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  • ACCESS GPO: Index to information from the federal government
  • EBSCOhost Periodical Index: Choose Academic Search Premier, ATLA Religion Database, ERIC, MLA International Bibliography, or RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. Many articles are full-text online.
  • ERIC via FirstSearch: Index to literature in the field of education (access is provided free by SILO--State of Iowa Libraries Online).
  • ERIC via EBSCOHost: Index to literature in the field of education.
  • Professional Development Collection: Index to literature in the field of education.
  • FirstSearch: contains information about books, journal articles, films, computer software and other types of material in over 50 separate databases. If you use the general link to FirstSearch you will be able to search up to three databases at a time. 

The following indexes on First Search are useful for Arts and Humanities:

  • AHSearch - Arts and Humanities Citation Index
  • ArticleFirst* - An OCLC index of articles from nearly 12,500 journals
  • BooksInPrint - In-print, out-of-print, & forthcoming books, now with reviews
  • ClasePeriodica - Index of Latin American periodicals in the sciences and humanities
  • DataTimes - A collection of regional U.S. and international newspapers
  • Dissertations - Dissertations accepted at accredited U.S. institutions
  • ECO* - Electronic Collections Online. Index to selected scholarly journals (You can browse journal titles from a link on FirstSearch's List All Databases screen)
  • ERIC* - Journal articles and reports in education
  • EssayGenLit - Find contents in collected works focusing on humanities and social sciences
  • GPO* - U.S. government publications
  • PapersFirst* - An index of papers presented at conferences worldwide
  • Proceedings* - An index of worldwide conference proceedings
  • WorldCat* - Books and other materials in libraries worldwide
  • WorldCatDissertations - Database of all theses and dissertations available in WorldCat

*access to these databases is provided free by SILO--State of Iowa Libraries Online.

  • Ingenta:  Current article information taken from well over 18,000 multidisciplinary journals. Ingenta contains brief descriptive information for over 8,800,000 articles which have appeared since Fall 1988. 
  • MLA International Bibliography: Indexes books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies on literature, language, linguistics, folklore

The following is an alphabetical list of the print indexes we have available at Geisler Library. Each title is linked to its catalog record. Click on the title to find out  where it is located in the library. 


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