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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

  Access restricted to University of Connecticut.
• 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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• Compendex
  Interdisciplinary engineering database, with over 6 million summaries of journal articles, technical reports, and conference papers and proceedings. 1970 to present.

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  • Engineering Village

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  Abstracts from over 5,000 international journals, conferences papers and technical reports are included. Over 220,000 abstracts added annually.

  Features:

  • Over 6,000,000 records from 1970 to the present
  • An update every seven days
  • References and abstracts from over 5,000 journals, conferences and reports
  • Ei Thesaurus, containing over 9,000 terms and synonyms

  
  Instant in-depth coverage on:

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Agriculture Engineering & Food Technology
  • Automotive Engineering
  • Bioengineering
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Civil Engineering
  • Computer and Data Processing
  • Control Engineering
  • Control Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Electronics and Communication Engineering
  • Engineering Geology
  • Engineering Management
  • Engineering Mathematics
  • Engineering Physics
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Fuel Technology
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Instruments and Measurement
  • Light and Optical Technology
  • Material Science
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Metallurgical Engineering
  • Mining Engineering
  • Nuclear Technology
  • Ocean and Underwater Technology
  • Petroleum Engineering
  • Sound and Acoustical Technology
  • Transportation

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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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• Europa World
  Provides economic, political and geographic information and statistical data by country. Includes over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. current.

  Also Known As

  • 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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• Factiva
  Global news and business information articles. Includes Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing. Current.

  Also Known As

  • Dow Jones Factiva

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  Full-text global news and business information service, combining the content sets of Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing.
  Several journal titles are not included in UConn's subscription.

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• Homeland Security Digital Library
  U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies.
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• INSPEC
  Indexes scholarly articles in physics, electronics and electrical engineering, computers and control, and information technology. From the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE). 1969-current.
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  Citations with abstracts of the worldwide literature in physics, electronics and electrical engineering, and computer fields. Primary coverage is of journal articles and papers presented at conferences, although significant books, technical reports, and dissertations are also included in the database's 6.2 million records.
  
  Sources include more than 4,200 journals and more than 2,000 conference proceedings, books, and reports corresponding to the following publications:
  

  • Physics Abstracts
  • Electrical & Electronics Abstracts
  • Computer & Control Abstracts
  • The online INSPEC database

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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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• Military and Intelligence Database
  Provides access to U.S. armed services publications, along with military science, political science and international relations journals, many in full text.
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  Provides access to U.S. armed services publications, along with military science, political science and international relations journals, many in full text. Additionally, the product includes some basic reference materials that are updated annually: The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia and The World Almanac and Book of Facts. With more than 500 titles and more than 7 million articles (80% full-text).

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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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• NTIS (National Technical Information Service)
  Current U.S. government-sponsored research and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information. 1964-present.
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  Central source for the sale of unclassified and publicly available information from research reports, journal articles, data files, computer programs and audiovisual products from Federal sources. Additionally, information is available from Canada, Japan, the former Soviet Union, Western and Eastern European countries. Subject Coverage:

  • Administration & Management
  • Aeronautics & Aerodynamics
  • Agriculture
  • Behavior & Society
  • Business
  • Chemistry
  • Communications
  • Computer Sciences
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Engineering
  • Environmental Sciences
  • Health Care
  • International Trade
  • Library & Information Sciences
  • Materials Sciences
  • Mathematical Sciences
  • Medicine
  • Military Sciences
  • Natural Resources & Earth Sciences
  • Nuclear Science
  • Physics
  • Regulations
  • Research Administration
  • Technology
  • Telecommunications
  • Transportation

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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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• PubMed
  Scholarly journal articles about health and medicine, nursing, audiology, and biology. Includes entire MEDLINE via EBSCO database plus more than 1 million additional life sciences article citations that are not in MEDLINE via EBSCO. 1950s-current.

  Also Known As

  • Medline via PubMed

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  PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier database of scholarly citations covering nearly 4,500 journals published in the U.S. and more than 70 other countries. New citations are added weekly. PubMed is more current than MEDLINE via EBSCO and in addition to providing access to MEDLINE, PubMed provides access to:

  • The out-of-scope citations (e.g., articles on plate tectonics or astrophysics) from certain MEDLINE journals, primarily general science and chemistry journals, for which the life sciences articles are indexed for MEDLINE
  • Citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing
  • Some additional life science journals that submit full text to PubMedCentral(c) and receive a qualitative review by NLM.
• 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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• TRIS Online
  Index to transporatation research. Subjects include highways; transit; railroads; maritime; and aviation. Varies; some back to mid-1980s..
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  Disciplines include planning; finance; design and construction; materials; environmental issues; safety and human factors; and operations. Search the TRB Research in Progress (RIP) Database for current research projects. Indexes journal articles, books, technical reports, conference proceedings, and other ongoing research in all fields of transportation. Produced and maintained by the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and made available through the National Transportation Library (NTL). NOTE: TRIS does not contain information on vehicle standards and specifications, patent information, market research, military transport or news articles.
• Web of Science
  Scholarly journal articles in the sciences, social sciences, arts & humanities. A great database for high quality scholarly articles on any topic. Excellent for citation searching. 1994- present.
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  Science Citation Index

  Subjects include:

  • Agriculture
  • Astronomy
  • Biochemistry
  • Biology
  • Biotechnology
  • Chemistry
  • Computer Science
  • Materials Science
  • Mathematics
  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience
  • Oncology
  • Patents, when a patent is part of the record
  • Pediatrics
  • Pharmacology
  • Physics
  • Plant Sciences
  • Psychiatry
  • Veterinary Science & Zoology

  Social Sciences Citation Index

  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

  Arts & Humanities Citation Index

  Subjects include:

  • Art & Architecture
  • Archaeology
  • Asian Studies
  • Classics
  • Dance
  • Folklore
  • History
  • Language & Linguistics
  • Literature & Literary Reviews
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • Poetry
  • Radio, Television, & Film
  • Religion
  • Theater

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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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