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Article Databases and Indexes
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Google Scholar   Connect to Google Scholar through the Libraries' web site to gain off-campus access to all the articles and journals in full text in the Libraries. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. To connect to the full text, click "FindIt@U of M Twin Cities" in your Google Scholar search results. Learn more: Google Scholar FAQ
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| PsycINFO Covers all areas of psychology. Provides bibliographic citations and abstracts to articles from more than 1300 international journals in psychology and related fields. In addition, PsycINFO covers books, book chapters, and dissertations.
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| Social Services Abstracts 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. The
database abstracts and indexes over 1,600 serials publications and includes
abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book
reviews.
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Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
| Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) Describes instruments used to assess health and behavior of infants, children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly. Topics covered include public health, communication, psychology, management, nursing, organizational behavior, medicine, sociology, physical education, psychiatry, human resources, gerontology and dental medicine. Covers questionnaires, interview schedules, observation checklists and manuals, index measures, coding schemes, scenarios and vignettes, rating scales, projective techniques and tests. Includes title, author, publication resource, development date, publication date, subjects, description and reliability and validity information. International coverage.
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| LegalTrac Note: as of October 2011, LegalTrac is available only to the students, faculty and staff of the Law School. As alternative resources please try: LexisNexis, Hein Online, Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, Google Scholar.
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| OVID MEDLINE OVID, like PubMed, is an interface to search the MEDLINE database. It includes citations from the fields of medicine, public health, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the basic biomedical sciences.
MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database/article index that contains over 17 million references to journal articles. Coverage is from 1949 to the present. Over 5200 journals worldwide in over 37 languages are indexed.
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| PAIS International Use this index for broad coverage of social science issues worldwide. Includes articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, and book chapters.
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| Sage Research Methods Online SAGE Research Methods Online (SRMO) is a tool designed to help you create research projects and understand the methods behind them. SRMO's new taxonomy of over 1,400 unique methods terms links to authoritative content, including: Over 600 books; Dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks; The entire "Little Green Book" and "Little Blue Book" series; Two major works collating a selection of journal articles; Newly commissioned videos.
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| Social Sciences Citation Index (included in Web of Science) Covers the social sciences, including anthropology, history, industrial relations, information science and library science, law, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, political science, public health, social issues, social work, sociology, substance abuse, urban studies, and women's studies. Provides bibliographic citations, plus author abstracts "for approximately 60% of the articles in the database." Each citation also includes a list of references cited in the source article. In addition, it is possible to retrieve a list of works that have cited a specific author or a specific earlier work. Indexes articles, reviews, letters, etc. from over "1,950 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines. It also indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals." [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Social Work Abstracts Abstracts of articles from social work and related journals. Includes register of clinical social workers. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 8 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Sociological Abstracts This core database for the field of sociology contains information on sociology and social policy worldwide. Sociological Abstracts includes citations from the 1952-present.
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General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
Academic Search Premier  This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for over 4,600 scholarly (peer-reviewed) publications back to 1975. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Indexes, Other
| Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print, from the Buros Institute, contains the most recent descriptive information and critical reviews of new and revised tests from the Buros Institute's 9th and more recent Yearbooks. It offers evaluations of the latest assessments in education, psychology, business, law, healthcare, counseling, and management. In addition to test reviews, descriptions of the purpose, target population, administration, scores, price, author, and publisher for all listed tests are provided. Reviews are written by highly qualified professionals with expertise in a range of disciplines. Beginning in 2010, the database provides a comprehensive record that combines the full text reviews with the citations from the print publications: Mental measurements yearbook; and: Tests in print. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| ProQuest Statistical Insight Index to statistical publications from US and state government agencies, international intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, business organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, and universities. Comprised of three indexes--the American Statistics Index (ASI)--Index to International Statistics (IIS)-- and Statistical Resources Index (SRI) that give bibliographic citations, abstracts, and links to selected full-text tables and web sites when available. The Government Publications Library has the companion microfiche collections which include copies of almost all the publications indexed in this database.
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General Reference Sources
Forms, Tests, Inventories
| ETS Test Collection Catalog This multi-volume resource from the Educational Testing Service lists thousands of test and measurement titles currently in use, and provides brief annotations for each. Volumes cover: Achievement; Vocational; Special Populations; Cognitive aptitude and intelligence; Attitude; and Affective measures and personality. See also ETS Test Collection database
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| Tests in Print Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language; TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).
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Handbooks and Manuals
| Handbook of Family Measurement Techniques Handbook for locating tests and other measurement instruments. v.1-2 abstracts tests 1929-1996; v.3 includes selected examples of tests abstracted.
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Internet Resources
Library Web Sites
| Social Sciences Data Services - University of Minnesota The home page for statistical data links from the Government Publications Library at the University of Minnesota.
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Multimedia Materials
Videos and Films
| Counseling and Therapy in Video (Alexander Street Press) Counseling and Therapy in Video provides the largest and richest online collection of video available for the study of counseling, social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. The collection's wealth of video and multiplicity of perspectives allow students and scholars to see, experience, and study counseling in ways never before possible.
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Societies, Agencies, and Organizations
Official Agency & Organization Websites
| Buros Center for Testing Web site with information about the Buros Institute, tests, test reviews, Buros publications, and instructions for using Buros publications, including Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print.
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Statistics and Data
Statistical Resources
| American FactFinder This is a data distribution system from the Bureau of the Census that will be the primary distribution locale for 2000 Census data. American FactFinder offers the capability to browse, search, and map data from many Census Bureau sources: the 1990 Census, the 1997 Economic Census, the American Community Survey, and other sources.
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| Data on the Net Search or browse the listing of Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses and more.
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| FedStats More than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government produce statistics of interest to the public. This site provides easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by these agencies for public use.
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| ICPSR List of Other Social Science Data Sites This list from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research provides direction in finding other sources of data files for the purpose of statistical analysis.
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| National Center for Health Statistics Provides surveys, data, vital statistics, state data and news. NCHS data systems include data on vital events as well as information on health status, lifestyle and exposure to unhealthy influences, the onset and diagnosis of illness and disability, and the use of health care.
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| Statistical Abstract of the United States The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
Use the Abstract as a convenient volume for statistical reference, and as a guide to sources of more information both in print and on the Web.
Sources of data include the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and many other Federal agencies and private organizations
(see example table). The online version has full text from 1995-, although the series as a whole starts in 1878.
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Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software
| RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.).
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Style Manuals
| Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition) is the style manual of choice for writers, editors, students, educators, and professionals in psychology, sociology, business, economics, nursing, social work, and justice administration.
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Library Information
Primary Subject Location
Magrath Library
Books, journals and government publications in agriculture, biological sciences, design, applied statistics, food science, family social science, applied economics and more.
Campus: St. Paul Campus
Address: 1984 Buford Avenue
Telephone: Circulation: (612) 624-2233; Reference: (612) 624-1212
Main URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/magrath
Reference URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/contact
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Hours URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/collections/magrath/hours
Secondary Subject Location(s)
Wilson Library
Wilson Library houses the main humanities and social sciences collections of the University Libraries.
Campus: West Bank, Minneapolis Campus
Address: 309 19th Ave. S.
Telephone: Reference: 612-626-2227; Circulation: 612-624-3321
Main URL: http://wilson.lib.umn.edu/
Reference URL: http://infopoint.lib.umn.edu/
Map URL: http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/OMWL/index.html
Hours URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/collections/wilson/hours
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