Psychology and Behavioral Sciences

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PsycINFO
An index to journal articles and book chapters in psychology, selected from more than 1,300 periodicals.
  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.
  • Index (with full-text for a small number of titles)
  • Coverage: 1877 - present (book indexing begins in 1987)
  • Publications indexed in this database
PsycARTICLES
Search this database for full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database contains over 28,000 full-text articles from over 40 peer reviewed journals and chapters from selected APA books.

Mental Measurements Yearbook (EBSCOhost)
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, includes consumer-oriented test reviews. The purpose of the Yearbook is to provide evaluative information to promote informed test selection. Typical test entries include descriptive information, professional reviews, and reviewer references.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.

 

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Communication and Mass Media Complete
This resource provides in-depth coverage of communication and mass media journals and literature. It includes over 380 full text journals and indexing for hundreds more. CMMC also include author profiles for the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database.

Counseling and Therapy in Video
This online collection is ideal for the subject areas of social work, psychology, education, and other helping professions. It includes hundreds of hours of streaming video content, led by leading psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and academics in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. The database includes therapy sessions, training videos, demonstrations, case consultations, lectures, discussions, and workshops plus dozens of discussion guides.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off-campus.
  • Full video

Education Research Complete
This resource is a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,820 journals, as well as full text for more than 900 journals. This database also includes full text for 71 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers.

Family and Society Studies Worldwide
FSSW covers popular issues and meets the requirements of professionals in all fields of social work, social science and family practice. It provides comprehensive coverage of research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of family science, human ecology, human development, and social welfare.

Films on Demand
FoD provides instant access to over 5,500 streaming educational videos covering a wide range of subject areas. You can watch these videos on any computer with high-speed Internet access. The library has the complete FoD collection, including Business & Economics, Health, Humanities & Social Sciences, and Sciences. Create a personal FoD user ID to save playlists with your favorite videos and video segments.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off-campus.
  • Full video

Social Sciences Citation Index
SSCI is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences. It fully indexes over 1,950 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines. It also indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.

  • A Web of Science database provided through Web of Knowledge.
  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.
  • Coverage: 2007-present

SocINDEX with Full Text
his resource is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. SocINDEX contains full-text for 428 core coverage journals dating back to 1908, and 163 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 735 books and monographs, and full text for over 6,700 conference papers.