Behavioral and Brain Sciences Databases/Indexes
Database/ Index |
Description |
| Behavioral and Brain Sciences POWERSEARCH | Searches following databases simultaneously: Academic Search Complete , MEDLINE, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, PsycARTICLES, and PsycINFO. |
| CogNet Library (cognitive and brain sciences) | Provides full-text access to books and journals relating to cognitive and neurological sciences. It is also is an essential resource for those interested in primary research for understanding the nature of the human mind. The publication dates of the materials vary, but generally cover the past 15 years. |
| ERIC (1966-) EBSCO |
ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center) is an index to both non-journal material (examples include lesson plans and reports) from Resources in Education (RIE) and an index to journal articles in the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). The index begins in 1966 and is an excellent source for materials relating to education and library science. How to Search This Database |
| Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts | An international index to journals, books, dissertations, and reports about language, linguistics, speech, communications and related topics. The index starts in 1973. Each document in Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts contains a summary. How to Search This Database |
| Mental Measurements Yearbook (1985-present) | Produced by the Buros Institute, MMY provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. All MMY entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts. It covers Volume 9 (1985) of the print edition to the present. Previous volumes of MMY can be found in print in the Reference books, 2nd floor, under the call number BF 176.M46. How to Search This Database |
| PsycBOOKS is a database of more than 17,000 chapters in full-text PDF from over 1,100 scholarly books published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and other distinguished publishers. Coverage ranges from 1806 to 2005, including 100 out-of-print books from 1950-2002. Select the database PsychBooks for book searching options. How to Search This Database | |
| PubMed, developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine, provides access to citations and abstracts from biomedical literature. Over 10,500 journals are indexed by PubMed with coverage back to the 1950s. Links to full-text articles at other journal Web sites are provided for many of the citations within PubMed. PubMed includes the Medline database as well as in-process citations. How to Search This Database | |
| SCOPUS | Multidisciplinary database covering scientific, technical, medical and social science literature - over 15,000 peer-reviewed titles from 4,000 publishers. Abstracts to over 33 million records reach from present back to 1966 with selective linking to full text. Specifically, SCOPUS covers topics in health, life sciences, agricultural and biological sciences, chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering, earth and environmental sciences, social science, psychology, and economics, business, and management. How to Search This Database |
| Social Sciences Citation Index | ISI Web of Knowledge (formerly- ISI Web of Science) provides seamless access to three citation indexes: the Science Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index. These can be searched together or separately. Approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious research journals are indexed with abstracts within the Web of Science. Complete bibliographies are included for each citation allowing for cited reference searching. Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index with searchable author abstracts, covering journals in the social sciences (anthropology, economics, geography, law, political science, psychology and sociology) from 1956 to the present. The Cited Reference Search option in Social Sciences Citation Index allows users to find other works which reference a specific work or author. How to Search This Database |
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