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Indexes more than 400 international social science and humanities journals that feature articles, book reviews, documents, and original literary works about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. 1970 - present Partial
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Harper's Weekly (1857-1912), one of America's leading illustrated newspapers. is an important primary resource for examining nineteenth century America on a cumulative week-to-week basis. All pages, including advertisements, have been scanned as facsimile images. These are integrated with searchable full-text and thesaurus-based indexing. The Purdue community has access to all segments of the database: The Civil War Era: 1857  1865 Reconstruction I: 1866  1871 Reconstruction II: 1872  1877 Gilded Age I: 1878 - 1883 Gilded Age II: 884 - 1889 Gilded Age III: 1890 - 1895 Gilded Age IV: 1896 - 1901 Gilded Age V: 1902 - 1907 Gilded Age VI: 1908 - 1912 1857-1912 Yes
A growing collection of several million scanned books, journals, and other digital resources, comparable to Google Books. Benefits include full-text and advanced bibliographic search capabilities, and full PDF downloading of works in the public domain (26% of the collection). HathiTrust is a partnership of more than 50 major research libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. It ingests digital content from its partner institutions as well as from Google, the Internet Archive, and Microsoft. In some cases, books that are only available in snippet view through Google Books are full text at HathiTrust, which is actively investigating the copyright status of works published up to 1964. Hathi (pronounced HAH-tee) is the Hindi word for elephant, a symbol of memory, wisdom, and strength. 15th c. - 21st c. Partial
Published in association with the University of Southern California's Institute of Safety and Systems Management, this database provides a comprehensive, timely survey of recent work relating to public health, safety, and industrial hygiene. Cited studies are geared to help individuals identify, evaluate, and eliminate or control risks and hazards across the spectrum of environmental and occupational situations. The database provides the latest perspectives on topics of widespread concern such as aviation and aerospace safety, environmental safety, nuclear safety, medical safety, occupational safety, and ergonomics. Health and safety related aspects of pollution, waste disposal, radiation, pesticides, epidemics - and countless other phenomena having the potential to threaten the public, the environment, or the workplace itself - are reported here. <p> Drawing on government reports as well as journal articles, conference proceedings, books, and other publications, Health and Safety Science Abstracts synthesizes the most important new developments in safety science and human factors research.<p> Over 1350 journal titles are indexed by HSSA. 1981 - present No
Including the respected Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Health & Wellness Resource Center delivers up-to-date reference material as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources. Descriptions of and links to many pertinent websites have been selected for their usefulness and appropriateness. Health and medical video content and physician-authored articles is provided by Healthology. The latest health news from Harvard Health Publications, a division of the Harvard Medical School, is also available. Current Partial
Health Business FullTEXT provides full text coverage for more than 130 well-known administrative journals including H&HN: Hospitals & Health Networks, Health Management Technology, Modern Healthcare, and many others. Critical for hospital administrators and managers, this database includes publications covering the business of health care administration, and much more. Many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1985. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost. 1985 - present Partial
Multi-source database providing access to full-text of nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources that offer reliable health information to researchers, including nursing and allied health students. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only. 1980 -- current Yes
Health Source Plus is a database of both general health magazines and professional health care journals. It includes full text from nearly 300 periodicals, nearly 1,200 pamphlets, 20 books, 7,000 Clinical Reference Systems reports, Stedman's Medical Dictionary, and Clinical Pharmacology. 1985 - present Partial
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides abstracts and indexing for over 800 journals, with nearly 600 scholarly full text journals, focusing on many medical disciplines, with an emphasis on nursing and allied health. In addition, this database includes Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to drug monographs for U.S. prescription drugs, herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs. 1975 - present Partial
The CSA High Technology Research Database with Aerospace brings together in one place the most comprehensive bibliographic coverage of research, emerging technologies, applications and companies in the areas of aeronautics, astronautics, computer & information technology, electronics, communications, solid state materials and devices, and space sciences. Everything from theoretical research through practical application is covered. 1962-present No
Abstracts of selected journal articles, citations of books, book reviews and dissertations on the history of all parts of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to present. Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts currently covers over 2,000 journals published throughout the world. Besides article citations, each year it adds approximately 3,000 book citations, for a total of over 20,000 entries added each year. All abstracts are in English, and titles in languages besides English also appear in English translation. Historical Abstracts on the Web also includes in-process English-language article entries prior to their completion and inclusion in the print and CD-ROM versions. For these, the abstracts, subject terms, and chronologies are not yet available. No
The electronic version of Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to Present; Millennial Edition (Cambridge UP, 2006) presents thousands of annual time series of quantitative historical information covering virtually every quantifiable dimension of American history: population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations. Chapters are preceded by essays that introduce the quantitative history of their subject, and provide a guide to the sources. Enables searching, combining, and downloading of data using Excel or CSV spreadsheets. 1500-2000 Partial
HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Published between 1850 and 1950, these titles were selected by teams of scholars for the great historical importance they hold. The full text of these materials, as well as bibliographies and essays on the wide array of subjects relating to Home Economics, are all freely accessible on this site. This is the first time a collection of this scale and scope has been made available. Between 1850 and 1950 Partial
Hospitality & Tourism Complete is a bibliographic database covering scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. This comprehensive index combines the records of three collections: Cornell Universitys former Hospitality database, Articles in Hospitality and Tourism (AHT), formerly co-produced by the Universities of Surrey and Oxford Brookes, UK, and the Lodging, Restaurant & Tourism Index (LRTI), formerly produced by Purdue University. Together, this collection will contain more than 440,000 records from 500 titles, with coverage going back to the early 1940s. Sources are both domestic and international in range and scope, with material collected from countries and regions such as Canada, Australia, Europe and Asia. Subject areas covered include demographics & statistics, development & investment, food & beverage management, hospitality law, hotel management & administrative practices, leisure & business travel, market trends, technology and more. varies Partial
World cultures in all their manifestations are included, primarily form the anthropological and ethnographical perspective. Partial
Indexes a wide range of important scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences as far back as 1907. Search this resource with Humanities Full Text and/or Social Sciences Full Text for coverage up to the present. 1907-1984 Partial
Leads to scholarly journal articles on the Arts, Classical Studies, Communications, History, Literature, Religion. Can be searched with Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984. 1984 - present Partial