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PAIS International
      Access: University of Utah     Purchased by: Marriott Library     Maximum users: unlimited
A bibliographic index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. Journal articles, books, government documents, statistical compilations, committee reports, directories, serials, reports of public, intergovernmental, and private organizations, and most other forms of printed literature from all over the world are indexed. Access also is available to the Archivewhich covers 1915-1976.

Papers First
      Access: University of Utah     Purchased by: Marriott Library    
Indexes over 580,000 papers included in every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library from October 1993 to the present.

PC TAS
      Coverage: 1962-current year     Access: University of Utah     Purchased by: Marriott Library     Maximum users: unlimited
The United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade) contains detailed imports and exports statistics reported by statistical authorities of close to 200 countries or areas. It concerns annual trade data from 1962 to the most recent year. UN Comtrade is considered the most comprehensive trade database available with more than 1 billion records. A typical record is -- for instance -- the exports of cars from Germany to the United States in 2004 in terms of value (US dollars), weight and supplementary quantity (number of cars). The database is continuously updated. Whenever trade data are received from the national authorities, they are standardized by the UN Statistics Division and then added to UN Comtrade.

Persee
      Access: unrestricted     Purchased by: Free    
PERSEE is a portal that grants online access to entire back runs of French journals in the social and human sciences. established by the Ministry of State Education, Higher Education and Research.

Philosopher's Index (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
      Coverage: 1940-     Access: University of Utah     Purchased by: Marriott Library     Maximum users: unlimited campus
Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals in philosophy and related fields. A major source of information in the areas of aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics, as well as material on the philosophy of various disciplines.

Physical Education Index
      Access: University of Utah     Purchased by: Marriott Library     Maximum users: unlimited
Scholarly and trade literature ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, sport sociology/psychology, health education and physical therapy.

Plant Science
      Access: University of Utah     Purchased by: Marriott Library     Maximum users: unlimited
Focuses on all plant scientific aspects, especially on pathology, symbiosis, biochemistry, genetics, biotechnology, techniques and environmental biology. Coverage is 1994-present.

Play Index
      Access: University of Utah     Purchased by: Marriott Library     Maximum users: 1 campus user
Available for the first time on WilsonWeb, the online edition of this renowned resource will make finding information about plays easier than ever. Since important classic and historical plays (e.g. the plays of Aeschylus and Euripides, Moliere?s works, Shakespeare?s dramas, works of George Bernard Shaw or Ibsen), are reprinted in collections and anthologies, you will find virtually any play being studied or performed in Play Index. This unique resource also covers the works of contemporary playwrights, including new editions or translations.

PMSE Proceedings
      Coverage: 2001-     Access: UALC     Purchased by: UALC     Maximum users: Unlimited
ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering

Poiesis
      Coverage: varies     Access: University of Utah     Purchased by: Marriott Library     Maximum users: 5 campus
Offers searchable online access to the full text of hundreds of current, recent, and back issues of a growing number of philosophy journals. Every word in every journal issue in the database is fully searchable, including all articles, book reviews, footnotes, announcements, and notices.

Political Philosophy : Machiavelli to Mill
      Access: University of Utah     Purchased by: Marriott Library     Maximum users: unlimited campus
Contains works by Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Burke, Paine, Bentham, and Mill.

Polling the Nations
      Access: University of Utah     Purchased by: Marriott Library     Maximum users: 1 campus user
A comprehensive collection of information gathered by polls and surveys from 1986 through 1996, reporting more than 60,000 questions and the responses, on more than 2,000 topics.

Popline
      Coverage: 1970-current     Access: unrestricted     Purchased by: Free    
Citations with abstracts of the worldwide literature in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues.

Population Index
      Access: unrestricted     Purchased by: Free    
A searchable and browsable database containing 46,035 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986-2000. The JSTOR database provides access to this title for the years 1935-1985.

Primary Search
      Coverage: varies by title     Access: UALC     Purchased by: Pioneer     Maximum users: unlimited
Provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research.

Professional Development Collection
      Coverage: varies by title     Access: UALC     Purchased by: Pioneer     Maximum users: unlimited
Provides a highly specialized collection of over 500 full text journals, designed for professional educators.

Project Euclid
      Access: University of Utah     Purchased by: Marriott Library    
Cornell University Library launched Project Euclid, an initiative to advance effective and affordable scholarly communication in the field of theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. Project Euclid has been designed to address the unique needs of low-cost independent and society journals through a collaborative partnership arrangement.Full-text searching, reference linking, interoperability through the Open Archives Initiative, and long-term retention of data are all important components of the project. All titles in the collection are searchable; we have full-text access to about 20 of the titles.

Project MUSE
      Coverage: varies by title     Access: UALC     Purchased by: UALC     Maximum users: unlimited
Full text of nearly 250 scholarly journals from 40 publishers, from the Johns Hopkins University Press.

ProQuest databases
      Access: UALC    
See individual records for more detail on databases from ProQuest: ABI/Inform, Newsstand, Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch, Historical New York Times, Dissertation Abstracts.

ProQuest Direct Digital Dissertations
      Coverage: varies     Access: UALC limited - BYU.UU,USU     Purchased by: Marriott Library     Maximum users: 11-15 simultaneous
ProQuest Digital Dissertations provides full text access to virtually all North American Universities Dissertations published from 1997 and forward, and citations only to dissertations before that date. Dissertations are large files, so before downloading be sure your storage medium has space.

ProQuest Newspapers
      Coverage: varies by title     Access: UALC     Purchased by: UALC    
Full text of 300+ U.S. and international news sources. Includes coverage of 150+ major U.S. and international newspapers such as The New York Times and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires. Includes archives for the Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News.

PsycARTICLES
      Coverage: 1985-current     Access: University of Utah     Purchased by: Marriott Library     Maximum users: unlimited
A definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology, the database contains more than 45,000 articles from 57 journals - 46 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. From the American Psychological Association (APA).

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection help
      Coverage: varies by title     Access: UALC     Purchased by: Pioneer     Maximum users: unlimited
This database provides coverage of nearly 550 full text journals, including more than 500 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

PsycINFO (Ebsco) help
      Coverage: 1872-current     Access: UALC     Purchased by: UALC     Maximum users: unlimited
Contains citations and summaries from the world's serial and book literature in psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, including sociology, education, business, economics, and law. Journal coverage includes international material selected from more than 1,300 periodicals written in over 30 languages. It includes citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, citations to dissertations, and some full text articles. This resource is produced by the American Psychological Association.

PubMed help
      Coverage: 1950-current     Access: unrestricted     Purchased by: Free     Maximum users: unlimited
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.