John Glad
Despite three decades of suppression, eugenics is by no means the dead “historical” movement it is often made out to be. On the contrary, the management of humanity’s future evolution continues to be a topic of keen interest across a broad range academic fields, and even in the popular press.
The following data were collected from May 21-23, 2005, using various data bases available to the University of Maryland. The list of bases is by no means exhaustive. What is sorely lacking is a data base of scholars and scientists publishing in the field.
Data Base |
# of Records |
ABELL (American Bibliography of English Language Literature) |
658 |
ABI Inform |
95 |
Academic Search Premier |
1,062 |
ACM Digital Library |
34 |
Ageline |
3 |
Agricola |
18 |
Alternative Press Index |
161 |
America: History and Life |
297 |
American Memory (Library of Congress) |
51 |
American Periodicals Service |
663 |
Anthropological Literature |
1,300 |
Applied Science and Technology Abstracts |
370 |
Archives USA |
29 |
Article First |
1,293 |
Arts and Humanities Search |
393 |
ATLA Religion Index |
140 |
AV Online |
28 |
Berkeley Electronic Press |
44 |
Bibliography of Asian Studies |
18 |
Biological and Medical Sciences |
996 |
Biology Digest |
21 |
Biotechnology Abstracts |
25 |
BN-OPALE Plus (in French) |
57 |
Book Review Digest |
630 |
Books In Print |
156 |
CAB Abstracts |
300 |
Catalogue USMAI |
306 |
Center for Disease Control |
32 |
Christian Science Monitor (1980-) |
113 |
CIAO |
15 |
CINAHL |
42 |
CiteSeer |
17 |
Conference Papers Index |
9 |
Criminal Justice Abstracts |
14 |
Criminal Justice Periodicals |
7 |
CSA Illumina (Biological and Medical Sciences) |
996 |
Current Index to Statistics |
12 |
Digital Dissertations |
212 |
Family and Society Studies |
918 |
Foreign Doctoral Dissertations |
1 |
Foreign Newspaper Database |
109 |
Gale’s Ready Reference Shelf |
15 |
General Science Abstracts |
165 |
Genetics Abstracts |
19 |
Health Source: Nursing |
222 |
Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) |
18 |
Historical Abstracts |
405 |
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine |
894 |
Humanities Abstracts |
195 |
Int’l Political Science |
11 |
Interarchiv jüdischer Periodika |
0 |
ISI Web of Knowledge |
98 |
jointly administered knowledge environment (JAKE) |
16 |
JSTOR |
9,521 |
LexisNexis (2 years) |
125 |
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Online |
53 |
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Online |
53 |
Medline (PubMed) |
2,284 |
Modern Language Association
(MLA) Bibliography |
100 |
National Criminal Justice Reference System |
3 |
New York Times (1980-) |
113 |
OCLC (Online Computer Library Center – otherwise known as “Worldcat”) |
4,274 |
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) |
1 |
PAIS |
386 |
Periodicals Content Index |
4,422 |
Philosopher’s Index |
134 |
Popline |
514 |
Project Muse |
886 |
PsychINFO |
1,209 |
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences |
226 |
RAMBI Articles on Jewish Study |
7 |
Reader’s Guide |
156 |
RLG Union Catalogue |
80 |
ScienceDirect |
158 |
Social Science Citation Index |
308 |
Social Sciences Abstracts |
117 |
Social Work Abstracts |
6 |
Sociological Abstracts |
573 |
The Palestine Post |
60 |
Washington Post (1977-) |
113 |
Web of Science |
974 |
Women’s Studies International |
918 |
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts |
102 |
Zoological Record |
14 |