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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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• 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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• Handbook of Latin American Studies
  Annotated bibliography of articles in the humanities and social sciences 1935-present.
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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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• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
  Indexes scholarly articles in linguistics; language (speech sounds, sentence and word structure, meaning in language forms, spelling, phonetics); and speech, language, and hearing. 1973-current.
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  Covers three fundamental areas: research in linguistics (the nature and structure of human speech); research in language (speech sounds, sentence and word structure, meaning in language forms, spelling, phonetics); and research in speech, language, and hearing pathology. Summarizes journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and reviews of books and other media Updated quarterly. Subjects:

  • Anthropology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Communications
  • Education
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Neurology

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• MLA International Bibliography
  Scholarly articles in literature and linguistics. Indexes over 6,000 national and international journals, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. From the Modern Language Association. 1926-current; selective coverage 1886-.
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  Subjects include:

  • Literature and drama (English and world)
  • Linguistics
  • Literary Theory
  • Folklore
  • Rhetoric, composition, and pedagogy

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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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• 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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