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Handbook of Latin American Studies
Description: Contains records describing books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American studies and edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Coverage includes relevant books as well as over 1,350 social science and 550 humanities journals and volumes of conference proceedings published worldwide.
Political Database of the Americas
Description: A project of the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University in collaboration with the Organization of American States.
ARTstor
Description: ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 700,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.\r\n\r\nThe ARTstor Digital Library is used by educators, scholars, and students at a variety of institutions including universities, colleges, museums, public libraries, and K-12 schools. The Digital Library serves users both within the arts and in disciplines outside of the arts. This includes historians of art and architecture and others engaged in the visual arts, as well as individuals in fields as diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies, all of whom find the images in ARTstor to be relevant to their teaching and research.
Florida Documents Index
Description: Identifies publications housed in the Florida Documents Collection at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). The collection includes public documents distributed by the State Library of Florida since 1967 under the Florida Public Documents Depository Program.
Florida Memory
Description: Online portal to historical collections at the Florida state library. Features include the Florida Photographic Collection, Online Classroom, Highlights of Florida History, Collections, and Timeline.
Declassified Documents Reference System (DDRS)
Description: Declassified Documents Reference System provides online access to more than 500,000 pages of previously classified government documents. Covering major international events from the Cold War to the Vietnam War and beyond, this single source enables users to locate key information underpinning studies in international relations, American studies, United States foreign and domestic policy studies, journalism and more.
Florida Heritage Collection (FHAC)
Description: An ongoing cooperative SUS (State University System of Florida) project to digitize and provide web access to materials broadly representing Florida's history, culture, arts, literature, sciences and social sciences.
Political Science Full-Text Collection by Sage
Description: Political Science: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full-text of 25 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 24 years, encompassing over 10,000 articles. It covers such subjects as General Political Science, American Government & Politics, Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Policy Studies, Political Communication, Peace / Conflict Studies, Presidential Studies, Political Theory / Philosophy, International Relations, and Area Studies.\r\n\r\nThe searchable database consists of bibliographic records (indexed summaries or abstracts) as well as the complete text of each journal article. Every bibliographic record in the Collection links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format.
Independent Florida Alligator Index 1984-1991
Description: The Independent Florida Alligator: University of Florida student newspaper.
Sociological Abstracts
Description: Sociology-related topics such as: abuse and neglect, aging, anthropology, criminology, crisis intervention, demography, education, ethnic studies, law and penology, social psychology, urban studies, violence, and women's studies. From 1963-
FloridaCat
Description: OCLC catalog of books and other materials in Florida libraries. Search may be limited to type of library (academic, public, etc.), or region of the state of Florida.
Florida Times Union Index
Description: Florida Times Union (newspaper) Jacksonville, Florida - Index 1986 to 1997
Florida Law Weekly
Description: Florida Supreme Court and District Courts of Appeal opinions, with headnotes and subject matter indexes. Most new releases added on day of filing.
Florida Supreme Court Briefs and Opinions
Description: Contains opinions issued in Florida Supreme Court cases decided since June 1993 and the briefs filed in those cases. Briefs for cases decided without an opinion are not included. Maintained by the FSU Law Library and financed by Florida Law School Libraries.
Sociology Full-Text Collection by Sage
Description: Sociology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full-text of 33 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 24 years, encompassing over 12,700 articles. It covers such subjects as Childhood, Contemporary Sociology, Comparative Sociology, Consumer Culture, Classical Sociology, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Leisure Studies, Social Theory, Sociology of Sport, and Sociology of Work and Employment (Labor Studies).\r\n\r\nThe searchable database consists of bibliographic records (indexed summaries or abstracts) as well as the complete text of each journal article. Every bibliographic record in the Collection links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format.
North American Theatre Online
Description: Alexander Street Drama is a package that includes reference materials in North American Theatre Online along with all the content in the following full text play collections. Everything is cross searchable through the unified North American Theatre Online interface. Includes Black Drama, Twentieth Century North American Drama, Asian American Drama, and North American Women's Drama in cross search. North American Theatre Online is a comprehensive reference work covering all aspects of the Canadian and American Theatre. It includes major reference materials, together with records to plays, people, theatres, productions, and production companies. The collection also includes images, playbills, postcards, scrapbooks and other resources.
Bibliography of Asian Studies
Description: This is the online version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS), referencing principally western-language articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971.
Psychology Full-Text Collection by Sage
Description: Psychology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full text of 35 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 36 years, and encompasses over 21,600 articles. It covers such subjects as Applied Psychology, Assessment, Child Development, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Cross-Cultural Psychology, Cultural Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology, Environmental Psychology, Family Studies, Group Work, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Language Acquisition, Latin American Studies, Learning Disabilities, Measurement, Neuropsychology, Personality, Philosophical Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychology of Diversity, School Psychology, Social Psychology, and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.\r\n\r\nThe searchable database consists of bibliographic records (indexed summaries or abstracts) as well as the complete text of each journal article. Every bibliographic record in the Collection links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format.
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998
Description: African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 (Readex) provides online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. This unique collection features papers from more than 35 states,including many rare and historically significant 19th century titles.
ACP Medicine (Scientific American Medicine)
Description: ACP Medicine is the first comprehensive internal medicine reference to carry the name of the American College of Physicians. ACP Medicine has been developed from WebMD Scientific American Medicine with the primary goal of helping physicians achieve excellence in clinical practice through the use of evidence-based medicine and appropriate practice guidelines for diagnosing and treating their patients.
American Meteorological Society Journals
Description: Contains the full-text of journal and bulletin articles published by the American Meteorological Society. FSU access available from 1944 -
Asian American Drama
Description: This edition of Asian American Drama contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
American Chemical Society Web Edition
Description: Full text articles from 35 publications of the American Chemical Society, including energy, fuels, toxicology, agriculture, food, and biochemistry from 1996 -
North American Women's Drama
Description: This edition of North American Womens Drama contains 1,517 plays by 330 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
North American Indian Drama
Description: This edition of North American Indian Drama contains 172 plays by 33 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
Chicano Database
Description: The most comprehensive bibliographic resource for information about Mexican-American topics and the only specialized database or Chicano reference. In 1992 CDB expanded its scope to include the broader Latino experience of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants
American Physical Society (APS) Journals
Description: Includes the full text of journals published by the American Physical Society with an archive back to 1893.
Essay & General Literature Index
Description: Indexes "essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. More than 300 volumes are indexed annually. Additionally, more than 20 annuals and serial publications such as Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, The Supreme Court Review, Dickens Studies Annual, and Anglo-Saxon England are indexed. In addition to analysis of individual essays, the Essay and General Literature database also provides full bibliographic information on collective titles indexed. This database focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film.
Florida Entomologist
Description: The articles contain top information about many insects, special reports on pest management from 1917-
DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music)
Description: A collection of sound recordings documenting American music largely ignored by the commercial recording companies. Works can be browsed by work, album or track titles, as well as by artist roles, and date of recording and composition. Some biographical and role information are provided for artists.
Latin American Women Writers
Description: Latin American Women Writers will contain approximately 100,000 pages of prose, poetry and drama by women writers from Mexico, Central, and South America when complete.
Animal Behavior Abstracts
Description: Behavioral and related studies from 1982-
Social Explorer
Description: Only 1 simultaneous user is allowed. Contains historical decennial census data for the United States from 1790 to the latest census, the American Community Survey, the American Religious Bodies (ASARB), and InfoGroup for latest religion data . Can create reports and download data in convenient formats quickly and easily.
American Indian Law Collection
Description: With more than 700 unique titles and 350,000 pages
dedicated to American Indian Law, this collection includes an
expansive archive of treaties, federal statutes and regulations,
federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence.
USAID
Description: Through its economic assistance programs, USAID plays an active and critical role in the promotion of U.S. foreign policy interests. The investment this agency makes in developing countries has long-term benefits for America and the American people. Development now takes its place alongside defense and diplomacy as the three essential components of American foreign policy.
US Bureau of the Census State & County QuickFacts
Description: Florida County Selection Map
Introduction to Florida Government
Description: Explains the 3 branches of government and state taxes.
Early American Imprints, Series I, Evans (1639-1800)
Description: Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans. The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Contains over 36,000 imprints and more than 2.5 million images.
EconLit
Description: Indexes and provides citations and abstracts from over 600 major journals as well as articles in collective volumes (essays, proceedings, etc.), books, book reviews, dissertations, and working papers licensed from the Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics. Coverage includes urban, rural and regional economics, public finance, international economics, banking, labor economics, country studies, economic history, demography, law & economics, industry studies, government regulations, business, economic development, cultural economics, agricultural and natural resources economics, and health, education and welfare economics. Most records since 1987 include an abstract. EconLit uses the Journal of Economic Literature Classification system as Subject Descriptors.
Americas Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922
Description: Includes Early American Newspapers (Series I,II, and III), 1690-1922 and offers fully searchable, cover-to-cover reproductions of more than one million pages from more than 650 historical American newspapers, focusing on titles published in the 18th century.\r\n
Academic Search Complete
Description:  Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 7,000 full-text periodicals, including nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 11,000 journals and a total of more than 11,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.This scholarly collection offers unmatched full-text coverage of information in many areas of academic study including, but not limited to: animal science, anthropology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology and many other fields.
Florida Community Health Assessment Resource (Charts)
Description: Provides data on health statistics including births, deaths, disease morbidity, population and behavioral risk factors
Twentieth Century North American Drama
Description: This edition of Twentieth Century North American Drama contains 1,530 plays by 223 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
MLA Literary Research Guide
Description: An Annotated Listing of Reference Sources in English Literary Studies
Neurosciences Abstracts (Proquest)
Description: Covers all aspects of vertebrate and invertebrate neuroscience, emphasizing basic research studies but also including such devastating neural diseases as Alzheimer's from 1982-
Chemoreception Abstracts
Description: Brings together studies from many diverse disciplines relating to the neurobiology, chemistry, and physiology of taste, smell, internal chemoreception, and chemotaxis from 1982-
Everglades Digital Library
Description: Covers the scientific, natural, agricultural resources of the south Florida environment. Produced as a tool for researchers, educators, students, decision makers, information professionals, and anyone else interested in Everglades research, restoration or resource management.
Index Islamicus
Description: The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It is produced by an editorial team working at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, established to transmit knowledge about Islamic and Middle East studies, which have traditionally been part of the curriculum of SOAS. Records included in the database cover almost 100 years of publications on the world of Islam.
Material cited in the Index Islamicus includes not only work written about the Middle East, but also about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level.
Subject coverage: Islam, Muslim, Middle East, Arab, Asia, Africa, History, Political science, Arts, Humanities
American Periodical Series
Description: Digitized images of the pages of over 1,100 American magazines and journals published between 1740 and 1900. Covers special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure's.
Urban Studies and Planning Full-Text Collection by Sage
Description: Urban Studies & Planning: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full text of 12 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 37 years, and encompasses over 2,500 articles. It covers such subjects as Anthropology, Economic Development, Economics, Education, Environmental Science, Planning Pedagogy, Planning Practice, Planning Theory, Policy Analysis, Political Science, Public Administration, Regional Geography, Regional Science, Residential and Community Development, Social, Spatial, and Cultural Dynamics, Sociology, Urban and Regional Planning, Urban Culture, Urban Geography, Urban Policy, Urban Politics, and Welfare Economics.\r\n\r\nThe searchable database consists of bibliographic records (indexed summaries or abstracts) as well as the complete text of each journal article. Every bibliographic record in the Collection links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format.
WNA Latin American Newspapers
Description: WNA Latin American Newspapers
Business Source Complete
Description: Business Source Complete,This is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the 20,000 most-cited authors in the database. Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Complete is the overwhelmingly superior database for full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more. *Available until 11/08 as a pilot database
Early American Imprints, Series II, Shaw Shoemaker (1801-1819)
Description: Early American Imprints, Series II, Shaw Shoemaker (1801-1819)
ClasePeriodica
Description: CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Together they offer access to more than 300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages. They contain information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues. Coverage for Clase is 1975 to present. Coverage for Periodica is 1978to present.
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Description: The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit membership corporation created for the purpose of promoting the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics and its application to human welfare. It is the mission of the Institute to serve the sciences of physics and astronomy by serving its member societies, by serving individual scientists, and by serving students and the general public.As a "society of societies," AIP supports ten Member Societies and provides a spectrum of services and programs devoted to advancing the science and profession of physics. A pioneer in digital publishing, AIP is also one of the world's largest publishers of physics journals and produces the publications of more than 25 scientific and engineering societies through its New York-based publishing division.
AmericasBarometer
Description: This database consists of public opinion surveys carried out by the Latin American Public Opinion project as part of its AmericasBarometer series. The sample sizes, county coverage and questionnaire content will vary from survey wave to wave. Normally, a new wave is conducted every two years, but this is not guaranteed as it depends on grant and contract funding to the Latin American Public Opinion Project. The subscription does not cover special purpose samples that may be carried out from time-to-time, even when those are listed on the LAPOP web site (www.LapopSurveys.org). To access the datasets click on "Enter site via IP Authentication," and read the agreement. If you select "I agree," then you should be able to access the data sets. (KW Americas Barometer)
PALMM: Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials
Description: PALMM (Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials) is a program of the libraries of the Florida Board of Education's Division of Colleges and Universities (DCU) designed to provide support to individual and cooperative digital library initiatives.
Sea Turtle Bibliography
Description: The Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research (ACCSTR) at the University of Florida has developed the "Sea Turtle Online Bibliography." This online bibliography includes all aspects of sea turtle biology, conservation and management. Citations are from recognized bibliographic sources as well as "grey literature."
Francis
Description: Contains records from more than 3,000 journals, books, dissertations, and other American and European sources covering the humanities, social sciences, and economics.
Documenting the American South
Description: a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
American Memory
Description: A collection of digital texts and images, including books, manuscripts, photographs, and film created from the collections of the U.S. Library of Congress
Child Development and Adolescent Studies
Description: This database is today's source for references to the current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21. This includes all of the issues of Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography from 1927-2001 previously published by the Society for Research in Child Development, plus new coverage on child rights and welfare issues.
African-American Biographical Database
Description: Biographies of African Americans living between 1790 and 1950.
PsycBooks
Description: PsycBOOKS is a full-text database of books and chapters in the American Psychological Association's array of quality electronic databases.
American State Papers, 1789-1838
Description: Legislative and executive documents, many originating from the important period between 1789 and the beginning of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set in 1817
Washington Post 1987 to current
Description: The Washington Post is well known for not only in-depth news and analysis of American politics but also insightful coverage of national and international trends and events.
PsycARTICLES
Description: Provides full text access to articles from journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations mostly since 1988. Covers general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.
Dictionary of American History
Description: The first comprehensive revision of this classic reference source, originally published in 1940, features updated and revised entries from previous editions, as well as more than 800 new entries covering recent events and topics not covered
Fuente Academica
Description: Fuente Academica provides PDF full text for 260 Latin American and Iberian scholarly publications covering many areas of academic study. Content is provided in Spanish and Portuguese.
Current Research @ Florida State University
Description: Complete Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) at FSU from 2003 to the present. Includes select retrospective digitized dissertations from 1952-2002 (FSU Dissertations 1952-2002 section). Includes selected retrospective digitized theses prior to 2003 (FSU Historic Early Theses section). Thesis and Dissertations are also available on the library's website under Thesis and Dissertations.
Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace
Description: This innovative, multivolume encyclopedia charts the
interdisciplinary field of Peace Studies, offering a comprehensive
survey of the full range of historical, political, theoretical and
philosophical issues relating to peace and conflict. All major figures
are covered, as well as major events, organizations, theories, and
much more. Each entry is signed by a leading scholar in the field,
contains a bibliography for further reading, and is cross-referenced
with other useful points of interest within the encyclopedia. In
addition to A-to-Z entries, the Encyclopedia also includes a peace
chronology, key documents and appendices.
Anthropology Plus
Description: Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides extensive 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 excellent 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.
HAPI (Hispanic American Periodical Index)
Description: Source for authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States from 1970-
Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
Description: Full text access to current bills under consideration in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. American Memory: Historical collections for the National Digital Library. Catalogs: Books, journals, documents, maps, and other materials owned by the United States Library of Congress.
RefWorks
Description: is a web-based citation manager provided by the FSU Libraries for all Florida State University faculty, students, and staff that allows you to:- Import data directly from WebLuis and online databases such as MEDLINE, PsychINFO, ERIC, etc.
- Organize references by category or project
- Create correctly-formatted bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, etc.)
- Save bibliographies in different document formats (Word, RTF, HTML, etc.)
- Cite references inside Word documents and generate a correctly formatted bibliography as you write
- Export collections of references that can be read and processed by other bibliographic software (such as EndNote)
If you are off campus and asked for a Group Code, it is "RWFlorStateU"RefWorks Tutorials
Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals
Description: Indexes 42 art journals published in the US during the 19th century, providing nearly complete coverage of journals from this period.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Description: When complete, this collection will include approximately 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries from individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950, plus 4,000 pages of previously unpublished materials.
US Supreme Court Records & Briefs
Description: Containing nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978, this product provides an essential primary source tool for the study of all aspects of American history as well as the U.S. judicial system.
Communication Abstracts
Description: Communication Abstracts, edited by Karen Cristiano at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA and published by SAGE Publications, is a comprehensive source of information about communication-related publications on a world-wide scale. Communication Abstracts covers communication-related articles, reports, papers, and books from a variety of publishers, research institutions, and information sources. Coverage includes not only communication literature but also literature in other disciplines that is relevant to communication researchers. Communication Abstracts also covers the international literature in film studies, the role of technology in human communications, risk communication, crisis communication and public opinions.
Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition
Description: A compendium of statistics from over 1000 sources last updated in 1975, HSUS has been expanded to include over 37,000 data series and topics such as slavery, American Indians, health crime, migration, poverty, and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context.
MOA: Making of America Digital Library
Description: A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection currently contains access to approximately 9,000 books and 955 serials with 19th century imprints and is made up of two separate online collections from the University of Michigan and Cornell University.
Military & Government Collection
Description: Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches
of the military and government, this database offers a thorough
collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content
pertinent to the increasing needs of these sites. Military &
Government Collection provides full text for nearly 300 journals and
periodicals. The database also offers indexing and abstracts for more
than 400 journals.Publications covered in this database include Air
Force Comptroller, Defence Studies, JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly,
Military Technology, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin,
Foreign Affairs, Naval Forces, and many more. Additionally, many
full-text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or
scanned-in-color.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
Description: Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. CIAO is also widely-recognized source for teaching materials including original case studies written by leading international affairs experts, course packs of background readings for history and political science classes, and special features like the analysis of a bin Laden recruitment tape with video. All sections of CIAO are updated monthly.
Gale Directory Library
Description: Gale Directory Library hosts a variety of directory products:
- Directories in Print
- Encyclopedia of American Religions
- Encyclopedia of Associations
- Gale Directory of Databases
- Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
- Encyclopedia of Governmental Advisory Organizations
- Research Centers Directory
and many more. You can search information both from current directory editions as well as prior editions that are maintained as searchable backfiles.
Latin American Open Archives Portal
Description: The goal of this project is to improve access to social sciences grey literature produced in Latin America by research institutes, non-governmental organizations, and peripheral agencies. It encompasses working documents, pre-prints, research papers, statistical documents, and other difficult-to-access materials that are not controlled by commercial publishers. Using the OAI harvesting protocol, the portal service will make these valuable research resources accessible in digital repositories.
OAIster
Description: OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources. We provide access to these digital resources by "harvesting" their descriptive metadata (records) using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). The Open Archives Initiative is not the same thing as the Open Access movement.
Digital resources can range from an old-time advertisement of electric refrigerators (from the Library of Congress American Memory project) to Harriet Beecher Stowe memoirs (from the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service Making of America collection).
LexisNexis Statistical Insight
Description: (Accessible only within the College of Medicine) LexisNexis (Statistics) Statistical Insight (aka LexisNexis Statistical Datasets) provides comprehensive access to statistical information. The service allows users to search summaries of statistical publications, then link to the full-text of selected publications on Statistical (Lexis-Nexis) and government Web sites. Statistical Insight (Lexis-Nexis) provides online access to three important statistical indexes: the American Statistics Index (ASI), Statistical Reference Index (SRI), and the Index to International Statistics (IIS).
ERIC (EBSCO)
Description: WilsonWebs ERIC database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. The database contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 200,000 full-text documents from ERIC. The database lists citations and abstracts for over 1,000 comprehensively indexed educational and education-related journals, primarily American, along with some Canadian and British publications. The ERIC collection includes annotated bibliographic records, including journal articles, books, research syntheses, conference papers, technical reports, policy papers, and other education-related materials.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
Description: ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials combines the
premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of
essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of
major religion and theology journals. The ATLA Religion Database
includes more than 575,000 article citations from more than 1,679
journals (506 currently indexed), more than 239,000 essay citations
from over 16,800 multi-author works, and more than 530,000 book review
citations. Full text is provided for more than 294,000 electronic
articles and book reviews. This database is produced by the American
Theological Library Association.
Pediatric Care Online
Description: This highly respected resource from the American Academy of Pediatrics integrates many different pediatric resources for quick access, including:
- The AAP Textbook of Pediatric Care of over 3000 pages of detailed information
- Bright Futures supervision guidelines for well-child visits
- AAP Red Book content Information on over 200 infectious diseases
- Interactive Periodicity Schedule preventive screening and recommendations for each well-child visit
- Signs & Symptoms Search differential diagnosis tool
- Patient Handouts links to hundreds of handouts from numerous sources
- Forms & Tools resources to help screen, track, and record clinical information
- Point-of-Care Quick Reference - Over 240 topics selected from the AAP Textbook of Pediatric Care
BioOne Abstracts and Indexes
Description: This BioOne bibliographic database is an indexed and fully-searchable collection of abstracts that link to the fulltext articles available from the BioOne organization. BioOne provides a unique aggregation of over 82 high-impact bioscience research journals from more than 66 publishers. Additional publishers and journals will be added over time. These titles are produced by societies and non-commercial publishers and a majority were previously available only in printed form. BioOne was developed by the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), the University of Kansas, the Greater Western Library Alliance, and Allen Press. The organization is committed to a non-profit objective of disseminating important, scholarly information focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences by recovering costs while ensuring sustainability. More information can be found at www.bioone.org. (KW: Biology)
Biography Reference Bank
Description: Biography Reference Bank contains biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images. It contains the full text of the articles from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference books published by H. W. Wilson, including all the articles from all volumes of Current Biography, the World Author Series, Nobel Prize Winners, World Artists, World Film Directors, American Reformers, and numerous biographical books on musicians and composers throughout history. Also included are thousands of biographies from other respected publishers, including Macmillan UK, Greenwood, Houghton Mifflin, and Harvard University Press. In addition to the full text biographies, Biography Reference Bank contains millions of magazine citations (many of which contain full-text) from all of the Wilson Indexing Databases, including all citations from the Biography Index database after 1984, as well as thousands of links to book review citations, including review excerpts and full text reviews from Book Review Digest Plus. The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth, date of death, keyword, and presence of images.
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