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FirstSearch Database Descriptions and Producers
The following databases are available on FirstSearch through Ely Library
and are restricted to Westfield State College Students, Staff, and Faculty.

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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 othermaterials on a range of agricultural topics. More than 880 journal titles are covered.

Alternative Press Index - Alternative Press Center 1991- Updated Quarterly
Alternative Press Index Archive - Alternative Press Center 1969-1990 Complete Archive

ArticleFirst® Database--OCLC January 1990 - Updated Daily
Contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of approximately 12,000 journals in science,technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Each record describes one article, news story, letter, or other item.

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 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals and to relevant articles in over 7,000 social science and science journals.

BasicBIOSIS (formerly BIOSIS/FS)--BIOSIS Current Year + 4 Years Backfile. Updated Monthly.
A subset by journal title and year, of BIOSIS Previews, designed specifically for undergraduate students taking introductory biology courses. A five-year rolling file, the database provides information on recent developments in virtually every life science discipline. Now includes an expanded journal list covering approximately 370 basic life science journals found in college and university libraries, and new indexing information that facilitates searching and accurate record retrieval.

Biology Digest--Plexus Publishing 1989 - Updated Nine Times per Year.
Covers all of the life sciences. Specially created to meet the needs of college undergraduates and high school students. Gives easy access to new scientific developments, with comprehensive abstracts of articles in over 300 journals.

Books In Print--Reed Reference Publishing Current. Updated Weekly.
Provides complete, publisherverified 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.

Business Dateline--UMI 1985 - Updated Weekly.
Provides access to abstracts and fulltext 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 other areas.

Business & Industry--Responsive Database Services, Inc. Mid 1994 - Updated Daily.
A multiindustry, international database that provides access to company, industry, market, and product information. Covers over 1,570 leading trade and business sources. ASCII fulltext articles are available online for more than 800 sources.

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-coverage of more than 300 core management journals and trade publications. Also included are specific management-related articles from over 300 respected business sources. Full-text is available for approximately 60% of the cited articles.

Business Organizations, Agencies, & Publications Directory--Gale 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.

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

Consumers Index--The Pierian Press, Inc. 1986 - Updated Quarterly.
A subject index to the contents of over 170 periodicals. The database provides information categorized from general
(the home) to more specific (automobiles), by periodical (Consumer Reports), or by a specific brand name (CocaCola). Intended for consumers, librarians and library users, business professionals, and educational instructors. Records include Web site addresses so that userscan access free fulltext information.


Disclosure Corporate Snapshots (Brief Entries) - 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.

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.

EconLit--American Economic Association 1969 - Updated Monthly.
Contains citations, with abstracts, to articles from more than 700 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.

Electronic Collections Online (ECO)- OCLC 1995 - Updated Daily
FactSearch - The Pierian Press, Inc. 1984 - Updated Quarterly.
Based on the printed publication, A Matter of Fact. Each record contains a bibliographic citation for an item, an abstract containing facts and statistics with a reference to their original source, and library holdings. The information comes from over 1,000 publications-- including newspapers, periodicals, the congressional hearings.


GEOBASE--Elsevier Science Publishers 1980 - Updated Twice Monthly.
Contains citations with abstracts covering worldwide literature in 2,200 sources 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.

GPO Monthly Catalog--U. S. Government Printing Office July 1976 - Updated Monthly.
Consists of records published by the GPO since July 1976. Includes references to congressional committee reports
and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and more.



Newspaper Abstracts--UMI 1989 - Updated Weekly.
A complete business and general reference resource. Indexes and abstracts more than 30 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.

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. Users may order the full text of papers cited in PapersFirst from
The British Library using the FirstSearch online ordering service.

Periodical Abstracts--UMI January 1987 - Updated Weekly.
A complete general reference resource, with indexing and abstracts for over 2,100 popular and academic periodicals. Included are transcripts of more than 80 newsoriented television and radio shows. Provides access to the ASCII full text of articles from more than 780 journals.

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. Similar to its companion, PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst provides access to The British Library Document Supply Centre's vast collection of conference proceedings.


SIRS Researcher--Social Issues Resource Series, Inc. 1988 - Updated Monthly.
A general database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, historic, economic, political, and global issues. Articles are carefully selected from over 1,200 domestic and international newspapers, magazines, journals, and government publications. Brief summaries accompany all articles added to the database since 1994.

Wilson Select Plus - H. W. Wilson Company 1994- Updated Monthly.
Provides indexing and abstracting of jounals indexed in other H.W. Wilson databases: Reader's Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts, and Wilson Business Abstracts.

The 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.

WorldCat™ Database (OCLC Online Union Catalog) - OCLC 11th Century - Updated Daily.
The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 49 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages. Covers information back to the 11th Century. Includes holdings information from more than 43,000 libraries.

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.