Though some government CD-ROMS are bibliographic in nature, most provide information or data in complete text. Database Indexes and abstracts more than 1,000 international primary and secondary publications reporting on all aspects of the environment, highlighting such fields as resource management, technology, planning, laws, political science, economics, geology, biology, and chemistry as they relate to environmental issues. The retrospective print index, from 1900 to the present, is located in the Government Documents Service Area . Includes topicssuch as political, diplomatic, economic, religious, social and cultural history. International in scope, it indexes journals, books, government documents, research reports, etc.
Full text is available for many of the articles.
Web Indexes and abstracts over 350 core journals in the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, law and criminology, political science, social work, sociology, and international relations. Wilson Library subscribes to the print version of SSCI, with continuous coverage from 1966. The electronic version of Sociological Abstracts , and Social Planning, Policy, and Development Abstracts which indexes the world's journal literature in sociology and related disciplines. Indexes over 100 periodicals published by the government, including federal departments and agencies, and containing research results, discussion of programs and policies, as well as general interest articles. Indexes current and retrospective biographical dictionaries and encyclopedias.