April 2008
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
November 2007
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
September 2007
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
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
December 2006
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
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-
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
Congressional
Research Service Reports
-
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
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
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 -
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
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
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
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
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 (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
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 -
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
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
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
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
March 2001
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
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
September 2000
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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 the
September 1999
ERIC-
SilverPlatter /
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
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
Historical Abstracts on the
Web- ABC-CLIO 1954
Updated Weekly
Provides coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding
the
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,
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
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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
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
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
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.
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
November 1998
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 sea