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Locating Secondary Sources
Locating Primary
Source Material
People and Places to know
about in the Yale Library
Locating Secondary Sources
Tools such as catalogs, bibliographies, general
indexes, subject specific indexes,
and other reference sources are
secondary sources of information that serve to point the user to
materials on whatever subject is being researched.
Catalogs
- Orbis
Orbis
Orbis
Searching Guide
Together, Orbis and Morris (the Law Library catalog) constitute the Yale University
Library online catalog. In Orbis, OPAC contains materials from 1977
to the present. Use OPAC to determine what materials Yale owns (books,
journals, etc.) and where they are located.
- WorldCat
WorldCat
WorldCat is an online "union catalog"; that is, a bibliographic
database of over 39 million records of books and other materials
held in thousands of academic, public, special and national libraries
around the world. Use WorldCat to locate materials outside of Yale,
in almost any area of study, or to locate items in specific libraries
and research collections. WorldCat provides catalog records for
books, maps,sound recordings, musical scores, films, archives, and
computer files held in research, corporate, and public libraries,
as well as museums, archives and historical societies. All searches
may be easily printed, downloaded or e-mailed directly to you.
- Other
Library Catalogs
Library catalogs at Yale, including Morris (Law Library
materials), special catalogs, and the Center for Research Libraries
catalog. Link to catalogs for searching multiple libraries, selected
local and regional library catalogs, and portals for locating libraries
around the world.
Bibliographies
- In Orbis, search by keyword: [subject] and
bibliography
- Notice the Library of Congress Subject Heading
- Search the Subject heading in WorldCat
General Indexes
Citations in the Alternative Press Index are drawn from alternative, radical, and left publications, that report and
analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political,
and social change. API indexes such important periodicals as: Cineaste, Environmental
Action, Socialist Review, and Women's Review of Books. 90% of the
publications indexed in API are unique; you won't find them indexed
in the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature or the Social Sciences
Index. Major topics include: African-American Studies, ethnic &
racial studies, feminism, gay/lesbian studies, community organizing,
ecology, labor studies, social theory, socialism, alternative organizations,
anarchism, prisons, indigenous people's rights,internationalism.
America: History and Life (Santa Barbara,
CA: ABC Clio, v. 0- 1964- .)
SML, Z1236 +A43 (LC)
America: History and Life
The primary index to the literature of American and Canadian History,
covering journals in 45 languages. Also, includes dissertations
and selected book, film and video reviews. Quarterly with annual
cumulations. The print volumes are issued in four parts:
* Part A. Article abstracts and citations
* Part B. Index to book reviews
* Part C. American History bibliography, books, articles and dissertations
* Part D. Annual Index
Volume 0 covers 1954-1963. The online version covers 1964 to
the present.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Philadelphia:
Institute for Scientific Information, 1975- .)
SML, Starr Main Reference Rm, Annex Z5937 +A795 (LC)
Arts & Humanities Search
An international interdisciplinary index to the literature of the
arts and humanities, indexing the contents of journals,
covering about 1,000 fully and about 5,100 selectively. Those selectively
covered are titles in the sciences and social sciences indexed by
Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index, from
which articles of possible interest in the arts and humanities are
drawn.
Published in three parts:
* Citation Index (through which you can find what later articles
have cited earlier books or articles)
* Source Index (an author index)
* Permuterm Subject Index (which offers keyword access to the titles
of articles)
The database covers 1978 to the present, and the print volumes go
back to 1975.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Detroit,
Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985-)
SML Starr Main Reference Rm Z5305 U5 +B562 (LC)
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Biography and Genealogy Master Index is a comprehensive index to
nearly 12 million biographical sketches in more than 2700 volumes
and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering
both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.
Biography Resource Center
Biography Resource Center
The Biography Resource Center (BioRC) is a comprehensive database
of biographical information throughout history, around the world,
and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines biographies from sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia
of World Biography, Newsmakers, Contemporary Theatre, Film, and
Television, Contemporary Musicians, Historic World Leaders, Notable
Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious
Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists,
Writers Directory; with full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals
including American History, The Christian Century, Saturday Night,
U.S. News & World Report.
Historical Abstracts (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC
Clio, v. 1 1955- v. 16 (1970)
SML Stacks D1 +H48 (LC)
Historical Abstracts
Historical Abstracts contains annotated references to books, articles,
and dissertations on the history of the world from 1450 to the present
(excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America:
History and Life). Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts
indexes over 2,000 journals published throughout the world. In addition
to key historical journals from virtually every major country, Historical
Abstracts covers hundreds of journals in the social sciences and
humanities that are of special interest to researchers and students
of history.
Periodicals Index Online
Periodicals Index Online
Periodicals Index Online is an electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals
in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to
1990/1991. Every article is indexed. The scope is international,
including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
and other Western languages. PCI Web currently indexes over six
million articles in 1,595 journals. Every year, it adds records
for more than two million more articles. It will grow to encompass
3,500 journals and fifteen million individual articles.
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. (Minneapolis
: H. W. Wilson Co., 1905- )
SML Starr Main Reference Rm, Index Case AI1 R43 (LC)
Readers' Guide Abstracts Full Text
Readers’ Guide Retrospective
Readers' Guide Abstracts Full Text is a database containing comprehensive
indexing and abstracting of more than 240 of the most popular general
interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada,
plus the full text of over 120 of those periodicals. It covers news,
current events, and all subject areas, including business, fashion,
politics, crafts, food, education, sports, history, and science.
The abstracts average 125 words in length. Two types of abstracts
are included. Informative abstracts convey the content, scope, and
complexity of the source article, and are the predominant form used.
Indicative abstracts describe the subject of the source article
and are reserved for how to articles, humorous essays, personal
accounts, and recipes. Full-text coverage begins in January 1994
for most titles. Indexes popular magazines and journals throughout
the 20th Century. For earlier citations, see the Nineteenth
Century Readers Guide to Periodical Literature (SML, Starr Main
Reference Rm AI3 R43 LC) and Poole's Index to Periodical
Literature (SML, Starr Main Reference Rm AI3 +P658 (LC) Room,
Index Case).
Wilson Web (Bronx, N.Y.: H.W. Wilson )
WilsonWeb
A collection of periodical indexing databases covering the Arts,
Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences. You can search the databases
separately, or use WilsonWeb's Check Relevant Databases feature
at the bottom of the initial search screen to search across multiple
databases simultaneously.
Subject Specific Indexes
- Art Index. (New York, H.W. Wilson Jan. 1929/Sept.
1932-)
SML Starr Main Reference Rm Z5937 +A78 (LC)
ART/ARCHITECTURE Reference, Index Z5937 C65 (LC)
Art Abstracts and Art Index Retrospective
The online versions of Art Abstracts and Art Index have identical
coverage with the exception of the addition of abstracts in the
Art Abstracts database (since1994). Both publications have a start
date of September 1984 and index approximately 313 periodicals.
Includes periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition and
award notices, exhibition listings, interviews, film reviews, and
more. The print volumes of Art Index begin in 1929.
- ATLA. (Evanston, Il : American Theological
Library Association)
ATLA Religion Database
The ATLA Religion Database is a comprehensive database designed
to support religious and theological scholarship in graduate education
and faculty research. The file contains citations from international
titles and 13,000 multi-author works in and related to the field
of religion. It also includes a full range of index citations to
journal articles, essays in multi-author works, book reviews, and
Doctor of Ministry projects from ATLA's print indexes: Religion
Index One (RIO), Religion Index Two (R IT), and Index to Book Reviews
in Religion (IBRR). Though coverage is from1949 to the present,
not all publications begin in 1949.
- Bibliography of the History of Art. Santa
Monica, Calif. : J. Paul Getty Trust, ; Vandoeuvre-Nancy, France
: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1973-.
ART/ARCHITECTURE Reference Z5931 +B538 (LC)
the Bibliography of the History of Art
Contains records describing the current literature of art, including
books, museum and exhibition catalogs, Festschriften, congress and
symposium proceedings, dissertations, and journal articles in more
than 3,000 periodicals. Produced by the Getty Information Institute
(formerly the Getty Art History Information Program) and the Institut
de l'Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST). BHA incorporates
the art indexes RILA (International Repertory of the Literature
of Art) and RAA (Repertoire d'art et d'archeologie). Updated quarterly.
- Black Studies Database: Kaiser index to Black
resources (1948/1986). (Baltimore, MD : National Information
Services Corporation, c1997-)
Black Studies Database
The Black Studies Database, the electronic version of the celebrated
Kaiser Index to Black Periodicals, includes more than 170,000 citations
drawn from significant and influential journals, magazines, newspapers,
newsletters, pamphlets and reports relevant to the Black experience
from 1948-1986. This valuable resource covers events critical to
the study of Black life and culture outside of Africa including
notable figures in Black history, culture, and sports; the Civil
Rights Movement, the growth of the NAACP and the National Urban
League; the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; jazz and soul
music; and much more.Coverage is from 1948 to 1986 and continuing;
a substantial effort is underway to bring coverage up to date.
- GenderWatch (Stamford, CT : SoftLine Information
1978-June 1998-)
GenderWatch
GenderWatch is a full text database of publications that focus on
the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas including
business, education, literature and the arts, health sciences, history,
political science, public policy, sociology and contemporary culture,
and gender and women's studies. Publications include academic and
scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional
publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings,
and government, n-g-o and special reports.
- ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) (Boston, MA: Silverplatter Information Services, 1966- )
ERIC online
The Educator’s Reference Desk
The Gateway
to Educational Materials (GEM)
ERIC
documents are available on microfiche in the SML Microtext Center.
- Ethnic Newswatch. (Stamford, CT: Softline
Information, [1998- )
Ethnic Newswatch
Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines
and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. The collection
of articles, editorials, columns, and reviews provide a broad diversity
of perspectives and viewpoints. Free text searching and complete
indexing are available in English and Spanish language. The general
categories of ethnic groups represented in the Ethnic NewsWatch
database are: African American/Caribbean/African, Arab/Middle Eastern,
Asian/Pacific Island, European/Eastern European, Hispanic, Jewish,
Multi-ethnic, Native Peoples
- Film Literature Index. v.1- 1973- (Albany,
NY: Filmdex, 1974-)
SML, Starr Main Reference Rm, Annex Z5784 M9 F55 (LC)
Film Index International
Film Literature Index The major index to film criticism from 1974 to the present. Indexes
over 300 international film periodicals. Film title, personal name,
and subject indexes are included. Film Literature Index also
includes critical articals on television and video (section two).For
earlier scholarship, consult the Retrospective Index to Film
Periodicals, below.
- International Index To Film Periodicals (New
York: R. R. Bowker, 1972- )
Available through FIAF
International Index to Film Periodicals
SML, Starr Main Reference Rm, Annex Z5784 M9 +I582 (LC)
A subject index to articles, biographies, and reviews found in international
periodicals which covers 1972-present. Articles about both film
and televsion programs are included in the database. The CD-ROM
is published by FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives).
- MLA Bibliography (New York: Modern Language
Association of American, 1921- )
SML, Starr Main Reference Rm, Index Case Z7006 M63 (LC)
MLA Bibliography online
Literature Online with MLA
The MLA Bibliography indexes critical materials on literature, languages,
linguistics, and folklore, excluding book reviews. The database
(online and CD-ROM) provides access to citations from over 4,000
journals and series published worldwide, as well as books, essay
collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies.
The print volumes go back to 1921 and the database covers from 1963
to the present. The MLA Bibliography continues the Modern Language
Association Annual Bibliography. For earlier volumes, check the
SML Card Catalog under "Modern Language Association."
- PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service).
(New York : Public Affairs Information Service, 1986-1990.)
PAIS online
SML, Starr Main Reference Rm, Index Case Z7163 P83 (LC)
MUDD, Social Science Collection Z7163 P83 (LC)
PAIS and PAIS Periodical and Publishers Index
PAIS International covers the literature of public affairs including
political, economic and social issues. It contains references to
articles, books, government documents, statistical directories,
research reports, conference reports and publications of international
agencies. Publications from more than 60 countries are included.
Materials indexed are in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese
and Spanish. Coverage begins in 1974.
- Studies on Women Abstracts (<Abingdon,
Oxfordshire> : Carfax Pub. Co., <c1983- )
SML Reference, HQ1180 S78 (LC)
- Women's Resources International (Baltimore,
MD: National Information Services Corp. (NISC), c1989,1996- )
Women's Resources International
Women's Resources International is a collection of nine electronic
files with 127,000 records pertaining to women's studies.
WRI includes the following sources:
Women Studies Abstracts (1972-present)
Women's Studies Database (1972-present)
European Women from the Renaissance to Yesterday: a Bibliography
(1610-present)
New Books on Women and Feminism (1987-present)
WAVE: Women's Audiovisuals in English: A Guide to Nonprint Resources
in Women's Studies (1985-1990)
Women, Race and Ethnicity: A Bibliography (1970-1990)
The History of Women and Science, Health and Technology: A Bibliographic
Guide to the Professions and Disciplines (1970-1995)
Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science
Research (1975-present)
Women's Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography (1995)
Other Reference Sources
- The Select Bibliography
of Reference Sources discusses various encyclopedias, bibliographies,
biographies, journals, newspapers, manuscripts and archives, and
government publications of interest to Canadian Studies.
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