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Indexes articles from 1984 to present about art, architecture, archaeology, crafts, design, museology, photography, television and textiles, it also indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and others.
Index to the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. It also includes empirical studies, case studies, surveys, bibliographies, literature reviews, discussion articles, conference reports and dissertations.
Social Work Abstracts offers extensive coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1965. Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the database provides citations and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems.
Citing a web document (APA)
Author (Sometimes this can be an organization, or you can use the document title when there is no author.)
Date (You can use the most recent update.)
Document title
Website title
Section URL
ex. Student resources. (2013). Retrieved from USM Libraries website: http://usm.maine.edu/library/student-resources
*From Hacker, D., & Sommers, N. (2010). The Bedford handbook (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's.