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223 Databases Found for:Articles

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Contains bibliographic citations, abstracts, and full text of articles appearing in international business and management publications, academic journals, and trade magazines published worldwide.
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This scholarly database contains over 3,600 peer-reviewed publications in full-text on every subject.

Bringing together two formerly separate products - Accounting & Tax and Banking Information Source – this database provides centralized access to top journals, reference reports, proceedings, dissertations and more.
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Collection of citations and full text journals, newsletter articles and conference proceedings from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).
To access your user profile and settings off the campus network, please visit https://dl.acm.org/ and sign in with your personal login credentials.
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Online access to Creativity, a sibling publication to Advertising Age that focuses on the creative community in advertising, marketing and design. Includes the annual "Creativity Awards Report" that compiles results from the seven most significant advertising awards shows: ADC, AICP, ANDYS, Cannes, Clios, D&AD, and One Show.
Navigate to Creativity via the link in the header on the Ad Age website.
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Online access to Advertising Age, a marketing trade publication that focuses on media sales, advertising, digital marketing, public relations, and more. Includes special reports and lists related to top agencies and marketing blogs.
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The Audio Engineering Society's E-library contains over 17,000 fully searchable PDF files documenting the progression of audio research from 1953 to the present day.
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The Africa Bibliography is an authoritative guide to works in African Studies published under the auspices of the International African Institute annually since 1984.
Coverage: 1984-2022.

There is a known issue preventing OpenURL queries from working correctly. To find full text, either copy and paste article titles into AU Library Search, or connect to the secure campus networ (includes AU VPN) and click on Google Scholar links.

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African American Periodicals, 1825-1995, features more than 170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans. Published in 26 states, the publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations bulletins, annual reports and other genres.

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This database is a global (non-U.S.) collection for international study of black history and culture. The contributions, struggles, and identities of the African Diaspora are presented through personal accounts, video, and primary sources with a focus on the migrations, communities, and ideologies of people of African descent. The collection includes digitized primary source documents, including books, government documents, personal papers, organizational papers, journals, newsletters, court documents, letters, and ephemera.

The National Agricultural Library (AGRICOLA) from the United States Department of Agriculture, provides citations to agricultural literature.
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Alternate Name(s):Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
Contains abstracts and bibliographic citations covering all the primary sources for 11 abstracting journals, plus full text of hundreds of scholarly, trade, and popular sources.
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An index of scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada.

Alternate Name(s):L'année philologique
A specialized bibliographic database of scholarly works relating to all aspects of Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, including Greek and Latin literature and linguistics. Greek and Roman history, art, archaeology, philosophy, religion, mythology, music, and science.
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Annual Reviews is a collection of more than 50 annual review journals covering many science and social science disciplines. Each journal exclusively publish review articles which synthesize and summarize research within a field or discipline. This database includes full-text access to every historical article and issue within the collection as well as the most recent articles published.

The Antarctic Bibliography covers all disciplines related to the region, including biology, geology, meteorology, oceanography, and political geography.

The Anthropological Index to Current Periodicals in The Anthropology Library at the British Museum.

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Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and the Royal Anthropological Institute's Anthropological Index. Anthropology Plus provides extensive indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies.

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Anthrosource is a complete electronic archive of all American Anthropological Association journals through 2003. Additionally, current issues for eleven of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications including American Anthropologist and Cultural Anthropology are available at the site.

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Interdisciplinary collection containing 140+ scholarly journals (the majority featuring Arabic full text), plus magazines, trade publications, industry profiles, country reports, market research reports and conference papers relating to the Arab World.

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Alternate Name(s):Art and Photography, Architecture and Design
Comprises the digitized backfiles of 22 journals covering studio art and photography, and 17 journals covering architecture and graphic design.
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Art & Architecture Source covers a broad range of related subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. Providing over 600 full-text journals, more than 220 full-text books, and a collection of over 63,000 images, it is designed for use by a diverse audience, including art scholars, artists, designers, students, and general researchers.
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Art Magazine Collection Archives gives access to the digitized historical content of three prominent art magazines: Art in America (1913-2015), ARTNews (1902-2006), and Magazine Antiques (1922-2016). These publications provide broad coverage of American and international art, art exhibitions, and issues in the art world.
ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) provides access to full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, Ph.D. dissertations, and exhibit reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art.
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This is the backfile for ArtForum, an influential contemporary art magazine. ArtForum is a good source of information about individual artists, including interviews, exhibition reviews, original art and essays. It also covers fields related to art such as architecture, film, fashion, and music.

Bibliographic and citation information from over 1,700 scholarly arts and humanities journals from around the world.

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arXiv is an open access repository of pre-print (aka e-print) and white paper publications, primarily within physics, mathematics, statistics and computer science. Coverage dates back to 1991 and contains over 1 million e-print articles.
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Alternate Name(s):Formerly Asian Business
English-language database containing economic and business data, as well as analyses, current news, policies, statistics, and political developments for countries across Asia and Europe.
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Alternate Name(s):ADS

The ADS maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 15 million records covering publications in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and the arXiv e-prints. Abstracts and full-text of major astronomy and physics publications are indexed and searchable through the new ADS modern search form.

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Produced by Atla, a membership association of collectors and connectors in religion and theology, Atla Religion Database is a major international index for the scholarly study of religion. All major religious faiths are represented. The Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials collection contains over 2.7 million records, indexing over 2,300 journals, 276,000 essays, and 826,000 reviews. Full text is provided for more than 340 journals.

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Alternate Name(s):theatlantic.com

The Atlantic is a news magazine with coverage that spans current affairs, politics, science, literature, technology, culture, and the economy.
Coverage: 1857-present.
** Access limited to current AU students, faculty, and staff. **

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AU Research Archive is the repository for institutional outputs for American University’s faculty, staff, and other knowledge creators. The AU Research Archive preserves and makes a variety of research outputs openly available, including working papers, preprints, manuscripts, datasets, theses & dissertations, and more.
Find more information about AURA, including self-depositing scholarly materials.

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Database indexing articles pertaining to Asia in multiple disciplines.

This database contains references to scientific research on the impact of cold environments on human beings and on materials.
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Billboard has been the premier publication for music industry. It features an extensive array of searchable, playable charts, breaking music news, artist interviews and exclusives, news, video and more.

Biological & Agricultural Index provides access to more than 490,000 citations from agricultural and biological literature. This database indexes articles, reports of meetings, review articles, special supplements, and book reviews, dating 1983 to the present.
Biological Abstracts encompasses the entire field of life sciences and provides comprehensive coverage of the world's published biological and biomedical research. This includes traditional areas of biology, such as botany, zoology and microbiology, as well as experimental, clinical and veterinary medicine, biotechnology, environmental studies, and agriculture. Interdisciplinary fields such as biochemistry, biophysics and bioengineering are also included.
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Provides access to over 100 open access journals covering all areas of Biology and Medicine.
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Collects the full text of journals published by scientific societies together into one database. Coverage generally goes back to the 2000s. Subject coverage includes the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
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Scholarly journals, commissioned overview essays, and historical indexes. Includes the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, the International Index to Black Periodicals, the Black Literature Index, and more.

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Includes 4,100 back issues of Bloomberg Businessweek, from 1929 to 2000. Entire issues, including table of contents and advertisements.

British Humanities Index covers more than 320 humanities journals, weekly magazines, and newspapers published in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries.

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Hundreds of periodicals, both popular and scholarly, published from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century.

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Major business resource that provides access to scholarly and peer-reviewed articles from all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance and industry information, in addition to market research reports. Articles, many of which are full-text, are from thousands of scholarly business journals.

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Alternate Name(s):Cambridge Core
More than 350 full-text journals published by Cambridge University Press covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine. Contents are cross-disciplinary and discoverable in a full-text search in AU Library Search.
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Provides abstracts and full text from more than 500 full-text magazine, journal, and trade titles addressing all aspects of career studies.
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Provides the full-text of thousands of resources relevant to the field of childcare and early education. Interactive tools allow users to refine their searches, download full-text documents, build customized tables on state policies, compare state demographics, and analyze research data online.

References to the current and historical scholarly literature on the growth and development of young people up to the age of 21.

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Full-text Chinese-language articles from more than 3832 scholarly journal articles published in mainland China. Publication years vary widely, but most are from the 1990s to present. The articles can be searched in English as well as Chinese. Some articles have titles and abstracts translated into English.
American University's subscription encompasses the following classifications:
(G) Politics/ Military Affairs/ Law
(H) Education & Social Sciences
(J) Economics & Management

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A database of book reviews primarily used by academic librarians to buy books. A broad spectrum of subject areas are covered.
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A newspaper and website that focuses on higher education issues and college and university personnel. It includes news stories, opinion pieces, data, and job listings.
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A collection of research and analysis in international politics and related fields, including security studies, global finance, diplomatic practice, humanitarian law, global governance, development studies, and environmental studies.Types of publications include working papers, policy briefs, current analysis and commentary, scholarly journal articles, e-books, and videos.

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A collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Databases include Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), and Cochrane Clinical Answers.
Note the open access, read only version of the Cochrane handbook for systematic reviews of interventions can be accessed via the library's catalog record.
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Contains abstracts of articles and books published in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field, including 150+ journals. Affiliated with the Communication Institute for Online Scholarship (CIOS) non-profit.
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Developed from a merger of Communication and Mass Media Complete and Communications Abstracts, Communication Source offers worldwide full-text content pertaining to communication, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse, speech-language pathology, media studies and related fields and includes many unique sources previously not available.
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Provides abstracts and full text from more than 1,300 journals and magazines on computing, the Internet and software development.

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Full-text research reports, executive summaries, webcasts and podcasts on the latest issues in business management and US and global economics. These reports include studies of Fortune 500 companies on business trends, leadership decisions, performance excellence, corporate governance, HR, productivity, and more. Full-text coverage begins with 1995 to the present.
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Provides access to published literature from conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions worldwide, in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences.
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Alternate Name(s):Formerly known as ProQuest Family Health
Covers over 370 journals on a wide range of health issues, from diseases to nutrition to sports injuries.
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Provides online access to full-text reviews and advice on consumer products and services. It is the online version of the print Consumer Reports magazine.
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Alternate Name(s):Washington Consumer Checkbook

Checkbook surveys consumers and evaluates the quality and prices of local services and products for the Washington D.C. metro area.
 

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Alternate Name(s):CQ Plus, CQ Roll Call

CQ provides comprehensive news and updates from the United States Congress alongside official congressional documents. Homepage changes daily with updated content. Browse by topic, committee, or member name.
**Access limited to 5 concurrent users.**
Request an account to sign up for newsletters, alerts of legislative updates, transcripts, legislator/committee activity, etc.

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Formerly CQ Weekly. Comprehensive source for coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, backroom maneuvering, and in-depth reports on issues looming on the congressional horizon.

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Alternate Name(s):CQ Press Political Reference Suite of Online Editions
CQ Press books: Politics in America (2000 to 2018); Washington Information Directory; Congress and the Nation (1945 to present); Political Handbook of the World (2005 to present); Supreme Court Yearbook (1989 to present); Vital Statistics on American Politics; and Historic Documents (1972 to present).
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CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines.

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Congressional Research Service Reports provide a variety of in-depth policy analysis and background summaries on every subject of interest to Congress.

The Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields.

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An alphabetical arrangement of individuals who have appeared in ITERATE and Edward Mickolus' previous chronologies of international terrorism; includes individuals who have been named in open sources as somehow involved in terrorist attacks or organizations. This list does not purport to be globally comprehensive - it is limited solely to international incidents or other incidents of sufficient import to be included in previous chronologies.
** Items in this collection are labeled 'under embargo' and can be accessed when connected to the secure campus network (includes AU VPN). **
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DBLP is a full text, freely-accessible database for many computer science journal articles, conference proceedings, and series. Notes: it is a smaller collection than other computer science databases, since it primarily materials freely available without subscription. Also, the database is not full text searchable, but is a central resource for those wishing to find many full text articles in computer science, as it collects full text publications from a variety of legal resources. Finally, not every resource is full text - please check AU Library holdings for options to access these materials.
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Alternate Name(s):Digital Theatre Plus, DT+

Provides access to over 1000 full-length productions, interviews, written content, and educational resources that reflect contemporary theatre and performance around the world.

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Dimensions track citation metrics and altmetrics for research outputs, including journal articles, datasets, and some books and book chapters. Results can be filtered by institution, researcher, year, and more, and metrics can be analyzed and compared using its Analytics tools. Download up to 5000 records at a time for further analysis. Tracked sources include policy papers, grant funding, news, and more, and incorporates Altmetric information for research output. For assistance in using Dimensions, please contact Rachel Borchardt, borchard@american.edu.
And see Intro to Dimensions for Researchers video (for AU community members).
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Registration, consenting to terms, and accepting privacy policy are required the first time you access this database. **
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At completion, Disability in the Modern World will include 150,000 pages of primary sources, supporting materials, and archives, along with 125 hours of video.
This resource was made possible through the Lee Somers Endowed Library Fund. endowment

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Find open access journals & articles.

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Link to access Duke University Press journals.

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Korean studies collection comprised of 8 databases in English and Korean. Offerings cover all academic disciplines, including arts and humanities, social sciences, sciences, medical sciences, and physical education. E-books, e-journals, dissertations, classical literature, video lectures, and newspapers are included. North Korean academic journals are also available.
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Full-text database of 2,000+ journals & periodicals published by academic and research institutes in South Korea. The database covers subjects such as humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, engineering, medical science, pharmaceutics, and agriculture. (formerly part of EKS)

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Provides facsimile editions of a key 20th century publication covering African-American business, history, politics, entertainment, fashion and culture. Ebony's editorial philosophy is to “showcase the best and brightest as well as highlighting the disparities in Black life in the United States and worldwide”. Coverage: 1945-2014

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Provides abstracts of the world's economic literature produced by the American Economic Association. It includes coverage of over 400 major journals as well as articles in collective volumes (essays, proceedings, etc.), books, book reviews, dissertations, and working papers.

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Digitized version of the complete British weekly news magazine from inception in 1843 to 2020. The Economic Financial indicator tables from May 1983 to December 2020 are available for exporting into a spreadsheet format.

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Authoritative weekly newspaper focusing on international politics and business news and opinion.
Includes mobile app and subscriber-only podcasts and events.
For quick access, click on the link above.
For a personalized experience or in the app, visit https://www.economist.com/, select the option to Log In, choose SSO, and select American University Library (not American University) from the list of institutions.

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Abstracts and some full text of education journals and magazines. 1988 to present.

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Provides full-text coverage for over 1,700 journals dating back to 1929, plus more than 550 books and conference papers. Incorporates content from H.W. Wilson and EBSCO education databases.
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Alternate Name(s):EdWeek
Education Week online, plus benchmark reports, special reports, and 30 years of archives.
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eMarketer provides analysis, market data, and statistics on the internet, e-commerce, online marketing, social media, and emerging digital technologies around the world.
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Digital archive of facsimile editions of major trade and consumer magazines related to film, theater, music, television, and general entertainment industry. 
Includes 15 trade and popular magazines covering all aspects of the music industry, theatre and broadcast radio in the US and UK covering the period 1880-2000; 10 long-running and highly influential magazines which document all aspects of cinema going, the film industry and the evolution of television and popular culture between 1905 and 2000; and 12 further major consumer and trade publications from the US and the UK on film and television, from 1907 to 2015.
Provides complete runs of magazines from their inception to 2000, including Variety, Billboard, and Broadcasting & Cable, and the Hollywood Reporter to 2015.

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The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature and indexes over 700 journals in the field of education. In addition, ERIC provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
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The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature and indexes over 700 journals in the field of education. In addition, ERIC provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
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A collection of current full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, scholarly journals on ethnicities and ethnic studies, and historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.

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Economic, political, and geographical background information and statistical data by country. Includes a listing of around 1,900 international organizations.

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English-language database containing economic and business data, as well as analyses, current news, policies, statistics, and political developments for countries in Europe.

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The FIAF International Film Archive Database is published by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) and contains several databases: the International Index to Film Periodicals, the International Index to Television Periodicals, the List of Periodicals Indexed, the Treasures from the Film Archives, the FIAF Affiliates Publications and the Film and TV Documentation Collections.

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Film & Television Literature Index (FTLI) is a bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications and selected coverage of 300 more, as well as full text for more than 90 journals. The FLTI is a continuation of the Film Literature Index Online database and covers 1988 to the present.

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Includes 2,500 back issues of Forbes Magazine, from 1917 to 2000. Entire issues, including table of contents and advertisements.
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Alternate Name(s):foreignaffairs.com
Magazine covering international relations and U.S. foreign policy.
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Fuente Academica Premier is a rapidly expanding collection of over 570 scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain. All major subject areas are covered with particular emphasis on agriculture, biological sciences, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public administration, religion and sociology. The database is updated weekly.

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Gale In Context: Environmental Studies provides news, overview information, case studies, video, unique commentaries, primary source documents, and statistics. Search by keyword or browse by topic to gather a wide variety of sources related to environmental topics - excellent for non-science majors researching environmental topics.
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Alternate Name(s):Gale Literary Databases

In-depth information on the lives and writings of nearly 100,000 authors along with critical reaction to their works.
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Literature Criticism featuring Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, and more
Contemporary Authors
Dictionary of Literary Biography

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Alternate Name(s):Gender Watch

GenderWatch indexes over 200 scholarly journals, magazines, newsletters and newspapers (about 1970 to present) on the evolution of gender roles as they affect men and women. Many of the articles are full-text and there are 19 full-text books.

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Global Health features key literature within global public health. Coverage goes back to 1973 and features over 2 million articles, many of which are exclusive to this database.
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Google Scholar may be the world’s largest academic search engine, indexing peer reviewed articles, books, conference papers, theses and dissertations, and other scholarly literature. The full text of items may not be available for free, but those that overlap with AU Library’s collections can be accessed there.
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Provides citations and abstracts to journal and magazine articles, book chapters and government documents on many aspects of the environment, including global warming, energy conservation, and pollution.

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Alternate Name(s):Harvard Business Review Case Studies

Provides access to over 2,000 HBS case studies as well as 76 core curriculum readings that cover entrepreneurship, finance, accounting, marketing, operations management, organizational behavior and strategy.

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Alternate Name(s):Formerly known as ProQuest Health & Medical Complete
Includes over 1,900 medical and health administration sources, many in full-text.
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A comprehensive collection of full-text PDF (or text) images of major law journal articles, including back issues.

Citations to articles, book reviews, literary works, and other materials about Latin America, the Caribbean, and Hispanics/Latinos in the US, from journals published throughout the world.

Bibliographic database covering the world's scholarly literature in history, excluding the United States and Canada. Equivalent to the printed version of Historical Abstracts.

Human Resources Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering areas related to human resources, including human resource management, employee assistance, organizational behavior, and other areas of relevance to the discipline. Indexed titles include Journal of Human Resources, Human Resource Management, and Human Resource Development International.

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Alternate Name(s):IEEE Electronic Library, IEL, Computer Society Digital Library CSDL

More than 5 million IEEE documents in the areas of computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, and communication. The library includes extensive conference proceedings, as well as peer-reviewed journal articles and industry standards.

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Contains the working papers as well as books, periodicals, and reports published by the International Monetary Fund.
Index Islamicus contains citations and abstracts from over 3,000 journals, as well as books and reviews on Islam and the Muslim world. Publications are in mostly European languages.

This database indexes 42 art journals published in the United States during the nineteenth century. It covers all subjects in the visual arts including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture, design, decorative arts, exhibitions, and collecting.
 

Citations to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in over 190 journals devoted to Jewish affairs.

Alternate Name(s):IABO, International African Bibliography
International and interdisciplinary specialist bibliography of African Studies. Includes non-English language publications and is searchable by authors, editors, titles, publication years, ISSN/ISBN, keywords, full text and categories like regions and countries or the African Diaspora.
Coverage: 1971-present.
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This successor database to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) indexes over 500 core journals, plus monographs and conference proceedings. Coverage begins in 2008.
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International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) is the online database equivalent of four separate print indices: the International Bibliography of Political Science, International Bibliography of Anthropology, International Bibliography of Economics, and the International Bibliography of Sociology. It covers journal articles and book titles and includes literature from more than 100 different languages and countries.

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Books, journal articles, and dissertations on all aspects of theatre and dance are indexed and annotated. Over 500 titles are available in full-text.

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Over a thousand articles across twenty-five areas of this interdisciplinary field.
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Citations and abstracts from roughly 900 journals and yearbooks in the fields of political science, international relations, and public administration. Covers publications from 1975 to the present. In most cases the abstracts are in English, and in some cases (non-English articles) in French. When the original article is not in English, the title in the record is in its own language, English and French.

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Full-text access to more than 60 IOP (Institute of Physics Publishing and partners') journals, including more than 450,000 journal articles and core physics journals. This does not include full-text access to their archives, but the archives can be searched.

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JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments, is the world's first peer reviewed scientific video journal, with videos dating back to 2006. As part of the JoVE Unlimited package, we subscribe to all sections of JoVE, which covers many aspects of science and medicine, including Biology, Neuroscience, Chemistry, Behavior and more.
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Alternate Name(s):Artstor

Full-text of back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences, plus a collection of more than one million digital art images for teaching and research.

American University is participating in JSTOR’s interactive research tool beta testing. View our FAQ for details.

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A summary of the world's political, social, and economic events from 1931 through 2017.

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KISS (Korean Studies Information Service System) is a multidisciplinary, full-text database of scholarly journals from universities and research institutions based in Korea.
Note that as of Q3 2023 ebooks are no longer provided in this collection.

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A scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, including nearly 1.5 million articles from 1,600 scholarly journals published by prominent academic societies and research centers in South Korea. The journal titles are arranged by subject categories such as economics, engineering, education, and medicine.
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This collection comprises 100,000 pages of literary works, along with memoirs and essays, in their original language, by Latin American women from the colonial period in the 17th century to the present.
This resource was made possible through the Lee Somers Endowed Library Fund. endowment

This database includes historical and cultural research, interviews, art, poetry, fiction and nonfiction, in addition to book reviews. It features a wide range of original works by artists, writers, and scholars that showcase the depth and breadth of the Latinx cultural experience.
Please provide an evaluation on the Database Trial Feedback Form. | Collection Manager: Stella Hudson | Expires: October 5, 2024
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Full-text access to peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings that cover technology integration and teaching.
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Provides access to the literature on the left, with a primary emphasis on politically and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside the academy and a secondary emphasis on significant but little known sources of news and ideas.

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An online resource hosting books, periodicals, and archival materials documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day.
This resource was made possible through the Lee Somers Endowed Library Fund. endowment

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Index to international literature on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender issues.

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An index to over 600 periodicals on the subject of library science, information management, and retrieval.
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Life was one of the most popular general interest magazines in the United States from the late 1930s to the early 1970s, particularly known for its high quality photography. The Archive covers 1936 to 2000.

Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. Coverage is from 1973 to the present and there are currently over 447,000 records in the database.

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Archives from the Federal Writers' Project, a component of the Work Projects Administration of Roosevelt's New Deal.

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Provides full text market research reports on services, consumer goods, demographics, food and beverage, heavy industry, life science, public sector and technology industries. Coverage varies depending on the type of report.
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Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications from 1940 to the present.
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Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications from 1940 to the present.
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The Media History Digital Library contains digital scans of hundreds of thousands of magazine pages from thousands of issues from 1904 to 1963. This open-access collection is a rich resource for the study of the early years of film and radio, including practitioner and fan-oriented publications.
An online database of over 18 million citations on biomedical literature from the National Library of Medicine.
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Providing current news pertaining to all branches of the military, this database covers about 400 titles, with the full text of nearly 300 journals and periodicals and 245 pamphlets. Includes CountryWatch's Country Review.
Alternate Name(s):MLA Directory of Periodicals

The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It is produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), an organization dedicated to the study and teaching of language and literature. The electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.6 million citations from more than 4,400 periodicals (including peer-reviewed e-journals) and 1,000 book publishers.

Music Index surveys 775 music periodicals from more than 40 countries in 22 languages. The index covers articles, books, and news about all aspects of music.
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IIMP Full Text provides indexing and abstracts for more than 440 international music periodicals, plus full text for 130 journals. The index also contains retrospective articles dating from as far back as 1874. The emphasis of the database ranges from scholarly music research to popular articles on recent trends.

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Alternate Name(s):Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts

The NCJRS Abstracts database is produced by the U.S. Department of Justice and contains summaries of over 189,000 U.S. and international publications on research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice and drug control. The publications covered are from 1970 to present and include federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, audiovisual presentations, and unpublished research.

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This database brings together more than 100,000 pages, many of which are previously unpublished, rare, or hard to find. The project integrates autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files.
This resource was made possible through the Lee Somers Endowed Library Fund. endowment

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Books, periodicals, statistics and working papers from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Alternate Name(s):Bibliography of the History of Art, Répertoire d’Art et d’Archéologie, Répertoire International de la littérature de l’art / International Repertory of the Literature of Art

OpenBibArt covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present. It indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles published between 1910 and 2007. Its successor is the International Bibliography of Art (IBA) database.

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OSF is a free and open source project management tool that supports researchers throughout their entire project lifecycle. Find papers, data, and materials; search public projects; start a project and add collaborators; store data, code, and other materials; share papers so others can find and cite your work.
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Oxford Bibliographies Online is a powerful reference source that offers substantial peer reviewed bibliographies for numerous disciplines, including International Relations. Bibliographies are browsable by subject area and are keyword searchable. The database combines aspects of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Includes expert commentary.

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Authoritative guide to the literature and current research in this subject area.

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Oxford Handbooks Online provides introductions and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship on major topics. The handbooks date from 2004 to present. Subject areas include Criminal Justice, Law, Music, Political Science, History, Religion, Psychology, Literature and Classical Studies.

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Access American University's subscription journals from Oxford University Press.
Note that we subscribe to only a subset of the titles on this publisher platform.

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The PAIS International database from ProQuest contains references to more than 634,401 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world. In addition to English, some of the indexed materials are published in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
PAIS Archive is a retrospective conversion of the PAIS Annual Cumulated Bulletin, volumes 1-62, published 1915-1976.

Indexes and abstracts journal and magazine articles, books, chapters, conference papers, and government publications on peace and conflict studies.
Alternate Name(s):WCL Library, Law Library
American University Washington College of Law's Pence Law library catalog
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An international collection that covers all aspects of theater production design, from the 17th century through to the present day, including scenic and set design, lighting design, sound design, costume design, and makeup. It brings together books, periodicals, archival material, and instructional videos, to cover design concepts for a range of performance types, including dance, theatre, opera, and music.
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This index of about 210 periodicals covers the variety of performing arts including dance, film, television, theater, and related subjects. As of Summer 2003, 36 of the periodicals contain full text articles back to 1998.
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Periodicals Archive Online is a major online periodical archive that makes the back files of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the full text of a growing number of digitized periodicals that have been indexed in its sister database, Periodicals Index Online. Currently, Periodicals Archive Online contains over 600 journals, providing access to over 14 million article pages - representing over 2.8 million articles.

Periodicals Index Online is an electronic index to millions of articles published in over 6,400 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. Periodicals Index Online was formerly known as Periodicals Contents Index (PCI). As of April 2010, Periodicals Index Online indexes over 15 million articles going as far back as 1665 and every article in each journal is indexed, from volume 1 issue 1 to recent times.

The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.

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An open access research archive and publication index of philosophy articles, books, and reviews.

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Resource for the identification of public policy research and analysis.
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Political Science and International Relations journal articles, 1985-present

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Policy news, analysis, and intelligence. ** Due to technical limitations, some PoliticoPro content cannot be accessed via the website, including articles from other geographic editions and biographical profiles of members of Congress.
Current AU students, faculty, and staff may request PDFs of such articles and reports by sending email to liberm@american.edu.**
Platform also hosts E&E News and our subscription includes four titles: Climatewire, E&E Daily, Greenwire, and E&E News PM.

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Over 115 academic journals in the humanities and social sciences on the subject of Latin America and Latino/a studies.
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Includes 30+ peer-reviewed full-text journals in theoretical and applied mathematics, and statistics. Access to mathematical journals published by MIT Press and Cornell University Press. Includes Open Access content. Access varies by title.
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Full-text articles from journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics, published by university presses.

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Multi-subject reference source covering general and academic periodicals; full-text is available for many articles.

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Searches over 500 publications (with full text of 400) either about or authored by the US Government. Though the primary focus is the military, topics covered include many that intersect with security from aeronautics to climate change to international relations. Dates vary by publication with almost all going back to at least 1990-present.

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Covers the literature of nursing, allied health, and alternative and complementary medicine. Includes scholarly literature, clinical training videos, reference materials, and evidence-based resources, including dissertations and systematic reviews. Coverage dates: 1976-present.

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Alternate Name(s):Literature Online, LION

2.5 million pages of poetry, fiction, and drama from around the world, plus criticism, reference works, and full-text literary journals.

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The PsychiatryOnline Premium collection covers diagnosis and differential diagnosis, case vignettes to bring abstract concepts to life, multidisciplinary treatment guidelines, the latest research - all within a single search and navigation interface that integrates journals and books.
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Comprehensive collection of books and journals related to psychoanalysis, including the complete works of Sigmund Freud.

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Alternate Name(s):ProQuest Psychology Journals
Contains articles from scholarly journals in psychology. Also includes full text dissertations. Subject areas include behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial, personality, physiological, psychobiology, psychometrics, and social psychology.
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Indexing and abstracting of over 1800 journals in psychology, books, book chapters, technical reports and dissertations.

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Alternate Name(s):Formerly PILOTS: Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress
This database, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, offers current and retrospective bibliographic citations to the literature of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Indexes and abstracts journal and magazine articles on public administration. Sample subject coverage includes administrative structures and organization, public and social services, public service personnel, and theory and method. Date coverage is 1960s to present.

This database from the National Library of Medicine offers over 37 million citations to biomedical and life sciences literature, plus links to full-text resources.

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Open Access to Life Sciences journal literature archived in the National Library of Medicine's online journal archive PubMed Central.

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An index to 369 U.S. popular magazines and journals published from 1890 to 1982. This is the online version of the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature.

Combines two major resources for chemistry, Beilstein (organic chemistry), and Gmelin (inorganic chemistry) with patent data to provide substance, reaction, and catalyst information. Database can be searched by drawing a 3D chemical compound. Web-based resource - no download needed.
**When accessing from off the campus network, select 'Institutional sign in' or register for sponsored account.**
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This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
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Alternate Name(s):Religion Journals (ProQuest)

Abstracts and some full text of over 100 journals and magazines in religious studies and theology, including religious news and commentaries.

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Digital archive of French newspapers from the collections of the Biblioteque Nationale de France. Date coverage is 1630 to 1951. You can search the entire collection (in French) or visit one of the curated collections on popular topics, for example, King Tut or the Modern Woman.

Indexes the international scholarly literature of music, including journal articles, conference proceedings, essays, books, dissertations, critical editions of music, digital media, and online resources. Date coverage is from the 1800s, in some cases the late 1700s, to the present.

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Alternate Name(s):music, popular culture, entertainment, journalism

The complete archive of Rolling Stone from 1967 to present; a groundbreaking magazine with a unique perspective on politics, art, culture, rock and popular music, and entertainment.

Citations and abstracts to journals, reports, conference papers and books covering economic and social aspects of Third World rural development, including land reform, land and water resources, biotechnology, microfinance, and health and nutrition.

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Full text journals from Sage Publishing in the areas of Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. Coverage: 1999-Present
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SAGE Business Cases provides faculty and students with more than 1,000 cases to support curriculum and independent research. Cases are contemporary, critically minded, and developed to elicit discussion and further research. Topics include marketing, operations management, small business & entrepreneurship, international business, human resource management, and more
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A collection of books, journal articles, case studies, videos and reference materials published by SAGE Publications on research methods and design. Includes Sage Research Video; Market Research; Practical Research and Academic Skills; Data Science, Big Data Analytics and Digital Methods; Deversifying and Decolonizing Research; Medicine and Health; Data Visualization; and Doing Research Online.

Covers scholarly literature from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, Portugal, and South Africa, in biology, the health sciences, arts and humanities, applied social sciences, and engineering. It indexes 650 titles with over 4 million cited references.
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Alternate Name(s):Science Journals (ProQuest)
Abstracts and some full text of journals and magazines in biology, ecology, environmental science, medicine, engineering, physics, and astronomy.
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Alternate Name(s):Elsevier Journals

Browse Elsevier ScienceDirect journals. many with coverage: 1995-Present.
Note that we do not subscribe to all titles on this publisher platform.


SciFinder Scholar provides online access to these chemistry resources:
* Chemical Abstracts 1907- Chemical literature (journals, patents, books, etc.)
* Registry File Chemical compound information (structure, molecular weight, spectral information, etc.)
* Medline 1958- Medical literature (journals, books, conferences, etc.)
* CASREACT 1985- Information on chemical reactions (e.g., synthesis, etc.)
* CHEMCATS Chemical sources, i.e. supplier information* CHEMLIST 1979- Regulatory information
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This database contains key journals in the field of High-Energy Physics that were made open access through SCOAP3, a partnership that American University helps to sponsor.

A citation and abstract database for peer-reviewed research literature, primarily in the sciences and social sciences.

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An annual compendium of data and analysis in the areas of security and conflicts, military spending and armaments, and non-proliferation, arms control, and disarmament. Produced by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
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Alternate Name(s):Social Science Journals

Abstracts and some full text of journals and magazines in anthropology, sociology, psychology, business management, public administration, political science, criminology, and economics.

Contains bibliographic and citation information for 3,000 international scholarly journals across 50 disciplines.

Social Services Abstracts (CSA)Citations and abstracts from over 1,800 serials as well as dissertations on social work, human services, social welfare, and social policy.

Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Coverage is from 1952 to the present.

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This site on the intersection between the performing arts and politics in The Americas includes the journal e-misferica, scholarly essays, and a digital video library.

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SPORT Discus is the most comprehensive source of full text for sports and sports medicine, including 490 journals, books, book chapters, and reference proceedings.

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A package of more than 2,000 full-text journals, many dating from 1997, in biology, chemistry, environmental science, health sciences, and some social sciences.
Note that American University does not subscribe to all titles on this publisher platform.
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Social Science Research Network (SSRN) provides an interactive network of researchers across disciplines, ranging from economics and finance to management and sustainability research. Search a range of journals and conference proceedings from each discipline, with many in full text.

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Platform featuring journals published by Taylor & Francis.
** Note: AU Library subscribes to only some of the content on this site. Once you have entered a search or selected a topic area to browse, select Access Type > Only show content I have full access to **
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Alternate Name(s):Telecommunications Journals
Provides abstracts and full text of articles on the telecommunications industry.
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Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium (TRAC) is a uniquely comprehensive resource for the study of political violence of all kinds. In cooperation with a team of 2800 experts, TRAC gathers the best information for exploration of this topic by faculty, scholars, students, government and defense professionals, as well as the general public.

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Features drama texts from diverse playwrights, stage performance videos, documentaries, interviews, audio plays, contextual reference material, and production design archival content.
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Major American news magazine based in New York City. The archive covers the first issue in 1923 up to 2000.

This database, produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, provides bibliographic citations and abstracts from the core journal literature in toxicology. TOXLINE provides access to information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens.

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Indexes academic journals and books on topics relevant to metropolitan studies. Subjects covered include urban affairs, community development, and urban history.

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Complete run of Vogue from 1892 to the present, with high resolution page images.

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Alternate Name(s):BIOSIS Citation Index, Current Contents Connect, Derwent Innovations Index, KCI-Korean Journal Database, Zoological Record, Science Citation Index, Emerging Sources Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, Index Chemicus

A combined citation index that comprises several databases: Web of Science Core Collection, BIOSIS Citation Index, Current Contents Connect, Data Citation Index, Derwent Innovations Index, KCI-Korean Journal Database, MEDLINE®, SciELO Citation Index, and Zoological Record databases, which can be searched in the aggregate or singly.
Web of Science Core Collection contains several components: Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Index, Book Citation Index, Emerging Sources Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, and Index Chemicus. To search in a subset of the components, select the database then select the desired index or indices in the 'Editions' dropdown menu.

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Legal research tool for United State law at the federal and state level. Search by jurisdiction or practice area. Focus is on primary legal sources, with treatise and news content for additional context.
** Access limited to current main campus faculty, staff and students, as well as guests of Bender Library. 
Not available to the law school or office of the general counsel. **

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Access American University's subscription journals on the Wiley platform.
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Alternate Name(s):gender

The Women's Studies Archive is an examination of the social, political, and professional aspects of women's lives and offers a look at the roles, experiences, and achievements of women in society.
 

Abstracts of articles from over 2,000 journals and magazines in the areas of Women's Studies and feminist research. Also covers books, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, reports and proceedings. Coverage dates from the 19th c. to present. Includes the Women Studies Abstracts (1972 to present) and other bibliographies.

Citations and abstracts to journals, reports, conference papers, and books on agricultural economics, environmental and natural resources, biotechnology, and rural sociology.
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Provides original analysis to aid in understanding global trends through briefings examining issues of immediate and long-term importance; columns with commentary on international affairs; and newsletters with top stories and annotated news roundups for Africa and China.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts is a major political science index providing citations and abstracts to journal articles, book chapters, books, and websites on subjects including international relations, law, and public administration and policy. Dating from 1975 and updated monthly, the WPSA is built on two indices: Political Science Abstracts and ABC POLSCI. Roughly 1,510 titles are being monitored for coverage; of these, 67% are published outside the United States.

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Formerly Zentralblatt fur Mathematic / Mathematics Abstracts, this open database is the world's most comprehensive in pure and applied mathematics. It is a great resource for math and computer science articles.
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