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Article Databases in Ethnic & Area Studies



American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies  RefWorks Enabled

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

1956-

Citations to U.S. and Canadian publications on topics related to East-Central Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union, including culture, history, economics, international relations, and literature. It contains bibliographic records for journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications.

Asian Survey: A Monthly Review of Contemporary Asian Affairs 

A monthly publication devoted to current political, economic, and social developments in Asia. The January and February issues survey the previous year's major trends in 18 Asian countries. Indexed in Bibliography of Asian Studies, Social Sciences Index, P.A.I.S., Historical Abstracts; Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science); and International Political Science Abstracts.

Australian Public Affairs - Full Text (APAFT) 

http://search.informit.com.au/

1978- .

Index of Australian articles, conference papers, and books covering business, health, current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics, and social sciences. Includes some full text after 1994

Beijing Review 

An official weekly publication (in English) from the People's Republic of China, presenting the official views of the Chinese Communist Party. Includes articles on international and domestic political, economic, and social issues, as well as those on business, culture, science, and sports. Excerpts articles from the Chinese press and reprints important speeches and official documents. Discusses international questions. Indexed in Bibliography of Asian Studies and Social Sciences Index.

Bibliography of Asian Studies 

http://0-ets.umdl.umich.edu.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/b/bas/

1971- .

References western-language books, chapters in edited volumes, journal articles, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften on all parts of Asia. Allows browsing by subject, journal title, or by country/region or search by topic. Covers the social sciences as well as the humanities.

Black Studies Center 

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

Black Studies Center brings together essential historical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. It is comprised of several cross-searchable component databases: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, The HistoryMakers® Videos and full transcripts for interviews with 100 contemporary African Americans, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), historical black newspapers, and the Black Literature Index. Trial ends October 31, 2008. Evaluate this resource.

Central and Eastern European Online Library 

http://0-www.ceeol.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/aspx/SearchArticles.aspx

Online archive of articles from 125 Central and Eastern European scholarly journals. Includes articles in English and about two dozen other European languages.

Clase and Periodica   RefWorks Enabled

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Clase 1975- . Periodica 1978- .

Clase indexes articles essays, book reviews, books, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews, and brief notes published in Latin American social sciences and humanities journals. Periodica indexes similar documents from Latin American science and technology journals. Includes scholarly journals published in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English.

Eastview 

See Online Databases of Russian/NIS Publications Includes Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press (also CDSP); CIS & Baltic Periodicals; Russian Central Newspapers; Social Sciences and Humanities; Russian/NIS Newswires; Russian/NIS Statistical Publications

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.

HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)  RefWorks Enabled

http://0-hapi.ucla.edu.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/

Online: 1970- . Print: 1975-1995

Indexes articles from more than 600 social science and humanities journals. Includes works published throughout the world which relate to Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the U.S.-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Most articles are in Spanish or Portuguese, though some English language periodicals are indexed.

Index Islamicus  RefWorks Enabled

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Major index to articles on Islamic history and the languages, literatures, and ethnography of the Islamic world. Also available in a printed version:

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

Online Databases of Russian/NIS Publications 

http://0-dlib.eastview.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/

Coverage varies by title.

Consists of three databases: 1) The Universal Database of Russian Newspapers provides comprehensive coverage of national news, current events, economic developments and cultural events in Russia. Official sources (Rossiiskaia gazeta, Krasnaia zvezda, ITAR-TASS), independent media and partisan publications are all represented on this database, as well as several English-language newspapers including Moscow Times. This database also contains discontinued titles, such as Pravda and Segodnia. 2) The Universal Database of CIS and Baltic Newspapers includes a number of periodicals published in the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union. The sources are in Russian and in English, and cover various issues of domestic and international importance. The database continues to expand. 3) Russian Periodicals on Social Sciences and Humanities provides researchers with a unique opportunity to cross-search the contents of major Russian periodicals on social sciences and humanities. It is comprised of all 31 journals of the Russian Academy of Sciences ranging from archeology to linguistics, as well as popular literary editions, and independent scholarly publications. New titles are added on a regular basis. This Universal Database grows retroactively. Full-text and full-image content of print editions is reproduced with original pagination. East View product.

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).

Proquest Asian Business  RefWorks Enabled

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A collection of 95 English-based business journals and magazines covering industry and company operations in Asia. Some titles are unique to this database. Search in ABI-Inform Complete as well.

ProQuest European Business  RefWorks Enabled

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A collection of 154 English-based business journals and magazines covering industry and company operations in Western Europe. Some French publications are also included.

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.

Redalyc 

http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/

Latin American journals on humanities, social sciences, and sciences. In Spanish, Portuguese, or English.

Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) 

http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?lng=en

An electronic library covering a selected collection of Brazilian scientific journals, including journals in the social sciences.

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.