Please Note that off campus access to the following databases is restricted to the CCSU community.
SocIndex with Full Text
Contains full text articles for journals dating back to 1895. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers.
Social Sciences Citation Index (1991-present)
Provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines.
Criminal Justice Abstracts
Contains coverage of international journals (articles), books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines. It covers such topics as crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing , etc. The database contains indexes and summaries of international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on a wide range of topics in criminal justice. Note: if you search this database it will also search the Criminal Justice (Sage) Collection database also.
Criminal Justice Collection (Sage)
A collection of 18 peer-reviewed journals covering many Criminology topics. To ensure access to full-text pdf files, please download the latest version of the Acrobat Reader from Adobe. Note: if you search this databases, it will also search the Criminal Justice Abstracts database
Expanded Academic ASAP
Contains articles and abstracts (summaries) on a wide variety of disciplines including social sciences, humanities and science and technology journals, national news periodicals, general interest magazines, newswires, etc.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
Provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, theses/dissertations, and program evaluation).
PsycINFO
Provides indexing and abstracts (article summaries) for over one million articles in 1,700 journals from over 50 countries. This database, provided by the American Psychological Association, also includes abstracts for dissertations, books and book chapters ranging in date from 1887 to the present.
PsycARTICLES
A definitive source of searchable full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 40,000 articles from 53 journals - 45 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 8 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1985 to present.
BUROS MENTAL MEASUREMENTS YEARBOOK
Online access to the 9-16th Mental Measurements Yearbooks via the EBSCOhost interface. The Mental Measurements Yearbook series, produced since 1938 by the Buros Institute, provides users with critical evaluations for over 2,000 commercial tests within a wide variety of areas that include education, psychology, business, aptitude, achievement, and intelligence. Typical MMY entries include descriptive information about the test, professional reviews, and reviewer references. Full text of test reviews is included in the database, and up to three independent reviews are included for each test.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI)
Contains thousands of instruments including questionnaires, rating scales, index measures, scenarios, vignettes, observations, checklists, manuals, coding schemes, and projectice techniques. Under 'Limit to' select Primary Source or Secondary Source. Primary source means the citation is the original source for the instrument. Secondary Source means the instrument was originally developed by another author or for another study. Use reliability and validity as keywords to locte instruments with tested psychometric properties.
PsycINFO
Covers mainly journal articles (includes some books and other materials) relevant to psychology, educations, medicine, business, sociology, and psychiatry. Start with a keywords search to find articles relating to a type of inventory and then combine it with a keyword search using the word appended. This will find instruments relating to a specific subject that are included in the article appendix.
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCHOOL SOCIOLOGY (REF HM425 E5 2000)
New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2003
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE (REF BF311 E53 2003)
London: New York: Nature Pub. Group 2003
CORSINI ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR (REF BF31 E5)
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PSYCHOLOGY (REF BF31 E52)
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MENTAL HEALTH (REF RA790 E53)
San Diego: Academic Press, 1998
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PSYCHIATRY, PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS (REF RC437)
New York: Henry Holt, 1996
DICTIONARY OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE: NEUROSCIENCE, PSYCHOLOGY, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY
New York: Psychology Press, 2004
A DICTIONARY OF PSYCHOLOGY (REF BF31 C65 2001)
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001
PUBLICATION MANUAL OF THE APA (REF BF76.7 P38 – Ask at the Reference Desk – 3rd Floor)
Washington, D.C. American Psychological Association, 2001
A guide to mechanical and style rules for authors, editors and students in the field of psychology.
JOURNALS IN PSYCHOLOGY: A RESOURCE LISTING FOR AUTHORS (REF BF76.8 J68)
Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1997
AARP Ageline
Policy and research for professionals in aging. The Ageline® Database includes abstracts of social gerontology and aging-related articles, books, and reports. Free access to a partial selection of articles from the AARP magazine from 2003 to present. Includes a recipe database. information on money, travel, health, family. entertainment, and lifestyles.
National Institute on Aging
The National Institute on Aging is one of 27 agencies that make up the National Institutes of Health. Information on all aspects of aging offered in both English and Spanish. The four major sections that include detailed information are: Health Information, Research Information, Grants & Training, and News & Events.
Sociosite
This is a social science information system based at the University of Amsterdam. The editors strive to compile an ever-changing, comprehensive listing of all of the sociology resources on the Internet. Web access to world wide information in the social sciences. The Sociological Subjects page offers a selection of over 150 areas of the social sciences to choose from with extensive links in each entry.
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