Primary Philadelphia Studies Databases & Article Indexes

Index to Current Urban Documents
Also Known as: ICUD
Indexing with fulltext of U.S. and Canadian city and county publications, covering social, political, economic, planning, and public administration affairs and policy, as well as health, education, an...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Late 1990s-present.

Philadelphia Neighborhoods: Histories, Plans and Futures
Philadelphia Neighborhoods: Histories, Plans and Futures is a free, searchable database of neighborhood-based reports issued by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission between 1946 and 1990. The dat...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

Urban Studies Abstracts
Also Known as: Sage Urban Studies Abstracts
Bibliographic citations with abstracts describing scholarly literature in all aspects of urban studies. Topics include trends in urbanization, urban history, architecture and urban design, housing and...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1973-present.

Important Philadelphia Studies Databases & Article Indexes

Alt-Press Watch
Also Known as: AltPress Watch, Philadelphia City Paper, Philadelphia Weekly. Alt-Press Watch (APW)
Provides fulltext for U.S. alternative and independent newspapers, weeklies, magazines, and journals. Topics include the arts, media and popular culture, business and labor, literature and criticism, ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Coverage varies, from 1990.

Alternative Press Index
Also Known as: Altpress Index
Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Includes selected abstracts from research journals. ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1991 to present

America: History and Life
Also Known as: America History and Life
History of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1964 to present. Updated three times a year.
Supplemental URLs
    ABC-CLIO access
    access via EbscoHost

American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900
Also Known as: APS Online
Includes digitized images of the pages of 1,100 American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1740-1900

Ancestry Library Edition
Genealogical collection covering the United States and the United Kingdom, including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada and other areas. T...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

Be in on it! - Philadelphia Retail
Information on the Center City Philadelphia retail market, including commercial real estate property availability. Produced by Philadelphia Retail Marketing Alliance....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

CamdenBase
Also Known as: Camden Database
CamdenBase includes citations to articles, books, book chapters, government documents, and other published materials concerning the history of the city of Camden, New Jersey. The file includes citatio...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Fulltext of the Courier Post is available through Newsbank National Newspapers.
Unrestricted Access

EBSCO MegaFILE
General, multidisciplinary fulltext periodical database, covering all scholarly disciplines, with many general and popular magazines, and news sources. Includes bibliographic citations with indexing a...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Coverage varies: mostly 1990s to present.

Ethnic NewsWatch
Full text, comprehensive archival database providing access to more than 400,000 articles in nearly 200 ethnic, minority and native press newspapers, magazines, and journals. Full text archive of Phi...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Covers 1960 to date. Updated monthly.
Supplemental URLs
    Titles List

ICPSR
Also Known as: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research SIMI Variables
USE OF ICPSR DATA REQUIRES STATISTICAL PROCESSING SOFTWARE AND GZIP DECOMPRESSION SOFTWARE. Direct-download access to social science quantitative data sets archived by ICPSR. Subjects covered includ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1962-present.
Supplemental URLs
    ICPSR Bibliography of Data-related Literature
    SDA Online Data Analysis System
    Publications-Related Archive
    SIMI: Site for Instructional Materials and Information
    SSVD: Social Science Variables Database

Index to Early American Periodicals
Subject index to the microfilm collections American Periodical Series I & II, (see also APS Online), which are located in the Van Pelt Microtext Center, first floor east. The Penn Librar...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

ISI Citation Indexes (Web of Science)
Also Known as: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Web of Science, SSCI, SCI, AHCI,ISI
Indexes journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Allows for cited reference searching. Includes Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index[more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1945-present, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present, Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present. Updated weekly.
Supplemental URLs
    ISI Citation Indexes Tutorial
    Cited Reference Searching Tutorial

Newsbank Access World News
Also Known as: NewsBank National Newspapers , America's Newspapers , Access World News , News Bank
Searchable fulltext of nearly 500 U.S. national, regional, and local newspapers. Coverage for current issues (i.e., yesterday in most cases) with extensive backfiles. Business and Management, Communi...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Varies with title, 1970s or more recent to present.

Philadelphia Tribune
Almost a century of the Philadelphia Tribune online, with access to every page from every available issue as full page and article images along with searchable full text. The Tribune is the largest...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1912-2001

Related Philadelphia Studies Databases & Article Indexes

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
- from CSA Databases
Covers architecture, architectural design, archeology, furniture and decoration, historic preservation, the history of architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, urban planning....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1930s to the present; selective coverage dating back to the 1860s, updated daily
Supplemental URLs
    New interface effective Sept 1, 2007
    Eureka interface ending mid-September 2007

Global Books in Print
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Holdings: Updated weekly.

PAIS International
Also Known as: Public Affairs Information Service, PAIS Archive
- from CSA Databases
Bibliographic citations (1915-) with indexing on contemporary public affairs and policy issues worldwide related to a wide range of topics: agriculture, banking, finance, business, demographics, educa...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1915-
Supplemental URLs
    Journal List (OCLC PAIS)
    Broad Topics Classification (OCLC PAIS)

Pennsylvania County Industry Trends.
Annual statistics by county....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
Also Known as: Digital Dissertations, Dissertation Abstracts, UMI, DAI, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT), Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext
Indexing (since 1861) and abstracting (since 1980) for doctoral-level dissertations completed at North American universities. Page images or fulltext of all available dissertations - including Penn d...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Indexing 1861-present, abstracts 1980-present, page-image or fulltext PDF for available dissertations dissertations from 1997 to the present.
Supplemental URLs
    old interface url

Sociological Abstracts
Also Known as: SocAbs soc abs
- from CSA Databases
Covers sociology, case work, demographics, policy studies, political science, family studies, feminist studies, and social security programs....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1963 to the present. Updated bimonthly.
Supplemental URLs
    Serials List (CSA)
    Classification Codes (CSA)