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The online catalog of the UofL University Archives and Records Center is included in Minerva, the catalog for all UofL Libraries.
Comprehensive database of bibliographic records for over 5 million book, audio book, and video titles. Also includes publishers catalogs, lists of 400 awards from 10 countries, and selected reviews. (Bowker)
Budget of the United States Government
Database of United States appropriations and expenditures.
- CD-ROM: available at the Law Library
- Office of Management and Budget web version
Business Education Index
EKSTROM Ref. Z 5814 .C7 B85
Indexes publications dedicated to or related to business education. Priority is given to journals that are essential to research and teaching in the field of business education. 1940 - 1999.
Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption
For researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and administrators working to prevent and treat child abuse and neglect, and to provide out-of-home placement and permanency planning services.
Citations and abstracts are to books, journal articles, final reports from federally-funded grant, conference papers, unpublished papers, reports on completed or continuing research, as well as descriptions of service programs and prevention and treatment strategies.
Indexes a vast amount of information published by and about Congress: hearing transcripts and submitted testimony; committee reports; bills and public laws; selected committee prints; congressional documents; Congressional Record; Federal Register; current Code of Federal Regulations; and current U.S. code. Some full-text. (Lexis-Nexis)
Courier-Journal
The Courier-Journal is the major newspaper in the Louisville area and is indexed and/or available full-text through the following sources:
- Newsbank Newspapers: 1999-present (full-text)
- ProQuest
Direct: 1988- October 30, 2001 (for indexed citations only; ProQuest)
- CD-ROM: 1988-1997 (full-text; on computers in Ekstrom Library Current Periodicals area)
- Microfilm: 1868-present (microfilm indexes: 1917-1986)
Offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Each report includes a background and chronology; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources.
Dissertations
Indexing and abstracts for over 8000 publications with full-text for over half of the publications. (EBSCOhost)
Accesses the 26 EBSCOhost databases sponsored by the Kentucky Commonwealth Virtual Library: Academic Search Premier; Agricola; Business Source Premier; CINAH; Clinical Pharmacology; Eric; MEDLINE; MasterFILE Premier; Health Source -- Consumer Edition; Health Source -- Nursing/Academic Edition; EBSCO Animals; Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia; Middle Search Plus; Newspaper Source; Primary Search; PsycINFO 1887-current; Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection; Professional Development Collection; Regional Business News; Religion & Philosophy Collection; Sociology Collection; Pre-Cinahl; TopicSearch; Computer Science Index; Alt Health Watch; MAS Ultra - School Edition. (EBSCOhost)
Educational Administration Abstracts
EKSTROM Ref. LB 2805 .E32
"Summarizes the latest information, research findings, and ideas on educational administration from professional books, journals, and other sources of interest to practicing administrators, educators and students." 1974 to the present, with some exceptions.
Leading publications in the field of education. Some full-text. (H.W. Wilson)
Education Index
EKSTROM Ref. L 11 .E2745
"A cumulative index to education publications in the English language." 1929-2003.
ERIC
"The ETS Test Collection includes an extensive
library of 20,000 tests and other measurement devices from the
early 1900s to the present. ... It was established to make
information on standardized tests and research instruments
available to researchers, graduate students, and teachers. The
tests in the collection were acquired from a variety of U.S.
publishers and individual test authors. Foreign tests are also
included in the collection, including some from Canada, Great
Britain, and Australia." Click on the Testlink icon; searchable by
keyword.
HAPI Online
Health and Psychosocial Instruments
HAPI provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. (Ovid)
Higher Education Abstracts
EKSTROM Ref. Index Table Nine, LB 2343 .C6135
Abstracts of publications appearing in scholarly journals, delivered at association conferences, or issued as published or unpublished monographs reflecting research and theory in higher education. Does not include dissertaions, annual reports, book reviews, editorials, interviews, commentaries, rebuttals, symposia, news items, historical studies, test descriptions, and reliability and validity studies. 1984 to the present.
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)
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)
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
The world's largest repository of computer-readable research data for the social sciences and related fields. Requires registration and then the requested dataset can be downloaded. Datasets can be processed with SAS, SPSS, or Stata.
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.)
"The Left Index is a[n] ... index to the contents of periodicals of the left. Journals selected for inclusion in the index have a Marxist, radical or left perspective..."
Library, Information Science, and Technology Abstracts
Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. (EBSCO)
Library Literature & Information Full Text
An index to literature on libraries and librarianship. (H.W. Wilson)
The Mental Measurements Yearbook, from the Buros Institute, contains descriptive information and critical reviews of more than 2,000 commercially-available standardized English-language educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement and intelligence tests. (SilverPlatter)
Catalog of items owned by the seven University
of Louisville Libraries.
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
Oxford English Dictionary Online
Comprehensive dictionary of the English language including definitions, etymologies, and quotations.
Past Masters contains the full-text of the works of several Western philosophers. (InteLex Corporation)
Periodical Abstracts
Indexes the contents of older issues (1770-1995) of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. (Chadwyck-Healey)
International index to philosophy-related journal articles and books. Covers 1940-present. (CSA)
Physical Education Index
EKSTROM Ref. Index Table Seven, GV 341 .P49
Indexes international publications on dance, health, physical education, physical therapy, recreation, sports and sports medicine. 1992-2002, with some exceptions.
Professional Development Collection
Especially made for professional educators, this collection indexes journal articles on everything from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice. Some full-text. (EBSCOhost)
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.
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)
Coverage of more than 450 journals in Social Work and related areas.
(SilverPlatter)
Abstracts to articles from 2,300 journals on all aspects of sociology.
(CSA)
The Sociological Collection is a comprehensive database with nearly 570 full text titles. This database provides information on all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure. (EBSCOhost)
Indexes books, articles, dissertations, and other research in all aspects of sports, including sports training, coaching, and fitness. Covers 1975 to the present. (EBSCOhost)
Contains statistical data produced by the U.S. government; important international intergovernmental organizations; professional and trade organizations, business organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities. (Lexis-Nexis)
Test Locator Service
See ETS Testlink
Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. (FirstSearch)
Provides geographical and political information by country.