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General Databases
First company of native Puerto Ricans enlisted in the American Colonial Army, Puerto Rico ca. 22 August 1899
- JSTORJSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Issues are available both as images and as text, making searching possible both within each title and across the whole database. Coverage dates from the earliest issue of each journal to a few years before the present.
- EBSCO MegaFILEGeneral, multidisciplinary periodical database, covering all scholarly disciplines, with many general and popular magazines, and news sources. Includes four EBSCO fulltext and bibliographic databases: Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, MasterFILE Premier, and Regional Business News. There are bibliographic citations with indexing and abstracts for more than 16,000 periodicals. Coverage varies: mostly 1990s to present.
- Google ScholarAccess to Google Scholar with Penn-only links to full-text articles. Once authenticated through Penn's proxy, full-text articles to which Penn Libraries subscribe will become available within the Google Scholar search results.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index: A&HCI1,140 arts & humanities journals, 1975 to present. Includes citations as well as indexing information for each article, and allows searching where articles are cited. Part of the ISI Web of Science, which also contains the Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
- Periodicals Index OnlineHumanities and social sciences. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. Coverage starts with the 17th century.
Subject Databases
- Sociological AbstractsCovers sociology, case work, demographics, policy studies, political science, family studies, feminist studies, and social security programs. Indexes over 2000 journals from 35 countries, plus relevant dissertations, national and international conference papers, selected books and book chapters, book and other media reviews. 1963 to the present. Updated bimonthly.
- International Bibliography of the Social Sciences IBSSArticles from approximately 3700 journals...2300 journals on a regular basis; more than 120,000 books and journal special-issue collections; book chapters and book reviews. 1951 to the present.
- America: History and LifeHistory of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Covers over 1,700 journals published worldwide, including most English-language historical journals and selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a selection of journals in the social sciences and humanities. 1964 to present.
- Hispanic American Periodicals Index HAPICovers Latin America and U.S. Latinos in all areas of the humanities and social sciences. HAPI cites articles published in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish from over four hundred journals. 1970 to the present.
- Chicano DatabaseCovers all types of materials relating to Mexican-American topics and, for materials published since 1992, broader topics relating to Latinos. It indexes books and book chapters, articles, newspapers, and dissertations from a broad range of subject disciplines in Spanish or English. Abstracts are often included. 1967 to present.
- Race Relations AbstractsCovers essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of relevance. 1975-present.
- Urban Studies AbstractsBibliographic citations with abstracts describing scholarly literature in all aspects of urban studies. 1973-present.
- MLA International BibliographyCovers literature, languages, folklore, and linguistics in all languages. Provides information about, and links to, journal articles, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Book reviews are not included. 1963 to the present.
- Literature Resource CenterFull-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. PLEASE NOTE: Penn has licensed two user "seats," which means it is sometimes necessary to wait to get access until other users are finished.