| Database Title | Summary - Full Description | Coverage | Full Text |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAIS International | PAIS International (PAIS=Public Affairs Information Services, Inc.) is a bibliographic index with abstracts covering the full range of political, social, and public policy issues, such as economic, political, and social issues, business, finance, law, international trade and relations, public administration, government, and any topics that are or might become the subject of legislation.. The database covers selected journal articles, books, statistics, yearbooks, directories, conference proceedings, pamphlets, reports, and government documents. Coverage includes documents published worldwide in any of six languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. | 1972 - present | No |
| Patrologia Latina Database | The Patrologia Latina Database is an electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. The Patrologia Latina comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. The database contains the complete Patrologia Latina, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes. Migne's column numbers, essential references for scholars, are also included. | 200 AD - 1216 | Partial |
| Patron Books in Print | Provides a user-friendly interface designed to enhance browsing of the Books-in-Print Online database, including the ability to browse by fiction and non-fiction genres. The specialized Fiction Room and Children's Room provide yet another way for your patrons to find the books they most want to read. | 1979-current | Partial |
| Patty's Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology, 5th Ed. | Patty's Industrial Hygiene presents the most up to date information on the recognition and evaluation of chemical agents, physical agents and biohazards in the workplace as well as engineering control of exposure and personal protection. Patty's Toxicology presents comprehensive toxicological data for industrial compounds from metals to synthetic polymers. Information for each compound includes CAS numbers, RTECS numbers, physical and chemical properties, threshold limit values (TLV's), permissible exposure limits (PEL's), maximum workplace concentrations (MAK), and biological tolerance values for occupational exposures (BAT). | 2001 | Yes |
| Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800 | The newspaper of record for the eastern side of North America, the West Indies, and parts of South America, 1728-1800. Articles, news, editorials, advertisements, and letters. Social, political, religious, and cultural content. Includes the full text of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Letters from a Farmer, Thomas Paine`s Common Sense, The Federalist Papers, etc. | 1728-1800 | Yes |
| Periodicals Archive Online | PAO provides online access to over 700 periodicals that are indexed in its companion database, Periodicals Index Online, which indexes over 6,000 journals and is accessible from the PAO homepage. PAO contains the full-text backfiles of over 700 journals, including many in foreign languages. It also indexes and links to articles in JSTOR. | 1665 - 1995 | Yes |
| Phase Online (American Ceramic Society) | Contains over 21,000 phase diagrams online with full commentary published by NIST/Amercian Ceramic Society. The latest feature includes new figures as .pdf files, which are identical in quality to the diagrams in the 21 printed volumes. Phase Equilibria Diagrams Online may be searched by chemical system and published author s last name as well as volume, language, publication year, and figure number. The content retrieved shows the Diagram which may be augmented by specialized tools as well as the Commentary which includes a full view of chemical system, discussion of the diagram, references, footnotes, figure number, and figure notes. | Current | Yes |
| Philosopher's Index | Indexes and abstracts books and articles (over 400 journals) in philosophy. Among the subfields covered are aesthetics, epistemology, ethics (pure and applied), logic, metaphysics, and social and political philosophy. Author, title, journal, and keyword(s) may be searched. International in scope, it includes both English and non-English literature. | 1940-present | No |
| Picture Book Database | Combines data from many online and print sources, picture books, publisher, author, and illustrator websites, to catalog picture books by author/illustrator, subjects, artistic styles, characters, genres, age ranges, etc. | 1845-current | No |
| Plant Management Network | The Plant Management Network is a multidisciplinary noncommercial resource containing information on applied plant science and agriculture. Disciplines covered include agronomy, biosecurity, crop science, ecology, entomology, forage management, forestry, horticulture, integrated pest management, natural resources, nematology, plant pathology, range science, seed science, soil science, turf management, and weed science. Types of information are: four peer-reviewed journals, Applied turfgrass science, Crop management, Forage & grazinglands, and Plant health progress; seed and pest control field trial publications; image collections; and the Plant Science database that has links to many full-text publications. | 1990 to the present | Partial |
| Play Index --EBSCO Portal | Searches over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published in books, anthologies, or journals. Covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama. Search by title, author, subject, genre. | 1949-present | No |
| Plunkett Research Online | Plunkett's offers business intelligence, industry trends, statistics, market research, and company lists. Detailed industry reports, company profiles, and numerous statistics are available. | 2005 - current | Yes |
| Pollution Abstracts | This database provides fast access to the environmental information necessary to resolve day-to-day problems, ensure ongoing compliance, and handle emergency situations more effectively. Pollution Abstracts combines information on scientific research and government policies in a single resource. Topics of growing concern are extensively covered from the standpoints of atmosphere, emissions, mathematical models, effects on people and animals, and environmental action in response to global pollution issues. <p> To ensure comprehensive coverage, material from conference proceedings and hard-to-find documents has been summarized along with information from primary journals in the field. Over 2250 journals are selectively indexed by Pollution Abstracts. | 1981 - present | Partial |
| PressDisplay | 1,700+ newspapers from 92 countries, in 48 languages. Full-color, full-page format includes all articles, pictures, advertisements, and classifieds. | Current issues with 90-day backfile | Yes |
| Primary Search | 1984 - present | Partial | |
| Professional Development Collection | A specialized collection of electronic information sources compiled especially for professional educators, including information on topics ranging from children's health and development to pedagogical theory and practice. The Collection includes abstract and index coverage for more than 430 well known professional development titles, searchable full text for 345 journals covering current topics in the field of education, and over 150 journals containing images. | 1984 - present | Partial |
| Project Muse | Project MUSE Premium Collection provides full-text online editions of over 340 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. For some journal titles Project Muse provides links to back issues archived in JSTOR. | 1990 - current | Yes |
| ProQuest Congressional | Provides access to historic and recent U.S. Government publications from 1789-2000 on including U.S. Congressional Serial Set documents, federal agency reports, congressional committee publications, statistics, maps, and congressional debates. | 1789-1997 | Yes |
| ProQuest Historical Annual Reports | ProQuest Historical Annual Reports (1844-current) covers over 800 companies and contains digital reproductions for more than 43,000 reports. Key data include: financial information; Fortune 500 ranking; industry classification; key people; location; auditor; and related companies. Cross-searchable with other Proquest historic collections. | 1844-current | Yes |
| ProQuest Newsstand | Text of 1,300+ newspapers from the U.S., U.K., and around the world, including The Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, The Times [London], Le Monde [Paris]. Text only. | Current, with backfiles from 1980s to 2010, depending on title. | Yes |
| Proquest Research Library | A general database of magazine, journal, and newspaper articles from approximately 2350 publications in a wide variety of subject areas. The database consists of two components: a core list of about 740 periodicals, and 15 subject-specific modules in the areas of Arts, Business, Children, Education, General Interest, Health, Humanities, International, Law, Military, Multicultural, Psychology, Sciences, Social Sciences, and Women's Interests. Any combination of modules may be searched simultaneously. Searches may be limited to only peer reviewed titles or only newspapers. Many articles are available in full-text, full image format. | 1986 - present | Partial |
| ProQuest Statistical Datasets | Brings together a collection of statistical data in a single search interface, with additional features such as descriptive abstracts, detailed indexing, full-text PDFs of source documents and tables, and down-loadable spreadsheets containing table data. | International. | Yes |
| ProQuest Statistical Insight | Provides access to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. Search between approximately 200,000 to 500,000 tables with its advanced Search Tables functionality. | 50+ years | Yes |
| PsycARTICLES | PsycARTICLES" is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. For a complete journal listing, please see this page: http://www.apa.org/psycarticles/covlist.html All PsycARTICLES fulltext article links have been integrated into the PsycInfo database. | 1987-present | Yes |
| PsycCritiques | PsycCRITIQUES" is a searchable database of full-text reviews of books and some popular films, videos, and software with content relevant to psychology. Launched in September 2004, the database replaced the print journal Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books. In each weekly release, it will deliver approximately 20 reviews of psychological books, most from the current copyright year. | 1995 - present | Yes |
| PsycINFO | The PsycINFO database covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, neuroscience, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, and linguistics. Coverage is worldwide, and includes references and abstracts to dissertations and journals (1,300 + ). It includes the fulltext article links from the PsycARTICLES database. | 1806-present | Partial |
| PubMed | PubMed, available via the NCBI Entrez retrieval system, was developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Entrez is the text-based search and retrieval system used at NCBI for services including PubMed, Nucleotide and Protein Sequences, Protein Structures, Complete Genomes, Taxonomy, OMIM, and many others. PubMed provides access to citations from biomedical literature. LinkOut provides access to full-text articles at journal Web sites and other related Web resources. PubMed also provides access and links to the other Entrez molecular biology resources. | 1950 - | Partial |