QMULibGuides: Play Therapy: Databases

Databases

Databases
Multidisciplinary databases

ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts is an indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.
Additional information about ASSIA and how to use it is available
here
Campbell collaboration library of systematic reviews
The Campbell Collaboration is an international research network that produces systematic reviews of the effects of social interventions.
This resource is freely available on the internet. No authentication is required.
CINAHL Plus with full text
The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, includes references to nursing and allied health articles from worldwide, scientific literature presented for the needs of health professionals.
Consumer Health Database - Proquest
the Consumer Health Database covers an enormous range of subjects including sports injuries, women's health, food and nutrition, midwifery, eye care and dentistry. It includes important general medical journals as well as a strong selection of consumer and news magazines.
ProQuest Family Health Database is also searchable as part of ProQuest Central.
Additional information about the Consumer Health Database and how to use it is available
here
ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center
ERIC contains references to articles and reports on education topics; adult, career and vocational education, assessment and evaluation, disabilities and gifted education, educational management, elementary and early childhood education, higher education, information technology, language and linguistics, reading and communication, teacher and teacher education, urban education.
MEDLINE (via EBSCOhost Research Databases)
MEDLINE searches citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals, and provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences and more.
Psycarticles
This full-text psychology database contains articles from highly-cited and landmark journals published by the APA, the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group
Psychology Database - Proquest
Psychology Database covers a wide range of topics from leading psychology and psychosomatic publications.
Additional information about the Psychology Database and how to use it is available
here
PsycINFO
PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s.
Race Relations Abstracts
Race Relations Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
Social Science Citation Index
The Social Sciences Citation Index provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals.
The Social Science Citation Index is now accessed as part of the Web of Science Core Collection.
Social Science Database - ProQuest
Disciplines represented range from anthropology, sociology, political science to communication, education, criminology, demography, economics and more.
ProQuest Social Science Database is also searchable as part of ProQuest Central.
Additional information about the Social Science Database and how to use it is available
here
Violence and Abuse Abstracts
Violence & Abuse Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to violence and abuse, including family violence, sexual assault, emotional abuse, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.

SCOPUS
Scopus is the world's largest scientific abstract and indexing database, covering material in Science, technology, medicine and the social sciences.
ProQuest Central
ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated database of periodical content. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of content including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, reports and videos.
Additional information about ProQuest Central and how to use it is available
here
Web of Science
Web of Science® provides researchers, administrators, faculty, and students with quick, powerful access to the world's leading citation databases. Authoritative, multidisciplinary content covers over 12,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide—including open access journals—and over 150,000 conference proceedings. You'll find current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Sage Research Methods
SAGE Research Methods supports research at all levels by providing material to guide users through every step of the research process. Nearly everyone at a university is involved in research, from students learning how to conduct research to faculty conducting research for publication to librarians delivering research skills training and doing research on the efficacy of library services.
Open Grey
Open Grey is an open access resource containing bibliographical references of reports and other grey literature (GL) produced in Europe until 2005.
eTheses
eTheses is a repository of full-text theses produced by students of Queen Margaret University. It is an Open Access repository which aims to make the material available to the widest possible audience.
This resource is freely available on the internet. However undergraduate dissertations are only accessible by a person with a QMU email address.
EResearch
eResearch is a repository which collects together the work of Queen Margaret University researchers and allows them to make their research outputs freely available over the web via a searchable "open access" database.
This resource is freely available on the internet.
GreenFILE
GreenFILE offers information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. including global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling.

Internet Archive Scholar

Internet Archive Scholar
This fulltext search index includes over 25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive. The collection spans from digitized copies of eighteenth century journals through the latest Open Access conference proceedings and pre-prints crawled from the World Wide Web.

Searching for theses using eTheses

Quick Tips & Shortcuts for Database Searching

EBSCO databases

EBSCO has produced guides on using different features of it databases. Links to some of the guides are listed below:

EBSCOhost Basic Searching Tutorial (PowerPoint)

bit.ly/EBSCOhostBasicSearchingTutorial

EBSCO Advanced Searching Tutorial (PowerPoint)

https://bit.ly/EBSCOAdvancedSearchingTutorial

Browsing Subject Terms in EBSCOhost Databases Tutorial (PowerPoint)

https://bit.ly/BrowsingSubjectTermsinEBSCODatabasesTutorial

The guide looks at how to save searches so they can be re-run or edited at a later date:

https://bit.ly/ebscohelp

ProQuest Databases

https://bit.ly/proquesthelp
A guide on how to use the search functions in ProQuest.

ProQuest search strategy tips course

https://bit.ly/proquestsearchstrategytips

The online course (7 minutes) looks to provide guidance on how to develop a search strategy. Providing help with Boolean operators, truncation and wild cards, proximity operators etc.

There is a transcript available for the ProQuest course available here

ProQuest online course to using the thesaurus function

https://bit.ly/proquestthesaurusguide

An online course (5:50 minutes) designed by ProQuest on locating and using the thesauri that are inbuilt with ProQuest databases

There is a transcript available for the ProQuest course availlable here

Creating a personal ProQuest account

Creating a 'My Research' account allows you to save, manage, and organize the content and supporting materials you find and create in ProQuest. You can include documents, searches, search alerts, RSS feeds, and more in My Research. Setting up a My Research account is simple and free to all ProQuest users. ProQuest has provided guidance on how to set up an account within their databases:

proquest.libguides.com/proquestplatform/myresearch

ScienceDirect

How does ScienceDirect transform my search inputs?

This short overview guide from Elsevier summaries some of the main features found in the database that can be used to search its collections:

https://bit.ly/elsvierdatabasesupport

Search tips for using the Advanced search option

https://bit.ly/sciencedirectadvancedsearch

There is also a short online tutorial (2:40 mins) that explores performing an advanced search:

https://bit.ly/sciencedirectadvancedsearchtutorial

This short guide look at how to refine and sort search results within ScienceDirect:

https://bit.ly/sciencedirectsearchresults

The short guide outlines how searches can be saved, retrieved and deleted:

https://bit.ly/sciencedirectsearchhistory

Scopus

Pp. 1-4 of this short guide provide an overview of how to get started with Scopus. The document can be downloaded or printed out.

https://bit.ly/scopusquickguide

This guide goes into more details. The 'Searching for a documents' section includes information about how to its inbuilt functions, such as a phrase searching and Boolean operators. The 'combining search' section looks at how to combine separate searches together:

https://bit.ly/scopussearchingforadocument

The short video tutorial (3:10 mins) provides guidance on running a basic search:

https://bit.ly/scopusbasicsearch

A text version of the tutorial is also available:

https://bit.ly/scopusbasicsearchtexttutorial

The short online tutorial (3:04 mins) explores how to carry out a more complex search:

https://bit.ly/scopusadvancedsearch

There is also a text-only version of the tutorial:

https://bit.ly/scopusadvancedsearchtexttutorial

The short online tutorial (2:13 mins) looks at how to save searches ad set up alerts

https://bit.ly/scopussavesearches

There is also a text only version of the tutorial:

https://bit.ly/scopussavesearchestexttutorial

This online tutorial (2:32 mins) explores how a search can be expanded:

https://bit.ly/scopusexpandsearchvideo

There is also a text-only version of the tutorial:

https://bit.ly/scopusexpandsearchtexttutorial

Quick reference guide

https://bit.ly/webosciencequickguide

Presentation slides exploring the features of Web of Science

https://bit.ly/weboscienceoverviewguide

The guides provide an overview of the database, looking at areas such the features inbuilt within the databases, how to combine searches and how to save searches. The guides can be downloaded or printed out.

The help page's 'Strategies for getting results' section contains several short online tutorials looking at how to effectively use the database:

https://clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/support/wos/

Tutorials include :

Build Better searches (5:10 mins) - Provides an overview of in-built features, such as using fields, truncation, boolean operators and phrase searching.

Advanced search (1:42 mins) - explores the advanced search option, ho to use the features and where to find previous searches

Combining search sets (3:57 mins) - tutorial looks at how to combines searches within Advanced Search

Why use controlled terms for search? (1:56 mins) - explores incorporating thesaurus terms within a search

Play Therapy: Databases

Accessing databases