About periodicals and databases
What is a periodical?
Magazines, journals, and newspapers are all periodicals. Periodicals are issued on a periodic basis (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.). All periodicals contain articles in each issue.
Magazine articles are intended for a general audience of average reading ability.
Journal articles provide academic, professional, and technical research or review material in a specific field, and are written for an audience familiar with the subject and its vocabulary. Articles in these periodicals, especially peer-reviewed journals, are academically credible.
Whether you end up with an article in a print periodical or an article in a database, the easiest way to find an article on a given topic is to use the Electronic Databases to index both.
What are Electronic Databases?
Electronic databases are online sources that contain content from periodicals.
The NVCC library provides access to thousands of periodicals across 50+ databases. Topics of focus range from general to specific, and reflect the areas of study in courses offered at the college.
best periodical databases for drug counseling
These databases provide a good start to research on topics relating to drug and alcohol abuse.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
- Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals.
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