Databases A-Z
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Academic Search Premier
Multi-disciplinary full text database containing nearly 4,500 journals. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. Dates vary. Provided by: SUNYConnect.
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ACM Portal
Contains a mostly full-text collection of Association for Computing Machinery journals and magazines since 1954. Also carries conference proceedings since 1970.
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Alt-Health Watch
Contains indexes and full text for more than 160 complementary, alternative, and holistic health care publications, approximately 20 of which are peer-reviewed. Dates vary, most are mid-1990s to current.
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America: History & Life
A bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada. Topics include U.S. and Canadian history, culture, gender studies, psychology, literature, politics and more. 1954- current.
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America's News Magazines
Contains full text of 27 popular magazines covering topics such as U.S. and international news, business, lifestyle, entertainment, sports, and science and technology. Dates vary, from 1991- current.
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ArticleFirst
Comprehensive, general-purpose index of articles from journals in fields such as business, science, humanities, social sciences, medicine, technology, and popular culture. Dates vary.
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Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Identifies articles and cited references in selected arts and humanities journals, including some science and social science. 1980- current.
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ARTstor
Collection of 300,000 images for use in the teaching and study of art, architecture and archaeology.
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Associated Press Multimedia Archive
The Archive is a primary source database from the Associated Press. It contains over two million photographs dating back to 1826, more than one million audio sound bytes dating from the 1920's, two million Associated Press news stories from 1997, and a professionally produced collection of more than 45,000 maps, graphs, charts, logos, flags, and illustrations.
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BioOne
Contains full-text bioscience research journals and covers the fields of ecology and evolution. 2000- current.
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Birds of North America
The Birds of North America is a comprehensive reference covering the life histories of North American birds. Contains species information, additional references, and galleries of image, video, and sound.
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Books in Print
Identifies in-print, out-of-print and forthcoming books with links to brief reviews. Also includes synopses, author bios, and readers advisory.
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Business & Company ASAP
Covers business and management topics with both full-text articles and bibliographic citations. It also includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies and investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries. 1980- current.
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Business & Company Resource Center
Provides mostly full-text company information, including articles, earnings, investments, reports, rankings and market share. Dates vary by title. Provided by: NOVEL New York.
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Business Source Premier
Provides wide coverage of full-text information including business, management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more. Dates vary by title. Provided by: SUNYConnect.
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Charleston Advisor
A critical evaluation tool for electronic resources that rates databases.
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CINAHL Plus with Full Text
A comprehensive source of full text for more than 560 nursing & allied health journals. Dates vary, from 1937- current. Provided by: SUNYConnect.
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Clase and Periodica
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. 1978- current.
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Communication & Mass Media Complete
CMMC offers indexing and abstracts for over 370 journals, and full text coverage of over 240 journals relating to communication and media. Also features over 3,000 Author Profiles which provide biographical data and bibliographic information, and covering the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database. Dates vary, but go back as far as 1915.
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CQ Researcher
Contains reports on public policy issues, with pro/con commentary and chronologies. Each report focuses on a single topic and features concise background discussion and chronologies, overviews of the current situation, pro and con commentary, as well as online links to relevant organizations, and a lengthy bibliography of related books and articles. 1991- current.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts
Contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines. 1968 - current.
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Democrat and Chronicle
Full text access of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Includes local and regional news, community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. 1999- current. Provided by: RRLC.
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
This directory covers free, full text, scientific and scholarly journals. There are 3492 journals in the directory. 1186 journals are searchable at article level.
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Dissertations Abstracts
Contains Masters theses and dissertations including dissertations from Canada, Great Britain, and Europe. 1861- current.
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EBSCO Animals
Provides thousands of easy-to-read entries about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, dinosaurs, and prehistoric animals. Each entry begins with a simple category breakdown of the animal as well as a detailed description. Many entries include images. Provided by: NOVEL New York.
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Education Research Complete
Contains a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Dates vary. Provided by: SUNYConnect.
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eHRAF
The eHRAF Collection of Ethnography is a full-text database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life. These materials are relevant to the various social science disciplines as well as the humanities and health sciences.
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ERIC (EBSCO)
Provides access to education literature and resources. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals. Provided by: SUNYConnect.
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Ethnic Newswatch
An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. ENW titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press. 1990- current.
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Facts on File
Facts on File World News Digest is a permanent record of the essential facts of the news as reported in the major newspapers and news magazines of the U.S., Canada, Britain, Australia, and elsewhere in the world. Includes a live newsfeed from Reuters and thousands of in-depth features, images, charts, and primary documents. 1940- current.
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FirstSearch
Comprehensive collection of databases in a variety of academic fields, many of which provide full-text access. Dates vary.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
Offers multi-volume encyclopedias, biographical collections, business plan handbooks, company history compilations, consumer health references, and specialized reference sources. Subjects covered include Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science, and Social Science. Dates vary.
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GenderWatch
Provides a full text database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, and NGO, government and special reports. 1970-current.
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General OneFile
Provides full text access to over 6300 journals, periodicals, and newspapers. Dates vary.
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General Science Collection
Offers full text coverage for more than 60 of the most popular science publications including Archaeology, Astronomy, Discover, National Geographic, National Wildlife, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, and many others. Subject areas covered include the observation, description, identification, and experimental investigation of phenomena, and the application of science to industrial or commercial objectives. Dates vary. Provided by: NOVEL New York.
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GeoRef
Guide to materials in geology and earth sciences. Contains references to journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses. North American resources, 1785 - current. International resources, 1933- current.
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GPO Access
Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.) Includes a bibliographic citation in each record. 1976- current
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GreenFILE
Indexes scholarly and general interest titles, government documents and reports on the effects humans have on the environment. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.
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HarpWeek
Full text access to Harpers Weekly, including illustrations, cartoons, news, literature, editorials, and ads of the era. 1857- 1865. Provided by: SUNYConnect.
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Health & Wellness Resource Center
Contains magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, drugs, herbal remedies, and alternative treatments. Provided by: NOVEL New York.
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Health Reference Center Academic
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. Provided by: NOVEL New York.
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Highwire Press
Large repository of full-text life science articles in the world. Topics include life sciences, medical sciences, physical sciences and the social sciences. Dates vary.
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Historical Abstracts
Identifies articles and books on history since 1450, excluding the U.S. and Canada. Some links to full text.
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Hoovers
Full text directory of U.S. companies. Provides business information including company profiles, financials, news about the company, stock quotes, links to websites, and information about competitors.
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IEEE Computer Society Digital Library
The IEEE Computer Society Digital Library provides online access to 25 computer-related magazines and transactions, and more than 1,700 selected conference proceedings.
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!Informe!
Full-text collection of Spanish-language magazines that cover business, health, technology, culture, current events, and other issues. The search engine is designed for Spanish speakers. 1994- current. Provided by: NOVEL New York.
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InfoTrac Custom Newspapers
Contains more than 150 cover-to-cover newspapers from around the globe plus an additional 300 sources of selected news and business coverage. Dates vary. Provided by: NOVEL New York.
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InfoTrac Junior Edition K-12
This periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. Dates vary. Provided by: NOVEL New York.
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IngentaConnect
IngentaConnect hosts scholarly books and journals from a range of different publishers and academic disciplines. 1988- current
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JSTOR
Full-text archive of scholarly publications in mathematics, science, and the social sciences. Dates vary.
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Kids Search
Designed for K-5 students, Kids Search contains full text for over 50 popular elementary school magazines, over 100 student pamphlets, an encyclopedia, and a dictionary. Provided by: NOVEL New York.
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LexisNexis
Full-text files focusing on legal (federal, state, national) news (newspapers, newswires, and transcripts), business and industry information. Dates vary.
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LISTA
LISTA indexes subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. 1960's- current
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Literature Resource Center
The Literature Resource Center is a complete literature reference database. It contains biographical, bibliographical, and critical information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more. Dates vary. Provided by: SUNYConnect.
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LitFinder
Contains 135,000 full-text poems, stories, plays and more. Also contains additional information sources such as biographies, essays and explanations. Provided by SUNYConnect.
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MAS Ultra-School Edition
Database, designed specifically for high school libraries, which contains full text for nearly 500 popular magazines, biographies, primary source documents, reference books, maps & flags, and image collections.
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MasterFile Premier
MasterFILE Premier indexes articles from more than 2,700 scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers. Topics include health, current events, arts and the humanities, the sciences, and more. MasterFILE Premier provides full text for more than 2,000 titles. Date vary, most titles are 1990s-curent Provided by: SUNYConnect.
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MathSciNet
Index to the world's mathematical literature since 1940. MathSciNet provides Web access to the bibliographic data and reviews of mathematical research literature contained in the Mathematical Reviews Database. Dates vary.
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Medline (EBSCO)
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Contains some full text as well as abstracts from over 4600 current biomedical journals.
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Mental Measurements Yearbook
Contains full text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks. This database product contains data from Yearbooks 9 through 16. The full text for each record includes an overview of the test, a description of the test materials and time needed, and one or more reviews of the test.
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Military & Government Collection
A comprehensive collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to all branches of the military. Contains over 300 full text journals and periodicals, 245 pamphlets, and abstracts for nearly 400 titles. Dates vary. Provided by: SUNYConnect.
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MLA International Bibliography
Index to critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to citations from worldwide publications, including periodicals, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies.
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National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide. Free for public use.
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National Newspaper Index
Identifies articles in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post. 1977- current. NOVEL New York
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Naxos Music Library
Sound files representing the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues as well as jazz and world music, educational products and growing range of Historical recordings featuring the biggest performers in the history of classical music.
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netLibrary
Selected full text book titles in all disciplines. Titles can be downloaded or read online. Provided by: SUNYConnect.
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New York State Newspapers
Index to 7 newspapers from Buffalo (Buffalo News), Syracuse (Herald American, Herald-Journal, and Post-Standard, and New York (NY Observer, Post and Times). Dates for each paper vary but nothing older than 1996-99.
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New York Times Historical Archive
Offers full page and article images of the New York Times with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. 1851- 2003.
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Contains full text information from more than 200 sources devoted to a single, current social issue of importance. Each source provides primary documentation, statistical information, and viewpoint articles concerning each issue. Provided by: SUNYConnect.
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Oxford English Dictionary
Full text of 1992 (2nd edition) Oxford English Dictionary.
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Oxford Reference Online
Contains 100+ dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.
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PapersFirst
Index of over 5,000,000 papers presented at conferences worldwide. Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre. 1993- current.
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Philosopher's Index
Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields, including the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.
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Physical Education Index
Contains scholarly and trade literature in the field of physical education, including topics such as sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, sport sociology/psychology, health education, and physical therapy. 1970- current.
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Primary Search
Contains full-text of 57 popular, basic school magazines, plus almanacs, an encyclopedia, a dictionary, and over 100 student pamphlets. Full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator. Provided by: NOVEL New York.
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Proceedings
Index of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre. 1993- current.
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Professional Development Collection
Provides a highly specialized collection of 520 full text education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. Indexes and abstracts are also provided for more than 700 journals. 1965- current. Provided by: SUNYConnect.
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Project Muse Humanities Collection
Contains full-text articles in the humanities and social sciences. Also contains versions of titles from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies.
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PsycArticles
Definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology, including topics such as general psychology and specialized, applied, clinical and theoretical research. The database contains more than 100,000 articles from 59 journals - 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. 1894- current.
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PsycInfo
Contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage includes international material selected from more than 2,100 periodicals in more than 25 languages. 1887- current.
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Regional Business News
Incorporates 75 full text business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Dates vary. Provided by: SUNYConnect.
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Science Reference Center
A comprehensive, full-text science database. Contains hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources. Includes topics in biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, scientists, technology and wildlife. Provided by: NOVEL New York.
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ScienceDirect
Offers full text access to over 2000 peer-reviewed journals covering scientific, medical, and technical information. Includes arts & humanities, and social sciences. Dates vary. Provided by: SUNYConnect.
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Searchasaurus
Uses a colorful, graphic search interface. It contains full-text for more than 50 popular, elementary school magazines, over 100 student pamphlets, an encyclopedia, and a dictionary. Full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator. Provided by: NOVEL New York.
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Shepard's for US Supreme Court Cases
Contains U.S. Supreme Court Case decisions. Includes citations, case names, jurisdictions, dates of decision, and all parallel citations. 1789- current.
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Social Work Abstracts
Contains more than 45,000 records from social work and other related journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization, and more. 1977- current.
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SPORTDiscus with Full Text
Comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals. Subjects covered include sports medicine, exercise physiology, biomechanics, psychology, training, coaching, physical education, physical fitness, sports for the disabled, facilities, equipment, and recreation and leisure. 1985- current.
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TopicSearch
Covers social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries, and other classroom topics. Includes magazine and newspaper articles, pamphlets, book reviews, opinion polls and government information. Contains full-text for over 50,000 articles from more than 3,000 diverse sources. Provided by: NOVEL New York.
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Transcripts
A collection of TV and radio transcripts, including Al-Jazeera, Burrelle's, CNN, PBS, and more. Dates vary.
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Twayne Authors Series
Contains the full text of the Twayne Literary Masters books which provide biographical and literary criticism information on a wide variety of World, U.S., or English authors.
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Wall Street Journal
Full-text access to the Wall Street Journal. Full text from 1984- current. Indexing from 1982- current.
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WorldCat
Identifies and locates books and other materials owned by libraries in the U.S. and internationally. All dates.
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