Sociology and Health Care
While this was created for SOC 346 Fall 2023, it has many resources that should help you start.
Welcome
- Library One Search--Advanced SearchSearch multiple databases and different types of content together. Databases searched include the library's catalog,
- Google ScholarSearches scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports.
- Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new windowSocial Sciences Full Text™ provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language journals published in the social sciences. This resource provides detailed indexing for over 625 periodicals dating back as far as 1983—nearly 400 of which are peer-reviewed.
- SocArXiv(pronounced sosh-archive). A preprint server open archive of the social sciences. SocArXiv papers are moderated before appearing.
- JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive This link opens in a new windowJSTOR contains the full text of articles published in approximately 430 journals from the fields of arts and sciences, and business. Its archive spans from the first volume of the journal to within the past three to five years of the journal.
Medical
- CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window"CINAHL Complete is the world’s most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals indexed in CINAHL. ... CINAHL Complete is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing & allied health literature and supports nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers."
- PsycInfo (APA PsycInfo) This link opens in a new windowThe PsycInfo® database, American Psychological Association’s (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with one of the highest DOI matching rates in the publishing industry. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from periodicals in dozens of languages.
- PubMed This link opens in a new windowThe world's largest biomedical database, freely available on the Internet.
Historical
- America: History and Life This link opens in a new windowUnited States and Canadian history, 1450 to the present.
- Historical Abstracts (Access Ends on 9/1/2024) This link opens in a new windowWorld history from 1450 to the present (excluding United States and Canada).
- ERIC This link opens in a new windowThe most comprehensive education database. Access provided by the New Jersey State Library.
- Business Source Premier This link opens in a new windowBusiness Source Premier is the world’s definitive scholarly business database, providing indexing and abstracts for more than twice as many active, peer-reviewed, business related journals as any other database. Business Source® Premier offers indexing and abstracts for the 350 most important scholarly journals back to 1965 or the first published issue. This database includes searchable cited references for more than 1,160 journals. Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Premier is the overwhelmingly superior database for full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, econometrics and economics.
- Points of View Reference Source This link opens in a new windowPoints of View Reference Source™ is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 200 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument). Access provided by the New Jersey State Library.
- CQ Researcher This link opens in a new windowCQ Researcher offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important issues. Each report is on a single topic—more than 12,000 words of text and extensive bibliographies. ... Each weekly issue provides up-to-date information on controversial subjects written by CQ's staff of experienced reporters.