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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
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
ABI/Inform Global Access (Proquest)	The premier business and management database for articles on business conditions, trends, management techniques, corporate strategies, company news and industry-specific topics worldwide. It provides extensive coverage of North America and the world. Find research on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Also, information on 60,000+ companies.	Mid-1970's - present	Partial
ABI/Inform Trade & Industry	Search more than 750 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus. Provides users with the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. Contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and many more.	1971 - 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
AccessUN	Provides access to United Nations publications from agencies such as the General Assembly, Economic and Social Council, and Security Council.		Yes
AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive	This database is a full text and image collection of the Associated Press Service photographs. Retrospective in nature it offers visual images on an extraordinary range of subjects across all manner of activity where photographers are engaged.	1840's - present	Partial
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 AdAccess 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. AdAccess 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
AgDevOnline	"AgDevOnline (which is short for "Agriculture and food system Development Online") was created to foster the development of a community of professional practice and support the work of any individuals, agencies, and organizations that focus on agriculture and food issues in a community development context from farmland protection or beginning farmer programs, to value-chain development, urban agriculture, and public education." Access to the "Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development" is included.	2010-	Partial
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
AGRICOLA	Produced by the National Agricultural Library, AGRICOLA provided worldwide coverage of agriculture from 1970 through 2006. Beginning in 2007, because of reduced resources, the National Agricultural Library re-scoped the database, reducing coverage, indexing for AGRICOLA only publications that meet at least one of the following criteria: be a U.S. Department of Agriculture publication, or contain articles or chapters authored by USDA personnel; support NALs Information Centers; contain articles or chapters on core agricultural topics, written in the English language; not be indexed by any other abstracting and indexing service. AGRICOLA contains over 3.7 million citations to journal articles, monographs, pamphlets, microforms, research reports, theses, patents, software, audio-visual materials, government documents and technical reports. The database encompasses all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences (breeding, dairy science, feed science), entomology, plant sciences, pesticides, biotechnology, microbiology, ecology, horticulture, hydrology, hydroponics, water quality, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, food science, human nutrition, home economics, rural sociology and earth and environmental sciences. The print equivalent, Bibliography of Agriculture (1942 1969) is available in the Life Sciences Library.	1970 - present	Partial
Agricultural Statistics	Statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for all facets of agricultural production, supply, and demand worldwide.		Partial
American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings	American Society for Engineering Education conference proceedings focused on engineering education for all disciplines of engineering and technology.	1996-present	Yes
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
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
ASABE Online Technical Library (American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers	Published by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers,the ASABE Technical Library contains information on engineering in agricultural, food, and biological systems. The database includes the full-text of the following categories of materials from the Society: ASABE standards, ASABE journals, Technical meeting papers, conference proceedings, monographs, design topics and special publications. A category may be searched singly or all categories may be searched together.	1998 - present	Yes
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
ASFA 1: Biological Sciences and Living Resources	ASFA 1 provides extensive coverage of basic and applied research on aquatic organisms, both in the laboratory and the field. All aspects of water organisms and environments are included. Fisheries receive particular attention with comprehensive sections on statistics, food technology, productivity, conservation, marketing, aquaculture and the latest fishing methods. Records are drawn from many types of source documents. Major areas of coverage include: law, policy, economics, and social sciences; general biology; microbiology; botany; general invertebrate biology; malacology; carcinology; entomology; general chordate biology; ichthyology; ornithology; mammalogy; and aquatic ecology and ecosystems.	1978 - present	Partial