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19th Century Masterfile Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Cumulative index to the microfiche edition of Nineteenth Century. Subject indexes for periodicals, newspapers, books, US Congressional Record, US and UK Government Documents, and US Patents. Contains full text links to the citations from Harper's Magazine Index, Atlantic Monthly, North American Review, and some additional titles. Other search results will contain citations only.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Science and Engineering. Coverage varies, most titles were published in the mid-1800's and early 1900's.


20th Century African American Poetry Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff
Searchable, browseable database of over 10,000 poems from 70 poets of the twentieth century.
Subject area(s): Humanities.


20th Century American Poetry Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff
Searchable, browseable database of over 52,000 poems from 300 poets of the twentieth century.
Subject area(s): Humanities.


20th Century English Poetry Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable and browseable database of over 280 poets and 598 volumes of poems.
Subject area(s): Humanities.


ABC-CLIO eBooks Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
A browsable collection of electronic reference works in all academic subjects. The site includes encyclopedias, handbooks, and biographical works. Each individual title is searchable, though the collection is not cross-searchable.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.


ABELL Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.
The Modern Humanities Research Association's Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature is a searchable database of citations of monographs, journal articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays, and dissertations. MHRA's ABELL includes links to the full text of 61 journals.
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: 1920-present.


Academic Search Complete from EBSCO Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.
Includes: Citations and abstracts for articles in peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and news sources. Replaced Expanded Academic Index ASAP from Infotrac/Gale.
Access to Text: Some full-text; UC-eLinks available
Subject Coverage: All academic disciplines
Database provider: EBSCOhost
Recommended for Writing Classes and Core Classes.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences, Writing. Coverage: 1990 - current


Access World News Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.
Includes: Local, national, and regional newspapers. Formerly America's Newspapers.
Access to text: Complete full-text
Subject Coverage: News.
Database provider: Newsbank
Recommended for Lower-Division Courses and Upper-Division Courses.
Subject area(s): General Subjects. Coverage: Varies

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Acta Sanctorum Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable, electronic version of the complete printed text of Acta Sanctorum, from the edition published in sixty-eight volumes by the Société des Bollandistes in Antwerp and Brussels. It is a collection of documents examining the lives of saints, organized according to each saint's feast day.
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: Volumes published 1643-1940.


African American Newspapers: The 19th Century Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable database from Accessible Archives consisting of the full-text of the following newspapers: Freedom's Journal, March 1827 - March 1829; The Colored American, January 1837 - December 1841; The North Star, December 1847 - April 1851; The National Era, January 1847 - March 1860; Provincial Freeman, 1854-1857; Frederick Douglass Paper, 1851-1859; and The Christian Recorder,1861 - 1902.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Social Sciences. Coverage varies, 1827 - 1902.


African American Poetry 1750-1900. Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable and browseable database of nearly 3,000 poems.
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: 1750-1900.


America's Historical Newspapers Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable database of text of early American newspapers. Articles and pages can be viewed as images in a Web browser, or downloaded as pdf documents. Part of the Archive of Americana collection from Newsbank/Readex.
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: 1690-1876.

See also the Archive of Americana
American Chemical Society Publications Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable database containing the full text of over 40 journals from the ACS.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Coverage varies. Most journal subscriptions begin 1996-2000.


American Civil War: Letters and Diaries Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.
This searchable database contains the full text of approximately 32,000 pages of letters, diaries and memoirs. Over 460 authors are represented, including politicians, generals, slaves, landowners, farmers, seaman, wives, and spies. The letters and diaries are by the famous and the unknown, giving not only both the Northern and Southern perspectives, but those of foreign observers also.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Social Sciences. Includes materials written between 1855 and 1875.


American Drama Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.
Full-text searchable, browsable collection of over 700 plays.
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: 1714-1911.


American Fact Finder (AFF) Available online to all Web users.
From the U.S. Census Bureau, this site is an excellent source of 1990 and 2000 population, housing, economic, and geographic data for the nation, states, counties cities and places. Use "Factsheets" for overview information about a geographic area, or select "Data Sets" for table of statistics on specific topics.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Social Sciences. Covers 1990 and 2000 U.S. Censuses


American Film Institute Catalog Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
The AFI Catalog provides comprehensive, full-text filmographic information on over 45,000 films, including more than 17,500 made in the early years of film from 1893 to 1910.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Humanities. Covers: 1893-1970.

Search Film Index International and the AFI Catalog with Film Indexes Online.
American Meteorological Society Journals Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable full-text of journals from the AMS.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.


American National Biography (ANB) Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.
This searchable database contains information on more than American 17,400 men and women. Each entry contains a bibliography for further research and some have photos.
Subject area(s): General Subjects.


American Periodical Series Online (APS) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
This searchable database includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from 1741 to 1900. From Proquest.
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: 1741-1900


American State Papers Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Primary source material comprised of over 6,000 documents of U.S congressional materials from 1789 through 1838.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences. 1789-1838)


American poetry 1600-1900 Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable, browseable collection of over 40,000 poems by more than 200 poets.
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: 1600-1900.


AnthroSource Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of journal articles published by the American Anthropological Association (AAA)
Subject area(s): Social Sciences. Covers: 2003-current. For selected journals, coverage begins as early as 1880.


Archive of Americana Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Collectively search "Early American Imprints: Series 1 1639-1800" (Evans), "Early American Imprints: Series 2 1801-1819" (Shaw-Shoemaker), "Early American Newspapers 1690-1876", "American State Papers 1789-1838", and the "US Congressional Serials Set 1817-1980". Publisher is Newsbank.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Humanities. Coverage varies, 1639-1980.


Art Full Text Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Includes: Citations and abstracts for articles in peer-reviewed journals and other art periodicals.
Access to Text: Some full-text; UC-eLinks available
Subject Coverage: Advertising, archaeology, architecture, art history, crafts, design, digital media, fashion design, folk art, landscape architecture, motion pictures, museology, photography, television, textiles, and more
Database provider: WilsonWeb
Recommended for Writing Classes and Core Classes; Lower-Division Courses and Upper-Division Courses.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Writing.


Asian American Drama Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Full-text searchable and browsable database of plays written by Asian American authors. Contains character and bibliographic information for each play, plus production details for selected plays.
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: 1891 - current.


Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable database contains bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since 1947.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.


Background Notes Available online to all Web users.
Compiled by the U.S. Department of State, this site lists profiles of all countries. Each country's entry contains information on geography, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, foreign relations, U.S. relations, and travel/business.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Social Sciences.


Bible in English Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
20 different versions of the English Bible from the 10th to 20th century.
Subject area(s): Humanities.


BioOne Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable database of 45 online journals in biological, environmental, and ecological science.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 2000-present.


Biography Resource Center from Gale Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable, full-text database of biographies. Search for current and historic figures based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as keyword and full text.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Humanities.


Black Drama Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Full-text searchable and browsable database of plays written by African, Caribbean, and African American authors. Contains character and bibliographic information for each play, plus production details and images for selected plays.
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: 1850 - current.


Black Studies Center Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, images, and video. It combines several resources for research and teaching in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), The Chicago Defender, and the Black Literature Index. From Proquest.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Humanities, Social Sciences. Coverage varies by publication, 1910-current.


Business Source Complete Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of articles from scholarly business journals and other sources. Subjects include management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Social Sciences. Covers: 1965 - current, though a few select journals are available from the 1940's and 1950's.


CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Citations to working papers, conference proceedings, books, and journal articles in the area of international affairs. Many resources are full-text.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences. Covers: 1991-present.


CQ Public Affairs Collection Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff,
The full text database brings together CQ's research from encyclopedias, legislative histories, case summaries, and primary sources into one integrated reference tool. Organized by 22 key public affairs subject headings. Good tool for researchers in public affairs and public policy, social work, government, political science, journalism, and communications. Also known as "Congressional Quarterly's Public Affairs Collection."
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Social Sciences.


CQ Researcher Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Includes: Investigative reports on contemporary and “hot topic” issues in the news. Also known as Congressional Quarterly Researcher.
Access to Text: Complete full-text
Subject Coverage: Social issues, politics, environment, health, immigration, science, technology, and more.
Database provider: CQ Press
Recommended for Writing Classes and Core Classes; Lower-Division Courses and Upper-Division Courses.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Social Sciences, Writing. Covers: 1991 - present.


CQ Supreme Court Collection Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable, full text database of historical analysis with updates and commentary of Supreme Court decisions, biographies of Supreme Court justices, Supreme Court institutional history, and the U.S. Constitution. From publishers of "Congressional Quarterly Weekly."
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Social Sciences.


CQ Weekly Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable, browsable, full-text reports of issues currently under debate before the Senate and House of Representatives. Includes status of bills, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, debates and roll-call votes. Also known as "Congressional Quarterly Weekly."
Subject area(s): Social Sciences. Covers: 1983 - current.


Cambridge Journals Online Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable database with full text for over one hundred journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities from Cambridge University Press (CUP).
Subject area(s): Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.


Canadian Poetry Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable, browseable collection of 12,000 poems by 142 poets.
Subject area(s): Humanities.


Catchword Online Journals Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable, full-text database of journals from the publisher Catchword.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.


Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
The database from Accessible Archives contains the full text of major articles gleaned from over 2,500 issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury, and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Social Sciences. Covers: 1860-1865


Communication Studies: A Sage Full-Text Collection Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of 37+ electronic journals focusing on the topic of psychology.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Social Sciences. Coverage varies, some titles are searchable back to 1955.


Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI) Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Global information about women, full-text. Covers journal articles, newsletters, and research reports. Topics include sociology, psychology, health, education, and human rights.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences. Covers: 1992 - present


Criminology: A Sage Full-Text Collection Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable full-text of 23 journals published by SAGE. Subjects include criminal justice, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, corrections, penology, policing, forensic psychology, and family and domestic violence.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences. Coverage varies depending on journal title.


CrossFire Commander Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
CrossFire is a client/server application for searching the world's largest electronic collections of organic chemistry, inorganic and organometallic data: CrossFire Beilstein and CrossFire Gmelin. The two data files contain millions of compounds and reactions.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.


DRAM: Database of Recorded American Music Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.
DRAM is a searchable and browsable database of CD quality audio recordings, complete and original liner notes and essays from New World Records, Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI) and other labels. Currently, there are over 1,500 CDs (9,800 compositions) in DRAM. The basis for the current collection is the diverse catalogue of American music recordings by New World Records. Genres include folk, opera, Native American, jazz, 19th century classical, early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic and more.
Subject area(s): Humanities.


Declassified Documents Reference System (DDRS) Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Full text, searchable database of documents. The previously classified government documents range from correspondence and memoranda to minutes of cabinet meetings, technical studies, national security policy statements and intelligence reports.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences.


Dekker Online Journals Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable database of full-text journals from the publisher Marcel Dekker, Inc. Subjects include scientific, technical, and medical information.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.


Design Automation Library Library use only: Science Library Bio Corner
Contains text from: Design Automation Conference (DAC), International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), European Design Automation Conference (EDAC), Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, and SIGDA Newsletter.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.


EBSCO Animals
Searchable online encyclopedia of animals.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Science and Engineering.


EENews
E&E News is composed of four daily publications that track energy, environmental and climate policy. Publications include GreenWire, Climatewire, E&E Daily, E&E DailyPM, LandLetter and reports.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.


ENGnetBASE: Engineering Handbooks Online Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable and browsable database of handbooks and texts in all areas of engineering.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.


ENVIROnetBASE: Environmental Handbooks Online Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of handbooks and texts in environmental sciences.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.


ERIC Database (Educational Resources Information Center) Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Use 'UC-eLinks' to find full text of ERIC documents.
Searchable database with citations and abstracts of papers, articles, books, and government publications on education. Full text is available for ERIC documents published after 1997. The publisher for the site linked above is Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA).
Subject area(s): Social Sciences. Covers: 1966 - present.

ERIC Search Wizard provides help in in using ERIC descriptors.
Search using the Educational Resources Information Center interface.

ERes: UCSC Electronic Reserves
Online course materials and readings maintained by the UCSC library.
Subject area(s): General Subjects.


Early American Fiction Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable, browseable collection of 440 works by 80 writers. Provides text and images.
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: Works written 1789-1875.


Early American Imprints Series II Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
The resource provides searchable, full-text and full-page image access to 36,000 American books, pamphlets, broadsides, state papers, and other print genres published from 1801-1819. This is a full digitization of the microform set Early American Imprints, Series II, 1801-1819, which was based on the American Bibliography of Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker. 
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: 1801-1819.

Available through Newsbank.
Early American Newspapers Digital Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable, full text facsimile images of newspapers published in the U.S. between 1690-1876.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Humanities. Covers: 1690-1876.


Early Encounters in North America Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable and browsable database of primary documents from early recorded history of North America. Includes transcriptions of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Humanities. Covers: 1542 - 1900's.


Early English Prose Fiction 1500-1700 Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable and browseable collection of over 200 complete works.
Subject area(s): Humanities.


Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare 1591-1911 Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Eleven major editions from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty-four separate contemporary printings of individual plays, selected apocrypha and related works and more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Subject area(s): Humanities.


Education Full Text (Wilson Education Index) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of citations,abstracts, and full text for journal articles and books in education.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences. Covers: 1983 - present.


Education: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
Searachable database of 30+ electronic journals focusing on the topic of education.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences. Coverage varies depending on journal title.


Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Available to UCSC faculty, staff, and students
ECCO contains the full-text of over 150,000 works published during the 18th century. Includes works in history, science, literature, philosophy, medicine, law and fine arts. Every page (over 25 million of them) has been digitally scanned, including illustrations.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Humanities. 1700-1799


Eighteenth Century Fiction Available online to UCSC studens, faculty, and staff.
Searchable, browseable database of 96 works in English prose by writers from the British Isles. Includes scanned versions of Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela, and of Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: 1700-1780.


Encyclopedia Britannica Online Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
The searchable full-text version of the encyclopedia contains more than 72,000 articles and over 10,000 illustrations, including photographs, drawings, maps, and flags. Also included is an Internet directory with 130,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
Subject area(s): General Subjects.


Encyclopedia of Environmental Microbiology Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
The searchable version of Wiley's 6-volume reference work which covers all aspects and fields of environmental microbiology from aquatic microbiology to biofilms and biodegradation and environmental biotechnology, to public health and water treatment microbiology.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.


English Drama 1280-1915 Available online to UCSC studens, faculty, and staff.
Full-text searchable, browsable database of 4000 plays by 1200 authors.
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: 1280-1915.


English Poetry 600-1900 Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
The complete English poetic canon from the 8th century through the 19th. Searchable and browseable database of over 160,000 poems by more than 1250 poets.
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: 600-1900.


Ethnic NewsWatch from Proquest Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable collection of full-text newspaper and journal articles. Available in English or Spanish. News, culture and history from the ethnic, minority and native press.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences. Covers: 1995 - present, some historical coverage of 1960-1989.


Evans Digital Edition: Early American Imprints, Series I Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable and browsable database of primary documents from American history. Subjects include agriculture, foreign affairs, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, and witchcraft. Most documents are available online as scanned images.
Subject area(s): General Subjects. Covers: 1639-1800


FORENSICSnetBASE: Forensic Handbooks Online Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of handbooks in forensics and criminal investigation.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.


Food Chemical News (FCN) Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of publications in food chemicals and related regulations.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.


GPO Access Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Search or browse for free full-text government information available from Federal agencies, the Executive branch, Congress, and the Judicial branch. The databases available include the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, Congressional Record, as well as Congressional hearings, reports and bills, the U.S. Code and Supreme Court decisions.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Social Sciences. Most databases date back to 1994.


Gale Virtual Reference Library Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Includes: Contents of selected encyclopedias and dictionaries
Access to Text: Complete full-text
Subject Coverage: Education, environment, history, law, medicine, multicultural studies, religion, science, social science.
Database provider: Gale
Recommended for Writing Classes and Core Classes; Lower-Division Courses and Upper-Division Courses.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences, Writing.

Cross search Gale Virtual Reference and Expanded Academic ASAP.
GenderWatch Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
GenderWatch is a full text database of scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government reports that focus on the impact of gender, men, and women across disciplines. From Proquest.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Social Sciences. Coverage varies, 1970 - present.


Godey's Ladys Book Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Godeys Lady's Book is a searchable databases from Accessible Archives which contains the full text of the nineteenth century magazine. The publication was intended to entertain, inform, and educate the women of America. In addition to extensive fashion descriptions and plates, the early issues included biographical sketches, articles about handcrafts, female costume, the dance, equestrienne procedures, health & hygiene for ladies, recipes & remedies, etc. Each issue also contained two pages of sheet music, written essentially for the piano forte.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Social Sciences. Covers 1830 -1845, Accessible Archives plans to digitize issues through 1880.


Grove Art Online Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Includes: Contents of the Dictionary of Art, plus additional content and images. Also known as the Grove Dictionary of Art.
Access to Text: Complete full-text
Subject Coverage: Art and Art History
Database provider: Oxford University Press
Recommended for Writing Classes and Core Classes; Lower-Division Courses and Upper-Division Courses.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Writing. Covers: Prehistory - present.


Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.
The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians 2nd edition on the Web contains the complete text of the encyclopedic reference work. The searchable database contains: biographies of composers, performers, and writers; articles on styles, terms, and genres of music; information about regions, countries, and cities; articles on instruments and their performance practice; articles on popular music and jazz; information on musical concepts and notation.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities.


Health Sciences: A SAGE Full-Text Collection Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable database of 30+ electronic journals focusing on the topic health sciences and nursing.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Coverage varies depending on journal title.


Highwire Press Journals Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable database of full-text journals from Highwire Press. Note: UCSC does not have subscriptions to all journals in the database.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.


Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable and browsable fulltext database of English- and Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. Publisher is Newsbank.
Subject area(s): General Subjects. Covers: 1808-1980.


House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable and browsable database of the full text of British Parlimentary Papers, 19th Century.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Humanities, Social Sciences. Covers: 1801-1900.


IEEE Xplore Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE standards.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.


InfoSECURITYnetBASE: Information Security Online Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of handbooks in information and computer security.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.


Ingenta Available to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
This journal publisher's Website contains the full-text of over 300 journals. Browseable by journal title and searchable by topic. Formerly known as CARL Uncover.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Social Sciences.


Institute of Physics (IOP) Electronic Journals Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of full-text journals from the Institute of Physics.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: Articles published 1874-present.


International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Includes: Citations and abstracts for articles in peer-reviewed journals and other music periodicals
Access to Text: Some full-text, UC-eLinks available
Subject Coverage: Music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition.
Database provider: Chadwyck-Healey
Recommended for Writing Classes and Core Classes; Lower-Division Courses and Upper-Division Courses.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities, Writing. Coverage varies, some titles are searchable back to 1874.


International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Includes: Citations and abstracts for articles in peer-reviewed journals and other performing arts periodicals
Access to Text: Some full-text, UC-eLinks available
Subject Coverage: Dance, film, television, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, opera, performance art, entertainment industry, and more.
Database provider: Chadwyck-Healey
Recommended for Writing Classes and Core Classes; Lower-Division Courses and Upper-Division Courses.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities, Writing. Coverage varies; Some titles begin mid-1990s; Some, early 1900s.


JSTOR Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Includes: Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Access to Text: Complete full-text
Subject Coverage: All subjects.
Database provider: JSTOR
Recommended for Lower-Division Courses and Upper-Division Courses.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Coverage: Latest 3-7 years not available.


Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
The Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia features over 27,000 pages and 800 articles on chemistry and related fields; this 27-volume encyclopedia includes: CAS registry numbers, over 5,000 photos, charts, graphs, figures and tables, in-depth up to-date information on regulations, patents and licensing.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.


Kluwer Online Journals Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable, full text database of academic journals published by Kluwer.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.


LION - Literature Online Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable library of poetry, prose, drama, literary reference texts, and author biographies. Contains the full-text of over 260,000 works.
Subject area(s): Humanities.


Latin America Database Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable archive of electronic news bulletins and teaching resources about Mexico , Central America and the Caribbean including Cuba, and South America. In English and Spanish. Articles are full-text.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences. 1986 - present.


Latin American Women Writers Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable, full-text collection of prose, poetry, essays, and drama composed by women writing in Mexico, Central America, and South America. Languages are Spanish and Portuguese. Publisher is Alexander Street Press.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Humanities, Social Sciences.


Latino Literature Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable and browsable full text database of poetry, fiction, and drama written in English and Spanish by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latin authors working in the United States. Also includes audio files of selected poems and plays. From Alexander Street Press
Subject area(s): Humanities.


LexisNexis Academic Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.
Includes: News coverage in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. Company Dossier search for company information. Access to Shepard's Citations® service for all federal and states court cases back to 1789.
Access to text: Complete full-text
Subject Coverage: News, Business, Legal Research, Reference.
Database provider: LexisNexis
Recommended for Writing Classes and Core Classes; Lower-Division Courses and Upper-Division Courses.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences, Writing. Coverage varies


LexisNexis Congressional Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Formerly known as Congressional Universe, this site contains bill tracking services, congressional publications, congressional committee reports and testimony, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, Congressional Record, National Journal. Also contains a "hot topics" section with the full-text of articles from national newspapers on current bills and issues in Congress. Recently added - Congressional Index 1789-1969. This segment of the Website provides citations for Congressional reports, hearings, documents, and journals.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences. Covers: 1789 - present


Library Literature & Information Science Full Text Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of LIS-related literature. Full-text coverage begins in 1994.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Humanities. Covers: 1984-current.


Literature Resource Center (LRC) from Gale Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Includes: Biographies, bibliographies, and literary criticism of authors from all time periods
Access to Text: Complete full-text
Subject Coverage: Novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers.
Database provider: Gale
Recommended for Writing Classes and Core Classes; Lower-Division Courses and Upper-Division Courses.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Writing. Covers: Antiquity-present.


Los Angeles Times (Current Issues) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of current LA Times articles from Proquest.
Subject area(s): General Subjects. Covers: 1985 - current.


Los Angeles Times (Historical Issues) Available online to UC student, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of LA Times articles from Proquest.
Subject area(s): General Subjects. Covers: 1881-1985.


MATHnetBASE: Mathematics Online Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searachable database of handbooks in mathematics and mathematical analysis.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.


Management & Organization Studies: A Sage Full-Text Collection Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of 42+ electronic journals focusing on the topic of work, employment, human resources, and organization studies.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences. Coverage varies, some titles are searchable back to 1947.


Materials Science: A Sage Full-Text Collection Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of 15+ electronic journals focusing on the topic of materials science, polymers, and plastics.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Coverage varies, some titles are searchable back to 1965.


MathSciNet Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of citations for articles in 'Mathematical Reviews' from the American Mathematical Society. Covers mathematics, statistics, engineering, and the physical sciences. Full-text links to many original articles from the American Mathematical Society.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1940 - present


Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
A searchable, Web-based dictionary based on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Tenth Edition. The full text dictionary is part of the Encyclopedia Britannica Online site.
Subject area(s): General Subjects.


NEUROSCIENCEnetBASE: Neuro Sciences Online Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable and browsable database of handbooks and texts in many areas of neurology and psychiatry.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.


National Research Council of Canada Online Journals Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable full-text database of journals from the Natl. Research Council of Canada.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.


Natural Standard Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
An international research collaboration that aggregates and synthesizes data on complementary and alternative therapies. Includes herbs and supplements.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.


Nature Publishing Group Journals Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable full-text database of journals from Nature.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.


Naxos Music Library Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Naxos Music Library provides online access to the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Access is also provided to liner notes and other textual information, and playlists for classroom or personal use can be created. Technical requirements are given at the site. Three levels of audio quality are provided, depending on the type of internet connection.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Humanities.


NetLibrary eBooks Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable electronic book site. Contains many academic and University of California Press ebook titles.
Subject area(s): General Subjects.


New York Times (Current Issues) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of New York Times articles from Proquest.
Subject area(s): General Subjects. Covers: 1999 - current.


New York Times (Historical Issues) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of New York Times articles from Proquest. Contains the full text of: New York Daily Times (1851-1857) and the New York Times (1857-2001).
Subject area(s): General Subjects. Covers: 1851-2001.


North American Indian Drama Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable and browsable plays by Native American playwrights.
Subject area(s): Humanities.


North American Women's Drama Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable and browsable full text of plays by women playwrights.
Subject area(s): Humanities.


North American Women's Letters and Diaries Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
The searchable and browseable database contains the full-text of women's diaries and correspondence.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences. Covers documents written in colonial times to 1950.


OAIster from the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Services Available online.
Searchable collection of working papers, preprints, reports, eprints, and other 'hard-to-find' documents from academic organizations around the world.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.


Ovid AutoAlerts Tutorial
This feature allows users to automatically run a search in the Ovid databases and the search results will be emailed to the user. This service is often called current awareness or selective dissemination of information (SDI).
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.


Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
"An illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2001." (Description from site).
Subject area(s): Humanities.


Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
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This online tool traces evolution of the English language over the last millennium. The searchable database contains the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.
Subject area(s): General Subjects.


Oxford Reference Online Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Large, searchable database of reference sources including English language dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, quotation sources, and encyclopedias. Subjects include art and architecture, environmental science, literature, history, food and drink, law, maps, medicine, mythology, medicine, politics, religion, and science.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.


Oxford University Press Journals Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable, full-text database of articles in over 100 journals from Oxford University Press.
Subject area(s): General Subjects.


Palmer's Index to the London Times, with Palmer's Full-text Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Historical coverage of the London Times newspaper. Provides citations to the text of articles published 1790-1905, available on microfilm in McHenry Library. The database also provides online full-text of the newspaper for the years 1824-1870. This resource is part of the 'Historical Newspapers Online' site.
Subject area(s): General Subjects. Covers 1790-1905, full text available for 1824-1870.


Patrologia Latina Database Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
The Patrologia Latina Database is an electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. The Patrologia Latina comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. The database contains the complete Patrologia Latina, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes. Migne's column numbers, essential references for scholars, are also included.
Subject area(s): Humanities.


Pennsylvania Gazette Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database from Accessible Archives that contains the full text of the newspaper, 1728 - 1800. The Pennsylvania Gazette is considered newspaper of record for the 18th century. It provides the reader with a first hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of each of the periods. Also included is the full-text of other important documents such as: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Letters from a Farmer, Thomas Payne's Common Sense, The Federalist Papers, and more.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Humanities, Social Sciences. Covers 1728-1800.

The dates Jan. 6, 1742-Dec. 29, 1757 are available from America's Historical Newspapers
Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Formerly titled PCI Full Text. This searchable database contains citations for articles in over 230 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. Full text is available for all articles. Technical note: Internet Explorer for Macintosh does not properly display full text of PCI articles. Please use Netscape or another browser on Mac computers.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Social Sciences. Covers: 1770 - 1995


Political Science: A Sage Full-Text Collection Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database includes the full-text of 29 journals published by SAGE and participating societies. It covers such subjects as General Political Science, American Government & Politics, Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Policy Studies, Political Communication, Peace / Conflict Studies, Presidential Studies, Political Theory / Philosophy, International Relations, and Area Studies.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences. Coverage varies, some titles are searchable back to 1912.


Project MUSE Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Includes: Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Access to Text: Complete full-text
Subject Coverage: All subjects.
Database provider: Johns Hopkins University Press
Recommended for Writing Classes and Core Classes; Lower-Division Courses and Upper-Division Courses.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences, Writing. Coverage varies, mid 1990s to the present.


Proquest Newspapers: Los Angeles Times; New York Times; Wall Street Journal Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Includes: Newspaper articles in Los Angeles Times, New York Times (includes book review and magazine sections), and the Wall Street Journal.
Access to text: Complete full-text in PDF
Subject Coverage: News.
Database provider: Proquest
Recommended for Lower-Division Courses and Upper-Division Courses.
Subject area(s): General Subjects. Coverage: LAT: 1985-current; NYT: 1857-current; NYDailyT: 1851-1857; WSJ: 1889-current

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PsycARTICLES from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Available online to UC students, faculty and staff.
A database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. Database provider is CSA.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences.


Psychology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable database of 37+ electronic journals focusing on the topic of psychology.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences. Coverage varies depending on journal title.


Regional Business News from Ebsco Host Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of articles from 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Social Sciences. Covers: 1990 - current.


Royal Society of Chemistry Online Journals Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable, full-text database of journals from the RSC.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.


SIAM - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff
Searchable full-text database of journals from SIAM.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.


SPIE Digital Library Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff
Includes approx. 90,000 full-text papers from SPIE Journals and Proceedings published since 1998. It also includes citations and abstracts for most SPIE papers published since 1995. Plans are underway to expand the Digital Library back to 1990 by the end of 2004, an archive of nearly 200,000 papers. Approximately 15,000 new papers will be added each year.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.


SPIN - Searchable Physics Information Notices Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable, full-text database of journals published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP).
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.


STATSnetBASE: Statistical Sciences Handbooks Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of statistical analysis and statistics handbooks.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.


Science Direct from Elsevier Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
ScienceDirect is a searchable database including the full text of peer reviewed academic journals. Now includes journals from the IDEAL site.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.


Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable, fulltext database of poems, critical essays, and biographical information for 47 poets.
Subject area(s): Humanities.


Siku Quanshu (SKQS) Wenyuange Edition Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Chinese database in the study of Chinese cultural history. Note: Requires Internet Explore 5+ and Windows XP.
Subject area(s): Humanities.


Sociology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable database of 37+ electronic journals focusing on the topic of sociology.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences. Coverage varies depending on journal title.


Springer LINK Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable full-text database of articles in over 400 journals, mostly in the sciences. Now includes over 20,000 ebooks.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Science and Engineering.


Times Digital Archive Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Complete, searchable digital edition of The Times (London). Search results are available as full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: 1785-1985.


Twentieth-Century Drama Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Currently, this title contains the searchable text of 238 plays by 25 authors from Britain, Ireland, and Australia, chiefly from the period of 1890 to 1920. When complete, it will have 2,500 published plays from the entire 20th century. Each text includes relevant supplementary matter such as dramatis personae and any illustrations that are integral to the text.
Subject area(s): Humanities.


Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry Online Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry is a reference work, international in scope and coverage, encompassing all the disciplines and current practice of industrial chemistry and chemical engineering around the world. Its 1000 major articles by 3,000 leaders from research and industrial organizations are well-illustrated with charts and figures and extensive bibliographies.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.


University of Chicago Press Journals Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable, fulltext database of articles from 23 journals in the social sciences, science, and humanities.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences.


Urban Studies & Planning: A SAGE Full-Text Collection Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable database of 13+ electronic journals focusing on the topic of urban and regional planning.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences.


Wall Street Journal (Current Issues) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of Wall Street Journal articles from Proquest.
Subject area(s): General Subjects. Covers: 1982-current.


Wall Street Journal (Historical Issues) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of full text Wall Street Journal articles (backfile) from Proquest. Covers July 8, 1889-Dec 31, 1986.
Subject area(s): General Subjects. Covers: 1889-1986.


Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.

Subject area(s): Humanities.


Westlaw Campus Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff only.
"Westlaw Campus is a Web-based legal research tool for undergraduate and graduate students who need to research law-related issues."
Subject area(s): Social Sciences.


Wiley Interscience Journals Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable database of over 1400 full-text journals in the sciences, medicine, social sciences, and humanities.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.


Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff only.
The Women and Social Movements Web site is intended to serve as a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, the website seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Social Sciences. 1600-2000


World Almanac Available to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
This searchable full-text reference source contains short, ready-reference type of information on a large variety of subjects.
Subject area(s): General Subjects.

Also available in Academic Universe's [Reference] section.
World Bank e-Library Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff only.
Full-text database with over 1200 World Bank titles, searchable by keywords, title, and author.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences. 2000-


World News Connection Available to UCSC students, faculty, and staff. Single user only.
Searchable, full-text database of non-U.S. newspapers and other media sources. Includes translated and English-language news and information. WNC covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events. Material is provided to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), a U.S. government agency.
Subject area(s): General Subjects. Covers: 1995-current.


eHRAF World Cultures Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Formerly called Human Relations Area Files Collections of Ethnography, this is a searchable database of information on world cultures. Resources are indexed by subject and culture.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences.


eScholarship Repository from the California Digital Library Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of working papers, pre-publication scholarship, and electronic texts by faculty in UC research units, centers, and academic departments
Subject area(s): Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.


ebrary Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable electronic book and sheet music site. Includes university press titles. Require "ebrary Reader" software installation on workstation. Ebrary sheet music is now available at the link below.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities.

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