Guide to Researching
Chemical Dependency &
Substance Abuse Counseling
BOOKS
IN BEGLEY LIBRARY
Click on the following subject headings for a list of books in Begley Library on that topic.
A librarian can help you locate materials on specific topics.
BROWSING THE SHELVES:
- HV: Social pathology. Social & public welfare. Criminology. (Located on the library's 2nd floor)
HV5001 - 5720.5: Alcoholism.
HV5725 - 5770: Tobacco habit.
HV5800 - 5840: Drug habits. Drug abuse.
- RC: Internal medicine. (Located on the library's 1st floor)
RC554 - 569.9: Personality disorders. Behavior problems including sexual problems, drug abuse, suicide, child abuse.
- RM: Pharmacology. (Located on the library's 1st floor)
RM138: Drug prescribing.
RM139: Prescription writing.
RM146 - 146.7: Misuse of therapeutic drugs. Medication errors.
RM147 - 180: Administration of drugs and other therapeutic agents.
RM300 - 666: Drugs and their actions
RM671 - 671.5: Nonprescription drugs
BOOKS IN OTHER LIBRARIES:
Find more books in the following collections:
eREFERENCE SHELF:
Find definitions, short biographies, bibliographies and more in these online reference book collections:
ARTICLES
Use the library's databases to locate articles on a specific topic. When you research a topic in a database, you are searching thousands of journals, magazines and newspapers at once.
An individual journal can be a good place to start your research if you don't have a topic in mind.
DATABASES
What is a database?
POPULAR AND PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES
- Academic Search Premier - articles in a wide range of subject areas.
- CINAHL Plus - articles in the fields of nursing and allied health. Includes legal cases, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.
- Health & Wellness Resource Center - journals, newspapers, alternative medicine-focused magazines, videos and reference information.
- Health Reference Center Academic - articles from nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; selected newsletters, pamphlets, and newspaper articles; topical overviews; and core reference books.
- Health Source: Consumer Ed. - consumer health information on many health topics including the medicas sciences, food sciences & nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic - scholarly, full-text medical journals and drug education sheets for 1300 generic drugs and 4700 brand names.
- psycARTICLES- journal articles published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, Canadial Psychological Association and more
- Science Direct- journal articles in the sciences and social sciences
SUBSTANCE ABUSE JOURNALS
Most of the library's journals are only available online through the library's subscription databases.
The following is a list of online substance abuse journals:
(You will be prompted to enter your SCCC user id and password for off-campus access)
WEB SITES
NEED HELP?
A Librarian will be happy to assist you with your research. Visit or call the Reference Desk during regular library hours, or use Ask Us 24/7 for online help.
Created by Carrie Buff, November 2008
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