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• America: History & Life (ABC-CLIO database) indexes over 2,000 international journals, books, and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. The electronic counterpart to the printed America: History and Life. Dates of coverage: 1964+
• American Periodicals Index covers all known periodical publications that had their inception and ending from 1741 to 1935. The full text of the actual periodicals are in the UCF Library in three microfilm collections (often referred to as APS I, APS II and APS III) and some of the full text is now available online in the database American Periodicals Series Online. The electronic index is incomplete but growing.  You may find the CD-ROM version available at a single computer in the Library's Electronic Reference Area easier to use. The print index provides limited subject access to the complete series and is shelved in the UCF Library's Reference Collection at REF AP2.A388. Nearly one hundred of the periodicals in the APS II & APS III collections are at least partially indexed in Poole's Index to Periodical Literature [Index AI3.P7] (1802-1906). Poole's Index... was followed by International Index to Periodicals (1907-1965), Social Sciences & Humanities Index (1965-1974), Social Sciences Index (1974- ), and Humanities Index (1974- ). The last two indexes are available electronically as FirstSearch databases: Social Sciences Abstracts (1983- ) and Humanities Abstracts (1984- ). Humanities Abstracts abstracts and indexes periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature.
• Biography & Genealogy Master Index (Gale database) is a comprehensive index to nearly 12 million biographical sketches in more than 2700 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.
• Book Review Digest Plus (Wilson database) provides reviews of English-language fiction and nonfiction books. Dates of electronic coverage: 1983+  Print index (1905+ ) is available in the UCF Library [Index Z1219.C95].
• Dissertation Abstracts (ProQuest database) covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. Dates of coverage: 1861+
• EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier provides abstracts and indexing for approximately 3,000 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education and more. Also offers full text for over 1,000 journals including 380 journals dating back to 1990. Includes coverage of over 1,700 peer-reviewed journals. 
• Ethnic NewsWatch and GenderWatch (Softline databases) - Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text general reference database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press -- English and Spanish language. With archival material back to 1970 for some titles, GenderWatch is a repository of an important historical perspective on the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles and understandings over the last twenty to thirty years.
• Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac database) indexes articles in approximately 1000 scholarly journals and popular magazines in the arts, humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Abstracts are included for some articles. Provides access to full text of some articles. Dates of coverage: 1980+ 
  HarpWeek: The Civil War Era, Reconstruction, and Gilded Age  I & II (1857-1912) provides full text, page image from original issues of Harper's Weekly.
• Historical Abstracts (ABC-CLIO database) abstracts and indexes literature covering countries other than the United States and Canada in the subject areas of history, the social sciences and humanities. The scope of coverage is World History (1450 - present) and related areas including culture, diplomacy, economics, international relations and politics. Dates of coverage: 1954+
• History Resource Center: U.S. (Gale database) contains approximately 100,000 pages of 500 primary documents with corresponding facsimile pages. Other content includes more than 25,000 reference documents from various Gale Group sources, magazine & newspaper coverage for more than 60 history-related full-text titles, and over 2,000 photographs & illustrations, including 30 historical maps courtesy of Yale University. The earliest primary document in the collection (as of 1/25/01) is The First Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci [1497-1504].
• JSTOR provides full text, page image from over 300 scholarly journals, including 35 history journals, such as: American Historical Review (1895-1999), History & Theory (1960-1997), and Journal of the History of Ideas (1940-1995).
• netLibrary provides over 30,000 full text ebooks for previewing or 2-hour checkout.
• Web of Science - ISI Citation Databases collectively index more than 8,000 high quality, peer-reviewed journals cover-to-cover, providing users with complete bibliographic data, searchable author abstracts when available in the science and social sciences source material, and cited references from the world's most influential journals. Dates of coverage: 1965+
• WorldCat (FirstSearch database) is the world's most comprehensive bibliography, with 36 million bibliographic records representing 370 languages and covering information from 4,000 years of knowledge.