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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.
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.
ARTFL Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.
UCSC on-campus access only.
Searchable database of over 2,000 French language texts from the American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: 13th century - present
ARTbibliographies Modern Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, exhibition catalogs and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art. Entries date back as far as the late 1960s. Publisher is Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA).
Subject area(s): Art and Art History.
ASCC (Academia Sinica Computing Center Electronic Resources) Access limited to UCSC faculty, staff and students.
Chinese full-text database for hundreds of works in history (including history of Taiwan), classics, religion, medicine, literature, and law, etc. Chinese input software required to search.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Humanities, Social Sciences.
ATLA Religion Database Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
The ATLA Religion Database is a searchable index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all scholarly fields of religion. Subjects include church history, theology, the Bible, and world religions. Vendor is CSA.
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: 1949 - present.
Search multiple arts and humanities databases from CSA.
Academic Search Complete from EBSCO
Searchable database with citations and abstracts for journal articles in all academic disciplines. The full-text of over half of the articles is included. Many of the journals are peer-reviewed. Database and interface provider is EBSCOhost.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.
Access: The Supplementary Index to Periodicals Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable database of citations to articles in popular journals and magazines. The index supplements the Reader's Guide with many popular news, entertainment, and art titles.
Subject area(s): General Subjects. Covers: October 1987 - present.
Africa-Wide: NiPAD Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
UCSC access is limited to one concurrent user.
Searachable database of information on all aspects of Africa. Topics covered include politics, history, economics, business, mining, natural sciences, environment, development, social issues, anthropology, literature, language, law, music, and tourism. Sources include books, journal and magazine articles, radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, pamphlets, maps, reports, theses and music recordings.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Social Sciences.
African American Song Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Electronic database of approximately 50,000 digital music tracks by African Americans. In order to play sound files, Mac and Windows computers need Macromedia Flash Player. In addition, Windows computer users need Microsoft Windows Media Player. From Alexander Street Press.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities.
Also available from a CDL link.
Agricola Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.
Citations and abstracts for articles on all aspects of agriculture.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1979 - present
America's News Magazines from Newsbank Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable database of select news magazines including Money and U.S. News and World Report.
Subject area(s): General Subjects. Coverage varies, some titles are searchable back to 1993.
America: History and Life (AHL) Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Historical coverage of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Contains citations and abstracts for articles, book and media reviews, and dissertations. Interface is now EBSCOHost.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Social Sciences. Covers: Articles written 1964 - present.
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 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 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 Song Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of online music recordings that will contain 50,000 tracks from America's past. The database will include songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more. From Alexander Street Press.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities.
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.
Anthropological Index of the Royal Anthropological Institute Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.
This database contains citations to articles written in all branches of anthropology. The index is based on the journal holdings of the Anthropology Library at the British Museum.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences. Covers articles written 1957 - current.
Also available from FirstSearch as part of Anthropology Plus
Anthropology Plus Available online to UC faculty, staff and students
Provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers excellent coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences. Coverage is from the late 19th century to present.
Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Choose Aquatic Sciences from the subject list.
Covers aquatic science, aquatic organisms, fisheries, oceanography, ocean technology policy and non-living resources, and aquatic pollution and environmental quality. Includes citations and abstracts. Publisher is Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA).
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1971 - present
Art Full Text Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database that indexes and abstracts articles from art periodicals published throughout the world. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Selected full-text coverage begins in 1997. Topics include: Advertising Art, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Computers in Art, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles, Video.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History.
Art Index Retrospective Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable database of article citations listed in Art Index volumes 1-32. The resource cites articles from periodicals published throughout the world covering Archaeology, Architecture, Art History, Folk Art, Film, Motion Pictures, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, and Textiles. Publisher is Wilson Web.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities. Covers 1929-1984.
Artforum Index Available online to all Web users.
Browsable index to the early issues of the journal, volume I, number 1, through volume VII, number 4.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History. Covers: 1962-1968.
ArticleFirst Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
The Article First database from Firstsearch/OCLC provides citations from the table of contents pages of journals in the areas of science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Covers: 1990-present.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index via Web of Science Available online to UC student, faculty, and staff.
This Web of Knowledge database contains citations to 1,100 arts and humanities journals. Search by subject, author, and journal title. Cited Reference Search finds articles that cite an author or article specified by the searcher.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities. Covers: 1975 - present
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.
Astrophysics Data Systems (NASA Astrophysics Data Systems)
ADS contains abstracts and citations for materials in astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, physics and geophysics, Los Alamos preprints, and many archives.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Varies by file.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (ARCH) Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Citations to articles on the following topics: architecture, architectural design, city planning, furniture and decoration, interior design, historic preservation, history of architecture, and urban planning. Vendor is CSA.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History. Covers: 1977 - present.
Search multiple arts and humanities databases from CSA.
BIOSIS Previews Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Citations and abstracts to journal articles in the life sciences. Very interdisciplinary within biology, including biochemistry, ecology, genetics, microbiology, ocean sciences, plant biology, and zoology. Database provider: ISI.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1969 - present
Bibliography of Asian Studies Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
BAS contains citations to materials on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide. Citations added between 1971 the 1991 include citations to western-language periodical articles, individually authored monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc. Since 1992, newly published individual monographs are no longer being added to the database, and users seeking monographs (books) are urged to consult other general resources and databases (such as the MELVYL Union Catalog).
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers 1971 - present.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
This database indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealers catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals. Vendor is CSA.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History. Covers: 1973 - present
Search multiple arts and humanities databases from CSA.
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.
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.
Blackwell/Synergy Online Journals Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable database of over 300 full-text journals in the sciences and medicine.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.
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.
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable index to archives, official publications, books, periodical articles, and newspapers published in the 19th century. Text is not included. Publisher is Chadwyck-Healey/Proquest.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Humanities. Covers: 1770-1919.
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.
This reference source explores "hot" issues in the news in depth. Topics range from social and political issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. Each report is full-text and contains charts, graphs and sidebar articles, a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a list of contacts. Also known as "Congressional Quarterly Researcher."
Subject area(s): General Subjects. 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 Voting and Elections Collections Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable and browsable database of documents and data on presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial elections as well as information on political parties, redistricting, electoral process, campaign finance, role of media and interest groups, voters and demographics, and voter turnout.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Social Sciences. Covers: 1774 to present
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.
CRC Journals Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of journals articles in chemistry, engineering, environmental science, food sciences, life sciences, medicine, and physics.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Coverage varies, most journals titles include 1998-present.
CSA Illumina Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Choose from any of the 30+ databases provided by CSA (formerly Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.) Cross-database searching is allowed.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.
California Digital Library (CDL) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
The CDL is the University of California's 11th University library. Its goal is to build the University's digital library, assist campus libraries with sharing their resources and holdings more effectively, and provide leadership in applying technology to the development of library collections and services.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.
Calisphere Available online to all Web users.
Searchable and browsable collection of primary sources documenting California history. Provided by the California Digital Library from collections in UC Libraries.
Subject area(s): General Subjects.
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.
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.
Chicano Database Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Citations to articles in art, language, sociology, economics, history, literature, and politics of Mexican-American and Latino cultures. Abstracts are not available. Publisher is RLG's Eureka.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Social Sciences. Covers: 1967 - present
Chinese Journal Network/Chinese Academic Journals Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.
Click on IP-address Access to enter the database. This searchable database contains the full text and full images of 1,710 journals journals published in China in the Literature/History/Philosophy, Economics/Politics/Law, and Education/Social Science academic disciplines. Technical note: The site displays Chinese characters and can only be viewed using IE or Netscape 6+. In order to view full-text, users must download a Windows-only application (CAJViewer). Windows stations located in the library have the CAJViewer application already installed.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Social Sciences. Covers: 1994-present.
CiNii (Citation Information from the National Institute of Informatics) Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable database of articles and citations to articles from scholarly journals, magazines, and university bulletins published in Japan.
Subject area(s): General Subjects.
Clase and Periodica (ClasePeriodica) Available online to UCSC students, staff and faculty.
Index of Latin American journals in the social sciences, sciences and humanities. CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIÓDICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Offers access to more than 400,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English. Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Covers: 1975-present (Clase), 1978-present (Periódica)
Classical Music Library Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Electronic database of classical music recordings, with digital audio selections cross-referenced to a database of supplementary reference information. In order to play sound files, Mac and Windows computers need Macromedia Flash Player. In addition, Windows computer users need Microsoft Windows Media Player. From Alexander Street Press.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities.
Also available from a CDL link.
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.
Compendex Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Citations with abstracts from journals, books, reports, and conference proceedings in engineering and technology.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1884 - present
Compendex Quick Reference Guide
Conference Papers Index Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.
Provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science. Publisher is Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA).
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. 1982 - current
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.
Current Index to Statistics Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable, online index of journal articles and publications in statistics and related fields.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Covers: 1975-current.
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.
EIS - Digests of Environmental Impact Statements Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of detailed abstracts of all environmental impact statements issued by the US government. Each entry includes a description of the project, sections on positive impact and negative consequences, and legal mandates.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1985 - current.
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.
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 English Books Online (EEBO) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database containing over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection. Additionally, the EEB Tract Supplement provides a perspective on many aspects of 16th and 17th-century British life. Images for many works are available.
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: 1475-1700.
Earthquake Engineering Abstracts (EEA) Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Earthquake engineering and earthquake hazard mitigation. Currently comprised of approximately 102,000 records (full citations and abstracts) from 1971 forward, plus several hundred earlier classic papers and reports. Includes approximately 44,000 journal articles -- indexes and abstracts of all major journals that publish significant earthquake engineering research; approximately 36,000 meeting abstracts -- proceedings of conferences and major meetings in earthquake engineering research, and approximately 23,000 research reports' abstracts -- abstracts of research monographs and technical reports including Earthquake Engineering Research Center Reports and Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center Reports. Vendor is CSA.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1971 - present
EconLit Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
EconLit is a searchable database of citations with selected abstracts of literature in economics. Includes coverage of major journals as well as articles in collective volumes (essays, proceedings, etc.), books, book reviews, dissertations, and working papers.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences. Covers: 1969-present.
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 Index Retrospective Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable database of article citations on education. Publisher is Wilson.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences. Covers: 1929-1983.
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.
Empire Online Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
A collection of original documents relating to Empire Studies from 1492 - 2007. Includes images of the texts without transcriptions. Each section features thematic essays by leading scholars in the field of Empire Studies. From Adam Matthew Digital.
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: 1492-present.
English Short Title Catalog Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
The ESTC describes works printed in England from 1473-1800, searchable. Vendor is RLG/Eureka
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: 1473-1800
Environmental Impact Statements Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Presenting the key issues from complex government-released environmental impact statements, converting massive documents into concise, readable abstracts. (Bimonthly. 450 abstracts/year)
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. 1985-Current
Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of citations and abstracts of articles and reports on the following topics: agricultural biotechnology, air quality, bacteriology, environmental impact statements, safety science, waste management, toxicology, pollution, and environmental science. Vendor is CSA.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1981 - present
Search multiple earth and environmental science databases.
Essay and General Literature Index Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of citations to essays and articles contained in collections of essays and other miscellaneous works. Subjects are focused in the humanities and social sciences.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Social Sciences. Covers: 1985-2002.
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
Everyday Life and Women in America Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
This searchable and browsable digital collection is a resource for the study of American social, cultural, and popular history, providing access to rare primary source material from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History, Duke University and The New York Public Library. It comprises thousands of images (alongside transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes. From Adam Matthew Digital.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Social Sciences.
Expanded Academic Index ASAP from Infotrac/Gale Available to UC students, faculty, and staff.
As of July 1, 2008 this database has been replaced by Academic Search Complete from EbscoHost. Though the interface is different, the coverage of articles and journals is the the same.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Covers: 1980-present.
FIAF International Filmarchive Database from SilverPlatter Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff
Includes several searchable databases, including 'Index Film Periodicals 1972-2003', 'Index TV Periodicals 1979-2003', and 'Treasures from the Film Archives'. Index only, text of articles is not included.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Humanities.
FRANCIS Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Citations to works on religion, the history of art, social sciences, economics, and literature. French database, searchable in French and English. Abstracts are in the same language as the cited resource. Vendor is RLG/Eureka.
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: 1984 - present.
Factiva Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Provides worldwide full text coverage of local and regional newspapers, trade publications, business news wires, press release wires, media transcripts, news photos, business-rich Web sites, investment analyst reports, market research reports, country and regional profiles, company profiles,and historical market data.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences.
Faculty of 1000 Biology Available online to UC faculty, staff and students
The Faculty of 1000 Biology database describes itself as a "next generation literature awareness tool...that will comprehensively and systematically highlight and review the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of over 2300 selected leading researchers." It covers all of biology, including ecology, molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, marine ecology, etc. It includes reviews of articles from the 1990s to the present.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. 1990's - present
Film Index International Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable index of over 100,000 films and 40,000 film personalities (directors, actors, etc.) from 1900 to the present; provides plot summaries, full cast and crew information, award and prize information, and references to reviews and critical articles.
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: 1900-present
Search FII and the AFI Catalog with Film Indexes Online.
Film Indexes Online Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable database of film information. This site searches the AFI Catalog and Film Index International.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities.
Film Literature Index Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database with citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews on film and television (TV) published between 1976-2001.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Humanities. Covers: 1976-2001
FirstSearch (OCLC) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Several databases are available through the OCLC FirstSearch system. The databases are: WorldCat, ArticleFirst, ERIC, GPO Monthly Catalog (government publications), NetFirst, OCLC Union Lists of Periodicals, PapersFirst, and Proceedings.
Subject area(s): General Subjects.
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.
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.
GeoRef from CSA Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Describes materials in geology and geophysics, in particular: energy sources, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, groundwater pollution, erosion, nuclear reactor sites, the structure of the earth, and geostatistics. Includes abstracts. Publisher is Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1785 - present
Alternate access.
Global Financial Data (GFD) Available online to UCSC students, faculty and staff.
GFDatabase is an online collection of more than 20,000 data series, which span decades or even centuries of information, and cover more than 200 countries.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Social Sciences.
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 Dictionary of Art Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Click on “enter here” on the top right side of the home page.
A searchable dictionary of articles with external image links covering all aspects of the visual arts. Also includes a searchable index to the Bridgeman Art Library of online images.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History. 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.
HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
A searchable index of citations to articles and documents covering Central and South America, Latin America, Mexico, the Caribbean, U.S.-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Social Sciences. Covers: 1970 - present
Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Bibliography on Latin America consisting of citations of works selected by scholars. Searchable in English and Spanish. Includes abstracts for most resources.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Social Sciences. Covers: 1935 - present
Also available from RLG/Eureka.
Handbooks in Economics Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable series of reference sources on various branches of economics. Each handbook provides a survey of the current state of that branch prepared by leading specialists in the field.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences.
HarpWeek Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
The searchable database provides full-image reproductions of Harper's Weekly from 1857-1912, one of the most important weekly magazines read by Americans during the 19th century.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Social Sciences. Covers: 1857-1912.
Hazardous Material Control & Management/Hazardous Material Information System(HMC&M/HMIS) Library use only: Science Library Chem Corner
The HMC&M/HMIS disc provides access to: The hazardous material information system (DOD repository for material safety data sheet information; the Ships hazardous materials list; the Hazardous materials users guide.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Updated annually
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.
Historical Abstracts Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Contains citations and abstracts for works covering the history of the world from 1450 to the present. Interface vendor is now EBSCOHost.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Social Sciences. Covers: Articles written 1954 - present.
Historical Statistics of the United States (Millennial Edition) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.

Subject area(s): General Subjects.
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Contains information from the following print files: ISIS current bibliography of the history of science and its cultural influences, 1976- ; Current bibliography in the history of technology, 1987- ; and Bibliografia italiana di storia della scienza. Vendor is RLG/Eureka.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Science and Engineering. Covers: 1975 - present
Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Cross-searchable databases of official, unclassified U.S. Government policies or positions on homeland security strategy, policy and research documents published by federal, state and local government agencies, international governments and institutions, research institutions, universities, and think tanks. Also includes news and reports, websites, and governmental and non-governmental databases. Source: Center for Homeland Defense and Security, Naval Postgraduate School
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences.
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.
How to Find Articles
Guide for finding articles using databases and indexes.
Subject area(s): General Subjects.
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.
INSPEC Archive (1898-1968) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Access to over 70 years of international scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, computing and control engineering. Corresponds to three print resources: Science Abstracts (1898-1902) and its successors Physics (Section A), Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Section B), and Computer Science (Section C). The backfile covers original and translated articles, dissertations, conferences, papers and proceedings, books, book chapters, reports and patents published in Europe and America. Figures and tables are included.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1898-1968
INSPEC from OVID Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Index of citations for articles and conference papers on physics, electrical engineering, computers, and information technology. Contains abstracts.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1969 - present
IT KnowledgeBase from Auerbach Publications Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable publications and journals in the field of information technology. Part of the CRC Press suite.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.
ITER: Gateway to the Renaissance Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Citations for articles and reviews from journals covering the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (400-1700 AD).
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers articles written 1843-present.
Index Islamicus Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Includes journals articles, conference proceedings, monographs, book chapters, multi-authored works and book reviews. Vendor is CSA.
Subject area(s): Humanities.
Search multiple arts and humanities databases from CSA.
Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
The database indexes 42 art journals published in the US during the nineteenth century , includes information on popular culture and industry, artists and illustrators, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture and design, exhibitions and sales, decorations, and collecting. Vendor is RLG/Eureka.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History. Covers: 1840 - 1907.
Index to Personal Names, Portraits & Illustrations in California County Histories Available online to all Web users.
Index to Personal Names, Portraits & Illustrations appearing in California City, County and Regional Histories, 1867-1910. In pdf format, Adobe Reader or Apple Preview are required to view the documents. Accompanies microfilm collection in McHenry Library, call number F856.C121 vol.1-33.
Subject area(s): General Subjects. Covers: 1867-1910.
Introduction also included.
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 Full Text (IIMP) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of articles in music and musicology journals. 60 of the 370 journals indexed contain the full text online.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities. Coverage varies, some titles are searchable back to 1874.
International Index to the Performing Arts - Full Text (IIPA) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of citations to articles in the performing arts. Subjects include theatre/theater, film, dance, popular culture, and opera. 33 out of 214 journals indexed contain articles with full text.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities. Coverage varies. Most titles begin coverage in the mid-1990s though a few titles are indexed back to the early 1900s.
International Nuclear Information System (INIS Database) Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of citations to journal articles and grey literature with scientific and technical information on peaceful uses of atomic energy.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering.
International Statistical Yearbook (ISY) Available online to students, faculty, and staff.
Consists of national and international economic databases from: Eurostat, OECD, IMF, UNIDO, Citicorp, Deutsche Bundesbank, Statistisches Bundesamt, and the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW).
Subject area(s): Social Sciences.
JSTOR Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
A searchable database containing the full-text of back issues of more than 160 academic journals.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Coverage: Archival. Latest three years are not available.
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.
L'Annee Philologique Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Thirty-three years (1969-2001) of the Année philologique (volumes 40 to 71) have now been put on-line by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique, in collaboration with the American Philological Association and the Database of Classical Bibliography.
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: 1969-2001.
LGBT Life Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable database of article abstracts and reference works in the field of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender issues. Academic journals as well as newsletters, magazines, and case studies are represented in the database. Interface provider is Ebsco. Formerly known as GLBT Life.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Social Sciences. Coverage varies by publication, 1953-current.
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.
Left Index Available online to UC faculty, staff, and students.
Searchable database of citations to magazine and newspaper articles from the left, with a primary empahasis on scholarship inside and outside the academy and a secondary emphasis on sources of news and ideas. The database contains citations only.
Subject area(s): General Subjects.
LexisNexis Academic Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.
Formerly known as Lexis Nexis Academic Universe, this searchable full-text database is divided into five major content areas: News, Business, Legal Research, Medical Research, and Reference. The news section contains the text of many regional, national, and international newspapers and other news sources. The business section contains information on companies, business news, industries, and accounting. The legal section contains extensive information on state and federal case law as well as law reviews and legal news. The reference materials include country profiles, polls and surveys, and biographies. The medical section indexes medical journals and health news sources.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Coverage varies depending on journal or news source.
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.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) Available online to all Web users.
Searchable database of article citations on librarianship.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Humanities.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) Available online to UC faculty, students, and staff.
Searchable database of citations to articles and book chapters in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Database provider is CSA.
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: 1973 - present.
Search multiple arts and humanities databases from CSA.
Literature Resource Center (LRC) from Gale Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
The searchable database provides full-text access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from classical antiquity to the present. Subjects include novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers.
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: Antiquity-present.
MLA Bibliography Database from CSA Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
This searchable database contains citations for articles, books, and book chapters in literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Compiled by the Modern Language Association.
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: 1963 - present
Making of the Modern Economy Available online to UCSC students, faculty and staff.
Digital facsimiles of literature on economics and business published from the last half of the 15th century to the mid-19th century from the collections of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London, England, and the Kress Collection of Business and Economics at the Harvard Business School; with supplementary materials from the Seligman Collection in the Butler Library at Columbia University, and from Sterling Library at Yale University. Collection contains materials on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport; documents the dynamics of Western trade and wealth; focuses on economics interpreted in the widest sense, including political science, history, sociology; special collections on banking, finance, transportation and manufacturing. Includes facsimiles of rare books and primary source materials such as political pamphlets and broadsides, government publications, proclamations, and a wide range of ephemera.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Social Sciences. Covers: 1450-1850
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
Music Index Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of citations for popular and scholarly journal articles. Includes citations from more than 640 international music periodicals. Both classical and popular music topics are categorized and organized according to the framework of an internal Subject Heading List. A broad range of subjects are indexed, covering musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities. Covers articles published 1979 - 2000.
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.
Naxos Music Library - Jazz Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable and browsable collection of online Jazz music. It includes thousands of titles of the Fantasy catalogue and Naxos Jazz. Works may be searched by featured artist(s), disc / song title and catalogue number.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities.
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.
OLDMEDLINE Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
This database must be searched using the NLM Gateway.
OLD MEDLINE contains journal articles on all aspects of medicine and preclinical sciences.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1957-1965.
Oceanic Abstracts Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Citations and abstracts of technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish water environment. Vendor is CSA.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1981 - present
Optics InfoBase Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable web-based repository of 10 full-text optics research journals.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Coverage: Varies depending on journal title.
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.
PAIS Archive Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database with references to monographs, journal articles, government documents, reports, and pamphlets. Provides historical perspective on many public policy, political, economic, and social issues worldwide. Publisher is Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA).
Subject area(s): Social Sciences. Covers: 1937-1976.
Search the PAIS Archive and PAIS International (current records). Search multiple social science databases from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.
PAIS International Database Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
The Public Affairs Information Service contains citations and short abstracts for journal articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, and statistical directories. Subjects include government, international relations, legislation, political science, statistics, and related areas. Publisher is Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA).
Subject area(s): Social Sciences. Covers: 1972 - present, abstracts start at 1985.
Search PAIS International and the PAIS Archive. Search multiple social science databases from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.
Papers First Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
PapersFirst contains citations of papers presented at meetings, conferences workshops, congresses, expositions, and symposia from all over the world and received from the British Library Document Supply Center.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Covers: 1993 - present
People's Daily (Ren Min Ri Bao) Access limited to UCSC faculty, staff and students.
Access to full text of People's Daily Archives.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. 1946-2005
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
Periodicals Index Online (PIO) Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Formerly titled Periodicals Contents Index (PCI). A searchable database of citations for articles published in 4,079 periodicals in popular literature, as well as the humanities and social sciences.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Social Sciences. Covers: 1770-1995.
Philosopher's Index Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Philosophers Index contains citations and abstracts from books and journals on philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields. Vendor is CSA.
Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: 1940 - present
Search multiple arts and humanities databases from CSA.
Play Index Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Searchable database of plays. Search by title; author; subject; style; genre; and cast type. Play Index does not provide the text of the plays but it does include the full publication details needed to locate the play and the UC-eLinks service with links to the Cruzcat and Melvyl catalogs. From WilsonWeb.
Subject area(s): General Subjects, Humanities. Coverage dates: Plays written from Antiquity to present and published from 1949 to present
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.
PrimateLit: a bibliographic database for primatology Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff
"The PrimateLit database provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. Coverage of the database spans 1940 to present and includes all publication categories (articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc.) and many subject areas (behavior, colony management, ecology, reproduction, field studies, disease models, veterinary science, psychology, physiology, pharmacology, evolution, taxonomy, developmental and molecular biology, genetics and zoogeography)."
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. 1940-present
Princeton's Index of Christian Art (PICA) Available online of UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
The index records works of art produced without geographical limitations from early apostolic times up to A.D. 1400 with particular emphasis on art of the western world. Seventeen different media are represented in the archive, including manuscripts, metalwork, sculpture, painting, and glass. The database includes textual descriptions of all works and digitized photographs of works from the Morgan Library.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities.
Proceedings First Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
ProceedingsFirst contains the searchable tables of contents pages from worldwide conferences, symposia, meetings, expositions, and congresses.
Subject area(s): Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Covers: 1993 - present
Project MUSE - Johns Hopkins University Press Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
This searchable database contains online access to the full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Coverage varies.
Proquest Newspapers: LA Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
The above link connects to a site which allows combined searching of the current newspapers and the ABI/Inform database. Click the Collections button to search individual newspaper titles.
Searchable full text of the Los Angeles Times, New York Times (including the book review and magazine sections), and the Wall Street Journal.
Subject area(s): General Subjects. Covers: New York Daily Times 1851-1857; New York Times 1857 - current, LA Times 1985 - current, Wall Street Journal 1889 - current
Alternate access with links to choose titles. Note: To find older issues of the newspapers, click on Proquest Historical Newspapers.
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.
PsycINFO Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Citations and abstracts of articles, books, and book chapters with information on psychology and related disciplines. Also known as PsycLIT. Publisher is Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA).
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering, Social Sciences. Covers: 1872 - present
Search multiple social science databases from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. Access also available from the database mirror site.
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.
PubMed Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
This searchable database of citations to biomedical literature is the National Library of Medicine's version of MEDLINE.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers articles written in mid-1960's - present.
Help is available for searching PubMed.
RIBA Library Available online to all Web users.
The Royal Institute of British Architecture Library is a comprehensive resource for research and information on all aspects of architecture.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Citations and abstracts of articles on historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments, voice, dance, music therapy.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, Humanities. Covers: 1969 - present
RIPM: International Index to Nineteenth-Century Music Periodicals Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
This searchable database contains citations to articles written in the 19th century. Subjects include music history and musicology.
Subject area(s): Art and Art History, General Subjects.
RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
The Repertoire International des Sources Musicales is a searchable database containing records of music manuscripts written after ca. 1600 and, in most cases, before ca. 1850. Also contains the RISM Bibliographic Citations Database, referring to thematic catalogs and other secondary sources cited in RISM Series A/II.
Subject area(s): Humanities.
RLG Eureka Databases Available online to UCSC faculty, students, and staff.
List of article and journal databases from the Research Libraries Group.
Subject area(s): General Subjects.
Rand California Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
Database of statistics on the state of California, its counties, and cities. Includes public policy, business, economy, demographics, education, and environmental research information. Also contains monthly reports on the California economy.
Subject area(s): Social Sciences.
Readers' Guide Retrospective Available online to UCSC faculty, staff, and students.
Searchable database with citations from 512 leading U.S. magazines in the traditional Readers' Guide green indexes.
Subject area(s): General Subjects. Covers: 1890 - 1982.
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.
SPIRES
Database of over 400,000 high-energy physics related articles received by the SLAC and/or DESY libraries.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1974 - present
SciFinder Scholar Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. NO OFF-CAMPUS ACCESS AVAILABLE
Also known as: Chemical Abstracts.
Requires a downloaded client, to provide access to the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases including Chemical Abstracts, Registry, and CASREACT. Searches by topic, author, CAS Registry number, patent number, and CAS abstract number. Other searches by chemical name, chemical structure, and formula.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: Chemical Abstracts (1967- ); Registry (1957- ); CASREACT (1985- )
Science Citation Index Expanded via Web of Science. Available online to UC students, faculty, and staff.
Click on {Cited Ref Search} for a cited reference search.
Indexes over 5,700 journals. Search by subject, author, journal title. Cited Reference Search finds articles that cite an author or article.
Subject area(s): Science and Engineering. Covers: 1900 - present
Science Direct from Elsevier Available online to UCSC students, faculty, and staff.
ScienceDirect is a searchable database including the full text of peer rev