Ely Library Electronic Databases - Alphabetic List
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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  - ProQuest       1971-     Updated weekly
Provides abstracts of articles from more than 2,000 international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines covering numerous business subjects including: accounting, advertising, auditing, banking, broadcasting, computers, economics, engineering, finance, foreign investment, health care, human resources, insurance, international trade, international trends, investment analysis, management, marketing,  planning and strategy, public administration, real estate, taxation, telecommunications, and transportation.   FirstSearch / 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

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.  FirstSearch / Search Guide

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 - RutgersUniversityCenter 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.
 

A comprehensive guide to alternative sources of information. Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Includes selected abstracts from research journals. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary.  Provides in-depth coverage in the humanities and  social sciences.   FirstSearch / Search Guide

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

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

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. FirstSearch / Search Guide

Arts & Humanities Search - Institute for Scientific Information    1980 -      Updated Weekly.
The online equivalent of ISI's Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Provides complete access to articles from more than 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals and to relevant articles in over 7,000 social science and science journals.    FirstSearch / Search Guide

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

Biography Resource Center - Gale      Current File  Updated Monthly
Provides more than 400,000 biographies on 275,000 different people. Combines 80 of the most frequently consulted biographical sources with more than 250 full-text periodicals to provide in-depth, full-text information. This reference database integrates more than one million thumbnail biographies from the Complete Marquis Who’s Who®, the Encyclopedia of World Biography, Scribner’s Encyclopedia of American Lives, Who’s Who Among African Americans, Dictionary of American Biography, and many more sources. Search Guide

Biology Digest - Plexus Publishing                     1989 -                 Updated Monthly.
Covers all of the life sciences with comprehensive abstracts of articles from over 180 journals. Provides easy access to new scientific developments. FirstSearch / Search Guide

Biological Textbooks - Center for Biological Informatics, U.S. Geological Survey
Full-text editions of eight college textbooks and classic works from the life sciences.

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 In Print - Reed Reference Publishing            Current        Updated Weekly.
Provides complete, publisher&verified information on all U.S. books in print. Includes more than 900,000 new or revised records each year and covers scholarly, technical,  popular, adult, juvenile, and reprint titles. Also includes complete publisher information.  FirstSearch / Search Guide

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

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

Business & Company Resource Center - Gale                1980-                Updated Daily
Access to information on more than 300,000 companies plus industry reports and statistics. Compnay information includes news, histories, financials, rankings, product lists, investment reports, and an industry overview.
 
Business Dateline - UMI                                   1985 -                 Updated Weekly.
Provides access to and full&text articles from more than 530 newspapers, city business magazines, wire services in the United States and Canada. An essential business information tool for monitoring the latest trends in industry, health, environmental issues, education, and much more. FirstSearch / Search Guide

Business & Industry - Responsive Database Services.      Mid 1994 -     Updated Daily.
A multi&industry, international database that provides access to company, industry,  market, and product information. Covers over 1,200 leading trade and business sources. ASCII full&text articles are available online for more than 800 of those sources.   FirstSearch / Search Guide

Business Organizations, Agencies, and Publications Directory - Gale Research.    Current    Updated Annually.
A unique guide to international business information sources. Lists contact name, address, phone, and fax numbers, and a description of the organization's founding, membership, activities, and sources.  FirstSearch / Search Guide

Business and Management Practices             1995 -             Updated Weekly.
A full-text resource with a focus on the practical aspects and approaches of business management. Offers highly-focused coverage of more than 300 core management journals and trade publications. Also included are specific management articles from over 300 respected business sources. Full-text is available for approximately 60% of the cited articles.   FirstSearch / Search Guide

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.  WWW  Search Guide

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 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

CARIS - United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO)            1975 -               Updated Monthly
CARIS is the Current Agricultural Research Information System created by FAO in 1975 to identify and to facilitate the exchange of information about current agricultural research projects being carried out in - or on behalf of - developing countries. An international system, working on a cooperative basis, CARIS identifies projects dealing with all aspects of agriculture: plant and animal production and protection; post harvest processing of primary agricultural products; forestry; fisheries; agricultural engineering; natural resources and the environment as related to agriculture; food and human nutrition; agricultural economics; rural development, and agricultural administration; legislation, information, education and extension. 137 national and 19 international and intergovernmental centres participate in CARIS. Centres have submitted exhaustive information on roughly 30,000 currently active projects. In addition, two regional centers submit input on behalf of 6 countries in their respective regions.

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.
 

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.
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine Citation Index - National Library of Medicine   1966-  Updated Monthly Search or browse an index consisting of more than 90,000 bibliographic citations from 1966 to 1997, obtained from the National Library of Medicine’s Medline database. WWW

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. Enhancements to the original database include hundreds of new titles and searchable cited references for key academic journals. This database also includes editor-selected articles from magazine and journal titles in related

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.

Consumers Index - The Pierian Press, Inc.                   1986 -     Updated Quarterly.
A subject index to the contents of over 300 periodicals. The database provides  information categorized from general (the home) to more specific (automobiles), by periodical  (Consumer Reports), or by a specific brand name (Coca&Cola). Records  include Web site addresses so that users can access free full&text information. FirstSearch / Search Guide

Contemporary Authors - This database is no longer available as a standalone system. Contemporary Authors is included in Biography Resource Center. You can limit your search to Contemporary Authors by doing an Advanced Search in Biography Resource Center; 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 Authors provides 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.

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 240 high-quality reference books from the world's leading publishers. Offering access to over 1.7 million individual entries, xreferplus 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.xreferplus.com/shelf.do

Criminal Justice Abstracts (CSA version)- Willow Tree Press    1968-         Updated Quarterly.
Comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines.  WWW . Search Guide

Criminal Justice Periodicals – UMI 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 59 journals in full-text (1994-) and indexing/abstracts for 190 journals from 1981-. Search Guide

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).

Disclosure Corporate Snapshots - Disclosure, Inc.       Current       Updated Weekly..
Contains brief information on approximately 11,000 U.S. companies filing with the  Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Includes company name, cross references, telephone numbers, ticker symbol, Fortune and Forbes numbers, SIC Codes, and a business description.  FirstSearch / Search Guide

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

Dissertation Abstracts - UMI                              1861 -                   Updated Monthly
Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations.  FirstSearch / Search Guide

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.

EBSCO Encyclopedia of Animals - Ebsco   Current File     Updated Annually
Offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.

EconLit - American Economic Association           1969 -                Updated Monthly
Contains citations, with abstracts, to articles from more than 400 economics journals.  In addition, subject indexing and abstracts of books and subject indexing of dissertation titles are included. Corresponding printed sources are: Journal of Economic Literature, Index of Economic Articles, and Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics.  FirstSearch / Search Guide

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

The Eighties in America - Salem Press     Current File  Free Access to 12/31/2011)
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.
 

An OCLC collection of more than 3,000 scholarly journals. FirstSearch / 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 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 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 Options showing whether the item is available online from ERIC and a Find in a Library function that shows other libraries that own the resource. Users should also check the WSC 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

ERIC (CSA Version)- U. S. Department of Education    1966 -   Updated Monthly
Educational Resources Information Center database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide access to educational-related literature. The ERIC database corresponds to two printed journals: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Both journals provide access to some 14,000 documents and over 20,000 journal articles per year. In addition, ERIC provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.

Essay Finder-- Thomson/Gale              Current              Updated Monthly
Contains thousands of full-text essays and discursive writing based on books published in the 20th century which have been analyzed in standard library indexes. The essays focus on the humanities and social sciences, and include biographies and literary criticism. Full bibliographic information and Library of Congress subject classifications are provided for source books. 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

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

FactSearch - The Pierian Press, Inc.              1984 -                  Updated Quarterly.
Based on the printed publication, A Matter of Fact. Each record contains a bibliographic citation plus an abstract containing facts and statistics with a reference to their original source, and library holdings. The information comes from over 300 publications -   including newspapers, periodicals, the Congressional Record and congressional hearings. Records include Web site addresses.   FirstSearch / Search Guide

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 Society and 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 Indiana University 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.

Foundation Directory Online  - Foundation Center Inc. Current file       Updated Monthly
Searchable database that provides extensive program details for 1,500+ leading foundations; detailed application guidelines for 7,200+ foundations; and sponsoring company information for corporate givers. Also includes a searchable file of 400,000+ grants. The Trustees, Officers, and Donors search field and its corresponding index allow users to search among 338,000+ trustee, officer and donor names. Access from Library Workstation only.

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.

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 23 Reference works in 11 subject areas: Arts, Biography, Business, Environment, History, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Science, and Social Science. . Click here for a list of Full text titles that are included.

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 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. WWW.  Search Guide

General Science Abstracts - Now searchable as part of Wilson Select Plus   1994-
Covers some 150 titles, including areas of astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, earth science, environmental issues, mathematics, medicine, physics, and zoology.  FirstSearch / Search Guide

GEOBASE - Elsevier Science Publishers             1980 -             Updated Monthly
Contains citations with abstracts covering worldwide literature in 2,200 on geography, geology, ecology, international development, and their related disciplines. Subject coverage includes cartography, climatology, energy, environment, geomorphology, hydrology, photogrammetry, sedimentology, geochemistry, geophysics, paleontology, petrology, volcanology, and much more.  FirstSearch / 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.

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.  FirstSearch / 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.

Grove Dictionary of Art Online - SEE Oxford Art Online

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 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. WWW. Search Guide

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 Pharmacology database, 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.  WWW.   Search Guide

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

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

History Resource Center: World - 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.

Hoover's Online: The Business Network.  Hoover's Inc.    Current File    Updated Daily
Provides  information on nearly 15,000 public and private enterprises worldwide (and access to an additional 37,000 companies). Free, advertiser-supported information is available for all of  the companies that Hoover's covers; Also features a host of related channels focusing on business news, career development, e-commerce, personal finance, and travel. WWW

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 Abstracts - Now searchable as part of Wilson Select Plus   1994-
Abstracts from more than 450 journals in archaeology and classical studies, area studies, folklore, history, language and literature, performing arts, philosophy, religion, and related subjects.   FirstSearch / 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.

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 - Gale Group      1985-                Updated Daily
Designed for secondary school students, this multisource, full-text resource offers 530 indexed and 466 full-text titles; more than 40,000 full-text newspaper articles; 14 full-text reference books; 500 historical images, and more than 300 full-color maps. Includes selected almanacs, dictionaries, and encyclopedias.

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. WWW

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

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

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.

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   Legal Research on LexisNexis.

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.

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.

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 Foundation Center'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

LitFinder – Thomson/Gale              Current              Updated Monthly
Access to full text poems, essays, speeches, stories and plays plus references to anthologies and sources. Searchable indexes and multi-genre searching WWW.  Search Guide

Making of America (MOA) - Cornell University            Current File         Updated Daily
Making of America is a collaborative effort between the University of Michigan and Cornell University 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 Cornell University 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 -   University of Washington             1969-2000
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 1-739 are available in full text from Smith College; later editions are not available to WSC.

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.

Massachusetts Newsstand - ProQuest, Inc.    Dates Vary by Newspaper       Updated Daily
Access to full text from 12 Massachusetts Newspapers;

• Boston Globe - from 1980.
• Berkshire Eagle - coverage for Pittsfield, MA, Berkshire County, and 4 nearby New York communities from 2005.
• Boston Herald - coverage from from 1991.
• BusinessWest (Chicopee) - bi-weekly business journal for western MA from 1992.
• North Adams Transcript -  news, commentary, obituaries, classified and information on the northern Berkshire region from 2005.
• Patriot Ledger (Quincy) coverage from 1991.
• Plymouth County Business Review - business news for Plymouth County & southeastern MA from 1991.
• Sentinel & Enterprise (Fitchburg) - coverage of news for Fitchburg from 2005.
• The Sun (Lowell) - coverage of news from Lowell, MA & the Merrimack Valley from 2004.
• Telegram & Gazette (Worcester) - coverage of  Worcester and Central Massachusetts news from 1989.
• Gazette (Haverhill)-  local news from 12/31/92 to 8/9/07.

Standard Times (New Bedford) -  local news from 1/4/92 to 8/19/97.

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

Mathematics Abstracts - Zentralblatt f&r 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. WWW Search Guide     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.

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 Periodicals which contains information for more than 7,000 language, literature, and folklore journals and series providing addresses, advertising rates, and information about submissions for publication.WWW.  Search Guide

The Music Index - Harmonie Park Press             1978-                Updated Quarterly
Contains data from more than 725 international music periodicals from over 40 countries in 23 languages. Topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music are thoroughly categorized and organized by both Subject and Geographic headings. Covers all styles and genres of music. Also includes book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.

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

• African American Music Reference - 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..
• Classical Music Reference Library - 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 - 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.
• The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online - 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.

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 Biological Information Infrastructure - Center for Biological Informatics, U.S. Geological Survey.
Provides links to more than 140 electronic journals available on the Web. Some journals provide full content online, while others offer only abstracts and/or tables of content.

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 over 80,000 tracks and more than 5,500 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.

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       NCJRS  (CSA version)

NetLibrary - OCLC              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. Search Guide

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 Universe.   Web 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  1851-2005
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 Abstracts - UMI                               1989 -                     Updated Weekly
A complete business and general reference resource. Indexes and abstracts more than  25 U.S. and regional newspapers, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and USA Today. The Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition) is indexed beginning Jan 1, 1990. FirstSearch / Search Guide

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. WWW. Search Guide

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.

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 Art dictionary 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.

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

Periodical Abstracts - UMI                          1972 -                 Updated Monthly.
A complete general reference resource, with indexing and abstracts for over 2,000 popular and academic periodicals. Included are transcripts of more than 80 news&oriented television and radio shows.  FirstSearch / 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

PILOTS (Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress) - 1871 -    Cambridge Sceintific Abstracts     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 as of February 2007

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.

PoemFinder – Thomson/Gale              Current              Updated Monthly
Access to more than 30,000 full text poems plus references to anthologies and sources for 100,000 other poems. Searchable indexes of titles, first lines, last lines. WWW.  Search Guide

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.

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.    FirstSearch / 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. WWW     Search Guide

Project Muse – Johns Hopkins University             1995 -         Updated Monthly
Access to 223 full-text journals from university press publishers covering multiple topics in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences.  WWW 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.

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.

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 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 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.
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ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source  -  ProQuest CSA                    1990s-                         Updated Daily
Provides coverage of nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and other disciplines. The database provides abstracting and indexing for more than 650 titles, with over 580 titles in full-text. 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 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

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. WWW

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. WWW  Search Guide

Publist -  The  Internet Directory of Publications         Current          Updated Monthly
PubList.com is the most comprehensive directory of information about more than 150,000 publications and more than 8000 newspapers around the world. PubList.com information comes from definitive sources such as Ulrich's™ International Periodicals Directory. It adds the timeliness and linking capabilities of the Web. WWW

PubMed - U. S. National Library of Medicine           1966 -       Updated Monthly.
Covers all areas of medicine, including clinical medicine, experimental medicine, dentistry, nursing, health services administration, nutrition, and much more. Indexes over  3,500 journals (most with abstracts). Now includes a backfile covering 1966&1984,  increasing the coverage to 196-present.  WWW Search Guide     Journals List

Readers' Guide Abstracts - Now searchable as part of Wilson Select Plus   1994-
Abstracts from 240 popular magazines covering business, consumer affairs, current events, education, fine arts, health, news, and more. Links to full text in Wilson Select for some articles.   FirstSearch / Search Guide

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.

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. WWW

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Social Service Abstracts -  Cambridge Scientific Abstracts     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.

Social Work Abstracts Plus   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 - Cambridge Scientific Abstracts     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.

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 - Edited by Dr. Barry Turner    2007    Updated Regularly
For one hundred and forty three years The Statesman's Yearbook has been relied upon to provide accurate and comprehensive information on the current, political, economic and social status of every country in the world. The 2007 edition is fully updated and contains more information than ever before.  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 version 3.01 for viewing. WWW

Story Finder-- Roth Publishing.               Current              Updated Monthly
Provides thousands of full-text short stories plus explanations, biographies, pictures and more. The database contains both classic and contemporary stories. Search Guide

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.
 Finding U.S. Supreme Court Decisions on the World Wide Web
 Finding U.S. Supreme Court Decisions in Print
 Finding U.S. Supreme Court Briefs and Oral Arguments

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.

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.

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: TOXLINE, Hazardous Substance Data Bank,  Integrated Risk Information System,  Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System, Toxics 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

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 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. 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

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-.

WestLaw – Westlaw, Inc.      Updated Daily
Access to court decisions, case law, legal reviews, newspapers, and trade databases. Access from Library Workstation only. Search Guide

Wilson Business Abstracts - Now searchable as part of Wilson Select Plus   1994-
Provides complete, accurate access to about 300 of today's leading English&language business magazines. Topics include accounting, personnel, and small business. Abstracts are included.    FirstSearch / Search Guide
 

Women and Social Movements in the U.S.: Scholar's Edition - Alexander Street Press   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. FirstSearch / 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. FirstSearch / Search Guide

Worldscope GLOBAL (Brief Records) - Disclosure, Inc.   Current.      Updated Weekly.
Comprises basic financial information on nearly 9,000 of the world's largest companies representing 32 countries. Types of companies covered include industrials, utilities, transportation, banks, insurance, and others. Includes company name, telephone number, address, ticker symbol and basic stock information, SIC codes, industry classifications, and more. FirstSearch / Search Guide

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts  - Cambridge Scientific Abstracts   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.

Xreferplus - Credo Reference.com        Current Editions        Updated Monthly
Xreferplus is a digital reference library that provides information from more than 240 high-quality reference books from the world's leading publishers. Offering access to over 1.7 million individual entries, xreferplus 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.xreferplus.com/shelf.do.

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