Electronic Resources (Alphabetical list with descriptions)
List of Electronic Resources available to Missouri Western State University
students, faculty and staff.
Also
Available is an alphabetical list without subject areas and descriptions.
Title: Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources, Psychology, Education
Description: (From Vendor)Thorough source providing coverage of everything related to the field of human computer interaction (HCI). The encyclopedia covers a wide range of HCI related topics such as concepts, design, usability, evaluation, innovations, and applications of HCI in organizations around the globe.
Title: A to Z list: MWSU holdings and electronic resources
Subject: General
Description: (From Library) The A-Z list will retrieve a list of journals that are either available in print or electronic format for MWSU patrons. Completeness of coverage will vary for each title.
Title: ABC-CLIO: America: History & Life
Subject: History, Philosophy & Geography
Description: (From Vendor) America: History and Life (AHL) 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 over 530,000 bibliographic entries for periodicals dating back to 1954. Additional bibliographical entries are constantly added to the databases from editorial projects such as retrospective coverage of journals issues published prior to 1954.
Title: ABC-CLIO: Historical Abstracts
Subject: History, Philosophy & Geography
Description: (From Vendor) Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts has long been recognized as the world's leading bibliographic database for historical study. Historical Abstracts currently covers over 1,700 journals published worldwide in over forty languages. The database comprises over 720,000 entries from periodicals, with full-text links to over 135,000 articles and dissertations.
Title: Academic Search Premier
Subject: Art, English, Foreign Languages, & Journalism; Biology and Chemistry; Business, Economics; Communication Studies & Theatre; Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, & Engineering Technology; Criminal Justice, Legal, RCPI; Education; General; Government, Social Work & Sociology; Health, Physical Education, & Recreation; History, Philosophy & Geography; Military Science; Music; Nursing & Health Information Technology, Psychology
Description: (From Vendor) The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
Title: ACS Publications
Subject: Biology and Chemistry
Description: Contains the full text of the following ACS Journals from 1996 to Present: Accounts of Chemical Research, Analytical Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biomacromolecules, Biotechnology Progress, Chemical Research in Toxicology, Chemical Reviews, Chemistry of Materials, Crystal Growth and Design, Energy and Fuels, Environmental Science and Technology, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Journal of Natural Products, Journal of Organic Chemistry, Journal of Physical Chemistry, A,B,and C, Journal of Proteome Research, Journal of The American Chemical Society, Langmuir, Macromolecules, Nano Letters, Organic Letters, Organic Process Research and Development and Organometallics.
Title: Agricola
Subject: Biology and Chemistry
Description: (From Vendor) AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) serves as the catalog and index to the collections of the National Agricultural Library, as well as a primary public source for world-wide access to agricultural information. The database covers materials in all formats and periods, including printed works from as far back as the 15th century.
Title: Air University Index to Military Periodicals
Subject: Military Science
Description: (From Vendor) The Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals is 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.
Title: Alt-Health Watch
Subject: Nursing & Health Information Technology
Description: (From Vendor) This alternative health database provides full text for 180 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.
Title: Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, Complement: JSTOR
Subject: Art, English, Foreign Languages, & Journalism; Biology and Chemistry; History, Philosophy & Geography; Government, Social Work & Sociology; Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, & Engineering Technology; Business, Economics; Psychology; General
Description: (From Vendor) The Arts & Sciences I Collection includes the complete back runs of 119 titles in fifteen disciplines. Established in 1997, it is JSTOR's first collection and includes many of the core research and society published journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This collection also includes a selection of titles in the more science-oriented fields of ecology, mathematics, and statistics.
Title: Biological Abstracts 1995-
Subject: Biology and Chemistry
Description: (From Vendor) BasicBIOSIS is a comprehensive database that focuses on general life science research from around the world. BasicBIOSIS contains coverage of nearly 300 of the most popular life sciences publications as well as meeting reports, reviews, and newspapers. Biological Abstracts®, produced by BIOSIS, is a complete collection of bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical research literature published from more than 4,000 journals internationally. This database contains nearly 7.7 million archival records from as far back as 1969, with more than 370,000 citations added each year.
Title: BGMI: Biography & Geneaology Master Index (1 concurrent user)
Subject: General, History
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Title: Business Source Premier
Subject: Business, Economics
Description: (From Vendor) Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 8,800 serials, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
Title: CCH Tax Research
Subject: Business, Economics
Description: (From Vendor) CCH Tax Research NetWork™ (TRN) combines CCH’s leading federal, state, international and accounting content with cutting-edge web technology to bring you the most current, customized and intuitive tax research product on the market.
Title: CINAHL (up to 4 concurrent users)
Subject: Nursing & Health Information Technology
Description: (From Vendor) CINAHL is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for 2,737 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982.
Title: Clinical Pharmacology
Subject: Nursing & Health Information Technology
Description: (From Vendor) Clinical Pharmacology contains current, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs. Drugs may be searched by their generic or brand names.
Title: Communication & Mass Media Complete
Subject: Art, English, Foreign Languages, & Journalism, Communication Studies & Theatre
Description: (From Vendor) Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. CMMC offers cover-to-cover (“core”) indexing and abstracts for over 390 journals, and selected (“priority”) coverage of 200 more, for a combined coverage of nearly 600 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for more than 285 journals.
Title: CQ Researcher (up to 5 concurrent users)
Subject: Art, English, Foreign Languages, & Journalism, Communication Studies & Theatre, General
Description: (From Vendor) CQ Researcher is often the first source that librarians recommend when researchers are seeking original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Founded in 1923 as Editorial Research Reports, CQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published weekly in print and online 44 times a year by CQ Press, a division of Congressional Quarterly Inc. Each single-themed, 12,000-word report is researched and written by a seasoned journalist. The consistent, reader-friendly organization provides researchers with an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources.
Title: EBSCO Animals
Subject: Reference Resources
Description: (From Vendor) EBSCO's Encyclopedia of Animals offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Within some of the full text, image links are available for the Windows client. Images are accessed by double-clicking any image graphic.
Title: Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources, Criminal Justice, Legal, RCPI
Description: (From Vendor) Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice. Joshua Dressler, Ed. 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002. 1780 pp. 4 vols. This uniquely interdisciplinary resource covers legal, sociological, psychological, historical, and economic aspects of crime and justice worldwide. Entries cover civil and criminal issues, from domestic violence to terrorism. Entries cite pertinent legal cases as well as publications for further information. Also includes a glossary of related terms.
Title: Encyclopedia of Education (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources, Education; Health, Physical Education, & Recreation
Description: (From Vendor) Encyclopedia of Education. James W. Guthrie, Ed. 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002. 3412 pp. 8 vols. Intended to provide a comprehensive description of the enterprise of education both within the United States and throughout the world. Approximately 900 articles offer a view of the institutions, people, processes, and products found in educational practice.
Title: Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources, Government, Social Work & Sociology; History, Philosophy & Geography
Description: (From Vendor) Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. Richard C. Martin, Ed. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004. 820 pp. 2 vols. This encyclopedia looks at Islam's role in the modern world, doing so in context of the religion's history and development over the last 13 centuries. Contains thematic articles, biographies of key figures, definitions, illustrations, maps and more.
Title: Encyclopedia of Philosophy (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources, History, Philosophy & Geography
Description: (From Vendor) Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Donald Borchert, Ed. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006. 7799 pp. 10 vols. A new and updated edition of this multivolume set -- the first comprehensive new edition in almost 40 years. Containing material from hundreds of highly distinguished contributors representing the world's top universities and institutions, the second edition has a truly global perspective. It contains more than 2,100 entries -- including more than 450 new articles. Among the many topics covered are African, Islamic, Jewish, Russian, Chinese, and Buddhist philosophies; bioethics and biomedical ethics; art and aesthetics; epistemology; metaphysics; peace and war; social and political philosophy; the Holocaust; feminist thought; and much more. Additionally, the second edition also features 1,000 biographical entries on major figures in philosophical thought throughout history.
Title: ERIC
Subject: Education; Health, Physical Education & Recreation; Government, Social Work & Sociology
Description: (From Vendor) ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
Title: Free Resources from Gale Group
Subject: Art, English, Foreign Languages, & Journalism
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Title: Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia
Subject: Reference Resources
Description: (From Vendor) This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Title: Gale Literary Index
Subject: Art, English, Foreign Languages, & Journalism; History, Philosophy & Geography
Description: (From Vendor) Gale's Literary Index is a master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references over 155,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for over 207,000 titles into one source.
Title: Oxford Music Online(up to 3 concurrent users)
Subject: Music
Description: (From Vendor) • Oxford Music Online includes the full text of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd edition), the New Grove Dictionary of Opera and the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd edition) plus specially-commissioned articles only available online. Additional resources inclue: The Oxford Companion to Music and the Oxford Dictionary of Music.
Title: HealthSource Consumer
Subject: Nursing & Health Information Technology
Description: (From Vendor) This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing 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 150 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Title: HealthSource Nursing/Academic
Subject: Nursing & Health Information Technology
Description: (From Vendor) This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Title: Humanities International Complete
Subject: Art, English, Foreign Languages, & Journalism; History, Philosophy & Geography; Government, Social Work & Sociology
Description: (From Vendor) Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index (over 2,000 titles and 2 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. Humanities International Complete is an essential collection for libraries looking to provide comprehensive coverage of the humanities with full text content.
Title: IIMP: Index to Music Periodicals (Campus Only, 1 concurrent user)
Subject: Music
Description: (From Vendor) International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) is the ultimate resource for music periodicals available on the web. It provides indexing and abstracts for more than 430 international music periodicals from over 20 countries. The database currently includes over 530,000 records, the majority of which index the most recent eight years of publication. More than 200,000 records in IIMP are from the backfile (up to 1995) and much of this coverage commences at the first issue of the journal run, some starting as early as 1874. Some complete journal runs are included, which cover the first published issue right up to the most current.
Title: Index to Buros' Mental Measurements
Subject: Psychology
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Title: International Encyclopedia of Linguistics
Subject: Reference Resources, Art, English, Foreign Languages, & Journalism; Communication Studies & Theatre
Description: (From Vendor) The Encyclopedia encompasses the full range of topics in linguistics, including such areas as historical, comparative, formal, mathematical, functional, philosophical, and sociolinguistics. Special attention is given to interrelations within these branches of the field and to relations of linguistics with other disciplines. This interdisciplinary focus makes the encyclopedia an invaluable resource not only for linguistics but also for scholars working in the fields of computer science, mathematics, philosophy, the social and behavioral sciences, and literary studies.
Title: Issues & Controversies
Subject: General; Art, English, Foreign Languages, & Journalism; Communication Studies & Theatre
Description: (From Vendor) Issues & Controversies @ FACTS.com presents and enhances the full back file of Issues & Controversies On File, which has probed more than 600 controversial topics in the news since its debut in September 1995. Chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars, bibliographies, and contact information augment the balanced, accurate coverage of current and historical events.
Title: JSTOR: Arts & Sciences I,II,III,IV, Complement
Subject: Art, English, Foreign Languages, & Journalism; Biology and Chemistry; History, Philosophy & Geography; Government, Social Work & Sociology; Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, & Engineering Technology; Business, Economics; Psychology; General
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Title: Lexis Nexis Academic Universe
Subject: General; Criminal Justice, Legal, RCPI
Description: LexisNexis® Academic and Library Web services are tailored to meet the needs of researchers and students. Each service is designed to meet the needs of a specific group, and provides access to specially selected sources that may include CIS's flagship index and abstract access tools, online access to the full text of related government and non-government sources or access to comprehensive news, business, and legal information available on LexisNexis.
Title: Lexis-Nexis: Academic Universe
Subject: Business, Economics
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Title: Lexis-Nexis: Medical
Subject: Nursing & Health Information Technology
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Title: Lexis-Nexis: Reference
Subject: Reference Resources
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Title: List of Free Medline Search Providers
Subject: Nursing & Health Information Technology
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Title: LISTA: Library, Information Science & Technology
Subject: Education
Description: (From Vendor) EBSCO Publishing is proud to provide the Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) database as a free resource to anyone interested in libraries and information management. This world-class bibliographic database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Delivered via the EBSCOhost platform, LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.
Title: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
Subject: Reference Resources, Government, Social Work & Sociology; Nursing & Health Information Technology
Description: (From Vendor) Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying. Robert Kastenbaum, Ed. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002. 1071 pp. 2 vols. Comprehensive exploration of the place of death in contemporary life. Coverage of topics is broad and multi-disciplinary.
Title: MAS Ultra- School Edition
Subject: Education
Description: (From Vendor) Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 700 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, more than 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
Title: Master File Premier
Subject: General
Description: (From Vendor) Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
Title: Math Sci Net
Subject: Biology and Chemistry; Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, & Engineering Technology
Description: (From Vendor) MathSciNet is a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature since 1940. Provides Web access to the bibliographic data and reviews of mathematical research literature contained in the Mathematical Reviews Database. Has signed reviews, powerful search functionality, and timely updates. Fosters the navigation of mathematics literature by providing links to original articles and other original documents, when available, and by encouraging links from journal article references to MathSciNet. Includes linked reference lists from selected journals. This list is being expanded. Offers World-wide access via multiple mirror sites. Offers free access to Featured Reviews, those reviews from the Mathematical Reviews database that were especially commissioned for some of the books and papers that are considered particularly important in the areas that they cover.
Title: Military and Government Collection
Subject: Military Science
Description: (From Vendor) Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.
Title: MLA Bibliography
Subject: Art, English, Foreign Languages, & Journalism
Description: (From Vendor) MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text.
Title: NCJRS Abstracts
Subject: Criminal Justice, Legal, RCPI
Description: (From Vendor) The NCJRS Web site provides access to one of the largest criminal justice libraries in the world. The Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 185,000 criminal justice publications. It provides abstracts or summaries, not full-text documents. Links to full-text publications are provided within the abstract when available.
Title: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Subject: Reference Resources, History, Philosophy & Geography
Description: (From Vendor) New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Maryanne Horowitz, Ed. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005. 2780 pp. 6 vols. The publication of the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas marks the return of a reference work that is an essential tool to make the often complex history of "what we think" accessible to students and general readers. The original 1974 Dictionary of the History of Ideas has long been admired as a landmark document encapsulating the thinking of an era. This thoroughly re-envisioned New Dictionary of the History of Ideas brings fresh intelligence and a global perspective to bear on timeless questions about the individual and society. A distinguished team of international scholars explore new thinking in areas previously covered (communism, linguistics, physics) and present cross-cultural perspectives on more recent topics such as postmodernism, deconstruction and post-colonialism.
Title: Newsbank
Subject: General
Description: Vendor's Desciption: The electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers--all in one easy-to-search database. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. Paid ads are excluded. (Includes KC Star, Springfield News-Leader, St. Louis Post Dispatch and other Missouri and national newspapers.)
Title: Newspaper Source
Subject: General
Description: (From Vendor) Newspaper Source provides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
Title: OCLC ArticleFirst (Index Only)
Subject: General
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Title: OCLC ECO
Subject: General
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Title: OCLC Papers First: Conference Papers (Index Only)
Subject: General
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Title: OCLC Proceedings: Conference Proceedings (Index Only)
Subject: General
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Title: Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources, Art, English, Foreign Languages, & Journalism; Education
Description: (From Vendor) Written by an international roster of more than 300 authors, the Encyclopedia comprehensively documents and interprets the books read by children throughout the world. With a global perspective that pays attention to significant international trends and the multicultural expansion of the field, it includes brief biographies of every major author and illustrator. Also included are feature essays on all genres of children's literature, individual works, and prominent trends and themes, as well as general essays on the traditions of children's literature in many countries throughout the world.
Title: Oxford Encyclopedia of Rhetoric (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources, Art, English, Foreign Languages, & Journalism; Communication Studies & Theatre; History, Philosophy & Geography
Description: (From Vendor) The Encyclopedia of Rhetoric is a comprehensive survey of one of the Western world's oldest disciplines. Its 150 entries, written by leading scholars, bring together expertise in classical studies, philosophy, literature, literary theory, cultural studies, speech, and communications in a comprehensive treatment of the art of persuasion. The Encyclopedia is the most wide-ranging reference work of its kind, combining theory, history, and practice, with a special emphasis on public speaking, performance, and communication.
Title: Philosopher's Index (1 concurrent usser)
Subject: History, Philosophy & Geography
Description: (From Vendor) Covers all major fields of philosophy such as aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics, etc., and philosophy of related interdisciplinary fields such as education, history, law and religion. Contains citation information and author-written abstracts for journal articles, books, contributions to anthologies, and book reviews, published from 1940 to the present. Indexes over 560 journals from more than 40 countries in 30 languages.
Title: Primary Search: Children Magazines
Subject: Education
Description: (From Vendor) Primary Search provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
Title: PsycINFO
Subject: Psychology; Government, Social Work & Sociology
Description: (From Vendor) PsycINFO , from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,100 periodicals in more than 25 languages.
Title: Pub Med
Subject: Nursing & Health Information Technology
Description: (From Vendor) PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
Title: Pub Med Central
Subject: Nursing & Health Information Technology
Description: (From Vendor) PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
Title: Regional Business News
Subject: Business, Economics
Description: (From Vendor) This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Title: SocINDEX with Full Text
Subject: Government, Social Work & Sociology; Criminal Justice, Legal, RCPI
Description: (From Vendor) SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 1,660,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 344 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 129 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 700 books and monographs, and full text for 6,800 conference papers.
Title: Sport Discus (1 concurrent user)
Subject: Health, Physical Education, & Recreation
Description: (From Vendor) Provided by the Sport Information Resource Centre, SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains over 650,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800; over 20,000 dissertations and theses and reference to articles in 60 different languages.
Title: Teacher Reference Center: K-12 Teachers and Librarians
Subject: Education
Description: (From Vendor) This index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books is now also offered free via the EBSCOhost platform. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more.
Title: WestLaw Campus
Subject: Criminal Justice, Legal, RCPI
Description: (From Vendor) Campus Research™ is a superior research service for news, business and lawrelated information – and it is designed especially to meet the needs of both librarians and students. Comprehensive: includes full-text information and access to both current and archived materials.
; thousands of news databases arranged geographically and topically; hundreds of newswires as well as business, trade and professional journals and publications ;superior law-related resources, including both primary law and analysis
Title: JSTOR:Life Sciences
Subject: Biology and Chemistry
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Title: JSTOR:Life Sciences
Subject: Health, Nursing, Biology
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Title: Opposing Viewpoints
Subject: General, English
Description: (From Vendor) Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a full-text resource covering today's social issues from Terrorism to Endangered Species, Stem Cell Research to Gun Control. Opposing Viewpoints helps to develop critical thinking and information literacy skills by assisting students with researching, analyzing, and organizing various types of data for research assignments, persuasive essays, and debates.
Title: Windows Live Academic
Subject: Biology and Chemistry
Description: (From Vendor) PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
Title: SciFinder Scholar Download
Subject: Chemistry, Engineering, Nursing
Description: (From Vendor) SciFinder Scholar is a research discovery tool that allows students and faculty to access research from many scientific disciplines, including chemistry, engineering and nursing. SciFinder Substructure Module (SSM) allos for substructure access to world's largest and most current chemical substance database. Client based software -- Must be download to individual workstations. Click on SciFinder Download link for instructions.
Title: Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
Subject: Business and Economics
Description: (From Vendor)Standard & Poor's single source for S&P's investment Research. Includes access to Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Bond Reports, Company Profiles and Register of Corporations, Executives & Directors.
Title: PsycArticles
Subject: Psychology, Social Work & Sociology
Description: (From Vendor)PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 100,000 articles from 59 journals - 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present.
Title: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Subject: Reference Resources, Social Work & Sociology, Government
Description: (From Vendor) Covers scholarship and fields that have emerged and matured since the publication of the the first edition. Highlights the expanding influence of economics in social science research and features new articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences.
Title: Computers and Applied Sciences
Subject: Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, & Engineering Technology
Description: (From Vendor) Computers & Applied Sciences Complete covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. CASC provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,720 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection. Full text is also available for more than 670 periodicals
Title: Encyclopedia of Environment and Society (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources, Social Work & Sociology
Description: (From Vendor)Paul Robbins, ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications Inc., 2007. 2736 pp. 5 vols. Provides issues, concepts, theories, examples, problems, and policies, with the goal of explicating an emerging way of thinking about people and nature.
Title: GreenFILE
Subject: Engineering Technology, Biology, Chemistry
Description: (From Vendor) GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records
Title: Literature Resource Center: LRC (Gale) (2 users)
Subject: English, Foreign Languages, & Journalism;Education;Communicataion Studies & Theatre
Description: (From Vendor) Content:• Contemporary Authors through the current volume, featuring biographies on more than 130,000 authors
• Contemporary Authors New Revision Series through the current volume, featuring updated biographies on prominent contemporary authors
• Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, offering selected criticism through volume 241 of the print series
• Dictionary of Literary Biography, all biographies through volume 336 of the print series
• More than 49,000 full-text articles and excerpts from critical essays originally appearing in:
Children's Literature Review
Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism
Drama Criticism
Drama for Students
Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800
Literature of Developing Nations for Students
Literature and Its Times
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism
Novels for Students
Poetry Criticism
Poetry for Students
Shakespearean Criticism
Short Stories for Students
Short Story Criticism
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
Title: Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources, Psychology, Education, Social Work & Sociology
Description: (From Vendor)William Sims Bainbridge, ed. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing, 2005. 958 pp. 2 vols. A two-volume encyclopedia of 190 articles that examine how people interact and communicate via computers, robots, information systems, and the Internet.
Title: Encyclopedia of African American Society (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources, History, Social Work & Sociology
Description: (From Vendor) Gerald D. Jaynes, ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Reference, 2005. 1058 pp. This two-volume reference seeks to capture the ways in which the tenets and foundations of African American culture have given rise to today's society. Approaching the field from a "street level" perspective, these two volumes cover topics of universal interest in America: rap music, sports, television, cinema, racism, religion, literature, and much more.
Title: Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources, Communication Studies & Theater, Social Work & Sociology
Description: (From Vendor) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Reference, 2007. 886 pp. Presents research and facts on the media's interaction with children and adolescents. Covers the traditional and electronic media and their controversial impact on children and adolescents..
Title: Guide to Congress (ebook)
Subject: Government, History, Reference Resources
Description: (From Vendor) Guide to Congress is the ultimate reference source for comprehensive coverage of the history, powers, operation, and members of the U.S. Congress. Fully updated, this work provides comprehensive coverage of the twelve years of Republican congressional control from 1994 to 2006 plus insight into the Democratic leadership of the legislature following the 2006 mid-term elections
Title: Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources, Nursing, Sociology, Social Work
Description: (From Vendor)Examines the issues that surround cancer and its effects on society. Navigates through the terminology and concepts to provide a better understanding of how cancer affects us way beyond the medical conditions that are regrettably more than obvious. (2007)
Title: Focal Encyclopedia of Photography:Digital Imaging, Theory and Applications, History, and Science (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources, Communication Studies & Theatre; Art
Description: (From Vendor)Michael R. Peres, ed. 4th ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2007. 846 pp. Includes the history and historical processes of photography, contemporary applications, and the new and evolving digital technologies.
Title: Encyclopedia of Modern Asia (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources, History;Government
Description: (From Vendor)Karen Christensen and David Levinson, eds. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003. 3268 pp. A six-volume survey of modern Asia, defined as extending from Japan in the east to Turkey in the west, and from Kazakhstan in the north to Indonesia in the south. Presents more than 2,600 alphabetically arranged entries covering such subjects as countries, cities, regions, natural features, religions, social issues, languages, people, events, customs, politics, and economics
Title: Encyclopedia of Education and Human Development (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources, Education, Psychology
Description: (From Vendor) Stephen J. Farenga and Daniel Ness, eds. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2005. 1014 pp. A comprehensive coverage of educational theory and practice from the primary grades through higher education.
Title: Guide to the Presidency (ebook)
Subject: Government, History, Reference Resources
Description: (From Vendor) Guide to the Presidency is the leading reference for anyone seeking to understand the people who have occupied the White House and the presidency itself. Readers look to this comprehensive guide for its extensive, in-depth coverage of the institution and U.S. presidents as well as its analytical chapters that explain the structure and operations of the office and the executive's relationship to the other, co-equal branches of government.
Title: Encyclopedia of Invasions and Conquests: From Ancient Times to the Present (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources, History
Description: (From Vendor) Paul Davis, ed. 2nd ed. Millerton, NY: Grey House Publishing, 2006. 602 pp. A comprehensive guide to over 150 invasions, conquests, battles and occupations, from the ancient times to the present. This guide offers articles on the Coalition Invasion of Iraq, the Serbian Invasion of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Soviet & UN's Invasions of Afghanistan and much more. For high school students, military historians, members of the armed forces, history buffs and hobbyists
Title: Encyclopedia of American Religions (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources, History Philosophy & Geography
Description: (From Vendor)J. Gordon Melton, ed. 7th ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. 1408 pp. Comprehensive coverage of more than 2,300 North American religious groups in the U.S. and Canada -- from Adventists to Zen Buddhists.
Title: New Encyclopedia of Africa (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources, History;Government
Description: (From Vendor)John Middleton and Joseph C. Miller, eds. 2nd ed. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2008. 3082 pp. Addresses the entire history of African cultures from the pharaohs and the ancient civilizations of the south through the colonial era to the emergence of 53 independent countries, some of them newly emergent in world commerce and others deep in conflict. Covers issues facing the continent such as global development, the AIDS crisis, and international terrorism.
Title: Encyclopedia of Sex & Gender (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources, Sociology & Social Work, Psychology
Description: (From Vendor) Fedwa Malti-Douglas, ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007. 1682 pp. Addresses issues of sex and gender at the personal and the social level; examines issues of identity, status, class, ethnicity, race, and nation; of sexuality and the body; of social institutions and the structures of representation.
Title: Berkshire Encyclopedia of Extreme Sports (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources, Health, Physical Education, & Recreation
Description: (From Vendor)Douglas Booth and Holly Thorpe, eds. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire, 2007. 404 pp. Provides numerous articles written by sports experts and athletes that describe and explain extreme sports. Also includes biographies on leading athletes, essays on extreme sports venues, and articles on social issues.
Title: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources, Nursing
Description: (From Vendor) 3rd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 4475 pp. Includes information on more than 1,600 medical disorders and concepts. Each article includes in-depth discussion of causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, procedures, and other related topics.
Title: Berkshire Encyclopedia of World Sport (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources, Health, Physical Education, & Recreation
Description: (From Vendor) Karen Christensen and David Levinson, eds. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing, 2005. 1750 pp. 4 vols. An encyclopedia on the history of sports in the world. Major topics include 300 modern and traditional sports in 75 nations, cultural and social paradigms and perspectives, college and youth sports, competitions and major events, major sports venues, and the evolution of media coverage.
Title: Holidays, Festivals, and Celebrations of the World Dictionary (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources, General; Health, Physical Education & Recreation
Description: (From Vendor)Helene Henderson, ed. 3rd ed. Detroit: Omnigraphics, Inc., 2005. 906 pp. Describes 2,500 holidays, festivals, commemorations, holy days, feasts and fasts, and other observances from all parts of the world.
Title: National Survey of State Laws (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources,Government, Social Work & Sociology
Description: (From Vendor)Richard A. Leiter, ed. 6th ed. Detroit: Gale, 2008. 808 pp. A quick, state-by-state comparison of current state laws -- how they differ and how they're similar -- for a range of relevant subjects from abortion to employment discrimination, child custody to interest rates.
Title: World of Forensic Science (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources, Criminal Justice and Legal Studies, Sociology
Description: (From Vendor) K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, eds. Detroit: Gale, 2005. 812 pp. The two-volume World of Forensic Science is a convenient, comprehensive guide to the scientific processes and the legal, social and ethical issues involved in the forensic sciences.
Title: Crime and Punishment: Essential Primary Sources (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources, Criminal Justice and Legal Studies
Description: (From Vendor)K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, eds. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 484 pp. A focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Each title contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context.
Title: Social Change in America: The Historical Handbook (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources, Government, Social Work & Sociology
Description: (From Vendor)Patricia C. Becker, ed. 2006 ed. Lanham, MD: Bernan Press, 2006. 307 pp. An insightful commentary about U.S. society and how it has changed--not just in comparison to the past, but also within a global context. Topics include family life, work and employment, housing, wealth and poverty, education, and much more.
Title: The Value of a Dollar:Prices and Incomes in the United States, 1860-2004 (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources, General, History
Description: (From Vendor)Scott Derks, ed. 3rd ed. Millerton, NY: Grey House Publishing, 2006. 664 pp. This handbook provides records of the actual prices of thousands of items that consumers purchased from the Civil War to the present
Title: Environmental Issues: Essential Primary Sources (ebook)
Subject: Reference Resources, Biology
Description: (From Vendor)Brenda Wilmoth Lerner and K. Lee Lerner, eds. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 515 pp. A focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Each title contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art.