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Database Title	Summary - Full Description	Coverage	Full Text
ABI Inform/Complete	This database is the most comprehensive ABI/INFORM database, comprised of ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, ABI/INFORM Dateline and ABI/INFORM Archive, featuring over 3,000 full-text journals, 25,000 Dissertations, 14,000 SSRN working papers, key newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, as well as country-and industry-focused reports and data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.	1984 to current	Yes
AccessUN	Provides access to United Nations publications from agencies such as the General Assembly, Economic and Social Council, and Security Council.		Yes
ACLS Humanities E-Book	American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Humanities E-Book (HEB) Project provides searchable full-text of over 3,700 books in the humanities, especially in history. These are frequently cited works of major importance to historical studies.	18th c. - 21st c. works	Yes
African American Music Reference	Provides full-text books, reference articles, biographies, images, sheet music, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies that chronicle the African American experience through music. Covers blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms.	1700s - present	Yes
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century	Cultural life and history during the 1800s in the U.S. and the Canadian province of Ontario: first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. Large numbers of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements, all of which portray the African-American experience.	1827-1900	Yes
African American Periodicals: 1825-1995	Over 170 African American newspapers and magazines published in the U.S. from 1825-1995, from slavery during the Antebellum Period to the struggles and triumphs of the modern era. Publications include African Repository (1825-92), Black Panther (1967-75), Black Worker (1929-68), and Soul (1966-76). Search full-text by any or all of these periods: Slavery and Antebellum Era (1825 to 1860), U.S. Civil War (1861 to 1865), Reconstruction and Post War South (1866 to 1895), Segregation and the Rise of Black Protest Thought (1896 to 1920), African American Culture in the New Era (1921 to 1945), Civil Rights Era (1946-1960), The Second Reconstruction (1961-1972), Modern / Contemporary Era (1973-1998). The collection is based upon James P. Danky's African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography (Harvard, 1998) and drawn from holdings of the Wisconsin Historical Society.	1825-1995	Yes
African American Poetry	Over 2,500 searchable and browsable full-text poems by African-American Authors, base on William French et al., Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975.	1760-1975	Partial
Afro-Americana Imprints:1535-1922	From the Library Company of Philadelphia's Afro-Americana Collection, this still-growing resource will provide researchers with full-text searchable, digital facsimiles of more than 12,000 printed works. These books, pamphlets and broadsides, including many lesser-known imprints, span nearly 400 years, from the early 16th to the early 20th century. Afro-Americana Imprints can be searched along with Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800).	1535-1922	Yes
America: History and Life with full text	Abstracts of selected journal articles, citations of book and media reviews, and dissertations covering the history of what is now the United States and Canada for all time periods. Covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide. All abstracts are in English. Every year about 16,000 new entries are added. Includes some 6,000 citations of book and media reviews.	1964 - present	Partial
American County Histories to 1900	Full-text of county histories for Delaware, New York, and Pennsylvania. These large county volumes, most published between 1870 and 1900, form the cornerstone of local historical and genealogical research.	18th and 19th centuries	Yes
American Periodicals Series online	Over 1,240 American periodicals that began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals. For periodicals that continued into the 20th c., the cut-off date is 1940. APS Online offers digitized images and is fully keyword searchable. It derives from the American Periodicals Series microform collections APS I, APS II, and APS III.	1740-1940	Yes
Année philologique	International index of scholarship in classical studies covering journal articles and book chapters on ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Records can be searched by ancient author, modern author, title words, subjects and disciplines, including archaeology, linguistics, literature, philosophy, religion, science and technology. Records often contain a brief abstract and links to related records. Earlier printed volumes (1924 to 2001), which include a key to abbreviations, are available in HSSE Reference [016.4 An74].	1924-current 2yr delay	Partial
Annual Reports at Academic Business Libraries	An index of the printed copies of corporate Annual Reports to shareholders held by the following universities: Columbia U., Cornell U., Harvard U., MIT, Purdue U., Stanford U., U of Alabama, U. of California-Berkeley, U. of Pennsylvania, U. of Western Ontario, Yale U., and the Science/Industry/Business Library of New York Public Library.	1870-2005	No
ANTE: Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering	ANTE monitors approximately 350 academic and trade publications from the U.K. and the U.S. for information on new technologies. Areas covered include information technology and computing, electronics, biotechnology, medical technology, as well as engineering and allied subject areas	1981 - present	No
Anthropology Plus	Anthropology Plus brings together two resources: Anthropological Literature from Harvard University, and the Anthropological Index from the Royal Anthropological Institute in the UK. It provides worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.	late 1800s - current	No
Archive Finder	Provides information on primary source materials from nearly 4,500 manuscript repositories in the U.S.. Includes records, complete with detailed indexes, of nearly 100,000 manuscript and other special collections. Describes each repository's holdings. Three major info. resources are integrated in ArchivesUSA: (1) A newly compiled directory of manuscript repositories, giving full addresses, including e-mail addresses and URLs, opening hours and details of holdings and areas of special interest. This directory replaces the Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States (DAMRUS) last published in 1988. (2) Collection records from the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC), info. gathered and compiled by the Library of Congress from the 1950s to the end of 1995, covering some 75,000 collections. Each record also includes the LC's subject and name indexing of the collection. Only ArchivesUSA makes all of NUCMC fully searchable in electronic form. (3) Names and detailed subject indexing of over 42,000 collections whose finding aids have been published separately in Chadwyck-Healey's major microfiche series, National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS).	not applicable	Partial
ArchiveGrid	Descriptions of archival holdings and special collections of manuscripts and other primary source materials nationwide. Includes full text finding aids describing the contents of archival collections at various libraries, museums, and archival repositories throughout the U.S. with links to the repositories.	00-present	Partial
Art Bibliographies Modern	Coverage of articles, monographs, dissertations, museum catalogues, etc. for modern and contemporary studies in art history, critical theory and criticism, industrial design, photography, fine arts, graphic arts, and aesthetics. International in scope, its includes other valuable language sources; i.e. French, German, Italian, etc.	1974 - present	Partial
Art Full Text--EBSCO Portal	A comprehensive resource for art information from more than 900 periodicals, including 280 peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracting of over 13,000 art dissertations. Subjects include Architecture, Art History, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Painting, Pottery, Sculpture, Textiles, Photography, Film, Video, and more. Partial full-text from 300 journals dating back to 1995.	1984- current	Partial
ARTFL -- the Treasury of the French Language	The ARTFL database is a corpus of nearly 150,000,000 words and almost 2000 texts with an emphasis in the 17th to 20th centuries. Complete novels and collections of poetry are included, but also works in philosophy, mathematics, and biology. This database is searchable via keywords or proper names.	17th - 20th c	Yes
Arts and Humanities Citation Index	Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Searches may focus on authors, contents of individual journals, ranges of publications dates, keywords, and by combinations of the above. An added feature is the capacity to trace citatons to given authors, etc. A Representative selection of non-English language journals is included.	Since 1977-present.	Partial
ASTM Digital Library	Contains the complete ASTM library of books and journal papers as well as papers from the special technical publications, manuals, and monographs. In most cases, the full-text journals cover articles from volume 1. These include: Journal of ASTM International, Journal of Testing and Evaluation, Geotechnical Testing Journal, Journal of Forensic Sciences, Cement, Concrete and Aggregates, and Journal of Composites Technology and Research	Late 1940s to present	Yes