PHC 6146 Resources
Health Planning & Policy

How to Access UCF Library Databases and Resources from off campus

UCF Library Tours & Tutorials

General Internet Information

UCF Library Home Page provides links to the UCF library catalog and gateway to other resources, such as:

Popular Indexes

• Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost database) provides abstracts and indexing for over 8,200 periodicals covering the social sciences, humanities, education and more. Includes full text from over 3,600 peer-reviewed journals.

• Infotrac Onefile  provides abstracts and indexing for over 9,000 periodicals (scholarly journals, popular magazines, newspapers, wire services) with full text from over 5,000 periodicals. Dates of coverage: 1980+

Other Library Resources

• American Periodicals Index covers all known periodical publications that had their inception and ending from 1741 to 1935. The full text of the actual periodicals are in the UCF Library in three microfilm collections (often referred to as APS I, APS II and APS III) and some of the full text is now available online in the database American Periodicals Series Online. The electronic index is incomplete but growing.  The print index provides limited subject access to the complete series and is shelved in the UCF Library's Reference Collection at REF AP2.A388. Nearly one hundred of the periodicals in the APS II & APS III collections are at least partially indexed in Poole's Index to Periodical Literature [Index AI3.P7] (1802-1906). Poole's Index... was followed by International Index to Periodicals (1907-1965), Social Sciences & Humanities Index (1965-1974), Social Sciences Index (1974- ), and Humanities Index (1974- ). The last two indexes are available electronically as Wilson databases: Social Sciences Full Text (1984- ) and Humanities Full Text (1984- ).
• Citation Management Options help researchers: * Collect citations from online sources; * Organize references by subject, project, author, or other schemes; * Create bibliographies formatted according to MLA, APA, or other widely used citation styles.
• Dissertation Abstracts (ProQuest database) covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. Dates of coverage: 1861+
• FactSearch (FirstSearch database) is a guide to statistical statements on current social, economic, political, environmental and health issues, derived from some newspapers, periodicals, newsletter and documents such as the Christian Science Monitor, the Congressional Record, Congressional hearings, Daily Press Briefings of the White House, State Department and Department of Defense, and Australian, British and Canadian Parliamentary Debates. Web links to free full text are included frequently.
• GPO Monthly Catalog (FirstSearch database) consists of records published by the U.S. Government Printing Office since July 1976.  Includes references to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and more.
• Ethnic Newswatch (Softline) - a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library provides full text access to some encyclopedias and almanacs, including Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law, Major Acts of Congress, and West's Encyclopedia of American Law.
• LexisNexis Databases: Academic provides more than 9.5 million documents from over 18,300 sources, including access to company profiles and financial reports, government transcripts, trade journals and academic and legal databases. Their files are updated with full-text documents from general interest wire services, newspapers, and magazines from around the world.   Statistical provides the full text of Statistical Abstract of the U. S., plus indexing and abstracts (with some full text available) from American Statistics Index (ASI), Statistical Reference Index (SRI), and Index to International Statistics (IIS).  Congressional gives researchers access to vast and varied information published by and about Congress, including full text of almost all Committee Reports from 1990 forward and Congressional testimony from 1988 forward, and indexing & abstracting from the CIS/Index to Publications of the U.S. Congress from 1789 forward.
• netLibrary provides over 45,000 full text ebooks for previewing or 2-hour checkout.
• PAIS International (FirstSearch database) indexes articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs. Dates of electronic coverage: 1972+ The UCF Library has the print indexes at Index H1.P8 for 1915+
• PsycINFO (EBSCOhost database) - from the American Psychological Association - indexed materials are selected from more than 1,300 journals published in 50 countries and 28 languages. Most records have abstracts. Dates of coverage: 1887+
• Science Direct (Science Direct database) provides the electronic full-text version of many Elsevier's research journals, including over 160 social sciences titles, such as Cities, Electoral Studies, Energy Policy, Environmental Science & Policy, Food Policy, Health Policy, Journal of Academic & Public Policy, Land Use Policy, Marine Policy, Political Geography, Public Health, Resources Policy, Social Science & Medicine, Space Policy, Telecommunications Policy, Transport Policy, and Utilities Policy. 
• Social Sciences Abstracts (Wilson database) covers some 350 core periodicals in the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, law and criminology, political science, social work, sociology, and international relations. Dates of coverage: 1983+
• Social Services Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts database) provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Social Planning/Policy & Development Abstracts (SOPODA) is also included as a subfile, providing additional literature on policy issues addressing violence, abuse, neglect, aging, health, energy, environment, housing, education, women and development, disaster preparedness and risk assessment. Dates of coverage: 1980+
• Social Work Abstracts (Silver Platter database) covers social work and related topics such as homelessness, child and family welfare, and aging. Includes the Register of Clinical Social Workers Database. Dates of coverage: 1977+
• Sociological Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts database) - a primary resource from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles. Dates of coverage: 1963+
• Web of Science - ISI Citation Databases collectively index more than 8,000 high quality, peer-reviewed journals cover-to-cover, providing users with complete bibliographic data, searchable author abstracts when available in the science and social sciences source material, and cited references from the world's most influential journals. Dates of coverage: 1965+

Other Useful Resources:

• Encyclopedia of Modern American Social Issues and Encyclopedia of Social Issues - REF HN 57 .K73 1997 and REF HN 57 .E59 1997

• Government Document Resources  

• Legislative Histories

• National Health Law Program

• Social Policy Virtual Library provides links to major organizations, libraries, research institutes, publications and journals as well as access to on-line databases and data sources, other information gateways, social policy mailing lists and discussion groups.

• Social Welfare (Social Science Information Gateway)

• stateline.org (Pew Center on the States) is your source for news on state policy innovationshttp://www.stateline.org/

• Florida Government Accountability Report (Florida Legislature) - FGAR is a free Internet service for legislators and the public to monitor the activities and performance of about 400 state government agencies and programs.

• Documents Center (Univ Michigan) is a central reference and referral point for government information, whether local, state, federal, foreign or international. Its web pages are a reference and instructional tool for government, political science, statistical data, and news.

rgause@mail.ucf.edu
(407) 823-2563
Last modified: February 3, 2006
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~rgause/classes/phc6146.htm