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Academic Search Complete

Academic Search Complete is a scholarly collection providing full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies, etc. Full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, coverage dating back to 1975. EBSCOhost database by way of TexShare.

AccessScience

AccessScience is the fully-searchable, full text version of the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Also contains "Research Updates" - new trends and developments in science and technology from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology. Provides links to reviewed web sites and offers learning guides.

Biosis Previews via ISI

Biosis Previews is the premier database for Biology and related disciplines, and replaces Biological Abstracts and Biological Abstracts RRM. Coverage is from 1989 and includes journal articles, proceedings, and patents. Limited to 8 simultaneous users.

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts contains the following databases, that can be searched separately or as a group: ARTbibliographies Modern, Computer & Information Systems Abstracts, Computer Abstracts International, Electronics & Communications Abstracts, Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts, Ceramics Abstracts/World Ceramic Abstracts, LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts, Design & Applied Arts Index, Sociological Abstracts, Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA), ERIC, Social Services Abstracts, Criminal Justice Abstracts, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.

Communication and Mass Media Complete

Abstracts of journal articles, handbooks and recent encyclopedias in communication & mass media made available on Ebscohost interface. Created by the merger of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index. Full-text when available.

Communication Sciences and Disorders Information Services

ComDisDome is a unique refereed resource for the field of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology. Search from journal articles, books and selected Web resources. Obtain detailed profiles of educational and research institutions and contact information for others working on your research interests.

Credo Reference
Credo Reference provides fulltext information from encyclopedias, handbooks and other high quality sources from all disciplines.

ECO - Electronic Collections Online

ECO - Electronic Collections Online provides over 600 full text journals spanning many academic disciplines. In the area of Business, ECO includes management, economics, finance, accounting, marketing, international business, and technology.

Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals, as well as full text for more than 750 journals, and includes full text for more than 100 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers.

ERIC via FirstSearch

(FirstSearch version) Premier national bibliographic database of education literature. ERIC consists of two files: Resources in Education, covering the document literature, and Current Index to Journals in Education, covering published journal literature from over 1000 periodicals.

ERIC via EBSCOhost

(EBSCOhost version) Premier national bibliographic database of education literature. ERIC consists of two files: Resources in Education, covering the document literature, and Current Index to Journals in Education, covering published journal literature from over 1000 periodicals.

ERIC via CSA

(CSA version) Premier national bibliographic database of education literature. ERIC consists of two files: Resources in Education, covering the document literature, and Current Index to Journals in Education, covering published journal literature from over 1000 periodicals.

ERIC

ERIC database freely available on the Web.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Provides searchable access to the full text of selected reference ebooks, including Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English, Encyclopedia of Science & Religion, Encyclopedia of Science Technology & Ethics, Encyclopedia of Sociology, Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders, and World of Forensic Science.

Health and Psychosocial Instruments: HaPI

HaPI is limited to 10 users at a time

HaPI abstracts information about questionaires, interview schedules, coding schemes, rating and other scales, and tests. Many of these instruments are not formally published and can only be found in journal articles on clinical medicine and the behavioral sciences. Helps students and researchers identify tools useful to their research.

Kraus Curriculum Development Library Online (KCDL online)

Kraus Curriculum Development Library Online indexes curricula from state departments of education, school districts, individual schools, regional educational consortia, special projects within colleges and universities, governmental agencies, and professional association.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) via CSA

CSA Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) assists both generalists and specialists in keeping abreast of cutting-edge developments in disciplines concerned with the nature and use of language. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. Coverage begins with 1973.

Mental Measurements Yearbook via Ebsco

Limited to 4 users at a time.

Mental Measurements Yearbook contains full-text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized test covering education skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas.

MEDLINE via EBSCOhost

MEDLINE via EBSCOhost (Med Line) provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses (MeSH) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,000 current biomedical journals. Included are citations from Index Medicus, the International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, PREMEDLINE, AIDSLINE, BIOETHICSLINE and HealthSTAR. A TexShare database.

MEDLINE - PubMed

Medline-PubMed, (Medline - Pub Med, Medline - PubMed, Med Line) maintained by the National Library of Medicine, provides abstracts for journal articles covering the broad realm of biomedical literature covered in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and HEALTHSTAR and through publisher-supplied citations. Daily updating of records. Search terms automatically use MESH headings as well as keyword searching. Free database with no restrictions to access.

MEDLINE Plus

MEDLINEplus (Medline Plus) (Med Line) provides up-to-date full-text health care information from the National Library of Medicine for both health professionals and consumers. Covers nearly any medical topic. Includes extensive information on specific diseases and conditions as well as links to medical dictionaries, lists of hospitals and physicians, consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health and clinical trials. (keywords/alternate spellings: Medline plus, Medline-plus, full text)

Proquest Online

Proquest Online provides searching for ABI/INFORM Global, PA Research II, and ProQuest Newpapers. If you have problems going beyond the first page of results, click Tools--Internet Options--Delete Files and then click Settings to make sure "Automatically" is checked.

PsycInfo via Ebscohost

PsycInfo, formerly known as PsycLit, provides abstracts for journal articles, books, chapters of books, technical reports, and dissertations representing the international field of psychology and related disciplines such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, behavior analysis, and social work. Coverage is 1872 to current with regular updates and covers over 1300 journals, representing over 25 languages. Chapter and book coverage is 1987 to current. Keywords/alternate spellings: behaviour, personality, neuroscience, psychometrics, sociology, social, sports, leisure, psychological, PsychInfo, Psyc Info, Psych, PsychLit, Lit.

Social Services Abstracts

Social Sciences Abstracts via Ebscohost is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals. Subjects covered include: addiction studies, anthropology, community health and medical care, corrections, criminal justice, criminology, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography, gerontolgy, international relations, law, minority studies, planning, and public administration.) Coverage is February 1983 to present.

Social Work Abstracts

Social Work Abstracts, produced by the National Association of Social Workers, covers social work and other related topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, and community organization. Coverage is from 1977 to present.

Sociological Abstracts

Sociological Abstracts (formerly known as Sociofile) provides a gateway to both the theoretical and applied areas of sociology. The database contains information from approximately 2500 journals in 30 different languages from about 55 countries. It covers sociology and related disciplines by including bibliographic citations and abstracts and enhanced dissertation citations from Dissertation Abstracts International. Coverage begins with 1963.

How to Access Electronic Resources

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Alternative Press Index
Comprehensive guide to alternative sources of information, indexing nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines covering cultural, economic, political and social change. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary. Indexing begins with 1991.

Annual Reviews
Each Annual Review contains full text articles covering current research from a specific discipline. Currently 38 titles are published each year, covering biomedical, physical, and social sciences. Collection includes full text access to all volumes from the beginning of each publication. The first series, Annual Review of Biochemistry, began in 1932.

Anthropolgy Plus
Provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture and interdisciplinary studies.

AnthroSource
A  new resource for full text anthropological information.    

Article First
Indexes articles from over 12,500 journals in science, technology, business, medicine, social science, humanities, and popular culture. Bibliographic information including article location help.

Associations Unlimited
Associations Unlimited contains information for approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations. For some 2,600 major U.S. national associations, provides full-text association materials such as brochures, pamphlets, and membership application forms. A GaleGroup database.

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
The CLCD provides over 200,000 reviews of children's books, videos and audio books from 24 reputable sources. Includes entries for book awards, honors, prizes, and all state reading lists. A green dot on the search result page indicates that full-text reviews exist for a title. Materials covered range from early baby board books to nonfiction for young adults. More than 1500 reviews are added monthly. Coverage date: MARC records from 1965-current.

Web of Science
Web of Science service provides web access to the following citation indexes from 1995 to the present: Science Citation Index; Social Sciences Citation Index; and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. These resources enable the user to identify related writings (periodical articles, reviews, etc.) by indicating sources in which a known article by a given author has been cited. The older indexes are available from the Electronic Resources page by their titles. This resource is limited to 5 simultaneous users.

For access to Spanish language journals try:

Clase Periodica 
ClasePeriodica provides access to Latin American journal article citations and is actually two Spanish-language indexes joined together in one service. The CLASE database indexes over 1200 Latin American journals in the social sciences and the humanities, while the PERIODICA database indexes over 1400 Latin American science and technology journals. CLASE includes subjects such as anthropology, the arts, economics, management and accounting, education, political science, psychology, religion, sociology, history, linguistics, literature, and philosophy, while PERIODICA covers subjects such as agricultural sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, geosciences, physics, and medicine. Updated quarterly; CLASE coverage is 1975-present, and PERIODICA coverage is 1978-present.

Fuente Academia
Provides full text coverage for nearly 200 Spanish language scholarly journals from throughout the world. Abstracts are in English and Spanish. An EbscoHost database via TexShare.

Medica Latina
Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals in native Spanish. A wide range of topics are covered including neuroscience, cardiology, nephrology, biomedicine, clinical research, pediatrics, human reproduction, clinical pathology, cancer research, and hematology. From TEX Share.

There are many journals that may deal with aspects of Autism or other developmental disorders. Journals may be located in a variety of locations. Always check the UNT Online Catalog (http://iii.library.unt.edu/) for location and availability. All journals bound and current are shelved in alphabetical order.

Abbreviations:   ECL= Eagle Commons Library
                          ASC = Academic Search Complete
                          BMC = BioMed Central
                          BSC = Business Source Complete
                          CJO = Cambridge Journals Online
                          ECO = Electronic Collections Online
                          ERC= Education Research Complete
                          HRCA = Health Reference Center Academic
                          IW= InformaWorld
                          LNA = Lexis Nexis Academic
                          MF = Willis Microforms
                          MFP = MasterFILE Premier
                          PMC = Pub Med Central
                          PQ = Proquest
                          PsycA = PsycArticles
                          SD = Science Direct
                          WON= Wiley Online

Some electronic journals may have an embargo period from 3 months to 1 year.

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