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Use this tool if your article is not full-text! Search by the journal name, and if the journal is available in print or online, you'll see a list of locations & dates for which it is available. The locator does NOT index individual articles within journals. Best used when you already have a citation.

Complete A-Z list of databases. Click a database name to begin.

Name	Abstracts or Full Text?	Description
Academic Search Premier	Abstracts and selected full text	This comprehensive, multidisciplinary database references articles from 4,650 journals and magazines. Selected full text articles date from 1975 to the present.
Applied Science & Technology Full Text	Abstracts and selected full text	This bibliographic database includes articles on engineering, computer technology, energy, fire prevention, physics, and many more. Indexing begins in 1983, with selected full-text articles included beginning in 1997. Select "Applied Science & Technology" in the "Subject Area" dropdown menu
Art Full Text	Abstracts and selected full text	This bibliographic database includes articles on art, art history, and other related topics. Indexing begins in 1984, with selected full-text articles included beginning in 1997. Select "Art" in the "Subject Area" dropdown menu to search.
Biological and Agricultural Index Full Text	Abstracts and selected full text	References journal and magazine articles in biology, biochemistry, agriculture, and food science topics. Indexing begins in 1983, with selected full-text coverage from 1997 to the present. Select "Biological & Agricultural" in the "Subject Area" dropdown menu to search.
Business Full Text	Abstracts and selected full text	References journal and magazine articles in business and industry. Indexing runs from 1982, with selected full text coverage from 1995 to the present.
Catholic Periodical and Literature Index (EbscoHost)	Abstracts and selected full text	CPLI includes citations and selected full text of articles and reviews from Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church promulgations, and books. Database coverage goes back to 1981.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EbscoHost)	Abstracts and selected full text	CINAHL abstracts articles in nursing and allied health journals, dating from 1982 to the present. Also includes full-text articles from 337 nursing journals.
The Cochrane Library (Cochrane Collaboration/Wiley)	Abstracts and selected full text	The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases containing quality information to assist healthcare professionals in making evidence-based decisions. Reviews and protocols, healthcare trials, technology assessments, and economic evaluations are included.
Counseling and Therapy in Video (Alexander Street Press)	Videos	This online collection covers the following subject areas: psychotherapy, psychology, psychiatric counseling, and social work. The collection currently includes 331 videos, and is searchable by therapy types, therapists, presentation type, and by subject.
Credo Reference	Full text	With more than 300 dictionaries, encyclopedias, and reference books available through a single search, this is a great first step for any research project.
Dissertations & Theses (Proquest)	Abstracts only	ProQuest Dissertations and Theses is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It includes 2.7 million searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world. Many records include a preview and a link to order a print copy, or request it through Interlibrary Loan.
eBooks on Ebscohost (formerly NetLibrary)	Full-text	This collection of ebooks covers a diverse array of topics, including business, natural and health sciences, humanities, education, psychology, criminal justice, and information science.
Education Full Text	Abstracts and selected full text	References journal articles and books related to education. Provides indexing from 1983 and selected full text articles dating from 1996 forward.
Education in Video (Alexander Street Press)	Videos	This growing, online collection of 118 videos was developed specifically for training teachers. Subjects include: classroom management, teaching methods, curriculum, teaching in the content areas, and more. The collection can be searched by subject, grade level, and by educator/expert.
Education Research Complete (Ebscohost)	Selected Full-text and Abstracts	This is the largest and most complete collection of full-text education journals available. Topics include all levels of education (early childhood through higher education), all educational specialties, curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. This database provides full-text articles for over 1,400 education journals and abstracts for over 2,300 education journals. Full-text is also available for over 550 education books, numerous conference papers, and other sources.
Educational Administration Abstracts (Ebscohost)	Abstracts only	Covers topics such as educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other subject areas related to educational administration. Includes over 190,000 abstracts from education journals with coverage dating back to 1966.
ERIC (Ebscohost)	Abstracts only	This comprehensive database offers abstracts of journal articles, conferences, reports and more. Covers all fields of educational research from 1966 to the present. ERIC contains more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents.
FAITS: Faulkner's Advisory for IT Studies	Full text	Provides technical reports and standards, market information, news, and tutorials for the information technology industry. Topics include IT infrastructure, wireless communications, networking, security, telecommunications, enterprise systems, and the Internet.
General Science Full Text	Abstracts and selected full text	References journal and magazine articles in biology, chemistry, earth science, health, math, physics and related fields. Provides indexing from 1984 and selected full text articles from 1995 on.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)	Abstracts only 1985-present	Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) provides information on approximately 15,000 measurement instruments for the health and psychosocial sciences, including questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, coding schemes, and rating scales. While the full text of the instruments is not provided, the information given can help determine what instruments exist, track an instrument's history over time, and locate ordering information.
Health Source: Nursing (EbscoHost)	Abstracts and selected full text	Provides full-text articles and citations about nursing, medicine, and health. Includes information from 1975 to the present.
HEED: Health Economic Evaluations Database (Wiley-InterScience)	Abstracts and bibliographic data only	HEED contains records on studies of cost-effectiveness and other economic evaluations of medications and medical treatments. Information comes from over 5,000 journals as well as the Wellcome and Battelle databases of economic evaluation literature. *NOTE: To get the full text of an article, search its journal title in the Journal Locator. For searching instructions, click "User Guide" on the left-side of the HEED main page.
Hoover's	Full text reports	Business reports, news, and financial information on companies, industries, and executives for top US companies.
Humanities Full Text	Abstracts and selected full text	Journal articles in art, history, literature, music, and religion. Provides indexing from 1984 and selected full text articles from 1995 on.
In the First Person	Links to summaries and full-text oral histories	Links to 2,500 collections of oral history, including first-person accounts of the civil rights movement, military events, and even drug addiction. Search the database by keyword, or use the menu to browse through interviews by name, place, date, or topic.
Issues & Controversies (Facts on File)	Full text	Topical database on current issues, presenting opposing points of view.
Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI COnNECT+)	Full-text	The Joanna Briggs Institute is an international, non-profit research organization that specializes in evidence-based healthcare. Search JBI COnNECT+ for the JBI Library of Systematic Reviews, Best Practice Information sheets, Evidence Summaries, and Evidence Based Recommended Practices.
Journal Locator	Identifies and links to full text journals	Search for electronic journals available at Holy Family University. Use the "Search" feature to search for journals by subject. If the journal is available online, the service provides a list of databases where it can be found, a link to the journal, and the dates for which it is available. It does not index individual articles within journals..
JSTOR	Full text	Provides full-text of journals in education, social sciences, sciences, and humanities. No current journals, only those 2-5 years old or older.
Legal Periodicals Full Text	Abstracts and Selected full text	References articles and legal information from journals, books, and court decisions. Provides indexing from 1981 and selected full text articles from 1994 to the present. Select "Legal" in the "Subject Area" dropdown menu to search.
MEDLINE with Full Text (EbscoHost)	Abstracts and selected full text	MEDLINE with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for more than 1,450 of the 4,800+ journals indexed. Subjects include nursing, radiology and radiography, general medicine, the healthcare system, and more. Citations and abstracts are covered back to 1949, full text back to 1965.
Mental Measurements Yearbooks with Tests in Print	Abstracts and selected full text	Mental Measurements Yearbook provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a complete index of all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in English.
NetLibrary Electronic Books		See eBooks on Ebscohost
Newspaper Source Plus	Full text	Provides cover-to-cover full text for 149 national and international newspapers, including U.S.A. Today and The Times (U.K.). Also includes selective full text for 410 U.S. newspapers, including The Philadelphia Inquirer and The New York Times, along with full-text television and radio news transcripts.
OmniFile	Abstracts and selected full text	OmniFile searches through all of the databases the library subscribes to from Wilson. Use OmniFile for interdisciplinary searches or when you are not sure which database to choose.
Ovid Nursing Full Text Plus	Full Text 1995-present	Ovid Nursing Full Text Plus provides full-text access to 33 research journals and 12 practitioner-oriented journals in the field of nursing, along with bibliographic records from over 400 other nursing journals. Full text articles date from 1995 to the present; indexing dates back to 1950.
PA POWER Library If you live outside of Philadelphia, click here to locate the login page for your library.	Abstracts and Selected full text	The POWER Library is a collection of databases and resources provided by public libraries in Pennsylvania. You must have a card from your public library to log in.
PsycARTICLES (EbscoHost)	Full text	Contains links to the full text of articles from journals published by American Psychological Association and its affiliates, from 1990 to the present.
PsycBOOKS (EbscoHost)	Full text	Contains over 25,000 chapters in PDF from over 1,600 books published by APA and other distinguished publishers, plus the exclusive electronic release of more than 1,500 authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.
PsycINFO (EbscoHost)	Abstracts and selected full text	References articles, book chapters, dissertations and reports of psychology literature in over 1,500 journals, from 1887 to the present.
PubMed (National Library of Medicine)	Abstracts only	PubMed indexes medical and life science journals back to the 1950's. *NOTE: To get the full text of an article, search its journal title in the Journal Locator.
Reader's Guide Full Text	Abstracts and selected full text	References articles in general interest, popular magazines. Provides indexing from 1983 and selected full text articles from 1994 to the present.
SAGE Premier (SAGE Journals)	Abstracts and full text	Provides full text from 1999 through the present from hundreds of leading peer-reviewed journals. SAGE journals cover business, humanities, social science, criminology, science, technology and medicine. For a complete list of titles, click here.
Social Sciences Full Text	Abstracts and selected full text	References articles concerning all aspects of the social sciences, including: psychology, sociology, social work, criminology, addiction studies, family studies, anthropology and related fields. Provides indexing from 1983 and selected full text articles from 1995 to the present.
Something About the Author (Gale)	Full-text	Something About the Author (SATA) features biographical essays about thousands of children's book authors and illustrators. Each essay includes personal biographical data, addresses, career, awards and honors, works, sidelights (essay on the author's life and works), adaptations, additional sources, and more.
TeachingBooks.net	Multimedia and text	Provides original, up-close profiles of authors and illustrators, audio excerpts of book readings, guides to thousands of titles and a wealth of resources on children's and young adult literature. To login from on or off campus, you MUST enter the current password. (You do not need to enter your email address.)
WorldCat	Search for books at libraries around the world	WorldCat searches the collections of thousands of libraries around the world. Use it to find books published on a topic which you can order through interlibrary loan, or to find out if another local library has a copy of a book you need.

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