Specially created to meet the needs of college undergraduates and high school students. Gives easy access to new scientific developments, with comprehensive abstracts of articles in over 300 journals. The PsycINFO databases cover the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Coverage is worldwide, and includes references and abstracts to over 1300 journals and to book chapters, books and dissertations. Over 50,000 references are added annually.
Popular literature is excluded.
These three databases index a mixture of academic journals and popular magazines. They do include some health sciences material but far less than the subject specific databases above. They all provide full text of at least some of their articles. FactSearch Statistical Universe World Almanac Use these sources for quick reference including demographics and other statistical data. The following databases provide indexing to articles found in a large number of journals that are available in full text electronically.