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COURSE RELATED RESEARCH
INSTRUCTION
Course Name: HDF311 --
Families in Contemporary Society
Course Instructor: Jacqueline
Oertel
Session
Librarian: Tim Hartnett
Session Date: September 1, 2009
FINDING
INFORMATION ON FAMILIES IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY
BOOKS (for detail
and analysis)
Within Feinberg Library: PlattCat
("Search Feinberg" link on the
Library Homepage)
Beyond Feinberg Library: WorldCat
[about]
("Search Worldwide" link on the
Library Homepage)
SCHOLARLY
ARTICLES
SocINDEX
with Full Text
Provides comprehensive full-text access to journal articles covering all
aspects of sociology and related fields. Coverage includes criminal
justice, gender studies, ethnic & racial studies, family studies,
social work and substance abuse. Indexing included for books
and conference papers. Coverage is from 1895 to present.
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 [about]
Abstracts over 1,800 professional journals, chapters, books,
reports, theses and dissertations, published internationally since
1840.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Full-text articles and books on counseling, child & adolescent
psychology and other areas of psychology.
SCHOLARLY & GENERAL
ARTICLES
Academic Search Premier
[about]
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,500
journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles.
Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Center
Information on social issues, including overviews, statistics, primary
sources, websites, and full-text articles from a variety of perspectives.
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.
NEWS
ARTICLES
Custom Newspapers
Search a collection of 150 newspapers, both national and international.
Lexis-Nexis
Full-text access to over 7,000 legal, news, and business sources
worldwide.
Newspaper Source Plus
Full-text access to 1,570 national and international newspapers. Also TV
transcripts, videos and podcasts.
New York State Newspapers
Search this database of ten major newspapers published in the state of
New York, including the New York Times and the New York Post.
ProQuest Newspapers
Includes full-text coverage of 27 newspapers including The New York
Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, plus other important
U.S., international and minority interest papers.
The
following menus provide links to many other databases available
through Feinberg Library.
Databases A-Z ( by Database Name)
Databases
by Subject (by Database Scope)
Also Journals
A-Z is
a directory of all journals available online
through Feinberg Library.
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CITING YOUR SOURCES USING
APA STYLE
WEB SITES
American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
Institute
for Families in Society (University of South Carolina)
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 and
Google News (under
the More >> link)
options.
Clusty
-- "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
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