eBook Collections
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- Ebook Central [ProQuest] This link opens in a new window A very large collection of eBooks, mostly scholarly, spanning the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. If you’re using your own laptop or desktop, install Adobe Digital Editions; for offline reading, go to the App Store or Google Play to download the Bluefire app for iOS and Android devices. Help.
- Springer E-books 1815+ This link opens in a new window 250,000 eBooks published by Springer and its subsidiary imprints, covering every scientific discipline, with some coverage of the social sciences & humanities. Includes access to Springer's Print on Demand Service (MyCopy).
- eBook Collection [EBSCO] This link opens in a new window Full text eBooks on a broad range of reference, scholarly and professional topics. Includes books formerly in netLibrary.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window Complete full text backfiles (excluding latest 2-5 years) for more than 1,000 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Now includes current coverage for several hundred journal titles, plus 30,000 eBooks.
- HathiTrust This link opens in a new window Full text books & journals digitized by HathiTrust partner libraries, Google, the Internet Archive, etc. Includes searchable access to over 10 million volumes total; 3 million public domain volumes are fully viewable online and allow downloading one page at a time. Complements Google Books.
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- PsycINFO [EBSCO] 1887+ This link opens in a new window Worldwide coverage of 1300+ journals, books and dissertations in the behavioral sciences, psychology, mental health, medicine, etc.
- Sociology Source Ultimate [EBSCO] This link opens in a new window Full-text articles relating to social behavior & interaction, covering gender identity, marriage & family, demographics, political sociology, religion, socio-cultural anthropology, etc.
- PEP-Web: Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing [PEP Interface] (excludes current and previous 3 years) This link opens in a new window Indexes articles from major psychoanalytic journals with full text coverage excluding the current and previous 3 years. Includes Freud's Complete Psychological Works, his correspondence with five major psychoanalysts, and 23 classic psychoanalytic books.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowLinks to scholarly books, articles and more. Results are incomplete and vary greatly by subject. Always use the libraries' research databases for a complete search of scholarly topics.
- Social Work Abstracts [EBSCO] 1965+ This link opens in a new window Indexes 450 social work and human service journals, covering theory & practice, areas of service and social issues & progress. Limited to 4 simultaneous users.
- Social Work Subject Guide[Smith College Libraries]
Find more suggested article databases and other resources, including Evidence-Based Practice and Tests and Measures. - Structural Racism and Police ViolenceSage library of resources includes open access research articles
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- Discover for the Library CatalogSearch for books, media, and more at all Five Colleges, or limit your Search to Smith only.
- Smith ScholarWorks-- Social Work Theses and Doctoral Dissertations
- SSW theses from 2007-present and dissertations from 2009-present are available through ScholarWorks.
- Older theses are available by request through the Five College Library Catalog.
- Abstracts for theses from 1920-2006 are also available in ScholarWorks as PDF files.
- Dissertations & Theses Global [ProQuest] (Full text 1997+, plus selected older dissertations; abstracts and citations 1861+) This link opens in a new windowIncludes 1.7 million full text dissertations (1997+, plus selected older dissertations). Also includes 3.8 million citations for 1861+. Includes a growing number of foreign dissertations.
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- Connecting Google Scholar with Smith College Libraries [2'53"] How to sign in and use Google Scholar settings to add Smith College Libraries to library links for "full text @ smith"
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