General Interest Databases & Article Indexes

Education Resources Guide     [find related records >>>]
This guide is the current starting place for education resources. Includes book, journal article, dissertation search tools, reference works, news sources, more. Contact Education Librarian, Patty ...   [more]
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ABIA - Index of South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology
Also Known as: South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index, Index of South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology
Bibliographic citations for scholarly publications in South Asian and Southeast Asian art and archaeology. Subjects covered include prehistory and protohistory, historical archaeology, ancient art his...   [more]

Add Health Publications Database
Lists journal articles, presentations, unpublished manuscripts, books, book chapters and dissertations by researchers using National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health data. Add Health s...   [more]
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African Women's Bibliographic Database
Bibliographic citations, with subject, country and region, and author indexing, for English-language literature on African women....   [more]
Holdings: 1986-present.
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AGRICOLA     [find related records >>>]
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.
Supplemental URLs
    AGRICOLA Subject Category Codes

American Bibliography of Slavic and Eastern European Studies     [find related records >>>]
Also Known as: ABSEES
Covers North American scholarship on East-Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union....   [more]
Holdings: 1990 to the present, selective coverage before 1990. Updated monthly.

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature     [find related records >>>]
Also Known as: ABELL
- from Literature Online Full-Text Journals
Bibliographic citations with indexing for all aspects of English literature, literary culture, and linguistics. Topics covered include: English prose, poetry, fiction, films, biography, travel writing...   [more]
Holdings: 1920- Annual updates lag by one year.

ARTbibliographies Modern     [find related records >>>]
Also Known as: ART bibliographies Modern
- from CSA Databases
Indexes material published 1974-present. Art coverage begins with Impressionism in the late nineteenth century and continues up to the most recent works and trends in the twenty-first century. Photog...   [more]
Holdings: 1969-1971 (printed vols. only); 1974-present (online)

Atelier National de Reproduction des Theses
Also Known as: ANRT
Catalog of the official French distribution center for dissertations issued by French universities in the humanities, social sciences (including law), and the arts....   [more]
Holdings: 1970-present.
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Basque Database
The Basque Database was created at the Basque Studies Library at the University of Nevada, Reno. It provides access to information about Basque topics written or produced after 1994. Core journals ar...   [more]
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Bibliografia Mesoamericana
The purpose of Bibliografia Mesoamericana is to provide comprehensive bibliographic coverage of the published literature pertaining to Mesoamerica, including archaeology, art history, ethnography, eth...   [more]

Bibliography of the History of Art     [find related records >>>]
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     [find related records >>>]
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)     [find related records >>>]
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

Chicano Database     [find related records >>>]
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

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.
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Chinese ERIC
Describes English and Chinese articles in leading academic educational journals published in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan; also covers dissertations....   [more]
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CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature     [find related records >>>]
The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health (CINAHL) database provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health. Topics covered include: cardiopulmonary techn...   [more]
Holdings: 1982 to the present. Updated monthly.
Supplemental URLs
    mobile access to CINAHL
    CINAHL systematic review-focused interface
    CINAHL quick search interface

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text     [find related records >>>]
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.

CRL Special Collections Databases
Also Known as: CRL Ethnic and Foreign Newspapers
includes; Civilian Conservation Corps Camp Papers, Dissertations Database, Foreign Newspapers, Official Gazettes and the Ethnic Press ...   [more]

Database of African Theses and Dissertations
Also Known as: DATAD-R
Bibliographic information with abstracts on dissertations and theses produced by African universities. Also describes dissertations and theses produced by other institutions and held by the participan...   [more]
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Supplemental URLs
    Participating institutions contact list
    
    
    
    

Dayan Center Bibliographical Database
Also Known as: ALEPH DAY Database
Indexing for articles, pamphlets, and occasional papers on the Middle East. ...   [more]
Holdings: 1979-present.
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Digital Islam: Theses on EThOS
Freely accessible UK dissertations on Islam. One must register to download material....   [more]
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Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology (DDM)
An international database of completed and in-progress dissertations with abstracts....   [more]
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EconLit     [find related records >>>]
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)

Electronic Theses Online Service - British Library EThOS
Search more than 250,000 British doctoral dissertations and theses. Obtain free e-versions online or request digitization....   [more]
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ETOH
Also Known as: NIAAA Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database
Indexing with abstracts covering the current and historical research literature on alcohol abuse and alcoholism. Aspects covered include: medicine, biochemistry, psychology and psychiatry, epidemiolog...   [more]
Holdings: 1960s to present.
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GeoRef     [find related records >>>]
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.

Guide to Computing Literature
Also Known as: ACM Guide to Computing Literature
- from ACM Digital Library
The Guide is a collection of bibliographic citations and abstracts of works published by ACM and other publishers. Material indexed includes books, journal articles, conference proceedings, doctoral ...   [more]

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine     [find related records >>>]
Also Known as: HST Wellcome Bibliography, History of Science, Technology and Medicine
ACCESS NOTE: 5 concurrent users 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.

Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL)
US government-sponsored database of policy strategy-related documents on homeland security. Topics covered include: borders and immigration, emergency management, infrastructure protection, intelligen...   [more]

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals     [find related records >>>]
International law, comparative law, and municipal law of countries outside the US, UK, and Commonwealth....   [more]
Holdings: 1985 to the present. Updated quarterly.

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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INSPEC     [find related records >>>]
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

MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)     [find related records >>>]
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.

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
Electronic theses and dissertations from approximately 200 international member universities and institutions....   [more]
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Population Index     [find related records >>>]
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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Primatelit Database     [find related records >>>]
Also Known as: Primate Literature
The PrimateLit database provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. Coverage of the database spans 1940 to present and...   [more]
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Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)     [find related records >>>]
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.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: UK & Ireland
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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: University of Pennsylvania
Access to dissertations completed at Penn. Citations from 1889 forward, full-text from 1997 to present. Some earlier dissertations available in full-text....   [more]

PsycINFO     [find related records >>>]
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)

Recent Doctoral Dissertations about Africa
Identifies US and Canadian PhD dissertations on Africa, abstracted in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses or Dissertation Abstracts International, 1980-(2011). Produced by Joseph Lauer, Michigan State Uni...   [more]
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature     [find related records >>>]
Also Known as: RILM Retrospective, RILM Comprehensive
Covers all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. If related to music, works in other fields, such as librarianship, lite...   [more]
Holdings: Updated monthly.

ScholarlyCommons: Repository     [find related records >>>]
Also Known as: Scholarly Commons
ScholarlyCommons@Penn is a repository of the research and scholarly output of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, administered by the Penn Library....   [more]
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Supplemental URLs
    Penn Dissertations in ScholarlyCommons@Penn
    FAQ re joining and submitting papers

SciTech Connect     [find related records >>>]
Also Known as: energy citations database
SciTech Connect is a consolidation of the Energy Citations Database developed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) Information Bridge t...   [more]
Holdings: 1948 - present
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Sociological Abstracts     [find related records >>>]
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)

Theses Canada Portal
Fulltext e-versions of Canadian dissertations and theses, 1998 to August 31, 2002. Also, access to AMICUS, Canada's national online catalogue, for bibliographic records of all theses in the National L...   [more]
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Wanfang Dissertations of China
Humanities and Social Sciences Collection and Architectural Science Collection...   [more]

World Shakespeare Bibliography Online     [find related records >>>]
Annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popul...   [more]
Holdings: 1971 to present.