Information Resources for Human Development
& Family Studies

Best Resources for Finding Articles

Sociological Abstracts
- Indexes the international literature of sociology and related behavioral sciences from over 1,700 journals, books and book chapters, dissertations and proceedings. Since 2001, many records include references cited.
PsycINFO (EBSCOHost)
- The online version of Psychological Abstracts, indexing journal articles, book chapters, and dissertations. 1887- present. (To search multiple EBSCOhost databases, click the "Select Databases" tab.)
ERIC
- An index to journals, books, curriculum guides, and other resources relating to education from pre-school to graduate school. 1966- present.
Social Sciences Citation Index
- Part of Web of Science. Search by subject, author, or cited reference. On the search screen, clear the checkboxes for Science Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index if you do not want to search all 3 databases simultaneously (the default). An excellent current awareness and bibliography-building tool. 1,725 journals from 1965- present.
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CQ Electronic Library
- Full text of Congressional Quarterly's premier print publication CQ Researcher (from November 1991).

Additional Resources for Finding Articles & Other Information

U.S. Government Monthly Catalog
- Index to U.S. Government information resources providing policy & background information on U.S. foreign relations, health, and much more from June, 1976.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
- Indexes 7,800+ scholarly journals, with full text for 4,000 titles. Covers social sciences, humanities, education, computer science and engineering, general science, medicine, ethnic studies, and more. 1965- present for selected titles. (To search multiple EBSCOhost databases, click the "Select Databases" tab.)
ECO - Electronic Collections Online (Electronic Journals)
- Indexes 5,400+ scholarly journals in a wide range of subjects. Abstracts and full-text are available for approximately 400 journals to which UNR subscribes. To limit results to these journals, check the "full-text" box. 1995- present.
LexisNexis Statistical
- Abstracts and index to U.S. federal & state government publications, and to privately published & international and intergovernmental statistical sources from 1972.
LexisNexis Academic
- Index and full text to news, business, legal, medical, and reference materials and links to congressional and statistical information.
GenderWatch
- Full text collection of articles covering women's and gender topics.
Article1st
- Index to 12,600 + journals pertaining to science, medicine, technology, social science, business, humanities, and popular culture. Now includes journal Tables of Contents (formerly in Contents1st). 1990 - present.
Dissertations & Theses: Full Text (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — Full text is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works.
WorldCat
- A catalog of library materials in all formats from libraries all over the United States and the world. Contains more than 61 million items.