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• Academic search premier (EBSCO)

  
  

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  Inclusive coverage: 1984 to present.
  "The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database"--About page. It also includes indexing and abstracts for additional periodicals.

• American humanities index (see: Humanities international index)

  
  

• ATLA religion database

  
  

  Coverage:

  1949-
  Comprehensive online database supporting religious and theological scholarship in graduate education and faculty research. Compilation of three print indexes: Religion Index One: Periodicals (RIO), Religion Index Two: Multi-Author Works (RIT), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBBR). Provides citations on such topics as Biblical studies, world religions, Church history and religious perspectives on social issues. Includes links to 50+ online full-text scholarly religion periodicals in the ATLAS (American Theological Library Association Serials) project.List of journals available in full text Search tips for ATLA Religion Database Use ATLA Religion Database on CD-ROM

• Dissertation abstracts online

  
  

  Coverage:

  1861- (Indexing); 1980- (Abstracting Dissertations); 1988- (Abstracting Theses).
  Provides information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses, with subject, title, and author access to almost all American dissertations accepted at an accredited institution since 1861. Dissertations from all institutions since 1997 have 24-page previews freely available without restriction. Masters theses selectively indexed since 1962. Includes citations for thousands of Canadian dissertations and an increasing number of papers accepted in institutions abroad. Professional (e.g., M.D., LL.D.) and honorary degrees not included. Access info: Access to full text (PDF) of Notre Dame dissertations since 1997, restricted to users with valid Notre Dame NetIDs. Look for and click on the "Free Download" button on the search results screen.

• History of science, technology, and medicine

  
  
  Provides bibliographic descriptions of journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields. Usage info: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.

• Humanities international index (EBSCO)

  
  

  Coverage:

  As far back as 1929 to the present
  "...provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals ... includes deep backfiles for some of the most important journals in the area of humanities. ... includes all data from American Humanities Index plus bibliographic records from a multitude of international journals, books and reference works." -- EBSCOhost database description

• Jahrbuch uber die Fortschritte der Mathematik

  
  

  Coverage:

  1868-1942
  The Jahrbuch Project provides a bibliographic database capturing the content of the Jahrbuch uber die Fortschritte der Mathematik (JFM) and a digital archive of the most important mathematical publications of the period 1868-1942.

• JSTOR

  
  

• PCI full text (see Periodicals archive online) - Full text searchable collection of 350+ journals

  
  

• Periodicals Archive Online (formerly: PCI Full Text)

  
  

  Coverage:

  Beginning thru 1995.
  Full text searchable journal collection of 350+ periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences (a subset of Periodicals index online). See Periodicals index online for more extensive indexing and links to selected full text articles.

• Philosopher's index

  
  

  Coverage:

  1940-
  Provides indexing and abstracts of books and journals on philosophy and related fields (ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, etc.).

• Web of science

  
  

  Coverage:

  1900-
  "... accesses multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. The databases are indexed so you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work."--Tutorial screen.More about Web of Science