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ABI/INFORM Global
Articles in business, finance, management, accounting, advertising, banking, insurance, marketing, public administration, real estate, and telecommunications. 1991-current (fulltext); 1971-current (index & abstracts).
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- ProQuest ABI/Inform Global
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Indexes over 2700 business publications. Subject coverage includes:
- advertising and sales management
- banking
- business and management, including accounting and auditing economics
- electronic data processing systems and information science
- engineering management
- finance and financial management
- health care
- insurance
- law and taxation
- management science
- marketing
- personnel, employee benefits, and labor relations
- public administration and government
- real estate
- telecommunications
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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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Business & Company Resource Center
Company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Includes detailed company and industry news and information. 1980-current.
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Includes:
- Company profiles, including corporate parent/sibling relationships
- Industry ranking
- Products and brands
- Stock prices
- Investment reports
- Industry statistics
- Corporate chronologies and histories
- Consumer marketing data
- Emerging technology reports
- Industry newsletter news and analysis
- Business journal news and analysis
- Press releases
- Global coverage
- Investext (ASCII) reports
- Comprehensive financial overviews
- Twenty minute delayed stock quotes
- Company performance ratings
- Current investment ratings
- First Call Consensus Estimates
- CDA/Investnet Insider Buying & Selling Activity
- CDA/Spectrum Major Shareholders
- Pricing Momentum Short Interest Share and Ratios Key Measures
- Balance sheets and income statements
- Financial ratios
- Coverage of major business events and trends back to 1980
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CQ Researcher
In-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. From the Congressional Quarterly. 1991 to present.
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Each report is 24 pages, and covers topics like:
- Abortion
- Voting
- Sex Offenders
- Stem Cell Research
- Treatment of Detainees
- Drinking on Campus
- Cyber Socializing
- Change in Latin America
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Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection

Full-text of 15 criminology journals covering Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family & Domestic Violence. 1984-.
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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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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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Issues & Controversies
Summarizes current issues and controversies in political, economic, social and scientific topics. 1995-current.
Also Known As
- Facts on File
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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
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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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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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POPLINE

Summarzies scholarly articles in population, family planning, and related health issues. 1970-present.
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POPLINE brings together over 280,000 records representing published and unpublished literature in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues.
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ScienceDirect
Scholarly journal articles in physical and chemical sciences; life sciences; health sciences; engineering; psychology; social sciences, and humanities. 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
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Social Sciences Citation Index
Indexes over 1,700 journals in the social sciences. Some full-text available. 1994-present.
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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
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Social Work Abstracts
Summarizes articles in 450+ journals in all areas of social work, including theory and practice, areas of service, social issues, and social problems. 1966-current.
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Subjects:
- Alcohol Abuse
- Crime
- Gerontology
- Psychology
- Public Health
- Social Issues
- Social Sciences
- Sociology
- Welfare
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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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