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Bethel Seminary Library

Online Databases and Reference Works for Pastoral Care and Counseling

Academic Search Premier (full-text)
Coverage: 1975 - present, updated daily
Academic Search Premier contains full text coverage in biology, chemistry, education, engineering, humanities, physics, psychology, religion and theology, sociology, etc.
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AgeLine (some full-text)
Contains detailed summaries of publications about older adults and aging, including books, journal and magazine articles, research reports, and videos.
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ATLA Religion Database
(some full-text)
Coverage: 1949 - present, updated quarterly
Covers topics such as: Bible, archaeology, and antiquities; human culture and society; church history, missions, and ecumenism; pastoral ministry; world religions and religious studies; and theology, philosophy, and ethics.
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Expanded Academic ASAP (some full-text)
Indexes more than 4,200 titles, with 2,500 full-text in a wide variety of disciplines including: social science journals, humanities journals, science and technology journals, national news periodicals, general interest magazines, newswires, The New York Times and many others.
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Family & Society Studies Worldwide
Coverage: 1970 - present, updated monthly
Covers popular issues as well as meeting the requirements of professionals in all fields of social work, social science and family practice.
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ProQuest Psychology Journals (full-text)
Coverage: 1971 - present
Offers access to over 400 top psychology and related publications. Most are full text.
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PsycARTICLES (full-text)
Coverage: 1987 - present, updated weekly
Full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber
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PsycINFO (some full-text)
Coverage: 1894 - present, updated weekly
Covers the field of psychology and related disciplines
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RefWorks
A Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography. To create an account from off-campus, you will need the RefWorks Group Code.
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Religious & Theological Abstracts
Coverage: 1978 - present, updated annually
Provides summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology.

Sage Journals Online
Provides online access to the full text of more than 500 Sage journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.

Social Services Abstracts
Covers social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, and community development.
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Sociological Abstracts
Includes articles, books, book chapters, book reviews dissertations, conferences covering anthropology, criminology, demography, education, law and penology, race relations, social psychology, and urban studies
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