Child Development & Adolescent StudiesCovers current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21. It includes all of the issues of Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography from 1927-2001 plus new coverage on child rights and welfare issues.
Social Policy and PracticeA source of evidence-based social science research for policy-makers, practitioners, educators and students working within economic and social development, social administration, social services, and care management. Information is sourced from the Centre for Policy and Ageing, Greater London Authority, IDOX Information Service, National Children’s Bureaux and Social Care Instutitute for Excellence.
Social Science Citation IndexPart of the Web of Science, this service indexes a wide range of journals in the social sciences, allows searching by article citation, and provides article abstracts.
Social Services AbstractsBibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
Sociological Abstracts (1952 - current)Indexes journal articles books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers in sociology and related disciplines from 1963 onwards. Abstracts are included from 1974 onwards.
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CINAHL PlusCovers nursing and allied health literature from 1982 to the present. Includes abstracts of journal articles, books, dissertations, and proceedings. Full text is included for selected state nursing journals and some newsletters, standards of practice, practice acts, government publications, research instruments and patient education material.
EMBASEOvid database, covering biomedical and extensive amounts of pharmacological research dating back to 1974.
HMIC (Health Management Information Consortium)The Health Management Information Consortium (HMIC) database draws together information relating to health policy and management from two sources: the Department of Health's Library and Information Services and King’s Fund Information and Library Service. It contains over 244,000 records from 1979 to the present.
Medline ALLMEDLINE covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care.
PTSDpubsProvides citations and abstracts to the international literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events.
PubMedPubMed is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature, maintained by the US National Library of Medicine. Search this special version of PubMed instead of going directly to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed to link to full text of articles in journals subscribed to by QUB (denoted by presence of QConnect button).
