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Database Title	Summary - Full Description	Coverage	Full Text
Science in Context	Introductory or basic information for the non-science major.	Pre-2000 to present	Partial
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
Social Sciences Full Text	Anthropology, area studies, family studies, law and criminology, political science, psychology, sociology, women´s studies. Can be searched with Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984.	1984 - 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
Statistical Abstract of the U.S.	The classic annual statistical compendium of U.S. Government and non-government information on the social, political, and economic organization of the U.S., formerly published by the U.S. Census Bureau. Updated monthly, it features an interdisciplinary variety of up-to-date statistical information in table format with detailed bibliographic information.	various years up to current	Yes