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African Studies

See also the research guide for African Studies.

AfricaBib This link opens in a new window
Open access to seven bibliographic databases. Search together or separately. Provides links to four external sources. Founded by Davis Bullwinkle and now hosted by the African Studies Centre Leiden.

Ancient Near East

See also the research guide for the Ancient Near East.

Online Egyptological Bibliography This link opens in a new window
The Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB) holds the largest available collection of references in Egyptological literature. It includes the volumes of the Annual Egyptological Bibliography (AEB) for 1947 to 2001 with abstracts, combined with Bibliographie Altgypten (BA) for 1822 to 1946, the Aigyptos database with keywords, and many thousands of more recently added records. It provides coverage of Egyptological literature from 1822 to the present and is updated nearly every day.
Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (OI) Research Archives Catalog This link opens in a new window
Indexes articles, book reviews, monographs, and single volumes from sets. The catalog of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Research Archives at the University of Chicago contains entries for ancient Near East materials cataloged since 1987 with complete analytics (essays, articles and book reviews) for materials cataloged since 1990. The catalog also includes earlier materials, but not comprehensively.

Anthropology

See also the research guide for Anthropology.

Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window
Anthropology Plus is the world's most comprehensive, focused index of bibliographic materials from the late 1800s to today in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology; ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture; and interdisciplinary studies. Beyond these disciplines, researchers and scholars in art history, demography, economics, genetics, geography, geology, history, psychology, religion, or sociology will all find relevant anthropological material.
Anthropology Plus unites two premier indexes created in two hemispheres. The result is extensive, worldwide coverage of core journals plus local and lesser-known journals. Together, Harvard University's highly respected Anthropological Literature database and the United Kingdom's Anthropological Index (Royal Anthropological Institute) provide a uniquely broad and rich resource for education and research in anthropology and related fields
AnthroSource This link opens in a new window
An electronic archive of nearly all the journals published by the American Anthropological Association through 2003; also contains current issues for 11 of the AAA's peer-reviewed publications.

Art and Architecture

Art Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Indexing and abstracting database which corresponds to Art Index (Z5931.A75), indexing more than 300 key, international arts publications. (1984-present): A good starting place for mostly English-language articles on topics from classical art through 21st-century performance artists.

See also the research guide for Art & Architecture.

ARTbibliographies Modern This link opens in a new window
Citations of articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews of modern and contemporary art. Photography is covered from its invention in 1839 to the present.

Astronomy & Astrophysics

See also the research guide for Astronomy & Astrophysics.

Biological Chemistry

Biological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive bibliographic database for the life sciences. Areas of coverage include botany, zoology, ecology, microbiology, biomedicine, agriculture, pharmacology, medicine, biochemistry, biophysics, bioengineering and biotechnology.
CAS SciFinder-n This link opens in a new window
SciFinder-n is a research discovery tool that allows you to explore the CAS databases that contain literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, material science, agricultural science, and more.
Provides access to Chemical Abstracts references (1907-current), including searches by CAS Registry Number (RN), author, topic, molecular formula, and structure/substructure (compound or reaction). Structure/substructure searches retrieve results from the CASREACT reaction database and the CA Registry File compound database. Links to full-text of articles and patents are available.

Biological Sciences

See also the research guide for Biology.

Biological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive bibliographic database for the life sciences. Areas of coverage include botany, zoology, ecology, microbiology, biomedicine, agriculture, pharmacology, medicine, biochemistry, biophysics, bioengineering and biotechnology.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Provides access to citations and full text articles from the biomedical literature (medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care, and the preclinical sciences). PubMed includes MEDLINE (mid 1960s-present), OLDMEDLINE (1950-1965), in-process citations (not yet indexed).
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is an interdisciplinary, bibliographic database that indexes the contents of more than 29,000 journals in the physical sciences, engineering, earth and environmental sciences, life and health sciences, social sciences, psychology, business, and management.

Scopus also features cited references and can be searched for articles that cite a specific article.

Business

ProQuest One Business This link opens in a new window
Replaces ABI/Inform Complete.
Contains business-focused content from a variety of sources including newspapers, dissertations, ebooks, video, business cases, industry reports and more.

See also the research guide for Business.

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Article database that includes trade publications, academic journals, industry profiles, country information and company profiles, which include SWOT analyses. Full text is often available. Use the FindIt links to locate full text of articles that are not included in the database.

Central Asian Studies

See also the research guide for Central Asian & Transcaucasian Studies.

ABSEEES: American Bibliography of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies This link opens in a new window
American Bibliography of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies provides information on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. Covers journals from many different disciplines.

Central Eurasian Studies Society [CESS)

Chemistry

CAS SciFinder-n This link opens in a new window
SciFinder-n is a research discovery tool that allows you to explore the CAS databases that contain literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, material science, agricultural science, and more.
Provides access to Chemical Abstracts references (1907-current), including searches by CAS Registry Number (RN), author, topic, molecular formula, and structure/substructure (compound or reaction). Structure/substructure searches retrieve results from the CASREACT reaction database and the CA Registry File compound database. Links to full-text of articles and patents are available.

See also the research guide for Chemistry.

Cinema and Media Studies

See also the research guide for Cinema and Media Studies.

ProQuest Film Databases This link opens in a new window
A core resource for identifying film criticism, reviews, and interviews, covering 300 of the most important scholarly and popular titles in the literature of film studies.
IIPA: International Index to the Performing Arts This link opens in a new window
Indexes over 200 international periodicals that cover all aspects of the performing arts, including dance, film, drama/theater, stagecraft, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, storytelling, pantomime, puppetry, magic, and the performance business.

Classics

See also the research guide for Classics.

L'Année philologique This link opens in a new window
Indexes all aspects of classical studies, including authors and texts, literature, linguistics, archaeology, epigraphy and numismatics, history, philosophy, science, and technology.
Oxford Classical Dictionary This link opens in a new window
For almost half a century, The Oxford Classical Dictionary has been regarded as the unrivalled one-volume reference work on all aspects of the Graeco-Roman world. It provides both scholars and non-specialists with a comprehensive source of reference which aims to answer all their questions about the classical world. Written by the very best of classical scholars from all over the world, the Dictionary provides coverage of Greek and Roman history, literature, myth, religion, linguistics, philosophy, law, science, art and archaeology, and topics in near eastern studies and late antiquity. (Description from Oxford website.)
ZENON DAI: Zentraler Online-Katalog des Deutschen Archologischen Instituts This link opens in a new window
Zentraler Online-Katalog des Deutschen Archologischen Instituts. ZENON indexes books and articles based on the subject catalogues of the offices of the German Archaeological Institute.
Guide to Zenon DAI is available from the Clark Art Institute.

Computer Science

See also the research guide for Computer Science.

ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new window
ACM Digital Library offers citations and full-text articles from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) journals and newsletter articles, as well as conference proceedings. ACM is a widely recognized premier membership organization for computing professionals. Limit of 3 simultaneous user(s).

East Asia

Bibliography of Asian Studies This link opens in a new window
References western-language periodical articles, monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, and anthologies on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.

Economics

See also the research guide for East Asia.

EconLit with Full Text This link opens in a new window
EconLit indexes articles from economics journals, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers. It is a very good source for empirical studies on economics and finance.
Use the FindIt links to locate full text of articles that are not included in the database.

Education

See also the research guide for Education.

ERIC This link opens in a new window
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), U.S. Department of Education. Since 1966, ERIC has indexed journals, research reports, conference papers, curriculum guides and publications of organizations. Full-text of older ERIC documents (non-journal material) are often available on microfiche; note the Accession Number beginning with ED in the ERIC record. The ERIC microfiche is located on the Regenstein B-level.
Education Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Education Abstracts brings you comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. Coverage includes about 79 journals (37 with full text) not covered by ERIC.

Environmental Studies

Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is an interdisciplinary, bibliographic database that indexes the contents of more than 29,000 journals in the physical sciences, engineering, earth and environmental sciences, life and health sciences, social sciences, psychology, business, and management.

Scopus also features cited references and can be searched for articles that cite a specific article.
Biological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive bibliographic database for the life sciences. Areas of coverage include botany, zoology, ecology, microbiology, biomedicine, agriculture, pharmacology, medicine, biochemistry, biophysics, bioengineering and biotechnology.
GeoRef This link opens in a new window
GeoRef is an index covering geological literature, with citations and abstracts from journals, conference proceedings, technical reports, and books. Covers North America since 1785 and other areas since 1933. Figures, tables, graphs, and other illustrations within individual articles are also indexed for searching. Limit of 4 simultaneous user(s).

Gay and Lesbian Studies

See also the research guide for Gay and Lesbian Studies.

LGBTQ+ Source This link opens in a new window
Resource covering literature regarding Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender issues. Coverage includes traditional academic, cultural, lifestyle, and regional publications, as well as non-periodical content such as books, bibliographies and dissertations. This resource is funded by the Illinois State Library.

Geography

Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is an interdisciplinary, bibliographic database that indexes the contents of more than 29,000 journals in the physical sciences, engineering, earth and environmental sciences, life and health sciences, social sciences, psychology, business, and management.

Scopus also features cited references and can be searched for articles that cite a specific article.

See also the research guide for Geography.

Geophysical Sciences

GeoRef This link opens in a new window
See also the research guide for Geophysical Sciences.
GeoRef is an index covering geological literature, with citations and abstracts from journals, conference proceedings, technical reports, and books. Covers North America since 1785 and other areas since 1933. Figures, tables, graphs, and other illustrations within individual articles are also indexed for searching. Limit of 4 simultaneous user(s).

History

See also the research guide for History.

America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
America: History & Life is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Historical Abstracts is an exceptional resource that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more - essential for libraries supporting upper-division and graduate research. This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.

(Description taken from EBSCO website.)

History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science and Medicine

History of Science, Technology, & Medicine This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic database of journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields. Updated quarterly. 1975-present.

See also the research guides for History, Medicine, and Sciences.

Human Development

See also the research guide for Psychology.

Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Provides access to research in sociology and related disciplines. Includes citations since 1963 (and abstracts since 1974) for articles in over 1,500 journals.

Judaica and Hebraica

See also the research guides for Jewish Studies and Religion.

ATLA Religion with ATLASerials PLUS This link opens in a new window
AtlaSerials PLUS (Atlas PLUS) includes more than 580+ full-text journals in many diverse areas of religion and theology, with full-text content in more than 20 languages from more than 35 different countries. Atlas PLUS includes all of the titles in Atla’s original full-text product, AtlaSerials (Atlas), and 200+ additional full-text titles.
Index to Jewish Periodicals This link opens in a new window
This database provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs. Journal coverage dates back as far as 1988.
RAMBI: Index of Articles on Jewish Studies This link opens in a new window
Selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Material in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages.

Latin American Studies

See also the research guide for Latin America.

Clase and Peridica (OCLC) This link opens in a new window
CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIDICA covers journals specializing in science and technology.
Handbook of Latin American Studies This link opens in a new window
The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources.
HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index This link opens in a new window
Indexes worldwide informationfrom analyses of political, economic, and social issues to Latin American arts and letterson Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border, and Hispanics in the United States.

Law

See also the research guide for Law.

HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Searchable full text, page images, and PDF versions of law journal articles from the first issue to the present, plus the Federal Register from 1936 to 1980, U.S. Supreme Court opinions from 1754 to the present, and U.S. treaties from 1776 to the present.

Linguistics

See also the research guide for Linguistics.

Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) This link opens in a new window
Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Also covers various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical, and geographical linguistics.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Indexes materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore, excluding book reviews. Citations from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide, as well as books, essays, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, & bibliographies. Also includes citations to books and journal articles having to do with linguistics and language topics.
Video tutorial on searching writer's names as subjects

Literature

MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Indexes materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore, excluding book reviews. Citations from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide, as well as books, essays, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, & bibliographies. Also includes citations to books and journal articles having to do with linguistics and language topics.
Video tutorial on searching writer's names as subjects

ABELL: Annual Bibliography of English Literature This link opens in a new window
Covers monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations on English language and literatures. (Coverage: 1920-present). Now part of ProQuest One Literature. To search ABELL alone, click on "Criticism" and then select ABELL on the left-hand sidebar.

Mathematics

See also the research guide for Mathematics.

MathSciNet This link opens in a new window
Indexes journal articles, books, and conference proceedings in pure and applied mathematics, mathematical statistics and some computer science. Provides comprehensive coverage from 1940 and includes bibliographic data from retrodigitized articles dating back to the early 1800s. Provides links to available full text. Video tutorials are available here: https://www.youtube.com/@mathscinet
Zentralblatt MATH This link opens in a new window
Indexes journal articles and books in mathematics; more European in coverage than MathSciNet. Now includes records from the Jahrbuch Database. Coverage is 1868 to current.

Medieval & Byzantine Studies

International Medieval Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary bibliography of the European Middle Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the period 400-1500. Contains records for articles from periodicals, conference proceedings, exhibition catalogues, etc. published world-wide.

See also the research guide for Medieval & Byzantine Studies.

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance This link opens in a new window
Indexes literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books, journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogs, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts, and essays in books.

Middle East

See also the research guide for Middle East.

Index Islamicus (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim world (main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere). Includes records for articles from over 2,000 journals, conference proceedings, monographs, and book reviews.

Music

See also the research guide for Music.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
The database covers musicology, ethnomusicology, theory, analysis, composition, instruments and voice, performance practice and notation, liturgy, dance, aesthetics, criticism, music therapy and education, and iconography.
Music Index Online This link opens in a new window
The Music Index Online is the single most comprehensive subject-author guide to music periodical literature. The Music Index has been available in print since 1949. The Music Index online coverage spans from 1970 to the present and contains surveyed data from 775 international music periodicals from over 40 countries, with English translations from 22 languages.

ISBNs are not part of a searchable field in this database.
Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Parent database for Grove Music Online, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, The Oxford Companion to Music, and the Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Searching can be done on a single source within this parent database or one can search across two or more sources.
All searches are done on the full text.

Philosophy

Philosopher's Index This link opens in a new window
Contains citations and abstracts covering scholarly research in the field of philosophy. Covers all major articles from anthologies and books in English, Spanish, German, Italian, and French as well as 480 journals from 38 countries.

See also the research guide for Philosophy.

Physics

See also the research guide for Physics.

ArXiv.org e-Print Archive This link opens in a new window
Open access to 618,277 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.

Political Science

See also the research guide for Political Science.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Covers the political science discipline and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy.

Psychology

See also the research guide for Psychology.

Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is an interdisciplinary, bibliographic database that indexes the contents of more than 29,000 journals in the physical sciences, engineering, earth and environmental sciences, life and health sciences, social sciences, psychology, business, and management.

Scopus also features cited references and can be searched for articles that cite a specific article.

Public Policy

PAIS International This link opens in a new window
Provides selective subject and bibliographic access to periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, Internet resources, and other publications from 120 countries.

See also the research guide for Public Policy.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Covers the political science discipline and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy.

Religion

See also the research guide for Religion.

ATLA Religion with ATLASerials PLUS This link opens in a new window
AtlaSerials PLUS (Atlas PLUS) includes more than 580+ full-text journals in many diverse areas of religion and theology, with full-text content in more than 20 languages from more than 35 different countries. Atlas PLUS includes all of the titles in Atla’s original full-text product, AtlaSerials (Atlas), and 200+ additional full-text titles.
Index to Jewish Periodicals This link opens in a new window
This database provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs. Journal coverage dates back as far as 1988.

Slavic & East European Studies

See also the research guide for Slavic & East European Studies.

ABSEEES: American Bibliography of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies This link opens in a new window
American Bibliography of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies provides information on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. Covers journals from many different disciplines.

Central Eurasian Studies Society [CESS)

Statistics

Current Index to Statistics This link opens in a new window
Comprehensively indexes 106 core statistics journals and selectively indexes approximately 900 additional journals and books. Coverage: 1974 to current
MathSciNet This link opens in a new window
Indexes journal articles, books, and conference proceedings in pure and applied mathematics, mathematical statistics and some computer science. Provides comprehensive coverage from 1940 and includes bibliographic data from retrodigitized articles dating back to the early 1800s. Provides links to available full text. Video tutorials are available here: https://www.youtube.com/@mathscinet

Social Work

Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Since 1980, provides bibliographic coverage of research on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Abstracts and indexes including citations to dissertations and book reviews.

Sociology

Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Provides access to research in sociology and related disciplines. Includes citations since 1963 (and abstracts since 1974) for articles in over 1,500 journals.

South Asia

Bibliography of Asian Studies This link opens in a new window
References western-language periodical articles, monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, and anthologies on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.

Sports

Theater

See also the research guide for Theater.

IIPA: International Index to the Performing Arts This link opens in a new window
Indexes over 200 international periodicals that cover all aspects of the performing arts, including dance, film, drama/theater, stagecraft, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, storytelling, pantomime, puppetry, magic, and the performance business.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Indexes materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore, excluding book reviews. Citations from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide, as well as books, essays, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, & bibliographies. Also includes citations to books and journal articles having to do with linguistics and language topics.
Video tutorial on searching writer's names as subjects

Women's Studies

ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History This link opens in a new window
A current bibliography (1975- ) of articles about women's and gender history. Articles published in English, French, German and Dutch are selected from more than 90 European, American and Indian Journals. From the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Full-text database of over 100 scholarly journals published by university presses in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.

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