Arts & Humanities Citation Index. 1980-present
Contains bibliographic data, cited references covered in over 1,100 journals in the fields of arts, archaelogy, architecture, classics, dance, history, language, literature, music, philosophy, poetry and religion. Citations from 1992 are available on NUSNET. Updated triannually.Environment Abstracts. 1975-presentExamples of search records retrieved in Title Field for 1994 : Plato (153 records), Islam (194 records), Social policy (26 records)
Indexes over 800 journals covering social, economic, political, legal and scientific aspects of the environment. Specific topics such as climatic change and global warming, air, water, and noise pollution, waste management, solid and toxic wastes, recycling, alternative and renewable energy sources, population, impact assessment, toxicological effects, risk assessment, wildlife habitat and management, radiological contamination, remedication and control technologies can also be searched. Besides citations of journal articles, it also covers conference papers and proceedings. Also includes the Energy Information Abstracts (from 1975-1993). Updated quarterly.Datapro on CD-ROMExamples of search results retrieved in Keyword Field:
Ecotourism (54 records), Environmental Engineering (1416 records), Environmental Protection (4194 records)
The software is windows-based and is quite user friendly. Users can view the titles by using the Table of Contents under the browse option or search by keywords in report titles or fulltext. The articles can be downloaded. Updated monthly. The five Datapro titles are as listed :Geobase. 1980-present* Print version is not available in NUS Library.
- Computer Systems Hardware & Software
Print equivalent : Enterprise Systems; Peripherals; Corporate Software & Solutions, Information Security Service; Managing Information Technology; UNIX & Open Systems Service.- Communications Equipment & Services
Print equivalent : Management of International Telecommunciations; Reports on International Telecommunications; Wide Area Communications*.- Computer Systems Analyst
Print equivalent : Application Development Software; Management of Applications Software; Directory of Microcomputer Software; Directory of Software, Information Delivery, Multimedia Solutions, Distributed Databases*; Development Tools*- Communications Analyst
Print equivalent : Data Networking*; LAN Internetworking; Managing Data Networks; Managing LANs; Strategies & LAN Services*- Information Management & Workflow Analyst
Print equivalent : Datapro Information Management & Workflow; Reports on Document Imaging Systems.
For physical and human geography, geology, mineralogy, ecology and development studies. It covers over 2,000 journals in addition to books, monographs, reports and dissertations. Updated quarterly. Print equivalent : Geographical Abstracts (Physical Geography and Human Geography) and International Development Abstracts.IntlEc CD-ROM : Index to International Economics, Development & Finance. 1981-presentExamples of search results retrieved from 1990-1995:
Singapore or Malaysia (1371 records), Population Policy (191 records), Spatial Analysis (528 records).
Indexes over 2,300 journals titles covering business, agriculture, trade, energy, natural resources, monetary policy, labour and finance. Also covers international economic and trade issues such as economic trends, privatisation, monetary policy, interest rates, etc. Updated quarterly.LLBA Disc. 1973-presentExamples of search results retrieved:
Singapore in Country Field (673 records), Privatisation in All Keywords Field (513 records), Monetary policy in All Keywords Field (6420 records)
Covers over 2,000 journals in the fields of linguistics and its subdisciplines, including child language acquisitions, language theraphy, dialectology. It has abstracts of journal articles, books, monographs, technical reports, occasional papers, dissertations, as well as, book reviews. Updated semiannually. Print equivalent : Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts : LLBA.Palmer's Index to The Times. 1790-1905.Examples of search results retrieved :
Singapore English (83 records), Language patterns (346 records), Syntax acquisition (83 records).
Index to The Times [London]. Users can search by a single word or phrase in the Keyword field, or by terms in the Main Heading, Date, Day and Page fields.Social Work Abstracts Plus. 1977-presentExamples of search results retrieved in Keyword Field:
Singapore (214 records), Straits Settlements (193 rec.)NUS Library has The Times [London] on microfilm from 1785.
Consists of two separate databases; Social Work Abstracts and Register of Clinical Social Workers. Social Work Abstracts covers more than 450 journals in the areas of social work and human services. Register of Clinical Social Workers is a directory of the Clinical Social Workers in USA. Updated semi-annually. Print equivalent : Social Work Abstracts.Examples of search results retrieved :
Child abuse (987 records), Singapore (15 records), Social Welfare and Policy (521 records), Homelessness (224 records)