Family and Consumer Sciences Subject Guide

Databases and Indexes

 

12 resources available
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ADA Nutrition Care Manual
Content release date: January 31, 2008 More info

ADA's Evidence Analysis

Includes links to numerious sources on diseases. May require member login.

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AGRICOLA restricted Covers agriculture, forestry and animal science, includes food science and nutrition. Coverage 1970 - present. Updated monthly.

  • RefWorks Info: For Import filter, choose "OCLC FirstSearch". For Database: choose, "AGRICOLA".


Applied Science and Technology Abstracts restricted Basic undergraduate engineering database. It covers only English-language journals, no conferences. WMU libraries own about 60% of the titles indexed. Good first choice for engineering/technology. Coverage: 1983-present. Tutorial

Art Abstracts restricted Indexes more than 400 of the leading journals in the arts, including areas such as archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, crafts, film, folk art, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, musicology, painting, photography, sculpture, television, textiles, and video. Coverage is from 1984 with abstracts since 1994. Updated monthly.

Arts and Humanities Search restricted (FirstSearch) Indexes articles from over 1,300 arts and humanities journals and selectively covers relevant articles from over 5,800 social science and science journals. Coverage is from 1980 to the present. Updated weekly. See also the Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index restricted Contains annotated references from over 500 design and craft journals about all aspects of design (interior, fashion, retail, theater, and others). Also indexes newspapers, conference reports, and reviews of books, videos, and exhibitions. Separate directories list college and university craft and design courses as well as journals in these fields. Coverage from 1973 to present.

ERIC restricted
The Educational Resources Information Center indexes and abstracts over 2,000 journals and more than 450,000 reports in education and related fields. Some documents are available full text, the rest are on microfiche in the Education Library. Covers 1966-present. Updated monthly.
This is the FirstSearch version, also available from CSA and from the US government. Tutorial

Medline Plus restricted Health information from the National Library of Medicine presented accessibly for professionals and non-professionals.

PsycINFO restricted Psychological Abstracts BF 1 .P65 (General Stacks)
Covers world-wide literature in psychology and related disciplines. Journal articles, technical reports, books, book chapters, and dissertations are included. Coverage: 1887-present. Updated weekly.
Use the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms for subject words: BF1 .P65x 2007 (Education Lib. and Waldo Ref.)

Social Science Abstracts.Provides access to journal citations in anthropology, sociology, & other social science subjects. Indexes over 550 journals. Coverage from 1983 to present. Updated monthly. Some full text articles.


Sociological Abstracts restricted Indexes an international selection of publications in sociology and related disciplines from over 1,800 journals, serials, books, conference papers, and dissertations. Indexing and abstracting from 1952, and cited references with links from 2001. Updated monthly.

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