Selected titles published by ABC-CLIO.

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.

Also known as: ABI / INFORM

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.

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.

Concurrent user limit: 35

Also known as: Newsbank

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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.

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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.

Also known as: Readex United Nations Index, Index to United Nations Documents

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.

Also known as: ACLS History E-Book Project

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

Also known as: Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library

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.

Also known as: AABD

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 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, minstrels, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

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.

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.

Also known as: African American Music

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Provides access to the Agricola agricultural literature database via Proquest along with full-text access to a number of the journals indexed in Agricola.

Also known as: Agricola PlusText

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)

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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 Alternative Press Index is from 1991 to present; Alternative Press Index Archive covers 1969 to 1990. (Updated quarterly)

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 Alternative Press Index is from 1991 to present; Alternative Press Index Archive covers 1969 to 1990. (Updated quarterly)

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.

Also known as: Early American Newspapers

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 90of 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)

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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)

Also known as: ABSEES

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.

Also known as: ACS Journals

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.

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.

The American FactFinder (AFF) web site is the primary tool to access data published by the Census Bureau. AFF allows you to access data from many Census Bureau sources: 2000 and 1990 Decennial Censuses, the Economic Censuses and the American Community Survey (ACS).

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.

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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.

Concurrent user limit: 5

Also known as: ANB

American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900 (APS Online) provides the full text of articles, advertisements, illustrations, editiorial cartoons, obituaries, letters to the editor, etc., from more than 1,100 American magazines and journals that began publication between 1741, when Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine first appeared, and 1900. Popular, special interest and general magazines; literary and professional journals; children's and women's magazines; and many other historically significant periodicals are included. Titles range from America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal.

The articles are available as digitized images and therefore preserve the original typography, graphics, and page layout. The database allows searching by author, title, article type, publication title, date, and keywords in the full-text. 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.

Also known as: APS Online

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

Also known as: APS, APS Journals

Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.

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.

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.

Also known as: 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.

Also known as: ABELL

Critical reviews of the most significant primary research literature in 32 disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.

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.

Concurrent user limit: 5

Full-text of current and past journals from the American Anthropological Association.

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.

Also known as: Associated Press Images

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.

Concurrent user limit: 4

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.

Also known as: ASSIA

ArchiveGrid is an online service that provides access to detailed archival collection descriptions. It includes nearly a million descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide.

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.

Also known as: Art Abstracts

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).

Also known as: Art Bibliographies Modern

ArticleFirst is an index of articles from the contents pages of over 12,000 journals, from 1990 to the present. Over 20 million records are currently available.

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

Also known as: Web of Science

ARTstor is a digital library of art images, associated information, and software tools designed to enhance teaching, learning and scholarship. ARTstor contains more than 1 million 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 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 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.

A full-text database focused on Asian arts, culture, history, language, literature, philosophy, and religion.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.)

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)

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)

This open-access database indexes hundreds of Argentine and Brazilian periodicals.

Also known as: LatBook

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.

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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

Also known as: BAS Archive

A groundbreaking indexing project jointly developed between the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies (FAMSI) and the University of Pennsylvania's Museum Library. The Mesoamerican Bibliography provides access to the scholarly literature on ancient Mesoamerica and colonial Mexico and Guatemala published since 1960. "Coverage includes books, edited volumes, festschrifts, journal articles, essays in collected works, dissertations and theses, obituaries (2 pages +), CD-ROMs, audio and video tapes, and films pertaining to Mesoamerica. It will not include book reviews, sheet maps, working papers and other gray literature, juvenile literature, newspapers, unpublished manuscripts, and other unpublished materials."

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.

Also known as: BAL

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)

Also known as: BAS Online

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.

Also known as: BHA

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.

Concurrent user limit: 4

Also known as: BGMI

Biography Reference Bank Select Edition is an in-depth 100full-text biographical resource, providing comprehensive coverage of people in the news and a full range of history-makers. It covers over 236,000 individuals, plus more than 36,000 images. The content of the database comes from a wide variety of Wilson resources, featuring biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches (Wilson's Speeches of the American Presidents), or obituaries. The entire range of journal content that is indexed at Wilson is examined daily for content appropriate for inclusion in this database. (Description via Publisher website)

Concurrent user limit: 4

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.

Also known as: BRC

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.

Concurrent user limit: 4

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.

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.

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

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.

Also known as: Biotechnology Abstracts

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 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 Atlanta Daily World, Baltimore Afro-American, Chicago Defender, New York Amsterdam News, Philadelphia Tribune, and Pittsburgh Courier.

Also known as: Philadelphia Tribune, Baltimore Afro-American, Atlanta Daily World, Chicago Defender, New York Amsterdam News, Pittsburgh Courier

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.

Also known as: Black Literature: 1827-1940

Black Short Fiction and Folklore contains short stories and folktales by African, African American, and Caribbean authors. When complete this collection should have approximately 8000 works of short fiction. 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.

Black Short Fiction and Folklore 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, Black Short Fiction and Folklore has extensive searching capabilities. Black Short Fiction and Folklore 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.

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.

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 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 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 350 titles in the areas of Anthropology, Art, Business & Management, Classics, Communication & Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Economics, Gender Studies, Geography, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Medicine, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Race & Ethnicity Studies, Religion, and Sociology.

Online access to BNA's portfolio of publications covering developments in health care, business, labor relations, law, economics, taxation, environmental protection, safety, and other public policy and regulatory issues.

Also known as: Bureau of National Affairs Online

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.

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.)

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.

Concurrent user limit: 4

Global Books in Print includes:

Access to Bowker's Books In Print database of over 4 million titles that are available in the U.S. & Canada, as well as Whitaker's British Books In Print database of over 1 million titles available in the U.K.

* Access to Bowker's Publishers Authority Database, a comprehensive database of over 165,000 publishers, distributors, wholesalers and book agents
* An easy way to download, e-mail and print title information and search results
* The ability to check stock availability with various U.S. and Canadian wholesalers, plus you can check their discount schedules, return policies and more
* The ability to check whether your library has a particular title ("Hooks To Holdings")
* The ability to download title information into vendor-specific formats to streamline the ordering process (the new "Order Download" feature)
* Search workspace for Forthcoming titles, Children's titles, and Fiction titles
* A search workspace for titles that were nominated or won over 300 awards
* Access to over 450,000 Full text Reviews, over 400,000 cover images, over 500,000 annotations
* Daily updates

Also known as: Global Books in Print

Online library of approximately 5,000 titles on information technology topics. Users can annotate books and create personal bookshelves of favorite titles.

An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities, BHI indexes over 320 internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK. Topics include architecture, archaeology, art, antiques, education, economics, foreign affairs, environment, cinema, current affairs, gender studies, history, language, law, linguistics, literature, music, painting, philosophy, poetry, political science, religion, and theatre. Coverage is from 1962 to present.

British Newspapers, 1600-1900 is a comprehensive digital historic newspaper archive. It provides access to historic newspapers, newsbooks, ephemera and national & regional papers from the British Isles. This interface searches the 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers and 19th century British Library Newspapers. It also includes specially commissioned essays and contextual materials written by expert scholars intended to help non-specialist users with perspective and analysis.

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.

Also known as: BPO

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)

Also known as: Business Index ASAP

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 50U.S. content and 50international and includes all industries and companies with over 340,000 records added each year. Approximately 60of the database is full-text. (Updated daily)

Also known as: Business and Industry

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)

Also known as: Business and Management Practices

Indexes over 850 and provides full text for over 400 periodicals in business. Indexing goes back to 1982, and abstracts start in 1984.

Concurrent user limit: 4

Also known as: Business Full Text

Also known as: Gale Virtual Reference Shelf

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 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 )

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.

Concurrent user limit: 4

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

Cambridge Histories Online contains scores of volumes from the various well-known Cambridge Histories published since 1960, including the Cambridge Modern History, Cambridge History of English Literature, the Cambridge Medieval History, the Cambridge Ancient History and the Histories of India and the British Empire, and others.

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

The Cambridge Structural Database is "the world repository of small molecule crystal structures." Further details are available from the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre.

CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) is a premiere resource of works of art from prominent museums around the world. Showcasing a wide range of fine and decorative art, CAMIO provides high-quality art images for education, research and enjoyment. All content is rights-cleared for educational use. Every work in CAMIO is represented by at least one high-resolution image and a description. Many have additional views of the work, sound, video and curatorial notes.

Students, faculty, researchers, museum professionals and library visitors will find CAMIO to be a valuable tool. CAMIO provides images for art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, class projects and research resources. It is a single point of entry to many collections, providing unlimited and powerful, Web-based searching.

The scope of the CAMIO collection ranges from 3000 BC to the present. The content includes about 95,000 works of art - photographs,paintings, sculpture, decorative and utilitarian objects, prints, drawings and watercolors, jewelry and costumes, textiles and architecture - plus audio, video and mixed media. Difficult-to-find contemporary art is one of its strengths.

CAMIO art images span the following categories:

* Photographs
* Prints
* Sculptures
* Paintings
* Decorative Arts
* Posters
* Costumes
* Utilitarian Objects
* Jewelry

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

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.

CARINDEX is an [free] index to the contents of [about 70] West Indian journals, published in the Caribbean region. It also includes theses, papers presented at conferences, collections of working papers, etc.

Also known as: CARINDEX

Use this catalog to connect users to PA State publications, most of which are not indexed anywhere else.

Also known as: PILOT

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)

Concurrent user limit: 35

Also known as: Internet Research Network, IntelliConnect

Includes a broad range of news, research publications and research tools for tax related research. From Commerce Clearing House. (Updated daily)

Concurrent user limit: 35

Also known as: Tax Research Network, IntelliConnect

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.

Also known as: CRL Catalog

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


Concurrent user limit: 2

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)

Concurrent user limit: 5

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.

This full-text digital collection is based primarily on unique manuscript materials held at the library of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), the British Library in London, and supplemented by additional sources from seven institutes, such as the Cambridge University Library. This project provides a wide variety of original source material detailing China's interaction with the West from Macartney's first Embassy to China in 1793 to the Nixon/Heath visits to China in 1972-74. It provides multiple perspectives from politicians, diplomats, missionaries, business people, and tourists. In addition, there are over 400 color paintings, maps and drawings by English and Chinese artists, as well as many photographs, sketches and ephemeral items depicting Chinese people, customs, and events.

ChinaLawInfo provides original Chinese language versions of the same resources. LawInfoChina provides English versions of Chinese laws and regulations as well as representative court cases.

Choice Reviews Online, is a searchable, web-based version of the magazine Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. Geared toward college and university libraries, Choice offers timely, selective, scholarly reviews by experts in various fields within the Arts & Humanities, Social & Behavioral Sciences, and Science & Technology. The reviews cover books in all subjects as well as online and electronic media. By creating a personal profile, Choice readers can receive monthly alerts of newly published titles in their field as well as save and email lists of titles relevant to their work.

Concurrent user limit: 3

Indexes 20 Spanish journals (published in Spain) on Latin American topics, including history. Made available for free from Spain's Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas.

Also known as: ISOC

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.

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)

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.

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 Periodica 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.

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.

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.

Includes the full text of MIT Press journals and books in the cognitive sciences along with job postings, graduate studies information, seminar announcements and calls for papers in cognitive and brain sciences.

Also known as: MIT CogNet

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols features interactive online protocols in cell and molecular biology, genetics, protein science, imaging, and bioinformatics. Each protocol is presented step-by-step and is linked to other Web resources. The protocols are fully searchable and include a unique taxonomy for browsing and many features that users may customize to meet their needs. Protocols will be continuously expanded, updated, and annotated by the originators and users of the techniques.

Through a Web-based editorial process, users are able to add refereed comments to each protocol. Users may ask questions, discuss their own experiences, and contribute suggestions through this interactive function.

Also known as: CSH Protocols

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."

Also known as: CIAO

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)

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)

Also known as: CMMC

Communication Abstracts covers articles, reports, papers, books from a variety of publishers, and research institutions in all areas of communication. Topics include (among many others) advertising, communication theory and technology, gender and communication, interpersonal and speech communication, journalism, mass media, public opinion.

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 22of the database is conference literature, and 90of 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.

Also known as: Engineering Index

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.

Also known as: CPC Program Library

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.

Conditions and Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945 features full-text documents received in the British Foreign Office from all European states under Nazi occupation during World War II. This unique collection includes a range of primary sources related to wartime conditions in France, Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and the Vatican, in addition to those from Spain and Germany itself. Subjects covered include: the German attempt to win over important groups within the territories; the psychological warfare of rival propaganda campaigns; resistance units; and the repercussions of such events as Germany's invasion of Russia.

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.

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)

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)

Concurrent user limit: 10

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)

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.

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)

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 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)

Also known as: Community of Science Expertise

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)

Also known as: Community of Science Funding

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.

Counseling and Therapy in Video provides a rich online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling?400 hours and more than 330 videos on completion.

The videos in this collection, drawn from the catalogs of Microtraining Associates, Psychotherapy.net, and the University of Manchester Department of Psychiatry, have been created by a variety of organizations and individuals dedicated to the advancement of education and training in counseling and therapy. Several types of videos have been chosen to provide a well-rounded collection that will be of interest to students, academics, and professionals alike:

Counseling Sessions and Demonstrations include filmed footage of actual therapy sessions, re-enacted therapy sessions, and scripted sessions designed by counseling professionals to illustrate common issues and scenarios that arise during courses of therapy. These videos often include narration and frameworks that put the sessions into theoretical context.

Consultations feature experts in particular courses of therapy advising other therapists on the application of their methods. These videos often include scenes of counseling sessions interspersed with analysis and discussions between the consultant, the practicing therapists, and the clients.

Lectures, presentations, and interviews feature well-known therapists discussing their own work and issues affecting the larger fields of mental health and wellness.

In-depth coverage of global affairs from a number of international viewpoints. Includes an introductory overview; background and assessment of the current situation; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; chronology on the topic, followed by short features for extensive context; a sampling of related international perspectives; maps and graphs; bibliographies of key sources; next steps for additional reading; and author profiles. PDFs may also be downloaded according to user preference. Allows researchers to search for all documents related to given geographic areas and individual states, using an interactive global map.

Also known as: Congressional Quarterly Global Researcher

CQ Press Political Reference Suite contains the online version of many of CQ Press's reference titles on government and politics. Users can search or browse the Reference Suite as a whole or by entering one of the online editions and beginning there. The database includes personalization options that save user profiles, document history, and searches. It also features CiteNow!, an exclusive CQ Press tool 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 Documents the events, trends, and controversies in the U.S. Congress and the presidency from 1945-2004. Includes in-depth review and analysis of legislation and policy during each Congressional session and presidential term.

NEW! 6/2/08 CQ Guide to Congress Facts, figures, and analysis on every aspect of the U.S. Congress and how it works.

NEW! 6/2/08 CQ Guide to Political Campaigns A complete analysis of American political campaigns, including people, processes, races, and issues.

NEW! 6/2/08 CQ Guide to the Presidency A guide to the structure and operations of the executive branch and the president's relationship with Congress and the Supreme Court.

NEW! 6/2/08 CQ Guide to U.S. Elections Thorough historical and statistical coverage of every major aspect of federal and gubernatorial elections in the U.S.

NEW! 6/2/08 CQ Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court A complete and thorough overview of every aspect of the Supreme Court.

Historic Documents Series Important primary source documents from the last three decades. Includes expert commentary and analysis that sets each year's events in context.

Political Handbook of the World Current, in-depth political information on more than 200 countries. Includes names of key ambassadors, international memberships of each country, and profiles of over 120 intergovernmental organizations.

CQ's Politics in America Profiles and assessments of every member of the U.S. Congress. Includes key votes, interest-group ratings, election results, state and district information, biographical data, contact information, and other member facts.

Supreme Court Yearbook Series Essential coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court - updated yearly since 1989. Includes case summaries of every opinion during each court term, along with tables and figures on voting patterns and constitutional law.

Washington Information Directory Current key contacts in federal, congressional, and state government offices, nongovernmental organizations, policy groups, and foundations. Includes organizational charts and tables that untangle departmental structures and allows the export of contact information into letter templates. and other formats.

Vital Statistics on American Politics Data on U.S. elections, the U.S. Congress, the presidency, the Supreme Court, public opinion, and more. Allows for data export into Microsoft Excel.

[Descriptions adapted from CQ Press website]

Also known as: Congressional Quarterly Press Political Reference Suite

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 1923. 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

Concurrent user limit: 20

Also known as: Congressional Quarterly Researcher

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.

Also known as: Congressional Quarterly Weekly

Credo Reference 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.

Also known as: xreferplus

Subset of Credo Reference covering Biography.

Also known as: Who's Who in America,Who's Who in the World,Marquis

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 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.

Also known as: Sage Criminology

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)

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

Dance in Video is a searchable database containing streaming video files of dance productions and documentaries by influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. Videos can be browsed by people, role, ensemble, genre, and venue. Material types include documentaries, editorials, instructional, interviews, and performances. Database users may create their own custom playlists and video clips.

Concurrent user limit: 3

The Declassified Documents Reference System is a full-text database of previously classified documents that have been declassified by the Federal government. The database covers major international events from the Cold War to the Vietnam War and beyond, and includes material in the fields of history, political science, international relations, American studies, United States foreign and domestic policy studies, journalism and more. Documents from such agencies as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Justice Department, the State Department, the National Security Agency, and the White House are included. Date coverage is largely post-World War II to the early 1990s, with some documents dating back to the early decades of the Twentieth Century, and up to the early years of the Twenty-first Century.

Concurrent user limit: 2

This online collection contains scanned images of rare printed and important manuscript texts on many aspects of gender, sexuality and culture in Great Britain. Types of materials include: ephemeral material such as ballads, cartoons and pamphlets, diaries, advice literature, medical journals, conduct books, and periodicals. Other features include essays by modern scholars, biographical sketches, a chronology, etc.

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.

Also known as: DAAI

Design Abstracts Retrospective (DAR) is a retrospective of the Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) covering the years 1903 to 1986, with some sources going back to 1894. It provides coverage of more than 100 design and design-related journals most of which have ceased publication, but which are distinctly important to the development of design concepts in the early 20th century. DAR provides broad, international coverage on a wide range of subjects in the fields of industrial and product design, architecture, interior design, furniture design, ceramics, glass, jewelry, metalsmithing, fashion and textile design, graphic design, etc.

Also known as: DAR

Design Profiles provides information about more than 8,000 influential designers and design-related fields.

Diamond is the catalog of books, movies, music, and other materials held by the Temple University Libraries.

The Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) uses the Freedom of Information Act to collect government documents on US national security issues. These documents, primary research material on public policy, are digitally scanned and searchable. Some of the scanned documents have sensitive information blacked out. DNSA also provides good background material, explaining the context of the documents, along with bibliographies, chronologies, and glossaries.

Documents are organized in collections, ranging from "Afghanistan: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1973-1990" to "The Kissinger Transcripts: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977." Also notable are collections on "The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962," "Terrorism and U.S. Policy, 1968-2002," and "Presidential Directives on National Security from Harry Truman to George W. Bush."

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.

Also known as: Beilstein

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.

Also known as: Department of Energy Information Bridge

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.

Also known as: Database of Recorded American Music

Also known as: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

e-EROS is the online version of the core reference work Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis. It contains systematic and exhaustive coverage of reagents used in organic synthesis. The database contains around 70,000 reactions and around 4000 of the most frequently consulted reagents and is fully searchable by structure and substructure, reagent, reaction type, experimental conditions.

Also known as: Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis

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.

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.

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.

Also known as: Evans Digital Edition

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.

Also known as: Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition

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)

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.

Also known as: EEBO

Over 200 complete works in fictional prose from the period 1500-1700.

The Early Republic currently includes 17 volumes of digitized primary material documenting the actions, debates, and thoughts of the First Federal Congress and its members as collected by the First Federal Congress Project (FFCP) and published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. These volumes of the Documentary History of the First Federal Congress are used by Congress, historians, political scientists, and jurists to understand the most important and productive Congress in United States history.

Also known as: Evidence Based Medicine Reviews

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)

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, 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)

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)

Concurrent user limit: 4

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)

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.

Concurrent user limit: 4

Also known as: Education Full Text

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 education, and testing. ERC also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals, as well as full text for more than 750 journals. Full text for more than 100 books and monographs, and numerous education-related conference papers are also included. (adapted from Ebsco description)

Egrants.net provides daily email notification of all new grant announcements and offers direct links to the grant summary and funding source, saving health professionals and researchers valuable time. Once you've registered and set up your own individual account, you can sign up for email notification of new grant opportunities as they are posted, and in your own interest areas. (Courtesy of the Office of the Vice President for Research)

HRAF is an acronym for Human Relations Area Files, a non-profit institution founded in 1949 at Yale University. HRAF is a consortium of educational, research, and cultural organizations, and government agencies; its mission is to encourage and facilitate the study of human culture, society, and behavior. This mission is accomplished mainly through the compilation, indexing, and distribution of a collection of ethnographic and other texts that are indexed by culture and subject. Today, HRAF has over 400 member institutions located in over 30 nations. In its early years the collection was distributed on paper slips. In 1958, HRAF began to reproduce the paper slips on microfiche. Microfiche reproduction ended in 1991, and all new material as well as retrospective conversion and updating of existing material began with the release of eHRAF on CD-ROM in April 1995. (eHRAF stands for the electronic collections of HRAF.) Currently HRAF has collections of ethnography, available on both CD-ROM and WWW. In 1998 HRAF began distributing a collection of archaeology in both formats. While all material currently on microfiche remains available on the fiche format, no new microfiche installments are being produced and all material added after 1991 is available only in electronic form. (Updated yearly)

Also known as: Electronic Human Relations Area Files

Eighteenth Century Collections Online is a collection of English and foreign language books, directories, pamphlets, bibles, sheet music, sermons, advertisements and other ephemera published in the U.K. and the Americas between 1701 and 1800. Content is presented as full text page images which can be viewed online or downloaded as PDF documents. The collection is an ongoing project based on The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private, and public libraries worldwide. With full-text search capabilities across 180,000 titles (33 million pages), this collection provides multidisciplinary research opportunities not possible until now.

Also known as: ECCO

Eighteenth Century Journals provides full text access to 70 British newspapers and periodicals from the 17th and 18th century. Features many short run items and very rare materials to complement to other resources already available in this area. Covers extremely wide-ranging topics from this time period, including: the writings of Sir Isaac Newton; the French Revolution; reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe; political debates; and coffee house gossip and discussion. Supports studies of the 18th century, including: literature, the theatre, the origins and rise of romanticism, politics, revolution and rebellion, social issues, gender, society life, religion and the influence of the press.

Also known as: 18th Century Journals

96 complete works in English prose from the period 1700-1780, by writers from the British Isles. Includes a scanned version of Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and two different editions of Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela and of Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

Also known as: 18th Century Fiction

Provides access to detailed abstracts from all the environmental impact statements the federal government issues. EIS extracts the key issues from government-released environmental impact statements into concise, readable abstracts. Each entry includes a clear description of the project, sections on positive impact and negative consequences, and legal mandates. (Updated bi-monthly)

Complete electronic catalogue of the mathematical publications between 1868 - 1942 (Jahrbuch uber die Fortschritte der Mathematik database). At the moment the database contains:

Volumes 1-46 (1868-1916): bibliographical data and abstracts (enhanced)
Volume 48, 49 (1922-23): bibliographical data and abstracts
Volume 51, 52, 53 (1925-27): bibliographical data and abstracts
Volume 55, 56 (1930-31): bibliographical data and abstracts
Volumes 47, 50, 54: bibliographical data

Fulltext journals published by Emerald.

See publisher's description

This online edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is a fully searchable and browsable collection of over 73,000 authoritative reference articles. Several bonus features are included in this reference tool: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus; thousands of photographs, illustrations, and sound files; hundreds of relevant videos; hot links from Encyclopedia Britannica articles to related magazine and journal articles from EBSCO and ProQuest online databases; World Data containing information and customizable charts and tables about nations of the world; Notable Quotations from historical and contemporary important men and women; and Gateway to the Classics, hundreds of works by significant writers of the Western world.

Also known as: Encyclopedia Britannica

The Encyclopaedia of Islam Online Edition includes the entire text of volumes I to XI and Supplement (Volume XII) of the printed edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam. Additional search facilities, enhanced by the inclusion of two original indices (Index of Proper Names, Index of Subjects) and the Supplement enable the user to efficiently search and combine data from a vast corpus of over 12,000 printed pages.

In order to present the reader with the familiar print characteristics, a special font has been developed for the display and searching of the transliterations. For these to display properly, please download and install the Brill fonts as instructed on the Encyclopedia's introductory screen.

Also known as: Brill Encyclopaedia of Islam, Encyclopedia of Islam

The Encyclopaedia of Islam covers the many-sided nature of Islam and the Muslim world, with articles on art, history, law, philosophy, politics, religion, and more. The user can browse the alphabetical entries, or select from the Subjects index or the Names index. Searching options include using English or transliterated terms to query Full Text, Headwords (article entries), Keywords, bibliographies, or Contributors.

Also known as: Encyclopedia of Islam [via Gale Virtual Reference Library]

The Encyclopedia of American Studies brings together a wide range of disciplines related to the history and cultures of the United States, from pre-colonial days to the present. It features broad, synthetic articles covering areas such as history, literature, art, photography, film, architecture, urban studies, ethnicity, race, gender, economics, politics, wars, consumer culture, and global America.

Interdisciplinary in its coverage of the American experience, this comprehensive reference has been written by hundreds of internationally renowned scholars who present their topics in clear and lively prose.

With over 660 online, searchable articles and bibliographies, the Encyclopedia of American Studies provides an integrated approach to problems, themes, and issues that cut across disciplinary lines. The breadth and depth of disciplines, topics, and issues featured in this resource support research and study in a wide range of courses and assignments at all levels.

The Encyclopedia's editor in chief is Temple's own Miles Orvell.

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS) includes articles, essays, and news in the biological and life sciences. More than 6,000 illustrations are provided. Core coverage: biochemistry, biodiversity, cell biology, clinical medicine, developmental biology, ecology, evolution, genetics history, philosophy of science, immunology, microbiology, molecular biology, neuroscience, plant science, structural biology, and virology.Contains peer-reviewed articles commissioned from 5,000 world-renown scientists. All articles have a list of reference, some of which provide links to external Web sources. Appendix and glossary components provide descriptions of biochemical and taxonomical data, acronyms and abbreviations, synonyms, units, and other technical data. "Special Essays" were commissioned to address 50 "hot topics." By creating an account on My Profile, users may save searching histories as well as articles for later review.

Designed and developed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) the Energy Citations provides access to the Department's scientific and technical information. Contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The Database provides access to DOE publicly available citations from 1948 through the present, with continued growth through regular updates. Covers literature in disciplines of interest to DOE such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science and related disciplines. It includes citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents.

A combination of Chadwyck-Healey's English Verse Drama and English Prose Drama full-text databases. 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century.

Essentially the complete English poetic canon from the 8th century to the early 20th. Over 160,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources.

English Poetry, Second Edition redefines the English poetic canon for the 21st century, building on the achievement of its ground-breaking predecessor with enhanced functionality and the addition of more than 20,000 poems from several new categories. Containing more than 183,000 poems by over 2,700 poets, the most comprehensive archive of English verse from the 8th century to the early 20th now offers incomparable representation both of the literary heritages of Commonwealth and ex-colonial countries and of the poetic legacies of English writers who have only been brought back to scholarly attention during the last thirty years.

Describes English-language letterpress materials printed in Great Britain or its colonies from 1473 to 1800, as well as material printed in English anywhere in the world during that period. The database sources are ESTC/North America and The British Library and represents holdings of over 1600 libraries worldwide. (Updated daily)

Also known as: ESTC

The complete text of over 500 engineering handbooks from CRC Press. Each chapter is a pdf file and is full-text searchable. Handbooks are in the fields of aerospace engineering, biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, electronics, engineering (general), engineering management, environmental engineering, industrial Engineering & manufacturing, industrial engineering management, lasers & optics, material science, mechanical engineering, nanoscience/nanotechnology, operations research, packaging, systems engineering.

The complete text of over 220 handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and treatises from Taylor & Francis imprints. Each chapter is a pdf file and is full-text searchable. Content covers earth science, ecological economics, ecology, environmental modeling & systems analysis, envrionmental & ecological risk assessment, environmental & occupational health/safety, environmental chemistry & toxicology, environmental engineering, environmental law, management, & compliance, geology, GIS & mapping, landscape ecology, remote sensing & photogrammetry, resource management & sustainability, turfgrass science & engineering, and water science, technology, & engineering.

Concurrent user limit: 2

Environment Abstracts encompasses all aspects of the impact of people and technology on the environment and the effectiveness of remedial policies and technologies. As of 1994, the database also provides expanded coverage of energy-related issues.

Environment Abstracts provides access to more than 950 journals published in the U.S. and abroad, from 1975 to the present. The database also covers conference papers and proceedings, special reports from international agencies, non-governmental organizations, universities, associations and private corporations. Other materials selectively indexed include significant monographs, government studies and newsletters.

Covers the world literature pertaining to technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production. Offers indexing and abstracting of more than 700 primary journals. Over 2,500 additional sources, including monographs and conference proceedings, are also monitored for relevant articles.

Covers relevant fields across the environmental sciences and the primary sources for 11 abstracting journals. Date coverage varies. (Updated monthly)

The ERIC database contains bibliographic records of research reports, conference papers, teaching guides, books, and journal articles relating to the practice of education. ERIC Digests are included. Covers the period 1966-present. Includes full-text links to Education Research Complete. (Updated monthly)

The ERIC database contains bibliographic records of research reports, conference papers, teaching guides, books, and journal articles relating to the practice of education. ERIC Digests are included. Covers the period 1966-present. This is a free version, with no full text. (Updated monthly)

The ERIC database contains bibliographic records of research reports, conference papers, teaching guides, books, and journal articles relating to the practice of education. ERIC Digests are included. Covers the period 1966-present. Includes full-text links to Education Index. (Updated monthly)

Full-text of European (EP), World (WO) and other patents back to the 1970's. Also links to individual European country patent databases.

Also known as: European Patent Office

Produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, is a unique reference database that cites records contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. More than 320 single and multi-authored volumes are indexed annually with more than 20 selected annuals and serial publications. Essay & General Literature Index provides access to nearly 65,000 essays found in over 5,300 printed anthologies and collections, with coverage dating as far back as 1985. Subjects covered in the database include archaeology, architecture, art, children's literature, classical studies, drama, economics, fiction, film, folklore, history, linguistics, music, poetry, political science, psychology, religion, women's studies and more, covering the entire range of the humanities and social sciences. (Updated yearly)

Concurrent user limit: 4

Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. A rich collection of articles, editorials, columns, reviews, etc. provide a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints -- the other sides of the stories. (Updated monthly)

Concurrent user limit: 12

Global Market Information Database (GMID) is a marketing tool provided by Euromonitor that contains data for many countries on consumer market sizes, market data & forecasts, consumer lifestyles, companies and brands. Use Global Market Information Database to retrieve international market research data, including reports on specific products and industries.

Also known as: Global Market Information Database,GMID

Europa World is the online version of the Europa World Year Book, a well respected source of information on world-wide affairs. First published in 1926, the year book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.

A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. The Faber list spans the seventy-year history of this major publishing house, and includes the poetry of James Joyce, Siegfried Sassoon, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney. In total The Faber Poetry Library contains 140 volumes by 50 poets.

An index to Federal Reserve economic research from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, one of twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks across the U.S. that, together with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., serve as our nation's central bank. (Updated monthly)

Official statistical information available to the public from the Federal Government. Track economic and population trends, education, health care costs, aviation safety, foreign trade, energy use, farm production, and more. Access official statistics collected and published by more than 100 Federal agencies. (Updated daily)

From the International Federation of Film Archives, this resource is composed of 4 parts:

International Index to Film Periodicals
Indexes over 300 film periodicals as far back as 1972 using a 20,000 subject-term thesaurus.

Treasures from Film Archives
Contains credit and holdings information about silent-era film holdings held in archives world-wide.

Documentation Collections
Includes Information about film document collections held around the world.

FIAF Members' Publications
Includes information on materials published since 1966 by FIAF archives.

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text is an online tool for film and television research. It is a comprehensive bibliographic and full-text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 270 publications (and selected coverage of more than 300), as well as full text for 70 journals and nearly 50 books. The Image Collection contains over 24,000 classic black & white and color images of celebrity and entertainment photography, provided by the Motion Picture & Television Archives. The new Variety Movie Reviews authority file consists of over 32,500 full text reviews, dating back to 1914. This collection provides a unique overview of the development of cinema, from the early part of the 20th century to the present.

Film Indexes Online brings Film Index International and American Film Insitute (AFI) Catalog together in one site.

Film Index International is a filmography that provides international coverage of more than 120,000 films and 700,000 film personalities from over 170 countries. Its rich content also includes coverage of international film awards and prizes as well as searchable plot summaries and full cast and crew lists.

Film records contain detailed film information detailing the director, full cast and crew lists, year of release and production information. Credits, awards and a synopsis are also included. Person records include complete biographical information, a list of awards received, plus a complete list of the films the subject featured in. Each record is hyperlinked to other related records, enabling you to navigate from the listed films to the corresponding film record. References to film journals are also cited in many film and person records, allowing you to extend your research.

All eras of film-making are covered - from the early silent movies to recent box-office hits. Based on the bfi's Summary of Information on Film and Television (SIFT) database, Film Index International is both inclusive and authoritative.

AFI Catalog is the premier resource for American films providing a detailed view of American feature films produced during the last century. Providing an unmatched level of detail, full production and cast information as well as extensive plot summaries and notes are included to give you the full picture.

The ultimate national filmography, AFI Catalog documents over 47,000 American films from 1893-1958 and 1961-1971. More than 17,500 entries cover the early years of American film from 1893 to 1910. Drawing on the expertise of specialist staff at the AFI, it is a key resource for any institution, media body or library that is involved with the research, study and teaching of film.

AFI Catalog also includes full listing of the Top 10 films from 2000-03. The AFI records the year's most outstanding achievements in film, and honours these at the annual AFI Awards. The site includes information on the chosen films listed in alphabetical order within each year the film was premiered.

Also known as: Film Index International,American Film Institute Catalog,AFI Catalog

Films on Demand is a library of thousands of streaming videos across all disciplines from Films Media Group. All Temple users can search and view films or specific segments of films. If you establish a user account from within Films on Demand you can also create playlists from the various films/segments for your own use or for sharing with other Temple users.

Also known as: FMG,Films Media Group

FIRSTConsult is an evidence-based clinical information tool for health care providers. In collaboration with an Editorial Board of respected authors and opinion leaders, FIRSTConsult synthesizes findings from journals and other respected references into a templated knowledge base that is organized into a highly accessible format.

FBIS Daily Reports are translated transcripts of foreign radio and television broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements. The reports contain political, military, economic, environmental, and sociological news and information. FBIS Daily Reports became World News Connection after 1996.

Contains background information on the history and legal system of the countries of the world and discusses sources of the law for each country. The resource also provides a bibliography to locate primary sources of legislation for foreign jurisdictions.

Covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (67, social sciences (30, and economics (3. FRANCIS is strong in all aspects of the humanities, with special emphasis in religion, the history of art, psychology, and literature, focusing on current trends in European and world literature. It is the successor to the highly regarded printed Bulletin Signaletique and covers over 4200 journals. Updated monthly, FRANCIS is produced by the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INIST-CNRS) in Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy (France).

Indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated annually. (Ebsco description)

Search, sort, and download text records from online versions of well-known directories from Gale, such as Ward's Business Directory and the Encyclopedia of Associations.

Also known as: Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies,Encyclopedia of Associations

Includes fulltext versions of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources across all subject areas.

Also known as: GVRL

Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index covers a wide range of serial titles including general gardening titles of national, international, and regional interest, and titles devoted to specialty gardens and plant groups. Indexed and abstracted are more than 300 core titles, the majority of which are published in English. Coverage for many titles extends back further than a decade. Topics include horticulture, botany, garden and landscape design & history, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy. (adapted from Ebsco description)

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online contains over 9,000 pages of material, the full text of the 10-volume print encyclopedia (more than 700 articles) with links to associated audio examples, musical illustrations, photographs, and drawings; song texts and score examples; and charts and maps of world regions.

GenderWatch is a full text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. GenderWatch supports programs in business, education, literature and the arts, health sciences, history, political science, public policy, sociology and contemporary culture, gender and women's studies and more. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, n-g-o and special reports. The database provides in-depth coverage of the subjects that are uniquely central to women's lives, including family, childbirth, birth control, daycare, domestic abuse, work and the workplace, sexual harassment, aging, aging parents, body image, eating disorders and social and societal roles. It also includes content on the impact of gender and gender roles on areas such as: the arts, popular culture and media, business and work, crime and criminology, education, research and scholarship, family, health care and medicine, politics, policy and legislation, pornography, religion, sexuality and sexology, sports and leisure. GenderWatch contains archival material, in some cases as far back as the 1970's with additional archival material continually added, making this the repository of an important historical perspective on the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles and understandings over the last fifteen to twenty years.

Concurrent user limit: 12

Also known as: Gender Watch

Produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, indexes articles from over 275 leading journals and magazines from the United States and Great Britain including popular science magazines and professional journals. Over 90 titles are available in full text. Designed for students and non-specialist, coverage in General Science Index includes feature articles, reports of symposia and conferences, biographical sketches, obituaries, review articles, selected letters to the editor, and book reviews. Topics covered include: Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Health & Medicine, Zoology, etc. General Science Index contains indexing back to 1984. (Updated monthly)

Concurrent user limit: 4

Also known as: General Science Full Text

Worldwide literature on geography, geology, ecology, and related disciplines. Over 2,000 journals fully covered, with an additional 3,000 selectively covered; also books, monographs, proceedings, reports are indexed. Coverage/update: 1980 to present; adds new records daily. (Updated monthly)

Produced by the American Geological Institute, this database is a comprehensive geoscience database containing over 2.2 million bibliographic records from more than 3,000 journals and other sources. GeoRef provides coverage in subject areas such as mineralogy and crystallography, general mineralogy, mineralogy of silicates, and mineralogy of non-silicates. (Updated twice monthly)

Comprehensive resource for research and communications in the geosciences, built on a core database aggregation of full-text peer-reviewed journals. GeoScienceWorld was founded by the following leading earth sciences organizations:

* American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG),
* American Geological Institute (AGI),
* Geological Society of America (GSA),
* The Geological Society of London (GSL),
* Mineralogical Society of America (MSA),
* Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), and
* Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)

In the late 1800s, Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs Gerritsen began collecting monographs and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and women's rights. By the time her successors finished their work in 1945, the Gerritsen Collection was the greatest single source for the study of women's history in the world, with materials spanning four centuries and fifteen languages.

Global Health is a public health database that provides information on international health, biomedical life sciences, non-communicable diseases, public health nutrition, food safety and hygiene, and much more. Coverage is 1910-present and includes abstracts and indexes of English and foreign language journals, books, research reports, theses, conference proceedings, annual reports, developing country information and other forms of hard-to-find literature from over 150 countries.

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Global Insight provides comprehensive economic, financial, and political coverage of countries, regions, and industries -- covering over 200 countries and spanning more than approximately 170 industries.

Advanced Country Analysis and Forecast provides the following key benefits:
--Issues and trends tracked daily for 203 countries through Global Insight's Same-Day Analysis service
--Country reports featuring in-depth political, economic, legal, tax, operational, and security analysis
--Daily updates for over 200 country and sovereign risk ratings, with interactive reports
--Economic Data and Forecasts, which include:
*Key monthly, quarterly, and annual economic indicators for 203 countries on up to 150 economic indicators
*Twenty-year forecast horizon
*All aspects of economic developments, sectors, and trade profiles
*Historical data going back to 1970
*Flexible download, comparison and graphing capabilities though the DataInsight-Web tool.

Global Insight also includes the following industry-specific services providing market and risk analysis, industry trends, and company data:

--World Markets Automotive
--World Markets Energy
--World Markets Healthcare
--World Markets Telecoms


Note: the DataInsight-Web tool requires Internet Explorer

Global Market Information Database (GMID) is a marketing tool provided by Euromonitor that contains data for many countries on consumer market sizes, market data & forecasts, consumer lifestyles, companies and brands. Use Global Market Information Database to retrieve international market research data, including reports on specific products and industries.

Google Scholar is a subset of Google Web Search that searches specifically for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. By searching Google Scholar from Temple's library web site, you will automatically have direct access, both on and off campus, to subscription articles already paid for through the library. Just look for the "Find Full-Text @ TU" link within search results.

GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted. This free service is funded by the Federal Depository Library Program and has grown out of Public Law 103-40, known as the Government Printing Office Electronic Information Enhancement Act of 1993. The free services of GPO Access include:

* Government information databases for your online use
* Individual Federal agency files available for download
* Tools to assist you in finding Government Information
* Collections of Government information available for free use at a library near you
* User Support

Over 450,000 records on all subjects of interest to the U.S. government: Congressional reports, hearings, debates, judiciary materials, documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.). Coverage/update: July 1976 to the present; adds new records monthly.

GreenFILE is a collection of scholarly, government, and general-interest titles that focuses on the relationship between human beings and the environment. Topics include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling. It covers the environmental effects of individuals, corporations, and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact.

Ebooks from the Greenwood Publishing Group

Grove Art Online provides Web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. Hugh Brigstocke (2001). It offers ongoing additions of new and updated articles, over 1,500 thumbnail art images and line drawings displayed in the text of articles, extensive image links, and sophisticated search and navigation tools.

Concurrent user limit: 8

Also known as: Grove Dictionary of Art Online

Grove Music Online is an integrated music resource on the Web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition; 29 volumes), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition; 3 volumes). It is updated annually to ensure it remains up to date and includes key features such as full-text searching with advanced capabilities, over 3000 links to related sites including sound archives and illustrations, and regular editorial updates.

Searching in Grove Music Online is organized around the following themes:

* Search the full-text by concept, pattern and boolean methods
* Browse to see articles at your leisure
* Explore the dictionary by subject classifications

Concurrent user limit: 11

Also known as: Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, New Grove Dictionary of Music

From the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Guide includes more than 750,000 citations from books, journal articles, conference proceedings, doctoral dissertations, master's theses, and technical reports in the field of computer science.

The Hague Academcy Collected Courses Online is the electronic version of the longstanding book series on international law: Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law.

The Hague Academy of International Law, founded in 1923, is the prestigious international institution for the study and teaching of public and private international law and related subjects. The work of the Academy receives the support and recognition of the UN. Its purpose is to encourage a thorough and impartial examination of the problems arising from international relations in the field of law.

The courses deal with the theoretical and practical aspects of the subject, including legislation and case law. They are given by the most prominent legal specialists in the world. All courses at the Academy are published in the language in which they were delivered, either in English or in French.

The Collected Courses Online now covers more than 330 volumes (150,000 pages) containing over 1200 lectures given over a period of 85 years. At least seven new volumes are added every year. The result is a constantly growing fully searchable encyclopedic collection on international law.

Bibliography of materials selected and annotated by scholars. It includes evaluations of books, book chapters, conference papers, and articles from more than 1400 social science and 600 humanities journals and conference proceedings published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Produced by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the online records correspond to the printed Handbook of Latin American Studies from volume 50 forward. The database is multilingual and multidisciplinary, covering the fields of anthropology, including archaeology and genealogy; art; economics; electronic resources; geography; government and politics; international relations; literature; music; philosophy; and sociology. Records representing approximately 6,000 monographs and 5,000 journal articles and conference papers are added each year.

The HarpWeek database contains all the pages of Harper's Weekly (1857-1877) as scanned images, together with a series of indexes.

Features material on unpublished information-gathering tools for clinicians that are discussed in journal articles, such as questionnaires, interview schedules, tests, checklists, rating and other scales, coding schemes, and projective techniques. Over 2/3 of the tools are in medical and nursing areas such as pain measurement, quality of life assessment, and drug efficacy evaluation.

The database contains several categories of content -- citations to actual test documents that copyright holders authorize the database publisher to make available; bibliographic citations to journal articles which contain information about specific test instruments; and a catalog of commercial test publishers and their available instruments.

In addition to medical measurement instruments, the database presents tests used in medically related disciplines including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech & hearing therapy.

Coverage: 1985 to the present. (Updated quarterly)

Published in association with the University of Southern California's Institute of Safety and Systems Management, this database provides a survey of recent work relating to public health, safety, and industrial hygiene. Cited studies are geared to help individuals identify, evaluate, and eliminate or control risks and hazards across the spectrum of environmental and occupational situations. The database provides the latest perspectives on topics of widespread concern such as aviation and aerospace safety, environmental safety, nuclear safety, medical safety occupational safety, and ergonomics. Health and safety related aspects of pollution, waste disposal, radiation, pesticides, epidemics - and countless other phenomena having the potential to threaten the public, the environment, or the workplace itself - are reported here. Drawing on government reports as well as journal articles, conference proceedings, books, and other publications, Health and Safety Science Abstracts synthesizes the most important new developments in safety science and human factors research. (Updated monthly)

Ovid Healthstar is comprised of data from the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) MEDLINE and former HealthSTAR databases. As such, it contains citations to the published literature on health services, technology, administration, and research. It focuses on both the clinical and non-clinical aspects of health care delivery. The following topics are included: evaluation of patient outcomes; effectiveness of procedures, programs, products, services and processes; administration and planning of health facilities, services and manpower; health insurance; health policy; health services research; health economics and financial management; laws and regulation; personnel administration; quality assurance; licensure; and accreditation.

As announced in October 2000, Ovid is offering Ovid Healthstar as a continuation of the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) now-defunct HealthSTAR database. Ovid Healthstar retains all existing backfile HealthSTAR citations and is updated with new journal citations culled from MEDLINE using the NLM's HealthSTAR search strategy. The database contains citations and abstracts (when available) to journal articles, monographs, technical reports, meeting abstracts and papers, book chapters, government documents, and newspaper articles from 1975 to the present. Citations are indexed with the National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings in order to ensure compatibility with other NLM databases. Information in Ovid Healthstar is derived from MEDLINE, the Hospital Literature Index, and selected journals. (Description taken from Ovid)

Image-based (PDF) collection of legal research material. Unlike other periodical databases that supply only post-1980 volumes, Hein-On-Line provides each journal from its inception and continues to the most current volume allowed under contract between Hein and the journal.

Also known as: Hein Online

The Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection of the Henry Stewert Talks contains 1,000 online audio-visual seminar style talks, each especially commissioned from leading world experts.

Online version of the print Hispanic American Periodicals Index. Covers Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Provides analyses of current political, economic, and social issues as well as Latin American arts and letters. Covers articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 400 social science and humanities journals published worldwide.

Also known as: HAPI

Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Currently over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered in the database. In addition to including the key historical journals from virtually every major country, Historical Abstracts includes a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities that are of special interest to researchers and students of history. (Updated monthly)

Concurrent user limit: 6

Over 37,000 data series covering the vast scope of U.S history. In addition to updating and expanding the highly regarded 1975 print edition, HSUS also allows you to download data in Excel or CSV format as well build your own custom data sets. Additional features include:

* Save your search criteria
* Search within a chapter or volume
* Bookmark tables or essays
* Searchable term and contributor indexes
* View tables in PDF or HTML format
* Tables online include full documentation, sources, and footnotes
* Select certain years or series of years to view, download, print, or graph
* Download unrounded table data, for more detailed statistical analyses.
* Enhanced table display features: jump to a certain table column (series), skip over blank data cells, highlight table rows and columns for readability
* Toggle table sorting by ascending or decending year
* Create and download colorful charts, graphs, and plots
* Email a table or essay to a colleague

Resource for historians put together by the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the University of Illinois Press, and the National Academy Press. Provides full text of current issues of the American Historical Review and the Journal of American History as well as a number of other journals.

International bibliography for the history of science, technology, and medicine and their influence on culture, from pre-history to the present. This database integrates four separately created bibliographies: Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, from the History of Science Society, updated annually, mostly English language with some abstracts, 1975 - present. Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, from the Society for the History of Technology, updated 2-3 times a year, mostly English language, with some abstracts and book reviews, 1987-present. Bibliographia Italiana di Storia della Science, from Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza (IMSS), updated annually, 1982 to present. Most citations are in Italian, with subject headings in Italian and English. Some abstracts. Wellcome Bibliography of the History of Medicine, incorporating Current Work in the History of Medicine, with records from 1991 to the present. (Updated quarterly)

Concurrent user limit: 5

The many directories that make up the Hollywood Creative Directory catalogue, commonly known as "the phone books to Hollywood," offer regularly updated names, numbers, addresses and current titles of entertainment professionals from the film, television and music industries. The current catalogue includes the Hollywood Creative Directory, the Hollywood Representation Directory, the Hollywood Distributors Directory and the Hollywood Music Industry Directory.

Also known as: HCD Online

The Homeland Security Digital Library collection provides easy access to U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources, such as dissertations, reports and position papers from universities, research institutions, think tanks and U.S. local and state agencies as well as international governments.

Covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. The database combines the records of three collections: Cornell University's former Hospitality database, Articles in Hospitality and Tourism (AHT), formerly co-produced by the Universities of Surrey and Oxford Brookes, and the Lodging, Restaurant & Tourism Index (LRTI), formerly produced by Purdue University. Together, this collection contains more than 500,000 records from more than 500 titles, with coverage dating as far back as 1965. Hospitality & Tourism Complete contains full text for more than 200 publications. Sources are both domestic and international in range and scope, with material collected from countries and regions such as Canada, Australia, Europe and Asia. Publications include Hotel & Motel Management, Journal of Leisure Research, Nation's Restaurant News, Restaurants & Institutions and many more. Subject areas covered include the culinary arts, demographics & statistics, development & investment, food & beverage management, hospitality law, hotel management & administrative practices, leisure & business travel, market trends, technology and more.

Also known as: Hospitality and Tourism Index

Includes the Nineteenth Century House of Commons Sessional Papers (almost 80,000 papers) and the accompanying Subject Catalogue of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 1801-1900. The Eighteenth Century Parliamentary Papers Collection (1688-1834) features publications published officially by the House of Commons or the House of Lords from 1688 to 1834, including sessional papers and other material such as Journals and Private Acts.

Indexes over 500 periodicals and provides full text for over 200, including some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous specialized magazines covering archaeology, classical studies, dance, journalism, linguistics, philosophy, theology and more. Indexing goes back to 1907, and abstracts start in 1994. (Updated monthly)

Concurrent user limit: 4

Also known as: Humanities Abstracts,Humanities Full Text

IBLS is a source for information related to the intersection of Internet Law and business.

Also known as: Internet Business Law Services

Full-text access to over 120 IEEE journals, as well as transactions, conference titles, and standards from 1988 to the present with some items going back as far as 1950. (Updated weekly)

Concurrent user limit: 15

Also known as: IEEE / IET Electronic Library,IEEE / IEE Electronic Library

images.MD compiles over 50,000 high-quality images spanning all of internal medicine, derived from Current Medicine's series of illustrated atlases. Each image is accompanied by detailed and informative text written by over 2,000 contributing experts.

Lets users perform in-depth field and keyword searches across letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials that are freely available on the Web and Alexander Street Press databases. The search returns citation information and links to full text, audio, and video whenever available.

The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It is produced by an editorial team working at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, established to transmit knowledge about Islamic and Middle East studies, which have tradionally been part of the curriculum of SOAS. Records included in the database cover 1906 to the present.

Material cited in the Index Islamicus includes not only work written about the Middle East, but also about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level. (Updated annualy)

The Index of Christian Art is the largest archive of materials on Early Christian and Medieval Iconography. It documents more than 18,000 works of art from early apostolic times to AD 1400, with emphasis on art of the western world, and includes mediums such as manuscripts, metalwork, sculpture, painting, and glass. Indexing is provided for theme/iconography, artist, location, school or style and other categories. Records include bibliography, references to reproductions and a growing number of links to images. Browsing and advanced searches are possible.

The Index to Printed Music is the only electronic title for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions. The database contains over 200,000 records with detailed indexing including but not limited to, composer, poets, librettists, performing force (medium), format genre. A separate collection authority allows users to search for musical collections as well as individual musical compositions. (Description via EbscoHost)

Concurrent user limit: 5

The Index to Printed Music is the only electronic title for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions. The database contains over 200,000 records with detailed indexing including but not limited to, composer, poets, librettists, performing force (medium), format genre. A separate collection authority allows users to search for musical collections as well as individual musical compositions. (Description via EbscoHost)

Concurrent user limit: 5

Significant findings and practical applications in agricultural, food and beverage, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries.

Includes article summaries from thousands of journals, primarily in the sciences, but also including the social sciences and arts & humanities. (Updated daily)

Also known as: Ingenta

(Physics, Computing, Electronics, 1884-present). Covers all aspects of these subjects, in approximately 4,200 journals and 1,000 conferences as well as books, reports and dissertations. (Updated weekly)

Update (5/8/06): Now includes the Inspec Archive. Including over 800,000 records, the backfile covers the literature of physics, electrical engineering, and computing from 1884-1968. Corresponds to the print General Science Abstracts.

Tax, business, and legal research materials from CCH (Commerce Clearing House)

Also known as: CCH Internet Research Network, CCH Tax Research Network

Includes nearly two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Over 2,700 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books are included each year. (Updated quarterly)

Also known as: IBSS

Initiated by the American Society for Theatre Research, this database comprises a fully indexed, cross-referenced and annotated databank of over 60,000 journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries.

Also known as: IBTD

This database is the online version of the largest reference work published in the social and behavioral sciences. Subjects covered include: anthropology, psychology, demography, economics, education, gender studies, law, linguistics, public policy, sociology, urban planning, etc.

Also known as: IESBS

IFS Online, from the International Monetary Fund, provides approximately 32,000 financial time series covering most countries in the world. The data available for each country includes data on exchange rates, international liquidity, interest rates, prices, production, national accounts and population. In many cases the data extend back to 1948.

Also known as: IFS Online

Includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from scholarly journals and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals. Coverage is international in scope and multidisciplinary--spanning cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues of vital importance to the Black Studies discipline.

Also known as: International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text,IIBP

IIMP Full Text is a music information resource with indexing, abstracts and selected full text from many sources, covering the scholarly to the popular. Offering the widest span of scholarship available, IIMP Full Text ranges from 1874 to the most recent issues. (Updated monthly)

Also known as: International Index to Music Periodicals Full-Text,IIMP

IIPA Full Text is a multidisciplinary information resource designed specifically for the performing arts. It provides indexing, abstracts and selected full text from many sources covering film, theatre, dance, stagecraft, television, and more. Offering the widest span of scholarship available, IIPA Full Text ranges from 1864 to the most current issues. (Updated monthly)

Also known as: International Index to Performing Arts Full-Text,IIPA

The International Medieval Bibliography was founded in 1967 with the support of the Medieval Academy of America, with the aim of providing a comprehensive, current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide.

The "International Medieval Institute", based at the University of Leeds, is responsible for producing the bibliography. A unique network of over 50 specialist contributors and teams throughout the world ensures regular coverage of periodicals and miscellanies published worldwide. They are supported by a distinguished international Editorial Board.

Features include:
* 300,000 records of articles, review articles, scholarly notes and similar literature on all aspects of medieval studies
* a comprehensive cataloguing and indexing system, using familiar, multilingual terminology defined by professional medievalists for medievalists
* 120,000 index terms, classified into six types (subjects, persons, texts, places, manuscripts, etc.)
* worldwide network of fifty teams to ensure regular coverage of 4,500 periodicals and a total of over 5,000 miscellany volumes

Also known as: IMB Online

The International Pharmaceutical Abstracts Database provides worldwide coverage of pharmaceutical science and health related literature from 1970 to the present, and is updated monthly. Comprehensive information is included for drug therapy, toxicity, and pharmacy practice as well as legislation, regulation, technology, utilization, biopharmaceutics, information processing, education, economics, and ethics as related to pharmaceutical science and practice.

Provides investment, company and industry reports from hundreds of brokers in North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. All company and industry reports are provided in full page PDF image format. (Updated daily)

Concurrent user limit: 4

Also known as: Thomson Research

IOP journal content back to 1874.

Also known as: IOP Journals

iPOLL is the most comprehensive, up-to-date source for US nationwide public opinion available today. A full-text retrieval system, the iPOLL online database is organized at the question-level, providing the tools to sift through nearly a half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys since 1935 and updated daily. (Description taken from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research)

The Roper Center requires users to provide an email address as part of a free registration process in order to access the database.

Iter, meaning 'a journey' or 'a path' in Latin, is a non-profit research project with partners in Toronto, Canada (the headquarters), New York City, and Tempe, Arizona. The goal of Iter is to increase access to all published materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance(400-1700), through the creation of online bibliographic databases. The Journals component is a bibliographic database of interdisciplinary journal literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Types of works include articles; reviews; bibliographies; catalogues; editions; abstracts; discographies; and notes. To date, the full runs of more than 400 scholarly journal titles, published since 1859, have been indexed. A complete list of titles is available for review.

JAMAevidence is an evidence-based medicine clinical and educational resource produced by JAMA and McGraw-Hill. It includes full-text access to The User's Guide to the Medical Literature and The Rational Clinical Examination. Containing teaching tools, media, and interactive features, JAMAevidence provides tools for students and clinicians to evaluate and interpret the medical literature and make treatment decisions for their patients.

Also known as: JAMA Evidence

Thousands of tracks from well-known jazz music labels.

The John Hopkins Guide is a full-text searchable database of articles on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. It also treats related persons and fields that have been shaped by or have themselves shaped literary theory and criticism. Each entry includes a selective primary and secondary bibliography. Subjects covered include literature, humanities, literary criticism, and philosophy. Each entry includes an essay and a selective primary and secondary bibliography. There is extensive cross-referencing both within and at the conclusion of each entry. The indexes are designed to allow readers to locate substantive discussions of people and topics wherever they occur in the Guide.

Provides statistical data about the impact factor of science and social science journals in a given fields. The Science edition covers about 5,700 international science journals from the ISI database; the Social Sciences Edition covers about 1,700 leading international social sciences journals from the ISI database. Note: JCR data is updated annually in the summer following the year of coverage (e.g. 2006 data becomes available in the summer of 2007).

Also known as: ISI Journal Citation Reports, JCR Online

Online journal service offering of hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies. NOTE: Requires OVID registration. (Updated daily)

Also known as: OVID Full-Text Journals

JSTOR, originally funded by the Mellon Foundation, began as an effort to ease the increasing space problems faced by libraries by converting back issues of paper journals into electronic formats that would allow savings in space, improved access to journal content and offer a possible solution to preservation problems associated with storing paper volumes. Current content includes periodicals in the areas of Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Mathematics, Political Science and Population Studies.

Justis is the full-text, online library of UK, Irish and EU case law and legislation dating back to 1163. Documentation is available for both caselaw and legislation (pdf). Justis includes acts of Parliament (UK) from 1707 onward, acts of Parliament (Scotland) from 1999, acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly from 2000, and acts of Parliament (England) from 1235 to 1706. The latter are derived from Ruffhead's edition of the Statutes at Large up to 1866, thereafter from HMSO. The collection also includes Statutory Instruments from 1949 and Statutory Orders from 1671. Finally, Justis UK also includes Church Assembly and General Synod Measures from 1920.

'Authorized' Version via Chadwyk-Healey provides a single Bible for reference purposes.

Written by prominent scholars from industry, academia, and research institutions, the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology presents a wide scope of articles on chemical substances including their properties, manufacturing, and uses. It also focuses on industrial processes and unit operations in chemical engineering, as well as covering fundamentals and scientific subjects related to the field. Additionally, environmental and health issues concerning chemical technology are also addressed.

Key features of the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology Online include:

* Over 1,000 articles, with more than 600 new or updated -- over 10of the content is updated annually
* Monthly updates that keep the online version on the cutting edge of chemical technology
* Previous versions of revised articles archived for posterity
* An easy to use interface that allows one to Search or Browse through the articles for quick reference and convenience
(description provided by publisher)

Knovel Library provides Temple with online access to over 450 titles included in the following subject collections:

--Aerospace & Radar Technology
--Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
--Civil Engineering & Construction Materials
--Electrical & Power Engineering
--Environmental Engineering
--General Engineering
--Mechanics & Mechanical Engineering
--Metals & Metallurgy
--Oil & Gas
--Semiconductors & Electronics

Knovel expands the traditional ebook paradigm by adding the ability to interactively manipulate and search for content across this entire collection. Knovel's core technology is unique in that it aggregates text together with databases in an indexing structure that allows an unlimited number of products to work together. Users have the flexibility of navigating through e-References page-by-page or to search across the site and manipulate interactive tables, graphs, equations, spreadsheets, and other structured information.

L'Annee Philologique Online is an index of publications related to the history, language, literature and civilization of ancient Greece and Rome. The L'Annee 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.

Concurrent user limit: 10

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Upon completion, Latin American Newspapers will include approximately 35 fully searchable newspapers printed throughout Latin America in the 19th and 20th centuries. [Title List]

Provides access to the Table of Contents of 950 Latin American periodicals. A component of the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (ARL), University of Texas at Austin.

Also known as: LAPTOC

Including literature by Latin American women from the colonial period in the 17th century forward to the present, the database presents the works in their original languages and includes literary works, memoirs, letters, and essays. There is much previously unpublished content. The database will contain approximately 100,000 pages of prose, poetry and drama by women writers from Mexico, Central, and South America when complete.

Contains fiction, poetry, and plays representing the Chicano culture and all the different ethnicities of Latin American writers with a Hispanic background working in the United States. The database also includes ancillary materials such as playbills and performance material, poetry readings and book presentation flyers, book covers, pictures, etcIncludes some 19th century materials but the vast majority of the materials are from the Chicano Renaissance to current times. Texts are presented in their original language, English or Spanish. In cases where authors produced more different language versions of their work, both are included. About 30of the database is previously unpublished or rare materials from various sources including institutions such as the Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos at Hunter College, scholars� personal archives and the authors themselves. The three major groups are represented, Chicanos, Puerto Rican and Cubans, as well as Argentineans, Salvadorans, Dominicans, and other Central and South Americans.

LawInfoChina provides English versions of Chinese laws & regulations as well as representative court cases. ChinaLawInfo provides original Chinese language versions of the same resources.

Concurrent user limit: 1

A collection of scholarly peer-reviewed publications including law journals, documents, and case studies. Covers current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, and the environment. Offers full text for nearly 250 international law journals. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection. Updated regularly.

Full-text of over 250 legal periodicals from as far back as 1994 to the present. Access is via Wilson OmniFile. Select "Legal" as the Subject Area in OmniFile to limit your search to this subfile.

Concurrent user limit: 4

Also known as: Index to Legal Periodicals

Index to over 1,300 titles including domestic and international law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals, and law-related articles from general interest periodicals. Coverage extends back to 1980 and full-text is available for 100 titles. Access courtesy of the Temple Law Library.

In addition to offering keyword searching across thousands of collections freely available on the Web, the Letters and Diaries Online platform allows users to perform in-depth fielded searches across all of the letter, diary, and oral history collections published commercially by Alexander Street Press. Temple users will only have full-text access to those collections Temple has purchased (North American Women's Letters and Diaries / North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories / The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries / Black Thought and Culture)

Also known as: Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online

Lexi-Comp Online is a clinical, point-of-care information tool comprised of a series of drug information databases. The heart of Lexi-Comp Online is Lexi-Drugs, a comprehensive drug data resource of over 1600 drug monographs, covering over 8000 medications, each offering up to 55 fields of information. Other files in this package include a drug interaction tool; patient handouts; a comprehensive medical calculations application; a drug identification instrument and a natural products file.

Also known as: LexiComp

LexisNexis Academic is a very large database covering thousands of publications, most of which are available in full text. It is especially useful for legal research. Coverage of current news and business information is also extensive. LexisNexis Academic contains the following content segments, each of which must be searched separately:

News -- Full-text of more than 50 major English-language newspapers from the U.S. and around the world; hundreds of magazines, journals, and newsletters; broadcast transcripts from the major television and radio networks; Wire services; Non-English language news sources.

Business -- Includes business and financial news, U.S. and international company financial information, bankruptcy reports, corporate governance ratings from ISS, accounting and auditing guides, and actual SEC filings.

Legal -- Case law, statutes and regulations, legal news and law reviews, international legal materials, patents, and directories of lawyers and law schools.

Medical -- A small number of news sources, consumer health sources, and medical journals.

Reference -- Includes biographical sources, polls and surveys from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, country and state profiles, quotations, and the World Almanac and Book of Facts.
(Updated daily)

Also known as: Lexis Nexis Academic, Academic Universe

LexisNexis Academic is a very large database covering thousands of publications, most of which are available in full text. It is especially useful for legal research. Coverage of current news and business information is also extensive.

Use this link to limit your search to biographical information.

LexisNexis Academic is a very large database covering thousands of publications, most of which are available in full text. It is especially useful for legal research. Coverage of current news and business information is also extensive.

Use this link to limit your search to up-to-date company-based information. This research tool provides a complete picture of a company's structure, financial health, brands, and competitors.

LexisNexis Academic is a very large database covering thousands of publications, most of which are available in full text. It is especially useful for legal research. Coverage of current news and business information is also extensive.

Use this link to limit your legal research to information on federal and state cases.

LexisNexis Academic is a very large database covering thousands of publications, most of which are available in full text. It is especially useful for legal research. Coverage of current news and business information is also extensive.

Use this link to limit your legal research to information on federal and state codes.

LexisNexis Academic is a very large database covering thousands of publications, most of which are available in full text. It is especially useful for legal research. Coverage of current news and business information is also extensive.

Use this link to limit your legal research to law reviews.

Provides access to the full text of congressional working papers and legislation, a wide variety of information about Congress, including member biographical and committee assignment information, voting records, financial data, and the full text of the Congressional Record. The full text of key regulatory and statutory resources is also included. The U.S. Serial Set module includes the full text of over 325,000 U.S. Government publications compiled under the directive of Congress covering the period from 1789 to 1969. The Serial Set captures every aspect of American life from the early 19th century onward, from farming, to westward expansion, scientific exploration, politics, international relations, business, and manufacturing. It includes Congressional reports and documents as well as executive agency and departmental reports ordered to be printed by Congress.

Use Lexis Nexis Congressional with U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection to:

* Discover a law's intent by tracing its legislative history
* Gauge Congressional attitudes toward current topics
* Find out how members of Congress voted on legislation
* Investigate the finances of members of Congress
* Monitor legislation and public policy on almost any topic
* Review the federal regulations that implement legislation
* Learn the makeup and mission of Congressional committees
* Access "Hot Bills" and topics of Congress
* Research various aspects of United States history

Also known as: Congressional Universe, Serial Set Digital Collection, Lexis Nexis Congressional

LexisNexis Statistical puts millions of facts and figures at your fingertips. Well over 400,000 indexed tables of data from federal, state and private sources are available for search and retrieval, with tens of thousands more added yearly. In addition, LexisNexis Statistical provides online access to the following highly respected finding aids for statistical data:

Federal Sources: American Statistics Index (ASI) 1973-
The U.S. Government is the world�s most important and prolific publisher of statistics. ASI indexes and abstracts statistical data published by all branches and agencies of the Federal Government, including both depository and non-depository publications. ASI includes federal agency publications that contain social, economic, demographic, or natural resources data, and a selection of publications with scientific and technical data.

State and Private Sector Sources: Statistical Reference Index (SRI) 1980-
SRI identifies statistical data published by consumer and trade magazines, private organizations, state government agencies, business organizations, independent research organizations, and universities and affiliated research centers. Publications covered by SRI contain important statistics on business, industry and finance, general economic conditions, government programs and politics, and social trends. SRI offers access to national data, such as production, costs, and earnings in major industries; statewide data, such as statistics on crime, health, or employment; data on foreign countries, such as world economic and demographic trends; and local or narrowly focused data, such as detail by county and municipality.

Also known as: Statistical Universe, Lexis Nexis Statistical

LGBT Life contains indexing and abstracts for more than 130 LGBT-specific core periodicals and over 290 LGBT-specific core books and reference works. Full text for 50 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens of full text monographs is also included. LGBT Life provides comprehensive coverage of traditional academic, cultural, lifestyle, and regional publications, including The Advocate, Lesbian News, Washington Blade, Bay Area Reporter, etc. (adapted from Ebsco description)

Abstracts library & information science articles in over 440 periodicals from more than 68 countries and in more than 20 different languages. Coverage begins in 1969 and is updated every two weeks.

Also known as: LISA

Full-text of over 140 periodicals in library and information sciences from 1997 to the present. Access is via Wilson OmniFile. Select "Library & Information Science" as the Subject Area in OmniFile to limit your search to this subfile.

Concurrent user limit: 4

Library of Latin Texts is a full-text database of modern critical editions of Latin classical, patristic, and medieval Christian writers including the entire corpus of ancient Latin literature up to the second century A.D. The database also contains a significant amount of Neo-Latin Literature (after 1500) including decrees from modern ecumenical councils up to Vatican II and sixteenth century translations into Latin of important medieval works.

Library PressDisplay provides access to issues from the last 60 days of over 300 newspapers from around the world. The newspapers include the same content and are in the same format as the print edition of the newspaper, including full-color where applicable. Once inside a newspaper, click on a headline to read the article or zoom in to read the article as it appears in print. Alternatively, the archive is searchable by country, language, title, frontpage image, photograph, or headline. Some titles have "SmartNavigation" permitting individual articles to be printed out or heard in an audio version.

Concurrent user limit: 6

Also known as: NewspaperDirect PressDisplay

LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management. Coverage begins in the mid-1960s.

Also known as: LISTA

The LIFE photo archive is a joint venture between LIFE and Google. Search millions of photographs, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time.

The LLBA abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. Abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500 serials publications are included, as well as abstracts of books, book chapters, and dissertations. Coverage begins in 1973. (Updated monthly)

Also known as: LLBA

Most of these unique manuscripts are unavailable in any medium elsewhere. They are supplemented by some rare printed materials, including early editions annotated by the authors. Each author collection is included in its entirety, allowing users to browse and search the manuscripts as they would in the Berg Reading Room. Authors represented in this collection include:

* Matthew Arnold
* The Brontes
* Elizabeth Barrett Browning
* Robert Browning
* Wilkie Collins
* Joseph Conrad
* Charles Dickens
* George Eliot
* George Gissing
* Thomas Hardy
* Henry James
* Dante Gabriel Rossetti
* John Ruskin
* Alfred Tennyson
* William Makepeace Thackeray

A comprehensive collection of literary criticism from classical to modern times. Includes online editions of Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC).

Searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 200+ full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. (Updated monthly)

Also known as: LION

In addition to biographical, bibliographical and contextual information from the Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography databases, Literature Resource Center provides access to full-text criticism from the Contemporary Literary Criticism Select database and selected criticism from other titles in Thomson Gale's Literary Criticism Series. These resources are supplemented by full-text from over 200 literary journals. Over 127,000 authors are covered.

Also known as: LRC

Searchable, full-text and full-image archive of every page of the (London) Times from 1785 to 1985.

Also known as: Times Digital Archive,Times (London)

Also known as: Access World News,Times,Times of London

The Times Literary Supplement in full facsimile, 1902-1990. The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) is recognized as the most authoritative English-language journal covering the world of literary and cultural activity. Throughout its illustrious history the TLS has always attracted contributors of the stature of Henry James, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, and Seamus Heaney and for almost a century has been the dominant forum for scholarly and critical debate. The TLS Centenary Archive offers more than 250,000 reviews, letters, poems, and articles in over 5,000 issues of the TLS in the context in which they were originally published. All are fully indexed and searchable by author and/or contributor and the identities of the contributors to the TLS who were published anonymously until 1974 are disclosed for the first time and augmented by biographical sketches.

Also known as: TLS Archive

Provides the full-text of over 21,000 Anglo-American legal works including casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, and speeches from 1800 to 1926. This material has been separated into 99 different subject areas to aid in searching.

This digital collection contains books and pamphlets, official and unofficial trial documents and materials, legal transcripts, administrative proceedings, and arbitrations. The collection covers trials from all countries and languages, although the great majority are English-language and published in the U.S. or Great Britain. Documents are in PDF format and are fully searchable.

MarketResearch.com Academic provides over 1000 full-text market research reports, many with global coverage, from these industry-leading publishers:

* Packaged Facts: A trusted provider of authoritative consumer market research. For more than 30 years, their in-depth research, expert analysis and personalized client support have helped business professionals make the right strategic decisions. Reports cover consumer goods, food and beverage, and demographic topics.
* Kalorama Information: A leader in worldwide business intelligence and syndicated market research in the life sciences. For more than 30 years, Kalorama Information has been providing timely, high-quality research to decision makers in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and diagnostics sectors.
* MarketLooks: Concise, 15-30 page summaries of popular full-length market research reports published by Packaged Facts and Kalorama Information. Each MarketLooks report includes top-level findings from the respective parent report in a rich, easy to read format accompanied by select charts and graphs.
* Specialists in Business Information: Produces concise, comprehensive profiles on a wide range of industrial and consumer markets. The profiles are made up primarily of tabular data, making them useful for reference purposes. The profiles, summaries and analyses make them equally important as strategic assessments of the industries they cover.

Designed specifically for high school libraries, provides full text from more than 500 popular general interest and current events publications covering general reference, health, science, and other areas. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 600 titles. Every full text articles is assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Examples of titles offered in MAS Ultra - School Edition include: America's Civil War, American Heritage, American History, American Visions, Archaeology, Astronomy, Bioscience, Careers & Colleges, Civil War Times Illustrated, CQ Weekly, Discover, Economist, History Today, Nation, National Review, New Republic, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, Smithsonian, World War II, etc. This database also includes more than 3,000 charts, tables and graphs; 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews; nearly 550 health and science-related full text pamphlets; coverage of nearly 250 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book and World Almanac & Book of Facts) and an image collection of 91,000 photos, maps & flags. Full text backfiles date as far back as January of 1985, while indexing and abstract backfiles date as far back as January of 1984. (Ebsco description) (Updated daily)

Contains full text for nearly 1,950 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and more.

Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) Provides information about the occupational health and safety of commercially available materials and chemicals likely to be found in the workplace. The source of information: American Chemical Society, manufacturers, and suppliers.

Also known as: MSDS

The complete text of over 130 materials applications handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and treatises from CRC Press. Each chapter is a pdf file and is full-text searchable. Content ranges from ceramics and textiles to bioscience and pharmacology.

Concurrent user limit: 2

MathSciNet is composed of the data in Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications, leading publications that catalog and review research literature in mathematics. It contains information from 1940 to the present. (Updated daily)

The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law is a fully updated online edition of the Encyclopedia of Public International Law published in print between 1991 and 2001 under the general editorship of Rudolf Bernhardt. The online edition includes search functionality and click-through cross references to other Encyclopedia entries as well as related content in the online service Oxford Reports on International Law. New materials will be added periodically. The August 2008 addition of 450 items included articles on the fragmentation of international law, genocide, and the Taliban. The encyclopedia covers over 700 topics with increased coverage of international criminal law, international dispute settlement, trade law, and environmental law.

MD Consult is a full-text source for clinical medical information. It features 50+ medical texts and reference books; 70+ medical journals; 30+ titles in the Year Book series; clinical practice guidelines; drug information, including recent drug updates; patient education handouts; and medical news updates. Searching can be done across the entire database, or within a single publication type, e.g., reference books.

MD Consult also features the following special sections:

This Week in Medicine reviews new developments from all the major journals, government agencies, and medical conferences.
In This Week's Journals presents weekly concise article summaries of the big five journals in an easy-to-scan format.
What Patients Are Reading canvasses the popular press each week to glean what patients are hearing about medicine, then provides full-text, peer-reviewed material on each topic.
Clinical Insights features Clinical Cornerstone and Free CME, Images in Surgery, Patient Safety and Practice Management Articles, Systematic Reviews, and the Latest Postings from the Clinics of North America.
Case of the Week presents original medical cases written by physicians for MD Consult. Each case is presented as a series of questions and answers, with links to MD Consult's reference material.
CME Center allows for the study and receipt of Continuing Medical Education credits on-line. Choose from over 200 modules to earn category 1 credit, with instant feedback.
My PDA/POCKET Consult puts current medical news, drug updates, and journal abstracts on a handheld device via hot-sync. It grants access to Mosby Drug Consult and Interactions with over 900 drug monographs including brand name indexing. Also included is PDA-integrated access to any Elsevier e-dition electronic books, along with recorded searching, which automatically retrieves full search results the next time you're online.

MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database that contains approximately 13 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database that contains approximately 13 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database that contains approximately 13 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database that contains approximately 13 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database that contains approximately 13 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. All MMY entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts. To be included in the MMY, a test must be commercially available, be published in the English language, and be new or revised since it last appeared in the series. MMY Online covers Volume 9 to the present.

Concurrent user limit: 4

Also known as: MMY Online

The Merck Index Online is the internationally recognized encyclopedia of chemical substances, including human and veterinary drugs, biologicals and natural products. It contains more than 10,000 monographs. Compounds are selected from biomedicine, agriculture, and various disciplines of chemistry.

The information provided includes chemical, common and generic names, trademarks and their associated companies, CAS Registry Numbers, molecular formulas and weights, physical and toxicity data, therapeutic and commercial uses, chemical structures and selected literature references for each substance.

The Merck Index Online consists of several databases:

* The Compound Search database allows searching for compounds by physical properties, compound attributes, and structure.
* The Organic Name Reactions database contains a list of reactions which have come to be recognized and referred to by name within the chemistry community. The descriptions are composed of name(s) associated with the reaction, the original and/or primary contributor(s), a concise description of the transformation, a reaction scheme, key references, and cross references to other organic named reactions.
* The Additional Tables section lists multiple tables, including abbreviations, glossary, and a chemical terms translator in PDF format.

Mergent offers the following databases:

* Company Data Direct/U.S. -- In-depth reports on over 10,000 U.S. companies
* Company Data Direct/International -- In-depth reports on over 15,000 non-U.S. companies
* Equity Research Reports
* FIS Annuals/U.S. -- Over 35,000 U.S. annual report images
* FIS Annuals/International -- Over 50,000 non-U.S. annual report images
* EDGAR -- Real-time feeds of SEC documents with archives dating back to 1993
* FactSheets -- Presentation-quality summary reports
* Institutional Holdings -- Top holders, purchasers and sellers
* Insider Trading -- Investing activities of officers and directors
* Broker Research -- Over 1 million fully graphical research reports from over 700 brokerage firms
(Updated daily)

Concurrent user limit: 6

Also known as: FISonline, Moody's

Full-text of Moody/Mergent Corporate Manuals back to 1909.

Contains full text for more than 150 popular, middle school magazines. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 200 magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies, historical essays and student pamphlets. Additionally, Middle Search Plus contains Essential Documents in American History, and other important information resources such as an Image Collection of 107,000 photos, maps and flags, 88,000 biographies, and 83,500 primary source documents. Full text backfiles date as far back as 1989, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as January of 1984. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. (Ebsco description) (Updated daily)

Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 300 journals and periodicals. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles. Some publications covered in this database include are Air Force Controller, Army Reserve Magazine, Defence Studies, Global Security Review, Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, National Review, Defense, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Naval Forces, and many more. Many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. (Ebsco description)

MINABS Online replaces the print journal Mineralogical Abstracts, formerly published quarterly with a separate annual index issue. MINABS Online is a database containing continually updated abstracts covering mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, crystallography, gemmology, meteoritics and allied subjects.

Also known as: Mineralogical Abstracts

Mintel offers market research reports covering US and International marketplaces. Each report combines data & analysis of the competitive landscape, market-share analysis, and consumer profiles. Complex demographic issues are broken into easy-to-understand sections, explaining consumer behavior and demonstrating the structure of the market. Reports typically cover market drivers, market size and trends, market segmentation, supply structure, advertising and promotion, retail distribution, consumers, the future and forecasts, and new product trends. The average length of a report is 100 pages. Areas of research for U.S. markets are: Beauty and Personal Care Products, Clothing & Fashion, Drink, Electronics, Food and Foodservice, Health and Medical, Health and Wellness, Household Products, Lifestyles, Retailing, Travel.
Note: First-time users will need to create a personal profile using your Temple email address.

Includes the full text of MIT Press journals and books in the cognitive sciences along with job postings, graduate studies information, seminar announcements and calls for papers in cognitive and brain sciences.

Also known as: CogNet

Provides detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in MLA International Bibliography, including editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.

Also known as: Modern Language Association Directory of Periodicals

Produced by the Modern Language Association, MLA International Bibliography covers journal articles, books and dissertations back to 1926 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.

Also known as: Modern Language Association International Bibliography

Presents current monthly economic statistics for most of the countries and areas of the world. In addition, each month a different selection of special tables is presented showing annual and/or quarterly data on a variety of subjects illustrating important economic long-term trends and developments. Many of these special tables are also reproduced in the United Nations Statistical Yearbook. It is, however, considered useful to publish these data in the Bulletin as soon as they become available so that readers may have immediate access to the most current international statistical information.

Also known as: United Nations Monthly Bulletin of Statistics

Searchable database of links to movie reviews.

MRI consolidates many of the databases used to evaluate magazines in seeking directory and editorial information. It has a powerful search and access capability, plus a cost-planning module. Much of the data generated by MRI can be exported to spreadsheets or printed in the form of flowcharts and reports. MRI includes:

* Syndicated audience research
* General industry research about magazines and magazine advertising effectiveness
* Special research from publishers
* Subscriber studies
* Competitive analyses
* Publisher presentations
* Mediamark audience data
* Syndicated research summaries such as Mendelsohn Media Research
* A cost planner and flowcharting package
* Basic rate, contact, editorial, circulation (ABC/BPA) and mechanical data on more than 6,000 consumer and business magazines

Also known as: Mediamark Reporter

Portal that allows simultaneous searching of International Index to Music Periodicals Full-Text (IIMPFT) and International Index to the Perfroming Arts Full-Text (IIPAFT).

Produced by Harmonie Park Press, Music Index is the single most comprehensive subject-author guide to music periodical literature. Online coverage spans from 1976 to the present and contains surveyed data from 775 international music periodicals from over 40 countries, with English translations from 22 languages. Some backfile data from the period 1962-1975 is also included. Topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music are thoroughly categorized and organized according to the framework of an internal Subject List, which includes both Subject and Geographic headings. Covering all styles and genres of music, The Music Index duly cites book reviews, obituaries, news periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.

Music Online brings together on a single cross-searchable platform the entire suite of Alexander Street Press streaming audio, video, scores, and reference material that Temple subscribes to. This includes the following resources:

* African American Music [as of summer 2009]
* African American Music Reference
* American Song
* Classical Music Library
* Classical Scores Library
* Contemporary World Music
* Dance in Video
* The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
* Jazz Music Library
* Opera in Video
* Smithsonian Global Sound [as of summer 2009]

A NASA-funded project which contains millions of records in four bibliographic databases: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics, and Geophysics. Preprints are available in many of these areas, as well as links to full-text journal articles.

Access to NASA's current and historical technical literature since it was first released in 1994. NTRS provides access to approximately 500K aerospace related citations, 90K full-text online documents, and 111K images and videos. NTRS includes: conference papers, images, journal articles, photos, meeting papers, movies, patents, research reports, and technical videos.

The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Document Data Base contains summaries of more than 140,000 publications on criminal justice, including Federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Subject areas include corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, and victims of crime. The time period covered is from the early 1970's to the present. The Document Data Base is produced by NCJRS, a service of the National Institute of Justice, with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office for Victims of Crime, Bureau of Justice Statistics, and Bureau of Justice Assistance, all part of the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, and the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

Also known as: NCJRS Database

The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Document Data Base contains summaries of more than 140,000 publications on criminal justice, including Federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Subject areas include corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, and victims of crime. The time period covered is from the early 1970's to the present. The Document Data Base is produced by NCJRS, a service of the National Institute of Justice, with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office for Victims of Crime, Bureau of Justice Statistics, and Bureau of Justice Assistance, all part of the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, and the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

Also known as: NCJRS Database

Includes the following resources from the National Journal Group:

--National Journal - Read the leading nonpartisan weekly on politics, policy and government.

--The Hotline - Track American politics and campaigns with coverage of each day

--CongressDaily - Follow the key players and legislative process on Capitol Hill.

--TechnologyDaily - Monitor important news and trends in information technology politics and policy.

--Almanac of American Politics - Get analysis and data on every member of Congress and their states and districts.

--Markup Reports & Bill Status - Get complete coverage of every congressional markup session, as well as constantly updated reports on key legislation.

--Ad Spotlight - Explore political and issue television ads with streaming audio or video.

--Poll Track - Start your research with a database of public opinion surveys from across the country.

Also known as: Policy Central

Funded by the National Science Foundation, the NSDL is a digital library of exemplary educational resources for social science, science, technology, engineering and mathematics. For all education levels, elementary through higher education.

Natural Standard provides high quality, evidence-based information on dietary supplements (including herbs, vitamins, and minerals), functional foods, diets, complementary practices (modalities), exercises, and medical conditions.

This is the platform of the Nature Publishing Group (NPG), providing access to Nature journals in a variety of fields including biotechnology, cancer, medicine, genetics, immunology, materials science, microbiology, molecular cell biology, neuroscience, and pharmacology; also provided are publications from leading international organizations such as the Genetics Society and Cancer Research UK. From this site you can search all the Nature journals we subscribe to, or you can search within subjects or individual journal titles

Naxos Music Library is a growing library of over 165,000 tracks from the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues. The music tracks can be streamed at either 20kbps (FM quality) or 64kbps (near-CD quality) depending on the speed of your internet connection. Genres include Classical, Jazz, World, Folk, and Chinese. Biographical information on composers and artists, and album liner notes are also included.

Minimum Technical Requirements

PC user:

* MS Windows 98SE, 2000, XP with MS IE 6.0 / Mozilla 1.7.1 / FireFox 1 / Netscape 7.1 / Opera 7.53 and Media Player 9 / 10
* Browser Settings: Privacy = Medium, ActiveX controls = Enable, Cookies = Accept, Pop-up Blocker = Off, Sound Scheme = No Sound.

Apple user:

* Mac OS X 10.2.8 / OS X 10.3.5 with MS IE 5.2 / Mozilla 1.7 / Netscape 7.1 / Opera 7.53 / Safari 1.0 and Media Player 9.0 ; or OS 8.6 / 9.0 with MS IE 5.1 and Media Player 7.1
* Browser Settings: Privacy = Medium, Cookies = Accept, Sound Effect = No

Concurrent user limit: 10

Naxos Music Library Jazz provides approximately 20,000 tracks of jazz from over 1,900 albums. Labels include Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz.

Minimum Technical Requirements

PC user:

* MS Windows 98SE, 2000, XP with MS IE 6.0 / Mozilla 1.7.1 / FireFox 1 / Netscape 7.1 / Opera 7.53 and Media Player 9 / 10
* Browser Settings: Privacy = Medium, ActiveX controls = Enable, Cookies = Accept, Pop-up Blocker = Off, Sound Scheme = No Sound.

Apple user:

* Mac OS X 10.2.8 / OS X 10.3.5 with MS IE 5.2 / Mozilla 1.7 / Netscape 7.1 / Opera 7.53 / Safari 1.0 and Media Player 9.0 ; or OS 8.6 / 9.0 with MS IE 5.1 and Media Player 7.1
* Browser Settings: Privacy = Medium, Cookies = Accept, Sound Effect = No

Concurrent user limit: 10

Also known as: National Dance Education Organization Research in Dance Education Database

Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage is a comprehensive source of business and investment information, offering on-line access to popular Standard & Poor's research products including:

--Bond Reports
--Company Profiles
--Compustat Excel Analytics and Compustat International Fundamental Reports with five (5) years of extensive data and charts that can be downloaded directly into Excel
--Corporation Records
--Fund Reports (more than 14,000 mutual funds are included)
--Industry Surveys (back to 1998) with Trends and Projections (back to April 1999)
--Global Industry Surveys (back to 2004)
--The Outlook (back to 1996)
--Register - Executives and Directors
--Register - Private Companies
--Register - Public Companies
--Security Dealers of North America
--Stock Reports

Also known as: Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage

netLibrary provides online access to electronic versions of books from across all disciplines. The collection is comprised of a public collection of about 3400 titles, which are available to anyone and mainly consists of public-domain materials, as well as licensed titles, mainly from academic publishers. In the latter category, Temple University has licensed approximately 4500 ebooks in our netLibrary collection, including the netLibrary Reference Collection. NetLibrary's publishing partners include many prestigious university presses, and some commercial publishers. NOTE: netLibrary requires Internet Explorer 5.5+ or Netscape Navigator 6.2+.

Concurrent user limit: varies

The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, contains over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 of the world's leading economists. Labor economics, human capital, industrial relations, and industrial organization are some of the broader topics of relevance with hundreds of related and narrower topics.

English edition of the premier reference work for scholars of the ancient world. The online version includes the full-text of the published print version and is automatically updated when a new volume is published. The complete original German edition is also available online.

Also known as: Brill's New Pauly

Also known as: New York Times

Also known as: New York Times

Also known as: New York Times, Historical New York Times

Also known as: New York Times,Historical Index to the New York Times

250 novels from the period 1782 to 1903, including works by all the major Victorian novelists such as Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes, Eliot and Hardy, as well as the landmarks of Gothic and other fiction from the Romantic period.

Also known as: 19th Century Fiction

19th Century British Library Newspapers contains full runs of 48 influential national and regional British newspapers from 1800-1900. This new collection includes newspapers from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection.

Also known as: 19th Century British Library Newspapers

When finished will include more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories. Much of the material is previously unpublished. Several thousand pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews, indexed and searchable for the first time, are included. The materials begin around 1840 and extend to the present, focusing heavily on the period from 1920 to 1980. People from many countries are represented, including more recent waves of immigrants from Latin America and Asia. In selected cases, users can to hear the actual audio voices of the immigrants or view images of their scrapbooks.

When complete, North American Women's Letters and Diaries will be the largest collection of women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, it will bring the personal experiences of 1,500 women to researchers, students, and general readers. When complete the collection will include approximately 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries from individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950, plus 4,000 pages of previously unpublished materials. Drawn from more than 1,000 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, much of the material is in copyright. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous. More than 1,500 biographies will enhance the use of the database. The collection includes one of the most comprehensive bibliographies of women's diaries and letters yet published. It lists over 2,000 published and unpublished items from a variety of sources, including online resources and microform. (Updated yearly)

A readers' advisory service which offers a wide range of resources serving fiction readers. With over 100,000 titles in the database, 90,000 full text reviews, over 36,000 subject headings and a complete spectrum of searching options, and over 1,200 pre-constructed booklists on a wide range of topics and genres.

A database of 450,000 titles from the National Technical Information Service of the US Dept of Commerce. This database can be used to locate and order government publications and other products issued by NTIS since 1990. Searching capability is limited to titles and topics. Most records do NOT include product summaries (Abstracts).

OAIster is a union catalog of digital records that began at the University of Michigan, built by harvesting records using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Today, OAIster is one of the world's largest aggregators of records, boasting more than 19 million items from more than 1,000 contributors. Records contain a digital object link allowing users access to the object in a single click.

Digital resources in OAister include:

--Digitized (scanned) books and articles
--Digital text
--Audio fles (WAV, MP3)
--Video fles (MP4, Quicktime)
--Photographic images (JPEG, TIFF, GIF)
--Data sets (downloadable statistical information

A compendium of genetic disorders that provides the latest knowledge on the molecular and metabolic underpinnings of a growing list of inherited diseases, as well as updates on pathophysiology and treatment.

Also known as: Scriver's OMMBID

The Opera in Video collection contains an overview of commonly studied operas in music history, opera literature, and performance classes. Included are videos of staged productions of important opera performances, interviews, and documentaries. Multiple performances and stagings worldwide of the major operas allow for analysis of stage design, vocal techniques, roles, and musical interpretation across time periods, opera houses, and conductors. Performances cover the full range of operatic composition, from the Baroque to the 20th century. Users can browse by composer, genre, performer, ensemble, time period, and role.

Simultaneously search the archives of the following journals of opinion:

American Spectator
Commentary
Commonweal
Dissent
Harpers
NACLA
The Nation
National Review
New Republic
New York Review of Books
New Yorker

Oral History Online, published by Alexander Street, is the most comprehensive online index of oral history collections in English, with access to full text, audio, video, or bibliographic citations for more than 2,000 English oral history collections from all over the world. The narratives cover thousands of subjects from the late 19th Century to present, including civil rights and race relations, labor history, African American history, women's history, immigration studies, political history, American Indian history, regional history, and more. Oral History Online provides keyword searching of more than 129,000 pages of full-text by some 4,300 individuals, as well as pointers to some 1,400 audio and video files and over 10,000 bibliographic records. Additional indexing also permits searching by narrators' age, race, occupation, birth and death dates; by interview subject and place; by repository information; and many other search criteria.

Over 7,500 articles, images, and maps dealing with African American history and culture drawn from Oxford University Press reference sources. Further details are available here.

Oxford Art Online covers all aspects of visual art and contains articles, images, artist biographies and reference resource entries. It includes Grove Art Online, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

Concurrent user limit: 8

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is an illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2001 (as of January 2005). Published on 23 September 2004, the Dictionary took 10,000 people twelve years' to compile and resulted in a 60 volume book which has been translated to a website with over 100,000 pages and more than 10,000 images. The dictionary covers remarkable people in any walk of life who were connected with the British Isles-excluding living people. It includes not just the great and good, but people who have left a mark for any reason, good, bad, or bizarre. The online version includes a wide range of searching options from specialized biographical search terms to powerful full text searches. Extensive internal cross-referencing makes it possible to move easily to related articles, while ever growing lists of external links to carefully selected web sites (including the British National Archives) open up exciting new research possibilities.

Concurrent user limit: 6

Also known as: Dictionary of National Biography,DNB,ODNB

The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (volumes 1 and 2) and 1997 (volume 3). Many of the entries in the Additions volumes consist of sections which are additions to an entry previously published in the Second Edition; such sections are appended to the end of the appropriate Second Edition entry. Complete entries published for the first time in the Additions volumes are presented as free-standing entries, along with entries from the Second Edition.

Also known as: OED

Online access to Business, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion titles in the Oxford Handbooks Series.

Major international publisher of over 180 academic and research journals, many in partnership with the world's leading prestigious learned societies. The collections cover Life Sciences, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law.

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online (OLDO) features fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages. Offering over 4 million words, phrases and translations in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Chinese, OLDO also features native speaker audio pronunciation - allowing you to hear how words actually sound. More than just a dictionary, OLDO offers a complete suite of language learning support materials for users of all levels: click-through verb tables and pronunciation charts, explanations of grammatical terms, hundreds sample letters, CVs and resumes, notes on life and culture, guidance on grammar and idiomatic usage, extensive links to other sites for further research, and more.

Oxford Music Online is a gateway that offers users the ability to access and cross-search several works, including: Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Oxford Companion to Music, and Oxford Dictionary of Music (Second Edition Revised). Sources can be searched independently or together.

Concurrent user limit: 11

Oxford Reference Online includes well over 100 subject and language reference sources from Oxford University Press, including many titles from the Oxford Companions Series. Browse or search single titles, specific subject areas, or the entire collection.

Also known as: ORO

This database is a case reporting service that presents issues in public international law being decided in the domestic courts of more than 65 jurisdictions around the world. Legal experts provide detailed analysis of the core legal issues, highlight the most salient points of the case, and provide historical and legal context to analyze the significance of the decision.

Also known as: Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts, Oxford Reports on International Criminal Law, Oxford Reports on International Human Rights Law, Oxford Reports on International Courts of General Jurisdiction

Oxford Scholarship Online is a cross-searchable library containing the full text of important scholarly books from Oxford University Press. Oxford Scholarship Online includes both classic and newly-published works in the humanities and social sciences. Temple subscribes to the Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, and Political Science subject-area collections.

PAIS indexes national and international public policy information from journal articles, books, conference research reports, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. PAIS contains some foreign language material but all index entries and abstracts are in English. Since PAIS tends to cover topics that are, have been or may become the focus of legislation it is particularly germane for students in the departments or schools of business administration, history, economics, law, political science, social administration, criminal justice, sociology and geography and urban studies, American studies and, African American studies. PAIS is a good choice if peer reviewed journals and or primary sources are needed to fulfill research requirements. (Updated monthly)

Also known as: PAIS

The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower is the online version of the 21 volume print collection of the same name, which includes the most significant letters, memoranda, cables, and directives written or dictated by Eisenhower from the years prior to World War II through the full term of his presidency. This collection includes documents?many of them previously classified?from private collections and public archives in the U.S. and U.K., as well as papers from the Eisenhower Presidential Library.

Contains citations of papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses, and symposia. The Proceedings database contains records for the meetings that relate to the papers described in PapersFirst. Covers October 1993 to the present. Adds new records monthly.

Past Masters is a collection of hundreds of electronic texts in philosophy. Contents include texts by philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Machiavelli, Rousseau, Bentham, Mill, Sidgwick, Dewey, Peirce, Santayana, Wittgenstein, and more. A search engine provides the ability to search hundreds of thousands of pages of text for any word or combination. The software provides an index of each word in the text, with each word linked directly to the relevant passages.

Concurrent user limit: 5

Full-text of European (EP), World (WO) and other patents back to the 1970's. Also links to individual European country patent databases.

Also known as: European Patent Office, esp@cenet, espacenet

All US patents from 1790 - present. Download or view images of the actual patents (requires TIFF image plug-in). Patents from 1976 to the present are available full text in an HTML text format.

A collection of full-text histories of Pennsylvania's counties written between 1870 and 1900.

Also known as: American County Histories to 1900

Published in Philadelphia from 1728 through 1800, The Pennsylvania Gazette is considered The New York Times of the 18th century. It provides the reader with a first hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of each of the periods. Thousands of articles, editorials, letters, news items and advertisements cover the Western Hemisphere, from the Canadian Maritime Provinces, through the West Indies and North and South America, giving a detailed glimpse of issues and lifestyles of the times. Also included is the full-text of such important writings such as: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Letters from a Farmer, Thomas Payne`s Common Sense, The Federalist Papers, etc.

This database is primarily a listing of marriages, deaths and obituaries from the Village Record, published in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Included, however is information about emigration patterns, customs and traditions, important events, medical history, biographical data, etc.

This database documents the industrialization of predominantly agrarian culture established by Quaker farmers in the 18th century. This collection contains full-text transcriptions of articles, advertisements, and vital statistics, providing insight into technology, business activity and material culture in a down-river milling and manufacturing community at the height of the Industrial Revolution. It includes material from the following newspapers:

Delaware County American, Media, Pennsylvania
Delaware County Republican, Darby & Chester, Pennsylvania
The Upland Union, Chester, Pennsylvania
Delaware County Democrat, Chester, Pennsylvania
The Post Boy, Chester, Pennsylvania

More than 800,000 records describing significant articles from more than 1,500 top general and academic journals. Contains records for transcripts of significant segments of more than 80 news and lifestyle oriented television and radio programs. Covers January 1987 to the present. Adds new records weekly.

Periodicals Archive Online is a major online periodical archive that makes the backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the full text of a growing number of digitized periodicals that have been indexed in its sister database, Periodicals Index Online. As of early 2009, Periodicals Archive Online contains over 550 journals, providing access to over 13.2 million article pages - representing over 2 million articles.

Also known as: PAO

Periodicals Index Online is an electronic index to millions of articles published in over 5,000 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. It is unique in combining a broad subject base with deep chronological coverage going back over 300 years. As of early 2007, over 16 million articles going as far back as 1665 are currently indexed. Every article in each journal covered is indexed, from volume 1 issue 1 to recent times.

Also known as: PIO

The PGM Database is a collection of published data and internal Johnson Matthey data defining the physical properties and characteristics of the six platinum group metals and their alloys. The database can display a datasheet of material properties, giving a comprehensive picture of a material and its capabilities. Also available at this site is the quarterly Platinum Metals Review E-journal, supporting the science and technology of the platinum group metals (see "PMR Home").

Also known as: Platinum Metals Group Database

Full-text of the Philadelphia Daily News via Access World News from 1978 to present.

Full-text of the Philadelphia Inquirer via Readex from 1834 to 1922.

Full-text of the Philadelphia Inquirer via Access World News from 1981 to present.

Full-text and full-image of the Philadelphia Tribune via Proquest Historical Newspapers

Philosopher's Index contains 213,000 bibliographic citations with author abstracts covering scholarly research in the fifteen fields of philosophy. It offers complete coverage of all major articles from anthologies and books written in English, Spanish, German, Italian, and French -- over 480 journals from 38 countries published since 1940. Topics include all major fields of philosophy, including Aesthetics, Epistemology, Ethics, Logic (including mathematics), Metaphysics (including philosophy of mind, existentialism, and phenomenology), Political philosophy (including philosophy of law), Social philosophy, and the Philosophy of Education, History, Language, Science and Religion. Does not include book reviews. (Updated quarterly)

Electronic archive for preprints in the philosophy of science. (Updated daily)

Since 1970 Physical Education Index has been covering peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications relevant to the field of physical education. Physical Education Index provides citation information and abstracts to journal articles about physical education and related disciplines (sports, sports medicine, dance, coaching, fitness, motor learning, etc.) from 303 core scholarly journals and numerous other publications. (Updated monthly)

Interdisciplinary bibliographical database produced by the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder that covers the Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress (PILOTS). Although sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the PILOTS database is not limited to literature on PTSD among veterans. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on PTSD and other mental-health after-effects of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations. The database includes citations and abstracts to journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and government documents.

Also known as: Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress

POIESIS is a searchable and browseable database of over 40 important scholarly philosophy journals. Full text access is available for most of the journals.

Also known as: POEISIS

Compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries from 1986 to the present. Each of the nearly 350,000 records reports a question asked and the responses given. Also included in each record is the polling organization responsible for the work, the date the information was released, the sample size, and universe. All the surveys reported here were conducted using scientifically selected random samples.

This database provides fast access to the environmental information necessary to resolve day-to-day problems, ensure ongoing compliance, and handle emergency situations more effectively. Pollution Abstracts combines information on scientific research and government policies in a single resource. Topics of growing concern are extensively covered from the standpoints of atmosphere, emissions, mathematical models, effects on people and animals, and environmental action in response to global pollution issues. To ensure comprehensive coverage, material from conference proceedings and hard-to-find documents has been summarized along with information from primary journals in the field. (Updated monthly)

Also known as: C19

Provides more than 300,000 citations covering reproductive health with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues. Includes links to free, fulltext documents, the ability to limit your search to peer-reviewed journal articles, and many abstracts in French and Spanish. It is updated twice each month, and has content from 1827 to the present. POPLINE is maintained by the INFO Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs and is funded primarily by the United States Agency for International Development.

Population Index, published since 1935, is the primary reference tool to the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other material on population topics.The entire published database for 1986-1998 (Volumes 52-64) is available on-line and can be searched by author, subject matter, geographical region, and year of publication. We are happy to announce that we have added a free-text search capacity to our Web pages. Free-text search is now available for all issues from 1986 to 1998. It enables you to search for text anywhere in a citation, including the title, series, and abstract. (Updated monthly)

Primal Pictures provides a dynamic interactive multimedia overview of human anatomy. It features three-dimensional animations that illustrate function, biomechanics, and surgical procedures. Clinical videos and textual descriptions by leading specialists supplement the animations and models. Interactive learning modules covering basic human anatomy focus on one or more areas of the body, from a generalist's or specialist's perspective, so that students, physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals can uncover the information they want quickly and easily. Primal Pictures has created the world's first complete 3D model of human anatomy.

Designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children's rooms, contains full text for more than 60 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines. Full text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets. Examples of publications covered in Primary Search include: Appleseeds, Boys' Life, Cobblestone, Cricket, Highlights for Children, Hopscotch, Jack & Jill, Ladybug, Ranger Rick, Science World, Spider, SuperScience, Time for Kids, Turtle, and many more. This database also provides the American Heritage Children's Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image Collection of 107,000 photos, maps and flags. Many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text backfiles go as far back as 1989, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as 1984. (Ebsco description)

The PrimateLit database provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. It covers a wide range of publication types (articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc.) and subject categories (behavior, ecology, physiology, pharmacology, evolution, developmental and molecular biology, genetics, etc.).

Over 19,000 citations of publications from worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses, and symposia. Covers 1993 to the present. (Updated twice weekly)

Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 600 full text journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles.

Project MUSE is a joint venture of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library. This initiative makes possible worldwide networked access to the full text of the Press's scholarly journals. (Updated monthly)

Previously known as Digital Dissertations, this is the definitive guide to more than 2 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Proquest Disseretations & Theses helps you identify more than 90 percent of the doctoral dissertations accepted each year in North America. The database also covers thousands of dissertations and theses from around the globe.

Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861, and more than 55,000 new citations are added to the database every year. Full-text Temple University dissertations from as far back as the 1950's are included along with 24-page previews of thousands of other dissertations.

Proquest Dissertations & Theses @ Temple University is a subset of the larger database, including only dissertations and theses from Temple University.

Also known as: Digital Dissertations

Previously known as Digital Dissertations, this is the definitive guide to more than 2 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Proquest Disseretations & Theses helps you identify more than 90 percent of the doctoral dissertations accepted each year in North America. The database also covers thousands of dissertations and theses from around the globe.

Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861, and more than 55,000 new citations are added to the database every year. Full-text Temple University dissertations from as far back as the 1950's are included along with 24-page previews of thousands of other dissertations.

Proquest Dissertations & Theses @ Temple University is a subset of the larger database, including only dissertations and theses from Temple University.

Incldues the American Periodicals Series, and the following historical newspaper runs:

Atlanta Daily World
Baltimore Afro-American
Chicago Defender
New York Amsterdam News
New York Times
Philadelphia Tribune
Pittsburgh Courier
Wall Street Journal

PsycARTICLES is a full-text ejournal collection from the American Psychological Association, Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber Publishers.

Online access to the full-text of the DSM-IV TR as well as five journals from American Psychiatric Publishing, including the American Journal of Psychiatry.

The Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, one of the separately searchable database sub-sets of EBSCOhost, is a database with more than 500 peer-reviewed full-text journals. It covers topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

PsycINFO(1887-present) PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law. Journal coverage, spanning 1887-present, includes international material selected from more than 1300 periodicals written in over 25 languages. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987-present. Over 55,000 references are added annually through monthly updates. --American Psychological Association

PsycINFO(1887-present) PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law. Journal coverage, spanning 1887-present, includes international material selected from more than 1300 periodicals written in over 25 languages. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987-present. Over 55,000 references are added annually through monthly updates. --American Psychological Association

PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. It provides coverage of biomedical journals from the United States and 80 other countries, dating back to the mid-1950's.

Also known as: Medline

Over 100 texts in medicine, nursing, and allied health.

Concurrent user limit: 1 per book

Also known as: Rittenhouse Digital Library

Race Relations Abstracts assesses more than 300 publications providing the latest information and research findings in race relations. Issues covered include discrimination, education, employment, health, politics, law, and legislation.

Also known as: Sage Race Relations Abstracts

Selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Covers thousands of periodicals and collections of articles--in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages--mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library.

Comprised of Business & Industry, Business & Management Practices, and TableBase

Provides bibliographic information for articles from over 400 periodicals in the popular press with full text available from over 200. Indexing goes back to 1890.

Concurrent user limit: 4

Also known as: Readers' Guide Full Text

Web-based access to CrossFire Beilstein, Gmelin and Patent Chemistry databases.

Offers the complete text of over 20,000 articles from 200 journals. Title coverage includes Revista Brasileira de Historia, Revista Mexicana del Caribe, and Signo Historicos, among others. Made available for free from the Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico. Note: Limit your search in WorldCat to the library code RALYC to search RedALyC content in that catalog.

Also known as: RedALyC

Covers back-of-the-book indexes and article titles to subject encyclopedias and reference works. As of March 4, 2004 there are more than 2,900 titles online. Additional titles are added weekly.

Fulltext newswires that incorporates news information from all over the world including A&G Information, Africa News Service, Inter Press Service, Resource News International, South American Business, M2 Communications, PR Newswire, Business Newswire, Canadian Corporate News, News Bytes News Network and Phillips Business Information Highlights. Information provided by these sources covers business, political, economic and other diverse, international news events. In order to maintain the most current collection of news, this database contains the most recent 30 days of information from each of these wire sources. Several hundred articles are added to Regional Business News database each day.

The Religion & Philosophy Collection provides access to over 300 full text journals. Coverage includes world religions, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy, and the history of philosophy.

Religious and Theological Abstracts provides summaries of articles appearing in scholarly religion and theology journals.

The RIBA British Architectural Library Catalogue includes an index to over 300 architectural periodicals held in the RIBA Library, a catalogue of the books and audio visual materials, photographs, drawings and manuscripts acquired by the RIBA Library, and a biographical database of architects.

Contains over 200,000 citations on international music corresponding to the printed RILM Abstracts of Musical Literature. The file is produced by the Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale. Covers the period 1969 to the present. (Updated quarterly)

Also known as: Musical Literature Abstracts

RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals is an international annotated bibliography of writings on musical history and culture, found in music periodicals published in seventeen countries between approximately 1800 and 1950. Treating primary source material, RIPM indexes the content of complete runs of journals, including articles, reviews, news columns, miscellaneous items, surveys of the press, bibliographies, iconography and advertising. In addition, this database offers access to an immense bibliography of music and to thousands of English-language translations of foreign documents. Approximately 20,000 records are added annually. RIPM is produced under the auspices of the International Musicological Society (IMS) and the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML).

Concurrent user limit: 5

Published in association with the Institute for Risk Research at the University of Waterloo, Risk Abstracts encompasses risk arising from industrial, technological, environmental, and other sources, with an emphasis on assessment and management of risk. (Updated quarterly)

RISM: Music Manuscripts after 1600 is an international, annotated bibliography, which aims to document the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory, and libretti. RISM is the most comprehensive annotated index and guide to music manuscripts produced after 1600 containing 585,559 records by over 20,500 composers from manuscripts found in over 750 libraries and archives in 31 countries. (Description via EbscoHost)

Concurrent user limit: 5

RISM: Music Manuscripts after 1600 is an international, annotated bibliography, which aims to document the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory, and libretti. RISM is the most comprehensive annotated index and guide to music manuscripts produced after 1600 containing 585,559 records by over 20,500 composers from manuscripts found in over 750 libraries and archives in 31 countries. (Description via EbscoHost)

Concurrent user limit: 5

One of the leading publications for Congressional news and information, Roll Call provides up-to-the-minute news of the legislative and political maneuvers that happen every day on Capitol Hill. Coverage extends back to 2003.

iPOLL is the most comprehensive, up-to-date source for US nationwide public opinion available today. A full-text retrieval system, the iPOLL online database is organized at the question-level, providing the tools to sift through nearly a half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys since 1935 and updated daily. (Description taken from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research)

The Roper Center requires users to provide an email address as part of a free registration process in order to access the database.

Also known as: iPoll from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

Built upon the foundation of the highly regarded 1998 print version, the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online includes over 2000 entries from over 1,300 scholars, with new and updated entries continually added. Coverage includes Anglo-American, ethical and political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental and contemporary philosophy.

Concurrent user limit: 4

Contains all articles published by the RSC (and its forerunner societies) from 1841 to 2004. The backfile contains approximately 238,000 articles in 1,400,000 pages.

Also known as: RSC Journal Archive

Full-text library of over 4,000 information technology books from publishers including O'Reilly, Que, New Riders, Addison-Wesley, and Sams.

Concurrent user limit: 4

Full-text of major reference works published by Sage Publications.

Online access to over 400 journals in the social sciences, humanities, medicine, engineering, and physical and life sciences from Sage Publications.

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.

Also known as: Digital Sanborn Maps

SBRnet is focused on the sporting goods and sports marketing industry. It provides a continuously updated resource featuring market research and industry news covering all facets of the industry -- sports equipment sales, sports participation, sports broadcasting, sports sponsorship and sports marketing. Some full-text articles are included. (Updated daily)

Also known as: Sports Business Research Network

The Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, covering approximately 2,100 more journals than its SCI print and CD-ROM counterparts, with all cited references captured. SCI Expanded: Provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1900 forward. Averages 17,750 new articles per week. Includes approximately 362,000 new cited references per week. Includes approximately 775 new cited references to patents per week. Contains a current total of over 17 million articles. Contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 70 of the articles in the database. (Updated daily)

Also known as: Web of Science

Provides online access to one of the most in-depth authoritative information sources available on synthetic methodology. Information is available on 18,000 generally applicable experimental procedures, including 180,000 reactions and 800,000 structures. Also included is the searchable full-text of the various editions of the higley esteemed, almost 200 year-old Houben-Weyl.

Online access to the prestigious journal Science from the American Association for the Advancement of Science from 1996 to the present. Also includes Science Express - electronic publication of selected Science papers in advance of print and ScienceNOW - daily science news from Science journalists.

A gateway to science information resources of the U.S. government. Users can search both government web sites and government databases. Full-text available.

Hundreds of scientific, technical, social science, and medical journals published by Elsevier. (Updated daily)

SciFinder Scholar is an interface to the Chemical Abstracts (CA) database which includes early 16 million abstracts of journal articles, patents and other documents. Sources for Chemical Abstracts include more than 8,000 journals, patents, technical reports, books, conference proceedings, and dissertations from around the world. About 14,000 records are added every week, with much of the information added to the database on a daily basis. CA also covers 29 national patent offices and two international bodies. About 16of the CA database, approximately 2.5 million records, are from the patent literature. (Updated weekly)

SciFinder Scholar enables you to:

* do substructure searching of the literature. By using your mouse to draw a structure, you can easily define rings, chains, substituents, and R-Groups of interest
* get reactions, starting with structures of interest
* and also search by topic, author name, chemical name, formulas, and CAS registry numbers.

Concurrent user limit: 4

Also known as: Chemical Abstracts

Indexing hundreds of millions of scientific items, Scirus allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.

Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period includes 60 volumes of poetry by 47 authors. Accompanying the texts are extensive bio-critical essays, specially written for the database by leading scholars in the field, as well as selected criticism from the critical bibliography compiled by the editors.

The digital Senate Executive Journals feature the deliberations of American Senators on a wide variety of events, organizations and people, with a strong focus on nominations across military, judicial and executive branches and on international treaties.

Part of the British Library Newspapers collection, 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers is a full-text, fully searchable digital archive of nearly 1,270 newspapers and news pamphlets from the United Kingdom. Collected by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817), a notable scholar, this unique collection represents the largest single archive of 17th and 18th century news media available from the British Library.

Also known as: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers

SimplyMap is a web-based mapping application with a user-friendly interface that permits users to quickly and easily create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing variables. Maps can be exported as high-resolution images to word processing or presentation software; data can be selected, sorted, and compared across multiple locations to build custom reports that can be exported to a spreadsheet. Available data include:

Demographic Variables: population, age, race, income, ancestry, marital status, housing, employment, transportation, families, and more

Business Variables: detailed consumer expenditure, business & employee counts by industry (by NAICS Code), Consumer Price Index, quality of life & consumer profiles, and market segments. Simplymap also utilizes current Mediamark Research (MRI) estimates of usage and consumption (propensity) for thousands of specific consumer products, including brand data, details of frequency of usage, and more.

Census data back to the year 1980 is available along with current year estimates and 5 year projections. Data is available by census block-groups, census tracts, ZIP codes, cities, counties, states, and the entire United States.

Note: SimplyMap requires users to create a personal workspace using an email address

Concurrent user limit: 10

The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960?1974 brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary.

The Sixties is centered on key themes that provide insight into the issues that shaped America and that still resonate in today?s debates: Arts, Music, and Leisure; Civil Rights; Counter-Culture; Environmental Movement; Gay and Lesbian Rights; Law and Government; Mass Media; New Left and Emerging Neo-Conservative Movement; Science and Technology; Student Activism; Vietnam War; and Women?s Movement.

When complete, the collection will contain over 150,000 pages of fully searchable text and associated audio and video material. These materials are frequently rare and hard to find; they include diaries, letters, and oral and written histories from both newsmakers and ordinary citizens caught up in the times; government documents, hearings, and other official papers; and papers and histories from radical and other organizations and groups; plus songs, photographs, ephemera, and more. To supplement the primary material and to facilitate the teaching of research using primary sources at the university level, The Sixties at completion also includes a collection of critical documentary essays. Compiled by leading scholars in the field and assembled around a major theme or research question, each critical documentary essay consists of annotated primary-source documents, linked by an original interpretive essay that provides historical context and insight into the sources.

This resource is designed as an important portal for slavery and abolition studies, bringing together documents and collections covering an extensive time period 1490-2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Close attention is being given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today. (Description via Publisher)

Includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. It also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies.

Recordings can be streamed (requires Macromedia Flash Player and Windows Media Player [PC] or Macromedia Flash Player [Mac]) at either 22kbps (default) or 64kbps. Users can create their own playlists after free registration.

Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a world wide collaborative of leading scholars that is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research. It is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. Each of SSRN's networks encourages the early distribution of research results by reviewing and publishing submitted abstracts and by soliciting abstracts of top quality research papers around the world. The Networks encourage readers to communicate directly with other subscribers concerning their own and other's research. Through our email abstracting journals we currently reach over 35,000 people in approximately 70 different countries.

SSRN's email abstracting journals cover 100 different subject areas. The Abstract Database contains information on over 76,100 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers. The Electronic Paper collection currently contains over 52,000 downloadable electronic documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format.

Also known as: SSRN

The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. SSCI: Provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1956 forward. Averages 2,700 new articles per week. Includes approximately 50,500 new cited references per week. Includes approximately 138 new cited references to patents each year. Contains a current total of over 3.15 million articles. Contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 60of the articles in the database. (Updated daily)

Also known as: Web of Science

Indexing for more than 600 publications, with full text for over 200, covering a wide range of interdisciplinary fields such as addiction studies, anthropology, corrections, economics, gender studies, gerontology, minority studies, political sciences, psychology, sociology, etc. Indexing goes back to 1907 and abstracts start in 1994. (Updated monthly)

Concurrent user limit: 4

Also known as: Social Sciences Full Text

Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,406 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews. (Updated monthly)

Social Work Abstracts offers extensive coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1977. Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the database provides citations and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems.

Concurrent user limit: 8

Provides comprehensive coverage of the world's literature on sociology and applied aspects of sociology. Over 1,800 journals are indexed along with relevant dissertations. Citation andabstract included for each record. (Updated quarterly)

The Sourcebook of Criminal J