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Alternative Press Index

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The API is a bibliographic database (with links to full-text) of more than 368,000 journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals.

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PsychiatryOnline is a web-based portal that features DSM-IV-TR €”the most widely used psychiatric reference in the world €”and The American Journal of Psychiatry among other electronic psychiatric references from American Psychiatric Publishing.

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AP Images

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A primary source database from the Associated Press, one of the oldest news organizations in the world; includes 4.6 million photographs, audio sound bites, graphics and text spanning over 185 years. Images can be searched by color, concept, and category.

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This database is designed to meet the information needs of the caring professions, and spans the literature of health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. The database abstracts and indexes over 500 journals, from more than 16 countries.

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ArticleFirst

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Contains the table of contents pages and holdings information from more than 13,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Although most of the journals are published in English, journals in other languages are also included. Updated daily.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.

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CiNii (Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator) is a database service that enables searching of information on academic articles published in academic society journals or university research bulletins, or articles included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database.

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CollegeSource Online features over 14,000 full text college catalogs representing 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools. Other resources include links (and some catalogs) to international universities; financial aid information and assistance; career planning links; and college entrance exam information.

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A statistical database offering demographic, economic and government information. The data presented here was obtained from the 2000 County and City Data Book, published by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, and made available to over 1400 depository libraries across the country.

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CQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.

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The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a consortium of North American universities, colleges and independent research libraries.

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Part of Web of Science, Current Contents is a multidisciplinary current awareness Web resource providing access to complete bibliographic information from over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books.

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DOAB provides open access to over 854 Academic peer-reviewed books from 25 publishers.

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A web portal to providing full-text online access to twenty-nine Duke University Press humanities and social science journals. All of the journals are also accessible by title through the USC Libraries e-journals pages.

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Ebooks

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Ebooks is a catalog portal to the substantial sub-set of electronic books, in all subject areas, included in OCLC WorldCat.

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Provides indexing and abstracting for articles in more than 100 journals related to the administration of primary, secondary and post-secondary educational facilities and programs.

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Education Research Abstracts Online (ERA) is a comprehensive database, comprising fully indexed abstracts which cover the current international research in education.

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ERIC (EBSCO)

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ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.

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ERIC (ProQuest)

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This database contains information on published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics. Updated monthly.

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Family Studies Database is the world's most comprehensive, systematic, and non-evaluative resource of research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, and Human Development. FSD, including FAMILY, provides over 198,000 abstracts and bibliographic records drawn from over a thousand professional journals, books, popular literature, conference papers, government reports, and other sources, many of which are indexed exclusively in FSD. About 9,000 abstracts are added each year.
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Family Studies Abstracts (available through EBSCOhost) includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains over 45,000 records.

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Multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (63%), social sciences (33%), and economics (4%).

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Locate measurement instruments such as surveys, questionnaires, tests, surveys, coding schemes, checklists, rating scales, vignettes, etc. Scope includes medicine, nursing, public health , psychology, social work, communication, sociology, etc.

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This database abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Documents indexed include journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers.

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Access the world'€™s leading scholarly literature in the social sciences, arts, and humanities and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions.

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JSTOR

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A growing full text collection of core social science, humanities, and science journals and books.

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Over 100 indicators of child well-being, including economic status, health, safety, and risk factors on the local community, city, state, and national level.

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Use MMY to find REVIEWS of testing instruments. Actual test instruments are NOT provided. Most reviews discuss validity and reliability of tool.
To purchase or obtain the actual test materials, you will need to contact the test publisher(s).

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As of June 2, 2011, all PDF versions of books published by the National Academies Press are downloadable to anyone free of charge.

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To gain access, please click “Institution Not Listed?” and enter your USC email address in the box provided.

Safari Online provides e-books from the publishers specializing in computer application user and training manuals.

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Oxford Journals

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Provides access to a search interface that retrieves articles across all Oxford titles; searches can be limited to specific subject categories.

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The Oxford Research Encyclopedias(OREs) offer long-form overview articles written, peer-reviewed, and edited by leading scholars. USC provides access to the ORE Encyclopedia of Social Work, Oxford Classical Dictionary, American History, Education, Communication, Latin American History, Literature, Religion, Climate Science, Environmental Science, International Studies, Linguistics and Politics.

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Physical Education Index is an Abstracts and Indexes database with coverage from 1970’s to Present. Content includes a vast collection of material in physical education including trade material covering areas like human genetics, dance, etc.

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Periodicals Index Online is an electronic index to millions of articles published in over 5,500 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences.

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PolicyFile

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Public policy research indexing and abstracting, as well as full text items.

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The website'€™s mission is to promote €œcritical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, primarily pro-con format.€

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ProQuest Education Journals gives users access to over 900 top educational publications, including more than 600 of the titles in full text.

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This database provides abstracts and indexing for more than 640 titles, with over 540 titles available in full text. Many titles are indexed in PsycINFO.

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ProQuest Research Library is a multi-disciplinary index suitable for both undergraduates and graduate students.

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This database offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work and sociology.

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Include a detailed description of a publication's statistical contents and primary bibliographic information like title, date, collation, agency report number (if any), and periodicity.

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PsycARTICLES

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PsycArticles is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber.

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