Online Resources By Name: P-Q

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+ PAIS Archive

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Subject Areas: Political Science, History

PAIS Archive is a retrospective database chronicling global public policy and social issues. Provides selective subject and bibliographical access to periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, and other English-language materials published around the world. Contains approximately 1,000,000 records, originally published in the PAIS Bulletin, 1915-1976. Complements the contemporary coverage of the PAIS International database

Format: Index to Journal Articles
Dates of Coverage: 1915-1976
Update Schedule: Monthly
Database Producer: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. (CSA)

+ PAIS International

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Subject Areas: Political Science, History, Law, International Studies, Asian Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Current Events

PAIS International is an index to the literature of public affairs -- current issues and actions which affect the world communities, countries, people, and governments. This database covers important political, economic, and social issues. PAIS concentrates on topics that are or might become the subject of legislation. It contains references to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more.

PAIS International includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world. In addition to English, some of the indexed materials are published in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Subject keywords: Administration of justice. Agriculture, forestry, and fishing and agricultural policy. Banking and public and private finance. Business and service sector. Culture and religion. Economic conditions and policy. Education and education policy. Energy resources and policy. Environment and environmental policy. Government. Human rights. International relations. Labor conditions and policy. Law and ethics. Manufacturing and heavy industry. Media, telecommunications, and information policy. Military and defense policy. Politics. Population groups, population policy, and demographics. Science and technology policy. Social conditions and policy. Trade and trade policy. Transportation and transportation policy.

Format: Index to Journal Articles
Dates of Coverage: 1972-
Update Schedule: Monthly
Database Producer: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA).

+ PapersFirst

URL: http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=PapersFirst;done=referer;FSIP

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Subject Areas: Library Science, General

PapersFirst is an index of papers presented at conferences. It cites the papers from every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library Document Supply Centre. PapersFirst covers a wide range of subjects.

Format: Index to Conference Papers
Dates of Coverage: 1993-
Update Schedule: 24 times each year.
Database Producer: OCLC Online Computer Library Center.

+ Periodicals Archive Online

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Subject Areas: General, Fine Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences

Periodicals Archive Online is an archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. It provides researchers with access to more than 200 years of scholarship, spread across a wide variety of subject areas, direct from their computer.

Format: Full Text Journals
Database Producer: ProQuest / Chadwyck-Healey.

Periodicals Directory - See MLA Directory of Periodicals

+ Philosopher's Index

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Subject Areas: Philosophy, People, Religion, Asian Studies, Classics

The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.

Format: Index to Journal Articles
Dates of Coverage: 1967-
Database Producer: Philosopher's Information Center, distributed by EBSCO Publishing.

+ Pittsburgh Courier 1911-2002

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Subject Areas: Black Studies, Communication, Mass Media

ProQuest's Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002) offers full page and article images with searchable full text for this African-American newspaper. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. One of the most nationally circulated Black newspapers, the Courier reached its peak in the 1930s. A conservative voice in the African-American community, the Courier challenged the misrepresentation of African-Americans in the national media and advocated social reforms to advance the cause of civil rights.

Format: Full Text Journals
Dates of Coverage: 1911-2002
Database Producer: ProQuest / Chadwyck-Healey.

+ Play Index

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Subject Areas: Theatre

Play Index allows you to find citations to some 30,000 plays published individually or in collections from 1949 to the present. You can search numerous ways:

  • By cast size/make up;
  • By audience age level;
  • By theme;
  • By type of play;
  • By author, subject, style, and genre
Format: Index to Plays
Dates of Coverage: 1949-
Database Producer: H.W. Wilson.

+ Primary Search (for elementary school students)

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Subject Areas: Education

Primary Search (for elementary school students) provides full text from children's magazines appropriate for elementary schools and children's reading rooms. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for over 80 magazines. Other full text sources include: The World Almanac of the U.S.A. and The World Almanac for Kids; The Encyclopedia of Animals; Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia; and full text for over 100 pamphlets.

Format: Index to Journal Articles
Update Schedule: Weekly.
Database Producer: EBSCO Publishing.

+ Primary Sources in African American History

URL: http://0-cisweb.lexis-nexis.com.dewey2.library.denison.edu/histuniv/
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Subject Areas: Black Studies, U.S. History

Primary Resources in African American History includes federal legislation concerning slave trade, colonization, reconstruction, civil rights, affirmative action, and issues related to race relations; U.S. Supreme Court decisions, colonial legislation on race and slavery, autobiographies, speeches, scholarly articles from academic journals and anthologies on the African American experience, and more

Format: Full Text Books, Archival Resources
Database Producer: Lexis-Nexis

+ ProceedingsFirst

URL: http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=Proceedings;done=referer;FSIP

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ProceedingsFirst is an index of conference proceedings. It cites the printed proceedings of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop, and meeting received at The British Library Document Centre. ProceedingsFirst covers a wide range of subjects.

Format: Index to Conference Proceedings
Dates of Coverage: 1993-
Update Schedule: 24 times each year.
Database Producer: OCLC Online Computer Library Center.

+ Project Muse

URL: http://0-muse.jhu.edu.dewey2.library.denison.edu/
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Subject Areas: General

Project Muse is online archive of 400 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 100 scholarly publishers.

Format: Full Text Journals
Dates of Coverage: 1993-
Database Producer: Johns Hopkins University Press in collaboration with The Milton S. Eisenhower Library.

+ PROLA: Physical Review Online Archive

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Subject Areas: Physics

The Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) is the American Physical Society's online archive for Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, and Physical Review A–E. It contains all APS journal articles published from 1893–2006. Each January, another year is added to the archive.

Format: Full Text Journals
Dates of Coverage: 1893-2006
Database Producer: American Physical Society

+ ProQuest Databases

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Subject Areas: General, Women's Studies, Queer Studies, International Studies, Asian Studies, Black Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies

ProQuest offers databases covering multiple subjects. Under their "Non-Historical database" designation, these databases can be searched all at once: 

Dissertations and Theses
Ethnic NewsWatch
GenderWatch

Proquest historical collections can also be accessed by clicking on the "Select multiple databases" link.

Format: Full Text Journals
Database Producer: ProQuest

+ PsycCRITIQUES

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Subject Areas: Psychology

PsycCRITIQUES releases 15 or more reviews of current books and films each week. In addition, the database contains book reviews previously published back to 1995. There are 3 ways to access information: (1) view the weekly releases; (2) browse by author/editor, book/film title, or publication year; (3) perform a standard database search.

Format: Index to Reviews of Books and Films
Update Schedule: Weekly.
Database Producer: American Psychological Association.

+ Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

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Subject Areas: Psychology, Sociology & Anthropology, Education

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection covers emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. This database includes nearly 515 full text titles and over 600 peer-reviewed journals.

Format: Index to Journal Articles
Update Schedule: Weekly.
Database Producer: EBSCO Publishing.

+ PsycINFO 1967-

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Subject Areas: Psychology, Sociology & Anthropology, Education, Medicine

PsycINFO 1967- contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in the field of psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.

Journal coverage includes international material selected from more than 2000 periodicals written in over 35 languages. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987-present.

Format: Index to Journal Articles
Dates of Coverage: 1967-
Update Schedule: Weekly.
Database Producer: American Psychological Association.

+ PsycINFO Historical 1806-1966

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Subject Areas: Psychology, Sociology & Anthropology, Education, Medicine

PsycINFO Historical 1806-1966 provides an index and abstracts of historical psychological journals. It contains abstracts from Psychological Abstracts back to 1927, Psychological Bulletin from 1921-1926, and all APA journals and the American Journal of Psychology back to their first issues.

Format: Index to Journal Articles
Dates of Coverage: 1806-1966
Database Producer: American Psychological Association.

+ PubMed

URL: http://www.ohiolink.edu/cgi-bin/pubmed.pl

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Subject Areas: Medicine, Biology, Chemistry & Biochemistry

PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

Format: Index to Journal Articles
Dates of Coverage: 1950-
Update Schedule: Daily
Database Producer: National Library of Medicine.

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