Stories of people who were homeless and how they transitioned off the streets, found housing, and stay housed.
Documentary film about Millennials and the role they play in social change.
High-quality articles from international perspectives seeking to analyze issues in the making and implementation of social policies.
Data is gathered about the American people and the economy, including special topics surveys.
While these databases all look the same as SocIndex, they are searching specific parts of the collection from the overall database (EBSCOhost). Topics that you choose (ex. "substance abuse") could be very closely related to both Social Problems and other areas, so in addition to what is here you may want to check some other topic pages that may apply.
Covers essential age-related content such as elder abuse and the elderly within society.
Great for issues concerning conflict and international affairs.
Perfect for issues examining the way the environment impacts subsets of the population.
An asterisk ( Shift+8 to get *) after a series of letters tells the search to provide results that match the letters you typed along with any word ending as long as it is part of the same word. Keep in mind that this may not always work the way you expect! Applications for this could be:
| Base plus * | Sample of Possible matches |
|---|---|
| extremis* | extremist, extremism |
| pollut* | pollute, pollution, pollutants, polluting, polluters |
Placing quotes around two or more words tells the search to provide results with those words in that exact order with only one space between them. This is especially helpful when words have meanings separately that are changed when combined or are given a more specific meaning when used in conjunction. Some examples are:
The word "or" means something very different to databases, and might be helpful when searching for similar concepts that either don't all start with the same letters or has too many irrelevant matches.
| Instead of just... | Try... |
|---|---|
| "nursing homes" | "nursing homes" OR "care homes" OR "aged care facility" |
| poverty | poverty OR impoverished OR "low income" OR "low socioeconomic" OR disadvantaged |