APA Citation Help
The APA resources below are provided by the APA Style and Grammar Guidelines website.
National Newspapers
SRU faculty, staff, and students may create a free account to read The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. First-time users must register before they can access the content.
- New York Times This link opens in a new window
- Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window
Streaming Video
- AVON (Academic Video Online) This link opens in a new windowIt provides streaming videos from a variety of content such as documentaries, films, demonstrations, from around the world and across all subject areas.
- Films on Demand This link opens in a new windowFilms on Demand provides high-quality video and multimedia for academic, vocational and life-skills content.
- Kanopy This link opens in a new windowA video streaming with more than 30,000 documentaries, movies, and educational videos from producers such as Criterion Collection, PBS, Great Courses, Kino Lorber and more.
E-Journal Browse
Use BrowZine to browse Social Work e-journals.
Databases
- Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Academic OneFile includes peer-reviewed full-text scholarly content across the academic disciplines. - Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new windowProvides access to full-text scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, reports, and book reviews in virtually every discipline.
- CINAHL This link opens in a new windowSpecifically designed for nursing students. Includes journals and reference materials, streaming video for common procedures, peer-reviewed nursing articles, and more.
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews This link opens in a new windowIt contains full-text articles and protocols on healthcare. Sources are evidence-based and peer-reviewed to minimize bias. Data is often statistical meta-analysis.
- CQ Researcher This link opens in a new windowProvides objective, forward-looking reporting that is designed to encourage discussion, to help readers think critically and to facilitate further research.
- Criminal Justice Abstracts This link opens in a new windowIt is the leading bibliographic database for criminal justice and criminology research. In-depth abstracts of books, journal articles, government reports, and dissertations.
- Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1970- Present. Full-text coverage of minority issues in periodical literature. Includes Spanish language content.
- Gender Studies Database This link opens in a new windowGSD covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia with coverage spanning from 1972 and earlier to the present.
- GenderWatch This link opens in a new windowFeatures unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. Coverage from 1970.
- MEDLINE This link opens in a new windowMEDLINE provides a selected collection of citations for articles published in journals approved by the National Library of Medicine. This database is a subset of PubMed.
- Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new windowProvides access to a variety of viewpoint essays and editorials revolving around current and historical issues and topics. Part of the Gale in Context series.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new windowAn interdisciplinary collection of high-quality, peer-reviewed journals, with an emphasis on the humanities and social sciences.
- PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new windowProvides full-text access to selected journals from the American Psychological Association.
- Psychology & Behavioral Sciences This link opens in a new windowCovers emotional and behavioral topics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, observational and experimental methods. Full text.
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowAlso called APA PsycInfo, it provides abstracts and citations to peer-reviewed journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and technical reports in the behavioral sciences and mental health.
- SAGE Premier This link opens in a new windowIt offers access to peer-reviewed journals in subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, sciences, technology, medicine, and more.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowIt provides scholarly, full-text, and bibliographic information covering all aspects of science, technology, and medicine.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowScopus is an abstract and citation database that includes 75 million records and nearly 25,000 titles in health sciences, physical sciences, social sciences, and life sciences.
- Social Explorer This link opens in a new windowAn online research tool that creates maps to analyze and understand demography and social change throughout history. Includes US Census history 1790-2000, all annual updates from the American Community Survey, and the Religious Congregations and Membership Study 1980-2000.
- Social Work Abstracts This link opens in a new windowSocial Work Abstracts includes coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1965. Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the database provides citations and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems.
- SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new windowSocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full text for more than 830 books and monographs, and full text for over 16,800 conference papers.
- Westlaw This link opens in a new windowWestlaw is a legal database that includes secondary and primary legal sources. It contains statutes, codes, and case law. Westlaw also includes the legal encyclopedias, journals, treatises, and law reviews, as well as public and private business information and coverage of news sources.
- Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new windowWiley Online Library includes more than 1,400 journals with coverage from 1997-present. Access is provided for all Wiley Online Library journals; e-book access is not included.
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