Temple Libraries: Research Database Descriptions

Database Descriptions

ABC-CLIO eBooks: A database of electronic versions of selected titles published by ABC-CLIO.

ABI/INFORM Complete: ABI/INFORM has been a premier source of business information for more than 30 years. The database contains abstracting and indexing from over 4,000 publications that help researchers track business conditions, trends, management techniques, corporate strategies, and industry-specific topics worldwide. Almost 3,000 titles are available full-text, including the Wall Street Journal.
Academic Search Premier: Multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for over 3,460 scholarly publications, including full-page images as well as color embedded images. Provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Updated daily.

Access World News (35 concurrent user limit): Full-text from over 1,400 U.S. and international newspapers. The unique map interface enables users to quickly and easily target any search to a single title, all titles in a country or a continent, the entire collection, or any customized grouping. Updated daily.

A vast collection of databases devoted to early American history, Accessible Archives has been described by leading academics as "one of the most important developments in early American research since microfilm". Accessible Archives' databases contain the rich, comprehensive material found in leading historic periodicals and books from the 18th and 19th centuries. Eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements and genealogical records are now available in a user-friendly on-line environment. These databases are encyclopedic in scope and allow full Boolean, group name, string and truncated searches. Transcribed individual entries are complete with full bibliographic citations and are organized chronologically. Titles will continue to be added, covering important topics and time periods for scholars and students of all academic levels.

Online science reference tool that includes the full-text of the latest editions of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms. New trends in science are covered via the full-text of the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology. This content is supplemented by biographies of scientists, bibliographies containing more than 28,000 literature citations, links to evaluated related web sites, learning resources and study guides, as well as illustrations, animations, and image galleries.

AccessUN is a commercially published index to United Nations documents and publications, from 1945 onward. Includes resolutions, treaties, and UN periodicals. Useful for research on international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian nature.

ACLS Humanities E-Book (formerly ACLS History Ebook Project)

"Contains books of major importance to historical studies. ...ACLS is collaborating in this initiative with eight Learned Societies and a select group of University Presses to assist scholars in the electronic publishing of high-quality works in history, to explore the intellectual possibilities of new technologies, and to help assure the continued viability of the history writing in today's changing publishing environment."

ACM Digital Library (Computing Journals and Proceedings)

Contains bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since 1985. While full-text is available for most articles, full-text is not yet available for every proceeding article published before 1991. As of September 30th, 1999, the library includes:

Over 31,000 full-text articles from ACM journals, magazines, and conference proceedings
Tables of Contents with over 7,000 citations from articles published in ACM journals and magazines from 1985 forward
Tables of contents with nearly 35,000 citations from articles published in over 700 volumes of conference proceedings since 1985

ACS (American Chemical Society) Journals

The American Chemical Society site contains full text articles for the journals published by American Chemical Society. The Division's comprehensive collection includes more than 30 journals and magazines (including 5 copublished with other scientific societies). Full text and images are available in HTML or Adobe Acrobat PDF format. ACS offers two e-mail alerting services - TOC Alerts and ASAP Alerts.

African American Biographical Database

The African American Biographical Database (AABD) brings together in one resource the biographies of thousands of African Americans, many not to be found in any other reference source. These biographical sketches have been carefully assembled from biographical dictionaries and other sources.

The collection contains extended narratives of African American activists, business people, former slaves, performing artists, educators, lawyers, physicians, writers, church leaders, homemakers, religious workers, government workers, athletes, farmers, scientists, factory workers, and more--both the famous and the everyday person.

AABD draws its initial content from Chadwyck-Healey’s Black Biographical Dictionaries 1790-1950 and includes descriptive listings of individuals taken from Black Biography, 1790-1950: A Cumulative Index, edited by Randall K. Burkett, Nancy Hall Burkett, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Biographical portraits from newly uncovered dictionaries as well as from other published reference sources, obituary files, slave narrative collections, internet sites, etc. will be added as the database expands.

African American Experience: The African American Experience (AAE) includes the full-text of over 300 reference works from Greenwood Publishing as well as over 4,000 interviews with former slaves from the WPA slave narratives project. Primary source documents, audio clips, images, maps, photographs, and over 60 Negro University Press titles are also included.
African American Music Reference: African American Music Reference will bring together 50,000 pages of text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. The database is constantly expanding to include comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

African American Newspapers: The 19th Century: This enormous collection of African American Newspapers contains a wealth of information about the cultural life and history during the 1800s, and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. They also contain large numbers of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience.

Starting with the Freedom`s Journal in 1827 and continuing in chronological order with the addition of 10 to 12 million words of new text each year (downloaded monthly), this database will ultimately contain the complete text of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century. Never before has such important original source material - written by African- Americans for African-Americans - been readily available for research and fresh interpretation by historians, sociologists, educators and students.
African American Song (3 concurrent user limit): This collection of music contains more than 50,000 African American songs from gospel to spirituals, folk, jazz, and blues, covering the late 19th century to the 1970s. The collection is searchable and browsable, and users can organize songs into playlists for online listening..
African-American Poetry (1750-1900): African-American Poetry contains nearly 3,000 poems by African-American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The contents are based upon the bibliography of William French et al, Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975: A Guide to Information Sources (Gale Research, 1979). Generally, the policy has been to use first editions whenever possible; later editions were selected if they were more inclusive. Where poems appeared in their original dialect in an earlier edition and standardized in a later edition, both forms have been included for comparison purposes. Poems originally published in periodicals have also been included. Textual apparatus and front matter to the poems are generally omitted, except the poet's own notes, which have been included in the database.
African Journals Online: AJOL 2000 offers the tables of contents and abstracts of articles from journals in agricultural sciences, science and technology, health and social sciences, published in Africa.

African Writers Series: Over 180 volumes from Heinemann's African Writers Series including works by Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Steve Biko, Buchi Emecheta, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Dambudzo Marechera, Christopher Okigbo, Okot p'Bitek and Tayeb Salih.

AgeLine: The AgeLine database is produced by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) and provides bibliograpic coverage of social gerontology--the study of aging in social, psychological, health-related, and economic contexts. The delivery of health care for the older population and its associated costs and policies is particularly well covered, as are public policy, employment, and consumer issues. Literature covered is of interest to researchers, health professionals, service planners, policymakers, employers, older adults, and their families and consumer advocates.
Agricola: Includes over 3 million citations to material acquired by the National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions. Includes articles, AV materials, books, computer databases and software, maps, sound recordings, manuscripts, book chapters. Coverage/update: 1970 to the present. (Updated quarterly)
Agricola PlusText: Provides access to the Agricola agricultural literature database (see above) via Proquest along with full-text access to a number of the journals indexed in Agricola.

Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts: Covers agricultural products involving both plants and animals, new applications across the food industry, environmental developments, plant genome studies, food, chemical, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology companies 1993-current. (Updated bi-monthly)
Alternative Press Index: This database is regarded as a unique resource in its field and considered to be the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to alternative sources of information available today. The Alternative Press Index is produced quarterly by the Alternative Press Center and indexes nearly 290 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political and social change. The coverage in the Alternative Press Index covers 1991 to the present; Alternative Press Index Archive covers 1969 to 1990. (Updated quarterly)
America: History & Life (6 concurrent user limit): America: History and Life is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. The database comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries. This database covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide. In addition to covering all key English-language historical journals, coverage includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities. Over 90% of the articles included are published in English-language journals. In addition to articles, each year America: History and Life includes approximately 6,000 citations of book and media reviews from a selection of over one hundred key journals in US and Canadian history and related fields, as well as citations to abstracts of dissertations published in these areas. (Updated monthly)

America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922: Offers fully searchable, cover-to-cover reproductions of more than one million pages from more than 1,000 historical American newspapers. Holdings include Early American Newspapers, Series 1-5. Series 1, 1690-1876: This collection provides images and full-text content access to historic newspapers listed in Clarence Brigham's authoritative bibliography, History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, and in additional subsequent bibliographies. Series 2, 1758-1900. This collection focuses on the 18th- and 19th-century newspapers. Series 3, 1829-1922. This collection focuses on the 19th- and 20th-century newspapers including Civil War, Reconstruction, the Progressive Era and beyond. Series 4, 1756-1922: This collection includes 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century newspapers from all 50 present states. Series 5, 1777-1922: This collection presents 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century newspapers from all 50 present states, including the North Star, the famous anti-slavery newspaper founded by Frederick Douglass.

American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES): Covers journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union published in the United States and Canada from 1990-present in the areas of Anthropology, Ethnology, and Archaeology; Culture and the Arts; Economics and Foreign Trade; Education and Scholarship; Geography and Demography; Government, Law, and Politics; History; International Relations; Language and Linguistics; Literature; Military Affairs; Philosophy, Political Theory, and Ideology; Psychology; Religion; Science and Technology; Sociology; Women's Studies. (Updated monthly)

American Civil War Letters and Diaries: This first release is a functional prototype and contains 290 authors and approximately 22,000 pages of information. When complete, the collection will include more than 100,000 pages of primary materials from 1850-1870. Each source has been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies. The database includes some previously unpublished manuscripts - for example, the letters of Amos Wood and his wife. The collection also includes biographies, an extensive bibliography of the sources in the database, and material licensed from The Civil War Day-by-Day by E.B. Long.
American Drama: When complete, this collection will contain more than 2,000 plays by American dramatists that chronicle the history and culture of America through its dramatic writing. At present, American Drama includes 711 plays by dramatists such as Thomas Paine, Edward Hitchcock, and James Lawson.
American Film Scripts Online: American Film Scripts Online (AFSO) is an ongoing project to digitize and thoroughly index 1,000 film scripts aimed at opening access to many previously unpublished screenplays. Provides access at the scene or character, scene and era level. The primary focus of the database is the written work, rather than the film itself. It allows users to see and understand the structure of films, character development, beginnings and endings, plot points and scenes. It lets scholars see, for example, how derivative scripts are developed.
American National Biography: Offers more than 17,400 biographies, thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search capabilities.
American Periodicals Series Online (APS Online): "This unique and valuable collection contains digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741, when Andrew Bradford's American Magazine and Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine were launched, and 1900. Deriving from the acclaimed American Periodicals Series microform collection, APS Online features over 1,100 periodicals spanning nearly 200 years-from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II. Titles range from America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal.

American Periodicals Series Online chronicles the development of America across 200 years. The journals in this collection cover three broad periods:

* 89 journals published between 1740 and 1800 offer insights into America's transition from a British colony to an independent nation. The journals support research for a range of academic fields. Titles include Massachusetts Magazine, which published America's first short stories, and Thomas Paine's Pennsylvania Magazine, which reported on inventions. One of the first mass printings of the Declaration of Independence, a letter by George Washington on the crucial Battle of Trenton, and the thoughts of Benjamin Franklin are among the highlights of content from this period.

* More than 900 titles from the first 60 years of the nineteenth century showcase "the golden age of American periodicals." General interest magazines, children's publications, and more than 20 journals for women are among the historically-significant content that also includes the serialization of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin in National Era. Like most great literary works of the nineteenth century, this piece first appeared in a magazine. Also available are hard-to-find materials, such as Edgar Allan Poe's contributions to the Southern Literary Messenger, as well as the first appearances of Nathaniel Hawthorne's stories in New England Magazine, and Margaret Fuller's contributions to the Dial.

* 118 periodicals published during the Civil War (1861-1865) and Reconstruction (1865-1877) eras reflect the nation in turmoil and growth, and titles from the 1880s through 1900 capture the settling of the West and the emergence of modern America. Early professional journals, including Publications of the American Economic Association and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Proceedings, popular titles such as Scribner's Monthly and Lippincott's issued by publishing houses, celebrations of Americana in Ladies' Home Journal, thoroughly-researched investigative journalism in McClure's, and the incisive political and social commentary of Puck illustrate the variety of the American experience. Titles like Forum (1886-1930) and Forum and Century (1930-1940), and Littell's Living Age (1844-1896) and Living Age (1897-1941), expand the range of primary source material in APS across 200 years.

Because the database contains digitized images of periodical pages, researchers can see all of the original typography, drawings, graphic elements, and article layouts exactly as they were originally published.

In addition, a Search for Periodicals function in APS Online leads to bibliographic information and a summary of the historical significance of all the periodicals represented in the database. Extensive primary source content in its original context and a history of American magazine publishing are made available in APS Online."
American Poetry(1600-1900): Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.


American Song: American Song is a history database that will contain 50,000 tracks of music from America's past. The database encompasses the great American musical genres including country, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, and shape note singing. Included are songs of the Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more. Liner notes to all the albums are included (in PDF format) as well as static URLs to each track and album in the database.

L�Ann�e Philologique Online (10 concurrent user limit): L�Ann�e Philologique Online is an index of publications related to the history, language, literature and civilization of ancient Greece and Rome. The L�Ann�e Philologique Online Online contains references to material published since 1969, and is updated once per year. There is a two to three year delay before references are added to the index. Many of the books and articles indexed are in languages other than English. Abstracts are not provided for books, but the database indicates where reviews of books have been published. The database often gives brief abstracts of journal articles, but an abstract may be in French, German, English, Spanish or Italian.
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL): ABELL contains over 783,000 records covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards.
Annual Reviews Online: Critical reviews of the most significant primary research literature in 32 disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.
Anthropology Plus (Anthropological Index and Anthropological Literature) (5 concurrent user limit): Anthropological Index covers scholarly literature from physical anthropology, archaeology, cultural ethnography, and linguistics. Anthropological Index entries are compiled from over 900 journals in the Library of the British Museum Department of Ethnography -- now known as the Anthropology Library -- which incorporates the former Royal Anthropological Institute library. Broad geographic coverage emphasizes the Commonwealth and Africa and extends to Eastern Europe, the Americas, Asia, Australasia, and the Pacific, including both standard journals and many titles outside the mainstream.

Supplied by the Tozzer Library at Harvard University, Anthropological Literature provides a broad subject index to articles and essays two or more pages in length from about 1000 journals, as well as colloquia and symposia, publications and Festschriften, in English and in other European languages. Covers late 19th century to the present. Updated quarterly.

Together, Anthropological Index and Anthropological Literature provide international coverage with minimal overlap in citations, providing access to research in anthropology and related fields.
AnthroSource: Full-text of current and past journals from the American Anthropological Association.

AP Images: About 800 photos per day feed into this photo archive moments after moving onto the AP's spot picture system. Over 3 million U.S. and international photos, from 1826 to present. Almost 200 per day are saved for all time, while others are archived for about one year. Also includes over 60,000 graphics, charts, and timelines.

Applied Science & Technology Index (4 concurrent user limit): Full-text of over 180 periodicals in the applied sciences and technology from 1997 to the present. Access is via Wilson OmniFile. Select "Applied Science & Technology" as the Subject Area in OmniFile to limit your search to this subfile.

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA): Indexes the social sciences literature, focusing on health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Coverage begins in 1987. Publications from 16 different countries are included though the UK is emphasized.

APS (American Physical Society) Journals

Full-text of journals from the American Physical Society back to 1893.

Art Index

Indexes more than 200 key international arts publications. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. Reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals are also covered. Coverage is from 1929 to the present.

ARTbibliographies Modern

Abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews. The scope of ARTbibliographies Modern extends from artists and movements beginning with Impressionism in the late 19th century, up to the most recent works and trends in the late 20th century. Photography is covered from its invention in 1839 to the present. A particular emphasis is placed upon adding new and lesser-known artists and on the coverage of foreign-language literature. Approximately 13,000 new entries are added each year. Covers all aspects of modern and contemporary art, including performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theater arts, crafts, jewelry, illustration, and more, as well as the traditional fine arts of painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing. The Web version of the database covers volume years 1974 to the present. An excellent resource for Art History, Art Criticism, Art Theory, Design, Photography, Biographical Details, Graphic Art, History, Fine Arts. (Updated 6 times a year).

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975 - present)

Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. A&HCI provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1975 forward. Averages 2,250 new articles per week. Includes approximately 15,250 new cited references per week. Contains a current total of over 2.5 million articles. Contains unique implicit citations that reference you to actual representations of a work of art or music score. Contains title enhancements added to obscure or hard-to-categorize article titles to clarify article contents. Some of the disciplines covered include:

Archaeology
Linguistics
Architecture
Literary Reviews
Art
Literature
Asian Studies
Music
Classics
Philosophy
Dance
Poetry
Folklore
Radio, Television, & Film
History
Religion
Language
Theater

ARTstor

ARTstor is a digital library of art images, associated information, and software tools designed to enhance teaching, learning and scholarship. ARTstor contains approximately 500,000 images of art, architecture and archeology from a wide range of cultures and time periods, with initial strengths in European, American and Asian cultures.

arXiv.org

ArXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science and computer science. arXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution. ArXiv is also partially funded by the National Science Foundation.

ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution andEnvironmental Quality

ASFA 3 covers research and policy on the contamination of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, and estuaries, specifically aquatic environments and marine pollution problems. Has relevance for biology, oceanography, limnology, environmental engineering.

Asia-Studies Online: Humanities: A full-text database focused on Asian arts, culture, history, language, literature, philosophy, and religion.

Asia-Studies Online: Social Sciences: Reports on 53 countries in Asia, Australia/New Zealand, the Americas Pacific Rim countries, and Pacific Islands about finance, trade, environment, human resources development, government, fisheries, tourism, education and women's studies. The average 50-page study contains statistics, research, analysis, and forecasts. Browse by country to find annual statistical overviews.

AskART.com: Provides access to comprehensive information about nearly 30,000 American artists from the 16th to the 21st century, including artist biographies, bibliographical links and links to museums that exhibit the artists' books and works. Temple has access to the free content on the site.

ASM Alloy Center

Search ASM property data, performance charts, and processing guidelines for specific metals and alloys.

The Alloy Center contains five content areas:

Data Sheets & Diagrams
Features thousands of documents in PDF format, including material data sheets from Alloy Digest and other ASM publications; heat treating data sheets from the Heat Treater's Guides; and time-temperature curves, creep curves, and fatigue curves. All organized by alloy and fully searchable.

Alloy Finder
Features alloy designations and trade names from around the world. Find key information, including composition, producer, tensile properties, and similar alloys.

Materials Property Data
Features mechanical properties, physical properties, and processing characteristics for most industrially important alloys. Find data plotted over a range of temperatures.

Coatings Data
Features detailed information for commercial coating processes. Search by trade name, manufacturer, process type, coating type, or key words.

Corrosion Data
Features corrosion information for specific alloys in specific environments. Search by alloy or environment.

ASM Handbooks Online: Online access to the complete content of 20 ASM Handbook volumes plus the Engineered Materials Handbook Desk Edition and the Metals Handbook Desk Edition.

ASME Journals (American Society of Mechanical Engineers): Online access to the following journals from the ASME:
Journal of Applied Mechanics
Journal of Biomechanical Engineering
Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering
Journal of Dynamic Systems , Measurement and Control
Journal of Electronic Packaging
Journal of Energy Resources Technology
Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power
Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology
Journal of Fluids Engineering
Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology
Journal of Heat Transfer
Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering
Journal of Mechanical Design
Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering
Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology
Journal of Solar Energy Engineering
Journal of Tribology
Journal of Turbomachinery
Journal of Vibration and Acoustics

ATLAS Full Text Plus (Religion)

ATLAS Full Text Plus is the full text version of the ATLA Religion Database (ATLA). This database is a collection of major religion and theology journals selected by some of the major religion scholars in the United States. Coverage of this database dates back to 1949.

AUL Index to Military Periodicals

AULIMP is the Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals. It contains citations to articles in English language military journals. Air University Library (AUL) has been producing AULIMP since 1949 and distributes paper copies to libraries and military units around the world. In addition to paper copies, issues covering the years 1990-current issue are available online through our online catalog and on the Web through our web based catalog. If for some reason you are temporarily unable to access our Web-based catalog, the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) also makes AULIMP available on the Web.

You can see a list of titles indexed between 1990-current issue on our web site. This list has links to those periodicals that have full text articles available on the web. Not all of those titles have full text articles for all the years covered in AULIMP. DTIC also has a list of titles as well as a list of subject headings used in AULIMP. (Updated quarterly.)

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

Indexes 2,500 + periodicals published worldwide on architecture, urban design, historic preservation, urban planning history, city planning, interior design, and archaeology. Avery covers the international scholarly and popular periodical literature, including the publications of professional associations; US state and regional periodicals; and major serial publications in the architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Coverage is from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s) to the present. The Index was expanded in 2001 to include 13,000 citation records for architects' obituaries. Avery is produced by the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. (Updated weekly)

Bacteriology Abstracts

Aimed at researchers and clinicians, Bacteriology Abstracts covers a range of topics from bacterial immunology and vaccinations to diseases of man and animals. Provides access to clinical findings as well as pure bacteriology, biochemistry, and genetics. (Updated monthly)

Beilstein

Beilstein is the major database to organic chemistry, indexing three primary data domains: substances, reactions, and literature. The substance domain stores structural information with all associated facts and literature references, including chemical, physical, and bioactivity data. The reaction domain details the preparation of substances, enabling scientists to investigate specific reaction pathways with reaction search queries. The literature domain includes citations, titles, and abstracts, which are hyperlinked to the substance and reaction domain entries. Beilstein contains information about more than 7 million organic chemical compounds, from 1771 to the present (abstracts from 1980-current). Reactions, chemical and physical properties, all with corresponding literature references, are available.

Beilstein is accessible either via the Crossfire Commander client or via the DiscoveryGate website. Off-campus access is only available using DiscoveryGate.

DiscoveryGate Instructions

System Requirements

* PC users: Windows 2000 or XP; IE 6.0; Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4.2_06 (installs automatically)
* Mac users: Mac 10.4 or higher; Safari 2.0

Installation

Note: Be sure to allow pop-ups for this site.

PC users

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Go to DiscoveryGate.
3. If this is your first visit, the site will automatically install JRE 1.4.2_06 (Java Runtime Environment). The browser may shut down after installation. Just reopen, return to the site, and continue.
4. Click on the Download Software tab.
5. Click on the Download button, and save the installer to your desktop.
6. Close all browsers. Then double-click on the installer, and follow instructions.

Mac Users

1. Open Safari.
2. Go to DiscoveryGate.
3. If this is your first visit, the site will automatically install JRE 1.4.2_06 (Java Runtime Environment).
4. Follow the directions.

Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS) Archive

The BAS Archive contains the editorial content of each issue of the bimonthly magazines Biblical Archaeology Review (1975-2003), Bible Review (1985-2003) and Archaeology Odyssey (1998-2003), as well as five books published by the Biblical Archaeology Society:

-Ancient Israel: From Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple
-Aspects of Monotheism: How God is One
-Feminist Approaches to the Bible
-The Rise of Ancient Israel
-The Search for Jesus: Modern Scholarship Looks at the Gospels


Bibliography of American Literature: The Bibliography of American Literature provides more than 37,000 records of the literary works of 281 American writers from the period of the Revolution to 1930. It aims to include all first editions, chronologically arranged, of each author covered. In addition, it includes any book (pamphlet, broadside, etc.) containing the first appearance of any prose (except letters) or poetry by such authors. It records variant issues and states of the first editions, as well as details of illustrations and maps, and standard and variant publishers' bindings. European editions in English are included as and where necessary. Reprints which might be confused with first editions, and subsequent editions containing important textual changes by the author, are briefly noted. A selective list of bibliographical, biographical and critical works is also given for each author. Certain categories of material, including periodical and newspaper publications, unrevised reprints and translations into other languages, have been excluded.


Bibliography of Asian Studies: The online Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS), references western-language monographs, articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia that have been published since 1971. (Updated quarterly)
Bibliography of the History of Art: BHA is the most comprehensive art bibliography worldwide, covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present. This database indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from over 4,300 periodicals. Citations encompass fine arts-painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, architecture-, decorative and applied arts-crafts, graphic arts, folk and popular art. It is the product of collaboration between the Getty Research Institute of the J. Paul Getty Trust and the French Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Bibliography of the History of Art includes and extends the coverage of its two predecessor art indexes: Répertoire d'Art et d'Archéologie (RAA) from 1973 to 1989 and International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA) from 1975 to 1989. Updated quarterly.

BioethicsLine: Produced jointly by the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the BioethicsLine database includes more than 47,000 records of English-language materials on bioethics. Documents are selected from the disciplines of medicine, nursing, biology, philosophy, religion, law, and the behavioral sciences. Selections from popular literature are also included. Covered document types include journal and newspaper articles, monographs, court decisions, bills, laws, and audiovisual materials. Approximately 100 primary sources and 40 indexes and databases are scanned for citations.
Biographies Illustrated Plus (4 concurrent user limit): Contains more than 140,000 biographies and more than 36,000 photographs of the subjects. Biographies are drawn from H.W. Wilson reference series including Current Biography and the World Author Series. Biographies are also licensed from other reference sources.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index (4 concurrent user limit): Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI) is an index for learning where to look for biographical material on people from all time periods, geographical locations and fields of endeavor. It indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover
individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.

Biography Resource Center: Integrates hundreds of thousands of biographies drawn from over 135 well-known Thomson Gale print sources including Contemporary Authors and over 300 full-text periodicals.

Biological Abstracts: Biological Abstracts is a comprehensive reference database covering life sciences journal literature. Disciplines covered include Botany, Microbiology, Pharmacology, Biochemistry, Evolutionary ecology, Neurology, and Toxicology. Temple has access to abstracts from 1997 forward.

Biological & Agricultural Index (4 concurrent user limit): Full-text of over 85 periodicals in biology and agriculture from 1997 to the present. Access is via Wilson OmniFile. Select "Biological & Agricultural" as the Subject Area in OmniFile to limit your search to this subfile.
Biology Digest: Lengthy abstracts written in nontechnical style for students and nonscientists, but conveys solid, factual information useful to life scientists. Coverage/update: September 1989 to the present; adds about 300 new records monthly from September through May.

BioMed Central: Publisher of over 150 open-access journals in biomedicine. All research articles are freely available.

Biomedical Collection III(1995-present): Ovid Full Text currently includes six collections: the Ovid Core Biomedical Collection (CBC), the Ovid Biomedical Collections II (BC2), III (BC3), and IV (BC4), as well as the Ovid Mental Health Collection (MHC), and the Ovid Nursing Collection (NURC). Every word of the text is searchable, including references and graphics captions. Within the Full Text display, hypertext features allow users to display an outline of the document and move immediately to a selected section, to display complete references cited within the text of a document, and to link directly to MEDLINE and other full text documents. The Ovid Web Gateway interface includes all graphics, tables, and photographs as they appear in print. The Ovid Biomedical Collection IV (BC4) includes: Anesthesia & Analgesia American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases Archives of Disease in Childhood Archives of Disease in Childhood, Fetal and Neonatal Edition Archives of Family Medicine Archives of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine Critical Care Medicine Diabetes Care Genitourinary Medicine Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, British Volume Journal of Medical Genetics Journal of the American Board of Family Practice Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infections, and Critical Care Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Biomedical Collection IV(1995-present): Ovid Full Text currently includes six collections: the Ovid Core Biomedical Collection (CBC), the Ovid Biomedical Collections II (BC2), III (BC3), and IV (BC4), as well as the Ovid Mental Health Collection (MHC), and the Ovid Nursing Collection (NURC). Every word of the text is searchable, including references and graphics captions. Within the Full Text display, hypertext features allow users to display an outline of the document and move immediately to a selected section, to display complete references cited within the text of a document, and to link directly to MEDLINE and other full text documents. The Ovid Web Gateway interface includes all graphics, tables, and photographs as they appear in print. The Ovid Biomedical Collection IV (BC4) includes: Anesthesia & Analgesia American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases Archives of Disease in Childhood Archives of Disease in Childhood, Fetal and Neonatal Edition Archives of Family Medicine Archives of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine Critical Care Medicine Diabetes Care Genitourinary Medicine Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, British Volume Journal of Medical Genetics Journal of the American Board of Family Practice Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infections, and Critical Care Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Biotechnology Research Abstracts: Biotechnology Research Abstracts provides access to international research on all aspects of biochemical, medical, and microbial technology as applied to bioengineering, medicine, agriculture and environmental science.

Black Drama: 1,200 plays, almost a quarter previously unpublished, have been carefully selected by well known experts such as James V. Hatch to create this landmark collection. The collection includes the complete works of leading playwrights such as Amiri Baraka and Ed Bullins. Fielded, searchable performance and cast information, materials by Black writers from Africa, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom, in addition to African Americans are included. (Updated one or two times a year)

Black Historical Newspapers: Black Historical Newspapers offers primary source material from American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts. It allows for study of major movements from the Harlem Renaissance to Civil Rights, and for exploration of everyday life as written in the Chicago Defender, New York Amsterdam News, Pittsburgh Courier, and Atlanta Daily World.

Black Literature Index: Black Literature Index is an online index to the Chadwyck-Healey Black Literature: 1827-1940 microfiche collection. The Black Literature project documents the fiction, poetry and literary reviews which appeared in black owned and edited newspapers published in the United States between 1827 and 1940. A team of researchers at Harvard University, under the supervision of Henry Louis Gates Jr, have discovered over nine hundred such publications.
Black Short Fiction: Black Short Fiction (BLFI) contains approximately 1108 stories and folktales by 71 African, African American, and Caribbean authors. When complete this collection should have approximately 8000 works of short fiction. This first release of the database represents approximately 5% of its final size. During the next year, it will grow into the most comprehensive collection of African and African-Diaspora stories yet created. When complete, it will feature the English-language literature of more than 15 countries, with additional special units of French and Portuguese literature from the African continent. In addition, the collection will include literature in languages that have their origins in African countries and are still present in some regions today, such as the Gullah language of South Carolina.

BLFI will include short stories published from the mid-1900s to the present. In addition to these published works, the database will feature previously uncollected works and unpublished manuscripts by many authors. Fables and folktales, which arise from the oral traditions of many peoples and date back many hundreds of years, will also be widely represented within the collection. Researchers will be able to follow their development in both Africa and the New World.

Published by the Alexander Street Press and produced in collaboration with the University of Chicago, BLFI has extensive searching capabilities. BLFI uses PhiloLogic software, developed at the University of Chicago, to enable in-depth browsing and searching of both the bibliographic and the full-text elements within the database.

Black Studies Center: The Black Studies Center includes the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, a series of essays about the development of Black Studies as an academic field; historical backfiles of The Chicago Defender; and the International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text, a source for scholarly articles in the humanities and social sciences about the Black experience in the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean.

Black Thought and Culture: Landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major black leaders in North America. Works by teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures form the corpus. Unlike their white counterparts, black leaders have had to wrestle with the issues of their race alongside the issues of leadership in their chosen professions. They have been forced to defend positions, justify actions, correct perceptions, protest injustice, celebrate cultural achievement, and confront the agenda of a white-dominated society.

Encompasses 100,000 pages of materials, beginning with the ideas of Frederick Douglass and including those of W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Alain Locke, Sidney Bechet, Paul Robeson, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Sammy Davis, Jr., Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Dorothy Height, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, Constance Baker Motley, J. Saunders Redding, Sojourner Truth, Walter F. White, Amiri Baraka, and dozens more. Targeted for inclusion are the written and spoken words of Ralph Ellison, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Wright, Angela Davis, Muhammad Ali, Jesse Jackson, Ida B. Wells, Bobby Seale, Rosa Parks, Gwendolyn Brooks, and a long list of others.

In addition to including the most familiar writings, Black Thought and Culture presents a great deal of previously inaccessible material, including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, trial transcripts, and interviews. Much of the material is fugitive, and approximately twenty percent of the collection has not been published previously.
Blackwell Compass: Blackwell Compass is a suite of state-of-the-art, peer-reviewed survey articles across entire disciplines. Disciplines currently covered are Geography, History, Literature, Philosophy, and Religion.

Blackwell Reference Online: Blackwell Reference Online contains full-text versions of reference titles from Blackwell Publishing including the highly regarded Blackwell Companions and Blackwell Handbooks. Temple currently has access to over 80 titles in the areas of Philosophy & Religion.

Blackwell Synergy: Hundreds of scientific, technical, social science, humanities and medical journals published by Blackwell Publishers and affiliated societies. Temple University has access back to 1997 issues where available. (Updated daily)

Book History Online (BHO): BHO is a database in English on the history of the printed book and libraries. It contains titles of books and articles on the history of the printed book worldwide. It is based on ABHB, the Annual Bibliography of the History of the printed Book and Libraries. The database contains 28,200 records. The files can be searched by names of authors, editors, title words (including periodicals), classification, geographical keywords, names of persons (printers, publishers etc.), firms and institutions, and by subjects and words in annotations.

Subjects covered by BHO correspond with those of ABHB: all scholarly valuable books and articles relating to the history of the printed book and libraries, and to book production, distribution, conservation, description and analysis. Also included are articles referring to the history of the arts, crafts, techniques, and equipment in relation to books, and to the book and library in their economic, social and cultural environment.

BHO contains all ABHB entries from 1990 onwards. For ABHB volume 1 (1970) to volume 17 (1986) a cumulative subject index was published in 1989 as volume 17A. There is no cumulative index for volume 18 (1987) to volume 20 (1989). Volume 21 (1990) to volume 29 (1998) are covered in BHO. (Updated yearly.)
Book Review Digest Plus (4 concurrent users): Includes information on over 1.3 million book reviews covering over 650,000 books. Over 100,000 reviews are available in full text. Coverage extends back to 1983.
Books24x7: Online library of approximately 5,000 titles on information technology topics. Users can annotate books and create personal bookshelves of favorite titles.

BookSource: Nonfiction: Contains the full text and abstracts for more than 1,600 popular nonfiction books found in school and public libraries. It includes fulltext articles on literature, social studies, history, and science but also covers high interest information on careers, health, sports, adventure, and technology.

British Periodicals Online: British Periodicals Online traces the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals' and beyond. On completion this digital archive will consist of almost 500 periodical runs published from the 1680s to the 1930s, comprising six million keyword-searchable pages. British Periodicals Online can be searched in tandem with hundreds of other journal backfiles via Periodicals Archive Online.

Business & Company Resource Center: Business & Company Resource Center brings together in a single database company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information. Covers 1980 - Sep 2000. (Updated daily)
Business & Industry: Business & Industry covers more than 900 major U.S. and international trade journals, general business publications, and national, regional and international newspapers and newsletters, from 1994 to the present, updated daily. Coverage is 50% U.S. content and 50% international and includes all industries and companies with over 340,000 records added each year. Approximately 60% of the database is full-text. (Updated daily)
Business & Management Practices: Business & Management Practices (BaMP) is a full-text resource with a focus on the practical aspects and approaches of business management. Updated weekly and providing coverage back to 1995, Business & Management Practices offers highly-focused coverage of more than 300 core management journals and trade publications. Also included are specific management-related articles from over 300 additional respected business sources. (Updated weekly)

Business Periodicals Index (4 concurrent user limit): Indexes over 850 and provides full text for over 400 periodicals in business. Indexing goes back to 1982, and abstracts start in 1984.

Business Source Premier: Contains 2,804 full text scholarly journals and business periodicals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, etc, including Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Marketing Research (JMR), Journal of Marketing, Journal of International Marketing, etc. The database also includes many leading journals in the areas of economics, finance, and accounting, as well as country economic reports from the EIU, DRI-WEFA, ICON Group and CountryWatch. More than 200 of the journals have PDF full text back to 1965 or the first issue published, with more than 2,200 PDF’s. Business Source Premier contains PDF images for the great majority of journals; many of these PDF's are native (searchable) or scanned-in-color. (Updated daily)

C19: The Nineteenth Century Index

C19 indexes millions of documents published between 1790 and 1919. It is currently comprised of the following components for which further detail is available.

Books:
--Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (1801-1919) (Index only)

--Nineteenth Century microfiche project (1801-1900) (Index only)

Periodicals:
--American Periodicals Series (1770-1919) (Full-Text)

--British Periodicals Series (Index only)

--Periodicals Index (1790-1919) (Index only, but links out to JSTOR)

--Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (Index only)

--Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals (1824-1900) (Index only)

Official Publications:
--House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (1801-1900) (Full-Text)

Archives:
--ArchivesUSA (19th century records only) (Index only)

Newspapers:
--Palmer's Index to the Times (1790-1905) (Index only - but full-text available via Times Digital Archive)

CAB Abstracts (4 concurrent user limit)

Covers the significant research and development literature in fields of agriculture, forestry, aspects of human health, human nutrition, animal health, as well as the management and conservation of natural resources. This database offers abstracts and indexing for journals, serial publications, conference proceedings, books, theses, annual reports, patents & standards back to 1910.

Cambridge Companions Online: Over 2,000 essays from 200+ authoritative guides in Cambridge Univesity Press' Companions series. Covers literature, philosophy, religion, classics and cultural studies.

Cambridge Journals Online

Fulltext online versions of approximately 200 journals from Cambridge University Press.


Canadian Encyclopedia Online: The full text of the Canadian Encyclopedia. Twenty years in the making, this work represents the cooperative efforts of over 3800 contributors from all parts of Canada. Published by the Historica foundation whose mandate is to provide Canadians with a deeper understanding of their history and its importance in shaping their future.
Canadian Poetry: Created in partnership with the Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick Libraries, this unique collection currently contains the full text of more than 12,000 poems by 142 poets including Bliss Carman, Isabella Valancy Crawford and Archibald Lampman, and will soon offer a comprehensive survey of Canadian poetry from the seventeenth century to the early twentieth.
CANCERLIT: CANCERLIT® is a bibliographic database that contains more than 1.8 million citations and abstracts from over 4,000 different sources including biomedical journals, proceedings, books, reports, and doctoral theses. The database contains references to cancer literature published from the 1960s to the present and is updated with approximately 10,000 records every month.

Cardiosource: Cardiosource ia an online cardiovascular information and educational resource produced by the American College of Cardiology Foundation. Cardiosource enables cardiovascular professionals to easily stay up-to-date with the most relevant research findings and best practices, with analysis and commentary by experts in the field to help put the findings in perspective for immediate application in practice. Cardiosource provides a comprehensive digital cardiovascular resource, featuring the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, a comprehensive clinical trials database, news and expert commentaries, clinical images, self-assessment educational materials, the full complement of the ACCF clinical guidelines and quality standards, and more.

Catalog of the State Library of Pennsylvania (PILOT): Use this catalog to connect users to PA State publications, most of which are not indexed anywhere else.


CCH Internet Research Network (35 concurrent user limit): Includes a broad range of news, research publications and research tools for business and legal research. Coverage includes:

--Antitrust and Trade Regulation
--Banking
--Corporate Governance
--Exchanges and SROs
--Federal Energy Guidelines
--Government Contracts
--Intellectual Property / Computer and Internet Law
--International Business
--Mergers and Acquisitions
--Products Liability and Safety
--Securities
--Transportation Law

From Commerce Clearing House. (Updated daily)


CCH Tax Research Network (35 concurrent user limit): Includes a broad range of news, research publications and research tools for tax related research. From Commerce Clearing House. (Updated daily)

Census Lookup (1990): Census Lookup is produced by the U.S. Census Bureau and offers access to the Summary Tape Files (STF) 1,2,3 and 4 for the 1990 Census of Population and Housing (the Census of Population and Housing is conducted every ten years). Each STF file contains a particular set of data tables for specific types of geographic areas. For further information about the Census Bureau and its products.
Center for Research Libraries Catalog: The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives, and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching and makes them available to member institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery.

CRL’s mission is to support advanced research and teaching in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences by ensuring the survival and availability of the knowledge resources vital to those activities. CRL accomplishes this mission through cooperative action with its member libraries and partners.

Items may be borrowed from the Center for Research Libraries. Please submit an online request form to request materials found in the CRL catalog.

CHEMnetBASE (2 concurrent user limit): Comprised of the following Chapman & Hall and CRC Press chemistry reference sources, CHEMnetBASE allows you to search and extract essential data and tables.
* The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
* Combined Chemical Dictionary
* Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds
* Dictionary of Drugs
* Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds
* Dictionary of Natural Products
* Dictionary of Organic Compounds
* Properties of Organic Compounds

Chicano Database (5 concurrent user limit)

A comprehensive bibliographic index representing all types of material on Mexican-American topics and about Chicanos. The Chicano Database provides extensive coverage from the 1960s to the present, with selective coverage dating back to the early 1900s. Records added since 1992 have expanded the scope to include the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants. Portions of the Chicano Database have been published as the Chicano Periodical Index, covering 1967-1988; the Chicano Index, of articles and books added since 1989; Arte Chicano: An Annotated Bibliography of Chicano Art, 1965-1981; the Chicano Anthology Index; and the Chicana Studies Index: Twenty Years of Gender Research, 1971-1991. The database is produced by the Chicano Studies Collection, Ethnic Studies Library, University of California at Berkeley. (Updated quarterly)
Child Abuse, Child Welfare and Adoption: Produced by the National Information Services Corp (NISC), this database includes citations and abstracts on the maltreatment of children, and features databases on literature, public awareness materials, Audio-visual programs, and the Child Abuse & Neglect Thesaurus. (Updated yearly)

Child Care & Early Education Research Connections: Offers a comprehensive and easily searchable collection of more than 10,000 resources from the many disciplines related to child care and early education. The site is a partnership among the National Center for Children in Poverty at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University; the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the Institute for Social Research, the University of Michigan; and the Child Care Bureau, Administration for Children and Families of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.


CINAHL: Provides indexing for over 1,600 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, the database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters.

Pre-CINAHL provides access to articles in the midst of being indexed for CINAHL. Once completely indexed, the articles become part of the CINAHL database and are removed from Pre-CINAHL.
CiteSeer: Online library of scientific literature that aims to improve the functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness of scholarly communication in computer science scholarship. Offers algorithms, techniques, and software that can be used in other digital libraries. (Updated daily)
Civil Engineering Database (ASCE): Provides access to all ASCE publications published since 1972 including journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newspapers. Engineering subject areas include: Aerospace Engineering, Architectural Engineering, Bridges, Cold Regions, Computer Practices, Construction, Earthquake Engineering, Education, Engineering Mechanics, Environmental Engineering, Forensic Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Highways, Hydrology, Hydraulics, Irrigation and Drainage, Management, Materials Engineering, Structural Engineering, Transportation, Urban Planning, Water Resources, Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering.

Clase and Periódica: Indexes 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. Clase indexes journals in the social sciences and humanities, while Periódica indexes journals in the sciences and technology. Together, they provide more than 400,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.

Classical Music Library (5 concurrent user limit)

A comprehensive, searchable database of online listenable classical recordings, containing tens of thousands of songs from Medieval to contemporary, from choral works to symphonies, operas, and the avant-garde.

Classical Scores Library

When completed, Classical Scores Library will contain hundreds of scores (totalling over 400,000 pages) from both in-copyright and public domain editions. The collection includes works spanning time periods from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Coverage of score types is comprehensive, with full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions.

Columbia Earthscape: This interdisciplinary resource connects the Earth and environmental sciences with their social, political, and economic dimensions. Students, teachers, and librarians will find a dynamic, inquiry-based educational resource, featuring illustrated lectures, animations, video and image banks, exercises and labs, syllabi, and basic textbook readings. Columbia Earthscape also gives policy makers and professionals a robust, carefully selected and assessed collection of environmental legislation, regional studies, international environmental documents, and white papers. And it offers scientists an educational venue in which to incorporate their research as well as a growing archive of journal articles, journal abstracts, conference literature, full-text monographs and selected chapters, and online data sets.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO): Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs, updated monthly. CIAO 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."

ComAbstracts: The ComAbstracts database contains abstracts of articles published in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field (communication studies, rhetoric, journalism, mass communication, speech). The full text of the ComAbstracts database can be searched; that is, abstracts may be searched by word, phrase, or author. Covers 1966 - present. (Updated quarterly)
ComIndex (5 concurrent user limit): ComIndex CIOS (Communication Inst. for Online Scholarship): Indexes the core literature of the communications discipline (communication studies, rhetoric, journalism, mass communication, speech). Includes more than 16,000 references from 37 key international journals and annuals. (Updated yearly.)

Communication & Mass Media Complete: Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC) incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study. CMMC offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for over 370 journals, and selected coverage of over 230 more, for a combined coverage of over 600 titles. It also includes full text for more than 240 journals. Many major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable cited references from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915). In addition, CMMC contains over 3,000 Author Profiles, providing biographical data and bibliographic information, and covering the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database. (adapted from Ebsco description)


Compendex: This is the electronic version of The Engineering Index, the world's premier link to the engineering literature. The database adds about 500,000 records yearly. Compendex covers over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences, and reports. All areas of engineering are represented. Approximately 22% of the database is conference literature, and 90% of the source documents are in English. About half the citations (from 2,000 journals and conferences) include abstracts and indexing. (Updated weekly)

Update (5/8/06): Now includes the Engineering Index Backfile. Including over 1.7 million records, the backfile covers the engineering literature from 1884-1968.

Computer Physics Communications Program Library: The CPC Program Library is an integral part of the journal Computer Physics Communications. The Library's function is the storage and dissemination of refereed computer programs in physics and physical chemistry, whose detailed descriptions have been published in the journal Computer Physics Communications. The Program Library provides access via the Internet to the Library programs and to the corresponding full-text articles. The Program Library currently holds over 1,800 refereed computer programs which have been contributed by scientists from all over the world. As such it represents a major repository of computational knowledge and technique. These programs range in size from under one thousand to tens of thousands of lines of code. The contributed programs have been coded in a variety of programming languages including Algol, Ada, C, C++, Lisp, Mathematica, Maple, Occam and Pascal: however, the vast majority of contributions are programmed in Fortran.

Computing Reviews: Computing Reviews is a powerful online database of reviews in computing literature from Reviews.com and the ACM. The site presents a continually updated overview of the best new material published in the field. In addition to a ten year-plus archive of reviews and articles, Reviews.com also provides individuals with personalized alerts, customized searching and browsing.

Conference Board Business Knowledge Research Library: Searchable database of full-text publications from the Conference Board including:
--Research Reports on key business topics. (approx. 15/year)
Includes the following annual surveys with previous years under Annual Reports:
>Top Executive Compensation
>Corporate Contributions
>Directorship Compensation and Board Practices
>CEO Challenge*
-- Executive Action series of concise, topical reports on issues of current concern. (approx. 48/year)
-- StraightTalk, our chief economist, Gail Fosler's in-depth analysis of critical economic topics. Includes regular forecasts of the U.S. economy, interest rates, and foreign exchange rates. (10 issues/yr.)
-- Topline data on business executives expectations (a measure of business confidence) consumer confidence, consumer internet barometer, country indicators, and help-wanted index.***
-- Backfiles of data from 1998 and selected earlier reports considered still relevant.

*Part of the regular research database.
***The database does not include business cycle indicator data, consumer confidence survey data or leading indicators data. These and historic and time series data are separate subscriptions.
Conference Papers Index: Provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science. Information is derived from final programs, abstracts booklets and published proceedings, as well as from questionnaire responses. Records include complete ordering information to obtain preprints, abstracts, proceedings and other publications derived from the conference, together with title and author information needed to track the specific papers. (Updated bi-monthly)

Constitutions of the Countries of the World Online (10 concurrent users): Contains the full text for the constitutions of 192 countries. Constitutional scholars who are familiar with the legal system, judicial language and official language of each foreign jurisdiction provide authoritative translations into English. Complementing these official documents are Introductory and Comparative Notes that examine recent amendments and highlights of pertinent historical, political and economic information.
(Derived from publisher description)

Consumer Health Complete: Consumer Health Complete is a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc. (Description adapted from Ebsco Publishing) (Access courtesy of Access PA)

Contemporary Authors: Biographical and bibliographical details on 100,000 modern authors: novelists, poets, playwrights, short-story writers, screenwriters, journalists and other non-fiction writers. Major authors who were active prior to 1960 whose influence is still seen in contemporary literature, are also featured.
Contemporary Women's 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 through CWI. Information on women in over 150 countries is compiled in a single collection bringing together such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health, education and human rights. Coverage from 1995 to the present. (Updated weekly)
Contemporary World Music: This database is a complementary database to Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries -- it includes a blend of contemporary and traditional world music recordings from many labels throughout the world. Content is added on a regular basis, and when completed, Contemporary World Music will contain 50,000 tracks from all regions and from every continent. The database will contain important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.

COS Expertise: COS Expertise is an online database containing more than 480,000 first-person profiles of researchers from over 1300 institutions worldwide. The profiles include contact information, positions held, publications, patents, funding received, and a first-person narrative describing current research activities and expertise. COS Expertise profiles also include direct links to e-mail, a personal home page, an online CV, patent abstracts (and full-text where available), publication abstracts, and available research grants. (Courtesy of the Office of the Vice President for Research)

COS Funding: COS Funding Opportunities is the largest and most comprehensive research funding database on the Web. It is updated daily and contains more than 23,000 records, representing more than 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion in potential award dollars. Individual researchers and research administrators rely on COS Funding Opportunities to identify funding information as it relates to research, collaborative activities, travel, curriculum development, conferences, fellowships, post-doctoral positions, equipment acquisition, operating and capital expenses, and more. (Courtesy of the Office of the Vice President for Research)
COS Funding: COS Funding Opportunities is the largest and most comprehensive research funding database on the Web. It is updated daily and contains more than 23,000 records, representing more than 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion in potential award dollars. Individual researchers and research administrators rely on COS Funding Opportunities to identify funding information as it relates to research, collaborative activities, travel, curriculum development, conferences, fellowships, post-doctoral positions, equipment acquisition, operating and capital expenses, and more. (Courtesy of the Office of the Vice President for Research)

Counseling and Psychotheraphy, Transcripts, Client Narratives and Reference Works: This database contains a collection of real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions, along with first-person narratives, which illuminate the experience of mental illness and its treatment. Included reference works help to contextualize the primary material. Updated biweekly.

CQ Press Political Reference Suite

CQ Press Political Reference Suite of Online Editions integrates many of CQ Press's acclaimed reference titles on government and politics into a user-friendly, electronic format.

Users can now access political reference content from CQ Press online by either searching or browsing the Reference Suite as a whole or by entering one of the online editions and beginning there. Web-exclusive features in the Reference Suite include:

* Capability to search across all CQ Press Online Editions with a simple and robust quick search
* Advanced search options that allow searching by keyword across full texts or focusing searches to certain topic areas
* Multiple, customized browse options to help locate and explore content
* Personalization options that save user profiles, document history, and searches
* CiteNow!™-An exclusive CQ Press feature that helps users easily download full citations in MLA, Chicago, Bluebook, and APA styles

The following online editions are also available in the Suite:

Congress and the Nation Series 1945-2004

* Navigate seamlessly through all eleven volumes of this definitive resource documenting nearly 60 years of the events, trends, and controversies in the U.S. Congress and the presidency.
* Access in-depth review and analysis of legislation and policy during each Congressional session and presidential term
* View tables, graphs, and charts that help explain vital issues.
* Appropriate for research on politics, U.S. history, government, political science, legal studies, public policy, business regulation, and more.

Historic Documents Series 1972-2005

* Research the most important primary source documents from the last three decades.
* Read expert commentary and analysis that sets each year's events in context.
* Perform advanced searches for documents by subject, date, and more.
* Appropriate for research on current events, U.S. history, international affairs, political science, public policy, and more.

Political Handbook of the World 2005-2006

* Quickly find current, in-depth political information on more than 200 countries.
* Search and browse country profiles based on political characteristics.
* Find important information including names of key ambassadors, international memberships of each country, and profiles of over 120 intergovernmental organizations.
* Appropriate for research on international relations, political science, public policy, comparative government.

CQ's Politics in America 2006

* Access lively, unbiased profiles and assessments of every member of the U.S. Congress.
* Search the full database of member profiles back to the year 2000, or limit searches by state, member, or political party.
* Research key votes, interest-group ratings, election results, state and district information, biographical data, contact information, and other member facts.
* Appropriate for research on U.S government, public policy, current events, and more.

Supreme Court Yearbook Series 1989-2005

* Search and browse sixteen years of expert coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court
* Read case summaries of every opinion during each court term.
* View helpful tables and figures on voting patterns and constitutional law.
* Appropriate for research on legal studies, U.S. history, politics, current events, public policy, and more.

Washington Information Directory 2006-2007

* Quickly access over 10,000 current contacts in federal, congressional, and state government offices, nongovernmental organizations, policy groups, and foundations.
* View organizational charts and tables that untangle departmental structures.
* Export contact information into letter templates and other formats.
* A must-have resource for lobbyists, government offices, non-profit organizations, job seekers looking for work in Washington, DC, and informed citizens everywhere.

Vital Statistics on American Politics 2005-2006

* Research key data on U.S. elections, the U.S. Congress, the presidency, the Supreme Court, public opinion, and more.
* Access over 200 helpful tables and figures.
* Export and download data into Microsoft Excel®.
* Appropriate for research on politics, public policy, U.S. government, legal studies, and more.

Description adapted from CQ Press website

CQ Researcher Online (20 concurrent users)

Founded in 1923 as Editorial Research Reports, CQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published weekly in print and online 44 times a year by CQ Press, a division of Congressional Quarterly Inc.

Each single-themed, 12,000-word report is researched and written by a seasoned journalist. The consistent, reader-friendly organization provides researchers with an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources.

CQ Researcher Online offers access to CQ Researcher reports dating back to 1991. PDF files are available for reports from January 1996; color PDFs are available for reports published after January 2001.

Description adapted from text on the CQ Press website

CQ Weekly

Expert coverage of the U.S. Congress including the status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering. Archived issues go back to 1983.

Credo Reference (formerly xreferplus): xreferplus is an online reference tool that provides access to the full-text of over 200 authoritative reference sources from a number of respected publishers. All entries from these resources are cross-referenced to each other, providing a rich source of integrated reference information.

Criminal Justice Abstracts: Criminal Justice Abstracts, contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations, and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines. Prepared in cooperation with the Criminal Justice Collection of Rutgers University Library, Criminal Justice Abstracts covers trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment, and sentencing. The database contains indexes of print journals from 1968, as well as thousands of archival records not available in any other format. Coverage: 1968-Present; Data Type: Bibliographic with Abstracts; Number of Records: 59,140+; Records Added Annually: 2,500+; Subjects Covered: Crime, Drugs, Law, Safety ,Social Science, Sociology, Political Science , Public Administration, and Government. (Updated quarterly)
Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection: Criminology: A Sage Full-Text Collection is a searchable collection of bibliographic records with links to the full text in PDF format of 23 journals published by Sage and participating societies. The collection covers subjects such as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.

CURL Union Catalogue (5 concurrent user limit): From the Consortium of University Research Libraries, contains 17.5 million records that represent the holdings of member academic and legal deposit libraries throughout Great Britain and Ireland. Most CURL members are also members of RLG. The majority of records represent monographs (88 %), but the database also contains records for periodicals, conference papers, government publications, microforms, and music. More than half the records represent materials published since 1980. More than 73 % of the records represent materials in English, but records for documents published in a wide range of other languages are also included. (Updated daily)
Current Index to Statistics: The Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. The CIS Extended Database (CIS-ED) includes coverage, in most cases from 1974 (or first issue if later) to the present (currently, volumes published in 1997) from 106 "core journals" (and pre-1974 coverage for a number of them), selected articles since 1974 from about 900 additional journals, and about 8000 books in statistics published since 1974. Each year, the Extended Database is updated with an additional year of coverage. A Print Volume is also produced annually containing listings for the most recent year. CIS is a joint venture of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. (Updated twice yearly)
Current Protocols Series: The titles in the Current Protocols Series provide hundreds of basic to advanced research protocols and overviews covering areas of interest in the life sciences. Each protocol contains a materials list, and the units feature commentary and guidelines written and edited by experts. All protocols are carefully selected for maximum applicability, lab-tested in leading laboratories, and then thoroughly scrutinized by expert editorial boards to make sure you can easily duplicate them in your own labs. Temple University subscribes to the following Current Protocols:

Current Protocols in Bioinformatics
Current Protocols in Cell Biology
Current Protocols in Cytometry
Current Protocols in Human Genetics
Current Protocols in Immunology
Current Protocols in Microbiology
Current Protocols in Molecular Biology
Current Protocols in MRI
Current Protocols in Neuroscience
Current Protocols in Nucleic Acid Chemistry
Current Protocols in Pharmacology
Current Protocols in Protein Science
Current Protocols in Toxicology

Declassified Documents Reference System (3 concurrent user limit)

After 1974, as thousands of previously classified United States government documents were declassified, the Declassified Documents Reference System was developed to organize the tremendous volume of material and to make it easily accessible to researchers. Declassified Documents Reference System has become a major and highly respected source of information about United States post-World War II domestic policy and international relations. It remains the only compilation of materials that are recorded as they are released by United States government agencies, the National Archives and Presidential Libraries. Declassified Documents Reference System contains over 78,000 documents, constituting more than 450,000 pages of material and is an unprecedented research tool for researchers, political scientists and policymakers around the world. Declassified Documents Reference System enables users to examine documents originating from a wealth of United States government official bodies and agencies, including:

* Cabinet meeting minutes
* National Security Council policy statements
* CIA intelligence studies
* Presidential conferences
* State Department political analyses
* Joint Chiefs papers

Covering major international events from the Cold War to the Vietnam War and beyond, this single source enables users to locate key information underpinning studies in international relations, American studies, United States Foreign and Domestic Policy Studies, journalism and more. Information relating to all major political and military events from every corner of the globe since World War II offers fascinating insight into government viewpoints, activities and decisions. The information will also deepen the user's understanding of the inner workings of United States domestic affairs involving both the military and the White House.

Documents included in Declassified Documents Reference System were inaccessible for review until after their release, therefore, the information they provide often offers completely new perspectives and understandings of important events. Not only do they confirm, refute or expand contemporary military coverage of post World War II trends and events, but they also encourage critical re-evaluation of previously published memoirs or other subjective writings.
(Description from Thomson Gale)

Design & Applied Arts Index

Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) is a leading source of abstracts and bibliographic records for articles, news items, and reviews published in design and applied arts periodicals from 1973 onwards. DAAI covers both new designers and the development of design and the applied arts since the mid-19th century, surveying disciplines including ceramics, glass, jewellery, wood, metalsmithing, graphic design, fashion and clothing, textiles, furniture, interior design, architecture, computer aided design, Web design, computer-generated graphics, animation, product design, industrial design, garden design, and landscape architecture.


Deutsche Bibliothek Database (5 concurrent user limit): Union catalog of the 8.5 million records of National Library of Germany, the Deutsche Bibliothek. The database includes the holdings of the Deutsche Bucherei Leipzig (founded in 1913), the Deutsche Bibliothek Frankfürt am Main (founded 1947), and the Deutsches Musikarchiv Berlin (since 1970). The Deutsche Bibliothek Database contains records of monographs, periodicals, microforms, dissertations, visual materials, maps, printed and recorded music, and electronic publications. Several special collections are represented: Anne-Frank-Shoah-Bibliothek, watermarks, paper samples, the Reichsbibliothek of 1848 Socialistica, posters, patents and documents of international organizations. (Updated daily)

Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970: Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 provides digital access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities.

Sanborn maps are valuable historical tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists and anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods. They are large-scale plans containing data that can be used to estimate the potential risk for urban structures. This includes information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers.

Textual information on construction details (for example, steel beams or reinforced walls) is often given on the plans while shading indicates different building materials. Extensive information on building use is given, ranging from symbols for generic terms such as stable, garage, and warehouse to names of owners of factories and details on what was manufactured in them. In the case of large factories or commercial buildings, even individual rooms and the uses to which they were put are recorded on the maps. Other features shown include pipelines, railroads, wells, dumps, and heavy machinery. Click here to access a key provided by the Sanborn Map Company.

DOE Information Bridge: The DOE Information Bridge provides free and convenient access to full-text and bibliographic records of Department of Energy (DOE) research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics. DOE's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) makes this web site available to the public in partnership with the Government Printing Office (GPO), through GPO Access.


DRAM: DRAM Online provides CD quality audio, complete with original liner notes and essays of the diverse catalogue of American music recordings (over 1,500 CDs of 9,800 compositions from folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theatre, contemporary, electronic and beyond) from New World Records, Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI), Albany Records, Innova Recordings, Cedille Records and other important labels.

Early American Fiction: Provides both images and text for a well-defined and comprehensive collection of early American fiction. Presently includes 440 titles by 80 authors, including first printings of works by James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Montgomery Bird, Washington Irving, Catharine Sedgwick, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Published jointly with the University of Virginia Library. When complete, Early American Fiction 1789-1875 will incorporate the full text of more than 250 additional titles and over 60 new authors, including Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Herman Melville and Thomas Bailey Aldrich, as well as a host of minor writers of the period. Early American Fiction 1789-1875 will include more than 750 works of fiction by more than 130 authors.
Early American Imprints: This CD ROM contains North American Imprints Program records for materials printed before 1801 in what is now the U.S., including records for items recorded by Evans or Bristol but not filmed by Readex and records for materials unrecorded by Evans or Bristol and therefore not filmed.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800): Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans. The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819): Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. A continuation of Readex's Early American Imprints: Series I, this rich primary source database, based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker, allows students and scholars to explore the development of the American nation as never before. Designed for researchers of varying skill levels, the intuitive interface of this long-awaited digital edition offers both simple and advanced searching as well as in-depth browsing within sixteen carefully indexed subject categories.


Early Encounters in North America: Assembled from hundreds of primary sources, this database documents the relationships among peoples and with the environment in North America from 1534 to 1850. (Updated quarterly)
Early English Books Online: From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection contains over 96,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and Thomason Tracts and their revised edition. Designed for graduate scholars in the areas of English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, and the fine arts.
Early English Prose Fiction (1500-1700): Over 200 complete works in fictional prose from the period 1500-1700.
EBSCO Animals: "EBSCO's Encyclopedia of Animals offers 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. Within some of the full text, image links are available for the Windows client. Images are accessed by double-clicking any image graphic." (Ebsco description)
ebusinessforum.com: Produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit, this is a compilation of news analysis, market research, best practices and descriptions of doing business for e-commerce in 45 countries. Does not include the U.S. It covers the current year. (Updated daily)
Ecology Abstracts: Covers current ecology research across a range of disciplines, focusing on how organisms of all kinds interact with their environments and with other organisms. Includes relevant papers on evolutionary biology, economics, and systems analysis as they relate to ecosystems or the environment. (Updated monthly)
EconLit (4 concurrent user limit): Econlit, compiled by the American Economic Assn. from the Journal of Economic Literature and the Index of Economic Articles, is a comprehensive, indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the worldwide literature on economics from over 300 major economic journals, books, and collective volumes. (Updated monthly)
EDGAR: The Securities and Exchange Commission database of electronic filings, self-described as follows: "EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Its primary purpose is to increase the efficiency and fairness of the securities market for the benefit of investors, corporations, and the economy by accelerating the receipt, acceptance, dissemination, and analysis of time-sensitive corporate information filed with the agency." Searchable by company name. (Updated daily)
Education Index (4 concurrent user limit): Provides bibliographic information for articles from over 500 periodicals with full text available from over 300. Indexing goes back to 1929 and abstracts to 1994. Articles from books relating to education, which were published after 1995, are also included. Topics include a wide range of contemporary education issues including, adult education, continuing education, library science, literacy standards, multicultural/ethnic education, teaching methods, etc.

Education Research Complete: Education Research Complete (ERC) is a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health educati