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    Friday, August 29, 2008

Full Text Databases


Academic Search Elite
Some Peer-Reviewed Journals. Provides full text for over 1,850 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and much more.

Academic Search Premier
Best Source For Peer-Reviewed Journals. Provides full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

ATLA Religion
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials is the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion. More than 600 journals are indexed annually. The database includes more than 1.3 million bibliographic records for journal articles, more than 200,000 essay citations, and more than 400,000 book review citations. This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association

Biography Resource Center
A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than 180,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Books In Print® w/Reviews
Includes approximately 2.5 million bindings for books that are in print, forthcoming, or declared out-of-print or out-of-stock indefinitely since 1979, as well as more than 500,000 full text reviews. Also includes Books Out of Print.

Book Review Digest
Instant access to book reviews from over 100 American and Canadian periodicals. Concise, critical evaluations are culled from 115 selected journals in humanities, sciences and social sciences.

Business Source Elite
Some Peer-Reviewed Journals. Provides full text for nearly 1,100 journals covering business, management, economics, finance, banking, accounting, and much more.

Business Source Premier
Best Source For Peer-Reviewed Journals. Provides full text 3,600 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more.

Choice Reviews
Reviews significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education. Publishes more than 6,500 reviews by subject experts each year.

Clinical Pharmacology
Provides access up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.

College Source
Over 10,800 college or university catalogs in original page format.

ebrary
Combines copyright security, full-text search, innovative reference tools and a rich collection of authoritative copyrighted content that includes books, journals, magazines, maps, and other publications. Requires downloaded reader to view materials.

EBSCO Animals
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.

Encyclopedia Britannica
Larger and More Up-To-Date Than Print Version. Use this general encyclopedia database to research full-text information before using specialized books or periodicals. Also provides an extensive listing of Internet resources.

Fact Search
Use this database for facts and statistics with a reference to their original source, and library holdings. Information comes from over 300 publications, including Congressional Record, etc.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.

Health Source: Consumer Edition
Search for consumer information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Full text for over 190 journals and abstracts and indexing for over 200 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides nearly 590 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 620 journals.

Highwire Press
Sciences journals archived at Stanford University. 218,000+ full text articles, many of which are free. Tables of contents for 200+ scientific journals in life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, and social sciences.

Hoover's Pro Access
Hoover's Online delivers comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence that drives business growth. The database of 12 million companies, with in-depth coverage of 40,000 of the world's top business enterprises, is at the core of their business tools and services.

Issues And Controversies
A current issues reference database that combines objective analysis and clear explanations of opposing points of view. Print version of this resource also available in the reference collection.

JStor Scholarly Journal Archive
The Scholarly Journal Archive. Provides the complete archives of core scholarly journals starting with the very first issues.
Includes the following collections:

· Arts & Sciences Complement

· Arts & Sciences II Collection

· Arts & Sciences III Collection

· Arts & Sciences IV Collection

· Business Collection

· Ecology & Botany Collection

· Health & General Sciences Collection

· Language & Literature Collection

· Mathematics & Statistics Collection

 
Kid's Edition
Use this database, designed for K-12 schools, to search magazines, newspapers, and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, etc.

Literature Resource Center
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Your electronic version of Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth Century Authors and other reputable Gale print resources.

MAS FullTEXT Ultra
Provides full text for nearly 460 general interest and current events magazines.

MasterFILE Premier
Provides full text for nearly 1,860 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more.

Middle Search Plus
Provides full text for nearly 120 magazines covering general topics appropriate for middle and jr. high school students.

Military & Government Collection
Offers 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 for nearly 400 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles.

Naxos Music Library 
Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues of over 165,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Whilst listening, you can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database.

Net Library
An excellent reference library that includes various university press electronic texts. Approximately 15,000 - 20,000 Online Books - Many of which are University Press publications.

New York Times (Current)
1999-Present. Full-text coverage of the US newspaper of record. Offers superb coverage of national and international news, plus coverage of important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions, and presidential press conference transcripts.

New York Times (Historical)
1851-2001. 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.

NEWSBANK
Primary source information from more than 500 U.S.local, regional and national newspapers, newswires, government and international documents, regional business journals and periodicals.

Newspaper Source
Provides full text for 139 regional U.S. newspapers, eighteen international newspapers, six newswires, and nine newspaper columns, The Christian Science Monitor and The Los Angeles Times, for a total of 174 full text newspapers and other sources.

Primary Search
Provides full text for over 50 children’s magazines and over 100 children’s pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student.

Project Muse
Covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others. Offers nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers.

PsycARTICLES
Full-text articles in general and specialized psychology.

Professional Development Collection
Provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 440 full text journals, designed for professional educators.

SIRS Discoverer
The site is designed especially for the younger reader and researcher and has full-text, indexed articles and graphics from more than 1,400 magazines, newspapers and U.S. Government documents.

Stat-USA Internet
The site, developed by the U.S. Department of Commerce, for the business, economic and trade community, provides authoritative market research, country analysis, etc. It includes the NationalTrade Data Bank.

Today's Science
A full-text searchable reference database that provides current science news, the latest scientific discoveries and the fundamental concepts that underlie them. Draws on major science journals, magazines and newspapers in the United States and abroad.

TOPICsearch
Allows researchers to explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. Use the dropdown menus for Current Events or Topics to easily locate relevant articles. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 78,000 articles from 3,000 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers.

Value Line Investment Survey
The Value Line Investment Survey is one of the most widely used independent investment information services in the world. Its up-to-date, weekly issues are also a comprehensive reference that has something useful for virtually every investor. In breadth of coverage it is encyclopedic, covering some 1,700 equity issues.

World Almanac
Includes biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, statistics.