Citation Databases 

Academic Search Premier -  

Coverage: Indexing coverage varies, with full-text content for some titles beginning 1975 or earlier, and most titles indexed from the 1990s.

Brief Description: Provides abstracts and indexing of articles in more than 8,000 popular magazines, scholarly journals, and major newspapers in all fields of study, with nearly 4,000 titles available full text.

Tools Available: A complete list of titles covered is available.

ACM Digital Library -  

Coverage: 1952 to present

Brief Description: Provides indexing, abstracts, and access to the full text of materials published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), including journals, magazines, transactions, proceedings, newsletters, and publications of affiliated organizations.

Tools Available: Contents of the ACM Digital Library Using the ACM Digital Library CrossRef Search My Binders Table-of-Contents TOC Service Guide to Computing Literature Computing Classification System

ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers Journals -  

Coverage: Most journals articles are available full text from 1990 to the present, and abstracts of conference proceedings are available from 2003 to the present.

Brief Description: ASCE Research Library is a comprehensive online search interface for locating articles of interest across all disciplines of civil engineering.

Tools Available: An online list of journals is available.

BioOne -  

Coverage: 1998 to present

Brief Description: Supported by scientific societies, universities, libraries, industry, and SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), BioOne is a collection of over 65 scholarly journals and online books, from 1998 to the present, in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. Select Archives to browse all issues.

Tools Available: An online list of publishers and  journals indexed is available.

Business Source Premier -  

Coverage: Indexing coverage varies, with full-text content for some titles beginning 1975 or earlier, and most titles indexed from the 1990s

Brief Description: Provides abstracts and indexing of articles in more than 3,800 national, regional, and international business journals, updated daily, with more than 3,000 titles available in full text.

Tools Available: A complete list of titles covered is available here and here.

Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CCTR) -  

Coverage: Coverage varies.

Brief Description: CCTR is a database of definitive controlled trials.

Communication & Mass Media Complete -  

Coverage: Indexing coverage varies, with coverage for some titles beginning 1915, and most titles indexed from the 1990s

Brief Description: Communication & Mass Media Complete is a combination of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State).

Tools Available: An online list of journals indexed is available.

Criminology: a SAGE Full-Text Collection -  

Coverage: Indexing coverage varies, with full-text content for some titles beginning 1985 or earlier, and most titles indexed from the 1990s

Brief Description: Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full-text of 15 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back twenty years, encompassing over 4,100 articles.

Tools Available: An online guide and list of journals is available.

EconLit -  

Call Number: Stacks Z7164.E2 I48

Coverage: 1969 to present

Brief Description: Indexes international economic literature. Includes major journals, articles in collective volumes (essays, proceedings, etc.), books, full-text book reviews, dissertations, and working papers.

Other IPFW Formats: IPFW Library owns the printed Index of Economic Journals and the Index of Economic Journals in Collective Volumes (1886-1974).

Tools Available: An online list of journals indexed is available. An online list of Subject Descriptors is available.

eHRAF Archaeology -  

Coverage: Journal articles, book-length studies and other monograph materials, published primarily in the 20th century.

Brief Description: The eHRAF Archaeology collection is a cross-cultural database containing information on prehistory. This unique, annually-growing eHRAF database is organized by archaeological traditions and the full-text documents are subject-indexed to the paragraph level.

Tools Available: Outline of Archaeological Traditions Outline of World Cultures Outline of Cultural Materials eHRAF Tutorial Development and Applications of the HRAF Collections Teaching eHRAF

eHRAF World Cultures -  

Coverage: Book-length ethnographies and other monographic materials, published primarily in the 20th century.

Brief Description: The eHRAF World Cultures is a cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that the information is organized by cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text documents are subject-indexed at the paragraph level.

Tools Available: Outline of World Cultures Outline of Cultural Materials eHRAF Tutorial Development and Applications of the HRAF Collections Teaching eHRAF

GeoScienceWorld -  

Coverage: Full text for most titles from 2000 to present; abstracts for some titles from 1918 to present

Brief Description: Provides full-text access more than 30 geoscience journals published by 22 societies and institutes, including the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), American Geological Institute (AGI), Geological Society of America (GSA), Geological Society of London, Mineralogical Society of America, Society for Sedimentary Geology, and Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

Tools Available: An online list of journals indexed is available here and here.

Google Scholar -  

Brief Description: Google Scholar is a specialized Google search engine that limits your search to scholarly material combed from Web sites, databases, and publication lists of the world's major academic publishers, scholarly and professional societies, and university repositories.

Tools Available: Google Scholar Help is available.

Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture -  

Call Number: N31 .D5 1996

Coverage: 600 to present

Brief Description: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture deals with all aspects of this complex and diverse area of art.

Other IPFW Formats: Helmke owns the print edition of the Grove Dictionary of Art (1996)

Healthstar -  

Coverage: 1966 to present.

Brief Description: Ovid HealthSTAR is comprised of data from the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) MEDLINE and former HealthSTAR databases.

IEEE Xplore -  

Coverage: Full-text content from 1988 to present, plus historical articles from 100 IEEE journals published 1913-1987.

Brief Description: The IEEE Xplore search interface provides access to peer-reviewed records of research in electrical engineering, electronics, computer science and a growing number of related disciplines, including theoretical and experimental papers and quality magazines focusing on practical applications in research, design and specification.

Tools Available: IEEE Xplore FAQs IEEE Xplore 2.0 User Guide IEEE Digital Library Training

Journals@Ovid (Full Text) -  

Coverage: 1993 to the present

Brief Description: Contains the electronic full text and graphics (many available in pdf format for printing) of nearly 400 full-text journals offered by Ovid, with issues as far back as 1993.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts -  

Coverage: 1960s to present

Brief Description: LISTA is provided as a free resource by EBSCOhost to support research in librarianship, information science, library management, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, and online information retrieval.

MathSciNet -  

Call Number: Science Reference QA1 .M76

Coverage: 1940 to present, with review texts available after 1979

Brief Description: A comprehensive Web site for mathematics research information

Other IPFW Formats: IPFW owns the printed Mathematical Reviews and Index of Mathematical Papers, 1940-2000

Tools Available: An online list of journals indexed is available. An online searching guide is available.

Medline (EBSCO) -  

Coverage: 1950 to present

Brief Description: Produced by the National Library of Medicine, Medline indexes over 4,600 national and international journals covering all areas of medicine, 1950 to present.

Medline (Ovid) -  

Coverage: 1950 to present

Brief Description: Produced by the National Library of Medicine, Medline indexes over 4,600 national and international journals covering all areas of medicine, 1950 to present.

Medline (ProQuest-CSA) -  

Coverage: Rolling 5-year file (contains records from the last five years plus the current year)

Brief Description: Produced by the National Library of Medicine, Medline indexes over 4,600 national and international journals covering all areas of medicine, 1950 to present.

Medline (Web of Science) -  

Coverage: 1950 to present

Brief Description: Produced by the National Library of Medicine, Medline indexes over 4,600 national and international journals covering all areas of medicine, 1950 to present.

Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) -  

Coverage: From 1893 to four years ago

Brief Description: PROLA provides full-text access to back issues of American Physical Society journals, including Physical Review Series (I, II, and II A-E), Physical Review Letters, and Reviews of Modern Physics. Coverage is from 1893 to four years ago for currently published titles.

Tools Available: A list of help screens including information for authors is available.

PsycARTICLES -  

Coverage: 1894 to present

Brief Description: PsycARTICLES is produced by the American Psychological Association (APA) and contains full-text articles for over 50 peer-reviewed journals published by the APA and allied organizations from 1894 to the present.

Tools Available: An online list of journals indexed is available.

PsycINFO -  

Coverage: 1887 to present

Brief Description: An international database treating psychology and related disciplines such as social work, psychiatry, pharmacology, medicine, nursing, education, law, linguistics and business.

Tools Available: An online list of journals indexed is available.

SciFinder Scholar -  

Call Number: Storage QD1. A51

Coverage: 1907 to present

Brief Description: Produced by the American Chemical Society (ACS), SciFinder Scholar is a desktop research tool to locate and process information on a wide range of chemical and chemistry-related topics.

Other IPFW Formats: IPFW library owns 1907-1946 and 1991-1992; Collective index 1957/1961 -1972/1976 (Storage QD1.C53); Source index 1907/1974 (Science Reference QD1. A512 pt.1 and pt.2); and the printed Index Medicus (Z6660 .I422 shelved at Science Ready Reference).

Tools Available: A list of key/core journals is available from the producer. Several How to Guides are also available.

Search 360 -  

Brief Description: Helmke Library's Search 360 tool supports simultaneous searching across a broad, multidisciplinary information environment or across multiple databases in narrow subject categories. Search 360 does not compensate for differences in vocabulary or descriptors among different databases, so greater precision is likely using the advanced search interface within a particular abstracting and indexing database.

Tools Available: Ask a Librarian for tips on making Search 360 work for you.

Social Services Abstracts -  

Coverage: 1979 to present

Brief Description: Focuses on the international serial literature of social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, and community development.

Tools Available: class="MsoNormal">An online list of journals indexed is available. Both short and long database guides are available.

Sociological Abstracts -  

Coverage: 1952 to present

Brief Description: Abstracts and indexes research literature from the fields of sociology and related disciplines such as anthropology, community development, demography, political science, social psychology, welfare services and women's studies.

Tools Available: An online serials source list is available

STN Easy (Chemical Abstracts) -  

Call Number: Storage QD1. A51

Coverage: 1907 to present: more than 44,000 pre-1907 journal records

Brief Description: STN International is the online scientific and technical information service dedicated to meeting the information needs of scientists, engineers, and information professionals throughout the world.

Other IPFW Formats: IPFW library owns 1907-1946 and 1991-1992; Collective index 1957/1961 -1972/1976 (Storage QD1 .C53); and Source index 1907/1974 (Science Reference QD1. A512 pt.1 and pt.2)

Tools Available: STN Database Summary Sheet

STN on the Web (Chemical Abstracts) -  

Call Number: Storage QD1. A51

Coverage: 1907 to present; more than 44,000 pre-1907 journal records

Brief Description: STN International is the online scientific and technical information service dedicated to meeting the information needs of scientists, engineers, and information professionals throughout the world.

Other IPFW Formats: IPFW library owns 1907-1946 and 1991-1992; Collective index 1957/1961 -1972/1976 (Storage QD1.C53); and Source index 1907/1974 (Science Reference QD1. A512 pt.1 and pt.2)

Tools Available: STN Database Summary Sheet

Web of Science -  

Coverage: 1985 to present.

Brief Description: The Web of Science provides an interface for searching the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index, separately or together, from 1985 to present. These unique citation indexes provide indexing and selected abstracts for millions of source articles in more than 10,000 major journals published worldwide. Each record indexes every source article's entire list of cited references or bibliographic footnotes. Use the Web of Science to discover scholarly materials based on the citation network within a vast multidisciplinary literature.

Other IPFW Formats: IPFW library owns a demonstration printed set (1991 only) of Science Citation Index (Science Reference Z7401 .S365), Social Sciences Citation Index (Science Reference Z7161 .S65), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Science Reference AI3 .A63).

Tools Available: Training Resources Technical Support Web of Science Tutorial Journal Title List > Arts & Humanities Citation Index Journal Title List > Science Citation Index Journal Title List > Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science Search Steps Simplified (PDF) Also see Journal Citation Reports Helmke Library Cited Reference Search Policy and Procedures Best Practices for Using Citation Data

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts -  

Coverage: 1975 to present

Brief Description: The database provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of books, dissertations, films, software and international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, labor relations, and public administration/policy.

Tools Available: An online list of journals indexed is available. An online database guide is also available.