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Database Title	Summary - Full Description	Coverage	Full Text
Sabin Americana, 1500-1926	Searchable full-text collection, based on Joseph Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana, contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to 1926. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide information about North, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and the Arctic. These include original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more.	1500-1926	Yes
Science Online	More than the journal, Science, the content of this website extends into ethics, policies, sociology, pedagogy, etc. as it relates to science and how science impacts those areas. The journal, Science, and its preprint version, ScienceExpress, and Science Now, a daily news web page are all available full-text. Also accessible: Three virtual knowledge environments - Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment (STKE), Science of Aging Knowledge Environment (SAGE), and AIDS Online - each of which has an online journal, laboratory protocol section, various bioinformatics products, and more. Functional Genomics. Full access to current awareness services. Some of these resources, especially those within SAGE, are aimed at non-scientists and teachers of science.		Yes
Seventeenth-Eighteenth Century Burney Collection Newspapers	17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers Searchable full-text access to the British Library's collection of the newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) The nearly 1270 titles and one million pages are predominantly London newspapers from 1603 up to the early 1800s.	1603-early 1800s	Yes
Short Story Index--EBSCO portal	Index of more than 90,000 short stories in English or in English translation published in anthologies and journals. Searchable by author, title, and, in many cases, by subject. Indexes 3,000-4,000 stories per year. Includes the full-text of more than 16,000 stories published since 1994.	1984-present	Partial
Social Sciences Citation Index	The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines, and is searchable by keyword, author, journal title, and by date. An added feature is searching for citations to individual authors and/or publications. This database indexes a representative selection of non-English language journals.	Indexes from 1977-prsesent.	Partial
Sociological Abstracts	Abstracts of the world's serial literature in sociology and related disciplines and enhanced bibliographic citations of relevant dissertations from the Sociological Abstracts and SOPODA. Approximately 1600 journals in 30 languages from 55 countries are abstracted in this resource.	1974 - present	Partial
Something About the Author Online	Examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults. Full-text with illustrations from 200+ volumes of Something About the Author and the Autobiography series (1971-current).	1971-current	Yes
Springer E-Books	Contains full-text of books/book chapters, conference papers, and journal articles published by Springer. Purdue University Libraries' subscription to e-books starts in 2005 and covers many disciplines.	2005 - present	Yes