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 Academic OneFile | 1980-present | Full Text  | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.  Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.

Academic Search Premier | 1975-present | Full Text  | Vendor: EBSCO
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Contents/Info: Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 8,200 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. Academic Search Premier is an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed full text journals, offering critical information from many sources unique to this database.

African-American Biographical Database | 1790-1950 | Full Text | Vendor: Chadwyck-Healey
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Contents/Info: Brings together in one resource the biographies of thousands of African Americans, many not to be found in any other reference source. These biographical sketches have been carefully assembled from biographical dictionaries and other sources.

ArticleFirst | 1990-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: Contains bibliographic citations with some full text from more than 13,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Incorporates OCLC's ContentsFirst as of 10/15/01.

Britannica Online see Encyclopaedia Britannica Online  | Full Text | Vendor: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
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Contents/Info: Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year.

Child Care & Early Education Research Connections | Some Full Text | Vendor: Research Connections
Open Access
Contents/Info: A free Web-based resource for researchers and policymakers, to promote high-quality research and the use of that research in policymaking. This resource includes citations for peer-reviewed journal articles, books, research reports, fact sheets and briefs, grey literature, instruments, and government documents.

College Source On-Line  | Full Text | Vendor: Career Guidance Foundation
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Contents/Info:
34,347 College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover,
original page format on CollegeSource® Online.

ComDisDome | Full Text | Vendor: CSA
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The Dome is the premier information service for speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and students in the field of Communication Sciences and Disorders. This database provides access to books, journal articles, dissertations, and web sites relevant in the field of Communication Sciences and Disorders. This resource also includes a complete dictionary of speech-language pathology and audiology terms. 

Communication Sciences and Disorders Dome see ComDisDome  | Full Text | Vendor: CSA
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The Dome is the premier information service for speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and students in the field of Communication Sciences and Disorders. This database provides access to books, journal articles, dissertations, and web sites relevant in the field of Communication Sciences and Disorders. This resource also includes a complete dictionary of speech-language pathology and audiology terms. 

Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI)  | 1992-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: Provides full text access to global information on women. Journals, newsletters, research reports from non- profit groups, government and international agencies, along with fact sheets are easily accessed through CWI. Information on women in over 150 countries is compiled in a single collection bringing together such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health, education and human rights.

Current Research@ Florida Atlantic University  | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info: A digital library of dissertations and theses from Florida Atlantic University.

Digital Collections @ FAU Libraries  | Some Full Text | Vendor: Ex Libris
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Contents/Info: Digital Collections @ FAU Libraries is a project that highlights university scholarship of various types (working papers, journal articles, dissertations and theses, etc.).

DigiTool@FAU Libraries  See Digital Collections @ FAU Libraries  | Some Full Text | Vendor: Ex Libris
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Contents/Info: Digital Collections @ FAU Libraries is a project that highlights university scholarship of various types (working papers, journal articles, dissertations and theses, etc.).

Dissertation Abstracts see ProQuest Dissertations and Theses | 1861-present | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info: Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations.

EBSCOhost  | Vendor: EBSCO
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Contents/Info: Provides access to CINAHL Plus with Full Text and Pre-CINAHL (nursing and allied health journals); EconLit (economic literature); RILM Abstracts of Music Literature; Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts; Academic Search Premier; Film & Television Literature Index; Business Source Premier; and Regional Business News.

Education: A SAGE Full-Text Collection  | 1968-present | Full Text | Vendor: CSA
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Includes the full text of 26 peer-reviewed journals published by SAGE and participating societies distinguished by up to 40 years of backfiles, and encompasses over 8,000 articles.  It covers such subject areas as: Adult and Continuing Education, Educational Administration, Educational Policy, Elementary and Primary Education, High School and Secondary Education, Higher Education, International Education, Leadership, Measurement and Testing, Multicultural Education and Diversity, Professional Development, Teaching and Instruction, Teaching Methods.

Education Full Text  | 1983-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
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 Subject areas include adult education, arts, athletics, comparative education, competency-based education, computers in education, continuing education, educational technology, elementary education, government funding, higher education, instructional media, language arts, library science, literacy standards, multicultural/ethnic education, parent-teacher relations, prayer in public schools, preschool education, religious education, school administration, science and mathematics, secondary education, special education, student counseling, teacher education, teacher evaluation, teaching methods, vocational education.  Full-text coverage begins in January 1996.

Education Index Retrospective | 1929-1983 | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
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 Delivers cover-to-cover indexing of an international range of acclaimed English-language periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks.  The database reflects more than six decades of Wilson’s Education Index.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online  | Full Text | Vendor: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
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Contents/Info: Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster's Thesaurus, and the Britannica Book of the Year.

Encyclopaedia Britannica's Internet Guide | Full Text | |Vendor: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
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Contents/Info: Allows you to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.

ERIC (Ask ERIC) now known as the Educator's Reference Desk  | Vendor: Information Institute of Syracuse
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Contents/Info: The Educator's Reference Desk provided access to links to over 3,000 resources on a variety of educational issues, lesson plans, a question archive, and the ERIC Database.

ERIC  | 1966-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Covers education-related research from conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.

ERIC  | 1966-present | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: Covers education-related research from conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.

ERIC | 1996-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: Institute of Education Sciences
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Contents/Info: EDRS and E*Subscribe ceased operations effective October 1, 2004 as a result of changes in the ERIC system.  The majority of the electronic full text documents will be available at this new ERIC site.  ERIC covers education-related research from conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.

Expanded Academic ASAP  | 1980-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: Includes scholarly journals, news magazines and newspaper articles regarding arts and humanities, social sciences and science and technology disciplines. 

FirstSearch  | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: A collection of databases provided by OCLC via WebLUIS Web Gateway for FAU.

FirstSearch  | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: A collection of databases provided by OCLC via LINCCWeb Gateway for Florida Community Colleges.

Gale Group/InfoTrac  Databases  | Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Includes access to Associations Unlimited, Biography & Master Genealogy Index, Custom Newspapers and Literature Resource Center among other databases.

GenderWatch  | 1970-present | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest Direct
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Contents/Info: A full text database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. With its archival material, dating back to 1970 in some cases, GenderWatch is a repository of an important historical perspective on the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, and NGO, government and special reports.

General OneFile | 1980-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: 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 science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.

InfoTrac Junior Edition - K12 | Some Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: Formerly SuperTOM Junior, this periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

InfoTrac Kid's Edition - K12 | Some Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: Formerly PrimaryTOM, this periodical database is designed for elementary school students, with easy access to full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

InfoTrac OneFile now General OneFile | 1980-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: 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 science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.

InfoTrac Professional Collection | Some Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: A collection of educational journals picked for their relevance in the modern world for todays professional.

InfoTrac Student Edition - K12 | Some Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: Formerly SuperTOM, this 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.  

InfoTrac Web/Gale Group  | Some Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: Menu of InfoTrac/Gale Group databases.

JSTOR  | Full Text | Vendor: JSTOR
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Contents/Info: Journal Storage (More than 500 scholarly journals in education, humanities, mathematics, science [including the General Science Collection and Ecology and Botany Collection], and social science disciplines)

Kids Search | Full Text | Vendor: EBSCOhost
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Contents/Info: Designed for grades K-8.  Includes Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia and Primary Search which provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research.  All full text articles included in Primary Search are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.

Kraus Curriculum Development Library (KCDL Online)   | Full Text | Vendor: The Kraus Organization Limited
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Contents/Info: 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. [Due to state budget cuts, this resource will no longer be available after August 31, 2008.]

LearningExpressLibrary | Full Text | Vendor: LearningExpress LLC.
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 LearningExpressLibrary provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series for academic or licensing tests . Subjects include "Elements of Business Writing," "Graduate School Entrance Exams," "Math Skills Improvement," "Nursing," "Teacher Certification," "Writing Skills Improvement" and more. You will get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. [First Time Users: Click on the "New User" button to register.] [This resource will no longer be available after 1/2/08 due to state budget cuts.]

LexisNexis Academic  | Full Text | Vendor: LexisNexis
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Contents/Info: Accesses over a billion full text news, magazine, legal, and business articles and reports, including newspapers, magazines and government documents, state and federal laws and regulations, case law, newsletters, company and industry information.

LexisNexis Statistical  | 1973-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: LexisNexis
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Contents/Info: Search summaries of U.S. government statistical publications, then link to the full-text of selected publications on LexisNexis Statistical and U.S. government web sites. [Due to state budget cuts, this resource will no longer be available after June 30, 2008.]

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) | Mid-1960s-present | Vendor: EBSCO
Open Access
Contents/Info: This bibliographic database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, search engines, printed and electronic information sources, the information industry, scholarly communication, and electronic publishing. LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. Coverage dates back to the mid-1960s.

Library Literature and Information Science Full Text | 1980-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
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 Subject areas include automation, cataloging, censorship, children's literature, circulation procedures, classification, copyright legislation, education for librarianship, government aid, information brokers, internet software, library associations and conferences, library equipment and supplies, personnel administration, preservation of materials, public relations, publishing, and web sites. Full-text coverage begins in 1997.

Library Literature and Information Science Retrospective | 1905-1983 | Some Full Text | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
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Contents/Info:  This database offers the ability to search a wide range of important journals in library literature and information science, as far back as 1905.  Coverage also includes full text content from 69 years of the Wilson Library Bulletin (the classic trade magazine for librarians, founded in 1914), indexing from Library Work (1905-1911), plus citations to book reviews, books, book chapters and library school theses. 

Media Review Digest | 1989-present | Full Text | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: Reviews of educational media and entertainment resources. Covers approximately 100,000 mediagraphic items. Provides comprehensive review coverage of educational media. Includes reviews of entertainment resources.  [This database is no longer available.]

OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition  | Some Full Text | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
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Contents/Info:
 Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. Full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. Full-text coverage begins in 1994. Each database has its own start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full text; start dates for full-text rights to individual journals vary within a database.

Periodicals Archive Online (Formerly: PCI Full Text) | 1802 - 1995 | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info: An archive of hundreds of digitised journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Peterson's.com | Full Text | Vendor: Petersons
Open Access (Free/instant membership may be required for access.)
Contents/Info: Petersons.com provides information about educational opportunities at all levels, and gives individuals the ability to search Peterson's databases, as well as to request more information, apply to a school or program, and interact in other ways with faculty and administrators at educational institutions.

Physical Education Index | 1970-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: CSA 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. Health education and physical therapy are also covered as they continue to become more prevalent in our society.

ProQuest Digital Dissertations see ProQuest Dissertations and Theses | 1861-present | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info: Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations.

PsycARTICLES  | 1988-present | Full Text | Vendor: APA
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Contains the full text of articles from APA journals and selected EPF journals.

Psychology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection | 1970-present | Full Text | Vendor: CSA
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This resource provides access to the full text of 35 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 36 years, and encompasses over 21,600 articles. It covers such subjects as Applied Psychology, Assessment, Child Development, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Cross-Cultural Psychology, Cultural Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology, Environmental Psychology, Family Studies, Group Work, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Language Acquisition, Latin American Studies, Learning Disabilities, Measurement, Neuropsychology, Personality, Philosophical Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychology of Diversity, School Psychology, Social Psychology, and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. 

PsycINFO  | 1806-present |  Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: PsycINFO
provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Unrivaled in its depth of psychological coverage and respected worldwide for its high quality, the database is enriched with literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries, and all records from 1967 to the present are indexed using the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.

SAGE eReference | Full Text | Vendor: SAGE Publications
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Contents/Info: A selection of SAGE's authoritative and award-winning encyclopedias (46) within the social sciences, psychology and education.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text | 1985-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: EBSCOhost
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Contents/Info: The world's most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for more than 415 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus. Of those, nearly 250 have cover-to-cover indexing in SPORTDiscus. With more than 700,000 full-text articles dating back to 1985, SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of sports and sports medicine literature.

Student Research Center | Full Text | Vendor: EBSCOhost
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Contents/Info: Designed for grades 6-12.  Includes Columbia Encyclopedia and MAS Ultra - School Edition which contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, more than 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags.

Urban Studies & Planning: A SAGE Full-Text Collection | Full Text | CSA
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Contents/Info: Provides access to the full text of 12 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 37 years, and encompasses over 2,500 articles. It covers such subjects as Anthropology, Economic Development, Economics, Education, Environmental Science, Planning Pedagogy, Planning Practice, Planning Theory, Policy Analysis, Political Science, Public Administration, Regional Geography, Regional Science, Residential and Community Development, Social, Spatial, and Cultural Dynamics, Sociology, Urban and Regional Planning, Urban Culture, Urban Geography, Urban Policy, Urban Politics, and Welfare Economics.

Wiley InterScience | Some Full Text | Vendor: Wiley 
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Contents/Info: More than 300 online publications for researchers and professionals.   

WilsonWeb  | Vendor: H.W. Wilson
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Contents/Info:
A collection of databases provided by HW Wilson.

The World of Learning | Full Text | Vendor: Europa Publications
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Contents/Info: The World of Learning is a directory of international scope that provides information on learned societies, research institutions, libraries, museums, and universities. Subject divisions include academies, learned societies, research institutes, libraries and archives, museums and art galleries, universities, schools of art and music, and colleges of technology. It provides contact information for more than 200,000 faculty, staff and officials at these institutions. It is updated throughout the year.
[Due to state budget cuts, this resource will no longer be available after August 31, 2008.]

WorldCat Dissertations and Theses | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: Provides access to to over 5 million records of dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries catalogs in the WorldCat database. Many theses are available electronically, at no charge, directly from the publishing institution.


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