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| Provides access to approximately 1.7 million pages of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. |
| • Coverage Range: 1800's |
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| Indexes business, management, industry, academic and trade publications. |
| • Coverage Range: 1970s to present |
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| Covers resources on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union published in the United States and Canada. |
| • Coverage Range: 1990 to present |
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| Online gateway to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) of the Federal government. |
| • Coverage Range: Varied |
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| Full-text access to a number of American 19th-century journals and newspapers. Special African-American, Civil War and Pennsylvania coverage. |
| • Coverage Range: 19th-century |
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| Sponsored by the American Chemical Society, ACS |
| • Coverage Range: Varied: 1896 to present |
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| The site consists of two bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature (Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database) and African Women's literature (African Women's Database). |
| • Coverage Range: Varied |
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| The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with articles from Africana; the Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895; the Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present; Black Women in America, Second Edition; and the African American National Biography. I also contains resources from Oxford's reference program, including the Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature, the Oxford Companion to Black British History, and selected articles from other major reference titles. |
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| Indexing to over 200 African journals. |
| • Coverage Range: From the late 1990s to current |
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| Covers the worldwide literature of agriculture, including journal articles, monographs, government documents, technical reports and proceedings. Important for life-sciences and research related to plants and animals of economic importance. |
| • Coverage Range: 1970 to present |
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| Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change |
| • Coverage Range: 1991 to present |
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| Index of journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change. |
| • Coverage Range: 1969 to 1990 |
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| Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present. |
| • Coverage Range: 1964-present |
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| The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries contains more than 400 sources of diaries, letters, and memoirs, to provide fast access to thousands of views on almost every aspect of the war. This electronic collection includes 100,000 pages of re-keyed and indexed text, including 4,000 facsimile pages of previously unpublished manuscript material. |
| • Coverage Range: 1855 -1875 |
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| Streaming online newsreels, archival films, and documentaries covering all periods of U.S. history. Funding for this database is provided by a generous gift to the Waidner-Spahr Library. |
| • Coverage Range: 1700s to present |
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| Distinctive, primary materials from the Library of Congress's Americana collection. Includes photographs, manuscripts, rare books, maps, recorded sound, and moving pictures. |
| • Coverage Range: American history - time periods vary. |
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| Over 18,300 biographies, including the 17,435 original biographies from the print edition.
New biographies added and others revised three times per year -- including articles on recently deceased notables as well as figures from the past who were not subjects in the print edition.
Over 900 articles from The Oxford Companion to United States History provide historical and social context to the biographies.
Over 2,500 illustrations with more added with each update |
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| Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals. |
| • Coverage Range: 1740 to 1900 |
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| This premiere genealogy database is distributed exclusively by ProQuest to the library market and is ideal for the family historian or the social historian. Ancestry Library Edition provides the most genealogical information available on-line, with more than 4 billion names in over 4,000 collections. It offers a wide and diverse variety of unique content to help users trace their family lineage or help historians access historical records that have previously not been available online. It is continuously expanding with new content added every business day. |
| • Coverage Range: 1790- |
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| An index to research on all aspects of greco-roman antiquity. Covers a broad range of subjects, from language and literature to history to archaeology and more. |
| • Coverage Range: 1959 to 2003 |
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| Annual Reviews is proud to publish authoritative, analytic reviews in 32 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited in scientific literature. Annual Reviews offers publications in print and online to individuals, institutions, and consortia throughout the world |
| • Coverage Range: 1932-Present (varies by series) |
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| Provides worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. |
| • Coverage Range: Late 19th century to present |
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| Premier online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists. Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA.) Current issues for 15 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications through the end of 2006, including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly. An electronic archive of all AAA journals |
| • Coverage Range: Varied |
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| Provides information on management, careers and employment, and financial trends in the scientific and technological fields. Topics include engineering, acoustics, chemistry, computers, metallurgy, physics, plastics, telecommunications, transportation, and waste management. |
| • Coverage Range: Indexing 1983+, Abstracting 1993+, “select” Full Text 1997+ |
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| Spanning the centuries since the founding of America to the present day, the collections of the Archives of American Art comprise the largest source in the world of primary source documentation on the visual arts in America. |
| • Coverage Range: 1600 to current |
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| A current directory of 5,500 repositories and 141,178 collections of primary source material housed across the United States. |
| • Coverage Range: Current |
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| offers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications—now with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. |
| • Coverage Range: Indexing 1984+, Abstracting 1994+, “select” Full Text 1997+ |
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| Index to citations in art, art history, and art criticism. Primarily English but includes articles published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. Includes indexing of art reproductions. |
| • Coverage Range: 1929 to 1984 |
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| Provides full abstracts of resources on all forms of modern and contemporary art. |
| • Coverage Range: Late 1960s to present |
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| An implementation of the FRANTEXT database, it consists of nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. |
| • Coverage Range: 1600 to present |
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| A multidisciplinary database covering a wide variety of topics and fields. |
| • Coverage Range: 1990 to present |
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| Index to leading international arts and humanities journals and related social science and science information. |
| • Coverage Range: 1980 to present |
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| Database consisting of approximately 500,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. Made up of 10 distinct image collections: The Image Gallery; The Art History Survey Collection; The Illustrated Bartsch, The Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection, The Huntington Archive of Asian Art; The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive; The Museum of Modern Art Architecture and Design Collection; Native American Art and Culture, National
Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution; and Schlesinger History of Women in America Collection. Collections can be searched as a whole or individually.
To connect to the ARTstor image collections, click on the orange Launch button in the lower right-hand corner of the ARTstor homepage. It is necessary to turn off your browser's pop-up blocker for ARTstor to work properly. |
| • Coverage Range: varied |
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| Covers periodical articles, essays in books, and book reviews in the field of religion. Covers all religious traditions, with the strongest coverage in the Judeo-Christian tradition. |
| • Coverage Range: 1949 to present |
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| An on-line search engine/database of books and articles in Mycenaean archaeology, classified by author, subject, and region, with a full index on the site of Mycenae. |
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| A comprehensive international bibliography of published works on German language and literature, and on Germanic studies. This database is in German; it indexes works published in German and other languages. |
| • Coverage Range: 1985 to present |
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| The most comprehensive index database of principally western-language articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia, especially in the fields of humanities and the social sciences. Browse by country or search by subject. |
| • Coverage Range: 1971 to present |
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| An index of articles, art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and art exhibition and dealer's catalogs. Covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present. |
| • Coverage Range: 1975 to present |
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| Indexes biographical sources that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world. |
| • Coverage Range: Current and retrospective works |
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| Articles and other scholarly material published in the leading publications in agriculture, biology, forestry, and ecology. Includes a wide range of popular and professional journals about biology and agriculture. |
| • Coverage Range: Indexing 1983+, Abstracting 1994+, “select” Full Text 1994+ |
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| Biological Abstracts is a comprehensive reference database covering life sciences journal literature. |
| • Coverage Range: 2001-present |
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| BioOne provides access to resources of interrelated journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. Most of BioOne's titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers. |
| • Coverage Range: 1999 to present |
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| Book Collection: Nonfiction is a research database that contains the full text and informative abstracts for more than 1,600 popular nonfiction books found in school and public libraries. It includes fulltext articles on literature, social studies, history, and science but also covers high interest information on careers, health, sports, adventure, and technology. |
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| Offers easy access to broad coverage of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery for new, as well as experienced, medicinal chemists, biologists, pharmacologists, and molecular biologists. Burger's offers a comprehensive, global perspective of drug design and drug development.
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| Wilson Business Full Text provides fast, convenient access to a multitude of outstanding sources—from The New York Times Business Section and The Wall Street Journal to magazines and scholarly journals. With Quality abstracting and indexing of more than 850 publications, users will find feature articles, product reviews, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, obituaries, surveys, book reviews, reports from associations, societies, trade shows and conferences, and more. Over 600,000 corporate names with cross-references to specific industries and countries are included, as well.
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| • Coverage Range: Indexing 1982+, Abstracting 1984+, “select” Full Text 1995+ |
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| Essential reference for all who work with words--writers, editors, proofreaders, indexers, copywriters, designers, publishers, and students.
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| Contains reviews of books and electronic products related to higher education. |
| • Coverage Range: 1988 to present |
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| The source for theory and research in international affairs including economic information, and map and country data. |
| • Coverage Range: 1996 to present |
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| Proquest Civil War Era combines complete runs of regional newspapers, as well as pamphlets covering a wide range of topics. It's a deep set of primary sources, with documents that encompass the buildup to and evolution of the American Civil War that shaped the Nation's identity, all in original article and page image.
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| Indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences, humanities, science and technology. |
| • Coverage Range: 1975 to present |
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| Contains documents on microfiche from federal, state, private, and international sources and world-renowned indexing, including Congressional, executive, statistical, judicial, environmental, and other publications. |
| • Coverage Range: Historical and current |
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| An index providing full-text access to international treaties, constitutions, etc. |
| • Coverage Range: Historic and current |
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| Consumer Health Complete provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, and much more. |
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| A database that includes biographic details on approximately 100,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Featured are current writers, the most-studied literary figures of the early 20th Century and authors from around the world whose works have been translated into English or published in the United States. Included are the author's writings, media adaptations, works in progress sidelights and interviews conducted for Contemporary Authors. |
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| On-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress as part of the Country Studies/Area Handbook Series sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army. |
| • Coverage Range: Current |
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| CQ Researcher issues comprehensive reports devoted to timely topics ranging from school violence to homelessness in America. This database is useful for finding in-depth information on political or social issues such as teaching the theory of evolution or reassessing foreign aid. |
| • Coverage Range: 1991 -- Present |
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| CQ Weekly provides in-depth reports on issues looming on the congressional horizon, plus a complete wrapup of the previous week's news, including the status of bills in play, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, debates and all roll-call votes. |
| • Coverage Range: 1983 -- present |
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| Provides global information on women in over 150 countries with particular focus on health and human rights. |
| • Coverage Range: 1992 to current |
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| A bio-bibliographic database of German language women authors and translators publishing since 1945.
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| The Dictionary of Literary Biography presents career biographies and criticism of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods. |
| • Coverage Range: All eras of literary history. |
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| Biographies of non-living people who shaped the British Isles. Search by name, field, gender, life dates, events, religious affiliation, or text search. |
| • Coverage Range: 4th century B.C. to 2000 |
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| 26 volume dictionary providing information on the history of science through articles on the professional lives of scientists. All periods of science from classical antiquity to modern times are represented. |
| • Coverage Range: All time periods |
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| Southern African material of high socio-political interest. |
| • Coverage Range: 1950 to 1994 |
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| Full-text access to free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
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| • Coverage Range: Coverage: Varied |
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| Source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Most dissertations cost approximately $41 to order. |
| • Coverage Range: 1972 to present |
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| An extensive collection of sources on Southern history, literature, culture, and religion. The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865 The Church in the Southern Black Community |
| • Coverage Range: 1624 to 1920 |
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| From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Libraries possessing this collection find they are able to fulfill the most exhaustive research requirements in many subject areas, including: English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science. |
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| Provides citations to a number of scholarly journals in a variety of fields. |
| • Coverage Range: 1995 to present |
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| Indexes the major peer-reviewed journals in economics. |
| • Coverage Range: 1969 to present |
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| Literature from the field of education. Covers every age and sector of the educational community from preschool through college. |
| • Coverage Range: 1983 to present |
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| Eighteenth Century Collections Online includes the full-text of nearly all English-language imprints and a host of other materials from the eighteenth century. The collection contains a wide variety of materials from books and directories, Bibles, sheet music and sermons to advertisements and works by many well-known and lesser-known authors, all providing a diverse collection of material for the researcher of this vital period. |
| • Coverage Range: Eighteenth century |
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| Updated edition of this lauded work on Judaism features more than 21,000 entries on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists. |
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| Encyclopedic dictionary of qur'anic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur'anic studies.
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| • Coverage Range: 6 volumes |
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| A online encyclopedia group including Encyclopedia Britannica, Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, Britannica Internet Guide and so on. |
| • Coverage Range: Historical and current |
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| The Encyclopedia of American Studies brings together a wide range of disciplines related to the history and cultures of the United States, from pre-colonial days to the present. It features broad, synthetic articles covering areas such as history, literature, art, photography, film, architecture, urban studies, ethnicity, race, gender, economics, politics, wars, consumer culture, and global America. |
| • Coverage Range: All Volumes |
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| A new and updated edition of this multivolume set -- the first comprehensive new edition in almost 40 years. Containing material from hundreds of highly distinguished contributors representing the world's top universities and institutions, the second edition has a truly global perspective. It contains more than 2,100 entries
Donald Borchert, Ed. 2nd ed. 10 vols.
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| Online version of Colin Larkin's critically acclaimed 10-volume The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 4th Edition. Containing 27,000 entries and over 6,000 new entries, the online edition of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music includes 50% more material than the Third Edition. Featuring a broad musical scope covering popular music of all genres and periods from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music, the Encyclopedia also offers thousands of additional entries covering popular music genres, trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals. Key dates, biographies, and further reading are provided for artists covered, along with complete discographies that include record labels, release dates, and a 5-star album rating system. |
| • Coverage Range: Varied |
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| A major index for education and related fields. Articles, reports, government documents. |
| • Coverage Range: 1966 to present |
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| Indexes chapters and essays contained in books of collected works. Focuses on humanities and social sciences, including works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada. Covers archaeology, folklore, architecture, history, art, linguistics, children's literature, music, classical studies, poetry,
drama, and political science.
economics religion
fiction women's studies
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| • Coverage Range: 1985 to present |
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| Covers news, culture and history from publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press. |
| • Coverage Range: 1990 to present |
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| Western European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries and within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history. The order of documents is chronological wherever possible. |
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| Contains nearly 50,000 bibliographic citations to scholarly articles, books, etc, relating to Eastern Europe. The cited materials were published in the following West European countries: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. |
| • Coverage Range: 1991 to 1996 |
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| Two separate databases containing information on antisemitism and the Jewish Question in German-Speaking Countries, 1848-1914. |
| • Coverage Range: 1933 to present |
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| Covers nearly 500 journals as well as many essay collections devoted in large part to topics dealing with women, sexuality, or gender in the Middle Ages. |
| • Coverage Range: 1991 to 2003 |
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| A comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. |
| • Coverage Range: 1930 to present |
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| Annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries. The periodicals range from the scholarly to the popular. More than 2,000 subject headings provide detailed analysis of the articles. The FLI Online contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001. |
| • Coverage Range: 1976-2001 |
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| One of the largest digital libraries, Gallica offers free access to 90,000 digitized books (including pamphlets), over 80,000 images, and several hours of sound resources in the original French. The collection, digitized by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, continues to grow and includes prestigious publications, dictionaries, and periodicals.
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| Includes resources that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of disciplines. |
| • Coverage Range: 1970 to present |
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| A general science database that covers everything from supernovas to marine pollution. A good starting point for researchers seeking information on a variety of scientific topics. |
| • Coverage Range: Indexing 1984+, Abstracting 1984+, “select” Full Text 1994+ |
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| Worldwide literature on geography, geology, and ecology. |
| • Coverage Range: 1980 to present |
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| Guide to materials in geology and earth sciences. |
| • Coverage Range: 1785 to present for N. America |
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| A comprehensive Internet resource for research and communications in the geosciences, built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals indexed, linked, and inter-operable with GeoRef. |
| • Coverage Range: currently, mostly 2000 to present |
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| Access to a varied array of government publications. |
| • Coverage Range: 1976 to present |
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| GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well. |
| • Coverage Range: Varied |
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| Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. Hugh Brigstocke (2001). Grove Art offers ongoing additions of new and updated articles, over 3,000 thumbnail art images and line drawings displayed in the text of articles, extensive image links, and sophisticated search and navigation tools. |
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| Grove Music Online comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001). |
| • Coverage Range: updated annually since 2001 ed. |
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| An annoted bibliography to materials on Latin America and covering topics in both the social sciences and humanities. |
| • Coverage Range: 1935 to present |
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| Indexes journals published in Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean. Also indexes journals published in other countries if the topic includes Latin America or Hispanics in the US. |
| • Coverage Range: 1970 to present |
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| Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more . This database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. |
| • Coverage Range: 1955-present |
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| Atlanta Constitution; Atlanta Daily World; Boston Globe; Chicago Tribune; Los Angeles Sentinel; New York Amsterdam News;
Pittsburgh Courier; The Chicago Defender; The New York Times; The Washington Post
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| • Coverage Range: 1851-2005 |
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| History Reference Center is the world's most comprehensive full text history reference database designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research. The database features cover-to-cover full text for more than 750 historical encyclopedias and other non-fiction books, including award winning titles from many top publishers. The database also includes full text for nearly 60 leading history periodicals. Further, the database contains 58,000 historical documents; 43,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 12,000 historical photos and maps; and 87 hours of historical film and video. |
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| A bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of humanities and social sciences journals. |
| • Coverage Range: 1907 to 1984 |
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| Covers journal articles in the humanities, archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, history, journalism and communications, linguistics, literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, and religion. |
| • Coverage Range: Indexing 1984+, Abstracting 1984+, “select” Full Text 1994+ |
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| The ICON Archaeology collection consists of over 10,000 digital images related to the ancient history of the Mediterranean region. Images include dig sites, artifacts, and architecture. This collection is available for all Dickinson faculty and students to use in their teaching and research.
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| • Coverage Range: image collection |
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| Maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction, and offers training in quantitative methods to facilitate effective data use. (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) |
| • Coverage Range: 1850 to present |
| • Mostly Full-Text |
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| Important and Rare Periodicals from Confederate, Union, Abolitionist, and British Presses. The database contains 65,000 pages drawn from 49 periodicals, including 15 campaign newspapers, most of them illustrated—3,720 issues published from 1860 to 1865. |
| • Coverage Range: 1860-1865 |
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| A database of Christian art which contains over 20,000 work of art records which are accompanied by over sixty thousand images in color and black and white. |
| • Coverage Range: Apostolic Period to A.D. 1400 |
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| Full-text access to a large number of premium peer-reviewed journals in physics and related fields. |
| • Coverage Range: Coverage: Varied |
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| Social science research and practice. |
| • Coverage Range: Regularly updated |
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| Literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700 C.E.). Includes citations for books, journal articles, and essays in books. |
| • Coverage Range: 1842 to present |
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| An interdisciplinary archive of over 600 journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. |
| • Coverage Range: Historical & current publications up to 1 - 5 years from current date |
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| A German literature database covering about 600 authors writing in German who began publishing after 1945. Each entry contains a biographical sketch, a detailed critical essay, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. Note: all the information is in German only. |
| • Coverage Range: 1945-present |
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| Provides public legal information. Contains over a decade of opinions of the New York Court of Appeals, and the full United States Code. |
| • Coverage Range: 1992 to present |
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| Access to hundreds of newspapers from around the world, plus a wealth of legal, business, medical, and reference information. |
| • Coverage Range: Coverage varies but generally 1980s to current. |
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| Scholarly material published in the field of librarianship from selected library journals, books, conference proceedings, library school theses, pamphlets, and book reviews. |
| • Coverage Range: Indexing 1984+, Abstracting 1984+, “select” Full Text 1994+ |
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| LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database.
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| • Coverage Range: Varied, 1960 to present |
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| The Literary Encyclopedia is an expanding global literary reference work written by over 1400 specialists from universities around the world, and currently provides over 3700 authoritative profiles of authors, works and literary and historical topics. |
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| Gale's Literary Index is a master index to the major literature products published by Gale, including Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Poetry Criticism. |
| • Coverage Range: Gale products published through June 2006 |
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| Gale takes literature, history and culture to the next level with its most extensive curated compilation of literary commentary available: Literature Criticism Online. The award-winning series that comprise Literature Criticism Online represent a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Includes Contemporary Literary Criticism, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, as well as Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism |
| • Coverage Range: Varied |
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| Making of America (MOA), a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. |
| • Coverage Range: 1850 to present |
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| Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 9,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. |
| • Coverage Range: see description |
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| A premium business information database that includes information on 10,000 companies, 2,000 industries, and 50 countries. |
| • Coverage Range: current |
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| Covers world's mathematical literature and literature in computer science, statistics, econometrics, and applications in areas such as physics, engineering, biology, and information systems. |
| • Coverage Range: 1940 to present |
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| Reviews of educational media and entertainment resources |
| • Coverage Range: 1989 to present |
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| Indexes all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. |
| • Coverage Range: 1965 to present |
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| Indexes all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. |
| • Coverage Range: 1950-present |
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| PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals.
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| • Coverage Range: Coverage Range: 1950's to present |
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| Online dictionary and thesaurus |
| • Coverage Range: Historical and current |
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| Information about the more than 6000 journals covered by the MLA Bibliography database, including editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of scope, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, links to online content, peer review, and submission guidelines. |
| • Coverage Range: Varied |
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| The premier scholarly index for literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. |
| • Coverage Range: 1963 to present |
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| Naxos Music Library is a comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. While listening, you can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database. |
| • Coverage Range: Varied |
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| Contains more than 22,600 tracks of jazz music (more than 2,300 CDs) available as streaming audio files. |
| • Coverage Range: Varied |
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| netLibrary provides access to the Access Pennsylvania Database collection of eBooks. eBooks are digital versions of print books -- available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week from any location in the world.
netLibrary ebooks may be found by searching the Access PA eBook Collection directly from the netLibrary link available at the Power Library website, or by searching the Access Pennsylvania Database. eBooks are easily identified in the results list of a search as [electronic resource]. Links to all Access PA eBooks are available at the bottom of their bibliographic records. |
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| The New York Times (1851-2001) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue |
| • Coverage Range: 1851-2001 |
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| NoveList can help you provide the best possible service for your fiction readers of all ages. NoveList, a readers' advisory service, not only provides access to a database that was selected as a Library Journal Best Reference Database, but it also offers a wide range of resources to serve fiction readers. |
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| This database contains over 200,000 fiction and nonfiction titles. You will find titles for adults, teens, older and younger kids. Included in this database you also find over 400 annotated book lists on high-interest topics, BookTalk for older kids and teens, and Book Discussion Guides that will provide everything you need to ensure lively book club meetings or classroom discussions. |
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| An accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium and an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. |
| • Coverage Range: Historical and current |
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| An authoritative, dynamic online resource for students, scholars, government officials, community groups, and librarians, Oxford Islamic Studies Online brings together the best current scholarship in the field and promotes accurate and informed understanding of the Islamic world. This fully integrated resource features reference content and commentary by renowned scholars in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture. |
| • Coverage Range: Varied |
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| As a service of the Administrative Offices of U.S. Courts, PACER rovides full-text access to court records. Contact a reference librarian for account and password information.
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| • Coverage Range: Extensive |
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| Provides selective subjects and bibliographic access to periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, Internet resources, and other publications from 120 countries. |
| • Coverage Range: 1972 to present |
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| A retrospective database chronicling global public policy and social issues. |
| • Coverage Range: 1915 to 1972 |
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| Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre. |
| • Coverage Range: 1993 to present |
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| As the official organ of the Chinese government, the People's Daily has comprehensive coverage of China's social, economic, and political affairs and usually voices the government's viewpoint. With this database, users can browse the articles published in the People's Daily in chronological order and also search them by date, title, author name, and/or word in the article text. All the articles are available in pdf format. |
| • Coverage Range: 1946-2005 |
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| An electronic keyword index to the full run of over four thousand of magazines and journals in the humanities and social sciences. |
| • Coverage Range: Latter part of the 18th century to the latter part of the 20th century |
| • Some Full-Text |
| • 1 Simultaneous User |
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| Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language. |
| • Coverage Range: 1940 to current |
| • Some Full-Text |
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| A full text database that provides valuable information on Chinese jurisdiction, legislature, and business laws. |
| • Coverage Range: 1949-present |
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| Polling the Nations is a unique resource for researchers on public opinions. Gleaned from more than 1,400 polling sources, the database is the most comprehensive source of polling information, and its breadth of information provides an opportunity to analyze trends, compare attitudes, and contrast behavior on more than 5,800 topics. |
| • Coverage Range: 1986 - present |
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| POPLINE® (POPulation information onLINE) provides more than 350,000 citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population studies, family planning, women’s studies, and related environmental and health issues. Primarily English, but also includes many abstracts in French and Spanish. A limit to peer-reviewed articles feature is available. Maintained by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs and funded primarily by the United States Agency for International Development. |
| • Coverage Range: 1970 to present (some of the materials indexed date back to 1886) |
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| An annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics. |
| • Coverage Range: 1986 to 2000 |
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| Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre. |
| • Coverage Range: 1993 to present |
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| This is the most comprehensive and most valuable collection of full text education journals in the world. The Professional Development Collection includes full text for more than 500 high quality education journals including: Booklist, Curriculum Administrator, Education, Education Digest, Educational Leadership, High School Journal, Journal of Education, Journal of Educational Research, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Phi Delta Kappan, Reading Teacher, School Library Journal, and many others. |
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| A collection of more than 12,000 free electronic books. Most older literary works that are in the public domain in the United States. |
| • Coverage Range: Varies |
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| Covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others. |
| • Coverage Range: Historical and current |
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| Covers all disciplines including social science, humanities, arts, literature and so on. Entries contain value-added content from a wide range of sources including newspapers, periodicals and books. |
| • Coverage Range: Historical and current |
| • Mostly Full-Text |
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| PsycARTICLES™ is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group. The database includes all material from the print journals with the exception of ads and editorial board lists. |
| • Coverage Range: 1985-Present |
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| A comprehensive electronic index to international psychology literature in journals, books, and book chapters, dissertations, and conference proceedings. |
| • Coverage Range: 1887 to present |
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| PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. |
| • Coverage Range: 1950's to present |
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| From the U.S. Census Bureau. Facts about people, business, and geography based on the last census. Both state and national statistics are available. |
| • Coverage Range: Last U.S. census. |
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| A bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Material are compiled from thousands of periodicals and from collections of articles - in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages- mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library. |
| • Coverage Range: Approximately 1966 - present |
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| Index of articles published in approximately 175 popular magazines, news magazines, and other general interest periodicals. |
| • Coverage Range: Indexing 1983+, Abstracting1984+ and “select” Full Text 1994+ |
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| A comprehensive international index to writings about music and related disciplines. RILM indexes and abstracts (summarizes) journal articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, reviews, and more. |
| • Coverage Range: 1967 to present |
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| This is the online version of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. It is the definitive encyclopedic resource in the field of philosophy. It features 2,000 original entries from a team of respected scholars and philosophers. |
| • Coverage Range: Varied |
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| A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. |
| • Coverage Range: 1965 to present |
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| A large electronic collection of science, technology and medicine information. |
| • Coverage Range: Varied some 1850 to present |
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| Access available only from computers in Chemistry building and the Library, as specific software must be installed. A powerful electronic index for all of Chemical Abstracts as well as the citations found in Medline. In addition, it also provides information on health related topics and Molecular and Biochemistry. |
| • Coverage Range: 1907 to present |
| • Citations Only |
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| A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences. |
| • Coverage Range: 1965 to present |
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| Covers international, English-language periodicals in sociology, anthropology, psychology, geography, economics, political science, and law. |
| • Coverage Range: Indexing 1983+, Abstracting 1984+ and “select” Full Text 1994+ |
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| Indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. |
| • Coverage Range: 1963 to present |
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| The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a dynamic reference work and is a publishing project of the Metaphysics Research Lab at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) at Stanford University. Each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and updates are refereed by the members of an Editorial Board before they are made public. |
| • Coverage Range: 1995 to present |
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| A Lexis-Nexis group database for searching U.S. government statistical sources, state governments and privately published statistical sources or international intergovernmental statistical sources. It includes statistical tables, LexisNexis, American Statistics Index (from 1973) and table by LexisNexis, Academic & Library Solutions indexers. |
| • Coverage Range: 1970 to present |
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| A service of the U.S. Department of Commerce this database is the site for the U.S. business, economic and trade community, providing authoritative information from the Federal government. |
| • Coverage Range: 1990s to present |
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| This index contains over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals and books. 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. |
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| An online database of one of the world's great literary journals, a journal which scrutinized, dissected, applauded, and occasionally disparaged, the work of the twentieth century's leading writers and thinkers. |
| • Coverage Range: 1902 to 1990 |
| • Mostly Full-Text |
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| Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases. |
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| Information about demographic, social, economic, and housing characteristics of the United States population, as well as business, industry and trade data. |
| • Coverage Range: 2002 - present |
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| Contains subscription information about periodicals; also includes full-text links to some Open Access journals. |
| • Coverage Range: 1932 to present |
| • Some Full-Text |
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| Transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century. |
| • Coverage Range: Nineteenth century. |
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| Provides cited references to social science and science materials. Provides access to Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Science Citation Index Expanded. |
| • Coverage Range: 1965-present |
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| Women’s Studies International, produced by NISC, covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Coverage includes more than 586,600 records and spans from 1972 and earlier to present. This database supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education. Over 2,000 periodical sources are represented. |
| • Coverage Range: 1972-Present |
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| Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs. |
| • Coverage Range: Current Year |
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| A news translation service produced by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) for the U.S. Foreign Broadcast Service, a government agency which monitors and translates newspapers, radio and television broadcasts, and official statements of foreign governments. |
| • Coverage Range: 1994 to present |
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| • 5 Simultaneous Users |
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| Provides annotated entries for published international scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare. |
| • Coverage Range: 1971 to present |
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| OCLC's catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. The most comprehensive database of published materials and library holdings. Use this to locate books the library does not own. |
| • Coverage Range: Before 1000 BC to present |
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