General Databases
Academic
Search Premier (1984 - present; 3400 full-text journals; more
info
Provides coverage for nearly all academic areas of study, including social sciences,
humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics,
arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. This scholarly, multidisciplinary
database indexes over 4300 periodicals. Updated daily. Produced by EBSCO Publishing.
Interface by same. Complete
title list.
Contemporary Authors
Covers living authors and authors who have died in the 20th century. Provides
information about authors by title of work, author name, subject, nationality,
etc... . Covers 100,000 writers. Updated monthly.
Contents
First(1990 - present) Contains tables of contents for journals in many
fields. Updated daily.
Electronic Journal Center
More that 2,000 online journals, beginning in 1985 and continuing into present.
Covers many subject areas and is searchable.
FRANCIS
(1984 - present)
International Humanities and Social Sciences index that contains a wide range
of multilingual, multidisciplinary information from over 4,000 journals. It is
strong in religion, art history, and literature.
InfoTrac Expanded
Academic (ASAP)
(1980 - present)
Abstracts and selected fulltext to articles in more than 1600 popular and scholarly
periodicals. Covers subjects in the Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences and
Sciences.
JSTOR
Searchable online archive of scholarly journals.
LexisNexis Academic
Good coverage of current foreign language news sources. Click News - then Foreign
Language News .
Literature
Resource Center
The Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies,
and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers
more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with
in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most -studied authors.
MLA International
Bibliography
An index of hundreds of periodicals in modern languages and literatures, linguistics,
and folklore.
French Databases
ARTFL
(Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language)
ARTFL is a cooperative project between the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
and the University of Chicago. The full-text database contains nearly 2000 texts,
ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction
prose and technical writing. The 17th -20th centuries are all represented with
smaller selection of medieval and Renaissance texts. The collection's genres include
novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises covering
subjects from literary criticism to biology, history, economics, and philosophy.
In most cases, standard scholarly editions were used in conversion, and the data
contains the page references. Recent additions include texts by Montaigne and
Moupassant, and the database is updated periodically.
Spanish/Latin American Databases
Chicano Database
A comprehensive bibliographic resource for information about Mexican-American
topics. The database identifies all types of materials about Chicanos including
the broader Latino experience of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American
immigrants. It also includes the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database, which
covers psychological, sociological, and educational literature Coverage begins
in 1967, and the database is updated quarterly.
Handbook of Latin
American Studies Evalutes books, chapters, articles and conference papers
published in the field of Latin American studies. More than 1,350 social science
journals and 550 humanities journals are indexed, as well as relevant books and
conference proceedings. Coverage begins n 1990 and the database is updated annually.
Hispanic American
Periodical Index Contains article citations from more than 400 scholarly
journals published in Latin America or addressing Latin American and U.S. Hispanic
topics. Coverage includes materials in English and European languages. The journals
are selected and indexed by an international panel of scholars. Coverage begins
in 1970. Updated annually with about 9,000 new records.
