Alphabetical List of Databases/Indexes
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Find articles in scholarly journals and magazines with these large, multi-disciplinary databases.
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ABI/INFORM Global
Search nearly 1,800 premier worldwide business periodicals for information on companies, computers, advertising, marketing, economics, personnel, finance, taxation, etc. Includes the Wall Street Journal full-text 1984-
Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 2,000 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis.
EBSCOhost
A collection of databases, including Academic Search Elite, which offers full text for nearly 2,000 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles, covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and much more.
ERIC
ERIC focuses on journal and non-journal education-related topics. ERIC subject descriptors are listed in the Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors, available at the public service desks in the Main Library and the Psychology Library as well as electronically through OVID. Full-text of ERIC documents from 1993 to the present is available from the ERIC website free. NOTE: This resource uses the local Ovid interface to ERIC and allows users to search ERIC and PsycINFO together in one interface.
ERIC Full-text Documents
Full text of the ERIC documents (EDs) from 1993 to the present. Please note that all ERIC documents 1966-July, 2004 are available in microfiche in the Media Services Department, Main Library. New ERIC documents will be available in electronic format only after July, 2004.
FRANCIS
A multilingual and multidisciplinary bibliographic database covering the humanities (archaeology, history of art, history of science, linguistics, literature, philosophy, prehistory, religions), social sciences (administration, computer and law, education, ethnology, geography, health , sociology) and economics (economy, energy economics, management ).
Google Scholar
Click on the "UIowa InfoLink:Full Text" link next to each citation in your results list for InfoLink services including full text (when available), links to the InfoHawk Catalog, Interlibrary Loan requests and more.
ISI Web of Knowledge
A citation database that includes the Web of Science (Science Citation Index, 1900-present, the Social Science Citation Index, 1956-present, and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, 1975-present) and Journal Citation Reports (JCR).
LexisNexis Academic
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal research, medical and reference information. The news section provides access to full text of newspapers from the U.S., Europe, Africa, North and South America and Australia in English, as well as some in Dutch, French, German, Italian and Spanish; news wires, television and radio transcripts are also available.
MLA International Bibliography
The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It is produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), an organization dedicated to the study and teaching of language and literature. The electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1925 and contains over 2 million citations from more than 4,400 periodicals (including peer-reviewed e-journals) and 1,000 book publishers.
Periodicals Index Online
Electronic index to over 4,500 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, covering each periodical from its first issue (as early as 1665) . Every article is indexed. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other languages.
Readers' Guide Retrospective
A comprehensive index to the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States. This database is available through WilsonWeb and covers the time period from 1890-1982.
WilsonWeb
This database provides access to the following indexes: Art Full Text, Art Retrospective, Education Full Text, Essay and General Literature, Library Literature and Information Science Full Text, Readers' Guide Retrospective, and Short Story Index.
WorldCat
A bibliographic database of over 62,000,000 records from over 2,000 libraries around the world.
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