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OCLC FirstSearch Service Databases in Brief

Connecting to a World of Information

The OCLC FirstSearch service is a comprehensive reference service with a rich collection of databases supporting research in a wide range of subject areas. It includes bibliographic and full-text databases in addition to ready-reference tools such as directories, almanacs and encyclopedias. At the heart of FirstSearch is WorldCat^®, containing more than 106 million records representing over 900 million holding locations in libraries worldwide. WorldCat adds value to databases in FirstSearch by linking citations to holdings that helps users find these materials in their own libraries and through the WorldCat Resource Sharing service. You can also limit your searches to the collections of your own library or library group.

Recent Updates

Discontinued Databases
Effective July 1, 2008, these databases are no longer available from FirstSearch:.

• BasicBIOSIS
• Business Organizations, Agencies, and Publications Directory
• Inspec

RLG Eureka^® Databases
Twelve RLG Eureka databases are now available from the OCLC FirstSearch service.

PsycINFO
Effective May 2007, the PsycINFO database has changed it name to PsycINFO to reflect expanded coverage.

 

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Summary of FirstSearch Database Features

ABI/INFORM, ATLAS, Electronic Collections Online, Periodical Abstracts, PsycARTICLES, PsycCRITIQUES and Wilson Select Plus provide full text of articles available from other databases. Some online full text is available, as indicated, from JSTOR, an online document supplier for scholarly journals.

FirstSearch Database	Suggested Audience by Library Type (may include users, librarians, faculty, or staff)	Ordering Options	Links to Libraries that Own Item	Links to Local OPACs	Z39.50 Links to Holdings	Full Text Availability
						Via Other Databases	Via OCLC ILL Link	Via OpenURL Linking	Online Full Text
ABI/INFORM	Academic, Public	Subscription and Per-Search (per-search not available to users outside the U.S. and Canada)	X	X	X	X	X	Inbound Outbound	Articles, JSTOR links
AGRICOLA	Academic	Subscription and Per-Search	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
Alternative Press Index	Academic, Public	Subscription and Per-Search	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	Hot links to publisher web sites, JSTOR links
Alternative Press Index Archive	Academic, Public	Subscription and Per-Search	X	X	X		X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
Anthropological Index	Academic	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only
Anthropological Literature	Academic	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only
Anthropology Plus	Academic	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only
Applied Science & Technology Abstracts	Academic, Public	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
Applied Science & Technology Index	Academic, Public	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
Art Abstracts	Academic, Public	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
Art Index	Academic, Public	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
OCLC ArticleFirst®	Academic, Public	Subscription and Per-Search	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
Arts & Humanities Search	Academic	Subscription and Per-Search	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
ATLA Religion	Academic	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Inbound Outbound	Articles, serials, JSTOR links
ATLA Serials	Academic	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Inbound Outbound	Articles, serials, JSTOR links
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals	Academic	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only
Bibliography of the History of Art	Academic, Museums, Galleries	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbond only
Biography Index	Academic, Public, School	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only
Biological & Agricultural Index	Academic	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
Biology Digest	Academic, Public, School	Subscription and Per-Search	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
Book Review Digest	Academic, Public, School	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
Books In Print	Academic, Public, School	Subscription and Per-Search		X	X		X	Outbound only	Reviews and publisher information
Business Dateline	Academic, Public	Subscription and Per-Search (per-search not available to users outside the U.S. and Canada)		X	X		X	Inbound Outbound	Articles
Business & Industry	Academic, Public	Subscription and Per-Search, not available to corporations	X	X	X	X	X	Inbound Outbound	Articles
Business & Management Practices	Academic, Public	Subscription and Per-Search	X	X	X	X	X	Inbound Outbound	Articles, JSTOR links
CA Student Edition	Academic	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
Chicano Database	Academic, Public	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only
Clase and Periódica	Academic, Public	Subscription and Per-Search	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only
Contemporary Women's Issues	Academic, Public	Subscription and Per-Search	X			X		Inbound Outbound	Articles
Disclosure Corporate Snapshots (Brief entries)	Academic, Public	Per-search only		X					Directory only; Financials additional charge
DisclosureS Corporate Snapshots (Full entries)	Academic, Public	Subscription only		X					Directory, Financials
Dissertation Abstracts	Academic	Subscription and Per-Search (per-search not available to users outside the U.S. and Canada)		X			X	Outbound only
EconLit	Academic	Subscription and Per-Search	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
Education Abstracts	Academic, School	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
Education Index	Academic, School	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
Electronic Books	Academic, Public, School	Subscription and Per-Search	X	X	X			Outbound only	Links to public domain and licensed e-books
Electronic Collections Online	Academic	Subscription, Per-Search, and Per-Article Use Purchase	X	X	X	X	X	Inbound Outbound	Articles (PDF, RealPage, HTML), JSTOR links
Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management	Academic	Subscription only	X					Outbound only
ERIC--includes thesaurus	Academic, School	Subscription and Per-Search	X	X	X	Link to ERIC, X	X	Outbound only	ERIC Digest documents, JSTOR links
Essay and General Literature Index	Academic, Public	Subscription only		X	X		X	Outbound only
FRANCIS	Academic, Public	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only
General Science Abstracts	Academic, Public, School	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
General Science Index	Academic, Public, School	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
GEOBASE	Academic	Subscription and Per-Search	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
GeoRefS--includes thesaurus	Academic	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
GPO Monthly Catalog	Academic	Subscription and Per-Search	X	X	X		X	Outbound only
Hand Press Book	Academic	Subscription only
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine	Academic	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only
Humanities Abstracts	Academic, Public, School	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
Humanities Index	Academic, Public, School	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
Index to Legal Periodicals & Books	Academic	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals	Academic	Subscrption only				X	Outbound only
Library Literature	Academic, Public, School	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only
MEDLINE--includes thesaurus	Academic, Public	Subscription and Per-Search	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
MLA International Bibliography (Includes Directory of Periodicals, Thesaurus)	Academic	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
Newspaper Abstracts	Academic, Public	Subscription and Per-Search (per-search not available to users outside the U.S. and Canada)	X	X	X		X	Outbound only
PAIS® Archive	Academic, Public	Subscription only	X	X	X		X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
PAIS International® (Includes PAIS International subject authority files)	Academic, Public	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	Links to web resources and publisher web sites, JSTOR links
OCLC PapersFirst®	Academic, Public	Subscription and Per-Search						Outbound only
Periodical Abstracts	Academic, Public, School	Subscription and Per-Search (per-search not available to users outside the U.S. and Canada)	X	X	X	X	X	Inbound Outbound	Articles, JSTOR links
Philospher's Index	Academic	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
OCLC ProceedingsFirst®	Academic, Public, School	Subscription and Per-Search						Outbound only
PsycARTICLES	Academic	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Inbound Outbound	X
PsycBOOKS—includes thesaurus	Academic	Subscription only		X				Outbound only	X
PsycCRITIQUES—includes thesaurus	Academic	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Inbound Outbound	X
PsycFIRST--includes thesaurus	Academic	Per-search only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only
PsycINFO--includes thesaurus	Academic	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
Readers' Guide Abstracts	Academic, School	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature	Academic, public, School	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	Links to web resources and publisher web sites; JSTOR links
RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals	Academic	Subscription only	X	X	X		X	Outbound only
Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies	Academic	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only
SCIPIO	Academic, Public	Subscription only	X	X			X	Outbound only
SIRS Researcher	Public, School	Subscription and Per-Search		X			X	Outbound only	Articles with images
Social Sciences Abstracts	Public, School	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
Social Sciences Index	Public, School	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
Sociological Abstracts--includes thesaurus	Academic	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
Wilson Business Abstracts	Academic	Subscription only	X	X	X	X	X	Outbound only	JSTOR links
Wilson Select Plus	Public	Subscription and Per-Search	X	X	X	X	X	Inbound Outbound	Articles, JSTOR links
World Almanacs	Academic, Public, School	Subscription and Per-Search							Full entries with images (Hot links to some free full text)
WorldCat® (the OCLC Online Union Catalog)--includes thesaurus	Academic, Public, School	Subscription and Per-Search	X	X	X		X	Outbound only
WorldCat® Dissertations and Theses	Academic, Public, School	In U.S.: Subscription only, as part of OCLC Collection or OCLC Base Package. For regions outside the U.S., contact your regional service provider.	X	X			X	Outbound only	Links to public domain and licensed dissertations and theses
Worldscope GLOBAL (Brief entries)	Academic, Public, School	Per-search only		X					Directory only; Financials additional charge
WorldscopeS GLOBAL (Full entries)	Academic, Public	Subscription only		X					Directory, Financials

FirstSearch Database Descriptions and Producers (Indicating Full-text, Holdings and OCLC ILL Link Options)

ABI/INFORM—ProQuest Information and Learning 

Coverage: Aug. 1971-present
Update Frequency: Weekly
No. of records and sources: 3.1 million+ records; 3,200+ sources

Covers nearly every aspect of business, including company histories and new product development. Citations include abstracts and indexes of significant articles from current business and management periodicals. Provides access to the ASCII full text of articles from hundreds of journals. Full-text articles from this database link to citations throughout the FirstSearch service.

AGRICOLA—National Agriculture Library 

Coverage: Cataloging records from 1970-present
Update Frequency: Monthly during academic year
No. of records and sources: 4.2+ million records; 2,500+ journals and other materials

Covers every major agricultural subject, including agricultural engineering and marketing, animal breeding, entomology, environmental pollution, farm management, foods and feeds, pesticides, rural sociology, veterinary medicine, and water resources. Citations consist of journal articles, book chapters, monographs, conference proceedings, serials, technical reports, and other materials on a range of agricultural topics.

Alternative Press Index—Alternative Press Center 

Coverage: 1991-present
Update Frequency: Quarterly
No. of records and sources: 300,000+ records; 500+ sources

Indexes alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines. Interdisciplinary and international in scope. Other features include selected abstracts, journal record information and hot links to publisher websites.

Alternative Press Index Archive—Alternative Press Center 

Coverage: 1969-1990
Update Frequency: Complete archive
No. of records and sources: 470,000+ records; 700 sources

Comprehensive index of alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines published from 1969 to 1990. Interdisciplinary and international in scope. Includes book, film and television reviews, interviews, obituaries and biographical information in addition to feature articles.

Anthropological Index—Royal Anthropological Institute. 

Coverage: 1957-present
Update Frequency: 8 to 12 times per year
No. of records and sources: 335,000+ records; 2,500+ journals

Indexes in the fields of physical anthropology, archaeology, cultural ethnography, and linguistics and draws on the collections of the de facto national anthropology library of Britain. Entries are compiled from journals held in the Anthropology Library of the British Museum.

Anthropological Literature—Harvard University, Tozzer Library. 

Coverage: Early 19th Century to present
Update Frequency: Quarterly
No. of records and sources: 560,000+ records; 4,370+ journals and other sources

Is the most comprehensive international resource for the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and related interdisciplinary research. Available online only from OCLC and produced by one of the world's foremost anthropology libraries, Anthropological Literature indexes journals and monographic series held in Harvard University's Tozzer Library. These include articles, reports, commentaries and obituaries.

Anthropology Plus—Harvard University, Tozzer Library and the Royal Athropological Institute. 

Coverage: Late 19th Century to present
Update Frequency: 8 to 12 times per year
No. of records and sources: 895,000+ records; 6,870+ sources

Is the world's most comprehensive, focused index of bibliographic materials from the late 1800s to today in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and interdisciplinary studies. Available online only from OCLC, Anthropology Plus unites two premier indexes created in two hemispheres. Together, Harvard University's Anthropological Literature database and the Royal Anthropological Institute's Anthropological Index provide a uniquely broad and rich resource for education and research in anthropology and related fields.

Applied Science & Technology Abstracts/Applied Science & Technology Index—H. W. Wilson Company 

Coverage: Oct. 1983-present; abstracts March 1994-present
Update Frequency: Weekly
No. of records and sources: 1.6 million+ records; 775 journals

Leads users to the latest findings in every area of science, engineering and technology. Covers trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies and specialized subject periodicals. Abstract database records include abstracts and indexing information. Index database records include indexing only.

Art Abstracts/Art Index—H. W. Wilson Company 

Coverage: Sept. 1984-present
Update Frequency: Weekly; abstracts Spring 1994-present
No. of records and sources: 749,000+ records; 506 journals

A dependable, comprehensive and authoritative information source about the world of the arts, from architecture to video. Covers leading art publications from around the world and serves as a comprehensive record of art reproductions that appear in the indexed publications. Abstracts database records include abstracts and indexing information. Index database records include indexing only.

OCLC ArticleFirst^®—OCLC 

Coverage: Jan. 1990-present
Update Frequency: Daily
No. of records and sources: 24 million+ records; 16,000+ journals

Offers searching and browsing of articles and tables of contents from thousands of journals. Contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Each record describes one article, news story, letter, or other item.

Arts & Humanities Search—Thomson Scientific 

Coverage: 1980-present
Update Frequency: Weekly
No. of records and sources: 3 million+ records; 5,500+ sources

The online equivalent of Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Provides complete indexing for many of the world's leading arts and humanities journals in a broad range of disciplines. Also includes individually selected, relevant items from thousands of the world's leading science and social science journals.

ATLA Religion—American Theological Library Association 

Coverage: 1949-present
Update Frequency: Quarterly
No. of records and sources: 1.3 million+ records; 1,589 sources

A comprehensive reference database designed to support religious and theological scholarship in graduate education and faculty research. Contains citations from international titles and multi-author works related to the field of religion. Includes a full range of index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews from ATLA print indexes.

ATLA Serials Database—American Theological Library Association 

Coverage: 1949-present
Update Frequency: Quarterly
No. of records and sources: 240,000+ records; 100+ sources

A full-text database designed to support religious and theological scholarship. Contains the full text of selected journals in religion and theology indexed in the ATLA Religion database.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals—J. Paul Getty Trust 

Coverage: 1741-present
Update Frequency: Weekly
No. of records and sources: 609,000+ records; 4,600+ sources

Has been lauded as the single most important worldwide bibliographical research tool available worldwide for research in urban design, architecture, historic preservation, and urban planning history. The only comprehensive American guide to the current literature of architecture and design, the Avery Index now surveys US and foreign journals, three-fourths of which are not indexed in any other source.

Bibliography of the History of Art—J. Paul Getty Trust & Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 

Coverage: 1973-present
Update Frequency: Quarterly
No. of records and sources: 650,824+ records; 4819+ periodicals

Is the most comprehensive art bibliography available worldwide, covering European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present. This database indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogs, and articles.

Biography Index—H. W. Wilson Company 

Coverage: July 1984-present
Update Frequency: Weekly
No. of records and sources: 498,000+ records; 3,000+ periodicals; 2,000+ books

Cites periodicals and books, including individual and collective biographies, and juvenile literature.

Biological & Agricultural Index—H. W. Wilson Company 

Coverage: 1983-present
Update Frequency: Weekly
No. of records and sources: 1.3 million+ records; 378 journals

Provides information on topics from groundwater pollution to genetic engineering and covers the entire range of sciences related to biology and agriculture. Indexes key periodicals in the life sciences and agriculture. Includes current book reviews.

Biology Digest—Plexus Publishing 

Coverage: 1989-present
Update Frequency: 9 times/year
No. of records and sources: 50,000+ records; 700 sources

Covers all of the life sciences. Specially created to meet the needs of college undergraduates and high school students. Gives easy access to new scientific developments, with comprehensive subject-oriented abstracts.

Book Review Digest—H. W. Wilson Company 

Coverage: 1983-present
Update Frequency: Weekly
No. of records and sources: 835,000+ records; 154 sources

Provides instant access to book reviews from American and Canadian periodicals. Some 7,000 adult and children's books are reviewed and added to the list every year. Concise critical evaluations are culled from selected journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences, as well as library review media.

Books In Print—R.R. Bowker 

Coverage: Coverage varies
Update Frequency: Weekly
No. of records and sources: 7.8 million+ records; 1 million+ reviews

Provides complete, publisher-verified information on all U.S. books in print. Contains in-print and forthcoming books, audios, and videos. Also includes books, audios, and videos declared out-of-print or out-of-stock since 1979. Includes more than 900,000 new or revised records each year and covers scholarly, technical, popular, adult, juvenile, and reprint titles. Also includes full-text book reviews and complete publisher information.

Business Dateline—ProQuest Information and Learning 

Coverage: 1985-present
Update Frequency: Weekly
No. of records and sources: 1.8 million+ records; 800+ sources

Provides access to full-text articles from newspapers, city business magazines and U.S. and Canadian wire services. An essential business information tool for monitoring the latest trends in industry, health, environmental issues, education, and much more.

Business & Industry—The Gale Group 

Coverage: Mid 1994-present
Update Frequency: Daily
No. of records and sources: 3.6 million+ records; 1,800+ sources

A multi-industry, international database that provides access to company, industry, market, and product information. ASCII full­-text articles are available online for the majority of those sources. Not available to corporations.

Business & Management Practices—The Gale Group 

Coverage: 1995-present
Update Frequency: Weekly
No. of records and sources: 596,000+ records; 1,300+ sources

Provides information on business and management issues such as decision making; implementing new technology; planning for the future; dealing with internal and external issues; and expanding businesses. Covers business methodology with emphasis on case studies and practical applications. Approximately 60% of the records include full text.

CA Student Edition—Chemical Abstracts Service 

Coverage: 1967-present
Update Frequency: Weekly
No. of records and sources: 4.5 million+ records; 316 journals; 300,000 dissertations

Provides indexing and abstracting for the most widely held chemistry journals as well as dissertations. Designed to meet the chemical information needs in coverage, content, and indexing for undergraduate students.

Chicano Database—Ethnic Studies Library, University of California at Berkeley  

Coverage: 1960s-present
Update Frequency: Quarterly
No. of records and sources: 59,000+ records; 2,470+ journals and other materials

Available only from OCLC, this is the most comprehensive bibliographic resource for information about Mexican-American topics and the only specialized database for Chicano reference. It identifies, in one place, all types of material about Chicanos and provides uniform subject access to this constantly growing body of literature.

Clase and Periódica—Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Systems 

Coverage: Clase 1975-present; Periódica 1978-present
Update Frequency: Quarterly
No. of records and sources: 535,000+ records; 2,700 journals

CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American and Caribbean journals specializing in social sciences and humanities. PERIÓDICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. CLASE and PERIÓDICA offer access to more than 455,000 citations from documents published in 2,700 selected scholarly journals in Spanish, Portugese, French, and English. They have become significant reference resources for those interested in what is published in or about Latin America.

Contemporary Women's Issues—The Gale Group 

Coverage: 1992-present
Update Frequency: Weekly
No. of records and sources: 90,000+ records; 2,407 sources

Covers sources (periodical and nonperiodical) published by more than 100 organizations around the world. Focuses on timely and relevant topics and meaningful issues for women, including health, human rights, the work place, legal status, and more. Full text is available from most sources.

Disclosure Corporate Snapshots (Brief entries)—Thomson Research 

Coverage: Current file
Update Frequency: Weekly
No. of records: 9,100+ records

Contains directory information on U.S. companies filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Includes company name, cross references, telephone numbers, ticker symbol, Fortune and Forbes numbers, SIC Codes, and a business description. Full records with financials are available through the full-text function for an additional charge.

DisclosureS Corporate Snapshots (Full entries)—Thomson Research 

Coverage: Current file
Update Frequency: Weekly
No. of records: 9,100+ records

Contains in-depth information on U.S. companies filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Covers all directory information in the brief entries database, as well as financials with information on shares, shareholders, number of employees, auditor's report, segment data, five-year summary, key annual financial information, and pricing/dividend information, and more.

Dissertation Abstracts—ProQuest Information and Learning 

Coverage: 1861-present; dissertation abstracts since 1980, theses since spring 1988
Update Frequency: Monthly
No. of records and sources: 2.2 million+ dissertations and theses

Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations.

EconLit—American Economic Association Publications 

Coverage: 1969-present
Update Frequency: Monthly
No. of records and sources: 900,000+ records; 1,400+ journals and other materials

Contains citations, with abstracts, to books, working papers and articles in economics journals. Also contains subject indexing to dissertations, collective works and full-text book reviews. Corresponding printed sources are: Journal of Economic Literature, Index of Economic Articles, and Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics.

Education Abstracts/Education Index—H. W. Wilson Company 

Coverage: June 1983-present; abstracts Aug. 1994-present
Update Frequency: Weekly
No. of records and sources: 734,000+ records; 747 sources

Provides thorough and reliable indexing of leading periodicals for students, teachers, professors and college administrators. Encompasses all areas of concern to today's educators, including administration, teaching methods and curriculum. Abstract database records include abstracts and indexing information. Index database records include indexing only.

Electronic Books (Ebooks) 

Coverage: All cataloged Ebooks to the present
Update Frequency: Daily
No. of records and sources: over 775,000+ books

Contains records on all subjects cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Citations link to full text licensed from NetLibrary and other electronic providers as well as to free electronic books available from educational, government and other websites.

OCLC FirstSearch® Electronic Collections Online™—OCLC 

Coverage: Varies by journal
Update Frequency: Daily
No. of records and sources: 3.8 million+ records; 5,000+ journals

Access to journals in a variety of subject areas, all with full-image articles online. Articles from Electronic Collections Online journals are linked to corresponding citations in databases throughout the FirstSearch service. Articles from many journals can be purchased on a per-article use basis. Additionally, customized sets of bibliographic records are available for subscription journals.

Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management(TM) Database—CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) 

Coverage:1994-present
Update Frequency: Monthly
No. of records and sources: 1.2 million+ records; 6,000+ sources

A database with abstracts covering key areas of environmental science, including toxic hazards of chemicals, pharmaceuticals and other substances; air, marine and freshwater pollution as well as biochemical applications in water treatment and pollution are also covered.

ERIC—U. S. Department of Education 

Coverage: 1966-present
Update Frequency: Monthly
No. of records and sources: 1.2 million+ records; 600+ journals and other materials

A guide to published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics. ERIC records include over 150,000 full-text documents at no extra charge. The database includes the ERIC thesaurus, a complete list of descriptive terms used by ERIC to index and search the database. From ERIC, users can link to the ERIC full-text content free-of-charge.

Essay and General Literature Index—H. W. Wilson Company 

Coverage: 1985-present
Update Frequency: Annually
No. of records and sources: 75,000+ records; 320 sources

Cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and other works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada. Also indexed are more than 20 annual and serial publications. Includes full bibliographic information for the titles in which the collected works are found. Focuses on humanities and social sciences literature.

FRANCIS—Institut de l'information Scientifique et Technique du Centre National du CNRS 

Coverage: 1984-present
Update Frequency: Monthly
No. of records and sources: 1.6 million+ records; 4,300+ journals

Indexes multilingual, multidisciplinary information published in journals covering the humanities (67%), social sciences (30%), and economics (3%). Its breadth of subject areas and international scope complement many more narrowly focused databases, making FRANCIS an invaluable resource for research librarians.

General Science Abstracts/General Science Index—H. W. Wilson Company 

Coverage: May 1984-present
Update Frequency: Weekly; abstracts March 1993-present
No. of records and sources: 1 million+ records; 277 journals

Covers sources in the areas of astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, earth science, environmental issues, mathematics, medicine, physics and zoology. Abstract database records include abstracts and indexing information. Index database records include indexing only.

GEOBASE—Elsevier B.V. 

Coverage: 1980-present
Update Frequency: Twice monthly
No. of records and sources: 1.8 million+ records; 2,000+ journals and other sources

Contains citations with abstracts covering worldwide literature in journals on geography, geology, ecology, international development, and their related disciplines. Subject coverage includes cartography, climatology, energy, environment, geomorphology, hydrology, photogrammetry, sedimentology, geochemistry, geophysics, paleontology, petrology, volcanology, and much more.

GeoRefS—American Geological Institute 

Coverage: 1785-present
Update Frequency: Twice monthly
No. of records and sources: 2.9 million+ records; 3,500+ curent sources

Provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. Contains references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. Includes the GeoRef Thesaurus.

GPO Monthly Catalog—U. S. Government Printing Office 

Coverage: July 1976-present
Update Frequency: Monthly
No. of records: 520,000+ records

Consists of records published by the GPO since July 1976. Includes references for documents to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and more.

Hand Press Book—Consortium of European Research Libraries

Coverage: circa 1455-1830
Update Frequency: At least annually
No. of records and sources: 2.7 million+ records from 50+ national and university libraries in 16 countries

A unique and growing catalog of European printing in the early modern era (from the 15th century to the 1830s). Available online only from OCLC, this resource integrates descriptive records for major European national and university library holdings. It is especially valuable for research in intellectual history, social history, and transmission of thought —— as well as in the history of printing and the history of the book. It includes citations for works in Latin, Middle French, and other archaic languages.

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine—Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Wellcome Library, History of Science Society & Society for the History of Technology 

Coverage: 1975-present
Update Frequency: Monthly & annually
No. of records and sources: 290,000+ records; 9,500+ sources

Available only from OCLC, under the auspices of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science, this database integrates four premier tools to create the definitive international bibliography for the history of science, technology, and medicine, reflecting their influence on society and culture from prehistory to the present. Its value for interdisciplinary research is outstanding.

Humanities Abstracts/Humanities Index—H. W. Wilson Company 

Coverage: Feb. 1984-present
Update Frequency: Weekly; abstracts March 1994-present
No. of records and sources: 788,000+ records; 625 journals

Long regarded as the ideal references for periodical information in the diverse humanities subject area, this database indexes articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays and television and radio programs. Abstract database records include abstracts and indexing information. Index database records include indexing only.

Index to Legal Periodicals & Books—H. W. Wilson Company 

Coverage: Aug. 1981-present
Update Frequency: Weekly
No. of records and sources: 490,000+ records; 1,055 journals, 1,400 monographs

Provides thorough, reliable indexing of journals, yearbooks, law reviews, and bar association publications. Covers all areas of jurisprudence, including court decisions, legislation, and original scholarship.

Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals—Mary M. Schmidt 

Coverage: 1800-1899
Update Frequency: Static
No. of records and sources: 26,000+ records; 42 journals

Available only from OCLC, the Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals covers 42 periodicals published in the United States during the 19th century. This database is the sole online index to virtually all the art journals published in that period.

Library Literature—H. W. Wilson Company 

Coverage: Dec. 1984-present
Update Frequency: Weekly
No. of records and sources: 308,000+ records; 413 journals, 1,000+ books and other sources

The definitive index in the library and information science fields. Indexes both periodicals and monographs.

MEDLINE—U. S. National Library of Medicine 

Coverage: 1950-present
Update Frequency: Daily
No. of records and sources: 17 million+ records; 19,000 sources

Covers all areas of medicine, including clinical medicine, experimental medicine, dentistry, nursing, health services administration, nutrition, and much more. Includes the MeSH thesaurus.

MLA International Bibliography—Modern Language Association of America 

Coverage: 1926-present
Update Frequency: 9 times a year
No. of records and sources: 2.1 million+ records; 4,400+ sources

Indexes critical literary and language scholarship and provides access to journals and serials published worldwide, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Nearly 66,000 records are added annually. Subscribers can now get full information on many of the publications from records in the MLA Directory of Periodicals. Includes the MLA Thesaurus.

Newspaper Abstracts—ProQuest Information and Learning 

Coverage: 1986-present
Update Frequency: Weekly
No. of records and sources: 8.9 million+ records; 70 sources

Indexes and abstracts U.S. and regional newspapers, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and USA Today. The Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition) is indexed beginning Jan 1, 1990.

PAIS® Archive—CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) 

Coverage: PAIS Bulletin 1915-1976
Update Frequency: Complete archive
No. of records: approx. 1.2 million+ records

The PAIS Archive is a retrospective database chronicling global public policy and social issues. It contains electronic versions of unique records previously available only in the print editions of the PAIS Bulletin, 1915-1976. The PAIS Archive database is complementary to the contemporary coverage of the PAIS International database, also available on FirstSearch.

PAIS International^®—CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) 

Coverage: 1972-present
Update Frequency: Monthly
No. of records and sources: 621,000+ records; 3,895 journals

The premier resource for world affairs and public policy issues. Provides selective subject and bibliographic access to periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, Internet resources and web sites from 120 countries. Contains the PAIS International subject authority files.

OCLC PapersFirst^®—OCLC

Coverage: 1993-present
Update Frequency: Biweekly
No. of records and sources: 6.5 million+ records; any conference, meeting or proceedings received by The British Library

Covers every congress, symposium, exposition, workshop, and meeting added to The British Library Document Supply Centre's (BLDSC) vast proceedings collection since October 1993. The BLDSC is a document supplier for the OCLC Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service.

Periodical Abstracts—ProQuest Information and Learning 

Coverage: 1986-present
Update Frequency: Weekly
No. of records and sources: 6.6 million+ records; 3,000+ sources

A complete general reference resource, with indexing and abstracts for popular and academic periodicals. Included are transcripts of news-oriented television and radio shows. Full-text articles from this database link to citations throughout the FirstSearch service.

Philosopher's Index—Philosopher's Information Center 

Coverage: 1940-present
Update Frequency: Quarterly
No. of records and sources: 405,000+ records; 620+ sources

Covers all major fields of philosophy such as aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics, etc., and philosophy of related interdisciplinary fields such as education, history, law and religion. Contains citation information and author-written abstracts for journal articles, books, contributions to anthologies, and book reviews published from 1940 to the present. Indexes over 550 journals from more than 40 countries in 30 languages.

OCLC ProceedingsFirst^®—OCLC

Coverage: 1993-present
Update Frequency: Biweekly
No. of records and sources: 192,000+ records; any conference, meeting or proceedings received by The British Library

Provides tables of contents of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Each record contains a list of the papers presented at each conference. Like its companion, PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst provides access to The British Library Document Supply Centre's vast collection of conference proceedings.

PsycARTICLES—American Psychological Association 

Coverage: 1894-present
Update Frequency: Weekly
No. of records and sources: 122,000+ records; 60+ journals

Includes full text of articles from 50+ peer-reviewed journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and allied organizations. Topics include general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology.

PsycBOOKS—American Psychological Association 

Coverage: 1806-2004
Update Frequency: Monthly
No. of records and sources: 25,000+ records; 1,500+ books

Includes full text from approximately 600 books on all aspects of psychology with more than 10,000 individual chapters drawn from more than 500 APA books with copyright dates from 1950-2003, 100 out-of-print books, 75 archival resources in psychology, and more than 1,500 entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology. The database includes material that would be particularly relevant to psychologists and professionals in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work. Descriptors from the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms are assigned to records starting in 1967.

PsycCRITIQUES—American Psychological Association 

Coverage: 1956-present
Update Frequency: Weekly
No. of records and sources: 38,000+ records

Database of full-text reviews of current books, some popular films, videos, and software, as well as comparative reviews of books. It replaces the APA print journal Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books as of January 2005. Weekly releases of approximately 15-20 reviews that include current year copyright book reviews will be added to the database. PsycCRITIQUES also includes a backfile of more than 5,000 Contemporary Psychology reviews from 1956-2004.

Descriptors from the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms are assigned to records.

PsycFIRST—American Psychological Association 

Coverage: Most recent 3 years + updates for current year
Update Frequency: Weekly
No. of records and sources: 325,000+ records; 1,760+ currently indexed journals

The most recent three years, plus updates for the current year, of the PsycINFO database. (See PsycINFO.)

PsycINFO—American Psychological Association 

Coverage: 1806-present
Update Frequency: Weekly
No. of records and sources: 2.4 million+ records; 2,000+ currently indexed journals

Rich resource for research in psychology and related disciplines. Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines. Over 55,000 references are added yearly. Descriptors from the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms are assigned to records starting in 1967 to allow precise searching using the language of the discipline. Includes indexed materials from journals published in 50 countries and in 30 languages. Chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1806 to the present.

Readers' Guide Abstracts—H. W. Wilson Company 

Coverage: Jan. 1983-present
Update Frequency: Weekly; abstracts Sept. 1984-present.
No. of records and sources: 1.7 million+ records; 416 periodicals

An indispensable reference tool for all types of libraries. Indexes a key list of abstracts of popular magazines for any college, public library, or school collection. Covers business, consumer affairs, current events, education, fine arts, health, politics, and more.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature—RILM International Center 

Coverage: 1967-present
Update Frequency: Monthly
No. of records and sources: 519,000+ records; 10,000+ journals

Offers an international bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines in 200+ languages, including original language titles; title translations in English; full bibliographic information; abstracts in English; and author, journal, and subject indexes. Includes all forms of scholarly works, including coverage of journal titles since 1969.

RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals—RIPM International Center  

Coverage: Approximately 1800-1950
Update Frequency: Semiannually
No. of records and sources: 500,000+ records; 104 sources

Provides international coverage of the music periodical literature published from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries . It covers the history of music and musical life including contemporary information about composers, performers, critics, compositions, institutions, musical instruments, etc. published during the period 1800 - 1950. Priority treatment is given to journal published in Austria, Belgium, Canada, The Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the United States.

Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies—INION The Russian Academy of Sciences 

Coverage: 1980-present
Update Frequency: 2-3 times a year
No. of records and sources: 1.2 million+ records; 12,500 sources

Available online only as an OCLC database, the Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies INION database is a unique and rich source of information for students and specialists in Slavic studies and social sciences. Covering more than 12,500 periodicals published primarily in Russia, the republics of the former Soviet Union, and countries in Eastern Europe, it cites and abstracts books, manuscripts, dissertations, and articles.

SCIPIO—OCLC  

Coverage: Catalogs from the late 16th century to scheduled auctions not yet held
Update Frequency: Daily
No. of records and sources: 375,000+ records

SCIPIO is a joint project of 25 different fine arts organizations, combining their art catalog collections in the only online list of auction catalogs in existence. It provides information to auction sales catalogs from all major North American and European auction houses as well as many private sales, giving valuable information on art objects, rare books, history of collecting, as well as contemporary and historical market trends. The records include the dates and places of sales, the auction houses, and sellers.

SIRS Researcher—ProQuest Information and Learning 

Coverage: 1988-present; abstracts 1994-present
Update Frequency: Monthly
No. of records and sources: 70,000+ records; 1,600+ sources

Perfect for school and public library researchers, SIRS is a general database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, historic, economic, political, and global issues. Articles are carefully selected from domestic and international newspapers, magazines, journals, and government publications. Brief summaries accompany all articles added to the database since 1994. Images are available for some articles.

Social Sciences Abstracts/Social Sciences Index—H. W. Wilson Company 

Coverage: Feb. 1983-present
Update Frequency: Weekly: abstracts Jan. 1994-present
No. of records and sources: 964,000+ records; 646 sources

Covers core periodicals in the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, law and criminology, political science, social work, sociology, and international relations. Abstract database records include abstracts and indexing information. Index database records include indexing only.

Sociological Abstracts—CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) 

Coverage: 1963-present; abstracts since 1974
Update Frequency: 6 times a year
No. of records and sources: 800,000+ records; 2,000+ journals and other sources

Contains records, with abstracts, from journals covering all facets of sociology and related disciplines including anthropology, criminology, demography, education, law and penology, race relations, social psychology and urban studies. Includes the Thesaurus of Sociological Indexing Terms.

Wilson Business Abstracts—H. W. Wilson Company 

Coverage: June 1986-present; abstracts since 1990
Update Frequency: Weekly
No. of records and sources: 2 million+ records; 871 sources

Provides complete, accurate access to today's leading English-language business magazines. Topics include accounting, personnel, and small business.

Wilson Select Plus—H.W. Wilson Company 

Coverage: 1994-present
Update Frequency: Weekly
No. of records and sources: 1.5 million+ records; 2,393 sources

Covers high-quality periodicals with in-depth indexing and abstracts. All records point to complete online full text. Includes articles from periodicals indexed in other H.W. Wilson databases. Full-text articles from this database link to citations throughout the FirstSearch service.

World Almanacs—World Almanac Education Group, Inc. 

Coverage: Current file
Update Frequency: Annually (encyclopedia updated quarterly)
No. of records and sources: 32,000+ records; complete work

Includes the full text of all of the Almanac titles: The World Almanac and Book of Facts, providing key facts on a wide variety of subjects internationally; The World Almanac of the U.S.A. with essential facts about the United States--current and historical; The World Almanac of US Politics, a guidebook to federal, state, and local governments; The World Almanac for Kids, covering information and facts of interest to middle-school children and teachers; and the Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, a comprehensive general encyclopedia.

WorldCat^® (the OCLC Online Union Catalog)—OCLC 

Coverage: Approximately 2100 B.C. - present
Update Frequency: Daily
No. of records: 106+ million records

The world's most comprehensive bibliography, representing over 400 languages on materials ranging from stone tables to electronic books. WorldCat is now easier to search than ever. Recent enhancements include the ability to search by Library of Congress or Dewey Decimal Classification numbers, and to limit searches by material types, audiences and material formats. WorldCat includes information from 2100 BC to the present with thousands of records containing evaluative content such as tables of contents, cover art, book summaries and notes about the authors. It uses the Library of Congress Subject Headings as its thesaurus. Users can also directly browse issues of periodicals in the ArticleFirst database from bibliographic records for these titles in WorldCat. WorldCat adds value to other databases in FirstSearch by linking citations to interlibrary loans and to materials in users' own libraries. Most databases in FirstSearch are enriched with holdings from WorldCat.

WorldCat® Dissertations and Theses—OCLC 

Coverage: All cataloged dissertations and theses to the present
Update Frequency: Daily
No. of records: 8.7+ million records

Contains records of dissertations, theses, and published materials based on all subjects cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Many citations link to full text licensed from NetLibrary and other electronic providers as well as to free electronic materials available from educational, government and other websites. All show library locations for all types of material.

Worldscope GLOBAL (Brief entries)—Thomson Research 

Coverage: Current information
Update Frequency: Weekly
No. of records: 60,000+ records

Comprises basic financial information on public companies worldwide. Types of companies covered include industrials, utilities, transportation, banks, insurance, and others. Includes company name, telephone number, address, ticker symbol and basic stock information, SIC codes, industry classifications, and more. Full entries, including financials, are available through the full-text function for an additional charge.

WorldscopeS GLOBAL (Full entries)—Thomson Research 

Coverage: Current information
Update Frequency: Weekly
No. of records: 60,000+ records

Comprises in-depth financial information on public companies worldwide. Types of companies covered include industrials, utilities, transportation, banks, insurance, and others. Contains all information in the brief entries file (see above) plus financials, including information on shareholders, number of employees, officers, product and geographic segment data, key annual financial information, and more.

Links to library holdings	Contains online full text plus graphics	Includes OCLC ILL link
Contains online full text	Links to full-text/full-image articles in other databases

OCLC Databases and FirstSearch Databases by Topic

OCLC Databases

WorldCat OCLC ArticleFirst Electronic Books

OCLC FirstSearch Electronic    Collections Online OCLC PapersFirst

OCLC ProceedingsFirst SCIPIO WorldCat Dissertations and Theses

 

Databases by Topic

Arts & Humanities

WorldCat Anthropological Index Anthropological Literature Anthropology Plus Art Abstracts/Art Index Arts & Humanities Search ATLA Religion ATLA Serials Database Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals Bibliography of the History of Art

Book Review Digest Chicano Database Clase and PeriódicaElectronic Collections Online Essay and General Literature Index FRANCIS Hand Press Bookk Humanities Abstracts/Humanities Index Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals MLA International Bibliography PAIS Archive

PAIS International Philosopher's Index RILM Abstracts of Music Literature RIPM Retrospective Index to Music    Periodicals Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies SCIPIO Wilson Select Plus

 

Biography

WorldCat

Biography Index

Wilson Select Plus

 

Business & Economics

WorldCat ABI/INFORM Business Dateline Business & Industry Business & Management Practices Disclosure Corporate Snapshots   --Brief Records

Disclosure Corporate Snapshots   --Full Records Dissertation Abstracts EconLit Electronic Books Electronic Collections Online

Wilson Business Abstracts Wilson Select Plus Worldscope GLOBAL--Brief Entries Worldscope GLOBAL--Full Entries

 

Conferences & Proceedings

WorldCat

OCLC PapersFirst

OCLC ProceedingsFirst

 

Consumer Affairs & People

WorldCat Biography Index

Chicano Database Contemporary Women's Issues

Electronic Collections Online Newspaper Abstracts

 

Education

WorldCat Dissertation Abstracts Education Abstracts

Education Index Electronic Collections Online ERIC

Library Literature

 

Engineering & Technology

WorldCat OCLC PapersFirst OCLC Proceedings First Applied Science & Technology   Abstracts

Applied Science &