Library Guide: Honors 108
Spring 2006
General Resources:
These resources are applicable to almost all fields.
WorldCat
Access to the combined catalog of several thousand libraries,
providing information on the last century's worth (and beyond) of books. It
is of particular use in disciplines dominated by books, rather than by journal
literature. Includes information on which libraries hold specific titles, which
can be useful in determining whether they will be retrievable through Inter-Library
Loan.
Digital
Dissertations
Gives abstracts of doctoral dissertations,
which, if recent, often have useful bibliographies.
ISI
Web of Science Citation Indexes (Science, Social Science and Arts and Humanities)
A massive set of databases that indexes journal articles and their footnotes,
so that you can search for articles that have cited a specific article or author.
If you have an article that is on target for you, you
can see who has cited it -- a great way to follow the scholarly conversation
thread.
xreferplus
This online collection of reference works lets you search 160 resources simultaneously.
Helpful for verifying small, discrete pieces of information.
Anthropological
Index Online
Indexes journal articles in journals received by the Anthropology
Library at the British Museum. Be patient.
Anthropological
Literature
Provided by Tozzer Library, Harvard University, a major anthropology collection.
Continue to be patient.
CIAO:
Columbia International Affairs Online
Provides indexing and full text of journal articles,
conference papers and organizational publications.
Congressional
Universe
Full text of bills, reports and other publications of
the legislative branch.
EconLit
Indexes academic literature in economics and
business from 1969 on.
GenderWatch
Indexes and retrieves ephemeral material on women
and gender issues.
ISI Social Science Citation Index
Lexis-Nexis
Academic
Full-text for business, legal and current events in the
past decade. It includes text from the foreign press.
PsycINFO
Abstracts for articles, essays and parts of books in psychology,
1887 - present.
Sociological
Abstracts
Abstracts for articles, essays and parts of books in sociology,
1963 - present.
Women's
Studies International
Indexes articles, essays, dissertations and books in women's studies since 1972.
World News Connection
Transcripts of foreign broadcasts, translated by your friendly neighborhood
CIA. This requires a librarian to enter a username and password, so can only
be used in the Library.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Indexes political science journals from 1975 on.
America:
History and Life
Indexes material on U.S. and Canadian history.
Includes links to full text of older articles in approximately one hundred major journals.
L'Annee Philologique
Collects publications in classical studies, and arranges entries in
broad subject categories. There are indexes for personal and place
names, as well as an author (of the publication) index. Use
this in addition to MLA (see below) Be prepared to browse.
Art
Abstracts
Brief summaries of articles in major art journals
from 1984 on.
Artbibliographies Modern
Per Rm 709.04 A785a
Provides indexing of books and journal articles
on 20th century art.
ATLAS
Full Text Plus Religion Database
Indexes book titles, journal articles, essays, dissertations
and reviews, and now includes full-text of approximately fifty major journals.
Bibliography of Bioethics
Reference 016.1742 B5822
A slow but useful index, from 1975 on.
Historical
Abstracts
Access to articles and books since 1982 on world history
after 1450, excluding the U.S. and Canada. Includes links to full text
of older articles in approximately one hundred major journals.
Internation
Index to the Performing Arts
Indexes, with some full text, journals on theatre, drama, dance, music and film.
International
Medieval Bibliography Online
Since Historical Abstracts only goes back to 1450,
use this bibliography to find secondary material on the Middle Ages.
ISI
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Provides citation searching to bring your research up
to the past month.
MLA
(Modern Language Association) Bibliography
Indexes material in linguistics and literary criticism,
1963 - present.
Philosopher's
Index
Indexes books and journal articles in philosophy and ethics,
1940 - present.
Women's
Studies International
Indexes articles, essays, dissertations and books in women's studies since 1972.
Biological
Abstracts
The primary index in biology and related fields. 1995 - present
CINAHL
(Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
Indexes 1,800 journals in the health care field, with links to a companion database
of full-text articles.
ISI
Sciences Citation Index
Provides citation searching to bring your research up
to the past month.
Lexis/Nexis Environmental
Abstracts of environmental articles, as well as full text of news, laws and legal codes related to the environment.
MathSciNet
Indexing in math, computer sciences and some
physical sciences from the American Mathematical Society, with full-text
for select journals.
Medline
An index to medical and health sciences literature,
created by the National Library of Medicine.
Science
Direct
Full text access to over 800 journals from Elsevier, one
of the foremost publishers in the sciences. Please note, though:
this is science according to ONE publisher!
Wiley Interscience
Selections from another major publisher in the sciences.
It's often a good idea to meet with a librarian for recommendations on the most productive approaches to your bibliographic research. Plan to meet early in the process!
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