Recommended Databases
Provides in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice,
international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.
Coverage: 1991 - current
Full-text access to more than 350 newspapers from the U.S. and around the world,
including the
Financial Times
(dating back to 1982),
The New York Times (dating back to 1980) and
The Washington Post (dating back to 1977);
LexisNexis Academic is divided into four catagories that can
searched individually or in combination:
"News"
provides full-text access to more than 350 newspapers from the U.S. and around
the world, including the
Financial Times
(dating back to 1982),
The New York Times (dating back to 1980) and
The Washington Post (dating back to 1977); over 300 major magazines and
journals; and broadcast transcripts from the major television and radio
networks.
"Legal" includes primary source material such as case law,
statutes and regulations along with legal news and law reviews for background or
analysis of a legal topic.
"Business" provides U.S. and international company financial
information, market research, industry reports, and actual SEC filings. Search
features permit comparison of companies based on criteria such as sales, income
and number of employees.
"People" offers biographies and obituaries of people in the
news, government, and industry.
Citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in
political science and its complementary fields, including international
relations, law, and public administration / policy.
Coverage: 1975 - current
Since 2000,
CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
has focused on expanding international coverage. As of November 2005
approximately 1,500+ titles are being monitored for coverage; of these, 67% are
published outside the United States. The references cited in the bibliography of
the source article have been included for citations to core journals in
political science, added to the database since 2001, and for all journals added
since 2004. Each individual reference may also have links to an abstract and/or
to other papers that cite that reference; these references are linked across all
CSA social science databases.
Databases
Full-text articles from the world's leading journals, newspapers and reference
sources, with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine,
social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.
Coverage: 1980 - current
Academic OneFile contains over 60 million records from the
following types of sources: Periodicals — General interest magazines; refereed
academic journals; business publications; technology periodicals; plus specialty
titles in law, health care and computers. Newspapers — The full text of
The
New York Times from 1990,
The Wall Street Journal,
The Washington Post,
Los Angeles Times and
Christian
Science Monitor. Newswires — 121 wire services covering agriculture,
general news, broadcast news, government, business press releases, industry
topics, sports and current events from all over the world. Audio — listen to any
National Public Radio program, as well as read transcripts, for shows produced
by NPR from 1990 to present. Podcasts from government agencies such as the
Census and the State Department are also available.
Full text for nearly 4,500 multi-disciplinary journals, including more than
3,600 peer-reviewed titles.
Coverage: 1975 - current (earlier for some titles)
In addition to full text,
Academic Search Premier offers
indexing and abstracts for all 8,144 journals in the collection. This scholarly
collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including:
computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics,
arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.
A comprehensive collection of almost 400,000 bibliographic entries about the history of the
United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Coverage: 1955 - current
America: History & Life is an excellent resource for a variety of disciplines including American History,
Canadian History, Popular Culture, American Studies, Literature/Folklore, Genealogy, Women's Studies/Gender
Studies, Multicultural Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, History of Science,
Economics, Business, Education, Music, Art, and Law.
CLIO Notes is included in this resource and contains overviews of historical periods and detailed
chronologies for major events and issues of each period.
A selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America. Edited
by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary
Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities.
Coverage: 1936 - current
Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works
for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook
offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources. Works
reviewed include books, journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers
in the disciplines of Anthropology (including Archaeology, Ethnohistory and
Ethnology), Art, Economics, Geography, Government and Politics, History,
International Relations, Literature, Music, Philosophy, and Sociology. Starting
with Volume 54, the Handbook also includes a section on Electronic Resources for
Latin American studies. In addition, some of the earlier volumes included other
disciplines such as Cartography, Film, Folklore, Law, and so forth.
Citations and abstracts from more than 1,700 journals dealing with the history
of the world from 1450 to the present.
Coverage: 1954 - current
Offers every issue in complete paper–cover-to-cover with full-page and article
images in downloadable PDF.
Coverage: Sept 18,1851 - Dec 31, 2003
The database covers
The New York Times from its first issue in 1851
through 2002. Coverage includes not only news, editorials, letters to the
editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements, but also historical
photos, stock photos, and advertisements.
A searchable ASCII text underlies each article and page image. Users can search
by keyword and Boolean operators as well as employ more advanced searching
techniques. The results list generated by a search includes detailed
bibliographic information for the articles retrieved such as article title,
publication, issue date, author, page, etc.
Offers every issue in complete paper–cover-to-cover with full-page and article
images in downloadable PDF.
Coverage: July 8, 1889 - Dec 31, 1989
The database covers
The Wall Street Journal from its first issue in
1889 through 2003. Coverage includes not only news, editorials, letters to the
editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements, but also historical
photos, stock photos, and advertisements.
A searchable ASCII text underlies each article and page image. Users can search
by keyword and Boolean operators as well as employ more advanced searching
techniques. The results list generated by a search includes detailed
bibliographic information for the articles retrieved such as article title,
publication, issue date, author, page, etc.
Full-text access to 144 core scholarly journals covering diverse subject areas
in the liberal arts and sciences.
Coverage: 1863 - 2005
UML has access to these two JSTOR collections:
Arts & Sciences I includes the complete back runs of 119 titles
in fifteen disciplines. It includes many of the core research and society
published journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as
well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This
collection also includes a selection of titles in the more science-oriented
fields of ecology, mathematics, and statistics.
Arts & Sciences IIcontains 125 titles covering economics,
history, and Asian studies. It also offers core journals in several new
disciplines, such as archaeology, classics, and African, Latin American, Middle
Eastern, and Slavic studies.
Full-text coverage of the New York Times newspaper.
Coverage: Jan 1, 1995 - Current
The
Political Database of the Americas (PDBA) is a
freely-accessible non-governmental project of the Center for Latin American
Studies (CLAS) at Georgetown University. It's mission is to contribute to the
study, promotion and strengthening of democracy in the hemisphere, through the
collection, systematization, dissemination, and exchange of information, data,
statistics, and institutions from a political perspective, comparative studies;
and other resources relevant to the 35 countries of the region.
Full text from 140 journals covering sociology and social work plus abstracts
and indexes for articles from over 1,800 international serials along with books,
book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
Coverage: 1952-Current
Over 40% of titles in
CSA's Sociological Abstracts are published outside North
America with over 20% of content published in languages other than English. 124
of the 140 full-text journals are refereed, including of the 129 ISI rated
journals in sociology and social work. Deep archiving dates as far back as the
1920s for some titles.
Complete, full-text access to more than 4,100 ebooks covering all major subject
areas, including over 280 titles related to Psychology.
Coverage: Publication dates 1963 - 2006
Full-text access to 25 history reference books and dictionaries covering all aspects of world history.
Coverage: Publication dates 1993 - current
Full-text access to Oxford Companions on American Law and the Supreme Court plus a law dictionary and a Guide to
Supreme Court decisions.
Coverage: Publication dates 2000 - 2006
Full-text access to 11 reference books and dictionaries covering politics, government, history and social sciences.
Coverage: Publication dates 1993 - 2005
