Databases - G
- Gale Directory Library (Gale)Search, sort, and export a variety of information from multiple premier directories.
* Biography and Genealogy Master Index
* Consultants & Consulting Organizations
* Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers
* Encyclopedia of Associations: International, National, Regional/State/Local
* Encyclopedia of Governmental Advisory Organizations
* Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
* Government Research Directory
* International Research Center Directory
* Market Share Reporter
* Publishers Directory
* Research Centers Directory
* Statistics Sources Directory
* Ward’s Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies - Gale eBooksa database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
- Gale DatabasesSelect specific databases from Gale and InfoTrac
- GAO Reports (U.S. Government Accountability Office)Agriculture & Food, Auditing & Financial Management, Budget & Spending, Business Regulation & Consumer Protection, Economic Development, Education, Employment, Energy, Equal Opportunity, Financial Markets & Institutions, Government Operations, Health Care, Homeland Security, Housing, Human Capital, Information Management, Information Security, Information Technology, International Affairs, Justice & Law Enforcement, National Defense, Natural Resources & Environment, Retirement Security, Science & Technology, Space, Tax Policy & Administration, Telecommunications, Transportation, Veterans, Worker & Family Assistance
- GenderWatch (ProQuest)a database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas.
- General OneFile (Gale) (1980+)Indexing and full text of news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics.
- General Reference Center Gold (Gale) (1980+)general interest database that integrates a variety of sources to find articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals, many with full-text and images.
- General Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson - EBSCOhost) (1984+)"provides full text from more than 100 periodicals dating as far back as 1995, in addition to indexing and abstracts for nearly 300 periodicals dating back to 1984. Subject coverage includes astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, health & medicine, oceanography, physics, zoology and much more."
- Genetics Abstracts (ProQuest) (1982+)
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An essential resource for scientists across the life sciences, Genetics Abstracts will prove particularly useful to researchers and institutions directly and indirectly involved in the Human Genome Project. - GeoRef (ProQuest) (1693+)
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covers the geology of North America from 1693 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. - GeoRef in Process (ProQuest)
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contains records that are, literally, in the process of being indexed prior to their integration in the main GeoRef database. - Global Legal Information Network* (Library of Congress) (site temporarily unavailable)The US Library of Congress created GLIN in 1996 and the United States supported it financially until 2012. Pursuant to budgetary constraints in the US, the GLIN operating system environment was shut down in 2012.
The Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) Foundation anticipates announcing the initial operating date for the GLIN 2 system sometime before October of 2015. - Global Terrorism Database (GTD)"an open-source database including information on terrorist events around the world from 1970 through 2013 (with annual updates planned for the future). Unlike many other event databases, the GTD includes systematic data on domestic as well as international terrorist incidents that have occurred during this time period and now includes more than 104,000 cases."
- Google ScholarFree index for broadly searching scholarly literature. This link includes the UCF institution code so links to UCF's full text subscriptions will display. See below for other ways to set institution.
View the UCF Libraries Google Scholar videos to help you make the most of Google Scholar.
To use UCF Libraries subscription access:- Open Google Scholar Settings
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- Search for "University of Central Florida"
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If you are on campus or connecting through Open Athens you will see UCF's subscription links automatically. - Government Resources at UCFProvides links and information about government resources, many of which are freely accessible via the Web.
- GovTrack"has information on all bills going back to 1993 and follows the status of current pending legislation as it goes through the law-making process."
- GPO Accessreplaced by FDsys
- GPO Monthly Catalog (FirstSearch) (1976+)References to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and more.
- GreenFILEcovering all aspects of human impact to the environment, its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on: global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
- Oxford Music OnlineComprehensive resource on all aspects of music, including text from several Grove titles
- Gutenberg-e (Columbia U)Full text of a small collection of scholarly books in history and social studies.
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Databases - H
- Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) (Library of Congress)Covers books, chapters, articles, and conference papers in the field of Latin American studies, Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities.
- HarpWeek: The Civil War Era Reconstruction I & II (1857-1912)The 56 years of Harper’s Weekly provide a continuous record of what happened on a weekly basis from 1857 through 1912.
- Civil War Era: 1857-1865
- Reconstruction: 1866-1871 & 1872-1877
- Gilded Age: 1878-1912 - Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) (1985+)Information about behavioral measurement instruments, such as checklists, coding schemes, indexes, interview schedules, projective techniques, questionnaires, rating scales, surveys, tasks, tests, and vignettes/scenarios.
- Health & Safety Science Abstracts (ProQuest) (1981+)
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"Environmental health, occupational safety, pesticides, toxicology, emergency management, security, accidents - journal articles" - Health and Wellness (Gale) (1980+)Topics in health and medicine, medications, and wellness. Includes encyclopedias, directories, medical dictionary, magazines, journals, and newspapers.
- Health and Medicine (Gale OneFile) (1980+)Multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in InfoTrac's award-winning Health Reference Center.
- Health Sciences (SAGE Journals)Browse journals by discipline: Allied Health; Cardiology & Cardiovascular Medicine; Dentistry; Emergency Medicine & Critical Care; Endocrinology & Metabolism; General Medicine; Geriatrics; Medico-legal; Neurology; Nursing; Nutrition; Oncology; Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine; Otolaryngology; Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care; Pediatrics; Pharmacology & Toxicology; Psychiatry & Psychology; Public Health; Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine; Radiology; Research Methods & Evaluation; Surgery; Veterinary Medicine
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic & Consumer Editions (EBSCOhost) (1984+)Provides full text for nearly 540 scholarly health journals, and over 190 consumer journals, as well as indexing and abstracting of over 700 health-related journals and magazines.
- Health Technology Assessments (HTA)This database is available from the CRD database website."
Provides details of completed and ongoing health technology assessments (studies of the medical, social, ethical and economic implications of healthcare interventions) from around the world. "The HTA database is produced by the NIHR Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) at the University of York, UK. - HealthFindera free guide to reliable consumer health and human services information, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- HERMES (BUFVC)The British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) provides a database of media materials available throughout the world, detailing nearly 30,000 titles either currently or once in distribution. Entries are selected for their usefulness in higher and further education.
- Hillsborough County Water AtlasDiscontinued due to lack of funding on the provider's end. Includes links to other resources which may be useful.
Designed to provide citizens, scientists, professionals, and planners with comprehensive and current water quality, hydrologic, and ecological data, as well as information about recreational opportunities and a library of scientific and educational materials on water resource issues. - Historic Documents Series (SAGE)Content from 1972 onward covering the most significant events of the year. Documents range from presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions. Previously part of the CQ Electronic Library.
- Historical Abstracts (EBSCOhost)Indexes over 2000 journals, as well as some books, collections, and dissertations, related to world history events from 1450 to the present (except the U.S. and Canada) published since 1955.
- Historical Statistics of the United States (Cambridge) (1600-2000)a compendium of statistics from over 1000 sources includes over 37,000 data series.
- History of Science, Technology & Medicine (EBSCOhost) (1572+)"With an interdisciplinary focus, the database covers topics on the role of scientific discovery in society and culture, as well as the historiography of scientific disciplines from prehistory to the present. It includes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, dissertations, serials, maps and other related materials."
- Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History (HEARTH) (Cornell University)"HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Titles published between 1850 and 1950 were selected and ranked by teams of scholars for their great historical importance."
- Hoover's Online*Hoovers was sunset on 12/31/2018. It is replaced by Mergent Intellect by FTSE Russell.
- Hospitality & Tourism Complete (EBSCOhost) (1960+)Scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism.
- Human Genome Abstracts (ProQuest) (1982-1995)This interdisciplinary database offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science.
- Human Population & Natural Resource Management* (CSA)[subscription dropped]
explores human population and demography topics, as well as societal issues involving natural resource management. See Sustainability Science Abstracts (ProQuest) - Human Resources Abstracts (EBSCOhost)Indexes journals in human resources, including human resource management, employee assistance, and organizational behavior.
- Humanities Source (EBSCOhost)“This database includes feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, and much more.”
- Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective (H.W. Wilson - EBSCOhost) (1907-1984)"a broad range of subject coverage in the humanities and social sciences with high-quality indexing of more than 1,300,000 articles in nearly 1,100 periodicals, dating as far back as 1907, as well as citations of over 240,000 book reviews."
