Periodical Indexes

47 Databases Available to Friends of the Library

Organized Alphabetically by Title

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American Chemical Society Web Page General Web page of the American Chemical Society. Provides links to other chemistry-related Web sites. To search journals, see "American Chemical Society Journals and Backfiles."

American Institute of Physics (AIP) Web Page The official homepage of the American Institute of Physics (AIP). Provides web access to online versions of journals published by the American Institute of Physics and to other physics-related journals and magazines. Also provides access to physics reference information.

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Biographical Registers These biographies are from three sources: Lyndon W. Cook, The Revelation of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants (Provo, Utah: Seventy's Mission Bookstore, 1981); Dean C. Jessee, ed., The Papers of Joseph Smith, 2 vols. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1989-92); and Jan Shipps and John W. Welch, eds., The Journals of William E. McLellin, 1831-1836 (Provo, Utah: BYU Studies; Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994).

Biography & Genealogy Master Index (Gale) A Genealogy database. This database indexes more than 13.6 million biographical sketches in over 3000 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books. Covers both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.

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C. R. Savage Photograph Collection Over 1,000 images from one of the foremost 19th century landscape photographers of the western United States. The collection includes portraits, many of prominent Mormon leaders; views of Utah and the west; mining operations; and some Native American portraits.

Children's Book and Play Review Produced by the HBLL, Department of Teacher Education and Department of Theatre and Media Arts

Civilization Collection Selected images from civilizations around the world

CQ Researcher The CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports. Search or browse by topic and/or issue; 1991-present.

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Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. There are now 2,853 journals in the directory.

Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest) Coverage: 1861 - Current. With more than 2 million entries, PQD&T is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. UMI offers over 1.8 million titles for purchase in microfilm or paper formats. More than 600,000 are available in native or image PDF formats for immediate free download.

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EBSCO Databases 1984+ Provides indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,880 journals and full text for over 1,250 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education, and multi-cultural journals. Over half of the journals are peer reviewed. Full text backfiles as far back as January 1990. Updated daily.

Edith Irvine Photograph Collection 293 photographs of California, especially stunning are her 1906 San Francisco earthquake images, with other important California images from the Electra Power Project (1898-1902), Mokelumne Hill and Yosemite National Park.

Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages Consists of articles on all aspects of the period from the fifth to the fifteenth century, exploring art, architecture, religion, law, science, language, philosophy, and theology, as well as cultural, religious, intellectual, social and political history. With a focus on focus on Europe and Christendom, the Encyclopedia also covers the rise of Islam and people of other cultures with whom Europeans came into contact.

Encyclopedic History of the Church Andrew Jenson was the first to organize Latter-day Saint historical data into an encyclopedic form. This work is particularly valuable in providing brief histories of Church units from their beginnings up to 1930. Entries are also provided for the history of the Church in various geographic areas of the world.

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Family History Archive - Harold B. Lee Library A collection of 7,000 family histories. A joint effort between BYU and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Saints.

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George Edward Anderson Photograph Collection Almost 13,000 images taken ca. 1878-1928, which includes studio and environmental portraits, mostly of Utah residents; Utah railroad and mining history (including the 1900 Scofield mine disaster); and Mormon (LDS) Church historic sites.

globalEDGE This internation business and country studies information portal, from the Center for International Business Education and Research, Michigan State Unviersity, provides access to more than five thousand Internet resources with annotations. Also pulls together economic, trade, and industry information from a number of sources and produces a Market Potential Index (MPI) for Emerging Markets.

Google Scholar Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research. By logging into Google Scholar from off-campus, the library holdings will be integrated into your search results allowing you to quickly find the full-text of scholarly materials.

Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies Davis Bitton's guide was published in 1977 and is still one of the best resources available for locating Mormon Diaries in over a dozen U.S. repositories. By clicking the Bookmarks tab on the left, the user can use the table of contents to quickly jump through the document. By using the binoculars icon on the Adobe tools menu, the user can keyword search through the entire document which contains abstracts of nearly three thousand diaries and autobiographies.

Guide to Women's Manuscript Collections An ongoing project to identify and summarize women's papers held in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Archives at BYU Library. Each entry includes a short biography and abstract which are textword searchable. More entries are added each year.

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HARPWEEK Weekly newspaper covering the Civil War Era, 1857-1871. Prolific Mormon and Civil War subject content. Fully indexed, web access. Original displayed in image format.

Historical Photographs - Harold B. Lee Library Collection of historical photographs in BYU Library: C. R. Savage Collection, George Anderson Collection, Walter Mason Camp Collection, & William Henry Jackson Collection.

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In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives (ASP) In the First Person allows one to perform in-depth field and keyword searches across all letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials that are freely available on the Web and other Alexander Street databases (including North American Women's Letters and Diaries, British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries, Oral History Online, Black Thought and Culture, Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment, North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories, The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries, Women and Social Movements in the U.S., North American Indian Biographical Database, and Latino Literature). With a single search, one can access thousands of personal narratives in English from archives and repositories everywhere. The search returns citation information and links to full text, audio, and video whenever available.

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Juvenile Literature Library Mural Site The Juvenile Literature Library Mural Site provides information concerning the artist, books and symbolism represented in the mural, the progress of the painting and the models, and a coloring page to create your own version of the mural.

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LDS Biographical Encyclopedia The biographies in this database, collected around 1900, detail the lives of many men and women who played a role in the organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The information for some is more complete than for others, church leaders being among the more detailed. However, most biographies include birth and death dates, marriage and children information, and even professional accomplishments.

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MEDLINE Plus This website is created and maintained by the NLM (National Library of Medicine). The “Health Topics” option has a list of over 600 topics that provide a variety of types of information about the topic. The information is written by professional health experts. There are full text information, references, and links to additional websites on each topic. This information will provide excellent background information along with much specific information for the topics included. More topics are being added each month.

MEGI: Management, Economics, and Government Information Management, Economics, and Government Information website

Mormon Missionary Diaries A growing and geographically varied collection of original writings from the 1830s into the 1960s.

Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel (1847-1868) The most complete index of individuals and companies that crossed the plains in Church companies between 1847 and 1868. Many names are still missing.

Mormon Studies Website This online research guide for scholarly material on Mormon theology, history, culture, and people is maintained by J. Michael Hunter, Mormon Studies Librarian at Brigham Young University. This guide only provides links to information that is freely available over the Internet. Links include the full-text or image files of articles, books, biographies, diaries, manuscripts, dissertations, family histories, photographs, films, music, art, and more.

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Online Collections at BYU Search across online collections of text and images created or digitized at BYU.

OriginalSources A compilation of thousands of historical sources, including original documents, eyewitness accounts, and classical historical accounts. Materials are arranged in eight major categories: 1) World History, 2) U.S. History, 3) Science and Mathematics, 4) Social Science, 5) Literature, 6) Political Science and Law, i.e. Presidential Papers 7) Language, 8) Philosophy and Religion.

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation Consists of information about the religious and social changes that altered the face of Europe in the sixteenth century, encompassing not only issues of church polity and theology but also developments in politics, economics, demographics, art and literature.

Oxford Reference Online - Art & Architecture Broad coverage of the visual arts, encompassing all major movements and styles of art from Ancient Greece to present day. Contains links to the following reference works: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, The Oxford Dictionary of Art, A Dictionary of Modern Design, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, The Oxford Companion to the Garden, The Oxford Companion to the Photograph, The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance, A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art, The Oxford Companion to Western Art.

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Periodicals Index Online (ProQuest) Periodicals Index Online (formerly PCI) is a database of millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years.

Personal Writings of Joseph Smith This volume by Dean C. Jessee, now updated and revised, collects the personal writings of Joseph Smith -- those written in his own hand or dictated to a scribe -- and includes photographs of the original documents.

Publishers of Mormon Content Provides the websites and contact information for over 50 publishers of Mormon content.

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Research Library (ProQuest) This multi-disciplinary database includes more than 4,050 titles - nearly 2,800 in full text - from 1971 forward.

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Studies in Mormon History The database includes articles, books, theses, and Ph.D. dissertations dealing with the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, written from the time of its inception in 1830 to the present. Since it is intended as a guide to responsible historical scholarship it does not, for the most part, include highly pejorative works, though it does include controversial works that still have historical substance or interest.

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Teacher Reference Center (EBSCO) Teacher Reference Center indexes over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.

Testaments to the Holocaust (Gale) Electronic holdings of the Wiener Library in London, England. These holdings also include publications of the Wiener Library. The collection includes Nazi propaganda materials; Hitler Youth materials; pamphlets, books; and a rare encyclopedia of anti-Semitism. The core of the collection is 1,200 eyewitness accounts dealing with the pogrom of 1938 through the scope of the Holocaust. Also included are photographic materials.

The Handybook for Genealogists The Handybook for Genealogists

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Utah Local History Bibliography The Utah Local History Bibliography represents a bibliography of approximately 8000 printed and published local history titles, including local histories, biographies, newspapers, oral histories, diaries, autobiographies, family histories, government publications, environmental studies, sociological studies, educational materials, women's studies, and more. The libraries that own these titles are also listed.

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Variation in English Words and Phrases With the British National Corpus (BNC) as underlying textual database, VIEW contains 100 million words of text from more than 70 registers. Several types of searches are supported: full wildcard, "fuzzy queries" (one word near another), searching by register (to compare vocabulary and grammar across the 70+ registers), simple side-by-side comparisons of the collocates of synonyms and antonyms, and integration with WordNet, a semantically-based hierarchy of English.

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Walter Mason Camp Photograph Collection 86 photographic images of the Indian Wars of North America, 1865-1890

William Henry Jackson Photograph Collection Almost 1,100 images from one of the most renowned 19th century landscape photographers of the American West. The collection includes landscapes of the western United States and Mexico; but also 231 images of Asia and Pacific countries; 60 Native American portraits; and 30 pieces of art.

WorldVitalRecords.com World Vital Records provides access to a variety of family history resources including databases in the following categories: Census; Birth, Marriage, and Death; Military; Immigration; Family Trees; Family Histories; Newspaper Collections; and Location specific databases.

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American Chemical Society Web Page	General Web page of the American Chemical Society. Provides links to other chemistry-related Web sites. To search journals, see "American Chemical Society Journals and Backfiles."
American Institute of Physics (AIP) Web Page	The official homepage of the American Institute of Physics (AIP). Provides web access to online versions of journals published by the American Institute of Physics and to other physics-related journals and magazines. Also provides access to physics reference information.

C. R. Savage Photograph Collection	Over 1,000 images from one of the foremost 19th century landscape photographers of the western United States. The collection includes portraits, many of prominent Mormon leaders; views of Utah and the west; mining operations; and some Native American portraits.
Children's Book and Play Review	Produced by the HBLL, Department of Teacher Education and Department of Theatre and Media Arts
Civilization Collection	Selected images from civilizations around the world
CQ Researcher	The CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports. Search or browse by topic and/or issue; 1991-present.

EBSCO Databases	1984+ Provides indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,880 journals and full text for over 1,250 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education, and multi-cultural journals. Over half of the journals are peer reviewed. Full text backfiles as far back as January 1990. Updated daily.
Edith Irvine Photograph Collection	293 photographs of California, especially stunning are her 1906 San Francisco earthquake images, with other important California images from the Electra Power Project (1898-1902), Mokelumne Hill and Yosemite National Park.
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages	Consists of articles on all aspects of the period from the fifth to the fifteenth century, exploring art, architecture, religion, law, science, language, philosophy, and theology, as well as cultural, religious, intellectual, social and political history. With a focus on focus on Europe and Christendom, the Encyclopedia also covers the rise of Islam and people of other cultures with whom Europeans came into contact.
Encyclopedic History of the Church	Andrew Jenson was the first to organize Latter-day Saint historical data into an encyclopedic form. This work is particularly valuable in providing brief histories of Church units from their beginnings up to 1930. Entries are also provided for the history of the Church in various geographic areas of the world.

George Edward Anderson Photograph Collection	Almost 13,000 images taken ca. 1878-1928, which includes studio and environmental portraits, mostly of Utah residents; Utah railroad and mining history (including the 1900 Scofield mine disaster); and Mormon (LDS) Church historic sites.
globalEDGE	This internation business and country studies information portal, from the Center for International Business Education and Research, Michigan State Unviersity, provides access to more than five thousand Internet resources with annotations. Also pulls together economic, trade, and industry information from a number of sources and produces a Market Potential Index (MPI) for Emerging Markets.
Google Scholar	Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research. By logging into Google Scholar from off-campus, the library holdings will be integrated into your search results allowing you to quickly find the full-text of scholarly materials.
Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies	Davis Bitton's guide was published in 1977 and is still one of the best resources available for locating Mormon Diaries in over a dozen U.S. repositories. By clicking the Bookmarks tab on the left, the user can use the table of contents to quickly jump through the document. By using the binoculars icon on the Adobe tools menu, the user can keyword search through the entire document which contains abstracts of nearly three thousand diaries and autobiographies.
Guide to Women's Manuscript Collections	An ongoing project to identify and summarize women's papers held in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Archives at BYU Library. Each entry includes a short biography and abstract which are textword searchable. More entries are added each year.

HARPWEEK	Weekly newspaper covering the Civil War Era, 1857-1871. Prolific Mormon and Civil War subject content. Fully indexed, web access. Original displayed in image format.
Historical Photographs - Harold B. Lee Library	Collection of historical photographs in BYU Library: C. R. Savage Collection, George Anderson Collection, Walter Mason Camp Collection, & William Henry Jackson Collection.

MEDLINE Plus	This website is created and maintained by the NLM (National Library of Medicine). The “Health Topics” option has a list of over 600 topics that provide a variety of types of information about the topic. The information is written by professional health experts. There are full text information, references, and links to additional websites on each topic. This information will provide excellent background information along with much specific information for the topics included. More topics are being added each month.
MEGI: Management, Economics, and Government Information	Management, Economics, and Government Information website
Mormon Missionary Diaries	A growing and geographically varied collection of original writings from the 1830s into the 1960s.
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel (1847-1868)	The most complete index of individuals and companies that crossed the plains in Church companies between 1847 and 1868. Many names are still missing.
Mormon Studies Website	This online research guide for scholarly material on Mormon theology, history, culture, and people is maintained by J. Michael Hunter, Mormon Studies Librarian at Brigham Young University. This guide only provides links to information that is freely available over the Internet. Links include the full-text or image files of articles, books, biographies, diaries, manuscripts, dissertations, family histories, photographs, films, music, art, and more.

Online Collections at BYU	Search across online collections of text and images created or digitized at BYU.
OriginalSources	A compilation of thousands of historical sources, including original documents, eyewitness accounts, and classical historical accounts. Materials are arranged in eight major categories: 1) World History, 2) U.S. History, 3) Science and Mathematics, 4) Social Science, 5) Literature, 6) Political Science and Law, i.e. Presidential Papers 7) Language, 8) Philosophy and Religion.
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation	Consists of information about the religious and social changes that altered the face of Europe in the sixteenth century, encompassing not only issues of church polity and theology but also developments in politics, economics, demographics, art and literature.
Oxford Reference Online - Art & Architecture	Broad coverage of the visual arts, encompassing all major movements and styles of art from Ancient Greece to present day. Contains links to the following reference works: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, The Oxford Dictionary of Art, A Dictionary of Modern Design, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, The Oxford Companion to the Garden, The Oxford Companion to the Photograph, The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance, A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art, The Oxford Companion to Western Art.

Periodicals Index Online (ProQuest)	Periodicals Index Online (formerly PCI) is a database of millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years.
Personal Writings of Joseph Smith	This volume by Dean C. Jessee, now updated and revised, collects the personal writings of Joseph Smith -- those written in his own hand or dictated to a scribe -- and includes photographs of the original documents.
Publishers of Mormon Content	Provides the websites and contact information for over 50 publishers of Mormon content.

Teacher Reference Center (EBSCO)	Teacher Reference Center indexes over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.
Testaments to the Holocaust (Gale)	Electronic holdings of the Wiener Library in London, England. These holdings also include publications of the Wiener Library. The collection includes Nazi propaganda materials; Hitler Youth materials; pamphlets, books; and a rare encyclopedia of anti-Semitism. The core of the collection is 1,200 eyewitness accounts dealing with the pogrom of 1938 through the scope of the Holocaust. Also included are photographic materials.
The Handybook for Genealogists	The Handybook for Genealogists

Walter Mason Camp Photograph Collection	86 photographic images of the Indian Wars of North America, 1865-1890
William Henry Jackson Photograph Collection	Almost 1,100 images from one of the most renowned 19th century landscape photographers of the American West. The collection includes landscapes of the western United States and Mexico; but also 231 images of Asia and Pacific countries; 60 Native American portraits; and 30 pieces of art.
WorldVitalRecords.com	World Vital Records provides access to a variety of family history resources including databases in the following categories: Census; Birth, Marriage, and Death; Military; Immigration; Family Trees; Family Histories; Newspaper Collections; and Location specific databases.