Indexes and Databases

Primary Indexes (Databases)

MLA International Bibliography -Indexes international scholarly materials on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Produced by the Modern Language Association of America.

Historical Abstracts - A bibliographic database to the history of the world from 1450 to the present. Covers scholarly literature published between 1955 and the present. It indexes articles from over 2,100 (about 900 are published in the U.S.). Includes books reviews and dissertations. Materials in many languages are indexed. 

Additional Indexes

Academic search premier - ASP contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,200 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. Academic Search Premier contains unmatched full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, education, English literature, etc.

Proquest Dissertations and Theses - PQDT provides online access to over 2 million dissertations and master's theses, many of which are available in full text for immediate downloading. Citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861 and full text online from 1997 for over 1,000 schools submitting to the ProQuest UMI database. More than 55,000 new citations are added to the database every year.