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. AgeLine indexes over 600 journals, books, book chapters, reports,
dissertations, consumer guides, and educational videos. Designed for
researchers, professionals, students, and general consumers, this database
addresses aging issues from individual, national, and global perspectives.
A full text database comprised of more than 190 newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.
Coverage: 1970 - current
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.
Authoritative, analytic reviews in 32 focused disciplines within the Biomedical,
Physical, and Social Sciences.
Coverage: 1996 - current
Citations and abstracts of research on on the maltreatment, safety, permanency
and well-being of children.
Coverage: 1965 - current
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 for more than 2,300 journals, including more than 1,100 peer-reviewed
titles, covering 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 785,000.
Full text of 2,200 digests, plus full text, citations and abstracts of 1000+
journals, books, proceedings, reports, and Department of Education publications.
Coverage: 1966 - current
An interdisciplinary and bilingual (English and Spanish) full text database of nearly 300 newspapers, magazines and
journals from ethnic, minority and native presses from throughout the U.S.
Coverage: 1960 - current
Ethnic NewsWatch and Ethnic NewsWatch: A History together span 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.
Click here for a
title list for Ethnic NewsWatch and here for a
title list of Ethnic NewsWatch: A History.
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.
Full text database of over 230 publications that focus on the evolution of gender roles as they affect both men and women.
Sources include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and NGO, government and
special reports.
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 more than 125,000 full-text articles on wide-ranging topics
like sexuality, religion, societal roles, feminism, masculinity, eating disorders, day care, and the workplace.
Click here for a
complete GenderWatch title list.
Full-text access to 19 journals covering sociology, health, education, engineering, and more.
Coverage: varies (mostly from 2001) - current.
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 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.
Bibliographic citations and abstracts from more than 1300 journals as well as
books, book chapters, dissertations, and reports in psychology and as well as
business, education, law, social work, linguistics, and medicine.
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.