Urban and Public Affairs

Urban Studies Abstracts contains more than 99,000 records, carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline, such as: Urban Affairs Review, Urban Studies and Journal of Urban Affairs. EBSCO has digitized the full archive of this database, bringing coverage back to 1973.

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PSC has a worldwide focus, reflecting the globalization of contemporary political discourse. The database also features over 340 full-text reference books and monographs, and over 36,000 full-text conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association. PSC includes a subject-specific thesaurus with over 17,500 terms (7,366 preferred and 10,175 non-preferred terms), to provide subject searching guidance to researchers.

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The index covers international, scholarly and popular periodical literature, including publications of professional associations; US state and regional periodicals; and major serial publications in the architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America and Australia.

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SocINDEX with Full Textcontains full text for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full text for more than 830 books and monographs, and full text for over 16,800 conference papers.

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The most comprehensive resource available in its field, Humanities Sourceprovides full text—plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing—for the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, including feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama and poetry, books review, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs.

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Comprehensive: Scopus has twice as many titles and over 30% more publishers listed than any other abstract and index (A&I) database, with interdisciplinary content that covers the research spectrum. Timely updates from thousands of peer-reviewed journals, preliminary findings from millions of conference papers, and the thorough analysis in an expanding collection of books ensure you have the most up-to-date and highest quality interdisciplinary content available.

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Gleeson Library subscribes to the following disciplines:

Anthropology
Biochemistry
Cell & Developmental Biology
Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
Entomology
Environment and Resources
Genetics
Genomics and Human Genetics
Immunology
Marine Science
Medicine
Microbiology
Neuroscience
Nutrition
Physical Chemistry
Political Science
Psychology
Public Health
Sociology

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Includes:

Na­tion­al Journ­al Daily: Your source for everything hap­pen­ing on the Hill.
The Hot­line: The ul­ti­mate in­sider’s source for cam­paign and elec­tion in­form­a­tion.

Al­man­ac: Bio­graph­ic­al and back­ground in­form­a­tion on all fed­er­ally-elec­ted of­fi­cials, state gov­ernors, and con­gres­sion­al dis­tricts.
Day­book: On­line cal­en­dar of the im­port­ant events hap­pen­ing on and off Cap­it­ol Hill.

Race track­er: Cam­paign polling and fin­ance data tool for Pres­id­en­tial, Con­gres­sion­al, and Gubernat­ori­al races.
Present­a­tion Cen­ter: An evolving data­base of copy­right-free, white la­bel Power­Point slides that break down ma­jor polit­ic­al and policy is­sues, as well as ex­plains how Wash­ing­ton works.
Presentation Center Data and Charts: Our re­source for all high qual­ity data sets and charts on pub­lic policy and polit­ics from gov­ern­ment, think tanks and aca­demia.

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