Head, Media & Reserve Services
Note that some databases below include full-text articles while others only tell you that an article or book chapter exists. For the latter category, IU-Link will help you determine if IU already has access to the full-text.
Open Access Journal Directories
- Directory of Open Access Journals
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Vetted openly available scholarly journals - ROAD: Directory of Open Access Journals
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A project of ISSN, the intergovernmental organization which manages at the international level the identification and the description of serial publications and ongoing resources, print and online, in any subject.
Academic Databases
- Academic Search (EBSCO)
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Provides full-text coverage of magazine, newspaper, and scholarly journal articles for most academic disciplines.
- America: History & Life
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Bibliographic database focusing on the history and life of the United States and Canada, indexing more than 1,800 journals published, dissertations and reviews.
- American Bibliography of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ABSEEES)
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Provides information on East-Central Europe, Russia, Soviet Union and the former Soviet republics, with a collection of indexed sources published in the United States, Canada and some European countries.
- Année Philologique
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Covers classical languages and literatures, ancient authors, Greek and Latin. Includes brief abstracts of articles.
- Bibliography of Asian Studies
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Western-language bibliographical database for research on East, Southeast and South Asia. Published by the Association for Asian Studies, it covers all subjects with special focus on the humanities and social sciences.
- Bibliography of British and Irish History
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The Bibliography of British and Irish History provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present.
- Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America
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Bibliographic database covering all aspects of Indigenous culture, history, and life in North America. Includes more than 350,000 citations for newspapers, magazines, academic journals, books, reviews, and trade publications from the United States and Canada with expanded content from Great Britain and Australia.
- Central and Eastern European Online Library
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Full-text access to a searchable online archive of academic e-journals and e-books in the Humanities and Social Sciences from and about Central and Eastern Europe.
- China Academic Journals
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Provides access to hundreds of Chinese periodicals related to literature, history, philosophy, economics, political science, and law.
- China Doctoral Dissertations/Masters Theses Full-text Database
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Searchable full-text database of dissertations and theses from Chinese institutions, covering a wide range of subjects.
- Digital Library of Buddhist Studies (National Taiwan University)
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In Chinese and English. A database that includes bibliographies, full-text scholarship, scriptures, and language lessons.
- GenderWatch
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Full text database with a focus on how gender impacts a variety of subject areas.
- Historical Abstracts
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Index to journals, chapters and theses about world history, 1450 to present. - International African Bibliography Online
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The International African Bibliography Online (IABO) is a specialist bibliography of African Studies and contains 140,000 entries of the International African Bibliography published in the years 1971 to 2015 and about 4,000 new publications will be added per year. - International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
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Indexes anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology, and interdisciplinary research in social sciences. - International Medieval Bibliography
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The IMB indexes articles in journals, conference proceedings, collections of essays and Festschriften. Indexing includes materials worldwide in a variety of languages. - Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
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Interdisciplinary resources pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). - JSTOR
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Provides searchable full-text of historical runs of important scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, sciences, ecology, and business. - MLA International Bibliography
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The MLA Bibliography indexes material in modern languages, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film. - OpenDissertations
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Free database providing access to records for more than 1.2 million electronic theses and dissertations from around the world. - Project Muse
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Provides full text access and indexing for e-journals and e-books from a variety of scholarly publishers. Covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, including millions of works from thousands of universities. Each dissertation published since July, 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637.
- Religion and Philosophy Collection
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Full-text database for theology and philosophy research. Includes hundreds of journals and magazines covering many religious and philosophical topics, including world religions, religious history, political philosophy and philosophy of language.