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GSLIS Databases

GSLIS patrons have access to all of the Simmons Library Electronic Resources. In addition, there are many special databases that GSLIS students can access, including Factiva and many databases from EBSCO.

PLEASE NOTE:  The following resources are limited to the Simmons community (currently enrolled students and current faculty and staff).  You will need your Simmons College id number to access the resources from off-campus.

A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P R S T U V W X

 

ABI-INFORM
  • Contains detailed abstracts and indexing to articles from more than 1000 popular, trade and scholarly publications that are business or management related.
  • In many cases, page images are available, providing the exact chart and graphics from the actual magazine article.
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Academic Onefile

  • Academic Onefile contains 8,000 academic journals, the majority in full-text, available in HTML and PDF formats. In addition it contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full-text New York Times content to 1995. For more information, see the Thomson/Gale factsheet on Academic OneFile.

Academic Search Complete

  • Provides full text for 3,288 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
African American Experience

The African American Experience is a unique compilation of Internet-accessible digital images of works published from 1693-1830, written by and about members of America's black populace. It is an ideal resource for individuals and students who wish to gain firsthand insight into black history in America.

Created by Readex in cooperation with the American Antiquarian Society, the African American Experience is a carefully chosen subset of works from Early American Imprints 1639-1819, one of the most important anthologies ever produced on microform and a staple resource in research library. The contents of the African American Experience extend beyond the limits of that coverage to include additional materials from 1820-1830. The collection includes digital images of imprints ranging from one-sheet broadsides and small pamphlets to books more than 400 pages in length.

The African American Experience seeks to integrate the works of the first black writers in this country with late 18th and early 19th century literature addressing blacks and slavery, including:

  • Biographical information related to notable personalities
  • Conflicting viewpoints within anti-slavery movements and pro-slavery thought
  • Debates regarding why slaves should not be imported into the early American territories
  • Definition of master and servant
  • Slave narratives revealing real-life experiences
  • Captivity narratives
  • Slave life, slave insurrections, and runaway slaves
  • Original advertisements of rewards for fugitive slaves
  • Legal history, crime and punishment, trials
  • Government documents that relate to slavery and the slave trade
  • African American colonization movement
  • Evidence of early black nationalism (e.g., Walker's Appeal)
  • Church history
  • History of African American literature, early American publishing and individual printers

Ageline

  • Produced by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), AGELINE provides bibliographic coverage of social gerontology, which is the study of aging in psychological, health-related, social, and economic contexts.
  • The delivery of health care to the older population and its associated costs and policies is particularly well covered, as are consumer, employment, and public policy issues.
  • Literature covered is of interest to researchers, health professionals, service planners, policymakers, employers, older adults and their families, and consumer advocates.
  • Dates Coverage: Inclusive coverage is from 1978 to the present, with selected coverage from 1966 to 1977.

Agricola

  • Materials relating to all aspects of agriculture.
  • AGRICOLA includes over 3 million citations to material acquired by the National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions.
  • It indexes articles, audiovisual materials, books, book chapters, computer databases and software, maps, manuscripts, serials, and sound recordings.
Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Datababase
  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)'s Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database, commonly referred to as ETOH is an online bibliographic database containing over 100,000 records on alcohol abuse and alcoholism.
  • Access to ETOH requires a browser with frame capabilities.
Alt Health Watch
  • Alt Health Watch focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
  • It offers public, university and medical library an immediate resource of nearly 50,000 articles from over 160 international, peer-reviewed and professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings, and association and consumer newsletters (most from 1990 to the present), plus hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.
  • In addition to the standard bibliographic citations, the database indexes each article by more than 225 subject categories, 16 article types and 11 publication types. From both a professional and consumer standpoint, Alt Health Watch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by "Alternative Medicine".
Alt Press Watch
  • Alt-PressWatch is a full text database of over 170 newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.

It provides a valuable new source of coverage, viewpoints and perspectives to complement and challenge the coverage of the mainstream media and serves a broad spectrum of subject areas including the arts, media and popular culture, business and labor studies, education, environmental studies and ecology, global studies, history, journalism, literary and critical studies, political science, government and public policy, social science and more.

  • The magazines and journals covered in Alt-PRess Watch provide in-depth coverage of a broad range of critical issues confronting contemporary society, including ecology and the environment, grassroots organizing, labor, indigenous peoples, public policy, genetics, and much more.
Alternative Press Index and Alternative Press Index Archive
  • The most complete guide to alternative & radical media plus a guide to publishers' addresses.
  • The Alternative Press Index is widely regarded as the leading guide to the alternative press in North America. Citations are drawn from roughly 380 alternative, radical, and left publications, which report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political, and social change.
  • The Alternative Press Index (1991-present) - is produced by the Alternative Press Center in Baltimore. API indexes all articles of 5 or more paragraphs, including: editorials, regular columns, essays, fiction; speeches, interviews, statistics, reprints; bibliographies, directories, resource lists; autobiographies, biographies, obituaries, memoirs; and reviews: book, film, record, TV, drama, arts, and multimedia. API indexes such important periodicals as: Cineaste, Environmental Action, Socialist Review, and Women's Review of Books.
  • For a listing of currently indexed publications including some additional titles from the Independent Press Association, visit the Alternative Press Center web site at http://www.altpress.org.
  • 90% of the publications indexed in API are unique, you won't find them indexed in the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature or the Social Sciences Index.
America: History and Life
  • Contains article abstracts and bibliographical citations of reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. 
  • Articles are abstracted from more than 2,100 serial publications in more than 40 languages. 
  • Of these serials, about 900 are published in the United States and Canada, including journals of state and local historical societies, the social sciences and humanities generally, and leading journals in related fields of knowledge. 
  • Journal articles are covered with abstracts of 75-100 words.
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Anatomy.tv

  • Anatomy.tv is a unique dynamic human anatomy resource that provides you with stunning 3D visuals, animations and concise text for use in health care education, for patient education, for your students or for your own presentations.
  • One user at a time - please log out when finished!

Annual Statement Studies

Comprehensive, detailed data on over 740 industries—derived directly from financial statements.

The standard for financial statement comparative analysis is here. Built around balance sheet and income statement performance measures, these industry reports give you the foundation for understanding the typical companies operating in a particular industry, as well as the basis for comparing specific situations to an industry composite.

Financial Ratio Benchmarks includes:

  • Nineteen classic financial statement ratios, clearly defined. It’s like getting a free financial textbook with your purchase.
  • Common-size balance sheet and income statement. Six balance sheet and income statement line items are presented in common-size format.
  • Data arrayed by asset and sales size. Six different asset and sales size categories are presented to ensure a perfect match to your situation.
  • Unique information. No other information provider gets their data from where we get ours.
  • More than 740 industries presented using the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes.
  • Trend data available for the past four years. You’ll get the most up-to-date information for the current period, and you’ll be able to compare it quickly to the past four periods.

Applied Science & Technology

  • International and English-language periodicals, covering engineering, mathematics, physics, and computer technology.
  • Includes articles, interviews, meetings, conferences, exhibitions, new product reviews/announcements, and more
ARBA - American Reference Books Annual
  • ARBAonline is "the most comprehensive, authoritative database for quality reviews of print and electronic reference works-was launched in response to popular demand from library professionals.

Derived from the trusted reference standard American Reference Books Annual, ARBAonline features 9,500+ reviews of reference works published since 1997. Written by librarians for librarians, ARBAonline's reviews cover reference sources from more than 400 publishers in over 500 subject areas.

Accessible 24/7, ARBAonline lets you identify reference publications with confidence and ease, and enables you to keep library collections up-to-date, maintain quality standards, and ensure depth of coverage.

ARBAonline is updated monthly. More than 500 reviewers-all experts in their fields-provide thorough content evaluations that cover strengths and weaknesses of each reference resource and in many cases compare reference publications to similar titles, giving you pertinent information about titles that best fit your requirements. "

ArchiveGrid

Note: works on GSLIS computers and off-site for GSLIS students only. Ask librarian for login.

RLG's ArchiveGrid provide centralized access for searching and retrieval of archival finding aids that have been encoded using SGML and the emerging standard for Encoded Archival Description (EAD). The finding aids are indexed centrally at RLG but are supported in a distributed environment — some reside on a server at RLG, others are located on other servers around the world.

ArchiveGrid also includes access to RLG's AMC (Archival and Mixed Collections) file. AMC provides researchers with timely and comprehensive access to brief, high-level information for nearly half a million collections of manuscripts and archives, and has greatly enhanced the dissemination of information about the holdings in repositories around the world.

ArchivesUSA
  • Contains three major information resources: a newly created directory of manuscript repositories; collection records from the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections; names and detailed subject indexing of the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States. 
  • Search either by Collection or Repository.
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Art

  • Leading publications in the world of the arts. 
  • Art Abstracts, its full name, indexes and abstracts more than 300 key, international arts publications and provides accurate, up-to-date coverage of this multi-faceted, interdisciplinary field. 
  •  It is produced by the H.W. Wilson Company.
Article1st
  • Index of articles from nearly 12,500 journals. 
  • Journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index

ARTstor

ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

The ARTstor Digital Library is used by educators, scholars, and students at a variety of institutions including universities, colleges, museums, public libraries, and K-12 schools. The Digital Library serves users both within the arts and in disciplines outside of the arts. This includes historians of art and architecture and others engaged in the visual arts, as well as individuals in fields as diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies, all of whom find the images in ARTstor to be relevant to their teaching and research.

Association for Computing Machinery

  • All ACM journals and magazines, both in print and online, from 1985 forward.
  • ACM Special Interest Group conference proceedings, approximately 53, in both print and online as well as access to the 9-year archive of conference proceedings.
  • Our online subscription is for three simultaneous users.
Associations Unlimited
  • Contains information for approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations. For some 2,600 major U.S. national associations, provides full-text association materials such as brochures, pamphlets, and membership application forms. Associations Unlimited covers the following:
  • U.S. national associations (23,000)
  • International associations (20,000)
  • U.S. regional, state, and local associations (115,000)
  • Associations' Materials for selected national associations (2,600)
  • IRS Data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations (300,000)
Authors4Teens
  • A site about contemporary authors whose books explore all aspects of teenage life. Don Gallo interviews today's YA authors, exploring the craft, insight, habits, hobbies, studies, and passions.
Bibliography of the History of Art
  • Covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present, the Bibliography of the History of Art indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals.
  • The Bibliography of the History of Art is updated quarterly and covers 1973 to the present.
  • The Bibliography of the History of Art includes and extends the coverage of its two predecessor art indexes: RAA (Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie) from 1973 to 1989 and RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) from 1975 to 1989.

Bibliography of Asian Studies

  • The on-line version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains over 545,000 records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present. Through the 1991 printed version, the BAS included citations to Western-language periodical articles, monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc. Monographs published since 1992 have not been added to the database, and users seeking such monographs are urged to consult other general resources and databases (RLIN, OCLC, etc.).
  • The online BAS contains the full data of all of the printed editions of the BAS issued from the 1971 up to the 1991 edition (published 1997), as well as tens of thousands of entries compiled since. To quickly bridge the gap in coverage from 1991 to the present, the BAS staff have identified the most important 100+ periodicals in Asian Studies, and have indexed them on a priority basis in order to make their coverage as up-to-date as possible. Full information about the years of coverage of each and every journal is provided through the Journal Title Browse function. Various special projects have contributed substantial numbers of additional records to the database, thereby increasing the coverage of the BAS to include new and previously-excluded journals as well as eliminating gaps in the coverage of previously indexed periodicals.
  • The online BAS offers users various methods for seeking citations. In addition to using the powerful search function, users can browse by country-subject, or by journal title. A separate screen allows users to set their preferences for displaying and downloading data in different formats and character encodings. The BAS is updated regularly, with batch posting of thousands of new entries in each upload.

BioDigest

  • Non-technical digests in biology, ecology & health.
  • Covering the life sciences for undergraduates and high school students.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
  • This database is a first stop index tool for learning where to look for biographical material on people from all time periods, geographical locations and fields of endeavor.
  • Biography and Genealogy Master Index indexes any print product that includes biographical information on multiple persons.

Biography Reference Bank

  • Wilson Biography Reference Bank Illustrated contains more than 46,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 20,000 photographs of the subjects.
  • Many of the biographies are enhanced with full text, abstracts, and citations from H. W. Wilson databases.
  • The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth, date of death, keyword, and presence of images.

Biography Resource Center

The Biography Resource Center is a comprehensive database of biographical information on more than 185,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines approximately 300,000 biographies from respected Gale Group sources. The database also includes full-text articles from nearly 275 periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search path.

BIOSIS

  • A wide range of bioscience topics. 
  • Covers 350 of the basic core of life science journals most easily found in college and university library. These journals were chosen because they are written for non-biology majors and can be easily understood by undergraduates. 
  • The database includes popular science titles not covered in other BIOSIS databases. 

Bloomberg

*Access only at School of Management stand alone computer terminal

  • A real-time, on-line provider of minute-by-minute news and financial information. 
  • This powerful financial database covers over 150,000 public companies worldwide, as well as indexes, bonds, governments, and much more. 
  • For companies, Bloomberg provides a short description, extensive news coverage, and comprehensive financial information including cash flow, balance sheet, income statement, ratios, etc. 
  • There are many special features you can access, such as job listings, the Economist Intelligence Unit reports on countries worldwide, and audio conferences. 
  • Use Bloomberg for detailed news and financial information, especially for public companies.  

 

Book Review Digest

Book Review Digest Plus brings together the rich data of Book Review Digest, which includes descriptive summaries of books as well as excerpts of book reviews, with all the book review citations and full text of book reviews from eleven other H. W. Wilson indexes. Those indexes are: Applied Science & Technology Index, Art Index, Biological & Agricultural Index, Education Index, General Science Index, Humanities Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature & Information Science, Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature, Social Sciences Index, and Business Periodicals Index.
Books 24x7 Note: you must register for a personal username and password from ON CAMPUS the first time you use this resource
  • Thousands of the best technology books from the world's top publishers such as IDG, MIT Press, O'Reilly, Osborne, Computing McGraw-Hill, Que, Sams, Sybex, John Wiley and many others.

Books in Print

Books In Print offers access to more than 4 million titles (books, videos, and audiocassettes) and 250,000 publishers.

Integrating several leading databases within one seamless Web interface, this latest evolution of Bowker/Whitaker Global distributors - drawn from:

  • Bowker's Books In Print® database of U.S. and Canadian titles
  • Whitaker's British Books In Print® database of U.K. titles
  • Bowker and Whitaker's Publisher Authority databases
  • Bowker's Complete Video Directory&trade
  • Bowker's Words On Cassette&trade
  • And (coming in mid-2001) Australian Books in Print and New Zealand

Books in Print Title records provide a wealth of up-to-date information and research-friendly links. In addition to full and accurate bibliographic details, Web searchers will find cover images, synopses, awards, bestseller list placement, links to other titles by the same author, and links to other titles on the same subject. Convenient tabs let users instantly click to full-text reviews from up to 12 leading sources, author biographies, publisher information, other available formats, and stock availability at 19 U.S. suppliers.

Boston Globe
  • Full-text of articles published in the Boston Globe from 1980 to the present.
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Boston Globe Historical 1872-1924

Business & Industry

  • Contains facts, figures and key events for international public and private companies, industries, products, and markets for manufacturing and service industries.  
  • It covers all the primary business information sources--from leading trade magazines, newsletters, and the general business press to  international business dailies. 
  • Use B&I for marketing information such as market share, market size, brands, specific products. 
Business & Management Practices
  • Offers online articles about the practical aspects of business management, real-world  know-how that focuses on how organizations make and implement decisions, develop and launch new strategies, and plan for change. 
  • It includes case studies and "how-to" articles related to management issues such as benchmarking, best practices, business plans, corporate culture, long range planning, quality control, and reengineering. 
  • You may search for business concepts, industries, and specific departments within an organization. 
Business Source Premier
  • Comprehensive, business periodical database that includes scholarly journals and business periodicals covering topics such as management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more.
  • Business Source Premier contains content from full text sources ranging from general business periodicals such as Business Week, Forbes, Fortune, American Banker, etc. to academic journals such as Harvard Business Review, Journal of Management, Academy of Management Review, Review of Economics & Statistics, etc.
  • Business Source Premier provides cumulative indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,630 business journals and cumulative full text for nearly 2,080 journals.
  • The peer-reviewed full text content in Business Source Premier is unmatched, and full text backfiles are available for many journals back to 1990.
  • Additionally, Business Source Premier includes embedded images for many of the full text journals
CareerSearch
  • Career Search is a powerful on-line employment research tool with a database of more than a million employers from every major sector of the business and academic worlds.
  • You can make extensive lists of companies based on broad or specific industries. sizes, and geographic locations
  • Note: one user at a time only! Please logout when done.

Cataloger's Desktop

  • The most widely used cataloging documentation resources in an integrated, online system. Includes the current version of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2).

Charleston Advisor

  • Critical reviews of web products for information professionals
  • Review elements include:
    • Product Title: The official name of the product or the product's most recognizable name.
    • URL: The URL of the resource being reviewed.
    • Byline: Name of the reviewer, including contact information.
    • Score: The composite score is based on four elements--Content, Searchability, Pricing, and Contract Options.
    • Pricing: Pricing options available to subscribers.
    • Contact Information: Corporate address, phone, fax, e-mail, and URL.
    • Product Description: A narrative description of the product and its content.
    • Critical Evaluation: Examination of the strengths and weaknesses of the product.
    • Contract Provisions: Detailed description of the options and features of the contracts offered by the vendor.
    • Authentication: Description of the authentication and security options available to subscribers.
    • References: Citations for other reviews of the product or related materials provided by the reviewer.
    • Additional References: Citations for other reviews of the product or related materials provided by TCA staff.
    • Selected Users: A partial list of subscribers to the product.
    • Reader Opinion: Opinions gleaned from our web-based opinion form.
    • Updates/New Information: Information regarding new releases of the product.
    • One Year Later: (Related Reviews & Comments)
    • Usage experiences (link for opposing view, subsequent reviews,...)
    • Date: Date of the original TCA review of the product

Children's Core Collection, A Selection Guide

  • Children's Core Collection, A Selection Guide is the electronic version of Wilson's standard reference work of the same name.
  • Children's Core Collection, A Selection Guide is a selective annotated list of fiction and nonfiction books and magazines for children from preschool through sixth grade, along with review sources and other professional aids for children's librarians and school media specialists.
  • Nonfiction works are classified by subject according to the Dewey Decimal Classification. Works of fiction, story collections, and picture books are designated Fic, S C, and E.

Choice Reviews

  • ChoiceReviews.online is the Internet version of the print magazine CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Library. Begun in 1964, CHOICE is published in printed magazine format monthly.

    CHOICE reviews significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education. Each year CHOICE publishes more than 6,500 reviews by subject experts.

    Launched on the Web in April 1999, ChoiceReviews.online provides Web access to the entire database of CHOICE reviews published since September 1988. The database is updated monthly, generally at mid-month, with reviews that will be printed in the next monthly issue of CHOICE. The newest reviews appear, arranged by academic discipline and broad cross-disciplinary topic, in Current Issue.They also are searchable by using Advanced Search, selecting by CHOICE Issue Date, and combining with various other criteria.

Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education is the number one news and job-information source for college and university faculty members, administrators, and students.

Highlights of The Chronicle site:

the Web site is updated daily with the latest news in academe
  • all the text from the current issue including job ads is posted on Monday morning
  • a searchable archive of back issues is available dating back to September 1989
  • all commentary and essays from the weekly magazine, The Chronicle Review, are included
  • all the data from the annual Almanac and other reports in easy-to-search databases is included.

    • In addition, the Chronicle has daily news feeds available in RSS.

    CIAO

    Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.

    CIAO is also widely-recognized source for teaching materials including original case studies written by leading international affairs experts, course packs of background readings for history and political science classes, and special features like the analysis of a bin Laden recruitment tape with video.

    All sections of CIAO are updated monthly.

     

    CINAHL

    • Provides authoritative coverage of the literature in nursing and allied health from 1982 - the present. 
    • Over 1200 English-language nursing and allied health journals are indexed along with virtually all publications from the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing. 
    • Selected journals in biomedicine, consumer health, health sciences librarianship, behavioral sciences, and education are also included. 
    • CINAHL also provides references to healthcare books, book chapters, pamphlets, audiovisuals, nursing dissertations, educational software, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, nurse practice acts, critical paths, and research instruments. 
    • Note: while CINAHL is primarily a citation database, Simmons subscribes to a special enhanced version that includes the full text for articles from about 250 publications.

    Clase Periodica

    Index of Latin American journals in the social sciences and humanities

    • CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities.
    • PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology.
    • Offers access to more than 300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.
    • Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.

    Classification Web (LOC)

    World Wide Web access to Library of Congress Classification and Library of Congress Subject Headings

    • Access to the most up-to-date version of the LCC database. This database is updated by the Library of Congress weekly - with Class Web you will never be using an outdated version of a classification schedule.
    • Browse screens and search screens. Page through a classification schedule or search the schedules by captions, index terms, or even keywords. Do simple searches or complex Boolean searches.
    • Enhanced browser that includes a powerful calculator function. Use this feature to combine table and schedule data and display fully calculated numbers together with their corresponding captions.
    • Hierarchy browser. Browse schedules at any level of the hierarchy from the most general to the most specific.
    • Notes function. Write and save your own notes and hot links at any location in any of the classification schedules.
    • Subject Correlations. Find correspondences between subject headings and classification numbers or vice-versa, as reflected in bibliographic records.
    • Subject Headings. Search the database of Library of Congress subject authority records.

    Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC)

    • Communication & Mass Media Complete, like Communication & Mass Media Index, provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth in the communication and mass media fields.
    • CMMC offers cover-to-cover ("core") indexing and abstracts for over 300 journals, and selected ("priority") coverage of over 100 more, for a combined coverage of over 400 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for nearly 200 journals. Many major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable citations from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915).
    • CMMC contains a sophisticated controlled vocabulary and comprehensive reference browsing (i.e. searchable citations for all peer-reviewed journals covered as "core").

    Congressional Publications

    • From the main LexisNexis page, click on the Congressional Publications link on the right under "Related Products". perform in-depth research in public policy, historical, and legal areas of interest. The basic subscription includes abstracts and indexing for congressional publications, legislative histories, member biographies, committee assignments, voting records, and financial data; and the full text of key regulatory and statutory resources. Use LexisNexis Congressional to:
      • Pinpoint expert testimony on the leading issues of the day
      • Tap authoritative sources of statistics, projections, and analyses
      • Discover a law's intent by tracing its legislative history
      • Obtain information about Members of Congress
      • Access the full text primary source congressional publications
      • Monitor legislation and public policy on almost any topic
      • Review the Federal regulations that implement legislation
      • Learn the makeup and mission of congressional committees

    Connexion - login 100032294 ask your professor or the GSLIS Tech Lab workers for the password.

    • Connexion is a Web-based, metadata creation system optimized for creating bibliographic records and pathfinders (subject bibliographies) for electronic resources, both local and Web-based. The databases and tools that comprise the Connexion system are designed to assist you in providing users with well-guided access to Web resources.
    • Connexion offers four searchable databases:
      • Connexion Resource Catalog (bibliographic records)
      • Connexion Authority File
      • Connexion Pathfinder Database
      • WebDewey Database (an enhanced version of the Dewey Decimal Classification database)
    • Connexion offers a toolkit based on technology developed at OCLC that supports automated:
      • bibliographic record creation
      • authority control
      • URL maintenance
      • subject heading assignment
      • pathfinder creation

    Contemporary Authors  

    • Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on apporximately 100,000 U.S. and international authors. 
    • Corresponds to the print Contemporary Authors series.

    Contemporary Literary Criticism

    • An extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors.
    • Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works, and sources for further study.

    Contemporary Womens Issues

    • Provides access to global information on women.
    • Journals, newsletters, research  reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, along with fact sheets are easily accessed. 
    • Information on women in over 200 countries is compiled in a single collection bringing together such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health, education and human rights. 

    Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works

    • Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works is a searchable collection containing real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material. New material is added on a biweekly basis and, when complete, the database will contain more than 2,000 session transcripts, 40,000 pages of client narratives, and 25,000 pages of secondary reference material. The database currently includes approximately 34,600 pages of material, including more than 9,000 pages of session transcripts, more than 11,000 pages of client narratives, and more than 13,000 pages of secondary reference material.

    CQ (Congressional Quarterly)

    • CQ Weekly is the complete source for expert coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering. The CQ Weekly is known as the pre-eminent resource for Congress-watchers who need nonpartisan information on Capitol Hill.  Your complete source for expert coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering. Produced by the largest news team on Capitol Hill.
    • The CQ Researcher is the perfect answer for people who need a place to begin research on current topics. 
    • Covers the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more. The CQ Researcher Online is the award-winning choice of researchers seeking original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Controversial topics addressed in a balanced, unbiased manner in the CQ tradition.
    • CQ Global Researcher: CQ Global Researcher offers researchers international perspectives on the most vital world issues with original, single-topic reports, written in the same balanced, unbiased style as the CQ Researcher.
    • CQ Congress and the Nation Online Edition: CQ Congress and the Nation is the signature resource for perspective and analysis of the U.S. Congress. It is the authoritative reference on Congressional trends, actions, and controversies.
    • CQ Historic Documents Series Online Edition: CQ Historic Documents Series Online Edition collects more than 2,500 primary sources covering current events around the world from 1972 to present and provides a clear, logical organization and tools for exploring these rich resources.
    • CQ's Political Handbook of the World Online Edition: Comprehensive country profiles chronicling national history, government, and political parties, as well as profiles on intergovernmental organizations, development banks, and the agencies and specialized bodies of the United Nations.
    • CQ's Politics in America Online Edition: CQ's Politics in America has been called "the ultimate insider's guide to politics" and is an essential resource for readers who want authoritative information on the members of Congress.
    • CQ Supreme Court Yearbook Online Edition: Explore the actions and opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court with clear and in-depth analysis of every decision made by the nation's highest court since the 1989-1990 term.
    • CQ's Vital Statistics on American Politics Online Edition: CQ's Vital Statistics on American Politics is a powerful tool for researching statistical data on politics on the United States.
    • CQ Washington Information Directory Online Edition: Washington Information Directory Online Edition is the one resource you can trust to navigate the complicated web of official Washington. It's your one-stop source for the right information.

     

    Current TOPICsearch

    • Current TOPICsearch allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 78,000 articles from 3,000 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's periodicals collection, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, government information and EBSCO's Current Issues database.


    Curriculum Resource Center and Curriculum Resource Center Junior

    An Electronic Library of Printable Teacher Handouts

    Facts On File's Curriculum Resource Center is an electronic library of printable teacher-handout material that combines Facts On File's curriculum-oriented On File™ print reference materials with powerful search capabilities and an attractive, user-friendly interface. The engaging, accessible, and reproducible On File™ binder content that librarians and educators have come to know and trust is now available online in one easy-to-use database. Curriculum Resource Center's expansive collection of reproducible handouts, many of which are PDF files, is conveniently arranged by subject (e.g., history, geography, science, mathematics) and can be saved, emailed, printed, or distributed for educational purposes.

    Clean, Clear, Visual Learning Aids

    By presenting concepts visually, Curriculum Resource Center delivers a wealth of clear, informative, supplemental material that will enhance the middle, high school, and junior college curriculum. Covering core subject areas including U.S. and world history, science, and geography, Curriculum Resource Center is the ideal tool for maximizing classroom resources.

    Curriculum Resource Center is a user-friendly database geared toward teachers. The curriculum-related handouts present visual information on key concepts, events, and people in a variety of formats, including maps, timelines, experiments and projects, diagrams, and images. Comprehensive and easy to use, this one-stop resource provides easy access to an unprecedented array of content for teachers seeking material to supplement their textbooks.

    Features:

      • History: history entries, matching curriculum standards and including approximately 2,000 historical images, that cover the entire span of world and U.S. history
      • Historical Timelines: timelines covering all regions of the world and placing historical events in perspective
      • Geography: more than 400 printable maps-geographical maps, including political, elevation, and outline maps of continents, regions, and every country, U.S. state, and Canadian province or territory; historical maps, covering all time periods and world areas; and statistical maps, with information on population and other social and economic indicators
      • Science Diagrams: diagrams that facilitate visually oriented learning of key science topics from all sections of the curriculum
      • Science Experiments: hands-on activities for science education in fields such as biology, chemistry, Earth science, physics, weather, and space
      • Mathematics: problem sets ranging from simple to advanced levels, arranged by subject—algebra, geometry, and calculus
      • Physical Education and Health: handouts organized by health topic—from diet and mental health to sports rules

    Custom Newspapers From InfoTrac, 100 newspapers from around the world.

    Dissertation Abstracts

    • Covers dissertations accepted at accredited U.S institutions since 1861. 
    • It selectively covers masters theses, Canadian dissertations, and British and other European dissertations. 

    Ebrary

    This growing collection features more than 23,000 books and other content covering all academic subject areas including:

    • Business & Economics
    • Career & General Education
    • Computers, Engineering & Applied Science
    • Humanities
    • Science, Medicine & Allied Health
    • Social & Behavior Sciences

    EBSCO

    • Listing of all databases from EBSCO

    EBSCO Animals

    • Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.

    EconLit

    • Provides citations and abstracts for articles in more than 400 journals, books, and the Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics (AWPE).  
    • It provides citations for dissertations and articles in more than 500 collective volumes per year.  
    • It is produced by the Journal of Economic Literature. 
    • EconLit provides citations and abstracts of economics related articles from more than 400 journals, books and working papers. 
    • Coverage begins in 1969 and is updated weekly. 
    • Use to locate articles on economics.

    Education Abstracts and Fulltext Journals

    • Contains more than 550 titles on education--including primary, secondary, and university-level topics--with nearly 300 in full text.
    • Includes the indexing and abstracts from H.W. Wilson's highly regarded Education Abstracts, plus many additional titles.

    Education Professional Development Collection

    • Education Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive and most valuable collection of full text education journals in the world. The Professional Development Collection includes full text for more than 550 high quality education journals including: Chronicle of Higher Education, Booklist, Education, Education Digest, Education Week, Educational Leadership, High School Journal, Journal of Education, Journal of Higher Education, Journal of Educational Research, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Phi Delta Kappan, Reading Teacher, School Library Journal, and many others. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.

    Educator’s Reference Complete

    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. 1980 - AUG, 2007

    EIU Country Reports Note: to access the Country Reports, from the main page, click on: Enterprise client access, under the Client login box. Available ON CAMPUS only.

    • The EIU (Economist Intelligence Unit) is one of the leading publishers of in-depth information on countries world-wide. Country Reports and Profiles contain background and historical context of current economic and political events, analysis of the infrastructure and major industrial sectors of each economy, and tables of key economic data for past 5 years. Simmons subscribes to 80 countries.

    eLibrary from BigChalk

    eLibrary provides full-text and multimedia reference essentials for K-12 students. Students find the answers they need from more than 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts--plus thousands of maps, pictures, educator-approved websites from Homework Central, and audio/video files.

    Emerald  

    • Emerald - the Electronic Management Research Library Database - puts all the resources of a full management library on to a standard PC.
    • From MCB University Press
    • Multi-user access to over 130 journals.
    • The database contains over 25,000 management articles from its archive back to 1989.

    Encyclopedia Britannica

    • EB Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year.
    • You can also use EB Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 130,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
    • Through this service, you can find more than 72,000 articles, updated and revised by EB editors and contributors; over 10,000 illustrations, including photographs, drawings, maps, and flags; and more than 75,000 definitions--including pronunciation guides and word histories--from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.

    Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science More than 10,000 references for additional, more detailed information!
    New topics covered in the revitalized Second Edition:

    • Competitive intelligence
    • Decision support systems
    • Digital library projects
    • Electronic records preservation
    • Ethical issues in information
    • Online library instruction
    • Telecommuting
    • Software reliability
    • The user-centered revolution


    Targets new and dynamic movements in the distribution, acquisition, and development of print and online media—addressing recruitment, program planning in the digital era, information management, advances in digital technology and encoding, intellectual property issues, and hardware, software, and database selection and design.

    Encyclopedia of Philosophy
    • REP Online is the online version of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
    • Originally published in print in June 1998, the online versions is updated every January, April, July and October
    • REP Online features over 2000 original articles from over 1300 leading international experts across the discipline of philosophy.
    • The articles cover an unparalleled breadth of subject matter, including Anglo-American, ethical and political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental and contemporary philosophy. With a summary providing a rapid orientation at the beginning of every in-depth article, the Encyclopedia is specially designed to meet the needs of all levels of users.
    • The online format makes the Encyclopedia incredibly easy to use and highly searchable. It gives you a wealth of data at your fingertips, with: 25,000 hot-linked cross-references between articles; editorially defined links to other philosophy resources; a comprehensive conceptual organisation of key terms, themes and names; and articles organised by theme, philosophical traditions by region, religious traditions, and period.

    ERIC - via EBSCO
    ERIC - via FirstSearch

    • Journal articles and reports in education from 1966 to the present. 
    • ERIC contains more than 850,000 annotated references to nonjournal material issued in the monthly Resources in Education (RIE) and  to journal articles issued in the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). 

    The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature.

    The new ERIC online system, released September 2004, provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966.

    Effective October 1, more than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, will be available for free.

    Essay and General Literature
    • Essay and General Literature Index, produced by The H. W. Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. More than 300 volumes are indexed annually. Additionally, more than 20 annuals and serial publications are indexed. Essay and General Literature Index also provides full bibliographic information on collective titles indexed. Essay and General Literature Index focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film.

    Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) Reviews from OVID

    • The Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) Reviews databases from OVID report definitive study results providing recent information on the diagnosis and treatment of a wide variety of medical conditions. They analyze and synthesize the best clinical trials on a subject. EBM helps clinicians to find the best answer to clinical questions in the least amount of time.

      Clinical Evidence:

      Clinical Evidence is produced by the BMJ Publishing Group and is frequently updated. It provides a concise account of the current state of knowledge, ignorance, and uncertainty about the prevention and treatment of a wide range of clinical conditions based on thorough searches and appraisal of the literature. In other words, it contains a compendium of evidence on the effects of common clinical interventions.

      EBM Reviews:

      • ACP Journal Club 1991 to January/February 2001
      • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 1st Quarter 2001
      • Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness 1st Quarter 2001
      • Cochrane, ACP Journal Club, and DARE

      The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (COCH) includes the full text of the regularly updated systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare prepared by The Cochrane Collaboration. The reviews are presented in two types: Complete reviews - Regularly updated Cochrane Reviews, prepared and maintained by Collaborative Review Groups Protocols - Protocols for reviews currently being prepared (all include an expected date of completion). Protocols are the background, objectives and methods of reviews in preparation.

    Ethnic News Watch

    • A comprehensive collection of newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press in America - now with expanded international coverage, and archival material back to 1990.
    • Includes nearly 300,000 full-text articles from more than 190 publications.
    • Approximately 7,000 new articles are added each month.

    Expanded Academic ASAP

    • Covers 1980 to the present; updated daily. 
    • Use this database to find journal articles on: Astronomy, Religion, Law, History, Psychology, Humanities, Current Events, Sociology, Communications and the General Sciences. 

    Factiva

    • A source for business information containing news, full-text articles, comprehensive financial reports on more than 20,000 companies, SEC filings and more
    • On campus use only - GSLIS Library or One Palace Road.

    FAITS

    More than 1,200 full-text reports on a wide range of IT topics.

    Technology areas covered include: data networking, broadband, information security, electronic government, electronic business, the internet, application development, mobile business, wireless communications, and more.

    Report types include: technology tutorials, marketplace reports, implementation guides, face-off reports, timelines, comparison & selection guides, and profiles of products, services, and companies.

    Also included are a collection of IT directories and a glossary.

    Produced by Faulkner Information Services.

    Family & Society Studies Worldwide

    • Family & Society Studies Worldwide Database (1970 - present) is the world's most comprehensive, systematic, and non-evaluative resource of research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, and Human Development.
    • FSD, including FAMILY, provides over 198,000 abstracts and bibliographic records drawn from over a thousand professional journals, books, popular literature, conference papers, government reports, and other sources, many of which are indexed exclusively in FSD.
    • About 9,000 abstracts are added each year.

    Film & Television Literature 

    • Film & Television Literature Index is a comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing. It has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes film scholars, college students, and general viewers. Publications include Film Journal International, Journal of British Cinema & Television, Film Criticism, Post Script, Variety, and more as well as technical publications such as SMPTE. Mirroring the international film & television industries and cultures, FTLI also includes publications such as Cahiers du Cinema, Filmihullu, SegnoCinema, and Kinetoscopio. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.

    FirstSearch 

    • FirstSearch is a vendor that provides access to over 50 citation databases. 
    • These databases are organized by subject, and primarily provide indexing and abstracting of periodicals. 
    • FirstSearch is accessed through the Library Home Page.

    Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

    • This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

    Gale Virtual Reference Library

    • Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different library (your school, your public library, or your office).

    Gender Watch

    • A full-text database that covers diverse subjects on women's issues.
    • Includes more than 150 academic and scholarly journals, regional publications, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, booklets, and reports.
    • Contains many archived materials, some dating to 1980.

    General Business File

    • Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.
    • In the advanced search, access the Company Profile mode (for company directory listings) or the Reuters Analyst Reports mode (for analysts reports)

    General Reference Center and General Reference Center GOLD

    • Covers 1980 to the present; updated daily. 
    • Use this general interest database to search magazines, reference books, and newspapers for information on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, etc.
    • GOLD contains even more titles.

    General Science

    • Leading general science periodicals. 
    • Covers everything from supernovas to marine pollution and is the ideal source for researchers  seeking information on a variety of scientific topics. 
    • It indexes more than 100 leading journals and magazines from the United States and Great Britain. 
    • It describes biographical sketches, symposia, conferences, review articles, selected letters to the editor, and special issues of journals published as supplementary issues, review issues, or laboratory guides. It also cites book reviews. 
      GEOBASE
    •  Records covering the worldwide literature on geology, geography, and ecology.

    Global Market Information Database

    • Euromonitor International’s Global Market Information Database is an online business information system providing business intelligence on countries, consumers and industries. It offers integrated access to statistics, market reports, company profiles and information sources. 205 countries are researched, with extended coverage of 52.

    GPO

    • U.S. government publications. 
    • GPO Monthly Catalog, its full name, contains more than 450,000 records for documents on all subjects of interest to the U.S. government. 
    • It covers all types of U.S. government documents, including: Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.) 
    • Each record contains a bibliographic citation. 

    GreenFile

    • GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.

    Grove Art Online - now Oxford Art

    • The Grove Dictionary of Art contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts - painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography - from prehistory to the present day.
    • Compiled over a period of 15 years, it represents the work of more than 6,800 scholars from around the world, each writing on his or her own specialist field of study. This scope of coverage is unrivalled by any other art historical reference work, either in print or online.
    • 45,000 articles
    • 500,000 bibliographical citations
    • 86,000 cross references
    • 720,000 index entries

    Grove Dictionary of Music - now Oxford Music

    • Dynamic research tool combining the full text of the 29-volume print edition with the added benefit of sophisticated search capabilities, one-click cross-referencing, and an ever increasing network of web-links to musical sites around the world.
    • Key features:
      • Full-text search with advanced capabilities
      • Over 3000 links to related sites, including sound archives and illustrations
      • Quarterly and annual updates by the Grove editorial advisory board
    • Sound, illustrations and related sites: In addition to the full-text of the print version, The New Grove II Online also features context-sensitive links from articles which lead you to extra resources that enhance or expand on the Grove article. These have been specially selected and captioned for relevance and clarity and are regularly updated and monitored by the Grove team for reliability and authority. 

    Health and Psychosocial Instruments

    • Health and Psychosocial Instruments provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.
    • HAPI assists researchers, practitioners, educators, administrators, and evaluators, including students, to identify measures needed for research studies, grant proposals, client/patient assessment, class papers/projects, theses/dissertations, and program evaluation.
    • By creating an organized resource of previously unavailable measurement information, HAPI: (a) provides a means of locating a variety of instruments, (b) helps to reduce inefficiency and cost, and (c) eliminates duplication and "reinvention of the wheel."
    Health Business Fulltext Elite
    • Health Business Fulltext Elite provides access to journals and monographs covering health care administration and other non-clinical aspects of health care institution management.
    • Critical for the hospital administrator, this database includes searchable full text for over 410 well known administrative journals, reference books and magazines including Health Management Technology, Hospital Topics and Materials Management in Health Care.
    • This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
    Health Reference Center
    • Covers 1995 to the present; updated daily. 
    • Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health,Occupational Health & Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc.
    Health Resource Center
    Use this database to research topics in health and medicine, medications, and wellness. Includes encyclopedias, directories, medical dictionary, magazines, journals, and newspapers.
    Health Source: Consumer Edition
    Health Source: Consumer Edition is the richest collection of consumer health information available to library worldwide. This resource provides access to nearly 300 full text consumer health periodicals, and searchable full text for nearly 1,100 health-related pamphlets and 135 health reference books, including books published by the People's Medical Society. Additionally, Health Source: Consumer Edition contains more than 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to 1,100 drug monograph entries and 2,700 patient education fact sheets; and Stedman's Medical Dictionary. This full text database covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, women's health, etc.

    Historic Documents

    Published annually since 1972, the Historic Documents Series now contains 33 volumes of primary sources. Each volume includes approximately one hundred documents covering the most significant events of the year. These documents range from presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.

    In CQ Historic Documents Series Online Edition you can find the entire collection of the acclaimed Historic Documents print editions. The online edition is clearly organized and easy to use. And since it contains more than 32,000 print pages, it is rich in its depth and wide in its areas of coverage. CQ Historic Documents Series Online Edition also provides you with many of the same features you find in other CQ Electronic Library products, such as Citenow!, Email this Document, and Print this Document. Like other CQ Electronic Library products, the CQ Historic Documents Series Online Edition includes the Your Profile function where you can permanently save your favorite documents.

    Historical Abstracts

    • Abstracts of Journal Articles
    • Citations to Books and Dissertations

    Long recognized as the world's leading historical bibliography, this is a guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding North America). Historical Abstracts on the Web provides an unmatched breadth of coverage of historical and related social science literature.

    A special emphasis is placed upon the inclusion of English-language journal and book titles published throughout the world.

    Each year over 1,700 journal titles published worldwide are scanned for articles of interest to historians and key English-language history and review journals are examined for books related to historical study. In all, over 20,000 new abstracts and citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations are added to the database annually.

    What Makes Historical Abstracts on the Web Outstanding:

    • Extensive indexing helps students and researchers locate the information they need quickly
    • Includes web interface design features created to meet the special needs of the history student and scholar
    • Monthly updates cover the most current literature published
    • The essential bibliography for anyone studying the history of the world from 1450 to the present
    History Resource Center
    The History Resource Center: U.S. is an integrated collection of primary documents, secondary reference sources, and journal articles covering all areas of U.S. history from pre-colonial times to the present day. It combines more than 1,000 primary documents -- invaluable to students conducting in-depth historical research -- with the broad background and overview coverage found in more than a dozen reference sources from the Gale Group, including standards such as Scribner's Dictionary of American History and Dictionary of American Biography. Complete full-text coverage of approximately 65 periodicals of interest to students and historians, as well as access to the citations for history journals from ISI's Arts & Humanities Citation Index
    Horn Book Guide
    • More than 40,000 reviews published between 1989 and 2001.
    • Published each spring and fall by the Horn Book Guide, Inc., the authoritative Horn Book Guide Guide publishes short, critical reviews of virtually every hardcover trade book published in the United States for young people.
    • Reviews are clear and honest, identifying strengths and weaknesses and rating the books on a scale from one to six, with a marking books receiving the highest ratings of a 1 or 2.
    • The Horn Book Guide Guide Online is searchable by author, illustrator, title, subject, and bibliographic data, as well as by rating assigned the book in the original Horn Book Guide review.
    • The Horn Book Guide Guide Online is ideal for teachers building a classroom library or recommending books to students and parents; for librarians serving a school-wide community of readers and teachers; and for pre-service instructors helping new teachers understand how to match books to readers.
    Humanities
    • An index of articles in the humanities. 
    • Indexes and abstracts more than 300 key humanities publications, including feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays, operas, ballets, dance, musicals, movies, and television and radio programs. 
    • It excludes editorials, letters to the editor, news, ephemeral announcements, cartoons, and advertising. 
    • Each record contains a bibliographic citation for an article, book review, or other item in a journal and library holdings for the journal title. 

    IMF International Financial Statistics

    • The IFS database contains approximately 32,000 time series covering more than 200 countries and areas and includes all series appearing on the IFS Country Pages; exchange rate series for all Fund member countries, plus Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles; major Fund accounts series; and most other world, area, and country series from the IFS World Tables. The IFS database contains time series data from 1948.
    • The browser software provides a familiar and easy-to-use Windows interface for browsing the database, selecting series of interest, displaying the selected series in a spreadsheet format, and saving the selected series for transfer to other software systems, such as Microsoft Excel.

     

    Industry Surveys from Standard & Poor's Net Advantage

    • Accurate, comprehensive coverage of 52 major U.S. industries - analyzing operations, highlighting current problems and opportunities and giving valuable insights into upcoming trends. For each industry, you'll find the:
      • Current environment - includes a near-term review and forecast, emerging trends and recent developments that may signal longer-term trends
      • Industry profile - major players and market share data, market/demand developments, the raw materials situation, the labor environment and regulatory trends
      • How the industry operates - the business/economic cycles to which it is subject, the competitive landscape, raw materials, distribution, regulation and legislation
      • Key ratios and statistics - a listing and discussion of the key ratios and statistical measures that are widely followed benchmarks of the industry's health
      • How to analyze a company - how to evaluate the health and profitability of a company in the specific industry
      • Comparative company analysis - tables listing historical financial data, including revenues and income, profitability ratios and various important balance sheet ratios for leading companies in each industry

    Infotrac (all Gale Group resources)

    Ingenta

    • Ingenta is a database of current article information taken from approximately 30,000 multidisciplinary publications.
    • Contains brief descriptive information for over 19,000,000 articles. 
    • Ingenta also provides an automated alerting service that delivers the table of contents of your favorite periodicals directly to your e-mail box. You can select up to 50 titles.
    • Note: in order to use Ingenta as a personal alerting service, you must set up an individual profile and choose a username and password from on-campus using this link

    ISI Web of Science

    JSTOR

    • Provides full-text backfiles of many core scholarly journals, some dating back to the 1800s. 
    • Search Help

    Lexis-Nexis Academic

    • Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, medical, and reference information, including:
      •  News
      •  Biographical Information 
      •  Reference & Directories
      •  Company News
      •  General Medical & Health Topics
      •  Industry & Market News
      •  Medical Abstracts
      •  Government & Political News
      •  Accounting, Auditing & Tax
      •  Legal News
      •  Law Reviews
      •  Company Financial Information
      •  Federal Case Law
      •  Country Profiles
    • Search Help

    LGBT

    • LGBT Life with Full Text contains all of the content available in LGBT Life as well as full text for 50 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens of full text monographs. The database includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBT Thesaurus containing over 6,400 terms. Full text content available in LGBT Life with Full Text includes The Advocate, Gay Parent Magazine, Girlfriends, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies, James White Review, ISNA News, Ladder, Lesbian Tide, New York Blade, ONE, Tangents, Washington Blade, and many more.

    Library Literature and Library Literature Retrospective

    • Materials on library and librarianship.
    • Indexes more than 220 key library and information science periodicals published internationally. 
    • Includes selected state library journals, books (more than 600 annually), conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets;  it cites book reviews. 
    • It excludes advertisements, ephemeral materials, and meeting announcements. 
    LION - Literature Online
    • fully searchable library of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key secondary sources.
    • Literature Online features an ever-growing collection of over 290,000 works of poetry, drama and prose with complementary reference resources.
    • the primary texts in Literature Online include English poetry from 600 to the present, American and African-American poetry from 1603 to the present, The Faber Poetry Library, English fiction from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, English drama from 1280 to 1915, and American drama from 1762 to 1832.
    • Secondary Sources include LIFT, a literary journal index with full text of many articles, Webster's Dictionary, the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, the King James Bible, links to other Web resources, bibliographies for over 400 authors, and biographies for over 1,000 of the most-studied authors
    LISA - Library and  Information Science Abstracts
    • Abstracts from Library and Information Science journals
    LISTA - Library,  Information Science and Technology Abstracts with Full Text
    Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text,(LISTA) was formerly Information Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA). EBSCO Publishing continues ISTA's renowned coverage of information science and significantly increases the coverage of library science. 149 ISTA titles are upgraded to Core coverage, and 121 new periodicals are included. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, search engines, printed and electronic information sources, the information industry, scholarly communication, and electronic publishing. LISTA indexes journal articles from more than 600 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings. With coverage extending back to 1966, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.
    Literary Marketplace

    Literary Market Place (LMP) is the directory of America and Canadian book publishing. For more than 50 years, LMP has been the resource consulted by practically everyone looking for industry data--whether they are publishing professional, authors, industry watchers, or those seeking to gain entry into the world of publishing.

    Featuring listings on more than 30,000 companies, books, periodicals, awards, courses, or events (to name just a few categories), no matter what -- or who-- you are looking for in the book trade, chances are you'll find it in literarymarketplace.com.

    Includes:

    • Publishers
    • Literary Agents
    • Distributors & Sales Representatives
    • Wholesalers Book Producers
    • Exporters & Importers
    • Manufacturers & Printers
    • Translators & Interpreters
    • Paper Suppliers
    • Remainder Dealers
    • Reference Books & Magazines
    • Literary Association, Societies & Awards

     

    Literary Reference Center

    • Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a comprehensive literary reference database that provides a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day.   LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else.