Databases by Title:  P - S

Palmer's Index to "The Times" newspaper

Dates Covered: 1790-1905
Shelved in Reference: Ham Bush Index Table 
Description:  Index to the (London, England) Times Newspaper

PapersFirst FirstSearch

Dates Covered: 1993- present
Full Text: No
Description: This index provides access to individual papers presented at conferences worldwide. A major research aid covering every congress, symposium, exposition,
workshop, and meeting added to The British Library Document Supply Centre's (BLDSC) vast proceedings collection since October 1993. Most papers can be obtained through our Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service. Ask at the Reference Desk for assistance.

Philosopher's Index

Dates Covered: 1940-present
Full Text: Partial
Description: The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, logic, and metaphysics as well as material on the philosophy of disciplines, such as law, religion, science, history, and education.

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Index available in print: 1967-1993 B1 .P46

Physical Education Index

Dates Covered: 1989 - present
Shelved in Reference: GV341 .P490   
Description: This index covers such topics as physical education curricula, sports
medicine, dance, sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation,
standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing,
coaching and training, sport sociology/psychology, health education, and
physical therapy.

Political Science: A SAGE Full-Text Collection  (CSA Illumina)

Dates Covered: 1982- current
Full Text: Yes
Description: Political Science: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full-text of 24 journals published by SAGE and participating societies. It covers such subjects as General Political Science, American Government & Politics, Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Policy Studies, Political Communication, Peace / Conflict Studies, Presidential Studies, Political Theory / Philosophy, International Relations, and Area Studies.

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Poole's Index to Periodical Literature

Dates Covered: 1802-1906
Shelved in Reference: AI3 .P7 
Description: Poole's Index was the first index of its kind ever published and is the ancestor of all the library indices we use today. It covers 19th Century American and English periodicals. It lists subject entries alphabetically, but includes no author entries unless the author is listed as a subject.

Proceedings FirstSearch

Dates Covered: 1993 - present
Full Text: No
Description: This index provides tables of contents of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Each record contains a list of the papers presented at each conference. Like its companion, PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst provides access to The British Library Document Supply Centre's vast collection of conference proceedings.

Professional Collection InfoTrac

Dates Covered: 2001-present
Full Text: Partial
Description: This index of professional reading materials contains journals and magazines of interest to teachers and educators.

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Project Muse

Dates Covered: varies by title
Full Text: Yes 
Description: This database indexes full-text articles in 220 journals which are published by 37 scholarly publishers. They cover the disciplines of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

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Earlier Articles available: Some titles are indexed and full text in earlier dates in JSTOR 

ProQuest Newsstand

Dates Covered: varies by title
Full Text: Yes
Description: This database indexes over 350 full-text state, national and international newspapers. Includes the Minneapolis Star Tribune full-text from 1986 to present, as well as the Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition) 1984-current, and the New York Times East Coast Late Edition, 1999-current. To search historical back issues of the New York Times, select that database alone.

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PsycARTICLES CSA Illumina

Dates Covered: 1985 - present
Full Text: Yes
Description: PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals with the exception of
advertisements and editorial board lists.

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Psychology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection (CSA Illumina)

Dates Covered: 1970 - current
Full Text: Yes
Description: Psychology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full text of 35 journals published by SAGE and participating societies. It covers such subjects as Applied Psychology, Assessment, Child Development, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Cross-Cultural Psychology, Cultural Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology, Environmental Psychology, Family Studies, Group Work, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Language Acquisition, Latin American Studies, Learning Disabilities, Measurement, Neuropsychology, Personality, Philosophical Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychology of Diversity, School Psychology, Social Psychology, and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.

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PsycINFO CSA Illumina

Dates Covered: 1840-present
Full Text: No, but links to full-text in PsycARTICLES
Description: Use this database to find information on psychology, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, law, and social work.

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The print equivalent is: Psychological Abstracts BF1 .P65

Psychological Abstracts

Dates Covered: 1927-1999
Shelved in Reference: BF1 .P65  
Description: 

The online equivalent is: PsycINFO

PubMed

Dates Covered: 1950's to present
Full Text: No
Description: The National Library of Medicine's database of citations to articles in the medical
literature

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Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature

Dates Covered: 1900-2003
Shelved in Reference: Ham Bush Index Table 
Description: Broad subject coverage from popular English language magazines. Mainly US sources. Covers nonfiction, fiction, poems, short stories, and reviews of ballet, books, compact discs, dance, motion pictures, musicals, operas and operettas, phonograph records, products, radio programs, tape recordings, television programs, theater, videodiscs and videotapes. Search by subject or author in a combined list.

Included in: Wilson SelectPlus from 1994-present

Regional Business News EBSCO

Dates Covered: varies by title
Full Text: Yes
Description: This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

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Religion Index One

Dates Covered: 1971/72 - present
Shelved in Reference: BL48 .R36
Description: 

Titled: Index to Religious Periodical Literature until 1977.

Royal Society of Chemistry Journal Index

Dates Covered: 1997- present
Full Text: Partial
Description: An index to the journals published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (London). Bush Library users have online access to the full-text of the RSC journals we own in print, covering 1997 to present. These are: Perkin Transactions 1, Dalton Transactions, Chemical Communication. RSC also makes available to all users the full-text of all their journals from the dates 1997-1999.

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Dates Covered: varies by database
Full Text: Yes
Description: SAGE Full-Text Collections are searchable via the CSA Illumina interface. The collection is comprised of:
Communication Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection title list
Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection  title list
Education: A SAGE Full-Text Collection  title list
Management and Organization: A SAGE Full-Text Collection  title list
Materials Science: A SAGE Full-Text Collection  title list
Nursing & Health Sciences: A SAGE Full-Text Collection  title list
Political Science: A SAGE Full-Text Collection  title list
Psychology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection  title list
Sociology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection  title list
Urban Studies and Planning: A SAGE Full-Text Collection  title list

St. Paul Pioneer Press

Dates Covered: most recent 7 days available free full-text via this web site.
Full Text: most recent 7 days only. Use Lexis Nexis Academic Index to obtain full text from this newspaper for 1996-present.
Description: The Pioneer Press is accessable from their web site TwinCities.com

Paper copies of newspaper held on second floor of library until microfilm arrives.

Science Direct Web Editions

Dates Covered:
Full Text: Very Limited
Description: Science Direct Web Editions allows any user to search all the titles indexed in this product but links to full-text for only 9 titles which Bush Library owns in print. The full-text provided only covers the most recent 12 months of these 9 titles. Some very selected free full-text content to non-subscribed journals is also included. The Article Linker service, available in most of our other indexes, is not activated in this index.

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SIRS Researcher FirstSearch

Dates Covered: 1988 - present, abstracts beginning in 1994
Full Text: No 
Description:  SIRS is a general database containing thousands of articles exploring social, scientific, historic, economic, political, and global issues. Articles are carefully selected from domestic and international newspapers, magazines, journals, and government publications.

Social Sciences Index

Dates Covered: 1965/66 - 1999/2000
Shelved in Reference: AI3 .S62 Ham Bush Index Table 
Description: An index to 350 core English-language social science journals. Includes coverage in the areas of anthropology, criminology, economics, law, geography, policy studies, psychology, sociology, social work, and urban studies.

Titled: Social Sciences and Humanities Index 1966-1974.
Continues the title International Index to Periodicals
Included in: Wilson SelectPlus from 1994-present

Social Services Abstracts CSA Illumina

Dates Covered: 1980 - present
Full Text: No
Description: Contains indexing of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. This index also includes links to "Scholar Universe", a directory of faculty and organization profiles.

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Social Work Abstracts

Dates Covered: 1967 - 1995
Shelved in Reference: HV1 .A2 
Description: Social Work Abstracts reviews over 400 U.S. and international journals and is the starting point for literature searches in social work and social welfare.

Titled: Social Work Research & Abstracts 1977-1993, and
Abstracts for Social Workers 1967-77. Use Social Services Abstracts for more current literature. 

Sociological Abstracts CSA Illumina

Dates Covered: 1963 - present
Full Text: No
Description: CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. This index also includes links to "Scholar Universe", a directory of faculty and organization profiles.

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Available in print format: 1953-1995 HM1 .S67

Sociology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection  (CSA Illumina)

Dates Covered: 1982 - current
Full Text: Yes
Description: Sociology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full-text of 33 journals published by SAGE and participating societies. It covers such subjects as Childhood, Contemporary Sociology, Comparative Sociology, Consumer Culture, Classical Sociology, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Leisure Studies, Social Theory, Sociology of Sport, and Sociology of Work and Employment (Labor Studies).

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Star Tribune 

Dates Covered: most recent 14 days available free full-text via this web site.
Full Text: most recent 14 days only. Use Lexis Nexis Academic Index or
ProQuest Newsstand to obtain full text from this newspaper for 1996-present.
Description: The Star Tribune newspaper is accessable from their web site StarTribune.com

Paper copies of newspaper held on second floor of library until microfilm arrives.

Student Edition (high school) InfoTrac

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

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