Libraries

Bibliographic references to the study of aging in psychological, health-related, social and economic contexts. (AARP)

For researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and administrators working to prevent and treat child abuse and neglect, and to provide out-of-home placement and permanency planning services. Citations and abstracts are to books, journal articles, final reports from federally-funded grant, conference papers, unpublished papers, reports on completed or continuing research, as well as descriptions of service programs and prevention and treatment strategies.

A comprehensive source of information about communication-related publications on a world-wide scale. Covers communication-related articles, reports, papers, and books from a variety of publishers, research institutions, and information sources, as well as international literature in film studies, the role of technology in human communications, risk communication, crisis communication and public opinions. (CSA)

Full-text coverage of over 1500 sources published by more than 200 organizations around the world from 1992 to the present. Sources provide information dealing with women's issues in over 190 nations. Maximum number of simultaneous users: 4. (Responsive Database Services)

See University of Louisville Electronic Theses and Dissertations or ProQuest Digital Dissertations.

Indexing and abstracts for over 8000 publications with full-text for over half of the publications. (EBSCOhost)

Includes 125 international publications plus reports, pamphlets, papers and conference proceedings devoted to women and gender issues. Archival material dating back to the mid 1970's.

HAPI provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. (Ovid)

The world's largest repository of computer-readable research data for the social sciences and related fields. Requires registration and then the requested dataset can be downloaded. Datasets can be processed with SAS, SPSS, or Stata.

Abstracted articles from medical journals.

• Ovid :
• EBSCOhost :
• FirstSearch:
• Old Medline: citations from 1958-1965
• PubMed:
• Web of Knowledge: 1950 - present

The Mental Measurements Yearbook, from the Buros Institute, contains descriptive information and critical reviews of more than 2,000 commercially-available standardized English-language educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement and intelligence tests. (SilverPlatter)

Directory of clinical social workers. (SilverPlatter)

Summaries of more than 150,000 publications on criminal justice, including government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. (CSA)

Database of full-text journals from the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. PsycARTICLES is only searchable within the OVID version of PsycINFO.

Provides indexing and abstracting for the professional and academic literature (books, book chapters, dissertations and 1300 journals) in psychology and related disciplines.

• Ovid: includes PsycARTICLES (links to Minerva show UofL journal holdings); 1872 to the present
• EBSCOhost: 1887 to the present.

Formerly known as Dissertations Abstracts International. Contains 1.6 million citations for dissertations and theses from over 1,000 graduate schools. Provides indexing back to 1861 and full-text availability to titles back to 1997 (full-text availability varies by author's institution). Free full-text downloads can be sent to an email account.

Abstracted articles from medical journals. See also Medline. (National Library of Medicine)

Indexing to journal articles in over 1,100 key scientific, technical, medical and social science journals published by Elsevier. Full-text access to articles in journals to which U of L subscribes to the print version.

Index to articles in the social sciences. (H.W. Wilson)

Indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines in the social sciences. Includes and is searchable by references cited in each article. Maximum number of simultaneous users: 13 (split between Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Journal Citation Reports). (ISI's Web of Science)

Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. (CSA)

Coverage of more than 450 journals in Social Work and related areas. (SilverPlatter)

Abstracts to articles from 2,300 journals on all aspects of sociology. (CSA)

The Sociological Collection is a comprehensive database with nearly 570 full text titles. This database provides information on all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure. (EBSCOhost)

Contains statistical data produced by the U.S. government; important international intergovernmental organizations; professional and trade organizations, business organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities. (Lexis-Nexis)