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Electronic Resources
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CQ Researcher
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EbscoHost
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Lexis-Nexis Academic
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
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Proquest
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WilsonWeb
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WorldCat
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ABI/Inform Global
via ProQuest
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Description: Indexes and abstracts articles from over 1,300 titles with full text, full page images from over 600 sources, including the Wall Street Journal. ABI Inform focuses on issues in business and management.
Coverage: 1971-present
Full-text: Yes, 1992-present
Online guide or tutorial: Online help and search guides are available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server
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Academic Search Elite
via EbscoHost
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Description: Indexes and abstracts articles from 3,232 journals with full text for 2,037 sources, covering a range of academic areas such as social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies and more
Coverage: 1984-present
Full-text: Yes, 1985-present for some titles
Online guide or tutorial: Online help available
Remote access: Yes,via proxy server or through BadgerLink
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Academic Universe -- See Lexis-Nexis Academic |
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African American Biographical Database
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Description: The African American Biographical Database (AABD) contains the biographies of thousands of African Americans, assembled from biographical dictionaries and other sources. The collection contains extended narratives of African American activists, business people, former slaves, performing artists, educators, lawyers, physicians, writers, church leaders, homemakers, religious workers, government workers, athletes, farmers, scientists, factory workers, and more--both the famous and the everyday person. Its initial content comes from Chadwyck-Healey’s Black Biographical Dictionaries 1790-1950.
Coverage: 1790-1950
Full-text: Yes. Adobe Acrobat Reader software required (which can be downloaded from the AABD page).
Online guide or tutorial: Online help available.
Remote access: Yes, via link at left or through BadgerLink.
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African American Music Reference
via Alexander Street Press
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Description: African American Music Reference brings together text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. The database is constantly expanding to include comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. As the database grows, it will be supplemented with other noted reference titles covering the histories of jazz, blues, bebop, hip hop, ragtime, gospel, and rhythm and blues, as well as a detailed chronology of African American events in music, links to web resources, searchable sheet music, and new reference titles.
Coverage: N/A
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server
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AltPress Index
via OCLC FirstSearch
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Description: Guide to alternative sources of information. Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines.
Coverage: 1991 -
Full-text: No.
Online guide or tutorial: N/A
Remote access: On-campus access only.
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America: History & Life
via EbscoHost
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Description: 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 from over 2,000 journals.
Coverage: 1964-present
Full-text: No
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
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American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications
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Description: ACS provides the complete full text of over 30 journals it publishes, with an author/title search engine available. Archival access is available for all titles back to the start date of the publication, some back as far as the 1800s.
Coverage: Varies by title. See http://pubs.acs.org/about.htmlhttp://pubs.acs.org/about.html
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: Online Search Tips are available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
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American Indian History & Culture -- See American Indian History Online |
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American Indian History Online
via Facts on File
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Description: Access to more than a thousand years of American Indian culture, legends, and leaders. More than 150 Native American groups are presented through primary source documents, biographies, historical maps, and photographs.
Coverage: N/A
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via the proxy server
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American Reference Books Annual -- See ARBA Online |
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Applied Science & Technology Full-Text
via WilsonWeb
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Description: Indexing and abstracts from more than 485 English-language science and technology publications including engineering, acoustics, chemistry, computers, metallurgy, physics, and waste management.
Coverage: 1983-present
Full-text: 1997-present
Online guide or tutorial: Online help available
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
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ARBA Online
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Description: Provides librarians with a reliable tool to select the best reference materials for their collections and inform them of the most current resources available.
Coverage: 1997-present
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: Online help available
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
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Art Full Text
via WilsonWeb
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Description: Art Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
Coverage: 1984-present
Full-text: 1997-present
Online guide or tutorial: Online help available
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
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Arts & Humanities Citation Index -- See Web of Science |
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ARTstor
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Description: The ARTstor Digital Library is comprised of digital images and related data and the tools to make active use of those images. ARTstor's "Charter Collection" contains approximately 300,000 digital images of visual material from different cultures and disciplines, and it seeks to offer sufficient breadth and depth to support a wide range of non-commercial educational and scholarly activities. The Charter Collection is anticipated to grow to half a million images by the summer of 2006
Coverage: N/A
Full-text: N/A
Online guide or tutorial: An online tutorial is available.
Remote access: Yes, via the proxy server.
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Associations Unlimited International
via GaleNet
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Description: Contains information for approximately 160,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields.
Coverage: N/A
Full-text: N/A
Online guide or tutorial: Online help available
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
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August 02, 2007.
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