Indexes to the Literature - Social Science and Psychology Databases
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| Autism Data | British Education index | CogPrints (Psychology) | EBSCOHost | ERIC Database
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| GoogleScholar | IBSS | PEP WEB Search | PILOTS | PsycINFO
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| Social Care Online | SSRN | Web of Science | ZETOC
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Resources marked with this icon include some full-text (use the "360 Link to full text" buttons): 
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| An index of 17,000+ journal article, books, & research papers in the subject area of autism and aspergers syndrome. From the National Autistic Society | Free access | |
| British Education Index |
British educational literature 1975- Available via ProQuest |
IT account username and password required |
| Technically a "pre-print archive", Cogprints stores electronic documents (often pre-publication versions of papers later released in academic journals), in a subject index that covers psychology, neuroscience, computer science, linguistics and philosophy | Free access | |
EBSCOHost is the search interface to several full-text collections and bibliographic databases (some of them quite discipline specific). You may select multiple indexes and collections, and cross-search them all at the same time. The most appropriate collections are:
You can also set up an account in EBSCOHost, and save your searches, or set up search alerts |
IT account username and password required | |
Abstracts to documents and journal articles covering all aspects of education research and practice from 1966- Available via ProQuest |
Free access | |
| GoogleScholar |
Version of Google which limits search results to web available content of academic level. Mutlidisciplinary coverage and the wide range of materials indexed (including research reports and grey literature) make GoogleScholar a useful tool. Use it to dip into the literature, and as an adjunct to (rather than replacement for) the other academic adatbases on this list |
IT account username and password required (for this version which displays the "UoK link to Full Text" entries) |
Covers the social sciences and related subjects, indexing bibliographic records for articles, books, chapters and reviews, from 1951- IBSS is accessible via ProQuest |
IT account username and password required |
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| A searchable bibliography of psychoanalytic journal articles, books, and book reviews. It is free to search for article details and abstracts. However, we do not subscribe to the full-text content | Free access | |
| An electronic index to the worldwide literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events. It is produced by the US National Center for PTSD | IT account username and password required | |
| PsycINFO is accessible via EBSCOHost - select the product from the list of services offered, or cross-search it along with other datasets in the package PsycINFO is a database of psychological literature from 1887–present. It indexes more than 1,500 peer-reviewed journals (see the full-list for details), as well as other publications (book chapters and books, technical reports, and dissertations) relevant to psychology. |
IT account username and password required |
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| Research Evidence (from the Research in Practice site) | A database containing details of research reviews and summaries of research related to the broad category of children and families | Free access |
| SCOPUS Click Login (top right), then Go to the Athens / Other Institution login, then choose from the 'Select your region or group' drop down list. |
SCOPUS is a large and important abstract and citation database. It provides extensive cover of scientific, technical, medical and social sciences literature and includes arts & humanities information | IT account username and password required |
| Social Care Online is a searchable gateway to information and literature on social and community care. It indexes abstracts of books, central and local government reports, research papers, publications of voluntary organisations, and articles from a wide range of journal titles. Like the NHS' National Library for Health, it contains pointers to other resources in support of best practice and professional development |
Free access | |
Open access repository of journal and gray literature (reports, working papers, etc.) |
Free access (although registration - which is free - is required to access all features) |
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| Web of Science and ISI Proceedings: part of:
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Log into the Web of Knowledge Gateway, and select the Web of Science tab. Use the tick box to select the "Social Sciences Science Citation Index" as your option to search. The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index of journal articles published in over 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines. ISI Proceedings indexes papers published in scientific conference proceedings |
IT account username and password required |
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ZETOC |
The British Library's multidisciplinary Electronic Table of Contents database of c. 20,000 journals and approx. 16,000 conference proceedings from 1993- ZETOC Alert is an e-mail current awareness service, that allows you to set up automated e-mail notification of newly published articles and contents pages that match your search criteria |
IT account username and password required |
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