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Databases for Human Development and Family Studies

Use RefWorks with Library databases to organize your research, include citations in papers, and create bibliographies.

Getting Started

• Academic OneFile  
  Indexes more than 8,000 magazines and journals on a broad variety of subjects, including family topics.

• Family & Society Studies Worldwide  
  Indexes articles in magazines, journals, books, and more in the areas of family science, human ecology, and human development.

• PsycINFO  
  Indexes articles in journals, chapters in books, dissertations, and other resources in psychology and the socal sciences.

• Sociological Abstracts  
  Indexes journals, dissertations, and more in sociology, social work, criminal justice, and related social sciences disciplines.

Business

• ABI/INFORM
  Indexes articles in business magazines and journals.

• Business & Company Resource Center
  Indexes articles in business-related periodicals; includes fulltext of articles for many of the sources. Useful for topics involving work - family relationships, starting a daycare center, or employee benefits relating to families and lifestyles.

• Business Source Premier  
  Business Source Premier provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Areas of coverage include all disciplines of business — marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.

Education

• Education Full Text  
  Indexes articles in books and articles in education periodicals (some magazines and some journals).

• ERIC [Cambridge Scientific Abstracts]  
  Indexes journals and research documents (EDs) in education and the social sciences. Provides full text of research documents from 1993 to present. Reports prior to 1993 are available in microfiche format in the ERIC Documents Microfiche Collection (Microfiche S 107) on the Lower Level. ERIC is also available as a free Internet database.

• ERIC [EBSCOHost]  
  Indexes journals and research documents (EDs) in education and the social sciences. Provides full text of research documents from 1993 to present. Reports prior to 1993 are available in microfiche format in the ERIC Documents Microfiche Collection (Microfiche S 107) on the Lower Level. ERIC is also available as a free Internet database.

Ethnicity, Race & Gender

• Ethnic NewsWatch
  Fulltext articles from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press -- English and Spanish language.

• GenderWatch
  Fulltext articles from journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, books, and more in the subject areas of women, family, and other related topics.

• International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text

• Women's Studies International  
  Indexes articles in journals in the subject areas of women, family, children, and related topics.

History

• America: History and Life
  Indexes articles on American history and culture.

• American Memory
  Digitized collections from the Library of Congress.

• American Periodical Series Online (APS)
  Page images of selected magazines and newspapers from the 18th and 19th centuries.

• The Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online

• Godey's Lady's Book

• HarpWeek
  Seachable page images of Harper's Weekly, the leading illustrated American periodical of the last half of the nineteenth century.

• Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective  

• International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text

• Making of America

• New York Times: ProQuest Historical Newspapers

• North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial - 1950

• Periodicals Index Online  
  Indexes articles appearing in thousands of journals and magazines in the humanities and social sciences from 1665-1995.

• Readers' Guide Retrospective  
  Indexes articles appearing in hundreds of journals and magazines 1890-1982.

• Times Digital Archive
  Digitized images of the London Times, 1785-1985.

• Archives USA

Images

• AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive
  Current and historical images from the Associated Press digital image archive.

Medicine & Health

• Health Reference Center-Academic  

• MedlinePlus
  Health information for health professionals and consumers. A freely available Internet database.

• PsycINFO  
  Indexes articles in journals, chapters in books, dissertations, and other resources in psychology and the socal sciences.

• PubMed  
  Database indexes journal articles covering all aspects of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary science and the preclinical sciences. (shortcut: pubmed.gov) A freely available Internet database.

• Web of Science (Science Citation Index / ISI Citation Databases)  
  Indexes articles in journals in the social sciences. Includes references and cited reference searching.

Policy and Law

• AccessUN

• Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP)
  A database of federal publications. Covers 1976 to present. A freely available Internet database.

• CQ Weekly

• CQ Researcher Plus Archive

• Criminal Justice Abstracts  

• GPO Access

• Index to United Nations Documents & Publications (Morris Library only)

• LegalTrac

• LexisNexis Academic
  Provides fulltext articles from newspapers, law reviews, law sources, and selected magazines and journals.

• LexisNexis Congressional

• LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index

• LexisNexis State Capital
  Includes codes of law from all states.

• PAIS International  
  Indexes books, government publications (federal, state, local, and international), and scholarly journals covering the fields of public policy, politics, demography, foreign relations, international affairs, public administration, and related disciplines.

Social Sciences

• Ageline
  Freely available database that indexes social gerontology and aging-related articles, books, and reports. Provides abstracts.

• AGRICOLA  
  The database is useful for topics related to home economics, family consumerism, family life programs, etc. Published by the Department of Agriculture. Agricola is also available as a free Internet database.

• Cross-Cultural CD
  Fulltext of selected portions of the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF), a massive literature based on field studies and observations of many different cultures. Emphasis is 19th and 20th centuries. Volumes 1 and 2 cover human sexuality, marriage and family.

• LexisNexis Academic
  Provides fulltext articles from newspapers, law reviews, law sources, and selected magazines and journals.

• Social Services Abstracts  

• Web of Science (Social Sciences Citation Index / ISI Citation Databases)  
  Indexes articles in journals in the social sciences. Includes references and cited reference searching.

Statistics

• Statistical Abstract of the United States
  Full text of statistical tables on a variety of subjects. A freely available Internet database.

• LexisNexis Statistical

Tests and Instruments

• Mental Measurements Yearbook

• PsycINFO  
  Useful for locating reviews and evaluations of tests and measures.

For Advanced Researchers

• Journal Citation Reports
  Journal Citation Reports is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. It is the only source of citation data on journals, and includes virtually all areas of science, technology, and social sciences.

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (Dissertation Abstracts)

• High Impact Papers
  An important research tool which presents information about articles which have been heavily cited in certain fields of research: Family Studies and Developmental Psychology. The dataset must be downloaded to your computer before using.

• Social Sciences Citation Index ( ISI Citation Databases / Web of Science)  
  Indexes articles in journals in the social sciences. Includes references and cited reference searching.

Other Libraries

• Del-AWARE: The Digital Library of the First State
  Del-AWARE provides online information and services to Delaware libraries and public library users.

  • New Castle County Library Databases

  • Wilmington Library Databases

  • Kent and Sussex County Library Databases

• Delaware Public Library catalogs:

  • TipCat, New Castle County public libraries (except Wilmington Library)

  • Wilmington Public Library
    Catalog includes book holdings of the Christiana Care Libraries and the Delaware Academy of Medicine.

  • Delaware Library Catalog
    Kent and Sussex Counties public libraries and Delaware Technical & Community College (DTCC), Wesley College, and Delaware Public Archives.

• Delaware Libraries

• LibDex: The Library Index

• WorldCat
  Use to find out which libraries have a book or subscription.

• WorldCat.org
  Free version of the WorldCat database. Use to find out which libraries have a book or subscription.