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Article Databases in General & Multidisciplinary Resources



Academic Search Premier  RefWorks Enabled

http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=aph

1965- (varies).

Provides full text for 4,486 publications (3,718 peer-reviewed) covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. A total of 8,224 titles are abstracted and indexed, of which 7,132 are peer-reviewed.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science)  RefWorks Enabled

http://0-isiknowledge.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/wos

1980- .

Web of Science is a multidisciplinary bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Distributed by the Institute for Scientific Information - ISI, Web of Science at Georgetown University is a cumulation of three databases: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. In addition to traditional author, title and keyword searches, the citation databases offer access to articles' cited references - the footnotes from authors' bibliographies. You may take a known, relevant paper and find other, more recent papers that cite it.

Book Review Index 

1965 - present

An index to critical commentary from a variety of sources (over 400 print and online publications). Books reviewed represent a wide range of popular, academic, and professional interests.

CNRS - Revues  

http://www.revues.org/

Full-text access (with embargo) to French social science and humanities journals published by the CNRS. Includes titles such as Anthropology of Food.

Compludoc  RefWorks Enabled

http://europa.sim.ucm.es/compludoc/

Citation index for articles in Spanish and other languages. This resource is maintained by the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, and indexes several thousand journals in all subject areas.
Citations can be exported to RefWorks.

Dialog 

Dialog is an online information service of more than 450 databases, including U.S. and international company directories and full-text and abstracted periodicals in business, energy, health, pharmaceuticals, science, technology, trademarks, and more. For a listing of databases, consult the dialog bluesheets by subject. Please contact Reference for further information.

Directory of Open Access Journals 

http://www.doaj.org/

A directory of free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in various subjects and languages.

Emerald Intelligence + Fulltext 

http://0-www.emeraldinsight.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/

1989-present.

This source has over 130 full-text journals published by MCB University Press. Subjects include: general management, human resources, information management, library & information services, marketing, property, engineering, quality, training & education, operations, production & economics. Most of the journals have an international perspective.

Environment Abstracts  RefWorks Enabled

http://0-www.csa.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=hoya&access=hoya202&db=envabs-set-c&adv=1

Environment Abstracts (formerly LexisNexis Environmental) encompasses all aspects of the impact of people and technology on the environment and the effectiveness of remedial policies and technologies. Provides access to more than 950 journals published in the U.S. and abroad. Also covers conference papers and proceedings, special reports from international agencies, non-governmental organizations, universities, associations and private corporations. Other materials selectively indexed include significant monographs, government studies and newsletters.

Essay and General Literature Index 

http://0-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=EGL

1900-

Index to collections of essays with emphasis on the humanities and social sciences. The unique aspect of this index is that it cites chapters from books and anthologies. Use Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective for 1900 to 1984.

European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies 

http://www2.msh-paris.fr/betuee/BD_Bibl_Est_accueil_angl.htm

EBSEES lists books, journal articles, reviews and theses on Eastern Europe (formerly Communist countries) published in Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, The Netherlands, and Switzerland. It includes documents from all these countries, whether published in that country's language or in the languages of the countries studied. This includes national minorities and émigré publications. The database contains over 50,000 bibliographical citations to works published between 1991 and 1996. From 1996 onwards, German monographs are not listed, as users can find them through the catalogues of the German National Library in Frankfurt/Main.

FRANCIS  RefWorks Enabled

http://0-www.csa.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=hoya&access=hoya202&db=francis-set-c&adv=1.If

FRANCIS, a multilingual, multidisciplinary database, provides abstracts in French or English, and descriptors in both languages, and includes coverage of journals, books, conference papers, and other materials in the humanities and social sciences. It contains more than 1 million citations for publications on archaeology, geography, linguistics, philosophy, religion, and sociology. Its coverage of articles and books on French language and literature is particularly strong.

Gallica 

http://gallica.bnf.fr/

Digital library of French and francophone culture maintained by the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Contains electronic texts, images, maps, animation, and sound files of French and other publications in history, literature, science, philosophy, law, economics, and political science. Almost all "classic" works of French literature are represented.

Google Scholar  RefWorks Enabled

http://0-scholar.google.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/advanced_scholar_search

This is a beta version that provides broad searching of scholarly literature, particularly in the sciences. Searches across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. For on campus or GU-authenticated users, results contain links to electronic full text from GU-subscribed content, especially journal articles.

Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective  RefWorks Enabled

http://0-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=HSR

1907-1984.

Indexes book reviews and articles from English-language periodicals, including scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Covers a wide range of interdisciplinary fields (including sciences into the 1950s), represented in a broad array of humanities and social sciences journals.

IBZ - International Bibliography of Periodical Literature 

http://0-gso.gbv.de.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/DB=2.4/LNG=EN/

1983- .

An international and interdisciplinary bibliography of academic periodical literature mainly from the humanities, social sciences and the arts, with some science. Contains over 2,553,260 journal articles from about 10,785 journals covering the years 1983 to the present. Approximately 120,000 entries are added to the database annually; it is updated monthly. The article data in IBZ includes a subject classification in German and English based on the German Personennormdatei (name authority file -PND) and Schlagwortnormdatei (controlled vocabulary - SWD).

Ingenta 

http://0-www.ingentaconnect.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu

Varies, earliest 1988.

Provides keyword access to tables of contents in more than 18,000 journals.

International Index to Black Periodicals 

http://0-iibp.chadwyck.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/

1902-

Includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 African-American-oriented and -produced scholarly and popular journals, newspapers, and newsletters from the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean. Full-text coverage of 25 core black studies periodicals (1998 forward). Coverage is international in scope and multidisciplinary, spanning cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues. An essential tool for identifying articles published in African-American periodicals

JSTOR  RefWorks Enabled

http://0-www.jstor.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu

Full text (in PDF format) of selected, important scholarly journals in a number of fields. Note: journals in JSTOR usually do not include the most recent three to five years. For more recent articles, use one of the other indexes listed in this section.

LexisNexis Academic  RefWorks Enabled

http://0-www.lexisnexis.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/us/lnacademic

Varies by publication.

Provides access to the full text of thousands of national and international magazines, newspapers, wire services, TV and radio broadcast transcripts, web publications, and blogs. Search by General, News, Legal, Business, or People.

National Journal Group 

http://0-nationaljournal.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/

Current; some archives.

This group of databases provides very current news and analysis of politics, policy and government topics. The suite of titles consists of American Health Line, Congress Daily, Greenwire, The Hotline and Technology Daily. National Journal Group Inc.'s online sources provide briefings that are updated on a daily or weekly basis with a focus on news from Washington and Capitol Hill.

Opinion Archives 

http://0-metasearch.opinionarchives.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/

Searches opinion pieces and editorials from across the political spectrum. Full text available from The Nation, Commentary, NACLA, and The New Republic. Also indexes American Spectator, Commonweal, Harper's Magazine, The National Review, and The New York Review of Books.

PapersFirst 

http://firstsearch.oclc.org/

October 1993- .

Provides citations to papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses, meetings, and symposia received at The British Library. For user name and password, ask at the Reference Desk.

Periodicals Index Online  RefWorks Enabled

http://0-pio.chadwyck.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu

1770-1995.

An international, interdisciplinary database providing the complete tables of contents for older issues of 3,536 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. PIO covers not only journals published by academic presses but also those journals published as popular reading which now provide valuable research materials for scholars.

PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas)  RefWorks Enabled

http://0-prisma.chadwyck.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/

Provides full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin. Includes titles indexed in the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI).

ProceedingsFirst 

http://firstsearch.oclc.org/

October 1993- .

Cites every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop, and meeting received at The British Library. Ask at the Reference Desk for user name and password.

Project Muse  RefWorks Enabled

http://0-muse.jhu.edu.library.lausys.georgetown.edu:80/journals/

Mid-1990s- (dates vary by title).

Provides access to almost 250 journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, and 40 other scholarly publishers. Covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics and many others. You can search across all journals in the database, selected subsets of journal titles or just a single title. Full text is available for titles marked with a green arrow.

Proquest Research Library  RefWorks Enabled

http://0-proquest.umi.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/login?COPT=U01EPTYmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTImREJTPUc2KzE5RSsxOUYrMUEwKzFBMSsxQTIrMUEzKzFBNCsxQTUrMUE2KzFBNysyMTgrMUFBKzFBQisxQUMrMUFE&clientId=5604

1980s- (varies).

Provides indexing, abstracting, and many full-text entries for over 2,800 scholarly and general interest periodicals. Covers a very broad range of topics and sources, including most public policy issues.

RAMBI 

http://jnul.huji.ac.il/rambi/

1966- .

Selective bibliography of research articles relevant to the field of Judaica. Material is compiled from several thousand English, Hebrew, Yiddish and European language sources. Much of the material reflects the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library.

Readers' Guide Retrospective 

http://0-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=RGR

1890-1982

Use this article database to search for a wide range of topics from general interest and popular magazines of the past such as the Saturday Evening Post and Life.

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature  RefWorks Enabled

http://0-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=RDGFT

1983-present

Index to the most popular general-interest magazines and journals published in the United States. For 1890 to 1982, use the Readers' Guide Retrospective.

Web of Science  RefWorks Enabled

http://0-isiknowledge.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/wos

1980- .

Web of Science is part of the ISI Web of Knowledge, a multidisciplinary bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts journals in the arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences. It cumulates three databases: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index. In addition to traditional author, title and keyword searches, the citation databases offer access to articles' cited references (the footnotes from authors' bibliographies). You may take a known, relevant paper and find other, more recent papers that cite it.

Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega 

http://0-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=OMNIFT

Includes Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text, Library Literature & Information Science Full Text, Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text and Wilson Business Full Text. You can search these databases all at once or separately (under Open Database Selection Area).