Brief Descriptions of Electronic Resources

**Note** Those titles not “linked” are available on a per search
basis or are CD’s, please ask at Reference Desk.

ABI Inform Global - A comprehensive business research database that searches over 1,800 worldwide business publications. Many full-text articles are provided for economics, finance, advertising, management, and other business subjects. Non-periodical items, newspaper articles, wire feeds, and dissertations are also included.

ABI/INFORM Dateline - Searches local and regional business publications for information on local and private companies, industry news, and other business topics. Most articles are available in full text and have been written from a local and regional point of view.

ABI/INFORM - Trade and industry news from over 1,250 business publications. Many full text articles are available on companies, executives, products, marketing trends, and other industrial topics.

ACLS History E-Book Project - A searchable collection of over 1500 full-text, scholarly, electronic books on History, Art History, Literature, Political Science, Anthropology, and Religion. Produced by the American Council of Learned Societies.

Academic OneFile - Over 8,000 academic journals, majority in full-text, available in HTML and PDF formats. Hundreds of pod casts and transcripts from NPR, CNN and the CBC, as well as full-text New York Times content to 1995.

Agricola - Describes materials acquired by the national Agricultural Library and Cooperating Institution.

Alternative Press Index – Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals,
newspapers and magazines.

Alternative Press Index Archive - Index of journals (1969-1990) covering cultural, econcomic, political and social change.

American Chemical Society (ACS) - Provides over 30 journals published by the American Chemical Socety.. Contains journal titles published by the American Chemical Society from 1879 to present. Full-text access.

America: History and Life - Citations, abstracts, and some full text articles on the history of the United States and Canada. It includes journal articles published in over forty languages as well as abstracts and/or citations to books, book and media reviews, collections, and dissertations or theses. Prehistory to present.

Applied Science Full Text - Provides information on management, careers and employment, and financial trends in the scientific and technical fields. Complete indexing, abstracting, and full text to which Wilson has full text rights. Indexing and abstracting is present for all articles from those journals without regard to whether or not we have the full text for that particular article. (Available through Wilson Omni Mega)

Art Full Text - Complete indexing, abstracting, and full text to which Wilson has full text rights. Indexing and abstracting is present for all articles from those journals without regard to whether or not we have the full text for that particular article. (Available through Wilson Omni Mega)
ArticleFirst- Articles found in the table of contents of journals covering science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.  Tutorial

Bartleby.com - Publishes the classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference free of charge for the home, classroom, and desktop

Biological and Agricultural Index Plus - Provides information from a wide range of popular and professional journals from biological and agricultural disciplines. Complete indexing, abstracting, and full text to which Wilson has full text rights. Indexing and abstracting is present for all articles from those journals without regard to whether or not we have the full text for that particular article. (Available through Wilson Omni Mega)

Biology Digest – Solid, factual information useful to life scientists exploring areas outside
their specialties.

BioMed Central - BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. All original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication. BioMed Central views open access to research as essential in order to ensure the rapid and efficient communication of research findings. (description from web site)

BioOne - Bioscience research journals that are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers. Full text access.

Books In Print – BooksInPrint.com™ Professional is the largest, unbiased, web-based bibliographic resource in the U.S. Find what you’re looking for quickly and easily, using our comprehensive database of 5 million book, audio book, and video titles.

Britannica Online - a search and directory site featuring Encyclopædia Britannica, the Web's best sites, news, magazines and more. Additionally, Britannica premium service provides exclusive member access to 3 encyclopedias: the 32-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, and Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. Membership also includes access to research tools, Merriam-Webster’s dictionary and thesaurus, and rich multimedia—all in an advertising-free environment.

Buckmasters Annual Stockholders Reports – Current stockholder and 10K reports of the
“Fortune 500”.

Business and Company ASAP - Covers business and management topics. Includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies as well as information on finance, trade, new technologies, trends, etc.

Business and Company Resource Center - A comprehensive research tool providing information on domestic and international business. Access business and trade journals, newspapers and company profiles with full text and images . 1980 to present.

Business and Industry – Contains important facts, figures and key events for international
public and private companies, industries, products, and markets for manufacturing
and service industries.

Business and Management Practices – Articles about the practical aspects of business
management.

Business Dateline – Library resources that describe regional business activities and
trends.

Business Organizations, Agencies & Publications Directory – Describes organization’s
products and services and gives other information about the organization, such as
founding date, membership size, and publications.

Checkpoint RIA Tax Site - Students using this database for the first time must register to receive password access.

CINAHL - Citations and abstracts for articles in nursing and allied health journals.

Cochrane Library - “Cochrane brings you the combined results of the world’s best medical research studies, and is recognized as the gold standard in evidence-based health care”. Full-Text.

CollegeSource Online – College catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format.

ClasePeriodica - Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities.

Communication Studes: Sage Full-Text Journals -  Covers a wide spectrum of subjects relating to communication, including journalism, television/film studies and public opinion. Full text access.

Company Data Direct/U.S. – Information on over 15,000 U.S. public companies, 20,000+
non-U.S. companies, and around 18,000 municipal entities.

Computer Database - Computer related product introductions, news, and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.

Congressional Universe - Database of information on the U.S. Congress, publications, bills, etc.

CQ Researcher -1991 –
In depth, non-biased, coverage of today’s most important controversial subjects

CQ Weekly - The preeminent resource for Congress-Watchers who need nonpartisan information on Capitol Hill

CREDO Reference (Formerly Xreferplus) - A searchable collection of approximately 300 electronic reference books from over 50 of the world’s leading publishers. It includes encyclopedias, dictionaries and thesauri, as well as specific titles for all major subjects.

Criminal Justice Abstracts - Abstracts of topics involving the Criminal Justice System.

Criminology: Sage Full-Text Journals - 1976 -
Discipline-specific research database which includes full text, of 23 of the most popular peer-reviewed journals, encompassing over 15,500 articles and up to 86 years of back files.

Custom Newspapers - Full text newspaper articles from more than 150 newspapers around the world. This database is updated on a daily basis and has articles on all areas of interest.

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ECO - Abstracts and holdings information for 1300+ journals in a variety of subject areas.

Education Full Text – Covers core international periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks in the
fields of education.

Education: Sage Full-Text Journals - 1965 -
Education journals published by Sage. Includes full-text of 33 journals, over 24,000 articles and 90 years of back files as well as international titles

Emerald Fulltext - 1994 - and Abstracts 1989 –
Full text of over 100 peer reviewed journals. Widest range of business and management, library & information titles also, engineering, applied science and technology journals.

ERIC - Some full text journal articles, documents, theses, dissertations, and other educational publications are available in this scholarly database for education. It is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. 1966 to present.

Ethnic NewsWatch - An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses. This current database begins its coverage in 1990.

Expanded Academic ASAP - Full text and images of scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers.

FactSearch – Provides critical statistical evidence and date-linked data that can be used to
emphasize a point or reinforce an argument. Includes links to full text.

Faulkner’s IT Studies – Comprehensive online technology reports created for use by the academic community within the information technology sector.

Fiction Connection - A reader's advisory database. Search for fiction and biography published from 1997 onward.

GPO Monthly Catalog – Index for U. S. Government publications, most of which can be accessed online.

General Science Full Text - English language science periodicals ranging from very general to highly specialized.

GeoRefS – Provides citations and abstracts for geology and the earth sciences. It has references to journal articles, theses, conference papers, reports, books, and maps. Coverage is from 1785 to the present for North America and 1933 to present for international.

GPO Monthly Catalog - Records on all material published by the U.S. Government Printing
Office.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) - Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.

General Business File ASAP - 1980 - Aug 2006
Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.

General Reference Center Gold - 1980 - AUG, 2006
A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.

Health and Wellness Resource Center - 1980 - Aug 2006
Provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, numerous reference volumes, over 700 health videos from partner Healthology, Inc., hundreds of pamphlets and health-related articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Thomson Gale reference titles. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.

Health Reference Center (Academic) - Includes journals and magazines, newsletters, pamphlets, newspaper articles, and reference books relating to the health field. Full text access.

Health Sciences: Sage Full-Text Journals -1982 -
Includes full text of 26 journals, encompassing over 25,000 articles and up to 128 years of backfiles back to volume 1, issue 1

Historical Abstracts - Citations, abstracts, and some full text articles on world history. Searches can include or exclude the United States. It has journal articles published in over forty languages as well as abstracts and/or citations to books, reviews, collections, and dissertations or theses. 1450 to present.

Info trac Databases - A variety of databases containing abstracts or full text articles on general and specific areas.

InfoTrac OneFile 1980 –
Comprehensive periodical resource and news content with more than 60 million articles. More than 11,000 titles from mainstream to specialized sources from New York Times to refereed academic journals

Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text – Complete indexing, abstracting, and full text to which Wilson has full text rights. Indexing and abstracting is present for all articles from those journals without regard to whether or not we have the full text for that particular article. (Available through Wilson Omni Mega)

Informé! (Revistas En Español) - Investiga las noticas y eventos mas corrientes, la informacion de negocios del momento, los articulos de salud mas importantes, temas de cultura popular y muchas otras materias incluidas en las revistas hispanicas mas populares.

InfoTrac OneFile - 1980 - AUG, 2006
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Updated daily.

Institute of Physics (IOP) and IOP Archives Online access to IOP journals that Forsyth Library currently subscribes to. Includes the current volume, plus a ten year back file where available.  Contains all journal titles published by the Institute of Physics starting in 1876 up to eleven years before the current year. Full text access.

ISI Basic Science Index – Citation database covering the disciplines within the sciences.

Issues and Controversies - “Up-to-date, in-depth, objective information on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day. Authoritative factual analysis and clear explanations of opposing points of view”. Full-text.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences 1 1838 – within last five years
Archival database which provides access to back issues of journals

JSTOR Biological Collection 1838 – within last seven – five years
Archival database which provides access to back issues of journals. Includes at least 100 journals.

Junior Edition - 2003 - Aug 2006
This periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

Kids InfoBits - Aug 2006
Kids InfoBits is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. Featuring a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, the most popular search method is moving from a broad subject to a narrower topic using the subject-based topic tree. The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines. This database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Kinesiology Publications — Access to some masters theses and dissertations in PDF format

LegalTrac - 1980 - Aug 2006
Students, law school faculty and legal researchers will all find the legal publications they need in LegalTrac^®. Drawing on a wide variety of the most highly regarded legal publications, LegalTrac^® provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Each title included in LegalTrac^® is selected on the basis of criteria provided by a special advisory committee of the American Association of Law Libraries. LegalTrac^® also contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe – Full text database covering the subjects of business,
current events, legal and medical research. Full-text of thousands of legal publications, including news, law reviews, state, federal and Supreme Court case law, tax law, codes, patents, and legal career information. Full-text of hundreds of national and international newspapers, magazines, journals and broadcast transcripts.

Library Information & Information Science Full Text - Complete indexing, abstracting, and full text to which Wilson has full text rights. Indexing and abstracting is present for all articles from those journals without regard to whether or not we have the full text for that particular article. (Available through Wilson Omni Mega)

Literature Resource Center - Contains full-text literary criticism, reviews, work overviews, and current biographical information on nearly 130,000 writers from around the world, from all time periods and genres.

MDX Health Digest – Consumer health database with authoritative answers to medical
questions.

MLA International Bibliography - Provides some full text articles, books, and websites for literature, folklore, linguistics, and modern languages. It is international in scope, and coverage is from 1926 to the present. Produced by the Modern Language Association.

Management & Organization Studies: Sage Full-Text Journals - Contains full text journal articles published by SAGE and participating societies. Although most of the subjects pertain to business and management, other subjects such as sociology and public administration are also included. 1947 to present.

Materials Sciences: Sage Full-Text Journals - Materials sciences journals published by Sage.

Media Review Digest - Reviews of educational media and entertainment resources.

Medline (via FirstSearch) – Citations and abstracts for articles in medical journals form all
fields and disciplines.

MedlinePlus – Health information from the National Library of Medicine.

Mental Measurements Yearbook– Fulltext information and reviews about standardized tests.
Military & Intelligence - Over 500 titles and more than 7 million articles with links to related sources outside of the current article: reference books, magazine and newswire articles. An excellent resource for aviation topics.

MinAbs Online- MinAbs Online is the new version of Mineralolgical Abstracts, which is no longer available in print.

Medline (Online) - Citations and abstracts for articles in medical journals from all fields and disciplines.

Music Index – Access to historiographic, ethnographic, and musicological data in all fields
of music.

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NASW Clinical Register – Listing of clinical social workers who are quialified providers of
mental health services.

National Newspaper Index - Citations to general information from a number of national newspapers.

Net Library - A searchable collection of electronic books and electronic Reference books. Journals and audio books are not available in this collection.

Newspaper Abstracts – Includes news articles, reviews, editorials, commentaries, editorial
cartoons, and other items.

Online Catalog  Electronic Card Catalog for all library holdings
Search by keywood title, title, author, call #, subject, journal titles etc..
Simple Search – title, author etc.
Builder Search – using truncation (and – or – not)
Course Reserve – materials instructors have placed on reserve for limit checkout period (usually “for use in library only”)
Patron Information – Patron may access his/her file – see what they have checked out, renew material, place holds

PapersFirst - Abstracts and citations of papers included in every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium and meeting received at The British Library.  Tutorial

Philosopher's Index - Contains citations, abstracts, and some full text journal articles, books, and book chapters for all areas of philosophy. The database is international in scope, and coverage is from 1940 to the present.

Physical Education Index – Abstracts from scholarly and trade literature in the physical education field. Goes back to 1970.

Political Sceience: Sage Full-Text Journals - Covers a wide spectrum of subjects relating to political science, including American government, policy studies, and international relations. Full text access.

ProceedingsFirst - Citations and table of contents or every congress, symposium,
conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library.  Tutorial

Project Muse (Undergraduate Collection) - The Basic Undergraduate Collection is a subset of MUSE's Premium Collection. Titles are chosen based on a number of criteria, including the journal's presence in appropriate high quality indexes, inclusion in archival collections, and current usage in MUSE.

PROLA – Covers journal access to the American Physical Society's Physical Review Online Archive. Full text access.

Proquest Nursing - Citations, abstracts and/or the full text of articles on nursing and 70 other health fields, from over 600 scholarly journals and trade publications, as well as the complete text of over 10,000 dissertations. 1986 to the present.

Proquest Research Library - Extensive full-text coverage of a wide range of topics from nearly 4,000 national and international journals, magazines and newspapers.1971 to the present.

Psychinfo - Citations of articles in psychology and many related disciplines such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work . 1806 to present.

Psychology: Sage Full-Text Journals - Full-text articles from over 35 scholarly journals. Coverage includes applied psychology, assessment, child development, clinical psychology, cognitive psychology, counseling psychology, social psychology, neuropsychology, language acquisition and more. 1969 to present.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature – Articles and other entries dealing with music and
various other fields as they relate to music.

Reader’s Guide Full-Text – A general index containing bibliographic citations for journal
articles.

Religion and Philosophy - Magazines and academic journals covering religion, philosophy, archaeology and anthropology.

Research Library - From business and political science to literature and psychology, ProQuest Research Library™ provides one-stop access to a wide range of popular academic subjects. The database includes more than 3,820 titles—over 2,550 in full text—from 1971 forward.

Science Citation Index Expanded Available through the Web of Science, this database provides access to abstracts found in over 5800 science journals. 

Serfile – Bibliographic information in the fields of biomedical and health sciences.

SIRS Discoverer - Designed for the young researcher in mind. Articles and graphics from more than 1200 magazines, newspapers, and U.S. Government Documents.

Social Sciences Index – A multidisciplinary index to over 1,725 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines, including Psychology, Sociology, Political Science, History and many more..” Article citations and abstracts only; no full-text.

Social Work Abstracts - Abstracts of journal articles concerning social work and related topics.

Sociological Abstracts - 1963 –
Provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews from over 1,8000+ serials publications and abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers

Sociology: Sage Full-Text Journals 1967
Includes full text of 36 journals, encompassing over 41,000 articles and up to 55 years of backfiles back to volume 1, issue 1.

Statistical Universe – Comprehensive access to statistical information from Congressional
Information Service, Inc.

STAT-USA - A compilation of statistics compiled concerning the United States.

Student Edition - This periodical database is designed for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

Terrorism Knowledge Base - "The MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base (TKB) is the one-stop resource for comprehensive research and analysis on global terrorist incidents, terrorism-related court cases, and terrorist groups and leaders. TKB covers the history, affiliations, locations, and tactics of terrorist groups operating across the world, with over 35 years of terrorism incident data and hundreds of group and leader profiles and trials. TKB also features interactive maps, statistical summaries, and analytical tools that can create custom graphs and tables". (description from the web site)

Union Lists - Holdings for journals and other covered items among OCLC member libraries.  Tutorial

Urbans Studies & Planning: Sage Full-Text Journals - A collection of journals Sage Publishing.

Women & Social Movements in the U.S. - Full-text collection of thousands of primary source materials and scholarly articles on the women’s movement in the United States. 1769 to 2000.

Women Writers Online - Early modern, with emphasis on pre-Victorian, women’s writings.

World Almanac - Contents of the most current editions of The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the USA, The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and The World Almanac for Kids.

Worldcat - Database of the holdings of all material cataloged by OCLC member libraries.

Xreferplus (Now called CREDO Reference)

A searchable collection of approximately 300 electronic reference books from over 50 of the world’s leading publishers. It includes encyclopedias, dictionaries and thesauri, as well as specific titles for all major subjects.

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