Academic Search Premier
On-Campus | Remote Access
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"The
world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search
Premier contains indexing for over 8,000 publications, with full text for
more than 4,450 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available
for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided
for more than 1,000 titles."
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Expanded Academic ASAP
On-Campus
| Remote
Access
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For
college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school students
(1980 - present)
* Comprehensive
periodical database covering all academic disciplines
* Millions of full-text articles from 2000+ scholarly, refereed
and professional journals and selected general interest magazines
* Indexing of additional professional and general periodicals
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Academic OneFile
On-Campus
| Remote
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Articles from 8,000+ peer-reviewed journals and reference sources, the majority in full-text, covering the disciplines of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more
Full-text New York Times content from 1995 to the present
Podcasts and transcripts from National Public Radio (NPR), Cable News Network (CNN), and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
Updated daily
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America: History and Life
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
A complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States
and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the
database comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries. Covers over
2,000 journals published worldwide, including all key English-language
historical journals, selected historical journals from major countries,
state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds
of journals in the social sciences and humanities.
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Biography
Resource Center + The Complete Marquis Who's Who®
On-Campus
| Remote
Access
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For all age groups
* Comprehensive
source for biographical information
* Over 350,000 biographies of people from around the world and throughout
history
* Quick reference information on nearly one million people from
Who’s Who sources
* Full-text articles from hundreds of magazines and links to selected
biography Web sites
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Book Review Index Online Plus
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
Book Review Index Online Plus, like Book Review Index Online , includes more than 5 million review citations; it also includes more than 634,000 full-text reviews from InfoTrac OneFile and InfoTrac Expanded Academic. Access to full-text reviews allows users to conduct research in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, education, psychology, and more.
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Books & Authors
On-Campus
| Remote
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For librarians, teachers and readers of all ages
Readers' advisory resource for fiction and nonfiction.
Numerous search criteria, genre lists, plot summaries, author information, award lists, etc.
Book jacket images, book reviews from more than 30 sources
User-friendly tools that allow users to store reading and search lists and create reviews and ratings
Visual search technology for narrowing choices and graphically viewing search term relationships
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Business Source Premier
On-Campus
| Remote
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"Business Source Premier is the industry’s
most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including
full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Business Source Premier is superior to the
competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management,
MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost."
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
On-Campus
| Not available
remotely |
The Chronicle is a source of news,
information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. Online,
The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice,
and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle's Web site features the complete contents of the
latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles
published since September 1989; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as
online CV management, salary databases, and more.
*This database is only available on the Columbia College campus.
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CINAHL
On-Campus
| Remote
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"CINAHL provides indexing for
2,818 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000
records dating back to 1982. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and
publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL covers
nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health
and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing
dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals
and book chapters. Searchable cited references for more than 1,170 journals are also included. Full text
material includes 70 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records,
research instruments and clinical trials."
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Communication & Mass Media Complete
On-Campus
| Remote
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"Communication & Mass Media Complete provides
the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.
CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication
Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous
other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create
a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of
the communication discipline. CMMC offers cover-to-cover (“core”) indexing and abstracts for over
390 journals, and selected (“priority”) coverage of 200 more, for a combined coverage of nearly
600 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for 285 journals."
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Computer Source
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
"This database contains more than 300 full text journals and magazines
covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial
intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software.
Computer Source™ provides a balance of full text technical journals
and full text consumer computer titles."
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Contemporary Women's Issues
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
"Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI), a multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press -- with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries. Contemporary Women's Issues includes English-language titles from East and West Africa, Asia, and South and Central America, the Caribbean, North America and Europe. "
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CQ Researcher Online
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
(Congressional Quarterly) CQ Researcher Online offers:
* Access to
CQ Researcher reports dating back to 1991. PDF files are available
for reports from January 1996; color PDFs are available for reports
published after January 2001
* Original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news
* In-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy
* Reader-friendly organization that provides researchers with an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources
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CQ Weekly
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
(Congressional Quarterly) CQ Weekly offers coverage of virtually every act of Congress, including:
* In-depth reports on congressional issues
* Nonpartisan news and analysis
* An archive dating back to 1983
* Ability to search by topic, page number, committee, "exact phrases or words," bill number, byline or reporter
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Educator's Reference Complete
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database. The database is updated daily and provides 24-hour access from school or home.
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ERIC
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
"ERIC®,
the Educational Resource Information Center, 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."
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General BusinessFile ASAP
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high
school students
(1980 - present)
* Articles from
academic and general business, industry & management periodicals,
newspapers and newswires (3300+ indexed titles; 2600+ full-text)
* Investment and broker research reports Company directory listings
* InfoTrac interface
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General Reference Center (Magazine Index)
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
For high school students through adults
(1980 - present)
* Magazine,
newspaper and reference articles on a variety of topics of general
interest
* Millions of full-text articles from over 900 general magazine
titles
* Reference information from encyclopedias, dictionaries and almanacs
* Coverage of school subjects, current events and consumer interest
topics
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Health
and Wellness Resource Center (HWRC)
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
For advanced middle school students through adults
(1980 - present)
* Portal to
health information from a variety of sources for general users;
includes "Alternative Health Module" content
* Full-text articles from 400 health, nursing, allied health and
medical journals, including 30+ alternative health periodicals
* Health-related articles from 2,200 general interest magazines
* Medical encyclopedia articles, pamphlets, drug information and
hospital directory, including alternative health reference titles
and herbal medicine information
* Access to health news and key health Web sites
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Health
Reference Center-Academic
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
For college-level and other adult researchers
(1980 - present)
* Health and
medical periodicals and reference information for academic researchers
* Full-text articles from 600+ health, nursing, allied health and
medical journals
* Health-related articles from 1,500 general interest magazines
* Articles from medical reference titles and pamphlets
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Health Source Nursing Academic Edition
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
"This
resource provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing
on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health
is particularly strong, including full text from Creative Nursing,
Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, Issues in Mental Health
Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Child & Adolescent
Psychiatric Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Journal of Community
Health Nursing, Journal of Nursing Management, Journal of the Society
of Pediatric Nurses, Nursing Diagnosis, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Forum,
Nursing Inquiry, and many more. In addition, this database includes
the Clinical Pharmacology database, providing access to up-to-date,
concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription
drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter
products and new drugs."
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Historical Abstracts
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
A complete bibliographic reference guide to the history of the world
from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada,
which are covered in America:
History and Life). Covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide,
including the key historical journals from virtually every major country,
as well as a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social
sciences and humanities.
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History Cooperative
Access
History Cooperative |
A premier resource for historians on the Web that provides access
to the full-text of current issues of the following journals: The
American Historical Review, The Journal of American History, Law and
History Review, The William and Mary Quarterly, The History Teacher,
The Western Historical Quarterly, Common-place, and Labour/Le Travail.
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History Resource Center: U.S.
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
History Resource Center: U.S.
provides a complete overview of U.S. history covering the most-studied events, issues and current
information. Selected by expert history advisors for its relevance in the undergraduate
curriculum, the content combines:
* Original materials from Primary Source Microfilm's digital archives-including documents, monographs, pamphlets, first-person accounts, etc
* Encyclopedic articles built from the foundation of respected MacMillan Reference USA and Charles Scribner's Sons information, as well as other Thomson Gale original, proprietary content such as country and era overviews
* Full-text periodicals and scholarly history journals
* A historical bibliography
* Links to digitized special collections
* Audio and Video clips of historic speeches and events
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History Resource Center: World
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
History Resource Center: World is a comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronlogic research materials for the study of world history. From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals.
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InfoTrac OneFile
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school
students
(1980 - present)
* Comprehensive
periodical database covering all subjects and all types of periodicals
* Periodicals from nearly all InfoTrac collections merged into a
single database
* Over 25 million full-text articles on all subjects from over 5000
periodical titles
* Articles from newswires and general, professional, scholarly and
children's periodicals
* Indexing of the New York Times, other major newspapers and 8000+
periodicals
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LegalTrac
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school
students
(1980 - present)
* Index to law
and legal periodicals with selected full-text articles
* Indexing of over 1400 titles; full-text articles from 100+ titles
* Major law reviews, legal newsletters, bar association journals
and international titles
* Law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general
interest titles
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LexisNexis Academic
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
Provides access to more than 6,000 news, business, and legal sources
Offers full-text of newspaper, magazine, journal, and wire service articles; television and
radio broadcast transcripts; blog postings and other Web publications; biographical information;
foreign language news publications; law reviews; federal and state cases and codes; Canadian and
European Union court cases and legislation; and patents
Also includes LexisNexis Company Dossier; company profiles; SEC filings; country
profiles; and Shepard's Citations service for federal and state court cases going back to 1789
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Liebert Online
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
"This service delivers
electronic access to peer-reviewed journals published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. This critical
mass of content exceeds 28,000 papers from more than fifty-five authoritative journals, all
full-text searchable and linked to external bibliographic databases. Liebert Online is
universally acknowledged for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in the most
promising areas of biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine and
surgery, and law."
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Literature Resource Center
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
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LitFinder
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
LitFinder is international in scope, covers all time periods, and contains a wealth of primary literature content, including more than 126,500 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, 5,000 full-text short stories, 2,800 full-text essays, 1,800 full-text speeches, and 1,000 full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary. A subject navigator provides over 10,000 subject headings, and basic and advanced search modes allow users to search by keyword, author, subject, work title, work date, nationality, gender, timeline, and more.
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MEDLINE
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
"MEDLINE®
provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry,
veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences,
and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE
uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree
hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over
4,800 current biomedical journals. Included are citations from Index
Medicus, International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature,
HISTLINE, SPACELINE, PREMEDLINE®, AIDSLINE®, BIOETHICSLINE®, and HealthSTAR®.
Users of MEDLINE will be excited to learn that this is now a 'full
text database'."
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Military & Government Collection
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
"Designed to offer current news pertaining to
all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of
periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those
sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300
journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles."
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MLA International Bibliography
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
"MLA International Bibliography offers a
detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern
Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and
contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book
publishers.”
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Nature Online
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
(Full-Text coverage: 1997 – present)
"Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in
all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance,
interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions.
Nature also provides rapid, authoritative, insightful and arresting news and interpretation of
topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public."
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Nursing Resource Center
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
Designed for nursing students, the Nursing Resource Center brings together in an easy-to-use interface disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts. The information is written in accessible language for students completing class assignments and preparing for clinicals as they learn how to care for and treat patients. Search results are returned in tabs that correspond to steps in the nursing process.
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Project Muse
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
"Provides online, worldwide institutional subscription access
to the full text of over 200 scholarly journals in the arts and
humanities, social sciences, and mathematics."
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ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
"ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. This versatile database is designed to meet the needs of researchers at healthcare facilities as well as nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides abstracting and indexing for more than 700 titles, with over 580 titles in full-text."
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PsycARTICLES
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
"MLA International Bibliography offers a
detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern
Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and
contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book
publishers.”
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Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
"This database provides nearly 575 full text
publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences
Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology,
mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text
title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost."
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PubMed
Access
PubMed |
"PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides
access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's
and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many
sites providing full text articles and other related resources."
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Regional Business News
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
"This
database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business
publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business
journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural
areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily
basis."
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Science Magazine
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
(Full-Text coverage: 1997 – present)
"Science has grown to become the world's leading outlet for scientific news,
commentary, and cutting-edge research, with the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed
general-science journal. Through its print and online incarnations, Science reaches an
estimated worldwide readership of more than one million. In content, too, the journal is truly
international in scope; some 35 to 40 percent of the corresponding authors on its papers are
based outside the United States. Its articles consistently rank among world's most cited
research."
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Science Resource Center
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
Researching science topics has never been easier -- with Science Resource Center, thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations are just a few clicks away and the latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites. The database covers curriculum-related science topics and offers teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify content directly correlated to state and national standards.
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SIRS Knowledge Source
On-Campus
| Not available remotely |
For
advanced middle school students through adults
* Articles,
images, reference information, Web sites and more on all subjects
* Articles selected from 2,500+ U.S. and international magazines,
newspapers, government publications and reference sources
* News, current events and organized links to evaluated Web sites
* Includes special features on - literature, terrorism and other
topics
* Interactive textbook on citizenship with teacher resources
* Images, maps, country profiles, primary sources and Supreme Court
decisions
*This database is only available on the Columbia
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SIRS Discoverer
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
For
students in grades 1-9, their teachers and parents
* Articles,
pictures, reference information and Web sites on all subjects
* Age appropriate, full-text articles and images selected from 1,600+
U.S. and international magazines, newspapers, government publications
and reference sources
* Reading levels assigned to all articles Maps, pictures, photo
essays, activities, biographies, country facts, current events
* Links to age appropriate Web sites with reading level indicators.
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SocINDEX (with full-text)
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
"SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most
comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than
1,910,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300 term sociological thesaurus designed by
subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 397
"core" coverage journals dating back to 1908, and 150 "priority" coverage journals. This database
also includes full text for more than 720 books and monographs, and full text for 6,743
conference papers."
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Twayne's
Authors Series
On-Campus
| Remote
Access |
The
acclaimed Twayne's Authors Series of literary criticism offers in-depth
introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence
of literary movements and to the development of literary genres. This
online series features the content of nearly 600 books that comprise
three print series --United States Authors, English Authors and World
Authors -- each of which were carefully coordinated with input from
librarians and educators to include authors universally studied in
high schools and colleges.
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