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Database details Academic OneFile

Coverage: 1980-present
Scope: A huge and highly heterogeneous multidisciplinary mix of scholarly, journalistic, practitioner and popular sources, with much direct full-text included. Use the tabs to identify scholarly, newspaper or other sources as necessary.
Notes: Scholarly, journalstic, practitioner, popular sources. Thanks to Mel
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Database details Education Abstracts

Coverage: 1983 to present
Scope: Provides citations for articles from English-language periodicals and yearbooks. It covers ages and sectors of the educational community from preschool through college.
Notes: Scholarly.
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Database details ERIC via CSA

Coverage: 1966-present
Scope: The standard database for resources in education including journal articles from research/scholarly and practitioner literature, as well as ERIC documents. ERIC documents include such various sources as books, research reports, government documents, conference papers, bibliographies, curricula and lesson plans and other documents. The database contains over 1,100,000 records covering literature from 1966 through the present, with online direct full-text for ERIC documents from 1992-present.
Notes: Scholarly.
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Database details ERIC via FirstSearch

Coverage: 1966-present
Scope: The standard database for resources in education including journal articles from research/scholarly and practitioner literature, as well as ERIC documents. ERIC documents include such various sources as books, research reports, government documents, conference papers, bibliographies, curricula and lesson plans and other documents. The database contains over 1,100,000 records covering literature from 1966 through the present, with online direct full-text for ERIC documents from 1992-present.
Notes: Scholarly and practitioner literature. Thanks to Mel
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Database details Google Scholar

Scope: You can check the availability of article full text from within Google Scholar - see how!.
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Database details Mental Measurements Yearbook

Coverage: Corresponds to volume 9 to present of print Mental Measurements Yearbook.
Scope: Here you'll find descriptions and reviews of current testing instruments.
Notes: Scholarly.
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Database details PsycARTICLES

Coverage: 1894 - present.
Scope: PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. Most of the 58 APA journals included in PsycARTICLES now go back to volume 1, issue 1. The earliest journal is Psychological Review, which was started in 1894.
Notes: Scholarly.
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Database details PsycINFO

Coverage: 1806 - present.
Scope: PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. PsycINFO is a department of the American Psychological Association (APA) and contains over 2,487,286 records as of December 2007.
Notes: Scholarly.
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Database details Social Sciences Abstracts

Coverage: 1983-
Scope: Use this for sociology, anthropology,psychology and economics. Some links to full text.
Notes: Scholarly.
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Database details Social Work Abstracts - EBSCO

Coverage: 1965 to the present.
Scope: Indexes more than 450 social work and human services journals.
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Database details Social Work Abstracts - Ovid

Coverage: 1977 - present
Scope: The Social Work Abstracts database, produced by the National Association of Social Workers, Inc., contains more than 45,000 records, spanning from 1977 to the present, from social work and other related journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization, and more.
Notes: Scholarly
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Database details Web of Science

Coverage: 1980 to present
Scope: Web of Science provides access to Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). These citation indexes contain references which have been cited by other articles. You can use these citations to undertake cited reference searching, that is, locating articles which cite an earlier publication.
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