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Multi-Disciplinary Databases

Suggested Databases by Subject Area

Topics might include:

  • Art Therapy
  • Art History
  • Art & Science
  • Architecture
  • Music (Learning, Neuroscience, Psychology)

Recommended Subject Databases for Literature Searching:

Topics might include:

  • Asian & Asian American Studies
  • African & African American studies
  • Latinx & Hispanic Studies 
  • Indigenous Studies
  • LGBTQ+ Studies
  • Identity Development
  • Gender Studies
  • Institutional Racism & Biases

Recommended Subject Databases for Literature Searching:

General

Sub-Topic Specific

Topics might include: 

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Dementia
  • Disability Studies
  • Intellectual & Developmental Disorders

Recommended Subject Databases for Literature Searching:

Topics might include:

  • Agriculture & Food Systems
  • Climate Change & Climate Science
  • Ecology
  • Energy
  • Landscape Ecology
  • Sustainability
  • Transportation
  • Urban Planning

Recommended Subject Databases for Literature Searching:

Topics might include:

  • U.S. Economics
  • International Economics
  • Business aspects of Healthcare

Recommended Subject Databases for Literature Searching:

Topics might include: 

  • Early Childhood Education
  • Education Policy
  • Education Funding & Economics
  • English as a Foreign Language
  • Health Education
  • Higher Education
  • K-12 Education
  • Sex Education
  • Special Education

Recommended Subject Databases for Literature Searching:

Topics might include:

  • Social Policy (e.g. Institutional Racism or Redlining, Immigration Policy & Family Detention/Separation, Criminal Justice System & Incarceration)
  • Health Policy
  • Education Policy
  • Legislation & Regulation
  • Government Agencies (EPA, CDC, Dept. of Education, etc.)
  • Political Representation & Elections
  • Political Polarization
  • Political Identity & Affiliation
  • Foreign Policy & Conflict

Recommended Subject Databases for Literature Searching:

Topics might include:

  • Business of Healthcare
  • Complementary & Alternative Medicine (such as art therapy, herbal medicine, yoga & mindfulness, etc.)
  • Health Communications (patient-provider relationship, cultural competence, health literacy, language concordance)
  • Health Policy
  • Health Technologies
  • Immigrant & Refugee Health
  • Medical Conditions & Treatments
  • Mental Health & Mental Illness (trauma, PTSD, depression, psychiatric disorders & treatments, psychedelics)
  • Nutrition & Food (such as food insecurity, maternal & infant nutrition, breastfeeding, school lunch, SNAP & WIC)
  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Substance Misuse/Substance Use Disorders (including stigma)

Recommended Subject Databases for Literature Searching:

General

Sub-Topic Specific

Topics might include:

  • Cognition
  • Child Development
  • Child Psychology, Attachment Theory, Family Enrichment
  • Learning & Memory
  • Neural Plasticity
  • Perception
  • Music & the Brain

Recommended Subject Databases for Literature Searching:

Topics might include:

  • Language acquisition
  • Linguistics
  • Syntax & Semantics

Recommended Subject Databases for Literature Searching:

Topics might include:

  • Social Media
  • Dis/Misinformation
  • Advertising & Public Relations
  • News & Journalism
  • Interpersonal Communications
  • Health Communication/Information
  • Film & Media Analysis

Recommended Subject Databases for Literature Searching:

General:

Sub-Topic Specific:

Topics might include:

  • Literature
  • History
  • Philosophy of Math/Science
  • Logic
  • Semantics
  • Ethics

Recommended Subject Databases for Literature Searching:

Topics might include:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Internet
  • Large Language Models

Recommended Subject Databases for Literature Searching:

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