HS600c-05: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Selected Library Resources for Research
Fall 2007
Library Instructor: Ralph Szymczak
email: szymczak@brandeis.edu
phone: 781-736-4673
LOUIS catalog for books owned by Brandeis.
- use advanced search for a more effective search using combinations of keywords
- use synonyms to increase your chance of finding all the best material
- follow subject links to find more on your precise topic
example: alcohol* (* gives you all words beginning with those letters)
AND
treatment or therapy (synonyms)
AND
cost* or economic*
leads to subject: Substance abuse - Treatment - United States - Costs
WorldCat for books held in libraries worldwide.
Databases for scholarly journal articles.
from our homepage Library & Technology Services > Find articles & databases
tip: click on the Get It! button to get to the full text from the article citation
- Social Services Abstracts - social welfare, human services, social policy and related areas. Social services in addiction is one of the major areas of coverage.
- Pubmed - health and medical research and policy.
- Health Reference Center-Academic - Indexes, with some full text links, medical journals and consumer health publications.
- PolicyFile - public policy research and analysis from think tanks.
- PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service) - all aspects of public affairs and public policy
- SocINDEX with Full Text - journal articles in sociology.
- Web of Science - journal articles in all disciplines. Links older cited references to current literature.
Databases for dissertations
- Dissertation Abstracts - Indexes and abstracts disssertations accepted at accredited U.S. institutions (selectively covers Canadian, British and European dissertations, and masters theses), 1861 to present.
- Dissertations & Theses @ Brandeis University - current Brandeis theses, 1960-present, with downloadable full text for 1996-present.
World Wide Web Sites
Other LTS Research Guides
from Library & Technology Services> Research help: research guides by subject
