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  • EBSCOHost

    Offers Academic Search Complete, MasterFile Complete, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, and many more. Several databases may be searched at once. Full text articles are offered in both HTML and PDF format on thousands of titles.   [Details]

    Tutorial:   EBSCOhost - Creating an Advanced Search

  • PsycARTICLES

    The database contains more than 150,000 articles from over 70 journals published by the American Psychological Association) and 11 from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 59 journals. [Details]

  • PsycINFO

    The PsycINFO database contains summaries of the world's literature in psychology and related disciplines, compiled and indexed by the American Psychological Association.  [Details]

  • Public Affairs Information Services (PAIS)

    The Public Affairs Information Services database provides information on public affairs, public and social policies and international relations. PAIS includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world.  [Details]

  • Social Services Abstracts

    Current research focused on social work, human services and related areas, including social welfare, social policy and community development. [Details]

    Tutorial:   Social Services Abstracts

  • Sociological Abstracts

    Citations to sociology journals and dissertations covering sociological topics in fields such as anthropology, economics, education, medicine, community development, philosophy, demography, political science, and social psychology.  [Details]

  • EBSCOHost

    Offers Academic Search Complete, MasterFile Complete, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, and many more. Several databases may be searched at once. Full text articles are offered in both HTML and PDF format on thousands of titles.   [Details]

    Tutorial:   EBSCOhost - Creating an Advanced Search

  • PsycARTICLES

    The database contains more than 150,000 articles from over 70 journals published by the American Psychological Association) and 11 from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 59 journals. [Details]

  • PsycINFO

    The PsycINFO database contains summaries of the world's literature in psychology and related disciplines, compiled and indexed by the American Psychological Association.  [Details]

  • Public Affairs Information Services (PAIS)

    The Public Affairs Information Services database provides information on public affairs, public and social policies and international relations. PAIS includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world.  [Details]

  • Social Services Abstracts

    Current research focused on social work, human services and related areas, including social welfare, social policy and community development. [Details]

    Tutorial:   Social Services Abstracts

  • Sociological Abstracts

    Citations to sociology journals and dissertations covering sociological topics in fields such as anthropology, economics, education, medicine, community development, philosophy, demography, political science, and social psychology.  [Details]

  • ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts

    ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts on the Web is an indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Updated monthly, ASSIA provides a comprehensive source of social science and health information for the practical and academic professional.  [Details]

  • LexisNexis Academic

    News, business, legal and reference information.  [Details]

    Tutorial:   LexisNexis YouTube Channel

  • National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts (NCJRS)

    Database of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts with summaries of more than 180,000 criminal justice publications.  [Details]

  • Academic Search Complete

    Academic Search Complete offers critical information from many sources unique to this massive collection. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.  [Details]

  • Cambridge Journals Online

    Cambridge Journals Online is the online Cambridge University Press’s collection of several journals across the sciences, social sciences and humanities.  [Details]

  • CenStats

    CenStats provides access to several popular Census Bureau databases, including: Building Permits, Census Tract Street Locator, County Business Patterns, International Trade Data, Detailed Occupation by Race, Hispanic Origin and Sex, USA Counties, and 1990 Public Law 94-171 Data. [Details]

  • Electronic Journal Service (EJS)

    Search through EBSCO's database of scholarly e-journals. [Details]

  • GPO Access

    Gateway to searchable databases from the federal government. Includes the Federal Register and Congressional Record.  [Details]

  • Health Source Plus: Consumer Edition

    Consumer health journals, and general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. Subjects covered include behavioral health, cardiology, sports medicine and more.  [Details]

  • ICPSR (Inter University Consortium for Political and Social Research)

    ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction. Brought to you by the UNCW Office of Research Services and Sponsored Programs 
    Currently available from on campus only.
     [Details]

  • LexisNexis Congressional

    Comprehensive U.S. legislative information. [Details]

  • MasterFILE Complete

    This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full-text information dating as far back as 1922.  [Details]

  • Mental Measurements Yearbook

    Provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. The MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. [Details]

  • SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online)

    SciELO is a multinational effort to provide open access to scientific research journals produced in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain. [Details]

  • SpringerLink

    SpringerLink offers online access to several fully peer reviewed journals in biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities, and economics. [Details]

  • State Data Center

    North Carolina economic and population statistics, county profiles. [Details]

  • Wiley Online Library

    This database covers academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, psychology, law and criminology, life sciences, and business.  [Details]

  • WorldCat

    Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. [Details]


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