Focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas.
- Areas of coverage include education, health sciences, history, public policy, sociology and contemporary culture, gender and women's studies.
- Sources include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, NGO, and special reports.
Full-text archive for more than 360 of the top scholarly journals in social sciences, humanities and arts. Coverage of some journals dates back to the nineteenth century. Does not include the most recent years (3-10 years) of publication.
Political and social sciences, international relations, and health policy.
- Contains references to more than 460,000 journal articles, books, government documents, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, and more.
- Includes publications from over 120 countries.
- Updated monthly and covers from 1972 to the present.
Comprehensive database of funding opportunities for most disciplines from federal agencies and private US and international foundations.
- UCSF affiliates can create personal accounts to save their searches and set-up regular funding alerts.
- Pivot also provides access to faculty/researcher profiles across a broad spectrum of institutions and information on calls for paper and special issue of scholarly journals regarding to their abstract submission deadlines.
- The Research Development Office, in collaboration with the Library, is pleased to offer monthly trainings for faculty, staff, postdocs and students on Pivot.
Access to this database is paid for by the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost.
Full text access to psychology journals and book chapters.
- Full-text access to over 50 journals, including editorials, letters & tables of contents, from 1986-present
- Full-text coverage of book chapters from 2000-present
- Covers from 1887 to the present
- Includes citations to international literature in over 1,400 journals, conference proceedings, books, reports, and dissertations
- Related disciplines include anthropology, nursing, business, pharmacology, education, physiology, psychiatry, sociology, and medicine.
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Psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments
Provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys and other assessmentsIncludes descriptive summaries of each test, its development and administrationFocuses primarily on unpublished testsEach record includes information on the scope of the test, implementation, and the reliability and validity of the dataIncludes a diverse array of subject areas and types of tests:aggression, coping, or functional status questionnairesaptitude and achievement measurescompetency measuresdevelopmental measureseducation measuresintelligence testsmilitary testsneuropsychological assessmentsoccupational measurespersonality assessmentsphysical health related assessmentsracial and ethnic identity scalesresilience, anger response, or substance abuse inventoriesscales for beliefs, relationships, or expectancies
Topics covered include anthropology, criminology, demography, education, law, social psychology,sociology, and urban development from 1963 to the present.
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