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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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• Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP)
  Bibliographic database of government documents available to U.S. Federal Depository Libraries. 1994-present.

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  • Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications (MOCAT)

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• CenStats: U.S. Census Bureau
  Several databases of demographic and economic information, including Building Permits Data; International Trade Data; Census Tract Street Locator; Detailed Occupation by Race, Hispanic Origin and Sex; and USA Counties Data. From the US Census Bureau. See description for coverage.
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  Business and demographic databases from the U.S. Bureau of the Census. CenStats databases include:

  • Annual Survey of Manufactures - Manufacturing data for 3-digit Standard Industrial Classifications by State for multiple years
  • International Trade Data - Exports and imports by Standard International Trade Classification (SITC)
  • USA Counties - Demographic and economic data for States and counties
  • Building Permits - Building permit statistics on new construction for individual municipalities
  • County Business Patterns - Employment and earnings by 4-digit SIC by state and county (1993-1997) and ZIP code (1994-1997) and by North American Industry Classification System (beginning 1998) by state and county, metropolitan statistical area and ZIP code
• 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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• 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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• Gale Virtual Reference Library
  Full-text of several print reference books from Gale.

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  • GVRL

  

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  See complete title list. Includes:

  • Encyclopedia of Education 2nd ed., 8v, 2003
  • Encyclopedia of Modern Asia 6v, 2002
  • Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa 2nd ed., 4v, 2004
  • Encyclopedia of Public Health 4v, 2002
  • Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine 2nd ed., 4v, 2005
  • Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine 2nd ed., 5v, 2002
  • Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health 5v, 2002
  • Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in America 3v, 2004
  • Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America 2nd ed., 3v, 2000
  • Encyclopedia of Bioethics 3rd ed., 5v, 2004
  • Encyclopedia of Communication and Information 3v, 2002
  • Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice 2nd ed., 4v, 2002
  • Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior 2v, 2004
  • Encyclopedia of Sociology 2nd ed., 5v, 2000
  • International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family 2nd ed., 4v, 2003

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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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• ICPSR - Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
  Access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction. Covers political science, demographics, history, economics, international relations, and more.
  

  

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  Part of the Institute for Social Research (ISR) of the University of Michigan. Holdings include the following topics:

  • political science
  • sociology
  • demography
  • history
  • economics
  • international relations
  • gerontology
  • public health
  • criminal justice
  • education

  Virtually all of the seminal data collections of the social sciences are accessible through ICPSR, along with special collections prepared by ICPSR to meet specific needs in the research community.

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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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• LexisNexis Statistical
  Statistical data from federal government sources, state and private-sector publications, and international governmental and non-governmental organizations. 1980s-current.
  

  

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  Comprehensive access to statistical data from federal government sources, state and private-sector publications, and international governmental and non-governmental organizations on the Web today. Statistics from over 200 federal agencies, 50 state governments, 100 international intergovernmental organizations, and 500 private and academic sources. Links to government Web sites are maintained for many current documents. Power Tables enables users to search from a bank of indexed tables with links to full-text. The Search Abstracts function of LexisNexis Statistical provides an index to the extensive microfiche collections held by the Homer Babbidge Library for the following collections:

  • ASI (Federal statistical sources): 1974-1998
  • SRI (State and private sources): 1985-1999
  • IIS (International intergovernmental organizations): 1987 - 2001

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Women's Studies International (EBSCO)
  Core topics in women's studies as well as current topics in feminist research. Includes sociology, history, political science, public policy, business, and education. Indexes journals, newspapers, newsletters, books, proceedings, and dissertations. 1972-current.
  

  

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  Sources include: journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, important websites & web documents, and grey literature.

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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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