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  Academic Search Complete

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. The eariest PDF backfiles date from 1887.
   • Coverage dates: 1970-present
   • Contains: Full-text

  Access Newspaper Archive

Access Newspaper Archive includes the full text of over 3,000 national (the majority) and international newspapers. Historical coverage through local newspapers is the strength of this collection. The coverage for many newspapers goes back to the 1800s or earlier.
   • Coverage dates: 1770s-present

  Access Pennsylvania

Provides access to a statewide union catalog that include the holdings of many libraries. Also included are databases in various subject areas.
   • Coverage dates: various
   • Contains: Full-text

  Access World News/Newsbank (Searchable national and world newspapers)

Provides full text for 600 U.S. and over 700 international newspapers.
   • Contains: Full-text.


  Adoption Database

Citations and abstracts are to books, journal articles, final reports from federally-funded grant, conference papers, unpublished papers, reports on completed or continuing research, as well as descriptions of service programs and prevention and treatment strategies.
   • Coverage dates: 1965-2005
   • Contains: Citations and links to full-text

  AFI (American Film Institute Catalog)

AFI Catalog is the ultimate national filmography documenting American films from 1893-1970.
   • Coverage dates: 1970-present
   • Contains: Full-text

  African American Music Reference

50,000 pages of text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through musi
   • Contains: Full-text

  AGRICOLA

Over three million citations to materials acquired by the National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions. Encompasses all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, agricultural economics, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences.
   • Coverage dates: 1970-present
   • Contains: Full-text

  AIDS Search

   • Coverage dates: 1980-present
   • Contains: Full-text

  America: History & Life

Abstracts to 2,100 international journals on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present.
   • Coverage dates: 1970-present
   • Contains: Citations and links to full-text


  American Chemical Society Publications

Journal articles in the chemical and related sciences.
   • Coverage dates: 1970-present
   • Contains: Full-text


  Annual Reports (Fortune 500)

   • Coverage dates: 1970-present
   • Contains: Full-text


  Anthrosource

Provides access to scholarly research in the field of anthropology.
   • Coverage dates: 1990's - present
   • Contains: Full-text


  Archive of Americana (Evans, Shaw-Shoemaker & Early American Newspapers, 1690-1876.

   • Coverage dates: 17th-19th century
   • Contains: Full-text


  Art Abstracts

Provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for more than 450 international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Preceded by print editions of Art Index.
   • Coverage dates: 1984-present
   • Contains:
Citations and links to full-text

  Artstor

ARTstor Charter Collection currently contains nearly 500,000 images across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture.
   • Coverage dates: all eras
   • Contains:
Digital images and related data

  Asian American Drama

Contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
   • Coverage dates: 1891-present
   • Contains: Full-text


  ATLAS (Religion Index)

Indexes more than 12,000 articles, essays and book reviews from more than 525 international journals in religion and related fields.
   • Coverage dates: 1949-present
   • Contains: Citations and links to full-text


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  Biography Resource Center

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
   • Coverage dates:all time periods
   • Contains: Citations and links to full-text


 

BioOne

BioOne provides a searchable aggregation of over 65 bioscience research journals from more than 50 publishers.
   • Coverage dates: 1999-present
   • Contains: Citations and links to full-text
  

 

BIOSIS (STNEasy)

BIOSIS provides abstracts of over 500,000 articles from major biological and biomedical journals.
   • Coverage dates: 1967-present
   • Contains: Citations and abstracts
   • ID and passwords are required and are distributed to students and faculty who have received training in BIOSIS.
   • STNEasy Database Guide

  Black Drama

Contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
   • Coverage dates: 1970-present
   • Contains: Full-text


  Book Review Digest Retrospective

Excerpts from, and citations to, reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Citations with excerpts of reviews of juvenile and adult fiction and nonfiction in the English language are included..
   • Coverage dates: 1905-1982
   • Contains: Citations


  Britannica Online - Academic Edition

The foundation of Britannica Online is the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the largest, most authoritative encyclopedia in the world. .
   • Contains: Full-text


  Business Source Premier

Provides full text for nearly 8,350 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,100 scholarly 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 .
   • Coverage dates: 1970-present
   • Contains: Full-text


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  CCH Tax Research Network

   • Coverage dates: 1970-present
   • Contains: Full-text


  Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption Database

Citations and abstracts are to books, journal articles, final reports from federally-funded grant, conference papers, unpublished papers, reports on completed or continuing research, as well as descriptions of service programs and prevention and treatment strategies.
   • Coverage dates: 1965-present
   • Contains: Citations and links to full-text


  Christian Periodical Index

Provide access to articles and reviews written from an evangelical Christian perspective or of interest to the evangelical community.
   • Coverage dates: 1956-present
   • Contains: Citations and links to full-text


  Choice Reviews Online

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.
   • Coverage dates: updated monthly
   • Contains: Citations and links to reviews

  Chronicle of Higher Education Online

Search more than 15 years' worth of back issues from The Chronicle, plus daily news articles, daily articles on information technology, summaries of magazine and journal articles, and scholarly book listings.
   • Coverage dates: 1989 - present
   • Contains: Full-text
   • Find past issues

  CINAHL

Provides indexing for over 1,835 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982. Full text material includes more than 70 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.
   • Coverage dates: 1982-present
   • Contains: Citations and links to full-text
   • Search more full-text nursing journals
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition.

  Classical Music Reference Library

Contains more than 30,000 pages of essential reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music.
   • Coverage dates: Medieval period to present
   • Contains: Reference materials

 

Classical Scores Library

Contains 400,000 pages of classical scores from both in-copyright and public domain editions. The major composers output is represented, as well as many lesser known composers and works.
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   • Coverage dates: Renaissance - present
   • Contains: music scores

 

  Cochrane Library

Reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care. Published on a quarterly basis, The Cochrane Library is designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care.
   • Contains: Full-text


  Columbia International Affairs Online

(CIAO) is designed to be the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. Each section of CIAO is updated with new material on a regular schedule. Working papers are augmented every month, as are conference proceedings, policy briefs and economic indicators. Links and resources, the schedule of events and the response files are updated weekly. New journal issues and books are added as they become available.
   • Coverage dates: 1991-present
   • Contains: Full-text


  Communication & Mass Media Complete

Coverage of hundreds of journals and reports in the fields of communication and mass media.
   • Citations; some full-text

   • Contains: Full-text

  Consumer Health Complete

Provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information.
   • Coverage dates: 1946-present
   • Contains: Full-text


  Criminal Justice Periodicals

Comprehensive collection of U.S. and international criminal justice journals including information for professionals in law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security.
   • Coverage dates: 1981-present
   • Contains: Citations and full-text.


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  Dialnet

Indexes (includes tables of contents) of over 4500 journals published primarily in Spain and Latin America (some full-text). Also includes the full text of doctoral dissertations from 6 Spanish universities.

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  Early American Imprints, Series I. (1639-1800)

Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans. The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.
   • Coverage dates: 1639-1800
   • Contains: Full text.


  Early American Imprints, Series II. (1801-1819)

Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. Based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker and now supplemented by thousands of new items.
   • Coverage dates: 1801-1819
   • Contains: Full text.


  Early American Newspapers, Series I. (1690-1876)

The core of the collection is formed by Isaiah Thomas' own collection of colonial and early national period newspapers and supplemented by nearly two million issues added by Thomas' successors at the American Antiquarian Society. Numerous other institutions and historical societies have contributed to the collection.
   • Coverage dates: 1690-1876
   • Contains: Full text.


  Education Research Complete

Provides a collection of more than 800 full-text education journals, including indexing and abstracts for more than 1,730 journals. Full text for 67 books and monographs are also included.
   • Coverage dates: 1990-present
   • Contains: Full-text


  Electronic Collections Online

OCLC collection of scholarly journals.
   • Coverage dates: 1995-present
   • Contains: Citations


  Encyclopaedia Britannica - Academic Edition

The foundation of Britannica Online is the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the largest, most authoritative encyclopedia in the world. .
   • Contains: Full-text


 

Energy Citations Database

Provides free access to over two million science research citations. There are over 140,000 electronic documents, primarily from 1994 forward, available via the database. Citations and documents are made publicly available by the U.S. Department of Energy.
  • Coverage dates: 1948 - present
  • Contains: Citations

 

Engineering Village

Compendex is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research available, covering all engineering disciplines. It includes millions of bibliographic citations and abstracts from thousands of engineering journals and conference proceedings.
  • Coverage dates: 1969 - present
  • Contains: Citations

  ERIC

U.S. Dept. of Education's abstracts to over 1,000 journals and thousands of education reports, conference papers, curriculum guides, and more. Covers all aspects of education from early childhood to higher education, including information resources, languages, and linguistics.
   • Coverage dates: 1966-present
   • Contains: Citations and links to full-text.


  Ethnic NewsWatch

An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses.
   • Coverage dates: 1990-present
   • Contains: Full text.


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  Family & Society Studies Worldwide

The world's most comprehensive, systematic, and non-evaluative resource of research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, Human Development and Social Welfare.
   • Coverage dates: 1970-present
   • Contains: Citations and links to full-text


  Find Articles

A collection of academic journals and popular magazines.
   • Contains: Full-text.


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  Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music.
   • Coverage dates: earliest times-present
   • Contains: Full-text


  Gender Watch

A full text database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and NGO, government and special reports.
   • Coverage dates: 1970-present
   • Contains: Full-text


  GreenFILE

Well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Multidisciplinary by design GreenFILE contains scholarly, government and general-interest titles including content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects
   • Coverage dates: 1990-present
   • Contains: Citations & full-text


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  Harrisburg-Patriot Newspaper Online

   • Coverage dates: 2000-present
   • Contains: Full-text.


  Health and PsychoSocial Instruments

Descriptions of 12,000 qualitative instruments such as questionnaires, checklists, coding schemes, manuals, interview forms, scenarios/vignettes, index measures, projective techniques, rating scales and tests.
   • Coverage dates: 1985-present
   • Contains: Abstracts.


  Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

Provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.
   • Coverage dates: 1975-present
   • Contains: Full-text.


  Historic Documents

33 volumes of primary sources. Each volume includes approximately one hundred documents covering the most significant events of the year. These documents range from presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.
   • Coverage dates: 1972-present
   • Contains: Full-text.


  Historical Abstracts

Abstracts to 2,100 international journals on the history of the world not including the United States and Canada.
   • Coverage dates: 1970-present
   • Contains: Citations and links to full-text


  Historical Statistics of the United States

Published by Cambridge University Press, HSUS is the "standard source for quantitative indicators of American history."
   • Coverage dates: Colonial-present
   • Contains: Data are represented in series and span a timeline of years.


  History Reference Center

Features full text for more than 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers. Also included are full text for more than 120 leading history periodicals. Further, the database contains more than 59,600 historical documents; more than 49,600 biographies of historical figures; more than 110,200 historical photos and maps; and more than 80 hours of historical video.
   • Coverage dates: Early civilization-present
   • Contains: Full-text.


  Humanities International Complete

Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Includes cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals and contains more than 1.5 million records.
   • Coverage dates: 1985-present (some pre-1985)
   • Contains: Citations and links to full-text.


  Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective Index

Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of humanities and social sciences journals. Content from H.W. Wilson's International Index is also included.
   • Coverage dates: 1907-1984
   • Citations and links to full-text

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  Issues & Controversies

Covers issues of national and international interest. Extensive Pro-Con subject section. Also provides a historical background of each issue covered..
   • Coverage dates: 1980-present
   • Contains: Full-text.


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  JSTOR

Complete back runs of core scholarly journals beginning with the first issues and continuing to within 3-5 years of the present.
   • Coverage dates: Early 19th century-present
   • Contains: Full-text.


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  Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama and Fiction

Contains approximately 380 plays and 67,500 pages of prose and poetry by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Latin writers working in the United States.
   • Coverage dates: 1891-present
   • Contains: Full-text.


  Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts

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 dates: 1960's-present
   • Contains: Abstracts and indexing.


  Literature Resource Center

Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
   • Coverage dates: Early 19th century-present
   • Contains: Citations and some full-text.


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  MathSciNet

A database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. Over 80,000 new items are added each year.
   • Coverage dates: to the present.
   • Contains: bibliographic citations.


  MAS Ultra - School Edition

Provides full text from more than 650 popular general interest and current events publications covering general reference, health, science, and other areas. Also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, 541 full text reference books, 84,074 biographies, 86,135 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
   • Coverage dates: 1975-present
   • Contains: Full-text.


  Medline w/ Full-Text

Provides full text for nearly 1,200 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Of those, more than 1,000 have cover-to-cover indexing in MEDLINE.
   • Coverage dates: 1965-present
   • Contains: Full-text.

  • To access PubMed click here

  Mental Measurements Yearbook

Provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.
   • Coverage dates: 1975-present
   • Contains: Abstracts.


  Mergent Online

Provides fully searchable database of 15,000 public companies (active and inactive) listed on the NYSE. Includes numerous financial reports for each company.
   • Company Histories and join ventures go back to the company's inception
   • Financials: previous 15 years
   • Equity Pricing (Stock Prices): previous 20+ years
   • Annual Reports: 1996-present


  Military & Government Collection

Current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. Provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles.
   • Coverage dates: 1990's - present.
   • Contains: Full-text.


  MLA International Bibliography

Covers literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore worldwide. Provides citations (no abstracts) to journals, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies.
   • Coverage dates: 1926-present
   • Contains: Citations and links to full-text.


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NAXOS Music Library

Over 250,000 digital, state-of-the-art classical music recordings.
 • Contains: Full recordings.


  New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Description: Grove Music Online is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition). Grove Music Online is regularly updated to ensure it remains the most up-to-date music reference work on the internet.
   • Contains: Abstracts and indexing.


  Newsbank/Access World News (Searchable national and world newspapers)

Provides full text for 600 U.S. and over 700 international newspapers.
   • Contains: Full-text.


  Newspaper Archive

Access Newspaper Archive includes the full text of over 3,000 national (the majority) and international newspapers. Historical coverage through local newspapers is the strength of this collection. The coverage for many newspapers goes back to the 1800s or earlier.
   • Coverage dates: 1770s-present

  Newspaper Source (EBSCO)

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.
   • Coverage dates: 1990's-present
   • Contains: Abstracts and indexing and links to full-text.


  New York Times

   • Coverage dates: 2001-present
   • Contains: Full-text.
   • Preceded by The New York Times (Historical), 1851-2005

  NLM Gateway

   • Contains: Overview summaries and some full-text.

 

North American Theatre Online

A comprehensive reference work covering all aspects of the Canadian and American Theatre.
   • Coverage dates: 1500-present

   • Contains: Full-text reference works.


  North American Women's Drama

Contains 715 plays by 152 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
   • Coverage dates: 1762-present

   • Contains: Full-text

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  OED Online (Oxford English Dictionary)

The world's premier dictionary of the English language.
   • Coverage dates: Historical
   • Full-text.


  Online Newspapers

Thousands of world newspapers.
   • Coverage dates: Current
   • Full-text.


 
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  PAIS

More than 480,000 records representing articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs.
   • Coverage dates: 1972-present
   • Contains: Abstracts and indexing.


  Patriot-News (Harrisburg)

   • Coverage dates: August 1986-present
   • Contains: Full-text.


  Philosopher's Index

Abstracts scholarly journals in all areas of philosophy as well as material on the philosophy of various disciplines such as education, history, law, religion and science.
   • Coverage dates: 1940-present
   • Contains: Abstracts and indexing and links to full-text
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  POIESIS (Philosophy Online Serials)

Searchable access to hundreds of current, recent, and back issues of a growing number of philosophy journals. Includes full-text of seven of the philosophy journals subscribed to by Murray Library.
   • Coverage dates: 1990's-present
   • Full-text.

  Primary Search

Provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research.
   • Coverage dates: 1990's-present
   • Contains: Citations and links to full-text.


  Professional Development Collection (Education)

Provides a collection of more than 550 full-text education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. (Indexing and abstracting is provided for over 900 journals.) Selected educational reports are also included. This is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.
   • Coverage dates: 1965-present
   • Contains: Full-text.


  PsycArticles

Peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The PsycArticles database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research. The database contains more than 40,000 articles from 56 journals - 45 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 8 from allied organizations.
   • Coverage dates: 1985-present
   • Full-text.


  PsycINFO

Covers psychology and related fields and describes journal articles, technical reports, monographic series, dissertations, and other materials.
   • Coverage dates: 1887-present
   • Contains: Abstracts and indexing with links to full-text.
   • Search PsycArticles for full-text, peer-reviewed journal articles.


  PubMed

(NIH) free access to Medline.
   • Coverage dates: 1950's-present
   • Contains: Abstracts and indexing with links to full-text.


  PubMed Central

(NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
   • Coverage dates: Early 20th century-present
   • Contains: Abstracts and indexing with links to full-text.


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  Reader's Guide Retrospective

Comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States reflecting history and culture.
   • Coverage dates: 1890-1982
   • Contains: Abstracts and indexing with links to full-text


  Reference Universe

Index to reference books.
   • Contains: Indexing.


  RefWorks

Bibliographic citation manager.

  Regional Business News (EBSCO)

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.
   • Coverage dates: Current
   • Abstracts and indexing.


  Religion Index (ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials)

Indexes more than 12,000 articles, essays and book reviews from more than 525 international journals in religion and related fields.
   • Coverage dates: 1949-present
   • Abstracts and indexing; links to full-text.


  Research Connections: Child Care and Early Education

Research Connections offers a comprehensive, up-to-date, and easy-to-use collection of more than 10,000 resources from the many disciplines related to child care and early education. To find the most current Reports & Papers, Fact Sheets & Briefs, Executive Summaries, Datasets, and Instruments & Measures, conduct a search or browse Recently Added Resources
   • Abstracts and indexing; links to full-text.


  RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

Corresponds to the printed version by the same name. All aspects of music are covered as well as other related fields.
   • Coverage dates: 1969-present
   • Contains: Abstracts and indexing.


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  SAGE Journals

Over 400 journals in business, humanitites, social sciences, science, and medicine.
   • Coverage dates: 1999-present
   • Contains: Full-text.


  Science Direct College Edition (Health & Life Sciences; Physical Sciences)

Over 2000 journals covering all areas of physical, health and life sciences.
   • Coverage dates: 1995-present
   • Contains: Full-text.


  SciFinder Scholar

Access a wide diversity of research from many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, material science and agricultural science. References from nearly 9,500 currently published journals and patents from more than 50 active patent issuing authorities.
   • Contains: Citations
   • SciFinder Scholar Database Sheet



  Scitopia
Web-based database that searches science, engineering and technical literature.
  • Coverage dates: various, some 19th century - present

 • Contains: bibliographic citations

  SocINDEX with Full Text

Informative abstracts for more than 590 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895. In addition, this file provides data mined from more than 500 "priority" coverage journals as well as 1,040 "selective" coverage journals. Further, extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference papers, and other sources is included.
   • Coverage dates: 1895-present
   • Contains: Full-text.


  SPORT Discus w/ Full-Text

Index to 22,000 books, dissertations and 2,000 journals in all areas of sports. SPORTDiscus with Full Text features more than 400 full text titles.
   • Coverage dates: 1975-present
   • Contains: Citations with links to full-text.


  SpringerLink

Full-text access to over 1300 journals from Springer-Verlag Publications.
   • Coverage dates: 1997-present
   • Contains: Links to full-text.


 

STNEasy (BIOSIS)

BIOSIS provides abstracts of over 500,000 articles from major biological and biomedical journals.
   • Coverage dates: 1967-present
   • Contains: Citations and abstracts
   • ID and passwords are required and are distributed to students and faculty who have received training in BIOSIS.
   • STNEasy Database Guide

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  Teaching Books (Children's literature)

TeachingBooks.net is an online, multimedia collection of resources about K-12 books and authors. Each resource is selected based on its ability to bring a book to life by connecting a reader to a book in a new, personalized way.
   • Contains: Full-text.


  Tests in Print

Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, Tests in Print (TIP) serves as 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).
   • Contains: Abstracts and indexing.


  TOXNET

Databases on toxicology and environmental health. Including ChemlDPlus, Hazardous Substances databank, TOXLINE, HazMap, and Household Products database. It is provided free by the NLM.
   • Coverage dates: 1893-present
   • Contains: Full-text.


  Twentieth Century North American Drama

Contains 502 plays by 85 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
   • Coverage dates: 1965-present
   • Contains: Links to full-text.


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  Vault Online Career Library

   • Coverage dates: Up-to-date information
   • Contains: Vocational and career information.


 
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  Wall Street Journal

   • Coverage dates: March 2004-present
   • Contains: Abstracts and indexing.


  Wiley InterScience

Over 1000 journals and other resources published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Includes 159 full-text journals.
   • Coverage dates: 1990's-present
   • Contains: Full-text.


  WorldCat

Catalog of over 95 million books, scores, videos, and other materials held by the Library of Congress and 10,000 American and other libraries.
   • Coverage dates: 11th century-present.
   • Contains: Mostly bibliographic entries.
   

 

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