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Academic Search Premier Full text for over 4000 scholarly publications; abstracts and indexing for approximately 8000 sources, many dating back to 1965 and older. Includes social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies, etc.  |
| AgeLine Detailed summaries of more than 90,000 publications about aging and the 50+ population. Abstracts the literature of social gerontology as well as aging-related research from psychology, sociology, social work, economics, public policy, and the health sciences." Includes some full text |
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Agricola Provides resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farming practices, food and nutrition, agricultural trade and marketing, rural information, and animal welfare. Materials date from 1979 to the present. No full-text online available. |
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Alt-Press Watch (APW) A full text database containing newspapers, magazines and journal of the alternative and independent press. |
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America: History and Life Indexes scholarly articles on all aspects of the history of America from colonization (1493) to present. Can be searched by specific criteria, such as subject, author, keyword, etc., or by period, such as "The Civil War" or "The Industrial Revolution." |
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Applied Science & Tech Index Indexes leading publications in English; emphasis on technology, including bio-applications in agricultural technology, the food and food industry; Periodical coverage includes trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, as well as special issues such as buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings. Index only; Neither abstracts nor full text available. |
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Abstracts Indexes scholarly articles in art, architecture, design, film and crafts from all time periods and countries. Covers 1984 - present. |
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Art IndexIndexes scholarly articles in art, architecture, design, film and crafts from all time periods and countries. Index only; neither abstracts nor full text available. |
| Art Resource Requires registration (free).This digital library contains over 250,000 keyword-searchable fine art images of painting, sculpture, architecture and the minor arts from most of the world’s major museums, monuments, and commercial archives. The scope ranges from prehistoric times to the present. They carry the works of almost every major museum in Europe, and function as the official rights and permissions representative for many institutions in the United States and abroad. |
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ArticleFirst Index of articles taken from the contents pages of journals in a variety of disciplines; Full-text on-line not available. |
| Artnet Price Database Requires registration (free). Researches the price of fine art using auction sales results. Find artworks by over 180,000 international artists from Old Master to Contemporary Art. |
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| arXiv.org Science pre-prints and working papers; click search after “Subject search and browse” first to open up keyword search areas. All full text. Especially strong in computer science, math and physics. |
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Biography Reference Bank Coverage of some 195,000 names, from antiquity through today. Provides Wilson profiles and articles from a wide range of periodicals and biographies from select reference sources in the field. Biographies searchable by name, profession, title, race/ethnicity, titles of works, dates or birth and death, and keyword. Includes images. |
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Biological Abstracts Produced by BIOSIS, Biological Abstracts online is a complete collection of bibliographic references to life science journal literature published internationally. This database provides users with easy access to information published in virtually every life science discipline since 1995. Each year is treated as a separate database and can be searched independently. |
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Biological & Agricultural Index Plus Indexes and abstracts leading publications in agriculture, biology, forestry, and ecology, including Agribusiness and economics. Full text available on most articles. |
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| Bridgeman Art Library Requires registration (free). One of the largest art image providers world-wide. This online art image collection offers over 100,000 art images from major international museums, galleries and auction houses |
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| On campus access only | Buckmaster Internet Annual Stockholder Reports Exact annual shareholder report reproductions and 10k reports of the top 500 U.S. companies, and more. |
| Busca Biografias Almost 10,000 biographical summaries. Database of thousands of short biographies. In English and Spanish. |
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Business Source Premier Provides on-line full text for over 7000 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, international business, agribusiness and much more. |
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Career and Technical Education Designed for both students and instructors, an excellent source of vocational information for community colleges, two-year institutions, associate degree institutions, public libraries, and high schools offering technical courses. |
| Ask at the Reference Desk. | Choices III Simmons Research Bureau Choices III is a useful marketing and advertising database. Data represents more than 5000 questions asked of more than 30000 adults. The user creates his/her own cross-tabulation of data, including potential advertising sources in both print and mass media. This is an in-house CD-ROM database. Ask at the Reference Desk for help. |
| Choral Public Domain Library CPDL is one of the world's largest free sheet music sites. Find scores, texts, translations, and information about composers. |
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CINAHL full text World's most comprehensive source of full text articles for nursing & allied health, providing full text for 580 journals, and indexing for an additional 2000 professional publications. |
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ClasePeriodica An index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. This index offers access to 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages, 1975 to the present. |
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Cochrane Collection Online - Cochrane Controlled Trials Register A bibliographic database of over 350,000 references to controlled trials in health care. |
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Cochrane Collection Online - Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) Full-text of detailed, structured, evidence-based reviews from hundreds of studies on topics from various medical specialties. |
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Cochrane Collection Online - Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness Provides access to selected systematic reviews on the effectiveness of clinical interventions and policies from databases such as MEDLINE and through manual review of the primary literature. |
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Communication & Mass Media Complete Cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for over 300 journals in communication and mass media. |
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Computing Provides a range of computing journals in full text from 1986-present. Designed for any research environment that needs access to comprehensive coverage of computer topics. |
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Credo Reference This database provides a complete reference collection from over 50 publishers, powered by a network of cross-references that cut across topics, titles and publishers to provide answers - and new connections - in context. |
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ECO OCLC Electronic Collections Online provides indexing to over 3,000 scholarly journals, 1995 to present, from a variety of disciplines. Updated daily. Full-text on-line not available |
| EconPapers On-line Economics working papers, journal articles and software; many full text accessible. |
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Education Full Text Comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks, including 79 titles not found in ERIC. Full text available on the database. |
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Encyclopedia Americana Includes 45,000 articles contributed by over 6,500 specialists in their respective disciplines, covering all academic fields and curriculum topics. |
| Energy Citations Database Comprehensive scientific database from the DOE’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information; 1948-present with full text. The title is a little misleading; strong in most areas of science. |
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ERIC (EBSCOhost) Provides full text of more than 2,200 ERIC Digest documents along with references for additional information in education. Also includes citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals. |
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ERIC (FirstSearch) a combination of the Resources in Education (RIE) and the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). It contains citations and brief abstracts of articles on every aspect of education and includes unpublished research reports, conference papers, books and book chapters, and publications of associations and government agencies; the MSU collection contains all ERIC ED numbered documents on microfiche. |
| FACTS.com Access to detailed news archives for the past twenty years and overview articles on major news items since 1940; includes an Issues and Controversies section with information on both sides of controversial issues. |
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Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia Includes all information available in the print version of the Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia. |
| GeoBib A searchable online database of all bibliographic entries found in current geographical publications, from 1985-present, produced by the American Geographical Society Library located in the Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. |
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GeoRef A comprehensive geoscience database, produced by the American Geological Institute, containing over 2.2 million records covering subjects such as mineralogy and crystallography, general mineralogy, mineralogy of silicates, and mineralogy of non-silicates. The records include journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses. |
| Google Scholar Google's index of professional publications. Recommended highly as an adjunct to library resources, and for research needs after graduation, in a work environment. Especially strong in the sciences & technology. NOTE: ON CAMPUS USE will include  and access to MSU copies of the articles. | |
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GPO Monthly Catalog Indexes government publications from 1976-present; including publications and information from the departments of Agriculture and Commerce; URLs provided when text is available on-line. |
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GreenFILE Draws on publications in agriculture, education, law, health and technology; focuses on the positive and negative ways humans impact their environment. |
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Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Online version of the Academic American Encyclopedia, containing thousands of new and expanded articles, extensive cross-references via hyperlink, bibliographies and links to other sources of information on the Web. |
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Health Source: Consumer Edition health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. |
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides more than 900 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong. |
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Health Technology Assessments Provides details of completed and ongoing studies about healthcare interventions; the aim of the database is to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of healthcare. Good for students looking at policy in healthcare. |
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Historical Abstracts 1450 present; indexes the world's periodical literature in history and the related social sciences and humanities; print version available in the Reference Room. |
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Humanities Index Indexes professional literature in such areas as Archaeology, Art, Communications, Dance, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, History, Journalism, Linguistics, Literary & Social Criticism Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Religion and Theology. Index only; neither abstracts nor full text available. |
| In the First Person: An Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives An in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. It provides a keyword search of more than “700,000 pages of full-text by more than 18,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some 4,300 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records. |
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IIMP Full Text (International Index to Music Periodicals) enables you to search and browse hundreds of music journals covering a broad scope of research from performance, theory and composition to music education, jazz and ethnomusicology. It provides indexing, abstracts and selected full text coverage of the most important music journals. |
| IBDB (Internet Broadway Database) The official database for Broadway theatre information. IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today. Details include pertinent people involved as well as interesting facts and production statistics. |
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| IMDB (Internet Movie Database) Provides detailed information for movies in theaters, on video or DVD, and forthcoming, as well as television movies and series. Awards and Reviews lists reviews from authoritative sources such as the New York Times. Movie information includes directors, producers, actors, plot summaries, character names, soundtracks, release dates, box office grosses, awards information, and much more. |
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| IMSLP (International Music Score Library Project) Approx. 17,000 public domain music scores and over 10,000 works. Browse scores by composer name, time period, genre, or instrument. Click on "PDF file" to print. |
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| JSTOR This is a full-text archive of key academic journals in the following areas: African American Studies, African Studies, anthropology, archeology, Asian Studies, botany, ecology, economics, education, finance, general science, geography, history, language and literature, Latin American Studies, Middle East Studies, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, Slavic studies, sociology, and statistics. Being an archive, it does NOT have the current issues of these journals. There is a “lag time” of 2-5 years. It does have the entire backfile of the journals it includes. |
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| Kentuckiana Digital Library Provides provides guidance and instruction for Kentucky libraries, archives, historical societies and museums on applying appropriate technologies used in the production of digital library resources. |
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| Kraus Curriculum Development Library This searchable database of curricula, frameworks, and standards brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education. |
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LexisNexis Academic Universe The flagship database from Lexis/Nexis with full-text to over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications. Primarily news and professional publications; limited scholarly journals. |
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Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (free) Indexes more than 690 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. |
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Library Literature & Information Science Indexes and abstracts library journals, books, conference proceedings, library school theses, pamphlets, and book reviews. Full text available for most. |
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Literary Reference Center A full text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, and literary journals. Includes plot summaries, author biographies, book reviews, poems, short stories, as well as journal articles. |
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MAS Ultra - School Edition Comprehensive general reference database designed for high school and junior college libraries. |
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MasterFILE Premier Designed specifically for public libraries, MasterFILE Premier contains full text for nearly 1,950 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. |
| on campus access only | MathSciNet From the American Mathematical Society, this comprehensive database covers international mathematical literature of the past 61 years. Provides Web access to signed reviews and bibliographic data from Mathematical Reviews (updated monthly) and Current Mathematical Publications (updated daily). Features 5 different focused search tools, including Author, Journal, and Mathematics Subject Classification. |
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MEDLINE (EBSCOhost) Corresponds to the print Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index. Contains a small percentage of articles linked to full text elsewhere. |
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MEDLINE (FirstSearch) Corresponds to the print Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index. Contains a small percentage of articles linked to full text elsewhere. |
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Mergent Online Delivers a comprehensive suite of authoritative financial information with the accuracy, timeliness and transparency required in today’s marketplace. Its innovative, intuitive user interface will satisfy the most demanding research needs. Rely on the quality and breadth of Mergent and its suite of global business and financial data products to leverage your research with the information that you have come to trust. |
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Middle Search Plus Database designed for middle school students. |
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Military and Government Collection Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. |
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MLA International Bibliography On-line version of the Modern Language Association Bibliography; searchable by author, title, keyword, literary period, language, etc., indexed resources from 1963 to the present. Linked to full-text on-line available. |
| Music Index Subject and author / composer guide to music literature from 1979-present, including book reviews, obituaries, news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry. |
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| Mutopia Providers sheet music editions of classical music for free download. These are based on editions in the public domain, and include works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel, Mozart, and many others. |
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| on campus access only | National Bureau of Economic Research This site includes both a searchable collection of the National Bureau of Economic Research's professional working papers, and a Economic Release Service section which provides instant access to such data as economic indicators, CPI, PPI, exchange rates, earnings, labor force statistics, export/import data, GDP, and many others -- both latest and archived. NBER Collection under "Data" includes industry data, international trade data, vital statistics and more. |
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Naxos Music Library Naxos Music Library is the World’s largest Classical music listening service designed for students, instructors and patrons of public and academic libraries, as well as players and executives of orchestras. Our collection of over 310,000 tracks of music is continually growing, not only from our own label but from other leading independent labels. Our collection is benchmarked against the development suggestions outlined in the Music Library Association’s A Basic Music Library. NML has simple and advanced searching, common (non-proprietary) software requirements, and extensive background information such as complete liner notes. |
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Naxos Freehand Sheet Music Online sheet music catalogue with over 45,000 downloadable sheet music titles from the world's leading artists, composers and publishers. The FreeHand Solero Viewer allows musicians to download, manage, and print sheet music 24/7: for this function you MUST DOWNLOAD the Solero viewer! Titles identified as Solero Editions can be transposed into any key or clef and you can listen to these selections and even adjust the tempo to suit your needs. Titles identified as Legacy Editions can be downloaded and printed using the viewer but, in order to be true to the publisher's original intentions, cannot be transposed. |
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New Book of Knowledge An authoritative, age-appropriate research and learning resource with two learning environments, eight curriculum-aligned databases and over 500,000 links to academically-relevant articles, Web sites and periodicals. Intended primarily for elementary and middle-school students; also excellent for English language learners. |
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Newspaper Source Provides selected full text coverage for more than 240 newspapers and other sources. This collection includes cover-to-cover full text for USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor and The Times (London) as well as selected full text from more than regional newspapers, international papers, news wire services and TV/Radio transcripts. Generally one year's coverage only. |
| New York Times Archive From the New York Times. Full text from either 1851-1922 OR from 1987-present. Citation info. and brief preview only for years 1923-1986. Use the drop down box under the title to limit your search from either 1851-1980, or from 1981 to present. After entering a basic search, the Advanced Search function appears next to the Search button; use this to limit by specific year, month, and day. |
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| Notable Kentucky African Americans Database The Notable Kentucky African Americans (NKAA) was originally a website with a series of individual web pages listing approximately 200 biographical entries on African Americans in and from the state of Kentucky. The site went live in September 2003. It consisted of one entry for each person arranged under the profession or activity in which they were notable, with references to sources of additional information. |
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NoveList Online readers' advisory service. This database helps users locate fiction books topically, by author, or by age/reading level. Perfect for teachers working in children's literature. |
| OAIster OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources, including:
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| OneLook Dictionary Look up a word or term in an Internet dictionary or glossary. Free search access to a frequently updated database of words, terms, names, and acronyms. |
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| Oxford English Dictionary Online The OED is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium -- the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million English words, both present and past. |
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PapersFirst Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre, 1993-present. |
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Physical Education Index Allows all researchers and professionals in the field to acquire accurate and scholarly information in this comprehensive database. These abstracts feature a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology. |
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Pre-CINAHL A companion database to CINAHL. The items indexed here are very current, and waiting to be added to the CINAHL database. |
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Primary
Search Database designed for elementary school students. |
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ProceedingsFirst Goes one step further than PapersFirst by providing under each conference or symposium record a list of the papers presented at each conference, 1993-present. |
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Professional Development Collection Provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers. |
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Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection Provides 500 full text titles which include topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. This can be searched independently, but also allows users to conveniently link to full text articles from citations within the PsycINFO database. |
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PsycINFO Provides indexing and abstracts for over one million articles in 1,700 journals from over 50 countries. This database, provided by the American Psychological Association, also includes abstracts for dissertations, books and book chapters ranging in date from 1887 to the present. |
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PubMed Central This is a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM). |
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Regional Business News A collection of full-text newswires that incorporates news information from all over the world, covering business, political, economic and other diverse, international news events. The most recent 30 days only; updated daily. |
| Registry of Nursing Research Through this database, individuals have access to search study abstracts and conference abstracts. Primary investigators can be contacted for more information about how to obtain full-text versions of their study. |
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Religion and Philosophy Collection Comprehensive database covering such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Includes nearly 300 full text journals. |
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online resource for researching, teaching and studying in the philosophy arena and related disciplines. ·More than 2000 articles, from Aristotle to Nominalism and from Personal Identity to Zeno of Elea ·Over 100 new articles added since launch of REP Online in 2000 ·October 2005 - View our new articles on: Action at a distance; Animal thought, recent work on; Causation, further themes; Counterpart theory; Dispositions; Incommensurability in ethics; Linguistics, philosophy of; Motion; Negative facts; Nihilism, metaphysical; Presentism; Properties; Representationalism about experience; Slingshot arguments; Time, metaphysics of; Truth, identity theory of. |
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SciFinder Provides access to a wide diversity of research from many scientific disciplines, with an emphasis on Chemistry; allows for both topical literature searches and the ability to develop searches by chemical structure. Not online. Single-user computer access in the Chemistry Department, or Library, only. Please ask for assistance. |
| Scirus The most comprehensive science-specific search engine available on the Internet, linking to more than 167 million indexed scientific pages and documents. With Scirus you can search through a variety of sources, such as Medline, ScienceDirect, BioMedCentral, preprint servers, patents and web sites relevant for your research |
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| Social Psychology Network One of the largest Internet sites devoted to psychological research and teaching. In these pages, you'll find more than 15,000 links related to psychology. |
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Social Sciences Index Indexes professional literature in such areas as Anthropology, Community Health, Corrections, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Economics, Environmental Studies, Family Studies, Geography, Gerontology, International Relations, Law, Public Administration, Policy Sciences, Political Science, Psychology , Social Work, Sociology. Index only; neither abstracts nor full text available. |
| Social Sciences Research Network Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. |
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Social Services Abstracts CSA Social Services Abstracts covers 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. |
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Social Work Abstracts Web version of the print abstracting index; indexes journals in social work and social welfare. |
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Sociological Abstracts Includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields--including law, political science, criminal justice, public policy and public affairs, found in a broad array of social sciences journals. |
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Sociological Collection Comprehensive database with nearly 500 full text titles on all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure. Index can be searched independently, but also allows users to conveniently link to some full text from citations within the Sociological Abstracts database. |
| Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Designed so that each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public. |
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Teacher Reference Center Available FREE to any K-12 library. TRC provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 periodicals with an emphasis in professional development and best practices. |
| Thomas THOMAS was launched in January of 1995, at the inception of the 104th Congress. The leadership of the 104th Congress directed the Library of Congress to make federal legislative information freely available to the public. Since that time THOMAS has expanded the scope of its offerings to include bills, resolutions, congressional records, schedules, calendars, committee information, presidential nominations, treaties, and more. |
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TopicSearch Official information and services from the U.S. government with a rich treasure of online information, services, and resources. |
| University of Michigan Documents Center A central reference and referral point for government information, whether local, state, federal, foreign or international. Its web pages are a reference and instructional tool for government, political science, statistical data, and news. |
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| USA.gov Official information and services from the U.S. government. Whatever you want or need from the U.S. government, it's here on USA.gov. You'll find a rich treasure of online information, services, and resources. |
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Web of Science Access to multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,700 research journals in the sciences; limited to journals from 2002-present. Includes access to Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. |
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Westlaw Campus Research Westlaw Campus Research is an online legal research service, designed for college students, that provides quick, easy access to West's vast collection of statutes, case law materials, public records and other legal resources, as well as current news articles and business information. |
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WorldAlmanac Online version of the classic reference source. |
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WorldCat A world catalog of thousands of libraries worldwide, including books, manuscripts, computer data files, maps, computer programs, musical scores, films and slides, sound recordings, and videotapes. The Murray State catalog is included. Interlibrary loan requests may be made directly from the database. Over 50,000,000 records added since 1971. |
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WorldCat Dissertations and Theses A database of all dissertations and theses available in WorldCat. NOTE: Dissertations & Theses are difficult to receive through interlibrary loan. Using this database helps in that process. |
| World Factbook (CIA World Factbook) US government profiles of countries and territories around the world. Information on geography, people, government, transportation, economy, communications, and so on. |
= Resources funded through the Kentucky Virtual Library [KYVL]. The KYVL databases are for Kentuckians and Kentucky institutions' students/faculty. The databases can be freely accessed in a Kentucky library that is participating in KYVL. These include public libraries, publicly funded academic libraries, many privately funded academic libraries, K-12 libraries, and many special libraries. Access from home is available to officially registered patrons of Kentucky libraries.