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Journal Databases

Art Abstracts
Description: Key international English-language arts publications. Includes periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition and award notices, exhibition listings, interviews, film reviews, and more. Dates Covered: Indexing 9/84-present. Abstracting 3/94-present. Updated Monthly. Periodicals Covered: 300+.

Arts & Humanities Search
Description: Records referencing many of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Dates Covered: 1980-present. Updated Weekly. Periodicals Covered: 1300.

ATLA Religion Index
Description: Includes three distinct indexes searchable as a combined database. Religion Index One: Periodicals—Annually indexes more than 12,000 articles from more than 500 international journals in religion and related fields. Religion Index Two: Multi-Author Works—Annually indexes 450 international publications containing difficult-to-find essays in religion and related fields. Index to Book Reviews in Religion—Annually indexes more than 14,500 book reviews from more than 450 international journals in religion, related fields, and such popular review media as the New York Times Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement."

Basic Biosis
Description: Abridged Biological Abstracts coverage from the last five years. Records from core life science journals most easily found in college and university libraries. Dates Covered: 1994-present. Updated Monthly. Periodicals Covered: 375.

Biography Index
Description: Coverage includes English-language periodicals and more than 1,800 books added each year. Includes autobiographies, bibliographies, biographies, critical studies, fiction and drama, pictorial works, poetry, juvenile literature, obituaries, journals, collections of letters, book reviews, and interviews. Dates Covered: 7/84-present. Updated Monthly. Periodicals Covered: 2700.

Biology Digest
Description: Covering the life sciences for undergraduates and high school students. Dates Covered: 1989-present. Updated 9 times per year. Periodicals Covered: 181.

Book Review Digest
Periodicals published in the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain, covering over 7,000 adult and children's books each year. Includes English-language fiction and nonfiction. Dates Covered: 1983-present. Updated Monthly. Periodicals Covered: 100.

Business Abstracts Fulltext
H.W. Wilson's Business Periodicals databases cover 397 English-language general business periodicals and trade journals, plus the Wall Street Journal and the business section of the New York Times. Topics include management, accounting, advertising and marketing, construction, entertainment and media, information technology, mergers and acquisitions, occupational health and safety, public relations, small business, and a great deal of corporate information. Users can access citations via SIC codes. Wilson Business Abstracts includes abstracting of periodicals from June 1990 and indexing from July 1982. Wilson Business Abstracts Full Text includes full text coverage of 158 periodicals back to January 1995.

Business and Company ASAP 1982 - Aug 1998
In one fully integrated database, Business & Company ProFile ASAP provides access to all the business and management journals, popular business magazines, local area journals, trade journals, and newspapers found in Business ASAP—plus the full text directory listings and PR Newswire releases in Company ProFile.

Contemporary Women's Issues
Provides citations to global information on women. Journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, along with fact sheets are easily accessible.

CQ Weekly
The pre-eminent resource for Congress-watchers who need nonpartisan information on Capitol Hill. The CQ Weekly on the Web includes access to the full text of all articles published since 1983.

EconLit
EconLit is a comprehensive, indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature, produced by the American Economic Association. It includes coverage of over 400 major journals as well as articles in collective volumes (essays, proceedings, etc.), books, book reviews, dissertations, and working papers licensed from the Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics. Over 99% of the articles are in English or include English summaries. Generally, all articles from all publications are indexed, including notes, communications, comments, replies, rejoinders, etc. Articles lacking author identification or without economic content are omitted. Records in EconLit contain basic bibliographic data plus subject and geographic descriptors. Abstracts are included in records added to the database starting in 1987. Approximately 25% of records added between 1987 and 1989, and 50% of records added since December 1989 contain abstracts.

Education Abstracts Fulltext
H.W. Wilson's Education databases cover 423 core international periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks. Topics include a wide range of contemporary education issues, including government funding, instructional media, multicultural education, religious education, student counseling, competency-based, and information technology. Education Abstracts includes abstracts from August 1994 and indexing from June 1983. Soon to include full text. Wilson Education Abstracts Full Text is available on CD-ROM. Indexing coverage from June 1983; abstracting coverage from June 1984; full text coverage from January 1996.

ERIC
The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database consists of the Resources in Education (RIE) file of ERIC document citations and the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) file of journal article citations from over 750 professional journals. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, ERIC is a network of 16 Clearinghouses, each specializing in a separate subject area.

Expanded Academic ASAP 1980 - present
Expanded Academic ASAP offers balanced, full text coverage of every academic concentration--from advertising and microbiology to history, political science, and art history. It also incorporates many interdisciplinary journals, national news magazines, and The New York Times. Now with even more full text titles, this comprehensive database delivers results for both the undergraduate as well as graduate researchers and faculty. And with Expanded Academic ASAP, they only need to search one database to find answers for research questions across the disciplines.

Factiva
Access to more than 6,000 business, trade, and general publications and services from Dow Jones. While Factiva includes some business and economics journals, the emphasis is on business news rather than scholarly information.

General Science Abstracts Fulltext
H.W. Wilson's General Science databases cover 167 popular and professional English-language science periodicals as well as the Science section of the New York Times. Designed specifically for students and non-specialists, the periodicals covered range from very general to highly specialized titles. Subjects covered include biology, chemistry, astronomy, conservation, earth science, medicine, nutrition, oceanography, and zoology. General Science Abstracts includes abstracting of periodicals from March 1993 and indexing from May 1984. General Science Abstracts Full Text includes coverage of 40 periodicals back to January 1995.

GeoBase
Description: Records covering the worldwide literature on geology, geography, and ecology. Dates Covered: 1980-present. Updated Monthly. Periodicals Covered: 2200.

GeoRef
Description: Records about geology and earth sciences. Dates Covered: 1785-present (N. Amer.); 1933-present (Intl.). Updated: 24 times per year. Periodicals Covered: 2200.

Health Reference Center
This full text, multi-source database provides single-search access to the wide variety of health information sources in Health Reference Center plus 40 full text nursing and allied health journals. All in a single, easy-to-use database, Health Reference Center—Academic integrates the full text of respected nursing, allied health, and medical journals; consumer health magazines; reference books; newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles; referral information; and topical overviews. And with InfoTrac's intuitive linking between sources, users can quickly find the information they need, all in the privacy of a self-service reference system.

Humanities Abstracts Fulltext
H.W. Wilson's Humanities databases cover nearly 400 English language periodicals in the diverse subject areas of the humanities. Among the disciplines included are literature and language, history, philosophy, archaeology, classical studies, folklore, gender studies, performing arts, history, religion and theology. Humanities Abstracts includes abstracting of periodicals from March 1994 and indexing from 1984. Humanities full text covers 96 periodicals back to January 1995.

International Index to Music Periodicals
Description: IIMP is the primary database for searching music journals, with international citations for music on nearly all topics. It includes scholarly and popular journals from 1874 to the present.

Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts
Description: Popular magazines and professional journals on microcomputing in business, education, industry, and the home. Includes news, articles, reviews, and product announcements. Dates Covered: 1989-present. Updated Monthly. Periodicals Covered: 75.

JSTOR
Description: JSTOR is a scholarly journal archive which provides full image access to articles from over 150 of the most important academic journals. JSTOR goes back to the very first issue of each journal (many of them in the 19th Century), but does not include the most recent five years.

Library Literature
Description: Library and information-science periodicals published internationally, and more than 600 books per year. Dates Covered: 12/84-present. Updated Monthly. Periodicals Covered: 200.

M.L.A.
The MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association, consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, and includes coverage from 1963 to the present. The MLA International Bibliography provides access to scholarly research in over 3,000 journals and series. It also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats.

MathSciNet
MathSciNet is the searchable Web database providing access to over 55 years of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications from 1940 to the present.

MDX Health Digest
Description: Abstracted citations from publications. Dates Covered: 1988-present. Updated Monthly.

Medline
Description: Journals published internationally, covering all areas of medicine. Dates Covered: 1965-present. Updated monthly. Periodicals Covered: 3500.

Omnifile
Description: Omnifile indexes over 2,700 journals in a variety of areas, including business, humanities, science, education, & social science, plus popular magazines. It includes the full text of over 1,300 of these journals and magazines. It is produced by H.W. Wilson.

P.A.I.S.
The PAIS International database is produced by PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service, Inc.). It is a bibliographic index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. Journal articles; books; government documents; statistical compilations; committee reports; directories; serials; reports of public, intergovernmental, and private organizations; and most other forms of printed literature from all over the world are indexed.

Philosopher's Index
Description: The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.

PsycInfo
PsycInfo(R) contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Journal coverage, spanning 1887-present, includes international material selected from more than 1,300 periodicals written in over 25 languages. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987-present. Over 55,000 references are added annually through monthly updates.

Religion Index
Description: ATLA Religion Index includes three distinct indexes searchable as a combined database. Religion Index One: Periodicals—Annually indexes more than 12,000 articles from more than 500 international journals in religion and related fields. Religion Index Two: Multi-Author Works—Annually indexes 450 international publications containing difficult-to-find essays in religion and related fields. Index to Book Reviews in Religion—Annually indexes more than 14,500 book reviews from more than 450 international journals in religion, related fields, and such popular review media as the New York Times Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement."

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Description: Citations on international music corresponding to the printed RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. This file is produced by the Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale. Dates Covered: 1969-present. Updated Monthly. Periodicals Covered: 3,500.

Social Sciences Abstracts Fulltext
Covers over 415 English-language periodicals, including such targeted publications as AIDS & Public Policy Journal, Child Development, Feminist Review, and Journal of Drug Issues. Topics include anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, criminal justice and criminology, economics, family studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law, minority studies, planning and public administration, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, social work and public welfare, sociology, urban studies, women's studies, and related subjects. Social Sciences Abstracts includes abstracting of periodicals from January 1994 and indexing from February 1983. Social Sciences Abstracts Full-Text includes full-text coverage of 112 periodicals back to January 1995.

SportDiscus
Description: SPORTDiscus is a bibliographic database, international in scope, covering all aspects of sport, fitness, recreation, and related fields. Articles from more than 2,000 sport-related journals, monographs, articles on books, theses, and CD-ROMs in English, French and other languages are indexed for inclusion.