Primary History & Sociology of Science Databases & Article Indexes

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Also Known as: HST , Wellcome Bibliography, History of Science, Technology and Medicine
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International bibliography on the history of science and technology from pre-history to the present, describing journal articles, conference proceedings, book...   [more]
Holdings: 1975 to the present. Updated annually.

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

Important History & Sociology of Science Databases & Article Indexes

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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    Journals indexed by African Index Medicus

American History in Video
- from Alexander Street Press
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American National Biography
Also Known as: ANB
The American National Biography (ANB) is the successor to The Dictionary of American Biography (DAB)(1926-1937). As such, it is a source of biographical information on Americans of significance, both ...   [more]

American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries
Also Known as: APCRL
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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

Bibliography of the History of Art
Also Known as: BHA
- from CSA Databases
Covers European and American art from the fourth century C.E. to 2007. Areas addressed are painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, decorative and applied arts, architecture and industrial design, and...   [more]
Holdings: 1975 to 2007
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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.
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    CAB Thesaurus

Darwin Correspondence Project
800 letters written and received by Darwin. "For the first time online you can now read the full texts of nearly 800 letters Darwin wrote and received during 1871, the year in which his controversial ...   [more]
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E-corpus
e-corpus is a collective digital library that catalogs and disseminates numerous documents: manuscripts, archives, books, journals, prints, audio recordings, video, etc. This diverse platform present...   [more]
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Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2020
- from Gale Primary Sources - Newspapers
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Holdings: 1843-2020
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Education Index Retrospective (1929 - 1983)
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Holdings: 1929 - 1983

EEBO: Early English Books Online
Also Known as: Early English Books Online; Short Title Catalogue; Wing; Pollard and Redgrave
Full-text page images of approximately 100,000 titles from the Short-Title Catalogue of English works 1475-1640, Wing's continuation for 1641-1700, and their revisions. Information is presented...   [more]
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    EEBO new platform

EEBO: Early English Books Online, Text Creation Partnership
The University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), and ProQuest Information and Learning are engaged in an partnership to create structured ...   [more]
Holdings: 1470-1700

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)

Gale Primary Sources
Also Known as: Artemis Primary Sources
From Gale Primary Resources. Artemis provides an interface to cross search a growing number of primary resource databases. Searching for term frequency, and term clustering, visualizations, as well as...   [more]

Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange
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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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Glossaries of the Medical Works of Maimonides
Theis Arabic-Hebrew-English glossary and the Hebrew indices to Maimonides' On Poisons and the Protection against Fatal Drugs are based on the glossary of the Arabic text and the Hebrew translatio...   [more]
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Historical Abstracts
Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada)....   [more]
Holdings: ca. 1974- present. Updated three times a year.

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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Index to Early American Periodicals
Subject index to the microfilm collections American Periodical Series I & II, (see also APS Online), which are located in the Van Pelt Microtext Center, first floor east. The Penn Librar...   [more]

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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Industrial Mobilization in Britain and the Ministry of Munitions, 1915-1918
- from Archives Unbound
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International Bibliography of Art
Also Known as: IBA
IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), and retains BHA's editorial policies. The database includes records created by the Getty Research Institute in 2008-09, plus new r...   [more]
Holdings: 2008 - the present

ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Medieval (400-1500) and Renaissance (1300-1700) studies...   [more]

Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) 1957-1994
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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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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]

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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Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
This reference work covers the history of philosophy worldwide. It includes extensive treatment of topics in ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, l...   [more]

Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical
Also Known as: SciPer Index
Indexes articles relating to science, technology, and medicine from sixteen British general periodicals, 1800-1900. Browseable lists of people and institutions....   [more]
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Smithsonian Collections Online: World's Fairs & Expositions: Visions Of Tomorrow
Also Known as: Worlds fairs, World's Fair, Smithsonian Collections Online
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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)

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: A Digital Library of Greek Literature
Also Known as: tlg
The TLG was founded in 1972 to digitize the entire corpus of Greek literature from Homer to the fall of Byzantium. It now includes over 6,500 works by over 1,800 authors and is fully searchable online...   [more]

Related History & Sociology of Science Databases & Article Indexes

AGRICOLA
The topics covered in this USDA database include: agriculture, agronomy, animal science, biology, biotechnology, botany, breeding, chemistry, conservation, crop management, dairy science, ecology, ent...   [more]
Holdings: 1979 to present. Updates monthly.
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    AGRICOLA Subject Category Codes

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
- from CSA Databases
Covers architecture, architectural design, archeology, furniture and decoration, historic preservation, the history of architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, urban planning....   [more]
Holdings: 1930s to the present; selective coverage dating back to the 1860s, updated daily

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.

BIOSIS Previews (1993-2012)
The world's most comprehensive reference database in the life sciences. It covers original research reports and reviews in biological and biomedical areas. Coverage includes traditional areas of biolo...   [more]
Holdings: 1993-

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.
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    CABICODES List
    CAB Thesaurus

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

Filmakers Library Online
- from Alexander Street Press
Filmakers Library is a multidisciplinary collection of over 1,400 documentaries made from 1974 to the present by independent filmmakers from around the world that can now be streamed over computer. Th...   [more]

GeoRef
The principal tool for identifying the worldwide literature in geology and the geosciences....   [more]
Holdings: 1785 to the present (North American); 1933 to the present (entire world.) Updated bi-monthly.

Global Books in Print
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Holdings: Updated weekly.
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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]

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 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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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)

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]

London Times, Palmer's Index to the
Part of Chadwyck-Healey's Historical Newspapers Online project which aims to offer newpaper indexing covering over 200 years of history. Palmer's Index covers the entire nineteenth century and ...   [more]
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Periodicals Index Online
Also Known as: PIO,PCI,Periodical Contents Index,Chadwyck PCI,Periodicals Contents Index
Humanities and social sciences. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. ...   [more]

Philosopher's Index
Also Known as: Philosophers 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, metaphysics,...   [more]

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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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)

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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    PubMed Help
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    new Pubmed effective Spring 2020
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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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    PubMed Help
    Pubmed Tutorial

Sexbiblio
Also Known as: Bibliography of the history of western sexuality / 1700-1945
A selective index of non-belletristic primary and secondary literature on the history of sex and sexuality in Europe, the United States, and Canada, 1700-1945. Also includes selected titles in ancient...   [more]
Holdings: 1700-1945
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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]