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This guide is designed to help select appropriate databases for research in Child Advocacy Studies.

Core Child Advocacy Studies Databases

These databases will have the most articles relevant to Child Advocacy Studies studies.

Some databases provide article citations, but not full text. The Find It! button will link to full text across databases. If full text is not available, request it via Interlibrary Loan.

Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Includes current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Database abstracts and indexes thousands of serial publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews. Some full text.
PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
International literature in psychology and related disciplines such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries, and all records from 1967 are indexed using the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.
ERIC (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Via EBSCO. The Education Resource Information Center (ERIC) contains more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 317,000 full text documents dating back to 1966.
Many ERIC documents have been removed from the ERIC.ED.GOV website temporarily. If the ED number of the document is less than ED441946 (published before ca. 2001), then Krueger Library might have it in the microform area.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
International literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Some open access full text. Coverage from 1952.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Broad database with both academic and general articles. Many are full text, but some are citation only.