This guide is designed to assist PLuS Alliance student scholars taking courses through Arizona State University with identifying and locating library and information resources for assignments.
Search resources like Academic Search Premier, Google Scholar and Library One Search for scholarly articles when exploring a topic or trying keywords. You will quickly discover the range of disciplines and additional keywords for your topic. Sometimes you might find too much information. To narrow search results, think of more detailed keywords, a specific aspect of a topic or a different date range. These tutorials can help you get started.
Find Scholarly Articles in Specialized Library Databases
PsycINFOCoverage: 1887+ Maximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Covers the research literature in all areas of psychology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Other subjects such as neuroscience, psychiatry, and physiology are also included. The database provides indexing and abstracts for journal articles (mostly peer-reviewed), books, chapters, and dissertations.
PubMedCoverage: 1950+ Maximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
An Abstract/Citation Database, PubMed indexes citations for articles from MEDLINE and OLD MEDLINE as well as out-of-scope citations from additional general science and chemistry journals whose life sciences articles are indexed in MEDLINE. PubMed also indexes additional life science journal articles that submit full text to PubMed Central.
CINAHL Plus with Full TextCoverage: 1982+ Maximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
The CINAHL database indexes articles from numerous nursing and allied health journals. Content also includes relevant materials from biomedicine, public health, management, behavioral sciences, education, and consumer health. CINAHL also provides access to Evidence Based Care Sheets, research instrument descriptions and articles from trade magazines, and organizations such as the American Nurses Association.
Alternate titles: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
Dissertations & Theses GlobalCoverage: 1861+ Maximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
A comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses that includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a 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 provides strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content.
Alternate titles: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global
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eBooks on EBSCOhostCoverage: Varies Maximum Concurrent Users: 3
Provides full-text books from many of the world's leading commercial publishers and university presses. Includes a wide range of scholarly, reference, and professional titles. Subjects covered include Arts & Entertainment; Business & Economy; Computer & Internet; Education; Health; History; Government & Law; Recreation & Sports; Reference; Science & Technology; Social Sciences; Society & Culture.
Elsevier eBook Complete CollectionsCoverage: Varies Maximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
This resource provides access to eBooks published by a range of publishers, covering the Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities subjects.
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