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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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Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Scholarly journal articles in arts and humanities. Includes some full-text. From Web of Science. More comprehensive searching than FirstSearch. 1994- current.
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Subjects covered include:
- Archaeology
- Art & Architecture
- Classics
- Dance
- Folklore
- History
- Language
- Linguistics
- Literature & Literary Reviews
- Music
- Philosophy
- Poetry
- Radio, Television, & Film
- Religion
- Theater
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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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Defining Gender

Fully digitized rare primary source literature. Material has been selected from a European perspective with an emphasis on British and European sources. 1450-1910.
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Contains complete scanned books, pamphlets, periodicals, collections of letters, biographies, short stories, novels, and poetry, as well as recent thematic essays by leading scholars in the field of Gender Studies which place the documents within a broad historical, literary and cultural context.
Currently containing sections on Conduct and Politeness and Domesticity and the Family, Defining Gender includes some of the seminal texts used in Gender studies from authors such as Christine De Pisan, Daniel Defoe, Delarivier Manley, Margery Kempe, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Some key areas of behavior of men and women addressed include cookery, health, courtship, marriage and role of husband and wife, sexuality, courtly behavior, children, education, class, and religion and morality.
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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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LGBT Life with Full Text
Covers gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues. Topics include civil liberties, culture, employment, family, history, psychology, religion, sociology and more. varies; some back to 1950s-current.
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- GLBT Life with Full Text
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Covers traditional academic, lifestyle and regional publications. Includes the full text of significant GLBT journals, magazines and newspapers as well as some books. Full-text journals include The Advocate, Gay Parent Magazine, Girlfriends, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies, James White Review, ISNA News, Ladder, Lesbian Tide, New York Blade, ONE, Tangents, Washington Blade, and many more.
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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. 1996-present for citation searching; 1966 to present for general searching.
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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.
Using the Papers application from Mekentosj to search Scopus? Papers should prompt you for the Scopus ID (36298) when you do a Scopus search. If it doesn't, or if you need to change it, it go to Preferences, Plugins, Search Engines. Also, Papers can also be configured to use our off campus authentication system (EZproxy), so you might want to add http://ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/login?url=%@ in the "library proxy" box under "Preferences, Sources".
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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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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 and Social Movements in the United States

Collections of primary materials. Includes a Dictionary of Social Movements. Documents cover movements such as the Women's Suffrage Movement and the Guerrilla Girls. 1600-2000.
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Over 1,000 documents and 400 images.
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Women Writers Project

Texts by pre-Victorian women writers. 1400-1850.
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The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. The goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader.
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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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World Development Indicators (WDI)

Provides statistics on the economies of over 200 developing countries, including time series data on agriculture, manufacturing, health indicators, education, natural resources, and foreign investment. From the World Bank World Development Indicators. 1960s-current.
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