Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery

Article Databases - Geography & Environmental Systems

• Biological Abstracts

  Coverage: 1990 - present
  Indexes/abstracts 5,000+ journals in the biological sciences.

• Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management

  Coverage: 1981 - present
  Provides comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 4000 scientific journals and thousands of other sources including conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.

• Toxline

  Coverage: 1994 - present
  Indexes/abstracts all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. This version does not contain information from CAS, BIOSIS, or International Pharmaceutical Abstracts.

• Web of Knowledge

  Coverage: 1998-present
  The Web of Knowledge includes Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Covers approximately 8,700 high impact research journals and provides access to cited and citing references. Additional searchable resources on the Web of Knowledge homepage (select from dropdown menu).

Article Databases - General & Multidisciplinary

• Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)

  Coverage: varies
  Provides full-text for over 3,400 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, sciences, and more. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).

• ArticleFirst

  Coverage: 1990 - present
  Indexes journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

• Conference Papers Index

  Coverage: 1982 - present
  Provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science.

• Dissertation Abstracts (Proquest Digital Dissertations)

  Coverage: 1861 - present
  Indexes U.S., Canadian, British, and other European dissertations and theses; dissertations abstracted since 1980, theses abstracted since 1988. Full Dissertations published since 1997 (1991 from UMBC) are available in PDF digital format.

• MasterFILE Premier (Ebsco)

  Coverage: varies
  Indexes 3,100+ magazines covering general subjects. Includes full-text for over 1,000 journals.

E-Journals

• Electronic Collections Online (ECO)

  Coverage: 1995 - present
  Over 100 searchable, full-text journals in many different fields.

• JSTOR

  Coverage: varies
  Electronic archive of selected core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes full-text of all articles published prior to the most current five years. UMBC subscribes to Arts & Science I, II, III, General Science, Ecology & Botany.

• Project Muse

  Coverage: varies
  Searchable full-text of select journals in the humanities and social sciences. UMBC subscribes to its Basic Undergraduate Collection.