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Libraries: Databases and Indexes : A to Z

Databases and Indexes - F through K

Factiva

More than 20,000 sources from more than 159 countries in 22 languages, including more than 400 continuously updated newswires. Contains same-day and archival coverage of major newspapers of record, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Financial Times, as well as local and regional papers, magazines, and journals.
 
Facts On File World News Digest

Covers major news stories from around the world. Includes all content from the print version back to its beginning. Durable URLs for each article. Search by story in the title index; browse by decade, country or issue. Other tools include an Encyclopedia, Almanac and curriculum. Watch for Historic Documents link in special features to find older materials.
 
Family Studies Abstracts

Family Studies Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
 
Films On Demand

Films On Demand is a database that provides streaming videos from Films Media Group (also known as Films for the Humanities & Sciences). Currently we have added 24 titles. If it proves successful, next year we will add more. Subjects include: psychology, history, literature, languages, engineering, business, art, sociology, sciences and more.
 
Fuente Academica

Fuente Académica provides full text (including PDF) for a rapidly growing collection of scholarly Spanish language journals. This multi-disciplinary database offers full text content to many academic areas including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology.
 
Gale Directory Of Publications & Broadcast Media

Detailed information on magazines, newspapers, journals, radio and television stations, and cable systems. Includes publications and broadcasters by city, subscription rates, advertising rates, and circulation statistics. Primarily U.S., with some international coverage.
 
 
Gartner

Gartner Group is an independent consulting company that provides research and analysis about global technology issues and their impact on organizations. Written by specialists in many fields of emerging technologies, the data from Gartner Group includes market research, product information, evaluations, vendor reviews and industry overviews. Please note that this resource is case-sensitive, dependent upon the way you entered your name the FIRST TIME you ever logged in. Try using all lower-case letters in the login form. If you don't get in, try using capital first letters for your first and last name.
 
General Business File ASAP

General BusinessFile ASAP provides a combination of indexing, abstracts and full text for business and trade publications. Includes directory listings for companies as well as investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries.
 
General OneFile

General OneFile includes more than 11,000 mainstream and specialized journal and periodical titles. Subjects include arts and humanities, education, business, science, current events, politics, economics, social science, law, health care, computers, technology, environmental issues, and general interest topics.
 
General Reference Center Gold

General Reference Center is a general-interest database that lets you search newspapers, reference books, and periodicals, many with full-text and images. This database can be used to find the latest on current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies and more.
 
General Science Full Text

General Science Full Text database includes 300 popular science magazines as well as professional journals as far back as 1984, many of them are peer-reviewed. Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in March 1993. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full text coverage begins in January 1995.
 
GEOBASE

A bibliographic database for the earth, geographical and ecological sciences with coverage of 2,000+ international journals, including both peer-reviewed titles and trade publications. 99% of the 1.8 million entries include English abstracts. Areas covered include climatology, geochemistry, geomorphology, geophysics, hydrology, meteorology, paleontology, sedimentology, and volcanology.
 
GeoRef

Citations to items about geology & earth sciences. 1933 - . [1785 on for North America]
 
Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Access to full-text available through UST subscription resources. Click "Find it@UST Libraries." to get free full-text. Using this link connects you to the over 44,000 ejournals available at UST libraries.
 
GPO: Government Printing Office

An index to documents printed or available online from the US Government (the largest publisher in the world).
 
GreenFile

GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
 
Grove Dictionary Of Music & Musicians - SEE Oxford Music Online

Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians is now Oxford Music Online
 
Health Reference Center - Academic

Health Reference Center includes articles from a wide range of nursing and allied health journals, newspapers, magazines, newsletters, and consumer health information sources, with full-text reference works and hundreds of health-related multimedia demonstration medical procedures and surgeries.
 
Health Source Consumer Edition

Health Source Consumer Edition provides access to almost 80 full-text consumer health magazines, the searchable full text content of current health-related pamphlets and 130 health reference books. In addition over 5,000 Clinical Reference Systems reports and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide with 1,300 generic and 4,700 brand name drug patient education sheets are available.
 
Hein-On-Line

Hein-On-Line is an image-based collection of legal periodicals. It provides each journal from its inception and continues to the most current volume allowed under contract. Currently, there are more than 180 journal titles available and more than 5.5 million pages.
 
Historical Abstracts

Article abstracts and bibliographic citations of books and dissertations on the history of the world except the U.S. and Canada from 1450 to the present. Updated monthly. 1955- .
 
Historical Statistics Of The United States

The standard source for the quantitative facts of American history including statistics gathered from over 1000 sources with 37,000 data series. Topics covered include: population, work and welfare, economics, international relations and governance.
 
History Cooperative

The History Cooperative is a pioneering nonprofit humanities resource offering top-level online history scholarship. Besides full text, the site also contains collateral content, including multimedia elements that could not be reproduced in the print versions of some articles.
 
History Of The American Cinema

This 10-volume series considers the film industry from its early roots in the 19th century through the 1980s. It examines the development of film and the film industry, analyzing both the genres, themes and technology that defined each decade and the political and economic background that gave rise to them.
 
IBISWorld

IBIS World Industry Market Research Reports provide in-depth industry analysis for over 700 U.S. industries at the 5-digit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) level of detail. Reports average 25-30 pages, are updated 3 times annually, and contain: key statistics, market characteristics, segmentation, industry conditions, industry performance, key competitors, key factors, and industry outlook. (Note that UST does not subscribe to the linked industry risk, company research and economic/demographic information. This information is available from other sources).
 
ICPSR: Inter-University Consortium For Political & Social Research

ICPSR, the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, provides access to the world's largest archive of computer-based research and instructional data for the social sciences. The data holdings cover a broad range of disciplines, including political science, sociology, demography, economics, history, education, gerontology, criminal justice, public health, foreign policy, and law. A separate username/password is required for ICPSR. You must register using your UST email address in order for this resource to recognize you as an authorized user.
 
IEEE Computer Society

The IEEE Computer Society is the world's leading organization of computer professionals. You may either search the full text five titles subscribed to by UST or you can also search all of IEEE's premier collection of computing periodicals for abstracts only.
 
 
Index To Foreign Legal Periodicals

The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals, produced by The American Association of Law Libraries, provides access to legal literature worldwide, covering all forms of foreign (non-Anglo-American) law. This includes comparative law and legal systems, such as Islamic law; socialist law; public and private international law; and transnational commercial law. The data is not limited by country of publication, but rather type of publication. Thus, while publications concerning British and American law are not included, British and American publications concerning foreign law are included. The types of documents covered include journal articles, congress reports, essay collections, yearbooks, and book reviews. The database encompasses all languages. Materials in Greek, Cyrillic, and East Asian vernacular are Romanized according to Library of Congress standards. Arabic and Hebrew titles are translated into English or French. Coverage begins with 1985.
 
Index To Legal Periodicals

Includes law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, institutes, and government publications. Coverage includes recent court decisions, new legislation, and original scholarship.
 
Index To Minnesota Business Periodicals

Index to articles published in the local business press including The Business Journal, Enterprise MN, MN Business, MN Real Estate Journal, Twin Cities Business, Upsize MN. Online indexing since 2001 (print index from 1977 available at OSF and Keffer Libraries).
 
Industry Sector Analysis Reports

Industry Sector Analysis Reports: In-depth profiles of a selected industry subsector in various countries.
 
Informe

A collection of indexed and full-text content from a variety of Spanish-language and bilingual periodicals. Contains more than 50 full text titles. It covers humanities, education, business, science, current issues, politics, economics, social science, health care, environmental issues and more.
 
Informs PubsOnline

Published by the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science this is a searchable database of 12 full text management journals which focus on decision sciences, information systems, supply chain management and operations research. The full text extends back to 2001 and the articles include all table and graphs and references with some links to other full text articles.
 
International Directory Of Business Biographies

Examines the career paths, business achievements, leadership styles, business strategies and industry impact of Fortune 500 and Global 500 corporate leaders, as well as entrepreneurs and other notable businesspeople through in-depth biographical narratives.
 
International Directory Of Company Histories

In-depth (3-4 page) articles on the history and development of over 4500 of the world's largest and most influential companies.
 
International Directory Of Films & Filmmakers

Features thorough coverage of legendary films, actors, actresses, directors, writers, and other production artists through detailed essays and commentary by experts. Entries include biographies, filmographies, comprehensive credits, production information, major awards, and bibliographies.
 
International Encyclopedia Of Communication

A definitive reference source in an interdisciplinary and dynamic field, this authoritative work is jointly published with the International Communication Association (ICA). Coverage includes theories, media and communication, research methods, concepts, and much more. The encyclopedia features sophisticated cross-referencing as well as a lexicon by subject area.
 
International Encyclopedia Of Organizational Studies

Offers a comprehensive overview of many of the major ideas, concepts, terms, and approaches that characterize this diverse field of organization studies. Illustrates the fluidity, dynamism, and innovation that now occur in organization studies-internationally. Examines how organizations are devices for structuring life and lives are structured by organizations.
 
International Encyclopedia Of The Social Sciences

Covers scholarship and fields that have emerged and matured since the publication of the original international edition. Highlights the expanding influence of economics in social science research and features new articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences.
 
International Financial Statistics

International Financial Statistics is a standard source of economic and financial data for most countries of the world.
 
International Law In Domestic Courts

SEE Oxford Reports on International Law
 
International Marketing Insights Reports

Short profiles of specific foreign market conditions or opportunities. These reports mainly focus on specific projects, industry profiles, finance and marketing trends, regulation and import changes, trade show opportunities, or government policy updates.
 
International Medieval Bibliography

The International Medieval Bibliography (IMB) is the world's leading interdisciplinary bibliography of the European Middle Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the period 400-1500.
 
IOPScience

The Institute of Physics is a leading international professional body and learned society with over 37,000 members, which promotes the advancement and dissemination of knowledge of and education in the science of physics, pure and applied. IOPscience is a new online service for journal content published by IOP. It contains more than 300,000 articles, from 1874 to the present day. It's been designed to give you easy access to scientific, technical and medical content.
 
Irish Times (1859 – 2006)

As part of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers collection, The Irish Times (1859–2007) and the Weekly Irish Times(1876–1958) provide full-text and full-image coverage from the perspective of Ireland’s “only independent newspaper”.
 
Issues & Controversies

Issues & Controversies explore more than 800 timely, in-depth, and objective articles on topics such as politics, government, business, education, and popular culture. It is updated weekly and provides links to a 13-year backfile. Also included here are links to key news coverage, encyclopedia and almanac, and many other unique features (i.e., pros and cons statements, timelines, primary sources, statistics, editorial cartoons, newspaper editorials, and issues from the headlines).
 
Iter: Gateway To The Middle Ages And Renaissance

ITER is an electronic bibliography of articles, essays, books, dissertation abstracts, encyclopedia entries and reviews relating to the study of the Middle Ages and Renaissance period (400-1700). The collected citations are from over 6,000 publications, including over 1,600 journals.
 
JAMA & Archives

Access to the Journal of the American Medical Association, current and past issues. A username and login are required for access (available to current UST students, faculty, and staff). Please call the OSF Reference Desk to get access, 651-962-5001.
 
JSTOR

The Arts & Sciences collections represent the building blocks of a single interdisciplinary archive of over 300 journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
 
Junior Edition

K-12 Resource. This database is designed for junior high and middle schools, and includes a variety of indexed and fulltext magazines, newspapers, and reference books for information on current events, arts, science, popular culture, health, history, sports, etc. Coverage limited to approximately last three years.
 
Junior Reference Collection

K-12 Resource. Covering the core curriculum areas, this database has a selection of reference and primary sources, creative works, multimedia including video/audio clips, and several thousand photographs. Users can search by national or state curriculum standards for content correlated to the standards. Target audience: grades 6-8.
 
Kids InfoBits

K-12 Resource. Kids InfoBits meets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine, newspaper and reference content for information on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
 
Kompass

Kompass provides product, contact and other information for 1.8 million companies worldwide. Each company is individually checked by the local Kompass publisher, usually once per year. All companies are classified under the Kompass Product Classification - one of the most comprehensive in the world - with more than 53,000 products & services. You can search this site in any of 21 languages using the Products & Service search.