MSUM Library Electronic Databases

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50States.com
Information on states and capitals. Includes facts and trivia, college links, state songs, flags, and more.

Academic Search Premier - EBSCO
Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,144 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. Academic Search Premier is an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed full text journals, offering critical information from many sources unique to this database.

The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service provides a gateway to the online Astronomy and Physics literature.

AGRICOLA (AGRICultural Online Access)
Created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators, AGRICOLA covers materials dating from the 16th century to the present. The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition.

AHSearch - FirstSearch
The AHSearch database contains an Arts and Humanities Citation Index. FirstSearch covers 49 databases ranging in subject areas from Arts & Humanities, Business & Economics, Conferences & Proceedings, Consumer Affairs & People, Education, Engineering & Technology, General & Reference, General Science, Life Sciences, Medicine & Health Sciences, News & Current Events, Public Affairs & Law, and Social Sciences.

AltPressIndex - FirstSearch
Alternative Press Index - Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change.

AltPressIndexArchive - FirstSearch
Includes items listed on the table of contents pages of journals. Provides a list of libraries that have the journal title for most items.

America: History & Life is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present, this database is without question the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history. The database also includes citations and links to book and media reviews.

American Chemical Society Journals
Provides a comprehensive collection, of high-quality information products and services that advance the practice of the chemical and related sciences

Internet Annual Stockholder Reports service.
Annual Stockholder Reports Based on the Fortune 500* list as published in Fortune* Magazine

Applied Science & Technology - OmniFile Full Text Mega - Wilson Web
Applied Science & Technology Index Retrospective and Business Periodicals Index Retrospective offer the same content up to 1958. Beyond 1958, the combined database covers applied science periodicals and business periodicals. This database is found under the Wilsonweb OmniFile Fulltext Mega Edition. Select Applied Science & Technology (AST) under "subject area" at the bottom right corner of the page before searching.

Art - OmniFile Full Text Mega - Wilson Web
This database presents the same indexing offered in Art Full Text, but without the abstracts or the links to full text articles. This database is found under the Wilsonweb OmniFile Fulltext Mega Edition. Select Art under "subject area" at the bottom right corner of the page before searching.

Awards & Prizes Online
Awards & Prizes Online is a powerful research tool. Search for authors or illustrators, for book titles or award titles, by keywords or award type, by grade level or age level. This is the ultimate research tool for anyone interested in literature for children or young adults.
***Always remember to logout of this database when finished!!!

BioDigest - FirstSearch
Life-science information written in a non-technical style. Provides detailed abstracts written in a non technical style for students and interested nonscientists.

Offers researchers convenient online access to the core literature of biology and agriculture—much of it from peer-reviewed journals—plus full text. Full text citations also link to PDF page images, featuring graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations indispensable to science research. This database is found under the Wilsonweb OmniFile Fulltext Mega Edition. Select Biological & Agriculture (BA) under "subject area" at the bottom right corner of the page before searching.

BigCharts
Comprehensive and easy-to-use investment research web site providing access to professional-level research tools like interactive charts, quotes, news, industry analysis and intraday stock screeners. BigCharts is a FREE service supported entirely by our site sponsors. For historical stock quotes (back to 1988), go to the "Historical Quotes" section, plug in any NYSE stock (by its stock symbol) and any date after December 31, 1987 and you'll get the high, low and close for the stock on that date -- i.e.. our last 12 years of the stock guide on a web site.

Bowker's Books in Print
Professional bibliographic database with 5 million in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audio book, and video titles. While other sources of bibliographic information exist primarily to sell books, audios, videos and other products, R.R. Bowker's primary business is to collect, verify and distribute accurate data to the library, bookstore and publishing industries. Better still, this data is augmented by functionality that simplifies common tasks for librarians, booksellers and publishers. For example, the list feature can be used by librarians to create customized bibliographies for patrons or purchase lists. Booksellers can create lists for interested customers of titles they may be interested in purchasing in the future. The Forthcoming Book Room tells bookstore patrons when they can expect an anticipated title to be on the shelves. The ability to search for award-winning titles (and books that have been nominated for key awards) helps booksellers and librarians ensure that the best titles are on their shelves.

BusIndustry - FirstSearch
Business and Industry - Business and industry facts, figures, and key events. Covers all the primary business information sources--from leading trade magazines, newsletters, and the general business press to international business dailies.

Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.

Business Full Text - Wilson Web
Wilson Business Full Text is a full text database that indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere, including the leading business magazines and trade and research journals.

Business Source Premier - EBSCO
Business Source Premier, is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Journal ranking studies reveal that 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.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text
CINAHL Plus with Full Textis the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 560 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of those, nearly 400 have cover-to-cover indexing in CINAHL, and of those, more than 230 are not available with full text from any other EBSCO database. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index - with no embargo. With more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937, CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.

ClasePeriodicals - FirstSearch
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities.

The Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Cochrane reviews represent the highest level of evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions. In addition to Cochrane reviews, The Cochrane Library provides other sources of reliable information: other systematic review abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations, and individual clinical trials – all the current evidence in one single environment. To see a more in-depth description, please visit http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/mrwhome/106568753/ProductDescriptions.html

ComAbstracts
The ComAbstracts database contains abstracts of articles published in the primary professional literature of the communication's field.

Communication Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full-text of 19 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 23 years, encompassing over 5,000 articles. It covers such subjects as Journalism, Public Opinion, Political Communication, Mass Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Cultural Studies / Intercultural Communication, Television / Film Studies, Media Studies, Business Communication, Organizational / Management Communication, Written Communication, Rhetoric, and Literacy Studies.

Computer Database

Use this database to find computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology. 1980-current.

Consulta

Consulta provides a comprehensive collection of Spanish-language materials, including award-winning reference material from both Gale and Oceano, a wide range of journals, plus essential primary source documents. In addition to standard and advanced search methodologies and a dictionary function, Consulta provides a graphic chronological timeline to simplify research of specific eras, plus an extensive image gallery.

Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on all of the more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors whose entries appear in Contemporary Authors and Contemporary Authors New Revision Series. Updated monthly, Contemporary Authors allows users to search for an author by name, title of work, nationality, date and place of birth and death, subject/genre, personal and career information, awards and honors, and more.

Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full-text of 23 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 23 years, encompassing over 5,500 articles. It covers such subjects as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.

CWI - FirstSearch
Contemporary Women's Issues - Provides full-text access to global information on women in over 150 countries. Indexes books, journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, and fact sheets.

Discovering Collection - Gale
Use this comprehensive database to retrieve in-depth reference content for the core curriculum areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies.

Dissertations - FirstSearch
Dissertation Abstracts Online - Dissertations and theses from institutions in the North America and Europe. Selectively covers masters theses and dissertations including dissertations from Canada, Great Britain, and Europe.

America's Historical Newspapers allows users to search more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states. Created by Readex through partnerships with the American Antiquarian Society, Library of Congress, Wisconsin Historical Society and others, America's Historical Newspapers enables researchers to explore virtually every aspect of America during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries.

ECO - FirstSearch
OCLC Electronic Collections Online - An OCLC collection of scholarly journals (Browse Journal Titles).

EconLit - FirstSearch
Journals, books, and working papers on economics. Provides citations for dissertations and articles in more than 620 collective volumes per year.

Education Full Text - Wilson Web
Education Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere.

Education: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full text of 26 peer-reviewed journals published by SAGE and participating societies distinguished by up to 40 years of backfiles, and encompasses over 8,000 articles.

Educator's Reference Complete 1980 - Gale

Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database. The database is updated daily and provides 24-hour access from school or home. 1980 - current.

Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online (McGraw-Hill)
Provides the finest collection of science reference materials—online and fully searchable. We offer easy accessibility to the information you need to make research easy—with access to all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News® headlines, biographies, and more. This online encyclopedia is tailored to researchers and students looking for the most relevant, readable, and trusted sources of information available. We maintain content of the highest standards, and readers may be assured that our authors are the top experts in the field, including a number of Nobel Prize and Fields Medals winners.

Encyclopedias/Atlases
There are several multimedia versions available in the Curriculum Materials Center. (Contact the CMC staff for further details). Some encyclopedias to try include:

Columbia Encyclopedia 6th ed. (Bartleby.com)
Search by keyword or browse the index of the current edition of this online encyclopedia.

Encyclopedia.com (eLibrary)
Search or browse this online encyclopedia by topic.

Xrefer
Search 50 dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and quotation books at one time.

Encyclopedia of Social Work
The Encyclopedia contains four hundred subject entries and two hundred brief biographies of key figures in the history of social work. Clearly arranged in A-Z format, each article is fully cross-referenced and includes a select bibliography to guide interested readers to primary sources and the most important scholarly works on a given subject. The work also includes a comprehensive index and topical outline. Comprehensive in coverage and international in scope, the Encyclopedia is a valuable resource to social work practitioners, scholars, and students alike.

ERIC Database - CSA
The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. The ERIC database corresponds to two printed journals: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Both journals provide access to some 14,000 documents and over 20,000 journal articles per year.

Evaluating Internet Resources
Check out this web page compiled by our Instruction/Reference Librarian, Brittney Goodman, to locate valuable information on evaluating what you locate on the Internet. How do you know if it's reliable? What criteria should you follow?

Expanded Academic ASAP - Gale

From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images! 1980 - current.

Fargo Forum Index
7 day archive, 30 day search, or The Forum Library from The Forum's web site. Search The Forum's library online free. Downloaded articles are $1.95 each, or purchase a library card for 100 downloads. To search all the way back to 1879, you must go to NDSU's Fargo Forum index. MSUM owns The Forum on both microfilm (for older issues back to 1989), and in paper (current issues) at the periodicals desk.

Film Literature Index (FLI)
The Film Literature Index (FLI) annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. The periodicals range from the scholarly to the popular. More than 2,000 subject headings provide detailed analysis of the articles. The FLI Online contains citations from 1976 to 2001. As of now, there are no plans to update this online resource. The FLI Online is currently available free-of-charge.

FindArticles.com
Most archives of magazine and newspaper content charge for the full text of articles these days. The happy exception is FindArticles, where you can search through a diverse collection of published work from more than 300 magazines, from ArtForum to Rolling Stone, and Writer's Digest, dating all the way back to 1998. When you find the articles you're interested in, you can read them for free. Of course, there are ads next to everything you peruse, but at least it's the advertisers paying, not you.

FirstSearch Databases
FirstSearch covers 49 databases ranging in subject areas from Arts & Humanities, Business & Economics, Conferences & Proceedings, Consumer Affairs & People, Education, Engineering & Technology, General & Reference, General Science, Life Sciences, Medicine & Health Sciences, News & Current Events, Public Affairs & Law, and Social Sciences.

Gale InfoTrac Databases

Genamics JournalSeek
Genamics JournalSeek is the largest database of freely available journal information available on the internet. The database presently contains more than 8500 titles. Journal information includes the aims and scope, journal abbreviations, impact factors, web links, and ISSNs. Searching this information allows the rapid identification of potential journals to publish your research in, as well as allow you to find new journals of interest to your field.

General Business File ASAP - Gale

Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available. 1980 - current.

General OneFile - Gale

A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. 1980 - current.

General Reference Center Gold - Gale

A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more. 1980 - current.

General Science Collection - Gale

A collection of over 200 journals, providing researchers with the information needed to stay current on the latest scientific developments -- including such topics as particle physics, advanced mathematics, and nanotechnology.

General Science Full Text - Wilson Web
General Science Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain plus the full text of selected periodicals. Periodical coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals.

GEOBASE - FirstSearch
Worldwide literature on geography, geology, and ecology. Covers journals, books, monographs, conference proceedings, and reports.

GMID - Global Market Information Database

Euromonitor International’s Global Market Information Database (GMID) is an award-winning online information resource providing business intelligence on industries, countries and consumers. It offers integrated access to internationally comparable statistics, full-text market reports, insightful comment from expert industry and country analysts as well as thousands of sources of further information.

HAPI is your source for over 265,000 journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. HAPI currently provides over 34,000 links to the full text of articles appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.

Health Reference Center Academic - Gale

Multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in InfoTrac's award-winning Health Reference Center. All in a single, easy-to-use database, the material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only. 1980 - current.

Health Sciences: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full text of 26 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 23 years, encompassing over 7,000 articles. It covers such subjects as nursing, social studies of health, nursing research, health services & administration, community / public health nursing, qualitative research, cultural studies, child psychiatry, transcultural psychiatry, adult health nursing, public health, public policy & public administration, health psychology, aging and gerontology, health communication, family studies, physiology, physical medicine & rehabilitation, pediatrics, holistic nursing, nursing theory, pediatric nursing, autism, mental disorders & learning disability, health education & health promotion, clinical psychology, developmental psychology, psychopathology, health evaluation, research methods & evaluation, dementia, and sociology of the family.

Horn Book Guide Online
Provides short reviews of virtually every hardcover book for young people published in the United States since 1989. The reviews include strengths and weaknesses for each title, as well as a rating from 1 (outstanding) to 6 (unacceptable). Search by author, illustrator, title, subject, publication date, rating, etc.

Humanities Full Text - Wilson Web
Humanities Full Text is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals, plus the full text of selected periodicals.

Informe - Gale
(English) 1994 - current. A collection of hispanic magazines with full text. Covers business, health, technology, culture, current topics and other subjects.

Informe - Gale
(Espaniol | Spanish Interface) 1994 - current. Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.

Ingenta is a multidisciplinary database providing access to article summaries from over 27,000+ publications.

Internet Collegiate Reference Collection
This collection is designed for English-speaking undergraduates, especially those in the U.S. It consists of free Internet encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks databases, etc. Many of the catalogs and bibliographies link to full text titles. It is fully keyword searchable in addition to being displayed by Library of Congress class. More than 650 records have been assigned titles, subject headings, descriptions, provider names, reference categories, and an LC class.

Internet Annual Stockholder Reports service
Annual Stockholder Reports Based on the Fortune 500* list as published in Fortune* Magazine

AltaVista
AltaVista is consistently one of the largest search engines on the web, in terms of pages indexed. Its comprehensive coverage and wide range of power searching commands makes it a particular favorite among researchers.

Ask Jeeves
Ask Jeeves is a human-powered search service that aims to direct you to the exact page that answers your question. If it fails to find a match within its own database, then it will provide matching web pages from various search engines.

Google
Google is a search engine that makes heavy use of link popularity as a primary way to rank web sites. The system works so well that Google has gained wide-spread praise for its high relevancy. Google also has a huge index of the web and provides some results to Yahoo and Netscape Search.

HotBot
HotBot is a favorite among researchers due to its many power searching features.

Lycos
Lycos started out as a search engine, depending on listings that came from spidering the web. In April 1999, it shifted to a directory model similar to Yahoo.

Northern Light
Northern Light is another favorite search engine among researchers. It features a large index of the web, along with the ability to cluster documents by topic. Northern Light also has a set of "special collection" documents that are not readily accessible to search engine spiders. There are documents from thousands of sources, including newswires, magazines and databases. Searching these documents is free, but there is a charge of up to $4 to view them. There is no charge to view documents on the public web -- only for those within the special collection.

Yahoo
Yahoo is the web's most popular search service and has a well-deserved reputation for helping people find information easily. The secret to Yahoo's success is human beings. It is the largest human-compiled guide to the web, employing about 150 editors in an effort to categorize the web. Yahoo has over 1million sites listed. Yahoo also supplements its results with those from Google (beginning in July 2000, when Google takes over from Inktomi). If a search fails to find a match within Yahoo's own listings, then matches from Google are displayed. Google matches also appear after all Yahoo matches have first been shown. Yahoo is the oldest major web site directory, having launched in late 1994.

Internet Searching II: Advanced Searching Tutorial
Requires sound card and speakers. Internet Searching II: Advanced Searching, is designed to give the Internet user who has mastered the basics of searching more practice, direction, and guidance. You will learn about techniques such as phrase searching, using wildcards and truncation, narrowing your searches, and achieving more focused, on-target results.

JSTOR Full Text Journals
JSTOR is an electronic database of full-text back issues of 117 academic journals in the subject areas of African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population/Demography, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Sociology, and Statistics.

Junior Edition - Gale
A collection of material oriented toward junior high and middle school students. In addition to material from periodicals, the database also includes newspaper articles, an encyclopedia, and a variety of other reference material. Covered subjects include politics and current events; consumer electronics; arts and entertainment; automobiles; recreation and leisure; crime; personal finances; and food. Coverage: Rolling three years Updated: Daily.

Junior Reference Collection - Gale
With nearly 12,000 documents, 8,500 photographs and illustrations, 50 video and audio clips, and 3 complete Merriam-Webster's dictionaries (Collegiate, Biographical, and Geographical), the Junior Reference Collection is a complete reference source. The Junior Reference Collection is a comprehensive, cross-curricular research tool that combines U*X*L products into one database that is simple to navigate, easy to comprehend, and supports classroom learning.

Kid's Edition - Gale
A collection of full-text material oriented toward primary school students. In addition to material from periodicals, the database also includes newspaper articles, reference material and maps. Coverage: Current year to date + the previous three years Updated: Daily.

Kids InfoBits - Gale
Kids InfoBits meets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine, newspaper and reference content for information on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

KnowledgeRush book directory
Online library of public domain texts and materials. Currently they have about 3000 books online. One of the more interesting things about this site is the fact that they're organizing this information into a Yahoo-type searchable subject.

Kraus Curriculum Development Library (KCDL)
KCDL is a collection of curriculum guides from all over North America, reproduced on microfiche. These guides reflect objectives, programs, and teaching practice for early childhood through secondary level, as well as for adult basic education. The KCDL web site indexes the microfiche collection which is located in the 2nd floor Curriculum Materials Center. (A CD-ROM index is also available on any of the CD-ROM stations in the library and in the LIT Center)

Legal - OmniFile Full Text Mega - Wilson Web
Relied on for over 50 years for complete coverage of the most important English language legal information, Index to Legal Periodicals is now available with full text! Users will appreciate international coverage and access to scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews, and more. This is an excellent resource for attorneys, educators, business people, law librarians, students, paralegals, and others involved with the law. This database is found under the Wilsonweb OmniFile Fulltext Mega Edition. Select Legal (ILP) under "subject area" at the bottom right corner of the page before searching.

Library & Information Science - OmniFile Full Text Mega - Wilson Web
Reflecting the latest trends in a rapidly evolving field, this database indexes English and foreign-language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, books, and library school theses, plus over 300 books per year. PDF page images of the full text articles bring researchers charts, graphs, photos, and other valuable graphical information. This database is found under the Wilsonweb OmniFile Fulltext Mega Edition. Select Library & Information Science (LIB) under "subject area" at the bottom right corner of the page before searching.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections. (WWW)

Gale™ takes literature, history and culture to the next level with the largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available: Literature Criticism Online. Imagine centuries of analysis - the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals - delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. The net result is tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays at your fingertips. It's all designed to raise the level of research while providing the around-the-clock remote access that today's researchers demand.

LitFINDER
Provides the opportunity for complete appreciation and study of great literary works by offering access to more than 135,000 full-text poems, stories, plays and more.

Management & Organization Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full text of 38 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 57 years, encompassing over 10,000 articles. It covers such subjects as: Business & Management, Organizations Studies, Management, Strategic Management and Business Policy, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Development, , Marketing, Analytical Marketing, Sociology, Sociology of Work, Public Policy and Public Administration, Hospitality, Travel and Tourism Management, Labor Economics, Industrial Relations, Small Business/Entrepreneurship, Organizational Communication and Interpersonal Communication.

MasterFILE Premier - EBSCO
MasterFILE Premier, designed specifically for public libraries, provides full text for more than 1,730 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,400 titles. This database features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, nearly 500 full text reference books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts; full text from 84,774 biographies, 100,554 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. MasterFILE Premier offers PDF backfiles as far back as 1975 for key publications including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Judaism, Library Journal and National Review.

Materials Science: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full text of 15 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 10 years, encompassing over 5,300 articles. It covers such subjects as: high performance polymers; molecular modeling characterization and evaluation of polymers, polymeric drugs and drug design; polymeric functionalization ; natural polymer modification; enzyme modeling by polymers; membranes for biological use ; liposome stabilization and cell modeling.

MathSciNet
An electronic publication offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. Over 80,000 new items are added each year, most of them classified according to the Mathematics Subject Classification.

MEDLINE
MEDLINE is NLM's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the preclinical sciences. Journal articles are indexed for MEDLINE, and their citations are searchable, using NLM's controlled vocabulary, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). MEDLINE contains all citations published in Index Medicus, and corresponds in part to the International Nursing Index and the Index to Dental Literature. Citations include the English abstract when published with the article (approximately 76% of the current file).

Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. All MMY entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts. To be included in the MMY, a test must be commercially available, be published in the English language, and be new or revised since it last appeared in the series. MMY provides coverage from Volume 9 to the present.

Mergent Online is a source for finding fifteen years' worth of company financial information, personnel information, assets, SEC filings, and histories for more than 10,000 publicly owned companies from around the world. SEC filings are available as far back as 1993. In addition to providing information about companies, Mergent also provides tools for building comparative reports for companies from a variety of industries. SEC filings are updated daily. Summary equity reports are updated weekly. Company annual reports are updated quarterly.

Livingston Lord Library