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ABI/Inform Dateline Search a unique resource focusing on hard-to-find local and regional business news coverage of large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. Provides access to business information not typically found in national news sources. Contains news and analysis, information on local markets, and more gathered from major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city, state, and regional business publications. 1985 - current Yes
Abstracts in Social Gerontology Contains bibliographic records and abstracts of articles and books covering essential areas of social gerontology, including adult education, biology and physiology, community services, death and bereavement, demography of aging, economic issues, law, and policy, housing, institutional and non-institutional care, leisure and recreation, medical care, neuropsychology of aging, primary relations, psychiatric dysfunctions and treatment, psychology of aging, social pathology and the elderly, work and retirement. 1990-present Partial
Academic Search Premier Provides access to articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers in a wide range of subject areas. Features abstracts and indexes for over 3000 publications, including New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, and approximately 1700 peer-reviewed journals. Over 1200 publications are available in full text. 1984 - present; fulltext, 1990 - present. Partial
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
Acts (Indiana) Contains all the acts of the first regular session in 2003 of the 113th Indiana General Assembly. Current year Yes
Ad*Access The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University. The advertisements are from the J. Walter Thompson Company Competitive Advertisements Collection of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History in Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. 1911 - 1955 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
AgeLine (AARP) AgeLine is a bibliographic database in social gerontology--the study of aging in social, psychological, health-related and economic contexts. It is produced by the American Association of Retired Persons, covering more than 300 journals. These journals include research, professional, and general-interest periodicals. The journal titles cover the fields of gerontology, healthcare, business, consumer affairs, psychology, sociology, and economics, as well as a wide variety of other related topics. Most of the data is North American in origin and is drawn predominantly from journals, books, book chapters and reports. 1978 - present Partial
Agricultural Statistics Statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for all facets of agricultural production, supply, and demand worldwide. Partial
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
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
AnthroSource Current and back issues of journals published by the American Anthropological Association, including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Anthropology of Work Review, Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, Culture & Agriculture, Journal of Latin American Anthropology, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists Newsletter, Visual Anthropology Review, Voices, and more. 1800s - current Yes
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
ArticleFirst ArticleFirst is an index to articles from over 12,000 academic journals in all disciplines. Some entries include abstracts. 1990 - present Partial
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
ASFA (Combined) Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts Search three parts of ASFA, imultaneously: ASFA 1: Biological Sciences and Living Resources 1978-Current ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution and Environmental Quality 1990-Current ASFA Aquaculture Abstracts 1984-Current Please read the descriptions of each of these databases for more information about their individual subject coverage. Varies No
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