FSHS/HDFS

A guide for students doing research in family studies and human development and family science

Library Research Guide

Subject Guide

Kendra Spahr

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314 Hale Library
Manhattan, KS
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Subjects: Agricultural Economics, American Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, Applied Human Sciences, Criminology, Data, Fashion Studies, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Hospitality Management, Human Development and Family Science, Journalism & Mass Communications, Personal Financial Planning, Psychological Sciences, Social Transformation Studies, Social Work, Sociology

For Off Campus Students

Almost all of our electronic resources are available to you from off campus by using your eID and password to log on. Interlibrary Services will also scan and e-mail articles from journals that we own, or will mail you books from our collection or borrowed from other libraries. For more information about library resources for distance students, see our Distance Learning

Where to search for articles

Databases:

To get to databases, go to the Libraries’ home page and click on databases at the bottom of the Search It box. Databases will find journal, magazine, and newspaper articles (and in some cases other materials like book chapters, dissertations, conference presentations, pamphlets, and more).

Recommended databases for this program include:

Almost anything, since FSHS is so interdisciplinary! You may use databases in psychology, health, social services, education, etc. Here are some of the major ones:

PsycInfo (APA)
Searches psychology topics. Provides a thesaurus that allows you to search for synonyms and related terms, as well as many different useful ways to limit your search.
Sociological Abstracts
Allows you to search for articles written from a sociological perspective.
Social Services Abstracts
Good for finding articles focused on social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, etc.

Other Useful Databases

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
One of our main education databases.
Education Full Text
The other main education databases. Although there will be some overlap with ERIC, each will also have resources that the other does not.
Web of Science (includes all databases)
A broad, multi-disciplinary database that searches over many subjects. Also excellent for cited reference searching.
Scopus
Another broad, multi-disciplinary database that searches over many subjects. Also excellent for cited reference searching.

Medicine and Health Databases
Can be used to find information on medical research and other health-related topics.

And a few more to be aware of

Sage Research Methods
Provides articles, book chapters, and essays about how to do research; both quantitative and qualitative.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global
Includes the full text of many dissertations and some theses from universities throughout the country.
K-State Research Exchange (K-REx)
The university's institutional repository, provides access to dissertations, theses, and other scholarly materials created by our faculty and students.

Where to search for books

Books:

Use the Search It box on the Libraries' home page to find books and other materials owned by K-State Libraries.

Google Book Search
Lists almost every book ever published, and will often give you a preview of the contents of the book. If K-State does not own the item you need, you can fill out an Interlibrary Loan request.

Find Books with Search It

Introduction to Search It Transcript (PDF)
Transcript to make the associated video more accessible.