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This is a complete listing of Benner Library databases plus some eBook collections and individual ejournal titles.
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A to Z Maps
Service = World Trade Press
Online database of downloadable maps for university and college libraries. Includes a diverse range of maps, including modern outline, political, thematic, topographic, scientific, and animated maps, as well as tens of thousands of antique maps of the world, individual countries, holy lands, U.S. states, and U.S. towns and cities, in several digital formats. (All fulltext)
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A to Z World Business
Service = World Trade Press
Contains 100 Country Business Guides of 120 topics each, and 77 trade tools, It covers business formation, marketing, import/export, business culture, compliance, security, taxation, and hundreds of other topics. (All fulltext)
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AAS Historical Periodicals: Series 1: 1684-1820
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
EBSCO partners with American Antiquarian Society (AAS), the premier library documenting the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction, to provide digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912. This collection contains more than 500 titles dating from 1684 through 1820.: -- taken from publisher website (All fulltext)
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AAS Historical Periodicals: Series 2: 1821-1837
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection Series 2 presents over 1000 titles dating from 1821 through 1837. The series two is second of the five series created from serials holdings belonging to one of the premier repositories in the United States, the American Antiquarian Society and featuring about 6500 titles from the seventeenth through the late nineteenth century. The subject matter covered in Series 2 represents the Jacksonian Democracy era in history and is broad in scope and includes agriculture, entertainment, history, literary criticism, and politics -- taken from EBSCO descriptions. (All fulltext)
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AAS Historical Periodicals: Series 3: 1838-1852
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 3 presents over 1,800 titles dating from 1838 through 1852. Series 3 is the third of five series created from serials holdings of one of the premier repositories in the United States, the American Antiquarian Society. The themes presented in Series 3 reveal a rapidly growing young nation, where industrialization, the railroads, regional political differences, and life on the western frontier were daily realities. Subjects covered in the collection reach into every facet of American life, including science, literature, medicine, agriculture, women’s fashion, family life, and religion. -- taken from EBSCO desciption (All fulltext)
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AAS Historical Periodicals: Series 4: 1853-1865
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection - Series 4 presents over 1,100 titles dating from 1853 through 1865. Series 4 is the fourth of five series created from serials holdings of one of the premier repositories in the United States, the American Antiquarian Society. While the Civil War is a focal point of the collection, we also find a diverse record of the continuance of daily life for many Americans—both leading up to and during the war. News from the battlefront can be found, in addition to the usual breadth of subject matter found in previous collections that include science, literature, medicine, agriculture, women’s fashion, family life, and religion. --taken from EBSCO description (All fulltext)
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AAS Historical Periodicals: Series 5: 1866-1877
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 5 presents over 2,500 titles dating from 1866 through 1877. Series 5 is the fifth of five series created from serials holdings of one of the premier repositories in the United States, the American Antiquarian Society. The themes presented in Series 5 reflect a nation that persevered through a most difficult set of circumstances: a bloody civil war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives; the incorporation of the recently-freed African Americans into American life; a population that rapidly expanded into the Western territories. Broad subject areas covered in the collection reach into every facet of American life, including science, literature, medicine, agriculture, women’s fashion, family life, and religion. -- taken from EBSCO description (All fulltext)
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ABI/INFORM Collection
Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011
Business, Management and Trade - scholarly and trade journal articles, dissertations, market reports, industry reports, business cases and global and trade news (Some fulltext)
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ABI/INFORM Dateline
Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011
Local and regional business information - journal articles (Some fulltext)
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ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry
Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011
Trade, Industry-focused information - journal articles, market reports, industry reports and news (Some fulltext)
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Academic Search Complete
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost. (Some fulltext)
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AccessEngineering
Service = McGraw Hill Companies
An engineering reference tool for professionals, academics, and students that provides access to the world's best-known, most-used collection of authoritative, regularly updated engineering reference information. AccessEngineering also comprises dynamic online features, such as instructional, faculty made videos, calculators, interactive tables and charts, as well as personalization tools allowing users to organize crucial project information as they work. --taken from publisher site. (All fulltext)
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Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection
Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011
This database contains essential publications for information about the financial services industry, including accounting, tax, banking, and industry trends. --taken from publisher site (Some fulltext)
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AHFS Consumer Medication Information
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
AHFS Consumer Medication Information is a trusted source and recognized standard for patient drug information, available in both English and Spanish. Published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, AHFS includes more than a thousand drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers and has been a Top Ten Award Winner in the Department of Health and Human Services National Consumer Education Materials Contest. This content is updated monthly. --taken from EBSCO (All fulltext)
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American Chemical Society
Service = American Chemical Society
The American Chemical Society is the leading publisher of peer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences, serving scientific communities worldwide. Most of these journals are from 1996 to the present. (All fulltext)
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Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA)
Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011
Health services, social work, sociology and psychology - journal articlesThis database spans the literature of health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. The database abstracts and indexes over 500 journals and periodicals, from more than 16 countries. (Citation/abstract only)
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ArchiveGrid
Service = OCLC (305)
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. (Citation/abstract only)
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Art and Architecture in Video
Service = Alexander Street Press, LLC
A collection of documentaries and interviews illustrating the history, theory and practice of art, design and architecture. (Multimedia)
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Artemis Subcollection
Service = Cengage Learning
An integrated research experience, Artemis Literary Sources brings together Gale's Virtual Reference Library eBook titles as well as Drama Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Shakespearean Criticism. Enriched by features and design that breathes new life into the study of literature. This search includes Literature Criticism Online. (Some fulltext)
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ArticleFirst
Service = OCLC (305)
An OCLC FirstSearch multidisciplinary index of articles over 16,000 journals. It also provides a list of libraries that have the journal title for most journal issues. (Citation/abstract only)
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Asian & European Business Collection
Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011
This database provides information pertinent to the study of business and finance topics across Asia and Europe, including academic journals, newspapers, newswires, and magazines. --taken from Proquest description (Some fulltext)
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Atla Hist. Monographs: Series 1: to 1893
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Notice of name change: "By transforming its name from the acronym ATLA to the word Atla, the organization is both honoring what has been and preparing for what is to come." Series 1 presents more than 15,000 titles from 13th Century through the 1893 World Parliament of Religions. The historical time period of the collection reflects upon a time of great doctrinal, social, and organizational change. The collection includes many volumes in Aramaic, Arabic, Greek, Hebrew and other languages besides English, documenting the recovery of languages used during the biblical era and provides an in-depth view of the way that interest in, and knowledge of, biblical languages emerged during the nineteenth century, an important foundation for today's study and understanding of biblical languages. --taken from publisher site (All fulltext)
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Atla Hist. Monographs: Series 2: 1894-1923
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Notice of name change: "By transforming its name from the acronym ATLA to the word Atla, the organization is both honoring what has been and preparing for what is to come." Series 2 consists of nearly 15,000 titles published from 1894 through 1923. It presents a comprehensive picture of religion in America at the turn of the century. Subjects addressed include the conflict between religion and science, the growing interest in Eastern religions and other world religions, and significant shifts in the religious identification of Americans. --taken from publisher site (All fulltext)
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Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Notice of name change: "By transforming its name from the acronym ATLA to the word Atla, the organization is both honoring what has been and preparing for what is to come." Combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals. The ATLA Religion Database includes more than 555,000 article citations from more than 1,656 journals (518 currently indexed), more than 232,000 essay citations from over 16,700 multi-author works, and more than 511,000 book review citations. Full text is provided for more than 266,000 electronic articles and book reviews. This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association. --taken from publisher site (All fulltext)
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Bates' Visual Guide
Service = Wolters Kluwer
Bates' Visual Guide includes Bates' Physical Examination Videos and OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examinations) Clinical Skills Videos. These videos deliver head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques for assessment and clinical medicine. The site features more than 8 hours of video content. (Multimedia)
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Biblical Archaeology Society
Service = Biblical Archaeology Society
The Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS) disseminates information about archaeology in Bible lands through its bi-monthly magazine, Biblical Archaeology Review and at www.biblicalarchaeology.org. (All fulltext)
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Biblioboard
Service = BiblioLabs
eBooks available to anyone who is physically located in the state of Illinois, or who is a patron of an Illinois library. All full text. Collections include: Popup Picks: popular titles that change quarterly, Recovering the Classics, and other curated selections. (All fulltext)
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Birds of North America
Service = Cornell Lab of Ornithology
A comprehensive reference for the life histories of over 760 bird species that breed in the United States and Canada. Species accounts are written by ornithologists and other experts and are an essential reference for anyone with an advanced interest in birds. BNA accounts have always offered an in-depth, authoritative summary of scientific literature and media. However, in combination with the Macaulay Library and eBird, our restructured species accounts are now accompanied by new sounds, images, and video, and distributional maps and model output generated by eBird. --taken from publisher website (All fulltext)
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Black Thought and Culture
Service = Alexander Street Press, LLC
Black Thought and Culture contains 1,297 sources with 1,098 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. Where possible the complete published non-fiction works are included, as well as interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamplets, letters and other fugitive material. (All fulltext)
- Business Insights: Essentials
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Business Source Elite
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Provides full text coverage for nearly 1,100 business publications and economics journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,750 journals. Includes full text coverage dating from 1985, and detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies. Updated daily on EBSCOhost. (Some fulltext)
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Chicago Tribune (Historical)
Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011
(1849-2010) This database includes full page and article images with searchable full text for all issues of the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago Press & tribune, and Chicago Tribune up until 1996. Newer content is added periodically by the database publisher. Note: Benner Library has a current print subscription and retains three months. (All fulltext)
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Christian Periodical Index
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
The Christian Periodical Index indexes more than 130 English language periodicals over the period from 1976 to the present, containing over 200,000 records including both journal articles and reviews. The journals included cover a broad spectrum of knowledge, including the Christian aspects of science, literature, medicine, political science, music, philosophy, history, sociology, nursing, and education, representing a wide range of doctrinal positions within evangelical Christianity. (Some fulltext)
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Chronicle of Higher Education (EBSCO)
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and job listings for people in academe; the web site articles date from September 1989; also contains vibrant discussion forums, career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more. (All fulltext)
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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Service = Library of Congress
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1949 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress. --taken from publishers website (All fulltext)
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CINAHL Complete
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Comprehensive source for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 560 journals indexed in CINAHL. It has more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937. (All fulltext)
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ClasePeriodica
Service = OCLC (305)
ClasePeriodica, also called Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities, is an index of Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences, humanities, science and technology. Citations for 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English. Articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and more from journals edited in 24 Latin America and Caribbean countries plus publications focusing on Pan-American issues. (Citation/abstract only)
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Classic Sermon Index
Service = Classic Sermon Index, LLC
48,000+ Historic Sermons that are indexed by primary Biblical Text (Some fulltext)
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Classical Music in Video
Service = Alexander Street Press, LLC
1,000 hours of classical music performances and masterclasses captured on video approximately 1,500 performances in all. The collection contains performances of all forms of classical music, including major orchestral performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances, along with masterclasses and interviews with master teachers from around the world. (Multimedia)
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Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Cochrane Controlled Trials Register is a bibliography of controlled trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration and others, as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews. (Citation/abstract only)
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Cochrane Clinical Answers
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCAs) provide a readable, digestible, clinically focused entry point to rigorous research. They are designed to be actionable and to inform decision making at the point of care. (All fulltext)
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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews contains full text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare. Data is evidence-based medicine and is often combined statistically (with meta-analysis) to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies, each too small to produce reliable results individually. (All fulltext)
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Cochrane Methodology Register
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
The Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR) is a bibliography of publications which report on methods used in the conduct of controlled trials. It includes journal articles, books and conference proceedings; these articles are taken from the MEDLINE database and from hand searches. The database contains studies of methods used in reviews and more general methodological studies which could be relevant to anyone preparing systematic reviews. CMR records contain the title of the article, information on where it was published (bibliographic details), and in some cases, a summary of the article. CMR is produced by the UK Cochrane Centre, on behalf of the Cochrane Methodology Review Group. (Citation/abstract only)
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CollegeSource Online
Service = CollegeSource, Inc.
A virtual library representing over 37,519 College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format with 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools. Includes hyperlinked table of contents and index, weekly updates and a search feature that includes finding colleges by: major, enrollment, tuition, degrees, state, or affiliation. Includes profiles of every accredited college in U.S along with added links. (All fulltext)
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Communication and Mass Media
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
A research and reference resource encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. Cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for over 570 journals, and selected coverage of nearly 200 more. Includes full text for more than 450 journals. (Some fulltext)
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Consumer Health Complete
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Consumer Health Complete is a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. Consumer Health Complete provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. In addition, Consumer Health Complete includes the Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs. The database is updated on a weekly basis. (Some fulltext)
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CQ Researcher
Service = CQ Press
The CQ Researcher Online contains original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Controversial topics are addressed in a balanced, unbiased manner in the CQ tradition. (All fulltext)
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Credo Reference
Service = Credo
Credo Reference is a customizable ready-reference solution for learners and librarians. Its full-text, aggregated content covers every major subject from over 50 publishers of reference materials. (All fulltext)
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Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video
Service = Alexander Street Press, LLC
A collection of documentaries, training videos, and interviews illustrating the strategies, techniques, and experiences of professionals serving on the front lines of justice and public safety. (Multimedia)
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Criminal Justice Database
Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011
Comprehensive database of U.S. and international criminal justice journals. The database provides research support for students interested in careers in criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security. Periodicals (Some fulltext)
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Dissertations and Theses
Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011
Over 2 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Citations in more recent years include abstracts written by the author. More than 600,000 are available in native or image PDF formats for immediate free download. Coverage: 1861 - Current (Some fulltext)
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Early Church Texts
Service = Early Church Texts
Focusing on the first five centuries of the Christian Church, Early Church Texts provides over 230 on-site texts in the original language with English translations as well as links to information on over 800 people and themes. Contains links to a variety of sources, including primary texts, original language, and scholarly articles. (All fulltext)
- Ebook Central (Proquest)
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EBSCO eBook Collection
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Search the full text of high-quality book titles from academic publishers. Read online or save/email up to 60 pages (as .pdf). (All fulltext)
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EBSCO Host
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Dynamic list of all EBSCO databases including current trials. (Some fulltext)
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Education Database
Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011
Citations for over 745 top educational publications, including nearly 600 of the titles in full text. Covers not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics. Image articles include charts, tables, diagrams, and other graphics. (All fulltext)
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Education Research Complete
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Education Research Complete is a full-featured online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals, as well as full text for more than 750 journals, and includes full text for more than 100 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers. (All fulltext)
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EMQ (Evangelical Missions Quarterly)
Service = Missio Nexus
EMQ serves the worldwide missionary community by providing ministry focused articles on an array of issues. (All fulltext)
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Encyclopaedia Judaica
Service = Cengage Learning
Provides exhaustive and organized encyclopedic overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature. (All fulltext)
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Entrepreneurship Database
Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011
Entrepreneurship - journal articles, videos, market data, books, templates, plans, periodicals, scholarly material & moreThis database bridges theory with practice, covering a wide spectrum of resources useful to educators, researchers, students and practitioners. Content ranges from the scholarly - including journals, dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings - to a full toolkit of practical guides, templates, forms, sample business plans and tips from successful entrepreneur in a wide range of formats - from video to downloadable Word and Excel files, as well as traditional text and PDFs. (Some fulltext)
- ERIC (EBSCO)
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European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered; from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery. The original bibliography was co-developed by John Alden and Dennis Landis, Curator of European Books at The John Carter Brown Library. The John Carter Brown Library, founded in 1846, is a foremost repository of rare books and materials and is a center for advanced research in history and the humanities. (Citation/abstract only)
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Explora - Educator's Edition
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Teacher based resources for Explora databases. (All fulltext)
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Explora - Primary School Search
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Supports both student research and classroom instruction with text-to-speech, reading level indicators, and curriculum standard modules for the primary levels. (All fulltext)
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Explora - Secondary School Search
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Supports both student research and classroom instruction with text-to-speech, reading level indicators, and curriculum standard modules for the secondary levels. (All fulltext)
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Filmakers Library Online
Service = Alexander Street Press, LLC
Provides documentaries with relevance across the curriculum race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide. (Multimedia)
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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains images, brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. (All fulltext)
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Gale in Context
Service = Cengage Learning
International viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Includes multimedia: podcasts, video, and interactive graphs. (All fulltext)
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
Service = Cengage Learning
Gale Virtual Reference Library offers you an online collection of premier reference eBooks. You can search a single eBook or across an entire eBook collection - a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Gale Virtual Reference Library (All fulltext)
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GeoRef
Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011
The GeoRef database, established by the American Geological Institute (AGI) in 1966, provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. The database contains over 3 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. It covers the geology of North America from 1669 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. The database includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Masters' theses and doctoral dissertations from US and Canadian universities are also covered. A subscription to the GeoRef database also includes access to the GeoRef In Process and a link to the GeoRef Preview database on the AGI web site. (Citation/abstract only)
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GeoScienceWorld
Service = GeoScienceWorld
GeoScienceWorld (GSW) is a nonprofit collaborative and comprehensive resource for research and communications in the Earth Sciences. GSW works with societies, institutions, and researchers around the world and provides a single source of access to 46 preeminent scholarly journals, 2,080+ eBooks, and over 4 million GeoRef records with specialized and map-based search capabilities and links to curated earth science research around the Web. --taken from website (All fulltext)
- Global Road Warrior
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GPO Monthly Catalog
Service = OCLC (305)
Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.). Includes a bibliographic citation in each record. (Citation/abstract only)
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GreenFILE
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records. (Some fulltext)
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Harper's Weekly
Service = Alexander Street Press, LLC
A 19th century illustrated newspaper, searchable by keyword, subject headings and additional finding aids. (All fulltext)
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Health and Psychosocial Instruments
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. (Citation/abstract only)
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Health Source Consumer Edition
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Provides access to more than 130 full text, consumer health magazines. This database also includes searchable full text for more than 1,000 health-related pamphlets and 130 health reference books, and more than 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); (Some fulltext)
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Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Features abstracts & indexing for nearly 850 journals (550 are full text and 450 are peer-reviewed) focusing on many medical disciplines. Text dates back to 1975. (Some fulltext)
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Historical Statistics of the United States
Service = Cambridge University Press
Revised five-volume reference work reflects thirty years of new data and scholarship up through the year 2000. Topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field. Users can graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets reflecting their own particular areas of interest. (All fulltext)
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Homeland Security Digital Library
Service = Center for Homeland Defense and Security
Over 85,100 documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management from a wide variety of sources including federal, state and local governments; international governments and institutions; nonprofit organizations and private entities. (All fulltext)
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Humanities E-Book
Service = American Council of Learned Societies
Fully searchable collection of 1000+ high-quality books in history from 75 publishers, recommended and reviewed by historians. (All fulltext)
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International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011
Anthropology, economics, political science and sociology - journal articles, books, reviewsThis database includes over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Over 2,800 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books are included each year. (Citation/abstract only)
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Issues and Controversies
Service = Infobase Learning
Analyzes and explains controversial topics with balance and accuracy, probing hot public policy issues. Covers more than 70 controversial topics yearly; online access includes frequent updating, interviews with experts, statistical overviews of major issues, selected newspaper editorials, editorial cartoons, primary documents, a directory of contact organizations and curriculum/study aids. (All fulltext)
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JStor
Service = JSTOR
An archive of scholarly journal historical issues of high-resolution, scanned images of journal articles as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived span many disciplines. JSTOR is not a current issues database so there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR. (All fulltext)
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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011
Theoretical and applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, etc. - journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papersThis database abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Documents indexed include journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers. (Citation/abstract only)
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Literature Criticism Online
Service = Cengage Learning
Full text literary criticism from the Drama Criticism and Short Story Criticism series. (All fulltext)
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Literature Online
Service = ProQuest - Chadwyck Healey
Literature Online contains the full text of over 355,000 literary works including poetry, prose, and drama. Many of the most essential literary criticism and reference resources are also included. (Some fulltext)
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Loeb Classical Library (Digital)
Service = Harvard University Press
A fully searchable, perpetually growing, and virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Including: Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; those Church Fathers who made particular use of pagan culture. Greek and Latin Classical heritage is represented with up-to-date texts and accurate English translations. More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts are available in a modern and elegant interface, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content with ease. -- Description modified from Loeb Classical Library website (All fulltext)
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MagillOnLiterature Plus
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Composed of 35,000 critical analyses of individual works, 6,500 biographical records, over 1,000 images, and a glossary of 1,310 terms, MagillOnLiterature Plus contains editorially reviewed critical essays, brief plot summaries, character profiles, and setting discussions covering works by more than 8,500 fiction writers, poets, dramatists, essayists, and philosophers, and also biographical essays reflecting coverage of 2,500 authors and their principal works and current secondary bibliographies. Also, 395 genre-driven overview essays provide details about literary genres, time periods, and national literatures. (All fulltext)
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Maps: Digital Sanborn Maps
Service = Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois
Sanborn maps are large-scale plans of a city or town, drawn at a scale of 50 feet to an inch. They were created to assist fire insurance companies as they assessed the risk associated with insuring a particular property. They list street blocks and building numbers - numbers in use at the time the map was made as well as previous historical numbers. (Multimedia)
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MAS Ultra School Edition
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for 84,774 biographies and 100,554 primary source documents. It contains more than 350 reference books, an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps, flags and color PDFs, and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines. (All fulltext)
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MasterFILE Premier
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. (Some fulltext)
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MathSciNet
Service = American Mathematical Society
Database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. Authors are uniquely identified, enabling a search for publications by author rather than by name. Contains over 2 million items and over 700,000 direct links to original articles. Bibliographic data from retro-digitized articles dates back to 1864. This web of citations allows users to track the history and influence of research publications in the mathematical sciences. (Citation/abstract only)
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Medline
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
MEDLINE with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for more than 1,370 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Of those, more than 1,340 have cover-to-cover indexing in MEDLINE, and of those, 528 are not found with full text in any version of Academic Search, Health Source or Biomedical Reference Collection. (Some fulltext)
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Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
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." (All fulltext)
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Military & Government Collection
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. It provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals plus full text for 245 pamphlets; it offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles. Many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. (Some fulltext)
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MLA Directory of Periodicals
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
The MLA Directory of Periodicals gives full information on over 7,100 journals and book series. (All fulltext)
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MLA International Bibliography
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
The MLA International Bibliography is a classified listing and subject index of scholarly books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics which has been compiled by the Modern Language Association of America since 1926. The electronic version includes the Bibliography's entire print run, and currently contains more than 2 million records. (Citation/abstract only)
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Naxos Music Library
Service = Naxos of America Inc.
Online classical music library that offers streaming access to more than 17,000 CDs with more than 250,000 tracks. Offers the catalogs of more than 50 classical, jazz and world music labels with more labels joining every month. World music content is provided by ARC, Celestial Harmonies and others; and there is also jazz, film music, nostalgia, classic and contemporary rock content. Resources offered by NML include synopses of over 700 operas, a pronunciation guide for composer and artist names and a glossary of musical terms. A comprehensive online encyclopedia of classical music is in development. Music for Kids allows primary school teachers to teach young children how to sing and dance and the Story of Classical Music is an interactive entry-level course on all aspects of classical music. Provides playing times of individual works or movements, detailed music notes, and opera libretti. Subscribers can also create personalized playlists. It can be searched by composer, work and label; by keyword search and by a sophisticated advanced search engine with up to 10 combined search criteria. (Multimedia)
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NAXOS Music Library Jazz
Service = Naxos of America Inc.
Naxos Music Library Jazz is one of the most comprehensive collections of Jazz music available online. Naxos Music Library Jazz comprises Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz along with Prophone and Proprius plus other independent labels. --taken from website (Multimedia)
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New York Times (Historical)
Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011
The New York Times (1851-2015) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Coverage: Sept 18, 1851-Dec 31, 2015. Note: For current access, use Benner Library's subscription database Nexis Uni. (All fulltext)
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Newspaper Source
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Full text for 40+ US and international newspapers plus selective full text for 389 regional US newspapers. Full text of TV and radio news transcripts. (All fulltext)
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Nexis Uni
Service = LexisNexis
Nexis Uni provides full text and citation access to information in the reference, business, medical, and legal disciplines. Newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings such as 10-K's and 10-Q's. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily. (All fulltext)
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Nursing & Allied Health Database
Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011
Reliable, comprehensive coverage of the fields of nursing and allied health including journals, evidence-based resources, video, dissertations, reference books and more (All fulltext)
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Nutrition Care Manual
Service = Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Provides disease-specific information and evaluation, printable client handouts, calculators that compute BMI/weight range, customization tools and more. (All fulltext)
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OAIster
Service = OCLC (305)
Contains digital resources from open archive collections, including digitized books and articles, born-digital texts, audio files, images, movies, and datasets. It represents multidisciplinary resources from more than 1000 contributors worldwide and the records contain a digital object link allowing users access to the object in a single click. (Citation/abstract only)
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OmniFile Full Text Select
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Full text-only database that contains a wealth of essential material for learning and research across the disciplines. Full-text articles are available from approximately 2,700 publications, many of which are peer-reviewed. (All fulltext)
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Open Dissertations
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Note: PDF fulltext links on this database are for the citation only not an actual copy of the fulltext article. An innovative approach to making significant open-access content more readily discoverable to end-users within and beyond academic institutions. This is a way to make students' theses and dissertations as widely visible and cited as possible. (Citation/abstract only)
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Oxford English Dictionary
Service = Oxford University Press
According to The Times, the Oxford English Dictionary is "the ultimate authority on the English language as well as a history of English speech and thought from its infancy to the present day." It is a unique source of scholarly information on the meaning, history and pronunciation of words both past and present. The OED provides authoritative definitions of over 500,000 words, traces the usage of words from their first recorded occurrence to the modern period through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international language sources, offers etymological analysis and detailed listings of variant spellings, and uses the International Phonetic Alphabet to show pronunciation. (All fulltext)
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PAIS Index
Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011
Public affairs, public and social policies, international relations - journal articles, books, government documents, statistics, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, microfiche, Internet material, etc.This resource covers issues in public policy, combining both PAIS Archive and PAIS International, with coverage from 1915 to present. Sources include journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material and more. The resource provides a broad perspective on social and public policies, from historical (Prohibition, civil rights, McCarthyism) to current (health policy, climate change, terrorism). (Citation/abstract only)
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PapersFirst
Service = OCLC (305)
PapersFirst is an OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide. It covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by the British Library Document Supply Centre. (Citation/abstract only)
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Philosopher's Index
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Produced by the Philosopher's Information Center, is a current and comprehensive bibliographic database covering scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. The Philosopher's Index, considered the most thorough index of journal literature on the subject, features author-written abstracts covering scholarly research published in journals and books, including contributions to anthologies and book reviews. The Philosopher's Index contains research published since 1940 including nearly 570 journals from 43 countries with content representing a variety of languages. (Citation/abstract only)
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Political Science Database
Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011
International relations and political science - journal articlesThis database gives users access to over 140 leading political science and international relations journals. This collection provides full-text of many core titles included in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. (Some fulltext)
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Proceedings
Service = OCLC (305)
An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings. Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre. Contains in each record a list of the papers presented at each conference. (Citation/abstract only)
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ProCon (through Credo)
Service = Credo
ProCon "provides the pros and cons of controversial issues shaping our society. Entries are supported with background information that delves into the issue, with pro and con arguments, verified facts and additional reading." --taken from publisher site (Some fulltext)
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Professional Development Collection
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles and contains more than 200 educational reports. The majority of full text titles included in the database are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in the Professional Development Collection dates as far back as 1965. (Some fulltext)
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ProQuest Databases
Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011
Combined search of the nine ProQuest databases to which Benner Library subscribes. (All fulltext)
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PsycARTICLES_EBSCO
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains approximately 150,000 articles from over 70 journals published by the APA, and its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychology Association and Hogrefe Publishing Group. (All fulltext)
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Publicly Available Content Database
Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011
Designed to complement other databases and collections, this database brings together or links to full text for publicly available content from a number of different sources from around the world. (Some fulltext)
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PubMed Central
Service = Department of Health & Human Services
The U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, providing free access to the full text of articles. (All fulltext)
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Regional Business News
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Included in this database are Arizona Business, Business North Carolina, Crain's New York Business (and other Crain Communications editions), Des Moines Business Record, Enterprise Salt Lake City, Fort Worth Business Press, Orange County Business Journal, Westchester County Business Journal, etc. (All fulltext)
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Religious & Theological Abstracts
Service = Religious & Theological Abstracts
Provides summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology, a list a wide variety of periodical literature (including Christian, Jewish, and other World religions), and English language abstracts of articles in English, Hebrew, Afrikaans, and major European languages. (Citation/abstract only)
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SAGE Knowledge eReference
Service = SAGE Publications, Inc.
Search available SAGE eReference Encyclopedias. (All fulltext)
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Salem Health
Service = Salem Press
Salem Health includes Salem Press five volume Magill's Medical Guide. an authoritative reference source that bridges the gap between medical encyclopedias and popular self-help guides. It is an up-to-date and easy-to-use compendium of medical information suitable for student research, general readers, patients and caregivers. The Guide covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders. Includes illustrations and sidebars, indexes, appendixes, and cross-references. (All fulltext)
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Salem History
Service = Salem Press
Includes the complete content of three printed reference series of historical reference: Milestone Documents - A new, primary source series, The Decades - Salem's critically acclaimed American history series, and Great Lives from History - The definitive, worldwide biographical resource. (All fulltext)
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Salem Literature
Service = Salem Press
Contains Critical Insights on various authors, themes, and works. Plus Magill’s Literary Annual (1977-present) which evaluate 200 works of serious literature published during the previous calendar year. (All fulltext)
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Salem Press eBooks
Service = Salem Press
A collection of ebook titles in Literature, History, Science, Health, and Careers. (All fulltext)
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Salem Science
Service = Salem Press
An online database that includes the complete content of printed science reference sets. (All fulltext)
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Saskia Art Images
Service = Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois
The collection contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, including images from many important collections: the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Uffizi, and the Louvre as well as archaeological sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey and Egypt. The images can be displayed and downloaded in high-resolution format. Descriptive data about the images includes references to the occurrences of these images in 19 major art history texts. (Multimedia)
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ScienceDirect
Service = Elsevier
Includes two journal collections: Health & Life Sciences College Edition and Physical Sciences College Edition. Both collections contain peer-reviewed full-text scientific, technical and medical content. Some of the articles support interactive elements such as audio, video, graphs, tables and images. Some content on ScienceDirect also features embedded links to external datasets, including earth and environmental science data from PANGAEA, abstract and indexing data from Scopus and chemical reactions data from Reaxys. Also included are pre-publication articles and open access content from Elsevier journals and their society partners. (Some fulltext)
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Social Science Database
Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011
Social sciences - journal articlesThis database includes over 535 titles, with more than 310 available in full text. Disciplines represented range from anthropology, sociology, political science to communication, education, criminology, demography, economics and more. (Some fulltext)
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SocINDEX
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
This research database offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse and other addictions, and violence. (Some fulltext)
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Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest)
Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011
International literature of sociology - journal articles, books, dissertations, etc.This database abstracts and indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers and working papers. Cited references are included for many journal articles. (Citation/abstract only)
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Sociology Database
Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011
Sociology and social work - journal articlesThis database covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction and more. This collection provides full-text coverage of many core titles included in Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts. (Some fulltext)
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SPORTDiscus
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for 550 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the SPORTDiscus index - with no embargo. With full-text coverage dating back to 1985, SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of sports & sports medicine literature. (All fulltext)
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Sports Medicine and Exercise Science in Video
Service = Alexander Street Press, LLC
Video collection in the areas of fitness and health assessment, disease management, injury treatment, nutrition, medical fitness, sport science, work-site wellness, exercise adherence, and much more. Developed through an exclusive partnership with Healthy Learning, the world's leading producer of sports medicine videos, the collection features an array of internationally renowned physicians, exercise scientists, certified athletic trainers, physical therapists, registered dieticians, sport psychologists, personal trainers, and health/wellness experts who share information, ideas, and insights on the principles, techniques, and modalities of modern exercise science and sports medicine. (Multimedia)
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Sports Nutrition Care Manual
Service = Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Research-based nutrition information written by authors who are Board Certified as Specialists in Sports Dietetics (CSSDs). (All fulltext)
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Springer eBooks
Service = Springer
Online book collection which includes online access to more than 25,000 titles comprised of 13 subject collections:Architecture and Design, Behavioral Sciences, Biomedical & Life Sciences, Business & Economics, Chemistry & Material Sciences, Computer Science, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Humanities, Social Sciences & Law, Mathematics & Statistics, Medicine, Physics & Astronomy, Professional & Applied ComputingThe books are searchable and can be accessed in pdf and html data formats. Reproductions can be purchased by students at a reasonable price. The collection is developed to support the scientific and academic researcher. (All fulltext)
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STAT!Ref
Service = Teton Data Systems
STAT!Ref ® is a healthcare e-source. It includes cross-searchable, full-text, top-tier titles in a breadth of healthcare disciplines from a wide variety of reputable authors, publishers and societies. (All fulltext)
- Statista
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Teacher Reference Center
Service = EBSCOadmin (databases)
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators. (Some fulltext)
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Teaching Books.net
Service = TeachingBooks.net LLC
TeachingBooks.net provides original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators and a wealth of multimedia resources on K-12 books that generate enthusiasm for books and reading. (You do not need to login to this page if you are an Olivet student or employee. Just begin your search.) (Multimedia)
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Theatre in Video
Service = Alexander Street Press, LLC
Collection of performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video. (Multimedia)
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TREN (Theological Research Exchange Network)
Service = Theological Research Exchange Network
TREN is a library of over 10,000 theological thesis/dissertation titles representing research from as many as 70 different institutions. It also makes available conference papers presented at annual meetings of several academic societies. (All fulltext)
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Wiley Online Library
Service = Wiley
Wiley Online Library hosts a multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It delivers integrated access to over 4 million articles from 1500 journals, almost 10,000 online books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases. (Some fulltext)
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World Catalog (WorldCat)
Service = OCLC (305)
OCLC catalog of books and other materials that libraries own worldwide. Contains all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Offers millions of bibliographic records, including records representing 400 languages. (Citation/abstract only)
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Service = ProQuest_Platform 2011
International political science and international relations - journal articles, books, dissertations and working papers (Citation/abstract only)
