ONLINE-ACCESSIBLE CATALOGS, INDEXES 

AND FULL-TEXT DATABASES

BasicBIOSIS (FirstSearch)
Provides information on recent developments in virtually every life science discipline. Records include CAS registry numbers (beginning in 1998), the disease terminology used in MEDLINE, publisher information (including E-mail addresses and URL) and author URL and author E-mail addresses (since December 1997, when available and hot linked on FirstSearch Web). This database is updated monthly.

BioAgIndex - Biological and Agricultural Index (FirstSearch)
Covers the entire range of sciences related to biology and agriculture. Indexes 335 key periodicals in the life sciences and agriculture. Includes current book reviews.  Records cover 1983 to the present and are updated monthly.

BioDigest- Biology Digest  (FirstSearch)
Covers all of the life sciences . Gives easy access to new scientific developments, with comprehensive abstracts of articles in 185 journals and is updated nine times a year.  This database covers 1984 to the present and is updated monthly.

BIOETHICSLINE see NLM Gateway

Biography Index  (FirstSearch)
Cites more than 2,700 periodicals and 1,800 books, including individual and collective biographies, as well as juvenile literature.  Covers the time period from 1984 to the present and is updated monthly.

Biological and Agricultural Index see BioAgIndex

Biology Digest see BioDigest

Book Review Digest  (FirstSearch)
Provides access to book reviews from nearly 100 American and Canadian periodicals. Some 7,000 adult and children's books are reviewed and added to the list every year. Concise critical evaluations are culled from 95 selected journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences, as well as library review media.  Only reviews that have appeared within 18 months of a book’s publication are included in this database.   Coverage is from 1983 until the present, and is updated monthly.

Books in Print  (FirstSearch)
Provides information on books currently in print -- titles have to be checked against the Online Public Catalog to see if it is held by the Library.   This database is updated weekly 

Business & Industry  (FirstSearch)
Provides access to international company, industry, market, and product information. Covers over 1360 leading trade and business sources. Full text articles are available online for many of those sources.  Contains records from 1994 to the present and is updated daily .

Business & Management Practices  (FirstSearch)
This database is devoted to practical management information.  The articles detail all areas of business management including industries and specific organizational practices.  Case studies and  “how-to” articles are contained here.  Covers 1995 to the present and is updated weekly.

Business Dateline  (FirstSearch) 
Provides access to 535 newspapers, city business magazines, wire services in the United States and Canada.  This database is useful for monitoring the latest trends in industry, health, environmental issues, education, and much more.  This database provides information on regional businesses and local firms.  Business Wire press releases are also included.   Record will indicate availability of full text articles.  Covers the time period from 1985 to the present, and is updated weekly.

Business Organizations, Agencies, and Publications (FirstSearch) 
This guide to international business information sources lists contact name, address, phone, and fax numbers, and a description of the organization's founding, membership, activities, and sources.  This database is updated annually.

ChemID [http://chem.sis.nlm.nih.gov/chemidplus/]
This is a chemical dictionary file for over 339,000 compounds of biomedical and regulatory interest. Records include CAS Registry Numbers and other identifying numbers, molecular formulae, generic names, trivial names, other synonyms, MeSH headings, and file locators which lead users to other files on the ELHILL® and TOXNET® systems. This database is updated quarterly.

CIAO see Columbia International Affairs Online

CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) 
  This title is devoted to nursing and allied health journals since 1982; some biomedical and social science journals; some popular or consumer health journals; books; dissertations; serials & pamphlets of several organizations.   This database is an electronic equivalent to the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature.  The database is updated monthly.

The Cochrane Library
Provides full text access to information compiled by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international network of individuals and institutions committed to reviewing the best evidence from clinical trials in medicine. Coverage is from 1991 to present. Updated quarterly. 

The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry 
This database contains 30,000 poems including the complete works of Wordsworth, Milton, and Melville.  Biographies about the poets, commentaries on particular poems and a glossary are also available in this source.  Poems are linked to related poems by subject and by the author that is being accessed.  Each commentary includes both an analysis by noted critics of poetry and a bibliography devoted to the poem being discussed.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
 Columbia International Affairs Online contains full-text information on international affairs from 1991 on, including working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects and proceedings from conferences.  The section containing  working papers is augmented every month, as are those sections for conference proceedings, policy briefs and economic indicators.  Links and resources, the schedule of events and the response files are updated weekly.  New journal issues and books are added as they become available.

ConsumersIndex  (FirstSearch)
This subject index contains over 240 periodicals. The database provides information categorized from general (the home) to more specific (automobiles), by periodical (Consumer Reports), or by a specific brand name (CocaCola).   This index includes consumer protection information as well.  Covers 1986 to the present and is updated quarterly.

Contemporary Women’s Issues
Covers over 1900 sources comprising journals, newsletters & pamphlets, reports, as well as bibliographies, directories, fact sheets, and various guides.  This database includes articles as recent as the current year and previous years as well for individual sources.  This database is also available from FirstSearch.

DataTimes (FirstSearch)
Provides an index of articles from some 180 U.S. newspapers. Includes The Christian Science Monitor and Commerce Business Daily, plus nearly 30 international newspapers.  This database is covers 1986 to the present and is updated daily.

DIRLINE  [http://dirline.nlm.nih.gov]
A directory of resources, providing information services.  DIRLINE focuses primarily on health and biomedical information resources including organizations, government agencies, information centers, professional societies, voluntary associations, support groups, academic and research institutions, and research facilities and resources. Records contain resource names, addresses, phone numbers, and descriptions of services, publications, and holdings.  This database is updated quarterly.
 Campus Users  Off-Campus Users

Disclosure (FirstSearch)
 Disclosure contains directory information on companies publicly traded on U.S. exchanges.

Disclosure – Global Access 
Provides corporate information on public companies that file with the Securities & Exchange Commission.  Full record of each company includes description as well as financial information such as balance sheets, annual funds flow, price / earnings data, and ration data.   Data includes a ten year financial history as well as the most recent  10-K and 10-Q reports.   Non-U.S. companies are included in the Worldscope database that part of this electronic source.  Disclosure is also available in FirstSearch.

Dissertation Abstracts (FirstSearch)
Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions from 1861 to the present.  Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations.  Updated monthly.

Earthscape 
A website devoted to environmental issues.  This site is divided into four topics:  research, education,  Earth Affairs magazine, and links & resources.   ‘Research’ includes papers and conference proceedings,  a database, and journal abstracts.  ‘Education’ details classroom models, and sample syllabi as well as subject reference sources such as  Ask-a-Geologist.  ‘Earth Affairs’ is devoted to issues about how science can contribute to Earth’s future. ‘Links & resources’ is arranged by discipline, activities, habitats, and issues. This resource is full-text and is updated daily. 

EBSCO Online 
This database contains almost 4000 titles. Records from journals to which the Weinberg Memorial Library subscribe are full text (about 260+). In addition to providing the abstract, a Table of Contents is available for every journal indexed in EBSCO.   Subject coverage includes social sciences, businesses,  and medicine.  The database has coverage up to and including the current month.

ECO see Electronic Collections Online

EconLit (American Economic Association) (FirstSearch)
Contains citations, with abstracts, to articles from more than 620 economics journals. In addition, subject indexing and abstracts of books and subject indexing of dissertation titles are included.  Covers the period from 1969 to the present and is updated monthly.

Education Index - (FirstSearch)
Provides thorough and reliable indexing of some 550 leading periodicals for students, teachers, professors, and college administrators. Encompasses all areas of concern to today's educators, including administration, teaching methods, and curriculum.   Coverage is from 1983 to the present and the database is updated monthly.

Electronic Collections Online - ECO  (FirstSearch)
Contains full-text articles for over 2000 journals.  The database is multi-disciplinary and   covers agriculture,  business,  economics,  education,  geography, history, law,  medicine, political science, and religion.  The span of coverage is 1995 to the present, and the database is updated daily.

Emerald Library Online (Emerald Intelligence & Fulltext Electronic Library) 
Emerald Library is a collection of 130 academic and professional journals primarily from the MCB University Press Based in Bradford, UK, MCB University Press is a privately owned company.  Includes about 20,000 fully referenced, scholarly articles covering a wide range of topics.   Coverage for this full text database is from 1989 to the present). Presently, the Index to Electronic Journals lists the Emerald titles in the following categories:  Engineering Library, General Management Library, Human Resources Library, Information Management Library, Library & Information Services Library,    Marketing Library, Property Library, Quality Library  and Training & Education Library

ERIC see AskERIC

ERIC (First Search)
Contains citations with abstracts to journal articles and a variety of documents (e.g., research reports, technical reports, books, and curricular materials) in the field of education.   The coverage is from 1982 to the present year.  Some full text.

E*Subscribe
E* Subscribe is both a search engine and a full text document service for the ED portion of ERIC. Approximately 80% of the documents from 1992 onward can be retrieved full text in Acrobat format on your PC. Consult the AskERIC on the Weinberg Library’s web page for Journals and Databases for EJ citations. Make sure your printer has adequate memory before downloading.

EventLine (FirstSearch)
Contains current information related to conventions, symposia, exhibitions, trade fairs, and major sporting events. Can be used to find dates and locations of vital meetings, plan a marketing strategy, assist in travel planning, compile statistics on trends in meetings, etc. Covers all the sciences, industry and business, and major sporting events.  Covers 1989 to the present and is updated monthly.

FactSearch (FirstSearch)
Based on the printed publication, A Matter of Fact. Each record contains facts and statistics with a reference to their original source. Some records include Web site addresses to allow access to the full text information.   Covers 1984 to the present and is updated quarterly.

FirstSearch®
 A collection of 57 subject-specific indexes and databases.

General Science Index (FirstSearch)
Covers some 160 titles from the United States and Great Britain including areas of astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, earth science, environmental issues, mathematics, medicine, physics, and zoology.   Covers the time from 1984 to the present and is updated monthly.

GEO BASE (FirstSearch)
Contains citations with abstracts covering worldwide literature on geography, geology, ecology, international development, and their related disciplines.   Compiled from over 2,060 sources that cover the period from 1980 to the present.  The database is updated monthly.

GPO Monthly Catalog (FirstSearch )
Consists of records published by the GPO since July 1976. Includes references to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and more.  This database is updated monthly.

Granger’s Index to Poetry see Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry

GrayLIT Network 
This database collects gray literature, information about topics that is disseminated through non-traditional channels.   Science and public affairs reports a re collected in this database.  Department of Energy (DOE), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) are just a few of the agencies that have reports available from this resource.

HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals)
Includes citations to articles, documents, book reviews, and original literary works in approximately 400 social science and humanities journals from 1970 to the present.  It regularly contains information on Latin America, the US-Mexico borderlands, and Hispanics in the US.   This database is maintained by the UCLA Latin American Center.

HealthSTAR see NLM Gateway

HISTLINE see NLM Gateway

Historical Abstracts
Contains references for publications since 1954 to over 2000 sources. Includes article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations on the history of the world except the US and Canada from 1450 to present.  Updated annually.

HSRProj see NLM Gateway

Humanities Index (FirstSearch)
Long regarded as the ideal single reference for periodical information in the diverse subject area of the humanities (including history, theology, and philosophy).   Articles and reviews of books, plays, radio and television from 465 sources  are displayed in a summary format (abstract) since 1984 to the present and is updated monthly.

IDEAL 
Includes the full text of 175 Academic Press journals.  Its aim is to improve access to scientific journals starting with the complete 1996 issues.  Over 2000 articles are added monthly.  Subject areas covered in this database are applied sciences, social sciences, dentistry, medicine, nursing, economics, business law and finance.< /font>

Index to Legal Periodicals & Books (FirstSearch)
Provides thorough, reliable indexing of over 925 journals, yearbooks, law reviews, and bar association publications. Covers all areas of jurisprudence, including court decisions, legislation, and original scholarship.  Covers the time period of 1981 to the present and is updated monthly.

Institute of Physics Journals 
Provides access to 35 journals detailing all aspects of physics.  Articles are available in abstract form with some articles being available in full text format.   Covers the time period of 1980 to the present. 

Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts (FirstSearch)
Using over 185 sources,  this database provides summaries of articles covering all aspects of issues related to the Internet and personal computing for individuals and businesses.   Coverage is from 1989 to the present and is updated monthly.

JSTOR 
Provides full text access for scholarly journals in the areas of African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, and sociology.  This database covers a complete journal run from the first issue up to the most recent three to five years. 

Kluwer Online
 Provides electronic access to the full-text journals of Kluwer Academic Publishers.  Coverage is from 1995 to the present.  A PDF icon will lead to the full-text articles.  Click on the “Kluwer Online” button to search.

Legal Periodicals Index see Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (FirstSearch)

LEXIS-NEXIS (Academic Universe) 
Provides access to journals, magazines, and newspapers in full text format.  The subject areas covered are news, business, law, medicine, and reference.  This database is updated daily, and sources can be searched for the last five or ten years, and in some cases back 30 plus years to provide bibliographic records. This database contains over 5200 sources.

Library Literature (FirstSearch)
This resource is the definitive index in the library and information science fields. Library Literature indexes some 360 periodicals and more than 600 monographs per year. Covers 1980 to the present and is updated monthly.

MathSciNet 
This resource collects reviews of topics devoted to mathematics since 1940.  There are about 1700 serials that are indexed for this resource.  Besides journals, conference proceedings and books are also reviewed. The database is updated daily. 

MDX Health Digest  (FirstSearch)
Contains citations with abstracts of health articles, written in language suitable for the general public. Nearly 200 publications are covered, in five major categories: newsletters, magazines, and bulletins; newspapers; general interest magazines; medical journals; and medical school and hospital publications.  Covers 1988 to the present and is updated monthly.

MEDLINE/PubMed
PubMed, a retrieval service developed by the National Library of Medicine, provides access to MEDLINE, a database of more than 10 million bibliographic citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences. MEDLINE contains citations and author abstracts from over 4300 biomedical journals published in the United States and in 70 foreign countries. Coverage extends back to 1966 and new material is incorporated weekly. Journal articles are indexed for MEDLINE, and their citations are searchable, using NLM's controlled vocabulary, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). MEDLINE is also available in FirstSearch and Lexis-Nexis.

PubMed also contains links to the full-text versions of articles at participating publishers' Web sites. In addition, PubMed provides access and links to the integrated molecular biology databases maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). These databases contain DNA and protein sequences, genome mapping data, and 3-D protein structures

MEDSCAPE 
Access to Medscape is FREE, but requires a one-time membership registration. Medscape is organized by medical specialty, with each supported specialty having its own custom Web Site. Medscape's content comes from an assortment of sources including:  clinical eJournals, more than 50 medical journals and textbooks, professional medical news from Reuters, MedscapeWire, and medical news journal publishers, business and finance publishers, managed care and medical practice publishers, and more. This internet site is updated daily, and contains links to MEDLINE as well as other web-based medical sites.

Mental Measurements Yearbook 
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains full text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas.  This online version includes test reviews from the latest print version as well as the previous editions.

MLA Bibliography 
Published by the Modern Language Association, this database covers current scholarship in modern language and literature, since 1963.  Provides access to almost 4000 journals and serials published worldwide, as well as monographs, working papers and proceedings, indexes, and bibliographies devoted to the discussion and analysis of literature.

Music Literature see RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (FirstSearch)

National Newspapers (ProQuest)
National Newspapers covers 27 full text papers from major cities both in the U.S. and abroad. See the description for ProQuest for a fuller description.

NetFirst  (FirstSearch)
Contains bibliographic citations complete with summary descriptions and subject headings describing Internet accessible resources, including World Wide Web pages, interest groups, library catalogs, FTP sites, Internet services, Gopher servers, electronic journals, and newsletters.  This database is updated daily.

netLibrary 
A database collection of over 3500 ebook titles covering fiction, speeches, government reports.  Notable fiction works include Hamlet, Beowulf, and The Canterbury Tales.

Newsbank 
Full-text news resources consisting of more than 500 regional, national and international newspapers and newswire sources.   Covers the time period of 1991 to the present.  Updated daily.

Newspaper Abstracts (FirstSearch)
This business and general reference source indexes and abstracts more than 25 U.S. and regional newspapers, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and USA Today. The Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition) is indexed beginning 1989 and is updated monthly. 

NLM Gateway [http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd]
NLM Gateway is intended for the user who is new to the National Library of Medicine’s online resources. It searches simultaneously: MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus (the NLM’s database for medical consumers), and DIRLINE. In addition, it contains information that was formerly available in: AIDSLINE, BIOETHICSLINE, HealthSTAR, HISTLINE, POPLINE, SPACELINE, and TOXLINE.

Oxford English Dictionary Online
An online version of the Oxford English Dictionary, this resource is updated quarterly. 

PAIS International  (FirstSearch)
Public Affairs Information Service database contains references from over 3600 sources in abstract form for  articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories detailing public affairs.   Covers 1972 to the present and is updated monthly.

PapersFirst (FirstSearch)
Provides access to individual papers presented at conferences worldwide. A major research aid that covers every congress, symposium, exposition, workshop, and meeting added to The British Library Document Supply Center's vast proceedings collection since October 1993. Users may order the full text of papers cited in PapersFirst from The British Library using the FirstSearch online ordering service.  This database is updated 24 times per year.

Past Masters 
Provides full text links for philosophers and theologians such as Aquinas,  Aristotle, Plato as well as other early political thinkers from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Periodical Abstracts (FirstSearch)
A complete general reference resource, with indexing and abstracts for over 2,040 popular and academic periodicals. Included are transcripts of more than 80 news oriented television and radio shows. Provides access to the ASCII full text of articles from 1008 journals.  Covers the period from 1987 to the present and updated weekly.

PA Research II (ProQuest)
PA Research II (for ‘Periodicals Abstracts Research II’) indexes over 1800 journals and magazines in the fields of arts, humanities, health, social sciences, and sciences, as well as general news. It also indexes the NYT, Barron’s, WSJ, and USA Today, providing full text access. This database replaces the InfoTrac product, Expanded Academic ASAP, and will be the first stop for most research topics. See the description for ProQuest for a full description.

Philosophers Index 
Provides indexing abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields.  Covers published books and journals from 1940 until the present.

Policy.Com 
Showcases leading research, opinions and events shaping public policy on dozens of issues including education, technology and healthcare.  This web resource is updated daily.

POPLINE see NLM Gateway

Proceedings (FirstSearch)
Provides tables of contents of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Each record contains a list of the papers presented at each conference. Like its companion , PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst provides access to The British Library Document Supply Center's vast collection of conference proceedings.  Covers the period from 1993 to the present and updated twice per week.

Project MUSE
Access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in the areas of arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.   The coverage is from 1990 to the present.

ProQuest
ProQuest is a collection of 3 databases you may search individually or simultaneously. Approximately 60% of the articles are full text and may be emailed, printed or downloaded. A current file, back file (1986-1998) and deep back file allow access from 1980 onward. First - ABI Inform Global indexes over 10,000 worldwide business periodicals for information on advertising, marketing economics, human resources, finances, taxation, and computers. Company information is abundant as well. This database replaces the InfoTrac product Business Index ASAP and Predicasts. Second - Periodicals Abstracts Research II indexes over 1800 journals and magazines in the fields of arts, humanities, health, social sciences, and sciences, as well as general news. It also indexes the NYT, Barron’s, WSJ, and USA Today, providing full text access. This database replaces the InfoTrac product, Expanded Academic ASAP. And third, ProQuest National Newspapers covers 27 full text papers from major cities both in the U.S. and abroad.

Proquest Newspapers see ProQuest or National Newspapers

PsycFIRST (FirstSearch)
Covers scholarly literature in experimental psychology (human, animal, and comparative), psychosexual behavior, educational psychology, applied psychology, and sports psychology. Includes original research and journal articles, literature reviews, reports of surveys, case studies, theoretical discussions, bibliographies, and descriptions of tests and apparatus. Indexed materials are selected from more than 1,300 journals published in 25 languages. Most records have abstracts.  Covers the three most current years and updated monthly.

PsycINFO 
Provides citations with abstracts from more than 1,300 international journals plus books and book chapters containing the literature of psychology and the behavioral sciences.  Information dates from 1887 to the present. 

Readers' Guide Abstracts (FirstSearch)
Indexes bibliographic as well as summaries (for selected records) from popular periodicals published in the United States and Canada.   Over 300 sources detailing such subjects as business, consumer affairs, current events, education, fine arts, health and nutrition, and sports are covered for the time period of 1983 to the present.  The database is updated monthly.

Reference USA (formerly: American Business Disk)
This is a directory of over 10 million businesses in the United States.  Includes company name, address, geographic location, SIC code, headquarters or subsidiary, number of employees, sales and credit rating, allowing all but the credit rating to be searched.   HINT: Be as accurate as possible with the company’s name. 

RILM  Music Abstracts 
Offers an international bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines in 202 languages, including original language titles; title translations in English; full bibliographic information; abstracts in English; and author, journal, and subject indexes. Compiled from over 300 sources,  this database is covers 1969 to the present and is updated monthly.

SciBase
Gives free access to a database that covers the research literature in the fields of science, technology and medicine. 19 million articles published since 1965 from more than 30,000 journals are indexed. This index is updated daily with approximately 7,000 new articles each day.

SimplyStocks
Simply Stocks provides full text business descriptions, insider trading. Share price data, charting and in-depth financial analysis of over 10,000 publicly traded companies.  Financial ratios and industry information are also available.  Daily updates insure timeliness.

SIRS Researcher (FirstSearch)
A general database containing references to articles exploring social, scientific, historic, economic, political, and global issues. Articles are selected from more than 1,200 domestic and international newspapers, magazines, journals, and government publications. Covers the time from 1988 to the present and updated monthly.

Social Sciences Index (FirstSearch)
Covers over 550 periodicals in the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, law and criminology, political science, social work, and sociology.   Covers 1983 to the present and updated monthly.

SPACELINE  see NLM Gateway

TOXLINE [http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/]
Its focus is on the toxicological, pharmacological, biochemical and physiological effects of drugs and other chemicals.  Covers pre-1965 to the present and is updated monthly.

UnCover now Ingenta

Union Lists of Periodicals (OCLC) Database (FirstSearch)
Includes more than 7 million listings linked to over 750,000 bibliographic records in WorldCat. The listings provide local holdings information so that users can search for locations of periodicals in their own and other libraries.  Updated twice a year.

Wilson Business Abstracts (FirstSearch)
Provides complete, accurate access to 600 of today's leading English language business magazines. Topics include accounting, personnel, and small business. Abstracts are included.  Coverage is from 1986 to the present and updated monthly.

Wilson Select  (FirstSearch) 
Provides the full-text articles from 800 periodical titles taken from the Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts, and Wilson Business Abstracts.   Dates covered are 1994 to the present and updated weekly.

World Almanac (FirstSearch)
Covers arts and entertainment, U.S. cities and states, people in the news, the nations of the world, sports, the environment , vital statistics, science and technology, computers, taxes, and much more.  Coverage is from 1998 to the present and updated annually.

World Book Encyclopedia (FirstSearch)
Online version of the 1998 World Book Encyclopedia, International Edition, consisting of more than 17,500 full-text articles and more than 1,000 tables contained in 21 volumes.   This database is updated annually.

WorldCat (FirstSearch)
A very comprehensive bibliography which contains 37 million bibliographic records, representing 400 languages and covering information from 4,000 years of knowledge.  This database is updated daily and contains book and other materials that are held in libraries worldwide.

Worldscope (FirstSearch)
Comprises basic information on nearly 9,000 of the world's largest companies representing 32 countries. Types of companies covered include industrials, utilities, transportation, banks, insurance, and others. Includes company name, telephone number, address, ticker symbol and basic stock information, SIC codes, industry classifications, description of the business, financial ratios, annual reports and product lines covered.  This database is updated weekly.