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Indexes & Databases by Subject: Urban Studies

A = All – 100% full-text or linked full text articles available
M = Most – no less than 50 % full-text or linked full text articles available
S = Some – less than 50% full-text or linked full text articles available

Use JAKE to determine where a specific journal is indexed and if it is available full-text.

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Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. 
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Art Abstracts
This database, produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for 378 leading international publications pertaining to a variety of art types. This bibliographic database indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
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LexisNexis Academic
Provides information from news,business, legal, medical and general reference sources
PAIS (Public Affairs Info Service)
PAIS International, produced by the OCLC Public Affairs Information Service, provides global coverage of public affairs and world issues, with an emphasis on issues in the public debate. It includes references to more than 530,000 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, gray literature, research reports, policy papers, Internet documents, conference reports and other sources from more than 120 countries. Topics covered include: affirmative action, AIDS, climate change, ethnicity, environmental degradation, political persecution, women’s rights, war and conflict, etc.
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SocINDEX with Full Text
SocINDEX with Full Text features more than 1,600,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. This product also contains informative abstracts for 640 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. In addition, this file provides data mined from more than 530 "priority" coverage journals as well as from over 1,420 "selective" coverage journals. Further, extensive indexing for books/monographs, conference papers, and other content sources is included. Searchable cited references are also provided. In addition, SocINDEX with Full Text features over 5,000 Author Profiles covering the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database. Each author profile includes biographical data and bibliographic information, which together allow users to quickly ascertain an author's areas of expertise and academic/professional focus. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 253 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers.
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Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

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