Alphabetical Listing of Databases
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Title and Description |
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| PAIS International (CSA) | 1915-1976 (Archive) and 1972-current | |
| Indexes journals, books, hearings, reports, government publications, etc., on global public policy and social issues. Covers banking and public finance, culture and religion, economic conditions, education, energy and environment, health conditions, human rights, international relations, media, science and technology, and more. | ||
| Palmer's Index to the Times (London) see Times Digital Archive | ||
| PapersFirst (FirstSearch) | 1993-current | |
| Indexes papers presented at conferences worldwide. Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre. | ||
| Patrologia Latina (Chadwyck Healey) |  |
200 AD-1216 |
| Works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. Contains the complete first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina (1844-1855) including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes (1862-1865) | ||
| Periodical Abstracts Research II - see Research Library | ||
| Periodicals Archive Online (Chadwyck Healey) | 1802-1995 | |
| Archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. A sister database, Periodicals Index Online, provides additional indexing for articles in over 4,700 periodicals. | ||
| Periodicals Index Online (Chadwyck-Healey) (formerly PCI) | 1665-1995 | |
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Indexes scholarly journals in humanities and
social sciences from their first issues to 1995. A sister database, Periodicals Archive Online, provides a full-text archive of some 475 journals published between 1802 and 1995.
Does not work on IE with a Mac | ||
| Perseus Digital Library | |
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| Evolving digital library of resources for the study of the humanities. Includes Greek and Roman texts and tools and primary and secondary sources in early modern English literature (Renaissance) | ||
| Pew Hispanic Center | |
2001-current |
| The Pew Hispanic Center has as its prime mission "to improve understanding of the U.S. Hispanic population and to chronicle Latinos' growing impact on the entire nation." To achieve this goal, the Center has embarked on a number of ambitious projects, including a regular program of research papers, performing an annual survey of Latino attitudes, and communicating these findings to policy-makers, business leaders, and various media organizations. | ||
| Philosopher's Index (CSA) | 1940-current | |
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Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. Covers ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.
Does not work on a Mac | ||
| PILOTS Database (CSA) | 1871-current | |
| Citations to journals, books, book chapters, etc., on post-traumatic stress disorder, other psychiatric disorders associated with exposure to a traumatic event, and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events. | ||
| Poughkeepsie Journal (NewsBank) | |
1999-current |
| Poughkeepsie Journal (Latest Week) | |
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| ProceedingsFirst (FirstSearch) | Current year plus most recent 3 years | |
| Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre. Contains in each record a list of the papers presented at each conference. | ||
| Project Muse (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press) | |
Dates vary |
| Provides access to full text of scholarly journals in arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics. | ||
| ProQuest | |
1986-current |
| Multidisciplinary index to articles in scholarly and popular periodicals. Includes some newspapers, Historical New York Times and Wall Street Journal. | ||
| PsycArticles (CSA) | |
varies by title |
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Full text of articles from APA journals and selected Educational Publishing Foundation journals. new interface effective 8/1/05 | ||
| PsycINFO (CSA) | |
1887-current |
| Citations and abstracts of journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports and dissertations in psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. | ||
| PubMed Central (NLM) | |
Dates vary |
| U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. | ||
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