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Online collection of videos (CTIV) available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. Includes counseling sessions/demonstrations, consultations, interviews, lectures and presentations. Online transcripts and video clip-making tools are also provided.
Interdisciplinary database with 150,000 pages of primary sources, supporting materials, and archives, along with 125 hours of video about the disciplines of disability history and disability studies.
Video series developed specifically for training and developing teachers. Contains more than 1,650 hours of video that gives education students a reliable way to observe effective teaching styles. Content includes demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, ready-to-use teaching tools, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms.
Ethnic NewsWatch is a current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press. The complete collection also includes the module Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989. Together, these resources provide access to a full-text collection of more than 2.5 million articles from over 340 publications, including articles from major scholarly journals on ethnic studies.
The Test Collection at ETS (Educational Testing Service) is a database of more than 25,000 tests and other measurement devices. Provides information on tests from the early 1900s to the present. The tests in this collection are from a variety of U.S. publishers and individual test authors. Foreign tests are also included in the collection, including some from Canada, Great Britain and Australia. How to search.
With archival material dating back to 1970, GenderWatch provides authoritative historical and current perspectives on the evolution of gender roles. GenderWatch supports lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) studies, family studies, gender studies, and women's studies with a unique interdisciplinary approach. Combining hundreds of academic, gray, and popular literature titles, GenderWatch provides hundreds of thousands of articles on wide-ranging topics like sexuality, religion, societal roles, feminism, masculinity, eating disorders, day care, and the workplace.
Provides information about thousands of behavioral measurement tools related to medicine, nursing, public health, psychology, social work, sociology, communication, and organizational behavior. It can help locate questionnaires, interviews, and other tests through journals, books, technical reports, and test publishers' catalogs. Some records contain abstracts, sample items, number of questions, subscales, and reliability.
LGBTQ+ Source is the definitive database for LGBTQ studies. It provides scholarly and popular LGBTQ publications in full text, plus historically important primary sources, including monographs, magazines and newspapers. It also includes a specialized LGBTQ thesaurus containing thousands of terms.
Provides access to materials about the history and current status of incarceration in the United States and globally, including detailed prison infrastructure of specific countries. Materials include court cases, first-hand accounts of prison experiences, legal and government documents, training materials, policies and laws, videos, and articles. Topics include the death penalty, history of correctional institutions for juvenile offenders, internment camps, prison gangs and riots, the loss of rights for prisoners, economics of mass incarceration, reentry, famous prisons and prisoners, prison in popular culture, and prison policy.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests In Print includes information about 3,000+ psychological, educational, and related fields' testing and assessment instruments. Tests in Print (TIP) is a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language, and includes test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).
Collection of biomedical, health, nursing, and psychology related journals, books, technical reports, and information sheets. Includes six databases:
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) Total Access Collection
- Journals at Ovid
- Books at Ovid
- Johanna Briggs Institute Evidence-Based Practice
- AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine)
- Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
APA PsycArticles is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber.
This database contains reviews of scholarly and professional psychology books published from 1956 to 2017 when it ceased publication.
Provides online access to all editions of the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), including the most recent edition, DSM-5-TR. Also includes access to the American Journal of Psychiatry as well as a collection of psychiatric references, including books, textbooks, journals, and self-assessment tools.
Full-text multidisciplinary database of journals in the social and behavioral sciences, focusing on psychiatry & psychology and also including journals from the following disciplines: counseling, sociology & social work, medicine & health.
Provides access to streaming training videos in the field of counseling, psychotherapy, and addiction. The majority of the videos show leading practitioners conducting therapy and demonstrating clinical skills, along with pre- and post-discussions.
Major indexing and abstracting database covering psychology, social work, educational psychology, and related disciplines.
Provides access to thousands of psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments on a variety of subjects, as well as descriptive information about each test and its development and administration. Many (but not all) of the tests can be downloaded and used by researchers, and often contain scoring guides and instructions on how to use the test.
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Indexes literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations. Formerly known as PILOTS - Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA) is a resource that promotes the access and use of the nation's substance abuse and mental health data. SAMHDA provides public-use data files, file documentation, and access to restricted-use data files (to qualified researchers) to support a better understanding of this critical area of public health.
