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Subject Guides >Family & Child Development > Databases
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Ulrich’s Periodical Directory Find Articles (Databases) > U > Ulrich’s
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Journal Academic/Scholarly Trade
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Other EBSCOhost Databases Subject Guides > Family & Child Development > Databases
Professional Development Collection Full-text of 500 journals in education, 300 peer
reviewed PsychInfo
Full-text, citations and abstracts to articles, books, and other materials related to psychology
SocIndex Full-text and citations to articles, books, and
conference papers in sociology
Speech/Language Databases
Medline Subject Guides > Health and Medicine >
Databases Largest medical database – over six million
citations Communication & Mass Media
Communications > Communication & Mass Media > Databases
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