Fall 2001

 

INLS 111: INFORMATION RESOURCES AND SERVICES I

           

School of Information and Library Science

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

ABSTRACTS AND INDEXES

 

 

Scope:    This guide provides a list of representative abstracting and indexing tools from a wide range of fields. It is not intended as a comprehensive list.  Consult Balay’s Guide for other sources

 

Electronic Access:

 

                A list of the indexes and abstracts available at the UNC-CH libraries is available on the library web site’s Electronic Indexes and Databases page: http://eresources.lib.unc.edu/eid/.  Individual resources can also be located through the online catalog.

 

 

I.               GENERAL.

 

 

                Academic Universe is a web-base service that provides access to most of the information formerly available on the Lexis/Nexis Educational Program (approximately 75% of the titles). It covers general, regional and international news, company news and financial information, legal information (including law reviews, case law and legal rulings, and other topics such as biographical information. Some of the files go back to the 1970s and depending on the file, they may be updated, daily, weekly, monthly or annually, or as material becomes available. Many of the files are full text.

 

 

                Indexes 140 general and special interest periodicals, including regional and city magazines, not covered by Reader’s Guide.  “Intends to complement rather than duplicate efforts of other periodical indexes.”  Divided into separate sections for author and subject.  Published 3 times a year, including annual cumulation.

 

 

                Title and subtitle varies.  Monthly compilation of abstracts of doctoral dissertations submitted by approximately 400 cooperating universities.  Most U.S. universities are covered as well as many in the U.K. and elsewhere.  The main list is arranged alphabetically by subject field, then by university.  Each issue includes subject and author indexes which cumulate in issue 12. There are separate volumes for (A) the humanities and social sciences and (B) the sciences and engineering.  Available online and on disk.  Dissertations are available on order from UMI in either hardcopy or microfilm.

 


  • Expanded Academic ASAP. Information Access Co. 1992-1995. [Electronic Access: Electronic Indexes and Databases page: http://eresources.lib.unc.edu/eid/ – select Expanded Academic ASAP]

 

                Use this database to find information on: Astronomy, Religion, Law,History, Psychology, Humanities, Current Events, Sociology, Communications and the General Sciences. Access to backfile also.

 

 

                PCI is a keyword index to the contents of several thousand periodicals in the humanities and social sciences.  Coverage is from 1770, or their first issues, to 1990/1991. International in scope.

 

 

                Indexes 174 U.S. periodicals of general interest.  Full dictionary cataloging of all articles, with entries for author, subject, and title.  Published semi-monthly (monthly July-August), with annual cumulations and cumulated volumes covering 2-5 year spans.

 

 

                Indexes 479 American and English periodicals primarily of a general nature over a 105 year span.  The five supplements cover the years 1882 through 1906.  Subject index only, but there is a cumulated author index to Poole’s, edited by C. E. Wall.

 

 

                Indexes in dictionary form authors, subjects, and illustrators from 51 periodicals mainly of a general and literary nature.  For many of the articles originally published anonymously, the authors’ names are indicated in the index.

 

 

UnCover is a database of current article information taken from approximately 25,000 multidisciplinary academic and professional  publications.

 

 

WorldCat is a union catalog of more than 39 million records representing the electronic holdings of several thousand libraries. This database includes bibliographic records for books, dissertations, journals, audio-visual materials and manuscripts, some written as early as the 12th century. Note: This database does not include individual articles, stories in journals, magazines, newspapers, or book chapters. – UNC-CH catalog

 

II. NEWSPAPER INDEXES.

 

 

                Full text collection of articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press from 1985-present.

 

                Indexes Late City edition. Published semi-monthly with annual cumulation.  Includes subject index, cross references, and brief synopses of articles. Full text of the newspaper and index, excluding classified advertisements, death notices, political cartoons, sports box scores, and stock market quotations is available.

 

 

This database indexes 50 newspapers including several African American publications. Items include news articles, reviews, editorials, commentaries, editorial cartoons, and others. Each record includes a bibliographic citation for an item and a 15- to 40-word abstract. Coverage begins in 1989; updated weekly. Only keyword access is available in this database.

 

·         Palmer’s Index to The Time 1790-1905. Cambridge: Chadwyck- Healey, 1995. [Davis Ref. Electronic Resource: 10-75 and Electronic Access: http://eresources.lib.unc.edu/eid/ - select Historical Newspapers Online ].

 

·         The Times Index. Reading, Eng.: Newspaper Archive Developments, 1973- . [Davis Ref. AI21. T47].

 

                Indexes the Times, Sunday Times and Magazine, Times Literary Supplement, Times Educational Supplement, Time Educational Supplement Scotland, and The Times Higher Education Supplement.

 

 

                Indexes the final Eastern edition.  Entries are arranged alphabetically and begin with brief abstracts of articles.  Includes general news section and corporate news section, which is indexed by company name.

 

III. ARTS AND HUMANITIES.

 

 

This database covers historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities.  It includes articles, book review and citations of dissertation abstracts.

 

 

                An H. W. Wilson index, it lists citations from approximately 300 journals, both scholarly and popular.  Issued quarterly with annual cumulations. Exhibitions and illustrations indexed as well as articles and reviews.

 

 

                A subject index, a citation index, a source index and a corporate index, this annual index lists, alphabetically by author, source articles and their citations from approximately 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals and individually selected  items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

 

 

                Continues in part, Subject Index to Periodical.  Covers “all material relating to the arts and politics.” With separate subject and author indexes, this work has good cross-referencing.  It lists citations from approximately 300 British journals, both scholarly and popular.  Appears quarterly with annual cumulations.

 

 

                Begun in 1968, this title continues the Catholic Periodical Index and The Guide to Catholic Literature.  This work is a combined subject/author/title (of books) index.  It lists book review citations under the heading “book reviews”.  Its scope includes approximately 140 Catholic journals.  Bimonthly with biennial cumulations.

 

 

                Divided into two volumes:  A. 1450-1914 and B. Twentieth Century (1914-present), this annual index includes abstracts for scholarly articles from over 2,000 international journals.  Each volume’s format consists of three parts:  I. General, II. Topics, and III. eight geographic subdivisions, all with further subdivisions.  Citations are numbered consecutively across each volume with a subject index at the end.

 

 

                An H. W. Wilson index, it lists citations from approximately 400 journals, both scholarly and popular.

 

 

                IIMP covers nearly all aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes. Every IIMP record in the current coverage (1970 forward) contains an abstract. IMP draws its current content from more than 375 international music periodicals from over 20 countries, and also indexes feature music articles and obituaries appearing in The New York Times and The Washington Post.

 

 

                Index to articles in literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from over 4000 journals and series published worldwide. Coverage from 1963 to the present. Also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, and bibliographies. This index is divided into two sections:  classified listings with author index and a subject index.  The listings are split between five ‘volumes’, each volume with its own subject structuring.  Listings are identified by their numbers which run consecutively across each volume.  Author and subject indexes are analytical with extensive cross-referencing.

 

 

                This work comes in a two-year compilation volume.  Its index is by combined subject/author with good cross-referencing.  Approximately 414 journals are indexed.

 

 

                Covers 300 major philosophy journals in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian.  This work has a sparsely cross-referenced subject index, which can be used to get an author’s name. It has a separate author index which gives abstracts of articles, and a book review index which closes out each annual volume since 1970.

 

 

                Covering a broad sweep of 400 religious journals, but concentrating upon Christianity and Judaism with a primary emphasis on Protestantism, this work has three separate indexes: subject, author/editor, and scripture.  Reviews in separate section at end of each volume. Formerly called Index to Religious Periodical Literature, 1949-76.  Religion Index Two: Multi-author Works indexes composite scholarly works by author and subject.  Titles appear about one year after publication.

 

 

                Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale abstracts. Official journal of Repértoire International de Littérature  Musicale.  Issued under auspices of the International Musicological Society, the International Association of Music Libraries, and the American Council of Learned Societies.

 

 

IV.       SCIENCES.

 

 

                AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is a machine-readable database of bibliographic records created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators. Production of these records in electronic form began in 1970, but the database covers materials dating from the 16th century to the present. The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition.

 

 

                Basic Wilson index covering 350 journals from the fields of engineering, aeronautics, chemistry, computers and other scientific and technological fields.

 

 

                BIOSIS (BIOSIS Previews) is the electronic version of the print publications, Biological Abstracts and BiologicalAbstracts/RRM. It is considered the most comprehensive indexing and abstracting service in the life sciences. It covers nearly 6,100 life sciences journals, 1,500 international meetings, as well as review articles, books, and monographs. It is updated monthly and covers 1985 to the present. It is produced by BIOSIS. BasicBIOSIS contains  Records from core life science journals most easily found in college and university libraries.

 

 

                This work comes out in 26 segments per year.  It is formatted by subject.  Entries give the title in bold, then author(s), journal information, and an abstract.  Entries are numbered consecutively across the whole year.  There are keyword, patent, and author indexes in the back of each issue.

 

                Basic Wilson index covering 100 general science periodicals. Journals and magazines from the U.S. and Great Britain, covering such subjects as anthropology, astronomy, biology, computers, earth sciences, medicine and health, etc. Includes articles, reviews, biographical sketches, and letters to the editor.

 

 

                The GeoRef database, established by the American Geological Institute in 1966, provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. GeoRef is the most comprehensive database in the geosciences and continues to grow by more than 60,000 references a year (78,468 in 1996). The database contains over 2 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses.

 

 

                Scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computing and control, and information technology.

 

 

Includes journals that are indexed selectively for MEDLINE, PubMed includes all articles from that journal, not just those that are included in MEDLINE. Finally, PubMed also provides access to the molecular biology databases included in NCBI's Entrez retrieval system.

 

 

                The Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes 5,300 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, covering approximately 2,000 more journals than its SCI print and CD-ROM counterparts, with all cited references captured.     

 

 

V.        SOCIAL SCIENCES.

 

 

Indexes and abstracts approximately 1000 publications in the areas of business administration, finance, personnel management, trade, and economics. Excellent source of information on companies, products, market trends, and regulations and policies related to manufacturing and trade.

 

                Basic Wilson index of 325 periodicals covering all aspects of education. Subjects include administration, teaching methods and curriculum, literacy, government funding, and more.

 

 

                Abstracts of all types of documents relating to education.  Includes journal articles, books, theses, curricula, conference papers, and standards and guidelines. DIALOG File 1.

 

 

Corporate and financial information on corporations whose shares are traded in the U.S. Current financial and management information on over 20,000 public companies. Company data is extracted from reports filed with the SEC (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission).

 

 

                Non-evaluative summaries of the “world’s literature in psychology and related disciplines.” Coverage of 400-500 journals in psychology from over 45 countries in more than 30 languages. PsycINFO includes relevant materials from related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, social science, and organizational behavior. Available online via DIALOG, File 11. 

 

 

                Indexes and provides brief abstracts to journal articles, government documents (federal, state, foreign, international), selected books, and conference proceedings in the areas of business, economic/social conditions, public administration, public policy, international relations, and social studies. Available online via DIALOG, File 49.

 

 

                Indexes and abstracts articles from scholarly journals in sociology, social policy planning, and social development. Corresponds to Sociological Abstracts and SOPDA. Available online via DIALOG, File 37.

 

 

                The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world’s leading scientific and technical journals.

 

 

 

                International, English-language periodicals in sociology, anthropology, geography, economics, political science, and law.

 

VI.       INDEXES TO OTHER FORMS AND SUBJECTS.

 

 

                International index to African American, African, and African Diasporan studies. Includes citations to books, journal articles, microforms, films, sound recordings, and manuscript collections.  Content is based, in part, on the holdings of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Also includes citations from Index to Black Periodicals, 1989-present.

 

 

Provides indexing, abstracts, and some full-text of publications from and about the U.S. Congress. Includes twenty-five years of congressional information including the full-text of congressional bills, testimony, reports, documents, selected prints, and the Congressional Record.  Also includes the U.S. Code, the Federal Register, and the Code of Federal Regulations.

 

 

                Subject index to plates of costumes in 615 mostly monographic titles.

 

 

 

                GenderWatch (an extension of Women’R’)  is a full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, reports and conference proceedings devoted to women’s and gender issues. Provides coverage of subjects that are uniquely central to women’s daily lives as well as content on the impact of gender and gender roles on areas such as the arts, business and work, education, health care and medicine, politics, etc.  Includes materials from the 1970s to present.

 

·         Granger’s Index to Poetry.  New York:  Columbia University Press [Davis Ref. PN1021.G7] Ref. stacks; 10th ed. 1994, behind Davis Ref. Desk.

 

                Index to standard and popular poetry collections.  Access is by author, title, subject and first line of the poem.

 

·         HAPI:  Hispanic American Periodicals Index. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, University of California.  1970/74-   .  Part of the Latin American Studies CD Vol. 1. [Davis Ref. Electronic Resources – Z1605.H49; Web access]

 

·         LegalTrac 1980 - Aug 1998. Belmont, CA: Information Access Company. [Electronic Access:  Davis Ref. Electronic Resource: http://eresources.lib.unc.edu/eid/ - select LegalTrac]

 

        Part of the InfoTrac library. Use this database to research: Case Studies, Government Regulations, Practice of Law, Statutes, Taxation and International Law. Access all major law reviews, and specialty law and bar association journals.

 

·         Literature Online (LION) [Electronic Access http://eresources.lib.unc.edu/eid/ - select Literature Online (LION)]

                                       

Covers 1,400 years, it provides Electronic Access to more than 260,000 fully searchable literary texts. In addition it contains some major reference tools, secondary sources, biographies, and bibliographies. It also offers a master index of web sites selected for their quality and range of literary materials and several reference works.

 

·         Play Index, 1949/52- .  New York:  H.W. Wilson, 1953- .  [Davis Ref. Z5781.P53]

 

        Indexes individual plays and those in collections for the period covered.

 

·         Short Story Index, 1900-1949. Supplements,  New York:  H.W. Wilson, 1950- .  [Davis Ref. Z5917.S5C62]

 

        Index to short stories in collections and selected periodicals.

 

·         Speech Index; An Index to 259 Collections of World Famous Orations and Speeches for Various Occasions.  Roberta Briggs Sutton.  New York: Scarecrow Press, 1966.  [Davis Ref., UL Ref. AI3 .S85 1966].   Speech Index, 4th ed.  Supplement, 1966-1980.  Metuchen NJ:  Scarecrow Press, 1982.  [Davis Ref. AI3.S85]

 

        “...Guide to speeches of famous orators from the earliest times to the present day and to types of speeches.”  Covers collections, individual authors and some “how to” books.

 

·         World’s Greatest Speeches. Irvine, CA: Softbit, 1995. [Davis Ref. Electronic Resource: CD-ROM 10-72].