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- Provides abstracts, full-text, and/or full-text with images
of records of articles taken from over 1,000 business journals. Also features 27 national newspapers.
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A 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,
Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the
New York Times back to 1995.
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Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
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Access Science is an updated database version of the McGraw-Hill
Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. The database offers full access to
more than 7100 articles and 115,000 dictionary terms, new and revised content
from the Encyclopedia's editors and contributors, recent research developments
and updates, biographies of scientists, and learning resources and study guides.
- Provides indexing to the wealth of accounting and tax literature. Selected titles within this collection are available in full-text format.
- Contains full-text articles from ACM journals, magazines, and conference proceedings since 1991, Table of
contents from ACM journals and magazines since 1985, and citations to articles published in conference proceedings from 1985 to 1996.
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ADMYTE ( CD-ROM; Ask at Reference Desk)
Archivo Digital de Manuscriptos y Textos Espanoles: Images and text of medieval
Spanish manuscripts and early imprints. The series will ultimately
include all texts written in Castellan prior to 1615.
- Includes the complete text of major 19th century African-American newspapers. Also included are early biographies, essays and editorials and vital statistics in 8 works such as Freedman's Journal (1827-1830), The North Star (1847-1851) and Frederick Douglass Paper (1851-1859).
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The database provides students, scholars and librarians with online access to the finest reference resources in African American studies. At its core, AASC features the new
Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895 ; Black Women in America,
and the highly acclaimed Africana, a five-volume history of the African and African American experience. The Center also includes the
African American National Biography project (estimated at 8 volumes); and the
Encyclopedia of African American Art and Architecture. In addition to these major reference works, AASC offers other key resources from Oxford's reference program, including the
Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature and selected articles from other reference works.
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AGRICOLA * [1970 - Updated
monthly]
Features records that describe publications and resources encompassing all
aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines. Produced by the National
Agricultural Library.
- Indexes over 200 journals from the alternative, radical and left presses, newspapers and magazines covering cultural, economic, political
and social change. Includes selected abstracts from research journals.
- A complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States
and Canada from prehistory to the present. The database also includes citations
and links to book and media reviews.
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Provides information on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. Some of the many subjects covered include: anthropology, culture & the arts, economics, education, and geography. Sources indexed include journals, books, dissertations, online resources and selected government publications published in the U.S. and Canada.
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Biographical resource on more than 18,000 people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. The
ANB Online features thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search capabilities. All articles originally included in the
ANB Online were on biographical subjects who died before the end of 1995.
Articles on important figures who have died since 1995 are being added in
quarterly updates.
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APS Online will span 7 million pages of content, from the first American
magazines, published in 1741, to the World War II period--200 years of American
history as recorded in magazines, journals and newspapers. Covers the fields of
religion, science, political science, history as well as related disciplines. Articles may be printed or downloaded in Adobe® PDF.
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American Sign Language Dictionary
(CD-ROM; Ask at Reference Desk)
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A digital collection of early American newspapers from 1690 to 1922, that includes the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1860-1920.
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Anglo-Saxons (CD-ROM; Ask at Reference
Desk)
An interactive multimedia CD on the exploration of the Anglo-Saxons' art,
literature and way of life. It examines many objects in the British Museum and
includes some important historical written materials and data about
archaeological sites from the period.
- Provides a survey of all important journals dealing with the biology of particular taxonomic groups. Significant papers relevant to animal behavior, with subjects ranging from neurophysiology to behavioral ecology, from genetics to applied ethology, are covered.
- This database covers Greek and Roman antiquity and includes volumes from 1949 to
2004 of the index L'Annee Philologique.
It indexes 1,500 periodicals each year as well as 500 articles in collections and conference papers.
Vol. 1-75(1924-2005) available in the stacks: PA2.M35a
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Annenberg/Pew Archive of Presidential Campaign Discourse (CD-ROM; Ask at Reference
Desk) [June 2000-]
Contains transcripts of speeches, television ads and debates of twelve United
States general election Presidential campaigns from 1952 through 1996.
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Lists monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world.
- The Associated Press, is one of the world’s largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery. AP's mission is to be the essential global news network, providing distinctive news services of the highest quality, reliability and objectivity with reports that are accurate, balanced and informed. For more than a century, AP photographers have captured the greatest moments in history, news, sports and entertainment.
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Indexes international and English language periodicals, covering engineering, mathematics, physics and computer technology. Includes articles, interviews, meetings, conferences, exhibitions, new product reviews/announcements, and more.
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Contains citations and abstracts of journals from 16 different countries
(including the U.S. and U.K.). Subjects include cultural anthropology,
education, ethnic studies, family, unemployment, immigration, industrial
relations, politics, psychology, religion, sociology, and social work.
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Indexes key international English-language arts publications. Includes periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition and award notices, exhibition listings, interviews, film reviews and more.
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Art Index Retrospective 1929-1984 cites articles from periodicals
published throughout the world. Periodical coverage includes English-language
periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published
in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. In addition to articles, Art
Index Retrospective indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed
periodicals.
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Comprises the full text of The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, edited by
Hugh Brigstocke (2001). Articles that have been added or updated since their appearance in print are date-stamped in the upper right corner of the screen.
- Covers all aspects of modern and contemporary art, traditional fine arts of painting, sculpture and drawing. The database's scope extends from artists and movements beginning with
Impressionism, in the late 19th century, up to recent works and trends in the late 20th century. It incorporates abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, and exhibition catalogs and reviews.
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Indexes journal articles in science, technology,
medicine, social science, business, the humanities and popular culture.
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Citation index to articles in more than 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.
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Searchable database of more than 300,000 digital images and associated catalog data.
ARTstor covers many time periods and cultures, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Users can search, view, and download images.
Subject Coverage includes architecture; art; design; images; Latin American Studies; photography. Software requirements: java and flash player and must enable browser pop-ups in order to use all the features of
ARTstor.
- Provides bibliographic access to all American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) journals, conference proceedings, books,
standards, manuals, magazines and newsletters.
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Indexes over 600 international journals, multi-author works, and book reviews from the research literature of religion and related fields in 26 languages.
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The single most important bibliographical research tool for research in
architecture, urban design, historic preservation and urban planning history.
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Comprehensive collection of information on over 8 million organic compounds.
Includes information on structures, substructures, reactions, properties and
citations to the literature. Note: Access through the Crossfire Commander
software is available in the Chemistry Computer Lab and/or
public computers in Falvey Memorial Library.
- Covers history of the British Isles, and of the British Empire and Commonwealth, from 55BC to the present. Indexes books, articles in collective volumes, and about 700 journals.
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Indexes print and electronic journal articles, books, essays, conference
proceedings and exhibition catalogues; the database also contains its
backfiles: the International Repertory of the Literature of Art(RILA)
and the Repertoire d'Art et d'Archaeologie(RAA). Includes European art
from Late Antiquity to the present, American art from the European
arrival to the present, and Christian and European art in Africa, Asia
and Australia.
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Indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most
important retrospective works, that cover individuals, both living and
deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.
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A comprehensive database of biographical information on nearly 220,000 people from around the world,
and across all disciplines and subject areas and throughout history. Access to more than 330,000 biographies from respected Gale Group sources with
full-text articles available from more than 250 magazines as well as more than 20,000 images, and in-depth coverage of
key events.
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Provides abstracts to articles published in life sciences research journals worldwide focusing on vital biological and medical research findings, pharmacological studies and discoveries of new organisms.
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Indexes English-language periodicals in such fields as animal husbandry, botany, genetics, cytology, physiology, veterinary medicine and zoology.
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Provides access to full-text articles from peer-reviewed journals and papers in
the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. The articles, available
in both HTML and PDF formats, are published by American Institute of Biological
Sciences member societies and other related organizations.
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A comprehensive reference covering the life histories of North American birds.
Contents are updated frequently, with contributions from researchers, citizen
scientists, and designated reviewers and editors. In addition, BNA Online
contains image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and
nestlings, and more. And each online species account contains recordings of that
bird's songs and calls, selected from the extensive collection in Cornell's
Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds.
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When completed, this database will contain the full-text of
1,200 plays, written from the mid-1800s to the present, by more than 100
playwrights worldwide including such notables as Langston Hughes and Zora Neal
Hurston. The plays are accompanied by reference materials, performance
information and images. The collection covers key writings from the Harlem
Renaissance, the Black Arts movement from the 1960s and 1970s as well as 20th
century African and Caribbean drama.
Bloomberg Professional *
(Only available to Villanova students, faculty, and non-administrative staff)
Bloomberg Professional assists users in finding a wide variety of financial information,
provides in-depth financial data and gives students the ability to perform in-depth analysis
such as correlation analysis, theoretical pricing models, and potential arbitrage pricing
discrepancies on various financial products. Bloomberg facilitates the monitoring global
financial market data and news and provides current and historical financial statement data.
Detailed information on risk analysis and financial solvency can also be found for most securities.
Note: The Bloomberg workstations are funded by Falvey Memorial Library, but
housed in the Applied Finance Lab in Bartley Hall. To schedule a Bloomberg
session contact the Applied Finance Lab Coordinator, James Jablonski at
610-519-5857 or visit to lab to check their hours of operation.
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Indexes book reviews published in U.S., Canadian and British periodicals, covering over 7,000 adult and children's books each year. Includes English-language fiction and nonfiction.
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This database covers some 300,000 books, citing more than 1.5 million book reviews. Master records for each book include the title's essentials
(author, descriptive summary, publisher, publication year, page count, ISBN, indicator of illustrations, and more) plus links to review excerpts and
review citations. Virtually every book has at least one substantial review excerpt, presenting the most evaluative passages of the review, and most have at
least two. These excerpts, together with the descriptive summaries of the books, deliver a complete picture of how the book was received at the time
it was published.
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A comprehensive online guide to book reviews with over five million review
citations from thousands of publications.
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Use Books in Print to find records for in-print,
recently out-of-print and forthcoming books from over 44,000 North American
publishers.
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Consists of articles from the print Encyclopaedia Britannica,
plus hundreds of additional articles not found in the print version. Also features the
Britannica Book of the Year (1995-) and the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary.
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The database consists of more than 160 journals spanning the late 17th through early 20th centuries, and covering a range of topics such as literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences. This resource has facsimile page images and searchable full text for nearly 500 British periodicals published.
- Contains facts, figures, trends, forecasts and overviews, dealing with public and private industries, markets, and products for all manufacturing service industries at an international level from over 600 leading trade and business publications.
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Focuses on the practical aspects and approaches of business management, covering over 300 core management journals and trade publications.
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This a full text database that indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere, including the leading business magazines and trade and
research journals, plus the full text of selected periodicals. Full text
coverage of select titles begins in January 1995.
- This database contains full-text reports on a variety of industries. Coverage includes both United States and
international coverage with special emphasis on European business. The reports are available in both
HTML and pdf formats.
- Directory of new and established organizations, agencies and publications worldwide.
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Business Source Premier, designed specifically for business schools and libraries, provides more than 3,600 full-text scholarly publications,
including more than 1,050 peer-reviewed journals with titles such as the Harvard Business Review and the OECD Economic Surveys. More than 200 of the journals have PDF
full text back to 1965 or the first issue published. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 4,400 journals.
This database offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business. Another
segment of this database provides domestic and international company reports (including detailed SWOT reports), a business citation search, and an image
database
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Click on Member Area button. Provides the publishing guidelines of journals in the following areas: accounting, management, marketing, educational curriculum and methods, educational psychology and administration, and psychology. Includes address for submission, review information ( such as type of review, acceptance rate) and type of articles (current issues, literature reviews, etc.)
Cambridge Structural Database (CSD)*
This database is the only comprehensive collection of small-molecule organic and
organometallic crystal structures and contains crystal structure information,
chemical, and bibliographic data for about 350000 organic and metal-organic
compounds. Available
at <http://citrixweb.villanova.edu> under
Academic Applications in the Library folder. First-time user of Citrix
click here.
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Indexes Papal documents, Church documents, journal articles, books, book
chapters and reviews, movie and theater reviews and interviews.
CDP Chronic Disease Prevention File (Ask at Reference
Consultation Desk)
Contains five searchable components: Health Promotion and Education (HE) database, AIDS School Health Education (SA) database, HE/SA combination database, Chronic Disease Prevention Directory (CDPD) database and State Profile database.
CensusCD+Maps: 1992 (CD-ROM; Ask at Reference Consultation Desk)
Contains U.S. Census data, expenditures and forecasts for locations: a
valuable marketing and business research tool.
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Provides access to a growing collection of over 300 books on chemistry and chemical engineering from CRC Press.
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Focuses on the economic statistics of China, arranged by regions and categories. Coverage includes monthly and yearly
reports on China's macroeconomic development, statistical databases on China's population and economy at the county and city level, and
financial indicators of more than 568 industrial branches. Some of the major databases available are: China Yearly Macro-economy Statistics, 1949- ;
China City Statistics, 1996- ; China County Statistics, 1997- ; China Monthly Macro-economy Statistics, 1998- ; China Industrial Data, 2001-
Monthly Reports on Economy Development, 2002- ; Various statistical yearbooks, 2002-.
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Reviews scholarly publications suitable for university library collections. The reviews are arranged by academic department and the “reviewers are primarily teaching faculty… selected for their subject expertise.” More than 22,000 print and electronic publications are examined each year, of which about 30% are reviewed.
- Indexes more than 300 English-language journals, publications of the American Nurses' Association, and the National League for Nursing, as well as primary journals in many allied health disciplines. Includes pertinent citations from biomedical, psychological and management journals.
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Provides access to a growing collection of over 139 civil engineering books published by CRC Press, including
The Civil Engineering Handbook and Environmental Engineers Handbook.
- Contains full-text of
more than 11,000 articles from over 2500 issues of both Northern and Southern newspapers published between Nov. 1, 1860 and Apr. 30, 1865. Contains news articles, eye-witness and official reports of battles, editorials, advertisements, biographies and over 700 images of battlefield maps and illustrations.
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A complete classical music
collection cross-referenced to a database of supplementary information. It
features 35,000-plus fully licensed recordings with the main emphasis on the
baroque, classical and romantic periods, thousands of program notes and
composer biographies, advanced searching, hundreds of recommended playlists
themed by categories and a user-friendly interface.
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Includes 13,000 poems in full-text and 250,000 poetry citations, in addition to several important new features—commentaries, bibliographies, notes on form and a glossary of prosodic terms.
- Abstracts articles published in the primary professional literature of the communications field. Complements ComIndex.
- Indexes articles in major professional journals in the communications field. Complemented by
ComAbstracts.
- Distinct from ComAbstracts and ComIndex (listed above), Communication Abstracts is produced at Temple University and provides
abstracting coverage of books and journals in all areas of communication studies (mass, interpersonal and new communication technologies).
Older issues available in print (index area of Reference collection: P 87.C6).
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The database combines two earlier databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). CMMC offers cover-to-cover (core) indexing and abstracts for over 300 journals, and selected (priority) coverage of over 100 more, for a combined coverage of over 400 titles. This database includes full text for nearly 200 journals. Many major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable citations from their first issues to the present.
Community Health Data Base (CHDB)*
[2000, 2002; Updated biannually]
Only available to the Villanova Community; for more information ask at Reference Desk or Nursing Lab.
The central component of the database is the Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Surveys that provide timely information on
the residents, children and adults who live in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties. The survey targets key information about health status, personal health behaviors and access to and utilization of area health services.
Data available at the census tract, ZIP code, county and regional level.
The survey has been conducted eight times since 1983; the database covers
only the 2000 and 2002 surveys.
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An interdisciplinary engineering database featuring references and abstracts from 5000+ journals, conferences and reports.
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Covers computer science at the highest scholarly and technical levels. Subject areas include artificial intelligence, expert systems, system design, data structures, computer theory, computer systems and architecture, software engineering, human-computer interaction, new technologies, social and professional context and much more.
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An authoritative reference on Congressional trends, actions, and controversies.
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Provides access to every facet of U.S. Legislative
activity: hearings transcripts and submitted testimony, committee reports, bills, public laws,
congressional member public interest group ratings, selected committee prints, congressional
documents, the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations,
and the U.S. Code.
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A source of biographical information on current authors in many fields and from many countries. Sketches provide personal facts, careers, writings, biographical sources, etc. Also search
the
Literature Resource Center for Contemporary Authors, the Dictionary of Literary Biography and numerous other resources.
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Provides information on women in over 150 countries. Disciplines range from sociology, psychology, health, education and human rights. Includes journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, along with fact sheets.
Corpus Augustinianum Gissense (CAG 2)*
The CAG 2 database contains all known works by Saint Augustine in the best
available critical editions. CAG 2 also includes a bibliographic database of
more than 27,000 references to secondary literature on Augustine's life and
works. Available
at <http://citrixweb.villanova.edu>. First-time user of Citrix
click here.
A CAG 2 user manual in pdf format is also on Citrixweb. (Collection of the
Augustinian Institute, Falvey Memorial Library)
County and City Data Book:
(Ask at Reference Consultation Desk)
Presents statistics on such topics as population, health, crime, education,
income, trade for each county and incorporated city with 25,000 inhabitants or
more.
County Business Patterns: (Ask at Reference
Consultation Desk)
Provides business data on various sectors of the U.S. economy, such as:
construction, manufacturing, retail trade and real estate.
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CQ Global Researcher explores international perspectives in a digestible, easy-to-access format
featuring popular sections such as “Current Situation," “Issue Questions” and
“Pro-Con." Maps, charts, and other explanatory graphics are included as well.
CQ Global Researcher is published monthly, with each report—also available
in magazine-style PDF format—covering a pressing political, social,
environmental, or regional issue from around the globe. Each original report is
written by a seasoned journalist with years of international experience.
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Combines many CQ Press resources for research in American government, politics,
history, public policy, and current affairs. Access is provided to Congress and the
Nation (1945-2004), Historic Documents Series (1972 -), Political
Handbook of the World, Supreme Court Yearbook (1989 -), Vital
Statistics on American Politics and the Washington Information Directory.
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The CQ Researcher Plus Archive adds more than 3,000 reports, published
between 1923 and 1990 to CQ Researcher. Each report in the Archive
addresses the significance and legacy of the events and issues of its day. The report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health,
international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.
Each CQ Researcher report is based on a common structure: overview,
background, current situation, pro/con section, special focus, chronology,
bibliography and next step.
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Congressional Quarterly's flagship publication covering government, commerce, and politics
contains detailed floor votes dating back to August 1983. Articles can be
searched by topics, bill numbers, date ranges, committees and floor votes are
searchable by House and Senate, topic, bill number, and date range.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts covers crime trends, crime prevention and
deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment
and sentencing. The database contains indexes and summaries of international
journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on a wide
range of topics in criminal justice.
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Contains the full text and all the images of the 23,000 biographies and obituaries of artists, politicians, business people, journalists, actors, writers, sports figures, scientists, and other people prominent in the news that have appeared in
Current Biography Yearbook since 1940.
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CDPSP is a comprehensive retrospective digest of the news presented to the Soviet and Russian public for more than a half-century, from the beginnings of the Cold War through the emergence of Russia in the new balance of power. Each week it presents a selection of Russian-language press materials, carefully translated into English. The translations are intended for use in teaching and research. They are therefore presented as documentary materials without elaboration or comment, and state the opinions and views of the original authors, not of the publisher of the journal.
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Provides access to full-text of master's theses from the Arts and Sciences College starting with 2006. Selective full-text coverage from 1996.
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A reference work providing 50,000 specially-written signed biographies of the
men and women who shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest
times to the end of the year 2000. State-of-the-art search options, extensive
internal cross-referencing, access to articles from the original Dictionary
of National Biography, and navigation by "themes" combine with rigorous
research and scholarship to make the Oxford DNB one of the most innovative and
important reference sites available online.
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The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It is the database of record for graduate research, with over 2.3 million dissertations and theses included from around the world.
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A Comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses with over 2.4 million dissertations and theses included from around the world. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637, and more than 65,000 new citations are added to the database every year.
Where available, PQDT provides 24 Page Previews of dissertations and theses. In addition, nearly one million are available for download in PDF format. (Digital dissertations and theses are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be Native PDF, some PDF Image).
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Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 consists of more than
37,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides. It includes information about every
aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions
through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the
Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic
imaginable.
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Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. Based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph B. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker and supplemented by thousands of new items.
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Full-text page images of over 96,000 titles listed in Pollard and
Redgrave’s Short-Title Catalogue, Wing's Short-Title Catalogue,
and Thomason Tracts
which cover titles printed in English between 1473-1700. For searchable text of selected titles
see Early English Books Online -Text Creation Partnership below.
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Searchable full-text of selected texts from EEBO. When complete 25,000 titles
will be available.
The text links to the page images in EEBO (above).
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Business Source Premier, designed specifically for business schools and libraries, provides more than 3,600 full-text scholarly publications,
including more than 1,050 peer-reviewed journals with titles such as the Harvard Business Review and the OECD Economic Surveys. More than 200 of the journals have PDF
full text back to 1965 or the first issue published. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 4,400 journals.
This database offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business. Another
segment of this database provides domestic and international company reports (including detailed SWOT reports), a business citation search, and an image
database
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This database provides over 300,000 bibliographic references from 500 leading journals of business and economics;
articles are indexed only. Many of these journals, however, will be available in full text format from the
E-Journals List.
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The American Economic Association's electronic bibliography. Indexes journals, books, dissertations, working papers and collective volumes.
Economic Census: 1992 :
(Ask at Reference Consultation Desk)
Includes statistical information from the 1992 Economic Census and several
related data sets. The "Report Series" includes data covering all sectors for
the U.S., states, counties, places and metropolitan areas. Also the "ZIP Code
Statistics" includes specialized set of data from the censuses of retail trade,
service industries, and manufactures.
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Country Reports, Country Profiles and
Market Indicators and Forecasts from the Economist Intelligence Unit offer
monthly and annual in depth analysis, data and ratings for the infrastructure,
demographics, political scene, domestic economy, foreign trade, including
regional and industrial sector breakdowns for over 200 countries.
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More than 400 English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the U.S. and elsewhere. Subjects include administration, teaching methods and curriculum, literacy, government funding, and more.
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This database includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
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Access the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 26 million pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
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Provides access to a growing collection of over 270 electrical engineering books published by CRC Press, including
The Engineering Handbook and CRC Handbook of Engineering Tables.
- Full-text journal articles on management and economics. This database
can also be searched. Villanova subscribes to a portion of the journals
offered full-text in Emerald.
Encyclopaedia Judaica (Ask at Reference Desk): Contains
26 volumes of the original text, updated and with hyperlinks, rare films,
photographs, slide shows, music, maps, charts, and tables.
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The Encyclopedia contains more than 2,100 entries including 1,000
biographical entries on major figures in philosophical thought throughout
history.. Among the many topics covered are African, Islamic, Jewish, Russian,
Chinese, and Buddhist philosophies; bioethics and biomedical ethics; art and
aesthetics; epistemology; metaphysics; peace and war; social and political
philosophy; the Holocaust; feminist thought; and much more.
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Provides cross-cultural approach while emphasizing religion's role within
everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture. This new
edition is the definitive work in the field for the 21st century. Includes
almost all of the 2,750 original entries updated as well as approximately 600 entirely
new articles.
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Provides abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice, and full-text ERIC digests.
ERIC
[1966- ]
The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S.
Department of Education
provides access to bibliographic records of journal and non-journal literature. ERIC also contains a growing collection of full-text materials in Adobe PDF format, including reports from the
What Works Clearinghouse.
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Indexes essays published in book collections covering philosophy, religion, social and political science, economics, law,
education, linguistics, science, the various arts, literature and history.
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A full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Contains articles, editorials, columns, reviews, etc. Searchable in English or Spanish.
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This database provides a fulltext patent and mosaic image search of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), European Patent Office, and Patent Abstracts of Japan.
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Features citations, abstracts and/or full-text for articles from more than 2500 scholarly and general interest publications.
Covered subject areas include current events, the arts, history, literature, psychology, political science, sociology,
communications, engineering, health and medicine, and the general sciences.
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Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. NOTE: MFI does not include books written by a single author, but does offer links to catalogs of libraries with strong collections in medieval studies to search for such books.
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A comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing.
It has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes film scholars, college students, and general viewers.
Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
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To be released in eight parts, the collection, provides perspectives about more than 100 countries outside of the U.S, featuring transcripts of foreign news broadcasts translated into English from materials selected by the CIA for distribution to U.S. policymakers and security analysts. The first series of this historical archive features the Middle East, Africa (Sub-Saharan) and South Asia.
Frank Lloyd Wright: Presentation and
Conceptual Drawings
(Ask at Reference Desk): Contains more than 860
architectural and design projects spanning Wright's seventy year career. It is a
scholarly electronic publication featuring nearly 5,000 drawings from the Frank
Lloyd Wright Archives.
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Fuente Académica is a rapidly growing collection of scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain. This multi-disciplinary database offers full text content to many academic areas including literature, linguistics, history, business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, philosophy and theology.
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Provides cross searching in encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized
reference sources for multidisciplinary research including arts, business,
social sciences and sciences.
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A master index to literary series published by Gale. It combines and cross references more than 130,000 author names (including pseudonyms and variant names) and more than 140,000 titles. For biographical information and critical essays.
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An Information Technology (IT) advisory service that provides timely,
widely-quoted, critical reports on the broad IT and computer industry.
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Searchable collection of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum such as the arts, the humanities and the
social sciences. There is in-depth coverage of subjects that are uniquely central to women's lives including family, the workplace and societal
roles. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, books, conference proceedings and more.
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Indexes articles from U.S and British publications on anthropology, astronomy, biology, computers, earth sciences, medicine and health, etc. Includes articles, reviews, biographical sketches and letters to the editor.
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Indexes the worldwide literature on geology, geography and ecology.
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Global Financial Data features historical data on worldwide stock exchanges, bond indices, intraday data, futures data, interest rates, population data, and much more, there are currently 20,000 data sets
available. All data is clearly defined, easy to read, and is readily downloadable into
Excel.
- Global Insight *
Provides historical economic and financial data time series and includes access to U.S., regional and global macroeconomic indicators, industrial markets, foods, crops, metals, financials, housing, Federal Funds, price indices and national accounts. Data is gathered from government agencies, private entities and international organizations such as the IMF and
OECD updated when made available by the source. To access data, link to
DataInsight Web where you can search by criteria or do a keyword search and download results directly to
Excel.
- Global Market Information Database (Euromonitor)*
This resource is a database of demographic, economic, lifestyle, and consumer
market information for over 350 markets and 207 countries. Statistics cover
consumer lifestyles, retailing, and consumer market sizes and forecasts. The
data includes 6-year historic market size data for more than 330 consumer
products in 52 countries, plus 5-year forecasts. Lifestyle indicators for 71
countries, lifestyle reports for 65 countries, and country profiles for 250
countries are also included.
Off-campus access may not be available. Please send an email if you are unable to access with your Villanova user name and password.
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GNPD (Global New Product Development) is a global database of new
products built by monitoring trade shows, press releases, consumer and trade
magazines and shoppers in the field scouring. Use it to generate ideas and for
trendspotting.
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Follow these steps
to connect to full text of selected articles from the Falvey
collection. Currently most useful in the areas of science, medicine, and technology.
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Has records of government publications from July 1976.
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The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) is the finding tool for electronic and print publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government. These publications make up the National Bibliography of U.S. Government Publications. The CGP contains descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online.
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Comprises the full text of The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, edited by Hugh Brigstocke, The Concise Oxford Dictioanry of Art Terms, and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
edited by Michael Kelly. Articles that have been added or updated since their appearance in print are date-stamped in the upper right corner of the screen.
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A bibliography on Latin America which alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities.
- Indexes articles, book reviews, documents and literary works about Latin America, the Caribbean Basin, and Hispanics in the U.S., from over 400 social science and humanities journals.
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Access to information on measurement instruments in the health fields, psychosocial sciences and organizational behavior.
The instruments themselves are not included.
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This legal database provides fully-searchable and image-based text of over 500 law journals, Supreme Court Reports,
Treaties in Force, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (1977-2003) and the
Federal Register (1936-1994).
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Contains 32 volumes of primary sources. Each volume includes
approximately one hundred documents covering the most significant
events of the year. These documents range from presidential speeches,
international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S.
governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.
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An annotated reference guide to the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada)
from 1450 to the present. Includes journal articles, book reviews and
dissertations.
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The New York Times Historical is a unique full-image archive that brings you the entire historical run of
The New
York Times, in-depth coverage of science and politics. It offers complete coverage from 1851-to
the present with the exception of the most current two years.
Includes classified ads, comics and cartoons, photos, maps, graphics,
etc., editorials and commentary.
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A compendium of statistics from over 1000 sources last updated in the distant
1975 and has been expanded to include over 37,000 data series. 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. The fully
searchable and downloadable edition will permit users to graph individual tables
and create customized tables and spreadsheets reflecting their own particular
areas of interest.
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Indexes and abstracts articles in more than 300 periodicals in archaeology, art ,
classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts,
philosophy, religion, world history and world literature.
- Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of humanities and social sciences journals. Content from H.W. Wilson's International Index is also included.
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Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research holdings include several time series and other types of aggregate data, its holdings consist mainly of raw data derived from surveys, censuses, and administrative records. The data holdings contain some 6,000 studies and 450,000 files that cover a wide range of social science areas such as population, economics, education, health, social and political behavior, social and political attitudes, history, crime, aging, and substance abuse.
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Tables of contents of IEEE transactions, journals, magazines, conference proceedings, published since 1988. Includes full-text from 1998 to present of journals to which Falvey Library subscribes.
- The Index of Christian Art is the largest archive of Medieval art. It
traces the history and evolution of iconographic themes and concepts in early
Christian and Medieval art in all media and in all geographic areas. The
electronic version of the Index of Christian Art contains approximately
20-25% of the contents of the print archive. Some records have links to images
at the bottom of the record, only those listed as "public images" can be
accessed.
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To Search Only Index to legal Periodical select in the Subject
Area drop down menu LEGAL (ILP). The database provides coverage of English language legal information via indexing of scholarly articles
and books. International coverage includes periodicals from the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
The full text of select law reviews begins in 1994.
- Table of contents to more than 28,000 publications (6000 are full-text). Years of coverage vary with the journal, from 1988 to date. Includes publications in all major disciplines; especially strong in the sciences and social sciences. Online access to the journals to which Falvey Library subscribes is free. Register only if you want to set up a Table of Contents (TOC) alert or to save your searches.
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Access abstracts to the scientific and technical literature in physics,
electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering,
computers and computing, and information technology.
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A comprehensive, current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany
volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide.
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This bibliographic database produced by International Political Science Abstracts is an index of articles from
periodicals published throughout the world. The abstracts summarize the source articles. Articles in English are
abstracted in English; those in other languages are abstracted in French. All titles translated into English.
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A bibliography of more than 300 scholarly journal titles pertaining to the Middle
Ages and the Renaissance.
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Provides the impact factor (the relative importance of journals within a
given field) and other citation data for around 7,300 scholarly and technical
journals worldwide. Coverage is multidisciplinary and international,
incorporating journals from 3,300 publishers approximately 200 disciplines, and
60 countries.
- An alphabetical arrangement on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. It also treats figures and kinds of inquiry from other fields that have been shaped by or have themselves shaped literary theory and criticism as well as figures, who did not explicitly deal with, but who still deeply affected, literature, literary theory or literary criticism.
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Provides Villanova users access to full-text articles from
47 nursing journals and to citations to articles in over 700 scientific, technical and
medical journals. Years covered vary with the journal but most date from 1996 to date.
- A searchable and browsable archive of full-text core journals in the humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
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The online edition presents a wide scope of articles on chemical
substances—including their properties, manufacturing, and uses. It also focuses
on industrial processes and unit operations in chemical engineering, as well as
covering fundamentals and scientific subjects related to the field.
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Provides full-text access to a wide range of news (national, international,
regional, business,
legal, and foreign language), business (company financial news and information,
accounting, auditing & tax information, industry and market news), and
legal (law reviews, federal case law,
state legal research) sources.
It also features news transcripts, the U.S. Code, Constitution & Court rules, state and
country profiles, medical
abstracts, and reference & directory sources.
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Library and information-science periodicals published internationally, and more than 600 books per year.
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Contains full-text of almost all the items in the Corpus Christianorum Series Latina and Continuatio Medievalis.
It also contains text from the beginning of Latin literature through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).
Included are the main works of Thomas Aquinas and certain Latin works of Descartes. (formerly CETEDOC).
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This database keeps abreast of cutting-edge developments in disciplines
concerned with the nature and use of language.
Coverage includes all aspects of the study of language including phonetics,
phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including
descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.
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Comprehensive coverage allows access to past, present, and ongoing developments in librarianship, information science, online retrieval, new information technologies, and publishing. Indexes and abstracts
approximately 7,000 publications annually, including over 440 journals and selected conference proceedings, book reviews and research report series,
with content from more than 68 countries and in 20 languages.
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Incorporates a large range of searchable, digitized primary texts, some of
which are rare and difficult to find, alongside contemporary works from
throughout the English-speaking world, plus an extensive collection of criticism
and reference works, including full-text literary journals and resources for
over 14,000 authors.
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Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every
age and literary discipline. The LRC is built on Contemporary Authors Online and Dictionary of Literary Biography
Online and Scribner Writers Series, containing more than 10,000 biocritical essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars as well as
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select.
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MagillOnHistory offers extensive coverage of the ancient world;
American History, including colonial and pre-colonial US and Canada; cultures
and civilizations in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, the Americas and
Oceania; In addition, this database provides intensive coverage of the twentieth
century, with special focus on economics, science, human rights, the
environment, and the arts.
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The MagillOnLiterature Plus is comprised of approximately 30,000 records, more than 1,000 images, and has a glossary of 1,310 literary terms. MagillOnLiterature Plus contains editorially reviewed critical analyses, brief plot summaries, and extended character profiles covering works by more than 8,500 long and short fiction writers, poets, dramatists, essayists, and philosophers. MagillOnLiterature Plus also contains over 6,500 biographical essays on more than 3,500 different authors, including up-to-date lists of each author's principal works.
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"The Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850" provides digital facsimile images on every page of 61,000 works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850. Full-text searching on more than 12 million pages provides researchers unparalleled access to this vast collection of material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport.
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Provides full-text access to the S&P Industry Surveys, the
Executive Compensation database, Global Reports Library which contains
full-color, online, international company source documents including annual
reports, annual report summaries, financials, interims, and IPO prospectuses for
13,000 companies around the world, and the GICS Sub-Industry Financial
Highlights Report which provides recent industry-level valuation, profitability,
performance and financial risk data.
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The database contains 10,000+ Company Profiles both US and International containing : company overviews, business descriptions, company history, executive listings, product listings, locations, news and commentary; 2,000+ Industry Reports with market forecasts; 50+ Country Reports.
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Provides marketing reports for many industries and demographic reports on a variety of age groups. Documents are formatted as Adobe Acrobat or PowerPoint files.
Requires Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher.
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Searchable online database features comprehensive profiles on over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals in all fields
of endeavor including: government, business, science & technology, the arts, entertainment and sports. The database accesses current biographies that appeared in any one of the many
Marquis print titles searching by name, gender, occupation, geography, hobbies and interests, religion and much more.
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Provides access to a growing collection of over 260 math books for Champman & Hall and CRC Press., including categories on Mathematics for Finance, Math for Science and Engineering, and Math for Biology and Medicine.
- Indexes the American Mathematical Society
publications Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications.
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Provides access to a growing collection of over 140 mechanical engineering books published by CRC Press, including
The Engineering Handbook and CRC Handbook of Mechanical Engineering.
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