Citations and abstracts addressing aging issues from the individual to the global.
AgeLine indexes over 600 journals, books, book chapters, reports,
dissertations, consumer guides, and educational videos.
Produced by AARP, AgeLine focuses exclusively on the
population aged 50+ and issues of aging. It includes aging-related content from
the health sciences, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, and public
policy. AgeLine also includes information for professionals working in
aging-related fields and for consumers. AARP generates original abstracts for
every citation, with index terms drawn from AgeLine's Thesaurus of Aging
Terminology.
Subject index to international alternative periodicals, newspapers and magazines.
Coverage: 1991 - current
The
Alternative Press Index (API) was launched in 1969 to provide access to the practices and theories
of radical social change. The Index is international and interdisciplinary, spanning the social sciences and
humanities, with its central focus on the practice and theory of socialism, national liberation, labor,
indigenous peoples, gays/lesbians, feminism, ecology, democracy, and anarchism.
Access is limited to 3 simultaneous users.
Newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.
Coverage: 1970 - current
Alt-PressWatch features over 502,000 articles from alternative newsweeklies like Eugene Weekly and The
Village Voice as well as over 190 other grassroots newspapers, magazines, and journals.
Bibliographic entries covering all eras of U.S. and Canada history.
Coverage: 1964 - current
America: History and Life is the definitive index of literature for 1,700 journals covering the history and culture of the United States
and Canada, from prehistory to the present. The database also includes citations and links to book and media
reviews. Strong English-language journal coverage is balanced by an international perspective on topics and
events, including abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages.
CLIO Notes is included in this resource that contains overviews of historical periods and detailed chronologies
for major events and issues.
Analytic reviews within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences fields.
Coverage: 1996 - current
Annual Reviews synthesizes the vast amount of primary research literature and
identifying the principal contributions in 32 focused disciplines within the
Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Editorial committees comprised of
distinguished scholars in the discipline critically review, synthesize, and
filter the vast amount of primary research in specific disciplines. Each AR
article is written by authors who are recognized experts in the field. Each
article is its own search engine, providing a gateway to the essential primary
research literature referenced within each topic. These AR publications are
among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute
for Scientific Information® (ISI).
Collected information related to child welfare, abuse, neglect, and adoption.
Coverage: 1965 - current
Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to print and electronic publications, websites,
and online databases covering a wide range of topics related to child welfare, child abuse and neglect,
and adoption, search and reunion, and much more.
A national service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services, Child Welfare Information Gateway consolidates and expands upon the services
formerly provided by the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse and the National Clearinghouse
on Child Abuse and Neglect Information.
In-depth, original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news.
Coverage: 1991 - current
CQ Researcher, a division of Congressional Quarterly Inc., contains
single-themed, 12,000-word reports researched and written by seasoned
journalists. Each report provides an introductory overview; background and
chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; pro/con
statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key
sources. Reports are browsable by topic or date or searchable by keyword.
Covers all aspects of business, including marketing, management,
accounting, finance and economics.
Coverage: 1969 - current
the American Economic Association’s electronic database,
EconLit,
provides links to full text articles in all fields of economics, including
capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting,
environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary
theory, urban economics and much more. It also includes abstracts of books,
journal articles, and working papers published by the
Cambridge University
Press. These sources bring the total records available in the database to
more than one million.
Mostly citations and abstracts with some full text from
journals, books, proceedings, reports, and Department of Education publications.
Coverage: 1966 - current
The
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is
sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to
educational-related literature. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles,
conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports,
audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs. It also
offers users access to many of the ERIC documents no longer available online in
the UML ERIC microfiche from 1972 to 2003.
Publications from ethnic, minority and native presses from throughout the U.S.
Coverage: 1960 - current
Ethnic NewsWatch and
Ethnic NewsWatch: A History is a combined
bilingual (English and Spanish) database
of newspapers, magazines and journals that spans over 40 years with nearly 1.2 million full-text,
fully indexed articles. The Historic backfile covers 39 of the nearly 300 titles in Ethnic NewsWatch.
Publications cover regional news about African American, Native American, Hispanic, Jewish, Muslim,
and other ethnic groups.
Focus on the evolution of gender roles as they affect both men and women.
Coverage: 1970 - current
GenderWatch supports gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) studies; family studies; gender studies,
and women’s studies with a unique interdisciplinary approach. It contains full-text documents
from scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books,
booklets and NGO, government and special reports. GenderWatch covers wide-ranging topics
like sexuality, religion, societal roles, feminism, masculinity, eating disorders, day care, and the workplace.
Journals covering sociology, health, education, engineering, and much more.
Coverage: varies (mostly from 2001) - current.
Arts & Science Collections I - IV offering over 500 full-text journals.
Coverage: 1800s - 1 to 5 years before current month (varies by title)
UML has access to JSTOR Arts & Sciences Collections I through IV. These collections combine to offer
509 full-text academic journal titles from the first issues until one to five years before the current month.
Most of these titles include decades worth of issues, some dating back to the nineteenth century. Topics covered
branch across all aspects of the humanities including literature, history, folklore, music, mathematics,
economics, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and much, much more.
Access news, business, and legal sources from the U.S. and around the world.
LexisNexis Academic is divided into four catagories that can be
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, including access to Shepard's Citations service for all
federal and states court cases back to 1789.
"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.
Content from journals, books, dissertations, and reports related to psychology.
Coverage: 1887 to present
From the American Psychological Association (APA),
PsycINFO contains nearly 2.3
million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters,
books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as
far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. The
database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related
fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education,
pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others.
Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material
selected from more than 2,100 periodicals in more than 25 languages.
Over 500 journals covering areas of medicine, the social sciences and much more.
Coverage: 1999 - current
The
Sage Premier eJournal Collection is particularly strong in areas of Health Care and Social Sciences,
but also covers the Life Sciences (biochemistry, endocrinology, neuroscience, and pharmacology);
the Physical Sciences (computer science, engineering, and materias science); along with the Humanities
(music, religion, international studies and language studies).
Search for books, journals and non-print materials.
Signup for your own personal account so that you can create a personal bookshelf in order to
create and save highlights, notes, and more. Download the ebrary Reader in order to take notes, highlight, and use
other advanced features. Click on the help icon above for information on how to take advantage of the
many special features in ebrary.
Over 4,400 ebooks covering all major subject areas.
Coverage: Publication dates 1963 - current
NetLibrary eBook titles are searchable by using up to four
criteria including title, author, keyword, ISBN, or publisher plus limiting by
publication year and language. Individual titles can then be read online in the
Online Reader, browsed by table or contents, or keyword searched. Up to four
books can be held in the Reader simultaneously. Books cannot be read offline,
downloaded, or "checked out." The Reader is cleared at the end of each session.
By creating a free account, access is available from anywhere using your
personal login and titles can then be saved to your Favorites list.
6 guides and dictionaries covering U.S. and international law.
Coverage: Publication dates 2000 - 2006
Oxford Reference Online Premium is a huge and comprehensive resource that contains over 170 dictionaries and reference titles
covering the complete subject spectrum: from General Reference and Language to Science and Medicine, and from Humanities and
Social Sciences to Business and Professional. Search either the entire site or any of the 19 subject-specific collections. Also
included are collections of quotation reference books, map images, and timelines broken down by theme or country.
Reference books covering politics, government, history and social sciences.
Coverage: Publication dates 1993 - 2005
Oxford Reference: Politics & Social Sciences is a huge and comprehensive resource that contains over 170 dictionaries and reference titles
covering the complete subject spectrum: from General Reference and Language to Science and Medicine, and from Humanities and
Social Sciences to Business and Professional. Search either the entire site or any of the 19 subject-specific collections. Also
included are collections of quotation reference books, map images, and timelines broken down by theme or country.
48 encyclopedias and handbooks covering the Social Sciences and Humanities.
Coverage: Publication dates 2002 - 2008
Sage eReference titles, including the
Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods,
can be searched together or separately by keyword or browsed by subject. Individual
titles have a Reader's Guide that combines entries into thematic categories. You can also limit searches by images, tables,
or sidebars. Subjects covered include African American Studies, Anthropology, Business and
Management, Criminal Justice, Economics, Education, Geography, Health, History, Politics, Psychology, Research Methods,
Social Issues, Sociology, and much more.
