Classified Listing of
Electronic Periodical Indexes of Special Interest
for Humanities and Social Science
Research at Columbia

Please note: This list is in the process of updating.  A number of new periodical indexes have been added to our collections in the last few weeks.   Therefore, to have the fullest sense of the periodical indexes for a particular subject area, you must consult the general databases page as well, and given the ever-growing nature of collections, it is always a good idea to consult that list in addition to this one for a comprehensive view.

I. General and Interdisciplinary

• AIDA: Articoli italiani di periodici accademici -- index to some 1,000 Italian scholarly journals in arts, the humanities and social sciences since 1997.
  
• ArticleFirst -- citations and abstracts for articles in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, humanities, and popular culture periodicals.
  
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index Expanded(r): (c)Copyright Institute for Scientific Information(r) 2001 -- bibliographic information and cited references in articles in arts, humanities, and history periodicals.
• Book Review Digest Plus -- citations and abstracts for book reviews in leading English-language periodicals.
  
• Book Review Index Plus -- an index to book reviews from approximately 600 scholarly and popular English-language journals with links to more than 630,000 full-text interviews.
  
• British Humanities Index: BHI -- indexes articles, excluding reviews, in more than 320 humanities journals, magazines, and newspapers published in the UK.
  
• Dissertation Abstracts (Digital Dissertations) -- citations and abstracts for dissertations and theses covering all academic subjects.
  
• Essay and General Literature Index -- citations for essays in the humanities and social sciences.
  
• Francis -- citations for articles in 3699 international journals in all fields.
  
• Historical Newspapers Online -- retrospective indexes to the New York Times and the Times of London.
  
• Humanities Abstracts -- citations and abstracts for articles in humanities periodicals.
• International Bibliography of Book Reviews -- citations for book reviews published in scholarly journals (primarily social sciences and humanities), including many European journals
  
• PapersFirst -- citations for published papers given at conferences and symposia.
  
• PCI: Periodicals Contents Index -- an international, interdisciplinary index, especially useful for finding articles published in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries.
  
• ProceedingsFirst -- citations to published proceedings of conferences and symposia.
  
• Readers Guide Abstracts -- citations and abstracts for articles in popular and general-interest periodicals.
  
• Reader's Guide Retrospective -- Reader's Guide Retrospective provides citations to articles in popular and general interest periodicals published between 1890 and 1982.

II. For Specific Disciplines

Anthropology and Linguistics

• Anthropological Index Online -- citations for journal articles in the field of anthropology.
  
• Anthropological Literature -- citations for articles and essays in anthropology and archaeology periodicals and edited works.
  
• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts -- citations and abstracts for research in language and linguistics.

• Sociological Abstracts -- citations and abstracts for articles in sociological periodicals.

Art and Architecture

• Art Full Text and Art Retrospective -- citations, some abstracts, and some full text of articles in art periodicals.
  
• ARTbibliographies Modern -- citations and abstracts for publications on modern and contemporary art (20th-21st centuries).
  
• Avery Index -- citations for articles in architecture periodicals.
  
• Bibliography of the History of Art -- citations and abstracts for articles in Western art history periodicals and other publications.
  
• Index to Nineteenth Century American Art Periodicals -- citations (some with abstracts) for all articles, poems, illustrations and ads from 42 19th-century American art journals.
  
• RIBA British Architectural Library Catalogue and Index to Periodicals -- citations for articles in architecture periodicals.

Business and Economics

• ABI INFORM -- citations, abstracts, and full-text for articles in business and management periodicals.
  
• Business and Company Resource Center -- provides access to a variety of business information, enabling users to research company profiles, brand information, rankings, Investext reports, company histories, chronologies, and industry news and periodicals.
  
• Business Full Text -- provides indexing and abstracting of articles from over 800 English-language business magazines, trade and research journals, plus the full text of selected periodicals.
  
• Business Source Premier -- covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance, international business, econometrics and economics. Contains full text of the Harvard Business Review, California Management Review and other important journals and databases.
  
• EconLit -- citations and abstracts for articles in economics periodicals and other publications.

Classics and Ancient History

• L'Annee Philologique -- indexes periodical articles as well as articles in collections and conference papers in classics and medieval studies
  
• Corpus dei manoscritti copti letterari -- resources for Coptic literature: lists of authors, texts, and individual manuscript collections; Coptic texts with Italian translations; chronology of Coptic literature; Sahidic grammar; a complete bibliography for Coptic studies.
  
• Dyabola -- citations for publications on classical, early Christian, Byzantine, early Medieval, and ancient Middle Eastern antiquities, art, and archaeology.
  
• Gnomon (CD ROM in Electronic Text Service -- 305 Butler) -- the single most comprehensive collection citations for publications for Classical studies

Education

• Education Full Text -- citations, abstracts and full-text of articles in education periodicals and other publications.
  
• ERIC -- citations, abstracts, and full-text for articles in education periodicals and other publications.

History

• America: History & Life -- citations for publications related to U.S. and Canadian history.
  
• EconLit -- citations and abstracts for articles in economics periodicals and other publications.
  
• Historical Abstracts -- citations and abstracts for publications related to world history, excluding the U.S. and Canada, from 1450 to the present.
  
• History of Science and Technology -- citations for articles, conference proceedings, books and book reviews in the history of science and technology.
  
• Royal Historical Society Bibliography -- database containing 350,000 records on British and Irish history

   

Literature, Film and Performing Arts

• ABELL: Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (From the Main LION screen, select "Criticism and Reference"). Over 760,000 citations to writing on all aspects of English literature.
  
• Bibliografia de la Literatura Espanola desde 1980 -- bibliography of Spanish literature.
  
• International Film Archive -- citations for the holdings and publications of the International Federation of Film Archives.
  
• International Index to the Performing Arts -- multidisciplinary index to the performing arts.
  
• MLA Bibliography -- citations for articles in literature, linguistics, language, and folklore periodicals and other publications.

Medieval Studies

• Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index -- citations to journals and essays about women and gender during the Middle Ages.
  
• International Medieval Bibliography -- citations for articles in European Medieval history periodicals and other publications.
  
• Iter -- citations for articles and reviews on the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
  
• Medioevo Latino -- small portion of a key bibliographic source. (On CD ROM LAN and remainder in print in Butler Reference).itations

Music

• International Index to Music Periodicals -- citations and abstracts for articles in music periodicals.
  
• The Music Index -- citations for articles in music periodicals.
  
• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature -- citations and abstracts for music literature.
  
• RIPM: Repertoire International de la Presse Musicale -- citations for articles in 19th-century music periodicals.
  
• RISM: Repertoire International des Sources Musicales, Series A/II -- music manuscripts created after 1600.

Philosophy

• The Philosopher's Index -- citations and abstracts of books and journal articles in philosophy and related fields.

Religion (see also Jewish Studies and Islamic Studies below)

• ATLA Religion Database + ATLAS -- citations and abstracts (and some full text) for articles in religion periodicals and other publications.
  
• Catholic Periodical and Literature Index -- includes indexed citations to articles published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church     promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers.

• New Testament Abstracts -- indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-authored books, book reviews, and software related to New Testament studies.
  
• Old Testament Abstracts -- indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, book reviews, and software related to Hebrew Bible studies.

Social Science (see also Anthropology, Business, Economics, and  Education)

• AccessUN: Index to United Nations Documents and Publications-- citations to UN publications, with some full-text links.
  
• AgeLine -- citations for publications related to aging.
  
• AGRICOLA -- citations for materials related to agriculture.
  
• Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals -- citations for articles in military periodicals.
  
• Emerald Intelligence + Fulltext -- article abstracts and full-text from MCB University Press journals (includes business, economics, human resources).
  
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences -- citations for publications related to the social sciences.
  
• International Political Science Abstracts -- citations and abstracts for political science articles in journals and yearbooks published worldwide.
  
• Left Index -- citations, abstracts and some full-text to the literature politically on the left.
  
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service -- citations and abstracts for U.S. publications related to criminal justice.
  
• PAIS International -- citations and abstracts for publications related to public affairs.
  
• PARLIT Database -- citations for books and periodical articles dealing with parliamentary law and practice.
  
• Physical Education Index -- citations and abstracts in physical education and sports sociology and psychology.
  
• POPLINE -- citations and abstracts for publications related to population, family planning, and related health issues.
  
• Population Index -- citations for publications on demography and related research fields.
  
• PsycINFO -- citations and abstracts for publications about psychology and related disciplines.
  
• Rand Abstracts -- citations and abstracts for Rand publications (public policy research and analysis).
  
• Social Sciences Full Text -- citations and abstracts for articles in social sciences periodicals.
  
• Social Sciences Citation Index Expanded -- bibliographic information and cited references in articles in social sciences journals.
  
• Social Services Abstracts -- citations and abstracts for research in social work, human services, and related areas, incl. social welfare, social policy & community development.
  
• Social Work Abstracts -- citations and abstracts for articles in social work and social welfare periodicals.
  
• Sociological Abstracts -- citations and abstracts for articles in sociology periodicals.
  
• Urbadisc (CD LAN) -- citations for publications related to urban planning and policy issues primarily from European sources.
  
• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts -- citations and abstracts articles in political science journals.

Women's Studies

• Contemporary Women's Issues -- full-text articles and reports about women.
  
• Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index -- citations to journals and essays about women and gender during the Middle Ages.
  
• GenderWatch -- full-text and abstracts of a wide variety of feminist and gender studies periodicals.
  
• KVINNSAM -- international interdisciplinary gender and women's studies index.
  
• Women's Resources International -- citations for materials related to women's studies, gender studies, feminist theory and criticism.
  

III. For Specific Regions and Cultures

African Studies

• Africa-Wide: NiPAD -- collection of databases providing access to multidisciplinary information on Africa, from the 19th century to the present.
  

Asian Studies

• ABIA: South & Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index -- bibliographic index of books and articles on South & Southeast Asian art and archaeology.
  
• Bibliography of Asian Studies -- a comprehensive bibliographic index to articles and other published materials on all fields of Asian Studies.
  
• Nichigai -- citations for articles in more than 16,000 Japanese periodicals and annual reports.
  
• Toyogaku bunken ruimoku kensaku -- citations for articles and books on South, Southeast, Central and East Asia.

Islamic Studies

• Index Islamicus -- citations for books and articles on Islam and the Muslim world.

Jewish Studies

• Index to Jewish Periodicals --  indexing to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories covering Jewish affairs
  
• RAMBI: The Index to Articles on Jewish Studies. -- includes material in Hebrew (UNICODE support required).

Spanish and Latin American Studies

• Bibliografia de la Literatura Espanola desde 1980 -- bibliography of Spanish literature.
  
• Bibliografia General Espanola siglo XV-2000 -- citations for materials published in or about Spain.
  
• Chicano Database: CDB --  bibliographic materials on Mexican-American topics 1967 to the present. Scope expanded 1992 to include the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants. Includes the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database.
  
• Clase Periodica -- index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities.
  
• Handbook of Latin American Studies -- bibliography and index to publications from and about Latin America and the Caribbean
  
• Hispanic American Periodical Index Online -- citations to articles and book reviews about Latin America, the Caribbean, and Hispanic Americans.
  
• Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC) -- citations from tables of contents of Latin American periodicals.

Slavic Studies

• ABSEES: American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies -- citations for North American publications related to Russia, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.