Selected Subject Databases: An Annotated List

Need a shortcut to some of the most comprehensive indexes to the literature in a particular subject area? This annotated list directs you to major databases of journal articles (and more!) available through the E-Research @ Harvard Libraries website. If the subject area you need is not included on the list below, use Find E-Resources and search by subject or keyword to find databases of journal articles in additional subject areas, or contact the Gutman Research and Instruction Services staff for suggestions. If your topic involves several subject areas, try a multidisciplinary database.

Please note: Use of most E-Resources through the E-Research @ Harvard Libraries website requires a current Harvard ID and a PIN.

Anthropology
Anthropological Literature -- Indexes articles in periodicals, monograph series, and edited works. Material available in Harvard's Tozzer Library; Tozzer call numbers provided.

Art
Art Full Text (1984+) -- Indexes over 490 art journals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, and includes exhibition and book reviews.

Business/Management
ABI Inform (1971+) -- 1000+ academic management, marketing, and general business journals.
Factiva.com (1969+) -- Over 10,000 business and news publications.

Economics
EconLit (1969+) -- Indexes over 600 major journals as well as articles in collective volumes (essays, proceedings, etc.), books, book reviews, dissertations, etc.

Education
ERIC (1966+) -- Indexes hundreds of journals in education and related fields, as well as thousands of education documents (research reports, papers, proceedings, and selected books). Many ERIC documents are available in full text on the ERIC website; check the ERIC microfiche collection available at Gutman Library for full text of ERIC documents that are not available on the ERIC website.
Education Abstracts (1983+) -- Indexes about 680 education journals; includes book reviews.

History
America: History & Life (1964+) -- Indexes over 1,700 major journals covering the U.S. and Canada from prehistory to the present. Also includes book and media reviews and citations to abstracts of dissertations.
Historical Abstracts (1955+) -- Over 1,700 journals published throughout the world covering the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).

Humanities
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (ISI Web of Science) (1975+) -- Indexes 1,130 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Unique feature: the articles' cited reference lists are included (full-text) and are searchable.

Language & Literature
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (1973+) -- LLBA indexes and provides abstracts for journal articles from over 1,500 journals annually in all areas of language and linguistics. International in scope, LLBA also includes books, book chapters, etc. in all areas of language and linguistics.
MLA Bibliography (Modern Language Association) (1963+) -- Indexes over 4,400 journals and series as well as relevant monographs, working papers and proceedings pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.

Law
LexisNexis Academic -- Legal, news and business sources. Legal materials include federal and state case law, statues, secondary sources such as law reviews, and state legal materials.
LegalTrac (1980+) -- Indexes nearly 1,000 legal sources from the English-speaking world, including law reviews, international legal journals, bar association journals and legal newspapers.

Medicine
PubMed(mid 1950s+) -- Indexes about 5,000 journals published world-wide as well as selected monographs of congresses and symposia.

News
LexisNexis Academic -- News, business, and legal sources. News sources include 7000 English language newspapers, newsletters, magazines, trade journals, wire services and broadcast transcripts. Earliest coverage begins around 1980 but varies by title.
Factiva.com (1969+) -- Over 10,000 business and news publications.

Psychology
PsycINFO (1887+) -- Covers psychology and related disciplines. Indexes over 2,200 journals and dissertations in more than 27 languages as well as book chapters and books in the English language. Popular literature is excluded.

Reference
Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection -- Oxford Reference Online contains dictionaries, thesauri, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.

Sciences
Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI Web of Science) (1900+) -- Indexes 5,800 major journals in 150 scientific disciplines.
Note: To find a more specialized science index, use Find E-Resources to search for a resource by "subject" (e.g., biology) and "type" (e.g., indexes to journal articles).

Social Sciences
Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI Web of Science) (1956+) -- A multidisciplinary index to more than 1,700 journals from 50 social sciences disciplines.

Sociology
Sociological Abstracts (1963+) -- Indexes over 1,800 journals as well as relevant dissertation listings, conference papers, selected books, and citations of book reviews.

Statistics
LexisNexis Statistical (1973+) -- Indexes the statistical content of selected U.S. and state government publications, as well as business and association publications.

Multidisciplinary Resources
Academic Search Premier -- Indexes about 8,000 journals. Most complete coverage begins in the 1990s but varies by title.
WorldCat -- Indexes books, titles of journals, dissertations, reports, videos, etc. from the collections of over 10,000 college, university, and major public libraries as well as from the Library of Congress.