Multi-Subject Indexes and Databases
- Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new windowProvides full-text access to newspapers, magazines and journal articles relating to Native Americans, African Americans, Latina/os and other racial, ethnic and religious groups.
- Chicano Database This link opens in a new windowChicano Database indexes journals, newspapers, books and book chapters. The database provides coverage dating back to the 1960s and selective indexing dating back to the early 1900s. Subject coverage includes art, bilingual education, education, labor, literature, mental health, law, poetry, politics and sociology.
- Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new windowA scholarly, multidisciplinary database indexing books, reports, conference proceedings, journals and others. Includes full-text access.
- Communication Source This link opens in a new window
Alternate version: Communication Source in the classic EBSCO user interface (best for exporting more than 50 results or combining saved searches). Offers information from over 600 journals in communication, mass media and related fields; includes abstracts, indexing, bibliographical citations and author profiles, as well as full text from more 240 titles.
- Education Full Text This link opens in a new window
Alternate version: Education Full Text in the classic EBSCO user interface (best for exporting more than 50 results or combining saved searches). Provides comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. Indexing coverage begins June 1983; abstracts are included beginning spring 1994; full text of some journals is available beginning Jan. 1996. Indexing and abstracting coverage is identical to that of Education index and Education abstracts.
- Health Source - Consumer Edition This link opens in a new window
Alternate version: Health Source - Consumer Edition in the classic EBSCO user interface (best for exporting more than 50 results or combining saved searches). Provides consumer oriented information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, adult health, behavioral health, cardiology, drug and medication information, pediatric health, senior health, women's health, and sports medicine. Also features searchable full text for over 190 journals including Consumer reports on health and Men's health, as well as abstracts and indexing for over 200 publications. Includes USP Pharmacopoeia DI: Volume II Advice for the lay patient and Merriam-Webster's medical desk dictionary.
- PAIS Index This link opens in a new windowThe PAIS Archive includes carefully selected resources to help users identify and locate information about significant political, economic, social and cultural issues affecting international and local communities, countries, governments and society. Its broad topical scope and retrospective coverage complement more specialized databases that cover the humanities, health care, agriculture, sociology, history, and many other disciplines, providing historical perspective on many of the 20th century's public and social policies. Also, the PAIS Archive database contains references to monographs, periodical articles, notes and announcements, and analytics, and the original historical subject headings have been retained within the file for enhanced searching capabilities.
- PsycInfo This link opens in a new windowPsycInfo is an electronic bibliographic database providing abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. The database includes material of relevance to psychologists and professionals in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work. Updated weekly, PsycInfo {reg} provides access to journal articles, books, chapters, and dissertations.
- SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Alternate version: SocINDEX with Full Text in the classic EBSCO user interface (best for exporting more than 50 results or combining saved searches). SocINDEX with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others.
- Women's Studies International This link opens in a new window
Alternate version: Women's Studies International in the classic EBSCO user interface (best for exporting more than 50 results or combining saved searches). Provides citations and some abstracts to the core areas of Women's studies. Includes material from Women studies abstracts (1984-present), Women's studies bibliography database, Women's studies database (1972-present), New books on women and feminism (1987-present), Women of color and southern women (1975-present), The history of women and science, health, and technology: a bibliographic guide to the professions and disciplines (1970-1995), Women's health and development: an annotated bibliography (1995), Women, race, and ethnicity: a bibliography (1970-1990), WAVE: Women's audiovisuals in English: a guide to nonprint resources in women's studies (1985-1990) and the MEDLINE subset on women (1964-2000). Covers journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, websites and grey literature.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowProvides page images of back issues of the core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and basic sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication. Users may browse by journal title or discipline, or may search the full-text or citations/abstracts. New issues of existing titles and new titles are added approximately on a weekly basis. The University of Illinois has access to the following JSTOR collections: Arts & Sciences I-XV, 19th Century British Pamphlets, Business IV, Global Plants, Hebrew Journals, Ireland, Life Sciences Collection, Lives of Literature, Security Studies, Struggles for Freedom - South Africa, Sustainability, and World Heritage Sites - Africa.
- Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) This link opens in a new windowContains citations to articles in more than 400 scholarly journals published in Latin America or treating Latin American and U.S. Hispanic topics.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new windowFull-text articles from more than 200 scholarly journals in history and the humanities, the social sciences, and the sciences. A brief bibliographic description of each title is given. Searches can be conducted across the full text of all journals in the database.
Other Subject Databases
- Anthropology Databases The Social Sciences, Health, and Education Library provides an overview of Anthropology databases and other resources for research.
- Architecture & Art Databases The Ricker Library of Architecture and Art provides detailed information on Art and Architecture Databases and other research tools.
- Business & Economics Databases View a list of Business databases from Business Information Services using the "BIS Databases" drop-down below the Easy Search box.
- Communication & Media Databases A list of Communication & Media databases from the Library's A-Z databases.
- Education Databases The Social Sciences, Health, and Education Library provides an overview of Education databases and other resources for research.
- Film Studies Databases A list of Film Studies databases from the Library's A-Z databases.
- Gender & Women's Studies Databases A list of Gender & Women's Studies databases and resources from the Social Science, Health, and Education Library.
- History Databases An overview of History databases and resources from the History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library.
- Linguistics Databases A list of Linguistics databases from the Library's A-Z Databases.
- Language & Literature Databases A list of Language & Literature databases from the library's A-Z Databases.
- Political Science Databases A list of Political Science databases and resources from the Social Science, Health, and Education Library.
- Religious Studies Databases A list of Religious Studies databases and resources from the History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library.
- Sociology Databases A list of Sociology databases and resources from the Social Science, Health, and Education Library.
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Librarian Contact Information
Please direct comments, or requests to Lisa Romero, Liaison to Latina/o Studies.
Lisa Romero can be reached at, L-Romero@illinois.edu.
