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ABI/Inform

ABI/INFORM Complete is comprised of full-text business periodicals and news sources from
ABI/INFORM Global, Dateline, Trade & Industry, and ABI/INFORM Archive covering different
aspects of business and economic information, scholarly research, businesses traditions and trends,
corporate strategies, management techniques, and competitive and product information. Some
periodicals go back as far as 1912. Includes option to limit search to dissertations available full text.
 

Academic Search Complete

Contains full text for nearly 3,180 scholarly publications and includes full-page images as well as color embedded images. Provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

 

America: History and Life

Index to the history and culture of the US and Canada 1964-present.

 

Art Index

Art Index provides comprehensive abstracting and indexing for 313 leading international art publications,
including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. This database offers broad coverage of art topics,
including advertising, archaeology, crafts, folk art, graphic arts, interior design, video, film, architecture,
and art history.

 
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

Indexes articles on architecture in the widest sense, including city planning and housing.Coverage is from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s) to the present.

 

Book Review Digest Plus
 
Book review Digest Retrospective: 1905 - 1982
 
Business Source Premier

Indexes over 3200 periodicals and contains full text for over 2700 scholarly journals and business periodicals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business. 1965 to present

 
Econlit
The American Economic Association's electronic database, is the world's foremost source of references
to economic literature. It is a reliable source of citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to
1969. It provides comprehensive information on accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic
forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more.

 

Eksitics Index of Periodicals: Selected Articles from Periodicals on Human Settlements
For each monthly issue, articles are selected from 50 to 60 journals from a wide range of countries,
selection being based on the interest to planners, architects, and social scientists concerned with ekistics;
the science of city and area planning in relation to basic need of the individual and the entire community. 
HT101.E56  LANGSAM Latest in Reference
 
Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center (OhioLINK)
Online theses and dissertations from Ohio graduate students.
 
Environmental Issues and Policy Index
Provides researchers with abstract/index information to over 1000 titles covering Environmental
policy and studies. There is ongoing coverage for over 500 of those titles. An Environment Thesaurus
is available to assist with advanced searching.

 

Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management
A multidisciplinary database of abstracts and citations covering the environmental sciences.

 

Expanded Academic Index

Access to articles from over 500 full-text journals in all disciplines.

 

Geographical Abstracts.  Human Geography  

G1.G3583  GEOPHYS Journals

 

GPO Monthly Catalog
A current bibliography of publications issued by all branches of the government including both the
congressional and the department and bureau publications. 1976 to present. 
 
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984
Articles from English-language periodicals. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known
scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines.
 

Index to Current Urban Documents Online

Aug. 2000 to present. The only guide to local government publications and documents issued by and for municipalities. Includes some statistics and census information. There are geographic and subject indexes. 1972 to present. 

 

Index to Current Urban Documents

Z1223.6A1 I55  LANGSAM Reference

The only guide to local government publications and documents issued by and for municipalities. Includes some statistics and census information. There are geographic and subject indexes. 

 
International Bibliography of Book Reviews
 

Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe

There are nearly 20 basic libraries including: General News, Company News Industry & Market News, Company Financial Information Country Profiles, State Profiles, Biographical Information, Reference & Directories Law Reviews, Federal Case Law, Accounting, Auditing & Tax.

 
Nineteenth Century Masterfile
 
OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center
Multidisciplinary database of scholarly journals to which the library directly subscribes.
 
Quick Multi-Database Search @ OhioLINK
Searches selected multiple databases simultaneously.
 
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
Includes citations for dissertations ranging from 1861 to those accepted last semester; those published from
1980 forward include 350-word abstracts. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word
abstracts. Titles represent authors from North America and Europe, with over a million titles in full text.
 
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (UC Electronic)
Access to over 8,000 University of Cincinnati electronic dissertations and theses mainly from 1955
to the present. To acquire the dissertations electronically, users request the full text from UMI (ProQuest)
and are sent a link and a password to access the dissertation. Dissertations from 1997 forward are available
in the OhioLINK ETD (Electronic Theses and Dissertations)Center.
 
Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) International
Covers all subjects that bear on contemporary public issues and policy. Indexes publications issued
in the following six languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Emphasis
is on factual and statistical information.  OhioLINK, 1972 to present.
 
RefWorks
With RefWorks users can create their own personal database by importing references from online
databases. They can use these references in writing their papers and automatically format the paper and
the bibliography in seconds. As a web-based product, RefWorks is available to users across various
platforms including Windows, Mac, Unix, etc. UC users can set up their free individual accounts.
 
Research Library
Provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including business,
education, literature, political science, and psychology. 1971 to present.
 
Sage Urban Studies Abstracts

Each issue contains approximately 250 separate abstracts of important recent literature on all aspects of urban environments. 
HT51.S24  LANGSAM Stacks

 

Scopus (Elsevier)

Indexing, abstracts, and citation searching for science and social science scholarly literature. Scopus covers 14,000 titles across 4,000 publishers, providing access to over 25 million abstracts going back to 1966 and 5 years of cited references back years, building up to 10 years by the end of 2005.

 

Social Science Citation Index

The subject of a search is symbolized by the starting reference rather than a word or subject heading. The searcher starts with a reference or an author identified through a footnote, book, encyclopedia or conventional index. This publication enables the user to identify related writings.  OhioLINK, 1990 to present. 

 

SocINDEX

A comprehensive sociology research database. 500 "priority" coverage journals as well as over 1,390 "selective" coverage journals, extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference papers, and other sources is included. Searchable cited references are also provided. Offers coverage from all sub disciplines of sociology, including abortion, anthropology, criminology, criminal justice, cultural sociology, demography, economic development, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, politics, religion, rural sociology, social psychology, social structure, social work, sociological theory, sociology of education, substance abuse, urban studies, violence, welfare, and many others.

 

Sociological Abstracts

Indexes and abstracts articles in the fields of sociology, anthropology, criminology, demography, education, law and penology, race relations, social psychology, and urban studies, from 1963 to the present. Coverage also includes policy issues in areas such as aging, violence, abuse and neglect, crisis intervention, urban development, and development policy.

 

Stat-USA
STAT-USA/Internet, a service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is the site for the U.S.
business, economic and trade community, providing authoritative information from the Federal government.
 

Transport

TRANSPORT is a bibliographic database of transportation research and economic information. It is produced by the 25-nation Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), together with the United States' Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the 31 nations of the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT). TRANSPORT combines the following databases: Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) from TRB includes 300,000 bibliographic citations, most with abstracts, of research information on all surface transportation modes, air transport, and highway safety. International Road Research Documentation (IRRD) from OECD contains 200,000 abstracts on highway research provided by OECD member countries. TRANSDOC from ECMT contains 37,000 abstracts of transportation economics literature as well as bibliographic records provided by the International Union of Railways (UIC).

 

UC Internet Business and Economics Library

 

USA Trade Online

Detailed import and export statistics of the United States. Includes current and cumulative export and
import data on more than 18,000 commodities that can also be limited by country. Has 2- through 10- digit
Harmonized Tariff Schedule detail for commodities in the following data tables: Exports - current month & previous
month; Exports - cumulative year to date, current year & prior year; Exports - annual two year, historical; Imports -
current month & previous month; Imports - cumulative year to date, current year & prior year; Imports - annual
two year, historical.
 
WiserTrade

WiserTrade (formerly MiserTrade), is a database of U.S. Trade statistics. The following are some of the series provided: US State Exports by HS, NAICS, SIC, Port; US Customs District Exports Imports by HS; US Exports and Imports by Port by SITC; Japanese Exports and Imports by HS. Some of the annual data goes back to 1989.

 

World News Connection

Includes Full Text
World News Connection (WNC) is an online news service, only accessible via the World Wide Web, that offers an extensive array of translated and English-language news and information. Particularly effective in its coverage of local media sources, WNC provides you with the power to identify what really is happening in a specific country or region. Compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources, the information in WNC covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events. The information is obtained from full text and summaries of newspaper articles, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports. New information is entered into WNC every government business day. Generally, new information is available within 48-72 hours from the time of original publication or broadcast.

 
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