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Indexes and Databases available electronically

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Academic Search Complete has citations and full text articles from peer-reviewed journals in social sciences, humanities, music, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, etc.

American FactFinder has information from the United States 2000 census.

Business Full Text provides citations and abstracts to hundreds of business periodicals. It also includes full text/full image articles.

Business Knowledge Research from The Conference Board has full-text research reports on the latest issues in business management and US and global economics.

Business Source Complete "is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the ultimate collection of bibliographic and full text content...[with] indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886 ...[and] searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals," plus company profiles from Datamonitor.

CCH Tax Service First time users will have to create a username and password.

Commerce Business Daily (CBDNet) "is the Government's official FREE electronic version of the Commerce Business Daily (CBD)."

CQ Researcher "offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy."

Criminal Justice Abstracts "provides comprehensive coverage of the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, extensive coverage of books, and unparalleled access to reports from government and nongovernmental agencies."

Criminal Justice Periodicals Index provides citations/abstracts from around 200 journals, with full text/full image articles from more than one fourth of them.

CRSP The Center for Research in Security Prices contains stock price information from stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. This database is available only at the College of Business. Please ask at the Reference Desk for assistance.

Datastream contains more than two million financial instruments, securities and indicators for over 175 countries in 60 markets. Holding up to 50 years of history and over 8,000 different fields, it provides access to over one million time series. Datastream is available only at the College of Business and in the Library. Ask at the Reference Desk for more information.

Digital National Security Archive has "the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to US foreign and military policy since 1945."

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) "covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals."

Econlit "the American Economic Association's electronic database, is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature." It contains over 700,000 records, with some links to full text.

Economia y Negocios "is the result of a collaborative effort between EBSCO Publishing and ESAN (Escuela de Administraci󮠤e Negocios para Graduados). This continuously updated bibliographic database is an indispensable tool for research conducted in the areas of business and economics."

Eighteenth Century Collections Online has "the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century [including] full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages." Some of the subjects covered are history, science, philosophy, literature, the arts, and law.

Emerald provides full text articles from hundreds of journals in the fields of criminal justice, economics, education, engineering, healthcare, librarianship, management, marketing, and more.

Filmakers Library Online "provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum-race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more."

Financial Times allows you to "search and read over 8.5 million articles from 3,000 periodicals worldwide, most of them for free."

Fuente Academica "is a unique collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers...[which] offers full text content to many academic areas including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology."

Gale Virtual Reference Library includes subject encyclopedias and other reference books on the arts, business, education, biological and physical sciences, history and other social sciences, medicine, and other subjects.

GPO Access, a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office, provides the official, published version of important information produced by all branches and agencies the Federal Government, including the United States Government Manual, the Code of Federal Regulations, the United States Constitution, Supreme Court decisions, and much, much more.

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) "provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/manuals ... vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science."

Hoover's Online is a free subset of Hoover's business information.

ICPSR (the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) "established in 1962, is an integral part of the infrastructure of social science research. [It] maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction...ICPSR does not provide publications, reports, or ready-made statistics,... [but instead supplies] the numeric raw data used to create publications, reports, and figures."

IngentaConnect has millions of citations and abstracts from more than 28,000 journals.

Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts "provides abstracts and indexing for literature related to personal computing products and developments in business, the Internet, the home, and all other applied areas...[from] over 400 of the most important trade publications, mainstream computer magazines, and professional journals."

JSTOR is a full image database of back issues of scholarly journals in African American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, botany, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics.

Legal Collection "contains full text for nearly 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals."

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe has "full text company news & financial information...full text federal, state & international legal materials...full text & abstracted medical & health information...general reference sources" and national and international news.

MergentOnline (formerly FISOnline) has business and financial information from Mergent, Inc. (formerly Moody's.) (Mergent currently does not work with older Netscape browsers or with Apple/MacIntosh computers.)

Military and Government Collection provides full text from almost 400 military and general interest publications ... to bring current news to all branches of the military. This database also offers indexing and abstracts for over 500 magazines.

The National Security Archive "collects and publishes declassified [U.S. government] documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act."

NetAdvantage offers ready access to Standard & Poor's premium content such as Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Fund Reports, Corporation Records, The Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, The Outlook, Mutual Fund Reports, and others.

OmniFile Full Text includes complete content from most of our other WilsonWeb databases, plus full text biological, agricultural, and legal articles.

Periodicals Archive Online contains full page images to millions of articles, from hundreds of journals, in 37 subject areas within the humanities and social sciences, with deep chronological coverage going back over 200 years.

Population Index "covers all fields of interest to demographers. Contains selective indexing with abstracts from journals, books, working papers, doctoral dissertations and other sources."

Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for 35 international newswires and over 50 regional business publications, plus citations and abstracts for additional publications.

Science Direct provides full image articles from more than 1000 agriculture, arts and humanities, astronomy, biology, business, chemistry, clinical medicine, computer science, earth and planetary sciences, economics, engineering, energy and technology, environmental science, life sciences, materials science, mathematics, physics, and social and behavioral sciences journals. Click on either the Publications button or the Search button to begin your search.

SpringerLINK provides abstracts, full text, and full image articles from journals published by Springer. The articles/journals are in the fields of computer science, economics, engineering, law, medicine, mathematics, and life and physical sciences. Click on search to begin your search for articles.

THOMAS, from the Library of Congress, makes "federal legislative information [plus Congressional activities, treaties, presidential nominations, and much more] freely available to the public."

Vocational and Career Collection "provides full text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals."

Web of Knowledge contains three citation databases - Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index, which include citations and some links to full text articles from 1975 to the present. We ask all participants to use the LOG OUT button at the end of each search session when they are finished, so that others may use Web of Science.

Wiley Online Library hosts the world's broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It delivers seamless integrated access to over 4 million articles from 1500 journals, 9000 books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases. Click on Journal Search to look for articles.

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