General Bibliographies & Indexes

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• Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database - Can search over 57,000 citations of articles from 480 journals.



• Catalog of Nonprofit Literature - Can search 25,000 citations of journal articles, research reports, etc., on philanthropy, 17,000 with abstracts. Updated daily.



• getCITED - Can search over 30,600 citations from 3.3 million books, journal articles, conference proceedings, working papers, reports, etc., from over 10,000 academic institutions. Requires free registration.



• Google Scholar - Can search scholarly literature (peer-reviewed articles, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, etc.) in all broad areas of research from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities, etc. Includes citations of older works & seminal papers not available online.



• IngentaConnect - Can search, browse over 20 million citations & abstracts of over 29,600 books, journal articles, conference proceedings, working papers, reports, etc. in 15 categories.



• Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC) - Can search, browse 800 citations of journal articles.



• Philanthropic Studies Index (PSI) - Can search citations of journal articles, dissertations, working papers, Web sites on voluntarism, nonprofit organizations, fundraising, charitable giving back to 1991.



• SARA - Scholarly Articles Research Alerting - Can register for emailed tables of contents for Carfax, CRC Press, Frank Cass, Parthenon, Psychology Press, Routledge, Spon Press, Taylor & Francis journals.



• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (SEPB) - Can search, browse, download (pdf) citations of English-language journal articles, books, proceedings, other printed & electronic sources, most back to 1990, on publishing on the Internet.



• Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information - Can browse over 1,550 citations (some links to full-text) of print & non-print material (periodical articles, monographs, individual chapters in collected works).