- Black Literature Index
- Index to black periodical literature from 1827-1940.
- Black
Studies Database
- Indexes significant and influential journals, magazines,
newspapers, newsletters, pamphlets and reports relevant to the Black experience
from 1948-1986.
- African
American Newspapers: The 19th Century (Accessible Archives, Inc.)
- Includes searching and full text of the following newspapers:
Freedom's Journal, The Coloured American, The North Star, The National Era,
Provincial Freeman, Frederick Douglass Paper, and The Christian Recorder.
- Ethnic
NewsWatch
- Contains the complete text of articles since 1960 from
over 200 publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Covers news,
culture, and history, and is searchable in both English and Spanish.
- JSTOR
- Complete text and index of core journals in the social
sciences & humanities from their starting dates to about 5 years ago.
- Africa-Wide NiPAD
- Provides combined access to NISC African Studies and NISC South African Studies, the catalogs of key African studies libraries around the world. Covers economics, history, development, politics,
music, business, literature, etc. from 19th Century to the present. Restricted to 5 simultaneous users.
- Quarterly
Index of African Periodical Literature
- Contains citations from over 300 periodicals which are
acquired regularly from 29 African countries, since 1991.
-
Bibliography
of Native North Americans
- Indexes books, essays, journal articles, US and Canadian
government documents and other publications concerning the history, life and
culture of native North Americans from the 16th century to the present. Contains
the citations from the eight volumes of the Ethnographic Bibliography of
North America as well as additional new citations.
- Directions: Click box next to 'Biblio. of Native N. Americans',
then choose 'Open selected databases'.
- Ethnic
NewsWatch
- Contains the complete text of articles since 1960 from
over 200 publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Covers news,
culture, and history, and is searchable in both English and Spanish.
- North American Indian Drama
- Contains 93 plays by 18 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes the Native Playwrights' Newsletter, a unique resource containing a wealth of original essays, articles, photographs, interviews, reviews, and production information related to the plays.
- Anthropology Plus
- Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource
Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index,
Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides indexing
of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in
the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology,
ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary
studies. The index covers core periodicals internationally in the field in
addition to local and lesser-known journals from the late 19th century to
the present.
- AnthroSource
- Anthropology database for many of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications, including backfiles and current issues of American
Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Anthropology and Humanism, Archaeological Publications of
the American Anthropological Association, Cultural Anthropology, Ethos, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly,
NAPA Bulletin, and PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review, plus a complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003.
- Annual Review of Anthropology
- Bibliographic essays reviewing the year's scholarship
in Anthropology.
- Bibliografia Mesoamericana
- Provides a near comprehensive indexing of literature
pertaining to the anthropology of Mesoamerica, including archaeology, ethnography,
ethnohistory, art history and linguistics.
- Bibliography of Native North Americans
- Indexes books, essays, journal articles, US and Canadian
government documents and other publications concerning the history, life and
culture of native North Americans from the 16th century to the present. Contains
the citations from the eight volumes of the Ethnographic
Bibliography of North America as well as additional new citations.
- Directions: click box next to 'Biblio. of Native N. Americans',
then choose 'Open selected databases'.
- BIOSIS Previews
- Contains citations to items in over 6,000 journals, books, conference proceedings, and technical reports, in all areas of the life sciences and biology, including human evolution, from 1969 to the present. Many citations include abstracts.
- eHRAF Archaeology
- Full text, fully-indexed collections of documents on
archaeological traditions, subtraditions, and important sites worldwide, from
Human Relations Area Files, Inc.
- eHRAF World Cultures
- The electronic version of the Human Relations Area File.
Provides the complete text of ethnographic resources (mainly books, also articles
and manuscripts) on cultures from around the world, past and present, indexed
by culture and subject in a unique scheme.
- Ethnic
NewsWatch
- Contains the complete text of articles since 1960 from
over 200 publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Covers news,
culture, and history, and is searchable in both English and Spanish.
- Family
& Society Studies Worldwide
- Indexes publications, 1970 to the present, from a wide
range of social science disciplines including anthropology, sociology, psychology,
demography, health sciences, education, economics, law, history, and social
work. Covers popular issues and information for professionals in the fields
of social work, social science, and family practice. Many citations provide
the complete text of the article.
- National Geographic Index
- Complete index of National Geographic, National Geographic
Traveler, National Geographic Society Research & Exploration, National
Geographic World, National Geographic Adventure.
- Social
Sciences Citation Index (via ISI Web of Science)
- A multidisciplinary database of article citations gathered
from thousands of scholarly journals, 1975-present. Search by topic, author,
journal title, or cited author (to identify articles that cite an author or
article that you specify). Users can also search the Arts & Humanities
Citation Index and the Science Citation Index simultaneously.
- Anthropology Plus
- Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource
Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index,
Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides indexing
of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in
the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology,
ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary
studies. The index covers core periodicals internationally in the field in
addition to local and lesser-known journals from the late 19th century to
the present.
- eHRAF Archaeology
- Full text, fully-indexed collections of documents on
archaeological traditions, subtraditions, and important sites worldwide, from
Human Relations Area Files, Inc.
- Social
Sciences Citation Index (via ISI Web of Science)
- A multidisciplinary database of article citations gathered
from thousands of scholarly journals, 1975-present. Search by topic, author,
journal title, or cited author (to identify articles that cite an author or
article that you specify). Users can also search the Arts & Humanities
Citation Index and the Science Citation Index simultaneously.
- Art Full Text (Art Abstracts)
- Art Abstracts indexes and abstracts articles in the fields of archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, computer applications and graphics, crafts, film, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, painting, photography, sculpture, television, textiles, and video. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994; selective full text is available from 1997 - current.
- Directions: Check the box next to 'Art full text',
then click on one of the 'Seach' or 'Browse' buttons from the menu in the
upper right hand corner of the screen.
- ARTbibliographies Modern
- Abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition
catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews from 1974 to the present.
Subjects covered include photography and artists and movements beginning with
Impressionism up to the most recent works and trends.
- Art Index Retrospective
- Index to articles in art, art history, archaeology,
architecture, city planning, design, graphics, museology, textiles, etc. from
1929-1984.
- Directions: Check the box next to 'Art Index Retrospective
1929-1984', then click on one of the 'Seach' or 'Browse' buttons from the
menu in the upper right hand corner of the screen.
- Arts
& Humanities Citation Index (via ISI Web of Science)
- A multidisciplinary database of article citations gathered
from thousands of scholarly journals, 1975-present. Search by topic, author,
journal title, or cited author (to identify articles that cite an author or
article that you specify). Users can also search the Social Sciences Citation
Index and the Science Citation Index simultaneously.
- Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
- Covers European and American art from late antiquity
to the present.
- Index of Christian Art
- Index of Christian Art is a database of medieval art
with records for over 23,000 works of art dating from early apostolic times
to A.D. 1400. It contains images, iconographic and bibliographic information.
- FRANCIS
- An index to multilingual, multidisciplinary information
in the humanities, social sciences, economics, religion, the history of art,
and literature from 1984 to the present.
- Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals
- Indexes 42 art journals published in the US during the
19th century, providing nearly complete coverage of journals from this period.
Indexes articles, illustrations, stories, ads, etc. and covers all forms of
art.
- Bibliography of Asian Studies
- Index of western-language monographs, articles, and
book chapters on all parts of Asia published 1971 to the present.
- Biography
Index
- Biography Index is a bibliographic database that cites biographical material appearing in periodicals indexed in other Wilson Company databases and additional selected periodicals, current books of individual and collective biography, and incidental biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. Biographical subjects indexed range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities.
Accessible from UCLA campus networks and Bruin Online only.
- EBSCO Academic Search Complete
- Indexes periodicals in all subject areas from 1980 to
the present, both popular & scholarly. Includes scholarly journals, news
magazines, and newspapers - many with full text.
- LexisNexis Academic
- Complete text and index of articles in newspapers and
periodicals for about the last 20 years in a wide range of topics including
current affairs, business, law, and medicine.
- Note: Only the current six months of the Los Angeles Times
are included in LexisNexis Academic. For earlier articles use: Los
Angeles Times via ProQuest - Current (1985-Current)
- Note: Database is unavailable every Satuday night/Sunday morning,
11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., Pacific time.
- Literature
Resource Center
- Provides the complete text of literary criticism and
author biographies, as well as bibliographies, work overviews and explications,
Web sites, periodical articles, compare and contrast pages, full-text author's
works, and reading lists.
World Biographical Index Indexes huge microfiche collection (located in YRL Reference) of short
biographical entries from a variety of sources about eminent individuals who
lived in North and South America, Western and Central Europe, Australia, New
Zealand, and Oceania. Indexes many biographical archives which YRL Reference & Instructional Services has in microfiche. The fiche contains the complete texts of the biographical descriptions, while the Web site indicates birth and death years, occupation, source quoted (archive, fiche-number and page) and bibliographic information about the sources used.
- History Databases
- Biography Reference
Sources
Also look in indexes that cover the book's subject area to find
a review. For instance, if the book is about Sociology, go to the Sociology
section of this list and use Sociological Abstracts to find a book review.
For literary criticism, look at indexes under Literature. The following are
more general sources for reviews.
- EBSCO Academic Search Complete
- Indexes periodicals in all subject areas from 1980 to
the present, both popular & scholarly. Includes scholarly journals, news
magazines, and newspapers - many with full text.
- ARBAonline
- American Reference Books Annual Online (ARBAOnline) contains more than
14,000 reviews of reference materials published since 1997. Covers all
disciplines.
- ArticleFirst
- Index to journals in the sciences, social sciences,
the humanities, and popular culture from 1990 to the present.
- Arts
& Humanities and Social Sciences Citation Index (via ISI Web of Science)
- A multidisciplinary database of article citations gathered
from thousands of scholarly journals, 1975-present. Search by topic, author,
journal title, or cited author (to identify articles that cite an author or
article that you specify). Users can also search the Science Citation Index
simultaneously.
- Book Review Index Plus
- 1965 – to the present. A comprehensive online guide to book reviews that includes more than five million review citations from thousands of publications, with linking to more than 630,000 full-text reviews.
- Gale Literary
Index
- Master index to 43 published literary series, including
Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Dictionary of Literary
Biography. The complete text of the materials indexed can be found at the
Literature Resource Center.
- JSTOR
- Complete text and index of core journals in the social
sciences & humanities from their starting dates to about 5 years ago.
- LexisNexis Academic
- Complete text and index of articles in newspapers and
periodicals for about the last 20 years in a wide range of topics including
current affairs, business, law, and medicine.
- Note: Only the current six months of the Los Angeles Times
are included in LexisNexis Academic. For earlier articles use: Los
Angeles Times via ProQuest - Current (1985-Current)
- Note: Database is unavailable every Satuday night/Sunday morning,
11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., Pacific time.
- Literature
Resource Center
- Provides the complete text of literary criticism and
author biographies, as well as bibliographies, work overviews and explications,
Web sites, periodical articles, compare and contrast pages, full-text author's
works, and reading lists.
- Periodicals Archive Online
- Indexes thousands of periodicals in the social sciences
& humanities from 1770-1995, and currently offers full text of articles
for 200 complete journal runs.
- Poole's
Plus: The Digital Index of the Nineteenth Century
- Index to 19th century periodicals and resource for the
study of 19th century cultural and intellectual life.
- Business Source Premier (via EBSCO)
- Designed specifically for business schools and libraries, provides full text for more than 7,400 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for nearly 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications.
- EconLit
- Index to economics journals 1969 to the present.
- Factiva
- Access (mostly full text) to nearly 9,000 business and general news sources, including U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, wire services, Web sites, photographs, and trade and industry publications. Also, company profiles and company-to-company/company-to-industry financial comparisons, stock price data, and stock charting.
- Wall Street Journal
- Proquest offers Historical
full text from 1889-1984 and Current
full text from 1985 to the present of the financial newspaper of record offering
in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as first rate
coverage of hard news from 1985 to the present.
- Management
Library Electronic Journals
- Full-text electronic journals in the field of business.
- The
Financial Times Global Archive
- Indexes over 10 million full-text articles from 2000
different European, Asian and American business sources.
- LexisNexis Academic
- Complete text and index of articles in newspapers and
periodicals for about the last 20 years in a wide range of topics including
current affairs, business, law, and medicine.
- Note: Only the current six months of the Los Angeles Times
are included in LexisNexis Academic. For earlier articles use: Los
Angeles Times via ProQuest - Current (1985-Current)
- Note: Database is unavailable every Satuday night/Sunday morning,
11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., Pacific time.
- L'Année Philologique APh
- Citations and abstracts for books, journal articles, festschriften, and other collections covering all aspects of classical studies. Covers 1949 to present. Retrospective conversion back to vol.1 (1924) is ongoing.
- Database of Classical Bibliography
- Index to articles and other publications on Greco-Roman
antiquity. Includes all references in L'Annee Philologique for 1974-89.
- Tables
of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists
- Provides the tables of contents of a selection of Classics,
Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals. For a small percentage of citations,
links are given to the article's full text or abstract online (about 6%).
- Arts
& Humanities Citation Index (via ISI Web of Science)
- A multidisciplinary database of article citations gathered
from thousands of scholarly journals, 1975-present. Search by topic, author,
journal title, or cited author (to identify articles that cite an author or
article that you specify). Users can also search the Social Sciences Citation
Index and the Science Citation Index simultaneously.
- FRANCIS
- An index to multilingual, multidisciplinary information
in the humanities, social sciences, economics, religion, the history of art,
and literature from 1984 to the present.
- Communication Institute for Online Scholarship
- Access to more than 4,500 electronic files of relevance to communication professionals and students: communication bibliographies, syllabi, journal articles, research tools. Includes ComAbstracts.
- Communication Studies: a SAGE Full-Text Collection
- LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts)
- Indexes and provides abstracts for journal articles
in linguistics, language behavior and related disciplines, 1973 to the present.
- Directions: Make sure 'Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts'
is checked before performing your search.
- Social
Sciences Citation Index (via ISI Web of Science)
- A multidisciplinary database of article citations gathered
from thousands of scholarly journals, 1975-present. Search by topic, author,
journal title, or cited author (to identify articles that cite an author or
article that you specify). Users can also search the Arts & Humanities
Citation Index and the Science Citation Index simultaneously.
- LexisNexis Academic
- Complete text and index of articles in newspapers and
periodicals for about the last 20 years in a wide range of topics including
current affairs, business, law, and medicine.
- Note: Only the current six months of the Los Angeles Times
are included in LexisNexis Academic. For earlier articles use: Los
Angeles Times via ProQuest - Current (1985-Current)
- Note: Database is unavailable every Satuday night/Sunday morning,
11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., Pacific time.
- Other News Sources
- EBSCO Academic Search Complete
- Indexes periodicals in all subject areas from 1980 to
the present, both popular & scholarly. Includes scholarly journals, news
magazines, and newspapers - many with full text.
- PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service)
- Index (with abstracts since 1985) to articles, books,
conference proceedings, and government documents on social and political policy,
political science, public administration, current affairs, and related topics,
from 1972 to the present.
- PsycINFO
- Citations and abstracts for articles in 1300 psychology
journals, conference proceedings, books, and dissertations from 1840 to the
present.
- Sociological Abstracts
- Index (with abstracts) to journals in sociology from
1963 to the present.
- Directions: Make sure 'Sociological Abstracts' is checked before
performing your search.
- MLA International Bibliography
- Indexes journals, dissertations, collected works in
the fields of literature, folklore, and linguistics from 1963 to the present.
- Literature Resource Center
- Provides the complete text of literary criticism and
author biographies, as well as bibliographies, work overviews and explications,
Web sites, periodical articles, compare and contrast pages, full-text author's
works, and reading lists.
- Arts
& Humanities Citation Index (via ISI Web of Science)
- A multidisciplinary database of article citations gathered
from thousands of scholarly journals, 1975-present. Search by topic, author,
journal title, or cited author (to identify articles that cite an author or
article that you specify). Users can also search the Social Sciences Citation
Index and the Science Citation Index simultaneously.
- Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)
- Index of periodical articles, books, reviews, dissertations,
essays on English language, literature, bibliography, and related topics,
published 1892-2000.
- English Short Title Catalog (ESTC)
- Lists works printed in any language in England or its
dependencies from the beginning of printing through the end of the 18th Century,
and works printed in English anywhere else in the world during that period.
- FRANCIS
- An index to multilingual, multidisciplinary information
in the humanities, social sciences, economics, religion, the history of art,
and literature from 1984 to the present.
- Gale Literary
Index
- Master index to 43 published literary series, including
Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Dictionary of Literary
Biography. The complete text of the materials indexed can be found at the
Literature Resource Center.
- IBZ, Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur
(International Bibliography of Periodical Literature)
- Multilingual database, indexing over 5600 periodicals,
including a significant proportion of the periodicals published on the European
continent, 1983 to the present.
- Index
to English Literary Periodicals 1681 to 1914
- Indexes the microfilm series of the same name, consisting
of 233 periodical titles. The focus is on literature, but also covers theater,
art, music, history, politics, sociology, philosophy, economics, religion
and science.
- JSTOR
- Complete text and index of core journals in the social
sciences & humanities from their starting dates to about 5 years ago.
- Literature Online
- An array of literary databases (including the full text
of poems, plays, and fiction), reference works (including bibliographies,
encyclopedias, etc.), and links to other Web resources for the study of literature.
- Criminal Justice Abstracts (1968-present)
- Indexes international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers (some as far back as 1912) on criminology and related disciplines covering trends, prevention and eterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing.
- Criminology: Sage full-text (1955-present)
- Full-text of 23 journals covering Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts (NCJRS)
- Contains summaries of more than 150,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research, since the early 1970's.
- Dance Collection Catalog
(New York Public Library)
- Lists works about all forms of dance, from all cultures,
in print and other media. It includes materials in many languages and serves
as an index to an international range of dance periodicals.
- Arts
& Humanities Citation Index (via ISI Web of Science)
- A multidisciplinary database of article citations gathered
from thousands of scholarly journals, 1975-present. Search by topic, author,
journal title, or cited author (to identify articles that cite an author or
article that you specify). Users can also search the Social Sciences Citation
Index and the Science Citation Index simultaneously.
- Ethnic
NewsWatch
- Contains the complete text of articles since 1960 from
over 200 publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Covers news,
culture, and history, and is searchable in both English and Spanish.
- FRANCIS
- An index to multilingual, multidisciplinary information
in the humanities, social sciences, economics, religion, the history of art,
and literature from 1984 to the present.
- International Index to the
Performing Arts (IIPA Full Text)
- Indexes scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals
and other materials covering the arts and entertainment industry, including
dance, film, television, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, broadcast
arts, and more. Full text for selected journals from 1998 on; indexing for
most journals begins mid-1990s.
- North American Indian Drama
- Contains 93 plays by 18 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes the Native Playwrights' Newsletter, a unique resource containing a wealth of original essays, articles, photographs, interviews, reviews, and production information related to the plays.
- POPLINE
- Provides citations with abstracts of the worldwide literature
(articles, books, theses, etc.) in the field of population, family planning,
reproductive health, and related issues, from 1980 to the present.
- Directions: Select POPLINE from the list of indexes on the
left side of the screen.
- Population Index
- Index to journals and other materials on world demography
and population issues from 1986 to the present.
- JSTOR
- Complete text and index of core journals in the social
sciences & humanities from their starting dates to about 5 years ago.
- Census Data
UNESBIB
- Bibliography of over 100,000 UNESCO documents, publications
and Library holdings.
- EconLit
- Index to economics journals 1969 to the present.
- Business Source Premiere (Ebsco)
- Provides full text for more than 7,400 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for nearly 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. This database offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more. Business Source Premier contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals.
- Wall Street Journal
- Proquest offers Historical full text from 1889-1984 and Current full text from 1985 to the present of the financial
newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international
finance as well as first rate coverage of hard news from 1985 to the present.
- JSTOR
- Complete text and index of core journals in the social
sciences & humanities from their starting dates to about 5 years ago.
- NBER Working Papers (National Bureau of Economic Research)
- The NBER is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research
organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy
works. Its research is conducted by more than 500 university professors around
the country, the leading scholars in their fields. Complete text of papers
since Nov. 1994. Basic bibliographic information for all NBER Working Papers
published since
1973, and abstracts for all papers issued since September 1993.
- SourceOECD
(Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Deveopment)
- Social
Sciences Citation Index (via ISI Web of Science)
- A multidisciplinary database of article citations gathered
from thousands of scholarly journals, 1975-present. Search by topic, author,
journal title, or cited author (to identify articles that cite an author or
article that you specify). Users can also search the Arts & Humanities
Citation Index and the Science Citation Index simultaneously.
- World Bank e-Library
- An online portal to World Bank documents. The collection consists of over 1,400 World Bank publications and over 2,000 Policy Research Working Papers.
- World Bank
& IMF Libraries (JOLIS Catalog)
- Includes references to books, journal titles, journal
articles, working papers, conference proceedings, technical reports, videos,
software, electronic resources, and published IMF and World Bank materials.
- Education
Full Text
- Indexes articles on education from more than 650 English-language
periodicals and yearbooks published in the U.S. and elsewhere since June 1983.
Covers a number of periodicals not handled by ERIC and includes more articles
from each periodical that it indexes than ERIC does. Also indexes book reviews.
The complete text of articles as far back as 1996 is available for more than
200 of the journals.
- Directions: Check the box next to 'Education Full Text' before searching.
ERIC
- ERIC
(Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
- Index to journal articles from 1969 to late 2003 and
ERIC documents (1966-2003) on educational research and practice. Allows
access to the full-text of most ERIC documents from 1996-2003.
- Directions: Check the box next to 'ERIC' before searching.
- International
ERIC
- Index to non-U.S. writing about education, especially
useful for information about developing countries. Consists of Australian
Education Index(1978 to present) covering journal articles, conference
papers, and reports by Australian authors or about Australian education
published in overseas sources and British Education Index (1976 to
present) covering significant journal literature. Master's and doctoral
theses written for degrees at British, Irish and Australian universities
are also described.
- Kraus Curriculum Development Library
Cumulative Index
- Contains selected curricula, frameworks and standards
to meet the needs of pre and inservice faculty, staff, curriculum developers
and researchers.
- National
Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction
Educational Programs (NCELA)
- Citations and abstracts of materials from a variety
of sources from 1920 to the present dealing with language instruction educational
programs for English language learners.
- Directions: The NCELA Resource Collection Databases is on the
lower portion of the screen.
- Annual Review of Energy and the Environment
- Bibliographic essays reviewing the year's scholarship
in energy and the environment.
- Columbia
Earthscape
- Contents include conference proceedings, seminars, lectures,
policy briefs, datasets and model systems in the areas of Earth Sciences,
including Astronomy/Remote Sensing, Ecosystems and Environment, Geology and
Seismology, Forestry, Meteorology and Climate, Oceanography and Paleontology.
Features the full text and images of selected journal articles, books and
chapters.
- Ecology Abstracts
- Focuses on how organisms of all kinds - microbes, plants, and animals interact with their environments and with other organisms. Includes
papers on evolutionary biology, economics, and systems analysis as they relate to ecosystems or the environment. Coverage 1982 - present.
- Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database
- This multidisciplinary database provides abstracts and
citations drawn from over 4000 scientific journals and thousands of other
sources including conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government
publications on environmental sciences from 1981 to the present.
- GeoRef
- Index to publications in geology, geophysics, and the
history of the earth.
- JSTOR
- Complete text and index of core journals in the social
sciences & humanities from their starting dates to about 5 years ago.
- PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service)
- Index (with abstracts since 1985) to articles, books,
conference proceedings, and government documents on social and political policy,
political science, public administration, current affairs, and related topics,
from 1972 to the present.
- Science
Citation Index (via ISI Web of Science)
- A multidisciplinary database of article citations gathered
from thousands of scholarly journals, 1975-present. Search by topic, author,
journal title, or cited author (to identify articles that cite an author or
article that you specify). Users can also search the Arts & Humanities
Citation Index and the Social Sciences Citation Index simultaneously.
See also specific ethnic studies headings, such as Chicano Studies,
American Indian Studies, etc.
- Ethnic
NewsWatch
- Contains the complete text of articles since 1960 from
over 200 publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Covers news,
culture, and history, and is searchable in both English and Spanish.
- FRANCIS
- An index to multilingual, multidisciplinary information
in the humanities, social sciences, economics, religion, the history of art,
and literature from 1984 to the present.
- American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
(ABSEES)
- Covers North American scholarship since the late 1980s
on Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. Indexes journal articles,
books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government
publications.
- Arts
& Humanities Citation Index (via ISI Web of Science)
- A multidisciplinary database of article citations gathered
from thousands of scholarly journals, 1975-present. Search by topic, author,
journal title, or cited author (to identify articles that cite an author or
article that you specify). Users can also search the Social Sciences Citation
Index and the Science Citation Index simultaneously.
- Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
- Comprehensive bibliography of German literature and language.
Includes citations of books, articles, book chapters. (Similar to the MLA.)
- Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek
- Users have to know the bibliographic data of the journal and/or article they want to read in order to use this database, because it is searchable only by journal title, not on the article level. It contains 15046 titles, among them 1763 online-only journals, covering all subjects. 4871 journals, the ones with a green light icon, can be accessed free-of-charge.
- European
Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (EBSEES) (Bibliographie
européenne des travaux sur l'ex-URSS et l'Europe de l'Est. Europäische Bibliographie
zur Osteuropaforschung.)
- EBSEES lists books, journal articles, reviews, and theses
on Eastern Europe (formerly Communist countries) published in Western Europe.
Includes national minorities and émigré publications. Covers works published
between 1991 and 1996.
- Historical
Abstracts
- Index and abstracts for articles on the history of the
world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which
are covered in America: History and Life) published
since 1967.
- IBZ, Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur
(International Bibliography of Periodical Literature)
- Multilingual database, indexing over 5600 periodicals,
including a significant proportion of the periodicals published on the European
continent, 1983 to the present.
- Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
- Index to articles and reviews drawn from over 300 medieval
and renaissance journal titles (covering the period 400-1700), published from
1843 to the present.
- MLA International Bibliography
- Indexes journals, dissertations, collected works in
the fields of literature, folklore, and linguistics from 1963 to the present.
- Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies
- Index to materials in the humanities and social sciences
published 1992-present in the Commonwealth of Independent States, Eastern
Europe and elsewhere, including books, manuscripts, dissertations, and articles
from more than 10,000 periodicals. Subject headings are in Russian (with some
in English), as are most of the materials indexed.
- Social
Sciences Citation Index (via ISI Web of Science)
- A multidisciplinary database of article citations gathered
from thousands of scholarly journals, 1975-present. Search by topic, author,
journal title, or cited author (to identify articles that cite an author or
article that you specify). Users can also search the Arts & Humanities
Citation Index and the Science Citation Index simultaneously.
- MLA International Bibliography
- Indexes journals, dissertations, collected works in
the fields of literature, folklore, and linguistics from 1963 to the present.
- FRANCIS
- An index to multilingual, multidisciplinary information
in the humanities, social sciences, economics, religion, the history of art,
and literature from 1984 to the present.
- North American Indian Drama
- Contains 93 plays by 18 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes the Native Playwrights' Newsletter, a unique resource containing a wealth of original essays, articles, photographs, interviews, reviews, and production information related to the plays.
- Periodicals Archives Online (formerly PCI Full Text)
- Indexes thousands of periodicals in the social sciences and humanities from 1770-1995, and currently offers full text of articles for 200 complete journal runs.
- Periodicals Index Online
- Index to articles in thousands of U.S. and foreign periodicals in the social sciences and humanities, published from 1665-1995.
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- MLA International Bibliography
- Indexes journals, dissertations, collected works in
the fields of literature, folklore, and linguistics from 1963 to the present.
- Arts
& Humanities Citation Index (via ISI Web of Science)
- A multidisciplinary database of article citations gathered
from thousands of scholarly journals, 1975-present. Search by topic, author,
journal title, or cited author (to identify articles that cite an author or
article that you specify). Users can also search the Social Sciences Citation
Index and the Science Citation Index simultaneously.
- FRANCIS
- An index to multilingual, multidisciplinary information
in the humanities, social sciences, economics, religion, the history of art,
and literature from 1984 to the present.
- Gale Literary
Index
- Master index to 43 published literary series, including
Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Dictionary of Literary
Biography. The complete text of the materials indexed can be found at the
Literature Resource Center.
- IBZ, Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur
(International Bibliography of Periodical Literature)
- Multilingual database, indexing over 5600 periodicals,
including a significant proportion of the periodicals published on the European
continent, 1983 to the present.
- EBSCO Academic Search Complete
- Indexes periodicals in all subject areas from 1980 to
the present, both popular & scholarly. Includes scholarly journals, news
magazines, and newspapers - many with full text.
- LexisNexis Academic
- Complete text and index of articles in newspapers and
periodicals for about the last 20 years in a wide range of topics including
current affairs, business, law, and medicine.
- Note: Only the current six months of the Los Angeles Times
are included in LexisNexis Academic. For earlier articles use: Los
Angeles Times via ProQuest - Current (1985-Current)
- Note: Database is unavailable every Satuday night/Sunday morning,
11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., Pacific time.
- Alt-Press
Watch
- Full text database of selected newspapers, magazines,
and journals of the alternative and independent press. It contains articles
from as early as 1983, but a bulk of the coverage is from 1991 to the present.
- American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900
- Contains digitized images of American magazines and
journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th Century. Published
between 1741 and 1900, includes more than 1,000 titles.
- ArticleFirst
- Index to journals in the sciences, social sciences,
the humanities, and popular culture from 1990 to the present.
- Arts
& Humanities Citation Index (via ISI Web of Science)
- A multidisciplinary database of article citations gathered
from thousands of scholarly journals, 1975-present. Search by topic, author,
journal title, or cited author (to identify articles that cite an author or
article that you specify). Users can also search the Social Sciences Citation
Index and the Science Citation Index simultaneously.
- ECO
(OCLC Electronic Collections Online)
- Index to scholarly journals in various fields of the
social sciences, from 1995 to the present.
- English Short Title Catalog (ESTC)
- Lists works printed in any language in England or its
dependencies from the beginning of printing through the end of the 18th Century,
and works printed in English anywhere else in the world during that period.
- Essay & General Literature Index
- Indexes essays and