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19th Century Newspapers, British Library Collection
The 19th Century British Library Newspapers collection contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. This new collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection. Can be cross-searched with the Burney Collection of 17th and 18th Century newspapers.
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ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature)
Coverage of monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays, and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards. Includes links to the full text of 120 journals.
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ABI/INFORM Complete
Search a complete database comprising full-text business periodicals and news sources from ABI/INFORM Global, Dateline, and Trade & Industry
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ABSEES (American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies)
American Bibliography of Slavic & Eastern European Studies (ABSEES), produced by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, provides information on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. Some of the many subjects covered include: anthropology, culture & the arts, economics, education, and geography. Sources indexed include journals, books, dissertations, online resources and selected government publications published in the U.S. and Canada.
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ACCESS PA
The ACCESS PA Database is a world wide web-based bibliographic union catalog and resource sharing guide to over 2,500 school, public, academic and special libraries in Pennsylvania. The database contains over 5.6 million unique records from the catalogs of Pennsylvania library collections covering over 35 million Pennsylvania library holdings.
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Access Science (McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology)
Online access to the ninth edition of the McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology plus these special features: New trends and developments in science and technology ("Research Updates") from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology ##Access to 110,000+ definitions from The McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms ##Biographies of scientists ##Links to evaluated related websites ##Image gallery of various scientific phenomena ##Subject areas covered include agriculture, anthropology, astronomy, biomedical science, chemistry, computing and information technology, earth science, engineering, food science, mathematics, military science, paleontology, physics, psychiatry, psychology, and veterinary science.
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Accessible Archives
Accessible Archives provides access to the full texts of articles from a selection of 18th & 19th century American newspapers (more than 175,000 articles). The newspapers selected are especially useful for researching African American, womenâs studies, and Pennsylvania topics but can also help with many other types of historical research. ##Keywords: Civil War, colonial, revolution, Revolutionary War, abolition, abolitionists, slavery.
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AccessUN
AccessUN is an index to United Nations documents and publications, from 1966-to date. The database is used to access the microfiche collection held in the Social Sciences Library, Second Floor, West Pattee. ## ##Indexes: ## ##Working documents of the main UN bodies including the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, commissions, UN conferences, and regional bodies ##Sales publications ##Articles in UN periodicals ##Full text: ## ##Resolutions from the General Assembly (1981-), the Security Council (1974-), and the Economic and Social Council (1982-). ##Selected meetings containing voting records
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ACM Digital Library
Full text of every article ever published by ACM.
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ACS E-Journals (chemistry)
Provides full text access to over twenty American Chemical Society journals.
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Advertising Law Guide
Includes full-text reports of state and federal laws and regulations, industry self-regulating guidelines, and new developments. Also includes explanatory notes to help interpret the law and and explanations by authors with expertise in advertising, marketing, and intellectual property issues.
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Aerospace + High Technology Database
The Aerospace Database provides bibliographic coverage of basic and applied research in aeronautics, astronautics, and space sciences. The database also covers technology development and applications in complementary and supporting fields such as chemistry, geosciences, physics, communications, and electronics. In addition to periodic literature, the database also includes coverage of reports issued by NASA, other U.S. government agencies, international institutions, universities, and private firms. Coverage: 1962-present
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African American Poetry
A database of modern and contemporary African American poetry, featuring thousands of poems by some of the most important African American poets of the last century, including Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde and Rita Dove.
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AGRICOLA Articles
AGRICOLA contains references for journal articles, book chapters, audiovisuals, and other agricultural resources. These resources encompass all aspects of agriculture such as animal and veterinary sciences including poultry and dairy, entomology, plant sciences such as horticulture, crop and soil science, and plant pathology, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, rural and community development, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, food science, agricultural engineering, and earth and environmental sciences. Also indexes publications from USDA, State Experiment Stations, and State Extension Services.
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AGRICOLA Books
The NAL Online Public Access Catalog (AGRICOLA Books) contains citations to books, audiovisuals, serials, and other materials, most of which are in the USDAâs National Agricultural Library in Beltsville, MD. These resources encompass all aspects of agriculture such as animal and veterinary sciences including poultry and dairy, entomology, plant sciences such as horticulture, crop and soil science, and plant pathology, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, rural and community development, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, food science, agricultural engineering, and earth and environmental sciences.
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Agropedia (agriculture encyclopedias)
A collection of agriculture encyclopedias, including: Encyclopedia of Animal Science; Encyclopedia of Plant & Crop Science; Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food, & Biological Engineering; Encyclopedia of Water Science; Encyclopedia of Soil Science; and Encyclopedia of Pest Management.
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AGU E-Journals
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is devoted to the scientific study of Earth and its environment. The AGU focuses its research in four fundamental areas: atmospheric and ocean sciences; solid-Earth sciences; hydrologic sciences; and space sciences. This resource provides access to the fulltext of six AGU journals: the Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR), Geophysical Research Letters, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, G-Cubed (Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems), Paleoceaonography, Reviews of Geophysics, Tectonics, and Water Resources Research. Coverage is from 1994 to date.
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AIAA Online Publications (aerospace engineering)
This resource provides access to the full text of all articles and technical papers published since 2001 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
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AIDSearch
AIDSearch (MEDLINE AIDS/HIV Subset, AIDSTRIALS & AIDSDRUGS) A combination of three database files providing information about Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and related topics. All records must be identified as being derived from NLM databases. ---AIDSDRUGS is a dictionary of chemical and biological agents currently being evaluated in the AIDS clinical trials covered in companion AIDSTRIALS database. ---MEDLINE AIDS/HIV Subset includes citations from journal articles, government reports, letters, technical reports, meeting abstracts/papers, monographs, special publications, theses, books and audiovisuals covering research, clinical aspects and health policy issues related to AIDS. ---AIDSTRIALS includes information about the clinical trials of substances being tested for use against AIDS, HIV infection, and AIDS-related opportunistic diseases.
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AIP & APS E-Journals (physics)
Full text access to American Institute of Physics and American Physical Society electronic journals. See also IOP E-Journals (physics) for more full text physics journals.
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Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals
A subject index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals. The Index contains citations since 1988 and is updated continuously.
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Aluminium Industry Abstracts
Provides coverage of the world's technical literature on aluminum, ranging from ore processing through applications. The Aluminium Industry Abstracts database includes information abstracted from approximately 2,300 scientific and technical journals, government reports, conference proceedings, dissertations, books, and patents. All aspects of the aluminum industry, aside from mining, are covered.
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America: History and Life
Search for articles on all aspects of the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Articles from national, state and local historical journals are covered, as well as historical articles in major humanities and social science journals. Also includes citations to reviews, books, and dissertations.##Keywords: African-American, Afro-American, Black, Hispanic, Latino, Colonial, Pennsylvania, Native Americans, women, gender, revolution, revolutionary war, civil war, Vietnam War, Cold War, World War I, World War II, Immigration, Immigrants, labor, agriculture, culture, society, politics, religion, economic, military, historiography.
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American Broadsides and Ephemera
Based on the American Antiquarian Society's collection this database offers fully searchable facsimile images of approximately 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900, and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900. Broadsides range from contemporary accounts of the Civil War, unusual occurrences and natural disasters to official government proclamations, tax bills and town meeting reports. Ephemera include early trade cards, theater playbills, stock certificates, menus and invitations, popular songs and music, and poetry. American Broadsides and Ephemera can be searched as a single collection, or combined with other resources in the Archive of Americana.
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American Drama
Containing more than 1,500 dramatic works from the early eighteenth century up to the beginning of the twentieth, American Drama 1714â1915 reflects American dramatic writing in all its richness and diversity: plays in verse, farces, melodramas, minstrel shows, realist plays, frontier plays, temperance dialogues and a range of other genres are represented. Major dramatists include David Belasco, Rachel Crothers, Augustin Daly, Clyde Fitch, Edward Harrigan, James Herne, William Dean Howells and Joaquin Miller.
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American Film Institute Catalog
The online American Film Institute (AFI) Catalog draws its content from six printed volumes that document every American film from 1893 to 1970, currently excluding 1951-1960, which are currently in production. Search records by keywords; film titles; cast, crew, and character names; subject; genre; release year and more. Most records include extensive plot summaries.
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American Mathematical Society Journals
The AMS is devoted to publishing research mathematics of high quality and significance in all areas of pure and applied mathematics. For journals that appear in dual electronic and print formats, articles are posted individually on the Web soon after proof is returned from authors and before appearing in issues for the print product. The AMS also publishes refereed electronic-only journals that receive the same timely posting that dual-format journals receive. Items in article bibliographies are linked to their reviews on MathSciNet when available.
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American Medical Association Journals (including JAMA)
The American Medical Association JAMA & Archives Journals##Web site includes the full text of all journals from January##1998 forward, abstracts from 1975 forward, and tables of##contents from as early as 1962 forward.
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American National Biography Online
The American National Biography Online offers portraits of more than 17,000 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation. The online version reproduces the full-text of the original 24 volume set published in 1999, with new and updated entries added regularly. The online edition features thousands of illustrations, hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search capabilities.
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American Periodicals Series, 1740-1900
Search a selection of periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals. Contains full-text of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741 and 1900. Digitized page images reproduce the publications as they appeared when originally published.
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American Poetry
Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.
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America's Historical Newspapers (1690-1922)
Readex's Early American Newspapers (1690-1922) is a unique, webbased archive of Americana that provides a fascinating glimpse into our nation's past. The Early American Newspaper Collection will feature the images and full-text content from scores of historical publications, perfectly complementing the Early American Imprints series. Based on on Clarence Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, this digital collection concentrates primarily on those papers that began publication before 1820. The core of the Readex collection is formed by Isaiah Thomas' own collection of colonial and early national period newspapers and supplemented by nearly two million issues added by Thomas' successors at the American Antiquarian Society. Numerous other institutions and historical societies have contributed to the collection including: the Boston Athenaeum, the Connecticut Historical Society, the Connecticut State Library, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Library of Congress, the libraries of universities such as Brown and Harvard, and private collections. This joint effort led to the creation of a historical archive of momentous breadth and depth. Page images are formatted to allow for easy viewing, magnification, printing and saving.
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America's News Magazines
America's News Magazines (NewsBank) provides full-text articles from leading magazines that provide coverage and analysis of current events in a range of categories including: news, business, entertainment, lifestyle, science and technology, and sports. One easy-to-search interface is used for all titles. Paid advertisements are excluded.
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America's Newspapers
Complete full-text content of many Knight-Ridder and other newspapers. This includes a wide range of local and regional newspapers, including the Centre Daily Times. Use this database to locate newspaper articles related to community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.
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AMS Journals
Search the journals of the American Meteorological Society (AMS).
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AnnÃ©e philologique
L'Annee Philologique is an exhaustive index of periodicals, books and essays in classics and classical studies. It covers Greek and Latin linguistics and literature and Greek and Roman archaeology, history, mythology, religion, epigraphy, numismatics and palaeography. The database indexes over 1,500 journals from 1969 to the present.
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Annual Reviews
Since 1932, Annual Reviews has offered comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 29 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.
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Anthropology Plus
Anthropology Plus is the world's most comprehensive, focused index of bibliographic materials from the late 1800s to today in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology; ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture; and interdisciplinary studies. Beyond these disciplines, researchers and scholars in art history, demography, economics, genetics, geography, geology, history, psychology, religion, or sociology will all find relevant anthropological material. ## ##Anthropology Plus unites two premier indexes created in two hemispheres. The result is extensive, worldwide coverage of core journals plus local and lesser-known journals. Together, Harvard University's highly respected Anthropological Literature database and the United Kingdom's Anthropological Index (Royal Anthropological Institute) provide a uniquely broad and rich resource for education and research in anthropology and related fields
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AnthroSource
AnthroSource is a fully integrated information resource. ##Its powerful search engine makes precision research quick and easy. ##AnthroSource is more than a content collection. It is an evolving, interactive repository of research and communications tools designed to bring the most credible and relevant of anthropological scholarship together in one place and to support a strong community of scholars, teachers, and students in the field.
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Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA)
The Aquatic Sciences Collection provides comprehensive information on the science and technology of marine, freshwater, and brackish water organisms and environments from 1971 to the present. It monitors over 5,000 international serial publications, books, reports, conference proceedings, translations and limited distribution literature. The collection contains five files which can be searched individually: ##(1) Biological Sciences and Living Resources (1971 to date) ##(2) Ocean Technology, Policy & Non-Living Resources (1971 to date) ##(3) Aquatic pollution & Environmental Quality (1990 to date) ##(4) Marine Biotechnology Abstracts (1989 to date) ##(5) Aquaculture Abstracts (1984 to date) ##Coverage: 1971 to current. Updates: Monthly
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Archive of Americana
A family of primary source historical collections covering nearly three centuries of American History. The resources can be searched together or separately. Currently includes: American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I Broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900. Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints from the disnguished bibliography created by Charles Evans. Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 Bbooks, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the distinguished bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker. America's Historical Newspapers Early American newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 present states.
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ArchiveGrid
An index produced by the Research Libraries Group to finding aids and other descriptive information about the holdings of manuscript and archival collections in libraries and research institutions throughout the world
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Archives and Manuscripts - Guides to Archival Collections at Penn State
Annotated alphabetical list of EAD (Encoded Archival Description) finding guides to some of the archival and manuscript collections in the Special Collections Library, The Pennsylvania State University.
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Archives USA (manuscript collections)
This resource provides access to an integrated database of three major information resources (NUCMC--National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, NIDS--National Inventory of Documentary Resources in the United States, and DAMRUS--Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States). ArchivesUSA gives access to holdings and contact information of more than 4,400 repositories, and indexes to nearly 100,000 special collections. ##Coverage: Current edition. Updates: Continuous.
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Armed Conflict Database
Covers international and internal conflicts, as well as terrorism. It provides an interactive source of information on 70 armed conflicts including terrorism, refugees, and returnees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), weapons used and their flows, fatalities, costs ($US), historical backgrounds, annual updates and timelines. Users can generate reports and download data as well as browse through year-by-year analyses and fact sheets online.
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Art Abstracts
Indexing of 260 international art publications, including English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, and Swedish.
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Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts
AATA Online is a comprehensive database of more than 100,000 abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage.
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Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984)
Indexing of 260 international art publications, including English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, and Swedish.
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ARTbibliographies Modern
ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art, with approximately 12-13,000 new entries being added each year. Entries date back as far as the late 1960s. ## ##ABM is the premier source of information on modern and contemporary arts dating from the late 19th century onwards, and including photography since its invention. It includes abstracts of English and foreign-language material on famous and lesser-known artists, movements, and trends. The coverage of ABM is wide-ranging and includes performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theatre arts, conservation, crafts, ceramic and glass art, ethnic arts, graphic and museum design, fashion, and calligraphy, as well as traditional media including illustration, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing. ## ##ABM is used by students and researchers around the world to pinpoint publications and writings relevant to their area of study. Its extensive classification system and comprehensive abstracts make it an ideal source for information on artists, art movements, art history and theory, design, photography, and crafts.
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ARTFL (French literature)
Full text database ranging from classic works in French literature to nonfiction prose and technical writings. ##Mostly 18th-20th century texts. ##Coverage: about 2000 texts in the French language.
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Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities.
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ARTstor
ARTstor is a database of digital images of works of art and of artifacts of visual culture, intended to support teaching, research and learning in visual culture and related fields. The database contains hundreds of thousands of good-quality images and is growing rapidly. It is comprised of six major collections that may be searched separately or simultaneously: â¢ The Image Gallery: a broad collection intended to support courses in art and architectural history. â¢ The Carnegie Arts and the United States Collection: a collection intended to support teaching of American art and architectural history. â¢ The Museum of Modern Art Architecture and Design Collection: drawings, models, photographs, graphic design materials, and three-dimensional objects documenting 20th-century design. â¢ The Illustrated Bartsch: Old Master European prints from the 15th to the early 19th Centuries. â¢ The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive (MIDA): mural paintings and related art and texts associated with the several hundred Buddhist cave shrines in Dunhuang, China.
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ASABE Technical Library (formerly ASAE)
All of the recent technical documents published by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers including full text access to journals, standards, technical reports, conference proceedings, and monographs.
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ASCE Online Journals (civil engineering)
These are the online versions of the journals published by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
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ASM Handbooks Online
This resource features extensive engineering and property data for materials of all types. It contains the fulltext of several ASM handbooks including the Metals Handbook and the Engineered Materials Handbook.
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ASME Online Journals (mechanical engineering)
Full text access to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers online journals.
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Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA)
The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) strives to democratize access to the best data on religion. The targeted audience and the data collection have both greatly expanded since 1998, now including American and international collections and developing features for educators, journalists, religious congregations, and researchers.
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Associations Unlimited
This reference database has information and locations on nearly 144,000 nonprofit membership organizations worldwide: International and U.S. National, Regional, State, and Local. It covers everything from local Chambers of Commerce to the American Medical Association, and beyond. ##Note: In January 1998, the name was changed from Encyclopedia of Associations to Associations Unlimited. ##Current edition. Updates: Continuous.
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ASTM Standards
This database provides access to the full text versions of all current ASTM standards. ASTM is the American Society for Testing and Materials.
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ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
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 488,000 article citations from more than 1,500 journals (506 currently indexed), more than 215,000 essay citations from over 15,700 multi-author works, and more than 446,000 book review citations. This database begins in 1949 although indexing for some journal titles extends back into the nineteenth century. This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association.
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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Contains descriptions of articles on the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, furniture, and interior design and decoration in more than 700 international magazines. Most indexing began with 1934, but some titles are indexed to dates as early as 1741. Updated weekly.
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Bartleby
Literature and reference books on the web.
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Bartlett Quotations
Including over 11,000 quotations, the first new edition of John Bartlettâs corpus to be published after his death in 1905 keeps most of his original work intact.
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Behrend Beacon
This digital content of the student newspaper of Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, contains the issues from 1948 through 1989. Through the 41 years, the paper has been through many title changes, including Behrend Collegian, Penn State Behrend Collegian, Collegian, The Behrend College Collegian, and currently The Behrend Beacon.
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Beilstein/Gmelin
Beilstein and Gmelin are handbooks that cover organic chemistry and inorganic/organometallic chemistry respectively back to the late 1700s. They are searchable by property values or by chemical structures using CrossFire software. You must install the software on your workstation in order to access the databases. To obtain the information needed to download the software, please contact njb2@psu.edu and request it. Please use your PSU e-mail account. The contact information will not be sent to a non-PSU e-mail account.
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Bible in English
The Bible in English contains twenty versions of the Bible, from Old English, through the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and into the twentieth century. In addition to the twelve complete Bibles, there are five New Testament works, two Gospel works and William Tyndale's New Testament, Pentateuch and Jonah translations.
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Bibliography of Asian Studies
The on-line version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide.
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Bibliography of the History of Art
Indexing for articles and some books on European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present. In addition to coverage of 1400 periodicals, selected books, conference proceedings, essays, exhibition catalogues, and some art dealer's catalogues, doctoral dissertations, and microform publications are indexed. Indexing begins with 1973 and is updated 4 times each year.
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Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI)
An index (not full text resource) to biographical information about influential people worldwide, both living and historical. Lists the contents of readily available current reference books as well as major reference works from the past. It currently has over 10 million references, with about 450,000 new ones added annually. See the Gale Web site for additional information and copyright statement. ##Coverage: Current edition. Updates: Continuous.
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Biological Abstracts
Biological Abstracts is the premier database for the biological sciences. BA monitors more than 5,000 international journals to ensure that virtually every life science topic is covered, including agriculture, biochemistry, biology, botany, molecular biology, biotechnology, physiology, microbiology, neurology, pharmacology, public health, toxicology, zoology, and ecology and the environment. ##Coverage is from 1926 to date.
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BioOne
BioOne is a unique aggregation of high-impact bioscience research journals.
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Black Drama
Includes full texts of plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. The plays are fully searchable and extensively indexed.
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Blackwell Synergy
Blackwell Synergy is the online journal service from Blackwell Publishing. Synergy was launched in 1999 and has become the state-of-the-art online journals service preferred by both librarians and readers for its simplicity, ease-of-use and special functionality.
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BNA Criminal Law Reporter
Selected BNA databases are now available to all Penn State students, faculty, and staff. The BNA Criminal Law Reporter provide in-depth news and analysis of criminal law along with applicable statutes and court cases. Updated weekly.
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BNA Environment Reporter
Selected BNA databases are now available to all Penn State students, faculty, and staff. The BNA Environment Reporter provides in-depth news and analysis of environmental law along with applicable statutes and court cases. Updated weekly.
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BNA Family Law Reporter
Selected BNA databases are now available to all Penn State students, faculty, and staff. The BNA Family Law Reporter provide in-depth news and analysis of family law along with applicable statutes and court cases. Updated weekly.
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BNA Health Law Reporter
Selected BNA databases are now available to all Penn State students, faculty, and staff. The BNA Health Law Reporter provides in-depth news and analysis of health law along with applicable statutes and court cases. Updated weekly
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BNA Labor and Employment Library
Selected BNA databases are now available to all Penn State students, faculty, and staff. The BNA Labor and Employment Library provides in-depth news and analysis of labor law along with applicable statutes and court cases. Updated weekly.
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BNA Law Resources
A collection of more than 200 law related news, analysis, and reference products, providing intensive coverage of legal and regulatory developments and case law covering a wide range of topics including Antitrust, Banking, Bankruptcy, Corporate, Criminal Law, Employee Benefits, Employment and Labor, Environment and Safety, Ethics, Family Law, Health Care, Homeland Security, Intellectual Property, International, International Tax, Litigation, Product Liability, Securities, Tax law, Trade, and Commerce.
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Book Review Index (Gale)
Provides quick access to reviews of books and other media appearing in more than 600 publications. Includes reviews published from 1965 to present. To locate the text of a review select the "Penn State Search" link.
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BookSource: Nonfiction
Fiction readers can find the perfect novel with this reader's advisory service.
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British Newspapers, 1600-1900
Consists of two major newspaper collection collections from the British Library which span three hundred years of newspaper publishing in the U.K. Includes the 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers and 19th Century Newspapers. The two collections combined contain nearly 3 million pages and 40 million articles.
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British Periodicals
Full texts of hundreds of journals from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. Includes some of the major magazines as well as specialized titles in literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences.
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Brown University Women Writers Project
The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. Our goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers (pre 1830 in England) out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader. We support research on women's writing, text encoding, and the role of electronic texts in teaching and scholarship.
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Burney Collection 17th-18th Century Newspapers
The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital collection, totals almost 1 million pages and over 1,000 titles from London, the British Isles, and the colonies.
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Business Cycle Indicators - U.S. Indicators
The Business Cycle Indicators - U.S. Indicators database provides economic indicators that have proven to be most useful in determining current conditions and predicting the future direction of the United States economy. A common spreadsheet-type format is used, allowing the BCI series to be easily imported into numerous software programs (including EXCEL, LOTUS-123, FREELANCE, EVIEWS, TSP, and SAS). More than 250 economic series are in the U.S. BCI dataset, with many series beginning in 1945.
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CAB Abstracts (agriculture, nutrition and global health)
CAB DIRECT contains 4 sections, CAB Abstracts, CAB Abstracts Archive, Global Health and Global Health Archive with over 7.5 million records. CAB contains many records from research conducted worldwide.##CAB Abstracts (1973 â Current) and CAB Abstracts Archive (1910-1973) cover all areas of agriculture including animal production, breeding, nutrition and welfare (equine, dairy, cattle, poultry), diary science, horticulture, (fruits, nuts, vegetables ornamentals, flowers) crop science (field crops, grains, forages) and plant breeding and pathology. Also included are applied economics and rural sociology, agricultural engineering, soils and fertilizers, entomology, medical and veterinary mycology, aquaculture and veterinary medicine, human nutrition, forestry, forest products, and the management and conservation of natural resources, leisure and tourism, parasitology, and nematology.##Global Health (1973-current) and Global Health Archive (1910-1983) covers international and public health, and is derived from over 3500 journals, plus reports, books and conferences, with over 1.1 million scientific records. Publications from over 125 countries in 50 languages are abstracted, and all relevant non-English language papers are translated to give access to research not available through any other database. Subjects included are bacterial, viral and prion diseases, mycology, parasitology, disease vectors, zoonotic diseases, nutrition and food safety, medicinal plants, toxicology and public and rural health.
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Cabell's Directory (Business; Education; Psychology)
Cabell's Directories helps identify journals that are most likely to publish a manuscript, by giving the topic areas emphasized, the type of review process, number of external reviewers, acceptance rate, time required for review, availability of reviewers' comments, and if fees charged to review or publish the manuscript. Directories are available for Accounting; Economics and Finance; Management; Marketing; Educational Curriculum and Methods; Educational Psychology and Administration; and Psychology.
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Cambridge University Press Journals
Access to electronic editions of journals to which the Penn State University Libraries subscribe. Cambridge University Press is the publisher.
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CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online)
CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) offers rights-cleared, high-quality art images for class projects, art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, and research resources ##Authorized uses of these images include: 1. Classroom instruction and related activities; 2. student assignments; 3. public display or public performance in a university museum, gallery or similar facility including use in exhibit labels and other components of the exhibit; 4. public display or public performance as part of a professional presentation at a seminar, conference, or workshop, 5. use in a student or faculty portfolio, including non-public display thereof, and 6. use in a dissertation, including reproductions of the dissertation for personal use and library deposit. ##Coverage: Updated annually.
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Canadian Poetry
Created in partnership with the Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick Libraries, this unique collection contains the full text of more than 19,000 poems by 177 poets including Bliss Carman, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Archibald Lampman, Charles G. D. Roberts and Duncan Campbell Scott, offering a comprehensive survey of Canadian poetry from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth.
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Capitolwire.com
Capitolwire.com provides current news related to policy and government in the state of Pennsylvania. Besides information on key issues it also provides: online Calendar of Record for public affairs in the capitol and around the state; briefing on the dayâs political and economic headlines; access to many of the latest memos, press releases, speeches, position papers, legislative committee testimony and correspondence to and from executive agencies, lawmakers, lobbyists and interest groups ; and various tools to follow changes in regulation and legislation.
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Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) is the finding tool for electronic and print publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government. These publications make up the National Bibliography of U.S. Government Publications. The CGP contains descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online. The CGP is the online counterpart of the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, which dates from the passage of the Printing Act of 1895. At present the Monthly Catalog should be consulted for pre-1976 indexing. The Monthly Catalog and many of the publications indexed in it were distributed through the Federal Depository Library Program.
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Catholic Periodical & Literature Index
The Catholic Periodical and Literature Index (CPLI) Online is the product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Library Association. ##The database covers all aspects of the Catholic faith and lifestyle, and includes over 380,000 index citations of articles and reviews published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers.
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CCH Business and Finance Network
CCH Business and Finance Network provides primary research materials on mergers and acquisitions, product liability and safety, corporate governance, banking, international business, securities, intellectual property, and antitrust and trade regulation. Full text materials include statutes, judicial opinions, regulations, newsletters, foreign laws and rules, and forms.
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CCH Health and Human Resources Network
CCH Health and Human Resources Network provides federal and state research materials on topics such as labor and employment, pensions, benefits, health care compliance and reimbursement, and safety compliance. Full-text materials include statutes, regulations, agency directives and letters, judicial opinions, and forms.
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CCH Tax Research Network
Comprehensive tax service providing federal, state, and international tax research source materials, including full-text statutes, regulations, administrative and judicial opinions, commentary, and citations.
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CE Database (ASCE)
The Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) is designed to provide easy bibliographic access to all ASCE publications. The database covers ASCE documents published since 1970. It provides access to all the journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newspapers.
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CenStats
CenStats is a Web-based subscription service that provides interactive search-and-display access to the following databases: ##Annual Survey of Manufactures ##Building Permit Data ##Census Tract Street Locator ##Consolidated Federal Funds Report ##County Business Patterns ##International Trade Data ##Occupation by Race and Sex ##USA Counties ##Zip Business Patterns ## ##Note: This database is available to all users; it is not restricted to Penn State users only.
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Center for Research Libraries Catalog
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives, and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching and makes them available to member institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery.
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Centre Daily Times (1996 - present)
The Centre Daily Times, four years straight winner of the top newspaper in its circulation category, is committed to providing the best local news coverage in the area. The Daily Times covers many businesses headquartered in the region such as AccuWeather, Ratheon, Uni-Marts Inc. and Corning Asahi. Particular emphasis is placed on Penn State University as a result of its proximity. Coverage: 9/28/1995 - present
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Centre Daily Times Index 1981-2002
This selective database, created at Penn State, primarily indexes local news articles. National and state news items are not indexed unless they are relevant to local persons, places or events. The Sports section is not indexed unless an article relates to another larger issue such as Title IX, gender equity, medicine, etc. Friday's Weekender section is not indexed either. ##The following topics are indexed: ## ##Local news articles ##Selected Editorials ##Theater ##Music ##Visual arts ##Book reviews ##Obituaries (beginning in 1990) ##Coverage: 1981-2002.
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Ceramic Abstracts
This is a database for the ceramics industry, providing international coverage on the manufacture, processing, applications, properties and testing of traditional and advanced ceramics. Source materials include over 300 journals, conference proceedings, books, patents, standards and company product literature. ##Coverage: 1975-date
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CHANT (Chinese Ancient Texts)
Chinese Ancient Text (CHANT) is a comprehensive full-text database of ancient Chinese texts. The database contains five components: pre-220 AD (the Pre-Han and Han period) traditional texts; 220-581 AD (the Weijin period) traditional texts; excavated texts on wood/bamboo strips and silk (Jianbo); excavated oracular inscriptions on tortoise shells and bones (Jiaguwen); traditional as well as excavated bronze inscriptions (Jinwen).
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Chemical Abstracts
Chemical Abstracts is available online through SciFinder Scholar. It is a bibliographic database that covers the literature of chemistry from 1907 to present. Chemical Abstracts is one of the databases available through SciFinder Scholar. To access Chemical Abstracts you must download the SciFinder Scholar client software to your workstation.
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CHEMnetBASE (chemistry, physics, polymers)
A collection of dictionaries and handbooks providing information on chemical compounds, polymers, and physics data.
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Child Abuse, Child Welfare, and Adoption
The Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption Database covers all aspects of child abuse and neglect, foster care, dispute resolution, adoption, including Identification, treatment, and prevention programs and strategies, legal issues, research projects, training programs, search and reunion, etc. Include books, journals, multimedia, government reports, conference papers, research projects, state annual reports, legislation, curricula, and unpublished papers. Includes a thesaurus to construct precise searches.
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Childrenâs Literature Comprehensive Database
The Childrenâs Literature Comprehensive Database offers information about childrenâs books, videos, and audio books ranging from baby board books to novels and nonfiction for young adults. Of the more than 500,000 MARC format records, about 10% include full text book reviews from well-respected sources such as KIRKUS Reviews, Science Books & Films, andVoice of Youth Advocates(VOYA).
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Chinese Journals Fulltext Database (CNKI)
China Academic Journal (CAJ) series on Literature/History/Philosophy offers access to over 1 million full-text articles from more than 300 journals published in China. CAJ articles can be downloaded and viewed as Adobe Acrobat .pdf files. Input in Chinese characters is recommended to achieve better search result. ##Coverage: 1994-2005. ## ##Penn State University Library subscribed to the Literature and History and Philosophy collection. ## ##CJFDæ¯ç®åä¸çä¸æå¤§çè¿ç»å¨ææ´æ°çä¸å½æåå¨ææ°æ®åºãæ¶å½1994 å¹´è³ä»çº¦ 7486 ç§æåå¨æï¼å¹¶å¯¹å¶ä¸é¨åéè¦åç©åæº¯è³ååãè³2005å¹´12æ31æ¥ï¼ç´¯ç§¯æåå¨ææç®1670å¤ä¸ç¯ã ## ##äº§ååä¸ºåå¤§ä¸è¾ï¼çå·¥Aãçå·¥Bãçå·¥Cãåä¸ãå»è¯å«çãæå²å²ãæ¿æ²»åäºä¸æ³å¾ãæè²ä¸ ç¤¾ä¼ç§å¦ç»¼åãçµåææ¯ä¸ä¿¡æ¯ç§å¦ãç»æµä¸ç®¡çã
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ChoiceReviews online
Provides electronic access to all Choice reviews published since September 1988. The database is updated monthly, in the middle of the month, adding reviews schedule for publication in the next print issue.
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CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) is a comprehensive source for research in international affairs. It includes full text of selected books on international affairs, working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. It also, contains abstracts and some full text of selected journal articles
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CINAHL (Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health)
One of two major databases for nursing, providing references to over 1,800 nursing and allied health journal articles in addition to citations for book chapters, nursing dissertations, association publications, educational software, conference proceedings and selected full-text for state nursing journal articles, legal cases, patient education material, research instruments, standards of practice, critical paths, nurse practice acts, drugs, clinical innovations and government publications. References for alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and health sciences librarianship are also included. Coverage: 1982 - Present. Updates: Monthly
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Civil War Letters and Diaries (U.S. Civil War)
Contains searchable full-text from the writings of over 400 authors. When complete, the collection will include more than 100,000 pages of primary materials, as well as author biographies and a Civil War chronology.
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Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library includes the following evidence-based medicine tools: the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE); the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL; Clinical Trials); the Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR; Methods Studies); the Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA; Technology Assessments); and the NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHSEED; Economic Evaluations).
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CollegeSource
A virtual library representing college catalogs in full cover-to-cover, original page format with 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools.
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Columbia Encyclopedia
A standard all-purpose encyclopedia. The complete content of the Columbia encyclopedia is available online to individuals without payment.
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Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
A compilation of the Columbia Granger.s indexes to poetry along with full texts of 190,000 poems taken from British and North American anthologies. Though the emphasis is on poems written in or translated into English, works in a number of other languages are included. Poems may be searched by authors, subjects, titles, first lines, last lines, or full texts.
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Communication & Mass Media Complete
CMMC incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth in the communication and mass media fields.
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Communication Abstracts
Communication Abstracts, edited by Tom Gordon at Temple University 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.
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Community Health Database (Southestern PA Household Health Survey)
The Community Health Data Base (CHDB) is provided by the Philadelphia Health Management Corporation (PHMC). The CHDB contains statistical information from the Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Survey, which is administered every two years. The CHDB also maintains U.S. Census and vital statistics data. The Community Health Data Base has become a unique, critical resource for area health and social service agencies. It provides: Local data, not extrapolations based on national or state data Data that are community-based rather than resource-based Data that can be examined by different levels of geography, including census tract, health district, Minor Civil Division, and ZIP code, as well as by county and region Longitudinal data that can be used as a baseline to measure changes in health, social status and access to care over time
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Community of Science
The Community of Science (COS) home page, a venture funded by Johns Hopkins University, contains multiple resources which members of Penn State can access. Databases we have access to are: ##GeoRef ##U.S. Patents ##Scientific Journals ##Federally Funded Research in the U.S. (the full grants database of the NIH, NSF, USDA, SBIR, and Advanced Technology Program) ##The are additional choices on the COS home page which, are not available to Penn State users. They are: ##MEDLINE, Compendex, Federal Register and Commerce Business Daily. ##However, you can access MEDLINE and Compendex from the LIAS Fast Track.
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Compendex (Ei Village 2)
Compendex is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world with over 9 million records referencing 5,000 engineering journals and conference materials dating from 1884.
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Conference Board's Research Online Collection
Full-text research reports (from 1998 on) on recent issues in business and economics. Subscription also incudes access to "Straight Talk" (brief analyses of economic issues), "Across the Board" (the Board's magazine), the "Executive Action Series" (brief reports addressing topics of interest to senior executives), and the Board's economic working papers.
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Conference Papers Index
Conference Papers provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science. Information is derived from final programs, abstracts booklets and published proceedings, as well as from questionnaire responses. Records include complete ordering information to obtain preprints, abstracts, proceedings and other publications derived from the conference, together with title and author information needed to track the specific papers.
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Congressional Research Service Reports (LexisNexis)
Research papers written by the Library of Congress for the use of Congress. Provide objective, non-partisan analysis of public policy issues before the legislature. Full text PDF of reports.
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Constitutions of the Countries of the World Online

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Consumer Health (Medline Plus)
MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information on over 700 diseases and conditions from the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, a medical dictionary, interactive patient tutorials, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials. Pre-formulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus is updated daily. This resource is designed for educational use only and not intended to replace advice from a health professional. Learn more about MedlinePlus at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/medlineplus.htm
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Contemporary Authors
Provides brief biographical information and lists of publications by and about over 90,000 current authors of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, media, etc., active in the U. S. and internationally. ##Coverage: Current edition. Updates: Continuous.
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Contemporary Women's Issues
This database provides access to full text sources covering global information on women. The sources include periodicals, newsletters, reports, fact sheets, and pamphlets. Topics covered range from human rights to health and reproductive issues to legal information. ##Coverage: 1992 to date. Includes nearly 1500 titles. Updates: Weekly
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Copper Data Center
The Copper Data Center Database (CDC) provides an online bibliographic database of the world's literature on copper, copper alloys and copper technology since 1965. The Copper Data Center Database covers copper technology from smelting and hydrometallurgy through the performance of copper and copper alloys in their end-use applications and service environments. It references data on the properties and performance of copper and copper alloys and on applications of the copper metals. Over 52,000 documents have been indexed into this database, including 5582 documents published between 1863 and 1964.
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Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
This is a collection of Middle English texts assembled from works contributed by University of Michigan faculty and from the Oxford Text Archive.
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Corrosion Abstracts
Corrosion Abstracts provides the world's most complete source of bibliographic information in the area of corrosion science and engineering. International sources of literature are scanned and abstracted in the areas of general corrosion, testing, corrosion characteristics, preventive measures, materials construction and performance, and equipment for many industries.
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CQ Congress Collection
CQ Congress Collection is a dynamic research and reference tool allowing historical analysis of members of Congress, their legislative voting behavior, interest groups, and their interactions in crafting public policy.
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CQ Electronic Library
A referece source for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. The suite includes the online version of --CQ Weekly --CQ Researcher --CQ Congress Collection, --CQ Voting and Elections Collection --CQ Historic Documents Online
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CQ Historic Documents Series Online
Historic Documents Series Online Edition collects more than 2,500 primary sources covering current events around the world from 1972 to present. Each source document is preceeded by an introductory essay giving context to the source. Users can search by keyword, or browse by topic or date. Topics range from presidential speeches to statements by sports figures such as Magic Johnson on his retirement from the NBA.
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CQ Researcher Online
The CQ Researcher is a collection of reports covering political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. ##Keywords: hot topics, current events, social issues, social trends, archive, English 15, CAS 100, background information, general interest, contemporary issues, overviews
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CQ Supreme Court Collection
CQ Supreme Court Collection contains summaries and analysis of more than four thousand major decisions, historical and contemporary, including all cases in which the Burger and Rehnquist Courts (October 1969 to the present) issued a written opinion. Includes links to the full text of the cases. The collection can be searched by topic, justice, and case name. Includes tools to research justices' voting records and opinion alignments.
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CQ Voting & Elections Collection
Expert analysis, demographics, and data of elections-realted information.
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CQ Weekly
Each issue of CQ Weekly contains an unbiased, objective and comprehensive roundup of virtually all Capitol Hill activity from the previous week.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts
Provides abstracts of articles from the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, as well as books and reports from government and nongovernmental agencies. For each document, an informative summary of the findings, methodology, and conclusions is provided. Topics include crime trends, prevention projects, corrections, juvenile delinquency, police, courts, offenders, victims, and sentencing
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Criminal Justice: National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 150,000 publications on criminal justice, including Federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Subject areas include corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, and victims of crime. ##Coverage: The time period covered is from the early 1970's to the present.
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CumInCAD (Computer-Aided Architectural Design)
CumInCAD is a cumulative index of publications about computer aided architectural design. It provides abstracts to thousands of papers in journals and conferences and it provides the full text and illustrations for more than half of the papers. When asked to logon, create your own ID and password.
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Current Index to (mathematical) Statistics
The Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in mathematical statistics and related fields. The CIS Extended Database includes cover-to-cover coverage of 100 "core journals", selected articles from 900 additional related journals, and about 8,000 books since 1974.
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Daily Collegian (1887-1987) (Digital Archive)
The Daily Collegian and its predecessors, serve as an important source for documenting student life at the Pennsylvania State University. Newspapers, and specifically, student-run newspapers, such as the Daily Collegian, often document university life better than any other sourceâthrough their pictures, their editorials, and their reports on student activities and interests. The Daily Collegian as we know it today was preceded by: â¢ Free Lance (monthly) - April 1887 to April 1904 â¢ State Collegian (weekly) - September 28, 1904 to June 10, 1911 â¢ Penn State Collegian (weekly) - September 28, 1911 to August 2, 1940 (also had Summer Collegian issues for some dates during this time period). The Historical Digital Collegian provides access to all words, photographs, and advertisements as well as an exact page image of the newspaper page containing the article. For those readers who prefer to see the newspaper intact, each issue can be browsed page-by-page. Thus, the Historical Digital Collegian allows researchers greater flexibility in locating articles of interest and in allowing greater access for those researchers not able to visit The University Libraries.
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Daily Collegian Index 1992-2002
This selective database, created at Penn State, is an index of news articles pertaining largely to Penn State and, to a lesser extent, the surrounding communities. National and state news items are not indexed unless they relate to persons, places or events associated with either Penn State or its surrounding communities. ##The Sports section is not indexed unless an article relates to a larger issue such as Title IX, gender equity, medicine, etc. Friday's Weekender section is not indexed either. ## ##The following topics are indexed: ## ##Local news articles ##Selected Editorials ##Theater ##Music ##Visual arts ##Book reviews
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Datasets for Research
This web site is primarily intended to function as a guide to the acquisition and use of secondary datasets which are available for research. In addition, it also contains information on sources for locating summary statistics. ## ##At this time, the resources on this web site pertain primarily to the health, social sciences, maps/ geography disciplines. Other disciplines will be added in the future.
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Declassified Documents Reference System
The Declassified Documents Reference System provides online access to over 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.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography
This new and growing database covers authors from all genres and time periods. Entries provide a good starting point for students by providing a general essay and biographical information. In addition to the essay there are references to primary and further critical information. All entries are written by scholars and academic specialists.
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Dictionary of Old English
Covers the vocabulary of the English language between the years 600-1150 A.D., giving definitions, examples of use, variations in spelling, and references to contemporary texts. The Dictionary is being compiled incrementally; as of 2008, the editors had reached the letter G.
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Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts
The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts is an exhaustive resource for historians, theologians, political scientists, and sociologists studying the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries. DLCPT gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras. With new content uploads occurring on a weekly basis, the database offers a constantly growing treasury of theological writings, biblical commentaries, confessional documents, and polemical treatises written by more than 300 Protestant authors.
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Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation
A uniquely exhaustive resource for historians, theologians, political scientists, and sociologists studying the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries, the Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras.
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