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ABI/INFORM Complete Contains market trends, business conditions, management techniques, corporate strategies, and industry-specific topics from more than 1500 journals worldwide.  Full-Text
Academic Search Premier
        1985 - present;
        Full-text, 1990 - present
The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 8,200 journals in the collection.  Full-Text 
African American Poetry
Collection of African American poems Full-Text
AgEcon Search AgEcon Search is a free open access repository of full-text scholarly literature in agricultural and applied economics, including working papers, conference papers, and journal articles.  Full-Text
AGRICOLA 
1979 - present
All aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines.  
America: History and Life
1964 - present
US and Canadian history.  
American Chemical Society Journals Peer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences from the ACS. Full-Text 
Annual Reports -- Historical Historical annual Reports for American companies. Full-Text
Anthropological Index Anthropology and allied disciplines.  
Applied Science and Technology at OmniFile Indexes and abstracts articles in the areas of applied science and technology.
Note: Use OmniFile Advanced Seach and choose Subject Area "Applied Science & Technology."
Some Full-Text

Aquatic, Wetland and Invasive Plants Database (APIRS Online)
(©2001 University of Florida)
18th century - present

Devoted to freshwater aquatic and wetland plants as well as terrestrial and aquatic invasive plants. The database includes citations for more than 55,000 research articles, books, etc.  
Art Index
1984 - present
Indexes articles from art journals published throughout the world. Note: Use OmniFile Advanced Search and select Subject Area "Art."  
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
(go to ISI Web of Science)
      1977 - present
Bibliographic information and cited references from arts and humanities journals.  
Biological Abstracts/BIOSIS
1985 - present 
Over 2 million records, provides the most comprehensive coverage of world-wide meetings, literature, reviews and books in the life sciences.  
Biological & Agricultural Index
1983-present
Popular to professional journals on biology and agriculture. About 45 percent of the focus is on agriculture. Partial full-text in OmniFile Full-text Mega Full-Text
Biography Resource Center Search for famous people, both living and dead, based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender.  Full-Text 
Biomedical Reference Collection
1985 - present
Designed for doctors, research scientist, students, clinical specialists and managers, this database provides full text for over 100 journals in a variety of areas pertaining to medical study. All titles included in the Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic Edition are indexed in MEDLINE. Full-Text
The Birds of North America Online Includes the complete encyclopedia.  You can also use EB Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 130,000 links to Web sites. More than 72,000 articles. Full-Text 
Britannica Online Includes the complete encyclopedia.  You can also use EB Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 130,000 links to Web sites. More than 72,000 articles. Full-Text 
Business and Company Resource Center Resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Full-Text 
Business Full Text (Wilson)
1999 - present
Indexing, abstracts, and full text from business periodicals. Full-Text 
Business Source Premier
Varies (1965 or more - present)
More than 3,000 scholarly business journals, including full- text for 1000 peer-reviewed business publications.  Full-Text 
CINAHL Plus with Full Text: (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature=CINAHL)
1982 - present

Provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health. Consumer health coverage.

Some Full-Text

ComAbstracts
Varies in start date
This database contains over 11,000 abstracts of articles published in the primary professional literature of the communications field  
Compendex
1982 - present
Ei Engineering Villiageprovides abstracts and full bibliographic citations for worldwide engineering and technical literature and encompasses all engineering disciplines, as well as related fields in science and management.  
Contemporary Authors Provides complete biographical and information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. Full-Text 
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select An extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study. Full-Text 
Corporate ResourceNet
1985 - present
Designed to meet the diverse information needs of today's companies. Full text articles from more than 1,300 quality magazines and journals.   Full-Text 
Dictionary of Literary Biography Provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. Full-Text 
Dissertation and Theses (ProQuest) The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database includes over 2 million master's theses and dissertations, with over 60,000 titles added every year .

Some
Full-Text

Dissertation Abstracts (2004-2005) ProQuest Digital Dissertations searches all dissertations in the Dissertation Abstracts database with a degree date of 2004 or 2005. Dissertations can be ordered from Dissertation Express.  
Encyclopedia Britannica Online EB Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year.   Full-Text 
Education Full Text (Wilson)
1984 - present;
Contemporary education issues. Full-Text 
Early English Books Online (EEBO) Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700. Full-Text
Ei Engineering Village Ei Engineering Villiageprovides abstracts and full bibliographic citations for worldwide engineering and technical literature and encompasses all engineering disciplines, as well as related fields in science and management. Full-Text
ERIC (from EBSCOHOST)
1966 - present
Largest education database in the world.  
ERIC Education Resource Inf. Cntr.
1993 - present
ERIC Digital Library: ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. More than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2005) Some Full-Text 
Funk & Wagnall's Encyclopedia Indexes over 25,000 records. Full-Text 
Gale Databases Menu Associations Unlimited, Biography Resource Center, Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select,  Dictionary of Literary Biography, Literature Resource Center, Business and Company Resource Center, Biography and Genealogy Master Index. Somel Full-Text 
Gale Virtual Reference Library Collection of reference e-books, various topics. Full-Text
GPO Access (Government Printing Office) Access the laws, regulations, reports, data and other information provided through the GPO Access system. Among the growing list of titles available are the Federal Register, the Congressional Record, Congressional Bills, United States Code, Economic Indicators and GAO Reports.  
GreenFILE
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. Full-Text 
Health Source: Consumer Edition
1975 - present
General health topics including childcare, exercise, and nutrition.   Full-Text 
Health Source: Nursing/ Academic Edition
1975 - present
More than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on medical disciplines. Also has abstracts and indexing for more than 800 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong        Some Full-Text 
HighWire Press
(from Stanford University Libraries.)
Articles and abstracts for biological sciences, physical sciences, medical sciences, and social sciences. Option to pay for immediate online access to the article.   
Historical Abstracts
1954 - present
Reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).  
Humanities Full Text (Wilson)
1984 - present;
full-text 1994 - present
Arts, Communications, History, Linguistics, Literature, Religion.  Full-text
IEEE Xplore
  1988 - present
Provides full-text access to Electrical Engineering IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings and all current IEEE Standards.  Full-text 
Informe
1996 - present  
Popular Spanish-language magazines (Articles in Spanish or English) (Scroll down screen) Full-text
Ingenta (use to be Carl UnCover)
1990 - present
Search 14,676,874 articles from 27,852 publications
Access to article summaries. (Document Delivery at Cost to User)
Full-text 
Inspec at Ei Engineering Villiage
Physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology..  Some Full-text 
INSPIRE databases
(Link for all Indiana computers)
Varies
INdiana SPectrum of Information REsources (INSPIRE) is Indiana's Virtual Library on the Internet. INSPIRE is a collection of commercial databases and other information resources that can be accessed by Indiana residents using any PC equipped with an Indiana Internet connection. Full-text
International Financial Statistics Data gathered by the IMF on exchange rates, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government finance, and national accounts for most countries. Full-text
JSTOR 
Journal Storage - The Scholarly Journal Archive
mid-1800s (varies) - 1990s/2004 (varies) 
no current issues included
Access to older scholarly journals.
African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics.
Full-text
Lexis-Nexis Academic
      Varies
General news, business, medical, and legal news and information; reference information and law cases. Full-text
Library Literature and Information Science
1984 - present;
Articles and book reviews of key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. (Use OmniFile Full-Text and choose Advanced Search and select Subject Area "Library and Information Science." Full-text
Linguistics Abstracts Online   1985 - present Provides immediate access via the World Wide Web to more than 30,000 abstracts from nearly 400 linguistics journals published since 1985.   
Lit Finder LitFinder is international in scope, covers all time periods, and contains a wealth of primary literature content, including more than 126,500 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, 5,000 full-text short stories, 2,800 full-text essays, 1,800 full-text speeches, and 1,000 full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary. Full-text
Masterfile FullText Premier Wide range of subject areas from general-interest periodical and some full text reference books. Full-text
MathSciNet
1940 - present
Searchable databases providing access to 60 years of Mathematical Reviews and current mathematical publications  
McClatchy-Tribune Collection The McClatchy-Tribune Collection includes a 90-day archive of approximately 290 newspapers from the McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. This database is updated daily. Full-text
MEDLINE (at EbscoHost) Premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature, medicine, dentistry, and nursing.  
MEDLINE (at Ovid) Premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature, medicine, dentistry, and nursing.  
MEDLINE (PubMed)
mid 1960s - present
Premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature, medicine, dentistry, and nursing.  
Military and Government Collection
1975 - present
Current news pertaining to all branches of the military.  Full-text
Million Dollar Database: Total US
This Dun & Bradstreet database spans all industries, providing vital information on over 14 million companies. It provides the comprehensive marketing information you need on both public and private companies and executives in the U.S. Full-text
MLA International Bibliography  
1963 - present
Indexes critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics and folklore.  

Newspaper Source
Updated daily
Lexis-Nexis
-- also for newspapers, including New York Times articles

Provides full text for 159 regional U.S. newspapers, eighteen international newspapers, six newswires, and nine newspaper columns, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Los Angeles Times (for a total of 194 full text newspapers and other sources). Full-text
NewsLibrary.com "The world's largest news archive." Charge service for articles  
Nursing See CINAHL and/or 
Health Source/Nursing Academic
(partial full-text)
 
OmniFile Full Text Mega
1984 - present;
full-text 1994 - present
Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, Wilson Business Full Text Full-text
Patent search   Patent searching from Community of Science  
Professional Development Collection
1965 - present
For professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of over 500 full text journals. This is the most comprehensive and most valuable collection of full-text education journals in the world. Full-Text
ProQuest Databases Research Library, Business (ABI/INFORM), Dissertations, Wall Street Jornal, and New York Times (including historical) Full-Text
PsycINFO 
1872 - present
      
Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas.   
PubMed Central The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Full-Text
Reader's Guide Full Text 
1984 - present;
Wide range of subject areas in popular, general-interest magazines and periodicals. Full-text
Regional Business News
1993 - present
Incorporates business journals, newspapers, and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the U.S.  Full-text
Science Citation Index Expanded   Bibliographic information and cited references from science and technology journals.  
Science Direct  Full-text of more than 1,000 Elsevier Science journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. ScienceDirect also contains abstracts from some of the core journals in the major scientific disciplines.  Full-text
(General) Science Full Text
1984 - present;
General science in various disciplines. Full-text
Social Sciences Citation Index
1977 - present
It indexes more than 1,725 journals, spanning 50 disciplines, in the social sciences. (go to ISI Web of Science)  
Social Sciences Full Text
1984 - present;
full-text 1994 - present
Anthropology, area studies, family studies, law and criminology, political science, psychology, sociology, women's studies, and related disciplines. Full-text
SPIE Digital Library Extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to more than 230,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. More than 17,000 new research papers are added annually. Full-text
Stat-USA  An online service providing the most recent economic, business, and international trade information produced by the U.S. Government.  Full-text
Sweets Network
       current
Allows user to find information on a specific construction product or manufacturer.   Partial Full-text
TOPICsearch
1992 - present
Current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms.  
Web of Knowledge
1977 - present
Bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references covering the sciences, social sciences, and arts & humanities.  Abstracts are available for many articles.  
Web of Knowledge Proceedings  
1990 - present 
Reference proceedings papers presented at prestigious international science and technology conferences and arts and humanities conferences.  

Women and Social Movements in the United States 1620-2000

This database brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies that document the multiplicity of women's activism in American public life. Thousands of pages of materials provide scholars and students with in-depth access to the published histories and records of women's organizations throughout the United States. It also has documented projects on a broad range of topics of interest to today's students, each including footnotes to introductory material, annotations of primary documents, a bibliography, and a list of related Web links. conomic development, indicators, history and statistics; social indicators and statistics. Full-text
World Development Indicators    Economic development, indicators, history and statistics; social indicators and statistics. Text
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