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• Academic Search (EBSCOhost)
• Academic Universe
• Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index
• ATLA Religion Database
• Dissertations and Theses / Dissertation Abstracts International
• Historical Abstracts
• History of Science and Technology
• Indexes and Guides to Western European Periodicals in the Humanities & Social Sciences
• Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur (IBZ)
• International Medieval Bibliography
• Iter: The Bibliography of Renaissance Europe (1300-1700)
• National Inventory of Documentary Sources (NIDS)
• Periodicals Contents Index
• Royal Historical Society Bibliography
• WilsonWeb

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Academic Search (EBSCOhost)
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EBSCOhost's Academic Search database provides access to journal articles in most academic areas of study. It includes full-text coverage of nearly 1,200 journals from 1990 to the present and abstracts/indexing of nearly 3,000 journals from 1984 to the present.

Academic Universe
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Academic Universe is a Web-based full-text news and information service that provides access to newspapers, magazines, transcripts, business and legal information and much more. Formerly known as Lexis-Nexis.

Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Library, 1949- .)

SML Reference Z6723 +A57 (LC)
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A subject index to articles, book reviews, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals. Currently indexes 78 titles including Air Power History and Military History.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Philadelphia: Insititute for Scientific Information, 1975- .)

SML Case Z5937 +A795 (LC)
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An international interdisciplinary index to the literature of the arts and humanities, indexing the contents of about 6,100 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 1980 to the present, and the print volumes go back to 1975.

ATLA Religion Database

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Yale guide to using the ATLA Religion Database

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 the following printed indexes:

* Religion Index One: Periodicals (1949- to present)
* Religion Index Two: Multi-Author Works (1960- to present)
* Index to Book Reviews in Religion (1975-present)
* Methodist Reviews Index (1818-1985)
* Research in Ministry: An Index to D.Min. Project Reports and Theses (1981- present)

Dissertation Abstracts International (Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1861- .)

SML Z5055 U49 +D57 (LC)*
*the volumes in Reference are Section A and Section C. Section B is in the SML stacks at the same call number.
* Dissertation Abstracts International. Section A: Humanities and Social Sciences (1969-present)
* Dissertation Abstracts International. Section B: Sciences and Engineering (1969-present)
* Dissertation Abstracts International. Section C: European Abstracts (1976-1988) and Dissertation Abstracts International. Section C: Worldwide (1989-present)
See also American Doctoral Dissertations [SML Reference Z5055 U49 +A62 (LC)]
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Lists Dissertations accepted for the Ph.D. and other doctoral degrees by American and Canadian degree-granting institutions. Dates of coverage 1861 to the present. Coverage is identical for all formats, although the online version of the database does not include abstracts for dissertations prior to 1981. Issued in three parts after 1969

 

Historical Abstracts (Santa Monica: ABC-Clio, 1955- )

SML D1 +H48 (LC) / D1 +H48A (LC)
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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). 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.
All abstracts are written in English. Article citations carry abstracts of 75-120 words or annotations of one or two sentences. The online version also includes in-process English-language article entries (those entries for which abstract, subject terms, and chronologies are not yet available) prior to their inclusion in the print version. In addition to articles, each year Historical Abstracts includes approximately 3,000 citations to historical books and abstracts of dissertations of particular interest for historical research. The electronic database currently covers volume year 1967 to the present. The print volumes go back to 1955.

In 1971, Historical Abstracts split into two sections:
* Historical Abstracts. Part A: Modern History Abstracts, 1450- 1914
* Historical Abstracts. Part B: Twentieth Century Abstracts, 1914-

History of Science and Technology
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The History of Science and Technology database (HST) describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science and technology and allied historical fields. It comprises three bibliographies: the ISIS Current Bibliography of the History of Science*, 1975-present; the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, 1987-present; and the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza. Updated annually, HST contains more than 119,000 records.

*Print version of ISIS available: ISIS Cumulative Bibliography; a bibliography of the history of science formed from ISIS critical bibliographies... (London: Mansel, in conjunction with the History of Science Society, 1971- )

1913-1965: SML Reference Z7405 H6 +I18 (LC)
          Kline, Reference Z74-5 H6 +I18 (LC)
1966-1975: SML Reference Z7405 H6 +I19 (LC)
          Kline Reference Z7405 H6 +I18 Suppl.1 (LC)
1976-1985: SML Reference Z7405 H6 +I2 1989 (LC)
          Kline Reference Z7405 H6 +I18 Suppl.2 (LC)
1986-1995: Kline Reference Z7405 H6 +I18 Suppl.3

Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur (IBZ) (Osnabruck: F. Dietrich, 1965- )
SML Reference, Index Case AI9 I58 (LC)
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The IBZ is an "international bibliography of periodical literature covering all fields of knowledge." It indexes periodical articles in all subject areas from around the world in German, French and English. The CD-ROM and online versions cover 1982/83-present. Coverage of the printed volumes, including earlier titles, goes back to 1896.* The print volumes are divided into three parts after 1971: A: Verzeichnis der berücksichtigen Zeitschriften; B: Verzeichnis der Zeitschriftenartikel nach Schlagworten; C: Verzeichnis der Zeitschriftenartikel nach Verfassen.

* Continues: IBZ Abteilung A: Bibliographie der deutschen Zeitschriften literatur mit Einschuss von Sammelwerken. 1-128 (1896-1964).
    SML Reference, Index Case AI9 +B53 (LC).

IBZ Abteilung B: Bibliographie der Fremdsprachigen Zeitschriftenliteratur. Bd. 1-22 (1911-1921/25); n.F., Bd. 1-51 (1925/26-1962/64).
    SML Reference, Index Case AI9 +B535 (LC).

International Medieval Bibliography (Leeds, England: University of Leeds, 1967- )

SML Reference Z6203 I585 (LC)
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A classed bibliography with a subject index which includes citations to articles on a broad range of medieval (450-1500 A.D.) subjects from over 800 journals and many collected works (Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays). The geographic area of coverage includes all of Europe and the Middle East "...for those areas subsequently controlled by Christian powers; it thus includes... non-European parts of the Byzantine Empire." (Introduction).

ITER: The Bibliography of Renaissance Europe (1300-1700) (Philadelphia: Insititute for Scientific Information, 1975- .)

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An online bibliography of the Renaissance (1300-1700) covering relevant secondary material published since 1700 to the current year. This material consists of both printed literature and matter in other media.

National Inventory of Documentary Sources (NIDS) (Teaneck, NJ: Chadwyck-Healey, )

SML, Microtext Center, CD-ROM

An index to the two following microfiche collections which consist of finding aids, card catalogs, and indexes to individual collections of manuscripts, archives, and other primary source material in repositories of the U.S. and Great Britain.
* National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United Kingdom and Ireland: the Public Record Office Registers and Indexes (Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1988- )
SML, Microform Room FICHE B2262
* National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (Teaneck, NJ: Chadwyck-Healey, 1983-)
SML, Microfom Room FICHE B1333

Periodicals Contents Index
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PCI Web 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 item or title on the table of contents pages 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.

Royal Historical Society Bibliography
SML, Reference Z2016 .B53 2002 (LC)
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A comprehensive database of references to literature on the history of Britain, Ireland, and the British abroad, covering all periods for which written documentation is available--from 55 B.C. to the 1980s. The database includes approximately 250,000 records detailing most of the books and articles on these subjects published between 1901 and 1992, as well as many published before 1901.

WilsonWeb
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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. WilsonWeb replaces the Expanded Academic Index which was available through Orbis. There is no print equivalent of this index.