Anthropology | Art & Architecture | Asia | Astronomy & Astrophysics | Biography | Biology | Book Reviews | Business & Economics | Chemistry | Classics | Computer Science | Conferences | Dissertations | Education | Gender Studies | General & Interdisciplinary | Geography & Geophysical Sciences | Government Documents & Political Science | History | Humanities | Language, Literature & the Performing Arts | Latin America | Law | Library Science | Mathematics | Medicine | Music | Newspapers | Philosophy | Physics | Psychology | Religion | Science | Slavic & East European Studies | Social Sciences | Social Work | Sociology | Statistics
- Anthropological Index Online is based on the journal holdings of the Anthropology Library at the The British Museum (Museum of Mankind) which receives periodicals in all branches of anthropology, from academic institutions and publishers around the world.
- Anthropology Plus includes the complete contents of the print Anthropological Literature (Z5112.A53 Regenstein RR2) and indexes earlier material held in Harvard University's Tozzer Library. Describes articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies, in works published in English and other languages from the 19th century to the present. Also includes Anthropological Index (from the Museum of Mankind Library in London).
Art & Architecture | Art & Architecture
- Art Abstracts covers more than 200 key international arts publications. Subjects include archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, computer applications, crafts, film, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, painting, photography, sculpture, television, textiles and video. Coverage begins with September 1984.
- Art Index Restrspective, 1929-1984 cumulates citations in the Art Index, volumes 1-32 and includes articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Publications includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. In addition to articles, Art Index Retrospective also indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
- ARTbibliographies Modern includes abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews of modern and contemporary art. Covers artists and movements from Impressionism in the late 19th century to the most recent works and trends in the late 20th century. Photography is covered from its invention in 1839 to the present. Coverage begins with 1974.
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals covers architecture as well as the decorative arts, city planning, archaeology and individual architects. Excludes periodicals in non-Western alphabets. Coverage begins with 1977.
- Bibliography of the History of Art includes BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art = Bibliographie d'histoire de l'art (Z5937.B2 Regenstein RR4); and also incorporates Repertoire d'art et d'archaeologie (Z5937.R42 Regenstein RR4) and RILA, International repertory of the literature of art (Z5937.R2 Regenstein RR4). It includes citations to articles on the current literature of art, covering Western art (4th C.-present); painting, sculpture, drawing, prints; decorative and applied arts; industrial design architecture; popular and folk art; and selected contemporary art. Coverage begins with 1973.
- Index of Christian Art indexes works of art from early apostolic times to A.D. 1400, with an emphasis on art of the western world. Seventeen media are represented in the archive, including manuscripts, metalwork, sculpture, painting, and glass. Records include bibliographies, references to reproductions and, in some cases, links to images.
- Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals indexes 42 art periodicals that were published in the United States during the 19th century. These journals represent a nearly complete coverage of art journals from this period. Since entire journal contents are indexed--articles, art notes, illustrations, stories, poems, and advertisements--the index is a valuable source of information on popular culture and industry, as well as artists and illustrators, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture and design, exhibitions and sales, decoration, and collecting.
Asia | East Asia | Middle East | South Asia
- Bibliography of Asian Studies includes western-language monographs, articles and book chapters, on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide. The online BAS contains the full data of all printed editions of the BAS (Z3001.B931 Regenstein Stacks) issued from 1971 up to the 1991 edition (published 1997), as well as thousands of entries compiled since. Since 1992, newly published individual monographs are no longer being added to the database.
- Index Islamicus covers literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It includes not only work written about the Middle East, but also about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere. Over 2,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Coverage begins with 1906.
Astronomy & Astrophysics | Astronomy and Astrophysics
- ARIBIB includes citations from the printed bibliographies Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts (AAA) (QB1.A7994 Crerar Reference) and the earlier title, Astronomischer Jahresbericht Z5153.A85 Crerar Reference.
- Astrophysics Data System (ADS) contains four bibliographic databases containing more than 3.6 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics and Geophysics, and preprints in Astronomy.
- INSPEC indexes journals conference proceedings, reports, dissertations, books, and periodicals in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology. Coverage begins with 1969.
- Biography and Geneaology Master Index indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.
- Biography Index covers biographical information from English-language periodicals and books. Includes individual and collective biographies from all fields and nationalities. Coverage begins with 1984.
- World Biographical Information System contains short biographical entries for eminent individuals who lived in North and South America, Western and Central Europe, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania. The Biographical Archives on microfiche of the complete entries are located in the Reference Department on the first floor of Regenstein. freely available
- Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts indexes journal articles, conference proceedings, technical reports, books, patents, and many other international sources. It also provides access to Oceanic Abstracts. Subject coverage includes aquaculture, brackishwater environments, conservation, engineering, environmental quality, fisheries, freshwater environments, limnology, marine biotechnology, marine environments, marine geology, meteorology, oceanography, policy and legislation, wildlife management, and many others. Print volumes for the years 1971-1981 are in the Crerar Library Dewey Stacks at 016.59195205/1. Coverage begins with 1978.
- Biological Abstracts corresponds to the print edition of Biological Abstracts (Z5321.B6 Crerar). Broad coverage is provided of all life sciences research, including botany, zoology and microbiology, as well as such interdisciplinary fields as clinical and experimental medicine, biochemistry and biotechnology. Coverage begins with 1969.
- Zoological Record provides access to over 6,500 international journals, review annuals, monographs, meeting proceedings, books, and reports. All major areas of zoology are represented, including behavior, ecology, evolution, habitat, nutrition, parasitology, reproduction, taxonomy, and zoogeography. Coverage begins with 1978.
- Book Review Digest indexes reviews from over 100 English-language periodicals and includes excerpts of reviews and citations to full-length review articles. Coverage begins with 1983.
- Book Review Index indexes reviews, some of which are available full text, from close to 700 English-language periodicals. Coverage begins with 1965.
- International Bibliography of Book Reviews (IBR) is an international index to book reviews in the arts, humanities, and social sciences and covers more than 10,000 journals published worldwide, excluding only Asian languages. The IBR includes more than 830,000 records with assigned German and English subject headings.
- New York Review of Books includes nearly every piece ever published in the Review, from the very first issue in 1963 to the most recent one.
- New York Times Book Review includes all issues from 1997 to the present. freely available
- TLS Centenary Archive includes the full text of book reviews published in the Times Literary Supplement from 1902 through 1990.
Business & Economics | Business and Economics
- ABI/INFORM Complete covers business, economic, and management topics including company histories, competitive intelligence and new product development. Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts of articles from 1000 U.S. and international professionl publications, academic journals and trade magazines. Coverage begins with August 1971; updated weekly. ABI/INFORM is also available from FirstSearch.
- Accounting & Tax using ProQuest
- Banking Information Source using ProQuest
- Business Source Premiere covers 2,480 full text scholarly journals and business periodicals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more.
- EconLit is a bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature. Journal coverage begins with 1969; collective volumes, 1984; and books and dissertations, 1987; updated monthly.
- Beilstein and Gmelin page includes information on downloading the client software for using the Beilstein (organic compounds) and Gmelin (inorganic compounds) databases outside the library, guides to searching techniques, and links to the Beilstein Information System's pages.
- SciFinder Scholar page provides access to instructions and information about downloading the client software for accessing information in Chemical Abstracts databases.
- SPRESI contains citations to journal article data for roughly 4 million organic and organometallic compounds and 3 million reactions.
- L'Année philologique covers all aspects of classical studies, including authors and texts, literature, linguistics, archaeology, epigraphy and numismatics, history, law, philosophy, science, and technology. Coverage begins with 1969.
Computer Science | Computer Science
- Computing Reviews includes reviews of books, conference proceedings, and selected journal articles, arranged by the ACM Computing Classification System. Coverage begins with 1985.
- INSPEC indexes journals conference proceedings, reports, dissertations, books, and periodicals in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology. Coverage begins with 1969.
- PapersFirst cites over 2,380,000 papers included in every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium and meeting received at The British Library. Coverage betins with 1993; updated 24 times per year.
- ProceedingsFirst contains over 74,000 citations for every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library. Coverage begins with 1993; updated twice a week.
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses includes citations for dissertations accepted at accredited universities in the United Staates from 1861 to the present. Those published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Abstracts for earlier dissertations are available in Dissertation Abstracts (Z5055.U49M6; Regenstein Reference). Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. The full text of dissertations done since 1997 is available for downloading.
- Index to Theses Abstracts Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland covers theses written since 1970 from over 150 colleges and universities and can be searched by author, title, abstract, date, and university. Earlier print volumes of the Index to Theses (Z5055.G59I4) are available in the Reference Department on the first floor of Regenstein.
- SUDOC is an online catalog of holdings at French academic libraries. It includes theses completed in France since 1972 in the humanities and social sciences). It can be searched by author, title, and abstract, but since this is a comprehensive catalog to resources at French academic libraries, limit your search to theses by including "thèse"
(or "these") in your keyword search ("Tous les mots").
- TESEO (Bases de datos de tesis doctorales) covers theses completed at Spanish universities since 1976. Search by author, title, keyword, abstract, and university.
- Education Abstracts indexes English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the U.S. and elsewhere. Subjects include administration, teaching methods and curriculum, literacy, government funding, and more. Indexing begins with 1983; abstracts included since 1994.
- ERIC contains annotated references to nonjournal material issued in the monthly Resources in Education (RIE) and to journal articles issued in the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Coverage begins with 1966.
Gender Studies | Gay & Lesbian Studies | Women's Studies
- Contemporary Women's Issues provides full-text access to global information on women in over 150 countries. Indexes books, journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, and fact sheets. Subjects covered include development, education, family life, gender equity, health, human rights, legal status, lesbian concerns, pay equity, politics, reproductive rights, sociology, violence and exploitation, and the workplace. Periodical Titles. Coverage begins with 1992.
- Sexual Diversity Studies: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Abstracts covers topics of interest to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered community, emphasizing history, culture, social issues, interests, and concerns of the GLBT community. Indexes a variety of popular and scholarly materials including non-fiction, reviews, and essays--excluding only fiction and erotica. Some 600 sources include journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, proceedings, reports, dissertations, studies, websites, and multi-media publications. Over 1,800 periodical sources are represented. Coverage generally begins with 1997.
- ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals indexes literature on women and gender from historical journals, and history from women's studies journals. Lists all substantial articles and review essays about women and gender in history. Includes related topics such as prostitution, witchcraft, housework, sexuality, birth control, infanticide, gynaecology, and masculinity. Coverage begins with 1975. freely available
- 19th Century Master File (formerly Poole's Plus), The Digital Index of the Nineteenth Century, provides access to records from Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906), the Index to Periodicals (1890-1902; ed. William T. Stead), The New York Times (1863-1905), The New York Daily Tribune (1875-1906), Palmer's Index to the Times (London; 1880-1890), the Library Journal Cumulative Index (1876-1897), and more.
- Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary, database that contains full-text articles from 3,350 scholarly publications as well as indexing and abstracting for many additional titles.
- ArticleFirst lists items from the tables of contents page of individual issues of more than 12,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Coverage begins with 1990 for most titles; updated daily.
- Current Contents provides tables of contents to over 6,500 journals in the sciences and social sciences. Bibliographic data for each article is included, and abstracts are available for approximately 85% of the articles. Coverage begins with 1994; updated weekly.
- Francis, produced by the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INIST-CNRS) and the Getty Research Institute, indexes over 4000 multilingual, multidisciplinary journals in the humanities, social sciences, and economics. Coverage begins with 1984; updated monthly.
- Inside Information Plus describes articles in all disciplines appearing in 20,000 of the most-requested titles in the British Library Document Supply Centre. Coverage begins with 1996.
- IBZ-Online, Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur/International Bibliography of Periodical Literature, indexes journal articles from over 11,000 English and European periodicals, books, and dissertations. Coverage begins with 1984.
- International Medieval Bibliography covers the whole range of medieval studies and includes articles from journals and festschriften. Select "Enter Databases" and click on "Go" to start your search. Coverage begins with 1967.
- Iter, the Bibliography of Medieval and Renaissance Europe from 400-1700, contains approximately 225,000 records from the complete runs of more than 300 scholarly journal titles that cover the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
- Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe provides access to current news, business, legal research, and reference sources. Primarily full text.
- Periodical Abstracts indexes and abstracts significant articles from over 1,500 top general and academic periodicals. Coverage begins with January, 1986; updated weekly.
- PCI Full Text indexes the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1995. Scanned full-text articles are included for many articles.
- Readers Guide Retrospective indexes the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States. jCovers the years 1890 through 1982.
- UnCover Plus
- Victorian Database Online contains over 100,000 records listing books, articles, and dissertation abstracts published from 1945 to 1999 on every field of nineteenth-century British studies.
- Web of Science(SM) provides
access to the ISI Citation databases:
- Science Citation Index Expanded™ (1945- )
- Social Sciences Citation Index® (1956- )
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index® (1975- )
- WilsonSelectPlus contains indexed and abstracted articles from over 1400 periodicals, all with ASCII full text online. Includes records from Reader's Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts. Coverage begins with 1994.
Geography & Geophysical Sciences | Geography | Geophysical Sciences
- GEOBASE indexes the worldwide literature on geography, geology, ecology, and related disciplines. Subject coverage includes cartography, climatology, energy, environment, geomorphology, hydrology, meteorology, photogrammetry, sedimentology, geochemistry, geophysics, paleontology, petrology, volcanology, and more. Covers begins with 1980; updated monthly.
- GeoRef covers the world's literature in geology and the geosciences. A comprehensive resource with over 1.9 million citations, many with abstracts, GeoRef covers the geology of North America since 1785 and the geology of the rest of the world since 1933. Over 3,000 journals in 40 languages are covered, as well as books, maps, reports, most U.S. Geological Survey publications, and U.S. and Canadian master's theses and doctoral dissertations. Coverage begins with 1785.
Government Documents & Political Science | Government Documents | Political Science
- AccessUN indexes United Nations documents and publications. Coverage begins with 1966.
- Congressional Universe, includes the full text of many recent congressional publications. Coverage begins with 1970.
- GPO Monthly Catalog includes bibliographic records for reports and hearings of Congressional committees, Congressional debates, judiciary publications, documents issued by executive departments such as the Defense, State and Labor Departments, and documents issued by the Office of the President. Coverage begins with July, 1976.
- PAIS International corresponds to the print publications PAIS Bulletin, PAIS Foreign Language Index, and PAIS International in Print, and also includes the Periodicals/Publishers Directory. Topics covered include business, government, international relations, banking, environment, health, social sciences, demographics, law and legislation, political science, public administration, finance, agriculture, education, statistics, and more. Abstracts are included for most records since 1985. Coverage begins with 1972.
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts indexes international research within the discipline of political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. Major areas of coverage include comparative politics; developing nations; disarmament; economic policy; electoral systems; environmental policy; government, political systems; history and theory of political science; international relations, trade; labor relations; military policy; methodology and research technology; political behavior; political economy; political psychology; politics and law; politics and communication; politics and religion; politics and society; public administration; security and defense; welfare systems. Coverage begins with 1975.
- 19th Century Master File (formerly Poole's Plus), The Digital Index of the Nineteenth Century, provides access to records from Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906), the Index to Periodicals (1890-1902; ed. William T. Stead), The New York Times (1863-1905), The New York Daily Tribune (1875-1906), Palmer's Index to the Times (London; 1880-1890), the Library Journal Cumulative Index (1876-1897), and more.
- America: History and Life includes articles, book reviews, and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada. Articles from over 2,100 journals in over 40 languages are indexed. Articles from core journals include abstracts of 75-100 words, and others have brief annotations. Coverage begins with 1964; updated three times a year.
- Historical Abstracts corresponds to the print Historical abstracts (D1.H36, D410.H52). Includes articles, book reviews, and dissertations on the history and culture of the world from 1450 to the present, excluding the United States and Canada. Articles from over 2100 journals in over 50 languages are indexed. Articles from core journals include abstracts of 75-100 words, and others have brief annotations. Coverage begins with 1954; updated three times a year.
- ITER, a bibliography of Medieval and Renaissance Europe from 400-1700, includes approximately 225,000 records from the complete runs of more than 300 scholarly journal titles concerning the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
- American Humanities Index indexes literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the United States and Canada. Coverage begins with 1975.
- Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective indexes over 1,200 20th-century periodicals. Covers 1907 to 1984.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index® via the Web of Science(SM) provides access to the Institute for Scientific Information® (ISI®) Citation Databases from 1975 forward. Both general searching and cited reference searching are available.
- Francis, produced by Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INIST-CNRS) and the Getty Research Institute (GRI), indexes over 4000 multilingual, multidisciplinary journals in the humanities, social sciences, and economics. Coverage begins with 1984; updated monthly.
- AIDA: Articoli italiani di periodici accademici / Bibliography of Italian Periodical Literature; 1997-present: AIDA provides bibliographic information on well over 100.000 journal articles from 968 journals covering the Humanities and Social Sciences. Focusing on journals published in Italy, AIDA is the main bibliographic index for Italian literature and the Humanities for the years 1997ff.
- IBZ-Online, Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur/International Bibliography of Periodical Literature, indexes journal articles from over 11,000 English and European periodicals, books, and dissertations. Coverage begins with 1984.
Language, Literature, & the Performing Arts | Cinema and Media Studies | Contemporary Fiction | Modern Literatures
- ABELL, the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, is international in scope and includes monographs, periodical articles, book reviews, critical editions of scholarly texts, collections of essays, and dissertations. Coverage dates back to 1920.
- International FilmArchive Database contains several files: the International Index to Film Periodicals, the International Index to Television Periodicals, the List of Periodicals Indexed, the Treasures from the Film Archives, the Bibliography of FIAF Members Publications and the International Directory of Film and TV Documentation Collections. The main database, International Index to Film Periodicals, contains citations to almost 230,000 article from more than 300 periodicals on films, personalities, prizes and awards, and more. It offers in-depth coverage of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals from 1972 to the present and can be searched by subject, film or television program, actor, and director. To access the on-line version, select the indexes on the list and click on "Start Searching."
- International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text (IIPA Full Text) covers disciplines such as dance, film, drama/theater, stagecraft, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, storytelling, pantomime, puppetry, magic, and the performance business. Titles List Dates of coverage vary by title.
- ITALINEMO (italianistica nel mondo) provides indexes and abstracts to the contents of periodicals in Italian literary and cultural studies. Currently indexes 72 journals, with coverage starting in 2000. With over 6,100 articles, the scope is still limited but the database is steadily growing. Includes reviews.
- LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts) provides non-evaluative abstracts of articles and other material on areas of interest such as child language acquisition, computational and mathematical linguistics, language therapy, dialectology, artificial intelligence, bilingualism, and more. Coverage begins with 1973.
- MLA Bibliography corresponds to MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures (1921-25--; Z7006.M67 Regenstein Stacks) and indexes articles on literature, languages, linguistics and folklore. Coverage begins with 1963.
- Chicano Database is a comprehensive bibliographic index covering all types of material about Mexican-American subjects. Records added since 1992 have expanded its scope to include the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants.
- ClasePeriodica indexes Latin American journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Produced by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities (1975 to present). PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology (1978 to present). This database combining CLASE and PERIODICA provides access to over 300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.
- Handbook of Latin American Studies is an annual annotated bibliography of about 5,500 entries, and includes evaluative annotations prepared by scholars. Volumes alternate annually between the humanities and social sciences. It is estimated that about 60 percent of Handbook entries consists of monographic citations; about 40 percent refers to serial articles culled from about 1,600 journals published worldwide as well as chapters from books and papers from published conference proceedings. Disciplines covered: anthropology (including archaeology and ethnology); art; economics; electronic resources (beginning in 1995); geography; government and politics; international relations; literature; music; philosophy; and sociology. freely available Also available as a Eureka database (UofC access only).
- Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) includes articles in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish from more than 400 scholarly journals worldwide. Journals indexed are selected by an international panel of librarians and scholars. Subject coverage: anthropology, archaeology, art, banking and finance, business and industry, commerce and trade, drama, drug trade, environmental issues, economic development, ethnography, folklore, geography, history, indigenous affairs, literature, philosophy, politics and government, public administration, religion, social movements, women's rights. Coverage begins wiht 1970; updated annually.
- Current Index to Legal Periodicals is published weekly by the Gallagher Law Library at the University of Washington Law School.
- Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals corresponds to the print Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (KA3.Z9I4; D'Angelo Law Library). Includes articles and book reviews from over 450 journals as well as books and conference publications. Coverage begins with 1985; updated quarterly. (Detailed description | List of journals cited)
- Index to Hispanic Legislation describes the national laws, decrees, decree-laws, and regulations of the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking nations of Latin America plus Haiti, Brazil, the Philippines, Portugal, Spain, and nations from the Portuguese-African region. Over 40 nations are represented. Subject coverage is comprehensive, from 1976 through 1997, with more than 60,000 records. Part I of World Law Index.
- IndexMaster lets you search the tables of contents and indexes of law books from most leading law publishers. The tables of contents are displayed in PDF format, and may be viewed with the Adobe Acrobat reader.
- LegalTrac, the Legal Resource Index. Coverage begins with 1980.
- Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe The Legal Research file covers legal news and law reviews.
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 170,000 criminal justice publications. The NCJRS Virtual Library contains over 7000 full-text publication.
- World Law Index. Part I: Index to\Hispanic Legislation describes the national laws, decrees, decree-laws, an\d regulations of the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking nations of Latin America \plus Haiti, Brazil, the Philippines, Portugal, Spain, and nations from the Port\uguese-African region. Over 40 nations are represented. Subject coverage is com\prehensive, from 1976 through 1997, with more than 60,000 records.
- Library Literature indexes library and information-science periodicals published internationally, and more than 600 books per year. Coverage begins with 1980.
- MathSciNet is includes material in Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications. Coverage begins with 1940; abstracts included since 1980.
- AIDSSearch covers health policy issues and HIV/AIDS related research, including information about clinical trials and the substances being tested. Coverage begins with 1980.
- CancerLit contains more than 1.3 million citations and abstracts from over 4,000 different sources including biomedical journals, proceedings, books, reports, and doctoral theses. Produced by the National Cancer Institute's International Cancer Information Center. Coverage begins with 1963.
- CINAHL covers nearly 900 nursing, allied health, biomedical and consumer health journals, publications of the American Nursing Association, and the National League for Nursing. This is the electronic version of the Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health. Coverage begins with 1982; abstracts included since 1986.
- EBM Reviews - Best Evidence consists of two journals: ACP Journal Club, a publication of the American College of Physicians, and Evidence-Based Medicine, a joint publication with the British Medical Journal Group. The editors screen the top clinical journals on a regular basis and identify studies that are both methodologically sound and clinically relevant. They write an enhanced abstract of the chosen articles and provide a commentary on the value of the article for clinical practice.
- Medline, a National Library of Medicine database, indexes over 3200 journals in medicine, nursing, and dentistry. Corresponds to the print Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature and International Nursing Index. Coverage begins with 1966. The University of Chicago Library subscribes to the Ovid version of Medline; it is also available through FirstSearch.
- The National Library of Medicine Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), including MEDLINE/PubMed, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, HSR Meetings, HSRProj, and DIRLINE. Provides links to additional NLM resources, including ClinicalTrials.gov and Internet Grateful Med. Detailed description freely available
- PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. freely available
- International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) indexes over 400 music journals, plus feature articles & obituaries from the New York Times and Washington Post. Coverage: 1996 onward for all journals indexed, plus 28 complete-run titles from inception to the present (or final) issue, and 101 titles from 1990 through 1995. Retrospective coverage will increase over time. Includes abstracts for current titles, but not for all retrospective ones.
- Music Index indexes articles from more than 655 international music periodicals. Classical and popular music are well-represented as are book reviews, music reviews and obituaries. Coverage begins with 1979.
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature corresponds to the printed RILM Abstracts of Music Literature 1967-- (ML113.R15 Mu); offers an international bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines in 202 languages. Coverage begins with 1969.
- Chicago Tribune 1985- (includes full text of articles)
- Chicago Tribune : ProQuest Historical Newspapers provides full page and article images as well as searchable full text. Covers 1890-1982.
- EBSCOhost Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for 23 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The Times (London), The Toronto Star, etc. The database also contains selected full text from more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, The New York Daily News, The San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full text television and radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc.
- Factiva Includes Dow Jones and Reuters Newswires, The Wall Street Journal, and nearly 8000 other sources. International in coverage.
- Historical Newspapers Online includes Palmer's Index to The Times, 1790-1905, and the Historical Index to the New York Times, 1851-1922.
- Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe News file includes General News, U.S. News, World News, News Wires, News Transcripts, Non-English News, and more.
- New York Times: ProQuest Historical Newspapers Provides full page and article images as well as searchable full text. Covers 1851-1981.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers includes backfiles of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.
- ProQuest Newspapers contains full text of 300+ U.S. and international news sources. Includes coverage of 150+ major U.S. and international newspapers such as The New York Times and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires. Current.
- The Times (London) Digital Archive, when complete, will provide access to facsimile images from1785 to 1985.
- Wall Street Journal: ProQuest Historical Newspapers provides full page and article images as well as searchable full text. Covers 1889-1987.
- Washington Post: ProQuest Historical Newspapers provides full page and article images as well as searchable full text. Covers 1877-1988.
- Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals on philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language. Coverage begins with 1940.
- INSPEC indexes journals conference proceedings, reports, dissertations, books, and periodicals in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology. Coverage begins with 1969.
- PsycINFO corresponds to the American Psychological Association's Psychological Abstracts. Contains non-evaluative summaries of selected journal articles, technical reports, dissertations, and chapters and books in psychology and related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology and linguistics. Coverage is international in scope and begins with 1887.
- ATLA Religion Database includes a full range of index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, book reviews, and Doctor of Ministry projects from the print indexes: Religion Index One (RIO), Religion Index Two (RIT), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR). Coverage begins with 1949.
- Index Islamicus covers literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It includes not only work written about the Middle East, but also about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere. Over 2,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Coverage begins with 1906.
- The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies, RAMBI is a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Includes material in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages.
- AGRICOLA indexes materials relating to all aspects of agriculture. Subjects include agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, chemistry, energy, entomology, cooperative extensions, food science, forestry, geography, home economics, human nutrition, life sciences, natural resources, plant diseases, insect control, rural sociology and veterinary medicine. Coverage begins with 1970.
- COMPENDEX is the internet version of Engineering Index, the largest international source of engineering abstracts. About 220,000 abstracts are added yearly from 2600 engineering journals, conferences, and reports. All areas of engineering are covered, including chemical, environmental, industrial, optical, electrical, mechanical, civil, automotive, nuclear, materials, metals, aerospace, hydrology, biotechnology, food sciences, and many other related fields. Approximately 22% of the database is conference literature, and 90% of the source documents are in English. Coverage begins with 1990.
- History of Science, Technology, and Medicine includes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science and technology and allied historical fields. The file comprises three bibliographies: the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science (HSS), the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, and the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza. Coverage begins with 1975.
- INSPEC includes records from Physics Abstracts, Electrical and Electronics Abstracts, and Computer and Control Abstracts. Covers articles on physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology. International journals, conference proceedings, reports, dissertations, books, and periodicals are among the printed materials indexed. Producer-assigned fields and classification codes include chemical and numerical information, as well as subject-specific descriptors and identifiers. Coverage begins with 1969.
- Science Citation Index, via the Web of Science(SM) provides access to the Institute for Scientific Information® (ISI®) Citation Databases from 1945 forward. Both general searching and cited reference searching are available.
Slavic & East European Studies | Slavic and East European Studies
- ABSEES Online, The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies, indexes journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union published in the United States and Canada. Coverage begins with 1990.
- Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies corresponds to the monthly subject bibliographies of the Institute of Social Sciences (INION) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, called "New Literature in the Social Sciences and Humanities" (Novaia literatura po sotsial'nym i gumanitarnym naukam). Coverage includes archaeology, anthropology, demography, economics, folklore, history, international relations, law, linguistics, literary criticism, philosophy, political science, religion, sociology, and scientific policy. (Telnet version also available.) Coverage begins with 1986.
- AIDA: Articoli italiani di periodici accademici / Bibliography of Italian Periodical Literature; 1997-present: AIDA provides bibliographic information on well over 100.000 journal articles from 968 journals covering the Humanities and Social Sciences. Focusing on journals published in Italy, AIDA is the main bibliographic index for Italian literature and the Humanities for the years 1997ff.
- Francis, produced by the Institue de l'Information Scientifique et Technique du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INIST-CNRS) and the Getty Research Institute (GRI), indexes over 4000 multilingual, multidisciplinary journals in the humanities, social sciences, and economics. Coverage begins with 1984; updated monthly.
- Humanities & Social Sciences Index Re\
trospective indexes over 1,200 20th-century periodicals. Covers 1907 to 1984.
- IBZ-Online, Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur/International Bibliography of Periodical Literature, indexes journal articles from over 11,000 English and European periodicals, books, and dissertations. Coverage begins with 1984.
- Social Sciences Citation Index, via the Web of Science(SM) provides access to the Institute for Scientific Information® (ISI®) Citation Databases from 1956 forward. Both general searching and cited reference searching are available
- Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption Database contains over 31,600 bibliographic citations and abstracts of professional literature, primarily of U.S. origin. Publication types include books, journals, government reports, conference papers, state annual reports, legislation, curricula, and unpublished papers available from the clearinghouse.
- Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,600 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews. Coverage begins with 1980.
- Social Work Abstracts provides citations to articles from over 450 journals in social work and human services, including information on theory and practice, areas of service, social issues, and social problems. Coverage begins with 1977.
- Sociological Abstracts includes more than 300,000 records covering sociology, social work, and other social sciences. Coverage begins with 1963.
Statistics & Demographics | Statistics
- Current Index to Statistics indexes publications in statistics and related fields. Coverage begins with 1974.
- Population Index presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics. Cover includes 1986-2000. freely available
Earlier volumes of Population Index are available through JSTOR. - Statistical Universe is the online version of the American Statistical Index, the Statistical Reference Index and the Index to International Stastics. It indexes statistical publications from federal, state, private, and intergovernmental sources. Full text of selected publications is available from 1994 forward. Includes links to some government statistics available on the internet. Coverage begins with 1973.