While our online library catalog, OneSearch, is a good starting point, there is no single website or search box in the world that can help you discover every book and article ever published. Sometimes, to find enough articles for your research paper, you will have to identify specialized databases and if needed narrow them down to specific journals.
The library recommends the following databases that might be relevant to the field of Human Development:
This database offers full-text articles for journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals. Many titles go back to volume 1, issue 1.
The PsycINFO®, database, American Psychological Association’s (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains over 3 million records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with one of the highest DOI matching rates in the publishing industry. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from around 2,500 periodicals in dozens of languages.
The SAGE Video Sociology collection covers the shifting understandings of social identities and the intersections of sociological conditions, from environmental and political to familial and cultural. An array of different video types are available including multiple hours of in-practice footage that showcase how sociological theories and intersections play in the real world context.
Topics in Human Development may overlap with other complementary subjects. It may be useful to search within a multidisciplinary database/index, or other subject-specific databases.
