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Indexes & Abstracts
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of current databases on these topics.
Use these selected indexes and abstracts to locate
articles in journals. Do a title search in Orbis
for the name of the journal to find out if Yale owns the particular
volume you are seeking.
- Arts &
Humanities Citation Index (Philadelphia: Institute for Scientific
Information, 1975- .)
Reference, Index Case Z5937 +A795 (LC)
Available online
to the Yale community
- An international interdisciplinary index to
the literature of the arts and humanities, indexing the contents
of about 8,000 journals, covering 1,144 fully and over 6,800 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. The online database currently
indexes over 2.5 million articles; the print volumes and the database
both go back to 1975. 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
- ATLA Religion Database
Available online
to the Yale community
- 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 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 Doctor of
Ministry Project Reports and Theses (1981- present)
Though coverage is from 1949 to the present, not
all publications begin in 1949.
- Bibliography of the History of Art
(BHA) (Santa Monica, CA: J. Paul Getty Trust, c1996- .)
Available online
to the Yale community
- Covering European and American art from late antiquity
to the present, Bibliography of the History of Art indexes
and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations,
exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500
periodicals. It is updated quarterly and covers 1973 to the present,
with more than 469,000 records. BHA includes and extends
the coverage of its two predecessor art indexes: RAA (Repertoire
d'Art et d'Archeologie) from 1973 to 1989, and RILA (International
Repertory of the Literature of Art) from 1975 to 1989.
- Dissertation Abstracts (Ann
Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1861- .)
Reference Z5055 U49 +D57 (LC) [Section A and Section C]
SML Stacks Z5055 U49 +D57 (LC) [Section B]
- 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:
- 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)
- Dissertation and Theses
Available online
to the Yale community
- Information about doctoral dissertations and master's
theses with the significant advantage that titles published since
1997 are available in PDF digital format and have 24 page previews
available.
- Essay and General Literature Index
(New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1900/33- .)
Reference, Index Case AI3 E77 (LC)
Available online
to the Yale community
- Essay and General Literature Index (EGL), produced
by The H.W. Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that cites
essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous
works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada.
More than 300 volumes are indexed annually. Additionally, more than
20 annuals and serial publications are indexed. EGL also provides
full bibliographic information on collective titles indexed. EGL
focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage
ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism
of literary works, drama, and film. The print volumes cover the
years 1900 to the present; the online version covers 1985-present.
- Feminae: Medieval Women and
Gender Index
http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html
- An index of journal articles, essays, and book reviews
about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. The database
currently includes over 6,000 records for publications from 1994
through 2001 from more than 400 journals and essay collections.
Publications in English, French, German, and Spanish have been indexed
since the project began; materials in Italian have been included
since May 2001. Covers materials about the period from 450 C.E.
to 1500 C.E. (with Russia extending to 1613 C.E.) in Europe, North
Africa, and the Middle East as well as areas in which Europeans
traveled. Supported by the libraries at Haverford College and the
University of Iowa, among others.
- Historical Abstracts (Santa
Monica: ABC-Clio, 1955- .)
SML Reference D1 +H48 (LC) / D1 +H482 (LC)
Available online
to the Yale community
- Abstracts of articles from over 2,000 U.S.
and foreign periodicals and Festschriften, covering world history
and culture (not U.S. and Canada). It also includes citations of
dissertations and selected book, film, and video reviews.
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
(London: Mansel, in conjunction with the History of Science Society,
1976- .)
Available online
to the Yale community
- The History of Science and Technology database
describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book
reviews, and dissertations in the history of science and technology
and allied historical fields. It includes references from three
bibliographies:
- ISIS Current Bibliography of the History of
Science (1975-present)
- Current Bibliography in the History of Technology
(1987-present)
- Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza
Updated annually, HST covers 1975 to the present,
with more than 119,000 records.
- Humanities Abstracts
(Bronx, NY: H.W. Wilson Co.)
Available online
to the Yale community
- Humanities Abstracts, produced by The H. W.
Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts
articles from 400 English-language periodicals in the fields of
archaeology and classical studies, art, dance, drama, and film,
folklore, gender studies, history, journalism and communications,
language and literature, literary and political criticism, music
and performing arts, philosophy, and religion and theology. Periodical
coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and
numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Abstracting
coverage begins with periodicals published in March 1994. Abstracts
range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of
the source articles. Continues:
- Humanities Index (1974-present)
Reference, Index Case AI1 H84 (LC)
- Social Sciences and Humanities Index (1966-1974)
Reference, Index Case AI1 S63 (LC)
- International Index (1955-1965)
Reference, Index Case AI1 S63.
- International Medieval Bibliography
Available online
to the Yale community
- 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). The CD-ROM
covers the years 1976-1995, while the printed volumes date back
to 1967.
- Internationale Bibliographie der
Zeitschriftenliteratur (IBZ) (Osnabruck: F. Dietrich, 1965-
)
Reference, Index Case AI9 I58 (LC)
Available online
to the Yale community
- 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 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.
- Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages
and Renaissance
- (Philadelphia: Institute for Scientific Information,
1975- .)
Available online
to the Yale community
- Iter is an online bibliography of approximately 230,000
articles and reviews drawn from over 400 journal titles covering
the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400 to 1700). Updated daily, its
features include searching by keyword, title, author and, for selected
records, Library of Congress subject headings and supplementary
vocabulary. Users may perform quick searches, or employ Boolean
operators and complex phrases to combine terms in advanced search
mode. Search results may be downloaded. A monographs bibliography
is currently under construction.
- Periodical
Contents Index
Available online
to the Yale community
-
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 article is indexed. The scope is international,
including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
and other Western languages. PCI Web currently indexes over eleven
million articles in 3,536 journals. Every year, it adds records
for more than one million more articles.
- Readers' Guide Full Text and Readers' Guide Retrospective
- Available online
to the Yale community
- Comprehensive indexing and abstracting popular general
interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada since
1890, plus the full text of over 120 of those periodicals from 1994
- present. They cover 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.
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