Westfield State University Ely Library


Ely Library Electronic Databases - Alphabetic List

All databases are restricted to Westfield State University Students, Staff, and Faculty..

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AATA Online Abstracts of International Conservation Literature   -   Getty Conservation Institute    Updated Quarterly
AATA Online provides high quality, peer-reviewed abstracts of the international literature of conservation and heritage management. AATA Online currently includes abstracts of over 100,000 citations, enabling practitioners from many fields of heritage preservation to identify and select resources relevant to their work. New Users must Register, at no charge, to set personal preferences and save searches.

ABI/INFORM Dateline - ProQuest   1985-current
Search a unique resource focusing on hard-to-find local and regional business news coverage of large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. Provides access to business information not typically found in national news sources. Contains news and analysis, information on local markets, and more gathered from major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city, state, and regional business publications. Search Guide

ABI/INFORM Global - ProQuest    1971 - current
Most scholarly and comprehensive way to explore and understand business research topics. Search nearly 3000 worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Expanded international coverage. Fast access to information on 60,000 + companies with business and executive profiles. Includes The Wall Street Journal. Search Guide

ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry - ProQuest    1971 - current
Search more than 1200 business periodicals with a trade or industry focus. Provides users with the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. Contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and many more. Search Guide

Academic OneFile - Gale   1995-   Updated Daily
Contains more than 3,000 full text journals, including peer-reviewed journals and reference sources with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Search Guide

Academic Search Premier  Ebsco    1975-    Updated Daily
The world's largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database designed specifically for academic institutions. With a collection of 4,000 peer-reviewed, scholarly full text journals, this database offers critical information from many sources found in no other database. The database includes full-page images as well as color embedded images. Scholarly, full text resources are provided for nearly all academic areas of study: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. WWW Search Guide | Video Tutorial

AccessMyLibrary- Gale   Current File   Updated Daily
AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available online.

Accounting & Tax Newspapers - ProQuest    1971 - current
Search newspapers for the latest accounting and tax news. Search Guide

Accounting & Tax Periodicals - ProQuest    1905 - current
Comprehensive coverage of key scholarly and industry publications and newspapers. National and international in scope, key publications focus on accounting policies and standards, state and national tax legislation, corporate and individual taxation, compensation and pension plans, and corporate financial management, as well as profiles of accounting firms, CPAs, and management consulting firms. Search Guide

ACM Digitial Library & Master SIG - Association of Computing Machinery 1968-  Updated Daily
ACM Digital Library Contents include: Over 102,500 full-text articles from journals, magazines, and conference proceedings. Journal Tables of Contents (TOC) with over 33,000 citations from articles published in journals and magazines from 1954 forward A TOC Alert service. Conference Proceedings Tables of Contents with more than 69,000 citations from articles published in over 1100 volumes of conference proceedings since 1970. About 500,000 article references for ACM articles are available with about 200,000 links to full bibliographic information for those references, with 50,000 further links to full text. "Citings" to articles that were published subsequent to the one they are looking at and which reference it. The Master SIG package includes full text for the Newsletters, Proceedings and the Proceedings Series for all the Special Interest Groups of the ACM. Each SIG can be searched individually or collectively as a group. For each SIG Newsletter, Proceedings and Proceeding Series, the Table of Contents Service is available as well as the current issue and an archive of the back issues.

Ad*Access - Duke University Library   1911-1955   Closed File
A searchable and browseable database with access to digitized versions of more than 7,300 advertisements printed between 1911 and 1955. The advertisements are divided into 5 major categories: Beauty and Hygiene, Transportation, Radio, Television, and World War II.

African American Music Reference- Alexander Street Press   Current File    Updated Quarterly
Contains 50,000 pages that offers the first comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. This release includes 3,171 essays and images from 80 sources.

African Women's Bibliographic Database - University of Arkansas Little Rock   1986-
This English language database contains over 22,000 citations from 1986 to current indexed from 200 journals about African women. The titles indexed in this database represent Africana materials published in English from over 22 nations within North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. The database indexes six types of materials: books and government documents; articles appearing in edited books; periodical and journal articles; Masters theses and Ph.D. dissertations as well as a few B.A. theses and honors papers; conference papers; and videocassettesIt is the outgrowth of a three volume work published in 1989 by Greenwood Press that indexed materials on African Women published during the International Women's Decade, 1975-1985.

Africana Periodical Literature Bibliographic Database -  University of Arkansas Little Rock  1974 -
This English language database contains 55,000+ articles indexed from 462 English language and multi-lingual journals and periodicals that specialize in African Studies or consistently cover the African continent. The titles were originally chosen from the library at California State University-Chico and that number were later expanded by using materials from NorthwesternUniversity and other major university libraries as well as the Library of Congress.

AGRICOLA - National Agriculture Library   1970-    Updated Monthly.
Covers every major agricultural subject, including agricultural engineering and marketing, animal breeding, entomology, environmental pollution, farm management, foods and feeds, pesticides, rural sociology, veterinary medicine, and water resources. Citations consist of journal articles, book chapters, monographs, conference proceedings, serials, technical reports, and other materials on a range of agricultural topics. More than 1,000 journal titles are covered.

AGRIS - United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO)   1975 -   Updated Monthly
International database with a focus on agriculture. Supports keyword, Boolean, index, and theseaurus searching.

AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service - ACTIS   Current    Updated Monthly
A central resource for current information on federally and privately funded clinical trials for AIDS patients and others infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). AIDS clinical trials evaluate experimental drugs and other therapies for adults and children at all stages of HIV infection -- from patients who are HIV positive with no symptoms to those with various symptoms of AIDS.; Replaces AIDSDRUGS database formerly administered by the National Institute of Medicine.

AIDSLINE® National Institute of Medicine.   1980-   Updated Weekly
More than 124,000 Bibliographic citations from Publications in all languages from 1980 to the present covering Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and related topics. Includes Journal articles, government reports, letters, technical reports, meeting abstracts/papers, monographs, special publications, theses, books and audiovisuals. Special Features: AIDSLINE includes citations to literature covering research, clinical aspects and health policy issues. In order to provide access to additional reference sources, NLM plans to expand the file with records from the POPLINE® database as well as with additional meeting abstracts and journal article citations. WWW. Search Guide

Alcohol Studies Database - Rutgers University Center of Alcohol Studies   1987-
Searchable database containing bibliographic citations only for over 60,000 documents indexed by the Rutgers University Center of Alcohol Studies since 1987. The primary focus is on research and professional materials dealing with beverage alcohol, its use and related consequences. In addition to the research and professional material, the database also includes a small collection of educational and prevention materials, including audiovisuals, suitable for students and educators K-12, parents, community workers, and the general public. Users may search by authors, keyword(s) in title, or subject headings.

Aluka -    Aluka   Current File   Additions Regularly
Aluka is an international collaboration of educational and cultural institutions working together to build a growing online digital library of scholarly materials from and about Africa. The digital library currently represents approximately 275,000 objects with associated data addressing three broad themes of African content:
African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes; African Plants; and Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa.

America:  History & Life - EBSCO    1954-    Updated Quarterly
Provides citations to over 1,700 journals published worldwide including selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, as well as a selection of journals in the social sciences and humanities relating to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. All abstracts are written in English and are carefully edited for clarity and precision.  The database provides full-text links to many journal articles in Project Muse, JSTOR, Ebsco, and other full-text databases in our collection. In addition to articles, America: History and Life includes citations of book and media reviews from a selection of over one hundred key journals in US and Canadian history as well as related fields. The database also includes citations to abstracts of dissertations. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

AMS Journals - American Mathematical Society 1900 - 2005
Complete digital archive of AMS mathematical research journals thorugh 2005. More than 34,000 articles are available from 100+ years of high-quality mathematical research in the following journals: Journal of the American Mathematical Society, Mathematics of Computation, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, and Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.

Anthropological Index Online - Royal  Anthropological Institute   1970-    Updated Monthly
Searchable database of The Anthropological Index to Current Periodicals inthe Museum of Mankind Library (incorporating the former Royal Anthropological Institute library).

Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts -  ProQuest    1987-
An indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Updated monthly, ASSIA provides a comprehensive source of social science and health information for the practical and academic professional. ASSIA currently contains over 470,000 records from over 500 journals published in 16 different countries, including the UK and US. Search Guide

Art Inventories Catalog - Smithsonian American Art Museum   Current File
A seasrchable database with more than 300,000 records describing American paintings and sculptures. The information is compiled from reports supplied by museums, historical societies, special survey projects, public art programs, published catalogs, and private collectors.

ArticleFirst® Database - OCLC   January 1990 -    Updated Daily
Contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of approximately 12,500 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Each record describes one article, news story, letter, or other item. Search Guide

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Banking Information Source - ProQuest    1971 - current
Search essential banking industry publications providing information about the financial services industry, banking, and industry trends. Search Guide

Berkshire Eagle - ProQuest.   2005 -Current,   Updated Weekly
Electronic ASCII version of the Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield MA) newspaper, without images or graphics. WWW. Search Guide

Biography in Context - Gale    Current File Updated Monthly
Provides contextual information on the world's most influential people. The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content (including Lives & Perspectives) with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while also allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text. Search Guide

Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic   - Ebsco   1985-   Updated Monthly
Designed for doctors, research scientist, students, clinical specialists and managers, this database provides full text for
over 100 journals in a variety of areas pertaining to medical study. All titles included in the Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic Edition are indexed in MEDLINE. Search Guide

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology  - Blackwell Reference   2007
The reference for students, researchers, librarians, and academics in the field. This 11-volume set includes 1800 entries written and edited by an international team of the world's best scholars and teachers.

Booklist Online -    American Library Association   1992 -   Updated biweekly
A searchable / browseable database of  more than 120,000 reviews. 8,000 recommended-only reviews of books, audiobooks, reference sources, video, and DVD titles are added each year. Spotlight issues provide coverage on popular genres, topics and themes such as biography, young adult, multicultural literature, graphic novels, romance, sports, and much more.

Books and Authors
Offers new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics. Combining over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award winner and librarian's favorites lists, Books & Authors helps bring readers and literature together. Through the use of expertly written and arranged content and a dynamic, cutting edge user interface, Books & Authors makes exploration of genre fiction and essential non-fiction fun! By leveraging our entire award-winning What Do I Read Next? collection, patrons and students alike can be sure that their next big read comes with a BIG recommendation.

Boston Globe - ProQuest, Inc.   1980 -   Updated Weekly
Electronic ASCII version of the newspaper, without images or graphics. Search Guide WWW. Daily Boston Globe Online.

Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.   Current Edition    Updated Annually
Electronic version of the latest Encyclopedia Britannica. WWW.

Business Economics and Theory
Access to 450 full-text academic journals and magazines—with a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit bibliographic index.

Business Insights: Essentials Gale Updated Monthly
A fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.

Business Source® Premier - Ebsco   1965-   Updated Daily
Provides full text for 3,298 business periodicals including scholarly journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more. Periodical coverage ranges from Business Week, Forbes, Fortune, and American Banker to journals such as Harvard Business Review, Journal of Management,and Academy of Management Review. Full text coverage begins in 1965 for many journals and includes PDF images and embedded images for many of these journals. In addition, the database provides company information for over 200,000 companies from such sources as Dun & Bradstreet, Thomas Register and Disclosure. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

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CAIRSS Music Research Literature - Institute for Music Research  Updated Monthly
A bibliographic database of research literature in music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music medicine. Includes citations from 1,354 journal titles. Eighteen primary journals are indexed extensively. Telnet connection via WWW.

Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete - ProQuest   Varies
Includes all the content present in the Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA)databases. Subject coverage is comprehensive with full-text information from all areas including: current events, business, education, science and medicine, arts, law, academia, and lifestyles, all with a Canadian focus.

Canadian Music Periodical Index - National Library of Canada   1990-   Updated Monthly
A searchable index of more than 30,000 articles from 500 Canadian music journals, newsletters, and magazines from the late nineteenth century to the present. The database focusses on articles and news items on various aspects of musical activity in Canada. In addition, since 1999, significant articles on international music and musicians, published in Canadian periodicals, have been added to the index. WWW Search Guide

Canadian Newsstand Complete - ProQuest Search Guide

Career and Technical Education - ProQuest Search Guide

Cape Cod Times - NewsBank, Inc.  11/1998 -Current,       Updated Daily

CARDS (Computer Access to Research on Dietary Supplements) - National Institutes of Health 1999-
A database of current and ongoing dietary supplement research funded by the federal government

ChemID® (CHEMical IDentification) - U.S. National Library of Medicine    Updated Quarterly
CHEMID is a chemical dictionary file for over 344,000 compounds of biomedical and regulatory interest. Records include CAS Registry Numbers and other identifying numbers, molecular formulae, generic names, trivial names, other synonyms, MeSH headings, and file locators which lead users to other NLM files. In addition, SUPERLIST provides names and other data used to describe chemicals on over 30 key federal and state regulatory lists. WWW.

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database - Childrenslit.com    Current File    Updated Regularly
CLCD is an acquisition, research, and reference database that provides more than 200,000 reviews of children's books--all full text searchable from 33 review sources. The CLCD also includes Teaching Tools - lesson plans and teaching guides plus entries for more than 339,000 awards, prizes, best book lists and reading lists entries. The database also provides access to over 30,000 book jacket images as well as information provided by various Reading Measurement Programs such as Accelerated Reader, Degrees of Reading Power, Lexile,and Reading Counts. Also included are links to more than 60,000 web pages featuring individual authors or illustrators.

CINAHL - EBSCO, 1981 - Updated Monthly
CINAHL® provides indexing for nearly 3,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 2.2 million records dating back to 1981. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable cited references for more than 1,290 journals are also included. Full-text material includes more than 70 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

CLASE and PERIODICA - Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico    1975-   Updated Quarterly
CLASE (1975-) indexes documents published in 1,200+ Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA (1978-) covers 1,400+ journals specializing in science and technology. Combined, they provide access to 300,000+ bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600+ scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages. Includes information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues. Search Guide

Classical Music Reference Library - Alexander Street Press   Current File    Updated Quarterly
Integrates more than 30,000 pages of essential reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music, in a unified online database. Included are the authoritative reference titles Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music, and Women Composers which are available for the first time in electronic form. This release includes 26,774 essays and images from 22 sources.

Classical Scores Library - Alexander Street Press   Current File    Updated Quarterly
Contains 209,140 pages of the most important classical scores and manuscripts, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 15,000 scores. This release includes 11,987 scores.

College Source College Foundation, Inc.   Current   Updated Monthly
Access to more than 16.500 College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format representing 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools. Tables of Contents and  Indexes are fully hyperlinked. Search the full text of all catalogs or search by tuition, enrollment, affiliation, major programs of study and other criteria. Then view or print the school's profile with admission requirements, financial aid options and other valuable information. WWW

Communication & Mass Media Complete   - Ebsco   1985-   Updated Monthly
Provides full text for over 200 titles and contains citation coverage for additional sources. In total, several hundred valuable sources are covered. Offers the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. Search Guide

Computer Science Bibliographies -   Updated Monthly
A collection of bibliographies of scientific literature in computer sciences from various sources The collection contains more than 900,000 references to journal articles, conference papers, and technical reports. More than 50,000 references contains URLs to an online version of the paper. Includes 2,000 links to other sites carrying bibliographic information. WWW.

Computer Science Index  - EBSCO.   1965-   Updated
Computer Science Index (formerly Computer Literature Index) provides abstracting and indexing of academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources at the highest scholarly and technical levels of computer science. The collection covers more than 6,500 periodicals and books, with coverage going back to the mid 1960s. Computer Science Index focuses on subjects such as artificial intelligence, expert systems, system design, data structures, computer theory, computer systems and architecture, software engineering, human-computer interaction, new technologies, social and professional context, and much more. This database also includes editor-selected articles from related magazine and journal titles. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

Congressional Research Service Reports - University of North Texas Libraries.   1990-   Updated Monthly
Congressional Research Service (CRS) s the public policy research arm of Congress. This site provides integrated, searchable and browseable access to many of the full-text CRS reports that have been available at a variety of different Web sites since 1990. Searchable fields include title, author, subhect, full-text, and report number. Boolean searching is supported. Reports were downloaded from a variety of web sites that host CRS reports, either currently or in the past. Many CRS reports are updated on a regular basis, and this site includes all versions of the reports that could be located. Maintained by the University of North Texas Libraries.

Contemporary Authors -
This database is no longer available as a standalone system. Contemporary Authors is included in Biography In Context. You can limit your search to Contemporary Authors by doing an Advanced Search in Biography In Context. Enter the author's name on the first line; Type Contemporary Authors on the second line and select "source" from the drop-down menu. Click Search at the bottom of the screen. Contemporary Authorsprovides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on approximately 112,000 U.S. and International authors.

Contemporary Literary Criticism- Gale   May 1999    Updated Monthly
Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select (CLC--Select) is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works, and sources for further study. Check the print source, Contemporary Literary Criticism, for authors you don't find here. WWW Search Guide

Contemporary Women's Issues - Responsive Database Services   1992 -    Updated Monthly.
A multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from 150 mainstream periodicals, plus 2,000 sources for "gray" literature, and the alternative press with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries. CWI provides extensive international coverage of women's issues with English-language titles from East and West Africa, Asia, and South and Central America, the Caribbean, North America and Europe.

Counseling and Therapy in Video  Alexander Street Press       Current file
More than 350 titles. providing a rich online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. The collection's wealth of video and multiplicity of perspectives allow students and scholars to see, experience, and study counseling in ways never before possible. The suite of tools—searches and browses powered by Semantic Indexing™ and searchable transcripts synchronized to video—give the ability to drill down in seconds to find the footage of interest from hundreds of hours of video. Guided Demonstration http://alexanderstreet.com/video/CTIVdemo/ctivdemoA.html

CQ Researcher Online - Congressional Quarterly, Inc   1991-   Updated Weekly
Provides original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news 44 times a year. Each single-themed CQ Researcher report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Each 12,000-word CQ Researcher report is a unique work, investigated and written by a seasoned journalist. Each report includes a background and chronology; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources. Reports dating back to 1991 can be searched or browsed. PDF files are available for reports from January 1996; for reports published since January 2001, PDF files are also available in color.

Credo Reference -Credoreference.com    Current Editions   Updated Monthly
A digital reference library that provides information from more than 600 high-quality reference books from the world's leading publishers. Offering access to over 1.7 million individual entries, credoreference contains all the types of reference books that you'd want to see in any quality library: dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and books of quotations, plus numerous subject-specific titles covering everything from the arts to accountancy and law to literature. A complete description of titles available is available at http://www.credoreference.com/shelf.do

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text   - Ebsco   1968-    Updated Monthly
Comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines; includes links to full text articles in 270 journals. WWW. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

Criminal Justice Periodicals   - See ProQuest Criminal Justice

Current Research Information System (CRIS)U.S. Department of Agriculture    Current File
CRIS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) documentation and reporting system for ongoing and recently completed research projects in agriculture, food and nutrition, and forestry. Projects are conducted or sponsored by USDA research agencies, state agricultural experiment stations, the state land-grant university system, other cooperating state institutions, and participants in USDA's National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program. CRIS is a part of Science and Education Resources Development (SERD), Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES).

Cyber Bullying Searchable Information Center - ebrary   Current File
A free E-Book collection provided as a public service by ebrary, a leading provider of digital content products and technologies, to help parents, educators, and others better understand, prevent, and take action against this growing concern. According to the National Crime Prevention Council, 43% of teens have been the victims of cyber bullying in the past year. A complete listing of the 68 titles currently online is available here

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Decades in America - Salem Press    Current File

The Twenties in America 3-volume encyclopedia serves as a valuable source of reliable information and keen insights for today's students. The Twenties in America examines the iconic personalities and moments of this uproarious decade of Flappers, prohibition, jazz, and the Lost Generation. Includes 675 articles, numerous lists and tables, 300 photos, illustrations and graphs, plus Appendixes, indexes and resource listings.

The Thirties in America 3-volumes providing comprehensive coverage of the years 1930-1939 in the United States and Canada, paying special attention to the impact of the Great Depression on North America in particular and the world in general.
Includes 670 articles and numerous lists and tables, 300 photos, illustrations and graphs, plus Appendixes, indexes and resource listings.

The Eighties in America 3-volume set providing comprehensive coverage of the impact of the 1980's on the United States and Canada. Includes 663 articles and 51 sidebars, more than 300 photos,plus, tables, appendixes, indexes and resource listings.

DIRLINE® - National Institute of Medicine   Current   Updated Quarterly
A Directory of resources providing information services on 17,000 health and biomedical information resources including organizations, government agencies, information centers, professional societies, voluntary associations, support groups, academic and research institutions, and research facilities and resources. Records contain resource names, addresses, phone numbers, and descriptions of services, publications, and holdings. WWW

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals -Lund University Libraries, Sweden    Current File  Updated Weekly
This service covers 1642 free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals covering all subjects and languages. Currently 413 journals are searchable at article level. More than 75,000 articles are included in the DOAJ service. Subject areas covered include: Agriculture and Food Sciences, Arts and Architecture, Biology and Life Sciences, Business and Economics, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences, General Works, Health Sciences, History and Archaeology, Languages and Literatures, Law and Political Science, Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy and Religion, Physics and Astronomy, Science General, Social Sciences, and Technology and Engineering.

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Education Journals (ProQuest) ProQuest.    1988-   Updated Monthly
Contains the full text of almost 400 of the leading journals in the education field covering the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education topics. Indexes more than 500 journals. Search Guide

Educator's Reference Complete  - Gale    1980 - Present   Updated Daily
Provides more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database. The database is updated daily. Search Guide

Electronic Collections Online (ECO)- OCLC    1995 - Updated Daily
An OCLC collection of more than 3,000 scholarly journals.Search Guide

Encyclopedia Britannica Online-   Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.  Current File
Features articles from both the Encyclopedia Britannica and Britannica Student Encyclopedia, as well as relevant links from their directory of reviewed Web sites and a selection of video clips. Includes Britannica's Heritage - a new section that explores past editions of the encyclopaedia. It features articles by notable contributors, overviews of the changing nature of human knowledge, and galleries of maps and other images from past editions.

Encyclopedia Britannica Resources

Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing & Mining- Idea Group   Current Edition
Provides a comprehensive, critical and descriptive examination of concepts, issues, trends, and challenges in this rapidly expanding field of data warehousing and mining (DWM). This encyclopedia consists of more than 350 contributors from 32 countries, 1,800 terms and definitions, and more than 4,400 references. Provides in-depth coverage of evolutions, theories, methodologies, functionalities, and applications of DWM in such interdisciplinary industries as healthcare informatics, artificial intelligence, financial modeling, and applied statistics, making it a single source of knowledge and latest discoveries in the field of DWM.

Encyclopedia of Distance Learning - Idea Group   Current Edition
Provides comprehensive coverage of the issues, concepts, trends, and technologies of distance learning. More than 400 international contributors from over 50 countries have provided extensive coverage of topics such as workforce training, accessing education, digital divide, and the evolution of distance and online education into a multibillion dollar enterprise. This 4-volume set encyclopedia contains more than 3,000 terms and definitions and over 6,000 additional references.

Encyclopedia of Global Resources. Edited by Craig W. Allin. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, c2010.(REF HC85 .E49 2010)
Four volume set providding 575 easy-to-understand essays on all aspects of our natural resources, from their economic applications and benefits to the impact of their extraction. Offers a wide variety of perspectives on both traditional and more recent views of Earth's resources. Electronic version

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences-Wiley InterScience    Current File   Updated Monthly
Provides more than 3,000 specially commissioned, peer-reviewed and continually updated articles that integrate current theory, practice, and understanding of all basic and many applied aspects of the life sciences. Includes Introductory Level articles, Secondary Level articles, and Special Essays.

Encyclopedia of Sociology - SEE Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology

Energy Citations Database - U.S. Government   1948-    Updated Regularly
Contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Energy Citations includes bibliographic records of literature in disciplines of interest to DOE such as chemistry, physics and engineering. It includes citations to report literature, conference papers and journal articles.

ERIC (Free version)    - U. S. Department of Education   1966 -    Updated Monthly
ERIC provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES). Each record provides Full-Text Availability Optionsshowing whether the item is available online from ERIC and a Find in a Libraryfunction that shows other libraries that own the resource. Users should also check the WSU Library's Full Text Periodicals Directory to determine whether we have the journal in-print or online.

ERIC (EBSCO Version)-U. S. Department of Education    1966 -   Updated Monthly
ERIC®, the Educational Resource Information Center, is a national information system supported by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Library of Education, and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. It provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. This version provides access to the full text of articles from more than 540 journals indexed in ERIC plus the full text of more than 2,200 ERIC Digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals. Search Guide

ETOH - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism   1967-  Updated Monthly
The Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database, commonly referred to as ETOH, is the most comprehensive online resource covering all aspects of alcohol abuse and alcoholism. Produced by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), ETOH contains over 100,000 records including abstracts and bibliographic references to journal articles, books, dissertation abstracts, conference papers and proceedings, reports and studies, and chapters in edited works. Contains research findings from the late 1960s to the present, as well as historical research literature. WWW Search Guide

EurekaAlert!  - American Assn for the Advancement of Science   Current  Updated Daily
EurekAlert!, a comprehensive Web site about the latest research advances in science, medicine, health, and technology. The site includes news releases, an archive, and links to web sites. EurekAlert! is produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), with technical support provided by Stanford University. WWW

Evidence-Based Resources from the Joanna Briggs Institute - ProQuest    Varies
Systematic Reviews, Evidence Summaries, and Best Practice Information Sheets for nursing and the allied health professions. Search Guide

Exceptional Child Education Resources - Council for  Exceptional Children 1969-2004   Closed File
This database was discontinued by the CEC after October 2004 and is no longer available online after August 2006.

Expanded Academic ASAP Gale   1980-   Updated Daily
Access to 3,500+ journals and magazines including more than 2,100 in full text. WWW. Search Guide

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Families in Society Database - Alliance for Children and Families    1980-    Updated Monthly
Over 3,000 articles, commentaries, essays, editorials, field notes, research briefs, and book reviews back to 1980 from the journals Families in Societyand its predecessor, Social Casework.

Film Literature Index Online- Indiana University     1976-2001    Closed File
Indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. The periodicals range from the scholarly to the popular. More than 2,000 subject headings provide detailed analysis of the articles.  The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded IndianaUniversity a grant in 2002 to convert the print version of the Film Literature Index (FLI) to electronic form. The FLI Online contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001.

Films On Demand - Films, Inc. Current File Updated Monthly
A Web-based digital video delivery service that provides more than 10,000 streaming videos and more than 100,000 video clips anytime, anywhere. The videos provide than 4,800 hours of high-quality educational content in dozens of subject areas. Special features allow users to organize and bookmark clips, create and share playlists, and personalize folders.A tutorial, including step-by-step instructions on how to Create Playlists, is here . Quick Start Guides in PDF are available:  Sharing Videos      Organizing Videos

Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia - Funk & Wagnalls    Current File    Updated Annually
Features over 25,000 informative segments of the encyclopedia meeting the research needs of elementary, middle and high school students.Search Guide | Video Tutorial

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Gale Literary Index  Gale Reference, Inc.    Current    Updated Monthly
A master index  to the printed editions of Gale's 43 literary series. It combines and cross references more than 130,000 author names including pseudonyms and variant names and more than 140,000 titles into one source. The Gale series contain complete biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings. WWW.

Gale Virtual Reference Library Gale    Current File
Provides searchable full text of 178 Reference works in 11 subject areas: Arts, Biography, Business, Environment, History, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Science, and Social Science.

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online - Alexander Street Press    Current File    Updated Quarterly
A comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music. This release includes 1,210 essays and images from 10 sources and hundreds of audio examples.

General BusinessFile ASAP Gale    1980-    Updated Daily
An index of over 5,200 general business and finance magazines, trade journals, and local business journals, with full-text of 3,629 titles. Includes Company Profiles of 200,000 public and private companies, and over 50,000 investment reports. WWW Search Guide

General OneFile  -  Gale    1980-    Updated Daily
Provides desktop access to more than 6,000 full text periodical titles including 121 wire services; full indexing of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times,and The Christian Science Monitor newspapers; and a total of more than 10,000 periodical titles with 25 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to present.  The database uses the same search engine as our other InfoTrac databases.  Content includes more than 508 million records from  periodical and news content and indexing from a variety of mainstream and specialized sources including refereed academic journals. WWW Search Guide

General Reference Center Gold- Gale Group    1980-    Updated Daily
Provides indexing for 4,415 titles and full text for 3,458 titles featuring general interest and business magazines plus the full text of The Washington Postand The Christian Science Monitor, Children's magazines, Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service articles, indexing of The New York Times & The Wall Street Journal, plus various encyclopedias. WWW. Search Guide

GeoscienceWorld  - GeoscienceWorld.org    Current File    Updated Monthly
Provides a searchable database and access to the abstracts for 30 peer-reviewed, high impact geoscience journals from 22 leading societies and institutes from six countries. Extensive backfiles go back as far as 1918 for some journals.

Global Issues in Context
Offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database. Search Guide

GPO Monthly Catalog - U. S. Gov't Printing Office    July 1976 -    Updated Monthly
Covers records published by the GPO since July 1976. Includes congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and more.  Search Guide  / Web version 1994-

GreenFILE  - Ebsco    Updated  Monthly
Freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment. GreenFILE's initial release includes abstracts and indexing for more than 600 titles, including comprehensive coverage from volume 1, issue 1 to present for Bioscience(back to 1964), Conservation Biology (back to 1987), Journal of Ecology (back to 1913).and Journal of Environmental Planning & Management (back to 1948). The total number of records is approximately 295,000, and full text is provided for more than 4,600 records from open access titles. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

Grove Dictionary of Art Online - SEE Oxford Art Online

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Handbook of Research on ePortfolios - Idea Group    Current Edition
Provides comprehensive coverage of the major themes of ePortfolios, addressing all of the major issues, from concept to technology to implementation. It provides a complete investigation on a variety of ePortfolio uses through case studies and supporting technologies, and also explains the conceptual thinking behind current uses and potential uses not yet implemented. Over 100 international experts developed and wrote this handbook.

Hazardous Substances Data Bank  - National Institutes of Health    Updated Monthly
Broad scope in human and animal toxicity, safety and handling, environmental fate, and more. Contains more than 4,700 individual chemical records. Scientifically peer-reviewed.

Health & Wellness Resource Center Provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, numerous reference volumes, over 700 health videos from partner Healthology, Inc., hundreds of pamphlets and health-related articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.

Health Reference Center Academic - Gale    1980-    Updated Monthly
A multi-source database for health and wellness research. Rich with full-text documents, this database includes medical and consumer periodicals (approximately 887 fully indexed with 675 providing full text), health newsletters, reference books, referral information, topical overviews, and pamphlets. Designed especially for lay researchers to provide information in terms that the nonmedical professional can understand. Also contains 3,500+ Clinical Reference Systems reports.  WWW Search Guide

Health Source: Consumer Edition - Ebsco    1990-    Updated Daily
Covers the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health. Coverage includes: searchable full text for over 190 journals plus abstracts and indexing for over 180 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition- Ebsco    1980-    Updated Daily
Provides 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines with strong coverage of nursing and allied health. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for 855 journals plus the full text of the Clinical Pharmacologydatabase, providing access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

HealthSTAR American Hospital Assn & National Institute of Medicine    1975-    Updated Quarterly
Health Services, Technology, Administration, and Research  contains relevant bibliographic records from MEDLINE (1975 to present) and CATLINE (1985 to present), and unique records from three sources:  (1) records emphasizing health care administration selected and indexed by the American Hospital Association (AHA); (2) records emphasizing health planning from the National Health Planning Information Center (only in the backfile); and (3) records emphasizing health services research, clinical practice guidelines, and health care technology assessment selected and indexed through NLM's National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR).  WWW. Search Guide

HighWire Press Journals - Stanford University    Current File
HighWire Press currently provides more than 1.8 million free full-text articles from the Web versions of 311 important journals in biomedicine and other science disciplines.  You can search all of the journals simultaneously and get result lists that include for-fee articles, or you can search the free journals independently. Journals List.

Historic Government Publications from World War II - Southern Methodist University     1941-1945
This searchable and browseable database provides online access to World War II publications published by the U.S. government in support of the war effort. Noteworthy items include "Pocket Guides" to foreign nations prepared for U.S. servicemen.

Historical Abstracts - EBSCO    1954-    Updated Quarterly
Provides historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada) by providing citations to over 1,700 journals, books, and dissertations published worldwide in over forty languages. The database provides full-text links to many journal articles when they are available in linked databases. Historical Abstracts is committed to covering every significant historical journal published anywhere in the world, as well as journals with historical content published in closely related social science fields. Abstracts are carefully edited for clarity and precision. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

History Resource Center: U.S see - U.S. History in Context

History Resource Center: World - See World History in Context

Hoover's Company Records  - ProQuest    Varies
Provides current proprietary editorial content covering more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives. Hoover's, widely recognized as a leading provider of corporate data, delivers in depth industry analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more. Search Guide

HSRPROJ- National Institute of Medicine    Current    Updated Quarterly
Provides project records for research in progress funded by federal and private grants and contracts. Records include project summaries, names of performing and sponsoring agencies, names and addresses of the principal investigator, beginning and ending years of the project, and when available information about study design and methodology. Records are indexed with NLM's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and, when available CRISP keywords on records selected from the NIH CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) information system. Some 3,000 projects are covered. WWW. Search Guide

Humanities International Index - EBSCO    1975-    Updated Monthly
A comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. Produced  by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), Humanities International Index provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals and contains more than 1.6 million records. It includes all data from  American Humanities Index plus bibliographic records from a multitude of international journals, books and reference works. This database provides citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

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In the First Person - Alexander Street Press    Current File    Updated Quarterly
An index to  letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narrative, this database covers more than 2,500 collections of oral history from around the world. With upcoming releases, the index will broaden to cover other formats and the proprietary content in the Alexander Street collections. The index points to 350,000 pages of full text and 3,500 collections more than a million pages of editorially selected materials spanning 400 years.  Links to full text in other Alexander Street databases.

Information Please Almanacs - Information Please.  Current    Updated Annually
This is a free site providing access to the following resources: Information Please Almanac; Information Please Sports Almanac; Information Please Entertainment Almanac; Random House Webster's College Dictionary; and Columbia Encyclopedia (5th edition) The resources can be searched individually or simultaneously. They should provide quick facts and some good statistical information for users who do not require in-depth information. WWW

InfoTrac Junior Edition - Gale Group    1999-    Updated Daily
Provides junior high and middle students with a wide variety of full-text sources that include more than 190 indexed and 181 full-text general interest magazines, thousands of newspaper articles from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, plus selected almanacs, dictionaries, and encyclopedias.

InfoTrac Onefile - SEE General OneFile

InfoTrac PowerSearch    - Gale Group    Updated Daily
Simultaneous searching of eight InfoTrac databases: General Reference Center Gold, Expanded Academic ASAP, Health Reference Center Academic, General BusinessFile ASAP, Business and Company ASAP, InfoTrac Student Edition, Professional Collection,and Gale Virtual Reference Library.

InfoTrac Student Edition
Now with over 1100 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this periodical database is designed for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

Ingenta Ingenta Corp.    Fall 1988-    Updated Daily
Ingenta is a database of current article information taken from well over 25,000 multidisciplinary journals. Ingenta contains brief descriptive information for over 11,000,000 articles which have appeared since Fall 1988. Subject and title lists on journals in the database are accessible at http://www.ingenta.com/isis/browsing/BrowseJournals/ingenta    WWW.

Inter-Play Database
Provides easy access to the locations of printed plays in collections, anthologies and periodicals. Most of the plays cited are not indexed in the standard printed play indexes such as Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections or H. W. Wilson's Play Index. For plays by the most familiar authors (e.g. Shakespeare), you should also consult Ely library's catalog. Approximately 16,130 locations are currently cited to plays in many languages. Separately-published plays are not included as these may also be located through local library catalogs. Inter-Play is updated frequently in order to include recent publications. All citations for the location(s) of each play are searchable by author and/or title. Full source information is provided to lead the user to the location of the desired play. WWW

International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) - National Institutes of Health  1986-  Updated Quarterly
IBIDS contains citations published in international scientific journals on the topic of dietary supplements from1986 to the present. The IBIDS database is a cooperative project of the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Citations have been selected from multiple databases to ensure that the database is comprehensive and internationally representative. Citations in foreign languages are included only if the abstract is in English.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences - ProQuest        1951 -
An essential online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research, IBSS includes over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It provides broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Over 2,800 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books are included each year. Abstracts are provided for half of all current journal articles and full text availability is continually increasing.  Search Guide

International Regulation Database - Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development    Current
Provides comprhensive quantitative and qualitative information about the state of regulation and market structures in OECD countries.  Areas covered include: economy-wide regulations concerning product markets; sector-specific regulations, regulatory settings, and industry or market structures. WWW.

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JSTOR-  Jstor Inc.    Coverage Varies    Updated Daily
A full-text collection in PDF format of retrospective issues from 162 scholarly journals of prime importance in their fields. Subject coverage includes African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies,  Ecology and Botany,  Economics, Education, Finance, General Science, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science,  Population  / Demography, Sociology, and Statistics.  Dates of coverage: Varies depending on journal title; most have a moving wall that excludes the most recent 2-5 years of coverage. Search Guide . Includes Early Journal Content published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere - nearly 500,000 articles from 218 journals.

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Kids InfoBits - Gale Inc.    Current    Updated Monthly
Meets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It provides a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search, and a 5-year backfile that offers relevant and manageable results lists. Included are 100 full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazines, newspapers, over 3,000 searchable, indexed images, and reference content from Blackbirch Press and other publishers that supports the K-5 curriculum including:  Kidbits, 2nd Ed. The Blackbirch Encyclopedia of Science and Invention, The Blackbirch Kid's Almanac of Geography, The Blackbirch Kid's Visual Reference of the World, The Blackbirch Kid's Visual Reference of the States, The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th Edition, and Merriam-Webster's Elementary Dictionary.

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LexisNexis Academic    Updated Daily
Provides the full text of current and back issues for 7,000+ titles including journals, major newspapers, newsletters, reference materials, and legal materials, both state and federal.  WWW. Introduction to LexisNexis Academic (video) ------Using Power Search (video)----- Legal Search: Get a Case

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) - EBSCO    1966-    Updated Monthly
Formerly Information Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA), this database continues ISTA's renowned coverage of information science and significantly increases the coverage of library science. LISTA indexes journal articles from more than 600 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings.  149 ISTA titles are upgraded to Core coverage, and 121 new periodicals are included. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, search engines, printed and electronic information sources, the information industry, scholarly communication, and electronic publishing. With coverage extending back to 1966, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts - ProQuest   1973-
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. In addition to abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, and dissertations, citations to book reviews are drawn from over 1,500 serials publications. Search Guide

List of Full Text Titles   Journals & Reference Sources Available Electronically    Updated Quarterly
Identifies full text titles available electronically through various commercial databases including Expanded Academic ASAP General BusinessFile ASAP, Health Reference Center, General Reference Center, Academic Search Full test Elite, Project Muse,and Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe. The database is available from the Library's Home Page. WWW

Literary Reference Center - Ebsco   Current File    Updated Monthly
A comprehensive literary reference database providinga broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

Literature Criticism Online (LCO) Cengage / Gale    Multiple Series
The database includes the multi-volume content of two series: Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism:Provides critical opinion on early literature excerpting criticism on the works of philosophers, poets and playwrights, political leaders, scientists and writers from other genres. Short Story Criticism: The most-studied short story writers of yesterday and today are profiled in volumes that deliver a historical survey of the critical response to their work. Search Guide

Literature of the Nonprofit Center Online  LNPS Online is a searchable database of the literature of philanthropy. It incorporates the unique contents of the FoundationCenter 's five libraries and contains more than 20,000 full bibliographic citations, of which more than 12,500 have descriptive abstracts. It is updated on a regular basis.

Literature Resource Center (LRC)  - Gale   Updated Monthly
Provides direct access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline in a single Internet-searchable database. Includes more than 38,000 full text critical analyses, 122,000 biographies of  novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. In addition to biographical, bibliographical and contextual information from the Contemporary Authors® and Dictionary of Literary Biography databases, the LRC provides full-text criticism from the Contemporary Literary Criticism Select database and 258 full text journals.. Search Guide

Literature Resources from Gale  - Cengage/ Gale  Updated Monthly
Allows simultaneous searching of several  literature databases in a single interface designed specifically for Literature research. Covers
literature criticism, biographies, work and topic overviews, reviews, and full text of many literary works all searchable at the same time and returned in lists organized according to the type of research needs they serve.

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Making of America (MOA) - Cornell University    Current File    Updated Daily
Making of America is a collaborative effort between the University of Michigan and CornellUniversity to provide a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The searchable and browsable collection of 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprint is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Advanced searching supports Boolean, proximity, frequency, index and author / title searching. University of Michigan Site.

Making of America (MOA) - University of  Michigan    Current File    Updated Daily
Making of America is a collaborative effort between the University of Michigan and CornellUniversity to provide a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The book collection currently contains approximately 9,500 books with 19th century imprints. Cornell University Site.

Mammalian Species Index - American Society of Mammalogists    1969-2008
Mammalian Species has been published by the American Society of Mammalogists since 1969. Each issue describes a species in detail with the following information: scientific name and the date named, context and content, diagnosis, general characters, distribution, fossil record, form, function, ontogeny and reproduction, ecology, behaviour, literature cited. Issues 1-823 (through 2008) are available in full text from Smith College; later editions are not available to WSU.

Mango Languages - Mango Languages.com - Current File
Mango offers 40 foreign language and 15 English as a Second Language (ESL) courses that are taught in the user’s native language. First-time users will be asked to create a profile with email address and password. This allows your to track your progress and reenter a lesson where you left off in the previous session. When returning to the Mango page, log in on the left side with your email address and password.

MAS Ultra: School Edition - Ebsco    Updated Monthly
A comprehensive general reference database designed for high school libraries. It provides full text of articles from nearly 460 of the most wanted K-12 magazines plus abstracts and indexing for over 540 titles. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Includes full text for 50,000 biographies, 1,000 primary documents in American History, 540 pamphlets, plus reference sources such as Magill's Book Reviews, CIA World Factbook, World Almanac & Book of Facts, etc.Search Guide | Video Tutorial

MasterFILE Premier - Ebsco    1990-    Updated Daily
Provides full text for more than 1,810 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals. In addition, this database offers: indexing and abstracts for over 2,780 periodicals with backfiles to 1984 ; searchable full text for nearly 5,000 Magill's Book Reviews; coverage of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal; and full text backfiles as far back as January of 1990. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

Mathematics Abstracts - Zentralblatt fur Mathematik    1931-      Updated Monthly
Demo mode only - there is a limit of 3 allowed answers for unregistered users. The database covers the international mathematical research published from 1931-1998. Contains articles from about 2,000 journals and serials, books, conference proceedings, and other  research papers appearing in any language. This database contains records for the documents covered by Zentralblatt f&r Mathematik / Mathematics Abstracts.More than 5,000 scientists from all over the world provide Zentralblatt with reviews. The reviews are written mainly in  English, with some reviews in French or German. Searchable by author, title, source, etc. Serials List.   WWW Search Guide Serials List

MEDLINE  - (Ebsco version) National Library of Medicine   1966-  Updated Monthly
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,000 current biomedical journals and to link to full text for articles contained within the Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic database.  It includes the entire MEDLINE collection and uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from current biomedical journals, citations from Index Medicus, the International Nursing Index, and the Index to Dental Literature.This database is updated monthly on EBSCOhost. Search Guide | Video Tutorial    See also the PUBMEDversion from the National Library of Medicine.

Mental Measurements Yearbook - Buros Institute 1989- (9th - 16th Yearbooks)  Updated Semi-Annually
Contains descriptive information and critical reviews of more than 2,000 commercially-available standardized English-language educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement and intelligence tests. Each entry includes test name and classification; author(s); publisher, publication date; price; time requirements; existence of validity and reliability data; score descriptions; levels; and intended populations. Contains the text of the Buros Institute's 9th - 16th Yearbooks.  WWW Search Guide

Military & Government Collection - Ebsco    Updated Monthly
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. It provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals, indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles, full text country reports from CountryWatch, and 245 full text pamphlets.Search Guide | Video Tutorial

MLA International Bibliography (Ebsco) Modern Language Assn.    1963-    Updated Quarterly
Indexes 4,400 journals and series plus books from 1,000 publishers covering language, literature, and folklore. Includes the MLA Directory of Periodicalswhich contains information for more than 7,000 language, literature, and folklore journals and series providing addresses, advertising rates, and information about submissions for publication..Search Guide | Video Tutorial

Music Online: Reference-  Alexander Street Press    Current File    Updated Quarterly
A comprehensive database of streaming audio, video, reference, and scores on the web. Music Online allows users cross search multiple music databases published by Alexander Street Press. Music Online brings together on a single cross-searchable platform

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NASW Clinical Directory - NASW    Current Directory Includes The Register of Clinical Social Workers,  a searchable directory of clinical social workers in the USA. Search Guide

National Technical Information Service (NTIS) -    1987-    Updated Daily
Searchable database containing references to 370,000 technical publications, datafiles, CD-ROMs, and audiovisual material added to the NTIS collection in the last 10 years.    WWW

Nature Encyclopedia of Life Sciences   SEE Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

Naxos Music Library - Naxos Digital Services    Updated Quarterly
Provides access to more than 616,000 tracks and more than 43,00 CDs with over 2,500 composers represented. Offers the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues as well as Jazz and World music and educational products. Naxos has valid licenses with all international public-performance societies allowing Naxos to stream in-copyright musical works. Genres covered include: Classical Music; Contemporary Jazz; Jazz / Folk / Blues Legends; Nostalgia; World / Folk Music; New Age; and Chinese Music. Educational content includes the lives and works of the greatest composers, classical explained, opera explained, instruments of the Orchestra, history of classical music, history of opera, glossary, pronunciation guide, opera synopses and opera libretti. Teaching staff will be able to plan their courses around a wide range of music. The database includes not only practically all standard repertoire, but also a wide range of rare repertoire not available from other sources. Internet Explorer 6.0 or Netscape 7.1 required. Software Specifications.

Naxos Music Library Jazz - Naxos Music Library Current file
One of the most comprehensive collection of Jazz music available online. It offers more than 45,000 tracks of jazz from over 3,800 albums. Over 7000 jazz artists are represented. Naxos Music Library Jazz comprises Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz. Naxos Jazz, along with Prophone and Proprius, brings you the world of international Jazz, covering Sweden and Scandinavian jazz artists. US-based Fantasy has the world's deepest jazz catalogue and offers the very best in blues and R&B.

NBER Working Papers - National Bureau of Economic Research Current File Updated Monthly
Searchable database of papers on economic research in numerous fields.

NBER Working Papers on Corporate Finance - National Bureau of Economic Research Current File Updated Monthly
Concentrates on the causes and effects of financing arrangements used by corporations. The group also studies corporate governance, relations between banks and corporations in different countries, and the effects of leveraged buyouts on profits, spending on research and development, and employment.

NBER Working Papers on Economics of Education - National Bureau of Economic Research Current File Updated Monthly
Analyzes numerous aspects of the virtual circle between economic analysis and policy innovation because economics is the inspiration for, or intertwined with, many policies: school choice, accountability, savings and aid plans for college, incentive pay for teachers, reducing the barriers of entry into teaching, and so on.

NBER Working Papers on Industrial Organization - National Bureau of Economic Research Current File Updated Monthly
conducts empirical studies of firm behavior and government regulation. Members of the program also examine competition and pricing behavior in specific industries.

NBER Working Papers on International Trade and Investment - National Bureau of Economic Research Current File Updated Monthly
The International Trade and Investment (ITI) Program does research on patterns of international trade and foreign direct investment; policies designed to influence the level of trade and investment; and their consequences on importing and exporting countries, such as for their wages, growth, the environment, and so on.

NCJRS Abstracts Database -  Nat'l Crim. Justice Ref. Serv.  1973-  Updated Monthly
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 140,000 publications on criminal justice, including Federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Subject areas include corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, and victims of crime. The Abstracts Database is produced by NCJRS, a service of the National Institute of Justice, with  the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office for Victims of Crime, Bureau of Justice Statistics, and Bureau of Justice Assistance, all part of the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, and the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Global, subject, author, and Boolean searching are supported.  WWW Search Guide.

NetLibrary -     Current file
Provides access to the library's collection of 3,300 eBooks and 3,407 publicly accessible eBooks, such as Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. The collection is searchable by author, title, subject, keyword, full text, and ISBN. Users may search for and view the full text of these books online, or create e free account in order to charge out books. Minimum browser requirements are: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or Netscape 6.2 or higher. 

New York Times - New York Times, Inc.    1980 -    Updated Daily
Offers full text of published The New York Times newspaper articles. Includes all articles for delivery as ASCII full-text documents. Accessible via General News on Lexis-Nexis Academic UniverseWeb Version with Daily Paper.

New York Times  (1995-)  - Gale    1995 -    Updated Weekly
Provides the full text of The New York Times from 1995 to present.

New York Times Historical Collection - ProQuest Historical Newspapers  Current File  1851-2008
Provides full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating back to 1851. The historical collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue--cover to cover--in downloadable PDF® files. The database is an ongoing project with digitization being done by decade. Search Guide

NEWSLINK- American Journalism Review    Coverage and Updates Vary
Online Newspapers listed by state.  WWW

Newspaper Source - Ebsco    1995-    Updated Daily
A comprehensive news source with full text for 194 newspapers including The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times,159 regional newspapers, 18 international newspapers, 6 newswires, and 9 newspaper columns. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

Nursing Education in Video - Alexander Street - Updated Monthly
A unique online collection of videos created specifically for the education and training of nurses, nursing assistants, and other healthcare workers. All of the videos in the collection have been created with the guidance of the Medcom-Trainex advisory board, and are regularly reviewed for accuracy, currency, and compliance with US Federal regulations from agencies such as OSHA and CMS. This current release includes 284 videos.

Nursing Resource Center - Gale - Updated Monthly
Nursing Resource Center provides a wide array of content needed for research papers and basic nursing theory overviews, including access to sample care plans, multimedia
content, full text reference books, citations to journals in the field and more. Provides millions of pages of content from the top reference and textbook publications in the field, as well as animated depictions of human anatomy.

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OLD MEDLINE U.S. National Institute of Medicine    1964-1965    Closed File
Contains citations published in the 1964 and 1965 Cumulated Index Medicus and covers the fields of medicine, preclinical sciences, and allied health sciences. Subject searching of this file is available through key words (the original Medical Subject Headings, MeSH, assigned back in 1964-65) and text phrases. Unlike MEDLINE, this file contains no abstracts nor MeSH heading (MH) field data from NLM's current controlled vocabulary.   WWW. Search Guide

OMIM, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man - National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)   Current File
This database is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Dr. Victor A. McKusick and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere, and developed for the World Wide Web by NCBI.. The database contains textual information and references, numerous links to MEDLINE and sequence records in the Entrez system, and links to additional related resources at NCBI and elsewhere.

OneLook Dictionaries
Searchable database of 449 dictionaries of all types covering numerous disciplines. Contains 1.4 million words. Searches can be of all dictionaries, a specific type, or a specific subject. An alphabetical list with links to the dictionaries in the database is at http://www.onelook.com/browse.shtml    WWW

Online Literary Criticism Collection
The IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection contains 1576 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by literary period. The collection is not inclusive of all the work on the web, nor does it plan to be. WWW.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Provides contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the new solution features continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience. Search Guide

Organic Syntheses Website - Wiley    Current File
This database details experimental methods, independently checked selected procedures and new reactions, in a standard format for the synthesis of organic compounds. The database is made up of 83 annual volumes and 10 collective volumes. Organic Syntheses procedures may be accessed either via the tables of contents of individual volumes ("journal mode") or by conducting structure and keyword searches ("database mode"). Specific individual procedures can be accessed via the table of contents for either the original annual volume or collective volume in which the procedure appeared. "Database mode" allows users to simultaneously search all volumes of Organic Syntheses by keywords or by inputting structures and substructures. Structure searching requires the ChemDraw plugin; a free version  can be downloaded according to the instructions found in the left margin.

Oxford Art Online  -  Oxford University Press    Current Edition
Electronic version of the 35 volume encyclopedic Grove's Dictionary of Artdictionary all of the Dictionary's 45,000 articles. Includes links to 24,000+ color images plus 1,000 images from the Bridgeman Art Library. Also includes Resources from Oxford Art Online: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Oxford Companion to Western Art.

Oxford Bibliographies Online - Criminology  -  Oxford University Press    Current Edition
In the Criminology module, leading scholars have produced a literary guide to the most important and significant sources in the field. The guide features a selective list of bibliographic citations supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult. Each topic has a unique editorial commentary to show how the cited sources are interrelated. The citations promote discoverability as they link out to the sources via your library collection or through Google books and more.Entries are regularly updated so that information in this resource is always current and accurate.

Oxford Islamic Studies Online -  Oxford University Press    Current Edition
This authoritative resource brings together the best current scholarship in the field for students, scholars, government officials, community groups, and librarians to foster a more accurate and informed understanding of the Islamic world. Oxford Islamic Studies Online features reference content and commentary by renowned scholars in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture, and is regularly updated as new content is commissioned and approved under the guidance of the Editor in Chief, John L. Esposito.

OxResearch – Oxford Analytica – Current File
Provides more than 30,000 articles covering world and regional economic and political developments of major significance. Using a multi-disciplinary team approach, economists, international relations specialists, and political/social analysts offer timely and authoritative judgment on events proving information on over 180 countries including the United States, Germany, China, Iraq, and Iran. Includes: OxResearch Country Profiles 16-May-2008 to present; OxResearch Daily Brief Service. 27-Sep-1984 to present OxResearch Individual Profiles. 6-Mar-2009 to present; and OxResearch Research Studies 30-May-2008 to 1-Apr-2009

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PAIS International & PAIS Archive – ProQuest       1915-
PAIS International covers 1972 to present with references to more than 625,800 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Publications from over 120 countries are included.  In addition to English, some of the indexed materials are published in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and other languages. The PAIS Archive database comprises a retrospective conversion of the PAIS Annual Cumulated Bulletin, Volumes 1-62, published 1915-1976. PAIS Archive contains over 1.23 million records. Search Guide

PapersFirst® Database - OCLC    1992 -    Updated Biweekly.
Provides access to individual papers presented at conferences worldwide. A major research aid covering every congress, symposium, exposition, workshop, and meeting added to The British Library Document Supply Centre's vast proceedings collection since October, 1993.  Search Guide

Pharmaceutical News Index - ProQuest    Varies
Search the definitive database of pharmacological news, research, and regulatory information. Covers the most important specialized publications in the pharmaceutical, health care, biotechnology, and medical device industries. Search Guide

Philosopher's Index -  Philosopher's Information Center    1940 -    Updated Quarterly
The Philosopher's Index is a bibliographic database with informative author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in the fifteen fields of philosophy, published in journals and books since 1940. Records cite journal articles, books, contributions to anthologies, and book reviews. Nearly 570 journals are cited, from 43 countries, in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Czech, Hungarian, Polish and many other languages. Topics covered include: aesthetics, axiology, philosophy of education, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of history, philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, metaphilosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of science, social philosophy, and the philosophy of religion. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine Collection - Gale - 1980 -
Access to authoritative content that includes over 100 titles covering the fields of physical therapy and sports medicine. It covers a diverse topics in the field,
including proven treatment techniques, experimental research theses and many more.

PILOTS (Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress) -   ProQuest   1871 -   Updated Monthly
The PILOTS database, produced by the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and to offer both current and retrospective coverage. More than 31,033 records are included. Search Guide

PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences   PNAS   1915-    Updated Weekly
Provides searchable access to the entire full text backfiles of PNAS - one of the world's most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serials. Since its establishment in 1914, PNAS continues to publish cutting-edge research reports, commentaries, reviews, perspectives, colloquium papers, and actions of the Academy. Coverage in PNAS spans the biological, physical, and social sciences.

POPLINE® -   Johns Hopkins School of Public Health    1970-    Updated Monthly
(POPulation information onLINE) provides bibliographic citations from Journal articles, monographs, technical reports, and unpublished works covering population, family planning, and related health issues, including family planning technology and programs, fertility, and population law and policy. In addition, POPLINE focuses on particular developing-country issues including demography, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, maternal and child health, primary health care communication, and population and environment.WWW. Search Guide

Population Index - Princeton University    1986-1998    Updated Monthly
A searchable and browsable database containing 41,103 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index from 1986-1998. Population Index, published since 1935, is the primary reference tool to the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other material on population topics. WWW. Search Guide

PREVLine - National Clearinghouse for Alcohol & Drug Information  Current    Updated Monthly
Contains the following databases: NASAWI (national Substance Abuse Web Index); Drug Abuse/ Alcohol Treatment/ Prevention Programs; Eric Digests - Department of Education; ETOH:  GPO Access; Information about Drugs and Alcohol (IDA); MEDLINE; SAID - Department of Labor;  Smoking; SNAP Database; and Prevention Materials Database (PMD).  WWW

Primary Search® Online - Ebsco    Updated Monthly
 Designed for elementary schools and children's reading rooms, this database includes: searchable full text of articles, reports and special issues from over 50 of the most popular K-12 magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for over 100 pamphlets plus children's encyclopedias and reference resources such as: The Encyclopedia of Animals, Funk & Wagnalls® New Encyclopedia, American Heritage Children's Dictionary 3rd edition, The World Almanac for Kids, and other resources. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

PrimateLit Database    - Univ. of Wisconsin    1940 -    Updated Twice Monthly
The PrimateLit database provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. Coverage of the database spans 1940 to present and includes all publication categories (articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc.) and many subject areas (behavior, colony management, ecology, reproduction, field studies, disease models, veterinary science, psychology, physiology, pharmacology, evolution, taxonomy, developmental and molecular biology, genetics and zoogeography).

ProceedingsFirst® Database - OCLC    1993 -    Updated Biweekly
Provides tables of contents of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Each record contains a list of the papers presented at each conference. Like its companion,  PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst provides access to The British Library Document Supply Centre's vast collection of conference proceedings.  Search Guide

Professional Development Collection- Ebsco    1990-    Updated Monthly
provides a specialized collection designed for professional educators. This collection covers more than 240 full text journals on a broad range of topics - from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice. The Professional Development Collection includes backfiles to 1990 plus abstract and index coverage for over 330 well known professional development titles and searchable full text for over 240 journals covering the most current topics in education. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

Project Muse JohnsHopkinsUniversity     1995 -    Updated Monthly
Access to 223 full-text journals from university press publishers covering multiple topics in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences.  List of Journal Titles. WWW Search Guide ---Browse Guide Video Tutorials: Search Books and Journals--- Browse Books and Journals
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ProQuest Asian Business and Reference - ProQuest  1971 - present
Find the latest business and financial news from the Eastern Hemisphere. Covers Asian business and financial information from key international publications including Far Eastern Economic Review, Asiaweek, and many more. Search Guide

ProQuest Biology Journals -  ProQuest CSA    1990s-    Updated Daily
Provides access to a wide range of biology topics from 286 journal titles, with more than 250 journals available in full text.  Coverage for many journals extends back to the 1990s. Search Guide

ProQuest Black Newspapers    ProQuest    Coverage Varies    Updated Weekly
A collection of significant Black newspapers from the United States. Search Guide

ProQuest Central ProQuest CSA    Coverage Varies    Updated Daily
The largest aggregated full-text database with more than 8,400 full-text titles among the 11,500 titles covered. Over 160 subject areas are covered extensively including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences, sciences, etc. Search Guide

ProQuest Computing -  ProQuest CSA    1990s-    Updated Daily
Provides comprehensive coverage of computer topics back to the 1990s. The database includes scholarly journals, trade publications, and consumer titles among more than 350 titles, with nearly 300 available in full text. The database includes product reviews, database design and management, software, hardware, e-commerce, Web site development, intranets and extranets, and technology management. Search Guide

ProQuest Criminal Justice   - ProQuest    1981-    Updated Weekly
Provides information on virtually any criminal justice topic, including corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and family law. Covers 197 journals in full-text (1994-) and indexing/abstracts for 457 journals from 1981-. Search Guide

ProQuest European Business - ProQuest  1971 - present
Find the latest European business and financial information. Includes quality resources such as The Economist, Fortune, European Business Journal, and many more. Search Guide

ProQuest Family Health - ProQuest    Varies
Find complete, full-text information from covering numerous aspects of family health from sports injuries to women's health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry. Search Guide

ProQuest Health and Medical Completee - ProQuest    Varies
Designed to serve a wide range of people who need health information -- from hospital administrators to medical professionals to consumers. The database provides coverage from leading health journals and essential medical journals in key medical specialties. Search Guide

ProQuest Health Management -  ProQuest CSA    1990s-    Updated Daily
Designed to meet the needs of researchers studying the field of health administration. The database provides full-text coverage for more than 550 key journals and more than 4,500 Doctoral Dissertations and Theses. Search Guide

ProQuest Military Collection - ProQuest    Varies
Search a comprehensive collection of material on military subjects such as defense, aeronautics and space flight, civil engineering, political science, and more. Search Guide

ProQuest National Newspapers -  ProQuest CSA    1980s-    Updated Daily
Provides access to some of the most respected newspapers from all over the country, each with its own unique geographic perspective:
New York Times 1980- ; Wall Street Journal, 1984-;  Washington Post, 1987-;  Los Angeles Times, 1985-;  Christian Science Monitor, 1988-; Chicago Tribune, 1985-; Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 1990- ; Boston Globe, 1980-; USA TODAY, 1987-; and others. Search Guide

ProQuest Newsstand  - ProQuest    Varies
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.Search Guide

ProQuest National Newspapers Premier - ProQuest    Varies
Includes a balance of national and regional newspapers chosen for their journalistic excellence and regional representation. All titles are available in full text. Papers include national titles such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post along with a selection of titles from across the U.S. such as the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Denver Post, The Sacramento Bee plus other important U.S. papers. Search Guide

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source - ProQuest    Varies
Search full-text journals and dissertations in ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source alongside Systematic Reviews, Evidence Summaries, and Best Practice Information Sheets from the renowned Joanna Briggs Institute. Search Guide

ProQuest Political Science – ProQuest         1985 -
Provides access to over 460 leading political science and international relations journals including the full-text of 430 core titles, many of which are indexed in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.   Coverage of  the literature of political science and international relations includes topics such as comparative politics, political economy, international development, environmental policy, and hundreds of related topics.  Search Guide

ProQuest Psychology Journals -  ProQuest CSA    1990s-    Updated Daily
Provides abstracts and indexing for more than 575 titles, with over 485 titles available in full text. Users get access to charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements essential to psychological research. Coverage extends back to the early 1990s, This database covers a wide range of topics from leading psychology and psychosomatic publications. Many of the titles are heavily cited and have a strong set of ISI impact factors. Search Guide

ProQuest Religion - ProQuest    1986 - present
Search a comprehensive collection of journals covering religious issues and perspectives, including religious news and information, commentary on topics of general interest from the perspective of a particular religion, and formal theological studies.Search Guide

ProQuest Science Journals  -  ProQuest CSA    1986-    Updated Daily
Covers both the applied and general sciences. With coverage dating back to 1986, this database features over 490 titles with more than 380 available in full text. Articles include all of  the charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements that are vital to scientific and technical literature. Search Guide

ProQuest Social Science Journals -  ProQuest CSA    1990s-    Updated Daily
Provides access to a variety of social science journals. The database includes over 510 titles, with more than 280 available in full text.  Coverage extends back to the early 1990s. Search Guide

ProQuest Sociology - ProQuest        1985 -
ProQuest Sociology provides access to the full-text of more than 310 journals in sociology and social work. This collection provides full-text coverage of many core titles included in Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts. The coverage of  the international literature of sociology and social work includes culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction, and many more topics. Search Guide

ProQuest Telecommunications  - ProQuest   1995 - current
Search the full text of top telecommunications industry publications. Includes magazines, journals, and newsletters for the latest in this fast changing industry. Search Guide

PsycINFO (Ebsco)  - American Psychological Association    1806-    Updated Monthly
Coverage has been expanded back to 1806. PsycINFO provide abstracts from dissertations, books, book chapters, technical reports, and approximately 2,000 journals on psychology published in 50 countries. Chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987 to the present; however, there is a substantial number of records covering books published earlier. Search Guide

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection  - Ebsco    1975-    Updated Daily
Provides 503 full text titles including 478peer-reviewed journals. The database covers information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

PubMed - U. S. National Library of Medicine    1966 -    Updated Monthly.
PubMed comprises more than 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. Indexes over  3,500 journals (most with abstracts). WWW Search Guide / Journals List

PubMed Dietary Supplement Subset - NIH Office of Dietary Supplements and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Current File
Replaces the International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) database, 1999-2010, which was a collaboration between the two U.S. government agencies, ODS and United States Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library. The subset is designed to limit search results to citations from a broad spectrum of dietary supplement literature including vitamin, mineral, phytochemical, ergogenic, botanical, and herbal supplements in human nutrition and animal models. Dietary Supplement Fact Sheets

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Regional Business News   Ebsco    1990-    Updated Daily
Provides the most recent 30 days of full text information from an international collection of newswires.  Included in this database are A&G Information, Africa News Service, Inter Press Service, Resource News International,  South American Business, M2 Communications, PR Newswire, Business Newswire, Canadian Corporate News, News  Bytes News Network, and Phillips Business Information Highlights. Information provided by these sources covers business,  political, economic and other diverse, international news events.  The database uses the same search engine as our other Ebsco databases. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

Religion & Philosophy Collection - Ebsco    1990-    Updated Daily
Covers world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Provides more than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

RePEc: Research Papers In Economics - University of Connecticut    Current file    Updated Weekly
The largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet. Over 325,000 items of research can be browsed or searched, and over 225,000 can be downloaded in full text - some subcriptions required. This site is part of a large volunteer effort to enhance the free dissemination of research in Economics, RePEc.  Includes working papers, articles, and software components.

Republican (Springfield) - NewsBank, Inc.               1988 -               Updated Daily
Electronic ASCII version of the newspaper, without images or graphics. (Formerly the Union-News and Sunday Republican).WWW. MassLive.com(DailySpringfield Republican Online).

Research Library - ProQuest   1971 - current
Search for coverage of a broad range of subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests. Search Guide

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SAGE Journals Online - SAGE    1999 -    Updated Monthly
This multidisciplinary database provides access to more than 572 SAGE journals with coverage back to 1999 for most of the titles. Disciplines covered are in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine The database can be searched or browsed by journal title. List of Journal Titles.

Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Pamphlet Collection - Cornell University    1700s - 1800s
A searchable and browseable Collection of more than 10,000 pamphlets and leaflets collected by May, which document the anti-slavery struggle at local, regional, national and international levels.

Science in Context
Provides contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience. Search Guide

ScienceResearch.com -   Deep Web Technologies, LLC    Current File   Updated Monthly
ScienceResearch.com is a free, publicly available Internet web portal that searches thousands of high-quality journals and databases and ranks results by relevance on a single results page. Some full text is available but most citations include only a brief abstract. Subject areas covered include Astronomy, Biology & Nature, Chemistry, Computers & Technology, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Engineering, General Science,  Health & Medicine,  Materials Science,  Mathematics,  Physics, and Social Sciences.

Scirus.com Elsevier    Current File    Updated Weekly
A comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet, it searches over 200 million science-specific Web pages plus more than 30 million citations, abstracts, full text peer-reviewed articles, and patents.  Links to some free full text articles.

SDILINE® - National Institute of Medicine    1964-    Updated Monthly
Selective Dissemination of Information onLINE contains bibliographic citations to journal articles from approximately 3,700 biomedical journals from the most recent complete month in MEDLINE, including all citations in the forthcoming printed edition of the monthly Index Medicus.   WWW. Search Guide

Serials Directory - Ebsco    Current File    Updated Quarterly
The Serials Directory, 14th Edition provides up-to-date, accurate bibliographic information for more than 178,500 U.S. and international serials from over 85,000 publishers. Includes historical data for over 20,000 titles. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System - Computation Facility at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics  Updated Daily
The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project which maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 5.9 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and arXiv e-prints. The main body of data in the ADS consists of bibliographic records, which are searchable through the Abstract Service query forms, and full-text scans of much of the astronomical literature which can be browsed though the Browse interface. Integrated in its databases, the ADS provides access and pointers to a wealth of external resources, including electronic articles, data catalogs and archives. There are currently links to over 6.0 million records maintained by collaborating scientists and organizations. Online Search Help.

Snapshot Series - ProQuest   2001 - current
Worldwide market data for a broad range of industries and regions Snapdata International Group is the only market research company to specialize in top-line international market research overviews. The Snapshot International Group Series of 4,600 reports is designed to provide an instant overview of a market, and the data is supplied in both graphical and tabular format for ease of interpretation and analysis. All data is compiled in house by the Snapdata Research Department, an international team of research experts.. Search Guide

Social Explorer - Oxford Univertsity Press Updated continuously
Provides quick and easy access to modern and historical census data and demographic information. This resource brings together a vast and growing amount of quantitative data with an intuitive visual interface and report-generation tools that make demographic research, the analysis of social trends, and comparison of neighborhoods, communities, counties, and other areas accessible and interactive. Getting Started

Social Service Abstracts -  ProQuest    1980-    Updated Monthly
Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services,and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,500 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews. Search Guide

Social Work Abstracts   N.A.S.W.   1977-    Updated Monthly
Contains records from more than 450 journal in the fields of social work and human services from 1977 to present. Coverage includes theory and practice, areas of service, social issues,and social problems. Also includes The Register of Clinical Social Workers,  a searchable directory of clinical social workers in the United States. WWW Search Guide

Sociological Abstracts - ProQuest    1963-    Updated Monthly
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles. Many records from key journals in sociology, published since 2001, also include the references cited in the bibliography of the source article. Each individual reference may also have links to an abstract and/or to other papers that cite that reference; these links increase the possibility of finding more potentially relevant articles. Search Guide

SPORTDiscus    1975-    Updated Monthly
A comprehensive, international database covering sport, physical education, and physical fitness literature from 1975 to the present Topics included are: sports medicine, exercise psychology, biomechanics, psychology, training, coaching, physical education and fitness, and related topics. The EBSCO version provides links to full text from 225 periodicals including 112 Scholarly Journals, 97 Magazines, 7 Trade Publications, 9 Industry Reports, 1 Health Report, and 9 reference books.

Statesman's Yearbook Online - Edited by Dr. Barry Turner    2010    Updated Regularly
Regularly updated to reflect recent world events, The Statesman's Yearbook Online includes reliable information on every country in the world, covering key historical events, population, city profiles, social statistics, climate, recent elections, current leaders, defense, international relations, economy, energy and natural resources, industry, international trade, religion, culture, and diplomatic representatives, as well as fact sheets and more. Accessible on Library computers only.

Statistical Abstracts of the U.S. -  U.S. Commerce Dept. Current & Backfiles  Annually
Current edition plus backfiles to 1995. The standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the  U.S.  Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing.

Supreme Court Decisions  1893-     FINDLAW Constitutional Law Center
 FindLaw's searchable database of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1893 (U.S. Supreme Court Decisions: US Reports 150-, 1893-). Browseable by year and US Reports volume number and searchable by citation, case title and full text. WWW.

Supreme Court Briefs    FINDLAW Constitutional Law Center   10/99-
Before presenting their oral arguments, counsel for both sides will submit a legal brief summarizing the facts of the case as well as the legal reasoning behind their arguments. The briefs below are organized alphabetically by first-party case name, and are coded according to the Supreme Court Rule 33, which governs the cover colors for booklet-form documents.

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Teacher Reference Center (TRC) - Gale    1984 - Present    Updated Weekly
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals and periodicals. 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.

TeachingBooks.net -  TeachingBooks.net LLC      Current File 
An easy-to-use database that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. It Includes Meet-the-Author Movies, Book Readings, and Interviews among thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment. Every resource has been selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities. Video Search Guide (3:30)

THOMAS - Library of Congress    1973-    Updated Daily
THOMAS is an online compilation of selected publications of the US Congress.  It tracks Federal legislation from the time a bill is introduced until it becomes law or dies in the process. THOMAS provides full text of: Legislation (1989-); Bills (1989-); Congressional Record (1989-); Public Laws (1973-); and Committee Reports (1989-). It also includes Summaries of Bills (1973-) and Historical Databases covering dcuments from 1774-1873. WWW. Search Guide.

TOXNET®-  National Library of Medicine    1965-    Updated Monthly
Provides access to databases covering bibliographic and other information covering the biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals. Databases included are: TOXLINEHazardous Substance Data BankIntegrated Risk Information SystemChemical Carcinogenesis Research Information SystemToxics Release Inventory,Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology and Environmental Teratology Information Center and GENE-TOX (Peer-reviewed mutagenicity test data from the Environmental  Protection Agency. Citations in TOXLINE cover pre-1965-forward. WWW. Search Guide

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UNdata    - United Nations    Updated Monthly
Provides UN statistical databases  through a single entry point. Users can now search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN system. Search across all databases, or use advanced search to select specific sources, years, and regions of the world. Includes a glossary. From the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA).

UNESDOC - UNESCO    Updated Monthly
UNESDOC database contains full texts of UNESCO Documents. Documents are stored in the database either in text mode or in image mode. Full text searching is only done on texts. In this case, pages including the searched terms are directly displayed and the terms are highlighted. Searching in english will be more exhaustive. WWW.

U.S. History in Context- (formerly History Resource Center: U.S.) Gale   Updated Monthly
Provides a complete overview of U.S. history with comprehensive coverage of the most-studied events, issues and current information. Coverage includes content that is 50% or more from primary source documents, including monographs, pamphlets, first-person accounts, etc. Additional content includes documents from Primary Source Microfilm's digital archives; encyclopedic articles from Macmillan Reference USA and Charles Scribner's Sons references; Gale Group proprietary content such as country and era overview information; 119 full-text periodicals and journals; a historical bibliography; and links to digitized special collections. Search Guide

U.S. Government Statistics on the Web -  Various U.S. Gov.'t Agencies   Current Files
Statistics on numerous cataegories: Agriculture, Business and Industry, Comprehensive Subjects, Consumers, Cost-of-Living, Demographics, Economics, Education, Energy, Environment, Finance, Foreign Government Data Sources, Foreign & International Economics, Foreign Trade, Government Finances, Health, Housing, Labor, Military, Politics, Science, Sociology, Tourism, Transportation, and Weather. WWW

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ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History -  International Instutute of Social History   1975-
Online bibliography of women's history in historical and women's studies journals. Browseable years for 1995-.

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Women and Social Movements in the U.S.: Scholar's Edition - Alexander StreetPress   1600-2000    Updated Annually
Provides the full text of books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities. The Scholar's Edition includes 74 document projects with 2,200 documents, 29,000 pages of additional full-text documents, and 1,600 primary authors. It includes as well book, film and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools. Covers 1600-2000. The Scholar's Edition adds an important new resource: The Women's Commission Reports collection is an archive of the publications and documents of local, state, and federal Commissions on the Status of Women from 1963 to the present. The full text of 590 reports and publications issued by commissions in more than thirty states are available currently. When complete this collection will contain 75,000 pages of publications from commissions in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. The publications include reports, pamphlets, posters, and ephemeral materials.

World Almanac - Primedia Reference, Inc.   Current.    Updated Annually.
Includes all of the Almanac titles: The World Almanac, providing key facts on a wide variety of subjects internationally; The World Almanac of the U.S.A. with essential facts about the United States current and historical; The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, a guidebook to federal, state, and local governments; and The World Almanac for Kids, covering information and facts of interest to middle-school children and teachers.Search Guide

WorldCat™ Database - OCLC  11th Century -     Updated Daily.
The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with 39 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages. Covers information back to the 11th Century. Includes holdings  information from the world's libraries.Search Guide

World History in Context - Gale    Updated Monthly
A comprehensive collection of award-winning reference titles, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronologic research materials for the study of world history. From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, 40 reference titles and more than 150 periodicals. Search Guide

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts  - ProQuest   1975-    Updated Monthly
Combines the merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts, published by IFI / Plenum, 1975-2000, and ABC POL SCI, published by ABC-CLIO, 1984-2000. WPSA provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. The serials list of this new database continues to grow with a focus on expanding international coverage. More than 1,430 titles are being monitored. Search Guide

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