Indexes/Abstracts:
ABI
Global Inform
ABI/Inform Global is a business management database providing
access to 1300 journals, including 350 from outside the U.S. The database
coverage includes: advertising, business conditions, economics, finance,
trends, corporate strategies, management techniques, marketing, taxation,
and product information. ABI/Inform provides full-text and full-image
coverage for more than 600 journals that are indexed. Coverage: 1992
to date
EconLit
A bibliographic database developed by the American Economic
Association that indexes articles from 340 journals covering worldwide
economic literature as well as chapters in edited books and dissertations.
It is compiled from the index portion of the Journal of Economic Literature
and Index of Economic Articles. Coverage: 1969 to date
Education
Full-Text
Education Full Text, is a full-text bibliographic database that
indexes and abstracts articles from more than 427 English-language journals.
The areas covered include: preschool, elementary, secondary & higher
education, special/vocational education, adult/continuing education,
computer technology, evaluation & methods school administration and
parent-teacher relations. Coverage: 1983 to date
PAIS
(Public Affairs Information Service)
PAIS International is an interdisciplinary subject index to articles
from 2100 journals, books, government publications, pamphlets, internet
documents (since 1996), and reports relating to public issues and social
policy . Subject areas covered include: demography, economics, environment,
finance, international law, military science, political science, public
administration, public health, etc. Coverage: 1972 to date.
Political
Science Abstracts
The Political Science Abstracts database contains carefully
prepared abstracts of materials from public affairs magazines, major
news magazines, professional journals, and books devoted to politics
and political analysis. It covers foreign politics as well as U.S. politics.
Formerly known as the Universal Reference System, Political Science
Abstracts is the only retrospective political science file in the world.
Coverage: 1975 to date.
Social
Science Abstracts
Social Science Abstracts, is a bibliographic database that indexes
and abstracts articles from more than 415 English-language journals
published in the United States and elsewhere. The areas covered include:
anthropology, criminology, economics, geography, law, political science,
psychology, sociology and related fields. Coverage: 1982 to date.
Sociological
Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts provides access to abstracts and citations from
2500 professional journals in 30 languages and conference papers. The
areas covered include: aging, AIDS, alcohol/drug abuse, anthropology,
communications, counseling, family, law, planning, political science,
psychology, rehabilitation, and welfare. Coverage: 1963 to date
Lexis/Nexis
Provides full-text access to major U.S. and foreign news sources as
well as selected journals. Coverage: varies;
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Internet Resources:
ECONOMICS
Translated Foreign Documents,
for Cross-Cultural Perspective:
THE FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE (FBIS). Initially,
FBIS translated primarily foreign radio and television broadcast but
gradually expanded its coverage to include print materials. FBIS issues
daily reports on the following regions: East Asia; East Europe; Latin
America; Near East and South Asia; China, the Soviet Union, and West
Europe.
COVERAGE:
1975-1996, Foreign
Broadcast Information Service Electronic Index This is strictly
a bibliographic index that provides information necessary to find the
documents themselves, which are located in Merrill 4th Floor, government
documents microfiche collection. Arrangement: the documents
are in a microfiche format and are arranged first by region, then by
date. Call number: PREX 7.10:
1996- . Access: full-text on CD-ROM, Location:
CD-ROM workstation, Merrill 1st Floor.
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