Additional Specialized Periodical Indexes
America History & Life 1964-
Updated quarterly, this index provides excellent coverage of historical topics, including government reorganizations, scandals, elections, economic and political developments, biographies, international relations emphasizing the United States actions, state and local history and cultural history from prehistoric times to the present. The indexing (with brief abstracts) covers scholarly history journals, books, dissertations and book reviews.
Corresponds to the printed index:
America History & Life Santa Barbara, Calif.:
ABC-CLIO PCL Stacks
-Q- Z 1236 A48 V.1-10, v. 26-32 1954-63 to 1995,
-Q- Z 1236 A482 V.11-25 1974 to 1989 (book reviews published separately during this period: PCL Stacks -Q- Z 1236 A483 V. 11-25).
Chicano Database 1967-
Updated quarterly. Contains records for all types of material on Mexican-American topics and Chicanos. Since 1992, CDB describes material on the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants.
Congressional Universe 1789- Detailed indexing by subject and names for publications of the United States Congress, various parts include the CIS Index (1970-present ) covering committee hearings, documents, and reports on bills, and committee prints;
Tips: Searches are often performed on the entire text of a publication—placing limits will be necessary to obtain good results. Pay close attention to the dates of coverage and type of publication selected—many of these are drop-down menus. Names of principal sponsors and persons testifying can be searched.
CQ Researcher 1991-
Updated weekly. Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. Every report is written by an experienced journalist and features comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of every issue with numerous charts, graphs and sidebar articles. Valuable for its quick overviews of topics covered, this full text service DOES NOT correspond to the CQ Weekly [Report] and will not provide even as much detail as the yearly issues summaries in the CQ Almanac. The CQ Researcher's print version CQ Researcher (PCL Stacks H 35 E35 1987 V.1 through 1992) is designed to supply a quick journalistic background on issues and for use by debaters.
Current Urban Documents 1972-
Updated bimonthly. Index to reports and research generated by local government agencies, civic organizations, academic and research organizations, public libraries, school districts, and metropolitan and regional planning agencies from more than 500 major U.S. and Canadian cities. Reports available full text in PDF format. Paper indexes and microfiche of reports dating to 1972 are available at the Public Affairs Library.
Tips: Few indexes include any city of county government publications. The collection of documents from cities is voluntary and therefore not systematic, so the coverage is unpredictable. Planning information, budgets and financial reports are strong points. This index is often one year behind in indexing receipts. Recent years provide city web links and PDF files for the full text of reports. For earlier years, use the { repeat here the info on Urban Documents Microfiche Collection in PAL ] Use the topic lists which can be combined with city, county or state for best quick results. Multiselection is allowed: hold down the control key and highlight desired selections. To clear a search use the new search button or click on “all” for each menu.
Declassified Documents Reference System Coverage begins generally after World War II
Updated regularly. A full-text collection of declassified U. S. government documents. Includes correspondence and memoranda, minutes of cabinet meetings, technical studies, national security policy statements and intelligence reports. Coverage is from the years immediately following World War II through the 1970s. The major domestic and international events of the post-World War II world are covered in information by and for presidents, senators, and congress members.
Digital National Security Archive
Updated annually. Contains more than 40,000 declassified documents from the National Security Archive, an independent non-governmental institute that collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The documents are organized by Collections, providing an archival record concerning important public policy decisions in the area of foreign affairs and national security.
EconLit 1969-
Updated monthly. Subject indexing and abstracts of over 620 journals plus books, dissertations, and working papers in economics.
Tips: Economic topics covered in depth by this index. Particularly relevant for Political Economy, Budget Policy, Economic Development, Labor, Public Administration, Regional Planning & Regulation.
Environmental Issues & Policy Index
Updated regularly. Provides abstracting and indexing information for over 1000 titles in the area of environmental policy and studies. The print predecessor of this index is the EPA cumulative bibliography, 1970-1976 TD 177 U5484 V.1 PCL Ref and its continuation the EPA publications bibliography TD 177 U5484 1977-1993. There is some full-text on-line for recent reports; most of the older materials can be located in the U.S. documents collection.
Dates vary. Contains full-text of the Congressional Record, Congressional Bills, Public Laws, Federal Register, GAO Reports, and the United States Code. Official website for full-text U.S. Government materials. Links are maintained here to many federal agency websites.
Tips: Use other databases to index the contents of these full-text publications. The Cybercemetery section is an archive of federal government official websites and publications which have disappeared from the actively-supported web. Documents on this site are not updated—the purpose is to preserve the text for public research uses. The Core Documents of U.S. Democracy contains the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Federalist Papers, Articles of Confederation, Emancipation Proclamation , Gettysburg Address, etc.
GPO Monthly Catalog of U. S. Government Publications July, 1976-
Updated monthly. Contains over 380,000 citations to the publications of U.S. government agencies, including the U.S. Congress. The most comprehensive bibliography of publications of the U. S. government. Comparable information for locating documents before July 1976 can be obtained from the print issues which began publication in 1895 and provide subject indexing throughout the 20th century: Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications PCL Reference Dept Z 1223 A18 1895- The entire set (with its variant titles) is shelved in PCL Reference.
Tips: This source gives the document numbers which are used as the call numbers to shelve most government publications that have not been cataloged. Help is available from the reference staff to interpret the entries.
LegalTrac 1980-
Updated daily. Index of articles from 800 legal reviews and journals and law-related articles from 1000 other periodicals. Full-text articles (some with graphics), 1989-present, from 40 periodicals. This index roughly corresponds to the print Index to Legal Periodicals PCL Stacks K 1 I5 V.13 1961/64-1989/90. A complete set beginning in 1908 is located in the Tarleton Law Library (K 33 I53).
Tips: Searching law periodicals often requires the use of legal terminology. This index uses a controlled vocabulary. The law reviews indexed are all available in the Tarleton Law Library.
LexisNexis Academic Generally coverage being around 1985, full-text
Updated continually. Provides both full-text and abstracts for a wide range of general-interest wire services, newspapers and magazines from around the world, including full text of the New York Times. Also provides access to company profiles and financial reports, government transcripts, trade journals and academic and legal databases. Use Legal Research to locate full text of state codes, state regulations, law review articles and extensive federal-level legal materials.
Tips: For newspapers use the Guided News Search, choose sources and be sure to check the coverage available (click on About this Source), then choose Search this Source to limit to a single publication. This is not an official source for legal texts. Use Official websites for that purpose whenever possible.
Updated daily. Provides access to information, including Congressional Indexes from 1789 to the present, from and about the U.S. Congress. Includes legislation and public policy, statistical information including projections and analyses, legislative history, federal regulations, voting and financial records for individual members as well as members of various congressional committees.
LexisNexis Statistical Universe 1974-
Updated monthly. Provides indexing and abstracts for federal, state, and international statistical publications as well as selected business and professional publications containing statistics. Approximately 20% of the federal statistical publications are available in full text. Includes all content from the American Statistics Index (ASI), Statistical Reference Index (SRI), and Index to International Statistics (IIS). Most of the statistics in the Abstracts section are available on microfiche in the Perry-Castañeda Library Microforms Collection at these call numbers: American Statistics Index - MCFICHE 4900, Index to International Statistics - MCFICHE 4901 and Statistical Reference Index - MCFICHE 4899. Microsoft Excel is required to view some full text documents.
Tips: Indexing is detailed (abstracts describe data for each statistical table in a publication); look for the specific variables desired. Terms are sometimes tricky: e.g. employment data also contains the unemployment data; most immigration statistics are listed under aliens. Statistics from the U.S. government may often be in the U.S. documents collection; copy the Sudoc number. From 1980 on many U.S. statistical publications were published only in microfiche; U. S. government microfiche is not uniformly cataloged. Only the U.S. statistics that were NOT distributed to libraries (the non-depository fiche are indicated by a special symbol) are available in the ASI microfiche set. Indexes the U.S. population and economic census data. To limit a search to U.S. government statistics choose the ASI. To find United Nations statistics and data on other countries choose IIS. For associations, other private sources and some state or local government data limit to SRI.
Military Library FullText 1990-
Updated regularly. Provides indexing and abstracts for over 360 (with full text for 320) military and general interest publications
Tips: Contains many technical journals—mostly from 2000- present. Publications are mostly U.S. journals. Specific publications can be browsed from the “Publications” tab. To limit a search to a specific title choose “Source” and type the journal name, or use the limit features. This is a good database for information on the defense industry.
Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
Updated monthly. Contains over 380,000 citations to the publications of U.S. government agencies, including the U.S. Congress. The most comprehensive bibliography of publications of the U. S. government. Comparable information for locating documents before July 1976 can be obtained from the print issues which began publication in 1895 and provide subject indexing throughout the 20th century: Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications PCL Reference Dept Z 1223 A18 1895- The entire set (with its variant titles) is shelved in PCL Reference.
Tips: This source gives the document numbers which are used as the call numbers to shelve most government publications that have not been cataloged. Help is available from the reference staff to interpret the entries.
Updated monthly. Bibliographic index with abstracts covering the full range of political, social, and public policy issues. Covers selected journal articles, books, statistics, yearbooks, directories, conference proceedings, pamphlets, reports, government documents, and microfiche. More than 1,600 journals and over 8,000 monographs are indexed each year. Includes documents published worldwide in any of six languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. The subject headings and abstracts are in English.
Updated twice per month. Contains citations to papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses, and symposia. It covers published information received by the British Library Document Supply Centers. Many of these papers are available through Interlibrary Services, or by payment to The British Library using the FirstSearch Online Ordering Service.
PCI Full Text 1770-1995
Updated annually. Indexes over 10.75 million articles in 3,142 journals. The scope is international and multi-disciplinary, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. Includes full image of 165 journals and the archive will continue to grow by this amount each year.
Tips: Broad category searches work well especially for pre-1950’s publications. Use date of publication and language of publication limits. Two or more adjacent subject categories can be selected from drop-down menus by holding down the shift key. Availability of full-text can be checked for each periodical title through browse searches.
Represents the largest collection of electronic texts in philosophy and related topics in the world. Access includes following databases: Anselm: Opera Omnia, The Collected Works of St. Thomas Aquinas, The Complete Works of Aristotle, Revised Oxford Translation, edited by Jonathan Barnes, published by Princeton University Press, 1984, The Works of George Berkeley, British Philosophy 1600-1900, Works of John Calvin, The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882-1953, The Complete Works and Selected Correspondence of David Hume, Immanuel Kant: Hauptwerke, Kierkegaard: Samlede V?er, The Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence of John Locke, Sermons of Martin Luther, Nietzsches Werke: Historich-kritische Ausgabe, William of Ockham: The Work of Ninety Days, Oxford Classical Dictionary, The Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, The Collected Dialogues of Plato, Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill, The Continental Rationalists : René Descartes, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Benedict de Spinoza, The Works of George Santayana, The Complete Works and Select Correspondence of Henry Sidgwick, and Ludwig Wittgenstein: Published Works.
Policy File 1990-
Updated weekly. An electronic database indexing research and publication abstracts in the field of public policy research and analysis. Includes public policy think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers. Where available, access to home pages, electronic mail addresses and fulltext are made available within individual abstracts.
Poole’s Plus 1802-1903
Updated regularly. Provides bibliographic indexing for approximately 479 American and English periodicals published between 1802 to 1903. Corresponds in part to the print Poole's Index to periodical Literature, 1802-1906, a pioneer index for periodical literature of the 19th century.
Population Index on the Web 1986-2000
Updated annually. Provides an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics. A primary reference tool to the world's population literature.
Proceedings First 1993-
Updated twice a month. Provides tables of contents of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Each record contains a list of the papers presented at each conference. It covers published information received by the British Library Document Supply Centers. Many of these papers are available through Interlibrary Services, or by payment to The British Library using the FirstSearch Online Ordering Service.
Sage Public Administration Abstracts Vol 25- 1999-
Covers public administration-related publications world-wide. For earlier years consult print index: Sage public administration abstracts. Beverly Hills, Calif . 1974- JA 1 S27 V.1 1974/75- present at Public Affairs Library (PCL has only 1974-1979)
Tablebase 1996-
Updated frequently. Provides access to tabular information on companies, industries, products, countries and markets. Data is drawn from privately published statistical annuals, trade associations, non-profit research groups, government agencies, international organizations, industry reports prepared by investment research groups, and more than 1000 trade and business publications.
Women’s Studies International 1972-present
Updated semi-annually. Provides bibliographic information drawn from a variety of essential women's studies databases, covering topics such as feminist theory & history, family planning, law, employment, literary criticism, racial/ethnic studies and international feminism.
Contains over 2 million short biographical entries for eminent individuals who lived in North and South America, Western and Central Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania. Each entry contains the name, variations of the name, pseudonymes, the years of birth and death or years mentioned, upation, source quoted (archive, fiche number and page) and bibliographic information about the sources used. The University of Texas Libraries owns microfiche copies of some of the archives containing the complete texts of the biographical descriptions.
