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  • Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)  
      
    Academic Search Complete is a scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals.
  • Academic Video Online  
      
    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.
  • Access Washington  
      
    Washington State maintains an extensive web site which contains a wealth of economic, demographic and other information.
  • AccessScience  
      
    AccessScience is an online encyclopedia of science and technology encyclopedia articles, dictionary terms, biographies, research updates, and science news.
  • ACM Digital Library  
      
    The ACM Digital Library is a digital collection of citations and full-text articles from the journals and conference proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery. Full-text journal articles are frequently available from volume 1 to present; full-text conference papers are available from 1985 to present.
  • AgEcon Search  
      
    AgEcon Search is a free, open access repository of full-text scholarly literature in agricultural and applied economics, including: Working papers, Conference papers, Journal articles
  • Agricola (National Agricultural Catalog)  
      
    Bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators.
  • AJR (American Journalism Review)  
      
    News and columns from the AJR magazine as well as links to journalism resources, newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, and other media sources.
  • America: History and Life  
      
    A database indexing scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. The scope includes citations and abstracts of journal articles, dissertations, as well as book and media reviews.
  • American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1  
      
    American Broadsides is a searchable full text database of 30,000 posters, proclamations, menus, advertisements, invitations, fliers, stock certificates, clipper ship sailing cards, early trade cards, bill heads, and theater and music programs that document political and cultural events, both private and civic from 1760-1900. Some of the documents are available in color. This database was created from the collection of the American Antiquarian Society.
  • American Decades  
      
    American Decades is a cross-disciplinary source for researchers who need to document and analyze periods of contemporary American social history.
  • American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries  
      
    This directory contains American companies that have a substantial investment in overseas operations - wholly or partially owned subsidiary, affiliate or branch.
  • American Men and Women of Science
  • American National Biography Online  
      
    The American National Biography offers portraits of more than 18,700 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation. More than a decade in preparation, the American National Biography is the first biographical resource of this scope to be published in more than sixty years. The ANB Online features over 2,700 illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search and browse capabilities.

  • America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1876  
      
    America’s Historical Newspapers contains digital, fully text-searchable facsimiles of 1,000 historic newspapers from every state in the U.S. The collection is based on two important works, Clarence Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820," and Winifred Gregory's American Newspapers 1821-1936: A Union List of Files Available in the United States and Canada."
  • AMICUS (Canadian National Catalogue)  
      
    AMICUS is a free catalogue listing the holdings of libraries across Canada. As a national catalogue, AMICUS not only shows the published materials held at Library and Archives Canada (LAC) but also those located in over 1300 libraries across Canada. AMICUS contains over 30 million records for books, magazines, newspapers, government documents, theses, sound recordings, maps, electronic texts as well as items in braille and large print.
  • Annual Reviews  
      
    Annual Review articles covering topics within the biomedical, physical, and social sciences.
  • Anthropology Plus  
      
    Anthropology Plus combines Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index from the Royal Anthropological Institute (UK), providing international indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, and edited works from the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, material culture, folklore and interdisciplinary studies.
  • Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA)  
      
    Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Indexes and abstracts serial publications, books, reports, conference proceedings, etc., on the aquatic & marine sciences.
  • Art Full Text  
      
    Art Full Text™ is a comprehensive resource for art information featuring full-text articles from more than 300 periodicals dating back to 1995, high-quality indexing and abstracting of over 600 periodicals dating as far back as 1984, including 280 peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracting of over 13,000 art dissertations. Indexing of almost 200,000 art reproductions provides examples of styles and art movements, including works by emerging artists.
  • Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science)  
      
    Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities, including archaeology, architecture, art, Asian studies, classics, dance, film, folklore, history, language, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, poetry, religion and theatre. A&HCI indexes over 1000 of the leading arts and humanities journals as well as selected science and social science journals.
  • ARTstor  
      
    ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million 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.
  • arXiv.org  
      
    Open access to 583,360 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.
  • ATLA Religion (American Theological Library Association)  
      
    Atla is an index to religious and theological literature, containing thousands of citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews from three print indexes: Religion Index One, Religion Index Two, and Index to Book Reviews in Religion.

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  • BetterManagement.com  
      
    Search for over 3,000 business management articles, white papers and case studies addressing various management issues.
  • Bibliography of Asian Studies Online (BAS)  
      
    BAS references western language monographs, articles and book chapters on all aspects of Asian Studies published since 1971. BAS includes the most important 100+ periodicals in Asian Studies.
  • Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)  
      
    Available via general access through The Getty. Covers the years 1975-2007. The Getty Web site offers both basic and advanced search modules for BHA and RILA, and they can be searched easily by subject, artist, author, article or journal title, and other elements.
  • Biological Sciences  
      
    This database indexes a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science, providing access to literature from over 6000 sources including serials, conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and selected books and patents. Includes ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts; Biological Sciences; Biology Digest; Conference Papers Index; MEDLINE; Oceanic Abstracts; and Plant Science.
  • Birds of North America Online  
      
    Birds of North America is a comprehensive online information source about each bird species. BNA Online contains image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, and more. Each online species account contains recordings of that bird's songs and calls, selected from the extensive collection in Cornell's Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds.
  • BSDglobal (Business and Sustainable Development)  
      
    This site explains the strategies and tools that companies can draw on to translate an aspiration of sustainability into practical, effective solutions. Case studies from around the world are provided as an example of each measure.
  • Business Source Complete (EBSCO)  
      
    EBSCO Business Source Complete provides full text articles and abstracts from a large selection of scholarly business journals. Topics cover every area of business including marketing, management, MIS, POM, economics, finance, accounting, and international business.

Trial Databases

  • NTIS (National Technical Information Service) March 31, 2013  
      
    The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) database from the U.S. Department of Commerce is the premier source for accessing unclassified reports from influential U.S. and international government agencies. The database contains access to over two million critical citations from government departments such as NASA, the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Defense.
  • PsycCRITIQUES (June 30, 2013)  
      
    PsycCRITIQUES®, produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), is a database of full-text book reviews featuring current scholarly and professional books in psychology. It also publishes reviews from a psychological perspective of popular films and trade books. PsycCRITIQUES includes approximately 40,000 reviews dating back to 1956 and is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®.
  • PsychEXTRA (June 30, 2013)  
      
    PsycEXTRA®, produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), is a bibliographic and full-text companion to the scholarly PsycINFO® database. The document types included in PsycEXTRA consist of technical, annual and government reports, conference papers, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, consumer brochures and more.
  • Nineteenth Century Collections Online (September, 2013)
    19th Century Collections Online is a multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on archival collections of primary sources providing full-text, fully searchable content. The collection includes monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more in both Western and non-Western languages.
  • Eighteenth Century Collections Online (September 2013)
    Includes every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
  • American History & Culture Online (September 2013)
    Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana – A Dictionary of Books Relating to America From its Discovery to the Present Time, Sabin Americana, 1500–1926 is an online collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana, 1500–1926 is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.
  • Archives Unbound (September 2013)
  • Gale NewsVault (September 2013)  
      
    Combined search of the following Gale resources:
    17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
    19th Century British Library Newspapers
    19th Century U.S. Newspapers
    Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
    Financial Times Historical Archive
    Times Digital Archive

    One or all databases are searchable.

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