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A
ABI Inform
Covers nearly every aspect of business, including company histories and new product development. Citations include abstracts and indexes of significant articles from current business and management periodicals. Provides access to the ASCII full text of articles for many journals.
Academic Press Journals
see "ScienceDirect"
Academic
Search Complete
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database,
with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more
than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text,
this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than
9,500 journals and nearly 10,000 publications including monographs,
reports, conference proceedings, etc. This scholarly collection
offers full text coverage of information in many areas of
academic study including: animal science, anthropology, area
studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering,
electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies,
food science & technology, general science, geography,
geology, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering,
music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion
& theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology,
and many other fields. Academic Search Complete offers critical
information from many sources unique to this massive collection.
The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887,
with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable)
PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for 1,000
journals. . It is an excellent place to begin any research
project. Through EBSCOhost.
African American Song
Searchable resource for African American music. Licensed digital
recordings that users can listen to over the Internet including
over 50,000 tracks of jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms.
(See also Classical
Music Library and Smithsonian
Global Sound for Libraries for other digital recordings.)
Ageline
(AARP)
Ageline is provided
by the American Association of Retired
Persons (AARP) and contains books,
videos, research reports, articles
from journals and magazines, related
to issues of aging. It describes
research, policy, and professional
publications as well as those written
for the general public. Coverage
includes all major gerontology journals
and many from selected disciplines,
such as psychology, social work and
the health sciences. The database
includes citations, abstracts and
some links to full-text reports.
AGRICOLA
Covers every major agricultural subject, including
agricultural engineering and marketing, animal
breeding, entomology, environmental pollution,
farm management, foods and pesticides, rural sociology,
and veterinary medicine. Citations consist of journal
articles, book chapters, monographs, conference
proceedings, serials, and other materials.
Alt
HealthWatch
This alternative health database provides full text for 180 publications in the
collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals. Alt
HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject
areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.
Alternative Press Index & Alternative Press Archive
Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social
change. Highly recommended comprehensive guide to
alternative sources of information. Coverage is international
and interdisciplinary. Provides in-depth coverage
in the humanities and social sciences. Indexes nearly
300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers
and magazines. Includes selected abstracts from research
journals. Coverage varies; some as early as 1991-present.
Updated quarterly.
American
Chemical Society Journals
Full text coverage of the following journals: Accounts
of Chemical Research, Analytical Chemistry, Biochemistry,
Bioconjugate Chemistry, Biomacromolecules, Chemical
Research in Toxicology, Chemical Reviews, Chemistry
of Materials, Crystal Growth & Design, Energy and
Fuels, Environmental Science & Technology, Industrial & Engineering
Chemistry Research, Inorganic Chemistry, Journal
of Agriculture and Food Chemistry, Journal of the
American Chemical Society, Journal of Chemical & Engineering
Data, Journal of Chemical Information and Computer
Sciences, Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry, Journal
of Medicinal Chemistry, Journal of Natural Products,
Journal of Organic Chemistry, Journal of Physical
Chemistry A, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Langmuir,
Macromolecules, Organic Letters, Organometallics,
and Organic Process Research & Development. Journal
coverage is from 1999 to present.
l'Annee
Philologique
The most comprehensive index to scholarly work in Classical
Studies. The web version currently covers publications from
1959 onwards. (One important thing to remember--Search ancient
author's names in their Latin forms: "v" appears as "u" unless
the name starts with the letter V.)
Anthropological
Index Online
"The The Anthropological Index Online is based on
the journal holdings of the Anthropology Library at the The
British Museum (Museum of Mankind) which receives periodicals
in all branches of anthropology, from academic institutions
and publishers around the world."
Applied
Science & Technology Abstracts
Indexing and abstracts for
over 485 scientific and technical
publications. Covers topics
such
as acoustics,
aeronautics, artificial intelligence, chemistry,
computers, engineering, geology, plastics, textiles,
and waste management. Also includes special issues
such as buyers' guides, directories, and conference
proceedings. Abstracts: March 1993 to the present.
Indexing: October 1983 to the present.
Art
Abstracts
Covers over 400 key international English-language
arts publications. Includes periodicals, yearbooks,
museum bulletins, competition and award notices,
exhibition listings, interviews, film reviews, and
more. Indexing: 1984-present. Abstracts: 1994-present.
Updated monthly.
ARTFL Project: American & French Research on the Treasure of the French Language
Provides access to seven full-text databases in French:
The Main ARTFL Database, containing 1,880 texts from
the 12th to the 20th centuries; the ARTFL Encyclopédie,
a complete on-line version of the first edition of
Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie; Provençal
Poetry Database, containing 38 texts from the 12th
and 13th centuries; French Women Writers Database,
containing texts by 15 authors from the 16th to the
19th centuries; Textes de Française Ancien
(TFA) database, containing 65 documents, covering
the 12th-15th centuries; Opera del Vocabolario Italiano
database, containing 1,369 vernacular texts dated
prior to 1375, including Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio,
as well as lesser- known texts; and Dictionnaires
d'autrefois, containing Robert Estienne's 1552 Dictionarium
latinogallicum, Jean Nicot's Threysor de la langue
françoyse, tant ancienne que moderne (Paris,
David Douceur, 1606); and the Dictionnaire de l'Academie
Française.
ArticleFirst
Contains bibliographic citations that describe items
listed on the table of contents pages of approximately
12,600 journals in science, technology, medicine,
social sciences, business, the humanities, and
popular culture.
Arts & Humanities
Search
Citations for over 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities
journals, as well as selected articles from social science
and science journals. Covers 1980 to the present. Updated
weekly.
ARTstor
The ARTstor image database is a searchable collection of downloadable
high quality digital images for education and scholarship. The
database documents artistic and historical traditions across
many time periods and cultures. ARTstor is designed for researchers,
teachers and students. Users can download individual images
or use the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer to build a presentation
using ARTstor images, arrange and caption the images, and deliver
the presentation in the classroom.[ More
infomation about using ARTstor.]
ATLA
Religion Database with ATLASerials
The full text version of the ATLA Religion Database.
This database is a collection of major religion and
theology journals selected by some of the major religion
scholars in the United States. Journals representing
all major faiths, major denominations, and language
groups are included. Information dates as far back
as 1949, and coverage continues thru the present.
B
BasicBIOSIS
Index to a wide range of bioscience topics from over
350 sources. Covers the basic core of life science
journals found in college and university libraries
and written for undergraduate non-biology majors.
Includes popular and scholarly science journals.
Covers current year and most recent four update years.
Updated monthly.
Bibliography
of Native North Americans
This a bibliographic database covers all aspects of native
North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers
a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural
relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy.
Biography and Geneology Master Index
This is a firststop index tool for learning where to look for biographical material on people from all time periods, geographic locations and fields of endeavor. From authors to scientists, from boxers to fashion designers, from Adam and Eve to Frank Zappa, this comprehensive database contains more than 15 million citations covering nearly five million people and points to more than 1,000 publications where their biographies can be found.
Biography
Index
Covers all periods and all countries and is one of
the best places to start biographical research, especially
on contenporary people and recently published material.
Biological
Abstracts
The Biological Abstracts database is a complete collection
of bibliographic references to life sciences journal
literature published around the world. Topics include
agriculture, agronomy, biochemistry, biotechnology,
environment, genetics, medicine, microbiology, and
pharmacology. Biological Abstracts indexes articles
from more than 4000 biological and medical research
journals. The database is updated quarterly, and
coverage begins with 1992.
Biological & Agricultural
Index
Index to more than 335 leading publications in agriculture,
biology, forestry, and ecology, including both popular
and professional journals. Covers 1983 to the present;
updated monthly.
Biology
Digest
Nontechnical digests in botany, medicine, health,
zoology, life science, and environmental science
from more than 370 sources. Provides detailed abstracts
written in a nontechnical style for students and
interested nonscientists. Conveys solid, factual
information useful to life scientists exploring areas
outside their specialties. Covers 1989 to the present;
updated nine times a year.
Biomed Central
Provides a collection of free, open access, peer-reviewed articles from biomedical, medicine, health, biology, and biotechnology related online journals. Access to BioMed Central is free.
BioOne
This database contains the full-text of more than
50 high-impact bioscience research journals, beginning
with the year 2000 for most titles. This database
is particularly strong in the areas of Environmental
and Ecological studies. Current issues are posted
as soon as they are published. Back issues are
permanently archived online.
Book
Review Digest
Reviews of current English-language fiction and nonfiction
books for adults and children. Provides reviews for
more than 7,000 books each year. Covers 1983 to the
present; updated monthly.
Books
in Print
Records of in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming
books from over 44,000 North American publishers.
Now including Publishers, Distributors & Wholesalers
of the U.S., which is updated quarterly.
Business & Industry
Contains important facts, figures and key events
dealing with public and private companies, industries,
products and markets for all manufacturing and
service industries at an international level.
Business
and Management Practices
Focus on the practical aspects and approaches of
business management. Updated weekly; offers highly-focused
coverage of more than 300 core management journals
and trade publications. Also included are specific
management-related articles from over 300 additional
sources. (1995- present)
Business
Dateline
Citations to regional business articles from more
than 535 sources. Includes information about library
resources that describe regional business activities
and trends and major stories on local firms, products,
and executives. Provides online articles from regional
publications, Business Wire press releases, and major
newspapers. Covers 1985 to the present; updated weekly.
Business
Organizations
Information on organizations and associations that
serve business and industry worldwide. Includes abstracts
describing each organization's products and services
and giving other information such as founding date,
membership size, and publications Allows searching
by broad subject area. Covers the current year; updated
annually.
Business
Source Complete
Business Source Complete indexes over 3,600 journals and contains the full text
to almost 3,000 of them. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this
database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business
journals back to 1886 or the first issue published for that journal are
included. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data,
books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings,
case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research
reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
Through EBSCOhost.
C
Cancerlit
"Cancerlit is produced by the National Cancer Institute
in conjunction with the National Library of Medicine,
and contains citations, most with abstracts, from
journals, monographic series, government reports,
symposia, dissertations, books, and theses from
1983 to the present. It covers all aspects of cancer,
cancer therapy, and carcinogenesis." Access to
CancerLit is free.
Chemical
Abstracts Online Student Edition
Chemical Abstracts online student edition provides
access to a subset of the journals indexed in Chemical
Abstracts. The 255+ journal titles indexed include
all those published by the American Chemical Society.
1967-present
Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption Database
Citations and abstracts of books, journal articles,
government reports, conference papers, annual reports,
and unpublished papers in the US. Includes physical
and sexual abuse, emotional and psychological abuse,
and child neglect. 1965-present
Childrens Literature
Comprehensive Database (CLCD)
This database contains more than 150,000 critical reviews
of children's books and adds new reviews for more than 1,500
books per month. These books range from the earliest baby
board books to novels and nonfiction for young adults. Please
note: click the Subscriber Login button.
Choice Reviews Online
Internet version of the print magazine CHOICE: Current Reviews
for Academic Libraries. Reviews significant current books
and electronic resources of interest in higher education.
Each year CHOICE publishes more than 6,500 reviews by subject
experts. Choice Reviews Online provides Web access to the
entire database of CHOICE reviews published since September
1988. The database is updated monthly, generally at mid-month,
with reviews that will be printed in the next monthly issue
of CHOICE. The newest reviews appear, arranged by academic
discipline and broad cross-disciplinary topic, in "Current
Issue" They also are searchable by using Advanced Search,
selecting by CHOICE Issue Date, and combining with various
other criteria.
Chronicling
America: Historic American Newspapers (BETA),
"This online database allows users to search a directory
of 23,000 American newspapers titles published from 1690 to
the present, and to search and view digitized newspaper pages
from select regional newspapers. Currently the project comprises
36 titles published between 1900 and 1910 in the six participating
states of California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and
Virginia, as well as the District of Columbia. The database
is still in BETA format. Nevertheless, its value is the promise
of a free ever-growing digitized collection of historical
newspapers". --Choice Reviews
CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
Allows access to research from the world's leading
international relations centers. Includes full text
of working papers from 92 contributing institutions,
as well as conference proceedings, papers and books,
and abstracts from the leading journals of international
affairs. Includes monthly statistics on American
and international economics and on regional, political,
and country maps. A customized web search is available
which permits the option of limiting searches to
carefully reviewed websites of international organization,
governnmental bodies, research institutions and news
organizations.
Clase/Periodica
This is a combined index of Latin American journals
in the sciences and humanities: CLASE indexes documents
published in Latin American journals specializing
in the social sciences and humanities; PERIODICA
covers journals specializing in science and technology.
Together they offer access to more than 300,000
bibliographic citations in 2,600 scholarly journals.
Articles are in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and
English.
Classical Music Library
Searchable classical music resource. Licensed digital recordings
that users can listen to over the Internet from 40 music labels.
Includes links to images and to biographical information in
Grove Music Online. (See also Smithsonian
Global Sound for Libraries and African
American Song for other digital recordings.)
CollegeSource
Online
More than 14,000 complete college catalogs in their
original formats. Additionally, the service includes
over 425 international college catalogs. Adobe Acrobat
Reader 3.0 or higher is needed to view the pages.
Communication & Mass
Media Complete
CMMC incorporates CommSearch (formerly
produced by the National Communication
Association) and Mass
Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State)
along with numerous other journals to create a research
and reference resource of unprecedented scope and
depth in the communication and mass media fields.
CMMC offers cover-to-cover ("core") indexing
and abstracts for over 300 journals, and selected
("priority") coverage of over 100 more,
for a combined coverage of over 400 titles. Includes
full text for nearly 200 journals.
Computer
Source
Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information
and current
trends in high technology. This database offers full text
for nearly 300
publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.
Consumer
Health Complete
(CHC) is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall
understanding of health-related topics. 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
Authors
Index of biographical and bibliographical information
on modern writers. Covers more than 100,000 current
writers in a wide range of media, including: current
writers of fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, and
drama; print and broadcast journalists, editors,
photojournalists, syndicated cartoonists, screenwriters,
television scriptwriters, and other media people;
and literary greats of the early 20th century who
continue to elicit critical attention.
Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select
CLCS presents significant published criticism on
the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short
story writers, and other creative writers now living
as well as those deceased after December 31, 1959.
Contemporary
Women's Issues
Provides full text access to global information on
women. Includes 1,500 journals, newsletters, research
reports from non-profit groups, government and international
agencies, along with fact sheets are easily accessed
through CWI. Information on women in over 150 countries
is compiled in a single collection bringing together
such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health,
education and human rights. Updated weekly. 1992-present.
CQ
Researcher
This weekly publication covers the most current and
controversial issues of the day with complete summaries,
insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies
and more. Includes all issues published since August,
1991.
CQ
Weekly
A weekly source for information on Capitol Hill legislative
news and analysis. The CQ Weekly on the Web includes
access to the full text of all articles published
since August, 1983. The Web service also provides
users with access to some CQ Weekly articles prior
to when they are available in print.
D
Dictionary
of Literary Biography
The essays of Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB)
outline the lives and careers of authors from all
eras and genres and summarizes the critical response
to their work.
Disclosure Corporate Snapshots
Contains information about all public company filings
including annual reports, company summary information,
and shareholder reports. Includes investment information
from public documents maintained by the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission.
Dissertation
Abstracts Online
Index and abstracts for doctoral dissertations awarded
by accredited American graduate institutions. Multidisciplinary.
1861-present.
DOAJ:
Directory of Open Access Journals
Provides indexing, abstracting, and free full text access for selected
international scholarly journals in many subject areas, including agriculture
and food science, biology, chemistry, health science, languages and literature,
mathematics, physics, engineering, the arts, business, environmental science,
history, law, political science, philosophy, religion, and social science.
Coverage varies by title (updated continuously).
E
Ebooks
OCLC
catalog of online electronic books
available through libraries worldwide.
EBSCOhost
EbscoHost is a gateway (interface) to numerous online databases, including the most heavily used database on campus, Academic Search Complete. Other databases include Business Source Premier, PsycINFO, ERIC, Historical Abstracts and many more.
EBSCOhost
Electronic Journals Service
Access to full text of online journals, with tables
of contents and abstracts of others. Includes ARTICLESearch,
which allows you to find articles of interest by
using simple keyword searches or advanced search
techniques. JOURNALSearch allows you to find journals
of interest by searching on journal name, content
description, ISSN, or publisher. Includes option
to set personal preferences, with online favorites,
so that your favorite journals appear on a customized
page.
ECO:
Electronic Collections Online
Electronic Collections Online offers access to more
than 3,800 academic and professional journals with
full-image articles from 64 publishers. Journals
cover a wide range of topics -- from science, medicine,
and technology to business, economics, humanities,
theology, and social sciences. Updated daily.
EconLit
Produced by The American Economic Association, this
service is an index of journal articles, books,
dissertations and working papers on economics.
The database corresponds to the index section of
the quarterly Journal of Economic Literature (JEL).
Economia
y Negocios
Economia y Negocios is the result of a collaborative effort between EBSCO Publishing and ESAN (Escuela de Administracion de Negocios para Graduados). This continuously updated bibliographic database is an indispensable tool for research conducted in the areas of business and economics.
Education
Abstracts
English-language periodicals and yearbooks published
in the U.S. and elsewhere. Subjects include administration,
teaching methods and curriculum, literacy, government
funding, and more. Includes some full text.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online Academic Edition
With over 72,000 articles and 12,000 images, consists
of a fully searchable and browsable collection of
authoritative references, including Britannica's
latest article database, hundreds of articles not
found in the print Britannica, Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary (Tenth Edition), the Britannica
Book of the Year, and thousands of links to other
World Wide Web sites selected by Britannica editors.
Environment Index
Environment Index offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.
ERIC: Education Resources Information Center
National education database, indexing journal articles
and reports in education. Supported by the U.S.
Department of Education, the National Library of
Education, and the Office of Educational Research
and Improvement. Provides full text of more than
2,200 digests, references for additional information,
and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational
and education-related journals.
Essay
and General Literature Index
Cites essays and articles contained in collections
of essays and other works published in the United
States, Great Britain and Canada. More than 300 volumes
and 20 annual or serial publications indexed annually.
Includes full bibliographic information for the titles
in which the collected works are found. Focuses on
humanities and social sciences literature.
Ethnic
NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch is a full text collection of 200
newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic,
minority and native press. Complete articles dating
back to 1995 are available. More than 7,500 new articles
are added each month. The database is searchable
in both English and Spanish, with titles in both
languages. Ethnic NewsWatch provides in-depth coverage
of a wide range of current and historical topics.
F
Federal
Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps)
FedBizOpps.gov is the single government point-of-entry
(GPE) for Federal government procurement opportunities
over $25,000. Government buyers are able to publicize
their business opportunities by posting information
directly to FedBizOpps via the Internet.
Federal
Register Online
Proposed and final federal regulations, presidential
documents, meeting and grant notices, and other official
documents.
Film Literature Index
"The Film Literature Index (FLI) annually indexes
150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries
cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively
for articles on film and television. The periodicals
range from the scholarly to the popular." For
more information about the FLI project, visit the
About
FLI page.
FirstSearch
Approximately 50 databases (some full text), and
ArticleFirst, an index to 12,000+ periodicals.
Fuente
Academica
This database is a unique collection of scholarly academic journals from
renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. This database provides full
text coverage (including PDF) for nearly 200 scholarly Spanish language
journals. Content is provided in Spanish from respected publishers worldwide.
Funk
& Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of
subject areas.
G
Gale
Literary Databases
Includes full-text access to Contemporary Authors,
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and the Dictionary
of Literary Biography. It provides detailed information
on the lives and writings of nearly 100,000 authors,
along with selected critical reactions to their works.
All three databases provide access to author,title
and subject/genre.
Gale Literary
Index
For author research, begin with this index. You can
search by author's name, title of a work, or author's
nationality.Your results list will give you citations
to works the library may own. Please check your citations
in the online catalog.
General
Science Abstracts
Journals and magazines from the U.S. and Great Britain
covering such subjects as anthropology, astronomy,
biology, computers, earth sciences, medicine and
health, and much more. Includes articles (some full
text), reviews, biographical sketches,and letters
to the editor.
GEOBASE
Worldwide literature on geography, geology, and ecology, drawn
from more than 2,060 sources. Covers journals, books, monographs,
conference proceedings, and reports. Includes over 600,000
records with abstracts. Covers 1980 to the present; updated
twice per month.
Google
News Archives
A 200-year index of news stories, with the ability
to sort chronologically with a 'timeline' feature. Not all
content is free. This source will help you find citations
from various sources on a particular topic. Using Google's
advanced news archive search you can limit your search to
a particular newspaper title. For example: "The Christian
Science Monitor" or the "New York Times."
GPO
Monthly Catalog
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.
GreenFILE
GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as
well as government documents and reports. Drawing on the connection
between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture,
education, law, health, and technology, GreenFILE serves as
a resource for the environmental issues facing the planet.
The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for
selected titles and searchable cited references for more than
200 titles as well.
Grove Art Online see
Oxford Art Online
Grove Music Online see
Oxford Music Online
H
Handbook
of Texas Online
"The Handbook of Texas Online is a multidisciplinary
encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture
sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association
and the General Libraries at UT Austin. Please see
the introduction for
further details."
HAPI Online: Hispanic American Periodicals Index Online
Online version of the Hispanic American Periodicals
Index, the principal index for over 400 key journals
relating to Hispanics in the United States, Central
and South America, Mexico and the Caribbean. Among
the many subjects included are geography, archaeology,
anthropology, ethnography, folklore, religion, art,
literature, drama, and film. Indexes journals published
throughout the Western world from 1970-present.
Health
and Wellness Resource Center
An electronic resource center for all levels of health
research. Provides access to full-text medical reference
and periodical materials. Includes information about
access to key health Web sites.
Health
Reference Center - Academic
Articles on fitness, pregnancy, medicine,nutrition,
diseases, public health, occupational health & safety,
alcohol and drug abuse,HMOs, prescription drugs,
and other health and wellness topics.This site works
best with Internet Explorer.
Health
Source - Consumer Edition
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Health
Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.
HeritageQuest
Online
A comprehensive treasury of family lineage and local
histories, including materials for tracing family
lineages and American culture, beginning with the
13 original colonies. This database contains genealogies,
local histories, third-party histories, and primary
source materials of not only towns and families of
all 50 states, but also includes information for
Canada, England, and Ireland. Access to the information
can be achieved by searching for title, family name,
geographic area, or subject.
HighWire
Press
HighWire Press, the online journal production division
of the Stanford University Libraries provides free
and subscription-based access-technology services
to more than 180 high-impact journals and more than
600,000 articles, mostly in the fields of science,
technology and medicine. HighWire Press is one of
the two largest archives of free full-text science
on Earth. As of 6/5/01, this database contained the
online version of 259,048 free full-text articles
and 996,814 total articles.
Historical
Abstracts
Historical Abstracts indexes the world's periodical
literature in history and the related social sciences
and humanities from 1450 to the present. Articles
in Historical Abstracts derive from over 2,100 scholarly
journals published in more than 50 languages.
HLAS
Online: Handbook of Latin American
Studies
"A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected
and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division
of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook
alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities.
Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world
choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously
published since 1935, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists
an essential guide to available resources."
Humanities
Abstracts
Periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film,
folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing
arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world
literature. Includes some full text.
Humanities
International Index
A collection of bibliographic references to literary,
scholarly and creative journals published in the
United States and Canada. Covers over 700 journals
published from 1975 to the present. All journals
included here are indexed in their entirety (cover
to cover). This database provides citation information
for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original
creative works including poems and fiction. Photographs,
paintings and illustrations are also referenced.
I
ICPSR Direct: Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research
University faculty, students, and staff may download
social science research data sets from the ICPSR
(Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social
Research) website. Data includes General Social Survey
data, election data, census data, world and European
values surveys, criminal justice data, substance
abuse/mental health data,education data, aging data,
health/medical care data, and more.
IIPA: International Index to the Performing Arts
Index to periodical articles on dance, film, drama/theater,
stagecraft, broadcast arts, and more. IIPA draws
its content from more than 225 scholarly and popular
performing arts periodicals, and also indexes a variety
of documents such as biographical profiles, conference
papers, obituaries, interviews, discographies, reviews
and events.
Index
to Legal Periodicals and Books
Provides indexing for over 930 journals, yearbooks, law reviews,
and bar association publications. Covers all areas of jurisprudence,
including court decisions, legislation, and original scholarship.
Information
Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA)
Information Science & Technology Abstracts is a leading database in the areas of information science. ISTA indexes journal articles from more than 450 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings and patents, with ongoing comprehensive coverage of the most important periodicals in this field. Coverage dates back to the mid 1960s.
Informe!
(access in English)
Informe! (access
in Spanish)
The first electronic database in Spanish, Informe!
is specifically designed to meet the research needs
of both Spanish-speaking users, and Spanish language
students who need to do research in Spanish. With
full-text articles from the most popular Spanish-language
and bilingual periodicals, it provides quality Hispanic
reference material not simply Spanish translations
of English-language materials.
InFotrac
Custom Newspapers
A web-based collection of local, regional, and national
full text newspapers, including the Austin American-Statesman,
Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, New
York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Christian
Science Monitor, etc. Backfiles go as far back as
1996 for most newspapers.This site works best with
Internet Explorer.
IngentaConnect
Index to more than 27,000 interdisciplinary journals.
Includes subject resources for agriculture/food
sciences, arts and humanities, biology/life sciences,
chemistry, computer and information sciences, earth/environmental
sciences, economics and business, engineering/technology,
mathematics and statistics, medicine, nursing,
philosophy/linguistics, physics/astronomy, psychology/psychiatry,
and social sciences. Covers 1988 to the present.
Inter-Play
This online database contains more than 18,000 entries for
plays and may be searched by author and/or title. Created
by Portland State University librarians, the source cites
the PSU Library of Congress call numbers of sources for the
texts of plays. Check Southwestern's Voyager Catalog to see if we have
the item. For items we do not own, you may request the material
through Interlibrary Loan.
Internet
and Personal Computing Abstracts
Provides abstracts and indexing for literature related to personal computing
products and developments in business, the Internet, the home, and all other
applied areas. Over 400 of the most important trade publications, mainstream
computer magazines, and professional journals are covered, including those that
focus on specific topics such as Macintosh and Windows platforms, programming,
web development and more.
Iter:
Gateway to the Middle Ages and
Renaissance
A growing online service that provides citations
for published materials pertaining to the Middle
Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) through online bibliographic
databases. Databases include "Journals" (citations
for articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts,
and discographies from the full runs of 518 scholarly
journal titles published since 1853), "Books," "Reviews," "Iter
Italicum," "Scholars of Early Modern Studies," "International
Directory of Renaissance and Reformation Associations
and Institutions," and "Baptisteria Sacra: An Iconographic
Index of Baptismal Fonts."
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Journal of Geophysical Research, All Sections
This site provides full-text access to articles published in the Journal of
Geophysical Research from 1994 to the most recent issue. On the JOURNALS list,
click on the specific section of JGR wanted (Example: JGR-Atmospheres) then
under LIBRARY ACCESS chose either "Published this year" or "Back issues from
1994."
JSTOR:
Journal Storage Collection Online
An electronic archive of scholarly journals from the humanities,
social sciences, and the natural sciences. Each of the 624
titles is an essential or primary one for its field. The JSTOR
database is unique because the complete backfiles of core
scholarly journals (excluding the most recent five years)
have been digitized, starting with the first issues, many
of which date back to the 1800s. Users can browse the complete
table of contents for every volume and issue, or search for
words or phrases in the full text of the article, author and
abstracts. JSTOR displays articles in page-image format.
K
L
LANIC: Latin American Studies
"LANIC's mission is to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America. Our target audience includes people living in Latin America, as well as those around the world who have an interest in this region. While many of our resources are designed to facilitate research and academic endeavors, our site has also become an important gateway to Latin America for primary and secondary school teachers and students, private and public sector professionals, and just about anyone looking for information about this important region."
Legal Collection (Ebscohost)
Centered on the discipline of law and legal topics, Legal Collection is a collection of respected, scholarly peer-reviewed publications including law journals, documents, and case studies. This database is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world. Legal Collection offers full text for nearly 250 of the world's best law journals. This database provides information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment and much more. Full text journals contained in this database include: American Journal of Criminal Law, California Law Review, and many more. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1965.
LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis Academic provides full text and citation access
to information in the reference, business, medical, and legal
disciplines. The vast majority of the titles on LexisNexis
Academic are available in full text. The service covers newspapers,
magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions,
federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings
such as 10-K's, 10-Q's, and their exhibits. News information
is updated daily and wire services several times daily. Research
areas in LexisNexis Academic cover top news, general news
topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources;
company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial
information; general medical and health topics and medical
abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law
reviews; federal case law; U.S. Code; and state legal research.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Index of articles on libraries, librarianship, and
information science, taken from more than 360 sources.
Includes records for selected library journals, books
(more than 600 a year), conference proceedings, library
school theses, pamphlets, and book reviews. Covers
1980 to the present; updated monthly.
Library
Literature
Index of articles on libraries, librarianship, and
information science, taken from more than 360 sources.
Includes records for selected library journals, books
(more than 600 a year), conference proceedings, library
school theses, pamphlets, and book reviews. Covers
1980 to the present; updated monthly.
Library
of Texas
The Library of Texas allows simultaneously searching though the TexShare databases and multiple academic and public Texas library catalogs.
Literature
Resource Center
This literature reference center
contains biographical, bibliographical,
and critical content. Includes
information
on literary figures from all time periods writing
in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry,
drama, history, journalism, and
more. Databases included
are: Encyclopedia of Literature and Gale Literary
Index.. Includes some full-text journals.
M
MasterFILE
Premier
Includes searchable full text for
over 1,820 journals as far back
as January 1990 with charts, tables
and
graphs converted to ASCII text; abstracts and indexing
for over 2,750 journals, many dating back to 1984;
searchable full text for nearly 5,000 Magill's Book
Reviews; Essential Documents in American History-a
database of over 1,000 original historical documents
including The Bill of Rights, The Constitution, The
Federalist Papers and the speeches of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.; and over 1.7 million company records
from Dun & Bradstreet.
MAS
Ultra - School Edition
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for more than 700 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating as far back as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra ? School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, more than 350 full text reference books, 84,011 biographies, 83,472 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
MathSciNet
MathSciNet is a comprehensive database covering the
world's mathematical literature since 1940. Access
to mathematical reviews and mathematical publications.
Provides web access to the bibliographic data and
reviews of mathematical research literature contained
in the Mathematical Reviews Database.
MedicLatina
A Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals
published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database
provides access to full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals.
MEDLINE
(National Library of Medicine)
Access to information from all journals indexed in
the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE file.
Gain access to information from such fields as medicine,
nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health
care system and preclinical sciences. Links to full
text of over 350 full text journals. Included are
abstracts and indexing for over 3,800 current biomedical
journals published in the U.S. and 70 foreign countries,
and citations found in Index Medicus, the International
Nursing Index and the Index to Dental Literature.
Additionally, table of contents information for 2,400
titles (provided by the British Document Supply Centre)
and a Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) index with
tree numbers, tree hierarchy is also included. PubMed also
searches MEDLINE and has links to molecular biology
databases of DNA/protein sequences and 3-D structure
data.
Military & Government
Collection
Designed to provide current news about all branches
of the military. Full text from over 320 military
and general interest publications is included, and
indexing and abstracts for over 360 magazines. Some
titles included are Military Review, Parameters,
Army Times, and Defense. This database is updated
weekly on EBSCOhost.
MLA Directory of Periodicals
Produced by the Modern Language Association, this research directory lists over 7,000 journals indexed in the MLA International Bibliography. The directory includes periodicals relating to the areas of literature, language and linguistics, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, and folklore. Entries for each title include editorial contact information, information about submission for publication, language, advertising rates, publication frequency and circulation subscription prices.
MLA
International Bibliography
Indexes the world's research literature in language, linguistics,
and literature. Access to scholarly research in over 3,000
journals and series, monographs, working papers, proceedings,
bibliographies, and other formats. 1963-present.
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Natural
& Alternative Treatments
This database contains almost two hundred articles on medical conditions,
presenting in an evidence-based manner the alternative medicine therapies
proposed for use in their treatment. It also contains detailed, evidence-based
information on herbs and supplements, functional foods, and other alternative
therapies such as acupuncture and homeopathy. The evidence-based content has
been developed and reviewed by a team of physicians and pharmacologists with
the goal of providing consumers with reliable information.
netLibrary
Provides access to free and purchased full text scholarly,
reference and professional eBooks (electronic books) from
academic and professional publishers. Ebooks may be "checked
out" for 24 hours. To see the full text of a title you must
create a personal account, and then you will receive instructions
by email. Dates of coverage vary.
New
York Times
Current online edition of the New York Times. Also
indexed in Academic
Search Complete.
Newspaper Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts more than 30 United States 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 January 1, 1990.
Newspaper
Source
Provides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
NLM Gateway
The NLM Gateway allows users to search
in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National
Library
of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed,
OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, MEDLINEplus, ClinicalTrials.gov,
DIRLINE, Meeting Abstracts,
and HSRProj. See the Overview
for details. Access to NLM Gateway is free.
O
Oxford
Art Online
Formerly Grove Art Online, the database contains
articles from the Grove Dictionary of Art (editor
Jane Turner, 1996: 34 vols.) on every aspect of the visual
arts - painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative
arts and photography - from prehistory to the present day.
Also contains biographies, bibliographies, and thousands of
links to color images and home pages from the world's leading
museums, picture libraries, and galleries around the world.
You can browse by the following subject areas: African Art;
Australian and New Zealand Art; Chinese Art; Classical Art;
Latin American and Caribbean Art; Northern Renaissance Art;
and Twentieth Century Art. Users can also explore particular
themes such as: Art and Art Forms; Geography; People; Styles
and Cultures; and Time Periods.
Grove Art Online
also provides access to all of the articles from:
* The Oxford Companion to Western Art
* Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
* The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
Oxford English Dictionary
Online
This database contains the entire text of the 22-volume Oxford
English Dictionary, second edition, located in Reference at
call number 423 Ox2. The electronic text contains the meaning,
history, and pronunciation of words, both present and past.
Oxford
Music Online
Includes Grove Music Online, comprising the
full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians,
second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London,
2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited
by Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary
of Jazz, second edition, edited by Barry Kernfeld (London,
2002).The database contains articles on music history, music
theory and practice, musical terminology, instruments and
their history, and the music of various locations ranging
from continents to units as small as a city. Also contains
biographies of composers, performers and writers on music,
as well as historic and current figures associated with the
art and business of music. Extensive work lists and bibliographies
conclude most articles.
The site also includes access to:
* The Oxford Dictionary of Music
* The Oxford Companion to Music
Oxford
Reference Online - Premium Collection
Oxford Reference Online contains subject reference
works, bilingual dictionaries (French, German, Italian & Spanish),
English dictionaries, quotations and proverbs published
by Oxford University Press. Some titles in this collection
include: The Oxford Companion to British History,
The Oxford Companion to the Bible, The Oxford Companion
to Music, The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, The
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. A complete list
of the resources in this collection is available
online. An ideal starting point for just about any
research question.
P
PapersFirst
Index of papers presented at conferences, congresses,
symposia, expositions, workshops, and meetings
worldwide. Covers 1993 to the present; updated
24 times per year.
Perseus
Project
An evolving digital library of full-text resources
for the study of the ancient world and beyond. Includes
books, papers, images, and maps from the archaic
and classic Greek world, ancient Rome, and the Renaissance.
Also included are Latin texts and tools, ancient
science materials, Greek lexicography, art and archeology
texts, and works of Christopher Marlowe and Shakespeare.
The
Philosopher's Index
The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts
from books and journals of philosophy and related
fields, beginning in 1940. It covers the areas of
ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political
philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysics logic as
well as material on the philosophy of law, religion,
science, history, education, and language.
Popline
(NLM)
Produced by the Population Information Program, John Hopkins
University, Popline is one of the largest bibliographic databases
on reproductive health and free of charge on the web. The database
provides citations with abstracts of the worldwide literature
in the fields of population studies, population law and policy,
demography, family planning, sexual and reproductive health
and related health issues. On some occasion you may be given
a direct link to some of the publications.
Population Index
"Population Index is the primary reference tool to the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics. This website provides a searchable and browsable database containing 46,035 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986-2000."
ProceedingsFirst
Index of worldwide conference proceedings. Contains in each record a list of the papers presented at each conference. Covers 1993 to the present; updated two times per week.
Professional
Development Collection
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.
PROLA:
Physical Review OnLine Archive
Indexes and provides full-text to all American Physical
Society journal material published from 1893 to present;
includes Physical Review sections A-E, Physical Review
Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, and other information.
Project
MUSE
Provides full image journal articles in the humanities
and social sciences, in particular the areas of literature
and criticism, history, the visual and performing
arts, cultural studies, education, political science,
gender studies, and many others.
PsycARTICLES
PsycARTICLES is a definitive source of searchable
full text articles on current issues in psychology.
The database contains more than 35,000 searchable
full text articles from 41 journals published by
the American Psychological Association and 8 from
allied organizations. It contains all journal articles,
letters to the editor and errata from each of the
49 journals. Coverage spans from 1988 to the present.
PsycFIRST
Includes journal articles, chapters, books, dissertations,
and reports on psychology and related fields.
PsycINFO 1887
Journal articles, chapters, books, dissertations and reports on psychology and related fields.
Psychology
and Behavioral Sciences Collection
This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
PubMed Central
"PubMed Central is a digital archive of life sciences
journal literature, developed and managed by the
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It
is not a journal publisher. Access to PubMed Central
is free and unrestricted. See PubMed
Central Overview
for more information about PubMed Central.
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R
RCLweb
RCLweb is a source for bibliographic citations or Choice reviews of 65,000 print and electronic titles for academic libraries. RCL ("Resources for College Libraries") users can search the database by Subject, Audience, Format, Awards, Date added, etc. After locating titles of interest, users can save them to a list for later use; or print, e-mail, or download a list to share with students or colleagues. Faculty can email citations or reviews to librarians as requests against the library's acquisition budget. The database contains full-text reviews from Choice and by clicking on the "Search My Library" button in each record users can check Voyager to see whether or not our library holds that edition of a title. (Be sure to turn off your browser's pop-up blocker.) The database is updated quarterly.
Readers'
Guide Abstracts
Popular periodicals published in the U.S. and Canada.
Includes current events and news, fine arts, fashion,
education, business, sports, health and nutrition,
consumer affairs, and more. Many entries are full
text.
Regional
Business News
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage
for regional business publications. Regional Business
News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals,
newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and
rural areas within the United States. This database
is updated on a daily basis.
Religion
and Philosophy Collection
This database provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Religion & Philosophy Collection offers more than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles, making it an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
Repère
This database provides French language articles from
Canadian and international French magazines since
1980.
RILM
Abstracts of Music Literature
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature contains records with abstracts
from over 500 scholarly journals. Articles, books, bibliographies,
catalogues, conference proceedings, discographies, dissertations,
ethnographic recordings, Festschriften, films, iconographies,
and videos are all covered by RILM. Concert reviews, recording
notes, and pedagogical manuals are also indexed if they are
of scholarly interest. .
S
 Salem
Health
Salem Health provides complete access to the five-volume print
version of Magill's Medical Guide (available in the A. Frank
Smith Library Center--Call Number Reference 610.3M272
2008). It is a comprehensive reference to major diseases
and disorders of the human body, the basics of human anatomy
and physiology, specializations in medical practice, and common
surgical and nonsurgical procedures. One can find full-text
articles to current medical topics, e.g., assisted reproductive
technologies. Most entries also include photographs, charts,
and/or drawings to illustrate the topic, hyperlinked cross-references,
and an annotated bibliography for further information. The
online version also offers easy access to the Guide's glossary
of terms.
Science
& Technology Collection
The Science & Technology Collection contains over 800
leading full text journals covering relevant aspects of the
scientific and technical community. Topics include aeronautics,
astrophysics, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation,
physics, archaeology, and materials science. In addition to
the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts
for more than 1,700 publications.
Science
Citation Index
The Science Citation Index (SCI®) provides access to current
and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts,
and cited references found in 3,700 of the world's leading
scholarly science and technical journals covering more than
100 disciplines.
ScienceDirect
An online journal service with access to 200 or more
peer-reviewed scientific and social sciences journals,
all published by Academic Press. Beginning with the
1996 issues, users can browse the complete table
of contents for every volume and issue, or search
these seven specific fields: subject, abstract, affiliation,
author, date, keywords and article title.ScienceDirect
reproduces the full journal articles on screen as
they appear in the printed paper version. Requires
Adobe Acrobat software.
Scribner
Writers
Gain access to 1,600 original and detailed bio-critical essays on the lives and works of important authors from around the world. Many authors in the Scribner Writers Series are seen from multiple perspectives through two, three or sometimes four essays. Students can go directly to an entry on a specific author, combine search criteria for a much more complex search, or explore thematic and chronological topics to make connections among writers.
Serials
Directory
Provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials. This database contains nearly 184,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers, historical data for an additional 20,000 titles and data from nearly 83,500 publishers worldwide.
SIRS
Researcher
A general reference database exploring social, scientific,
historic, economic, political, and global issues.
Articles are selected from domestic and international
newspapers,magazines, journals and government publications.
All articles are indexed according to Library of
Congress.
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
Searchable world music resource. Licensed digital recordings that users can listen to over the Internet; more than 35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds. Includes American folk, American Indian, world traditions, children's, etc. Includes digital archives of Folkways Records as well as International Library of African Music, Indian music from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology. Available on campus only. (See also Classical Music Library and African American Song for other digital recordings.)
Social
Sciences Abstracts
International, English-language periodicals in sociology,
anthropology, geography, economics, political science,
and law. Some full text entries.
Social Sciences Citation Index
The Social Sciences Citation Index(R) (SSCI(R)) provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines. It also covers individually selected, relevant items from approximately 3,300 of the world's leading science and technology journals.
SocINDEX with Full Text
The world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology
research database. The database features more than 1,660,000
records with subject headings from a 19,300 term sociological
thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers.
SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 344 "core"
coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 129 "priority"
coverage journals. This database also includes full text for
more than 700 books and monographs, and full text for 6,800
conference papers.
Standard
and Poor's NetAdvantage
Contains financial/business databases with information
on company reports, bond ratings, industry trends,
executive biographies, etc. Includes Standard & Poor's
Bond Guide; Corporation Records; Dividend Record;
Earnings Guide; Industry Surveys; Mutual Fund Reports;
The Outlook; Register of Corporations, Directors,
and Executives; Security Dealers' Directory; Stock
Guide; and Stock
Reports.
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Texas
Almanac
"Standard quick guide to general information about
Texas over a very extensive time period. Includes
census data and other statistics, state flags and
symbols, geography, government, history, obituaries,
culture, media, education, business, transportation,
agriculture, and environment. Descriptive entries
for every Texas county." The online version is maintained
and operated by the Dallas Morning News. Selected
portions of the site are available free of charge.
Includes links to related websites. For print edition,
see Reference 317.64 T3121, 1st
floor, Smith Library Center.
Texas
Digital Sanborn Maps
These digitized maps provide detailed property and
land-use records that depicts the architecture of
Texas towns and cities throughout the past one hundred
years. The maps enable researchers to trace the architectural
history of individual buildings or entire communities.
Once displayed, the maps can be manipulated, expanded,
printed, and downloaded.
Texas Reference Center
Texas Reference Center includes more than 80 full text journals and books about Texas history, ethnic & cultural diversity, gender studies, literature, public health, business as well as home & garden and sports & leisure. The database contains biographies portraying famous historical and contemporary Texans such as George Herbert Walker Bush, Lady Bird Johnson, Dan Moody, Susanna Dickinson and Sam Houston. Also available in the Texas Reference Center is the Spanish-language newspaper El Sol de Texas with Texas and national news coverage. This EBSCOhost database is updated weekly.
Texas Reference
Sources Online
"Texas Reference Sources (TRS) is a selective
guide to reference works on, or relating to, Texas
and Texans. It is designed to supplement the American
Library Association's Guide to Reference Books."
TOPICsearch
This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today?s classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 102,800 articles from more than 2,500 diverse sources, including more than 1,550 full text periodicals.
TOXNET (NLM)
TOXNET is a collection of toxicology and environmental health databases that are available free of charge on the web. The site includes the Hazardous Substances Data Bank, a database of potentially hazardous chemicals, TOXLINE(containing references to the world's toxicology literature), and ChemIDplus (a chemical dictionary and structure database). TOXMAP is a web site that uses maps of the United States to show the amount and location of certain toxic chemicals released into the environment. WISER is a PDA application designed to assist first responders in hazardous material incidents. Haz-Map links jobs and hazardous tasks with occupational diseases and their symptoms.
Twayne's
Authors Series
The Twayne's Authors Series of literary criticism offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres. This online series features the content of nearly 600 books that comprise three print series --United States Authors, English Authors and World Authors.
Twentieth-Century
Poetry Collections
Two collections are available here: Twentieth-Century English Poetry offers online access to the poetry of some of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. It incorporates the works of 285 of the most widely studied poets of the British Isles and beyond, including over forty distinguished authors from The Faber Poetry Library. Twentieth-Century American Poetry includes 52,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets. The collection reflects the variety and dynamism of American poetic voices in this century of change: all major movements and schools are represented, from the traditionalism of Robert Frost to the modernism of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle).
U
V
Vocational
and Career Collection
Vocational & Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals.
Voyager Catalog (Southwestern's Online Catalog)
Voyager is the online public access catalog of Southwestern University. Use it to search for books and journals, videotapes, compact discs, records, etc., held within the A. Frank Smith Library Center collection. The catalog may be search by author, title, subject, general keyword and several other ways. It provides basic and advanced search modes.
W
Wall Street Journal
(Eastern Edition)
Coverage of national and international finance as
well as coverage of news. You can limit your search to the
newspaper title. Indexing and abstracting is available from
October 2004 forward. The A. Frank Smith Library has print/microfilm
copies of the eastern edition. Indexed in Academic
Search Complete.
Wilson
Business Abstracts
International English-language business magazines
covering accounting, finance, management, small business,
etc. Some entries are full text.
WilsonSelectPlus
Contains indexed and abstracted articles from 800+
periodicals, all with ASCII full text online. The
database is comprised of select records from Readers'
Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities
Abstracts, Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts.
Some titles date back to1994. Updated weekly.
Women
Writers Online
A fully searchable full-text database of pre-Victorian
women's writing in English. The Women Writers Online
textbase is a collection of primary source, rare
works selected with the aim of presenting texts which
are hard to find in print. The collection is broadly
interdisciplinary, covering a wide range of genres
and topics. It includes a subset called Renaissance
Women Online, which will eventually include 100
primary works by women written during the Renaissance,
together with contextual introductions and topical
essays on women's life and writing in the Renaissance.
Women's
Studies International
Includes over 200,000 citations from 10 different
women's studies- related databases, some dating back
as far as 1972. Updated semi- annually. Women's Studies
International (along with the Child Abuse and Neglect
Database) is available through BiblioLine. At the
first screen, read the brief instructions, then select
Women's Studies International. Choose "BiblioLine
Lite" for simple searching or "BiblioLine Professional" for
more complex searches.
World
Almanac
The World Almanac database includes the contents
of: The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1998, The
World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of
U.S. Politics, The World Almanac for Kids, and the
World Almanac Knowledge Source.
World
History Collection
Offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. World History Collection contains cover-to-cover full text for nearly 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964.
WDI Online: World Development Indicators
WDI Online is a data source on the global economy, containing statistical data for over 550 development indicators, and time series data from 1960-2002 for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Included are social, economic, financial, natural resource, and environmental indicators. Results can be scaled, indexed against a particular year, viewed by percentage change, and charted. Data can be exported in standard formats like Excel.*For Southwestern community only.
World
News Connection
An online news service with an extensive array of
translated and English-language news and information.
Coverage of local media sources and current events
in a specific country or region. Compiled from thousands
of non-U.S. media sources. Covers significant socioeconomic,
political, scientific, technical, and environmental
issues and events. Includes "gray" literature. The
information proceedings, television and radio broadcasts,
periodicals, and non-classified technical reports.
Updated every government business day. Generally,
new information is available within 48-72 hours from
the time of original publication or broadcast. Note
to Mac OSX users: current version of Internet Explorer
will not work with this site; use Netscape.
WorldCat
Access to listings of the holdings of library collections
worldwide including Smith Library Center.
WorldCat Dissertations
This database contains records for over 5 million items cataloged as dissertations, theses, or published materials based on theses or dissertations, in WorldCat, including titles provided by NetLibrary. The database allows users to quickly and efficiently retrieve records for theses and dissertations..
Worldscope
Current financial information on public companies
worldwide, drawn from annual reports, newspapers,
wire services, and disclosure statements. Displays
full document information as full-text option.
Updated weekly.
Worldwide
Political Science Abstracts
This database is a combination of the merged backfiles
of Political Science Abstracts and ABC POL SCI, and
provides abstracts and indexing of serials in the
area of political science, international relations,
law, and public administration/policy. 1010 titles
are currently included in the database, which includes
backfiles beginning with 1975. It is updated monthly.
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