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Databases by Subject: Multidisciplinary Indexes

Academic Onefile
Large, multi-disciplinary academic database that includes many scholarly full-text journals, news and reference sources.

Academic Search Complete  · Tutorial   
Comprehensive multidisciplinary database including many scholarly full text journals, magazines and other publications, some as far back as 1887.

Alternative Press Index   
Index to journal, magazine, and newspaper articles from 1991-present from international alternative, radical, and left publications covering racial and gender issues, gay and lesbian studies, labor, and more.

Black Thought and Culture
Includes full-text of non-fiction published works of leading African Americans and access to interviews, journal articles, and other material of 20th century topics, including politics, religion, history and sports.

Book Review Index Online
A comprehensive online index to over 5 million book reviews from thousands of publications going back to 1965.

EBSCOhost   
Provides access to a large collection of EBSCO databases, which may be searched together or separately.

General OneFile
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics from 1980 - present.

Google Scholar  Alert!
Google Scholar enables specific searches of scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, pre-prints, abstracts, and technical reports. Content includes a range of publishers and aggregators with whom Google already has standing arrangements.
Note that not all material to which the UA Library subscribes will be available directly through Google Scholar. If you find references to materials in Google Scholar without full text links, please consult the UA Library catalog or our list of online journals.

IBZ-Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur
The IBZ is an article index that covers European popular and scholarly periodicals, but is international in scope.

Ingenta (formerly CARL UnCover)
Database of current article information taken from 16,000 publications. (Note: May not connect seamlessly to UA Libraries' subscription content.)

JSTOR  · Tutorial   
Provides access to the archives of over 1,000 leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

LexisNexis Academic  · Tutorial   
Includes all types of news as well as country profiles, law reviews, federal and state case law, biographies, company profiles and financials (public and private).

National Security Archive, Digital
The Digital National Security Archive contains comprehensive collection of primary documents available: The database contains more than 35,000 of the most important, declassified documents that led to the policy decisions. This database includes the following collections: Afghanistan, Berlin Crisis 1958-1962, Cuban Missile Crisis, El Salvador, Iran-Contra Affair, Intelligence Community, Iran Revolution, Iraqgate, Military Uses of Space, Nicaragua, Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Philippines, Presdential Directives from Truman to Clinton, South Africa, and Soviet Estimate.

Polling the Nations
Compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by over 1000 polling organizations in the United States and 100 other countries from 1986 to the present time.

Readers' Guide Retrospective   
Comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States.and access to literature reflecting the history of 20th century America.

Web of Science (included in Web of Knowledge)  · Tutorial   
Database of current and retrospective core journal articles and cited references in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities from 1899 to the present.

Wilson OmniFile Full Text Select   
Includes full text from around 3000 periodical titles in humanities, social sciences and general science, selected from specific Wilson full text databases, covering from 1994 to present.