Research Guides: Human Service Worker: Databases & Journals

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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Academic Search Complete provides indexing and abstracts for a large number of scholarly journals in a variety of disciplines, and full text for a subset of these journals.
DSM-5, 5th Edition, Text Revision This link opens in a new window An authoritative volume that defines and classifies mental disorders in order to improve diagnoses, treatment, and research.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Follow the Google Scholar directions to configure Google Scholar to get the full text of articles to which College of the Rockies' Library subscribes.
PsycARTICLES (APA) This link opens in a new window Database of full-text journals from the American Psychological Association.
PsycINFO (APA) This link opens in a new window International index and abstracts of periodicals and book chapters in psychology and related fields, with links to full text.
Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window Covering the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences, this full-text database includes the most important English-language social science journals.

There are many e-journals available on a wide variety of topics in this area. Below are a select few.

Human Service Worker