Databases by Subject - Urban Planning

Database Title	Description	Coverage	Some Full Text	Restricted to...^†
Academic OneFile	Search full-text articles on physical science, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more. Full Text Titles Included	1980-	Y
ArticleFirst	Citations from 15,000+ journals on all topics. Titles Indexed \| Search Tips	1990-	N
Civil Engineering Database	Indexes all American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) publications. For alternate access to ASCE publications search the ASCE Online Research Library \| Search Tips	1970-	N
Gale PowerSearch	InfoTrac databases cover scholarly sources on a variety of topics. Great starting place for articles. Includes titles from Expanded Academic ASAP and others.	1980-	Y
General Reference Center Gold	InfoTrac database for full text magazines, reference books, and newspapers on a variety of topics. Titles Included	1980-	Y
Google Scholar	Google search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports on all topic areas. Use to find articles from academic publishers, professional societies, prepublication repositories and universities.	Varies	Y	For best results, use Proxy
Journal Citation Reports	JCR within ISI Web of Knowledge helps measure research influence and impact of journals and journal categories, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals. ThomsonReuters provides Journal Impact Factors with current and five year trends.	Current	N
JSTOR	Online archive of complete backruns of scholarly journals in a variety of academic fields. Also Includes public policy journals. Titles Included \| Search Tips	1800s-	Y
LEXIS®-NEXIS® Academic	Full text news, legal, business, and biographical information. Titles Included \| Search Tips	Varies	Y
Massachusetts Newsstand - Proquest CSA	Access to the full text of thirteen newspapers: The Boston Globe The Boston Herald The Worcester Telegram & Gazette More... Titles Included \| Help	Varies	Y
PAIS International	Contains references to articles on public affair and government issues from journals, books, government documents and statistical directories. Titles Included \| Search Tips	1915-	N
New York Times (Current)	Search full text of the New York Times.	2005-	Y
New York Times (Historical)	Search full text and image 1851-2004 including news, illustrations, editorials, and advertisements. Search Tips	1851-2004	Y
ScienceDirect	Full text access to Elsevier Science scholarly journals. Search Tips \| Tutorial	Varies	Y
TRIS Online (Transportation Research Information Services)	From the Transportation Research Board at the National Academy of Sciences, indexes transportation literature and links to some full text. Search Tips	1968-	Y
Web of Knowledge - Web of Science	Interface to Arts &Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, plus ability to perform cross database searches (outside of ISI products) and login to your Web of Science account for cited reference alerts and customization. Tutorial \| Cited Reference Tutorial	1980-	N
Wiley Interscience	Search journals published by Wiley. WPI subscribes to many titles in various topic areas. Search Tips	1946-	Y

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