Primary Population Studies & Demography Databases & Article Indexes

Population Index
Covers fields of interest to demographers, including fertility, mortality, population size and growth, migration, nuptiality and the family, research methodology, projections and predictions, historic...   [more]
Holdings: 1986 to 2000.
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Primary Population Studies & Demography Databases & Article Indexes

International Bibliography of Historical Demography
Also Known as: IBHD
Bibliographic citations on population studies and demography through history. All world areas are covered, with roughly 70-percent of records treating Europe, and all historical time periods are also ...   [more]
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Proquest Statistical Insight
Also Known as: Statistical Universe, lexisnexis statistical
Statistical Universe indexes statistical data published in federal, state, and selected privately published titles, at the table level. In some cases the fulltext of the document is also available....   [more]

Sage Family Studies Abstracts
- from OCLC FirstSearch ECO
Bibliographic citations with abstracts for literature on policy, theory, and research relating to the family, traditional and alternative lifestyles, therapy, and counselling. Subjects covered include...   [more]
Holdings: 1999-2004

Social Science Research Network
Also Known as: SSRN
Recent research results through abstracts, fulltext working papers, and journal articles in economics, finance, business and economic law, accounting, and business. Professional job openings and annou...   [more]
Holdings: 1997-present. Updated daily
Supplemental URLs
    SSRN Conference Papers
    SSRN Partners in Publishing (publisher list)

Important Population Studies & Demography Databases & Article Indexes

Abstracts in Social Gerontology
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Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
Broad collection of fulltext scholarly journals and related periodicals in all scholarly disciplines. Includes bibliographic citations, indexing and abstracting for more than 8,000 periodicals. A comp...   [more]
Holdings: Coverage varies: mostly 1990s to present.

African Index Medicus
Also Known as: AIM WHO AHILA
Bibliographic citations to medical and public health literature from Africa. Produced by Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA) with the technical support of the World Heal...   [more]
Holdings: 1961 to present (currently, 1996)
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Supplemental URLs
    Journals indexed by African Index Medicus

Ageline
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AGRIS
Also Known as: International Information System for the Agricultural Sciences and Technology
The Food and Agriculture Organization's bibliographic database for worldwide research publications in agriculture in all its aspects, including geography, history, education, legislation, and agricult...   [more]
Holdings: 1975-present.
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Supplemental URLs
    Agrovoc subject thesaurus
    AGRIS subject category codes

Annotated bibliography of selected research on civil society and health
Describes literature on civil society / state interactions in national health systems, civil society contributions to pro-poor, health equity policies, and civil society influence on global health pol...   [more]
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Annual Review of Population Law
Summaries and excerpts of legislation, constitutions, court decisions, and other official government documents from every country in the world relating to population policies, reproductive rights and ...   [more]
Holdings: 1974-present.
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CAB Abstracts
Formerly produced by Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, now Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International, this database comprises international coverage of veterinary medicine, agriculture, fo...   [more]
Holdings: 1910 to the present. Updated monthly.
Supplemental URLs
    CABICODES List
    CAB Thesaurus

CAB Abstracts (complete)
Formerly produced by Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, now Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International, this database comprises international coverage of veterinary medicine, agriculture, fo...   [more]
Holdings: 1910-present.
Supplemental URLs
    CAB Thesaurus

Cancer Mondial (World Cancer Statistics)
This website provides access to information on the occurrence of cancer world-wide held by the Unit of Descriptive Epidemiology at the International Agency for Research on Cancer. ...   [more]
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CDC Wonder - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Database of reports, guidelines, and numeric public health data by mortality, natality, disease and demographic groups. Access is free and registration is optional....   [more]
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CEPR Discussion Paper series
Also Known as: Centre for Economic Policy Research discussion papers
Working papers of the leading pan-European economic research center. Separate series cover international macroeconomics, international trade, public policy, labor economics, financial economics, indus...   [more]
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Current Index to Statistics
A bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. Draws from both core statistical jouranls and non-core journals with statistical content, and books. Most coverage is from 1975-...   [more]
Holdings: 1995 - present
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DevTracker (UK AID Development Tracker) / UK DFID
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EBSCO MegaFILE
General, multidisciplinary periodical database, covering all scholarly disciplines, with many general and popular magazines, and news sources. Includes bibliographic citations with indexing and abstra...   [more]
Holdings: Coverage varies: mostly 1990s to present.

EconLit
Also Known as: Econ Lit CSA
- from CSA Databases
Covers accounting, consumer economics, monetary policy, labor, demographics, modeling, economic theory, and planning. Primarily English language, some foreign language publications included. ...   [more]
Holdings: 1969 to the present. Book reviews (1994- ), Dissertations (1987- ), Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics (1984- ).Updated monthly.
Supplemental URLs
    Journal List (AEA)
    JEL Classification Codes Guide (AEA)

Encyclopedia of Aging 2002
- from Gale Virtual Reference Library
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Holdings: 2002

Family & Society Studies Worldwide
The most comprehensive coverage of research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, Human Development, and Social Welfare. Formerly produced by the National Co...   [more]
Holdings: 1970-present.

FAO Corporate Document Repository
Also Known as: Food and Agriculture Organization Document Repository
Fulltext electronic library of FAO publications and meeting documents and related publications from non-FAO sources. Topics covered include agriculture, economics and nutrition, fisheries, forestry, s...   [more]
Holdings: Dates vary. Mostly 1986-present.
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Francis
Also Known as: Bulletin signaletique
Francis covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities and social sciences. It is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature with emphasis on cur...   [more]
Holdings: 1984 to the present. Updated monthly.
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Supplemental URLs
    FRANCIS via EBSCOhost (closed file)

GEOBIB
Also Known as: Online Geographical Bibliography, Current Geographical Publications
Bibliographic citations to the literature of geography, including travel and exploration, mathematical geography, physical geography, hydrology, oceanography, climatology, biogeography and human geogr...   [more]
Holdings: 1985-present
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Supplemental URLs
    GEOBIB - no new entries as of december 2005

Global Development Finance
Also Known as: World Bank GDF Online
World Bank time series statistical data covering 1960 to the present, with forecast data for up to seven years, for the 210 countries reporting public and publicly-guaranteed debt. Data include extern...   [more]
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    old interface url

Global Health
Also Known as: Global Health Archive
Global Health consists of more than 1.2 million record. Research content covering public health, tropical and communicable diseases, nutrition, helminthology, entomology and mycology. ...   [more]
Holdings: 1910-

Global Health Observatory (GHO) WHO country data
The Global Health Observatory (GHO) is WHO's portal providing access to data and analyses for monitoring the global health situation. It provides critical data and analyses for key health themes, as w...   [more]
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Global Health Workforce Alliance
Also Known as: Global Health Education Consortium
Includes a global health bibliography, annotated list of international health-related websites and organizations, and handy resources for students and researchers intending to enter the global health ...   [more]
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Health Materials Database (U.S. Office of Minority Health)
The U. S. Office of Minority Health supports a group of materials databases which include minority health organizations, programs and documents. ...   [more]
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Health Poll Search
Searchable archive of public opinion questions on health issues, including abortion, alcohol an drugs, bioterrorism and biological weapons, political campaigns, elections, leaders and health, children...   [more]
Holdings: 1935-present.
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HIV/AIDS Surveillance Data Base
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HRH Global Resource Center
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Index Medicus for the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Also Known as: WHO IMEMR
Bibliographic citations with indexing for health literature published in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, including Afghanistan, Bahrain, Cyprus, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon,...   [more]
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IndexCat
Also Known as: Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, 1880-1961
Bibliographic citations with subject indexing to the holdings of largest medical library in the late nineteenth century. Now useful for research in the history of medicine, history of science, and als...   [more]
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International AIDS Society Online Resource Library
Covers IAS conference papers, abstracts, webcasts, and other materials....   [more]
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International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Also Known as: IBSS CSA
- from CSA Databases
Bibliographic citations and subject indexing for the international journal article and book literature in anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology. Produced by British Library of Poli...   [more]
Holdings: Covers 1951 to the present in three separate files.
Supplemental URLs
    IBSS Journal Coverage List (LSE IBSS Web)

Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information
Also Known as: WHO LILACS, Bireme
Bibliographic citations with indexing and abstracting for the health literature published in Latin America and the Caribbean, especially focusing on Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, and Me...   [more]
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Mass Jewish Migration Database
The Mass Jewish Migration Database (MJMD) records are based on the applications of Jewish emigrants who applied to the JCA & ITO's information bureaux which were scattered all over the Pale of Settlem...   [more]
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Media/Materials Clearinghouse
A fulltext collection of international health communication materials: pamphlets, posters, audiotapes, videos, training materials, job aids, electronic media and other media/materials designed to prom...   [more]
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MEDLINE (complete file)
The premier database for bibliographic coverage of biomedical literature. MEDLINE encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index, as well as ot...   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    Pre-MEDLINE
    MEDLINE (latest years)
    
    
    

Monthly Bulletin of Statistics
Current monthly economic statistics and estimates, 1997-2010, for countries and regions worldwide, published by United Nations Statistics Division. Includes: Indices of world industrial production by ...   [more]
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National Longitudinal Surveys Annotated Bibliography
Also Known as: NLS
Bibliography of publications citing a set of surveys on labor market activities and other significant life events of individuals over the past 3 decades....   [more]
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National Population Census of China Database - 2010 data
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Native Health Databases
"The Native Health Databases contain bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of Amer...   [more]
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OECD Health Data
Data on a range of key aspects (utilization, expenditures, financing) of the health care systems in the 30 OECD Member countries. Select Statistics then select Health Data under OECD ...   [more]
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PAIS International
Also Known as: Public Affairs Information Service, PAIS Archive
- from CSA Databases
Bibliographic citations (1915-) with indexing on contemporary public affairs and policy issues worldwide related to a wide range of topics: agriculture, banking, finance, business, demographics, educa...   [more]
Holdings: 1915-
Supplemental URLs
    Journal List (OCLC PAIS via Internet Archive)
    Broad Topics Classification (OCLC PAIS via Internet Archive)

Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Also Known as: PSID
Longitudinal study, 1968-present, of individuals in more than 7,000 U.S. families, emphasizing dynamic aspects of economic and demographic behavior, and including sociological and psychological measur...   [more]
Holdings: 1968-present.
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Supplemental URLs
    PSID/CDS Data and Documentation Center
    Child Development Supplement (CDS)
    PSID/CDS Bibliography (works using PSID or CDS data)
    ICPSR PSID data archive

Peerj and Peerj Computer Science Institutional Plan
The Penn Libraries have established an institutional membership with PeerJ, and will pay the cost of a basic membership for each Penn author (identified via their use of an email address in the @upenn...   [more]
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PERSEE
This is a documentary portal of French social and human science journals, created by the education nationale. Users must register before accessing this resource. Provides partial fulltext for Annale...   [more]
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Refworld
Fulltext documents collection from UN High Commissioner for Refugees....   [more]
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SAGE Research Methods
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Supplemental URLs
    Sage Research Method Cases
    Sage Research Method Datasets
    Sage Research Method Data Visualization
    Sage Research Method Doing Research Online
    

Sage Urban Studies Abstracts
- from OCLC FirstSearch ECO
Bibliographic citations with abstracts describing scholarly literature in all aspects of urban studies. Topics include trends in urbanization, urban history, architecture and urban design, housing and...   [more]
Holdings: 1998-2004

SimplyAnalytics
Also Known as: SimplyMap
Web-based mapping application that enables users to create maps utilizing a wide range of underlying data including census, consumer expenditure, and business counts. Datasets include Claritas, PRIZM,...   [more]

Social Security Worldwide
International Social Security Association's collection of bibliographic and fulltext databases on social protection worldwide. Includes Bibliography (citations to holdings of the ISSA Documentation Ce...   [more]
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Social Services Abstracts
Also Known as: social service abstracts
- from CSA Databases
Indexing with abstracts for scholarly and professional journal literature in social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, and community development. Major areas of coverage include: cri...   [more]
Holdings: 1979-present. Updates monthly
Supplemental URLs
    Serials List
    Classification Codes (CSA)

Sociological Abstracts
Also Known as: SocAbs soc abs
- from CSA Databases
Covers sociology, case work, demographics, policy studies, political science, family studies, feminist studies, and social security programs....   [more]
Holdings: 1963 to the present. Updated bimonthly.
Supplemental URLs
    Serials List
    Classification Codes (ProQuest LibGuide)

Sociological Abstracts + Social Services Abstracts (combined)
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Supplemental URLs
    SocAbs title list (ProQuest LibGuides)
    SocAbs classification codes (ProQuest LibGuides)

Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts
Also Known as: Studies on Women & Gender Abstracts
- from Taylor & Francis Online
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Tax Foundation Archive Publications
- from HeinOnline
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U.S. and Iraqi Relations: U.S. Technical Aid 1950-1958
- from Archives Unbound
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Urban Studies Abstracts
Also Known as: Sage Urban Studies Abstracts
Bibliographic citations with abstracts describing scholarly literature in all aspects of urban studies. Topics include trends in urbanization, urban history, architecture and urban design, housing and...   [more]
Holdings: 1973-present.

Web of Science
Also Known as: ISI Citation Indexes, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, SSCI, SCI, AHCI, ISI, WOK, Web of Knowledge
Indexes journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Allows for cited reference searching. Includes Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index[more]
Holdings: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1945-present, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present, Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present. Updated weekly.
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World Bank Africa Household Survey Databank
Bibliographic descriptions, with many fulltext documents, of survey data and documentation on socioeconomic household surveys conducted in Africa....   [more]
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World Bank Documents & Reports
Also Known as: World Development Sources, WDS
Page-image fulltext of more than 14,000 World Bank documents. Covers World Bank activities and interests worldwide in agriculture, economic policy, education and social protection, electrical power, o...   [more]
Holdings: 1960-present. Updated weekly.
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World Development Indicators
Also Known as: World Bank WDI Online
The World Bank's principal data source on the global economy. More than 550 time series, 1960-present, on more than 200 countries and 18 country groups, covering demographic, social, economic, financi...   [more]
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Related Population Studies & Demography Databases & Article Indexes

Anthropological Index Online
Content is in Anthropology Plus. Index to current periodicals held in the Centre for Anthropology at the British Museum, London. Covers cultural and social anthropology, archaeology, biological and ph...   [more]
Holdings: 1957-.
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Bibliography of Asian Studies
All subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, South Asia, and Indian Ocean countries....   [more]
Holdings: 1971 to the present.

Chicano Database
Covers all types of materials relating to Mexican-American topics and, for materials published since 1992, broader topics relating to Latinos....   [more]
Holdings: 1967 to present.
Supplemental URLs
    New interface effective Sept 17, 2007

Contemporary Women's Issues
This full-text database provides international coverage of current issues such as employment and the workplace, social & political issues, violence and exploitation, development and human rights, heal...   [more]
Holdings: 1992 to the present, (selected reports back to 1990).
Supplemental URLs
    old interface

eHRAF World Cultures
Also Known as: eHRAF Collection of Ethnography
The Collection of Ethnography, established 1949, currently contains nearly one million pages of information on over 360 cultures of the world, past and present. Each culture case contains a variet...   [more]
Holdings: Updated in annual installments.
Supplemental URLs
    eHRAF User Guides
    Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM): Topics and Subjects
    Culture List for All Formats (Outline of World Cultures - OWC)
    Basic Guide to Cross-Cultural Research
    Overview and User Tips (obsolete)

GenderWatch
GenderWatch, formerly titled Women 'R', contains 40,000 articles from more than 100 journals, magazines, newsletters, special reports, unpublished papers and conference proceedings devoted to gender a...   [more]
Holdings: The database contains a large body of archival material, in some cases, as far back as 1970.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
Also Known as: HLAS
Bibliography of works on Latin America selected by scholars and edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Covers anthropology (including archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnology), ar...   [more]
Holdings: 1935 to the present. Updated monthly.
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Supplemental URLs
    rlg interface 03/01/05

Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Also Known as: HAPI
Subjects covered include anthropology, archaeology, anthropology, banking and finance, business, commerce, drama, drug trade, economic development, environmental issues, ethnography, folklore, geogr...   [more]
Holdings: 1970 to the present. Updated weekly.

Incites Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
Also Known as: ISI JCR
Journal Citation Reports provides journal comparison by accumulating and tabulating citation and article counts. It includes the JCR Science edition,and the JCR Social Sciences edition...   [more]

iPOLL
Also Known as: Roper Center, RPOLL
REQUIRES FREE REGISTRATION. Question-level data from public opinion polls. Almost 400,000 questions from polls, 1935 to present, based upon Roper Center-archived surveys with US national adult samples...   [more]
Holdings: 1935 to present. Updated daily.

Journals@OVID Full Text
Every word of the text is searchable, including references and graphics captions. Within the Full Text display, hypertext features allow users to display an outline of the document and move immediatel...   [more]

LAPTOC Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents
Also Known as: LARRP
Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC): provides article titles from the tables of contents over 800 periodicals published in Latin America and the Caribbean. They cover...   [more]
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NBER Working Papers
Working papers in Economics for public policy makers, business professionals, and the academic community. Includes NBER Technical Working Papers and NBER Papers in Development of the American Economy...   [more]
Holdings: June 1973 No.1 - present

OECD iLibrary
Also Known as: Source OECD, SourceOECD
Publications and statistical information from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) covering agriculture and food, education and skills, emerging economies and transition e...   [more]
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PsycINFO
The American Psychological Association's comprehensive indexing and abstracting service for the professional and scholarly literature in psychology and related fields. Coverage is worldwide. Sources a...   [more]
Holdings: 1887 to the present. Updated monthly.
Supplemental URLs
    PsycINFO Classification Categories and Codes (APA Online)
    PsycINFO Journal Coverage List (APA Online)

PubMed Plus (Penn Only)
Also Known as: PubMed Medline Pub Med
- from PubMed Central
PubMed is the public access version to Medline, the premier database for biomedical literature. PubMedPlus is an enhanced version with links to full-text journals that the Penn Library subscribes to....   [more]
Holdings: 1950 to the present. Updated daily.
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Supplemental URLs
    PubMed Help
    PubMed Tutorial
    
    new Pubmed effective Spring 2020
    PubMed Plus for Handhelds

PubMed Unrestricted
Also Known as: PubMed Medline
The MEDLINE database is widely recognized as the premier source for bibliographic coverage of biomedical literature. The PubMed version of MEDLINE includes the PREMEDLINE database, which provides ver...   [more]
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Supplemental URLs
    PubMed Help
    Pubmed Tutorial

Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Numeric data archive for public opinion polls. Access is mediated through requests from Penn Library to Roper Center. Related online resources include: Roper Center's online catalog of data sets; and ...   [more]
Holdings: 1936-present.
Supplemental URLs
    Roper Center Interactive Collection Map
    Topics at a Glance (inc. Presidential Approval)
    Roper Center Select Bibliography
    Roper iPoll
    Health Poll Database

UNESDOC / UNESBIB
Also Known as: UNESCO Documents Collection
Fulltext or page image for UNESCO documents. Materials cover the subject areas of interest to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization): education, communication and in...   [more]
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Your Journals@OVID Full Text
Subset of the Journals@Ovid database covering only the full-text of the journals that Penn subscribes to through Ovid. Every word of the text is searchable, including references and graphics captio...   [more]