Ageline
AgeLine, produced by the American Association of Retired Persons
(AARP), is an indexing service for the field of social
gerontology--the study of aging in social, psychological,
health-related, and economic contexts. The database covers
materials published from 1978 forward. References are included to
books, journal articles, videos, dissertations, and other
materials.
Anthropology Plus
Includes the complete contents of the print Anthropological
Literature (Z5112.A53 Regenstein RR2) from Harvard
University's Tozzer Library and Anthropolical Index from
the Royal Anthropological Institute of the UK. Describes articles
and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history,
demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies, in works
published in English and other European languages from the late
19th century to the present. For education, the database is
particularly useful for historical and contemporary research on
customs and practices in countries and societies around the world.
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APA
PsycNet
The American Psychological Association's full-text database, which
includes PsycInfo
(indexes scholarly journals, books, reviews, and dissertations),
PsycArticles (full-text of APA journals), PsycBooks (full-text of
APA books and The Encyclopedia of Psychology), PsycExtra
(grey literature) and PsycCritiques (book and film
reviews).
Current Contents
Lists tables of contents for thousands of journals with
bibliographic data for each article. Abstracts are also available.
Searchable by journal title, article title, authors, keywords, and
corporate source.
Library Literature
Beginning with 1980, this index includes records for selected
library journals, books (more than 600 a year), conference
proceedings, library school theses, pamphlets, and book reviews.
Covering the full range of librarianship and information science,
example subjects are education for librarianship, school libraries
and media centers, information literacy, use of the internet,
children's literature collections and reference sources and more.
Both English and non-English records are provided and the index
covers more than 360 sources.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
LLBA indexes and abstracts journal articles, books, book chapters,
dissertations, technical reports and conference papers on all
aspects of theoretical and applied linguistic research in the
humanities, social sciences and sciences. Coverage includes
psycholinguistics, semantics, discourse analysis, interpersonal
communication, hearing and speech physiology, psychopathology,
nonverbal communication, psychometrics, child language acquisition,
computational and mathematical linguistics, language therapy,
dialectology, artificial intelligence, bilingualism and other
related areas. Coverage begins with 1973 and includes materials
from all countries and in all languages of the world (but with
limited coverage of dissertations).
Mental Measurements Yearbook
This searchable database includes extracts from the full-text of
the reviews and descriptive information about tests and measurement
instruments that are contained in the print title of the same name
(Z5814.P8R91 Regenstein 4th Floor Reading Room). Coverage begins
with the 9th edition (1980) and continues to the present. The
database is updated every six months. The producer of the database,
the Buros Institute of Mental
Measurements, removes older entries from the database when a
new edition of a test is published. Buros offers a free service,
Test Reviews
Online, that provides excerpts from reviews for more than 4,000
commercially published tests.
PAIS International
Published by OCLC Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS), this
database indexes materials covering global public policy and social
issues. It provides selective bibliographic access to periodicals,
books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications,
Internet resources, and other publications from 120 countries. This
database is especially valuable for education policy matters,
covering the range from federal-state relations and education
finance to innovations and reforms. PAIS International includes
records from the print PAIS Bulletin (1977-) and from the
PAIS print Foreign Language Index published 1972-1990, at
which time it merged with the PAIS Bulletin. The PAIS
Archive database comprises a retrospective conversion of the
PAIS Annual Cumulated Bulletin, Volumes 1-62, published
1915-1976.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Covers the dissertations accepted at accredited institutions in the
U.S. since 1861. Author- provided abstracts are included since 1980
for Ph.D. dissertations and for masters theses since 1988.
University of Chicago has full-text access to dissertations
included in the database since 1997.
Social Services Abstracts
Social Services Abstracts, since 1980, provides bibliographic
coverage of 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 serial publications and includes citations to dissertations
and book reviews.
Social Work Abstracts
Social Work Abstracts, produced by the National Association of
Social Workers (NASW), contains information on the fields of social
work and human services from 1977 to present. The database provides
coverage of more than 450 journals in all areas of the profession,
including theory and practice, areas of service, social issues, and
social problems.
Sociological
Abstracts
Provides access to research in sociology and related disciplines in
the social and behavioral sciences. It includes citations since
1963 (and abstracts since 1974) for articles in over 1,500
journals. Draws information from an international selection of
journals, serials, conference papers, books, and dissertations.
Tthere are some links to full-text available in other databases to
which the Library subscribes.
SPORTDiscus
The SPORTDiscus database provides bibliographic citations to
research literature from around the world for sport, physical
fitness and physical education topics. It offers bibliographic
coverage of literature discussing sport, sports medicine,
biomechanics, psychology,training, coaching, and other related
topics. Citations to theses and monographs date back to 1949, and
journal coverage back to 1975. The database producer, SIRC, is the
Sport
Information Resource Centre of Canada, and many countries
contribute to the central SportDiscus database as "indexing
partners." While SportDiscus is primarily an indexing database,
there is some full-text available.
UNESBIB |
UNESDOCFreely
Available
These databases are made freely available by
UNESCO. UNESDOC includes the full
texts of official UNESCO documents (about 20,000). Contents include
speeches of Directors General since 1987, Executive Board documents
since 1992, the General Conference since 1991, and Resolutions and
Decisions since 1946. UNESBIB includes
citations to all documents and publications issued by UNESCO since
1972. Documents include conference papers, reports, Executive Board
and General Conference documents, and speeches of the Director
General. Publications include books and articles in UNESCO
periodicals. Both databases utilize the controlled vocabularly of
the UNESCO Thesaurus
for indexing. It is trilingual (English, French and Spanish)
and synonyms are listed for the English terms. The most recent
print edition of the UNESCO Thesaurus is 1995 and
the Library has a copy: Reading Rm, floor 1 Regenstein fZ695.U35
1995. The first edition, 1977, is 2 volumes and locates in
Regenstein bookstacks: fZ695.U35 1977. The UNESCO Information Service
provides access to many additional databases; additional information is available.
Web of Science
The Web of Science, now one component of the ISI Web of Knowledge,
is a unique citation database that indexes thousands of research
journals in many languages. It corresponds to the print indexes
Science Citation Index Expanded (1945--), Social Sciences Citation
Index (1956--), and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1975--).
The Web of Science is most useful when you have identified a key
author or paper and wish to trace who has since cited the work in
the scholarly journal literature, or when you wish to trace the
articles that your key author cited in his or her footnotes.
