Primary Communication Databases & Article Indexes

Communication Source
Also Known as: Communication Abstracts, CMMC, Communication and Mass Media Complete, ComAbs, Communication & Mass Media Complete
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Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) (NYT & much more)
Also Known as: lexis/nexis, Lexis-Nexis, Lexis Nexis, LN Academic, LexisNexis Academic, Lexis Nexis Academic
Access to full-text national and international newspapers , including the New York Times, and the Times of London business and accounting information, biographical data, and some selected legal mat...   [more]
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SAGE Research Methods
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Important Communication Databases & Article Indexes

AAM Media Intelligence Center (formerly ABC E-Statements Historical)
Also Known as: ABC E-Statements Historical
current and historical ABC publication member reports, including Audit Reports, Publisher's Statements, ABC Interactive Audit Reports, Insert Verification Service Reports (IVS), Supplemental Data Repo...   [more]
Holdings: 1996-current for Periodicals and 1997-current for Newspapers.
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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.

Academic Video Online
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Ad Age
Also Known as: AdAge, Advertising Age
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AdForum Creative Network
Also Known as: ad forum
Advertising database includes a directory of over 20,000 advertising agencies in a range of specializations, a database of over 150,000 ads, and a directory of advertising awards....   [more]

Advertising Insights/Vivvix
Also Known as: formerly adspender, ad$pender
Advertising expenditure information on brands and product categories, industries, and companies across various media types including cable and network TV, broadcast radio networks, magazines, and news...   [more]
Holdings: Includes 5 years of data.
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Alt-Press Watch
Also Known as: AltPress Watch, Philadelphia City Paper, Philadelphia Weekly. Alt-Press Watch (APW)
Provides fulltext for U.S. alternative and independent newspapers, weeklies, magazines, and journals. Topics include the arts, media and popular culture, business and labor, literature and criticism, ...   [more]
Holdings: Coverage varies, from 1990.

Alternative Press Index
Also Known as: Altpress Index
Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Includes selected abstracts from research journals. ...   [more]
Holdings: 1991 to present

American History in Video
- from Alexander Street Press
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American National Election Studies
Also Known as: ANES National Election Studies NES
Time series data from surveys conducted during U.S. presidential and congressional election years, 1948-present....   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    ANES data sets and codebooks (via ICPSRdirect)
    SDA interface to ANES 2000 data (crosstabs, subsetting, extracts)
    NES Bibliography
    NES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior
    ANES data sets and codebooks (alternative via ICPSRdirect)

AnthroSource
Indexes journals, newsletters, bulletins and monographs of the American Anthropological Association (AAA)....   [more]

AP Photo Archive
Also Known as: AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive, AP Images
Image and Graphics Databases only available on this subscription. Contains over one million Associated Press photographs (with searchable captions) in two collections, downloadable as JPEG (jpg) image...   [more]
Holdings: Photos: 1826 to present. Graphics: 1999 to present. Audio files: 1920s to present.
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Archive of Arab literature and cultural magazines
The Archive of Arab literature and cultural Magazines contains material from 1880 till 2010. It covers all Arabic countries. It contains more than 110 magazines and has about 10,000 issues, 28,000 wri...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

BBC Genome Project
BBC program listings, 1923-2009....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

British Humanities Index: BHI
- from CSA Databases
An abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities, BHI indexes over 320 humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as qual...   [more]
Holdings: coverage begins in 1962-

Catalog of Nonprofit Literature - Foundation Center
Also Known as: Foundation Center Literature of the Nonprofit Sector
Bibliographic citations with abstracts for materials on philanthropy, the foundation world, the nonprofit sector, and charitable giving collected by the Foundation Center libraries and other sources. ...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

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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Chatham House Online Archive
Chatham House Online Archive Module 1 1920-1979...   [more]
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Christian Science Monitor (1908-1999), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
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Holdings: 1908-1999

CogNet
Also Known as: MIT Cognet, CogNet (Library Edition)
A "central repository for the most current and topical electronic resources" in cognitive science and its six core areas: philosophy of mind, computational intelligence, cognitive psychology, linguist...   [more]

Communication Abstracts (1998-1998) (journal via FirstSearch ECO)
- from OCLC FirstSearch ECO
A journal of abstracts...   [more]
Holdings: 1998-1998

Communications news
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CompPile
An inventory of publications in writing studies, including post-secondary composition, rhetoric, technical writing, ESL, and discourse analysis...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Digital Innovation South Africa (DISA)
Free online digital archive of South African apartheid-era works. Includes periodicals, trial materials, and other documents....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2020
- from Gale Primary Sources - Newspapers
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Holdings: 1843-2020
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Electing the President: Proceedings of the Democratic National Conventions, 1832-1988
- from Archives Unbound
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Electing the President: Proceedings of the Republican National Conventions, 1856-1988
- from Archives Unbound
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Electronic Surveillance and the National Security Agency: From Shamrock to Snowden
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
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Ethnic NewsWatch
Full text, comprehensive archival database providing access to more than 400,000 articles in nearly 200 ethnic, minority and native press newspapers, magazines, and journals. Full text archive of Phi...   [more]
Holdings: Covers 1960 to date. Updated monthly.

EUscreen
"The EUscreen project aims to promote the use of television content to explore Europe's rich and diverse cultural history." Its aim is provide unified access to a collection of TV programming, sources...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

FactCheck.org
Also Known as: Annenberg Political Fact Check
Monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases...   [more]
Holdings: December 2003-present.
Unrestricted Access

Factiva
Also Known as: Dow Jones Factiva, Factiva Dow Jones
Provides access to sources of national and international news, business and general information. News sources include newspapers, magazines, media transcripts, wire services, pictures and web sites. I...   [more]
Holdings: Dates vary. Most publications begin in the late 1980's or early 1990's
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FBIS: Foreign Broadcast Information Service Electronic Index (1975-1996)
Contemporary coverage of political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues and events worldwide, relying upon international and local language news sources. The FBIS Electronic Index provides acces...   [more]

FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals
The FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals brings together contributions from experts around the world dedicated to film preservation, cataloging and documentation. The main database, the Intern...   [more]
Holdings: 1972-present. Updated quarterly.

Film & Television Literature Index
Also Known as: Film and Television Literature Index
Index and abstracts cover film and television literature in all areas of film and television research, covering 410 scholarly journals and industry publications, and selective coverage of 300 other pu...   [more]

Film Literature Index Online
Contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews on film, tv, and video published between 1976-2001. ...   [more]
Holdings: 1976-2001
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First World War: Propaganda and Recruitment
Also Known as: Adam Matthew First World War Databases
This database from Adam Matthew showcases a wealth of primary source material for the study of the Great War, complemented by a range of contextual secondary features.The First World War: Propaganda a...   [more]

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1941 - 1996
Also Known as: FBIS
Coverage of Africa, Asia, China, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle/Near East....   [more]

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.

General Social Survey
Also Known as: GSS
Omnibus personal interview survey of U.S. households, conducted almost annually....   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Quick download: GSS 1972-2010 datasets (Roper Express)
    GSS Bibliography
    GSS 1972-2010 Quick Tables (with charts) (Berkeley SDA Archive)
    NORC Official GSS Site
    Extracting Data from the GSS into SPSS

Google Ngram Viewer--corpus search
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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.
Unrestricted Access

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.

HIV/AIDS Surveillance Data Base
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Hollywood, Moral Censorship, and the Motion Picture Production Code, 1927-1968
- from Archives Unbound
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IDC
IDC is a global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications and consumer technology markets. IDC does not make all its reports ava...   [more]

Independent Voices
Open access collection of the alternative press of the 60s, 70s and 80s, over 1000 titles from the special collections of over a dozen libraries. ...   [more]

Interface
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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.
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    IBSS Journal Coverage List (LSE IBSS Web)

Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
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Unrestricted Access

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.

Japan Times Archive
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Holdings: 1897-2014
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Journal of educational television, 1990-1995
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Left Index
Bibliographic citations for the "literature on the left". Topics include anarchism, art and esthetics, community organizing, culture studies, ecology and environmental studies, economics, gay and lesb...   [more]
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Linguistic Bibliography Online
Also Known as: Bibliographie Linguistique
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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences Covers all aspects of the study of language including linguistics, language acquisi...   [more]
Holdings: 1973 to present.
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    Serials List
    Search Guide
    LLBA Classification Codes

LISA - Library and Information Science Abstracts
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March of Time, 1935-1967
Also Known as: The March of Time
- from Alexander Street Press
"With its first appearance on American motion picture screens in February 1935, The March of Time. startled journalists, filmmakers, and audiences alike with its controversial topics and unique approa...   [more]

Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965
Provides a unique insight into the American consumer boom of the mid-20th century through the market research reports of Ernest Dichter, the era's foremost consumer analyst, market research pioneer an...   [more]
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MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)
Fulltext general-interest and popular magazine database, covering nearly 2000 magazines and newsletters for a general readership. Combined with other databases in EBSCO MegaFILE....   [more]
Holdings: Coverage varies: mostly 1990s to present.

Media History Digital Library
Archive of classic media periodicals covering the histories of cinema, broadcasting and sound, scanned and hosted by the Internet Archive. Features runs of trade papers and fan magazines. Hollywood S...   [more]
Holdings: 1903-1995
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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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Medijske studije
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Mideastwire.com
Also Known as: mideast wire, mideastwire
Daily email newsletter of concise, translated briefs covering some of the key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing in the media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspo...   [more]

Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, 1895-1976
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National Index to Chinese Newspapers & Periodicals (Shanghai Library)
Covers information for over one and half centuries from 1833 to the present, and about 10,000 titles of newspapers and periodicals published in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, almost all the ser...   [more]
Holdings: 1833-
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NationalJournal.com
Online fulltext access to National Journal periodicals and resources. Provides coverage of current US government activity and policy, as well as technology and health care issues. Additional resources...   [more]

New World Cinema: Independent Features & Shorts, 1990-Present
Also Known as: New World Cinema
- from Alexander Street Press
200 full-length feature films from leading independent distributors, and 50+ award-winning shorts. Detailed title-level indexing allows viewers immediately to identify films with social, cultural, or ...   [more]

Newspaper Carriers' Addresses
"Carriers' addresses were published by newspapers, usually on January 1, and distributed in the United States for more than two centuries. The custom originated in England and was introduced here duri...   [more]
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Newspapers of the French Revolution of 1848
- from Archives Unbound
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Nonprofit Organization Reference Center
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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]

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-
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    Journal List (OCLC PAIS via Internet Archive)
    Broad Topics Classification (OCLC PAIS via Internet Archive)

PEP-Web Archive
Also Known as: PEP web archive
Searchable fulltext of Freud's complete works (German and English), books by Bion, Bowlby, Ernest Jones, Melanie Klein, Donald Meltzer, D.W. Winnicott and other psychoanalysts. Includes compete runs (...   [more]
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Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
At its height in the 1940s the Pittsburgh Courier was one of the most important african american newspapers in the country, had a national circulation of over 350,000 and was as widely read as the Chi...   [more]
Holdings: 1911-2002

Politics, Social Activism and Community Support: Selected Gay and Lesbian Periodicals and Newsletters
- from Archives Unbound
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Polling the Nations
Primary data, fulltext for approximately 250,000 individual questions and aggregated responses, often cross tabulated by respondent characteristics, compiled from public opinion surveys. Topics cove...   [more]

PROL - Political Research Online
REQUIRES FREE REGISTRATION. Electronic fulltext preprint archive for political science. Includes conference papers, preprints, syllabi, and center and institute reports....   [more]
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PsycCRITIQUES
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Psychological Warfare and Propaganda in World War II: Air Dropped and Shelled Leaflets and Periodicals
- from Archives Unbound
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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.
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    PsycINFO Classification Categories and Codes (APA Online)
    PsycINFO Journal Coverage List (APA Online)

Readers' Guide Retrospective
Also Known as: readers guide, reader's guide, wilson
Provides comprehensive indexing of the popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States, such as Time, Newsweek, New Republic, National Review, ...   [more]

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.
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    Roper Center Interactive Collection Map
    Topics at a Glance (inc. Presidential Approval)
    Roper Center Select Bibliography
    Roper iPoll
    Health Poll Database

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

Search: Proquest databases
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Silent Film Online
500+ streaming online films which represent the foundation of modern cinematic technique and film theory, covering silent feature films, serials, and shorts from the 1890s to the 1930s. Includes wor...   [more]

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]

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.
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    Serials List
    Classification Codes (ProQuest LibGuide)

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

South African Journal of Information and Communication
Formerly Southern African Journal of Information and Communication. Open access journal focusing on trends in electronic communications policy and regulation on the African continent; competition in A...   [more]
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Speech teacher (1952-1975)
Continues as Communication education, 1976-present....   [more]

Sports Fan Market 2010
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Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts
Also Known as: Studies on Women & Gender Abstracts
- from Taylor & Francis Online
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The Political Economy of Communication
Published by the Political Economy Section of the International Association of Media Communication Research (IAMCR)....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Through the Camera Lens: The Moving Picture World and the Silent Cinema Era 1907-1927
- from Archives Unbound
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Undercover Reporting: Deception for Journalism's Sake: A Database
Mostly U.S.-generated journalism that has employed undercover techniques. ...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

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]
Unrestricted Access

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.

USC Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive
Access is by IP user domain. Users must be on campus or in a Penn residence hall.

The Visual History Archive works best on PC using Internet Explorer 6 or later as the browser. IE is ...   [more]

Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Also Known as: VTNA TV-NewsSearch CNN
Searchable abstracting service for national television network news broadcasts. CNN broadcasts available as RealMedia video streams, 1998-present. VTNA lends videotapes of broadcasts or item compilati...   [more]
Holdings: 1968-present.

Vogue Archive
Also Known as: The Vogue Archive
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Holdings: 1892-

WARC
WARC is a collection of case studies, articles, research reports, conference papers and data focusing on marketing, advertising, and media. Research is drawn from over 50 global sources, including the...   [more]

Washington Post (1877-2004), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Also Known as: Washington Post
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
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Holdings: 1877-2004

Washington Post (Final Edition) (Proquest Recent Newspapers)
- from ProQuest Digital Microfilm
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Holdings: 2008-

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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    Web of Science Tutorials
    Cited Reference Searching Tutorial

World News Connection
Also Known as: WNC
English translations of non-U.S. media sources....   [more]
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World Newspaper Archive
Also Known as: World News Archive, Latin American Newspapers, African Newspapers, Slavic & East European Newspapers,South Asian Newspapers
Searchable page image reproductions of pre-1923 newspapers, worldwide. Based largely upon the holdings of the Center for Research Libraries, these newspapers are released in regional collections....   [more]
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    African Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive)
    South Asian Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive)
    Latin American Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive)

World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators
Also Known as: ITU World Telecommunication Indicators
Contains time series data for the years 1960, 1965, 1970 and annually from 1975-present for almost 200 sets of telecommunication/ICT statistics covering telephone network size, mobile services, Intern...   [more]

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Also Known as: WPSA
- from CSA Databases
67% of the more than 1500 monitored journals are published outside the United States, and there are nearly 500,000 records beginning in 1975. Some of the records have fulltext links and coverage inc...   [more]
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    Serials List
    Classification Codes (CSA)

WWD.com (Women's Wear Daily)
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Related Communication Databases & Article Indexes

Anthropology PLUS
Also Known as: Anthropological Index, Anthropological Literature
Combines Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index from the Royal Anthropological Institute of the UK. Offers worldwide indexing of all core periodicals, in addition...   [more]
Holdings: Anthropological Index: 1957-present. Anthropological Literature: Early 19th century to present

Applied Science & Business Periodicals Retrospective (1913-1983)
Combined HW Wilson journal article indexes: Industrial Arts Index (1913-1958), Business Periodicals Index (1958-1982), Applied Science & Technology Index (1958-1983). Articles cover some of the most i...   [more]
Holdings: 1913 - 1983

Business Collection (formerly Predicasts PROMT)
Also Known as: Predicasts PROMT, Gale Business Collection
Topics indexed in PROMT include: new product development, market share, advertising strategy, mergers & acquisitions, use of materials, computer industry, federal regulation, consumer attitude, sales ...   [more]

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.
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    New interface effective Sept 17, 2007

Child Welfare Information Gateway / Children's Bureau, HHS
Also Known as: Child Abuse and Neglect. National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information Documents Database
Indexing with abstracts for scholarly, professional, and technical books, journal articles, and other documents related to child maltreatment, child abuse and child neglect, adoption, and related chi...   [more]
Holdings: 1965-present.
Unrestricted Access

Compendex
Also Known as: Engineering Index , Ei Compendex , ei village , engineering village
The broad subject areas of engineering and applied science are comprehensively represented. Coverage includes nuclear technology, bioengineering, transportation, chemical and process engineering, ligh...   [more]
Holdings: 1884 - present. Updated weekly.
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    Penn Inspec and Compendex Guide

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).
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    old interface

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text
Comprehensive indexing with abstracts of the scholarly literature and applied literature on criminology and related disciplines. Subject areas covered include: causes and correlates of crime, criminol...   [more]
Holdings: 1968-present.

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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Education Index Retrospective (1929 - 1983)
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Holdings: 1929 - 1983

EMarketer
Also Known as: eMarketer
Aggregates, filters, and organizes data on e-commerce, digital marketing and media from over 4,000 global sources, as well as producing independent articles and reports covering all aspects of the mar...   [more]

ERIC - Education Resources Information Center (EBSCO)
Indexes education-related journal articles and other publications. Cross-file search with other EBSCO databases....   [more]

ERIC - Education Resources Information Center (ProQuest)
Indexes education-related journal articles and other publications. Cross-file search with other ProQuest databases....   [more]

Global Books in Print
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Holdings: Updated weekly.
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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.
Unrestricted Access
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    rlg interface 03/01/05

Health and Psychosocial Instruments
Also Known as: HAPI
Access to information on measurement instruments in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. HAPI helps identify measures needed for res...   [more]
Holdings: 1985 to the present. Updated quarterly.

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]
Unrestricted Access

Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
Also Known as: HCUPnet
Provides aggregate national statistics and trends and selected state statistics about hospital stays, using data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), the Kids' Inpatient Database (KID), and the...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

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]

INSPEC
Also Known as: Physics Abstracts , Computer and Control Abstracts , Electrical and Electronics Abstracts
The INSPEC database covers physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, robotics, and information technology. It also has significant co...   [more]
Holdings: 1896 - present. Updated weekly.
Supplemental URLs
    Penn Inspec and Compendex Guide

International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text
Also Known as: IIBP
IIBP Full Text includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the...   [more]
Holdings: Time period varies depending on journal title

LISTA -- Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Also Known as: Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts
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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]
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Mental Measurements Yearbook and Test In Print 1st to 21st Yearbooks July 2022
Also Known as: MMY
Descriptive information and reviews of English-language test instruments. Subject areas include achievement, behavior assessment, development, education, intelligence and scholastic aptitude, En...   [more]
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MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
Also Known as: Modern Language Association Bibliography, MLAIB
Covers literature, languages, folklore, and linguistics. Includes English and foreign languages. ...   [more]
Holdings: Covers 1963 to the present. New records are added ten times a year.

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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Peace Research Abstracts
Bibliographic citations with abstracts describing all aspects of peace research, including the causes and correlates of conflict, case studies in conflict, tension, and war, international laws and con...   [more]
Holdings: 1964-present.

Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
Also Known as: Digital Dissertations, Dissertation Abstracts, UMI, DAI, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT), Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext
Indexing (since 1861) and abstracting (since 1980) for doctoral-level dissertations completed at North American universities. Page images or fulltext of all available dissertations - including Penn d...   [more]
Holdings: Indexing 1861-present, abstracts 1980-present, page-image or fulltext PDF for available dissertations dissertations from 1997 to the present.
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State Net (formerly LexisNexis State Capital)
Also Known as: State Capital Universe
State government information from all United States, including legislative statutory, and regulatory information, and news coverage about state governments....   [more]
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U.S. Declassified Documents Online - DDRS Online
Also Known as: Declassified Documents Reference System
Primary sources, fulltext and image for declassified United States government documents from the second half of the twentieth century to the present. The collection provides coverage for domestic an...   [more]
Holdings: Declassified documents issued from 1941 through the 1990s. Documents have been declassified since 1974.
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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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