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Academic Search Premier ![]()
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Academic Search Premier provides full text for over 4,600 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 8,500 journals. Over 3,500 journals are peer reviewed. Full text backfiles go as far back as January of 1990, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as January of 1984. Provided courtesy of MORENET. [more]
Ageline ![]()
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Interdisciplinary coverage of aging and middle age, including psychological, economic, sociological, business, medical, public policy, and consumer perspectives. [more]
GenderWatch ![]()
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GenderWatch is a database of periodicals and newsletters that focus on women and women's issues. [more]
Google Scholar ![]()
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Google Scholar Instructions are provided for setting up Find it at MU in your Google Scholar search. This will enable you to link from your Google search results to the full-text resources provided by the MU Libraries. [more]
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A full-text database consisting of the Arts and Sciences I, II, III, IV, Ecology & Botany and General Science Collections which provide access to the back files of over 300 scholarly journals. Areas included are history, sociology, business, economics, ecology, literature, mathematics, music, political science, population studies, Asian studies, philanthropy and finance. Coverage begins with volume one of each title and continues to within 4-5 years of the present. [more]
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Citations and abstracts to worldwide biomedical literature including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and healthcare services. MEDLINE references articles from about 4000 journals published in 70 countries. Evidence-based search filters are available to assist in narrowing results to methodologically rigorous articles. To run a cited reference search on an article found in MEDLINE,copy and paste the PMID article Identifier here. [more]
Nursing Home Compare ![]()
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Database to compare nursing homes. Also includes links to Guide to Choosing a Nursing Home and Nursing Home Checklist.
PsycINFO with PsycARTICLES ![]()
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Provides access to the international literature in psychology and material relevant to psychology in the related disciplines of education, medicine, business, sociology, and psychiatry. It covers journals and dissertations from 1887 to the present and book chapters and books from 1987 to the present. Includes PsycArticles, with the full text of 50 journals from APA and participating publishers. [more]
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Search 33 million journal articles, cited references, and patents. Cover-to-cover indexing 1996-date for 14,000 (mostly scientific) journals, with some retrospective coverage compiled from cited references and free web sources. Compile a table of citation counts for a given author showing cited references by year. Discover the h-index for a given author. Search for all cited references for a given author, just a combination of selected references, or a single reference, with an option to exclude self-citations. Locate an article to see Findit@Mu links to all its cited references. [more]
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Indexes and abstracts current published research on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. [more]
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Produced by the National Association of Social Workers, Inc., contains more than 35,000 records from social work and other related journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization, and more. [more]
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CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. [more]
Journals
Journals for GerontologyTips for finding journals and journal articles
Browse Journals on Gerontology ![]()
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- Looking for a specific article or journal? Try the Journal/Article Finder
- Need to search for articles by keyword or topic? Try Databases in the Databases tab
Other Resources Online
Other Resources Online for Gerontology
Medicare Nursing Homes ![]()
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A free database of Medicaid and Medicare nursing homes.
Rating America's Nursing Homes ![]()
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This site contains information about how to access a database of quality ratings of 16,000 nursing homes and resources on the web. The site also contains tips on choosing a nursing home.
eBooks / Books
eBooks / Books for GerontologyTips for finding books
Encyclopedia of Gerontology ![]()
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Geriatric Medicine, Cassel's ![]()
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Focused on practical clinical approaches to problems in geriatric medicine that reflect the current health care climate's growing emphasis on more comprehensive, efficient, and appropriate care.
Geriatrics At Your Fingertips ![]()
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Hazzard's Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology ![]()
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Also Known as: Principles of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
Merck Manual of Geriatrics ![]()
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Browse and search the complete text of the 3rd edition, 2000.
Practice of Geriatrics ![]()
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