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Key Databases and Indexes

Social Services Abstracts
Social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development; abstracts and indexes over 1,400 serial publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.
Social Work Abstracts (EBSCO)
Indexes journals, dissertations, books, and occasional papers. Subject areas: social work profession, theory and practice, related social issues and topics including homelessness, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, and community organization.
Sociological Abstracts
An index to journal articles, conference papers, books and book chapters, dissertations and book and other media reviews. Subject areas: sociology, cultural anthropology, criminal justice, social work, social psychology, urban and rural development, demography, gerontology, family studies, and ethnic and minority studies.
Psychotherapy.net
Searchable database of streaming video files on psychotherapy. Videos are searchable by therapeutic approaches, therapeutic issues, expert therapists, population, and titles. This is a resource for teaching and training in psychotherapy practice and for education about psychology and related areas in social work.
APA PsycInfo (Ovid)
An index to the international literature of psychology and material relevant to psychology in the related disciplines of education, medicine, business, sociology, and psychiatry.

Other Databases

Some of the databases listed below will contain research in other disciplines, like health sciences, education, and psychology. Searching these is recommended if relevant for the research topic.

Social Care Online
Access the UK's most complete database of social care information, from fostering, to mental health, to human resources and more. Indexes research briefings, reports, government documents, journal articles, websites and more.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides full text for 337 journals,it also includes legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.
ERIC
An index to journal articles and documents in Education.
Includes abstracts, with links to ERIC documents (1996 - ) in full-text electronic format.
Criminal Justice Abstracts with full text
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text is the full-text counterpart of Criminal Justice Abstracts, formerly a SAGE database. This resource includes bibliographic records and full text covering essential areas related to criminal justice and criminology. The increasing globalization of criminology is reflected in Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text coverage of hundreds of journals from around the world. This resource includes full text for more than 200 magazines and journals as well as full text books & monographs.
Nexis Uni
Nexis Uni replaced Lexis Nexis Academic.
Contains information from over 15,000 news, legal and business sources. Comprehensive coverage of news and current events, government, business, medical, and legal topics, as well as general reference information is included. Formats found in the database are: international and domestic newspapers, magazines and trade journals, broadcast transcripts (NPR, ABC News, CBS News, and CNN), company financial information, industry and market news, case law, law reviews, medical news and abstracts, and country profiles. Includes business information on over 80 million public & private international companies and 75 million executives. Non-English language news sources are available in Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Dutch. Campus news from some 400 college/university papers and over 50 wire services are also available.
Medline (OCLC)
Covers all areas of medicine, including clinical medicine, experimental medicine, dentistry, nursing, health services administration, and nutrition.
PAIS International with Archives
An index to journal articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories. Subject areas: agriculture, banking, business, demographics, education, environment, finance, government, health, international relations, law and legislation political science, public administration, social sciences, statistics.
ODESI (Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure)
ODESI is a digital repository for social science data, including polling data. A web-based data exploration, extraction and analysis tool that uses the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) social science data standard. It provides the ability to search for survey questions (variables) across hundreds of datasets, supports basic tabulation and analysis online, and allow for the downloading of most datasets into statistical software for further analysis.

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Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is the comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
Web of Science (ON CAMPUS ACCESS)
Web of Science indexes over 8,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities. Additionally, this database allows you to learn who has cited a particular article, and also offers navigation to electronic full-text journal articles.
Web of Science (OFF CAMPUS ACCESS)
Use this link whenever accessing Web of Science from off of the University of Regina campus!
Canadian Research Index/Microlog
An index to monographs and annual publications of lasting reference value from Canadian government and institutional sources.
Academic OneFile Select (Gale)
Provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers across disciplines. The database meets research needs in subject areas including the arts and humanities, social sciences, and science and technology
Canadian Major Dailies
The full text database includes national and leading regional papers such as National Post, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal,Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Regina Leader Post, Vancouver Sun, and the Victoria Times-Colonist.
Canada Commons
Access to Canadian e-books, health and public policy documents. Formerly 3 separate collections: Canadian Health Research, Canadian Public Policy, Canadian Publishers.
Canada Commons has become the new home for desLibris/Canadian Electronic Library as of May 2022.
Google Scholar Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
Not all materials listed in Google Scholar are freely available, however,Google Scholar allows linking to the University of Regina Library subscriptions.
If you are on campus, Google Scholar recognizes your location and automatically shows you the link to the library materials: GetIt@UReginaLibrary.
If you are off campus you must add the University of Regina collection in your Google Scholar settings. For information on how this is done see the Instructions

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