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Ageline (EBSCO)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Index to social gerontology journals.
- Ageline provides bibliographic citations of social gerontology journals. These include periodicals that focus on aging in psychological, health-related, and social and economic contexts. The delivery of health care to the older population and its associated costs and policies is covered as well as consumer, employment, and public policy issues. Produced by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
- Coverage Dates: 1978-
- Updated: 3 times a year
- Database Provider: EBSCO
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xage-uga1
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MEDLINE with Full Text (EBSCO)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Index and abstracts of journal articles in the health sciences with links to full text.
- MEDLINE (with Full Text) combines the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database with links to the complete text of articles from leading medical journals. The database offers information related to the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. MEDLINE with Full Text provides full text for nearly 1,200 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Of those, more than 1,000 have cover-to-cover indexing in MEDLINE. It also includes MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from current biomedical journals, citations from Index Medicus, the International Nursing Index and the Index to Dental Literature.
  Database provider: EBSCO Publishing, Inc. (produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health).
- Coverage Dates: 1966- ; full-text from 1990-
- Updated: Daily
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- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbmf
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PsycINFO
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
The major index for articles, books, chapters, dissertations, and reports in psychology. The American Psychological Association offers YouTube videos on how to use PsycINFO.
- PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines. Some articles are available in full text. Journal coverage includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals from nearly 50 countries. The historic portion of the database comes from from three sources: Psychological Abstracts (1927-1966), Psychological Bulletin (1921-1926), and all journals published by the American Psychological Association plus the American Journal of Psychology from the first issue of volume 1, number 1 in November 1887.
  Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987-present. Over 60,000 references are added annually.
- PsycINFO online help:
  
  PsycINFO Search Help/Training Center includes Search Tips and How-To's and a search guide specific to the EBSCOhost interface.
  The APA also offers YouTube videos on how to use PsycINFO.
  Produced and copyrighted (c) by the American Psychological Association.
- Coverage Dates: 1887 to the present
- Updated: Monthly
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- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbpy
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CINAHL
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Index and abstracts to the literature of nursing and allied health with some full text.
- CINAHL provides access to abstracts and indexing, as well as some full text, for more than 1,835 nursing and allied health journals, publications of the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing, nursing dissertations, and selected other biomedical journals. Limited coverage of psychology and management literature is also included. Print index covers 1977- .
- See also: zbpc:see also Pre-CINAHL
- Coverage Dates: 1982 to the present
- Updated: Weekly
- Title List
- Database Provider: EBSCO
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbcn
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Encyclopedia of Social Work, 20th ed. (Oxford University Press)
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Includes 400 subject entries and 200 brief biographies of key figures in the history of social work.
- The Encyclopedia of Social Work contains four hundred subject entries and two hundred brief biographies of key figures in the history of social work. This new edition provides coverage of areas that have come to the fore since the 1995 publication of the 19th edition, including demographic changes from immigration, technology, the implications of managed care, faith-based assistance, evidence-based practice, gerontology, and trauma and disaster. Each article is fully cross-referenced and includes a select bibliography to guide interested readers to primary sources and the most important scholarly works on a given subject. The work also includes a comprehensive index and topical outline.
- Coverage Dates: 2008
- Updated: Annual
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: Oxford University Press
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=cycl-uga1
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Family and Society Studies Worldwide
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Index to articles on family science, human ecology, and human development.
- Family and Society Studies Worldwide attempts to provide comprehensive coverage of family science, human ecology, and human development. Bibliographic citations are created for journal articles, books, conference papers, government reports and other sources. It contains all the records of the discontinued print version, Inventory of Marriage & Family Literature.
- Coverage Dates: 1970-
- Updated: Monthly
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xfsd-uga1
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ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Articles from journals in nursing and allied health.
- ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source includes more than 280 full-text journals in nursing and allied health
- Coverage Dates: 1988 to the present (dates of coverage vary with the publication).
- Updated: Weekly
- Database Provider: proquest
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zunu
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The SAGE Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods (2008) (SAGE)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
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Methods, background, and examples from the field of qualitative research.
- The SAGE Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods is an interdisciplinary resource presenting information about the techniques & tools, background & theory, and examples from the field of qualitative research. Qualitative research is conducted widely in disciplines such as education, sociology & social work, public health & nursing, gender studies, and others.
  Access note: On and off campus. Unlimited simultaneous users allowed.
  Database provider: SAGE.
- Database Provider: sage
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=sagy-uga1
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Social Services Abstracts (ProQuest)
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On research in social work, human services, and related areas.
- Social Services Abstracts provides references and abstracts of research on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, gerontology, and community development.
  Included in the database is the searchable Thesaurus of Sociological Indexing Terms.
- See also: zcso:Backup Site (Ohio)
- Coverage Dates: 1980 to the present
- Updated: Monthly
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- Database Provider: cambridge
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=soar-uga1
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Social Work Abstracts (EBSCO)
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On issues related to social work theory and practice.
- Social Work Abstracts is a bibliographic citation database contains references on homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization and related topics.
- Coverage Dates: 1965-
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- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbsa
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SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO)
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Index and abstracts to articles in sociology.
- SocINDEX with Full Text features more than 2,066,400 records with subject headings from a 19,750+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 777 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full text for more than 820 books and monographs, and full text for 13,947 conference papers.
- Coverage Dates: 1880-present
- Updated: Monthly
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=son9-uga1
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Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest)
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Index and abstracts to articles in sociology.
- Sociological Abstracts is a primary resource for accessing research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. International in scope, over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations are covered. Records added after 1974 contain nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles.
  Included in the database is the searchable Thesaurus of Sociological Indexing Terms.
- Coverage Dates: 1963 to the present
- Updated: Monthly
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- Database Provider: cambridge
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=sooi-uga1
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Broader Databases

Academic Search Complete
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Articles from some peer-reviewed journals as well as monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and other sources.
- Academic Search Complete is a 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 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database is updated daily and features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.
- Coverage Dates: Dates vary. Some content goes as far back as 1865.
- Updated: Daily
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- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbac
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JSTOR
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Access to back issues (from the date of first publication) of selected, core journals.
- JSTOR provides electronic access to back issues (from the date of first publication) of selected, core journals. The goal of the project is to build a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature. The journals are organized into the Arts and Sciences Collections I & II, the General Sciences Collection, the Ecology and Botany Collection, the Business Collection, the Language and Literature Collection, the Mathematics and Statistics Collection, and the Music Collection.
- Coverage Dates: 1800s- (dates vary)
- Updated: Ongoing
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- Database Provider: jstor
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xjst-uga1
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OregonPDF in Health & Performance
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Provides full-text dissertations in areas related to health and performance.
- OregonPDF in Health & Performance provides over 10,000 dissertations and theses in full-text in areas related to health and performance. Academic areas of interest include biochemistry, biomechanics, dance, exercise physiology, history or philosophy of physical education, kinesiology, motor control, obesity, recreation, sports marketing, sports medicine, psychology, and tests and measurements.
- Coverage Dates: 1948
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=oreg-uga1
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ScienceDirect
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Articles from scholarly journals on all the sciences, including the social sciences.
- ScienceDirect provides full text access to scholarly journals published by Elsevier and its subsidiaries.
- Coverage Dates: 1995 - present (Academic Press journals: 1996 - present)
- Updated: Ongoing
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- Database Provider: Elsevier
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xsdi-uga1
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Web of Science (at Web of Knowledge)
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Provides access to the combined Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
- Web of Science provides access to the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index covering over 8,000 journal. These three databases can be searched separately, in any combination, or all at once. These databases are unique in that the user can search to find which articles have cited a certain author or article. This technique of doing research, called pearl growing, allows researchers to find articles that are related to an earlier work. Often this technique turns up articles which are not found through traditional subject and keyword searches.
  Education & Training Materials
- Coverage Dates: 1945- (Science Citation Index); 1956- (Social Science Citation Index); 1975- (Arts and Humanities Citation Index)
- Updated: Weekly
- Languages: English and non-English
- Database Provider: isi
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xwos-uga1
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