Counseling: Databases and Web Resources

Databases

Recommended Databases

Education Source This link opens in a new window
The world's largest and most complete collection of full-text education journals, Education Source provides scholarly research and information to meet the needs of education students, professionals, and policy makers. It covers all levels of education — from early childhood to higher education — as well as all educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education and testing.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
ERIC®, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.

ERIC contains more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents from ERIC back to 1966.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar is a freely available index to the full text of scholarly literature in all fields.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Collections Available at Saint Rose
--Arts & Sciences I--
Established in 1997, JSTOR's first collection includes core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This collection also contains titles in ecology, mathematics, and statistics.
--Arts & Science II--
The Arts & Sciences II Collection adds depth to many disciplines introduced in Arts & Sciences I, such as economics, history, and Asian studies. Arts & Sciences II also offers core journals in several additional disciplines, such as archaeology, classics, and African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Slavic studies.
--Arts & Sciences III--
Arts & Sciences III includes journals in languages and literature, as well as essential titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture. Additional interdisciplinary titles broaden the scope of coverage to include folklore, feminist & women's studies.
Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Watch classic movies, Criterion Collection, must-watch movies and documentaries.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
The PsycINFO® database, American Psychological Association's (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains over 3 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with one of the highest DOI matching rates in the publishing industry. Ninety-nine percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed.

The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law, and others. Journal coverage, which spans from 1800s to present, includes international material selected from around 2,500 periodicals in dozens of languages. PsycINFO is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
ScienceDirect® is the world's largest electronic collection of science, technology, and medicine full-text and bibliographic information. It offers a wide variety of features and content.
Social Work Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), this database provides indexing and abstracts for journals dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems.
Taylor & Francis Journals This link opens in a new window
Access over 1100 journals in the social sciences and humanities.

Professional Organizations

Professional Organizations

Web Resources

Web Resources

Purdue's OWL APA Style Guide
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Purdue University Online Writing Lab guide to APA style
American Psychological Association
Internet Public Library