Category: Social Sciences & Education

New Database: Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print

Posted on August 23, 2012 This page was generated by the Oviatt Library| Leave a comment

The Library has added a new database to our collections.  The Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print provides a comprehensive guide to over 2,700 contemporary testing instruments. Offers evaluations of the latest assessments in education, psychology, business, law, healthcare, counseling, and management. In addition to test reviews, descriptions of the purpose, target population, administration, scores, price, author, and publisher for all listed tests are provided.

You can access this database anytime on our website from its listing in Databases A-Z or directly at http://library.csun.edu/restricted/mmt.scr

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Give your students librarian support through Moodle!

Posted on February 7, 2011 This page was generated by the Oviatt Library| Leave a comment

CSUN faculty can work with librarians to provide research help to their students through their Moodle course web site.

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Databases Added

Posted on July 9, 2010 This page was generated by the Oviatt Library| Comments Off

Films on Demand — Multidisciplinary streaming video service providing access to digital educational films.

Pravda Digital Archive — Full-text searchable database of the newspaper Pravda, the official organ of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, published between 1912-2009.

California’s Historical Newspapers, 1850-1922:  Digital archive of American historical newspapers from California.

Gale Directory Library: Online access to directories: Brands and their Companies; Business Rankings Annual; Consultants and Consulting Organizations Directory; Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of the U.S.; Market Share Reporter; and Scholarships, Fellowships & Loans. 

American State Papers, 1789-1838: Digital collection of primary source material on many aspects of early American history. Contains the legislative and executive documents of Congress from 1789 to 1838.

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New Databases Recently Added

Posted on January 28, 2010 This page was generated by the Oviatt Library| Leave a comment

Counseling and Therapy in Video is an online collection of video for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. Features counseling sessions, consultations, interviews, demonstrations, and lectures.

MEDLINE (Ovid) contains indexes and abstracts from about 5,000 journals on medicine, allied health and life sciences. Coverage from 1948.

Ovid Journals database provides full text access to Ovid journals. Includes access to former Kluwer journals through 2005. Access limited to one user at a time for current titles.

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Customize Your Library Resources

Posted on September 16, 2009 This page was generated by the Oviatt Library| Comments Off

Our subject-based database pages and Multisearch tool have recently been updated. Now you can embed a list of subject-specific librarian-selected databases in your own web page using Javascript or HTML. If you log in, you can also select from Library resources to build custom collections of article databases, research guides, and librarian pages which can be used on our site or embedded in your external page. See Creating and Using Custom Library Resources for more information.

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Databases Added

Posted on June 19, 2009 This page was generated by the Oviatt Library| Comments Off

China: Trade, Politics & Culture 1793-1980 is a collection of English-language sources relating to China and the West, 1793-1980. Provides a wide variety of original source material detailing China’s interaction with the West from Macartney’s first Embassy to China in 1793, through to the Nixon/Heath visits to China in 1972-74.

ProQuest Digital Microfilm provides access to full-page scanned images of newspapers, digitized from microfilm. Title included: Barron’s. Coverage: 2008-

Art Index Retrospective (Wilson) indexes articles from journals published around the world, including yearbooks and select museum bulletins. Cumulative index of Art Index volumes 1-32, 1929-

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EndNote Web

Posted on August 4, 2008 This page was generated by the Oviatt Library| Comments Off

You can now use EndNote Web to collect and manage your citations — even produce a “Works Cited” list. Go to the EndNote Web start page to create your account. See Managing Citations Using EndNote Web for more information.

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New Online Encyclopedias

Posted on July 7, 2008 This page was generated by the Oviatt Library| Comments Off

The Library has added Sage eReference to Databases A-Z and our Online Encyclopedias page.  The service provides access to over 80 online encyclopedias and handbooks, primarily in the social sciences.

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LexisNexis Summer Web Seminars

Posted on June 9, 2008 This page was generated by the Oviatt Library| Comments Off

LexisNexis is offering summer web seminars. You can register here: http://www.lexisnexis.com/academicwebseminars/

You’ll receive immediate confirmation of registration and the instructions for logging in to the seminar are emailed about 24 hours before the seminar itself. Please be sure to note the date(s) you’ve signed up for on your calendar.

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Hispanic American Newspapers

Posted on May 21, 2008 This page was generated by the Oviatt Library| Comments Off

The database America’s Historical Newspapers now includes full-text access to Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980, a compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Digital Exhibition on Anti-Semitism

Posted on May 2, 2008 This page was generated by the Oviatt Library| Comments Off

The Oviatt Library presents In Our Own Backyard: Resisting Nazi Propaganda in Southern California 1933-1945, a virtual version of the 1989 CSUN Urban Archives Center exhibit of the same name.  The original exibition was co-sponsored by The Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, the Martyrs Memorial & Museum of the Holocaust, and the CSUN Bibliographic Society. It includes materials contributed by Joseph Roos, UCLA Special Collections, and the California State Archives.

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Psychology Database Added

Posted on February 21, 2008 This page was generated by the Oviatt Library| Comments Off

PsycCRITIQUES, a full text database with reviews of current books and popular films in psychology, has been added to Databases A-Z and our Databases by Subject pages

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History Databases on New Platform

Posted on February 4, 2008 This page was generated by the Oviatt Library| Comments Off

America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts have moved from ABC-CLIO to EBSCOHost, with expanded coverage (1964- and 1955-, respectively).

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Humanities and Social Sciences Dissertations

Posted on January 16, 2008 This page was generated by the Oviatt Library| Comments Off

Dissertations: Humanities and Social Sciences from Proquest is now available on Databases A-Z.

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Traditional Music and Spoken Word Catalog

Posted on November 16, 2007 This page was generated by the Oviatt Library| Comments Off

We’ve added a link to the open-access Traditional Music and Spoken Word Catalog to our Databases A-Z page.  Most of the audio recordings included were produced 1933 and 1950.  From the American Folklife Center description:

The card catalog represented in this online database was first created by Work Projects Administration (WPA) workers in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and continued by the Archive of Folk Song (now part of the American Folklife Center) staff into the early 1960s. Its purpose was to provide the public with access to the thousands of individual songs, tunes, folk tales, sermons, monologues, and life stories in the Archive’s collections.

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RLG Eureka Databases Have Moved to FirstSearch

Posted on September 28, 2007 This page was generated by the Oviatt Library| Comments Off

Anthropology Plus, Bibliography of the History of Art, and Chicano Database are now available on OCLC’s FirstSearch platform.  Access to the Eureka platform will be discontinued as of September 30th.

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Database on PTSD Added

Posted on July 17, 2007 This page was generated by the Oviatt Library| Leave a comment

PILOTS Database, containing citations to literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, has been added to our Databases A-Z and Find Articles and Research Data subject pages. Coverage from 1871 to present.

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New Psychology Database

Posted on July 6, 2007 This page was generated by the Oviatt Library| Leave a comment

PsycARTICLES has been added to Databases A-Z. Contains full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology, covering general, specialized, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. Coverage from 1894.

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History Databases Added

Posted on June 27, 2007 This page was generated by the Oviatt Library| Leave a comment

New in Databases A-Z:

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Wilson Databases Added

Posted on March 1, 2007 This page was generated by the Oviatt Library| Comments Off

Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective and Library Literature & Information Science Retrospective are now available through our Databases A-Z page.

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Databases Added

Posted on January 27, 2007 This page was generated by the Oviatt Library| Leave a comment

The following 5 databases were added:

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