Link: Applied Social Sciences Index

About: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA) is an indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Updated monthly, ASSIA provides a comprehensive source of social science and health information for the practical and academic professional. ASSIA currently contains over 375,000 records from over 500 journals published in 16 different countries, including the UK and US. Major subject areas of coverage include: Anxiety disorders, communication, criminology, cultural anthropology , ethnic studies, family, geriatrics, nursing, immigration, child abuse, political science, sociology and women's studies to name just a few.

Dates of Coverage: 1987 to present.

Truncation: [*]. (To use truncation, enter the root of a search term and replace the ending with a truncation symbol. The search engine will then finds all forms of that word. For example, type comput* to find the words computer or computing).

Wildcard: [?]. (The wildcard helps when the spelling of a word is incomplete. To use the wildcard, enter your search terms and replace each unknown character with the appropriate wildcard symbol. The search engine finds all citations of that word with the  symbol replaced by a letter. For example, type ne?t to find all citations containing neat, nest or next). 

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