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Database Description
ATLAS
ATLA/EBSCO
1949-
A collection of major religious and theology journals selected by religion scholars in the United States. Full text journals representing all major religious faiths, denominations and language groups are included
Academic Search Full Text Elite
EbscoHost
1984-
Full text coverage of nearly 1,700 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and more. 
AccessScience
The Online Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
McGraw-Hill
An information source for scientific, technical, and medical research.
ANB
Updated quarterly
Biographical work on people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture.  
ArticleFirst
FirstSearch/OCLC
1990-
Index of articles for: business; humanitites; medicine; popular culture; science; soiciology; and, technology.
Annual Review of Anthropology
Annual Reviews
1996-
Sythesizes the vast amount of scholarly research in the field of Anthropology and identifies the primary contributions in the field to provide an important starting point for researchers, professors and students. Full text available from 1996, table of contents available from 1984.
Annual Review of Psychology
Annual Reviews
1996-
Sythesizes the vast amount of scholarly research in the field of Psychology and identifies the primary contributions in the field to provide an important starting point for researchers, professors and students. Full text available from 1996, table of contents available from 1984.
Annual Review of Sociology
Annual Reviews
1996-
Sythesizes the vast amount of scholarly research in the field of Sociology and identifies the primary contributions in the field to provide an important starting point for researchers, professors and students. Full text available from 1996, table of contents available from 1984.
Books In Print
R.R. Bowker
Bibliographical information for books, audiocassettes, and videos.
Business Source Elite
EbscoHost
1990-
Full text coverage of nearly 1,100 journals covering business, management, economics, finance, banking, accounting, and more.
Christian Periodical Index
Bibliographical Center for Research
1956-
Index of English language articles and reviews written from an evangelical perspective.
College Source Online
Career Guidance Foundation
Updated weekly
Over 21,000 college catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format.
ERIC
EbscoHost
1940-
Contains annotated references to educational materials issued in the monthly Resources in Education (RIE) and to journal articles issued in the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Includes FullText article.
ERIC
FirstSearch/OCLC
1966-
Contains annotated references to educational materials issued in the monthly Resources in Education (RIE) and to journal articles issued in the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE).
ERIC Online
EDRS
ERIC document reproduction service; some full-text documents can be ordered for a fee.
Electronic Colections Online (OCLC ECO)
FirstSearch/OCLC
1995-
Collection of scholarly journals covering a wide-range of subjects.
EncyclopÆdia Britannica
EB/PALINET
Includes the complete encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, and the Britannica Book of the Year.
Facts On File Reference Suite
Facts.com/PALINET
Dates vary
Includes: World News Digest; Issues & Controversies; Today's Science; World Almanac. 
FirstSearch
FirstSearch/OCLC
Dates vary
Access to 25 online databases available through OCLC (Online Computer Library Center). 
GPO Monthly Catalog
FirstSearch/OCLC
1976-
U.S. Government publications.
Grove Dictionary of Art
Grove/PALINET
Updated quarterly
Provides Web access to the 34-volume text with quarterly additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links and all the sophisticated search advantage possible with an online reference source.
Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Incorporates Grove Dictionary of Opera
Grove/PALINET
2nd edition
Combines the full text of the 29-volume print edition with the added benefit of search capabilities, one-click cross-referencing, and an ever increasing network of web-links to musical sites around the world.
H.W. WilsonSelectPlus
Full Text
FirstSearch/OCLC
1994-
Provides indexed and abstracted records with accompanying full-text periodical articles, many of which are linked to citations in other FirstSearch databases. 
Health Source
Nursing/Academic Edition
EbscoHost
Full text journals covering many medical disciplines
MEDLINE
FirstSearch/OCLC
1965-
All areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing.
Music Index
Harmony Park Press
1979-
Topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music are carefully categorized and organized according to the framework of an internal Subject Heading List. A broad range of subjects are indexed, covering musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries.
Newspaper Source
EbscoHost
Provides full text for 245 regional U.S. newspapers, 18 international newspapers, 6 newswires, 9 newspaper columns, The Christian Science monitor and the Los Angeles Times.  
Oxford English Dictionary
OED/PALINET
2nd edition, Updated quarterly
The accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources.
PapersFirst
FirstSearch/OCLC
1993-
Index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.
ProceedingsFirst 
FirstSearch/OCLC
1993-
An index of worldwide conference proceedings.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature 
FirstSearch/OCLC
1969-
Music and various other fields as they relate to music.
SIRS Governement Reporter
SIRS
Historic and government documents, directories and almanacs.
SIRS Knowledge Source
SIRS
Search portal for SIRS databases.
SIRS Researcher
SIRS
1988-
General Reference, social issues, health, science, and business.
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
R.R. Bowker
Updated weekly
Directory of journals, newspapers and magazines, providing information about current and ceased publications.
UnionLists of Periodicals
FirstSearch/OCLC
Current
Descriptions of periodicals and library holdings for these periodicals.
University of Virginia Electronic Text Center
University of Virginia Electronic Text Center
Dates vary
The Electronic Text Center's holdings include approximately 70,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in thirteen languages, with more than 350,000 related images (book illustrations, covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, page images of Special Collections books, museum objects, etc).
FirstSearch/OCLC
1998-
Includes biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, and statistics from: the World Almanac and Book of Facts; the World Almanac of the U.S.A.; the World Almanac of U.S. Politics; and, the World Almanac Knowledge Source.

 

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