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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.

Alternative Press Index (AltPressIndex) | 1991-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change.

Alternative Press Index Archive | 1969-1990 | Some Full Text | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change.

America: History and Life | 1964-present | Vendor: EBSCO
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Contents/Info: Covers United States and Canadian history from prehistory to the present.

American Memory  | Full Text | Vendor: Library of Congress
Open Access
Contents/Info: American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States.

American Periodical Series (APS) Online | 1740-1900 | Full Text |  Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info: Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.

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.

ArchiveGrid  (Formerly: Archival Resources) | Some Full Text | Vendor: Eureka
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Contents/Info: Search through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world.  Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies. [This resource will no longer be available due to state budget cuts beginning January 2008.]

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.

ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts| 1987-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info:  An indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Updated monthly, ASSIA provides a comprehensive source of social science and health information for the practical and academic professional.

Black Studies Center | Some Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info:  Black Studies Center brings together essential historical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. This resource is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more.  It combines several resources for research and teaching in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), The Chicago Defender, and the Black Literature Index.

Black Thought and Culture  | Colonial Times-1975 | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info:  This resource provides access to the published works of numerous historically important black leaders. Along with well-known works, the collection features approximately 5,000 pages of unique, fugitive, and never-before-published materials. Subjects indexed include colonialism, socialism, Marxism, democracy, capitalism, the Labor movement, segregation, poverty, education, religion, sharecropping, Jim Crow laws, the New Deal, the World Wars, the Black Liberation movement, the South, the Scottsboro and Herndon trials, black nationalism, miscegenation, the black athlete, civil rights, apartheid, the Black Panther party, the Negritude movement, the NAACP, birth control, the vote, urban ghettoes vs. the rural South, strategies of protest and demonstration, and hundreds more.

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 Databases  | Vendor: CRL 
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Contents/Info: An international not-for-profit consortium of colleges, universities and libraries that makes available scholarly research resources to users. Check with your interlibrary loan department for more information on availability of materials in this database.

The Center for Research Libraries' Ethnic Press Database   | Vendor: CRL 
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Contents/Info: Periodicals and newsletters by various ethnic groups in North America.

Chicago Defender see Historical Chicago Defender | 1910-1976 | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info: Black Studies Center provides the full text backfile, from 1910 to 1975, of the influential black newspaper The Chicago Defender. Robert Sengstacke Abbott founded the Defender in May 1905 and by the outbreak of the First World War it had become the most widely-read black newspaper in the country, with more than two thirds of its readership based outside Chicago. When Abbott died in 1940, his nephew John Sengstacke became editor and publisher of the Defender, which began publishing on a daily basis in 1956.

Chicano Database  | 1967-present | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: Covers all types of material on Mexican-American topics and about Chicanos including material on the broader Latino experience, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants.

Communication Abstracts  | 1977-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Communication Abstracts covers communication-related articles, reports, papers, and books from a variety of publishers, research institutions, and information sources. Coverage includes not only communication literature but also literature in other disciplines that is relevant to communication researchers. CA has recently expanded its coverage to include international literature in film studies, the role of technology in human communications, risk communication, crisis communication and public opinions. Major areas of coverage include: general communication, mass communication, advertising, marketing, broadcasting, communication theory, interpersonal and intrapersonal communication, small group communication, organizational communication, journalism, public relations, radio, public opinion, speech and television.

Communication Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection  | 1982-present | Full Text | 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 23 years, encompassing over 5,000 articles. It covers such subjects as Journalism, Public Opinion, Political Communication, Mass Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Cultural Studies / Intercultural Communication, Television / Film Studies, Media Studies, Business Communication, Organizational / Management Communication, Written Communication, Rhetoric, and Literacy Studies.

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.  

Criminal Justice Abstracts | 1968-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations, and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines.

Criminal Justice Periodicals   | 1981-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest Direct
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Contents/Info: Based on the print index, Criminal Justice Periodical Index (CJPI) provides cover-to-cover access for 45 criminal justice journals, plus complete abstracts for over 100 additional titles.

Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection   | 1982-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Includes the full-text of 23 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 23 years, encompassing over 5,500 articles. It covers such subjects as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.

Current Contents Connect  | 1998-present | Vendor: Institute for Scientific Information
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Contents/Info: Current Contents Connect provides access to current awareness research from seven broad disciplines.  [This resource will no longer available due to state budget cuts after December 31, 2007.]

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.

eHRAF World Cultures | 18th century-present | Full Text | Vendor: HRAF
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Contents/Info: A cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that the information is organized into cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level.

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 Eustace Williams  | Full Text | Vendor: FCLA
Open Access
Contents/Info: The Eric Eustace Williams Collection is both a bibliography and a growing library of digitized works by and about Dr. Williams, the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago who is often called "the father of the Nation". Dr. Williams' importance as an historic figure is as much as a philosopher as a politician. The works listed and collected here include Dr. William's many monographs and essays, together with his political speeches and other published works. Also included is a characterization of Dr. Williams' political life as reported by the Trinidad Guardian.

Essay and General Literature Index | 1985-present |  Vendor: H. W. Wilson
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Contents/Info:  Essay and General Literature Index is a bibliographic database that cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. More than 300 volumes are indexed annually. Additionally, more than 20 annuals and serial publications are indexed. Essay and General Literature Index also provides full bibliographic information on collective titles indexed. Essay and General Literature Index focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film.

Ethnic NewsWatch  | 1990-present | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest Direct
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Contents/Info: Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW full text titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.

Ethnic NewsWatch and Ethnic NewsWatch: A History  | 1960-present | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest Direct
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Contents/Info: Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW full text titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.

Eureka on the Web  | Vendor: Eureka
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Contents/Info: A collection of databases from the Research Libraries Group. [This interface for RLG databases is no longer available.  See FirstSearch.]

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.

Florida Memory Project | Full Text | Vendor: State Archives of Florida
Open Access
Contents/Info: The Florida Memory Project presents a selection of historical records that illustrate significant moments in Florida history, educational resources for students of all ages and archival collections for historical research. The Project utilizes selected original records, photographs and other materials from the collections of the State Library and Archives of Florida.

Floridiana on the Web | Full Text | Vendor: FCLA
Open Access
Contents/Info: Floridiana on the Web is a unique and dynamic website devoted to the history and culture of Florida, focusing primarily on the Tampa Bay Region. "Floridiana" provides resources for Florida students ranging from kindergarten to the university level, as well as for scholars of any age, anywhere, who have an interest in the history of Florida. It includes images, documents, E-Books, and audio & video recordings drawn from collections held throughout the USF Libraries.

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974-1996 | 1974-1996 | Full Text | Vendor: Readex
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Contents/Info: FBIS Daily Reports consists of translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals and government statements from nations around the globe.

FRANCIS  | 1984-present | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: Indexes journals, books, dissertations, and other American and European sources covering the humanities, social sciences, and economics. 

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.

Handbook of Latin American Studies  | 1990-present  | Vendor: Library of Congress
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Contents/Info: Contains records describing books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American studies and edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Covers social sciences and humanities.

HarpWeek | 1857-1912 | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info: This resource provides electronic access to Harper's Weekly: 1857-1912.

Historical Abstracts  | 1954-present |  Vendor: EBSCO
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Contents/Info: Indexes journals covering the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in a companion database America: History and Life)

Historical Chicago Defender | 1910-1975 | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info: Black Studies Center provides the full text backfile, from 1910 to 1975, of the influential black newspaper The Chicago Defender. Robert Sengstacke Abbott founded the Defender in May 1905 and by the outbreak of the First World War it had become the most widely-read black newspaper in the country, with more than two thirds of its readership based outside Chicago. When Abbott died in 1940, his nephew John Sengstacke became editor and publisher of the Defender, which began publishing on a daily basis in 1956.

Historical New York Amsterdam News | 1962-1993 | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info: The Amsterdam News was founded as a six-page weekly covering local news by James Henry Anderson in 1909. Under the ownership of C. B. Powell and Philip M. H. Savory from 1938, it became the largest black community weekly in the United States. Contributors to the newspaper have included W. E. B. Du Bois, Roy Wilkins and Malcolm X.

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine  | 1975-present | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: Contains records describing journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, medicine and allied historical fields. Citations reflect the contents of more than 1,000 journals, and partial contents of several hundred more.

History Resource Center: U.S. | Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: Contains a vast collection of primary sources, magazine and newspaper articles, and reference works covering U.S. history.

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.

Human Relations Area Files: eHRAF Collection of Ethnography see eHRAF World Cultures | 18th century-present | Full Text | Vendor: HRAF
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Contents/Info: A cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that the information is organized into cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level.

Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective | 1907-1984 | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
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Contents/Info:  This resource is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals. Subjects include Addiction Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Area Studies, Art, Classical Studies, Communications, Community Health & Medical Care, Corrections, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Dance, Economics, Environmental Studies, Ethics, Family Studies, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, Geography, Gerontology, History, International Relations, Journalism, Law, Linguistics, Literary & Social Criticism Literature, Minority Studies, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Planning & Public Administration, Policy Sciences, Political Science, Psychiatry, Psychology, Public Welfare, Religion and Theology, Social Work, Sociology, and Urban Studies.

Humanities Full Text  | 1984-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
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Contents/Info:  Subject areas include archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary and social criticism literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology. Full-text coverage begins in January 1995.

InfoTrac 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.

Inside Information - PLUS  | Vendor: Eureka
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Contents/Info: Indexes the most-requested journal titles from the British Document Supply Centre and covers all topics.  [This resource will no longer be available via Eureka after September 1, 2007.]

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research | Some Full Text  | Vendor: University of Michigan
Open Access
Contents/Info: An archive of computer-based research and instructional data for the social sciences administered by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.

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)

Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC)  | Vendor: ARL
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Contents/Info: A searchable Web database that provides access to the tables of contents of more than 800 journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America.

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.]

LGBT Life with Full Text | Some Full Text | Vendor: EBSCO
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Contents/Info: This resource contains all of the content available in LGBT Life as well as full text for 50 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens of full text monographs. The database includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBT Thesaurus containing over 6,400 terms. Full text content available in LGBT Life with Full Text includes The Advocate, Gay Parent Magazine, Girlfriends, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies, James White Review, ISNA News, Ladder, Lesbian Tide, New York Blade, ONE, Tangents, Washington Blade, and many more.

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.

Mental Measurements Yearbook | 9th to 16th Yearbooks July 2004 | Some Full Text | Vendor: OVID
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Contents/Info: Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains full text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed "Mental Measurements Yearbooks."

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.

NASW Clinical Register  | 2005, 13th ed. | Full Text | Vendor: National Association of Social Workers
Open Access
Contents/Info: The NASW Register of Clinical Social Workers, 13th Edition provides a listing of clinical social workers who have met national standards for education and experience established by the NASW Competence Certification Commission on recommendation of the Committee on Clinical Social Work.

The Nation Archive | 1865-present | Full Text | Vendor: EBSCO
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Contents/Info: The Nation is America's oldest weekly magazine and one if its premier journals of opinion since its inception in 1865. The Nation has long been regarded as one of the country's definitive journalistic voices of writing on politics, culture, books and the arts and continues to stand as the independent voice in American journalism. James Baldwin, Ralph Nader and Hunter Thompson published their first pieces in The Nation. Other contributors have included Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Emma Goldman and Jean-Paul Sartre. The Nation has a proud literary history as well, having published the work of W.H. Auden, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Henry James, Willa Cather, Thomas Mann and hundreds of other major writers. This database contains indexing & abstracting and full text for the complete archive of The Nation beginning with its first issue in 1865 through to the present.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) | Full Text | Vendor: U.S. Department of Justice
Open Access
Contents/Info:  The NCJRS web site is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts | 1975-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info:  Published by the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice's National Criminal Justice Reference Service, an information clearinghouse for people around the U.S. and the world involved with research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control. This resource ontains summaries of over 189,000 U.S. and international publications, including federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, audiovisual presentations, and unpublished research. The NCJRS Abstracts Database excludes most legal decisions, opinions, and statutes. The collection has been developed to meet the needs of criminal justice professionals, researchers, policymakers, and technical and legal experts. Unique elements of the collection include agency produced documents and final grant reports of Office of Justice Programs sponsored research. Documents are either written in English or have an English-language summary.

New York Amsterdam News see Historical New York Amsterdam News | 1922-1994 | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info: The Amsterdam News was founded as a six-page weekly covering local news by James Henry Anderson in 1909. Under the ownership of C. B. Powell and Philip M. H. Savory from 1938, it became the largest black community weekly in the United States. Contributors to the newspaper have included W. E. B. Du Bois, Roy Wilkins and Malcolm X.

The Official Index to the Times (1906-1980)  | 1906-1980 | Vendor: Chadwyck-Healey Ltd
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Contents/Info: A collection of short index entries from the 296 printed volumes of the Official Index to the London Times which covers the years 1906-1980 inclusive. Coverage includes all issues of The Times, The Sunday Times, and supplements.

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.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center | 2003-present | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ProQuest Direct  | Some Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info: Provides access to ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry, Criminal Justice Periodicals and ProQuest Newspapers.

PsycARTICLES  | 1988-present | Full Text | Vendor: APA
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Contents/Info: 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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Contents/Info:  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.

RLG ArchiveGrid (Formerly: Archival Resources) see ArchiveGrid  | Some Full Text | Vendor: Eureka
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Contents/Info: Search through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world.  Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies. [This resource will no longer available due to state budget cuts beginning January 2008.]

Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies  | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: A unique and rich new source of information for students and specialists in Slavic studies and social sciences about materials published in the Commonwealth of Independent States and Eastern Europe.

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.

Sage Full-Text Collections  | 1982-present | Full Text | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Provides access to Communication Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection; Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection; Politics and International Relations: A SAGE Full-Text Collection; Sociology: A SAGE Full- Text Collection; and Urban Studies & Planning: A SAGE Full-Text Collection.

SimplyMap | Full Text | Vendor: Geographic Research, Inc.
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Contents/Info: SimplyMap is an Internet-based mapping application that enables users to develop interactive thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables. Since there is some training required in order to understand a few concepts related to mapping, we highly recommend that you watch our 6 minute training video to get the most out of SimplyMap. The training video can be accessed by clicking on the "Tutorial" link in the top right corner of SimplyMap. [Users will be asked to create a personal workspace the first time they log-in to SimplyMap.  This resource is limited to 5 concurrent users.]

Social Sciences  | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Search multiple databases covering social sciences.

SOCIAL SCIENCES CITATION INDEX see Web of Science  | 1956-present  | Vendor: Institute for Scientific Information
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Contents/Info: A unique citation database which allows searching cited references as well as traditional searches independently or in combination with Science Citation Index Expanded and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

Social Sciences Full Text  | 1983-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
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Contents/Info:  Subject areas include addiction studies, anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, corrections, criminal justice, criminology, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law, minority studies, planning and public administration, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, sociology, and urban studies. Full text coverage begins in January 1995.

Social Services Abstracts  | 1980-present  | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.

 Social Work Abstracts  | 1977-present | Vendor: SilverPlatter ERL
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Contents/Info: Contains more than 45,000 records, spanning 1977 to the present, from social work and other related journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization, and more.  [Access to this database is no longer available.  Please see SocINDEX with Full Text.]  

SocINDEX with Full Text | 1895-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: EBSCOhost
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Contents/Info: The world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 1,660,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 344 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 129 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 700 books and monographs, and full text for 6,800 conference papers.

Sociological Abstracts  | 1952-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

Sociology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection  | 1982-present | Full Text | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Includes the full-text of 33 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 24 years, encompassing over 12,700 articles. It covers such subjects as Childhood, Contemporary Sociology, Comparative Sociology, Consumer Culture, Classical Sociology, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Leisure Studies, Social Theory, Sociology of Sport, and Sociology of Work and Employment (Labor Studies).

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.

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.

Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex, and the Family  | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press 
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Contents/Info: Brings together the instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards of personal conduct for millions of Americans and reflected the prevailing social mores across the twentieth century. When complete, the collection will contain 150,000 pages of fully searchable handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books that illustrate both how Americans actually behaved and how they felt they ought to behave.

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.

 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. 

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

Women and Social Movements in the United States Scholar's Edition | 1600-2000 | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info: The resource, which examines perspectives on women’s social movements from Colonial times to the present, brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women’s reform activities.  This edition includes the Women's Commission Reports.

Women's Studies International | 1972 (& earlier)-present |  Vendor: EBSCO
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Contents/Info: This database covers the core disciplines in Women's Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research.  This resource includes the following database files: Women Studies Abstracts, Women’s Studies Bibliography Database, Women’s Studies Database, Women Studies Librarian, Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research, and Women’s Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography.

World Development Indicators (WDI) | Vendor: The World Bank
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 Contents/Info: WDI publication is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. The 2007 WDI includes more than 900 indicators in over 80 tables organized in six sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links.

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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