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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. Search Guide | Video Tutorial

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

General Reference Center Gold - Gale Group         1980-             Updated Daily
Provides indexing for 4,415 titles and full text for 2,673 titles featuring general interest and business magazines plus the full text of The Washington Post and 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. Search Guide

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

LexisNexis Academic                                                        Updated Daily
Provides the full text of current and back issues for 5,000+ titles including journals, major newspapers, newsletters, reference materials, and legal materials, both state and federal.  WWW. Search Guide

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

SAGE Journals Online - SAGE        1999 -            Updated Monthly
This multidisciplinary database provides access to more than 450 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.

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

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. By the end of 2005, the index will point 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.

Congressional Research Service Reports - University of North Texas Libraries.   1990-           Updated
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.

Military and 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

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

Other Periodical Indexes and Databases
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.

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. FirstSearch / Search Guide

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

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.   FirstSearch / Search Guide


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