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Continuity of Services - Spring 2020 Resource Guide: Home
Useful information to access resources such as textbooks, citation resources and peer-reviewed resources, learn more about COVID-19 and self-care.

For a full list of databases useful to Gerontology, use Find Articles tab (on left).

PsycINFO (EBSCOhost)
Premier resource for psychology and all interdisciplinary related fields. Ability to limit by methodology (e.g. empirical, qualitative, or quantitative studies).
AGELINE
A valuable source of information on the delivery of health care to the older population. Good resource for costs, policies, issues, theories of aging, marketing to older adults, elder care, Alzheimers, and fitness.

It is a valuable source of information on the delivery of health care to the older population and its associated costs and policies are particularly well covered, as are public policy issues, theories of aging, Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, marketing to older adults, elder care, Alzheimers, financial and retirement planning, fitness, nutrition, and housing.
PubMed
Contains over 25 million citations in fields including medicine, nursing, biomedical engineering, the health care system, and the basic biomedical sciences. Search a subset of PubMed's result using Medline on the Ebsco platform.

MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 5,000 biomedical journals published in the United States and 80 other countries. The database contains over 15 million citations dating back to the mid-1950's. Coverage is worldwide, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts. Journal articles are indexed for MEDLINE using NLM's subject heading system, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings).

WHO Global Health Data
Country data, fact sheets and more.
WHO Global Index Medicus
Provides medical and health literature created by low and middle income countries. Previously called Global Health Library.
World Life Expectancy
Provides country data on life expectancy and more.
Social Psychology Network
Social Psychology website dedicated to research and teaching for the promotion of social justice and sustainable living.

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Maintained by Scott Plous, Wesleyan University

DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
Definitive resource of diagnostic criteria and classification codes of mental disorders. Published by American Psychiatric Association.

The criteria are concise and explicit, intended to facilitate an objective assessment of symptom presentations in a variety of clinical settings- inpatient, outpatient, partial hospital, consultation-liaison, clinical, private practice, and primary care. Provides access to DSM-5, DSM-5 Handbook of Differential Diagnoses, DSM-5 Clinical Cases, and the Spanish edition of the Desk Reference to the Diagnostic Criteria from DSM-5.

Public Policy and Aging Report
Explores current policies and issues -- designed to stimulate debate. Topics include: end-of-life care, technology, elder abuse / neglect and more.
Subscription includes access from v. 9 no. 3 (fall 1998) through current.

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
This directory provides comprehensive publisher information including if a serial is peer-reviewed, open access and more. Useful for evaluation of open access journals and when making publishing decisions.