Contents: Citations to articles, letters, editorials, reviews and other material in 1,300 journals in arts, humanities and social sciences, covering archaeology, architecture, art, classics, dance, film, folklore, history, language, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, television and radio, theatre, and theology.

Time span : Coverage as of June 28, 2000: 1995-

Current Contents is a bibliographic service produced in the United States
by ISI (the Institute for Scientific Information) which indexes a large number of research journals and some books, and covers all disciplines. 

Published: Philadelphia, PA : Institute for Scientific Information, [1998?]- 

Summary: Current Contents Connect is a weekly table-of-contents
database which presents the contents pages of current issues of the world's 
scholarly and technical journals, books, and proceedings literature. 

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Contents: More than 900 000 bibliographic descriptions of publications and other materials covered by the German National Bibliography, catalogued by the Deutsche Bibliothek. Covers books, maps, and dissertations published in Germany, and includes CIP data.

Time span : 1986 - 1998

Updated: Quarterly

Access: In Barr Smith Library only.

Contents: Citations and abstracts to doctoral dissertations submitted to accredited North American institutions and some other international institutions.

Time span : 1861+

Updated: Quarterly

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Contents: Modern history abstracts 1450-1914 and Twentieth Century abstracts 1914-91, including 365 000 citations and abstracts to 2 000 journals* and books on political, diplomatic, economic, social, cultural and intellectual history and related areas of the social sciences and humanities. Includes the history of the world from 1450 excluding the United States of America and Canada.
* Historical Abstracts : list of periodicals

Time span : 1987+

Updated: Three times per year

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Contents: Bibliographic information on theses accepted by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards. It does not include any record of higher degrees awarded solely in respect of published work or dissertations submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of a higher degree in conjunction with an examination.

Time span : 1970-1993

Updated: Annually

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JSTOR

Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Coverage varies for each title.

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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts

Contents: Citations with abstracts to worldwide literature on the nature, use, and teaching of language and also speech, communication and linguistics. Subjects covered include psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, structural linguistics, applied linguistics, syntax, semantics phonology, morphology, discourse analysis and text linguistics, linguistic theory, history of linguistics, semiotics, nonverbal communication, hearing and speech physiology, hearing, language, learning disabilities, mental retardation, psychopathology, psychometrics and special education. Book reviews are included for those journals indexed. Sources are journals, books, technical reports, and dissertations.

Time Span : 1973- 

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Contents: Citations to critical documents on literature, language, linguistics and folklore from over 3000 international journals, monographs research and conference papers, collections of papers, proceedings, bibliographies, dictionaries, handbooks, etc. Includes oral, print and audio-visual media on literature, human language (including computer programming languages, Esperanto, sign languages and other forms of human language.)

Time span : 1963+

Updated: Quarterly

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Contents: A Presentation showing the development of the Ninth Symphony of Beethoven, the life and times, and influences upon the composer.

Time span : Not applicable

Updated: Not applicable

Access: In Elder Music Library only
Music AV collection 784.22184 B414B

PCI full text  : Periodicals contents index. 

Database coverage: 1770- 
Indexes journals from their first issues to 1995. 

Index to journal articles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, including some published as far back as 1770. Includes periodicals in English,German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages. Provides links to scanned articles which are growing steadily in number. 

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PROJECT MUSE

Project Muse gives access to University Press and other scholarly electronic journals in the social sciences, humanities and mathematics.

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RILM

Compiled by the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1967-present) is a continuously updated bibliography of music literature providing international coverage of records in over 202 languages from 5,200 journals. It includes indexes and abstracts of international writings about music, including books, articles, essays, dissertations, reviews, facsimilies or revised editions, recordings, program notes and concert reviews.

Inclusive coverage: 1967 +

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SCOPUS

Scopus offers :

    * 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 publishers
          over 1000 Open Access journals
          500 conference proceedings
          over 600 trade publications
    * 33 million abstracts
    * Results from 386 million scientific web pages
    * 21 million patent records from 5 patent offices
    * Seamless links to full-text articles and other library resources
    * Innovative tools that give an at-a-glance overview of search results and refine them
       to the most relevant hits
    * Alerts to keep you up-to-date on new articles matching your search query, or by
       favorite author

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Contents: More than 500 000 citations to articles on German and international news appearing in over 20 major German language newspapers.

Time span : 1982-1990