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Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
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Education Research Complete 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.
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.
GenderWatch This link opens in a new window
Provides publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. Its archival material, dating back to 1970, focuses on the evolution of the women's movement, men's studies, the transgendered community and the changes in gender roles over the years.
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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.
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Image-based legal research database includes such collections as: Legal Classics, Law Journal Library, U.S. Supreme Court Library, U.S. Federal Legislative History Library, Treaties and Agreements Library and more. Bridges the gap in legal history by providing comprehensive coverage from inception of law and law-related periodicals.
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Formerly LexisNexis Academic. Provides access to a wide range of news (includes New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times), business (company news, industry forecasts), government (legislative news, tax information), legal (news, case law) and reference information.
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Access domestic and foreign public policy research and analytical papers on governmental and legal topics, representing the work of think tanks, research groups, and academic institutes from 1990 to present.

Key Journals

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American Journal of Family Law
Provides in-depth, relevant, commentary on the current issues in today's practice.
from 09/01/2000 to present
Family Journal
Advances the theory, research and practice of counseling with couples and families from a family systems perspective.
from 01/01/1993 to present
Family Science Review
Scholarly articles that focus on family research, theory, policy and education. Articles with implications for strengthening all family types, including diverse families, are strongly encouraged.
from 01/01/2013 to present
Gender Issues
An interdisciplinary and cross-national in scope focusing on gender and gender equity.
from 01/01/1998 to present
International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family
Analyses of the law relating to the family which carry an interest beyond the jurisdiction dealt with, or which are of a comparative nature; theoretical analyses of family law; sociological literature concerning the family which is of special interest to law and legal policy; social policy literature of special interest to law and the family; literature in related disciplines
from 04/01/1996 to present
Journal of Divorce & Remarriage
An authoritative resource covering all aspects of divorce, including pre-divorce marital and family treatment, marital separation and dissolution, children's responses to divorce and separation, single parenting, remarriage, and stepfamilies.
from 01/01/1997 to present
Journal of Marriage and Family
Publishes research and theory, research interpretation and reviews, and critical discussion on all aspects of marriage, close relationships, and families.
from 2000 to present
Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law
The Journal provides an interdisciplinary forum to which academics and professionals working in the fields of social welfare and family law can turn to for information, comment and informed debate.
from 01/01/1997 to present

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