Internet Resources
ABI/Inform
Libraries' Computer Network (Databases or Full Text buttons) or
the World Wide Web
1971 to date; Updated weekly. ABI / INFORM indexes and abstracts and provides some fulltext articles from 1000 scholarly and trade business periodicals. Popular journals such as Forbes, Fortune, and Business Week are also included. It is an excellent source of information on accounting, auditing, economics, finance, marketing, general management, data processing, management science, advertising, labor relations, law and taxation purshcasing and personnel, as well as the following industires: insurance, banking, real estate, public administration and telecommunications.
1990 - date. Individual title coverage varies. Article 1st provides bibliographic references and local library holdings for more than 13,000 scholarly and general-interest publications. Covered subject areas include business, the humanities, medicine, popular culture, science, social science, and technology.
Business & Company
ASAP
Libraries' web site - 1995 to date (backfile: 1985-1994), individual
title coverage varies; Updated weekly. Business and Company ASAP
covers all aspects of business and management, including company and
industry information. The database provides bibliographic references,
abstracts or full text for articles from
900 publications in the business, economic, management, trade and
industry fields; and profiles and directory-like coverage of over 118,000
public and private companies.
The world's most comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information from Congressional Information Service, Inc.
ERIC: Education Resource &
Information Center
Libraries' Computer Network (Databases) or Libraries' web site
1966 - date. ERIC contains citations and abstracts of the international journal and report literature in education and education-related fields. Subjects include all aspects of education. Sources include more than 980 journals, educational reports, project descriptions, curriculum guides, and dissertations. The complete texts of 90% of the document literature (ED numbers) are available on microfiche at the Hale Microforms Desk.
Expanded
Academic ASAP
Libraries' web site - 1994 - date. Some Backfiles go back as far as 1987. Updated weekly.
Expanded Academic ASAP provides bibliographic references, abstracts or full-text for articles from more
than 1550 scholarly and general-interest publications. Covered subject areas include the astronomy,
religion, law, history, psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, communications and the
non-technical general sciences.
Health Reference
Center - Academic
Libraries' web site - 1994 - date: updated weekly. Health Reference
Center - Academic provides bibliographic references, abstracts
and full text for excerpts and articles from a variety of health publications. Material includes a medical dictionary;
medical directories and reference books; consumer-oriented and professional
health periodicals; and pamphlets issued by leading health organizations.
The periodical material is augmented by specially selected health articles
from general-interest, business and specialty publications.
LEXIS/NEXIS Academic Universe is the Web version of Lexis/Nexis. It is composed of a wide variety of materials including full-text legal, news and business databases as well as U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, wire services, newsletters, journals, company and industry analyst reports, and broadcast transcripts. Of particular interest is the New York Times, June 1980 - to date. Another 1000 sources include abstracts only.
MLA Bibliography
Social Sciences/Humanities Reference - PB 1 .M45 or Libraries' web site
1963 - date. The Modern Language Association International Bibliography indexes 3,000 English language and foreign periodicals as well as books, book chapters, and dissertations. Its subject matter includes critical works on literature, language, linguistics, communication behavior, and folklore. Reviews of literary and scholarly works are not included. There are no abstracts.
National Newspaper
Index
Libraries' web site - 1995 - date: updated weekly. National Newspaper Index provides references
to articles from five major newspapers: The New York Times
(late and national editions, book review and magazine); The Wall Street Journal (eastern and
western editions); The Christian Science Monitor (national edition); The Washington Post
(final edition); and The Los Angeles Times (home edition).
PerAbs (Periodical Abstracts - via FirstSearch)
January 1987 - date. PerAbs includes over 800,000 abstracts describing articles from more than 1,500 scholarly and general-interest publications. It also offers full-text availability for some of the articles and includes library holdings of all records. Subject areas include: business, culture, economics, history, literature, psychology, religion, sociology, and women's studies.
1967 to date; Updated monthly. PsycINFO is produced by the American Psychological Association and contains citations and abstracts of the world's literature in psychology, behavioral sciences, and related subjects. It includes citations to journal articles scanned from more than 1800 journal titles, technical reports, and dissertations of psychological relevance from more than 50 countries. PsycINFO does include some books and book chapters published during the 1960's and into the early to mid 1980's. PsycBooks has records for more recently published books and book chapters. Approximately 50% of the articles selected for inclusion in PsycINFO are published outside the United States; 10% are in a language other than English.
PAIS:
Public Affairs Information Service
Social Sciences/Humanities Reference - Z 7163 .P9
1915 - date. A selected index to printed materials on contemporary issues in all formats: periodical articles, books, government documents, and reports of public and private organizations.
Print Resources
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Hale Library Stacks - Z 699.5 .H8 A77
1974-1988. A & HCI is useful for finding books, monographs, articles, and reviews related to research by subject and other works cited in or by those works. An excellent bibliography-builder
Business Periodicals Index
Social Sciences/Humanities Reference - HF 5001 .B868
1958 - date.
Communication Abstracts
Social Sciences/Humanities Reference - P 87 .C58
1978 - date. A comprehensive source of information about communication-related publications at a worldwide scale. CA covers major communications-related articles, reports, and books from a variety of putlishers, research institution, and information sources, providing coverage of recent literature in the areas of general communication, mass communication, advertising and marketing, broadcasting, communication theory, interpersonal and intrapersonal communication, small group communication, organizational communication, journalism, public relations, radio, public opinion, speech, and television.
Essay & General Literature Index
Social Sciences/Humanities Reference - AI 3 .E755
1900 - date. EGLI is an author and subject index to essays published in collections, with particular emphasis on materials in the humanities and social sciences.
Humanities Index
Social Sciences/Humanities Reference - AI 3 .H85
1974 - date. Humanities Index is a cumulative index to English language periodicals. The main body of the Index consists of author and subject entries to periodical articles arranged in one alphabet. There are separate listings of citations to book reviews following the main body of the Index. Subject fields include archaeology and classical studies, area studkes, folklore, history, language and literature, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology, and related subjects. (1974- )
Index to Journals in Communication Studies (Matlon)
Social Sciences/Humanities Reference - P 87 .M29
(1974, 1979, 1990). Cumulatively indexes the Tables of Contents of 19 major communication journals from their beginning issues. Only primary articles are represented; book reviews, editorial comments and convention remarks are generally not included. Subject and Keyword indexes are included along with the issue-by-issue tables of contents for each title.
Index to Legal Periodicals & Books
Social Sciences/Humanities Reference - KF 8 .I5
1926 - 1996. Previous Title: Index to Legal Periodicals. Indexes legal periodicals and books published or edited in the US, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zwland. Yearbooks, annual institutes and annual reviews of the work in a given field are also included. Articles myst be at least two ordinary pages or one folio page in order to qualify for inclusion.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Social Sciences/Humanities Reference - P 1 .L5
1967 - date. LLBA indexes journals in a wide range of disciplines including communications, comparative literature, education, psychiatry and psychology , as well as journals devoted entirely to language and linguistics.
Social Sciences Citation Index
Social Sciences/Humanities Reference - Z 7163 .S6
1966 - date
Social Sciences Index
Social Sciences/Humanities Reference - AI 3 .S62
1974 - date.
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