LibGuides: SoPSS: Social Policy and Behavioral Health Administration: Finding Articles

Interlibrary Loan

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Electronically request and receive articles, book chapters, or other resources when unavailable in full-text from the NU Library.

Research Best Bets

Browse all of NU Library's databases on the A to Z database list.

APA PsycInfo® This link opens in a new window
Content: Journal article database from the American Psychological Association that indexes over 2,500 journals along with book chapters and dissertations.
Purpose: Provides a single source of vetted, authoritative research for users across the behavioral and social sciences.
Special Features: citations in APA Style®, updated bi-weekly, spans 600 years of content
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APA PsycArticles® This link opens in a new window
Content: APA database that offers full-text for journals published by APA, the Canadian Psychological Association, Hogrefe Publishing Group and APA's Educational Publishing Foundation. View the APA PsycArticles Journal History for a complete coverage list.
Purpose: Important database for psychology, counseling, and education students.
Special Features: The database is updated bi-weekly all content is available in PDF and HTML formats.
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ProQuest Health and Medical Collection This link opens in a new window
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Content: A comprehensive medical information resource providing full-text journal content, reference ebooks, and evidence-based resources, including dissertations and systematic reviews.
Purpose: Provides content for learning and researching biomedical science and related subject areas.
Special Features: Includes instructional multimedia content to help students connect theory to practice. AI research assistant on the full text page with key takeaways.
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NavigatorSearch

Search for articles, books, dissertations, and more

Finding Full-Text

Finding full-text is easy if you know what you're looking for (refer to image below):

In most databases you can simply limit to ONLY articles that have full-text available.
In NavigatorSearch and other EBSCO databases, you can select the "Click to look for full text" option under an article to see if it is available in another library database.
Articles with PDF full text availability will show up with the "PDF Full Text" icon under the article record.

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Selected Journals

Learn how to find particular journals in the Library. See the FAQ: How do I locate a particular journal within the Library?

Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research
Publishes peer-reviewed, original empirical research articles and administrative and policy notes, which are commentaries, observations, and/or opinions that are briefer and less research-oriented than articles.
Advances in Mental Health: Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention
Peer-reviewed journal for advancing promotion, prevention and early intervention approaches to mental health.
American Journal of Public Health
Dedicated to the publication of original work in research, research methods, and program evaluation in the field of public health.
American Psychologist
Official peer-reviewed scholarly journal of the American Psychological Association, publishing current and timely high-impact papers of broad interest, including empirical reports, meta-analyses, and scholarly reviews covering science, practice, education, and policy.
Best Practice in Mental Health
Peer-reviewed journal that provides an interdisciplinary and evidence-based focus for its audience of mental health educators and practitioners.
Clinical Practice & Epidemiology in Mental Health
Open access online journal, which publishes Research articles, Reviews, Letters in all areas of clinical practice and epidemiology in mental health.
Community Care
Provides news of the latest developments and controversies in social care, plus the views and achievements of social care professionals and service users.
Community Mental Health Journal
Devoted to the evaluation and improvement of public sector mental health services for people affected by severe mental disorders, serious emotional disturbances and/or addictions.
Global Mental Health
Open access journal that publishes papers that have a broad application of ‘the global point of view’ of mental health issues.
Journal of Clinical Psychology
Presents articles focused on psychotherapy effectiveness research, psychological assessment and treatment matching, clinical outcomes, clinical health psychology, and behavioral medicine.
Journal of Counseling & Development
Publishes practice, theory, and research articles across 20 different specialty areas and work settings. Sections include research, assessment and diagnosis, theory and practice, and trends.
Journal of Mental Health
Reports on the best in evidence-based practice around the world and provides a channel of communication between the many disciplines involved in mental health research and practice.
The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice
Double blind peer-reviewed journal highlights critical issues in educating and developing a skilled, healthy and committed mental health workforce. NOTE: This journal has a one year embargo.
Journal of Psychosocial Nursing & Mental Health Services
Peer-reviewed journal provides up-to-date, practical information for today’s psychosocial-mental health nurse, including short contributions about psychopharmacology, mental health care of older adults, addictive behaviors and diagnoses, and child/adolescent disorders and issues.
The Lancet
Publishes original research articles, review articles ("seminars" and "reviews"), editorials, book reviews, correspondence, as well as news features and case reports.
Mental Health Nursing
Contains news of interest to CPNs including feature articles, research papers, conference reports, events listings, and association news.
Mental Health Practice
As the UK’s leading practice-based journal for mental health professionals, Mental Health Practice includes a wide range of clinical, research and continuing professional development articles.
Nursing Standard
Publishes a wide range of clinical, research and continuing professional development articles across a host of areas.
Psychiatric Services
Peer-reviewed journal features research reports on issues related to the delivery of mental health services, especially for people with serious mental illness in community-based treatment programs.
Social Work
Publishes articles on all aspects of social work and social welfare that yield new insights into established practices, evaluate new techniques and research, examine current social problems, or provide critical analysis on problems in the profession.