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Databases displaying this notation are supplied to the University of Connecticut
as part of the Connecticut Digital Library
project. A note for off-campus users: you must use the
Law Library Research Database pages in order
to access iConn databases from off campus.
Academic OneFile
Indexes and abstracts over 1600 magazines and journals in all fields of the sciences, social sciences, communication sciences, and humanities since 1980, and reproduces the full text for over 600 titles.
Academic Search Premier
Indexing and abstracts, along with selected full text, of magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals on a wide variety of topics, with coverage from 1975 to the present.
Academic Universe (LexisNexis)
Full text access to a variety of publications, including newspapers, magazines, legal journals, business journals, as well as state and federal primary legal materials such as statutes, regulations, and case law.
Alternative Press Index
Index to articles from alternative, radical, and left periodicals, covering cultural, economic, political, and social change, with coverage from 1991 to the present.
Alternative Press Index Archive
Index to articles from alternative, radical, and left periodicals, covering cultural, economic, political, and social change, with coverage from 1969 to 1990.
American National Biography
The American National Biography Online is the premier
biographical resource for notable deceased people in American history.
ArchivesUSA Web
Provides bibliographic access to holdings of over 4000 archival repositories, with contact information
ARTFL Project (University of Chicago)
Database of nearly 2000 texts in French, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of
non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented.
smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts.
ArticleFirst
Index of journal articles on a variety of topics, including business, science, humanities, social sciences, medicine, and popular culture, from 1990 to the present.
Associated Press Photo Archive
Keyword searchable database of selected photos from the Associated Press library, covering
all major news events photographed from the 1840s to within minutes of an event
occurring today.
Bernans Government Information on the Internet
Provides information about and links to almost 5,000 U.S. government, state, local, international, and intergovernmental web sites.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI)
Index to current, readily available reference sources that contain biographical information for both contemporary and historical figures worldwide.
Searching Biography and Genealogy Master Index will enable you to quickly determine which publication to consult for
biographical information.
Biography Index
Index to a wide range of biographical materials from periodicals and books, from 1984 to the present.
Books in Print
Comprehensive bibliographic database that provides records for in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audios, and videos. Coverage from 1979 to the present.
Contemporary Women's Issues
Indexes books, journals, newsletters, and research reports relating to contemporary women's issues, with selected full text documents, from 1992 to the present.
Criminology: A SAGE Full Text Collection
Full text of 15 criminology journals, with coverage from 1984 to the present.
Dictionary of Old English Corpus
Contains the full text of all surviving material in Old English, except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Provides links to over 1,000 free online scientific and scholarly journals, covering a variety of subjects.
Dissertations and Theses Full Text (Proquest)
Indexing, abstracts, and full text of doctoral dissertations and some masters theses from most North American graduate schools and some European universities. Indexing from 1861 to the present, abstracts from 1980 to the present, and full text for most indexed dissertations from 1990 to the present.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans
Digitized collection of books and pamphlets printed in America between 1639 and 1800, presented as full text page images which can be viewed online or downloaded as PDF documents. Based on Evans' American Bibliography, the definitive resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, the database can be searched and browsed in a variety of ways.
ECO (Electronic Collections Online)
Index to articles from a variety of scholarly journals, from 1995 to the present.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Online collection of English and foreign language books and pamphlets published in the U.K. and the Americas between 1701 and 1800, presented as full text page images which can be viewed online or downloaded as PDF documents.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Academic edition includes an internet directory that includes thousands of links to web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors; access to Merriam Websters Dictionary and Thesaurus; Britannica Heritage, which explores articles, images, and media from past editions of the encyclopedia; multimedia and full motion video; and an interactive world atlas.
Eureka
Preeminent source of bibliographic data for research and cataloging.
Europa World
This leading reference work on world affairs provides political and economic information on over 250 countries and territories.
Fact Search
Full text statistical statements on current social, economic, political, health, and environmental issues and public policy topics, from 1984 to the present.
Factiva
Company, industry, and market data, stock price history reports, company financial reports
and company-to-industry and company-to-company comparison reports, and full text access to
hundreds of newspapers, general interest magazines and academic journals.
Coverage is current and varies by publication.
Film and Television Literature Index
Indexing of articles in film and television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, and technical aspects, with coverage from the 1970s to the present.
FirstSearch
Access to 10 general and specialized research databases.
Gale Literary Databases
Online access to Contemporary Authors, Comtemporary Literary Criticism, and Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Global Development Finance (GDF)
Access to more than 200 debt and financial flows indicators for 136 developing countries, from 1970 to the present.
Google Scholar
Searches for articles, books, theses and other scholarly materials on a variety of topics through Google interface, with links to full text in UConn Libraries where available.
Hartford Courant Historical
Full page and article images of the Hartford Courant newspaper, with coverage from 1764 to 1984.
Historical Statistics of the United States
Historical statistical information covering virtually every quantifiable aspect of American history, including population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations, from the earliest times to the present.
Investext Plus
Full-text access to the top brokerage firm, investment bank, and trade association reports on companies, industries, and global markets.
iPOLL
Full text of U.S. nationwide public opinion surveys, from 1935 to the present. Includes survey results from academic, commercial, and media survey organizations, including the Gallup Organization, Harris Interactive, and Pew Research.
Issues & Controversies
Full-text articles which highlight the important issues in today's news, with backfiles from 1995 to the present. Includes chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, and bibliographies
Iter
Bibilography of 250,000 articles and reviews from medieval and renaissance journal titles. Of interest to Middle Ages and Renaissance scholars.
JSTOR
JSTOR provides digitized backfiles of core scholarly journals in many academic fields, beginning with the first issue up to a ‘moving wall’ of 2 to 5 years.
Latin American Newsstand
Full text information in Spanish and Portuguese from over 40 newspapers from Puerto Rico and 11 Latin American countries, with coverage from 2005 to the present.
LexisNexis Academic Universe
Full text access to a variety of publications, including newspapers, magazines, legal journals, business journals, as well as state and federal primary legal materials such as statutes, regulations, and case law.
LGBT Life
Indexing, abstracts, and selected full text of articles from academic, lifestyle, and regional publications, in the area of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender studies. Coverage varies by publication.
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
Indexing and abstracts of scholarly articles, books, research reports, and proceedings on the subjects of library, information science and technology, with coverage from the 1960s to the present.
London Times Digital Archive
Full image online archive of every page published by The Times from 1785 to 1985.
Marquis Whos Who on the Web
Over 1.3 million biographies taken from numerous Marquis Whos Who print titles.
Matter of Fact Database
Abstracts of speeches and written works containing statistics on current social, economic, political, health, environmental, and public policy issues, from 1984 to the present.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
Indexing and abstracts of standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas, with coverage from 1989 to the present.
Merriam Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus
Dictionary of American english, including an online thesaurus.
Military and Intelligence Database
Indexing and full text of more than 600 military and general interest publications, with coverage from 1980 to the present.
Nation Digital Archive
Indexing and full text of articles from The Nation, with coverage from 1865 to the present.
Nature Publishing Group
Full text of scholarly articles in Nature, Nature research journals, Nature Reviews, and Nature Clinical Practice journals, with coverage from the late 1990s to the present.
New York Times Historical
Full page images of the New York Times, from its first issue in 1851 to 2003. Includes digital images of every page from every issue, cover to cover, including the New York Times Book Review.
Nineteeth Century Masterfile
Series of indexes to periodicals, newspapers, and books on a variety of subjects, with coverage from 1786 to 1922.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Illustrated collection of 50,000 biographies of the men and women who shaped the history of the British Isles, from the fourth century B.C. to the present.
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the English language
and contains entries for over half a million words.
Papers First
Index of papers presented at conferences worldwide, from 1993 to the present.
POPLINE
Summaries of scholarly articles on the topics of population, family planning, and related health issues, with coverage from 1970 to the present.
Proceedings First
Index of worldwide conference proceedings, from 1993 to the present.
Project MUSE
Full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities,
social sciences, and mathematics. Includes images of the actual articles.
Reader's Guide Retrospective
Indexing and abstracts of articles from popular U.S. general interest periodicals, from 1890 to 1982.
Religion and Philosophy Collection
Indexing, abstracts, and selected full text of journal articles on the topics of religion and philosophy, with coverage from 1975 to the present.
RLG Union Catalog
Preeminent source of bibliographic data for research and cataloging.
Sociological Abstracts
Provides access to the latest worldwide findings in theoretical and applied sociology, social
science, and policy science.
Springer (formerly Kluwer Online)
Full text of scholarly journals from a variety of disciplines.
STAT-USA
Current U.S. and international business, economic, and trade statistics from the Department of Commerce.
State of the Nation
International trade and market information and statistics.
TableBase
Tabular data pertaining to business and industry. Includes statistical data, tables, charts, and graphs from trade publications, magazines, and journals.
Thomson Research
Filings, quotes, investment research, and earnings estimates for U.S. and global companies
Ulrichs Periodicals Directory
Directory providing detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on serials published throughout the world on every subject.
WilsonWeb
Group of indexing, abstracting, and selected full text databases
in many fields of science, social science, and the humanities from 1983 to present.
Women and Social Movements in the United States
Collection of primary materials on the history of women in social movements in the United States between 1600 and 2000.
Womens Studies International
Index of journal articles, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, book chapters, reports, and other sources covering the core disciplines in Womens Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research, with coverage from 1972 to the present.
World Almanacs
Searchable full text of Funk and Wagnall's New Encyclopedia; World Almanac and Book of Facts; World Almanac of the United States, and World Almanac of U.S. Politics.
World Development Indicators
Provides statistics on the economies of over 200 developing countries, with coverage from the 1960s to the present.
WorldCat (World Cat)
Comprehensive bibliography of titles from libraries across the world, with 40 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages, covering information back to the 11th century.
Databases displaying this notation are supplied to the University of Connecticut
as part of the Connecticut Digital Library
project. A note for off-campus users: you must use the
Law Library Research Database pages in order
to access iConn databases from off campus.