INDEXES & DATABASES

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Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)
is a full-text and bibliographic database with coverage of the social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and more.

Agricola (Ebsco)
is a bibliographic index for agriculture and allied disciplines including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition.

Art Abstracts
bibliographic resource that covers over 300 publications including journals, museum bulletins, and annuals. It covers the broad range of the arts, architecture, and industrial design.

ArticleFirst
indexes over 12,000 periodical articles in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. It includes some brief abstracts but not full text.

ARTstor
a growing digital collection; intitial content includes approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology.

Auto Repair Reference Center (Ebsco)
is a full-text database of automotive repair information from Nichols Publishing. It contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles. About 25,000 vehicles are covered along with 100,000 factory drawings and step-by-step photographs; 60,000 technical service bulletins and recalls issued by the original equipment vehicle manufacturer; wiring diagrams; specifications and maintenance schedules; and a labor time guide and estimator.

Biography Resource Center
provides full text biographies of both the living and the dead from all eras and regions. It is a combination of biographies from reference works and related full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals.

Business & Company ASAP (InfoTrac)
covers business and management topics with full-text articles, images, and bibliographic citations. It also includes directory listings and profiles of companies. Many of the full-text articles also include images such as tables, charts, and graphs.

Business & Company Resource Center (InfoTrac)
provides information on companies, markets and industries from market trends, mergers and acquisitions to current management theory and company overviews. Access to business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles with full-text and images.

Business Source Premier (Ebsco)
covers business, management, finance, accounting, international business, and econmics topics with full-text articles, images, and bibliographic citations. The emphasis is scholarly journals and peer-reviewed journals in the business, economics, and management fields. Many articles are available in full-text.

CINAHL with Full-Text (Ebsco)
the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature , a comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 580 journals. .

Computer Database (InfoTrac)
is a bibliographic and full-text database of computer and electronics trade journals and consumer magazines. It covers computer-related product introductions, news, and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology. Full text is included for such titles as Computer Shopper, Government Computer News, Home Office Computing, InfoWorld, LAN Magazine, MacUser, MacWeek, MacWorld, PC Magazine, PC Week, PC World, and Windows Sources.

CQ Electronic Library
includes the full-text of the CQ Researcher, CQ Weekly, and the CQ Historic Documents Series making it a broad reference resource for research into American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs.
The CQ Researcher offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of important issues. Each report is on a single topic -- more than 12,000 words of text and extensive bibliographies. Includes arguments on both sides of an issue.
CQ Weekly covers the U.S. Congress with in-depth reports on upcoming congressional issues, coverage of the previous week's news, and information on the status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, backroom maneuvering, debates, and all roll-call votes.
CQ Historic Documents Series includes more than 2,500 primary sources covering current events around the world from 1972 to the past year. It includes both governmental and non-governmental documents.

Dissertation Abstracts (*contact library staff for authorization and password)
selectively covers masters theses and dissertations including dissertations from Canada, Great Britain, and Europe.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online  
includes the full-text of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Quotations, an atlas, and World Data Analyst Online which has current and historical statistics on 217 countries of the world.

Environment Complete (Ebsco)
offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete contains more than 1,772,000 records from more than 1,660 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,094 active core titles) as well as more than 100 monographs. The database also contains full-text for more than 600 journals.

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center; through FirstSearch)
or *ERIC (open access through the U. S. Dept of Education)
provides citations to and abstracts of educational journal articles and educational documents.

Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac)
general full-text and bibliographic database with coverage of astronomy, religion, law, history, psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, communications and the general sciences.

Gale Literary Databases
include full-text access to Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (CLC Select), and the Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB). It provides detailed information on the lives and writings of nearly 100,000 authors along with selected critical reactions to their works.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
a collection of searchable, full-text reference books and encyclopedias.

General OneFile (InfoTrac)
is a general full-text and bibliographic database with coverage of in all subject areas. It includes all the periodicals available in Expanded Academic ASAP, Business and Company ASAP, Health Reference Center, and more. InfoTrac OneFile includes more than 5,000 full-text periodicals, 89 news wires, and indexing for over 9,000 periodicals. With approximately 30 million database records, it includes citations, abstracts, full text, and images.

General Reference Center Gold (InfoTrac)
bibliographic and full-text database covering general interest, popular, consumer, and some business topics. It is useful for articles from popular magazines, some general reference books, a few newspapers.

Government Pubs
bibliographic database of U.S. federal government documents published by the Government Printing Office.