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ABI/Inform Dateline (ProQuest)Focuses on hard-to-find local and regional business news, large corporations, privately held companies, coal start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance and industry news. Coverage 1985-current
ABI/Inform Global (ProQuest)ABI Inform Global indexes over 10,000 worldwide business periodicals for information on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finances, taxation and computers. You may also find facts on over 60,000 companies. This database replaces the InfoTrac products, Business Index ASAP and Predicasts. See ProQuest for a full description.
ABI/Inform Trade & IndustryIndustry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends and other topics from 1200 business periodicals and newsletters that focus on trades or industries. Coverage 1071-current
Academic Search Elite (EBSCO)Academic Search Elite provides full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all 3,484 journals in the collection.
ACM Digital LibraryCitations and fulltext from the Association for Computing Machinery journals, newsletters, and conference proceedings.
ACS (American Chemical Society)Leading publisher of peer-reviews research journals in Chemistry and related sciences.
AGRICOLA (National Agriculture Library-FirstSearch-Full Text)Covers every major agricultural subject. Citations consist of journal articles, book chapters, monographs, conference proceedings, serials, technical reports, and other materials on a range of agricultural topics. This database is maintained by the Department of Agriculture and covers the time period of 1970 to the present.
AHSearch (FirstSearch-Full Text)Provides complete access to articles from more than 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities (including history, theology and philosophy) journals and to relevant articles in over 5,000 social science and science journals. Contains records from 1980 to the present.
AltPress Index (FirstSearch-Full Text)Provides indexing and limited abstracting (not full text) to nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines. Topics include anarchism, democracy, ecology, feminism, socialism, gay, lesbian issues. A separate archive database can be searched for topics from 1969-1990.
AltPressIndexArchive (FirstSearch-Citation/Abstract)
An Index of journals (1969-1990) covering cultural, economic, political & social change
American Accounting Association (AAA)Full-Text access to all the journals published by the American Accounting Association. Includes: Accounting and the Public Interest, Accounting Horizons, The Accounting Review, Auditing: A Jo. of Practice & Theory, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Current Issues in Auditing, Issues in Accounting Education, Issues in Accounting Education - Teaching Notes, Jo. of Emerging Technologies in Accounting, Jo. of Information Systems, Jo. of Information Systems - Teaching Notes, Jo. of International Accounting Research, Jo. of Legal Tax Research, Jo. of Management Accounting Research, and the Jo. of the American Taxation Association.
America: History and Life EBSCOHost-Partial Full Text)Publications are post-1964. This indexes journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada from prehistoric times through the present. The database comprises 400,000 bibliographic entries from over 2000 sources. The database is updated annually.
American Physiological Society Journals (Does not include Physiological Genomics)The database contains the full text of the following American Journal of Physiology journals: AJP - Cell Physiology; AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism; AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology; AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology; AJP - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology; AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology; AJP - Renal Physiology; AJP - Consolidated; as well as the following journals: Journal of Applied Physiology, Journal of Neurophysiology, Physiological Reviews, News in Physiological Sciences, Advances in Physiology, Education, The Physiologist, APS Legacy Content. To access a search screen, you must first select a journal; from that point, you may choose which journals you want to search.
Annual Reviews (Full Text)Provides annual reviews of to over 29 fields in three subject areas (biology and medical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences). Full-text from 1996 to the present and contains a searchable database for bibliographic records from 1984-1995. This database is updated annually.
Applied Science and Technology Full Text (WilsonWeb-Partial Text)Leads users to the latest findings in every area of science, engineering, and technology. Covers trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals. Covers the time period from 1983 to the present.
Aquinas Newspaper Archives (Broadband)-(Dial-up User)
The Aquinas Newspaper, the student voice of the University of Scranton, is digitally scanned in PDF format dating back to 1931.
Art Full Text (WilsonWeb-Partial Text)Art Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. The abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full-text coverage begins in 1997
Subjects Covered
Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Computers in Art, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles, Video
Article First (FirstSearch-Full Text)Contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of approximately 12,500 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Each record describes one article, news story, letter, or other item. Covers the time period of 1990 to the present and is updated daily.
ATLA Religion Database (FirstSearch)Contains references to journal articles, books, essays (as they appear in collected works), and book reviews in religion and related fields from 1949 to the present. There are selected records that span back to 1818.
Banking Information SourceBanking Information Source provides essential information about the financial services industry, banking trends, topics, issues, and operations. Its uniquely comprehensive coverage of important industry sources meets the banking-related information needs of researchers in banking, finance, government, tax, insurance, economics, financial services, and business schools. It contains the full text of cited articles from many high demand sources.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA-Citation/Abstract)An international, scholarly database for art history. Including writings from 1973 to present, this database covers visual arts in all media including traditional fine arts (painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, architecture); decorative and applied arts; material culture; photography and contemporary new media; visual arts aspects of performing arts. BHA includes European art from late Antiquity to the present; American art from the European arrival to the present and Christian and European art in Africa, Asia, and Australia. BHA includes references to both print and electronic journal articles, monographs, collections of essays, conference proceedings, and exhibition catalogues. BHA is bilingual, in English and French, and is published jointly by the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique du CNRS.
BioDigest (FirstSearch-Full Text)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.
Biography Index 1984-present (WilsonWEB)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 Plus 1983-present (Wilson WEB-Partial Full Text)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.
Subjects Covered
Agricultural Chemicals, Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Engineering, Agriculture and Agricultural Research, Animal Sciences, Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Botany, Cytology, Ecology, Entomology, Environmental Science, Fishery Sciences, Food Science, Forestry, Genetics, Horticulture, Immunology, Limnology, Marine Biology, Microbiology, Nutrition, Paleontology, Physiology, Plant Pathology, Soil Science, Veterinary Medicine, Weed Sciences, Wildlife Management, Zoology.
Book Collection: NonfictionA cross-curricular database, it provides content representing a wide spectrum of works, including popular series from top book publishers such as Allosaurus Publishers, Bess Press, Inc., Branden Publishing, Capstone Press, Compass Point Books, Fulcrum Publishing, Lerner Publishing Group, Mason Crest Publishers, Morgan Reynolds, Inc., Morning Glory Press, Oliver Press, Rourke Publishing, LLC and Stackpole Books. It contains informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 4,000 popular nonfiction books. The database includes full text entries on core subject areas, as well as information on careers, health, sports, adventure, technology, life skills and more.
Book Review Digest 1983-present (WilsonWEB)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 Full Text (WilsonWeb-Full Text)Wilson Business Full Text is a full text database that indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere, including the leading business magazines and trade and research journals, plus the full text of selected periodicals. The abstracts range from 50 to 150 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full text coverage begins in January 1995.
Subjects Covered
Accounting, Acquisitions & Mergers, Advertising, Banking, Building & Construction, Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals, Communications, Computers, Cosmetics Industry, Economics, Electronics, Entertainment Industry, Finance, Financial Services, Government Regulations, Health Care, High Technology, Hospitality and Tourism, Human Resources, Industrial Relations, Insurance, International Business, Investments, Management, Marketing, Mass Media, Occupational Health & Safety, Oil & Gas, Paper & Pulp Industries, Public Utilities, Publishing, Purchasing, Real Estate, Retail Trade, Small Business, Taxation, Technology, Transportation.
BusIndustry (FirstSearch-Full Text)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 Source Elite (EBSCO)Provides full text coverage of scholarly business, management and economics journals. This rich collection also includes publications covering topics such as accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales, etc. Business Source Elite offers full text for nearly 1,100 business publications and contains expanded PDF backfiles for 150 titles (back to 1985 or the first issue published for that journal). 10,000 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included.
BusManagement (FirstSearch-Full Text)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.
Cabell's Directories of Publishing Opportunities (must click on Member Area to continue)
Cabell’s directories cover the fields of Business, Education, and Psychology. They provide information on nearly 2000 journals in business (accounting, finance, management, marketing, economics), more than 700 journals in education (curriculum, administration, educational psychology), and 400 journals in psychology. Entries include name of the journal, address, contact information, circulation figures, subject areas of the journal, guidelines for submitting manuscripts, reviewing process, and acceptance rates, when available. The index in each directory is by subject emphasis of the journal and by type of reviewing process.
Catholic Periodical Literature Index (Full Text)CPLI is the product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Library Association. CPLI sources include, but are not limited to, periodicals, books, newspapers, and papal documents dealing expressly with the practice of Catholic faith and lifestyle.
CCH Tax Research NetworkProvides online access to the following tax libraries: Federal, State, Financial & Estate, Special Entities, and Perform Plus II. Published by CCH, Commerce Clearing House, Inc., “publishers of topical law reports.”
ChemIDThis 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.
CINAHL with Full Text (EBSCO)Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. The database also includes relevant materials from seventeen allied health disciplines, plus biomedicine, management, behavioural sciences, health sciences librarianship, education, and consumer health. The CINAHL database 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.
ClasePeriodica (FirstSearch)Clase and Periodica indexes Latin American journals in the fields of humanities, social sciences, science, and technology. Coverage includes over 2600 scholarly journals published in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English.
The Cochrane Library (Partial Full Text)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.
Columbia Gazetteer of the WorldA database of names, descriptions, and characteristics of over 165,000 places in the world. Users can search all the information—not just place-names.
The Columbia Granger's World Poetry (Partial Full Text)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 (Partial Full Text)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.
Compustat RIWeb (Research Insight-Excel Add-in)With Research Insight on the Web You Can Access: Standard & Poor's Stock Reports for a concise picture of a company's health, along with Standard & Poor's estimates of the stock's worth; Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys for industry information and economic trends on industries; and Compustat analysts' notes with annual coverage from 1998 forward and quarterly coverage from 2000 forward for Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow data.
Constitutions of the Countries of the World OnlineConstitutions of the Countries of the World Online contains the full text for the constitutions of 187 countries. Keyword searching by individual country or by country grouping based on based on geographic location, political affiliation or economic connections available as a search options from the main search screen. A Country Thesaurus has a list of country names with spelling variations, including former names. Search results can be modified to looks at current or historical information.
Consumer Health CompleteConsumer Health Complete™ (CHC) 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, etc.
Contemporary Women's Issues (Full Text)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.
Criminal Justice Periodical Index (ProQuest-Full Text)Searches a comprehensive collection of U.S. and international criminal justice journals covering a wide range of topics on law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law and industrial security. Coverage is 1981–present. Links for full image, full text and abstracts are indicated below each citation.
Directory of Open Access Journals (Partial Full Text)
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.As of October 1, 2008, there are 3663 journals in the directory, 1259 journals are searchable at article level, and 210864 articles are included in the DOAJ service.
Dissertations (First Search)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.
Duke University PressSearchable database of all the articles contained in journals published by Duke University Press.
Earthscape (Partial Full Text)A web site 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.
Ebooks (FirstSearch)Catalog of online electronic books available through libraries worldwide.
ECO Electronic Collections OnLine (FirstSearch- Paritial Full Text)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.
EconLit (FirstSearch-Full Text)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 Full Text 1983-present (WilsonWeb-Full Text)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.
Educator's Reference DeskThe Educator's Reference Desk builds on over a quarter century of experience providing high-quality resources and services to the education community. From the Information Institute of Syracuse, contains 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.
Emerald Library (Full Text)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 (Partial Full Text)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.
ERIC (EBSCO HOST)An Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. The database contains more than 1,243,000 records and links to more than 224,000 full-text documents from ERIC.
Essay and General Literature (WilsonWeb)Is an index only database that provides access to essays in nearly 5,300 anthologies and collections. Coverage spans the entire range of humanities and social sciences, including literary works, art history, drama, and film. Coverage begins in 1985. This database is current.
FirstSearch (Partial Full Text)A collection of 57 subject-specific indexes and databases.
Gale Contemporary AuthorsContemporary Authors® Online offers continuous access to current biographical and bibliographical data on more than 120,000 modern authors. Added to the database annually are approximately 3,000 new entries and 1,000 full-entry updates from the Contemporary Authors® and Contemporary Authors® New Revision Series print volumes.
General Science Full Text 1984-present (WilsonWeb-Full Text)This database offers high quality indexing of nearly 300 periodicals as far back as 1984, many of which are peer-reviewed. In-depth abstracts of 50 to 150 words written by professionals with science backgrounds. Including, full text articles from nearly 100 periodicals, as far back as 1995.
GEOBASE (FirstSearch-Full Text)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 Government Printing Office (FirstSearch-Partial Full Text)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
HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)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.
Haworth Press E-JournalsOver 200 journals are available electronically in full-text, and new issues are put online in the production stage, months before the print version is available.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO)Health Source®: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong, including full text from multiple nursing journals. In addition, this database includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
Historical Abstracts (ABC-CLIO)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.
Historical New York Times via ProQuest (Full Text)A searchable database of article and full page images of every issue of the New York Times from September 18, 1851 to December 31, 2001.
History Reference CenterThe database features full text for more than 2,400 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers. The database also includes full text for more than 130 leading history periodicals. Further, the database contains more than 61,100 historical documents; more than 66,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 110,200 historical photos and maps; and more than 80 hours of historical video.
H.W. Wilson Databases (WilsonWeb-Partial Full Text)This is a family of indexes to articles in periodicals. You may select just one database (such as Social Science Full-text) or multiple titles and search simultaneously. Many of the citations have links to full text articles that you may print, email or download.
Humanities Full Text 1984-present (WilsonWeb-Full Text)covers a full range of subjects: archaeology, art, film, literature, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology. The database indexes, abstracts, and delivers full text of the premier journals in the above listed fields. Indexing dates back to 1984. Full text of articles begins in 1995. Because of its affiliation with the other Wilson databases, you may cross search other subject-oriented indexes.
IEEE Computer Science Digital Library (Full Text)The IEEE Computer Society Digital Library provides online access to 26 society magazines and transactions and more than 2,700 conference publications.
IEEE Xplore - Journals Online (Full Text)Provides full text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines, and conference proceedings published since 1988, plus select content back to 1950 and all current IEEE standards.
Index to Legal Periodicals and Books 1981-present (WilsonWeb-Full Text)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.
InformaWorldInformaWorld hosts journals, eBooks, abstract databases and reference works published by the Taylor & Francis group, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare.
Ingenta (formerly UNCOVER)Ingenta is a document delivery service and comprehensive index to over 23,000 scholarly scientific and technical journals. Several options allow you to set up an alerting service or deposit account for ordering articles sent to your desktop. The copyright and service fee is quite pricey, but the database is handy for verifying citations.
In the First Person (Free to everyone)In the First Person is a free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. The index contains approximately 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, and 17,000 oral history entries.
Institute of Physics Journals (Full Text)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.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Click on: Search a Database-Subscribers Only)
Iter's Bibliography on the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) includes citations for books, journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogs, abstracts and discographies), dissertation abstracts, and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogs).
JAMA (See Librarian for password)JAMA, published continuously since 1883, is an international peer-reviewed General Medical Journal published 48 times per year. JAMA is the most widely circulated medical journal in the world.
JSTOR (Full Text)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.
Index to Legal Periodicals & Books indexes the content of a line-up of periodicals from the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and Australia to meet the research needs of attorneys, law professors, librarians, law students, paralegals, and others involved with the law.
Lexis-Nexis (Partial Full Text)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 and Information Science Full Text 1984-present (WilsonWeb-Full Text)Library Literature & Information Science Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes articles and book reviews in more than 234 key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets are also indexed. Full-text coverage begins in 1994. Subjects Covered include: automation, cataloging, censorship, children's literature, circulation procedures, classification, copyright legislation, education for librarianship, government aid, information brokers, Internet software, library associations and conferences, equipment supplies, personnel administration, preservation of materials, public relations, publishing, and Web sites.
LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts)A bibliographic database providing coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Delivered via the EBSCOhost platform, LISTA indexes nearly 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.
MathSciNet (Partial Full Text)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.
MEDLINE/PubMed (Free to everyone)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.
MEDLINE (FirstSearch-Full Text)corresponds to the print edition of Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Literature. Over 9,580 journals are indexed, beginning in 1965. The First Search version allows you to link your search results to the Weinberg Library holdings.
MEDSCAPE (Free with registration)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 (Full Text)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.
Mergent Online (Click "enter" to begin searching)replaces the Thompson and Disclosure databases. Full text company information for over 10,000 U. S. publically-traded companies as well as detailed financial data for international firms can be retrieved, manipulated and downloaded. Mergent is part of the Moody’s family of company information.
Middle English CompendiumThe Middle English Compendium provides a gateway to the Middle English Dictionary; a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse; and the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse.
MLA Directory of PeriodicalsThe MLA Directory of Periodicals contains over 5,500 titles are included; of these, over 4,400 are currently indexed. The entries list editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of the periodicals' scopes, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, peer review, and submission guidelines. The directory also provides statistics on how many articles and book reviews the periodicals publish each year, as well as how many are submitted.
MLA International BibliographyThe MLA International Bibliography provides a classified listing and subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It is compiled by the staff of the MLA Office of Bibliographic Information Services with the cooperation of more than 100 contributing bibliographers in the United States and abroad. The MLA International Bibliography annually indexes over 66,000 books and articles.
My Virtual Reference Desk (Free to everyone)The Internet has become the world's biggest library and information resource containing millions of books, artifacts, images, documents, maps, etc. The Refdesk is designed to navigate this maze. The Refdesk has three goals: fast access, intuitive and easy navigation, and comprehensive content that is rationally indexed. The Refdesk's database works on three levels: quick, studied and deep: thumbnail snapshots, FastFacts 2001, Quick Reference / Research, and Facts Subject Index, for a more studied approach, Newspapers - USA & Worldwide, Search Engine Resources, Internet Help, and Writing Web Documents, and in-depth exploration, Facts Encyclopedia with over seventy volumes of indexed subjects and Facts Subject Index with twenty-four subject categories.
National Newspapers (ProQuest-Partial Full Text)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.
netLibrary (Full Text)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)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 Source (EBSCO)Newspaper Source™ provides cover-to-cover full text for 35 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. Also contains selective full text for 375 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided.
NLM Gateway (Free to everyone)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.
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NoveList K-8Database containing information about fiction and non-fiction titles specifically for grades K-8 as well as advisory, teaching, and learning materials for readers and teachers.
OT SearchOT Search, the American Occupational Therapy foundation database, indexes monographs, proceedings, reports, masters' theses, doctoral dissertations and articles from journals and newsletters for occupational therapy and related fields. The database is not fulltext. Indexing is retrospective to 1911.
Oxford English Dictionary Online (Full Text)An online version of the Oxford English Dictionary, this resource is updated quarterly.
OxResearchOxResearch® delivers succinct articles analyzing economic and political developments worldwide, and evaluates issues within a coherent political, social, and economic framework. Extensive coverage for more than 30,000 articles covering world and regional economic and political developments of major significance. Information on over 180 countries including the United States, Germany, China, Iraq, and Iran.
PapersFirst (First Search)Indexes every published congress, symposium, conference exposition, workshop and meeting received by the British Library Document Supply Centre. Indexing begins in 1993.
Past Masters (Full Text)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.
Pennsylvania Digital LibraryThe Pennsylvania Digital Library (PADL) is a state-wide repository for digital resources created by Pennsylvania libraries, museums, educational institutions, and other cultural heritage organizations. PADL provides researchers with an aggregated search interface for these digital materials.
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Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro)PEDro : the Physiotherapy Evidence Database provides bibliographic citations and abstracts of randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews in the area of physiotherapy. PEDro is an initiative of the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy (CEBP).
Plunket Research OnlinePlunkett Research Online research portals include market research and trends, glossaries of industry terms, industry statistics and charts, profiles of industry-leading public and privately held companies, company contact export features, and industry associations and organizations. The Job Seekers Center provides profiles of leading employers and other vital data.
Proceedings (First Search)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.
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Project MUSE (Full Text)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 (Central)ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated full-text database in the market today totaling more than 11,250 titles—with over 8,400 titles in full text. It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets.
ProQuest Accounting & Tax DatabaseProvides comprehensive indexing and informative abstracts of articles in prominent accounting, taxation, and financial management publications from the United States and other countries. In addition to the bibliographic citation and indexing, most records contain 25- to 150-word abstracts.
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ProQuest ReligionProQuest Religion includes over 135 titles, with more than 120 available in full text. Designed to meet the needs of both religious studies programs and general library collections, the database is an excellent source of religious news and information. The database provides details on doctrines and philosophies, reports on religious history, and related archeology. Also covers formal theological studies and commentary on topics of general interest from the perspectives of specific religions. Primary faiths represented in the database are Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Buddhism.
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ProQuest Science JournalsCoverage dating back to 1986, ProQuest Science Journals features over 660 titles—with more than 540 available in full text. In full-text format, researchers have access to all the charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements so vital to scientific and technical literature.
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PsycArticles via Ovid (Full Text)PsycARTICLES, published by the American Psychological Association, is recognized worldwide as a leading full text source for academic, research and practice literature in psychology and related disciplines. Featuring a continuously growing number of significant and highly regarded periodicals, PsycARTICLES is a powerful resource for information in behavioral science. It is the only electronic source for APA's journals. Features include cover to cover searching of each article, including graphics and captions, in-depth subject treatment from general psychology to more specialized topics including clinical and applied research, access to tables of contents and bibliographic citations, direct links to PsycARTICLES from your Ovid and SilverPlatter platform databases, such as PsycINFO, one-click linking between full text articles, and a PsycARTICLES search limit for Ovid.
PsycINFO via OvidSPProvides 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 Full Text 1983-present (WilsonWeb-Full Test)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.
Regional Business NewsRegional Business News provides full text for more than 50 regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications).
Research Library (ProQuest)Provides, indexing, abstracting and links to over 2,600 full text journals and newspapers on a broad range of subjects, including the arts, business, education, humanities, the social sciences and the sciences. Indexing begins in 1971 and updated on a daily basis. You may email, print or download your results and even print out a bibliography in APA, MLA, or Turabian format.
RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry)Contains all the articles published by the Royal Society of Chemistry from 1841 to 2004. Has almost 1.4 million pages of chemical science and access to over 238,000 original articles.
Sage Publications (Partial Full Text)Fulltext access to over 460 journals in business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine.)
Salem Health - Magill's Medical GuideAn up-to-date and easy-to-use compendium of medical information suitable for student research as well as use by general readers, including patients and caregivers. The Guide covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders.
SciBase (Free to everyone)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.
Science Direct (Full Text)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.
Scientific American Archive OnlineScientific American Archive Online is a comprehensive, searchable science and technology resource containing the full text and graphics of every Scientific American issue from 1993 to the present. The archive features the writings and colorful graphics. Each of the more than 4,000 articles in the archive is available to view online or to download in color PDF, and presented exactly as originally printed in the magazine.
Social Sciences Full Text 1983-present (WilsonWeb-Full Text)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.
SpringerLinkSpringerLink is an integrated full-text database for journals and books published by Springer. SpringerLink currently offers over 1,800 fully peer-reviewed journals and more than 25,000 books online.
SRDSThe SRDS database of media rates and information catalogs more than 100,000 U.S. and international media properties. Think of our dedicated staff as your personal research assistants, verifying each listing up to 20 times per year and making more than 21,000 listing updates every month.
Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyThe SEP is a dynamic reference work, in which 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. SEP covers wide variety of subject disciplines within the sciences and humanities, including aesthetics, ethics, feminism, philosophy of law, logic, metaphysics, and philosophy of science.
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantageOverviews for 52+ industries, identify key financial and competitive analysis of 7,000 public companies, including historical financials (CRSP), search a directory of 100,000 public and private U.S. and international companies, search a directory of 4,500 investment brokers and dealers.
Value Line Investment Survey Online (Access for 3 simultaneous users)A comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy. Each report is updated on a quarterly basis and contains important data such as beta, p/e ratio and predictions for future stock performance.
Wiley InterScience (Partial Full Text)Indexes 1,000 journals, major reference works, online books, laboratory manuals and management resources. Fulltext of articles is available only for those journals to which the library subscribes. Indexing is interdisciplinary. users may search all disciplines or select: business, life sciences, chemistry, mathematics and statistics, computer science, medicine, earth and environmental science, physics, astronomy, education, polymers and material science, engineering, psychology, law, and social sciences.
WilsonWeb (Partial Full Text)This is a family of indexes to articles in periodicals. You may select just one database (such as Social Science Full-text) or multiple titles and search simultaneously. Many of the citations have links to full text articles that you may print, email or download.
WorldAlmanac (First Search)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.
WorldCat (First Search)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.
WorldCat (OCLC's Open WorldCat Program)Allows simple keyword searching for books, videos, serials, and electronic publications. Each linked result leads to a "Find a library" information page. Users may type in a zip code and receive a list of nearby libraries that own the item.
