Primary Communication Databases & Article Indexes

CIOS/Comserve
Also Known as: Communication Institute for Online Scholarship, Electronic Journal of Communication, ComIndex, ComAbstracts
CIOS/Comserve is an online resource for communication scholars containing several services, including an index to 27 key communication periodicals, the Electronic Journal of Communication, a full te...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Dates of coverage vary, earliest indexed journal begins in 1962.

Communication Abstracts
- from CSA Databases
Bibliographic citations with abstracts on all areas of communication studies. Topics include advertising, communication theory, mass communication, public communication, journalism and media studies, ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1998-present.
Supplemental URLs
    ALTERNATIVE ACCESS via ECO e-journal collection

Communication & Mass Media Complete
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LexisNexis Academic
Also Known as: lexis/nexis, Lexis-Nexis, Lexis Nexis,
Access to full-text national and international newspapers , including the New York Times, and the Times of London business and accounting information, biographical data, and some selected legal mat...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Supplemental URLs
    old interface url

Important Communication Databases & Article Indexes

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
Broad collection of fulltext scholarly journals and related periodicals in all scholarly disciplines. Includes bibliographic citations, indexing and abstracting for more than 8,000 periodicals. A comp...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Coverage varies: mostly 1990s to present.

AdSpender
Also Known as: adsummary, ad$summary, ad summary
**3 concurrent users**: US media use and expenditure by Brand / Parent Company (including individual commericial films), Industry, Type of media used (Magazine, Sunday Magazine, Newspaper, Outdoor, Sp...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Supplemental URLs
    AdSpender Search Aid

Advertising Ratios & Budgets (2001/2008)
Also Known as: ad ratios
Available at Lippincott Library Only. Covers 5,000+ companies and 300 industries with 2006 advertising budgets, 2007 ad-to-sales ratios and ad-to-gross margins ratios, as well as 2007...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

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

American National Election Studies
Also Known as: ANES National Election Studies NES
Time series data from surveys conducted during U.S. presidential and congressional election years, 1948-present....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    ANES data sets and codebooks (via ICPSRdirect)
    SDA interface to ANES 2000 data (crosstabs, subsetting, extracts)
    NES Bibliography
    NES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior
    ANES data sets and codebooks (alternative via ICPSRdirect)

AP Photo Archive
Also Known as: AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive, AP Images
Image and Graphics Databases only available on this subscription. Contains over one million Associated Press photographs (with searchable captions) in two collections, downloadable as JPEG (jpg) image...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Photos: 1826 to present. Graphics: 1999 to present. Audio files: 1920s to present.
Supplemental URLs
    old interface url

BHI: British Humanities Index
- from CSA Databases
An abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities, BHI indexes over 320 humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as qual...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: coverage begins in 1962-

Business Source Premier (EBSCO)
Also Known as: EBSCO Business Source Premier bsp
Updated daily provides nearly 3,300 full text scholarly publications, including more than 1,000 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Supplemental URLs
    Business Source Premier Help Guide

Catalog of Nonprofit Literature
Also Known as: Foundation Center Literature of the Nonprofit Sector
Bibliographic citations with abstracts for materials on philanthropy, the foundation world, the nonprofit sector, and charitable giving collected by the Foundation Center libraries and other sources. ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

CEPR Discussion Paper series
Also Known as: Centre for Economic Policy Research discussion papers
Working papers of the leading pan-European economic research center. Separate series cover international macroeconomics, international trade, public policy, labor economics, financial economics, indus...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

Cognitive Linguistics Bibliography (CogBib)
Also Known as: CogBib,Cog Bib, Cognitive Bibliography
- from De Gruyter Journal Collection
Indexing with abstracts covering linguistic research on the interaction between language and cognition, and language as an instrument for organizing, processing, and conveying information. Topics incl...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

Communication Abstracts
- from OCLC FirstSearch ECO
A journal of abstracts...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1998-1998

Digital Innovation South Africa (DISA)
Free online digital archive of South African apartheid-era works. Includes periodicals, trial materials, and other documents....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

Dow Jones Factiva
Also Known as: dow jones factiva
Factiva is a full-text online service that provides access to sources of national and international news, business, health and general information. News sources include newspapers, magazines, media tr...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Dates vary. Most publications begin in the late 1980's or early 1990's
Supplemental URLs
    Factiva Help Guide

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

FactCheck.org
Also Known as: Annenberg Political Fact Check
Monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: December 2003-present.
Unrestricted Access

FBIS: Foreign Broadcast Information Service Electronic Index (1975-1996)
Contemporary coverage of political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues and events worldwide, relying upon international and local language news sources. The FBIS Electronic Index provides acces...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

FIAF International FilmArchive Database
Also Known as: International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), Index Film Periodicals 1972-3/2007, Index TV Periodicals 1979-3/2007, Treasures from the Film Archives
FIAF International Film Archive Database is published by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) and contains several databases: the International Index to Film Periodicals, the Internati...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Supplemental URLs
    new interface effective July 1, 2009!

Film Literature Index Online
Contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews on film, tv, and video published between 1976-2001. ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1976-2001
Unrestricted Access

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1974 - 1996
Also Known as: FBIS
Coverage of Africa, Asia, China, Latin America, and the Middle/Near East....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

GenderWatch
GenderWatch, formerly titled Women 'R', contains 40,000 articles from more than 100 journals, magazines, newsletters, special reports, unpublished papers and conference proceedings devoted to gender a...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: The database contains a large body of archival material, in some cases, as far back as 1970.

General Social Survey
Also Known as: GSS
Omnibus personal interview survey of U.S. households, conducted almost annually....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Quick download: GSS 1972-2008 datasets (Roper Express)
    GSS Bibliography
    GSS 1972-2004 Quick Tables (with charts) (Berkeley SDA Archive)
    GSS 1972-2004 Full Analysis (Berkeley SDA Archive)
    Extracting Data from the GSS into SPSS

Health Poll Search
Searchable archive of public opinion questions on health issues, including abortion, alcohol an drugs, bioterrorism and biological weapons, political campaigns, elections, leaders and health, children...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1935-present.
Unrestricted Access

Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Also Known as: HAPI
Subjects covered include anthropology, archaeology, anthropology, banking and finance, business, commerce, drama, drug trade, economic development, environmental issues, ethnography, folklore, geogr...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1970 to the present. Updated weekly.

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

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Also Known as: IBSS CSA
- from CSA Databases
Bibliographic citations and subject indexing for the international journal article and book literature in anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology. Produced by British Library of Poli...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Covers 1951 to the present in three separate files.
Supplemental URLs
    IBSS Journal Coverage List (LSE IBSS Web)

Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
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Unrestricted Access

iPOLL
Also Known as: Roper Center, RPOLL
REQUIRES FREE REGISTRATION. Question-level data from public opinion polls. Almost 400,000 questions from polls, 1935 to present, based upon Roper Center-archived surveys with US national adult samples...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1935 to present. Updated daily.

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

ITU World Telecommunication Indicators
Available in Lippincott Library Only
Contains time series data for the years 1960, 1965, 1970 and annually from 1975 for around 80 sets of telecommunication statistics (updated...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

IZI-Datenbank- International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television Database
The most extensive database on children's television, youth television, and educational television in the German-speaking context, contains more than 20,000 international references and links to full-...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

Left Index
Bibliographic citations for the "literature on the left". Topics include anarchism, art and esthetics, community organizing, culture studies, ecology and environmental studies, economics, gay and lesb...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Supplemental URLs
    former interface

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Also Known as: LLBA
- from CSA Databases
Linguistics, literacy, language acquisition, speech and hearing, and language research....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1973 to present.
Supplemental URLs
    Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
    Serials List (CSA)
    Classification Codes [incomplete?] (CSA)

MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)
Fulltext general-interest and popular magazine database, covering nearly 2000 magazines and newsletters for a general readership. Combined with other databases in EBSCO MegaFILE....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Coverage varies: mostly 1990s to present.

Media/Materials Clearinghouse
A fulltext collection of international health communication materials: pamphlets, posters, audiotapes, videos, training materials, job aids, electronic media and other media/materials designed to prom...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

Mergent Horizon
Mergent Horizon covers 6,200 U.S. companies and ADRs with enhanced product-level detail (16,000 product descriptions). It enables you to identify a company's key relationships based on competitors, cu...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

Mideastwire.com
Also Known as: mideast wire, mideastwire
Daily email newsletter of concise, translated briefs covering some of the key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing in the media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspo...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

MRI+
Also Known as: Mediamarke Research, Mediamark Reported, MRI Reporter
Consumer Surveys. Each first time user MUST register a Penn email address and personal password. Use the Free Registration box to register. ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

National Index to Chinese Newspapers & Periodicals (Shanghai Library)
Covers information for over one and half centuries from 1833 to the present, and about 10,000 titles of newspapers and periodicals published in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, almost all the ser...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1833-

NationalJournal.com
Online fulltext access to National Journal periodicals and resources. Provides coverage of current US government activity and policy, as well as technology and health care issues. Additional resources...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

Newspaper Carriers' Addresses
"Carriers' addresses were published by newspapers, usually on January 1, and distributed in the United States for more than two centuries. The custom originated in England and was introduced here duri...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

Nonprofit Organization Reference Center
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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)

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

Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- from publisher website
At its height in the 1940s the Pittsburgh Courier was one of the most important african american newspapers in the country, had a national circulation of over 350,000 and was as widely read as the Chi...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1911-2002

PolicyArchive
Digital archive of non-partisan policy research. Collects summaries and full texts, videos, reports, briefs, and multimedia material of think tank, university, government, and foundation-funded policy...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

Polling the Nations
Primary data, fulltext for approximately 250,000 individual questions and aggregated responses, often cross tabulated by respondent characteristics, compiled from public opinion surveys. Topics cove...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

PROL - Political Research Online
REQUIRES FREE REGISTRATION. Electronic fulltext preprint archive for political science. Includes conference papers, preprints, syllabi, and center and institute reports....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

PsycCRITIQUES
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PsycINFO
- from CSA Databases
The American Psychological Association's comprehensive indexing and abstracting service for the professional and scholarly literature in psychology and related fields. Coverage is worldwide. Sources a...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1887 to the present. Updated monthly.
Supplemental URLs
    PsycINFO Classification Categories and Codes (APA Online)
    PsycINFO Journal Coverage List (APA Online)
    Search Guide for PsycINFO on CSA IDS (APA Online, PDF)
    Guide to Fields in PsycINFO Records (APA Online)

Readers' Guide Retrospective
Also Known as: readers guide, reader's guide, wilson
Provides comprehensive indexing of the popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States, such as Time, Newsweek, New Republic, National Review, ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Numeric data archive for public opinion polls. Access is mediated through requests from Penn Library to Roper Center. Related online resources include: Roper Center's online catalog of data sets; and ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1936-present.
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Roper Center catalog of holdings
    Public Opinion Matters (includes Public Opinion 101)
    Roper Center Bibliographic Database
    RoperExpress
    Roper Center - Past Data Announcements

Simmons Markets and Media -Choices III (CD-ROM)
Also Known as: Simmons Choices
Available in Lippincott Library Only
Choices III is a consumer survey produced by the Simmons Market Research Bureau. It is used to develop profiles of consumer buying habits a...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Simmons Choices III - Help Guide

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)

UNESBIB
Also Known as: UNESCO Bibliographic Database
Indexing with abstracts for the international publication and document literature on education, culture, communication and information, the natural sciences, and the social sciences and humanities. To...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

UNESDOC
Also Known as: UNESCO Documents Collection
Fulltext or page image for UNESCO documents. Materials cover the subject areas of interest to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization): education, communication and in...   [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.

Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Also Known as: VTNA TV-NewsSearch CNN
Searchable abstracting service for national television network news broadcasts. CNN broadcasts available as RealMedia video streams, 1998-present. VTNA lends videotapes of broadcasts or item compilati...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1968-present.

World News Connection
Also Known as: WNC
English translations of non-U.S. media sources....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Also Known as: WPSA
- from CSA Databases
67% of the more than 1500 monitored journals are published outside the United States, and there are nearly 500,000 records beginning in 1975. Some of the records have fulltext links and coverage inc...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Supplemental URLs
    Serials List (CSA)
    Classification Codes (CSA)

Related Communication Databases & Article Indexes

ABI/Inform - Proquest
Also Known as: ABI, ABI Inform
Covers all aspects of business. ABI/Inform provides in-depth coverage of business conditions, trends, corporate strategies and tactics, management techniques, competitive and product information, and...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Supplemental URLs
    ABI/Inform Search Aid

Anthropology PLUS
Also Known as: RLG Eureka Anthropology PLUS, Anthropological Index (via Eureka), Anthropology Plus, Anthropological Index, Anthropological Literature
ACCESS NOTE: 5 users

Contains bibliographic citations from the journal holdings of the de facto national anthropological library of Britain Library of the British Museum Department of Ethnogr...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1957 to the present. Limited data for the pre-1970 period.
Supplemental URLs
    New interface effective Sept 17, 2007
    Eureka interface phasing out in September 2007

Applied Science & Business Periodicals Retrospective (1913-1983)
Combined HW Wilson journal article indexes: Industrial Arts Index (1913-1958), Business Periodicals Index (1958-1982), Applied Science & Technology Index (1958-1983). ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1913 - 1983

Business and Industry
Also Known as: Business & Industry, B&I, b&i
Business & Industry is a database containing information on public and private companies, industries, markets, and products. It covers the manufacturing and services industries and is international ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

Chicano Database
Covers all types of materials relating to Mexican-American topics and, for materials published since 1992, broader topics relating to Latinos....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1967 to present.
Supplemental URLs
    New interface effective Sept 17, 2007

Child Welfare Information Gateway / Children's Bureau, HHS
Also Known as: Child Abuse and Neglect. National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information Documents Database
Indexing with abstracts for scholarly, professional, and technical books, journal articles, and other documents related to child maltreatment, child abuse and child neglect, adoption, and related chi...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1965-present.
Unrestricted Access

CogNet
Also Known as: MIT Cognet, CogNet (Library Edition)
A "central repository for the most current and topical electronic resources" in cognitive science and its six core areas: philosophy of mind, computational intelligence, cognitive psychology, linguist...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

Compendex
Also Known as: Engineering Index , Ei Compendex , ei village , engineering village
The broad subject areas of engineering and applied science are comprehensively represented. Coverage includes nuclear technology, bioengineering, transportation, chemical and process engineering, ligh...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1884 - present. Updated weekly.
Supplemental URLs
    Penn Inspec and Compendex Guide

Contemporary Women's Issues
This full-text database provides international coverage of current issues such as employment and the workplace, social & political issues, violence and exploitation, development and human rights, heal...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1992 to the present, (selected reports back to 1990).

Criminal Justice Abstracts
- from CSA Databases
Comprehensive indexing with abstracts of the scholarly literature and applied literature on criminology and related disciplines. Subject areas covered include: causes and correlates of crime, criminol...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1968-present.

Current Index to Statistics
The Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. References are drawn from 162 core journals (as of 2003) that are fully indexed, non-core jou...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1995 - present

Declassified Documents Reference System
Also Known as: DDRS Online
Primary sources, fulltext and image for declassified United States government documents from the second half of the twentieth century to the present. The collection provides coverage for domestic an...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Declassified documents issued from 1941 through the 1990s. Documents have been declassified since 1974.

Education Index Retrospective (1929 - 1983)
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Holdings: 1929 - 1983

EMarketer
Also Known as: eMarketer
eMarketer reports combine original analysis with aggregated numbers from leading sources worldwide. The database includes industry reports, company articles, market projections and analytical commenta...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

ERIC (from CSA)
- from CSA Databases
Indexes education-related journal articles and other publications. Cross-file search with other CSA databases....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

ERIC (from EBSCO)
Indexes education-related journal articles and other publications. Cross-file search with PDC & other EBSCO databases....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

Gartner IntraWeb
The Gartner Group is a leading provider of market research reports, specializing in the information technology (IT) industries. These reports provide business technology research, consumer and market...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

Global Books in Print
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Holdings: Updated weekly.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
Also Known as: HLAS
Bibliography of works on Latin America selected by scholars and edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Covers anthropology (including archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnology), ar...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1935 to the present. Updated monthly.
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    rlg interface 03/01/05

Health and Psychosocial Instruments
Also Known as: HAPI
Access to information on measurement instruments in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. HAPI helps identify measures needed for res...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1985 to the present. Updated quarterly.

Health Materials Database (U.S. Office of Minority Health)
The U. S. Office of Minority Health supports a group of materials databases which include minority health organizations, programs and documents. ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
Also Known as: HCUPnet
Provides aggregate national statistics and trends and selected state statistics about hospital stays, using data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), the Kids' Inpatient Database (KID), and the...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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INSPEC
Also Known as: Physics Abstracts , Computer and Control Abstracts , Electrical and Electronics Abstracts
The INSPEC database covers physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, robotics, and information technology. It also has significant co...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1896 - present. Updated weekly.
Supplemental URLs
    Penn Inspec and Compendex Guide

International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text
Also Known as: IIBP
- from publisher website
IIBP Full Text includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Time period varies depending on journal title

ISI Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
Also Known as: JCR
Journal Citation Reports provides journal comparison by accumulating and tabulating citation and article counts. It includes the JCR Science edition,and the JCR Social Sciences edition...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

Kwetu.net
Also Known as: African Resource Service
Searchable fulltext (PDF-format) documents from African research organizations, NGOs, educational institutions, and government agencies. Topics covered include agriculture, AIDS support services, arid...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

LexisNexis State Capital
Also Known as: State Capital Universe
State government information from all United States, including legislative statutory, and regulatory information, and news coverage about state governments....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

LISTA -- Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Also Known as: Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts
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MEDLINE (complete file)
The premier database for bibliographic coverage of biomedical literature. MEDLINE encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index, as well as ot...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Supplemental URLs
    Pre-MEDLINE
    MEDLINE (latest years)

Mental Measurements Yearbook
Also Known as: MMY
Descriptive information and reviews of English-language test instruments. Subject areas include achievement, behavior assessment, development, education, intelligence and scholastic aptitude, En...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Supplemental URLs
    new interface effective July 1, 2009!

MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
Also Known as: Modern Language Association Bibliography, MLAIB
Covers literature, languages, folklore, and linguistics. Includes English and foreign languages. ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Covers 1963 to the present. New records are added ten times a year.

Native Health Databases
"The Native Health Databases contain bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of Amer...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Peace Research Abstracts
Bibliographic citations with abstracts describing all aspects of peace research, including the causes and correlates of conflict, case studies in conflict, tension, and war, international laws and con...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1964-present.

POPLINE
Bibliographic citations with subject indexing and abstracts for the scholarly literature in population studies, family planning, and related subjects. Topics include family planning programs and techn...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1970-present.
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Users Guide to POPLINE Keywords

PROMT
Also Known as: Predicasts PROMT
Topics indexed in PROMT include: new product development, market share, advertising strategy, mergers & acquisitions, use of materials, computer industry, federal regulation, consumer attitude, sales ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

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

World Development Indicators
Also Known as: World Bank WDI Online
The World Bank's principal data source on the global economy. More than 550 time series, 1960-present, on more than 200 countries and 18 country groups, covering demographic, social, economic, financi...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Supplemental URLs
    old interface url