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 AccessScience
AccessScience is The McGraw-Hill Online Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.
ALLDATA Online
Provides comprehensive resource for automotive (1982-to-current) diagnostic and repair information. Online SEARCH feature allows people to locate information quickly.
Alt HealthWatch EBSCO
Focus on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
America: History and Life
Indexes the scholarly literature of the history and culture of Canada and the United States from prehistoric times to the present.
Frequency: Quarterly Coverage: 1954-present Output type(s): Download,Print,Email
Applied Science and Technology Abstracts
Abstract and Index Database. Locate articles in 390 of the key English language periodicals in applied sciences. Covers engineering, computers, mathematics, physics, energy related topics, chemistry, and data processing.
Frequency: Monthly Coverage: 1983-present Output type(s): Download,Print,Email
Art Full Text
Indexes and abstracts articles from an international selection of periodicals including French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, and English-language journals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins.
Frequency: n/a Coverage: Indexing 1984-present, Abstracting 1994-present, Full-text 1997-present Output type(s): Download,Print,Email
Art Index Retrospective
Indexes articles in periodicals, yearbooks, and museum publications, 1929-1984.
Frequency: Quarterly Coverage: 1929-1984 Output type(s): Download,Print,Email
Art Sales Index
Includes auction sales results from 1980-89, searchable by artist's name, dates, nationality, century, the title, description, medium, or dimensions of a picture, the auctioneer, date of sale, lot number, sale estimates, and the hammer price in pounds, dollars or local currency.
Coverage: 1980-present
ARTbibliographies Modern
Covers twentieth-century art, design, and photography movements.
Frequency: Semi-annually Coverage: 1974-present Output type(s): Download,Print,Email
ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials
ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials provides the full-text access to major religion and theology journals. ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials contains full-text journals in English and other major European languages, and covers all aspects of religion.
Frequency: n/a Coverage: 1949-present Output type(s): Print,Email
ATLA Religion Databases
Contains citations to articles, books, theses, and book reviews on all aspects of religion and theology.
Frequency: n/a Coverage: Varies according to publication Output type(s): Print,Email
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Indexes articles on architecture in its broadest sense, including archaeology, decorative arts, interior design, furniture, landscape architecture, and city planning from 1930s to present.
Frequency: Daily Coverage: 1934-present Output type(s): Download,Print,Email
Bibliography of Native North Americans
Citations to literature about native peoples of North America, including Aleuts; Eskimos or Inuit of Greenland, northern Canada, Alaska, and eastern Siberia; and other native peoples of Canada, the United States, and Mexico north of the northern boundary of Mesoamerica.
Frequency: Annually Coverage: 16th century-present Output type(s): Download,Print,Email
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Indexes biographical listings in biographical dictionaries, subject encyclopedias, and related works for over 13.6 million people.
Frequency: Semi-annually Coverage: n/a Output type(s): Download,Print,Email
Book Review Index Online
Book Review Index Online is a comprehensive source for book reviews from 1965 to the present and covers review published in nearly 500 periodicals and newspapers.
Coverage: 1965-present
BrainPOP
Watch fun animated online movies that help with school assignments. Hundreds of BrainPOP videos explain a wide variety of concepts in Math, Science, Social Studies, English, Art & Music, Health and Technology.
Frequency: Annually Output type(s): Download
Christian Science Monitor (1988-present)
A major daily newspaper covering national and international news. Published in the US and noted for unbiased, concise and comprehensive coverage.
Frequency: Daily Coverage: Sep 30, 1988 (Volume 80, Issue 215)-present
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Communication & Mass Media Complete combines and enhances the content of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index, two popular databases covering comunications and mass media studies. It offers full text for over 200 journal titles and contains citation coverage for additional sources.
Frequency: Ongoing Coverage: Varies, from early 20th century to present Output type(s): Download,Print,Email
Design and Applied Arts Index
International index to design and craft journals.
Frequency: Monthly Coverage: 1973-present Output type(s): Print,Email
Dissertation Abstracts > See Proquest Dissertations and Theses
EconLit
Indexes and abstracts international literature on economics.
Frequency: n/a Coverage: 1969-current Output type(s): Print,Email
Economist Intelligence Unit
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) includes Country Reports, Country Profiles, Views Wire, Risk Briefings, Country Commerce, Industry Briefings, Country Finance, and World Commodity Forecasts.
Frequency: Ongoing Output type(s): Download,Print,Email
Education Full Text
A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996.
Output type(s): Print,Email
Environment Index EBSCO (formerly Environmental Issues and Policy Index)
Provides citations and selected full-text to articles from scientific, technical, and popular magazines and journals spanning a wide range of environmental topics.
Frequency: Monthly Coverage: 1973 - Present. Output type(s): Download,Print,Email
Foundation Directory Online Professional
A top-tier grantseeking research tool, containing timely, comprehensive information on grantmakers and their grants. In addition, includes a funding research tool, 990 Search , which allows searching across the text of the entire database of over 230,000 IRS filings of grantmaking organizations, and refining of search results with six additional search fields.
Frequency: Weekly Output type(s): Download,Print,Email
General Science Abstracts
This database, produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, offers indexing and abstracts for more than 250 leading science journals and magazines from the US and Great Britain.
Coverage: 1984-present
Grove Art Online > See Oxford Art Online
Grove Music Online > See Oxford Music Online
Historical Abstracts
Abstracts of journal articles on world history since 1450, excluding U.S. and Canadian history, which is covered by America: History and Life.
Frequency: Quarterly Coverage: 1954-present Output type(s): Download,Print,Email
Historical Statistics of the United States
This compendium of statistics provides quantitative, historical data about American social, economic and political conditions and development. The data is provided in both PDF and Excel formats. This is the online version of the 2006 print edition.
Coverage: The database covers the Colonial period until the year 2000.
Humanities Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals, including scholarly journals, in the diverse subject areas of the humanities.
Frequency: n/a Coverage: Varies Output type(s): Print,Email
Index to Christian Art
Early Christian and Medieval Art indexed by subject, work of art, and bibliography.
International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text contains all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text for 100 titles, including Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and many more. Additional full text available includes more than 50 books & monographs.
Output type(s): Download,Print,Email
JSTOR
A searchable, digitized archive -- from the first date of publication to the last three to five years -- of major scholarly journals in many academic fields.
Frequency: Periodically Coverage: Varies Output type(s): Download,Print
Latin American Newstand
ProQuest Latin American Newsstand provides full-text information in Spanish and Portuguese from 41 newspapers from Puerto Rico and 11 Latin American countries, including Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. The complete articles are available in ASCII format.
Frequency: Ongoing Output type(s): Download,Print,Email
LGBT Life with Full Text (formerly GLBT Life)
LGBT Life provides complete indexing and abstracting of content related to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender studies in over 230 journals, magazines, and newspapers. LGBT Life also provides full text from a number of important sources including monographs and publications such as The Advocate, New York Blade, and Out.
Frequency: Weekly Output type(s): Download,Print,Email
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts
Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
Frequency: Monthly Coverage: 1973-present Output type(s): Print,Email
LitFinder
An online source that includes three separate databases: Poem Finder, Story Finder and Essay/Speech/Play Finder.
Los Angeles Times (1985-present)
Full-text of the daily paper.
Frequency: Continuously Coverage: 1985-present
MagillOnLiterature Plus
Combining MagillOnLiterature and MagillOnAuthors, this database includes all the literary works, reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries that are included in MagillOnLiterature, as well as all the biographies and author essays included in MagillOnAuthors.
Marquis Who's Who on the Web
Basic biographical information on over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals worldwide from all fields of endeavor.
Frequency: Daily
MLA Directory of Periodicals
The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.
MLA International Bibliography
Indexes scholarship in world literature, including poetry, fiction, drama, film, linguistics, and folklore.
Frequency: Quarterly Coverage: 1963-present Output type(s): Print,Email
National Newspapers (ProQuest)
Searchable full text from the 1980's to the present of The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and the Christian Science Monitor.
Frequency: Daily Coverage: Varies by publication Output type(s): Print,Email
New York Times (1999-present)
Full-text articles from The New York Times.
Frequency: Daily Coverage: 1999-present Output type(s): Print,Email
New Yorker
The Complete New Yorker on 8 DVDs. The full archive of the 4000+ issues published between 1925 and February 2005, including cartoons and advertisements. Available at the Mid-Manhattan Library, third floor, Language and Literature Collection.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a comprehensive full-text database that provides a wide scope of knowledge for nearly 5,000 current social topics in the forms of primary source documents, statistics, websites and multimedia, including its viewpoint articles that present the pros and cons of the issue. This database also includes a language translator which allows documents to be converted into eight different languages.
Frequency: Annually Coverage: Current Output type(s): Download,Print,Email
Oxford Music Online
Oxford Music Online is a new gateway that offers users the ability to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. Contains the redesigned Grove Music Online, as well as The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and The Oxford Companion to Music.
Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online is an innovative new gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location. Contains the redesigned Grove Art Online, as well as The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Dictionary of Art Terms.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Contains over 50,000 biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times through the most recent years.
Frequency: Tri-annually Output type(s): Print,Email
PA Research > See ProQuest Research Library
PAIS International
Indexes journals, reports, and other documents that cover public policy, cultural and social issues, and international relations.
Frequency: Monthly Coverage: 1972-present Output type(s): Download,Print,Email
Philosopher's Index
Indexes and abstracts the literature on epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics,law, religion and science from periodicals, monographs, and other documents.
Frequency: Quarterly Coverage: 1940-present (with some earlier articles retrospectively indexed) Output type(s): Download,Print,Email
PoemFinder
A searchable database of indexed poems; some available full-text. At the Mid-Manhattan Library, please use LitFinder for access to this database.
Coverage: Antiquity-present Output type(s): Print
Polling the Nations
Polling the Nations is an online database of public opinion polls containing the full-text of 500,000 questions and responses from 14,000+ surveys conducted from 1986 through the present in the United States and 100 other countries around the world.
Coverage: 1986-present
Proquest Dissertations and Theses
Includes citations for dissertations from 1861 to those accepted as recently as last semester. Abstracts from 1980 - present.
Frequency: Annually Coverage: 1861-present Output type(s): Download,Print,Email
ProQuest Research Library
Provides articles from periodicals covering arts, business, children, education, health, humanities, law, multicultural studies, sciences, social sciences, and general interest. Full text is available for nearly two-thirds of its titles.
Frequency: Continuously Coverage: Varies according to publication Output type(s): Print,Email
PsycARTICLES
Provides full-text articles on current issues in psychology from respected sources, from 1988 to the present.
Frequency: n/a Coverage: 1988-present Output type(s): Print,Email
PsycINFO
Indexes literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work.
Frequency: Weekly Coverage: 1880s-present Output type(s): Print,Email
Reference USA
Provides addresses, sales information, executives, for over 11 million U.S. companies. Searchable by state, city, zip code, and SIC code and yellow page headings. Searches can be customized by company size, sales volume, geographic location, industry, etc. Many of the listing are for small businesses. Database also includes residential listings for phone numbers and addresses.
Frequency: Monthly Coverage: n/a Output type(s): Download,Print,Email
Scientific American Archive Online
Contains the editorial contents of Scientific American Magazine, from 1993 to the present. Issues are in PDF format. Search by full-text, title or author (advanced search) or browse issues by date.
Short Story Index
An index to short stories written in or translated into English that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals. The periodicals are those indexed in Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature and Humanities Index.
Sociological Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts literature in theoretical and applied sociology, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Frequency: Monthly Coverage: 1963-present Output type(s): Download,Print,Email
Teen Health & Wellness
Provides students with comprehensive curricular support and self-help tools on topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, diversity, family life, and more.
Textile Technology Index
Provides international coverage of the literature of textiles and related subjects Coverage includes the various aspects of textile production and processing, and the automation and management systems of these operations. Includes many of the major resources of the apparel, home furnishings, flooring, and polymer industries.
Wall Street Journal (1984-present)
Full-text articles from the Wall Street Journal.
Frequency: Daily Coverage: 1984-present Output type(s): Print,Email
Washington Post (1987-present)
Full-text articles from the Washington Post.
Frequency: Daily Coverage: 1987-present Output type(s): Print,Email
Who's Who in American Art
Contains over 14,000 biographies of the most noteworthy men and women in today's art world including notable artists from the past. Use this database to locate artists, critics, curators, administrators, librarians, historians, collectors, conservators, educators, and dealers in the visual arts in North America.
Who's Who on the Web > See Marquis Who's Who on the Web
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Indexes journals covering political science and related fields.
Frequency: Monthly Coverage: 1975-present Output type(s): Download,Print,Email
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