This is a database of abstracts of literature in the field of psychology and is produced by the American Psychological Association. It is devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health.
Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services and related areas, including social welfare, social policy and community development.
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles, citations, book reviews, abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, including full text from 1975-present for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles.
This is the definitive research tool for nursing and allied health professionals. Full text for more than 1,300 journals, CINAHL provides broad content coverage including over 50 nursing specialties, speech and language pathology, nutrition, general health and medicine and more.
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Provides digital humanities and social sciences content in full text, as well as, subscription access to current content from scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
Contains over 23 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
This database provides a comprehensive guide to over 3,000 contemporary testing instruments. Contains information essential for complete evaluation of test products in diverse areas such as psychology, education, business, and leadership.
A database that provides access to information on questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, coding schemes, rating scales in the fields of health and psychosocial sciences.
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BF Psychology
BF 176 - 176.5 Psychological tests
BF 309 - 499 Consiousness and cognition
BF 501 - 505 Motivation, affect, volition
BF 692 - 692.5 Psychology of sex, sexual behavior
BF 712 - 724.85 Developmental Psychology
HQ Family, marriage, women
HQ 12 - 449 Sexual life
HQ 503 - 1064 The family, marriage, home
HQ 755.7 - 759.92 Parents, parenthood
HQ 767.8 - 799.2 Children, youth, adolescents
HQ 799.95 - 799.99 Adulthood
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