Indexes & Bibliographies
ABELL – Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature 1920 to present
Updated monthly. This database indexes many articles and books by or about political philosophy written in English. It contains over 750,000 records covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world. Includes links to the full text of 61 journals.
ABSEES American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies 1990- present
Updated monthly. The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES) covers North American scholarship on Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. It contains bibliographic records for journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications Continues previous print bibliographies: Bibliography of American publications on East Central Europe, 1945-1957 Z 2483 B9 PCL Stacks and The American bibliography of Russian and East European studies 1956- 1994 PCL Stacks Z 2483 A65 1956 through 1966 and Z 2483 A6576 1967 through 1994.
Academic Search Premier 1990- present (most full-text does not appear until one year after publication)
Updated monthly. Provides indexing and full text for a large number of political science journals. Provides full text for nearly 3,180 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Includes full-page images as well as color embedded images.
Academic Universe dates of coverage varies
The Legal Research sections are particularly useful for U.S. and international law. Provides indexing to many English language law reviews (journals), legal news selected from the Lexis/Nexis news databases, text-only versions of U.S. federal and state laws, case law and federal regulations, plus Canadian, European Union laws and a mixed group of Commonwealth and foreign laws, reports, digests, treaties including Canada, Ireland, Australia, Mexico, GATT, Hong Kong, UK, South Africa.
AfricaBib 1974 to present
Updated regularly. Provides bibliographic access to Africana periodical literature and African Women's literature. Also has a comprehensive bibliography on women travelers and explorers to Africa.
Tips: Subjects menu searches broad categories such as colonialism, nationalism, human rights, ethnic and race relations.
Alt-Press Watch dates of coverage varies
Updated monthly. Provides full-text coverage of newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press in America. Includes a broad range of critical issues confronting contemporary society, such as ecology and the environment, grassroots organizing, labor, indigenous peoples, and public policy.
America History and Life 1964 to present
Updated four times a year. Particularly strong for U.S. and Canadian political and intellectual history. Contains citations with abstracts to social science and humanities literature on all aspects of history, culture and current affairs from prehistoric times to the present. Covers books, book reviews, journals and dissertations. Also reviews films and video projects. The database corresponds to the print America: History and Life, which is produced by ABC-CLIO. The database covers history, interdisciplinary studies of historical interest and history-related topics in the social sciences and humanities.
American Periodical Series (APS Online) 1741-1900
Updated daily. Contains 1000 magazines published between 1741 and 1900. Titles include Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, the first American professional journals, and several consumer magazines still in publication, such as Vanity Fair, Harper's Magazine, and Ladies' Home Journal. The search interface allows you to search the complete text, including tables of contents, by boolean and keyword operators. Articles are linked to the corresponding page images, downloadable in PDF format. Titles from 1740-1805 are available now.
Tips: Useful for the study of civil rights, women’s rights, political attitudes. Most of these publications are indexed in the Poole’s Plus.
Bibliography of Asian Studies 1971-present
Updated regularly. Contains records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide. Includes citations to western-language periodical articles, individually authored monographs (before 1992), chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc. Corresponds in part to the print Bibliography of Asian Studies 1941-1965 Z 3001 C935 V.1through V. 4 PCL Stacks USE IN LIBRARY ONLY and 1969-1991
PCL Stacks Z 3001 C934 USE IN LIBRARY ONLY
Chicano Database 1967- present
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. Covers civil rights, discrimination, identity and migrant labor.
Congressional Universe dates of coverage vary
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. For print holdings and a guide to the older U.S. and other congressional documents see Historical Document Series in PCL.
EBSEES European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies 1991 to present
Updated monthly. The EBSEES (European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies) covers European scholarship on Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. It contains bibliographic records for journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications. For indexing of earlier years use the print title European bibliography of Soviet, East European and Slavonic studies 1975-1989 PCL Stacks Z 2483 E87 V.1 through V.15.
FRANCIS International Humanities and Social Sciences 1984 to present
Updated monthly. Covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (63%), social sciences (33%), and economics (3%). Strong in religion, the history of art, and literature (with particular emphasis on current trends in European and world literature).
Gerritsen Collection Women’s History Online. 1543-1945
A full text collection of books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights. Includes publications from Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand. The ASCII text is searchable by keyword and Boolean operators, and records are linked to the corresponding page images
GPO Access dates of coverage vary
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 July 1976 to present
Major index for publications of the U.S. government. For international relations it covers both congressional and executive branch publications. Especially useful for U.S. Dept. of State publications, treaties, trade & development. Many topics can be searched by region or by country. Printed version: Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications PCL Reference Dept Z 1223 A18 covers 1895-to present.
Handbook of Latin American Studies 1990 to present
Updated annually. A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. This is an index/ brief abstract version beginning in 1990.It corresponds to the full text version of the Handbook which is now available on-line from 1936 to the present with a different search capability. Print Edition: Handbook of Latin American Studies 1935- PCL Stacks Z 1605 H23 NO.1 1935 – present. Selective scholarly bibliography of resources published worldwide on Latin America. Evaluations cover books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles from more than 1,350 social science and 550 humanities journals and conference proceedings. Social Sciences updates appear in odd-numbered years beginning in 1991.
Handbook of Latin American Studies 1936 to present
This is essentially the same publication, different search possibilities. Corresponds to the printed index: Handbook of Latin American Studies PCL Stacks Z 1605 H23 NO.1 1935 through NO.58 2002 Use the Online Help & select Journals to obtain lists of journals indexed or to find the full name of a publication which has been abbreviated.
HarpWeek 1857-1912
Provides electronic access to all issues of Harper's Weekly published between 1857 and 1912. Includes both search and browse capabilities. Includes political cartoons and full text images of all issues of one of the United States primary political magazines.
Hispanic American Periodicals Index 1970 to present
Updated annually. Citations to articles, essays and book reviews relating to Latin America or from Latin American periodicals. Primarily Spanish, English and Portuguese titles. For earlier years use the print version of this index: Index to Latin American periodicals. 1961-1970 Benson Latin American Collection AI 17 I52 V.1 – Vol.10.
IBZ Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriften Literatur 1994 to present
Available only in UT libraries on UT Library Online Stations.
An international bibliography providing access to periodical literature in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Corresponds to the print Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriften-literatur. The CD-ROM version is searchable in English. Corresponds to the print Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriften-literatur PCL Stacks AI 9 I5 V.1 1965 PT.1 A-F through V.28 1992 PT.2.
This is truly a vast worldwide index to periodicals. There is a general listing covering 1896-1974, and more detailed indexing (author, subject, periodical title) beginning in 1965.
Index Islamicus 1906-2000
Updated annually. Indexes worldwide literature in European languages on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Includes a wide range of periodicals and collective publications, as well as monographs.
Labordoc (International Labour Office) dates of coverage vary
Updated regularly. Contains references to a wide range of print and electronic publications, including journal articles, from countries around the world, on all aspects of work and sustainable livelihoods, and the work-related aspects of economic and social development and human rights.
LegalTrac 1980 to present
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).
Lexis/Nexis Academic dates of coverage vary
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. For political theory and law the most relevant section is Legal Research. The legal section contains searchable full-text versions of U.S. federal and state laws, codes and regulations (Federal Register), case law reports from all appellate courts, and selected European Union and British Commonwealth law. The Law reviews section provides interpretive articles.
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.
Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications. July 1976 to present
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.
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Many of the historical series indexed in the print versions of the Monthly Catalog are difficult to find in the UTNetCat. Use the following guide for some of the longest series: Historical Document Series in PCL.
NATLEX (International Labour Office)
A continuously-updated database containing references to over 55,000 national laws on labour, social security, and related human rights, and over 300 laws in full text. Records and texts in NATLEX (National Laws on Labour, Social Security and Related Human Rights Database) are in either English, French, or Spanish
Pais International 1972 to present
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.
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The terms Civil Rights and Human Rights are often used interchangeably—with human rights more frequently used by European scholars. Suffrage, voting rights and elections are given wide coverage, as is constitutional law.
Papers First 1993 to present
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
Past Masters Philosophy Full Text Databases
Represents the largest collection of electronic texts in philosophy and related topics in the world. However, the editions are not always the latest critical, annotated editions. These versions should be used in conjunction with other editions located via UTNetCat. 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.
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: A search of “political theory” or “nationalism” will net thousands of citations. Limit by country and by subtopics. It is also useful to search by topic of the journal, by journal title and by author for writings of well-known political philosophers. Book reviews can be included or excluded.
Philosopher’s Index 1940 to present
Updated quarterly. Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology,and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education,and language.
Tips: Use names of philosophers combined with specific topics. Terms and many variants (in several languages) can be selected by use of the INDEX section at the top of the opening menu.
Poole’s Plus 1802-1906
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. Includes Hansard Index from 1803-1830, and Cobetts Parliamentary History of England.
Proceedings First 1993 to present
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.
Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliography 1986 to present
Updated bimonthly. Describes material on the social sciences and humanities published in the Commonwealth of Independent States and Eastern Europe and other countries. Includes books, manuscripts, dissertations, and articles from more than 10,000 periodicals. Much of the material indexed is in Russian.
Social Sciences Citation Index 1975 to present
Updated weekly. Provides bibliographic data, citations and abstracts of English-language authors to significant articles from the 1,725 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. Corresponds in part to the print Social Science Citation Index earlier cumulations on PCL Reference Index Tables H 1 S4546 1966-1970 and 1971-1975.
UNBISNET 1979 to present
Updated regularly. Catalogue of UN publications and documentation indexed by the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva. Also included are non-UN publications held in the collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library.
Women’s Studies International 1972 to 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.
World Law Index 1976-1997
Describes the national laws, decrees, decree-laws, and regulations of the Spanish-speaking nations of Latin America plus Haiti, Brazil, the Philippines, Portugal, Spain, and Portuguese-African nations. Includes 29 countries in all. This index is a very detailed index prepared by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. It gives brief summary of each law, it can be searched by detailed topics, and it gives full details on where each text can be found. Searches and subjects are in English.
