The following are examples of keywords that can be used to search for journal articles on topics about Death & Dying:
rituals
funeral customs
funeral rites
mortuary/mortuaries
death and elderly
terminal illness
bereavement
grief or grieving
grief counselling
hospice
palliative care
death and culture
death and children
death and religion
death education
death and research
solace
condolence
mourning
sympathy and death
suicide/s
AIDS
euthanasia
right to die
healing
music and dying
music and death
customs
customs of death
ceremonies
coping with death
cemetery/cemeteries
epitaphs
tombstones
gravestone/s
Note: Databases are listed in alphabetical order.
Multidisciplinary, full text, scholarly journal archive with strong retrospective coverage.
Index and full text linking for medical journals.
Full text journal articles from 1665-2000, with international coverage.
PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains articles from journals published by the APA, and its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychology Association and Hogrefe Publishing Group.
PsycINFO, the American Psychological Association (APA) resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from periodicals in dozens of languages. Some full text available through linking to other databases.
STM journals, book series, books, reference works and the Online Archives Collection.
Note: Databases are listed in alphabetical order.
Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Index to secondary literature with some full text coverage and linking to external full text sources.
Designed for doctors, research scientists, students, clinical specialists and managers, this database provides full text journals, including peer-reviewed publications, covering many areas of medical study. Journals available in full text in Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive Edition are indexed in MEDLINE.
Cambridge University Press peer-reviewed journals across the sciences, social sciences and humanities. Cambridge University Press book titles may be available through other Library collections.
Oxford University Press’s full collection of academic and research journals covering a broad range of subject areas, Date of coverage for most journals is 1996 forward.
Weekly publication focusing on scientific news, commentary, and cutting-edge research. Science was founded in 1880 and is published by the non-profit American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Index of scholarly journals, books, and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities that allows for exploration of the citation network.
Scientific, technical, medical and social science scholarly journals, books, and reference works.
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