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• Academic OneFile
  Scholarly journal articles and popular magazines covering all topics. A great database for beginning searches. 1980s-present (dates may vary).

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  • OneFile
  • Gale Academic OneFile

  

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  Covers

  • Periodicals -- General interest magazines; scholarly academic journals; business publications; technology periodicals; plus specialty titles in law, health care and computers
  • Newswires -- 89 wire services covering agriculture, general news, broadcast news, government, business press releases, industry topics, sports and current events from all over the world
  • Newspapers -- Indexes The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor

  This database was formerly a part of Infotrac Onefile.

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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.

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• Alternative Press Index (current)
  Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change. 1991-current.
  

  

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  Alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines, which report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political, and social change. Search the Alternative Press Index Archive for material published between 1969-1990. 90% of the publications indexed in API are not indexed anywhere else. Some titles include: Cineaste, Environmental Action, Socialist Review, and Women's Review of Books. Subjects covered by Alternative Press Index include:

  • African-American Studies
  • Alternative Organizations
  • Anarchism
  • Community Organizing
  • Ecology
  • Ethnic & Racial Studies
  • Feminism
  • Gay/Lesbian Studies
  • Indigenous People's Rights
  • Labor Studies
  • Prisons
  • Social Theory
  • Socialism

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• Alternative Press Index Archive (1969-1990)
  Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change. 1969-1990.
  

  

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  Alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines, which report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political, and social change. Covers 1969-1990. Search the Alternative Press Index for material published after 1991. 90% of the publications indexed in API are not indexed anywhere else. Some titles include: Cineaste, Environmental Action, Socialist Review, and Women's Review of Books. Subjects covered by Alternative Press Index include:

  • African-American Studies
  • Alternative Organizations
  • Anarchism
  • Community Organizing
  • Ecology
  • Ethnic & Racial Studies
  • Feminism
  • Gay/Lesbian Studies
  • Indigenous People's Rights
  • Labor Studies
  • Prisons
  • Social Theory
  • Socialism

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• Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
  Articles and reports on international affairs. Includes scholarly articles, papers from university research institutes and non-governmental organizations, foundation-funded research projects, and conference proceedings. 1991 - current.
  

  

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  Also links to international affairs centers, institutes, and other resources; U.S., international, and foreign government sites; environmental studies web pages; and news media services.

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• CQ Electronic Library
  Full-text of the CQ Weekly and The CQ Researcher, as well as the CQ Congress Collection. From the Congressional Quarterly. CQ Weekly Report: 1983 to current. CQ Researcher: 1991 to current.
  

  

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  The CQ Weekly is an excellent resource for Congress-watchers who need nonpartisan information on Capitol Hill. A user may browse through articles in the current issue or search for past articles by words, dates, subjects or other criteria. The Web service also provides users with access to some CQ Weekly articles prior to when they are available in print. More congressional offices choose the CQ Weekly over any other publication to help them keep pace with what is happening on Capitol Hill.

  The CQ Researcher is the perfect answer for people who need a place to begin research on current topics. Covers current and controversial issues with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more. Browse through articles in the current issue or search for past articles using words, dates or other criteria.

  The CQ Congress Collection provides an analytical survey of the history and development; powers; personalities; current developments; and legislation considered and passed by the United States Congress. A wealth of data with nonbiased commentary is organized under four sections:
  

  • Public Policy Legislation presents legislative information and analysis under 23 broad topics such as agriculture, civil rights, national security, and transportation and hundreds of subtopics.
  • Members of Congress includes biographical, political, and electoral data about every member of Congress since the 97th Congress (additional Congresses will be added periodically). It also includes links to each member's "CQ Key Votes" voting record and data on how various interest groups rate the members. An advanced member search allows the user to search for members by various demographic fields.
  • CQ Key Votes organizes, by Congress and topic, the preferred data for scholarly research. Each individual "CQ Key Vote" is presented with a description of the vote along with the vote outcome by political party and includes links to the roll call vote, the full text of the legislation, and a state delegation vote map. It also provides the ability to conduct advanced vote analysis by various demographic fields.
  • The Legislative Branch provides encyclopedic information, statistical data, legislative analysis, and Supreme Court case summaries relating to the structure and powers of Congress including committee information and its relationships with other branches of government and the media.

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• EconLit through EbscoHOST
  Indexes the international literature on economics. Topics include economic development, forecasting, and history; fiscal and monetary theory; business and public finance; international, health care, regional and urban economics, and more. 1969-current.
  

  

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  Produced by the American Economic Association, EconLit is the fundamental research tool in economics. The database covers the international literature on economics since 1969 and provides bibliographic citations, with selected abstracts, of journal articles, books, dissertations and working papers, as well as articles in collective works, such as conference proceedings, collected essay volumes and full text book reviews. Topics include economic development, forecasting, and history; fiscal and monetary theory; business and public finance; international, health care, regional and urban economics, and more. Subjects:

  • Business
  • Economics
  • Finance
  • Industry
  • Statistics

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• Europa World
  Provides economic, political and geographic information and statistical data by country. Includes over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. current.

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  • Europa World Yearbook

  

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  Includes thousands of directory contact details for over 1,900 international organizations. First published in 1926, the year book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information.

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• Factiva
  Global news and business information articles. Includes Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing. Current.
  

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  Full-text global news and business information service, combining the content sets of Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing.
  Several journal titles are not included in UConn's subscription.

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• GPO Access
  Text of Congressional Record, bills and bill tracking, Federal Register, U.S. Code, presidential documents, and more. 1971-current.
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• HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)
  Summarizes articles about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. International scope. 1970-current.
  

  

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  Subjects include:

  • anthropology
  • archaeology
  • art
  • banking and finance
  • business and industry
  • commerce and trade
  • drama
  • drug trade
  • economic development and policy issues
  • economic integration
  • environmental issues
  • ethnography
  • film
  • folklore
  • foreign relations
  • gender studies
  • geography
  • history
  • indigenous affairs
  • literature
  • politics and government
  • public administration
  • religion
  • social movements

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• Hein Online
  Full-text of law reviews, federal documents, and Supreme Court materials. Much material is pre-1980 and some dates back to the 1800s. See details for coverage.
  

  

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  Pages appear as they would in the original hardcopy including all charts, graphs and photographs. Current issues of journals may not be available due to licensing restrictions. Hein call this a 'moving wall' and these journals are added when the next issues are published. Articles also may be retrieved using the standard legal citation format. Includes:

  • Law reviews
  • Federal Register Library and Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
  • The Treaties and Agreements Library
  • The U.S. Attorney General Opinions Library
  • The U.S. Federal Legislative Histories Library
  • The U.S. Presidential Library
  • The U.S. Statutes at Large Library
  • The U.S. Supreme Court Library

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• iPOLL
  Includes polls and data survey results from academic, commercial and media survey organizations such as Gallup Organization, Harris Interactive, Pew Research Associates, and many more. From the Roper Center. 1935-present.

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  • Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

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  iPOLL is the most comprehensive, up-to-date source for US nationwide public opinion available today. A full-text retrieval system, the iPOLL online database is organized at the question-level, providing the tools to sift through nearly a half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys since 1935 and updated daily. Note: UConn email address required to access this database. iPOLL includes data survey results from academic, commercial and media survey organizations such as Gallup Organization, Harris Interactive, Pew Research Associates, and many more. The data come from all the surveys in the Roper Center archive that have US national adult samples or samples of registered voters, women, African Americans, or any subpopulation that constitutes a large segment of the national adult population. iPOLL does not include state samples or foreign samples.

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• Issues & Controversies
  Summarizes current issues and controversies in political, economic, social and scientific topics. 1995-current.

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  • Facts on File (Facts.com)

  

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  Includes chronologies, editorial cartoons, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars, bibliographies and contact information.

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• JSTOR
  Essential scholarly journals in many academic fields, especially arts, literature, humanities, and biology. Some back to early 1900s; most recent 2-5 years not available.
  

  

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  Subjects include:

  • African American Studies
  • African Studies
  • American Indian Studies
  • Anthropology
  • Archaeology
  • Architecture & Architectural History
  • Art & Art History
  • Asian Studies
  • Botany
  • Business
  • Classical Studies
  • Ecology
  • Economics
  • Education
  • Feminist & Women's Studies
  • Film Studies
  • Finance
  • Folklore
  • General Science
  • Geography
  • History
  • History of Science & Technology
  • Language & Literature
  • Latin American Studies
  • Law
  • Mathematics
  • Middle East Studies
  • Music
  • Performing Arts
  • Philosophy
  • Political Science
  • Population Studies
  • Psychology
  • Public Policy & Administration
  • Religion
  • Slavic Studies
  • Sociology
  • Statistics

  UConn subscribes to all available JSTOR Collections.

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• Latin America Data Base
  Weekly newsletters covering Latin American political and economic affairs. Current titles are NotiSur (South America), SourceMex (Mexico), NotiCen (Central America). 1986-present.
  

  

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  Click on "Archive Search " at the top of LADB screen for older articles.

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• LexisNexis Legal
  Primary source materials such as federal and state case law, statutes and codes, federal regulations, international legal materials, and patents. Secondary sources include legal news and law review articles. 1980s-current.
  

  

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  Also includes the Martindale-Hubbell Directory of lawyers and law firms and a Law School Directory. See also LexisNexis News and LexisNexis Business Publication groups within the database include:

  • Law reviews and legal news
  • Federal and state case law (search by case number or topic)
  • Topical law
  • Federal Code
  • Federal Regulations
  • State Codes
  • Canadian Legislative Materials
  • European Union Law (CELEX)
  • Patents
  • Tax law
  • Martindale-Hubbell lawyer directory
  • Law school directory

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• LexisNexis News
  National and international newspapers, news transcripts from TV and radio, and company financial reports. 1980s-current.
  

  

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  Includes national and international newspapers, popular and general-interest magazines, economics and trade journals, company financial reports, and the 'Public Opinion Online' database, produced by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. See also LexisNexis Legal and LexisNexis Business Publication groups within LexisNexis News include:

  • Today's news
  • U.S. and International news
  • News transcripts from television and radio
  • Arts & sports information
  • Campus newspapers
  • Business news
  • Company financial information
  • SEC filings
  • Industry & market news and reports
  • Patents
  • Biographical information from Marquis Who's Who
  • Country profiles
  • Polls & surveys
  • Quotations
  • World Almanac

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• LLMC Digital
  Digitized legal works and U.S. government documents from the executive, judicial, and legislative branches.
  

  

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  Also known as Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC). Includes the laws of the U.S. 1789-1796; Index to the Federal Statutes 1874-1931, cases from the U.S. Court of Appeals, and reports and other documents from federal departments, agencies, and commissions.

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• NCJRS Abstracts Database
  Covers all aspects of law enforcement and criminal justice. From the National Criminal Justice Reference System. 1972-current.
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• New York Times Historical
  Full-image archive of The New York Times. Includes the full-text of everything published in the newspaper. 1851 to 2 years ago.
  

  

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  Includes articles, editorials and commentary, display and classified ads, obituaries, birth & death annoucements, cartoons, photos, maps, graphics, etc. Also shows the entire page display of the newspaper, so you can see where articles, advertisements, and photos appear on the page. Articles are in pdf format and require Adobe Acrobat. You may download the reader here.

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• PAIS International
  Summaries articles in political, economic, and social issues. Covers the public and social policy literature of business, economics, finance, law, international relations, public administration, government, and political science. 1915-current.
  

  

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  Emphasizes issues that are or might become the subjects of legislation. Dating from 1937 to the present, PAIS International and PAIS Archive contains abstracts of journal articles, books, statistical yearbooks, directories, conference proceedings, research reports and government documents from all over the world. The materials indexed are published in 60 countries in six languages -- English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. All subject headings and abstracts are written in English. Subjects:

  • Current Events
  • Economics
  • Foreign Affairs
  • Government Regulations
  • Political Science
  • Politics
  • Public Administration
  • Public Affairs
  • Social Issues
  • Social Sciences

  PAIS International and PAIS Archive may be searched separately.

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• Philosopher's Index
  Summarizes scholarly articles in all areas of philosophy. Indexes journal articles, books, book chapters such as contributions to an anthology, and book reviews. 1940-current.
  

  

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  Monitors over 550 journals. International scope. Extensive indexing includes personal and proper names along with subject terms. Major areas of coverage include:

  • Aesthetics
  • Axiology
  • Metaphilosophy
  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophical Anthropology
  • Philosophy of Education
  • Philosophy of Epistemology
  • Philosophy of Ethics
  • Philosophy of History
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Philosophy of Logic
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Poitical Philosophy
  • Social Philosophy

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• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
  Indexes every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. 1861-present; full-text 1997 to present.

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  • Dissertation Abstracts

  

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• Scopus
  Scholarly journal articles with a heavy emphasis on science topics. A great database for high quality scholarly articles on any topic. International scope. Excellent for citation searching. 1966-present.
  

  

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  Because UConn holds a license to Beilstein CrossFire, users can see summaries of compounds and reaction information in SCOPUS for any article that is also indexed in Beilstein Crossfire.

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• Sociological Abstracts
  Scholarly journal articles about sociology and other social and behavioral sciences. Includes culture & social structure; economic development; evaluation research; family & social welfare; management and complex organizations; policy planning. 1963-present.
  

  

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  Some cited references included. Major areas of coverage include:

  • Culture and social structure
  • Demography and human biology
  • Economic development
  • Environmental interactions
  • Evaluation research
  • Family and social welfare
  • Health and medicine and law
  • History and theory of sociology
  • Management and complex organizations
  • Mass phenomena and political interactions
  • Methodology and research technology
  • Policy, planning, forecast and speculation
  • Radical sociology
  • Religion and science
  • Rural and urban sociology
  • Social development
  • Social differentiation
  • Social psychology and group interaction
  • Sociology of the arts, business, education
  • Studies in violence and power
  • Substance abuse and addiction
  • Welfare services
  • Women's studies

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• SourceOECD
  Coverage includes: agriculture & food; economic outlook; education; health; science & technology, and much more. NOTES: UConn has access to the OECD statistical databases ONLY. 1960-current.

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  • OECD Statistics

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  The Statistical Database Sets available from SourceOECD include:

  • Agriculture & Food
    
  • Bank Profitability
    
  • Economic Outlook
    
  • Education at a Glance
    
  • Employment
    
  • Globalization
    
  • Health
    
  • Indicators for Industry and Services
    
  • Industrial Structure
    
  • Institutional Investors
    
  • Insurance
    
  • International Development
    
  • International Migration
    
  • International Trade and Competitiveness
    
  • International Direct Investment
    
  • ITCS International Trade by Commodities
    
  • Main Economic Indicators
    
  • Monthly International Trade
    
  • National Accounts
    
  • Revenue
    
  • Science and Technology
    
  • Services
    
  • Social Expenditure
    
  • STAN Industry Structural Analysis
    
  • Taxing Wages
    
  • Telecommunications

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• Web of Science
  Scholarly journal articles in the sciences, social sciences, arts & humanities. A great database for high quality scholarly articles on any topic. Excellent for citation searching. 1994- present.
  

  

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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

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• WorldCat
  Catalog of books, journals, DVDs, CDs, scores, and sound recordings from over 9,000 libraries. 40 million records representing 400 languages. Covers information back to the 11th Century. Includes items at the University of Connecticut Libraries. Request items not at UConn via Interlibrary Loan..
  

  

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  WorldCat indicates if UConn owns the item, but it does not have UConn’s specific call numbers for books, music, and scripts, and it does not have any AV call numbers.

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