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This scholarly database contains over 3,600 peer-reviewed publications in full-text on every subject.
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.
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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.
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.
An index of scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada.
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 Anthropological Index to Current Periodicals in The Anthropology Library at the British Museum.
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.
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.
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.
Bibliographic and citation information from over 1,700 scholarly arts and humanities journals from around the world.
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.
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.
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. **
Database indexing articles pertaining to Asia in multiple disciplines.
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.
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.
British Humanities Index covers more than 320 humanities journals, weekly magazines, and newspapers published in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries.
Hundreds of periodicals, both popular and scholarly, published from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century.
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.
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.
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(G) Politics/ Military Affairs/ Law
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(J) Economics & Management
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 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.
Provides abstracts and full text from more than 1,300 journals and magazines on computing, the Internet and software development.
Checkbook surveys consumers and evaluates the quality and prices of local services and products for the Washington D.C. metro area.
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.
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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.
Criminal Justice Abstracts contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines.
Congressional Research Service Reports provide a variety of in-depth policy analysis and background summaries on every subject of interest to Congress.
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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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)
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
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.
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.
Authoritative weekly newspaper focusing on international politics and business news and opinion.
Includes mobile app and subscriber-only podcasts and events.
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Abstracts and some full text of education journals and magazines. 1988 to present.
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.
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.
Economic, political, and geographical background information and statistical data by country. Includes a listing of around 1,900 international organizations.
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.
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.
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.
In-depth information on the lives and writings of nearly 100,000 authors along with critical reaction to their works.
Includes:
Literature Criticism featuring Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, and more
Contemporary Authors
Dictionary of Literary Biography
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Books, journal articles, and dissertations on all aspects of theatre and dance are indexed and annotated. Over 500 titles are available in full-text.
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.
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.
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A summary of the world's political, social, and economic events from 1931 through 2017.
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.
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.
Index to international literature on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender issues.
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.
Archives from the Federal Writers' Project, a component of the Work Projects Administration of Roosevelt's New Deal.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Authoritative guide to the literature and current research in this subject area.
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.
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.
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.
An open access research archive and publication index of philosophy articles, books, and reviews.
Political Science and International Relations journal articles, 1985-present
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.
Full-text articles from journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics, published by university presses.
Multi-subject reference source covering general and academic periodicals; full-text is available for many articles.
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.
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.
2.5 million pages of poetry, fiction, and drama from around the world, plus criticism, reference works, and full-text literary journals.
Comprehensive collection of books and journals related to psychoanalysis, including the complete works of Sigmund Freud.
Indexing and abstracting of over 1800 journals in psychology, books, book chapters, technical reports and dissertations.
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.
Open Access to Life Sciences journal literature archived in the National Library of Medicine's online journal archive PubMed Central.
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.
Abstracts and some full text of over 100 journals and magazines in religious studies and theology, including religious news and commentaries.
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.
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.
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.
Browse Elsevier ScienceDirect journals. many with coverage: 1995-Present.
Note that we do not subscribe to all titles on this publisher platform.
A citation and abstract database for peer-reviewed research literature, primarily in the sciences and social sciences.
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.
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.
SPORT Discus is the most comprehensive source of full text for sports and sports medicine, including 490 journals, books, book chapters, and reference proceedings.
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.
Major American news magazine based in New York City. The archive covers the first issue in 1923 up to 2000.
Indexes academic journals and books on topics relevant to metropolitan studies. Subjects covered include urban affairs, community development, and urban history.
Complete run of Vogue from 1892 to the present, with high resolution page images.
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.
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. **
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.
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.