Research Databases

Research Databases

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19th century British pamphlets project

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Provides online access to the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in UK research libraries. The pamphlets cover the key political, social, technological, and environmental issues of their day, and are a valuable primary resource relevant to a wide range of disciplines.

ABI/INFORM complete

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Covers business-related periodicals providing information on a range of subjects, including accounting, management, finance, marketing, corporate finance, organizational behavior, managerial economics, information systems, telecommunications, and other industry news. See individual database descriptions for specific information on content and coverage.

Academic oneFile

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(Coverage: 1980- | Full-text)
A collection of peer-reviewed, full-text articles in HTML and PDF format from the world's leading journals and reference sources, with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and other subject; intended primarily for academic researchers. It also contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full-text of the New York Times from 1985, the Times (London) from 1985 and the Financial Times from 1996.

Academic search complete

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(Coverage varies. | Full-text | Indexes | Abstracts | Images)
A scholarly, multidisciplinary database providing indexing and abstracts for over 10,000 publications, including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and others. Also includes full-text access to over 5,000 journals. Offers coverage of many areas of academic study including: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields.

Academic video online

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Academic Video Online brings together on a single cross-searchable platform a completely integrated online repository of Alexander Street Press video titles. Includes newsreels, award-winning documentaries, field recordings, interviews, lectures, training videos, and exclusive primary footage becoming a collection of 22,000 full-length videos by 2013.

ACLS Humanities E-Book

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A collection of major scholarly works from all areas of the humanities, including online versions of printed works as well as original electronic publications.

ACS publications

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ACS Publications provides access to the electronic full-text versions of the over 30 titles published (or co-published) by the American Chemical Society. Select either "ACS Journals A-Z" or "Advanced Article Search" to get to the list of titles available. In addition, the ACS Legacy Archives provides access to the electronic full-text versions of all titles, volumes, issues, and articles published by the ACS from 1879 to 1995.

African American music reference

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African American Music Reference is bringing togther 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 music. The database is constantly expanding to include comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

African American song

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African American Song is the first online resource to document the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others. This release features some 12,000 tracks of great historical recordings from Document Records from the first half of the 20th century.

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(Coverage: 1978- | Abstracts)
An online database containing detailed summaries of publications about older adults and aging, including books, journal and magazine articles, research reports, dissertations, and videos. Users can search AgeLine by various options, such as subject, author, title, keywords, etc.; publication coverage is from 1978 to the present.

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(Coverage : 15th century-present. | Indexes)
Provides citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library. Encompasses all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines including: the animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, and earth and environmental sciences.

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"Aluka is an international, collaborative initiative building an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa ... The Aluka website includes a wide variety of high-quality scholarly materials contributed by Aluka's partners, ranging from archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference works, to three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, photographs, and slides."--History and mission page.

America, history & life

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(Coverage: 1964- | Indexes | Abstracts)
"Index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present..."--About the database.

American bibliography of Slavic and East European studies

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(Coverage: 1990- | Indexes)
Covers North American scholarship on East-Central Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. Contains bibliographic records for journal articles, books and book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications.

American foreign relations since 1600

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This reference work is designed to update the Guide to the Diplomatic History of the United States since 1700 published in 1983. This edition's coverage begins at 1600 and fills the 20-year gap since 1982, the last year for works cited in the earlier edtion. The citations include published primary materials, bibliographies, biographies, monographs, essay collections, journal articles, and dissertations. Each citation carries a descriptive and evaluative annotation, usually about 50 to 100 words.

American history in video

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"American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and the presentation of historical events over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries"--Provided by publisher.

American Mathematical Society (AMS) journals

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Offers content from eight separate periodicals published by the American Mathematical Society, covering all areas of pure and applied mathematics, including: contemporary mathematical research and important developments, computational mathematics, conformal geometry and dynamics, and representation theory.

American national biography

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Offers biographies of prominent American men and women no longer living-- searchable by name, occupation, sex, birth date, death date, birthplace, contributor, and keyword. Illustrations and links to external web sites are available.

American Physical Society journals

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APS journal portal allowing users to either browse or search APS journals. Links to text (periodicals, periodical abstracts, tables of contents, indexes, etc.).

American Physiological Society journal legacy content

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(Coverage varies: 1898-1998 | Full-text)
Provides "...access to the full and searchable content of all APS journals from 1898 to 1996-1998, depending on the journal." -- Website.

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"American Song is a history database that will contain 50,000 tracks that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database will include songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more."--About the database.

American state papers, 1789-1838

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Search or browse U.S. congressional materials originating from 1789 and covering through 1838, including 1st Congress, 1st Session through 25th Congress, 2nd Session.

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Original manuscripts, maps, ephemeral material, and rare printed sources from the Graff Collection about the American West, including tales of frontier life, Native Americans, vigilantes, and outlaws, and the growth of urban centres and environmental impact of westward expansion and of life in the borderlands.

L'année philologique

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Online searchable database comprised of the print index begun in 1928 by Jules Marouzeau. Vols. 20- of the original print index are currently, with earler vols. to be digitized in the future. Indexes periodical articles as well as articles in collections and conference papers in classics and classical studies. Covers Greek and Latin linguistics and literature and Greek and Roman archaeology, history, mythology, religion, epigraphy, numismatics and palaeography: all aspects of the ancient Mediterranean world.

Annual bibliography of English language and literature

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(Coverage: 1920- | Indexes)
Lists English-language articles, books, doctoral dissertations and reviews published since 1920 anywhere in the world pertaining to bibliography, English language, traditional culture and English Literature. Covers English, American and Commonwealth writers.

Anthropology plus

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As a compilation of the Royal Anthropological Institute's Anthropological Index and Harvard University's Anthropological Literature databases, Anthropology Plus is the world's most comprehensive index covering the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and related interdisciplinary research. This database offers worldwide indexing of journals from the early 19th century to today, providing extensive indexing of journal articles, reports, and commentaries.

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(Coverage varies | Abstracts | Full-text)
Current issues of <11> Association journals and bulletins, plus archived issues of all the Association's journals, newsletters and bulletins <1888-2003>. Recent issues available from AnthroSource server in PDF; older issues available as images via JSTOR. Features include: searchable OCR-derived full text, email notifications of new content and article citations, dynamically cross-linked article references, personal profiles/saved searches/citation management. Journal issues generally appear online prior to distribution in print.

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(1800s- | Images | Audio)
Electronic library containing the Associated Press's current photos and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library.

Area studies video online

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Area Studies Video Online covers Middle Eastern studies, Latin American, African, Eastern European, Asian, and other global communities. The films focus on cultural, political, and socioeconomic issues and provide an interdisciplinary resource. With issue-based documentaries from every continent, the collection offers a comprehensive resource for examining cultural diversity around the world -- politics, religion, economics, history, psychology, cultural studies, linguistics, international relations, and sociology.

Art and architecture video online

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This collection brings together films documenting the global ideas, creations, and personalities that shape art and architecture. It includes biographies, profiles of contemporary artists and architects, interviews, surveys of art history, aesthetics, theory, criticism, and more, spanning from Greek and Roman forms to the modern.

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(Coverge: indexing and abstracting, 1984- ; select full text, 1995- | Indexes | Abstracts | Full-text)
This database offers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications. Subjects covered include: Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Computers in Art, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles, Video.

Art index retrospective

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(Coverage: 1929-1984 | Indexes)
This bibliographic database cumulates citations to Art Index volumes 1-32 of the printed index published between 1929-1984. The database cites articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. In addition to articles, Art index retrospective indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Subjects include : Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles.

ARTbibliographies modern

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(Coverage : 1974- | Abstracts | Indexes)
Provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art, with approximately 13,000 new entries being added each year. Entries date back as far as the late 1960s. Includes information on modern and contemporary arts dating from the late 19th century onwards, and including photography since its invention. Contains abstracts of English and foreign-language material on famous and lesser-known artists, movements, and trends. Includes performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theatre arts, conservation, crafts, ceramic and glass art, ethnic arts, graphic and museum design, fashion, and calligraphy, as well as traditional media including illustration, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing.

ARTFL project, University of Chicago

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(Coverage : Medieval times- | Full-text | Reference | Books | Primary sources | Images)
Coverage includes the Medieval period through the nineteenth-century. Genres represented include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. Non-fiction prose and technical writing is represented as well.

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(Coverage : 1990- | Indexes)
Provides access to periodical articles covering a range of disciplines and subjects, including business, humanities, medicine, popular culture, science, social science and technology.

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Searchable database of over one million digital images and associated catalog data. ARTstor covers many time periods and cultures, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Users can search, view, and download images.

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An e-print service which presents papers in physics, mathematics, nonlinear science, computer science, quantitative biology, and statistics. arXiv.org is a fully automated electronic archive and distribution server for research papers which functions as a means of communicating ongoing research information in these subject areas.

Asia and the West

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"This archive will enable students and scholars to examine a selection of records that constitute a political and social history of Western interaction with a number of Asian countries during the nineteenth century. Most of the manuscript collections in this archive consist of the British Foreign Office and United States consular and diplomatic records. These records were generally maintained in the local consular or diplomatic posts and reflect the day-to-day accounting of the activities of the indigenous populations and their national governments, the expansion of trade, and the exercise of extraterritorial rights and treaty provisions. In addition, a selection of missionary correspondence and journals has been included, as missionaries usually provided some of the earliest contact in various Asian locales with Western ideals."--Publisher description.

Asia-studies full-text online

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Asia-studies full-text online is a database for the study of modern Asia Pacific. This database brings together thousands of full-text reports covering 53 countries on a multitude of business, government, economic, and social issues.

ATLA religion database

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(Coverage: 1949- | Indexes)
Index to journal articles, essays, and book reviews in the field of religion. Covers biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues. Includes authority files for subjects, names as subject, scripture, and journals.

Avery index to architectural periodicals

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(Coverage: 1934- | Indexes)
Offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation. Avery indexes not only the international scholarly and popular periodical literature, but also the publications of professional associations, US state and regional periodicals, and the major serial publications on architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Expanded coverage includes obituary citations. Coverage is from 1934 to the present.

Berg fashion library

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Provides integrated text and image content on world dress and fashion throughout history. Offers fully cross-searchable access to an expanding range of Berg content collections, including the Berg encyclopedia of world dress and fashion online, e-books, reference works, images, and more.

Bible in English

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Presents 20 versions of the Bible. Offers texts from both Protestant and Catholic traditions. Texts from the Renaissance period are included. Includes all prefatory matter, notes, running heads, and glossaries.

Bibliography of Asian studies

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(Coverage : 1971- | Indexes)
Provides coverage of the humanities and social sciences pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia.

Bibliography of native North Americans

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(Coverage : 16th century- | Indexes | Abstracts)
A bibliographic database covering 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. BNNA contains more than 80,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present.

Bibliography of the history of art

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(Coverage: 1975-2007 | Abstracts | Indexes)
BHA provides abstracts of articles, books, conference proceedings, exhibition and dealers' catalogs related to American and European art, architecture, and design from late antiquity to the present. Records feature detailed abstracts in English or French.

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BioMed Central Ltd., an independent publisher in London, England, provides free access to biomedical research publications. These publications include biology and medicine journal articles, current reports, and meeting abstracts. BioMed Central offers information about current controlled trials, as well as topics in modern biology.

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(Coverage : 2000- | Abstracts | Full-text | Indexes)
Provides access to information across the life sciences, including biology, botany, ecology, entomology, mammology, microbiology, ornithology, paleontology, and zoology.

BIOSIS previews

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(Coverage: 1926- | Indexes | Abstracts)
Issued as a part of the ISI Web of Knowledge, the database covers original research reports and reviews in biological and biomedical areas. Coverage includes traditional areas of biology such as botany, zoology, and microbiology, as well as related fields such as biomedical, agriculture, pharmacology, and ecology. Also included are interdisciplinary fields such as medicine, biochemistry, biophysics, bioengineering, and biotechnology. The database covers content summaries, books, meeting abstracts, papers, and posters. BIOSIS also combines the content from Biological Abstracts and Biological Abstracts/RRM.

Birds of North America online

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This database provides scientific information for each of the 716 species of birds nesting in the USA and Canada, with image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, recordings of bird's songs and calls selected from the collection in Cornell's Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds.

Black drama, second edition

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This edition of Black drama, second edition contains approximately 1,462 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. Many of the works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print.

Black literature index

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"Black Studies Center includes the electronic index to the Black Literature microfiche collection. This index allows users to search over 70,000 bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry and literary reviews published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827-1940. For citations to content from the Chicago Defender for which full text is available in Black Studies Center, a link is included directly to the relevant article."

Black newspapers

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A collection of ten current Black newspapers from across the United States from 1989-present. Some fulltext available. As of Apr. 28. 2011, titles include Afro - American Red Star, Call & Post, Chicago Defender, Houston Post, Michigan Chronicle, Muslim Journal, New Journal & Guide, New York Amsterdam News, Sentinel, and Washington Informer.

Black studies center

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Black Studies Center combines invaluable resources for research and teaching in Black studies: Schomburg studies on the Black experience, International index of Black periodicals (IIBP), The Chicago defender, ProQuest dissertations for Black studies, and Black literature index. This fully cross-searchable gateway to Black studies includes scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more.

Book review digest retrospective

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(Coverage: 1905-1982 | Indexes | Abstracts)
An online record of books and reviews reflecting nearly eight decades of H.W. Wilson's Book Review Digest. The database covers some 300,000 books and provides excerpts from and citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction.

Book review index

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(Coverage: 1965- | Indexes)
A comprehensive online guide to book reviews with over five million review citations from thousands of publications.

Britannica online

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Affords online access to the full text of the 32-volume print edition. Among other features, this site includes Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, as well as Britannica's Own World Atlas. Searches of the Encyclopedia retrieve encyclopedia articles as well as a variety of related web sites chosen by the editors. Offers links to a selection of full-text periodicals.

British politics and society

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A multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the nineteenth century, Nineteenth century collections online will be comprised of numerous collections to be released over many years as separate modules. The British politics and society collection includes tens of thousands of primary sources related to the political climate in Great Britain during the long nineteenth century. Topics include British domestic and foreign policy, trade unions, Chartism, utopian socialism, public protest, radical movements, the cartographic record, political reform, education, family relationships, religion, leisure and many others. Primary sources include manuscripts, maps, drawings, newspapers, periodicals, government correspondence, letters, diaries, photographs, poster, pamphlets and more.

British theatre, music and literature :

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British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture features a wide range of primary sources related to the arts in the long nineteenth century, from playbills and scripts to operas and complete scores. These rare documents, many of them never before available, are sourced from the British Library and other institutions. Curation is by experts in British arts history. Covers more than a century, and encompasses both the Georgian and Victorian theatre ... The collection provides a detailed look at the state of the British art[s] world and includes manuscripts and musical compositions as well as documents such as personal letters, annotated programs, meeting minutes, and financial records. It offers scholars an unmatched glimpse into the inner workings of the world of the arts in Britain.--About.

Business and economics video online

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Business and Economics in Video focuses on the study, analysis, and application of commerce. Included are case studies, documentaries, interviews, biographies, lectures, and instructional videos. Subjects covered include marketing, sales, finance, microeconomics, personnel management, logistics and operations, strategy, negotiations, theory, cross-cultural issues, social media marketing, ethics, project management, leadership, entrepreneurship, and others.

Business insights, essentials

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Extensive reference content from Gale's core business collection; easy-to-use company fundamentals and investment research reports; industry rankings, profiles, market share data, company histories, and more.

Business source complete

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(Coverage: 1922- | Full-text)
Business Source Complete provides full text for over 10,000 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,150 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.

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Provides holdings for books and periodicals in area libraries. Includes both public library systems and academic libraries.

Catalog of U.S. government publications

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The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) is the finding tool for electronic and print publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government. These publications make up the National Bibliography of U.S. Government Publications. The CGP contains descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online. More than 500,000 records generated since July 1976 are contained in the CGP and it is updated daily. The catalog will grow to include records for publications dating back to the late 1800s, making the CGP the central point for locating new and historical Government publications. The CGP is the online counterpart of the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, which dates from the passage of the Printing Act of 1895. At present the Monthly Catalog should be consulted for pre-1976 indexing.

Center for Research Libraries catalog

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Consists of the online public access catalog (OPAC) of the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago, Illinois. Tabbed sections include basic and advanced search, search tips, and advice on requesting materials. With over five million items, CRL continues to collect primary resources and research materials that are not readily available in other libraries. CRL has extensive holdings in newspapers, foreign dissertations, and international materials. Use Skidmore's Interlibrary Loan to request the items you need.

Ciao: Columbia international affairs online

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(Coverage : 1991- | Full-text | Indexes)
Offers perspectives on international affairs, including working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. Also offers teaching materials--including original case studies written by international affairs experts, and course packs of background readings for history and political science classes.

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(Coverage: Clase: 1975-present. Periodica: 1978-present. | Indexes)
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences. Combines CLASE (Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades), which indexes documents published in journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities and PERIODICA, which covers journals specializing in science and technology. Offers access to bibliographic citations from documents published in scholarly journals in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Classical music in video

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Searchable database containing 1,000 hours of classical music performances and masterclasses captured on video--approximately 1,500 performances in all. The collection will contain performances of all forms of classical music, including major orchestral performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances, along with masterclasses and interviews with master teachers from around the world.

Classical music library

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Classical music library is a classical music service that enables listening and learning at library and home computers. It includes around 15,000 recordings, along with program notes, composer biographies, and images cross-referenced to the recordings.

Classical scores library

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Collection of important classical music scores, manuscripts, and unpublished material. Provides for textual searching by various criteria.

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(Reference)
Offers catalogs for 2-year, 4-year, and graduate institutions, as well as law, medical and specialty schools in the U.S. and abroad.

Congress and the nation

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"Congress and the Nation has been the definitive resource for researchers studying the actions of the U.S. Congress. [It] offers comprehensive and signature coverage of Congressional action from 1945 to 2008. Congress and the Nation ... provides renowned, authoritative coverage of the events, trends, and controversies in the U.S. Congress and the presidency - from the administration of Harry S. Truman through the second term of President George W. Bush - [and] accessible, in-depth review and analysis of legislation and policy during each Congressional session and presidential term, organized by policy area"--Publisher's Website.

Congressional quarterly weekly report

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(Online coverage: 1983- | Full-text | Indexes)
Congressional Quarterly's magazine on government, commerce and politics. Presents news and analyses of current events and current issues under consideration in congress, including the status of bills in play, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, and roll call votes.

ConnectNY Ebook Library

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ConnectNY has contracted with EBL to provide a collection of e-books for a consortium-wide patron (demand-driven) acquisition program. The ConnectNY board has set a broad parameter of building a permanent e-book collection while also allowing for loans for lower demand titles. The profile includes academic titles across all disciplines. The project will initially load records with imprint dates of 2010 onward from the most accepted academic publishers.

Contemporary world music

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"Contemporary world music will contain 50,000 tracks that delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database will contain important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku and more. This database is a complementary database to Smithsonian global sound for libraries - it includes a blend of contemporary and traditional world music recordings from many labels throughout the world"--About the database.

Counseling and therapy in video

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Provides an online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling--over 500 hours and more than 500 videos. Videos include counseling sessions and demonstrations, consultations, lectures, presentations, and interviews. Many videos include supplementary materials for classroom use, and continuing education credits are available for a number of titles.

Country studies

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(Reference)
This website contains the on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army. Because the original intent of the Series' sponsor was to focus primarily on lesser known areas of the world or regions in which U.S. forces might be deployed, the series is not all-inclusive. At present, 101 countries and regions are covered. Notable omissions include Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and other Western nations, as well as a number of African nations. The date of information for each country appears on the title page of each country and at the end of each secion of text.

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Provides up-to-date information on the countries of the world. Coverage encompasses: a political overview, with news, maps, political history, governmental structure and principal officials, political conditions, foreign relations, and military information; an economic overview, including macroeconomic data, key sector data, and global ranking tables; an investment overview, including taxation and key enterprises; a social overview, including, social etiquette, travel guides and health advisories; and an environmental overview, including environmental issues and pollution trends.

CQ global researcher

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(Coverage: 2007- | Full-text)
Provides students with definitive, in-depth coverage of newsworthy global affairs from a number of international viewpoints.

CQ Press political reference suite of online editions

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(Reference)
Online editions, with entire backfiles, of: California political almanac; Congress and the nation ; Historic documents series ; Political handbook of the world ; CQ's politics in America ; Supreme Court yearbook ; Washington information directory ; Vital statistics on American politics.

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(Coverage : 1991- | Full-text | Indexes)
Covers current issues of interest-from social and teen issues, to the environment, health, education, and science and technology. Each feature article is accompanied by comments from experts, lawmakers, and citizens on opposing sides of the issue.

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(Coverage : 1983- | Full-text | Indexes)
Presents news and analyses of current issues under consideration, including the status of bills in play, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, and roll call votes.

Credo reference

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Provides access to over 3 million entries from 400+ aggregated and integrated reference books from high-quality publishers. Included are dictionaries, subject encyclopedias, handbooks, gazetteers, atlases, directories, and more.

Criminal justice abstracts

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(Coverage: 1968- | Abstracts | Indexes)
Indexes international journals, books, reports, dissertations, and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines. Areas covered include trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment, and sentencing.

Criminal justice and public safety in video

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Searchable database of streaming video files covering topics such as criminal law, criminology, criminal procedure, victimology, law enforcement, violent crime, courts and adjudication, crime typology, corrections, forensics, juvenile justice, substance abuse/re-entry, first responders.

Current contents connect

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Provides bibliographic access to journal articles appearing across a range of disciplines. Coverage includes the sciences and social sciences, the arts, and the humanities.

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Searchable database containing streaming video files of dance productions and documentaries by influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. Videos can be browsed by people, role, ensemble, genre, and venue. Material types include documentaries, editorials, instructional, interviews, and performances. Database users may create their own custom playlists and video clips.

Data-Planet statistical datasets

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Provides access to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations.

Database of recorded American music

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A collection of sound recordings documenting American music largely ignored by the commercial recording companies. Works can be browsed by work, album or track titles, as well as by artist roles, and date of recording and composition. Some biographical and role information are provided for artists.

Dictionary of Old English

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The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) defines the vocabulary of the first six centuries (600 - 1150 A.D.) of the English language, using today's most advanced technology. The DOE complements the Middle English Dictionary (which covers the period 1100 - 1500 A.D.) and the Oxford English Dictionary (which documents the development of the English language to the present), the three together providing a full description of the vocabulary of English. Includes the first release of the letter G, containing some 1319 headwords, as well as revised versions of the seven previously published fascicles (1986-2003).

Directory of open access journals

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Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Aims to cover all subjects and languages.

Early American imprints, series I: Evans (1639-1800)

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Covering American history and literature thru the colonial period up to the eighteenth century, this database is a full-text digitization of the microform set Early American Imprints, Series I (1639-1800), which was itself based on the American bibliography of Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American bibliography. Offers fully searchable text and a browse feature with topical indexes. Bibliographic records created by the AAS are integrated into the database, providing additional access points.

Early American imprints, series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)

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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 B. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker and supplemented by thousands of new items. Offers fully searchable text and a browse feature with topical indexes. Bibliographic records created by the AAS are integrated into the database, providing additional access points.

Early American newspapers, series I: 1690-1876

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(Coverage: 1690-1876 | Full-text | Images | Primary sources)
Features cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, providing more than one million pages as fully text-searchable facsimile images. For students and scholars of early America, this unique collection -- based largely on Clarence Brigham's "History and Bibliography of American Newspapers,1690-1820" -- offers an unprecedented look back into the history of the United States.

Early English books online

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Reproduces works listed in: Pollard & Redgrave's Short-title catalogue, Wing's Short title catalogue and Thomason tracts, online via ProQuest Direct.

EASI market planner

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EASI market planner provides data on consumer demographics and usage/ spending patterns for products and services within all states, counties, census tracts and block groups in the U.S. The data can be mapped, graphed and analyzed using the interactive tools available in Statistical datasets. Use this in-depth consumer demographic research data to better understand your target audience. Find reports by age, gender, lifestyle and multicultural demographics, or browse research on leisure pursuits.

Ebrary Academic Complete

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Academic complete includes more than 30,000 current e-books from leading publishers. It spans all subjects, including business and economics (4,500 titles); computers and information technology (3,000 titles); education (2,100 titles); engineering and technical fields (2,400 titles); health and biomedical sciences (2,100 titles); history and the humanities (6,300 titles); life and physical sciences (2,400 titles); social and behavioral sciences (5,100 titles); and reference books and maps (2,100 titles).

EBSCO eBook collection

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Provides the full-text of thousands recently-published books from selected academic and commercial publishers, as well as the full-text of a large number of older works in the public domain.

EBSCOHost research databases

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(Coverage : 1984- | Full-text | Indexes | Abstracts | Images)
Provides access to a collection of databases. Includes such subjects as the arts and humanities, behavioral sciences, business information, educational literature, environmental sciences, health information, psychology, and pharmacology.

EconLit with full text

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(Coverage: 1969- | Indexes | Abstracts | Full-text)
EconLit with Full Text contains all of the indexing of available in EconLit, plus full text for more than 400 journals, including the American Economic Association journals with no embargo (American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, and Journal of Economic Perspectives). This database also contains many non-English full-text serials in economics & finance. Volume and issue browsing is available for all full text journals. Dating back to 1969, this database is the world's definitive research tool for economic literature.

Economic census

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Information and statistics from the U.S. economic census, including specific sectors, special programs, and outlying areas.

Education in video

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Education in Video provides a large and rich online collection of video available for the study of teaching methods and education theory. Upon completion, the collection will contain more than 1,000 video titles totaling 750 hours of teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms.

Education reports from ERIC (GPO)

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(Coverage: October 2002- | Full-text)
Database of federally funded education research topics from the U.S. Dept. of Education Educational Resources Information Center beginning with those from October 2002. Reports that are funded solely at government expense, and available here, represent about 10% of the total body of reports available from ERIC.

Education research complete

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"Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. This massive file offers the world's largest and most complete collection of full text education journals. Education Research Complete also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues"--Database description screen.

eHRAF world cultures

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Produced by the Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF) at Yale University, the eHRAF World Cultures is a cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that the information is organized into cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level.

Eighteenth century journals

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Portal to newspapers and periodicals c1685-1815 offers integrated access to the Hope Collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Eighteenth Century Journals I) and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center University of Texas (Eighteenth Century Journals II). It brings together rare journals printed between c1685 and 1815, illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. Topics include: the writings of Sir Isaac Newton; the French Revolution; reviews of literature, the theater, and fashion throughout Europe; the origins and rise of Romanticism; political debates; gender, religion, influence of the press, and coffee house gossip and discussion.

Electronic orange book

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Presents a directory of approved drug products with therapeutic equivalence evaluations, provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Allows users to search via active ingredient, proprietary name, application number, or applicant holder.

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This database is being published in five sections between 2003 and 2007 offering approximately 60,000 images of original documents linked to essays by leading scholars in the field of Empire Studies. The sections cover Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969 (2003); Empire Writing and the Literature of Empire (2003/4); The Visible Empire (2004/5); Religion and Empire (2005/6); and Race, Class and Colonialism, c1783-1969 (2006/7). The images will be sourced from about ten different libraries and archives around the world, including a strong core of document images from the British Library, including the Oriental and India Office Collections at the British Library; the University of Birmingham Library; the Bodleian Library, Oxford; and the Public Record Office and the State Records, New South Wales, Australia.

Encyclopaedia Judaica

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The electronic version of Encyclopedia Judaice, 2nd ed. Includes more than 21,000 entries on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists.

Encyclopedia of religion

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This presents the second edition of a resource that is considered a standard reference in the field. Presents a cross-cultural approach that emphasizes religion's role within everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture. The original 2,750 entries have been retained, many heavily updated, and approximately 600 entirely new articles have been added by an international team of scholars and contributors.

Encyclopedia of women in today's world

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"The Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World looks at women today and delves into contexts of being female in the 21st century. The scope of the Encyclopedia focuses on women's status starting approximately in the year 2000 and going forward. From A-to-Z, this work will cover the spectrum of defining women in the contemporary world. Signed entries (with cross-references and recommended readings) cover the full range of issues in contemporary women's studies, with volumes including information relevant to the following academic disciplinary contexts: arts and media; business and economics; criminal justice; education; family studies; health; media; military; politics; science and technology; sports; religion; and women in different cultures and countries"--Provided by publisher.

Entertainment industry magazine archive

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"An archival research resource containing the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000. The core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater are all included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles. Magazines have been scanned cover-to-cover in high-resolution color, with granular indexing of all articles, covers, ads and reviews."--Publisher description.

Environment index

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"Environment Index contains more than 1,590,000 records from 1,500 domestic and international titles going back to the 1950s (including 960 active core titles) as well as 100 monographs." Includes 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 (EBSCOHost)

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(Coverage : 1931- | Abstracts | Full-text | Indexes)
Provides access to information from publications focused on both the research and practice of education.

ERIC (ProQuest)

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(Coverage: 1966- | Indexes | Abstracts)
The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. In addition, ERIC provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs. The information is included in two files: RIE (Resources in education) and CIJE (Current index to journals in education).

ERIC database (Dept. of Education)

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(Coverage: 1966 - (abstracts) ; 1993- (full text) | Indexes | Abstracts | Full-text)
ERIC is a Web-based digital library of free education-related sources of interest to educators, researchers, and the general public, and consists primarily of electronic bibliographic records describing journal and non-journal literature. The collection is to be expanded to include full-texts of articles and other electronic resources such as audio and video materials.

eScholarship respository

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eScholarship repository is a service of the eScholarship initiative of the California Digital Library. Research and scholarly output included here has been selected and deposited by the individual University of California units.

Ethnic newswatch

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Presents information from publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Subjects covered include the arts, business, education, environmental studies, history, journalism, political science, and sociology.

Ethnic studies video online

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Ethnic Studies Video Online delivers films documenting the struggles and triumphs of underrepresented, indigenous, and immigrant communities. Covering Native American studies, Chicano studies, African American studies, and examinations of other racially marginalized communities, the films present issues of social justice, racial/ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities, and the groups' contributions to history, culture, and society.

Ethnographic video online and anthropology online

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Intended to be a visual encyclopedia of human behavior and culture, online in streaming video. Contains classic and contemporary documentaries; previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field; and select feature films. Includes footage from every continent and hundreds of unique cultures. Thematic areas include: language and culture, kinesthetics, body language, food and foraging, cooking, economic systems, social stratification and status, caste systems and slavery, male and female roles, kinship and families, political organization, conflict and conflict resolution, religion and magic, music and the arts, culture and personality, and sex, gender, and family roles.

European literature, 1790-1840

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The collection includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. The collection is sourced from the library of Victor Amadeus, whose Castle Corvey collection was one of the most spectacular discoveries of the late 1970s. The Corvey Collection comprises one of the most important archives of Romantic era writing in existence anywhere--including fiction, short prose, dramatic works, poetry and more--with a focus on especially difficult-to-find works by lesser-known, historically neglected writers.

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FedFlix is a free resource which "features more than 3,300 films created by the US government over the past 70 years on a range of topics--from the space program and employment discrimination to WWII and the war on drugs ... Films may be embedded into a Web page or online course, or streamed right from the site ... Because all of the films are in the public domain, they are not protected by copyright and may be used for any purpose"--Choice, Dec. '10.

Film & television literature index with full text

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Covers journal and magazine titles for film and television reviews, scholarly and critical analysis of cinema and television, and articles of popular interest about film and television. About half the journals and magazines are film periodicals and the other half cover film and television with some regularity. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.

Film literature Index

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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. More than 2,000 subject headings provide detailed analysis of the articles. The FLI Online contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001. You can search the citations or browse by subject headings, browse by person names, browse by production titles, or browse by corporate names.

Filmakers library online

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The collection includes documentaries that are already heavily used in humanities and social science classrooms. Topical coverage is contemporary and relevant across the curriculum--race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. The titles in Filmakers Library Online present points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide.

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Provides profiles for over 700 industries in the United States and Canada.

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Provides online access to an extensive collection of general and specialized databases covering a wide range of subject areas. Features links to abstracts, articles, indexes, reviews, and full text of works such as dissertations, journals, reports, and conference proceedings and papers. Links to some OCLC databases.

Funk & Wagnalls new world encyclopedia

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Database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated annually.

Garland encyclopedia of world music online

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The Garland encyclopedia of world music online is a comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. Each volume contains an overview of a geographic region, a survey of its musical heritage, and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances. Articles include detailed photographs that show musicians, musical instruments, and the cultural context of dances, rituals, and ceremonies. Other images include drawings, maps, and musical examples for further study. Contains the full text of the 10 volume print encyclopedia (originally published in 1997), which is searchable all together for the first time.

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(Coverage : 1970- | Full-text | Indexes)
Provides access to information on gender and women's issues. Covers such topics as the arts; aging; birth control; body image; business and work; childbirth; crime and criminology; daycare; domestic abuse; eating disorders; education; family; health care and medicine; politics; policy and legislation; popular culture and media; pornography; research and scholarship; religion; sexual harassment; sexuality and sexology; social roles; sports and leisure; work and the workplace.

General oneFile

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(Coverage: 1980- | Full-text)
Provides access to periodical and news information on a diverse set of topics, including humanities, education, business, science, current events, art, politics, economics, social science, law, health care, computers, technology, environmental issues and general interest topics.

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(Coverage: 1785- | Abstracts | Indexes)
GeoRef indexes journal articles, books, maps, conference papers reports, and theses covering subjects such as mineralogy and crystallography, general mineralogy, mineralogy of silicates, and mineralogy of non-silicates. Geology of North America is covered from 1785 to the present. Geology of the world is covered from 1933 to the present.

Gerritsen collection of Aletta H. Jacobs

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The Gerritsen Collection was begun by Aletta Jacobs Gerritsen in the late 1800s, and, when the work was finished in 1945, it was the greatest single source for the study of women's history in the world. The online resource delivers two million page images exactly as they appeared in the original printed works. It includes monographs, periodicals and pamphlets in fifteen languages, and is searchable by keyword and Boolean operators.

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"GreenFILE offers well-researched but accessible information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles include content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact. Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. GreenFILE is multidisciplinary by nature and draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology."

Grove encyclopedia of classical art and architecture

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The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture is the most current and comprehensive reference resource for the visual arts of the Classical period. It features an abundance of in-depth articles on this field of enduring importance, from biographies to thematic entries on architecture, ceramics, metalwork, mosaics, painting and sculpture.

Grove encyclopedia of decorative arts

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The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts contains over 3,000 entries covering thousands of years of decorative arts production throughout western and non-western cultures. Explore the works of Alvar Aalto and Charles and Ray Eames, or learn about the history of Navajo blankets and wing chairs in thousands of entries on artists, craftsmen, designers, workshops, and decorative art forms. Also included are hundreds of entries on the qualities and historical uses of materials, concise definitions on art forms and styles, and in-depth articles discussing the history of armor, jewelry, furniture, textiles, and ceramics.

Grove encyclopedia of materials and techniques in art

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The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date information on all aspects of this fundamental area of the visual arts. This reference work provides fascinating historical and current uses of materials and techniques in a wide range of areas from painting and sculpture to non-traditional media such as digital and video art.

Handbook of Latin American studies

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(Coverage : 1935- | Indexes)
Provides a bibliography to publications relating to Latin America. The social sciences and humanities are stressed.

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(Coverage: 1970- | Indexes)
Provides citations to worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Coverage is 1970 to the present and includes articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 500 social science and humanities journals. Many of the citations are linked to full text.

Health and society in video

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Health and society in video defines and explores medical progress in health and wellness issues. The collection uses documentaries, profiles, reports, and interviews to bridge the gap between medical research and public understanding of health. The videos are designed for use by students, instructors, and the general population to better understand the realities of illness, wellness, and the modern healthcare system. Focus is on public health and medicine, epidemiology, pathology, geronotology, nutrition and wellness, childhood development, cultural and environmental health issues, mental health, and the experience of living with chronic conditions and diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, cognitive disorders, fibromyalgia, and obesity.

Health reference center - academic

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(Coverage: 1980- | Full-text)
Provides both full-text materials and references to patient and consumer health information, including: fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health & safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, etc.; current year plus previous 4 years.

Health source nursing/academic edition

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(Coverage : 1975-present | Abstracts | Full-text | Indexes)
Provides access to scholarly and peer-reviewed journals across the medical disciplines, with a focus on nursing and the allied health fields. Covers such subjects as the medical sciences, psychology, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, health care law and general health. Also provides reference resources to assist the user with the vocabulary of medicine, including the terminologies of genetics, oncology, pediatrics, pulmonology, emergency medicine, bacteriology, and laboratory medicine.

Historic documents

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The online equivalent of the entire run of the print serial Historic documents, issued since 1972, each annual volume of which contains approximately 100 documents covering the most significant events of the year. The documents include presidential speeches, international agreements, Supreme Court decisions, U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions. Documents are preceded by introductory material to provide historical and intellectual context. Documents may be searched by full-text keyword, title, and topic, and a cumulative index is provided.

Historical abstracts

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(Coverage: 1955- | Indexes | Abstracts)
"Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more..."--About the database.

Hoover's online

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Provides business information, including company profiles, a corporate directory, market quotes, and business news, as well as links to company Web sites.

Humanities video online

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Humanities video online covers a broad range of titles in the humanities and social sciences.

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Introduces the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), part of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Notes that ICPSR is a membership-based, not-for-profit organization serving member colleges and universities by providing access to a large archive of machine-readable social science data, training facilities in basic and advanced techniques of quantitative social analysis, and resources that facilitate the use of advanced computer technology by social scientists. Provides a comprehensive list of ICPSR resources and services, information on membership and governance, links to national data archives affiliated with ICPSR, and contact information.

In the first person

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"In the first person is a landmark index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. Working with archives, repositories, publishers, and individuals we've indexed first person narratives from hundreds of published volumes-- those that are publicly available on the Web and those that are held by repositories and archives around the wordd. Our intent is to make it possible to find and explore the voices of more than 300,000 individuals."--About the database.

Index Islamicus

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(Coverage: 1906- | Indexes)
Index to literature on Islam, the Middle East and Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, and Muslim minorities elsewhere. Includes citations to over 2,000 journals, conference proceedings, monographs, and book reviews from 1906 to present.

Index to Jewish periodicals

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This new index complements our long-standing Index to Hebrew Periodicals --WWW vesion with which you can search over 600,000 bibliographic references. This index is in Hebrew and includes the Index to Hebrew Periodicals back to 1977; the Eretz Israel Data Base of earlier & non-Hebrew materials; the Tel-Hai Index to Israeli Newspapers, 1985-92 and 1994-97 (selective); and the Bar-Ilan University Index to Newspaper Literary Supplements back to 1985 (selective).

India, Raj, and empire

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Manuscript collections from the National Library of Scotland comprising diaries, letters, maps, sketches and official and private papers: a rich array of documents with which to explore the history of India from the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 to the granting of independence for India and Pakistan in 1947.

InfoTrac newsstand

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A full-text newspaper database which allows users to search articles by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other assigned fields. Comprises a collection of 2000+ national, international, state and local newspapers.

International bibliography of art

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(Coverage: 2008- | Indexes)
"The International Bibliography of Art (IBA) is the definitive resource for scholarly literature on western art, and is published exclusively by ProQuest. IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), and includes the most recent index records that were created by the Getty Research Institute as part of BHA. These records cover scholarship from the year 2008 to 2009, and ProQuest will be building on this by adding 25,000 new records per year going forwards."

International bibliography of the social sciences

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(Coverage: 1951 to present | Indexes)
IBSS covers core social science literature in disciplines of anthropology, economics, political science and sociology, as well as a wide range of interdisciplinary fields. IBSS provides bibliographic citations to more than two million journal articles, reviews, books and selected chapters - from over 100 countries and in more than 90 languages. Over 2,800 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books are included each year. The Atlas thesaurus aids in finding works on a country or region; other speciaized thesauri and indexes are provided.

International encyclopedia of dance

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The fully searchable electronic version provides access to nearly 2,000 articles on all aspects of dance, including theatrical, ritual, dance-drama, folk, traditional, ethnic, and social dance. Cultural and national overviews are accompanied by entries on dance forms, music and costumes, performances, and biographies of dancers and choreographers. Entries are also A-Z browsable.

International index to black periodicals

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"IIBP full text includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of 25 core Black Studies periodicals (1998 forward) ... Coverage is international in scope and multidisciplinary--spanning cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues of vital importance to the Black Studies discipline."

International medieval bibliography-online

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(Coverage: 1967- | Indexes)
Indexes articles on medieval subjects in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the period 450 to 1500 for Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Citations classified by date, subject and location.

IoP electronic journals

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Provides access to information across the fields of mathematical and applied physics. Covers such subjects as classical and quantum gravity; combustion theory and modeling; cosmology and astroparticle physics; micromechanics and microengineering; nanotechnology; optics; nuclear fusion; physics education; physics in medicine and biology; physiological measurement; quantitative finance; semiconductor science and technology; and smart materials and structures.

Irish newspaper archives

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A keyword searchable online archive of over 6 million page images from over 500,000 issues of 23 Irish newspaper titles, with coverage from 1763 to present.

Iter bibliography

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(Coverage: 1841- | Indexes)
"Iter's bibliography includes literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books, journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts, and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues)."--About the Iter bibliography page.

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Contains previously uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Renaissance humanistic manuscripts found in libraries and collections, published by P.O. Kristeller between 1963-1992. [New York : E.J. Brill].

Jazz music library

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Jazz Music Library is a collection of jazz recordings which covers thousands of artists, ensembles, albums, and genres, from all over the world, from the beginnings of jazz to today. It's an essential resource for the study and teaching of jazz history, performance, theory, or appreciation.

Johns Hopkins guide to literary theory & criticism

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Provides access to information pertaining to literary criticism and related fields. Offers articles on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.

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Provides online access to the back issues of a multidisciplinary array of journals. Coverage includes the arts and humanities; the social and political sciences; mathematics and the hard sciences; and business and economics.

JSTOR plant science

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JSTOR Plant Science offers access to botanical resources from dozens of herbaria, libraries, museums and other research institutions. The database includes plant type specimens from herbaria around the world, scientific research articles and correspondence dating back hundreds of years, and full-text books and reference works on botany.

King James Bible

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Offers online access to the King James (1611) version of the Bible. Includes introductory matter, annotation, calendars, genealogies and tables.

Learning and memory

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This reference presents an extensive, integrated summary of the present state of research in the neurobiology and psychology of learning and memory and covers an enormous range of intellectual territory. With topics ranging from the neurochemistry and neurobiology of learning at the cellular and synaptic levels, systems neurobiology, the study of remarkable capabilities in animals (such as homing), ethological and behavioristic analyses, mechanisms, psychology, and disorders of learning and memory in humans, the work broadly covers all topics in the neurobiology and psychology of learning and memory. There is no other handbook with such a comprehensive coverage and depth. The authors selected are the leading scholars for the particular topics on which they write.

LexisNexis academic

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Provides access to regional, national, and international newspapers, broadcast transcripts, and wire services. Offers company financial information, SEC filings and reports, as well as industry and market news. Also includes government publications information, including citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789; U.S. federal and state case law, codes, and regulations; and legal news, law reviews, and international legal information.

LexisNexis academic business

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Provides access to business information, including industry and market news. Offers company-specific data, including EDGAR filings, annual and quarterly reports, and proxy statements. Also provides access to a number of business-related directories.

LexisNexis academic legal research

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Provides access to general legal news and law reviews; offers case law, including access to state high court, appellate and federal court level information, as well as citations of U.S. Supreme Court cases. Offers access to U.S. codes and regulations including state codes and tax law. Also offers international law information, including Canadian legislative materials, statutes and regulations, and EU legislation. Patent information and several law-related directories are available as well.

LexisNexis academic news

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Provides access to regional, national, and international news. Includes newspapers, news wires, and television & radio transcripts. Coverage includes general news--plus the arts, sports, law, medicine, business and foreign language news.

LexisNexis academic reference, biographical information

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Provides biographical information on politicians, business executives, sports figures, celebrities, and others drawn from national and local news sources.

LexisNexis state capital

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LexisNexis State Capital is an online service providing access to state government information. It includes legislative information (status of bills, full text of bills, legislative calendars), state statutes, full text of state regulations, information about state legislators and their staffs, and news sources for information on state issues for all 50 states.

LGBT life with full text

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(Coverage varies | Indexes | Abstact | Full-text)
Contains indexing and abstracts for LGBT-specific core periodicals and LGBT-specific core books and reference works. Indexes important historical LGBT publications, including ONE, The Ladder, Mattachine Review, The Advocate, Christopher Street, Body Politic, The New York Native, and much more. Includes some monographs and reference books, as well as grey literature, including newsletters, case studies, and speeches.

Library, information science & technology abstracts

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(Coverage: 1965- | Abstracts)
Database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Delivered via the EBSCOhost platform, LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.

Literary encyclopedia

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The Literary Encyclopedia is an original literary reference work, written by specialists from universities around the world. It provides over 3200 authoritative profiles, usually around 2500 words in length, of authors, works and topics written by over 1200 experts.

Literature online

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Provides online access to English and American poetry, drama, and prose. Includes biographies, bibliographies, criticism, and reference resources.

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Provides online access to poetry, essays, short stories and plays.

Locus: SIAM's online journal archive, 1952-1996

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(1952-1996 | Full-text)
"Contains the electronic full text for every SIAM journal article published from the journal's inception through 1996."

London low life

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Full-text searchable resource, containing colour digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 19th and early 20th century London; designed for both teaching and study, from undergraduate to research students and beyond. Will be of interest to students and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including literature, cultural studies, urban studies, social history and the study of leisure and tourism. There is a strong emphasis on rare or unique material, particularly in the range of ephemera and street literature available.There is also an emphasis on visual material. The documents are drawn from the holdings of the Lilly Library, the rare books, manuscripts, and special collections library of the Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington.

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(Coverage : 1940- | Indexes)
Provides access to the international literature of mathematics. Coverage includes both pure and applied mathematics.

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"MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals"--About the database.

Mental measurements yearbook

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(Coverage: 9th ed., 1985- | Reference)
Contains descriptive information and critical reviews of new and revised tests from the 9th-15th Yearbooks. The database covers more than 2,200 commercially-available tests in categories such as personality, developmental, behavioral assessment, neuropsychological, achievement, intelligence and aptitude, educational, speech and hearing, and sensory motor.

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Provides international business and finance information, including profiles for U.S. public companies (both active and inactive) listed on the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ exchanges. Also provides access to SEC filings and annual reports. Profiles for many non-U.S. public companies are included as well.

Military & government collection

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"Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites ... Provides cover-to-cover full text to nearly 300 journals and periodicals and abstracts for nearly 400 titles."

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An electronic community for scholarly research in the cognitive and brain sciences including a library of journals, books, reference works and conferences. Full text, abstracts.

MLA international bibliography

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(Coverage : 1926- | Indexes)
Offers citations to international publications relating to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore worldwide.

Morningstar investment research center

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A comprehensive stock database that includes financial data on companies traded on the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ®, and the American Stock Exchange; in-depth research reports on companies; data on mutual, closed-end, and exchange-traded funds; analysts' reports on funds; exclusive investment tools and engaging educational features, including interactive training on basic and advanced stock, fund, and portfolio techniques.

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(Coverage: 1970- | Indexes)
Contains cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for every aspect of the classical and popular world of music including musicological and organological topics, as well as book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries from more than 850 music periodicals from over 40 countries.

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Cross-searches audio, video, scores, and full-text reference content from all the Alexander Street Press music databases to which an institution subscribes.

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(Coverage: 1865-present | Full-text)
"The Nation is America's oldest weekly magazine and one if its premier journals of opinion since its inception in 1865. The Nation has long been regarded as one of the country's definitive journalistic voices of writing on politics, culture, books and the arts and continues to stand as the independent voice in American journalism. This database contains indexing & abstracting and full text for the complete archive of The Nation beginning with its first issue in 1865 through to the present"--Database information screen.

National newspaper index

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Indexes articles published in the Christian Science Monitor (National edition), Los Angeles Times (Home edition), New York Times (Late and National editions), Wall Street Journal (Eastern and Western editions) and Washington Post (Final edition).

Naxos music library, classical

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"Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues of over 75,000 tracks, including Classical music, Historical recordings, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Whilst listening, users can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database"--FAQ page.

Naxos music library, jazz

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Includes thousands of titles of the Fantasy catalogue and Naxos Jazz. Works may be searched by featured artist(s), disc / song title and catalogue number.

Naxos music library, sheet music

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Offering over 45,000 sheet music titles, the Naxos Music Library delivers digital sheet music in all classical genres, spanning music from Medieval to the 21st century and composers from Bach to Arvo Part. Music can be downloaded and printed, and many works can also be transposed into any key or clef.

Naxos spoken word library

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Naxos spoken library comprises one of the most comprehensive collections of the classic audiobook material available online. It concentrates largely on literary classics and educational themes. It offers Naxos AudioBook's full range of recordings many of which can also be followed with the texts on screen -- Website.

Naxos video library

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A performing arts video library with over 300 operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, and musical tours of historic places. It includes the Naxos DVD label, Opus Arte, Arthaus, Dacapo, EuroArts, among others and is continuously updated.

New York State newspapers

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A database of major national and local newspapers published in New York State, including: Albany Times Union, Buffalo News, Herald American (Syracuse), New York Post, New York Times, Post-Star (Glens Falls), Watertown Daily Times, and more.

Newspaper source

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Provides coverage of regional, national, and international newspapers. Offers transcripts from radio and television programs, as well.

Nineteenth Century collections online

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A multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the nineteenth century; will be comprised of numerous collections to be released over many years, including a variety of material types--monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more--in one cross-searchable location.

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"Will contain approximately 250 important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world's leading performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work's importance to the operatic canon"--Homepage.

OpinionArchives

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OpinionArchives provides electronic archives for journals of opinion, including The Nation, Commentary, The New Republic, Commonweal, Dissent, NACLA, American spectator, National review, Harper's magazine, New York review, and the New Yorker. The OpinionArchives metasearch tool provides cross-journal searching for all titles in the archive.

Oxford art online

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Oxford Art Online enables access and cross-search functionality to Grove and Oxford reference content in one location. Provides access to Grove Art Online, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Includes image partnerships with ARTstor, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Images for College Teaching, Art Resource, Artists Rights Society and numerous international art galleries and artists.

Oxford dictionary of national biography

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Biographies of noteworthy people, no longer living, who inhabited or were connected with the British Isles. Portraits included for more than 10,000 entries.

Oxford English dictionary

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Provides online access to the multi-volume set of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Oxford music online

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Oxford Music Online (OMO) is the access-point for Oxford music reference subscriptions and products, including Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music. With OMO patrons can cross-search Grove and Oxford reference content in one location.

Oxford reference

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Oxford Reference brings together nearly 200 language and subject reference works in a single cross-searchable resource. Works in the collection include an expanding range of key titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions series, the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, many English-language and bilingual dictionaries, as well as subject encyclopedias and dictionaries in a wide range of subject areas including: Art & Architecture, Biological Sciences, Classics, Computing, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Economics & Business, Food & Drink, History, Law, Literature, Maps, Medicine, Military History, Mythology & Folklore, Names & Places, Performing Arts, Physical Sciences & Mathematics, Politics & Social Sciences, Quotations, Religion & Philosophy, Science.

Oxford scholarship online. Classical studies

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"Oxford University Press has the largest, most distinguished and internationally recognized print publishing programme in Classical Studies. The Oxford Scholarship Online collection provides, for the first time, direct and easy access to many of Oxford's distinguished key and new titles in the discipline, including essential scholarly works by leading classical scholars on Greek and Latin literature and culture, and Ancient History."

Oxford scholarship online. Music

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Part of Oxford Scholarship Online. The music list in Oxford Scholarship Online represents outstanding work across this diversity of music scholarship, covering significant titles in musicology and music history, ethnomusicology, and music theory. Contributions of bright young academics and eminent scholars, classic works and major recent titles, award-winners and fundamental texts, all stand together in this essential collection.

Oxford scholarship online. Philosophy

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Part of Oxford Scholarship Online, the subject area Philosophy provides cross-searchable, fully-indexed access to the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford books in the area of philosophy. Includes coverage of: Aesthetics, Ancient philosophy, Feminist philosophy, General, History of philosophy, Logic / Philosophy of mathematics, Metaphysics / Epistemology, Moral philosophy, Philosophy of language, Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of religion. Philosophy of science, Political philosophy.

Oxford scholarship online. Political science

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Part of the Oxford Scholarship Online, the subject area Political Science provides cross-searchable, fully-indexed access to key area of the discipline, from Comparative Politics to Political Theory, International Relations to European Union Studies. Authors include Allen Buchanan, Stefano Bartolini, Robert E. Goodin, Will Kymlicka, Iris Young, Giandomenico Majone, Michael Moran, Robert, D. Putnam, Ira Katznelson and John Gaddis.

Oxford scholarship online. Social work

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In these Oxford titles, strengths in broad areas of the discipline, such as child welfare and mental health, are supported by a particular focus on research methods and evidence-based practice. A very partial list of notable authors includes Jill Duerr Berrick, Jacqueline Corcoran, Neil Gilbert, Duncan Lindsey, Julia Littell, Cheryl Regehr, Aron Shlonsky, and Tony Tripodi, together with renowned researchers from the fields of psychology, psychiatry, sociology, and public health. Forty-two titles will mark the OSO launch, with an additional twenty new titles to be added each year, including volumes from the series Pocket guides to social work research methods, Evidence-based practices, SSWAA workshops, and interpersonal violence. Sub-disciplines include: children and families; communities and organizations; health and mental health; research and evaluation; and social policy.

PAIS international

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(Coverage: 1972- ; PAIS archive: 1915- | Abstracts | Indexes)
"The PAIS International database contains references to more than 460,000 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. PAIS International includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world. In addition to English, some of the indexed materials are published in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish"--Online factsheet.

Paperofrecord.com

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Paper of Record is an historical archive of full-page newspaper images that you can search for unique coverage of past events. The archive is created from newspaper collections on microfilm, preserving the original format of the paper.

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Euromonitor International's Global Market Information Database (GMID) is an online business information system providing business intelligence on industries, countries, and consumers. It offers integrated access to statistics, reports, insightful comment and business information sources. Coverage is global, more than 200 countries are researched.

Philosopher's index

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(Coverage: 1940- | Abstracts)
Provides indexing and abstracts of "scholarly research published in journals and books, including contributions to anthologies and book reviews. The database covers the fifteen fields of philosophy: aesthetics, axiology, philosophy of education, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of history, philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, metaphilosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of science, social philosophy, and the philosophy of religion. The Philosopher's Index contains research published since 1940 including nearly 570 journals from 43 countries with content representing a variety of languages."--Database information page.

Philosophy and religious studies in video

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Philosophy and Religious Studies in Video delivers films documenting philosophical and religious ideas and how they shape human behavior today. From the ancient Greeks to the Frankfurt School, from Hinduism to Christianity, from classical Chinese philosophy to American pragmatism, the collection provides broad coverage for studies in philosophy, religion, current affairs, anthropology, international relations, history, and other areas.

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The PILOTS [Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress] database includes citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health manifestations of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations. It also covers literature on the provision of mental health services to a traumatized population or a population at risk of experiencing traumatic events and issues of professional ethics, scientific methodology, or public policy relating to traumatized populations.

Poets on screen

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Contains over 800 clips of poets reading their own and other poets' works.

Political handbook of the world

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The Political Handbook of the World contains entries on countries and territories around the world. It covers each country's political parties and includes names of key ambassadors, international memberships, and profiles intergovernmental organizations.

Politics and current affairs video online

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Politics and current affairs video online brings together documentaries covering immigration and border studies, Middle East studies, urban studies, politicial science, globalization, human rights, and related topics.

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(Coverage: 1940- | Indexes)
The PrimateLit database provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. Coverage of the database spans 1940 to present and includes all publication categories (articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc.) and many subject areas.

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Database of financial data on major privately-held companies. Includes private financials and revenues; private M&A deals and deal multiples, private firm valuations, VC funding, private equity deal history; and private and family ownership data.

Professional development collection

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(1965- | Full-text | Abstracts)
Provides a highly specialized collection of more than 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 700 journals

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Provides access to journal articles across a wide variety of subjects, including: African Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Art, Asian Studies, Caribbean Studies, Classics, Culture and Society, Economics, Education; Film, Theater and Performing Arts; Folklore; French Studies; Gay and Lesbian Studies; Geography; History; Language; Latin American Studies; Library Science; Literature; Marketing; Mathematics; Medicine and Health; Medieval Studies; Mediterranean Studies; Music; Native American Studies; Philosophy; Politics and Political Studies; Population Studies; Psychology and Psychiatry; Religion; Science; Sexuality; Sociology; and Women's Studies.

ProQuest Congressional

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Provides information produced by or pertaining to the United States Congress, including House and Senate documents in full-text (1995-), directories of members, committee hearing selected transcripts and full-text statements (1988-), committee rosters and schedules, legislative histories (1969-), the full text of bills and tracking (1989-), public law texts (1988-), committee reports full-text (1990-), campaign finance data (1987-), key votes data (1987-), and member financial disclosures, profiles, and voting records. Also provides access to the Congressional Information Service Index (1970-), Congressional Indexes (1789-1969), the Congressional Record daily edition (1985-), the United States Code, the Code of Federal Regulations (1981-), the Federal Register (1980-), The Hill (1995-), Washington Post section A news (1977-), and Roll Call (1989-).

ProQuest education journals

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Offers complete text and images from almost 400 leading journals in the field of education, covering the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education; also includes such areas as special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics. Dates of coverage start from 1988 forward.

Proquest historical newspapers: Christian science monitor (1908-1997)

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Full-page images and article images from: Christian Science monitor (Boston, Mass. : 1908); Christian Science monitor (Boston, Mass. : Atlantic ed.); Christian Science monitor (Boston, Mass. : Eastern ed.); and: Christian Science monitor (Boston, Mass. : 1983).

ProQuest historical newspapers: Los Angeles Times (1881 - 1987)

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This database offers full page and article images with searchable full text from the Los Angeles Daily Times and the Los Angeles Times. The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue in PDF format.

ProQuest historical newspapers: New York Amsterdam news

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This database provides full page and article images with searchable full text from the New York Amsterdam news (1922-1938), New York Amsterdam news (1938-1941 : City ed.), New York Amsterdam news (1943-1961 : City ed.), New York Amsterdam news (1962-1993), New York Amsterdam star-news (1941-1943), and the New York star & Amsterdam news (1941-1941). The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue in PDF format.

ProQuest historical newspapers: New York times with index

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Includes full page images and article images from the New York Daily Times (1851 to 1857) and the New York Times from its first issue in 1857 to 2002. The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue, cover to cover, in downloadable PDF files.The database covers a span of issues currently not covered by any other electronic resource.

ProQuest historical newspapers: Pittsburgh courier

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This database provides full page and article images with searchable full text from the Courier (1950-1954 : City ed.), New Pittsburgh courier (1969-1981 : City ed.), New Pittsburgh courier (1981-2002), Pittsburgh courier (1911-1950 : City ed.), and Pittsburgh courier (1955-1965 : City ed.). The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue in PDF format.

ProQuest historical newspapers: Chicago defender (1910-1975)

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The Chicago Defender (1910-1975) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue

ProQuest historical newspapers: Washington post

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This database provides full page and article images from The Washington Post (1877-1995), with searchable full text back to 1877. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

ProQuest newspapers

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Provides access to major US national newspapers, international English-language newspapers, and/or selected regional/state newspapers.

ProQuest research library

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(Coverage : 1971- | Abstracts | Full-text | Indexes)
ProQuest research library indexes more than 2,600 general interest and academic periodicals in all fields, and provides access to nearly 1000 of them in ASCII full-text or full-image formats. In addition to general core title coverage, there are subject emphases in the following areas: arts, business, children, education, health, humanities, international studies, law, military, multicultural studies, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's studies. Indexing coverage begins about 1970.

ProQuest statistical datasets

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Provides access to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. A module of ProQuest statistical insight.

ProQuest statistical insight

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Provides statistical data from U.S. government publications from 1973, state and private sources from 1980, and international organizations from 1983.

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(Coverage : 1988- | Abstracts | Full-text | Indexes)
Provides access to current information in the fields of psychology and psychiatry. Coverage includes general psychology, as well as issues pertaining to applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.

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(Coverage: 1800's- | Books)
Created by the American Psychological Association, PsycBOOKS is a full text database featuring more than 500 APA books from 1950-2003, including 100 out-of-print books and 75 archival resources in psychology. In addition, this database contains the exclusive electronic release of more than 1,500 authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.

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(Coverage: 1956- | Full-text)
PsycCRITIQUES, produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), is an electronic serial of book reviews featuring full text reviews of current scholarly and professional books in psychology. It also publishes reviews from a psychological perspective of popular films and trade books, and includes a searchable database of nearly 40,000 reviews dating back to 1956.

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Produced by the American Psychological Association, PsycEXTRA is a bibliographic and full text companion database to the scholarly PsycINFO database. The document types included consist of technical and annual reports, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, consumer brochures and more. It contains approximately 45,000 records with over 30,000 additional records added annually.

Psychology and behavioral sciences collection

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Provides access to information in the fields of psychology and the behavioral sciences. Coverage includes emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

Psychology video online

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Psychology video online includes documentaries, interviews, case studies, and psychological experiments covering topics ranging from addiction, group psychology, feminist psychology, family psychology, children and adolescent psychology, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, attention deficit disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and so on.

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(Coverage : 1887- | Abstracts | Full-text | Indexes)
Provides access to information in the field of psychology, as well as the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law.

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Produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), PsycTESTS serves as a repository for a growing selection of psychological tests and measures, including thousands of actual test instruments and test items that are available for immediate download and use in research and teaching. International in scope, PsycTESTS® also provides access to an increasing number of tests that are available in languages other than English. PsycTESTS® is an authoritative source of structured information about tests of relevance to psychologists and professionals in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work. While focused on contemporary instances of test use, coverage spans more than a century.

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PubMed is a service of the National Library of Medicine that includes over 15 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

Readers' guide retrospective, 1890-1982 (H.W. Wilson)

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(Coverage: 1890-1982 | Indexes | Reference)
Provides indexing of over three million articles from more than 550 leading magazines, including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. This important resource offers a wide range of researchers access to information about history, culture and seminal developments across nearly a century.

Regional business news

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Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Religion & philosophy collection

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(Coverage: 1975- (fulltext) | Indexes | Abstracts | Full-text)
Provides citations and abstracts for articles from nearly 250 journals covering world religions, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Many records include the full text of the cited article.

Rhizome at the New Museum

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Rhizome supports the creation, presentation, and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways. Includes sections on Art and on community and blogs, newsletters, community discussions, announcements and email feeds.

RILM abstracts of music literature

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(Coverage: 1967- | Abstracts)
Extensive collection of bibliographic records and abstracts focused on music reference and other music related fields. Offers international coverage of books, bibliographies, conference proceedings, catalogs, discographies, dissertations, ethnographic recordings, Festschriften, films, iconographies, and videos. Covers 1967 to present.

Rock and roll, counterculture, peace and protest

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Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest contains materials about popular culture in the U.S. and U.K. from 1950 to 1975. Topics include student protests, civil rights, consumerism, and the Vietnam War.

Rock's backpages

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(Coverage: 1960- | Full-text | Audio)
Rock reviews, articles and interviews from the late 1950s to the present day.

Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy

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Presents an online version of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Coverage spans ancient philosophy up through the contemporary period, including Anglo-American, continental, and cross-cultural philosophy. Includes such subjects as aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, feminism, language, law, logic and mathematics, metaphysics, mind and psychology, politics, philosophy and literature, religion, science, and social science.

Routledge performance archive

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Provides unique access to an unprecedented range of audio-visual material from past and present practitioners of performance. The video material spans more than fifty years of documented work direct from renowned practitioners and specialists, and ranges across the entire spectrum of theater topics. Included in the Routledge Performance Archive are interviews with key figures in theater history and contemporary practice; masterclasses with specialist actor trainers from around the world; unique footage direct from the legendary practitioners themselves; excerpted and full-length contemporary productions; and documentaries previously unavailable to global audiences.

SAGE journals online, premier package

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Provides full-text online access to electronic journals published by SAGE Publications.

SAO/NASA astrophysics data system

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The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System is a digital library portal for researchers in astronomy and physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant. The ADS maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 8.7 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics; Physics; and arXiv e-prints. It covers journal articles, conference papers, technical reports, books and chapters.

Science video online

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Science Video Online provides documentaries covering environmental studies, natural history, and the physical and biological sciences, including chemistry, physics, biology, geology, oceanography, ecology, astronomy, and geography. Coverage includes the history of science and technology, examinations of how the various sciences work in practice, how ethical and political decisions are affected through their application, and how issues in science relate to larger intellectual and social trends.

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Provides a gateway to information resources at government science agencies. Subject coverage includes agriculture and food sciences; applied sciences and technology; astronomy and space; biology and nature; computers and communication; earth and ocean sciences; energy and energy conservation; environmental sciences; health and medicine; math, physics, and chemistry; natural resources and conservation; and science education.

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Web database for scientific research that contains abstracts, articles and full text of more than 1000 Elsevier Science journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. Skidmore's access to full text is limited to subscribed titles.

SciFinder Scholar

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SciFinder Scholar provides access to the CAplus database of chemical literature and U.S. and foreign chemical-related patents, to CASREACT, to the Registry database from Chemical Abstracts Service, and to Medline. It includes journal articles, book chapters, patents, conference proceedings, technical reports, substance database and dissertations covered in Chemical Abstracts as well as articles currently being indexed, book reviews and biographical information.

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This major new publishing event provides the first up-to-date, cutting-edge, comprehensive reference work combining volumes on all major sensory modalities in one set in three decades. Under the guidance of a distinguished team of international experts, 6 volumes collected 300 articles from all the top scientists laying out our current knowledge on the anatomy, physiology, and molecular biology of sensory organs. Topics covered include the perception, psychophysics, and higher order processing of sensory information, as well as disorders and new diagnostic and treatment methods. Written for a wide audience, this reference work provides students, scholars, medical doctors, and anyone interested in neuroscience a comprehensive overview of the knowledge accumulated on the function of sense organs, sensory systems, and how the brain processes sensory input.

Serials directory

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The 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 250,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers; data from more than 108,000 publishers worldwide, including e-mail and Internet addresses; and Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Classifications for every entry.

Shakespeare collection

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Shakespeare Collection is the subject's most comprehensive and authoritative online resource, bringing together general reference data, full-text scholarly periodicals (including Shakespeare studies, Shakespeare bulletin, Studies in English literature, 1500-1900, Medieval and Renaissance drama in England, Early modern literary studies), reprinted criticism, primary source material and the full-text annotated works from The Arden Shakespeare complete works.

Short story index retrospective

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This database provides an index for those seeking short fiction by a favourite author, a body of work by a specific literary figure or a particular genre of short stories. It contains references to more than 140,000 from some 350 periodicals and collections of short stories. It cites short stories published over 150 years, from the 1830s to the 1980s - the content of which comes from Wilson's Short Story Index in print, back to its beginning in 1915. The coverage dates cited on the database are 1915-1983.

Slavery, abolition and social justice, 1490-2007

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This digital collection documents key aspects of the history of slavery worldwide over six centuries, with 16 key areas of focus: slavery in the early Americas; African coast; the Middle Passage; slavery and agriculture; urban and domestic slavery; slave testimony; spiritualism and religion in slave communities; resistance and revolts; the Underground Railroad; the abolition movement and the slavery debate; legislation and politics; freed slaves, freedmen and free black settlements; education; slavery and the Islamic world; varieties of slave experience; slavery today and the legacy of slavery. The collection also includes case studies from America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Cuba.

Smithsonian global sound for libraries

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Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. It also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies. Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries is a joint venture with Smithsonian Global Sound®, an international network of music audio archives and an educational resource that delivers the world's diverse cultural expressions via digital media.

Social services abstracts

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(Coverage: 1980- | Abstracts | Indexes)
Indexes and abstracts current research (articles are from 1980 to the present) in social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Major areas of coverage include community and mental health services; crisis intervention; evaluation research; the family and social welfare; gerontology; policy, planning and forecasting; poverty and homelessness; professional issues in social work; social development; social work education; support groups/networks; violence, abuse and neglect; and welfare services.

Social work abstracts

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(Coverage: 1965- | Abstracts | Indexes)
Social Work Abstracts offers extensive coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1965. Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the database provides indexing and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems. Topics include: therapy, education, human services, addictions, child and family welfare, mental health, civil and legal rights, economics, homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization, and more.

SocIndex with full text

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(Coverage: 1895- | Indexes | Abstracts | Full-text)
SocINDEX with Full Text offers coverage from all subdisciplines of sociology, including abortion, anthropology, criminology, criminal justice, cultural sociology, demography, economic development, ethnic and racial studies, gender studies, marriage and family, politics, religion, rural sociology, social psychology, social structure, social work, sociological theory, sociology of education, substance abuse, urban studies, violence, welfare, and many others. 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.

Sociological abstracts

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(Coverage: 1952- | Abstracts | Indexes)
Indexes and abstracts articles in the fields of sociology, anthropology, criminology, demography, education, law and penology, race relations, social psychology, and urban studies. Coverage also includes policy issues in areas such as aging, violence, abuse and neglect, crisis intervention, urban development, and development policy.

SPORTDiscus with full text

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(Coverage: 1985-present | Full-text)
Bibliographic and full-text database covering both serial and monographic literature on sports, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport administration, officiating, sport law and legislation, disabled athletes, sports facility design and management, intramural and school sports, doping, health, health education, biomechanics, movement science, injury prevention, rehabilitation, physical therapy, nutrition, exercise physiology, recreation, leisure studies, tourism, allied health, occupational health and therapy.

Springer eBook collection

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Full text access in HTML and PDF formats to the the electronic versions of books published by Springer. Content is in 13 subject areas: Architecture and Design; Behavioral Science; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Business and Economics; Chemistry and Materials Science; Computer Science; Earth and Environmental Science; Engineering; Humanities, Social Sciences and Law; Mathematics and Statistics; Medicine; Physics and Astronomy; and, Professional Computing & Web Design.

SRDS consumer media advertising source

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Please use Internet Explorer to access this resource. Performance issues have been reported when using Firefox and Safari. "This service provides complete planning information on U.S. consumer magazines, including standardized ad rates, dates, contact information and links to online media kits, Web sites and audit statements that provide additional facts on readership information and positioning"--Company info.

SRDS local market audience analyst

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Please use Internet Explorer to access this resource. Performance issues have been reported when using Firefox and Safari. This service contains market profile reports, lifestye analysis reports, demographics reports and PRIZM reports.

Standard & Poor's netAdvantage

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Features Standard & Poor's market investment news, including market snapshot, company quote, equity indexes page, the Outlook's market insight, S & P stock picks and pans, economic calendar, economic insight, industry in focus, and Stovall's sector watch.

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"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, intented test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s) ... Also guides readers to critical, candid test reviews published in the Mental measurements yearbook (MMY) series"--Information page.

Theatre in video

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Contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video.

Times digital archive

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Full-text and full-image articles from the Times of London. It is a digital reproduction, cover to cover, of the paper in PDF files.

Times literary supplement historical archive

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The TLS historical archive provides searchable access to the full text of the Times Literary Supplement from 1902. It includes more than 300,000 reviews, letters, poems, and articles.

Travel writing, spectacle and world history

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Women's travel diaries and correspondence from the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Includes manuscripts, diaries, travel journals, correspondence, photographs, postcards and ephemera, from 1818 to the 1970s.

Twayne's authors series

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Offers critical introductions to the lives and works of writers, to the history and influence of literary movements, and to the development of literary genres.

U.S. congressional serial set

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Database of texts from the bound, sequentially numbered Congressional documents and reports from the U.S. House and Senate. Provides access to primary source material on all aspects of American history, including committee reports related to bills and other matters, presidential communications to Congress, treaty materials, certain executive department publications, and certain non-governmental publications.

U.S. overseas loans and grants

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The Greenbook , produced by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), reports all loans and grants authorized by the US. Government for each fiscal year by purpose and by country. Historical account data is now available. In addition, beginning in FY2002 the database houses the comprehensive account obligations.

Underground and independent comics, comix, and graphic novels

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(1960s to present | Primary sources | Full-text)
Primary source database focusing on North American and European adult comic books and graphic novels. The collection includes original material from the 1960s to today along with interviews, commentary, theory, and criticism from journals, books, and magazines.

United States statutes at large

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(Coverage : 1789- | Reference | Primary sources)
Provides access to the Statutes At Large from 1789 to 1997.

Victorian popular culture

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Electronic collection of rare books, posters and manuscripts relating to the history of spiritualism, magic and popular entertainment in the United Kingdom, United States and Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This innovative portal invites users into the darkened halls, small backrooms and travelling venues that hosted everything from spectacular shows and bawdy burlesque, to the world of magic and spiritualist séances.

Water resources abstracts

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Provides citations and abstracts to the technical and scientific literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources. Abstracts are drawn from journals, books, conference proceedings, and technical reports in the physical and life sciences, as well as from engineering, legal and government publications. The database covers publications worldwide, from 1967-present.

Webster's third new international dictionary, unabridged

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Provides access to the online version of Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged.

Wildlife & ecology studies worldwide

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(Coverage : 1935- | Abstracts | Indexes)
Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide, (1935 & earlier to present), produced by NISC, is the world's largest index to literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. Coverage includes more than 678,000 bibliographic records many of which include abstracts. Most of the records in this database are from Wildlife Review Abstracts, formerly Wildlife Review, which until 1996 was a print publication produced by the U.S. National Biological Service. Wildlife Review Abstracts plus the 7 other related databases offer a global perspective and together form the most comprehensive resource on wildlife information. Major topic areas include studies of individual species, habitat types, hunting, economics, wildlife behavior, management techniques, diseases, ecotourism, zoology, taxonomy and much more. Approximately 18,000 records are added per year.

Wiley online library

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Provides full text access to journals, reference works, books, and databases published by Wiley in all the science disciplines.

Women and social movements in the United States 1600-2000

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"Intended to serve as a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history ... The website provides learning modules in the form of mini-monographs, each of which is organized around a specific question about a single social movement. Each module contains fifteen to twenty documents that address the question."

Women writers online

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Women Writers Online contains full-text editions of more than 100 texts by English and American women published between 1500 and 1830. It also includes introductory essays written by contemporary scholars about Renaissance women writers, their texts, and related topics. The site also includes links to other textual databases, and a collection of syllabi.

Women's and gender studies video online

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Women's and gender studies video online contains films covering the study of gender, feminism, women's history, media studies, and politics. The films address issues of social justice, gender/sexual identity, gay and lesbian studies, and provide insights into the contributions of women to history, culture, and society. The collection is global in scope.

World history in video

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World history in video is an online collection of streaming video that gives users access to critically acclaimed documentaries from filmmakers worldwide. Upon completion the collection will include more than 1750 documentaries that offer a survey of human history from the earliest civilizations to the fall of the Berlin Wall. World history in video covers Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania.

World languages and literature in video

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World Languages and Literature in Video provides documentary films and adaptations covering the leading figures in world literature. Included are interviews, biographies, profiles of key literary figures, surveys of regional literatures and literary periods. Also covered are studies of languages, cultures, and literary traditions, including French, Spanish, German, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, and Latin American.

World Shakespeare bibliography

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(Coverage : 1964- | Indexes)
Provides citations to the literature of Shakespeare studies worldwide

World's women :

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Statistics and statistical trends in such areas as demographics, health, education, work, violence against women, poverty, human rights and decision-making.

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Provides a worldwide catalog of books, web resources, and other materials including, computer programs; films and slides; manuscripts; maps; musical scores and sound recordings.

WorldCat dissertations and theses

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"This database provides fast and convenient access to the dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries. Many theses are available electronically, at no charge, directly from the publishing institution."

Worldwide political science abstracts

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(Coverage: 1975- | Indexes | Abstracts)
Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration and policy.

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