Databases by Title:  F - K

Facts on File

Dates Covered: 1978-2001
Shelved in Reference: D410 .F3   
Description: A print resource providing a weekly digest of information published in newspapers.

FirstSearch some indexes for use by faculty only

Dates Covered: Varies by Index
Full Text: No 
Description: FirstSearch contains a selection of indexes arranged by topic area. Most indexes cover primarily journal articles; some indexes also index books, theses, and factual materials. Over 25 different indexes are available, with a limited number restricted to faculty use only. This service is available both on and off-campus. Contact the reference desk
(651-523-2375) for username and password information. None of the indexes contain full-text.

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GenderWatch

Dates Covered: 1970-present
Full Text: Yes
Description: This index is a full text database comprised of 175 periodicals and other publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. GenderWatch supports programs in business, education, literature and the arts, health sciences, history, political science, public policy, sociology and contemporary culture, gender and women's studies and more. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, n-g-o and special reports. GenderWatch contains some archival materials from the 1970's, making this an important repository on the historical perspective of the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles over the last fifteen to twenty years.

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General Science Index

Dates Covered: 1978-1998
Shelved in Reference: Q1 .G46 
Description: Covers nearly 300 core periodicals, including both popular and scholarly titles. The index covers a spectrum of scientific topics, such as: astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, earth science, health, mathematics, medicine, nutrition, oceanography, physics, and zoology.

Also available online, since 1994, as part of Wilson SelectPlus

GEOBASE (FirstSearch) Available via faculty FirstSearch account only

Dates Covered: 1980-present
Full Text: No
Description: This index contains citations with abstracts covering worldwide literature in journals on geography, geology, ecology, international development, and their
related disciplines. Subject coverage includes cartography, climatology, energy, environment, geomorphology, hydrology, photogrammetry, sedimentology, geochemistry, geophysics, paleontology, petrology, volcanology, and much more.

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Google Scholar

Dates Covered: unknown
Description: Google Scholar covers peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and other scholarly literature from all broad areas of research. You'll find works from a wide variety of academic publishers and professional societies, as well as scholarly article citations available across the web. Google Scholar may also include multiple versions of articles, including preprints. Most article citations require connecting to the Hamline University proxy server to be routed to the library to obtain access to the full text of an article when it is available. 
Never submit credit card/banking information to access full text articles. 

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Grove Music Online

Grove Music Online has been the leading online resource for music research since its inception in 2001, a rich compendium of music scholarship offering the full texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Edition (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd Edition (2001), as well as all subsequent updates and emendations.

Guide to Social Science and Religion (in Periodical Literature)

Dates Covered: 1964/65 - 1999
Shelved in Reference: BL1 .G85   
Description: This guide from publisher, National Periodical Library, indexes about 100 periodicals on social science and religion topics. Interdisciplinary subject/author index to periodical literature on issues of current significance in religion

Beginning in 1988 the words "in Periodical Literature" were dropped from the title.

Hamline Law Library Online Collections

Dates Covered: Varies by Index
Full Text: Partial
Description: Link to the Law Library web site and the journal indexes which are available to Bush Library patrons. All indexes cover journal literature in the area of law and legal issues. Access for Hamline students NOT enrolled in our law school is limited to on campus use.

HeinOnline Access Provided by the Hamline University Law Library

Dates Covered: varies by Title
Full Text: Partial
Description: HeinOnline is an ever-expanding, comprehensive, image-based collection of legal periodicals.

Highwire Library of Sciences and Medicine

Dates Covered: Varies by Title
Full Text: Partial
Description: This index covers over 342 journals, mostly in the areas of science and medicine, with a few in the social sciences; published by Highwire Press. Also indexed are the proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Some titles may be full-text.

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Historical Abstracts

Dates Covered: 1955-present
Full Text: Partial
Description: Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.

Print version of Historical Abstracts available 1962-2000 in REF D299 .H5. Beginning in 1971 split into two titles: Historical Abstracts Part A, Modern History Abstracts and Historical Abstracts Part B, Twentieth Century Abstracts.

HLAS Online

Dates Covered: 1935-present
Full Text: No
Description: The Handbook is a selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, this multidisciplinary index alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities, adding over 5,000 bibliographic entries each year.

Humanities Index

Dates Covered: 1965/66- 1999/2000
Shelved in Reference: AI3 .H85 
Description:  Humanities Index contains citations to over 500 English-language periodicals in the areas of archaeology, classical studies, art, performing arts, philosophy, history, music, linguistics, literature and music.

1966-1974 called Social Science and Humanities Index. Humanities Abstracts is included in the FirstSearch index Wilson Select Plus

Index to Book Reviews in the Humanities

Dates Covered: 1960-1990
Shelved in Reference:  Z 1035 .A1.I56 
Description: Indexes several hundred humanities periodicals reviewing several thousand book titles each year. Book review entries arranged alphabetically by author.

Index of Economic Articles

Dates Covered: 1886-1996
Shelved in Reference: HB1 .I52 
Description: Indexes current-year journal articles and essays taken from Festschriften, conference publications, proceedings, books, and 350+ research and scholarly journals. Limited to English language or to items that have been summarized in English. Topics include General Economics and Teaching; Methodology and History of Economic Thought; Mathematical and Quantitative Methods; Microeconomics; Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; International Economics; Financial Economics; Public Economics; Health, Education, and Welfare; Labor and Demographic Economics; Law and Economics; Industrial Organization; Business Administration and Business Economics-Marketing-Accounting; Economic History; Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth; Economic Systems; Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics.

This index combined with the Journal of Economic Literature, and Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics, to create the online index Econlit

Dates Covered: 1994-present
Full Text: Yes
Description: An index of full text Hispanic Magazines. Search words can be entered in either the Spanish or English search interfaces and all results appear in Spanish.

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InfoTrac

Dates Covered: Varies by Index
Full Text: Partial
Description: InfoTrac is the name of the database service provider which serves up 10 databases provided through the Gale Group.

The following indexes are available only to authorized Hamline University users.

Academic OneFile a multidisciplinary index containing full text of scholarly journals, popular literature magazines and newspapers.

The other InfoTrac databases are part of ELM (Electronic Library for Minnesota) and are available to all residents of the state. See specific descriptions below.

• Junior Edition an index of magazine, newspaper and reference content for middle school users.
  
• Kids Edition  an index of magazine, newspaper and reference content for elementary school users.
  
• Student Edition an index of magazine, newspaper and reference content for high school users.
  
• Kids InfoBits - an index of magazine, newspaper and reference content for Kindergarten through 5th grade users using a visually graphic interface..
  
• Discovering Collection - Reference content in the areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies, appropriate for users in grades 6-12.
  
• Junior Reference Collection - a cross-curricular database covering science, biographies, authors, multicultural topics, and people and places for users in grades 6-8.
  
• Informe A collection of hispanic magazines with full-text. This index is searchable in both English and Spanish.
  
• Professional Collection - A collection of journals and trade publications for educators and teachers.

InfoTrac Junior Edition

Full Text: Yes
Description: an index of magazine, newspaper and reference content for middle school users.

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InfoTrac Kids Edition

Full Text: Yes 
Description: an index of magazine, newspaper and reference content for elementary school users.

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InfoTrac Student Edition

Full Text: Yes
Description: an index of magazine, newspaper and reference content for high school users.

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IngentaConnect

Dates Covered: Varies by Title
Full Text: Partial
Description: This service indexes journals from many different publishers and in many different subject areas. Access to the full-text of most articles is very limited in date range, and is available to only a select few titles.The Article Linker service found in most of our other indexes is not activated in this product.

Formerly Ingenta.com and IngentaSelect

International Bibliography of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Dates Covered: 1955-1979
Shelved in Reference: GN41.6 .I58   
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International Bibliography of the Social Sciences - Economics

Dates Covered: 1952-1988
Shelved in Reference: HB1 .I5 
Description: Compiled by the British Library of Political & Economic Science of the London School of Economics & Political Science, this index provides citations of journals, books, book reviews, and chapters from edited volumes in the field of economics. 

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences - Political Science

Dates Covered: 1953, 1955-1985
Shelved in Reference:  JA1 .I8 
Description: Indexes the information contained in Political Science journals and books. Coverage includes both core and specialized material from over 100 countries in more than 90 languages. Approximately 70% of the records are in English.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences - Sociology

Dates Covered: 1955-1987
Shelved in Reference: HM24 .I595   
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International Index to Periodicals

Dates Covered: 1920/23 - 1963
Shelved in Reference: AI3 .R49 
Description: International Index to Periodicals is an author and subject guide to the humanities and social sciences.

1956-1963 title called International Index.

International Political Science Abstracts

Dates Covered: 1972-1995
Shelved in Reference: JA36 .I5  
Description: Covers literature from major political science journals and yearbooks from around the world. Provides an abstract for each article listed. The abstracts are written in English or French and are taken directly from the journals. Abstracts are arranged in six subject categories: political science: method and theory; political thinkers and ideas; governmental and administrative institutions; political process: public opinion, attitudes, parties, forces, groups and elections; international relations; and national and area studies.

IoP Electronic Journals (Institute of Physics)

Dates Covered: 1995-present
Full Text: Yes
Description: Electronic only access to a set of 30 core IoP journals, plus access to Physics Education.

All full text access to this index will be discontinued on December 31, 2007.

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JSTOR

Dates Covered: Indexing begins with first issue/first volume of each title indexed. Current 3-5 years of each title not included.  
Full Text:  Yes
Description: JSTOR contains a moving wall of back issues of 522 journals in full-text format. Generally the last 3-5 years of publication of each title are NOT included in this index. Bush Library subscribes to the Arts and Sciences collections I, II, and IV, the Complement, and the Language and Literature Collection. View a list of journal titles organized by subject area Collection I and Collection II, Collection IV, the Complement, and the Language and Literature Collection

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Some titles indexed in JSTOR, are also indexed and available full-text in Project Muse (including more recently published articles); or check Journals @ Hamline for a specific title.

Junior Reference Collection

Full Text:  Yes
Description:  a cross-curricular database covering science, biographies, authors, multicultural topics, and people and places for users in grades 6-8.

Kids InfoBits

Full Text: Yes
Description: an index of magazine, newspaper and reference content for Kindergarten through 5th grade users using a visually graphic interface