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Article Databases | Book Reviews | Citation Reports | Directories/Book Catalogs | Dissertations | Miscellaneous
| Article Databases | Description |
| Academic Search Complete via Ebsco | Broad scholarly, multi-disciplinary database with many full text articles; 1984-present.(Video Guide) |
| Academic via LexisNexis | Provides full-text access to over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications, including hundreds of U.S. and foreign newspapers, legal and business publications, wire services, broadcast media transcripts, and trade/news magazines [date coverage varies]. |
| ArticleFirst | Citations to 16,000+ scholarly journals and popular magazines; 1990-present. |
| MasterFILE Premier | Geared for public libraries, nearly 1,750 periodicals covering popular general, business, health, education, science, and much more. Also contains an Image collection of 341,655 photos, maps & flags as well as reference books, short biographies, and primary source documents. |
| Readers' Guide Retrospective 1890-1982 | 100 years of citations from popular U.S. general interest magazines. |
| Web of Science | Scholarly articles, plus citation searching for articles that cite known authors or works, abstracts; SCI Expanded (1900-present); SSCI (1900-present); A&HCI (1975-present). (Video Guide) |
| American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900 | Full-text articles of digitized images (PDF) from more than 1,000 American magazines and journals published between 1740-1900. |
| China Academic Journals | Full text articles from Chinese academic journals on literature, history, philosophy, economics, law, political science, education, arts, and music, from 1994- present. Although there are articles in English, Chinese inputting is needed to search articles in Chinese. |
| CiNii: Citation Information by National Institute of Informatics | NII Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator (Systemwide access via National Institute of Informatics (NII) [Japan]) |
| Francis | Index to multi-lingual articles with emphasis on current trends in European and world literature, religion, and art; most with abstracts; 1984-present. |
| Periodicals Archive Online | Full-text images of journal articles in the humanities and social sciences from 1770 to 1995. |
| Periodicals Index Online | Index to articles in arts, humanities, and social sciences from beginning of the periodical subscription to 1990/1991; some full-text. |
| Book Reviews | Description |
| Choice Reviews Online | Brief reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources written by librarians and teaching faculty; Sept. 1988-present. |
| Citation Reports | Description |
| Journal Citation Reports | Citation analysis of 5,900 journals in the Science Edition and 1,700 journals in the Social Sciences Edition. No humanities journals are included. |
| Directories/Book Catalogs | Description |
| Early English Books Online | Over 125,000 full-text volumes of early English texts from 1475 to 1700, presented as digital images. |
| Fiction Connection | Powerful reader's advisory tool. |
| Government Printing Office - GPO | Records for U.S. federal government materials; 1976-present. |
| MetaLib GPO | Simultaneously searches more than 50 U.S. federal government databases and retrieves reports, articles, citations, and online resources. |
| Ulrich's Periodicals Directory | Bibliographic database that indexes 250,00 serials published worldwide. |
| WorldCat | Records of any type of materials cataloged from over 30,000 libraries world wide; dates covered are from 1000 A.D. to the present. |
| Dissertations | Description |
| ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) | Dissertations from most North American and some European universities (a few masters' theses); 1637-present; abstracts from July 1980, full-text 1998-present; UC dissertations free. PDF files available for 1997-present. |
| WorldCAT Dissertations | Indexes more than 5 million dissertations, theses and published materials based on theses in all subjects cataloged in libraries around the world; mid-1800's-present. More current than Proquest Dissertations and Theses, it does not include abstracts or the bulk of University of California dissertations and theses that are available electronically. |
| Miscellaneous | Description |
| FDsys : Federal Digital System | Free online access to official U.S. federal government government publications. Includes full text: Congressional hearings, prints, and documents; federal regulations and public laws; Congressional Record, and many more titles. |
| Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to the Present | Coverage of the time series data includes population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations. The data is searchable and download-able; 1790-present. |
| PapersFirst | Individual conference papers; 1993-present |
| Proceedings | Citations and table of contents for conference proceedings; 1993-present. |
| Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies | Books, articles, and dissertations in the social sciences & humanities published in the CIS and Eastern Europe; 1992-present. |
Last modified: 7/13/2012 11:40 AM by M. Potter