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• Academic Index (WebLUIS 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 ASCII full text of some articles. Dates of coverage: 1982+ 
  Another version of this database, Expanded Academic ASAP (1980+ ) available through InfoTrac, allows you to limit your search to refereed journals and this version is updated daily and may have entries and full text that is somewhat more current; some articles have charts and illustrations not included in the WebLUIS version.
• Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost database) provides abstracts and indexing for approximately 4,425 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education and more. Also offers full text for over 3,460 journals including some journals dating back to the mid-1970s. Includes coverage of over 3,200 peer-reviewed journals. 
• Gale Group/InfoTrac databases, including:
  Biography Resource Center combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources and includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals.
  Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. 
• Humanities Abstracts (FirstSearch database) indexes and abstracts periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature.  Dates of coverage:  1984+  
  For earlier articles back to 1802, consult the print indexes in the UCF Library beginning with 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), and Humanities Index (1974- ). 
• LexisNexis Academic provides full text articles from some regional magazines and newspapers and selectively indexes the New York Times back to 1969.  The UCF Library also has the print New York Times Index [Index AI21.N44] covering 1851 to the present.
• MLA Bibliography (FirstSearch database) indexes critical literary and language scholarship and provides access to over 4,000 journals and serials published worldwide, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. The print index is available in the UCF Library at Index PB6.M6222 (1970+) and earlier information (1921+) can be found in the "American Bibliography" section of the Publications of the Modern Language Association of America volumes in the General Collection PB6.M6.  Dates of electronic coverage: 1963+
• netLibrary provides over 20,000 full text ebooks for previewing or 2-hour checkout, including over 200 entries from the publisher Cliffs Notes.