| Database Title | Summary - Full Description | Coverage | Full Text |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAB Abstracts--OvidSP | Compiled by CABI Publishing, CAB Abstracts provides comprehensive international coverage of the significant research and development literature in agriculture, forestry, aspects of human health, human nutrition, animal health and the management and conservation of natural resources. Sources scanned selectively for records are: professional and trade journals (over 9,000), reports, bulletins, conference proceedings, symposia, workshops, scientific texts, technical and popular books, theses, annual reports and a few categories of patents and standards. Major subject areas covered include: agricultural and environmental economics; agricultural engineering; animal production (including general and theoretical genetics, genetic engineering and immunogenetics); biodeterioration, bioremediation and biodegradation (including any organisms involved and their identification through molecular biology techniques); biotechnology in the areas of bioethics, intellectual property issues, genes and their expression, molecular biology techniques, genomics, genetic engineering, cloning, in vitro fertilization and gene therapy; broad coverage of crop protection (including pests, pathogens, natural enemies and control mechanisms for an extensive range of plants); dairy science and technology encompassing physiological, biochemical, immunological, microbiological, chemical and physics aspects; forestry, forest products and agroforestry; human nutrition with coverage extending into physiology, biochemistry and disorders; leisure, recreation, and tourism; all aspects of medical and veterinary parasitological disease which includes diagnosis, immunobiology, physiology, molecular and cell biology; developmental biology and genetics (molecular, population and biochemical); natural resources and environmental issues; plant breeding, crop production and horticulture; soil science, land/water management and fertilizer technology; rural development; veterinary medicine; and miscellaneous subjects (human and animal health, nematology, sugar technology and apiculture). Online coverage extends back to 1973. Print coverage for various subjects is available for earlier years. | 1973 - present | No |
| CAB e-Books Archive Database | CAB e-books | Yes | |
| Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Educational Technology and Library Science | This directory describes over 220 journals in Educational Technology and Library Science, providing contact information, review process data, manuscript guidelines, and publication information for each journal. | Yes | |
| Cambridge Structural Database System (WebCSD) | The CSD is a database of over 500,000 experimentally derived crystal structures for small molecules that have been published in over 700 journals. Structures can be represented in 2D or 3D format. Users can search by substructure, similarity, reduced cell, text/numeric, or simply browse the database. | 1923-present | No |
| Career Beam | Provides access to career assessments, resume and cover letter development tools, search strategies and research databases and integrate them into one online portal | current | Yes |
| CASSI (Chemical Abstracts Serials Source Index) | CASSI is the most complete information source on scientific journals in chemistry. It lists standard abbreviations, frequency of publication, journal name changes, and other bibliographic information for over 60,000 named sources. | No | |
| CCOHS Occupational Health and Safety Databases | The CCOHS Academic Support Program (ASP) is offered exclusively to universities and colleges as both a tool to educate students about environmental and occupational health and safety and as a guide to assist Universities and Colleges in their efforts to achieve a safe and healthy working environment. This program includes MSDS, FTSS, CHEMINFO, RTECS®, Canadiana,CISILO, HSELINE, OSHLINE® with NIOSHTIC®/NIOSHTIC-2, and as well as several free resources. | Yes | |
| Census of Agriculture | The Census of Agriculture is the source of consistent, comparable, and detailed agricultural data for every county in America. The census is conducted every 5 years. | 1992 - 2002 | Yes |
| Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Discussion Papers | The Centre for Economic Policy Research seeks 'to promote independent, objective analysis and public discussion of open economies and the relations among them'. CEPR coordinates the activities of an international network of Research Fellows, Affiliates and Associates, and its publications carry a wide range of policy conclusions and recommendations. Over 3000 Discussion Paper Abstracts are currently available online, and all Discussion Papers published since 1999 are available in full text, as electronic [PDF] files. CEPR Discussion Papers disseminate research quickly in order to generate comment and suggestions for revision or improvement. They may have been presented at conferences or workshops, but will not yet have been published in journals. | Partial | |
| Ceramic Abstracts/World Ceramics Abstracts | Ceramic Abstracts/World Ceramics Abstracts is produced by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts in conjunction with CERAM research. This is a database for the ceramics industry, providing international coverage on the manufacture, processing, applications, properties and testing of traditional and advanced ceramics. Source materials include over 300 journals, conference proceedings, books, patents, standards and company product literature. | 1978 - present | No |
| CES Edupack | See <a href="http://www.grantadesign.com/education/overview.htm">http://www.grantadesign.com/education/overview.htm</a> for a full summary of features and content for this product. | Yes | |
| Checkpoint | RIA Checkpoint provides primary tax documents and secondary analysis for federal, state, and local taxation, estate planning, pensions and benefits, international taxation, and payroll taxation. | Yes | |
| Chem Sources Online | Partial | ||
| Chemical Abstracts (SciFinder) | SciFinder Scholar is a means of accessing the Chemical Abstracts database using a powerful and intuitive search engine to find references to articles easily. Search for chemical data using a molecular formula, chemical name, chemical structure, reaction components, author name, or topic of interest. | 1907 - present | Partial |
| Chemisches Zentralblatt | Chemisches Zentralblatt is a German language precursor to Chemical Abstracts/SciFinder and covers chemical and pharmaceutical literature from 1830-1969, much earlier than SciFinder's original 1907 start date. Though the abstracts are in German, one can search CZB by chemical structure to find where a particular structure has been mentioned. Traditionally, CZB's coverage of early German chemistry is regarded as superior to Chemical Abstract's (SciFinder), and its abstracts are longer and more informative. There is only one user allowed access at a time, so be sure to log off when you have finished searching. | 1830-1969 | No |
| ChemLibNetBase | This is a collection of over 280 chemistry and chemistry related e-books. You can search the full text and view complete e-books and chapters in PDF format. You can also browse e-books by category. This resource includes a number of important titles such as: CRC Handbook of Fundamental Spectroscopic Correlation Charts, CRC Handbook of Organic Photochemistry and Photobiology, Ewing's Analytical Instrumentation Handbook, Handbook of Chemical and Biological Sensors, Industrial Solvents Handbook, Inorganic Materials Chemistry Desk Reference&and much more | Yes | |
| ChemNetBase | Includes access to the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics as well as a number of other resources with physical and chemical property data, including properties for natural products and drugs. Not only can you search within the CRC Handbook, but you have access to the following sources as well: Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds, Dictionary of Drugs, Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds, Dictionary of Natural Products, Dictionary of Organic Compounds, Polymers: A Property Database , and Properties of Organic Compounds | Yes | |
| ChemSpider | From Vendor Site: "ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast access to over 26 million structures, properties and associated information. By integrating and linking compounds from more than 400 data sources, ChemSpider enables researchers to discover the most comprehensive view of freely available chemical data from a single online search. It is owned by the Royal Society of Chemistry. ChemSpider builds on the collected sources by adding additional properties, related information and links back to original data sources. ChemSpider offers text and structure searching to find compounds of interest and provides unique services to improve this data by curation and annotation and to integrate it with users applications." | varies | No |
| Chicago Manual of Style Online | The online edition includes the searchable text of the 15th edition with features such as tools for editors, a citation guide summary, and searchable access to Q&A, where University of Chicago Press editors answer readers' style questions. | Yes | |
| Chicago Tribune Online | Provides reporting and analysis of regional, national, and international news. Articles are in full-text 1985-present. | 1985 - current | Yes |
| Child Development and Adolescent Studies | Indexes current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21, including book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations covering biomedical and social sciences worldwide. Some full-text provided. | 1927-present | Partial |
| Children's Core Collection | a selective annotated list of fiction and nonfiction books and magazines for readers in preschool through sixth grade, along with review sources and other professional aids for children's librarians and school media specialists. | 1947-current | Partial |
| Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) | Contains over 600,000 records of books for children and young adults,with full reviews for over 50,000 of these titles. | Partial | |
| Children's Literature Review | Illustrated series provides excerpts from reviews, criticism, and commentary on books for children and young people. Covers over 600 writers and illustrators. Publication began in 1976. | 1976-current | Yes |
| China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) | Three CNKI databases in the Chinese language feature full-text articles in the fields of history, literature, and philosophy, including subtopics such as archaeology, the arts, biography, folklore, language, psychology, religion, and sports: 1) China Academic Journals (CAJ), current year and an archive back to 1994; 2) China Dissertations and Master's Theses (CDMD), current year and an archive back to 2000; 3) China Conference Proceedings (CPCD), current year an archive back to 2000. | 1994 - present; 2000 - present | Yes |
| China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI)--Chinese Interface | Three CNKI databases in the Chinese language feature full-text articles in the fields of history, literature, and philosophy, including subtopics such as archaeology, the arts, biography, folklore, language, religion, and sports: 1) China Academic Journals (CAJ), 1994-present; 2) China Dissertations and Master's Theses (CDMD), 2000-present; 3) China Conference Proceedings (CPCD), 2000-present. | Yes | |
| CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Lit. | The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) provides access to virtually all English-language nursing journals, publications of the American Nurses'Association and the National League for Nursing, primary journals in the allied health fields, and pertinent articles in biomedical, management, behavioral science, education, and popular literature. | 1982 - present | Partial |
| Civil Engineering Abstracts | Provides comprehensive access to research on civil engineering from many worldwide reference sources. This bibliographic database covers 3000 journals and includes 250,000 citations. It includes hundreds of core journals not indexed in other engineering databases. Some conference papers are also included. Citations include abstracts and indexed terms from a controlled vocabulary of 12,500 terms. It has a searchable thesaurus. | 1966 - present | Partial |
| Civil War (Collection) | Four- part collection of newspaper articles and books published at or near time of the war, 1860-1865. I: A Newspaper Perspective. II: The Soldiers Perspective (regimental histories). III: The Generals Perspective (memoirs). IV: The Midwestern Perspective (Indiana newspapers published between 1855 and 1869, including Vincennes Gazette and Vincennes Western Sun). | 1860-1865 | Yes |
| ClimateWire | "ClimateWire covers in-depth every day the key issues that surround the debate over climate change, including: -Federal agency programs, legislation, policies and funding; -State program development and implementation; -Kyoto implementation; -Post-Kyoto negotiations and nation-state positioning; -International agency activities; -Carbon market development; -Alternative energy research and deployment; -Financial community investment decisions; -Corporate/multi-national response to climate concerns; -Positions and lobbying by stakeholder groups; -Consequences and lessons learned from GHG-reduction efforts; -Science findings; -Effects on water resources, species, ecosystems and agriculture; -Trends and effects for traditional and non-traditional fossil fuel resources; -Consequences for electric utilities; -Economic effects; -Costs to consumers; and much, much more." | Yes | |
| Cochrane Library | Highly structured and systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare. Contains clinical trial information not indexed in Medline and other databases. | Partial | |
| CogNet (MIT) | MIT CogNet provides a unique electronic community for researchers in cognitive and brain sciences, with in-depth current and classic text resources, and a dynamic interactive forum for today's scholars, students, and professionals. It includes fulltext entries from the MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. | 1964-present | Partial |
| Cold Spring Harbor Protocols | Cold Spring Harbor Protocols is an interactive source of several hundred reliable, new and classic research techniques in molecular and cellular biology. Fully searchable by keyword and subject, the database covers protocols for the following topics: antibodies, bioinformatics/genomics, cell biology, chromatography, computational biology, DNA delivery/gene transfer, electrophoresis, genetics, high-throughput analysis, imaging/microscopy, immunology, laboratory organisms, molecular biology, neuroscience, plant biology, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), proteins and proteomics, RNA interference (RNAi)/siRNA, stem cells, and transgenic technology. The database also has an alphabetical listing of all protocol recipes and an alphabetical listing of all protocol cautions. In addition, it provides a mechanism for finding laboratory supplies. | 2006- | Yes |
| ComAbstracts | ComAbstracts database contains abstracts of articles published in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field. Coverage varies according to journal -- some dating back to 1966. Media studies, mass communication, jounalism, personal and interpersonal, rhetoric are included. | Varies | Partial |
| ComAnalytics | Uses ISI journal impact ratings and NCA rankings of doctoral programs to provide data about the relative publication performance of individual scholars and of departments of Communication (including journalism, mass communication, speech, media studies, rhetoric, etc.) Enables researchers to compare their departments with relevant peers in order to benchmark their own performance. | 1915 - current | No |
| ComDisDome: Communication Sciences and Disorders | Communication Sciences and Disorders Dome indexes books, journal articles, dissertations, grants, scholars, institutions, and web resources | 1997 - current | Partial |
| Commodity Price Statistics | Provides monthly indices and monthly averages of daily and weekly commodity prices since 1960. It is possible to view the latest figures released without delay, as well as full time series. | 1960- | Yes |
| Compendex | Ei Compendex provides abstracts and full bibliographic citations for worldwide engineering and technical literature and encompasses all engineering disciplines, as well as related fields in science and management. Over 4500 journals are indexed. | 1884-present | Partial |
| Conditions and Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945 | Text-searchable images of British Foreign Office information files gathered from across German-occupied territories following the collapse of peacetime diplomacy. Documents German attempts to win over important groups in occupied countries; the reaction to the German occupation; the propaganda struggle; the creation of the first resistance units, etc. Also includes information regarding Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Vatican. | 1940-1945 | Yes |
| Conference Board Research Collection | Management research in strategy, corporate governance, organizational effectiveness, organizational structure, leadership, human resources, ethics, CRM, mature work force issues, indepth analysis of domestic and international economic issues and their "Consumer Confidence" and "Top Executive Compensation" publications. | 1942- | Yes |
| Conference Papers Index | Conference Papers provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science. Information is derived from final programs, abstracts booklets and published proceedings, as well as from questionnaire responses. Records include complete ordering information to obtain preprints, abstracts, proceedings and other publications derived from the conference, together with title and author information needed to track the specific papers. | 1982 - present | Partial |
| Contemporary Authors | A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, journalism, poetry, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. Provides references for more than 90,000 authors in the U.S.. This is part of the database Literature Resource Center. | 1962- present | Partial |
| Contemporary Literary Criticism | CLC gathers critical responses to the works of contemporary authors of all sorts (novelists, poets, playwrights, philosophers, journalists) from many regions of the world. Each entry includes an introductory essay followed by previously published reviews and other critical responses excerpted from scholarly books and journals, thus creating a history and cross-section of critical responses. Covers more than 3,000 contemporary authors=authors living or who died after 1959. | 1960-2011 | Yes |
| Contemporary Literary Criticism Select | A collection of citations and excerpts of critical essays on contemporary writers, selected from volumes of Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) published 1998-2007. These volumes and all those published 1970-2011 are included in Contemporary Literary Criticism. | 1960-2007 | Yes |
| Copper Data Center Database | 1965 - present | No | |
| Corporate Affiliations | guide to corporate families in the U.S. and worldwide. This remarkable resource provides instant insight into nearly 200,000 parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, and divisions - all the way down to the seventh level of reporting relationships. Historic data is included with executive and board of director changes over time dating back to 1993. | 1993 - current | Yes |
| Corporate ResourceNet | Partial | ||
| Corrosion Abstracts | Corrosion Abstracts provides information in the area of corrosion science and engineering. International sources of literature are scanned and abstracted in the areas of general corrosion, testing, corrosion characteristics, preventive measures, materials construction and performance, and equipment for many industries. Corrosion Abstracts provides engineers and scientists with a resource for solving corrosion problems by reviewing the documented experience of others and providing summarized findings in the article abstracts. | 1980 - present | No |
| CountryWatch | Key publications produced by CountryWatch include the CountryReviews TM, an up-to-date series of publications for each country including demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental information, and the CountryWireTM ,which provides daily news coverage for every country in the world and a significant news archive made up of the compendium of regional news carriers. | 2008 - current | Yes |
| County Business Patterns | Covers U.S. Economic Census data at the county level for agricultural services, mining, construction, manufacturing, transportation, public utilities, wholesale & retail trade, finance, insurance, real estate, and services. Available on the Internet at www.census.gov/epcd/cbp/view/cbpview.html. | 2000/2001 | Yes |
| CQ Public Affairs Collection | Organized by over twenty broad subjects in the fields of public policy and public affairs, this full-text collection provides selected resources for each subject, including reports, historic documents, legislation, court case summaries, statistical analyses, chronologies, organizations, web sites, and more. | Yes | |
| CQ Researcher | CQ Researcher explores a single, current issue in the news each week on topics ranging from social issues to environment, health, education, science and technology. Forty-four reports are produced each year, with four expanded reports. Each 12,000-word report features comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of the issue. Charts, graphs, a pro-con feature, chronology, bibliographies and a list of contacts complete each report. | 1991 to present | Yes |
| CQ Weekly | Weekly in-depth reports on congressional issues and activities, including the status of bills, committee and floor activity, debates, and all roll-call votes. | 1983 to present | Yes |
| CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics | This resource allows searching and browsing of the numerous tables and data found in the print CRC handbook. Can search by full-text, by chemical substance, or by a number of chemical properties. Interactive tables allow exporting the data to Microsoft Excel. | Yes | |
| Credo Reference | Online reference library provides advanced searching and full-text of hundreds of dictionaries and encyclopedias in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Cross-reference links and interactive concept maps provide answers and enable further exploration of topics. Images include 17,000 works of art from the Bridgemann Art Library Archive. | ancient - current | Yes |
| Crop Protection Compendium | The Crop Protection Compendium is an interactive database including information on thousands of insect pests, diseases, weeds, invasive plants and natural enemies of worldwide or regional importance. It also has detailed information on over 200 crops and crop production statistics by country and crop. In addition, the database provides identification keys and images, a decision-support tool for pest risk analysis, geographic information software to display global and regional maps, a bibliographic database, interactive glossary, and a library of published research documents. | 2005 edition | Partial |
| Current Index to Statistics | The Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. | 1974 - present | No |
| Current Protocols series | Published by Wiley InterScience, Current protocols is a series of laboratory handbooks including Current protocols in: bioinformatics, cell biology, cytometry, food analytical chemistry, immunology, molecular biology, neuroscience, nucleic acid chemistry, pharmacology, protein science, and toxicology. It is possible to search one or more handbooks at a time. To search one handbook select it from the list under "Titles;" to search more than one, select a title and then, depressing the Ctrl key, select the others. | Yes |
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