BOOKS 

Within Feinberg Library:  PlattCat   (Feinberg Library Catalog)

Beyond Feinberg Library: WorldCat  (about)

Search Tips:

         a.  start with specific word or phrase (e.g. mental health courts)
         b.  broaden to topic as necessary (e.g. alternative courts)
         c.  search by subject and/or title for greater primary relevance

PERIODICAL ARTICLES ONLINE 

Journals A to Z
A directory of fulltext periodicals available online throughout Feinberg Library's subscription databases.

Some Useful Journals (as listed on Dr. Lock's syllabus)

• Journal of Counseling and Development

• Professional School Counseling Journal

• ASCA School Counselor Magazine

• Journal of Adolescent Psychology

• Journal of Consulting Psychology

• Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development
  

GENERAL DATABASES:

Academic Search Premier 
Search this large, multidisciplinary, full text database designed especially for colleges & universities with articles from over 4,000 scholarly journals in full-text as far back as 1975 and indexing for articles in another 4,000 scholarly journals.

Lexis-Nexis  (choose the "News" or "Legal Research" links)
Full-text access to over 7,000 legal, news, and business sources.

ProQuest Periodical Abstracts Research II
Search Periodical Abstracts II for information from over 1800 newspapers and periodicals on a wide range of topics including the arts, business, humanities, health, social sciences, sciences.

Wilson Omnifile Full Text Select
Full-text access to hundreds of magazines and journals. Covers from 1994 to present.
 

SUBJECT-SPECIFIC DATABASES:

Criminal Justice Abstracts
Indexes major journals related to criminal justice.

Education Research Complete
Full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education.  Includes all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, testing, curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues.

ERIC
Comprehensive index to education topics.

Professional Development Collection
Provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers.

PsycARTICLES
Provides full-text access to publications of the American Psychological Association (APA), including more than 50 peer-reviewed journals and chapters from selected APA books.  Full-text of journals is from 1985 to present; full-text of book chapters is from 2000-2002.  Journals and book chapters are indexed and abstracted in PsycINFO.

PsycINFO
The premier abstracting service for psychology journals, covers from 1872 to present.

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Full text for about 500 journals in the fields of psychology and behavioral sciences.

WEB DIRECTORIES & SEARCH ENGINES 

Google -- "Google's index, comprised of more than 1 billion URLs, is the first of its kind and represents the most comprehensive collection of the most useful web pages on the Internet."  TIP:  Use the Advanced Search and/or Google Scholar (under the More >> link) options.

Vivisimo -- "automatically organizes search or database query results into meaningful hierarchical folders completely on-the-fly, out-of-the-box."

This page was prepared by librarian Tim Hartnett and last updated on 02/01/2007.