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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.

ACS (American Chemical Society) Journals | 1879-present | Full Text | Vendor: ACS
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Contents/Info: Articles relevant to chemistry and information in the life sciences.

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.

Agricultural Sciences | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info:  Search multiple databases covering agricultural sciences.

American Institute of Physics (AIP) Journals | 1985-present | Full Text |  Vendor: AIP
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Contents/Info: Provides access to full text physics journal articles.

American Mathematical Society Journals: | Full Text | Vendor: AMS
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Contents/Info: Provides access to both pure and applied research in mathematics.

American Museum of Natural History Scientific Publications  | Full Text | Vendor: American Museum of Natural History
Open Access
Contents/Info: AMNH scientific publications disseminate the results of laboratory investigations and fieldwork conducted by museum scientists and their colleagues in the areas of zoological systematics, paleontology, geology, evolution, and anthropology.

American Physical Society (APS) Journals | Full Text | Vendor: APS
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Contents/Info: Access to full text APS journals.

Anthropology Plus | 19th Century-present | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers excellent coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.

AnthroSource | Full Text | Vendor: AAA
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Contents/Info: Provides digital access to current issues regarding 11 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Anthropology and Humanism, Archaeological Publications of the American Anthropological Association, Cultural Anthropology, Ethos, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, NAPA Bulletin and PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review; A complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003; Seamless access to archival content housed at JSTOR for key AAA publications; Newsletters and bulletins.

Applied Science and Business Periodicals Retrospective  | 1913-1983 | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
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Contents/Info:  This index provides a single resource for seven decades of articles on the most important events, issues and trends in the history of business and industry (including the complete file of Industrial Arts Index (1913-1957), plus the most important historical sources in the applied science and technology field for the 20th Century.

Applied Science and Technology Full Text  | 1983-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: H.W. Wilson
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Contents/Info: Indexes the latest findings in every area of science, engineering, and technology covering trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals. Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in March 1993.  Full Text coverage begins in 1997.

Aquatic Sciences | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info:  Search multiple databases covering aquatic sciences.

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.

ASFA 2: Ocean Technology, Policy and Non-Living Resources | 1978-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info:  Citations cover all aspects of oceanography.

Blackwell Synergy see Wiley InterScience | Full Text | Vendor: Wiley
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Contents/Info: Online full text access to selected journals published by Blackwell Science and Munksgaard Presses. Your library may not subscribe to all journal titles offered through this site. [Blackwell Synergy has merged into Wiley InterScience. All Blackwell Synergy  journals can be found in Wiley InterScience as of June 30, 2008.]

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.

Cambridge Journals Online  | Full Text | Vendor: Cambridge
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Contents/Info: Provides access to full text journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. [Select "Subscribed Journals" from the first dropdown menu]

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts  | Some Full Text | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Content coverage includes the life sciences, environmental, aquatic sciences, social sciences, computer technology and engineering.

The Center for Research Libraries Catalog  | Vendor: CRL 
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Contents/Info:
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is an international consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries. Collection highlights include:  6,500 international newspapers; 2,500 U.S. newspapers, many dating to the colonial era; and 2,000 ethnic titles indexed by language, state, culture, etc.  Also included are more than 38,000 international journals rarely held in U.S. and Canadian libraries, more than 800,000 non-U.S./non-Canadian doctoral dissertations, and major collections from Africa, Latin America, Middle East, Europe, Asia, and Southeast Asia.  As a member library, FAU provides free access to materials held by CRL.  Check with your interlibrary loan department for more information on availability of materials from CRL.

Copper Data Center Database  | 1965-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Provides an online bibliographic database of the world's literature on copper, copper alloys and copper technology. 

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics  | Full Text | Vendor: CRC Press LLC
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Contents/Info:
The most widely used source of data for chemists, physicists, and professionals in related fields of science. The Handbook provides broad coverage of all types of data commonly encountered by physical scientists and engineers.

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.

Earth and Environmental Sciences  | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: 
Search multiple databases covering earth and environmental sciences.

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.

EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements  | 1985-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements presents the key issues from complex government-released environmental impact statements, converting massive documents into concise, readable abstracts.

Elsevier Science Direct  | Full Text | Vendor: Elsevier 
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Contents/Info: 1,100+ scholarly journals in engineering, science, and social science disciplines.

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.

Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management | 1981-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management provides abstracts from over 6000 scientific journals and thousands of other sources, including conference proceedings, reports, books, and government publications in the environmental sciences.

Environmental Studies and Policy Collection | 1980-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: Gale Cengage 
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Contents/Info: Provides coverage of the field of environmental issues and policy, including nearly 200 journals.

Everglades Online | Some Full Text | Vendor: FCLA
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Contents/Info: A database which indexes resource material from articles, to books, to web sites of courses useful for studying the Everglades.

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.

Florida Environments Online (FEOL) | Full Text | Vendor: FCLA
Open Access
Contents/Info: The core of Florida Environments Online database consists of eight merged research bibliographies including 1) Florida Ecosystems 2) Florida Ornithology, 3) Fishes of Florida, 4) Florida Herpetology, 5) Florida Geology, 6) Bibliography of Literature Useful to the Study of Florida Plants - and the Herbarium Library of Books and Reprints, 7) Florida FreshWater Bibliography, and 8) Florida Agricultural History.

Florida Geological Survey Publications (FGS)  | Full Text | Vendor: FCLA
Open Access
Contents/Info: This collection consists of publications of the Florida Geologic Survey, including Bulletins, Reports and Maps.

General Science Full Text  | 1984-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: H.W. Wilson
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Contents/Info:
This database covers such areas as astronomy, atmospheric science, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, earth science, environment, food, genetics, health, mathematics, medicine, microbiology, nutrition, oceanography, physics, physiology, and zoology.  Full text coverage begins in January 1995.

GEOBASE  | 1980-present | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: Contains citations with abstracts covering worldwide literature on geography, geology, ecology, international development, and their related disciplines.

GeoRef  | 1785-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Contains earth science references and the index terms that describe them. Indexes many journals in 40 languages as well as new books, maps, and reports.

Human Population & Natural Resource Management | 1995-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: The database deals with issues arising from the conflict between the ever-increasing population of the Earth and the Earth's limited environmental and natural resources. Human Population & Natural Resource Management explores human population and demography topics, as well as societal issues involving natural resource management. Coverage includes relevant papers, reports, books and reviews from standard peer-reviewed scientific journals. To ensure comprehensive coverage, material from conference proceedings and hard-to-find gray literature has also been summarized.

INSPEC  | 1970-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: Florida Center for Library Automation
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Contents/Info: Includes Physics Abstracts, Computer and Control Abstracts, and Electrical and Electronics Abstracts. The largest English language file of bibliographic information and abstracts on the world's output of published works in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computing, and information technology. Covers scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings. Includes some books, reports, and dissertations.

IOPscience | Full Text | Vendor: IOP
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Contents/Info: Provides access to scientific, medical and technical journals hosted by IOP (Institute of Physics).

ISI Citation Databases see  Web of Science | Vendor: Institute for Scientific Information
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Contents/Info: Three unique citation databases which allow searching cited references as well as traditional searches independently or in combination: the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

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)

Linking Florida's Natural Heritage  | Full Text | Vendor: SUS Digital Library
Open Access
Contents/Info: LIBRARY COLLECTIONS: Everglades Online; Florida Environments Online; FORMIS Ant Bibliography; LFNH Core Collection; Sea Turtle Bibliography; SUS Library Catalogs MUSEUM COLLECTIONS: Icthyology Collection (Florida Museum of Natural History); Herpetology Collection (Florida Museum of Natural History); Bird Specimen Collection (Tall Timbers Research Station) (For information about the collections click here).

MathSciNet  | 1940-present | Vendor: AMS
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Contents/Info: American Mathematical Society's Mathematical Reviews on the web including Current Mathematical Publications. Provides timely reviews or summaries of articles and books that contain new contributions to mathematical research.

Muse see Project Muse | Full Text | Vendor: Johns Hopkins University Press
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Contents/Info: 300+ scholarly journals in humanities, mathematics and social science disciplines.

Oceanic Abstracts   |1981 - present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Oceanic Abstracts is focused exclusively on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment. The journal has long been recognized as a leading source of information on topics relating to oceans.

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.

Oxford Journals Online (OUP)  | Full Text | Vendor: Oxford University Press
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Contents/Info: Online fulltext access to journals published by the Oxford University Press. Your library may not subscribe to all journal titles offered through this site.

Oxford Reference Online   | Full Text | Vendor: Oxford University Press
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Contents/Info: A comprehensive resource that contains over 100 dictionaries and reference titles covering general reference, language, science, medicine, humanities, the social sciences, business and professional.

Pollution Abstracts  | 1981-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Indexes broad scientific research pertaining to all forms of pollution including air, water, waste, radioactive material and toxic emissions, as well as land and noise. 

Project Muse  | Full Text | Vendor: Johns Hopkins University Press
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Contents/Info: 300+ scholarly journals in humanities, mathematics and social science disciplines.

PROLA: Physical Review Online Archive  | 1893-present | Vendor: APS
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Contents/Info:
Indexes all APS (American Physical Society) journal material published from 1893 to the present.

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.

 Risk Abstracts | 1990-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Risk Abstracts encompasses risk arising from industrial, technological, environmental, and other sources, with an emphasis on assessment and management of risk. 

Safety Science and Risk Abstracts  | 1981 - present | Vendor: CSA
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Provides comprehensive, timely information across the fields of public health, safety, and industrial hygiene.

Science Direct see Elsevier Science Direct  | 1945-present | Full Text | Vendor: Elsevier
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Contents/Info: 1,100+ scholarly journals in engineering, science, and social science disciplines.

SciFinder - New Web Version  | Full Text | Vendor: CAS
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Contents/Info:  Provides comprehensive chemical and related scientific information including journal articles, patents, chemical reactions, and chemical regulatory data. Note:  Users must register for the web version.  Click here for FAU's registration page.

SciFinder Scholar    | Full Text | Vendor: CAS
This resource is now accessible both on and off-campus.  Click on the "SciFinder Scholar" link above for access instructions.
Contents/Info:  Provides comprehensive chemical and related scientific information including journal articles, patents, chemical reactions, and chemical regulatory data.  [See SciFinder Scholar Conditions]. Note: SciFinder Scholar is incompatible with IE 8.  See "Compatibility View Settings" workaround.

SpringerLINK  | Full Text | Vendor: Springer
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Contents/Info: Provides access to scholarly journals in business, law, medicine, humanities, science, and social science disciplines. This resource also provides access to the following book series: Lecture Notes in Physics and Topics in Current Chemistry .

Synergy see Wiley InterScience  | Full Text | Vendor: Blackwell
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Contents/Info: Online fulltext access to selected journals published by Blackwell Science and Munksgaard Presses. Your library may not subscribe to all journal titles offered through this site.[Synergy has merged into Wiley InterScience. All Synergy  journals can be found in Wiley InterScience as of June 30, 2008.]

Water Resources Abstracts  | 1967-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Water Resources Abstracts provides summaries of the world's technical and scientific literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources.

 Web of Knowledge  | Vendor: Institute for Scientific Information
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Contents/Info: Provides access to the Web of Science databases and MEDLINE.

 Web of Science | Vendor: Institute for Scientific Information
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Contents/Info: Three unique citation databases which allow searching cited references as well as traditional searches independently or in combination: the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

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

Wilson Science Complete  | Some Full Text | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
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Contents/Info: Searches all three H. W. Wilson science databases: Applied Science and Technology Full Text, General Science Full Text, and Biological and Agricultural Index Plus.

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

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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