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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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• 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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• Diccionario de la Lengua Espanola
  Spanish language dictionary on CD-Rom. Current.
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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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• 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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• Informe!
  Summarizes popular Hispanic magazines. Some full-text included. In Spanish. 1997-Current.
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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. We do not have access to recent issues.

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• Latin American Newsstand
  Full-text of over 40 Latin-American newspapers and newswires covering international and Latin-American regional topics.
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  See the list of all included titles. This joint initiative is sponsored by LARRP, (Latin Americanist Research Resources Project) a CRL Project.

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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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• 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. 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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• 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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