Interdisciplinary Databases

Academic Search Premier  1980 - present
Index to Articles
An index to articles in over 8,000 journals covering all subject areas. Includes full text for over 4,000 of those journals.  

Alternative Press Index  1991 - present
Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Includes selected abstracts from research journals.  

Alternative Press Index Archive  1969 - 1990
Indexes over 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Includes selected abstracts from research journals and links to full-text articles when available.  

Arts & Humanities Search  1980 - present
Articles
A comprehensive index to journal articles in the arts and humanities. Citations only.  

Clase and Periodica  1975 - present
Clase indexes articles Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. Periodica covers journals specializing in science and technology.  Together they contain citations for articles in over 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.

JSTOR  
Index to Articles
JSTOR (Journal STORage) includes the archival full-text runs of 117 journal titles in 15 disciplines. JSTOR does not publish current issues of the journals in order to protect the revenue of publishers.  

LexisNexis Academic  
Index to Articles
Full-text mega-database. Useful for newstopics, current events, business, politics, and law.  

MasterFILE Premier  1975 - present
Interdisciplinary, non-scholarly. Indexes 3100+ general periodicals. Full-text for 1500+ titles.  

Project Muse  1993 - present
Articles
Provides online access to the full text of over 200 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.  

Web of Science  1955 - present
Provides access to Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Social Sciences Citation Index.  

Books in Print  
Records describe in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audios, and videos from North American publishers and U.S. distributors and wholesalers.  

CQ Researcher Online  1923 - present
Provides in-depth, non-biased reporting and analysis of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.  

Congressional Research Service  1916 - present
Full-text reports written for the U. S. Congress on matters relating to public policy in the United States. Useful for almost any topic: drug testing of athletes, mad cow disease, biofuels, and North Korea's nuclear weapon program.  Objective, comprehensive, non-partisan, and written by experts in the field.

Dissertation Abstracts  1860 - present
bstracts of dissertations in all academic subjects from accredited institutions. Indexing only from 1861; abstracts of dissertations from 1980; abstracts of theses from 1988.  

GPO Monthly Catalog  1976 - present
Index to publications of US Congress & government agencies.  

NetLibrary  
Provides access to the full text of over 25,000 reference, scholarly, professional, and fiction books in electronic or audio formats.  

PapersFirst  1993 - present
Interdisciplinary database that indexes the publications of conferences, symposiums, expositions, workshops, meetings, and congresses held worldwide.  

ProceedingsFirst  1993 - present
Describes publications from worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, symposia, etc.  

Serials Directory  
Contains bibliographic information and pricing for over 155,000 US and international periodicals.  

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (Ulrichsweb)  
Provides comprehensive and authoritative information on serials published worldwide. Also contains links to alternate titles, tables of contents, article abstracts, journal full-text and document delivery.  

WorldCat  1000 BCE - present
Index to Other Information
Records of books, media, manuscripts cataloged by libraries from throughout the world. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.