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Database
Name
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Coverage
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| ACM:
Association for Computing Machinery |
An index for computing topics,
this site provides an index to computer-related literature upon
free registration. |
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Academic
Search Elite (available via EBSCOhost)
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Covers a
wide range of scholarly journals in the areas of social sciences,
humanities, education, and general science.
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| Access
America for Students |
Through students.gov you can: find the right college; apply
for federal student financial aid; learn about military educational
benefits; e-file your taxes; register for Selective Service; apply
to be a Peace Corps volunteer; get a replacement Social Security
card; and much more. |
| AIDSearch |
AIDSearch contains 81,000+ records from 1980 to the present and
combines three databases:
AIDSLINE, which derives its citation from the MEDLINE database.
AIDSDRUGS is a dictionary of chemical and biological agents
currently being evaluated in the AIDS clinical trials
AIDSTRIALS includes information about the clinical trials
of substances being tested for use against AIDS, HIV infection,
and AIDS-related opportunistic diseases. |
| All
Academic |
Provides scholars and researchers with useful on-line source information
about scholarly works while combining a database of on-line scholarly
works with the flexibility of broad internet searches. Links
are direct from source citations to scholarly publications, and
only free publications are cataloged. |
| American
Slavery: A Composite Autobiography |
From
1936 to 1938, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), under the auspices
of the Work Projects Administration (WPA), employed writers and
journalists to interview ex-slaves in the United States. Originally
a state-level Writers' project, John A. Lomax, National Advisor
on Folklore and Folkways for the Federal Writers' Project, organized
the effort into a larger project for the Library of Congress. Nearly
4,000 interviews were ultimately collected. |
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Art
Full Text
|
Covers advertising
art, antiques, archaeology, architecture and architectural history,
art history, computers in art, crafts, decorative arts, fashion
design, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design,
landscape architecture, motion pictures, non-Western art, painting,
photography, pottery, sculpture, television, textiles, and video
art.
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ATLA
(available via ERSCOhost) |
This database covers Biblical studies, world religions, church history
and religious perspectives on social issues with coverage dating
as far back as 1949. This is not a full text database. |
| Books
in Print (through EBSCOhost) |
Provides a complete source of information on books published in
the U.S. from over 46,000 publishers |
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Boston
Globe Globextra
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This website
offers free access to every report and feature that has appeared
in the Boston Globe since 1979.
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Business
Source Elite
(available via EBSCOhost)
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Covers international
business, management, accounting, finance, technology, and more.
Full text articles are available as far back as January of 1990,
while indexing and abstracts are available as far back as January
of 1984.
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| Child
Abuse, Child Welfare and Adoption |
Covering 1965 - present, this database contains over 26,000 bibliographic
citations and abstracts of professional literature, primarily of
U.S. origin. Topics include definition & etiology of child abuse,
social & economic factors, treatment & prevention strategies,
legal issues and more. |
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CINAHL
(Available via EBSCOhost)
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Indexes articles in Nursing, Physical Therapy, and Allied Health
from 1982 to the present.
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Clinical
Reference Systems
(Available via EBSCOhost)
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Provides
over 7,000 reports, in every-day language, describing symptoms,
treatments, risks and after-effects of a vast array of medical
topics and conditions.
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Comprehensive
Medline Full Text
(Available via EBSCOhost) |
Provides access to the entire Comprehensive MEDLINE file covering
1966 to present. This database also includes full text for nearly
80 biomedical journals dating as far back as 1990. |
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CQ Researcher |
Published
by Congressional Quarterly, Inc., this weekly publication
provides a complete, non-biased view of a single topic.
Issued quarterly, it offers comprehensive reports on current events
issues such as parental involvement in education, diet and health,
mandatory sentencing, and more.
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EBSCOhost
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This
database offers articles, many in full text, from the following
databases:
Academic
Elite ATLA
Religion
Business
Source CINAHL
Clinical
Reference Systems ERIC
Health Source Plus Medline
Full Text
Newspaper
Source PsycINFO
World
History Full Text
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ERIC
(Available via EBSCOhost)
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An index
to abstracts from over 750 educational journals and related documents
of Educational Resource Information Center publications. Coverage
dates back to 1967.
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| ERIC
AE Full Text |
This Internet Library from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment
and Evaluation (ERIC/AE) contains links to more than 250 of the
best online documents that address educational measurement, evaluation,
and learning theory. Topics include: educational quality,
learning theory, evaluation, tests & testing, professional standards,
research, and statistical analysis. |
| FindArticles.com |
This database of "hundreds of thousands of articles from more
than 300 magazines & journals, dating back to 1998" can
be searched by all magazines, magazines within categories,
or a specific magazine. A very few publications, including
Scientific American, only have abstracts. |
| General
Science Full Text |
This database covers astronomy, atmospheric science, biology, botany,
chemistry, conservation, earth science, environment, food, genetics,
health, mathematics, medicine, microbiology, nutrition, oceanography,
physics, physiology, zoology. |
| Hardin
MD - Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources |
From the home page, click on "free e-journals" to see
full-text articles from certain medical journals. While some
of these are available on a trial basis, others are available on
an ongoing basis. The home page also provides a meta-directory
of the best Internet sites, grouped by medical topic. |
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Health
Source Plus
(available via EBSCOhost)
|
Leads to
information in over 500 health, nutrition, medical, and nursing
publications. Full text back files go as far back as January of
1990, while indexing and abstract back files go as far back as
January of 1984.
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Internet
Grateful Med
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One
of the largest biomedical databases with over 8 million references
to journal articles in medicine and related disciplines.
NOTE: Access to Medline is free through Internet
Grateful Med.
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| JAKE |
JAKE (Jointly Administered
Knowledge Environment) is a reference source which makes finding,
managing, and linking online journals and journal articles easier.If
you have a particular journal in mind to search, JAKE will tell
you some basic information about where that title is indexed. |
| Johns
Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism |
The Guide consists of 226 alphabetically arranged entries on individual
critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements,
and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries
and historical periods. Treats figures who did not explicitly deal
with, but who still deeply affected, literature, literary theory,
or literary criticism. Includes figures and kinds of inquiry
from other fields that have been shaped by or have themselves shaped
literary theory and criticism. |
| Lexis
Nexis |
Provides access to biographies, business information, news, medical
and legal information as well as polls, quotation, state and country
profiles and more. |
| LexisOne |
From the Lexis-Nexis Group, this databases provides access to US
Supreme Court Cases since 1790 and selected federal and state cases
since January 1, 1996; free legal forms; and a legal internet guide
with more than 16,000 law-related web sites. |
| Library
Literature |
This full-text database includes 91 full text journals on librarianship.
More than 290 journals and more than 8,000 monographs are indexed. .
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| MagPortal |
This site is useful for finding free, full-text articles on the
web. Search or browse by category. |
| Mental
Measurements Yearbook |
Produced by the Buros Institute, this database contains full text
information about and reviews of all English-language standardized
tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude,
psychology, and related areas. |
| MLA |
The MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language
Association of America, consists of bibliographic records pertaining
to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. |
NetFirst
through FirstSearch |
NetFirst as an authoritative index with abstracts from OCLC. Detailed
information within each record enables users to evaluate the relevance
of a resource without leaving the database. |
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netLibrary
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Read over 4,000 free eBooks (18,000 total), including works by Homer,
Shakespeare, Bronte, and other contemporary subject areas such as
business, computer science and more! eBooks are electronic versions
of printed books. With netLibrary's technology, search by title,
author and keywords or browse the listed subject areas. |
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Newspaper
Source
(Available via EBSCOhost)
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Contains indexing for some of the more popular newspapers. International
coverage.
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| NLM |
The NLM Gateway allows users of the US National Library of Medicine
services to initiate searches from one Web interface, providing
"one-stop searching" for many of NLM's information resources or
databases including MEDLINE (PubMed), OLD MEDLINE, LOCATORplus,
AIDS Meetings, HSRProj, and MEDLINEplus. |
| NovelGuide |
NovelGuide.com is a free source for literary analysis on the web.
It provide an educational supplement for better understanding of
classic and contemporary literature. Included are chapter summaries,
character profiles, metaphor analysis, theme analyses, and author
biographies. |
| Novelist |
Provides enhanced subject access to over 74,000 fiction titles.
With Novelist, discover new authors and titles, enter words that
describe the contents of books to discover one you want to read,
or explore the 1,000 different theme oriented lists in Novelist's
Explore Fiction section. |
Oxford
English Dictionary (OED)
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An online version of the 20-volume Second Edition of the Oxford
English Dictionary and the 3 volumes of Additions, this database
contains definitions, over 2.5 million quotations, and etymological
information on words drawn from all over the English-speaking world.
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ProQuest
Digital Dissertations
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Use this
resource to access the most current two years of citations and
abstracts in the Dissertation Abstracts database. Titles published
since 1997 are available in PDF digital format and have 24-page
previews available.
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PsycINFO
(Available
via EBSCOhost)
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Psychinfo
contains abstracts of journal articles, reports, and dissertations
in the field of psychology and related disciplines such as medicine,
psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education and business. PsychINFO
does not include full text articles.
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| PubMed |
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service that
provides access to over 11 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE,
and other related databases, with links to participating online
journals. |
| Sociological
Abstracts |
This database covers the
latest research in the fields of sociology, social sciences and
related disciplines. Abstracts and enhanced citations are available
for over 1,640 journals, monographs, conference papers and dissertations
(1963 - present). |
| Thomas
Register |
Almost 157, 000 American and Canadian companies are found in Thomas
Register on the Internet. "Product headings" classify products and
companies, and you can also search by brand name. There are also
almost 8,000 online supplier catalogs and web links. |
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WESTLAW
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WestLaw offers
a set of databases containing information on Federal and State
statutory materials, court rulings, case laws, legal texts and
periodicals, administrative opinions, news and information. The
subscription to WestLaw databases is for students and faculty
of Rivier College. (Access to this database
is available only at Regina Library and specific workstations
are designated for WestLaw access. Ask for assistance when you
are in the library.)
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| Wilson
Select through FirstSearch |
This database contains records from the following indexes:
Business Abstracts, General Science Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts,
Readers' Guide Abstracts, and Social Sciences Abstracts. The
earliest coverage begins in 1994, and almost all of the indexed
articles are available electronically in full-text. |
| WorldCat |
WorldCat® (the OCLC® Online Union Catalog) is the world's most comprehensive
reference resource, with over 44 million bibliographic records representing
400 languages. WorldCat covers information dating back to the 11th
century and includes holdings information from libraries in 45 countries. |
| World
History FullTEXT (available via EBSCOhost) |
This comprehensive database gives a global look at history with
content from Africa, Asia, and South America, Europe and the Middle
East |
