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Periodical & Document Indexes for Research
Finding Articles
Periodical indexes are resources that identify and locate articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers. Increasingly, indexes are available as online databases that will often provide access to the full text of the articles.
GENERAL INDEXES
Academic Search Premier
[Restricted to Cornell]
Provides citations and abstracts for articles from over 4,140 journals, and includes full text from over 3,170 journals.
ProQuest Research Library
[Restricted to Cornell]
Indexes and abstracts
an extensive number of periodicals, covering general interest magazines and
scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities and sciences. Also included
are citations and abstracts to selected television and radio programs. Full
text of many articles is provided.
INDEXES FOR SPECFIC SUBJECTS
ERIC
(Educational Resources Information Center)
[Open Access]
Web-based
digital library of free education-related sources of interest to educators,
researchers, and the general public, and consists primarily of electronic
bibliographic records describing journal and non-journal literature. Includes
links to full-text when available.
Lexis-Nexis Academic
[Restricted to Cornell]
Provides
access to full text resources on topics including current and general news;
business and financial information; newspapers; company directories; government
and politics; medical and health topics; accounting, auditing, and tax; federal
and state laws; legal cases; and regulations. Resources include TV and radio
news transcripts.
PAIS International (CSA) [Restricted to Cornell]
Contains citations to public policy literature of economics, government, law, international business, political science, public administration, and other social sciences. It includes references to journal articles, books, government documents, reports and pamphlets in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Finding Documents
URBAN DOCUMENTS
Index to Current Urban Documents is the only regularly published guide to the reports and research that are generated by local government agencies, civic organizations, academic and research organizations public libraries, and metropolitan and regional planning agencies in approximately 500 selected cities in the United States and Canada. It indexes over 2,400 documents yearly, providing a spectrum of access to local information. The yearly subscription to ICUD includes a fully searchable online index with full text documents available as PDF file.
The indexes for earlier years are in print. Olin Reference Z 1223.5 .A1 I38+. We have the microfiche set of the texts of the documents for 8 years, 1990-1997: Olin Microfiche 1157. Prior years must be ordered through Interlibrary Services.
UNITED NATIONS DOCUMENTS
The vast majority of U.N. documents are not cataloged with Library of Congress call numbers. For these documents, the most important information to obtain by searching is the U.N. Document Symbol. Uncataloged U.N. documents are shelved or filed by this symbol. More information about U.N. Document Symbols.
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AccessUN covers 1948 to date. Available in the Find Databases Collection in the Library Gateway. Cornell only. 14 simultaneous users.
Web index of U.N. documents (plus selected full text of documents). Indexes Official Records, masthead documents, draft resolutions, meeting records, UN Sales Publications, and the UN Treaty Series. Coverage back to 1944 is slated to be available by April 2002. For Official Records and masthead documents, search ODS Online (below) by document number to find the full text (1992- only). Before 1992, check the Readex microfiche or microprint sets. Make a note of the "Readex Year" if checking the microfiche from 1992 forward.
UNBISnet covers 1979 to date. Free to the public. Unlimited access.
Catalog of U.N. publications and documentation indexed by the United Nations Dag Hammarskjold Library and the Library of the U.N. Office at Geneva, so it includes non-U.N. publications. Searches can be limited to U.N. docs only. Links to selected full-text documents. Use this online index to locate the U.N. document number; then search ODS Online (below) by document number to find the full text (1992- only). For documents before 1992, check the Readex microfiche set. In the future, UNBISnet will be directly linked to ODS online.
UNBISnet also includes searchable voting records for all resolutions which were adopted - either without a vote or by roll-call or recorded vote - by the General Assembly beginning with its 38th session (1983-) and the Security Council beginning with its 1st year (1946-). And a searchable index to citations to speeches made in the General Assembly beginning with its 38th session (1983-), the Security Council beginning with its 38th year (1983-), the Economic and Social Council beginning in 1983 and the Trusteeship Council beginning with its 15th special session (1982).
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United Nations Official Documents: ODS Online covers 1992 to date full-text, 1946 to date for resolutions. ODS is now available free to the public.
Official repository for documents published by the United Nations. The full text of documents dating back to 1992 is accessible in Portable Document Format (PDF) as Microsoft Word 6 files in all official languages of the United Nations - Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. U.N. documents are available back to 1992. U.N. Resolutions, which includes resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, and Trusteeship Council are available since 1946. Use advanced search and select resolutions.
Searching tips: Use UNBISnet or AccessUN to locate the Document Symbol for the title you want, then search ODS by the Docment Symbol. UNBISnet contains the full range of indexing for U.N. documents; ODS does not. Once you have the document symbol, however, progressively truncating the symbol on the right can produce a more complete set of documents than a keyword search in AccessUN or UNBISnet.
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