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DATABASES FOR JOURNALS AND BOOK ARTICLES (GMU Restricted)

Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)  
Bibliography of recent publications selected and annotated by scholars; annual volumes alternate between the Social Sciences (anthropology, economics, geography, government & politics, international relations, sociology) and the Humanities.

Hispanic American Periodicals Index  
Multi-subject index to periodical literature on Latin America and Hispanics in the United States (1970-present).

Literature Resource Center
Full-text biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 writers from a variety of periods and disciplines. Includes access to the MLA International Bibliographic database.

MLA International Bibliography
MLA International Bibliography indexes scholarly works (journal articles, monographs, book chapters, dissertation abstracts, and series) on literature, languages, linguistics and folklore

Historical Abstracts
Provides English language abstracts of scholarly literature (journal articles, articles in collections, dissertations, book reviews) on world history from 1450, excluding North America.

ARTBibliographies Modern  
ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art from traditional to new media.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index  
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. Indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.

Contemporary Authors
A bio-bibliographic guide to current writers in fiction, general non-fiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. More than 90,000 authors covered.

Dissertation Abstracts/Digital Dissertations
Dissertation Abstracts/Digital Dissertations contains records describing dissertations and masters' theses in all areas of academic research at over 550 universities, including almost all North American graduate schools and many European universities, as well as some full text (previews of 24 pages in length) for over 70,000 dissertations from 1997 forward. Features include searching by elements such as title, author, keyword, adviser, subject, school, language and degree

JSTOR  
The complete text (full backruns) of core scholarly journals in Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies and Sociology.

Literature Online (LION)  
A fully searchable library of over 300,000 works of English and American Literature. Also provides an online dictionary, encyclopedia and other reference tools.

Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro  
This full text database contains the most important plays of the 16th and 17th century in Spain, either edited by the playwrights themselves or by an editor "endorsed" by the playwright.

WorldCat  
Records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.

World News Connection  
Covers significant socioeconomic, political, technical, and environmental issues. Includes fulltext summaries of newspaper articles, conference proceedings, periodicals, radio and television broadcasts, and non-classified technical reports

World Trade Online  
World Trade Online contains every article from each week's issue of Inside U.S. Trade (from 1993 to the latest issue). It provides in-depth and exclusive coverage of U.S. and international trade policy.

EIU Country Information  
Extensive country information from various Economist Intelligence Unit publications, covering most countries and including politics, economics, business, markets and data. (Country Report, Country Profile, Country Monitor, and Business Newsletters.)

EIU ViewsWire  
Timely analysis on key economic, political and business developments around the world. Each day, the EIU ViewsWire supplies 100–150 analytical articles on any of 195 countries.

World Factbook  
A complete geographical handbook, featuring 267 full-color maps and flags of all nations and geographical entities. Each country profile tracks demographic, ethnicity, literacy, political, and economic data.

Global NewsBank  
An index of several hundred international newspapers, news services and broadcast media.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts  
Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration.