SOW 6246 Resources
Policy Analysis & Social Change

How to Access UCF Library Databases and Resources from off campus

General Internet Information

UCF Library Home Page provides links to the UCF library catalog and gateway to other resources, such as:
http://library.ucf.edu/

Popular Indexes

• Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost database) provides abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education and more. Also offers full text for over 1,000 journals with many dating back to 1990. Includes coverage of over 1,700 peer-reviewed journals.

• Infotrac Onefile  indexes articles in approximately 1000 scholarly journals and popular magazines in the arts, humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Abstracts are included for some articles. Provides access to full text of some articles. Dates of coverage: 1980+

Other Library Resources
http://library.ucf.edu/Databases/TitlesAL.htm

• 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.
• LexisNexis databases (CIS/Lexis-Nexis): 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 1970 forward. 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).  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. 
• netLibrary provides over 30,000 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 coverage: 1972+
• 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 approximately 650 of Elsevier's research journals, including approximately 58 social sciences titles, such as Cities, Electoral Studies, Food Policy, Land Use Policy, Resources Policy, and Transport Policy.  Dates of coverage: 1997+
• Social Sciences Full Text (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: 1982+
• 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+

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  
  http://library.ucf.edu/govdocs/

• Legislative Histories
  http://library.ucf.edu/Reference/Guides/legal/leghistory.htm

• 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.
  http://www.bath.ac.uk/~hsstp/world3.htm

• Social Welfare (Social Science Information Gateway)
  http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/social_welfare/

• stateline.org (Pew Center on the States) is your source for news on state policy innovations
  http://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.
  http://www.oppaga.state.fl.us/government/

• 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.
  http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/index.html

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