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Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)
Subject: All Subject Areas
Full Text:
Description: Covers more than 5,990 full-text periodicals including 5,030 peer-reviewed journals from all subject areas.

ACM Digital Library
Subject: Computer Science
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Description: Collection of citations and full text from ACM journal articles and conference proceedings in the field of IT and computer science.

African American History (Facts on File)
Subject: Biography, History, Ethnic Studies
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Description: Comprehensive online database with informative hyperlinked entries, including photographs and maps, on more than 500 years of African-American history.

America: History and Life (Ebsco)
Subject: History
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Description: Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

America: History and Life & Historical Abstracts
Subject: History
Full Text: No
Description: Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

American History in Video
Subject: History and Media
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Description: 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.

American Chemical Society Publications
Subject: Chemistry
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Description: Full text of over 30 peer-reviewed journals published by the American Chemical Society.

American National Biography Online
Subject: Biography
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Description: Biographies of famous Americans and those whose significant actions occurred during his or her residence within what is now the United States or whose life or career directly influenced the course of American history.

Animals (EBSCOhost)
Subject: Biology
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Description: Information on the nature and habitat of familiar animals.

Applied Science Index (WilsonWeb)
Subject: Science & Technology
Full Text: No
Description: Bibliographic database that indexes articles of at least one column in length.

ARTstor Digital Library
Subject: Art, Art History
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Description: Approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. Register for an account to create your own image groups, add notes, download the offline presentation software (see OIV document attached), and access ARTstor remotely. To register, a user needs to provide an email address and password of their choice.

Art Index (WilsonWeb)
Subject: Arts & Humanities Science
Full Text: No
Description: Bibliographic database that indexes articles from periodicals published throughout the world.

Art Museum Image Gallery
Subject: Art, Art History
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Description: The Art Museum Image Gallery is a rich digital resource of art images and related multimedia gathered from the collections of distinguished museums around the world. The Art Museum Image Gallery can be searched alone or simultaneously with other WilsonWeb databases, including Art Full Text, Art Index Retrospective, and Biography Reference Bank. It is a rich digital resource of art images, right-cleared for educational use.

Associations Unlimited (InfoTrac)
Subject: All Subject Areas
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Description: Contains information for approximately 22,500 U.S. national nonprofit membership organizations in all fields.

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Biography Reference Bank (WilsonWeb)
Subject: Biography
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Description: Biographical subjects indexed range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities.

Black Thought and Culture
Subject: Politics & Government, History, Ethnic Studies
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Description: Contains the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans, comprising over 1100 authors.

Book Review Digest Plus (WilsonWeb)
Subject: Book Reviews
Full Text: No
Description: Includes descriptive summaries of books as well as excerpts of book reviews, with all the book review citations and full text of book reviews.

Business and Company ASAP (InfoTrac)
Subject: Business & Company Information
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Description: Offers information on companies, markets and industries.

Business and Company Resource Center (InfoTrac)
Subject: Business & Company Information
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Description: Detailed company and industry news and information.

Business Source Complete (EBSCOhost)
Subject: Business, Economics, & Accounting
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Description: Covers fulltext of over 10,000 periodicals in the areas of business, management, economics, finance, marketing, and accounting.

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Choice Reviews
Subject: Book Reviews
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Description: Book reviews from all subject areas from Choice magazine.

CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
Subject: Politics, Government
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Description: Comprehensive source for theory and research in 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.

CINAHL (EBSCOhost)
Subject: Nursing & Allied Health
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Description: Professional journals in nursing and allied health disciplines.

Cinema Image Gallery
Subject: Cinema ,History of movie making
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Description: Covers the history of movie-making through a wide range of high-quality images of films in production including directors working on-set with the stars, set, costume and production design.

College Source
Subject: Education
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Description: It is an online library for 44,815 college bulletins/catalogs and over 37,600,000 course descriptions .It includes full text pdf access for bulletins of 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools.

Columbia Grangers World of Poetry
Subject: Literature & languages
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Description: In-depth reference, including history, for every type of poetry.

Communication and Mass Media Complete (EBSCOhost)
Subject: Media
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Description: Offers full text for over 200 titles covering all aspects of communication and mass media.

Communication Studies (Sage)
Subject: Media
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Description: Full-text of 19 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, covering subjects like Journalism, Public Opinion, Political Communication, Mass Communication, Interpersonal Communication, and more.

CQ Researcher
Subject: All Subject Areas
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Description: Detailed reports with background information and statistics on current issues.

Credo Reference (formerly Xreferplus)
Subject: Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, & Thesauri
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Description: An on-line reference library of over 125 full-text encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, and books of quotations, as well as a range of subject specific reference books.

CUNY Databases
Subject: All Subject Areas
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Description: CUNY e-Journals and Reference Databases

Custom Newspapers (InfoTrac)
Subject: Newspapers
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Description: More than 100 newspapers from around the world.

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Daily Life Through History (Greenwood)
Subject: History, Social Sciences, Anthropology, Ethnic Studies, Women's and Gender Studies
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Description: Explores the daily life and customs of peoples throughout history and modern times with articles, images, maps and primary documents.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Subject: Sciences
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Description: A directory of free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

Duke University Press Journals
Subject: Humanities, Social Science
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Description: Access to 29 Duke humanities and social science journals.

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EBSCOhost
Subject: All Subject Areas
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Description: Multi-disciplinary database covering journals and magazines for most areas of academic study.

Econlit (EBSCOhost)
Subject: Economics Science
Full Text: No
Description: Provides comprehensive information on accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more.

Economist
Subject: Historical Archives in Economics
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Description: Contains over 8,000 issues of the weekly Economist periodical .It covers all the periodical issues since its inception in 1843 to 2003. This fully searchable database has facsimile images of articles, in color and in black and white. It also includes an enormous selection of exportable economic and financial statistical tables.

Education (Sage)
Subject: Education
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Description: Full text of 23 peer-reviewed journals published by SAGE and participating societies, covering various education subjects.

Education Full Text (WilsonWeb)
Subject: Education, Early Childhood Education, & Library Science
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Description: Contains abstracts, Index and fulltext articles in all areas of education including adult, comparative, competency-based, continuing, special , vocational education, computers in education, educational technology, library science and teaching methods.The coverage dates for Indexes, abstracts and fulltext articles are 1983, 1994 and 1996 onwards.

Education Research Complete (EBSCOhost)
Subject: Education
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Description: Contains abstracts and full text articles from over 1250 periodicals in the education field.

Education Index Retrospective (WilsonWeb)
Subject: Education
Full Text: No
Description: It is an index for about 500 periodicals and yearbooks . It covers citations for 1 million articles in the date range of 1929-1983.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Subject: History, Religion, Literature, Law, Fine Arts, Science & more
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Description: Access digital images of books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of millions of pages, the product gives researchers new methods to access critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.

Encyclopaedia Britannica
Subject: Encyclopedia
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Description: Digital version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

ERIC (EBSCOhost)
Subject: Education
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Description: Information from all fields of education.

Essay and General Literature (WilsonWeb)
Subject: All Subject Areas
Full Text: No
Description: Index of articles contained in collections of essays. Subject coverage ranges from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film.

Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest)
Subject: Ethnic Studies & Popular Culture
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Description: Full text of about 200 newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.

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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCOhost)
Subject: Encyclopedia
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Description: This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

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Gale Virtual Reference Library (InfoTrac)
Subject: Reference
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Description: Contains the full text of social science encyclopedias and reference tools such as the Encyclopedia of Aging, Encyclopedia of Small Business, and the Vietnam War Reference Library. Includes the For Students series covering Drama, Poetry, Short Stories, and Novels.

General Science Full Text (WilsonWeb)
Subject: Sciences
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Description: Bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain.

Google Scholar
Subject: All subjects
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Description: Search scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.

Green File
Subject: Environment
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Description: Abstracts to popular and scholarly articles on the relationship between humans and the environment. Topics include pollution control, toxicity and health, global warming, natural resources, and environmental law.

Grolier Online
Subject: Reference
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Description: Contains encyclopedias, international news, feature stories, World newspapers and resources for classroom teaching.

Grove Art see Oxford Art Online

Grove Music see Oxford Music Online

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Health & Wellness Resource Center (InfoTrac)
Subject: Nursing & Allied Health
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Description: Contains magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on various health and dietary topics.

Health Reference Center Academic (InfoTrac)
Subject: Nursing & Allied Health
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Description: Contains nursing and allied health journals, consumer health magazines, newsletters, and pamphlets.

Health Sciences (Sage)
Subject: Nursing and Allied Health
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Description: Full text of 26 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, with focus on Nursing, Health, and Research.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCOhost)
Subject: Nursing & Allied Health
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Description: Covers nursing, allied health and other medical disciplines.

HighWire
Subject: Nursing & Allied Health, Sciences
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Description: HighWire Press is the largest archive of free full-text science on Earth.

Historical Abstracts (Ebsco)
Subject: History
Full Text:
Description: 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.

Humanities Full Text (WilsonWeb)
Subject: Archaeology, Arts, Media, Religion, Women's Studies
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Description: Articles from specialized magazines and well-known scholarly journals.

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Infoshare
Subject: Statistics
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Description: Population statistics, immigration trends, socio-economic indicators, birth and death data, hospitalizations, local economic data, and much more.

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JAMA
Subject: Nursing & Allied Health
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Description: The world's most widely read and cited medical journal on medical research, public health, physician education, trend forecast and ethics.

JSTOR
Subject: Anthropology & Archaeology, Economics, Education, Ethnic Studies, History, Languages, Literature, Mathematics, Politics, Social Sciences
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Description: Archive of core scholarly journals. Full text starting with the first issue.

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Kids Search (EBSCO)
Subject: Education
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Description: Search four EBSCO databases (Primary Search, TOPICsearch, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia and EBSCO Animals) with a colorful, easy-to-use interface for children.

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Law Library Microfilm Collection Digital
Subject: Law
Full Text:
Description: A digitized collection of legal literature and government documents in microform.

Learning Express Library
Subject: Education
Full Text:
Description: Practice tests (such as TOEFL and GED) and tutorial course series.

Lexis Nexis Academic
Subject: News, Business, Law, Medicine, & Reference
Full Text:
Description: Over 5,600 publications including major newspapers.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts and Fulltext(Ebsco)
Subject: Library Science
Full Text: Yes
Description: Includes full text, abstracts and Indexes of articles of library and information science periodicals.

Library Literature and Information Science Full Text (WilsonWeb)
Subject: Library Science
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Description: Index of articles and book reviews of key library and information science periodicals.

Literary Reference Center (Ebsco)
Subject: Literature
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Description: A broad spectrum of literary reference information from antiquity to the present day. Combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works and is an essential resource for public, academic and high school libraries.

Literature Resource Center (InfoTrac)
Subject: Literature
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Description: Resources on authors, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism and much more.

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Making of the Modern World
Subject: Literature, Economics & Business
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Description: Provides full-text images of every page from 61,000 books on economics and business published during a four hundred year span, as well as of 406 pre-1906 serials. This collection contains 12 million pages focusing on areas such as commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade, and transport.

Management and Organization Studies (Sage)
Subject: Business
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Description: Full text of 38 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, with focus on Business and Management.

MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOhost)
Subject: Social Sciences & Reference
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Description: Full text journals, magazines, and pamphlets; biographies; charts, tables, and graphs; essential documents in American history; and reference books.

MAS Ultra - School edition (EBSCOhost)
Subject: All Subject Areas, Popular Culture, & Education
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Description: Full text for popular general interest and current events publications and 237 full text reference books, 91,600 biographies, 75,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 107,135 photos.

MathSciNet
Subject: Mathematics
Full Text: No
Description: Provides reviews or summaries of articles and books that contain new contributions to mathematical research.

MEDLINE (EBSCOhost)
Subject: Nursing & Allied Health
Full Text: Yes
Description: Contains full text and Indexes of journals in the area of: medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences.

MEDLINE (PubMed)
Subject: Nursing & Allied Health
Full Text: No
Description: Index of journals in the area of: medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences. Also includes publisher-supplied summaries of articles prior to publication.

Mergent Online
Subject: Business
Full Text:
Description: Detailed and comprehensive company data, annual reports, holdings data, and business descriptions.

Military and Government Collection (EBSCOhost)
Subject: Politics & Government
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Description: Current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government.

MLA International Bibliography (InfoTrac)
Subject: Literature, Languages & Arts
Full Text: No
Description: MLA is an index of journal articles, books and dissertations. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, and dramatic arts.

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National Newspaper Index (InfoTrac)
Subject: News
Full Text: No
Description: Provides access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.

Nature
Subject: Sciences & Technology
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Description: A peer-reviewed research journal in science and technology.

Naxos Music Library
Subject: Music
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Description: The world's largest online classical music library with streaming access to more than 27,280 CDs and 389,300 tracks. Features leading independent classical labels such as BIS, Chandos, CPO, Haenssler, Hungaroton, Marco Polo, Vanguard Classics, VOX, and of course Naxos.

netLibrary
Subject: All Subject Areas
Full Text:
Description: This database contains the full text of thousands of e-books in all subject areas.

New England Journal of Medicine
Subject: Nursing & Allied Health
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Description: Full text of the New England Journal of Medicine (1979-present).

New York State Newspapers (InfoTrac)
Subject: News
Full Text:
Description: Major newspapers published in the state of New York, including the New York Times and the New York Post.

New York Times Historical (ProQuest)
Subject: News
Full Text:
Description: Full text of the New York Times (1851-2006).

NYCdata
Subject: History, Statistics, Census Data
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Description: Compendium of New York data and maps on population, employment, housing, education, and more.

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Opposing Viewpoints (InfoTrac)
Subject: All Subject Areas
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Description: Library of current event topics--the facts, as well as the arguments, of each topic's proponents and detractors.

Oxford Art Online
Subject: Arts & Humanities
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Description: Oxford Art Online provides Web access to the entire text of Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

Oxford English Dictionary
Subject: Dictionary
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Description: Digital version of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Oxford Music Online
Subject: Arts & Humanities
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Description: Includes the full text of Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online and The Oxford Companion to Music.

Oxford Reference Online
Subject: Dictionaries & Quotations
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Description: English and bilingual dictionaries in all subject areas.

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Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
Subject: Economics
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Description: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, contains over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 of the world's leading economists.

Points of View Reference Center
Subject: All Subjects
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Description: A full text database designed to provide students and schools with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study and are accompanied by thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications.

Political Science (Sage)
Subject: Political Science
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Description: Full text of 25 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, with focus on Political Science.

Primary Search (EBSCOhost)
Subject: Early Childhood Education
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Description: Magazines for elementary school research.

Project MUSE
Subject: Anthropology, Arts, Economics, Education, Ethnic Studies, History, Languages, Library Science, Literature, Medicine, Philosophy, Popular Culture
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Description: Full text of 200 peer-reviewed journals.

Proquest- Interdisciplinary Platinum Periodicals
Subject: Interdisciplinary
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Description: Contains full text articles from 1509 journals

PsychARTICLES (EBSCOhost)
Subject: Psychology
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Description: Covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology.

Psychology (Sage)
Subject: Psychology
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Description: Full text of 31 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, with focus on psychology.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCOhost)
Subject: Psychology
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Description: Provides access to 500 psychology journals.

PsycINFO (EBSCOhost)
Subject: Psychology
Full Text: No
Description: All fields of psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.

Public Library of Science (PLOS) Medicine
Subject: Nursing & Allied Health
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Description: A peer-reviewed, open access journal containing advances in current medical research.

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Readers' Guide Full Text (WilsonWeb)
Subject: Multidisciplinary Database & Popular Culture
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Description: Abstracts of articles from the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada.

Readers' Guide Retrospective 1890-1982 (WilsonWeb)
Subject: Multidisciplinary Database & Popular Culture
Full Text: No
Description: Index of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.

Refworks
Subject: Citations and Bibliographies
Full Text: No
Description: Refworks helps faculty easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

Regional Business News (EBSCOhost)
Subject: Accounting, Business & Economics
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Description: Newswires on business, political, economic and other diverse, international news events.

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Science Magazine
Subject: Sciences, Anthropology
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Description: Full text of Science Magazine, featuring original scientific research, global news, and commentary.

Science Resource Center (InfoTrac)
Subject: Sciences
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Description: Covers earth science, history of science, life science, physical science, technology, and space science.

Scopus
Subject: Sciences, Health, Social Sciences, Psychology, Business, Economics
Full Text: No
Description: The world's largest abstract and indexing database, offering access to 14,200 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers.

Searchasaurus (EBSCO)
Subject: Education
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Description: Search three popular elementary and middle school databases (Primary Search, Middle Search Plus and BookSource: Nonfiction) with a colorful, easy-to-use interface for children.

Short Story Index (WilsonWeb)
Subject: Literature
Full Text: No
Description: Indexes short stories that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals, with coverage dating from 1984 to the present.

SocINDEX (EBSCOhost)
Subject: Social Sciences
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Description: Comprehensive sociology research database with full text for 344 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 129 "priority" coverage journals.

Social Explorer Census Reference
Subject: History, Statistics, Census Data
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Description: U.S. demographics website that provides Census data in easy to use and professional-looking maps and reports.

Social Sciences Full Text (WilsonWeb)
Subject: Social Sciences
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Description: Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals.

Social Services Abstracts (CSA)
Subject: Social Sciences
Full Text: No
Description: Current research in social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.

Sociological Abstracts (CSA)
Subject: Social Sciences
Full Text: No
Description: Indexes international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences including abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.

Sociology (Sage)
Subject: Sociology, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies
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Description: Full text of 33 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, with focus on Sociology, Ethnic Studies, and Gender Studies.

SpringerLink
Subject: Sciences
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Description: The premier electronic data source from Springer for researchers in biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities, and economics.

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Twayne Authors Series (InfoTrac)
Subject: Literature & Biography
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Description: In-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres.

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Ulrichsweb
Subject: All Subject Areas
Full Text: No
Description: Ulrichsweb is the authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types — academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more from around the world.

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Wiley InterScience
Subject: Sciences
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Description: Full text of 178 journals in all areas of science.

WilsonWeb
Subject: All Subject Areas
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Description: Features databases in sciences, arts, humanities, education, library science, social sciences, and the Reader's Guide and Short Story indexes.

Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
Subject: Politics & Government, History, Ethnic Studies, Women's Studies
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Description: Includes reports, pamphlets, posters, and ephemeral materials dealing with the history of women's movements in the U.S.

WorldCat (FirstSearch)
Subject: All Subject Areas
Full Text: No
Description: Index of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

World History (Facts on File)
Subject: Biography, History
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Description: Spans world history from prehistoric times to the present, with biographies, primary source documents, timelines, maps and charts.

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XreferPlus see Credo Reference