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Article databases

NameDescription
Academic Search CompleteMulti-disciplinary coverage. Over 5,500 full text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF content going back to 1887. Searchable cited references for nearly 1,000 journals. EBSCOhost
Alt HealthWatchComplementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Full text for more than 180 journals and reports. EBSCOhost
ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts Covers health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations, and education. Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Cambridge Journals OnlineOnline content delivery service for Cambridge University Press' collection of nearly 200 leading journals across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Full text coverage. Cambridge University Press
CWI-Contemporary Women's Issue Health and Human RightsGlobal information about women in over 150 countries. Indexes books, journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, and fact sheets. OCLC/Gale Group
Essay and General Literature IndexCitations for essays and chapters contained in books. Click "Library Owns?" icon to search for call numbers and availability of books. Coverage in the humanities and social sciences. H. W. Wilson
Health Source: Nursing/Academic EditionNearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. EBSCOhost
MEDLINECitations and abstracts for articles, reports, interviews, conference, trials, and more. Coverage for over 4,800 current biomedical journals. EBSCOhost Web/National Library of Medicine
NetLibraryAccess to more than 50,000 digitized books. Search by title, author, keyword, Library of Congress subject heading, publisher, or ISBN. Full-text searching is also available. OCLC
OmniFile Full Text MegaCitations, abstracts, and full text for thousands of popular and scholarly sources, including articles, reviews, books, and more. Multi-disciplinary coverage. H. W. Wilson
PILOTS - Published International Literature on Traumatic StressFrom the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Citations, abstracts, and limited full text for literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental health conditions associated with traumatic events. Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
PsycINFOPsychology and related disciplines, including medicine, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, and other areas. Nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations. Coverage from 1887 to the present. Updated weekly. All records published in Psychological Abstracts are now in PsycINFO. EBSCOhost/American Psychological Association
Social Services AbstractsSocial work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Citations and abstracts for journal articles, dissertations, and book reviews. Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Sociological AbstractsCitations and abstracts for journal articles, book reviews, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Web of ScienceProvides access to the Science Citation Index Expanded Index (1992 to present) for more than 6,400 of the world's leading scholarly science and technical journals in over 150 disciplines. Offers current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references. Includes MEDLINE. Updated weekly. Thomson
Wiley-Blackwell Formerly Blackwell Synergy. Full text for over 850 journals, the majority of which are published by Blackwell on behalf of international scholarly and professional societies. Subjects range across Medicine, Science, Social Science, and the Humanities. PLEASE NOTE: not all titles or issues of titles are available in full text. Wiley InterScience
WorldCatSearch for materials in hundreds of libraries. Books, websites, computer programs, films, slides, journals, magazines, papers, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, sound recordings, videotapes. Coverage from before 1000 BC to the present. OCLC

LC classification system

HA - Statistics HQ - The Family. Marriage. Women
HV - Social Pathology. Social and Public Welfare. Criminology QM - Human Anatomy
R - Medicine (General) RC - Internal Medicine. Psychiatry
RT - Nursing

Reference books

BookCall number
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental DisordersREF RC 455.2 .C4 D536 2000
Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior (4 volumes)REF HV5804 .E53
Social Workers' Desk ReferenceREF HV40 .S6464 2002
The Social Work DictionaryREF HV12 .B37 2003

Web resources

Center for Disease Control and Prevention
ChildStats
Drug Information Portal
Harvard School of Public - Health World Health News
Medline
National Center For Health Statistics
Scirus
StateHealthFacts.org
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
U.S. Fed Stats
Virginia Department of Health
WHOSIS (WHO Statistical Information System)