These are just guidelines and exceptions are plentiful, especially
when you encounter periodicals that are only published on the web. When
in doubt, consult with your professor or a librarian.
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Name:
Access
UN (Help)
Years covered: 1998-present.
Fulltext: Some. Find
source material at Tisch.
Description: Current and retrospective UN documents
and publications, UN periodicals, and bilateral and multilateral treaties. |
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Name: AGRICOLA
(Help)
Years covered: 1970-present.
Fulltext: None. Find
source material at Tisch.
Description: Journal articles, theses, patents, software,
and technical reports related to agriculture. Comprehensive coverage
of newly acquired worldwide publications in agriculture and related
fields.
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Name: Alt-PressWatch
(Help)
Years covered: 1995-present.
Fulltext: All.
Description: Newspapers, magazines and journals of
the alternative and independent press on a broad range of critical
issues. Provides a valuable new source of coverage, viewpoints and
perspectives to complement and challenge the coverage of the mainstream
media.
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Name:
America:
History and Life (Help)
Years covered: 1964-present.
Fulltext: Some.
Description: Scholarly literature on the history
and culture of the U.S. and Canada.
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Name:
Anthropology
Plus (Help)
Years covered: late 19th century-present.
Fulltext: None. Find
source material at Tisch.
Description: Worldwide coverage of social and cultural
anthropology, physical anthropology, biological anthropology, ethnology,
archaeology, folklore, material culture, and linguistic anthropology.
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Name: ARTFL
(American Research on the Treasury of the French Language) (Help)
Years covered: 18th century-present.
Fulltext: All.
Description: 2000 texts ranging from classics to
non-fiction prose and technical writing. Provençal database
includes texts in original spellings. Subjects include literary criticism,
biology, history, economics, and philosophy. Allows for rapid exploration
of single texts. Users can select a customized corpus of texts, search
them for words and word patterns, and see occurrences in context.
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Name: Arts
and Humanities Citation Index (Help)
Years covered: 1975-present.
Fulltext: Some. Find
source material at Tisch.
Description: International journal literature in
arts and humanities.
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Name: Bibliography
of Asian Studies (Help)
Years covered: 1971-present.
Fulltext: None. Find
source material at Tisch.
Description: All subjects (especially in the humanities
and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South
Asia published worldwide.
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Name:
Blackwell
Synergy (Help)
Years covered: time period depends on title
Fulltext: All.
Description: Hundreds of Blackwell journals on a
variety of subjects.
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Name: CIAONet
(Columbia International Affairs Online)
Years covered: 1991-present.
Fulltext: All.
Description: Comprehensive source for theory and
research in international affairs. Working papers, occasional papers
series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, case studies,
books, journals and policy briefs.
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Name:
Conference
Papers Index (Help)
Years covered: 1982-present.
Fulltext: None. Find source material at Tisch.
Description: Citations to papers and poster sessions
presented at major meetings worldwide in life sciences, environmental
sciences and aquatic sciences.
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Name: Current
Contents Connect (Help)
Years covered: 1970-present.
Fulltext: None. Find
source material at Tisch.
Description: Multidisciplinary current awareness
resource providing access to complete bibliographic information of
over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than
2,000 books.
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Name:
EconLit
(Help)
Years covered: 1969-present.
Fulltext: Only book reviews from Journal of Economic
Literature since 1993. Find source material at Tisch.
Description: Economic theory and application in journals,
books, dissertations and working papers
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Name: The
Economist
Years covered: 1997-present.
Fulltext: All.
Description: Daily analysis of world business, current
affairs, science and technology, overviews of cultural trends and
industry, business and country surveys. The site also provides briefings,
statistics and profiles on sixty countries.
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Name:
Economist
Intelligence Unit Country Reports (Help)
Years covered: 1970-present.
Fulltext: All.
Description: Customizable database of EIU business
intelligence. Searchable by country and topic.
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Name: Environmental
Issues & Policy (Help)
Years covered: 1972-present.
Fulltext: None. Find source material at Tisch.
Description: Indexes over 1000 titles in the area
of environmental policy and studies
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Name:
Environmental
Universe (Help)
Years covered: 1975-present.
Fulltext: some. Find
source material at Tisch.
Description: Journal articles and other key sources
on the environment, covering local to worldwide conditions.
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Name:ERIC
(Educational Resources Information Center) (Help)
Years covered: 1966-present.
Fulltext: Some. Find
source material at Tisch.
Description: Education literature from journals,
government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, conference proceedings,
audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
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Name:
Ethnic
NewsWatch (Help)
Years covered: 1991-present.
Fulltext: All.
Description: Newspapers, magazines and journals of
the ethnic, minority and native press.
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Name: Expanded
Academic ASAP
Years covered: 1980-present.
Fulltext: Over 50%. Find
source material at Tisch.
Description: Interdisciplinary, current events database
with coverage from scholarly journals, popular magazines and newspapers.
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Name: FactSearch
Years covered: 1984-present.
Fulltext: None. Find
source material at Tisch.
Description: Social, economic, political, health,
and environmental issues and public policy topics from more than 1,100
mainstream and alternative sources.
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Name: GenderWatch
(Help)
Years covered: 1970-present.
Fulltext: All.
Description: Gender’s impact on a broad spectrum
of subject areas. Historical perspective on the evolution of the women's
movement and changes in gender roles. Publications include journals,
magazines, newspapers, newsletters, conference proceedings, regional
publications, books, pamphlets and government and private organization
reports.
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Name:
Health
Reference Center
Years covered: 1980-present.
Fulltext: Over 55%. Find
source material at Tisch.
Description: Covers fitness, pregnancy, medicine,
nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health and safety,
alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, etc
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Name: Historical
Abstracts (Help)
Years covered: 1969-present.
Fulltext: Some. Find
source material at Tisch.
Description: Scholarly literature in history from
1450 to the present exclusive of the United States and Canada.
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Name:
ISI
Proceedings (Help)
Years covered: 1990-present.
Fulltext: None. Find
source material at Tisch.
Description: Indexes papers delivered at prestigious
international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops,
and conventions.
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Name: JSTOR
(Help)
Years covered: time period depends on title
Fulltext: All.
Description: Scholarly journals in the social sciences,
sciences and humanities.
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Name: Lexis-Nexis
(Help)
Years covered: 1970-present.
Fulltext: All.
Description: National and regional newspapers, wire
services, broadcast transcripts, international news, non-English language
sources, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information,
business news journals, company financial information, industry and
market news, medical news.
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| Name:
Linguistics
and Language Behavior Abstracts (Help)
Years covered: 1973-present.
Fulltext: None. Find
source material at Tisch.
Description: All aspects of the study of language
including phonetics; phonology; morphology; syntax; semantics; descriptive,
historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.
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| Name:
London
Times Archive
Years covered: 1975-1985
Fulltext: All.
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| Name: MLA
International Bibliography (Help)
Years covered: 1963-present.
Fulltext: None. Find
source material at Tisch.
Description: Scholarly research in nearly 4,000 journals
and series in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
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| Name: Nation
Digital Archive (Help)
Years covered: 1865-present.
Fulltext: All.
Description: In the words of its publisher, the Nation
is a “dissenting, independent, trouble-making, idea-launching
journal of critical opinion. It’s also America's oldest continuously
published weekly journal.
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| Name: National
Security Archive (Help)
Years covered: 1945-present.
Fulltext: All.
Description: U.S. foreign and military policy, intelligence
and security issues. Documents include presidential directives, memos,
diplomatic dispatches, meeting notes, independent reports, briefing
papers, White House communications, email, confidential letters and
other secret material.
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| Name:
New
York Times Archive (Help)
Years covered: 1851-three years before present.
Fulltext: All.
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| Name:
Oxford
Reference Online (Help)
Fulltext: All.
Description: Dictionaries, language references, and
subject reference works from art to science, All. published by Oxford
University Press.
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| Name:
PAIS
International
Years covered: 1972-present.
Fulltext: None. Find
source material at Tisch.
Description: Global public policy, economic and social
issues from periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature,
government publications, Internet resources, and other publications
from 120 countries.
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| Name: PapersFirst
Years covered: 1993-present.
Fulltext: None. Find
source material at Tisch.
Description: Index of papers presented at conferences
worldwide. Covers every published congress, symposium, conference,
exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document
Supply Centre.
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| Name:
Philosopher's
Index (Help)
Years covered: 1940-present.
Fulltext: None. Find
source material at Tisch.
Description: Books and journals in philosophy, ethics,
aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology,
and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law,
religion, science, history, education, and language.
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| Name:
Policy
Research Online (Help)
Years covered: 1970-present.
Fulltext: Some. Find
source material at Tisch.
Description: All public policy issues. Content from
public policy think tanks, university research programs, research
organizations and publishers. Contributors include the American Enterprise
Institute, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Center for
Defense Information, Center for Strategic and International Studies,
Council on Foreign Relations, Institute for International Economics,
IMF, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, RAND Corporation,
U.S. Institute of Peace, and the World Bank.
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| Name:
Polling
the Nations
Years covered: 1986-present.
Fulltext: All.
Description: Surveys conducted by more than 700 polling
organizations in the U.S. and abroad. Each record reports a question
asked, responses given, the polling organization responsible for the
work, the date the information was released, the sample size, and
universe, i.e., the groups or areas included in the interview.
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| Name:
Pollution
Abstracts (Help)
Years covered: 1981-present.
Fulltext: None. Find
source material at Tisch.
Description: Scientific research, conference proceedings
and government policies on atmosphere, emissions, mathematical models,
effects on people and animals, and environmental action in response
to global pollution issues.
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| Name:
Project
Muse (Help)
Years covered: time period depends on title
Fulltext: All.
Description: University-press published journals
in arts, humanities, and social sciences.
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| Name: Religion
(Help)
Years covered: 1949-present.
Fulltext: None. Find
source material at Tisch.
Description: Biblical studies, world religions, Church
history and religious perspectives on social issues.
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| Name:
Science
Citation Index (Help)
Years covered: 1945-present.
Fulltext: Some. Find
source material at Tisch.
Description: Covers the journal literature of the
sciences.
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| Name: ScienceDirect
(Help)
Years covered: time period depends on title
Fulltext: All.
Description: One of the world's largest providers
of scientific, technical and medical literature.
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| Name:
Social
Sciences Citation Index (Help)
Years covered: 1956-present.
Fulltext: Some. Find
source material at Tisch.
Description: Bibliographic information, author abstracts,
and cited references found in over 1,700 of the world's leading scholarly
social sciences journals.
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| Name: Sociological
Abstracts (Help)
Years covered: 1963-present.
Fulltext: None. Find
source material at Tisch.
Description: International literature in sociology
and related disciplines. Summarizes journal articles, citations to
book reviews, books, book chapters and dissertations.
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| Name:
Statistical
Universe (Help)
Years covered: 1970-present.
Fulltext: All.
Description: Publications of international intergovernmental
organizations on topics such as population, business and financial
activities, foreign trade, education, health, politics.
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| Name: Wall
Street Journal (Help)
Years covered: 1982-present.
Fulltext: All.
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| Name:
Water
Resources (Help)
Years covered: 1967-present.
Fulltext: None. Find
source material at Tisch.
Description: Summarizes the world's technical and
scientific literature on characteristics, conservation, control, pollution,
treatment, use and management of water. Abstracts are from journals,
books, conference proceedings and technical reports, as well as from
engineering, legal and government publications.
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| Name: Wiley
InterScience (Help)
Years covered: time period depends on title
Fulltext: All.
Description: 300 scientific, technical, medical,
and professional journals, major reference works, laboratory manuals,
and select Wiley print books.
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| Name:
World
Development Indicators (Help)
Years covered: 1970-present.
Fulltext: All.
Description: Over 550 development indicators and
time series data for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Data
includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental
indicators.
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| Name:
World
News Connection (Help)
Years covered: 1970-present.
Fulltext: All.
Description: Translations of hundreds of international
newspaper articles, radio and television broadcasts, and government
statements. Economic, political, military and environmental news.
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| Name:
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (Help)
Years covered: 1975-present.
Fulltext: None. Find
source material at Tisch.
Description: International periodical literature
in political science, international relations, law, and public administration/policy.
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