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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
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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.
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.
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. Links to full text in H.W. Wilson Select
are now available for some articles. FirstSearch
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PAIS International - Public Affairs Information
Service. 1972- Updated Monthly
Covers the public and social policy literature of business, economics,
finance, law, international relations, public administration, government,
political science, and other social sciences -- with emphasis on issues
that are or might become the subjects of legislation. Covering from 1972
to the present, PAIS International contains abstracts of journal articles,
books, statistical yearbooks, directories, conference proceedings, research
reports and government documents from all over the world. The materials
indexed are published in 60 countries in six languages -- English, German,
French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. All subject headings and abstracts
are written in English. WWW FirstSearch
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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.
Academic
Search Elite Ebsco
1990- Updated Daily
Covers a wide range of academic areas: business,
social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science,education,
multi-cultural and general reference including: Full text for over 1,000
journals, and abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals;
Coverage of 1,700 peer-reviewed journals; and coverage of The Wall Street
Journal, The New York Times, and The Christian Science Monitor.
WWW. Search
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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
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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
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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
Newspaper Indexes
Boston
Globe - Boston Globe, Inc.
1980 -
Updated Weekly
Electronic ASCII version of the newspaper, without
images or graphics. WWW. Daily
Boston Globe Online.
Newspaper
Source - Ebsco
1995-
Updated Daily
This comprehensive news source contains coverage
of over 500,000 articles including: full text of The Christian Science
Monitor back to January 1995; abstracts and indexing of The New York
Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and The
Christian Science Monitor, all dating from 1995; abstracts from The
New York Times Magazine and The New York Times Book Review;
Additional data provided by Knight-Ridder/Tribune; Business News-full
text articles from 105 contributor newspapers (online only); and News Service-full
text articles from 40 contributor newspapers (online only). WWW. Search
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