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David Michalski MyCard (http://people.lib.ucdavis.edu/~davidm/mycard.html)
michalski@ucdavis.edu — (530) 752‑2086 — Humanities, Social Sciences, and Government Information Services (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/)

Librarian subject specialist and bibliographer for African and African American Studies, American Studies, Asian American Studies, Cultural Studies, Geography, Human and Community and Regional Development, Psychology, Sociology, and Women and Gender Studies.

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Subject Specific Databases

PsycINFO [via Proquest] (http://search.proquest.com/psycinfo/advanced) [Restricted] VPN
PsycINFO is a department of the American Psychological Association (APA). It provides citations to articles in professional journals, conference proceedings, books, reports, dissertations and even important internet sites in psychology and related disciplines, most with abstracts and some citations. (Psychinfo is the incorrect spelling.)
Coverage: 1840-present
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ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) [via Proquest] (http://search.proquest.com/eric/advanced) [Restricted] VPN
The ERIC Database indexes and abstracts education and education related journals, studies and reports, with links to full-text studies and reports from 1993 forward.
Coverage: 1966-present
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Sociological Abstracts [via Proquest] (http://search.proquest.com/socabs/advanced) [Restricted] VPN
Sociological Abstracts Database is a primary resource for accessing the latest research sponsored in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database draws information from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles.
Coverage: 1963-present
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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts [via Proquest] (http://search.proquest.com/llba/advanced) [Restricted] VPN
"CSA Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) 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. Complete coverage is given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, and dissertations."
Coverage: 1973-present
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  • Fact Sheet (http://md1.csa.com/factsheets/llba-set-c.php)
  • Help (http://www.csa.com/help/index.html)
Annual Review of Psychology (http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/psych) [Restricted] VPN
Annual 'handbook' with introductory and summary articles to the latest thinking on important and emerging issues in psychology. Includes substantial bibliographies.
Coverage: 1950-present
LGBT Life [via Ebsco] (http://uclibs.org/PID/99171) [Restricted] VPN
LGBT Life (previously GLBT Life) contains indexing and abstracts for LGBT-specific core periodicals, in addition to data mined from over 1400 select titles. LGBT Life contains all relevant data from NISC's Sexual Diversity Studies database.
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Social Sciences Research Network / Economic Research Network (SSRN/ERN) (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/DisplayAbstractSearch.cfm)

Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a world wide collaborative of leading scholars that is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research. It is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. Each of SSRN's networks encourages the early distribution of research results by reviewing and publishing submitted abstracts and by soliciting abstracts of top quality research papers around the world. The Networks encourage readers to communicate directly with other subscribers concerning their own and other's research. The SSRN eLibrary contains information about working and accepted papers in the fields of financial economics, accounting research, legal scholarship, economic research and management research. The Economics Research Network publishes quality research in economics currently covering 44 subject areas.

General Databases

Social Science Citation Index [via Web of Knowledge] (http://isiknowledge.com/wos) [Restricted] VPN

The Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It is particularly suited to trace citations to authors and articles across publications. It indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.

Coverage: 1956-present
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  • Online tutorial (http://www.isinet.com/tutorials/webofscience5/)
    For help in using the Web of Knowledge Citation indexes.
Social Services Abstracts [via Proquest] (http://search.proquest.com/socialservices/advanced) [Restricted] VPN
Covers current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Abstracts and indexes over 1,600 serials; covers journal articles, dissertations, and book reviews
Coverage: 1980-present
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  • Fact Sheet (http://md1.csa.com/factsheets/ssa-set-c.php)
  • Help (http://www.csa.com/help/index.html)
PubMed (http://uclibs.org/PID/17708) [Restricted] VPN
Citations and abstracts for articles published in approximately 8,400 journals in medicine, life sciences, health administration, veterinary medicine, nursing, molecular biology and genetics. PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Coverage: 1946-present
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SPORTDiscus [via EBSCO] (http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=sph) [Restricted] VPN

SPORTDiscus is the world's leading database in sport, health, fitness and sports medicine. SportDiscus has over 1.7 million qualified references from thousands of international periodicals, books, e-journals, conference proceedings, theses, dissertations, and websites that focus on different areas involving sport, including: sport sciences, engineering, psychology, administration, sociology, history, coaching, training, physical education, physical fitness, health and recreation.

As of July 2012+: Unlimited users access.

Coverage: 1800-Present

Full-Text Resources

PsycARTICLES [via Proquest] (http://search.proquest.com/psycarticles/advanced) [Restricted] VPN
PsycARTICLES is a database of 54 electronic journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber.
Coverage: 1987-present
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  • Fact Sheet (http://md1.csa.com/factsheets/psycarticles-set-c.php)
  • Help (http://www.csa.com/help/index.html)
Taylor and Francis: collection of online journals. (http://www.tandfonline.com/search/advanced) [Restricted] VPN
Advanced search interface for nearly 1000 online journals published with the Routledge, Taylor & Francis, and Psychology Press imprints. Browse list of titles available. Disciplinary scope and coverage vary.
ScienceDirect (http://uclibs.org/PID/1279)
Web database for scientific research that contains abstracts, tables of contents, and full text of articles in the sciences, technology, medicine and social sciences published by Elsevier.
Highwire Search and Retrieve (http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/search) [Restricted] VPN
Highwire Search and Retrieve is a search engine that allows one to search through the full text of numerous scholarly and peer-reviewed journals, including many that are accessible from the UC Davis IP address or proxy server. The collection contains Duke University Press, Oxford University Press and Sage Electronic Journals, as well as many other university press journals and important academic society publications. Highwire Press is a product of Stanford University.
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Sage Full Text Collections: Psychology (http://online.sagepub.com/cgi/search?src=sagecoll&collection_set=PSYC) [Restricted] VPN
This database includes the full text of 30 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, encompassing over 17,500 articles and up to 35 years of backfiles.
PsychiatryOnline (including the DSM-IV-TR Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) (http://psychiatryonline.org/) [Restricted] VPN
PsychiatryOnline provides access to publications from American Psychiatric Publishing, including DSMĀ® Library titles, their set of Psychiarty Journals including The American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Services, Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, and Academic Psychiatry,their set of Textbooks in Psychiatry, the American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines for the treatment of psychiatric disorders and more.

Guides to Electronic, Print, and Other Resources

Guide to Internet Resources in Psychology [via UCD] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/psychology/psychology-internet.php)
A list of Psychology related internet sources including Electronic Journals, Associations and Gateways, and Newsgroups.
Guide to Print Resources in Psychology [via UCD] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/psychology/psychology-print.php) [Restricted]
This guide lists dome of the best print resources for Psychology research in the Hum & Soc Sci Reference Section in Shields Library at UCD. It includes the locations of Psychology Dictionaries, Encyclopedia, Handbooks, and Bibliographies.
SOSIG Psychology Gateway [Social Science Information Gateway, UK ] (http://www.sosig.ac.uk/psychology/)
The SOSIG Psychology Gateway provides access to psychology resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorised using the APA PsycINFO coding scheme. The main focus of coverage in SOSIG is on areas of psychology relevant to the social sciences.
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CogNet [ MIT ] (http://cognet.mit.edu/)
Massachussetts Institute of Technology's Portal to information in the Cognitive Sciences. Includes a digital library of online books and journals, call for papers, semiars, discussion networks and news.
Neurobiology and Physiology [ via UC Davis Library ] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/research/subjects/?heading=90)
This Subject Guide provides access to Databases and FullText Collections in Neurobiology and Physiology.
Education Subject Guide [via UCD] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/research/subjects/?heading=16)
A Guide to the resources for the study of Education and Teaching, including the best electronic literature indexes, guides to print and internet resources and more.

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences
This 26 volume encyclopedia for the social and behavioral sciences contains lengthy articles on a wide array of social and behavioral science topics including, economics, sociology, & psychology. It contains biographical information, bibliographies, and a comprehensive subject index. It is available in print.
Date: 2001
Location: Shields Library, Hum/SS Ref. H41 I58 2001
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Handbooks & Tables

Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/) [Restricted] VPN

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is one of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion.

Producer: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research Access: Search Roper's Remote iPoll Databank, Search Roper's Remote Online Catalog of Studies

The data collections provided by the IGA Library & Data Archive are licensed for campus access. In some cases, access is restricted to UC Davis faculty, staff, and students with valid university computing accounts (UC Davis user id / Kerberos password). In other cases, access is restricted to the campus network. Data are made available with the understanding that they are to be used for not-for-profit academic research only and are not to be copied or otherwise made available to any third party. All data used for research should be given an appropriate citation in any resulting published work.

Professional Societies

Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) (http://www.cogneurosociety.org/)
The Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) is committed to the development of mind and brain research aimed at investigating the psychological, computational, and neuroscientific bases of cognition. The term cognitive neuroscience has now been with us for almost three decades, and identifies an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the nature of thought.
Psychological Societies [ UC Davis Library ] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/psychology/psychological-societies.php)
This alphabetical list was compiled to provide a list of links to prominent professional organizations in the field of psychology and related disciplines.

Other Resources

PsycINFO Tutorial Video: Finding Peer-Reviewed Articles (http://www.youtube.com/user/PsycINFO#p/c/79EDF5C7AA14D90D/1/Imz74-tbR-o)
Author: APA
This training video shows you how to find peer-reviewed items in PsycINFO on the CSA Illumina platform.
Date: 2009
APA Citations Quick Guide (.pdf) (http://www.cdlib.org/services/info_services/docs/UC_APA_CitationGuide_021810.pdf)PDF
Designed as a help sheet for those new to the American Psychological Society's Publishing Style, this site will give you the basics on citing resources the APA way, and point you to more substantial information.
APA Style Tutorial (http://flash1r.apa.org/apastyle/basics/index.htm)
American Psychological Association offers this online tutorial in how to apply some of the basics of the APA publication style.
Library Research in the Social Sciences Tips Handout (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/files/libraryresearch-socialsciences.pdf)PDF
This research tips handout introduces the basic research tools for Library Research in the Social Sciences at UC Davis. It provides a basic description of Catalogs and Databases, search strategies and the display of records.
Date: 10/01/2006
PsycINFO tutorial by Professor Barbara Sommer (http://www.cdlib.org/inside/instruct/PsycINFOtut_6-06.pdf)PDF
Take this short tutorial to learn the minimum necessary steps to review the latest Psychological research.
Date: 2006
Testlink: Test Collection at ETS (http://www.ets.org/testcoll/)
The Test Collection at Educational Testing Service is a library of more than 25,000 tests and other measurement devices that makes information on standardized tests and research instruments available to researchers, graduate students, and teachers. Collected from the early 1900s to the present, the Test Collection at ETS is the largest such compilation in the world. This index is free. Some tests are available for a fee.
Coverage: 1900-present
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A Note About Locating Tests and Evaluations (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/education/test-notes.php)
While the University Library does not collect tests, here you will find information about how to locate test reviews and test publishers. This page includes links to online test indexes.
UC Davis Psychology Department (http://psychology.ucdavis.edu)
This link directs one to the Psychology Department at The University of California, Davis. It contains department news items, information on programs and research facilities, and faculty web sites. There is also an event calendar and links to Psychology related Research Centers at UC Davis.
Center for the Mind and Brain [UCD] (http://mindbrain.ucdavis.edu/)
The Center for the Mind and Brain is a research and training unit at the UC Davis dedicated to understanding the nature of the human mind from an interdisciplinary perspective. Scientists address these questions using approaches from social sciences and the biological sciences. Visitors can learn about research, events, and colloquia. There are also links to the Center for Neuroscience.