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Database Title	Summary - Full Description	Coverage	Full Text
HathiTrust	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
Historical Abstracts with full text	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
Humanities Full Text	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