INLS 111: INFORMATION RESOURCES AND SERVICES I
School of Information and Library Science
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.
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.
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].