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Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts provides peer-reviewed abstracts of the
international literature of conservation and heritage management. (The Getty)
Indexes and provides summaries for articles in several hundred journals in the fields of archaeology, cultural and physical anthropology and linguistics. Speech, physiology, artifacts, history, environment, and social relations are described, analyzed, interpreted, and compared within the human and animal realms.
Abstracts in German Anthropology, 1983 to the present
EKSTROM Ref. GN1
.A23
Provides English abstracts for German publications.
Primarily covers cultural and social anthropology, but also includes
coverage of history, folklore, linguistics, sociology and philosophy.
African American Biographical Database
Contains narratives from biographical sources published between 1790 and 1950. Covers African American activists, business people, former slaves, performing artists, educators, lawyers, physicians, writers, church leaders, homemakers, religious workers, government workers, athletes, farmers, scientists, factory workers, and more--both the famous and the everyday person. (Chadwyck-Healey)
African American
Newspapers: the 19th Century
Complete text of several major African American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century.
Bibliographic references to the study of aging in psychological, health-related, social and economic contexts. (AARP)
America: History & Life covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present with indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present. Citations and links to book and media reviews are also included. (EBSCOhost)
American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
Full-text of more than 400 sources of diaries, letters, and memoirs written from 1855 to 1875 concerning the American Civil War. (Alexander Street Press)
Full-text of articles in periodicals published between 1741 and 1900. 1,000 titles include Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, the first American professional journals, and several consumer magazines still in publication, such as Vanity Fair, Harper's, and Ladies' Home Journal.
Anthropological Literature, 1979-83 and 1989 to the present
EKSTROM Ref. GN1 .A6533
An author and subject index of books and periodicals in the fields
of archaeology, biological and physical andthropology, cultural and social anthropology,
and linguistics. Related fields, such as sociology, history, ethnohistory, demography,
geography, international development and human genetics may also be included.
The online catalog of the UofL University Archives and Records Center is included in Minerva, the catalog for all UofL Libraries.
Provides information about primary source materials from over 5,400 US manuscript repositories of American history and politics literature. ArchivesUSA includes records, complete with detailed indexes, about over 118,000 manuscript and other special collections.
Indexes scholarly articles in art, architecture, design, film and crafts from all time periods and countries. Covers 1984 - present. Also searches Art Index Retrospective covering 1929-1984. (H. W. Wilson)
Indexes scholarly articles in art, architecture, design, film and crafts from all time periods and countries. Indexes from 1929 - 1984. Also searches Art Abstracts covering 1984 - present. (H.W. Wilson)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Indexes articles from over 1200 journals. Includes and is searchable by references cited in each article. Maximum number of
simultaneous users: 13 (split between Arts & Humanities Citation Index,
Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Journal Citation
Reports). (ISI's Web of Science)
The ATLA Religion Database is the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all scholarly fields of religion. Featuring articles written in 36 languages, ATLA includes over 400,000 article citations from over 1,400 journals, 600 of which are currently indexed. It also provides bibliographic coverage of over 200,000 essay citations from 15,500 multi-author works, over 375,000 book reviews, and features 128,000 subject-headings. (CSA)
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Indexes more than 2500 journals, including all major scholarly journals on architecture and design, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation and interior design. Coverage is from 1741 to the present. (CSA)
Bibliography of the History of Art
Provides citations and abstracts to the literature of the visual arts and material culture from late antiquity (4th century A.D.) to the present, in Europe and the New World successors to the Greco-Roman world. Also contains RAA and RILA records from 1975 until they merged to become BHA in 1991. (CSA)
Comprehensive coverage of worldwide journal literature in the life sciences. Nearly 6,000 international journals are monitored for inclusion, representing virtually every life science discipline, including agriculture, biochemistry, biotechnology, ecology, immunology, microbiology, neuroscience, pharmacology, public health, and toxicology. (EBSCOhost)
The Civil War: a newspaper perspective
"(F)ull text of major articles ... from The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865."
"Conference Papers provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world." (CSA)
Full-text coverage of over 1500 sources published by more than 200 organizations around the world from 1992 to the present. Sources provide information dealing with women's issues in over 190 nations. Maximum number of
simultaneous users: 4. (Responsive Database Services)
Dissertations
Indexing and abstracts for over 8000 publications with full-text for over half of the publications. (EBSCOhost)
eHRAF: Archaeology (beta version)
eHRAF: Ethnography (beta version)
"The Human Relations Area Files in Ethnography includes 250,000 pages of primary source material in ethnography, and the collection in Archeology covers more than 28 major archeological traditions with more than 40,000 pages of primary source material (including the full-text of journal articles, dissertations and manuscripts)." (Human Area Relations File)
Full-text database providing access to articles that appeared in 200 publications of the ethnic, minority and native press. 400,000+ complete articles dating back to 1990.
European Bibliography of Slavic & East European Studies
Bibliography of books, journal articles, reviews and theses on Eastern Europe published in Western European countries since 1991.
Includes 125 international publications plus reports, pamphlets, papers and conference proceedings devoted to women and gender issues. Archival material dating back to the mid 1970's.
Grove Dictionary of Art Online
Contains more than 40,000 articles on all aspects of art and culture, including information on people and places, surveys of art in all countries, maps, diagrams and links to images on the Internet.
HAPI Online
Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Indexes articles and other materials covering information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. (HAPI)
Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. This database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. (EBSCOhost)
Includes: Palmer's Index to the Times (London) 1790-1905; The Official Index to the Times (London) 1906-1980; and, The Historical Index to the New York Times 1851-1923. (Chadwyck-Healey)
HRAF: Archaeology
HRAF: Ethnography
"The Human Relations Area Files in Ethnography includes 250,000 pages of primary source material in ethnography, and the collection in Archeology covers more than 28 major archeological traditions with more than 40,000 pages of primary source material (including the full-text of journal articles, dissertations and manuscripts)." (Human Area Relations File)
An index of articles in the humanities. (H.W. Wilson)
The Index of Christian Art is an iconographic, descriptive and bibliographic database that indexes works of art from early apostolic times to 1400 AD. Records include bibliography, references to reproductions and a growing number of links to images.(Princeton University)
Index to Current Urban Documents
Includes full-text reports and research by local government agencies, civic organizations, academic and research organizations, public libraries, and metropolitan and regional planning agencies in approximately 500 selected cities in the United States and Canada. (Greenwood Electronic Media)
Iter-Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Index to interdisciplinary literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Includes articles, bibliographies, books, catalogues, editions, abstracts, and discographies.
International Bibliography of Social and Cultural Anthropology, 1955 to the present
EKSTROM Ref. GN301 .I57
Lists journal articles and books published world-wide. Non-English titles are listed
in both the original language and in English. After 1991, the indexing improves consdierably, and
includes author, subject and placename indexes.
Full-text articles from journals in a variety of disciplines, from the journals' first issues through the late 1990's. (Acrobat Reader needed to print.)
Over 2000 entries dealing with all aspects of Kentucky and Kentuckians. Full-text online version of the 1993 print edition.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
A collection of abstracts which reflects the world's literature in language behavior, linguistics, and related disciplines. 1973 - present. (CSA)
Catalog of items owned by the seven University
of Louisville Libraries.
MLA International Bibliography
The MLA International Bibliography indexes books and articles published on modern languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics. (Chadwyck-Healey)
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Summaries of more than 150,000 publications on criminal justice, including government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. (CSA)
Includes the following:
- Access World News (current; Includes all of what was previously included in "America's Newspapers")
- Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800)
- Early American Imprints, Series II. Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)
- Early American Newspapers Digital (1690-1876)
- Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY, current)
Covers national and international newspapers, including The Lexington Herald-Leader and Messenger-Inquirer (Owensboro, KY). Includes some full-text. (EBSCOhost)
New York Times
The New York Times comes out in a number of editions each
day. Take note of which edition is being indexed. The New York Times is
indexed in the following sources:
- ProQuest Direct: 1980-present (less extensive coverage in earlier years); full-text 1995-present. (ProQuest)
- PQ Historical News: Full-text 1851-2001. (ProQuest)
- Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe: Full-text 1980-present.
- Historical Newspapers Online: indexes 1863-1905 and 1913-1922 (when finished, it will cover 1851-1922)
- Newspaper Source: 1994-present (selective coverage)
- Print Indexes (EKSTROM Ref. AI 21 .N44): 1851-1998
Nineteenth Century Masterfile, Series I
Searchable index to magazine and journal articles originally indexed in:
- Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906)
- Steade's Index to Periodicals (1890-1902)
- Jones & Chapman's Index to Legal Periodical Literature (1786-1922)
- Richardson's Index to Periodical Articles in Religion (1890-1899)
- Cumulative Index to a Selected List of Periodicals (1896-1899)
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Comprehensive database, with bibliography, text and image files of correspondence and diaries drawn from published and manuscript sources, searchable by author, source, year, personal event, and historical event.
Oxford English Dictionary Online
Comprehensive dictionary of the English language including definitions, etymologies, and quotations.
The Digital Library of the Historic Williamsburg Foundation includes the complete run of the Virginia Gazette to 1780 as well as digitized versions of rare books and manuscripts from the Foundation's collections.
"The Pennsylvania Gazette ... provides the reader with a first hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of each of the periods." Full-text of the newspaper from 1728-1800.
Indexes the contents of older issues (1770-1995) of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. (Chadwyck-Healey)
A digital library of source materials for studies in the humanities. It originated as a collection of Greek and Roman classics, and that remains its largest component, but has expanded to include secondary sources and digital archives of other times and places.
International index to philosophy-related journal articles and books. Covers 1940-present. (CSA)
Full-text of articles from 1990 forward in over 275 journals covering
Arts, Sciences (including medicine and mathematics), Humanities and
Social Sciences.
ProQuest Digital Dissertations
Formerly known as Dissertations Abstracts International. Contains 1.6 million citations for dissertations and theses from over 1,000 graduate schools. Provides indexing back to 1861 and full-text availability to titles back to 1997 (full-text availability varies by author's institution). Free full-text downloads can be sent to an email account.
Includes a cross-section of general periodicals, ABI/INFORM business periodicals, and several national newspapers in full-text. (ProQuest)
Search for coverage of a broad range of subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests. Some full-text. Includes the database formerly known as Periodical Abstracts. (ProQuest)
PsycARTICLES
Database of full-text journals from the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. PsycARTICLES is only searchable within the OVID version of PsycINFO.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
The Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database with nearly 470 full text titles covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. (EBSCOhost)
PsycINFO
Provides indexing and abstracting for the professional and
academic literature (books, book chapters, dissertations and 1300
journals) in psychology and related disciplines.
Religion & Philosophy Collection
The Religion & Philosophy Collection is a comprehensive database covering such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Some full text. (EBSCOhost)
Sanborn Maps - Kentucky Collection
Sanborn fire insurance maps are large-scale plans containing data that can be used to estimate the potential risk for urban structures. Includes maps for many Kentucky cities and date from the 1890s to the 1950s. Full-text images of the maps are provided.
Index to articles in the social sciences. (H.W. Wilson)
Social Sciences Citation Index
Indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines in the social sciences. Includes and is searchable by references cited in each article. Maximum number of
simultaneous users: 13 (split between Arts & Humanities Citation Index,
Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Journal Citation
Reports). (ISI's Web of Science)
Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. (FirstSearch)