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Multidisciplinary database for humanities journal articles A huge, multidisciplinary database indexing over 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as selected items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. AHCI covers archeology, architecture, art, Asian studies, classics, dance, folklore, history language, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, poetry, radio, television and film, religion, and theater. The unique feature of this database is the Cited Reference Search, which finds how many times a work has been cited by other articles and identifies where they were cited.

Dates of coverage: 1975-present
Updated: Weekly

Abstracts articles published in 40 primary journals of the communication field. Includes access to ComAnalytics, which provides data about the relative publication performance of individual scholars and of departments of communication (journalism, mass communication, speech, communication studies, media studies, rhetoric, etc.). Coverage varies for each journal, but usually begins in the late 1980s. The citation or abstract may be searched by keyword or phrase. You can also browse a list of keywords.

Dates of Coverage: late 1980s-

Updated: Irregularly

Index, abstracts, and full text for journals in communication and mass media. Offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for over 300 journals in areas related to communication and mass media, and selected coverage of over 100 more, for a combined coverage of over 400 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for nearly 200 journals. Many major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable citations from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915).

Doctoral dissertations and master's theses.
The authoritative bibliographic record for doctoral dissertations and master's theses from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Dissertations can be purchased from UMI or are available for download at a price, but you can usually also borrow them for free through Interlibrary Loan.

Primary source social science and Humanities scholarly journals since 1907. An index to articles in scholarly humanities and social science journals from 1907-1985, this provides very good author and subject indexing of the most important journals in these fields. Combines the indexing of International Index (1907-1965), the Social Sciences and Humanities Index (1965-74), Humanities Index (1974-85), and Social Sciences Index (1974-85).

Dates of coverage: 1907-1984.
Updated: No.

An index to scholarly articles, books and book chapters, and dissertations published internationally on modern literatures, folklore, and linguistics (including composition and rhetoric) starting with 1926.
An index to scholarly articles, books and book chapters, and dissertations published internationally on modern (Medieval to today) languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics (including composition and rhetoric since 2000). Coverage has varied but now includes literature from all over the world--Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America. Folklore is represented by folk literature, music, art, rituals, and belief systems. Linguistics and language materials range from history and theory of linguistics, comparative linguistics, semantics, stylistics, and syntax to translation. Other topics include literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts (film, radio, television, theater), and history of printing and publishing. Works exclusively on classical Greek and Latin literatures are excluded. EBSCO coverage starts with 1926; the print edition starts with 1921. See also Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature.

Dates of Coverage: 1926-present
Updated: Ten times a year

Also known as Science Citation Index. This is an interdisciplinary database, best-known in the natural sciences. Web of Sci's key feature is citation tracking, which allows the user to look up a given article and find additional related papers which have cited it. Our coverage includes 1965-present. Web of Science is part of the Web of Knowledge site, which enables simultaneous searches of BIOSIS, MEDLINE, and Web of Science together.