Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Science
Useful resources for finding academic literature for the subject areas above.
Academic Video Online (Alexander St Press/ProQuest)
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Academic Video Online is a multidisciplinary collection of videos that touches on the curriculum needs of virtually every department. With over 67,000 titles available now and 400 new titles per month, this collection is unmatched in its breadth. Academic Video Online allows students and researchers alike to analyse unique and valuable content from over 500 producers and distributors around the world. |
| Userguide: | https://proquest.libguides.com/academicvideoonline/home |
AMED
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| Description: | Data from 500 international health care journals held by the British Library supplemented by relevant records from Medline. Subjects covered include: acupuncture, homeopathy, palliative care, occupational therapy and holistic treatments. |
| Coverage: | 1985 - present. |
| Additional information: | NHS Staff and other authorised users: The Knowledge Network |
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
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Indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Updated monthly, ASSIA provides a comprehensive source of social science and health information for the practical and academic professional. It contains records from over 500 journals published in 16 different countries, including the UK and US. |
| Coverage: | 1987-present. |
| NHS Staff and other authorised users: | The Knowledge Network |
EMBASE
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The Excerpta Medica database, a major pharmacological and biomedical literature database covering about 8,500 journals from110 countries. Covers mainly journal literature (plus some book reviews and conference proceedings) with strong coverage of European journals. |
| Coverage: | From 1947 to date. |
| NHS Staff and other authorised users: | The Knowledge Network |
ERIC via EBSCOhost
ERIC via ProQuest
ERIC - Education Information Resource Center link
| Access information: | Access on and off-campus. |
| Description: | Indexes the journal and technical literature in the field of education and corresponds to the printed Resources in Education and Current Index to Journals in Education. ERIC contains more than 1.6 million records and links to more than 750,000 full-text documents. |
| Coverage: | From 1966 to date. |
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Full-text psychoanalysis resource of: 78 journals; 100 classic psychoanalytic books; editorial notes of the 24 volumes of the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud; 19 volume German Freud Standard Edition Gesammelte Werke and over 40 videos. |
| Coverage: | 1871 onwards. Access to all content on their website. |
psycINFO is a key resource
PsycINFO - Ovid interface
[PsycINFO via APA PsycNET]
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| Cookies (Ovid) | Some functions, including use of the Search History, will be disabled if cookies are rejected or no selection is made. |
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American Psychological Association produced with citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines. |
| Coverage: | Journal coverage, from 1806 to the present, includes international material selected from more than 2,400 journals written in over 29 languages. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material from 1806 to the present. |
| NHS Staff and other authorised users: | The Knowledge Network |
PsycTHERAPY
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Access on and off-campus. Off campus access requires the use of the University VPN - click for instructions on how to access to the University network via the VPN. |
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Nearly 500 candid psychotherapy videos featuring known therapists. The more than 100 approaches include integrated behavioural health care, cognitive behaviour therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy. Common obstacles faced during unscripted therapy sessions are illustrated, synchronized transcripts allow searches for precise moments in therapy and playlist creation and video clip sharing is available. |
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. The Library's subscription to this resource expires 31 July 2024. |
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Audio and video recordings of original experiments (if available) with 45,000 pages of primary-source documents of 20th and 21st Century psychological experiments. includes notes from experiment participants, journal articles, books, field notes, letters penned by the lead psychologist, videos of modern-day replications, and modifications to the original experiments. |
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Includes: B.F. Skinner’s research with pigeons, Stanley Milgram’s research on obedience to authority, Albert Bandura’s Bobo Doll experiment, John B. Watson’s Little Albert experiment, Harry Harlow’s monkey study, Elizabeth Loftus's eyewitness testimony research, Kenneth and Mamie Clark's black and white doll experiment, Muzafer Sherif’s Robbers Cave experiments, Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison experiment, Bibb Latane and John Darley’s study of bystander apathy. |
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| Description: | Fifty training videos for mental health professionals. Individual titles are recorded in DiscoverEd but include series on Evidence-Based Treatment Planning, Psychotherpay Essentials, Understanding Group Psychotherapy, Assessment and Treatment of Psychological Disorders and Psychotherapy with the Experts which investigates how much therapy has to do with the style and personality of the therapist versus their theoretical model. |
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. Contains over 16 million author profiles, 70,000 institutional profiles, 5000 publishers, 70 million records, 1.4 billion cited references, covers over 20,000 journals from health, life, physical and social sciences and the humanities. |
| Coverage: | For some subject areas, from 1788 onwards. |
| User guide: | https://elsevier.libguides.com/Scopus/home |
| Note: | The University of Edinburgh's Affiliation ID is 60027272 (used for configuring Papers 3 for Mac to work with Scopus). |
| Note: | If you would like to register to receive personalised searches, alerts etc then select "Other Institution login", then add "Edinburgh" to the search box to find the University of Edinburgh log in link, select the Shibboleth option if requested. |
Social Care Online (1980-2022)
| Access information: | Free access on and off-campus. |
| Description: | UK social care academic literature but also legislation, government documents, practice and guidance, research briefings and UK grey (informally-published) literature, reports. Produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). |
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No updates after December 2022 and the site will close in January 2024. Social Care Online’s bibliographic data will be subsumed in the subscription-based abstracting and indexing database, Social Policy & Practice. |
Social Services Abstracts
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| Description: | Bibliographic coverage of current research focussed on social work, human service and related areas, including social welfare, social policy and human development. |
| Coverage: | From 1979 with monthly updates. |
Sociological Abstracts
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| Description: | Primary resource for accessing the latest research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Draws information from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations. |
| Records added after 1952 contain in-depth and non-evaluative abstracts of journal articles. |
Web of Science Core Collection
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| Russian Science Citation Index is not presently included in the Web of Science. | |
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Citations and abstracts to millions of journal articles and conference proceedings from all subjects. Cited reference searching, Impact Factors, h-indexes and email alerts available. |
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Arts & Humanities (1975 onwards), Science and Social Sciences Citation Indexes (both 1900 onwards), Conference Proceedings in Science and Social Science & Humanities (both 1990 onwards). Also: Book Citation Indexes in Science and Social Sciences & Humanities (both 2005 onwards), Current Chemical Reactions (1986 onwards), Emerging Sources Citation Index (2015 onwards), Current Chemical Reactions (1985 onwards), Index Chemicus (1993 onwards). Change "Search in:" to use: BIOSIS Citation Index (1926 onwards), Current Contents Connect (1998 onwards), Data Citation Index (1990 onwards), Derwent Innovations Index (1966 onwards), KCI-Korean Journal Database (1980 onwards), Medline (1950 onwards), PrePrint Citation Index (1991 onwards), ProQuest Dissertatoins & Theses Citation Index (1637 onwards), SciELO Citation Index (2002 onwards), Zoological Record (1864 onwards). |
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Finding articles which have in their reference lists a work you found useful ('cited reference searching'): |
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Journal Citation Reports (JCR): |
For organising and screening records
Covidence
| Access information: | Access on and off campus - see registration guidance in notes below |
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Covidence is a web-based platform that supports the established and rigorous methods for systematic reviews. The platform helps review teams to work together more efficiently, and supports collaborators who are geographically separated. |
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You can create your personal sign in information with Covidence before or after joining the institutional subscription. To request access to the institutional account in Covidence, you must use your University of Edinburgh email address with domain @ed.ac.uk.
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| Guidance and tutorials: | https://support.covidence.org/help |