FAU Libraries Databases by Title: P

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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.

The Philosopher's Index | 1940-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: The Philosopher's Index is a bibliographic database with informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. The literature covered goes back to 1940 and includes journal articles, books, book chapters such as contributions to an anthology, and book reviews.  

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.

PILOTS (Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress) | 1871-present  | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: PILOTS is a bibliographic database produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in White River Junction, Vermont, and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, while offering both current and retrospective coverage. Document types covered include journals, books, book chapters, pamphlets, technical reports, and materials in all languages.

Pittsburgh Courier see Historical Pittsburgh Courier | 1911-2002 |  Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info: This database offers full page and article images with searchable full text. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Plant Science  | 1994-present  | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Plant Science is a bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts of scientific literature on plant science, focusing on all plant scientific aspects, especially on pathology, symbiosis, biochemistry, genetics, biotechnology, techniques and environmental biology.

Play Index | Antiquity-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
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Contents/Info:  Search over 44,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present. An invaluable aid to finding the perfect plays to match your production resources, Play Index covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama.

Plunkett Research | Some Full Text  | Vendor: Plunkett Research, Ltd.
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Contents/Info: This resource provides industry sector analysis and research, industry trends and industry statistics. Subjects include competitive intelligence, account plan or sales guide data, market research, vertical industry marketing data, product strategy data, trends analysis, statistics, job search data, company profiles and executive lists.

Political Risk Yearbook Online  | Full Text | Vendor: PRS Group
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Contents/Info: Offers Country Reports on 106 countries providing political and economic risk analysis. [To access this resource, click on "Political Risk Yearbook" under "Online Subscriptions."]

Political Science: A SAGE Full-Text Collection  | Full Text | 1982-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info:  Includes the full-text of 19 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back twenty years, encompassing over 6,700 articles. It covers such subjects as General Political Science, American Government & Politics, Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Policy Studies, Political Communication, Peace / Conflict Studies, Presidential Studies, Political Theory / Philosophy, International Relations, and Area Studies.

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. 

Pre-CINAHL see CINAHL Plus with Full Text |  Vendor: EBSCO
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Contents/Info:  Pre-CINAHL has been integrated into CINAHL Plus with Full Text.

Prescriber's Letter   | Full Text | Vendor: Therapeutic Research Center
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Contents/Info: Practical alerts and advice, for prescibers, on developments in drug therapy. [Click on "Click to Login" button to access this database.]

Primate Lit  | Vendor: Wisconsin and Washington Primate Research Centers
Open Access
Contents/Info: The PrimateLit database provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. Coverage of the database spans 1940 to present and includes all publication categories (articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc.) and many subject areas (behavior, colony management, ecology, reproduction, field studies, disease models, veterinary science, psychology, physiology, pharmacology, evolution, taxonomy, developmental and molecular biology, genetics and zoogeography).

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.

Public Administration Abstracts |1974-present |  Vendor: EBSCO
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Contents/Info: Includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to public administration, including public administration research, public administration theory, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.

Publishers Directory | Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: The Publishers Directory is your one-stop resource for exhaustive coverage of approximately 30,000 U.S. and Canadian publishers, distributors and wholesalers.

PubMed/MEDLINE  | 1966-present | Vendor: National Library of Medicine
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Contents/Info: Combines Medline, the premier database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences with PreMedline, the database that provides basic citation information and abstracts before the full records are prepared and added to MEDLINE.