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• Academic Search Premier
  Scholarly journal articles and popular magazines covering all topics. A great database for beginning searches. 1980s-present (dates may vary).
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  Topics include news and current events, politics, literature, communication science, business, medicine, psychology, the arts, and many more.

  • Summaries of articles in over 8,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers
  • Full-text of articles in over 4,000 journals
  • Summaries of scholarly articles in over 6,000 journals
  • Full-text of scholarly articles in over 3,000 journals

  While subject-specific databases may offer more depth, this one may be more up-to-date.

  Access restricted to University of Connecticut.
• Social Explorer
  Data and interactive thematic maps from the U.S. Census from 1790-present.
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  Social Explorer makes it easy to create interactive thematic maps using Census data on subjects including:

  • Educational attainment
  • Employment
  • Farm output
  • Housing
  • Occupation
  • Place of birth for foreign born
  • Race
  • Sex
  • Slavery

  Earlier data is available at the National and State level; data is available at smaller geographic areas for later years, including Census Tract and County maps from 1940 to present.

  Access restricted to University of Connecticut.
• ScienceDirect
  Scholarly journal articles in physical and chemica. Also includes over 400 ebooks. 1995-current.

  Also Known As

  • Science Direct

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  Elsevier Science journal collection (over 1,200 titles), along with journals from a host of prestigious societies and STM publishers. Note: UConn does not have free access to all journals.

  Topics include:

  • Biochemistry
  • Biological Sciences
  • Business & Management Science
  • Chemistry
  • Clinical Medicine
  • Earth Sciences
  • Economics
  • Engineering & Technology
  • Environmental Science
  • Materials Science
  • Mathematics & Computer science
  • Microbiology & Immunology
  • Neurosciences
  • Pharmacology & Toxicology
  • Physics
  • Social Sciences

  Access restricted to University of Connecticut.
• Water Resources Abstracts
  Technical and scientific literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources. 1967-current.
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  This database, which concentrates on water supply and water treatment, complements the Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts database, ASFA, where there is greater coverage of the marine environment and biological material. Free access to Water Resources Netsites, linking to research and development programs, data sets, lists of experts and researchers, conference and meetings information, and other resources on the Internet. Subjects include:

  • Groundwater
  • Lakes
  • Estuaries
  • Erosion and sedimentation
  • Water supply and conservation
  • Desalination
  • Water yield improvement
  • Water quantity management and control
  • Watershed protection
  • Water quality management
  • Water resources planning
  • Water law
  • Engineering works and hydraulics

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• Web of Science
  Scholarly journal articles in the sciences, social sciences, arts & humanities. Excellent for citation searching. 1974- present.

  Also Known As

  • Web of Knowledge

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  Science Citation Index

  Subjects include:

  • Agriculture
  • Astronomy
  • Biochemistry
  • Biology
  • Biotechnology
  • Chemistry
  • Computer Science
  • Materials Science
  • Mathematics
  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience
  • Oncology
  • Patents, when a patent is part of the record
  • Pediatrics
  • Pharmacology
  • Physics
  • Plant Sciences
  • Psychiatry
  • Veterinary Science & Zoology

  Social Sciences Citation Index

  Subjects include:

  • Anthropology
  • History
  • Information Science & Library Science
  • Law
  • Linguistics
  • Philosophy
  • Political Science & Industrial Relations
  • Psychiatry & Psychology
  • Public Health
  • Social Work & Sociology
  • Substance Abuse
  • Urban Studies
  • Women's Studies

  Arts & Humanities Citation Index

  Subjects include:

  • Art & Architecture
  • Archaeology
  • Asian Studies
  • Classics
  • Dance
  • Folklore
  • History
  • Language & Linguistics
  • Literature & Literary Reviews
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • Poetry
  • Radio, Television, & Film
  • Religion
  • Theater

  Access restricted to University of Connecticut.