PSY A639 Research Methods

The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences. It fully indexes more than 1,725 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.
Coverage is from 1981 - present.

•Over 100,000 pages of book, journal and reference content from leading SAGE authors are easily accessible online

•Sophisticated search and discovery tools support browsing and discovery of material

•The ``methods map`` visualizes relationships between methods terms, concepts, people and literature, supported by a newly developed taxonomy for social science research methods

•Ability to create playlists that include selected book chapters and journal articles to share through the site with students, co-authors, and colleagues

•Over 600 books, 4 encyclopedias, 6 dictionaries and a major work containing journal articles

•Complete Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences (the “Little Green Books”)

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - Full Text is the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. It includes 2.7 million searchable citations to dissertations and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present, together with 1.2 million full text dissertations that are available for immediate download in PDF format. In addition, over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.

More than 70,000 new full text dissertations and theses are added to the database each year through dissertations publishing partnerships with 700 leading academic institutions worldwide and collaborative retrospective digitization of dissertations through UMI's Digital Archiving and Access Program. Full text dissertations are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be native PDF, some PDF image.

Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDT - Full Text provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses.