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- Academic Search Premier -- Replaces Periodical Abstracts
- The world’s largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database designed specifically for academic institutions. This resource indexes over 4300 periodicals and contains full text for over 3400 scholarly publications. Academic Search Premier includes full-page images as well as color embedded images. This scholarly collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
- ArticleFirst
- ArticleFirst is an index of the items listed on table of contents pages of over 12,000 journals. This index covers articles, news stories, letters and other items on topics as diverse as business, humanities, medicine, popular culture, sciences, social sciences, and technology. For most items, the database also provides a list of libraries that hold the journal.
- Biography Index
- Provides access to biographical material in more than 2700 periodicals, both individual and collective book biographies, autobiographies, and juvenile literature.
1984- present. - Book Review Digest
- Cites and provides excerpts of reviews of current English-language fiction and nonfiction books. A summary of the book is also provided. This database indexes reviews from more than 95 leading periodicals published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain.
1983- present. - Books24x7 -- SEE Safari Books
- CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
- Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is a database for theory and research in international affairs. CIAO provides access to the full-text of a wide variety of materials, including: conference proceedings, working papers, occasional papers, books and policy briefs. CIAO also indexes a selected group of journals in the area of international relations.
1991- present. Updated monthly. - Cumulative Book Index
- The Cumulative Book Index is a bibliographic database that cites recent English-language books published throughout the world.
1982- present. - Dissertation Abstracts (Digital Dissertations)
- Online access to Dissertation Abstracts plus the full text in PDF format.
1861- present.
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- Encyclopędia Britannica Online
- Full text of the Encyclopędia Britannica.
- Encyclopędia Britannica School Edition
- to the Encyclopędia Britannica, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, and Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia.
- Essay & General Literature Index
- Cites essays and articles from anthologies and collections. Focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film.
1983- present. - Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
- Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.
- History Universe
- Access to a variety of primary manuscripts, photographs, and records, and to secondary materials, from scholarly articles through encyclopedia entries, covering the colonial era to the present day.
- Humanities Full-Text
- Contains full text for over 350 journals of interest in art, philosophy, history, political science, communications, and general interest.
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- Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals
- Nearly complete coverage of U.S. art journals from the 19th century. Database includes all contents, from articles through advertisements, poems printed in the volumes, images of sculptures, paintings, or decorative arts. This index is a good source for art; art history for artists, illustrators, photographers; and, aspects of business and industry from the period.
- Infotrac Full-Text Articles (1,000 Journals)
- Index to citations in 1,000 journals with full-text access to almost 900 journals. Covers many subject areas at the undergraduate level.
- Inside Information Plus
- Inside Information Plus describes articles appearing in 21,000 of the most-requested titles in the British Library Document Supply Centre's collection of 65,000 serials. Inside Information Plus covers all topics from A to Z, from January 1996 to the present and is updated weekly.
- LexisNexis Academic
- Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and medical and health information. Includes full-text of newspaper and periodical articles.
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- A Matter of Fact
- Contains textual and statistical excerpts on current social, economic, political, health, and environmental public policy issues. The excerpts come from U.S. governmental sources, periodicals, newspapers, and reports.
1984- present. - NewsBank Newspapers
- NewsBank Newspapers is a collection of full-text newspapers available online. The database includes 17 Ohio newspapers, plus other major newspapers from other states. Content includes local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.
- Newspaper Source
- Provides comprehensive indexing to articles from leading national newspapers.
1989- present. - Oxford English Dictionary
- The complete full-text of the second edition.
- Periodical Abstracts -- SEE Academic Search Premier
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- Religion Index
- Contains more than one million citations from 1,400+ international journal titles and 14,000 multi-author works covering the subdisciplines in the fields of theology and religion, plus religious research in related fields such as sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, medicine, law, and business.
1949- present. - Safari Books
- Provides "best-in-class" technical and business reference books, journals, research reports and documentation from more than 65 of the world's top IT and business publishers.
- STAT-USA
- U.S. Department of Commerce website for the U.S. business, economic and trade community, providing authoritative information from the federal government.
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- WorldCat OCLC-FirstSearch
- Records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.