Veterans: Grant Writing
This guide was created for a 2010 course and has not been updated since.
Afghan War, 2001-
Afghan War, 2001---Personal narratives, American
Iraq War, 2003-
Iraq War, 2003---Veterans--United States
Iraq War, 2003---Personal narratives, American
Iraq War, 2003---Participation, Female
Iraq War, 2003---Atrocities
Military occupation--History
Military occupation--History
Soldiers--Health and hygiene--United States
Soldiers--Mental health--United States
Soldiers--United States
Soldiers--United States--Psychological aspects--Congresses
Veterans--Medical care--United States
Veterans--Mental health
Veterans--Mental health--United States
Veterans--Services for--United States
Veterans--United States--Psychology
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder--Etiology
Post-traumatic stress disorder--Patients--Rehabilitation
Post-traumatic stress disorder--Therapy
Post-traumatic stress disorder--Treatment
Post-traumatic stress disorder--United States
War--Psychological aspects
War neuroses
Violence--Psychological aspects
Violence--Psychological aspects
Psychic trauma
Psychic trauma--Treatment
Mental health services
Mental health services--United States
Community psychology
Therapeutic communities
Milieu therapy
Self-help groups [support groups]
Group psychotherapy
Group counseling
Social networks
Environmental psychology
United States--Armed Forces
United States--Armed Forces--History--21st century
United States--Armed Forces--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.
United States--Armed Forces--Military life
Sociology, Military--United States
Military ethics
Sociology, Military--United States
Military ethics
Psychology, Military
Military psychiatry
United States--Armed Forces--Women
Women and the military
Women and war
United States. Army
United States. Army--Military life
United States. Marine Corps
General OneFile :
Our most user friendly database, Take advantage of the default Subject search. Among the Subject headings available her are Veterans, Women Veterans, Veterans Associations, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.. For each of these click "View Subdivisions" where you'll find links to subheadings such as Behavior, Beliefs-Opinions-Attitudes, Care & Treatment, Health Aspects, Personal Narratives, Psychological Aspects, Services, and Social Aspects. If there isn't an exact enough subdivision offered, open all the articles--on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, say--and in the upper left use the "Refine results" slot for a keyword search: veteran* or soldier* (an asterisk * is the truncation symbol here and veteran* will retrieve both veteran and veterans).
ProQuest Research Library :
A comprehensive database with a lot of full text. Click "Continue" on the opening screen and at the search screen open the "More Sarch Options" tab on the lower left. In the Subjects slot try combining Veterans and Psychology, Veterans and Mental Health, Veterans and Stress, Veterans and Depression, or Veterans and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Use the "Citation and Abstract" keyword searches above for any fine tuning. And note that Proquest will suggest related Subject searches at the the top of your retrievals.
PsycINFO :
CINAHL
My favorite of our Health & Medicine resources. At the home page click on the "CINAHL Headings" button just above the search slots. Search Veterans In the Headings section and you will retrieve a list of hierarchical Headings on the left, showing you where your Heading fits in the scheme of things, and on the right it will offer you a brief selection of handy subheadings. The useful one is Psychosocial Factors. To combine your Heading with one or more of these subheadings just check the box next to the subheading and then at the top of the page click the "Search Database" button next to the words "combine selections with or." This allows you to run a nicely targeted search without ever typing your terms into the home page search slots.
LexisNexis Academic :
This is our best database for 100% full text national and local newspaper articles. You won't find the same depth of analysis here as in journal articles, but since reintegration of returning veterans is a concern throughout the United States, there are many stories written on the larger challenges and the local efforts to meet them.
Don't settle for the default General "Easy Search" but instead click the "News" tab. Change the default "Anywhere in article" search to the "In Headline & Lead Paragraph" option for better focus. Note that the default date setting is "3 months" but that you can expand this up to 10 years (5 years works well for this topic).
Be aware that when you retrieve a set of articles you can still add extra search terms in the "Search within results" slot on the upper right.
LexisNexis only offers Keyword searching, so you may want to begin with a search such as--veterans and (adjustment or stress or depression). LexisNexis will protest if you retrieve more than 3000 articles, but open them anyway and the first 1000 will be accessible.
Project Muse
A small database, but offering 100% full text from scholarly journals, and it allows Library of Congress Subject searching so any of the Subject Headings listed above for the IC Library may work here, for example--"Veterans--Mental health." In addition, try "Iraq War, 2003--psychological aspects" as a Subject.
Our most user friendly database, Take advantage of the default Subject search. Among the Subject headings available her are Veterans, Women Veterans, Veterans Associations, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.. For each of these click "View Subdivisions" where you'll find links to subheadings such as Behavior, Beliefs-Opinions-Attitudes, Care & Treatment, Health Aspects, Personal Narratives, Psychological Aspects, Services, and Social Aspects. If there isn't an exact enough subdivision offered, open all the articles--on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, say--and in the upper left use the "Refine results" slot for a keyword search: veteran* or soldier* (an asterisk * is the truncation symbol here and veteran* will retrieve both veteran and veterans).
ProQuest Research Library :
A comprehensive database with a lot of full text. Click "Continue" on the opening screen and at the search screen open the "More Sarch Options" tab on the lower left. In the Subjects slot try combining Veterans and Psychology, Veterans and Mental Health, Veterans and Stress, Veterans and Depression, or Veterans and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Use the "Citation and Abstract" keyword searches above for any fine tuning. And note that Proquest will suggest related Subject searches at the the top of your retrievals.
PsycINFO :
The American Psychological Association use their own Subject vocabulary (called "Descriptors"), so a visit to the "Thesaurus" below the search slots is a good idea. If you find an article on exactly what you want, be sure to check the assigned "Descriptors" on the right of the citation for more ideas about useful search terms. The Descriptor used here is Military Veterans which you should try combining with a second descriptor such as Mental health Services, Needs, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder [note the spelling], Depression, Resilience, Family, or Social Support.
PsycINFO deals only with scholarly literature, much of it assuming a graduate-level understanding of the discipline. But among these you may find interesting, accessible articles on your topic.
User Advisory: If what you're searching for are "journal articles only" in "English," it's a good idea to check those boxes (below the search slots). And if you want to confine your attention to Iraq and Afghan veterans, set the date limit accordingly.
PsycINFO deals only with scholarly literature, much of it assuming a graduate-level understanding of the discipline. But among these you may find interesting, accessible articles on your topic.
User Advisory: If what you're searching for are "journal articles only" in "English," it's a good idea to check those boxes (below the search slots). And if you want to confine your attention to Iraq and Afghan veterans, set the date limit accordingly.
JSTOR :
This database covers a wide range of scholarly journals in most disciiplines, always beginning with the first issue of each one. This provides 100% full text access to articles from not only the first half of the 20th century but even the second half of the 19th (useful if you wished to compare veterans issues today with those of previous generations). Be aware, however, that at the other end of the date range articles don't appear in JSTOR until at least 2-3 years after publication.
JSTOR offers only a Keyword search of its complete full text, so retrievals are large, but the relevancy ranking does a good job of putting the strongest matches on the first few pages. This relevancy ranking does not weigh date, however, and so if you want to focus on veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, you need to enter a date range of the last 20 years.
I had the best results by adding a geographical indicator: veterans and iraq and (stress or depression).
User Advisory: The academic journals covered here feature numerous book reviews, so it's a good idea to tic the "Article" limit below the search slots so you won't be overwhelmed by book reviews on your topic.
SocINDEX with Full Text :
As the name implies, an excellent database for social issues. Click on the "Subject Terms" link above the search slots to find which Subject Headings will work here. Double click any Heading for a list of broader, narower, and related Subject Terms. But there are no detailed Headings available for this topic, so just begin with a Subject search on Veterans--Social conditions. To the left of your retrievals will display other related topics such as Reintegration of Veterans and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.This database covers a wide range of scholarly journals in most disciiplines, always beginning with the first issue of each one. This provides 100% full text access to articles from not only the first half of the 20th century but even the second half of the 19th (useful if you wished to compare veterans issues today with those of previous generations). Be aware, however, that at the other end of the date range articles don't appear in JSTOR until at least 2-3 years after publication.
JSTOR offers only a Keyword search of its complete full text, so retrievals are large, but the relevancy ranking does a good job of putting the strongest matches on the first few pages. This relevancy ranking does not weigh date, however, and so if you want to focus on veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, you need to enter a date range of the last 20 years.
I had the best results by adding a geographical indicator: veterans and iraq and (stress or depression).
User Advisory: The academic journals covered here feature numerous book reviews, so it's a good idea to tic the "Article" limit below the search slots so you won't be overwhelmed by book reviews on your topic.
SocINDEX with Full Text :
CINAHL
My favorite of our Health & Medicine resources. At the home page click on the "CINAHL Headings" button just above the search slots. Search Veterans In the Headings section and you will retrieve a list of hierarchical Headings on the left, showing you where your Heading fits in the scheme of things, and on the right it will offer you a brief selection of handy subheadings. The useful one is Psychosocial Factors. To combine your Heading with one or more of these subheadings just check the box next to the subheading and then at the top of the page click the "Search Database" button next to the words "combine selections with or." This allows you to run a nicely targeted search without ever typing your terms into the home page search slots.
LexisNexis Academic :
This is our best database for 100% full text national and local newspaper articles. You won't find the same depth of analysis here as in journal articles, but since reintegration of returning veterans is a concern throughout the United States, there are many stories written on the larger challenges and the local efforts to meet them.
Don't settle for the default General "Easy Search" but instead click the "News" tab. Change the default "Anywhere in article" search to the "In Headline & Lead Paragraph" option for better focus. Note that the default date setting is "3 months" but that you can expand this up to 10 years (5 years works well for this topic).
Be aware that when you retrieve a set of articles you can still add extra search terms in the "Search within results" slot on the upper right.
LexisNexis only offers Keyword searching, so you may want to begin with a search such as--veterans and (adjustment or stress or depression). LexisNexis will protest if you retrieve more than 3000 articles, but open them anyway and the first 1000 will be accessible.
Project Muse
A small database, but offering 100% full text from scholarly journals, and it allows Library of Congress Subject searching so any of the Subject Headings listed above for the IC Library may work here, for example--"Veterans--Mental health." In addition, try "Iraq War, 2003--psychological aspects" as a Subject.
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Most IC Libary databases contain only some full text. If the article you want is not availabe full text from the database you are searching, check below the citation for one of the images above. This is ArticleLinker and if available it will search a wide range of other IC Library databases, retrieving links to any full text it finds.
Google Advanced Search: When doing research on the Web, always use the Adanced Search version of Google. This not only provides more flexibility in entering search terms, but more importantly it allows you to target the Web domains that are likely to provide the most authoritative information.
Under "Need More Tools?" you will find the "Search within a site or domain" slot. You may enter only one domain at a time, but it's worth targeting each of the three domains likely to supply the best information: colleges and universities (enter the "edu" tag), nonprofit organizations (enter the "org" tag), and the United States government (enter the "gov" tag).
Under "Need More Tools?" you will find the "Search within a site or domain" slot. You may enter only one domain at a time, but it's worth targeting each of the three domains likely to supply the best information: colleges and universities (enter the "edu" tag), nonprofit organizations (enter the "org" tag), and the United States government (enter the "gov" tag).
Open Directory Project: Veterans: Look in particular under "Issues" and "PTSD."
Yahoo Directory: Veterans: Iraq War: Be aware that while Yahoo usefully categorizes Web sites, it isn't selective like the directory listed above.
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: Lots of information here, but you need to dig for it a bit. Be sure to visit the "Analysis and Statistics" page and open some of those resources. Also explore "Veterans Services" tab at the top and scroll down to the lower right for "Special Programs." Also see "IMPACTS: A summary of select research findings and impacts from VA’s Health Services Research & Development Service." (pdf)
- New York State Division of Veterans' Affairs: Perhaps most useful is the page of "Links" and in particular the list of links to "Veterans Organizations."
- National Center for PTSD: from Veterans Affairs, note the "Useful Links" at the top left, which lead to considerable information--especially under "VA Mental Health," where again note the links at top left.
- For Veterans Returning from War: Nice page from James Madison University--be sure to scroll down to linked resources at the bottom.
- Iraq War Veterans Organization: I'm not vouching for the organization--it seems a little right of Attila the Hun--but there are a lot of linked outside sources here that could be useful. Proceed with caution.
Noodlebib guides you through the required data entry for citation in the MLA, APA, and Chicago/Turabian styles. It takes care of punctuation, alphabetization and formatting, producing a polished source list for import into Word.
- MLA citation for books: in print, from databases, on the Web
- MLA citation for articles: in print, from databases, on the Web.
- MLA citation for Web and Multimedia resources, including Web sites, movies, DVDs, CDs, and videos.
- MLA in-text (parenthetical) citation (far less satanic than the first three).
