Family & Society Studies Worldwide, produced by the National Information Services Corporation, is a core resource providing the most comprehensive coverage of research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, Human Development, and Social Welfare. FSSW covers popular issues as well as meeting the requirements of professionals in all fields of social work, social science, and family practice.
Publications indexed in the database are drawn from a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, sociology, psychology, demography, health sciences, education, economics, law, history, and social work.
Source documents include related websites, internet documents, professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, selected popular literature, government reports, discussion and working papers, unpublished material (such as poster sessions, statistical documents, and theses & dissertations) and other sources, many of which are indexed exclusively in FSSW.
Coverage spans from 1970 to the present indexing publications from a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, sociology, psychology, demography, health sciences, education, economics, law, history, and social work.
Search tips:
- The wildcard is represented by a question mark (?). To use the wildcard, enter your search terms and replace each unknown character with a ?. The database search engine finds all citations of that word with the ? replaced by a letter.
For example, type ne?t to find all citations containing neat, nest or next.
Truncation is represented by an asterisk (*). To use truncation, enter the root of a search term and replace the ending with an *.
For example, type comput* to find the words computer or computing. - This database treats certain words as "stop words"––for example, and, or and not. Stop words are always ignored, even if they are enclosed in quotation marks.
Stop words are commonly used words such as articles, pronouns and prepositions. Stop words are not added to the search dictionary, since their relevance is minimal, but they are counted as words for proximity (the distance between words). The search engine ignores stop words (such as the, for, of and after), finding any single word in its place.
For example, if you entered company of America, it would find company of America, company in America, or company for America. It would not find company of the America, because the search engine retains a word distance.
The stop word or will be replaced with any word. For example if you searched for sink "or" swim, the results could include sink don't swim. If you enter two stop words, it will find any two words in the place of the stop words. For example, if you searched for company of the America, the search engine finds any two words in the place of the stop words.
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Where is it :
Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page. Under Find, select Articles, then under Article databases by name, click on the letter F and select Family and Society Studies Worldwide.
Quick link:
Click here for the Family and Society Studies Worldwide homepage.