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General Databases
- Articles+Articles+ searches through many of our Penn-subscribed journals, and brings you results all in one place.
- 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.
- 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.
- ISI Citation Indexes (Web of Science)Indexes journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Allows for cited reference searching. Covers 5,900 science, 1,700 social science, and 1,140 arts & humanities journals.
- EBSCO MegaFILEGeneral, multidisciplinary periodical database, covering all scholarly disciplines, with many general and popular magazines, and news sources. Includes bibliographic citations with indexing and abstracts for more than 16,000 periodicals.
- Periodicals Index OnlineInternational coverage of the humanities and social sciences, in some cases going back to articles published in the early 19th century. There is a mix of scholarly, governmental, trade, and popular publications.
Latin American Databases
- Gale World Scholar: Latin America & the CaribbeanAn enormous database of thousands of Latin American materials, including original historical documents, statistics, video, audio, images, reference books, articles from journals, magazines, newspapers, both current and historical
- Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)Citations to articles from over four hundred journals (most linking to fulltext) published worldwide on Latino and Latin American subjects in all fields of the humanities and social sciences. HAPI emphasizes coverage of journals produced in Latin America in Portuguese and Spanish, which are not indexed by other databases.
Holdings: 1970 to the present. - SciELOSciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) is a Latin American cooperative database that makes available articles from all areas of the "sciences," including the humanities and social sciences.
- Handbook of Latin American StudiesBibliography of works on Latin America selected by scholars and edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Books, journal articles, book chapters, film, video, and conference papers. 1935 to the present.
- Redalyc - Red de Revistas Cientificas de America Latina y El Caribe, Espana y PortugalRedalyc is a fulltext journal project by members of the Facultad de Ciencias Politicas y Administracion Publica de la Universidad Autonoma de Estado de Mexico. The objective is to make more widely available the scientific production of Latin America and Iberia.
- !Informe! (Revistas en Espanol)Full text of Spanish-language and U.S. Hispanic magazines, newspapers and journals. The publications come from the United States, Mexico, Spain, Argentina, and other nations of Spanish America. Coverage for most publications begins in the mid or late 1990s.
- CLASE - Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y HumanidadesCLASE is a social sciences and humanities database created in 1975 at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). It contains more than 200,000 citations to articles, essays, book reviews, statistics and other documents published in over 1,300 Latin American and Caribbean periodicals.
Subject Databases
- Anthropology PLUSCombines Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index from the Royal Anthropological Institute of the UK. Offers worldwide indexing of all core periodicals, in addition to lesser known journals, from the early 19th century to today.
- Historical AbstractsHistorical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada) from over 2,000 journals from many countries. ca. 1974- present.
- MLA International BibliographyCovers literature, languages, folklore, and linguistics. English and foreign language sources include journal articles, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Citations only, but there are links to fulltext when available.
- Literature Resource CenterBiographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
- International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)Bibliographic citations and subject indexing for the international journal article and book literature in anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology.
- 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.
- PAIS IndexBibliographic citations (1915-) with indexing on contemporary public affairs and policy issues worldwide related to a wide range of topics: agriculture, banking, finance, business, demographics, education, health, environment, planning, public administration, law and legislation, and international relations. Materials indexed include journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies.
- WPSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts67% of the more than 1500 monitored journals are published outside the United States, and there are nearly 500,000 records beginning in 1975. Some of the records have fulltext links and coverage includes all aspects of political science, as well as international relations and comparative politics.
- RILM Abstracts of Music LiteratureCovers all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. Sources include ournal articles, books, bibliographies, catalogs, dissertations, films and videos, conference proceedings, et al.
- Music Periodicals DatabaseCurrent content comes from more than 360 international music periodicals from over 20 countries, and there are over a hundred retrospective journal titles. There is a mix of full text, citations, and abstracts.
- ARTstorThe ARTstor collection includes approximately 500,000 images of works of art, architecture and archaeology.
- Art and Architecture SourceAn art database, much of it full text, with extensive coverage of archaeology from more than 770 journals, 220 books, plus over 63,000 images.