Student Handbook - Argosy University

PsycARTICLES
PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of
full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains
more than 140,000 articles from over 60 journals published by the APA, and its imprint the
Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian
Psychology Association and Hogrefe Publishing Group.
Business Source Premier
Provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peerreviewed
titles. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references
back to 1998. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in
all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance
and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
Regional Business News
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications.
Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications
covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
PsycEXTRA
PsycEXTRA, produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), is a bibliographic
and full-text companion to the scholarly PsycINFO database. The document types included in
PsycEXTRA consist of technical, annual and government reports, conference papers, newsletters,
magazines, newspapers, consumer brochures and more. It contains more than 150,000 records
that are not indexed in any other APA database.
SocINDEX with Full Text
The database features more than 1,986,000 records with subject headings from a 19,600+ term
sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with
Full Text contains full text for 708 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes
full text for more than 780 books and monographs, and full text for 9,333 conference papers.
Academic Search Complete
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 6,100 full-text
periodicals, including more than 5,100 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this
database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 10,100 journals and a total of more than
10,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database
features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native
(searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 journals.
LIRN (Library & Information Resource Net): Contains abstracts and full-text in all academic
areas, including Infotrac & ProQuest databases. Additional resources include: Health Reference
Center, Computer Database, General Business File ASAP, Business & Company Resource
Center and Books in Print.
Digital Dissertations: Downloads of full dissertations from 1997 – present are free; for dissertations
older than 1997, 24-page previews are available.
Journal Sources
Print journals don’t circulate but can be photocopied in the library – the library copier makes
“book copies” (i.e., copying two journal pages at once), which is a real time-saver. Copies are
$.05 per page. Thousands of journals are available in full text through our web-based databases.
Contact library for passwords.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
Interlibrary loan is available both within the entire Argosy University library system, and
other libraries nationwide. Instructions for requesting ILL items are included in the library’s
database user guides.
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