A-Z Databases

A leading resource for scholarly research across multiple disciplines; contains journals, periodicals, reports, books, videos, and more.

CINAHL Plus also contains searchable cited references for more than 1,230 journals. Full text material includes nearly 80 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.

CQ Researcher provides in-depth coverage of important issues, written by experienced journalists, footnoted and professionally fact-checked. Full-length articles include an overview, historical background, chronology, pro/con feature, and resources for additional research.

The mental disorder classification manual published by the American Psychiatric Association.

A great place to begin your research process: to narrow your topic, get background information and to gather keywords. Encyclopedias and reference books are not generally used as cited sources in college-level research papers (usually you'll need to take what you find in an encyclopedia and head out to the databases for more advanced sources).

Use the library catalog to find printed books, including course reserves aka textbooks, at Solano and our partner libraries.

Indexed and full-text American Psychological Association (APA) journal articles.