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GSLIS Collections

Choose your resource from this list ABI/Inform Academic Search Premier Ageline Agricola African American Experience (1693-1830) Alcohol/Alcohol Problems Science Database Alt Heath Watch Alt Press Watch Alternative Press Index America: History and Life Applied Science and Technology ARBA Amer Reference Books Annual Archival Resources - gslis only ArchivesUSA Art Index Article1st AskEric - Educator's Reference Desk Association for Computing Machinery Associations Unlimited Authors4Teens Best Books for Academic Libraries - ask librarian for password Bibliography Index Bibliography of Asian Studies Bibliography of the History of Art BioDigest Biography and Genealogy Master Index Biography Resource Center Biography Reference Bank BIOSIS Bloomberg Book Review Digest Books 24x7 Books in Print Boston Globe Business & Industry Database Business & Management Practices Business Source Premier CareerSearch Cataloger's Desktop Charleston Advisor Child Abuse, Child Welfare and Adoption Children's Catalog Choice Reviews CINAHL Clase Periodica Classification Web CollegeSource Communications and Mass Media Computing Reviews ConsumerIndx Contemporary Authors Contemporary Literary Criticism Contemporary Womens Issues Connexion - login: 100032294 ask your prof for password CQ Researcher & CQ Weekly CQ Researcher En Espanol Curriculum Resource Center Current TOPICsearch Curriculum Resource Center Junior Custom Newspapers Dashboard Dissertation Abstracts EBSCO Host - in GSLIS Only! Economics Literature Education Abstracts and Fulltext Journals Education Professional Development Collection EIU Country Reports EIU Viewswire ELS: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences Emerald Encyclopedia Americana Encyclopedia Britannica Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science Encyclopedia of Philosophy ERIC Essay and General Literature Ethnic NewsWatch Evidence Based Medicine OVID Expanded Academic ASAP Fact Search Factiva Family & Society Studies Worldwide Fiction Catalog FirstSearch (password only) FirstSearch (GSLIS only) Funk & Wagnalls New World Encycl Gale Virtual Reference Library GenderWatch General Business File General Reference Center General Science - wilson GEOBASE GPO Grolier's Multimedia Encyclopedia Grove Dictionary of Art Grove Dictionary of Music Harrisons Haworth Journals Health and Psychosocial Instruments Health Business Fulltext Elite Health Reference Center Health Source: Consumer Edition Historical Abstracts History Resource Center Horn Book Guide Humanities Industry Surveys - S&P Information Science and Technology Abstracts InfoTrac - Simmons InfoTrac - GSLIS only Ingenta Investext - subset of Gen Bus File Journal Citation Locator - request login from librarian JSTOR Lexis-Nexis Academic Library Literature LION - Literature Online LISA Abstracts Literary Marketplace Literature Resource Center LitFinder MasterFile Premier MDX Health Digest Media Review Digest Medical and Health Journals Fulltext from OVID Medline EBSCO Medline (FirstSearch) Mental Measurements Yearbook Mergent/Moody's Middle Search Plus Middle and Junior High School Libary Catalog MLA Bibliography Morningstar Multicultural Reference Center NASW Clinical Register netLibrary New York Times 1851-2001 Newsbank Newspaper Abstracts NoveList Nursing Full Text Journals OED - Oxford English Dictionary OmniFile Oxford Reference PAIS Archives PAIS International PapersFirst Periodical Abstracts Primary Search Proceedings Project Muse PROMT PsycInfo Psychology Fulltext Journals Public Library Catalog PubMed Reference Universe RefWorks Bibliographic Citation Manager Regional Business News Reuters Business Insight Science Reference Center Senior High Catalog Serials Solutions Sexual Diversity Studies SIRS Researcher with full text Social Science Social Services Abstracts Social Work Abstracts Sociological Abstracts Special Issues Statistical Universe StatRef - Medical Textbooks Student Resource Center Tablebase Title Source - click anonymous login UDC (Universal Decimal Classification) Ulrich's Periodicals Directory UnionLists ValueLine Wall Street Journal Web of Knowledge - request username and password from librarian What Do I Read Next WilsonSelect Women and Socio-Economic (formerly Minority) Owned Businesses Women Writers Online World Almanac World Scope WorldCat Xrefer

Descriptions of all GSLIS Online Resources

Reference Sources
This is a selected bibliography of reference sources available at Simmons College compiled by Linda Watkins, GSLIS Librarian. When available, links are provided for electronic resources. To access some resources online, you must have a current Simmons ID.

Help for specific courses:

• LIS 403: Role of Research
• LIS 407: Reference Sources
• LIS 409: Literature of the Social Sciences
• LIS 438: Introduction to Archival Methods and Services
• LIS 453: Collection Development
• LIS 490: International Librarianship
• LIS 632: Research Methods

Help with skills:

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• How to Search Library Lit and Information Science
• How to Search Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) and Information Science Abstracts (ISA)
• How to Search in InfoTrac Databases
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