works

 

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