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NBER Working Papers - National Bureau of Economic ResearchCurrent FileUpdated Monthly
Searchable database of papers on economic research in numerous fields.

 

NBER Working Papers on Corporate Finance - National Bureau of Economic ResearchCurrent FileUpdated Monthly

Concentrates on the causes and effects of financing arrangements used by corporations. The group also studies corporate governance, 
relations between banks and corporations in different countries, and the effects of leveraged buyouts on profits, spending on research and 
development, and employment.

 

NBER Working Papers on Economics of Education - National Bureau of Economic ResearchCurrent FileUpdated Monthly

Analyzes numerous aspects of the virtual circle between economic analysis and policy innovation because economics is the inspiration for, or 
intertwined with, many policies: school choice, accountability, savings and aid plans for college, incentive pay for teachers, reducing the 
barriers of entry into teaching, and so on.

 

NBER Working Papers on Industrial Organization- National Bureau of Economic ResearchCurrent FileUpdated Monthly

conducts empirical studies of firm behavior and government regulation. Members of the program also examine competition and pricing 
behavior in specific industries. 

 

NBER Working Papers on International Trade and Investment- National Bureau of Economic ResearchCurrent FileUpdated Monthly

The International Trade and Investment (ITI) Program does research on patterns of international trade and foreign direct investment; policies
designed to influence the level of trade and investment; and their consequences on importing and exporting countries, such as for their
wages, growth, the environment, and so on.
February 2010

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

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

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

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

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

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

Black Newspapers - ProQuest    Varies
A collection of significant Black newspapers from the United States.

Canadian Newsstand Complete - ProQuest    Varies
Complete Canadian newspaper coverage from Prince Edward Island to Yukon Territory.

Career and Technical Education - ProQuest    1991 - present
Search vocational and technical periodicals covering all aspects of the Vo/Tech curriculum.

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

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

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

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

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

ProQuest Asian Business and Reference - ProQuest  1971 - present
Find the latest business and financial news from the Eastern Hemisphere. Covers Asian business and financial information from key international publications including Far Eastern Economic Review, Asiaweek, and many more.

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

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

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

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

ProQuest Newspapers - ProQuest    Varies
Search the full collection of newspapers.

ProQuest Newsstand  - ProQuest    Varies
Full text of 300+ U.S. and international news sources. Includes coverage of 150+ major U.S. and international newspapers such as The New York Times and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires.

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

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

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

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

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

January 2010

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.

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. WWW
June 2009


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.
December 2008
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.
August 2008
ProQuest Black Newspapers     ProQuest    Coverage Varies        Updated Weekly

A collection of significant Black newspapers from the United States. 

April 2008


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. 

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.
March 2008

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.

Morningstar.com        Morningstar, Inc.    Current File    Updated Daily
This online service provides access to daily updates on more that 30,000 mutual funds, stocks, closed end funds, and exchange traded funds.  It also includes Morningstar fund and stock screeners, all 3,500 fund and stock Analyst Reports, Portfolio X-Ray and 150 investment classes.

January 2008


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. 

November 2007


Access NewspaperARCHIVE -  Newspaper Archive.com          1700s-
Contains tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages, dating as far back as the 1700s. Allows users to browse 2,988 historical newspapers online. Content on Access NewspaperARCHIVE is a unique primary resource, as newspapers provide information as news happened and not necessarily the way it was remembered. 

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.

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.
October 2007


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. 

September 2007


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. 

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

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


NoodleBib   - NoodleTools       Current file
The Web's most comprehensive and accurate MLA and APA bibliography composer with a fully-integrated note-taking component.
July 2007


Xreferplus - XRefer.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/allbooks.jsp.
May 2007

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. 

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

April 2007


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 

December 2006


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. 

Book Index with Reviews (BIR) - Ebsco              Cuurrent File
A comprehensive database that provides information on over 3.8 million book titles with 800,000 reviews  in a wide range of formats, including large print, books on tape, etc. Fiction and non-fiction titles for juvenile and adult audiences are included in the database, in all genres. The product contains over 800,000 full-text searchable reviews from reliable sources: Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, CHOICE, and others.

WorldCat™ Database - OCLC  11th Century -     Updated Daily.
The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with 1.3 billion bibliographic records from 18,000 libraries worldwide. Covers information back to the 11th Century.  Allows users to place Interlibrary Loan requests online.
August 2006

InfoTracOneFileGale                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
March 2006

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 Indexplus 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.
December 2005

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.
November 2005

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. 

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

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

Columbia Encyclopedia - Ebsco Publishing               Current Edition
The largest one volume encyclopedia available, the Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia is unmatched in its scope and reputation for accuracy and authority. It contains more than 51,000 entries, addressing current hot topics and providing updated geographical, political, and statistical information. The Encyclopedia encompasses six and one-half million words on a vast range of topics and has more than 84,000 cross-reference links. It provides integrated subject category sort and is among the most complete and up-to-date encyclopedias ever produced.
August 2005

In the First Person - Alexander Street Press             Current File        Updated Quarterly

An index to  letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narrative, this database covers more than 2,500 collections of oral history from around the world. With upcoming releases, the index will broaden to cover other formats and the proprietary content in the Alexander Street collections. By the end of 2005, the index will point to 350,000 pages of full text and 3,500 collections—more than a million pages of editorially selected materials spanning 400 years.  Links to full text in other Alexander Street databases. 

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. 

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

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. 

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.
July 2005


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.
May 2005
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.
March 2005

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. 

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. 

January 2005


Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 - 2000 - Alexander Street Press Updated Annually
Providesthe full text of books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women’s reform activities. The database includes tens of thousands of primary documents, document projects with introductory essays that interpret the documents, a definitive bibliography, related web links, a Dictionary of Social Movements, and an enormous collection of images. The project will continue to grow each year. 

December 2004


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. 

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. 

November 2004


ACM Digitial Library & Master SIG Database - 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. 

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.
July 2004


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. 

June 2004

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. FirstSearch / Search Guide
May 2004

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. 

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.
January 2004


American Humanities Index  - Ebsco               1975-                   Updated Monthly
Provides bibliographic references to more than 1,000 literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the United States and Canada. Produced by Whitston Publishing, this database covers over 1,000 journals published from 1975 to the present, many of which cannot be found in other reference works. All journals included are indexed in their entirety (cover to cover). This database provides citation information for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including, poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations. 

Communication & Mass Media Complete   - Ebsco              1985-                    Updated Monthly
Provides full text for over 200 titles and contains citation coverage for additional sources. In total, several hundred valuable sources are covered. Offers the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.  -Search Guide
June 2003


Media Review Digest -   Pierian Press         1989-     Updated Quarterly
Covers educational media and entertainment resources from 1989 onward. The database provides citations to over 100,000 reviews, evaluations, awards, and prizes from more than 200 media review sources. FirstSearch / Search Guide
March 2003

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.
February 2003

Business & Company ASAP   – Gale                  1980-                  Updated Daily
Information on companies, markets and industries. From market trends, mergers and acquisitions to current management theory and company overviews. Access more than 10 million articles from business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles.
January 2003

General Reference Center Gold - Gale Group         1980-             Updated Daily
Provides indexing for 3,420 titles and full text for 2,518 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

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 120+ indexed and 112 full-text general interest magazines, thousands of newspaper articles from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, plus selected almanacs, dictionaries, and encyclopedias. 

InfoTrac Kids Edition- Gale Group         1999-              Updated Daily
Designed especially for the K-6 curriculum Kid’s Edition complements the primary school curriculum through full-text of reference books and more than 80 popular magazines, including Ranger Rick, Highlights, Science Weekly, Children’s Digest, Jack & Jill and Sports Illustrated for Kids, plus selected almanacs, dictionaries, and encyclopedias. 

InfoTrac Student Edition- Gale Group      1985-                Updated Daily
Designed for secondary school students, this multisource, full-text resource offers 407 indexed and 340 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.
July 2002


Criminal Justice Periodical Index – 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-. 

March 2002


Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection  - Ebsco               1990-                    Updated Daily
Provides nearly 470 full text titles including more than 420 peer-reviewed journals. The database covers information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. WWW 

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 nearly 250 full text journals. WWW 

Sociological Collection - Ebsco               1990-                    Updated Daily
Provides nearly 580 full text titles including more than 500 peer-reviewed journals and PDF images. The database provides information on all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure. WWW 

February 2002


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. 

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. 

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. 

Military Library FullTEXT - Ebsco                              Updated Monthly
Designed to bring current news to all branches of the military, this database provides a thorough collection of military titles, trade publications and newsweeklies. It includes searchable full text for nearly 240 periodicals including Army Times, Navy Times, Naval Institute Proceedings, and Joint Forces Quarterly plus abstracts and indexing for over 430 periodicals, and full text for 240 pamphlets. 

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. 

January 2002


Biography Resource Center - Gale      Current File  Updated Monthly
Combines nearly 80 of the most frequently consulted biographical sources with more than 250 full-text periodicals to provide in-depth, full-text answers to a wide range of questions. 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. 

Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic  - Ebsco                                    Updated Monthly
Provides access to 100 full text journals covering such disciplines as clinical medicine, nursing, dentistry,
veterinary medicine, the health care system and the preclinical sciences. All 100 full text journals contained in the
database are also indexed in MEDLINE. Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic can be searched independently, but also allows users to conveniently link to full text from citations within MEDLINE. 

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.

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences - Nature Publishing Group    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. 

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition - Ebsco    1990-                            Updated Daily
Provides nearly 480 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines with strong coverage of nursing and allied health. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 510 journals plus the full text of USP Pharmacopoeia DI: Volume II Advice for the Lay Patient and Stedman's Medical Dictionary - providing users with access to terminology of genetics, oncology, pediatrics, pulmonology, emergency medicine, bacteriology, and laboratory medicine. WWW. Search Guide

History Resource Center - 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; full-text periodicals and journals; a historical bibliography; and links to digitized special collections. 

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. 

Literature Resource Center (LRC)  - Gale   Updated Monthly
provides direct access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline in a single Internet-searchable database. Covers more than 115,000 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. 

August 2001


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.
March 2001

InfoTrac OneFile Gale                1980-                Updated Daily
Provides desktop access to more than 3,100 full text titles including 89 wire services; five newspaper indexes, and a total of more than 6,000 titles with 20 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to present.  The database uses the same search engine as our other InfoTrac databases.  Content includes more than 18 million records from  periodical and news content and indexing from a variety of mainstream and specialized sources from The New York Times to refereed academic journals. WWW 

Academic Search Premier  Ebsco               1990-                    Updated Daily
The world’s largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database designed specifically for academic institutions. With a collection of 2,330 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. The database uses the same search engine as our other Ebsco databases. WWW

Business Wire 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. WWW
January 2001

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. WWW
December 2000


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
October 2000

Dialog Basic Collection - CARL Corporation      Database Coverage Varies      Updated Daily

A collection of 269 multidisciplinary databases with 166 full text databases. Includes numerous news sources plus major bibliographic and financial databases.  List of Databases Available. 

September 2000

ChemID® - U.S. National Library of Medicine   Updated Quarterly

CHEMID (CHEMical IDentification)  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. 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

SPACELINE-  National Institute of Medicine              1961-                 Updated Monthly
A cooperative venture of NLM and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), SPACELINE provides Bibliographic citations on space and life sciences research from journal articles; technical reports; books and book chapters; conference proceedings, conference papers, and meeting abstracts; and bibliographies. Not all records in SPACELINE are directly attributable to space flight research. WWW.  Search Guide

TOXLINE®-  National Library of Medicine        1965-         Updated Monthly
Provides  bibliographic information covering the biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals. It contains more than 2.5 million bibliographic citations, almost all with abstracts and/or indexing terms and CAS Registry Numbers. Citations in TOXLINE cover pre-1965-forward. WWW.  Search Guide

August 2000


Applied Science & Technology Full Text   - H.W. Wilson Co.  1983-   Updated Monthly
Provides comprehensive indexing of 609 core scientific and technical publications dating from 1983, abstracts from March 1993, and full text of more than 90 periodicals dating from 1997. With more than a million records, this resource provides information on all areas of engineering, technology, and science with coverage of important trade and industrial publications, journals and other specialized-subject periodicals. The database also includes product reviews and references to conferences and seminars.WWW Search Guide

Exceptional Child Education Resources - Council for  Exceptional Children  1969-   Updated Monthly
The leading source of English-language references in the study of exceptionalities in children. ECER includes citations and abstracts of the highly interdisciplinary literature on virtually every topic of advanced study and research, including: all types of disabilities, giftedness, special education and related services, child abuse and neglect, special health problems, current policies and issues. This database includes coverage of literature, informally published print materials, commercially available non-print media resources (such as films, video and software) and over 200 journals.  WWW Search Guide

Mental Measurements Yearbook - Buros Institute 1989- (9th - 13th 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 Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth Yearbooks.  WWW  Search Guide

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 Search Guide

Social Sciences Full Text  - H.W. Wilson Co.  1983-   Updated Monthly
Contains abstracting and indexing coverage for all 513 periodicals included in Social Sciences Index plus the full text of over 150 periodicals, offering instant access to information from publications in the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, law and criminology, political science, social work, sociology, and international relations.WWW Search Guide

July 2000


D&B Million Dollar Database - Dun & Bradstreet  Current File  Updated Quarterly
Provides information on over 160,000 U.S. leading public and private businesses with sales over $9 million annually or 180 employees total. Company information includes industry  information with up to 24 individual 8-digit SICs, size criteria (employees and annual sales), type of ownership, principal executives and biographies. WWW.

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

Current Biography ® Illustrated - H.W. Wilson Co.  1940-Present       Updated Monthly
Contains the full text of the 23,000 biographies and obituaries that have appeared in Current Biography Yearbook since 1940 profiling artists, politicians, businesspeople, journalists, actors, writers, sports figures, scientists, and other people prominent in the news.  Also contains Numerous updated biographies and articles that have not appeared in the print editions. Many of the articles are accompanied by as many as ten photos of the person profiled. The Current Biography articles are supplemented with recent citations from Biography Index.

June 2000

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 Search Guide

CINAHL with Headings  CINAHL Information Systems   1982-  Updated Monthly
The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature® covers the professional literature of nursing, allied health, biomedicine, and healthcare. It contains more than 450,000 records indexed from more than 950 English-language and selected foreign-language journals covering nursing and other specialized health care areas. The database also provides references to books, book chapters, pamphlets, audiovisuals, dissertations, educational software, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, nurse practice acts, critical paths, and research instruments.
February 2000

Comprehensive MEDLINE with FullTEXT with MESH - 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 more. This database also contains full text articles from over 85 leading medical journals.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

January 2000


Annual Reviews - Annual Reviews, Inc. 1984-1999 Updated Annually
Searchable titles, authors, and recent abstracts of papers from 29 Annual Review Publications. Titles in boldface have fulltext available: Astronomy & Astrophysics; Anthropology; Biochemistry; Biomedical Engineering; Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure; Cell and Developmental Biology; Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology and Systematics; Energy & the Environment; Entomology; Fluid Mechanics; Genetics; Genomics and Human Genetics; Immunology; Materials Science; Medicine; Microbiology; Neuroscience; Nuclear & Particle Science; Nutrition; Pharmacology & Toxicology; Physical Chemistry; Physiology; Phytopathology; Plant Physiology & Plant Molecular Biology; Political Science; Psychology; Public Health; and Sociology.  Browseable Tables of Contents and Abstracts for  current, future, and back issues. WWW
December 1999

Value Line - Value Line, Inc.  Current  Updated Weekly

Web access to investment ratings with stock market information and financial data on 1,700 company stocks in The Value Line Investment Survey and The Value Line Investment Survey- Expanded Edition. WWW.
November 1999
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. 

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.

ERIC - Ebsco               1967-                    Updated Monthly
The U.S. Department of Education's EducationalResourceInformationCenter database contains indexing and abstracts from thousands of research and technical reports in the Resources In Education Index (RIE) and from more than 750 education and education-related journals in the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). In addition, selected full text articles are available for thousands of ERIC Digest records. This database is updated quarterly.  Coverage is from 1967-.

USP DI Volume II, Advice for the Patient - Ebsco     Current File    Updated Annually
provides patient-oriented drug information in lay language. Each drug monograph is organized into the following sections: Brand Names commonly used in both theUnitedStates and Canada, Description, Before Using This Medicine, Proper Use of This Medicine, Precautions, and Side Effects. Unlabeled uses are provided as Additional Information. Also included are pronunciations of drug names and special considerations such as age, allergies, pregnancy, and breast-feeding. The full text is easily accessed through the Result List or Full Display. If you know only the drug's generic or brand name, the best way to find your information or the correct drug title is to use the USP Index authority file.
September 1999

Moody’s Company Data – Moody’s Inc.              Current              Updated Daily

Web access to Business and financial data on 11,000 public corporations in the U.S. Plus Country Reports and EDGAR filings.    WWW. 

ERIC- SilverPlatter / U. S. Department of Education    1966 -    Updated Monthly
Campus Wide web access to ERIC - the most complete bibliography of educational materials available. The ERIC database is a guide to published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics, with information from RIE (Resources in Education) and CIJE (Current Index to Journals in Education). CIJE covers over 980 journals.  WWW. Free Web Version 1966-   with Thesaurus
August 1999


College Source – College Foundation, Inc.                             Current                 Updated Monthly
Campus-wide access to more than 10,200 College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format representing 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools. Tables of Contents and  Indexes are fully hyperlinked. Search by tuition, enrollment, affiliation, major programs of study and other criteria. Then view or print the school's profile with admission requirements,  financial aid options and other valuable information. WWW

Education Complete (ProQuest)  - Bell & Howell Learning         1986-                Updated Monthly
Contains more than 550 titles on education--including primary, secondary, and university-level topics--with nearly 300 in full text. Includes the indexing and abstracts from  Education Abstracts, plus many additional titles.
Search Guide
July 1999


E*Subscribe  - ERIC Document Reproduction Service    1996-        Updated Monthly
Provides access to the full text of ERIC documents (ED only) from 1996 forward. Documents are in PDF format requiring Adobe Acrobat Reader and Netscape 4.0 for viewing and printing. The database is searchable by indexed fields. Boolean searching is supported. Journal articles are not included. WWW.

Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory   R.R. Bowker  Current   Updated Quarterly
The database contains information on over 210,000 periodicals, annuals, and irregulars published worldwide.  Ulrich's includes over 7,000 daily and weekly U.S.newspapers and nearly 3,000 newspapers published outside of the U.S., as well as over 47,000 cessations since 1979.  The database also provides contact information for over 80,000 publishers worldwide. WWW.
June 1999


Contemporary Literary Criticism - Gale Research, Inc.          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.    WWW  Search Guide

PsycINFO - American Psychological Association             1887-            Updated Monthly
Coverage has been expanded back to 1877. PsycINFO provide abstracts from dissertations, books, book  chapters, technical reports, and more than 1,400 journals on psychology published in 50 countries. WWW & CD-LAN. PsycLIT on CD-LAN searchablew from 1967- only. CD-LAN accessible from Ely Library Computers Only.

Business Source® Premier- Ebsco               1990-                    Updated Daily
Provides full text for more than 1,150 scholarly business 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 1990 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

Clinical Reference Systems -    Ebsco        Current
Provides thousands of essays covering eight major health-related subjects including: adult health, behavioral health, cardiology, drug and medication information, pediatric health, senior health, women's health, and sports medicine.   WWW
May 1999

America: History and Life on the Web - ABC-CLIO      1964            Updated Weekly

Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database contains 400,000 bibliographic entries and abstracts providing an incomparable research tool for students and  researchers of United States and Canadian history. WWW 

Historical Abstracts on the Web- ABC-CLIO      1954            Updated Weekly
Provides coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts is the leading bibliography for historical study. Approximately 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered. In addition to the key historical journals from virtually every major country, Historical Abstracts includes several hundred journals in the social sciences and humanities that are of special interest to researchers and students of history in numerous disciplines. WWW

PROMT - Predicasts Overview of Markets and Technology (1996-) is a premier multiple-industry database for research on companies, the products and technologies they produce, and the markets in which they compete. The database includes almost 2 million articles with summaries and full text from nearly 1,000 business and trade journals, industry newsletters, newspapers, market research studies, news releases, and investment and brokerage firm reports.

BIOETHICSLINE -  National Institute of Medicine.     1973-      Updated Bi-Weekly
A database of citations to literature on ethical, legal, and related public policy issues in health
care and biomedical research. Its scope spans the literatures of the health sciences, law, religion, philosophy, and the social sciences. It is produced for the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), with additional support from the National Human Genome Research Institute, by the Bioethics Information Retrieval Project at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, GeorgetownUniversity.  WWW   Search Guide
April 1999


Alt-Health Watch - Softline Information, Inc.       1991-                     Updated Monthly
A full text and image database focused on alternative, complementary, and integrated health care amd wellness. Contsina articles from 120 international publications including peer reviewed journals, consumer magazines, research reports, and association newsletters.  WWW.  FirstSearchSearch Guide

Boston Globe 1980- - Web access to the Electronic ASCII version of the newspaper, without images or graphics. WWW. Updated Weekly Also CD-ROM version (1982-).CD ROM Version accessible from Ely Library Computers Only.
 

MLA International Bibliography 1963- Web access to indexing of 3,000 journals plus books in language, literature, and folklore. Updated Monthly.
 
 

Grove's Dictionary of Art Online - Web access to the electronic version of the 35 volume encyclopedic dictionary including all of the Dictionary's 41,000 articles, 750 illustrations, links to 8,000 color images. Requires Netscape 4 or higher; and screen resolution of 800x600 pixels. WWW.
 
 

Complementary and Alternative Medicine Citation Index - The NCCAM Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Citation Index (CCI) consists of more than 180,000 bibliographic citations from 1966 to 1998. Citations were extracted from the National Library of Medicine’s Medline database. The citations were obtained using MeSH controlled vocabulary terms from the "alternative medicine" tree structure, and other selected MeSH terms. Users may perform a search of the bibliographic data or browse through citations organized by CAM system, disease, or method.
 
 

UNESBIB: UNESCO Bibliographic Database   Access to UNESCO's Bibliographic Database, UNESBIB - a Bibliography of UNESCO documents, publications and Library collection.  Searchable by boolean terms and indexes.
 
 

UNESDOC: UNESCO Documents    UNESDOC database contains full text 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.
 

March 1999

Leer - NISC. Provides access to a comprehensive and diverse selection of more than one million Spanish-language books for sale, anywhere. Leer is compiled and updated from publisher databases and the interfiled databases of book dealers based in Latin America and Spanish-speaking communities worldwide. New materials and contact information are added and revised every week. Leer is an entirely new concept that should improve access to Spanish-language books. Leer does not sell books: Instead, it puts you in touch with who does and at what price. The database can be searched in Spanish or English by title, author, subject, publisher, distributor, or age group for children's books. 

ArchivesUSA - Chadwyck-Healey, Inc. Provides access to holdings and contact information for over 5,300 repositories and indexes to more than 110,000 special collections. Hotlinks are provided to 1,715 online finding aids and 1,670 repository home pages. Three major resources are integrated in ArchivesUSA: Directory Of Manuscript Repositories, National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC), and National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS).  Updated Monthly . 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
February 1999

Contemporary Authors - Gale Research, Inc. Dec. 1998. Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 100,000 U.S. and International authors. Searchable by name, subject, title, nationality, etc. Updated Monthly 

Education Plus   (1994-  ) Education database providing full text with images for 158 journals in education plus indexing and abstracts for 438 publications on a wide range of education specialities. Updated Monthly

Business Source® Elite The largest full text business database available covers titles in accounting, banking, finance, international business, management, marketing, real estate, regional studies, sales, trade and technology.

  • Cumulative full text for over 770 journals including Business Week, American Banker, Forbes, Fortune, The Economist and hundreds of peer-reviewed journals
  • Cumulative full text for more than 40 regional business publications
  • Indicative abstracts and indexing for over 1,500 business journals, plus The Wall Street Journal
  • Embedded images for over 270 titles; Charts and graphs converted to keyword-searchable ASCII text
  • Wall Street Words, a dictionary of financial terms, linked directly to words within the full text

Health Source Plus® A comprehensive health information database providing coverage of professional health care titles and medical journals and selected reference materials including:

  • Searchable full text for over 240 journals including the British Medical Journal and The Lancet
  • Abstracts and indexing for over 520 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications
  • USP Pharmacopoeia DI: Volume II Advice for the Lay Patient
  • 17 health books published by the People's Medical Society
  • Searchable full text for nearly 1,000 health-related pamphlets

Newspaper Source™ A comprehensive news source containing over 500,000 articles including:

  • Full text of The Christian Science Monitor back to January 1995
  • Abstracts of The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Christian Science Monitor, all dating from 1995 plus abstracts from The New York Times Magazine and The New York Times Book Review
  • Complete coverage except obituaries (exclusive of famous people), sports tables, ads/classifieds, stock prices and weather
  • Additional data provided by Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News-full text articles from 105 contributor newspapers; and Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service-full text articles from 40 contributor newspapers.
January 1999
Criminal Justice Abstracts (1968- ): Comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines. 

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe:   Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe 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. Major Subjects Covered by Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

  • News:     Todays News     General News Topics (covers more than 20 years)
  • Business:    Company News    Industry & Market News    Company Financial Information     Accounting, Auditing, & Tax
  • Government / World Affairs    Government & Political News    Country Profiles    State Profiles    World Data.
  • Health & Medical Resources    General Medical & Health Topics    Medical Abstracts
  • Reference Sources   Biographical Information     Reference & Directories
  • Legal Information / Cases    Legal News    Legal Reviews    Federal Case Law    State Legal Research    United States Code Service, United States Constitution, and Code of Federal Regulations.

List of Full text Journals and Reference Sources Available Electronically    The database of full text titles available electronically through the commercial databases listed below. The database is available from the Library's Home Page. The database includes: Expanded Academic ASAP General BusinressFile ASAP, HealthReferenceCenter,GeneralReferenceCenter, Academic Search Full test Elite, Project Muse, and Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe


November 1998

MATH Database (1931-1998). MATH provides comprehensive coverage of the international mathematical research published from 1931-1998. It contains articles from about 2,000 journals and serials, books of all publishers, proceedings of conferences, and other research papers appearing in any language. This database contains records for the documents covered by Zentralblatt für 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

Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography (1990-1997)  ) CDAB and the CDAB Online Edition provide abstracts and book reviews of research literature on the growth and development of children selected from about 275 English and foreign language journals, technical reports, and books that cover education and the biomedical and behavioral sciences. Boolean searchable in multiple indexes: full text, author, title, publication, and abstract.

NCJRS Abstracts Database  (1973-1998) 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.

October 1998

Child Abuse and Neglect Documents Database (1965-present) The Child Abuse and Neglect Documents database contains over 22,300 bibliographic citations and abstracts of professional literature, primarily of U.S. origin. Publication types include books, journals, government reports, conference papers, state annual reports, curricula, and unpublished papers. Search these major subjects on child maltreatment: Physical abuse, Sexual abuse, Emotional & psychological abuse, and Child neglect.
Key Topics Include:
  • Definition and etiology of child abuse and neglect
  • Social and economic factors
  • Identification, treatment, and prevention strategies
  • Effects (sequelae) on children and adults abused as children
  • Legal issues
  • Service programs, prevention programs
  • Federally-funded research projects
  • Training programs for service personnel
  • Abuse and developmental disabilities
  • Ethnicity and cultural competency
Other databases included:


Prevention Programs Database:  The Prevention Program Database provides profiles of more than 350 community-based child abuse prevention programs around the country. You can search this database to identify detailed information on specific prevention program services, target audiences, program outcomes, and annual budgets.

The Treatment Directory:  Child welfare professionals now have a resource that can help them find appropriate, locally available programs for their clients who are dealing with child abuse and neglect issues. Compiled by the NationalResourceCenter on Child Abuse and Neglect for the NationalCenter on Child Abuse and Neglect, the National Directory of Child Abuse and Neglect Treatment Programs is designed to give professionals in child welfare and other human service agencies a starting point when looking for referrals. The directory is easy to use, organized alphabetically by state and sorted by city and organization.
September 1998

College Source (Searchable only from the following Library  terminals)
          • OPAC-13 (Library Reference Area)
          • OPAC-14 (Library Reference Area)
          • ERC-7 (Educational Resource Center - Library Mezzanine)
CollegeSource® Online features over 7,900 College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format representing 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools. Tables of Contents and Indexes are fully hyperlinked so you can quickly find all the details you need:
  • Complete Course Descriptions
  • Academic Policies
  • Faculty Information
  • Admission Requirements
  • Campus Maps
  • and much more ...
You can quickly find the schools that match your requirements. Search by tuition, enrollment, affiliation, major programs of study and other criteria. Then view or print the school's profile with admission requirements, financial aid options and other valuable information. From the Profile, select a catalog or go directly to a school's Web Site.  Help is available online in the left frame under Customer Service and Help.


August 1998

Project MuseAccess to 45 full-text journals (with backfiles to 1995) published by JohnsHopkinsUniversity. The Journals cover multiple topics in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences. Journal Titles include: American Imago, American Jewish History, American Journal of Mathematics,  American Journal of Philology,  American Quarterly,  Arethusa,  Bulletin of the History of Medicine,  Callaloo, Configurations, Diacritics,  Eighteenth-Century Life, Eighteenth-Century Studies,  Emily Dickinson Journal,  ELH - English Literary History,  Henry James Review,  Human Rights Quarterly,  Imagine,  Journal of Asian American Studies,  Journal of Democracy,  Journal of Early Christian Studies,  Journal of the History of Ideas,  Journal of Modern Greek Studies,  Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal,  Late Imperial China, The Lion and the Unicorn,  Literature and Medicine,  Milton Quarterly,  Modern Fiction Studies,  Modern Judaism,  MLN - Modern Language Notes,  Modernism/Modernity.,  New Literary History,  PAJ - Performing Arts Journal,  Philosophy and Literature,  Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology,  Postmodern Culture, The Review of Higher Education,  Reviews in American History,  SAIS Review,  Theatre Journal,  Theatre Topics,  Theory & Event, Wide Angle,  World Politics, and The Yale Journal of Criticism.

AIDSDRUGS

Subject: Substances being tested in AIDS-related clinical trials


Type: Factual
Coverage: English language; potential AIDS-related therapeutics
Updates: Monthly; the file contains over 240 records.
Special Features: AIDSDRUGS is a dictionary of chemical and biological agents currently being evaluated in the AIDS clinical trials covered in the companion AIDSTRIALS database. Each record represents a single substance and provides information such as standard chemical names, synonyms and trade names, CAS Registry Numbers, protocol ID numbers, pharmacological action, adverse reactions and contraindications, physical/chemical properties, and manufacturers’ names. Agents which were tested in closed or completed trials are included. A bibliography of relevant articles is also included. 

AIDSLINE® (AIDS information onLINE)

Subject: Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and related topics Type: Bibliographic citations


Coverage: All languages; publications from 1980 to the present
Updates: Weekly, with about 900 new citations added each month; the file contains over 124,000 records.
Document Types: 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. The citations are derived from the MEDLINE®, CANCERLIT®, HealthSTAR, CATLINE®, AVLINE® and BIOETHICSLINE files, and the meeting abstracts from the International Conferences on AIDS, and other AIDS-related meetings, conferences and symposia. Citations and abstracts from newsletters and special AIDS journals are also included. 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. 

 

AIDSTRIALS (AIDS clinical TRIALS)

Subject: Clinical trials of substances being tested for use against AIDS, HIV infection, and AIDS-related opportunistic diseases.


Type: Factual and referral
Coverage: Open and closed trials
Updates: Biweekly; the file contains over 700 records.
Special Features: Each record covers a single trial, and provides information such as title and purpose of the trial, diseases studied, patient eligibility criteria, contact persons, agents being tested, and trial locations. Information about the trials sponsored by the National Institutes of Health is supplied by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), while information about privately sponsored trials is provided by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). AIDSTRIALS is a part of the AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service (ACTIS), which is a Public Health Service project sponsored by the FDA, the NIAID, the NLM, and the Centers for Disease Control. 

 

DIRLINE® (Directory of Information Resources onLINE)

Subject: Directory of resources providing information services


Type: Referral
Coverage: Primarily the United States, with some coverage of international organizations
Updates: Quarterly; the file contains about 17,000 records.
Special Features: DIRLINE focuses primarily on 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. 

 

HealthSTAR (Health Services, Technology, Administration, and Research)

Subject: Clinical (emphasizes the evaluation of patient outcomes and the effectiveness of procedures, programs, products, services, and processes) and non-clinical (emphasizes health care administration and planning) aspects of health care delivery; combines former HEALTH (Health Planning and Administration) and HSTAR (Health Service/Technology Assessment Research) databases


Type: Bibliographic citations
Coverage: Divided into two files based on year of publication: (1) a current file covering 1990 to the present, and (2) a backfile covering 1975 through 1989; primarily English language, but international in scope
Updates: Weekly, except for CATLINE records which are added monthly; approximately 17,000 citations in each monthly update; current file and backfile together contain about 2.5 million records
Document Types: Journal articles, technical and government reports, meeting papers and abstracts, books and book chapters
Special Features: HealthSTAR 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). The file is produced by the AHA in cooperation with the NLM. The Hospital and Health Administration Index, published by the AHA, is produced from this file. Alternate source information is provided for technical reports and related material selected by NICHSR that may not be widely held by libraries. 

 

HISTLINE® (HISTory of medicine onLINE)

Subject: History of medicine and related sciences


Type: Bibliographic citations
Coverage: All languages; publications from 1964 to the present
Updates: Weekly, with about 6,000 new citations added each year; the file contains about 155,000 records.
Document Types: Monographs, journal articles, book chapters, and individual chapters in the published proceedings of symposia, congresses, etc.
Special Features: HISTLINE covers literature about the history of health related professions, sciences, specialities, individuals, institutions, drugs, and diseases in all part of the world and all historic periods. It includes virtually all records of secondary historical literature from MEDLINE, CATLINE, and AVLINE. It also contains additional records that have been indexed by the History of Medicine Division that are not available from any other MEDLARS databases. 

 

HSRPROJ (Health Services Research Projects in Progress)

Subject: Health services research including health technology assessment and the development and use of clinical practice guidelines


Type: Research project descriptions
Coverage: Primarily the United States, with increasing coverage of international research
Updates: Quarterly, with about 350 projects added in each update; the file contains about 3,000 records.
Document Types: Monographs, journal articles, publications from symposia and congresses
Special Features: HSRProj 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. 

 

MEDLINE® (MEDlars onLINE)

Subject: Biomedicine


Type: Bibliographic citations
Coverage: All languages; publications from 1966 to the present. Recent references are contained in the current file (MEDLINE); segmented MEDLINE Backfiles (MED90, MED85, MED80, MED75, and MED66) contain older material.
Updates: Daily, except in November and December; about 31,000 new citations are added each month. The file contains over 8.5 million records. The citations for each monthly update are also searchable in a separate file called SDILINE® (Selective Dissemination of Information onLINE) for those who need only the most recent literature.
Document Types: Articles from more than 3,700 international biomedical journals (some chapters and articles from selected monographs are found in earlier years).
Special Features: MEDLINE is NLM’s premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the preclinical sciences. Journal articles are indexed for MEDLINE, and their citations are searchable, using NLM’s controlled vocabulary, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). MEDLINE contains all citations published in Index Medicus, and corresponds in part to the International Nursing Index and the Index to Dental Literature. Citations include the English abstract when published with the article (approximately 74% of the current file). 

 

OLDMEDLINE

Subject: Biomedicine


Type: Bibliographic citations
Coverage: All languages; publications mostly from 1964 to 1965.
Updates: None. The file contains 307,336 records.
Document Types: Articles from international biomedical journals.
Special Features: OLDMEDLINE 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. 

 

PREMEDLINE

To speed the flow of pertinent new information to NLM database searchers, NLM announced a new database called PREMEDLINE in August, 1996. This database provides basic citation information and abstracts before they are put into MEDLINE. It is updated each weekday, Monday through Friday. PREMEDLINE provides searchers the opportunity to view citations that are in the process of being indexed for MEDLINE. Once the indexing is finished, the completed records will be added weekly to MEDLINE and the corresponding preliminary records deleted from PREMEDLINE. Note that the search default in PREMEDLINE is to Text Words (TW) because the file does not include MeSH headings. Also, be aware that these citations have not gone through NLM's quality control process.
Searching PREMEDLINE via PubMed or Internet Grateful Med is free. Searching PREMEDLINE using non-Web based access methods will incur charges at the regular MEDLINE rate. Document ordering via LOANSOME DOC is available in IGM.

SDILINE® (Selective Dissemination of Information onLINE)

Subject: Biomedicine


Type: Bibliographic citations
Coverage: All languages. Contains citations from the most recent complete month in MEDLINE, including all citations in the forthcoming printed edition of the monthly Index Medicus.
Updates: Monthly, with about 31,000 new citations each month
Document Types: Bibliographic citations to journal articles from approximately 3,700 biomedical journals published in the United States and abroad
July 1998

Sociological Abstracts  Covering 2,300 journals published since 1974, this database is the fundamental tool for access to the latest international research in theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and policy science. Includes Sociological Abstracts and SOPODA (Social Planning Policy and Development Abstracts). SOPODA enhances the theoretical focus of Sociological Abstracts by adding the applied aspects of Sociology. The Database also covers dissertations, books, films, and software.

CQ OnCongress  Web access to Congressional Quarterly’s authoritative coverage of federal legislation including: Bills; Committee Hearings, Votes and Reports; Testimony, and the Congressional Record. Updated daily. Requires Netscape 4.04 or higher.

CQ WeeklyWeb access to Full text of the premier publication on Congress, public policy, and national affairs. Searchable back to 1983, all articles are cross-referenced to previous CQ Weekly Report articles as well as other CQ publications. Requires Netscape 4.04 or higher

CQ Researcher  Web access to current reports and backfiles of the extensive, authoritative reports issued each week on a topic of current interest. Searchable backfiles include archived reports back to 1991. Requires Netscape 4.04 or higher.

PsycLit  Coverage has been expanded back to 1967 on our CD-LAN with additional searching back to 1887 available upon request. PsycLit indexes dissertations, books, book chapters, technical reports, and journals. Access via Ely Library’s CD-ROM LAN.
June  1998

SIRS Researcher (Social Issues Resources Series) Covers social, global, historical, economic, political events and issues, and science developments and issues from 1989 to present.. Provides full-text articles and summaries of new events plus graphics: charts, tables, graphs, and maps from 1,200 foreign and domestic magazines, newspapers, journals and U.S. government documents (selective coverage). 

SPORTDiscus  This is 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. Also includes:

  • HERACLES (1975-1997) - The largest French-language sport, Phyysical education, and fitness database with over 71,000 records.
  • ATLANTES  (1980-1996) - A Spanish language sport database with over 7,000 citations.
  • Catalogue Du Musee Olympique - Database of the Olympic Museum collection in Switzerland with more than 11,000 reference to books, reports, and other materials on sport and the Olympic Games.
May 1998
ETOH Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database   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 approximately 100,000 records and is accessed by both researchers and clinicians worldwide. Included in ETOH are abstracts and bibliographic references to journal articles, books, dissertation abstracts, conference papers and proceedings, reports and studies, and chapters in edited works. Updated monthly, ETOH contains research findings from the late 1960s to the present, as well as historical research literature. ETOH's scope reflects the multidisciplinary nature of the alcohol research field. The range of subject areas contained in ETOH include: medicine, biochemistry, psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology, sociology, anthropology, treatment, prevention, education, accidents and safety legislation, criminal justice, public policy, and health services research. 
The following new databases are available via FirstSearchexclusively from the Ely Library computers.

Contemporary Women's Issues: (1992- 1998)Covers 600 periodicals to provide access to global information on women. Journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, along with fact sheets are easily accessed through CWI. Information on women in over 200 countries is compiled in a single collection bringing together such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health, education and human rights.

Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) (1960/61-1990/91)     A database indexing the contents of older issues of 1,443 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. Published by Chadwyck-Healey, PCI makes it possible to search back volumes of journals with the same ease and convenience as more recently published ones. PCI includes the complete tables of contents for each issue of each journal. The database includes journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages.Current list of titles by title and subject.
March 1998

Campus-Wide Access to New Databases Effective in March 1998

In March of 1998, the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the Massachusetts Library Information Network plan to make the following full-text and index databases available Campus-Wide: General BusinessFile ASAP, General Reference Center, Health Reference Center. National Newspaper Index willl be discontinued. Currently, these databases are accessible exclusively from the Ely Library computers.

General BusinessFile ASAP (1982-1998)    An index of over 900 general business and finance magazines, trade journals, and local business journals, with full-text of 460 titles. Company Profiles, a directory of 180,000 public and private companies, and over 50,000 investment reports are also included. General BusinessFile ASAP List of Journals covered is available.

General Reference Center (1980-1998)   A database of over 415 general interest magazines, with over 315 in full-text as well as Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service articles . In addition, ready-reference sources, such as The Information Please Almanac, The Information Please Sports Almanac, Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, and The Columbia Encyclopedia are included, and fully keyword-searchable. General Reference Center List of Journals and Reference Sources covered is available.

Health Reference Center (1994-1998)   A consumer health information resource that includes a collection of excellent medical reference books, the full-text of over 500 pamphlets, and 165 medical magazines, including 110 in full-text. Information can be found here on specific illnesses, medical terminology, drug information, medical tests, wellness, and health-related organizations. Health Reference Center List of Journals and Reference Sources covered is available.

Databases Searchable from any computer:

UnCover Web (Fall 1988-1998)   UnCover is a database of current article information taken from well over 17,000 multidisciplinary journals. UnCover contains brief descriptive information for over 7,000,000 articles which have appeared since Fall 1988. Subject and title lists on journals in the database are accessible at http://uncweb.carl.org/uncover/subtitle.html

OneLook Dictionaries   Searchable database of 215 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

February 1998


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