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Key Databases

Child Care & Early Education Research Connections
Provides high quality research in child care and early education and the use of that research in policy making. The website offers research and data resources for researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and others.

APA PsycInfo (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Includes more than 3.7 million records.
Tutorial for the APA PsycInfo database.
Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
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Covers all aspects of education including multilingual education, health education, testing, curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding, and all levels of education from early childhood to higher education. Provides indexing for over 1,800 journals, as well as full-text for over 900 journals, 81 books, and numerous education-related conference papers. Tutorial for the Education Research Complete database.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
References to thousands of educational topics. Indexes journal articles, books, theses, curricula, conference papers, standards, guidelines and more. ERIC documents (non-journal literature) are available full-text, 1993 to the present. View a tutorial on this database here.
Family Studies Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Abstracts of literature concerning family studies, including marriage, divorce, and family therapy. Tutorial for the Family Studies Abstracts database.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
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Offers over 500 full-text, scholarly journals. Also provides indexing and abstracts for all journals in the collection. Subject coverage includes emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Tutorial for the Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection database.
Web of Science: Core Collection This link opens in a new window
Contains citations and searchable author abstracts, covering scholarly literature in journals, books and conference proceedings. Includes: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Book Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, Index Chemicus, and Emerging Sources Citation Index. Additional resources available by selecting from the dropdown list next to the Core Collection heading. Tutorial for the Web of Science: Core Collection database.

Key Journals

Unless otherwise listed, the journals below are peer-reviewed

Family Process
Committed to publishing original articles, including theory and practice, philosophical underpinnings, qualitative and quantitative clinical research, and training in couple and family therapy, family interaction, and family relationships with networks and larger systems.
from 1962 to present
Family Relations
The journal's content emphasizes family research with implications for intervention, education, and public policy, publishing: Empirical Studies; Literature Reviews; and Conceptual Analyses
from 2000 to present
International Journal of Child, Youth, and Family Studies
A peer reviewed,open access, interdisciplinary, cross-national journal that is committed to scholarly excellence in the field of research about and services for children, youth, families and their communities.
from 2010 to present
Journal of Child and Family Studies
International forum for topical issues pertaining to the mental well-being of children, adolescents, and their families.
from 03/01/1992 to present
Journal of Family and Economic Issues
Examines the intricate relationship between the family and its economic environment. Contributions address important issues in family management, household division of labor and productivity, relationships between economic and non-economic decisions, and the interrelation of work and family life.
from 01/01/1992 to present
Journal of Family Issues
Provides up-to-date research, theory, and analyses on marriage and family life.
from 03/01/1980 to present
Journal of Family Theory and Review
Seeks to encourage integration and growth in the multidisciplinary and international domains of inquiry that define contemporary family studies.
from 2009 to present
Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
Advances the professional understanding of marital and family functioning and the most effective psychotherapeutic treatment of couple and family distress.
from 1975 to present
Journal of Marriage and Family
JMF publishes original empirical research that makes substantial contributions to theoretical understandings of all aspects of families, including marriage and other forms of close relationships.
from 2000 to present

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