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Academic Search Premier
The world's most comprehensive academic index and full text database provides full text for over 3,834 journals (2,926 peer-reviewed) covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and much more. Title List

America: History & Life
America: History and Life is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries, providing an incomparable research tool for students and researchers of US and Canadian history. Whether your users are searching for information about the Sioux Indian Ghost Dance or labor movements in Canada, America: History and Life is a bibliography that can help them select the most important sources to consult. Its world history counterpart is Historical Abstracts. Links to full text articles in Project Muse and JSTOR are included. Title List

American Chemical Society Journals
Access to current, fulltext articles published in 29 ACS journals. Basic and advanced search engines are available.

Annual Review of Biochemistry
The Annual Review of Biochemistry is published by a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide a useful and intelligent synthesis of the primary research literature of those subjects.

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
The Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics is published by a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide a useful and intelligent synthesis of the primary research literature of those subjects.

Annual Review of Environment and Resources
The Annual Review of Environment and Resources will be a useful resource for researchers and practitioners working on nature-society interactions and for faculty and students presently using textbooks in environmental science and policy. It will update and provide the most recent take on many of the same issues covered more generally in such texts and provide key background information at the intersections of science and policy.

Annual Review of Immunology
The Annual Review of Plant Biology is published by a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide a useful and intelligent synthesis of the primary research literature of immunology.

Annual Review of Plant Biology
The Annual Review of Plant Biology is published by a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide a useful and intelligent synthesis of the primary research literature of plant biology. It was formerly called the Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology.

Annual Review of Psychology
The Annual Review of Psychology is published by a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide a useful and intelligent synthesis of the primary research literature of psychology.

Annual Review of Sociology
The Annual Review of Sociology is published by a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide a useful and intelligent synthesis of the primary research literature of sociology.

Art Abstracts
Art Abstracts indexes and abstracts articles from over 300 art periodicals from throughout the world. Title List

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
This is the American Theological Library Association's index to journals and books dealing with Biblical Studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues. The database is partially full-text and began in 1949. Title List

Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archive
The Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS) was founded in 1974 as a nonprofit, nondenominational, educational organization dedicated to the dissemination of information about archaeology in the Bible lands. The Online Archive consists of a limited file of the archived issues of the Biblical Archaeology Review and books about Biblical archaeology. The main BAS website offers addtional information about the Society and news from the field.

Biography Resource Center
The Biography Resource Center is a comprehensive database of biographical information on more than 150,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines more than 280,000 biographies from reference books and over 250 periodicals. Title List

Biological & Agricultural Abstracts
B & A indexes about 250 periodicals in biology and agriculture. Sources range from popular to scholarly. Title List

Britannica Online
Britannica Online is the electronic equivalent of Encyclopędia Britannica. It consists of a fully searchable and browsable collection of authoritative references, including Britannica's latest article database, hundreds of articles not found in the print Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Tenth Edition), the Britannica Book of the Year, and thousands of links to other World Wide Web sites selected by the Britannica staff.

Business Source Premier
An excellent business databases from Ebsco accessed via INSPIRE. Premier offers full text for nearly 1,380 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more. Business Source Premier contains periodicals ranging from Business Week, Forbes, Fortune and American Banker to journals such as Harvard Business Review, Journal of Management, Academy of Management Review, and many more. Title List

CCH Tax Service
Comprehensive and up-to-date federal and state tax information is now available through CCH's OmniTax. This database covers relevant federal, state and local primary source material, as well as CCH's superior explanations, analysis and practice aids. Not available at Harlaxton.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text
CINAHL® Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for more than 530 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of those, 249 are not found with full text in any version of Academic Search™, Health Source® or Nursing & Allied Health Collection™. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index - with no embargo. The database also provides full text for 217 books/monographs.

CollegeSource
CollegeSource will be indispensable for those searching for current information on colleges, universities or programs of study. Undergraduate and graduate catalogs are available online for most schools found here. Not available at Harlaxton.

Columbia International Affairs Online--CIAO
CIAO is designed to be the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.

Contemporary Womens Issues
Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI), is a multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press -- with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries. Contemporary Women's Issues includes English-language titles from East and West Africa, Asia, and South and Central America, the Caribbean, North America and Europe. Title List
Maximum Simultaneous Users: 4 (incl. Harlaxton)

CQ Political Reference Suite
CQ Press Political Reference Suite integrates many of their acclaimed reference titles on government and politics like Washington Information Directory, Vital Statistics on American Politics 2005-2006, CQ's Politics in America 2006, Historic Documents Series 1972-2005, and much more.

CQ Researcher
The CQ Researcher is the choice of researchers seeking original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Published in print and online 44 times a year, the single-themed CQ Researcher report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.
Maximum Simultaneous Users: 10 (incl. Harlaxton)

CQ Weekly
Each issue of CQ Weekly looks forward and back. Readers get in-depth reports on issues looming on the congressional horizon, plus a complete wrap up the previous week's news, including the status of bills in play, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, debates and all roll-call votes.
Maximum Simultaneous Users: 5 (incl. Harlaxton)

DIALOG {Not available over the campus network.}
Dialog is a professional database service searched by the reference librarians for subjects which are not adequately covered in the library's public access database services. For more information, click on the link above or call the Reference Desk at 488-2482.

Ecole Initiative
The Ecole Initiative is the University of Evansville's encyclopedia of early church history on the World Wide Web.

ELibrary
Nearly every item in this database is fulltext. You can search hundreds of newspapers or magazines, as well as television and radio transcripts. Pictures and maps round out this database nicely. Title List

ERIC
This is the most comprehensive database of journal articles and documents dealing with the field of education. Most of the documents are full text from 1993 to the present and many of the cited journals are linked full text through the EBSCO suite of interconnected databases.

Europa World
This is the Europa World Yearbook online. First published in 1926, the year book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories.

Grant Select
GrantSelect is an extensive online grants database which contains more than 10,000 funding opportunities provided by more than 4,000 sponsoring organizations in ten diffferent segments: Arts and Humanities, Biomedical and Health Care, Children and Youth, Community Development, PreK-12 Grade and Adult Education, International Programs, Operating Grants for Nonprofit Organizations, Faith-Based Grants, Scholarships & Fellowships, and Special Populations.

NOTE: Remote access will require the use of passwords sent to the faculty by the AVPAA until December, 2007.

Grove Dictionary of Art
This is the world's first comprehensive online art reference work covering all forms of visual art from prehistory to the 1990s.
Maximum Simultaneous Users: 5 (incl. Harlaxton)

Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
The incomparable New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians in online form is the most current and comprehensive dictionary/encyclopedia of music in the English language.
Maximum Simultaneous Users: 3 (incl. Harlaxton)

Health Business FullTEXT
This Ebsco database provides full text coverage of 130 well-known administrative journals such as H&HN: Hospitals & Health Networks, Health Management Technology, Modern Healthcare, and many others. Critical for hospital administrators and managers, it includes publications covering topics such as staffing, health care regulation, health care facilities management, marketing, finance and more.

Health Source Plus: Consumer Edition
With Health Source: Consumer Edition you can search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 165 journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men's Health, as well as abstracts and indexing for nearly 180 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. Title List

Health Source Plus: Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides full text of over 520 professional health periodicals, indexing and abstracting for hundreds more, and also lay patient information and Stedman's Medical Dictionary. Title List

Historical Abstracts
Historical Abstracts is the complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). This database is packed with annotated references to information on topics from the Renaissance to Tiananmen Square-over half a million entries in all. Links to full text articles in Project Muse and JSTOR are included. Title List

Hoover's Online
Hoover's is an award-winning website about the business world. Whether it's a company's history or an industry overview Hoover's has it. Hoover's publishes information about more than 12,000 public and private companies worldwide. Initial public offerings and the latest stock quotes and charts are also available at this site--plus much more.

Image Collection
The Image Collection is a specialized subset of only the images (photographs, etc.) from the EBSCO database Academic Search Premier organized for convenient retrieval.

Informe!
Indexing, full-text and images of the most popular Spanish-language magazines and pamphlets - not just translations. Spanish thesaurus and interface were created exclusively for native Spanish speakers. Indexing and abstracts for 60 titles plus full-text coverage of over 40 titles. Coverage from 1996 to present. Funded and accessed through the INSPIRE project.

INSPIRE
All across Indiana, Hoosiers are finding information using this resource. INSPIRE is a suite of databases which provides access to thousands of journal articles. One can find journal articles on business, education, medicine, science, current events, politics, literature, art, music and hundreds of other topics. Some of the databases are Academic Search, Business Source, ERIC, Health Source, and Medline.

International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text
IIPAFT draws its content from more than 200 scholarly and popular periodicals in the arts and entertainment industry--dance, film, television, drama,comedy, opera, etc. Twenty-five of the periodicals have full text back to 1998. Title List
Maximum Simultaneous Users: 4 (incl. Harlaxton)

JSTOR
This database contains the back files of core journals in many academic disciplines. Journal coverage usually begins with the first volume published and continues until the last three or five years, or until the journal ceased or changed its title. All of the articles are full text and appear exactly as they did in print. UE subscribes to all collections. Title List

LitFinder
LitFinder consists of Poem Finder and Story Finder. The two databases contain full text versions of thousands of poems and stories.

Making of America (Cornell University)
Making of America (University of Michigan)
Making of America is a joint project of Cornell University and the University of Michigan. Each website provides a different digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.

MasterFILE Premier
Provides full text for nearly 1,960 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more. Funded through the INSPIRE project. Title List

MathSciNet
MathSciNet is the searchable Web database providing access to over 59 years of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications (from 1940 to the present). Mathematical Reviews provides timely reviews or summaries of articles and books that contain new contributions to mathematical research. The approximately 1600 current serials and journals reviewed in whole or in part are listed in the Abbreviations of Names of Serials which may be viewed in various formats. There are five focused searches and three browse tools to maximize the database's potential. Title List

Medieval Sourcesonline
Medieval Sourcesonline is a web-based learning resource containing hundreds of original medieval history documents compiled for the teaching and study of history. Designed to be fully integrated with undergraduate courses, this is a one-stop answer for many medieval history students, academics and researchers.

Medline
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Military & Government Collection
The Military & Government Collection provides recently-expanded full text content--much of it from peer-reviewed and other scholarly journals including those covering areas of engineering, public affairs, public policy, international affairs and much more.

MLA
This is the Modern Language Association's international bibliography on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Title List

Music Index
Music Index indexes over 640 international music periodicals for articles and reviews on every aspect of both classical and popular music. Title List

Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library is the World’s largest Classical music listening service. The collection of over 140,000 tracks of music is continually growing. NML has simple and advanced searching, common (non-proprietary) software requirements, and extensive background information such as complete liner notes.

New York Times
The New York Times is America's "newspaper of record."

Newspaper Source
Provides selected full text articles from 143 U.S. and international newspapers. Funded through the INSPIRE project. Title List

Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. Subjects include Classics, Computing, Environment, Biology, Performing Arts, and many more.

Philosophers Index
This is the principal index to the literature of philosophy from 1940 to the present. Title List
Maximum Simultaneous Users: 4 (incl. Harlaxton)

Play Index
The online edition of the Play Index will make finding information about plays easier than ever. Since important classic and historical plays (e.g. the plays of Aeschylus and Euripides, Moliere’s works, Shakespeare’s dramas, works of George Bernard Shaw or Ibsen), are reprinted in collections and anthologies, you will find virtually any play being studied or performed. Additionally, links to the full text of plays available on the Web are included. This unique resource also covers the works of contemporary playwrights, including new editions or translations and provides the full publication details you need to locate the play. For plays published separately, the publisher, date, pagination, ISBN, and LC number are given. Plays in collections link to full bibliographic information.
Maximum Simultaneous Users: 1 (incl. Harlaxton)

Professional Development Collection
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.

Project Muse
In one of the first ventures of its kind, the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library joined forces to launch Project Muse, an initiative enabling worldwide networked access to the full text of over 40 of the Press' recent scholarly journals. This collection has now been expanded to other university presses and enables multi-title searching as well as browsing of over 113 titles in the humanities, the social sciences, and mathematics. Title List

PsycArticles
PsycARTICLES is a definitive source of searchable full text articles on current issues in psychology. The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. The database contains more than 35,000 searchable full text articles from 41 journals published by the American Psychological Association and 8 from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 49 journals. Coverage spans from 1988 to the present

PsycInfo--1872 to present
PsycInfo is the electronic counterpart of the long-established Psychological Abstracts bibliography. It regularly indexes and abstracts articles from 1,845 psychology journals--97% of them peer-reviewed. Title List

Regional Business News
Regional Busness News currently contains abstracts for 67 regional business publications, with full text for 52 of those titles (including Arizona Business, Business North Carolina, ColoradoBiz, Crain's Chicago Business, Crain's Cleveland Business, Crain's Detroit Business, Crain's New York Business, Des Moines Business Record, Enterprise Salt Lake City, Fairfield County Business Journal, Fort Worth Business Press, Indiana Business Magazine,and more. This database contains the most recent 30 days of information from each of these wire sources. Available from Ebsco via INSPIRE.

SocINDEX with Full Text
SocINDEX with Full Text, is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. This file contains full text for 235 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, as well as more than 500 "priority" coverage journals and 1,040 "selective" coverage journals. It also provides full text for nearly 600 books and monographs, as well as full text for 6,601 conference papers.

Sport Discus with Full Text
This is the electronic index to the international literature of sport, sports administration, sports medicine, fitness, exercise physiology and coaching. It includes more than 230 full text titles and indexes over 650,000 records including articles, dissertations, and monographs. Title List
Maximum Simultaneous Users: 4 (incl. Harlaxton)

TOPICSearch
This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics. Students can use either the dropdown menus for Current Events or Topics to easily locate relevant articles. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 78,000 articles from 3,000 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled periodicals collection, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, government information and EBSCO's Current Issues database.

Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is America's most important financial daily newspaper.

Westlaw Campus Research
Campus Research is an easy-to-use online research service that provides access to a comprehensive collection of news and business information and law-related resources. It is divided into two content tabs: News & Business and Law.

WorldCat
WorldCat is a massive online catalog that has the contents of most academic, public, special and private libraries in America contained within it.


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