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RESOURCE |
Offsite
Access |
DESCRIPTION |
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ABI
Inform |
No |
Provides abstracts of articles from 2,000+ international professional
publications, academic journals, and trade magazines.
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Academic Search Complete |
Yes |
More than 5,300
full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to
full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300
journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports,
conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far
as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF
format.
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AGRICOLA |
Yes |
AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access)
contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's
National Agricultural Library. Coverage for
AGRICOLA dates back to 1970 and includes more than 2.5 million citations.
The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents,
software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture.
Now a full text database. |
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Alt HealthWatch |
Yes |
This alternative health database provides full
text for more than 140 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. |
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Alternative Press Index (1990-current) |
No |
Updated quarterly, API provides indexing to
journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change. |
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America: History and Life |
Yes |
Complete bibliographic reference to the history
of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Comprised of
over 450,000 bibliographic entries, this database provides an incomparable
research tool for students and researchers of US and Canadian history. |
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American Chemical Society (ACS) Web Editions |
Yes |
When you get to this site, click on the Journals and Magazines
link to search a number of full text chemistry and chemistry-related
periodicals.
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Art Abstracts |
Yes |
Art Abstracts
provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for more than 400 leading
international publications pertaining to a variety of art types. This
bibliographic database indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in
indexed periodicals.
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Arts and Humanities Search
(1980-current) |
No |
Indexing to more than 1,300 sources in the arts,
humanities, and related social sciences. |
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ARTstor |
Yes |
The ARTstor Digital Library Charter Collection is a
repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data.
The Charter Collection documents artistic traditions across all times and
cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative
arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual and material culture.
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library |
Yes |
Among other things, the portal provides access to the ACM's
Digital Library (which provides indexing to papers from publications that
have been published, co-published, or co-marketed by ACM and other publishers)
as well as to the Guide to Computing Literature (which is a collection of
bibliographic citations and abstracts of works published by ACM and other
publishers. Citations for all ACM published works are included in the Guide as a
small subset of the total bibliographic space.) |
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Biography Resource Center |
Yes |
Includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search
for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year,
nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a
custom search. |
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Biological Abstracts |
Yes |
Biological Abstracts is a complete collection of
bibliographic references to life science journal literature published
internationally. Note: There is some loss of functionality (e.g. enhanced
indexing) prior to 1993.
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Biology Digest
(1989-current) |
No |
Provides detailed abstracts to nearly 400 sources in the life
sciences written in a nontechnical style for students and interested
nonscientists. |
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BioOne |
Yes |
BioOne provides full-texts of
high-impact bioscience research journals. |
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Books In Print |
Yes |
Search more than 4 million books currently in print in the U.S.
and the U.K. A variety of search options are available including author,
subject, and title. Categories are also available such as forthcoming and
children's books. Users also have access to nearly half a million full text
reviews, over 400,000 cover images, and over 500,000 annotations.
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Book Collection: Nonfiction |
Yes |
Book Collection:Nonfiction is a research database that
contains the full text and informative abstracts for 1,000 popular nonfiction
books found in school and public libraries. It includes fulltext articles on
literature, social studies, history, and science but also covers high interest
information on careers, health, sports, adventure, and technology.
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Book Review Digest Plus |
Yes |
Book Review Digest
Plus indexes reviews of current fiction and
non-fiction, and provides review excerpts and over 100,000 full text reviews.
The database includes children?s books as well as books for adults and young
adults. Entries currently encompass some 1,300,000 reviews covering over 550,000
books and grows with daily updates. |
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Business Dateline |
No |
Access regional information (e.g. trends, activities, stories)
vital to businesses. |
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Business and Industry (1994-current) |
No |
Business and industry facts, figures, and key events. |
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Business and Management Practices |
No |
Updated weekly, this database contains information about the
practical aspects of business management. |
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Business Organizations, Agencies & Publications Directory |
No |
Includes abstracts in most records describing organizations that
serve business and industry and their products and services. |
|
Business Source Premier |
Yes |
Business Source Premier provides full text for more than
8,500 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for
more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually
all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF)
for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. This
database is updated on a daily basis. To search within the database using a more
business-oriented functionality (e.g. company profiles, market research
reports), try the
Enhanced Business Searching Interface. |
CCH Tax
Research Network |
Yes |
Produced by the Commerce ClearingHouse (CCH), this resource
provides relevant federal, state, and local primary source material as well as
analysis, explanations, and practice aids. IRS publications and code, numerous
guides and reporters, current legislative documents, and a whole lot more can
all be found here. |
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CQ Researcher |
Yes |
Published weekly, each single-themed 12,000-word report is
researched and written by a seasoned journalist. The consistent, reader-friendly
organization provides researchers with an introductory overview; background and
chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and
maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and
bibliographies of key sources.
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Chemical Abstracts |
No |
Accessed via STN Easy, Chemical Abstracts is the
authoritative resource for locating chemical and chemistry related literature.
Searches must be mediated by a librarian and can only be conducted during the
following hours:
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Monday-Thursday |
5:00 p.m. - 5:00 a.m. |
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Friday |
5:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. |
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Saturday |
3:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m. |
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Sunday |
6:00 p.m. - 5:00 a.m. |
Searches must be initiated by a librarian.
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CHEMLIBnetBASE |
Yes |
A collection of 260+ texts from in full-text electronic form, including over a
dozen titles in inorganic and materials chemistry. |
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CHEMnetBASE
|
Yes |
Online access to premier chemistry
resources including: Combined Chemical Dictionary, Dictionary of Commonly
Cited Compounds, Dictionary of Drugs, Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds, Dictionary of Natural Products, Dictionary of
Organic Compounds, Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, Polymers: A Property
Database, and Properties of Organic Compounds. |
| Choice: Current
Reviews for Academic Libraries |
No |
Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries is the
premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet
resources of interest to those in higher education. |
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CINAHL with Full Text |
Yes |
CINAHL with Full Text provides indexing for 2,737 journals
from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than
1,000,000 records dating back to 1982. CINAHL with Full Text also
contains searchable cited references for more than 1,150 journals and provides
full text for 329 journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical
paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to
1982 are also included. Search
Pre-CINAHL. |
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The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies |
Yes |
This is a collection of bibliographies of scientific literature
in computer science and is updated weekly from their original locations. The
collection currently contains more than 2 million references (mostly to journal
articles, conference papers and technical reports), clustered in about 1500
bibliographies. Abstracts are available for more than 800,000 entries. There are
more than 2,000 links to other sites carrying bibliographic information. |
|
Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia |
Yes |
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia (associated with MAS
Ultra: School Edition) contains more than 51,000 entries, addressing current hot
topics and providing updated geographical, political, and statistical
information and has more than 84,000 cross-reference links. |
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ComAbstracts |
Yes |
Produced by Communication Information and Online Scholarship
(CIOS), this index provides abstracts to a variety of topics and issues related
to communication. Also contains various resources for professional reading in
the discipline (e.g. organizations, employment). |
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Communication & Mass Media Complete |
Yes |
Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most
robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass
media.
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Computers and Applied Sciences Complete |
Yes |
Covers the research and development
spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. CASC provides
indexing and abstracts for more than 1,300 academic journals, professional
publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection. Full text
is also available for more than 500 periodicals. |
Consumers Index
(1986-current) |
No |
Index of articles providing consumer information about
evaluations, tests, alerts, warnings, and recalls of specific products,
services, and facilities.
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Contemporary Women's Issues
(1992-current) |
No |
Provides access to global information on women in over 150
countries from books, journals, newsletters, research reports, and a variety of
other groups and agencies. |
Criminal Justice Abstracts
(1968 - current) |
Yes |
Criminal Justice Abstracts covers crime trends, crime
prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police,
courts, punishment and sentencing. The database contains indexes and summaries
of international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental
reports on a wide range of topics in criminal justice.
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Disclosure Corporate Snapshots
(1986 to present) |
No |
Directory information on companies publicly traded on U.S.
exchanges. |
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Dissertation Abstracts Online |
No |
Selectively covers masters theses and dissertations including
dissertations from Canada, Great Britain, and Europe. |
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EBSCOHost
|
Yes |
EBSCOhost provides access to more than thirty databases
and indexes which can be searched individually or concurrently. Thousands of
periodicals are indexed, many of which are full are peer reviewed) and full text
is available for 2,800+! The latter does not include the more than 140
newspapers (113 full text) or the hundreds of other full text items (e.g.
pamphlets). |
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EBSCO Animals |
Yes |
This resource provides in-depth information on a variety of
topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and
full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. |
|
EconLit |
Yes |
EconLit contains more than 630,000 records covering
1969-present. EconLit covers virtually every area related to economics. |
|
Education Research Complete |
Yes |
Topics covered include all levels of
education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational
specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.
Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than
1,500 journals, as well as full text for more than 750 journals, and includes
full text for more than 100 books and monographs, and for numerous
education-related conference papers. |
|
ERIC |
Yes |
ERIC (the U.S. Department of Education Educational
Resource Information Center database), provides citations to more than 2,200
digests along with references for additional information and citations and
abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals. |
|
Ethnic Newswatch |
Yes |
Ethnic NewsWatch provides a rich collection of full text
articles, editorials and reviews with a broad diversity of perspectives and
viewpoints from the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic and
minority press. This database contains information from the 1980's-present.
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FactSearch
(1984 to present) |
No |
Find facts and statistics on topics of current interest. |
|
FirstSearch |
No |
Nearly forty databases providing indexing and abstracting for
articles, magazines, and more from a wide variety of subjects. You may search
one or several databases at the same time or access the database directly via
this page. |
|
FreeHandMusic |
Yes |
From Medieval to 21st century, download, manage and/or print
sheet music from more than 45,000 classical music titles. To download/listen to
classical music and other tracks, try visiting
Naxos Music Library. |
Funk & Wagnalls
New World Encyclopedia |
Yes |
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering
a variety of subject areas. |
|
Genderwatch |
Yes |
A full text database focusing on the impact of gender across a
broad spectrum of subject areas. It provides in-depth coverage of the subjects
that are uniquely central to women's lives and serves as an authoritative
research resource in a wide range of disciplines. Publications include academic
and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional
publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and
government, n-g-o and special reports, with archival material back to 1970 for
some titles.
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Geobase |
No |
Covers journals (2,000+), books, monographs, conference
proceedings, and reports from geology and related disciplines (e.g. petrology,
cartography, volcanology). Includes over 600,000 records with abstracts from
1980 to the present. |
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GeoRef |
Yes |
This database is a comprehensive geoscience database containing
over 2.6 million bibliographic records from more than 3,000 journals and other
sources. GeoRef provides coverage in subject areas such as mineralogy and
crystallography, general mineralogy, mineralogy of silicates, and mineralogy of
non-silicates. |
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GPO
Monthly Catalog |
Yes |
Index to all types of U.S. government documents, including
Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and
documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the
President, etc.) |
Health Source:
Consumer Edition |
Yes |
Provides 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 300 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis. |
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition |
Yes |
Provides more than 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. |
|
History Reference Center |
Yes |
History Reference Center offers full text from more than
750 history reference books and encyclopedias and cover-to-cover full text from
nearly 60 history magazines. Further, the database contains 58,000 historical
documents; 43,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 12,000 historical
photos and maps; and 87 hours of historical film and video.
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Issues & Controversies |
Yes |
Issues & Controversies is a database from Facts on File,
Inc., and is a fulltext source of documents and commentary on selected issues in
social, political, and economic issues. It is an excellent source for
argumentative papers and debate issues for faculty & students alike. |
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JSTOR |
Yes |
JSTOR
provides full text access to numerous titles in the arts and sciences, including
more than two dozen scholarly publications in botany and ecology (some dating
back to the 1800s). |
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LearningExpressLibrary |
Yes |
LearningExpressLibrary
provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and
tutorial course series including TOEFL, GRE, LSAT, and more. You can also
practice for job interviews, develop better writing skills, and get help with
basic math and vocabulary. Users can create a personal account and save their
work or simply go through the material on their own. NOTE: To access this
resource from a computer not attached directly to the campus network, you will
first need to create an account for yourself using one of the campus' networked
computers. |
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Legal Collection |
Yes |
This resource is a subset of EBSCO's
Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, and
Communication & Mass Media Complete resources. This database contains full
text for more than 260 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. |
|
LexisNexis Academic |
Yes |
Updated daily, LexisNexis Academic provides access to a
wide range of full text news and newspapers as well as business, legal, medical,
and reference information.
|
|
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) |
Yes |
Library, Information Science & Technology
Abstracts, (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research
reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship,
classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval,
information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as
the mid-1960s. |
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Literature Resource Center |
Yes |
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical
analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than
120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with
in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. |
|
MAS Ultra: School Edition |
Yes |
MAS Ultra - School Edition is designed specifically for
high school libraries. This database provides full text for nearly 600 popular
general interest and current events publications with information dating back as
far as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra ? School Edition
also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, 268 full text reference books,
84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of
107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily.
|
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MathSciNet |
Yes |
An electronic publication offering
access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews,
abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical
sciences literature. Over 80,000 new items are added each year, most of them
classified according to the "Mathematics Subject Classification.” |
|
MEDLINE |
Yes |
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on
medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system,
pre-clinical sciences, and much more and allows users to search abstracts from
over 4,600 current biomedical journals.
|
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Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) |
Yes |
MMY includes consumer-oriented test reviews. The purpose
of the Yearbook is to provide evaluative information to promote informed test
selection. Typical test entries include descriptive information, professional
reviews, and reviewer references. To be included, a test must be commercially
available, be published in the English language, and be new, revised, or widely
used since it last appeared in the series. The printed edition is available in
the Reference Collection (1st Floor): Z 5814.P8 B932. The index -- Tests in
Print -- is also available in the Reference Collection: Z 5814.E9 T47.
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Military & Government Collection |
Yes |
This resource is designed to offer current news pertaining to all
branches of the military and government. The Military & Government Collection
provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals and
indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles.
|
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MLA International Bibliography |
Yes |
MLA International Bibliography is a bibliography of
journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language
Association, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and
contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and
1,000 book publishers.
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Music Index |
Yes |
Published since 1949, The Music Index is the single most
comprehensive annual Subject-Author guide to music periodical literature. Topics
concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music are
thoroughly categorized and organized according to the framework of an internal
Subject List which includes both Subject and Geographic headings.
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Naxos Music Library |
Yes |
Naxos Music Library is the World’s largest Classical
music listening service with over 262,000 tracks of music. For
downloadable sheet music, try visiting
FreeHandMusic. |
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Netlibrary |
Yes |
Netlibrary provides access to an ever-expanding group
(currently 2,000+) of online reference, professional, and scholarly books.
Simply create an account for yourself and you can check out an ebook from
anywhere in the world. NOTE: To access this resource from a computer not
attached directly to the campus network, you will first need to create an
account for yourself using one of the campus' networked computers.
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Newspaper Source |
Yes |
This resource provides selected full text for 25 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. |
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Novelist |
Yes |
Search for fiction books using a variety of criteria including
author, title, plot, series, and more. Novelist also allows you to read
about topics and titles as well as browse a variety of lists for titles and
information on titles. |
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Novelist (K-8) |
Yes |
NoveList (K-8) allows you to discover the fiction titles
that are popular with young readers as well as titles to use in your classroom.
The
NoveList Learning Center provides a complete introduction to the product
and shows you how to use NoveList to meet the reading needs of your
students. |
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Oxford Reference -- Premium |
Yes |
Search more than 100 reference books including a variety of
dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, and more for a variety of topics and
disciplines. |
PapersFirst
(1993 to present) |
No |
Covers every published congress, symposium, conference,
exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply
Centre and presented at conferences worldwide. |
The Philosopher's Index
(1940 - current) |
Yes |
The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts
from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of
ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and
metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion,
science, history, education, and language.
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PILOT
|
Yes |
PILOT, alternately referred to as the "electronic card
catalog." You can use PILOT to see if we have an item in our collection. You can
also use it to browse the collections of other libraries, including those of the
other 13 state-owned universities.
To assist you with selecting subject headings for better searching, you might
wish to access
Classification Web before
beginning your search.
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Primary Search |
Yes |
Primary Search
provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school
research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading
level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
This database is updated daily. |
ProceedingsFirst
(1993 to current) |
No |
Covers every published congress, symposium, conference,
exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply
Centre and presented at each conference. |
|
Project Muse |
Yes |
Project MUSE offers nearly 200 quality journal titles from
some 30 scholarly publishers. As one of the academic community's primary
electronic periodicals resources, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature
and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies,
education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
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PsycARTICLES |
Yes |
This database provides full text articles on current issues in
psychology from respected sources, spanning from 1987 to the present.
PsycARTICLES includes more than 34,000 full-text articles from 43 journals
published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. All
journals included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO. Click
here
if you wish to search this resource and Psychology and Behavioral Sciences
Collection at the same time.
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PsycINFO
|
Yes |
PsycINFO
contains nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book
chapters, books and dissertations, all in the field of psychology. Journal
coverage, which dates back to the 1800s, includes international material
selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in over 35 languages. More than 60,000
records are added each year. |
|
RCLweb |
Yes |
RCLweb (Resources for College
Libraries) is a collection development tool to assist librarians in evaluating
and acquiring books for their collections. The core list features 65,000
titles in 58 curriculum-specific subjects and have been selected by more than
300 subject specialists and bibliographers. |
|
Regional Business News |
Yes |
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.
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Research Insight |
No |
This powerful business and finance tool enables you to search for
a wealth of information on businesses, companies, industries, and more.
It's available in the library and in the Hendricks' Business Lab via the
Programs menu. |
|
Sage Journals Online |
Yes |
SAGE Premier provides access to 485+ SAGE journal
titles in the social sciences, humanities, medicine, engineering, and physical
and life sciences, with backfile to 1999. |
SIRS Researcher
(1988 to present) |
No |
Contains records for articles selected from domestic and
international newspapers, magazines, journals, and government publications on
social, scientific, economic, and political issues worldwide. |
|
SocINDEX with Full Text |
Yes |
SocINDEX with Full Text features more than 1,300,000
records with subject headings from a 15,000 term sociology-specific thesaurus
designed by expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text
for 235 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage
journals. This database also includes full text for 545 books and monographs,
and full text for 6,601 conference papers. |
|
Teacher Reference Center |
Yes |
Provides indexing and abstracts for
more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and
magazines to assist professional educators. |
|
Tests in Print |
Yes |
A comprehensive bibliography to all
known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English
language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose,
test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population,
administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). |
|
Ulrich's Web |
Yes |
Search by current, previous, announced, or translated title for
publication information on a variety of serial publications.
|
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Vocational and Career Collection |
Yes |
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 nearly 400 trade and industry-related periodicals. |
Westlaw
|
Yes |
The preferred legal research resource providing access to legal
resources, news, business and public records information. |
|
WorldCat |
No |
Contains all the records (e.g. books, web resources, and other
material) cataloged by OCLC member libraries worldwide. |
|
Worldscope |
No |
Includes financial information from a variety of sources and
documents from public companies and corporations all over the world. |
