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American
Accounting Association
The American Accounting Association promotes worldwide excellence in
accounting education, research and practice.
Founded in 1916 as the American Association of University Instructors in Accounting, its present name was
adopted in 1936. The Association is a voluntary organization of persons interested in accounting education and research.
Buckmaster Internet Annual
Stockholder Reports
Extensive Information on Each Company including:
Company name and address, Phone number, Fortune 500 rank, 10-K reports (one per
year, back as far as 1993), A link to the company's WWW home page (when
available), Ticker symbol along with stock price and historical information
(when available), News articles about the company, & High and low resolution
images of the company's annual report (both current and up to 6 years of
previous reports, when available). These are actual scanned images, not PDF
files!
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EBSCO - Academic Search Premier
This resource contains full text for nearly 3,400 scholarly publications. This collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Off-Campus Access
EBSCO - MasterFILE
Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,050 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 more than 350 full text reference books, 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
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Tax
and Accounting Sites Directory from About.com
Wilson Web OmniFile
Full Text Mega -Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database
providing the complete content -indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text
databases: Standard Catalogs, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text,
Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
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Afro-American Almanac
Subtitled African-American History Resource, this site
presents "a historical perspective of a nation, its people, and its
cultural evolution." Included are biographies, full-text books, folktales,
documents, information about historic events, and trivia games.
AFRO-Voices contains the text of commentaries, poetry, and speeches.
Included also are related links and resources as well as a newsletter of Issues
in the News.
American Studies Recommendations
Created and maintained by Richard P. Horwitz of the University of Iowa, this metapage offers a well-organized collection of select
(unannotated) links for American Studies. The site has a nice clean design, with the links grouped by category (Material Culture, Religion, History, Jobs, etc.) and accessed via tabs at the top of the page. Horwitz has also posted the full text of a number of his articles on American Studies. The selectiveness of the site and its easy-to-use design make this an excellent starting point for anyone searching for online resources for American Studies and related topics.
EBSCO - Academic Search Premier
This resource contains full text for nearly 3,400 scholarly publications. This collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Off-Campus Access
EBSCO - MasterFILE
Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,050 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 more than 350 full text reference books, 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
Off-Campus Access
North
American Women's Letters & Diaries
When complete, North American Women's Letters and Diaries will be the largest collection of women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, it will bring the personal experiences of 1,500 women to researchers, students, and general readers.
The uses for the collection will be many and varied. For historians, sociologists, students of literature, researchers in genealogy, and others, NAWLD will prove a dramatic new resource. These diaries bring us much more than the personal. They provide a detailed record of what women wore, the conditions under which they worked, what they ate, what they read, and how they amused themselves. We can see how frequently they attended church, how they viewed their connection to God, and how they prayed. We can explore their relationships with lovers and family and friends
Off-Campus Access
Wilson Web OmniFile
Full Text Mega -Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database
providing the complete content -indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text
databases: Standard Catalogs, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text,
Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
Off-Campus Access
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Anthropological index online
The Anthropological Index Online is based on the journal holdings of The Anthropology Library at the The British Museum
(Museum of Mankind) which receives periodicals in all branches of anthropology, from academic institutions and publishers around
the world.
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. Organized into two bibliographic data sets,
which must be searched separately, one data set is the Online Public Access Catalog, known
as "Books, etc.," that contains citations for books, audiovisual materials,
serial publications, and other NAL and cooperator holdings. The other data set is the
Journal Article Citation Index, known as "Articles, etc." It includes citations
for journal articles, book chapters, reports, and reprints, selected primarily from the
materials cataloged in Books, etc. Both data sets are updated daily with newly cataloged
and indexed materials.
EBSCO - Academic Search Premier
This resource contains full text for nearly 3,400 scholarly publications. This collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Off-Campus Access
EBSCO - MasterFILE
Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,050 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 more than 350 full text reference books, 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
Off-Campus Access
Ingenta
Ingenta is a multidisciplinary database
providing access to article summaries from over 27,000+ publications.
Off-Campus Access
Wilson Web OmniFile
Full Text Mega -Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database
providing the complete content -indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text
databases: Standard Catalogs, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text,
Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
Off-Campus Access
Science.Gov
Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information
provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development
results.
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History
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Ceramics
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Design
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Painting
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Photography
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Pictorial
Illustration
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Printmaking
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Sculpture
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.
Off-Campus Access
EBSCO - Academic Search Premier
This resource contains full text for nearly 3,400 scholarly publications. This collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Off-Campus Access
EBSCO - MasterFILE
Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,050 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 more than 350 full text reference books, 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
Off-Campus Access
Ingenta
Ingenta is a multidisciplinary database
providing access to article summaries from over 27,000+ publications.
Off-Campus Access
North
American Women's Letters & Diaries
When complete, North American Women's Letters and Diaries will be the largest collection of women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, it will bring the personal experiences of 1,500 women to researchers, students, and general readers.
The uses for the collection will be many and varied. For historians, sociologists, students of literature, researchers in genealogy, and others, NAWLD will prove a dramatic new resource. These diaries bring us much more than the personal. They provide a detailed record of what women wore, the conditions under which they worked, what they ate, what they read, and how they amused themselves. We can see how frequently they attended church, how they viewed their connection to God, and how they prayed. We can explore their relationships with lovers and family and friends
Off-Campus Access
Wilson Web OmniFile
Full Text Mega -Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database
providing the complete content -indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text
databases: Standard Catalogs, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text,
Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
Off-Campus Access
ADAM, the Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway
"The gateway to art, design, architecture & media information on the
Internet." Searchable catalogue of 1664 Internet resources selected and catalogued by professional librarians.
American
Museum of Photography
Archives of American Art
- Smithsonian
Institution
There are Oral History Interviews of American artists and architects, some with transcripts (Larry
Poons, Charles Sheeler, Denise Scott Brown, Philip Guston).
Artcyclopedia
The mission of this site is "to become the definitive
and most effective guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet."
Currently, features include a "comprehensive index of every artist
represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online
resources," a custom search engine, a list of museums and more.
Emphasis is on fine art painting and sculpture, and additional coverage
is provided for photography, decorative arts, architecture, and video, digital and
web-based art.
Art History Resources on the Web
Chris Witcombe, Sweet Briar College. The Harcourt Brace College Publishers' site, also maintained by
Witcombe.
Art Imagebase
Outstanding feature of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco site is this image database with over 65,000 items, "currently the largest searchable art imagebase in the world."
AskART.com
Over 23,000 North American artists - painters, sculptors, and illustrators - are listed in this searchable resource.
Included are digital images of the artists' work as well as auction data, brief biographies, book references, and
periodical citations. There is information on approximately 300 dealers and galleries, and over 1000 museums are listed. Search by the last name (required) and first name (optional) of an artist to see a basic profile page.
National
Endowment for the Arts
National Gallery of Art
- Washington, D.C.
Museum provides information on Current Exhibitions. There is a site map.
The collection is searchable by specific artist or title. "You can access
images of more than 4,000 objects in the National Gallery's collection and
approximately 9,275 related details."
National Portrait Gallery
- London.
Has a Picture Library Search with information on approximately 10,000 works in
which you can search for artist, sitter of by title or by NPG number. (In
Advanced Search you can restrict your search to images available on web site.)
There is an alphabetical list of artists, as well as an alphabetical list of
sitters.
Smithsonian
National Portrait Gallery
There is a Collection and Research Records Search and an Expanded Person
Search. You can search for books, caricatures, collages, decorative arts,
drawings, medals, paintings, photographs, prints, sculptures, silhouettes, and
'others'.
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Architecture
sites:
Ingenta
Ingenta is a multidisciplinary database
providing access to article summaries from over 27,000+ publications.
Off-Campus Access
Wilson Web OmniFile
Full Text Mega -Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database
providing the complete content -indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text
databases: Standard Catalogs, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text,
Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
Off-Campus Access
AIA Online (American Institute of Architects)
Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century American (Library of
Congress)
Cities/Buildings Images Database
A large, searchable collection of photographs of buildings,
cities, and towns from over fifty countries. Included are the Taj Mahal in India, the Sydney Opera house
in Australia, China's Imperial Palace, several Egyptian pyramids, France's Notre Dame and Chartre
cathedrals, the Alhambra in Spain, the Acropolis in Greece, Tikal in Guatemala, Chichen Itza and Teotihuacan in
Mexico, and the Hagia Sophia in Turkey. The site's search software also provides
access to other photo collections at the University of Washington (use "preferences" button).
Digital Archive of American Architecture
Digital Archive of European Architecture
Great Buildings Online
The Kidder Smith Images on American Architecture
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CINAHL
New Search Interface through ProQuest!!! Designed
specifically for nursing programs in academic institutions as well as hospital
libraries, CINAHL PlusText covers a wide range of topics, including nursing,
allied health, alternative therapies, biomedicine, consumer health, and health
administration. This database offers over 1,200 titles (with more than 260 in
full text) and coverage from 1982 to the present.
Off-Campus Access
EBSCO - Academic Search Premier
This resource contains full text for nearly 3,400 scholarly publications. This collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Off-Campus Access
EBSCO - MasterFILE
Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,050 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 more than 350 full text reference books, 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
Off-Campus Access
Ingenta
Ingenta is a multidisciplinary database
providing access to article summaries from over 27,000+ publications.
Off-Campus Access
Physical
Education Index
- CSA
CSA Physical Education Index allows all researchers and professionals in the field to acquire accurate and scholarly information in this comprehensive database. These abstracts feature a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law,
kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology. Health education and physical therapy are also covered as they continue to become more prevalent in our society.
For more information on this database, please go to:
http://md1.csa.com/csa/factsheets/pei.shtml
Off-Campus Access
Science
Direct
Collection of over 1 million articles from 1995 to present
covers a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines, including:
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Business &
Management Science, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Earth Sciences, Economics,
Engineering & Technology, Environmental Science,
Materials Science, Mathematics & Computer Science,
Microbiology & Immunology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology & Toxicology,
Physics, and Social Sciences. Full-text access to over 687 journals
subscribed to by the University of Minnesota Twin
Cities Library.
Off-Campus Access
Wilson Web OmniFile
Full Text Mega -Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database
providing the complete content -indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text
databases: Standard Catalogs, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text,
Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
Off-Campus Access
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. Organized into two bibliographic data sets,
which must be searched separately, one data set is the Online Public Access
Catalog, known as "Books, etc.," that contains citations for books,
audiovisual materials, serial publications, and other NAL and cooperator
holdings. The other data set is the Journal Article Citation Index, known as
"Articles, etc." It includes citations for journal articles, book
chapters, reports, and reprints, selected primarily from the materials cataloged
in Books, etc. Both data sets are updated daily with newly cataloged and indexed
materials.
EBSCO - Academic Search Premier
This resource contains full text for nearly 3,400 scholarly publications. This collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Off-Campus Access
EBSCO - MasterFILE
Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,050 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 more than 350 full text reference books, 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
Off-Campus Access
FirstSearch Databases - FirstSearch
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.
Off-Campus Access
Ingenta
Ingenta is a multidisciplinary database
providing access to article summaries from over 27,000+ publications.
Off-Campus Access
Science
Direct
Collection of over 1 million articles from 1995 to present
covers a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines, including:
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Business &
Management Science, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Earth Sciences, Economics,
Engineering & Technology, Environmental Science,
Materials Science, Mathematics & Computer Science,
Microbiology & Immunology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology & Toxicology,
Physics, and Social Sciences. Full-text access to over 687 journals
subscribed to by the University of Minnesota Twin
Cities Library.
Off-Campus Access
Wilson Web OmniFile
Full Text Mega -Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database
providing the complete content -indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text
databases: Standard Catalogs, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text,
Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
Off-Campus Access
Science.Gov
Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information
provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development
results.
9-11.com
Health and medical resources. Search, metasearch (separately) or browse by topic.
Biospace
Biotechnology site with links to science articles and
company information. Check calendar of industry events, investment information, subscribe to e-mail
newsletter on industry developments, and search for jobs by region, company, category. Subjects: biology |
genetics | companies
Biosurf
Links the content of a biology textbook to
resources on the Internet. A
former Eisenhower National Clearinghouse's "Digital Dozen," Biosurf is organized in several interesting categories
including the Basis of Life, Genetics, Change and Diversity, Monerans, Protists,
and Fungi, Plants, Invertebrate Animals, Vertebrate Animals, Human Biology,
Organisms and the Environment.
EurekAlert!
A news service ruled by the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS) with brief news about recent advances in medicine,
science, technology... Some sections only for journalists.
Genes and Disease
A good overview of the relationship between genetics and
various diseases. sections: Cancer;
Immune system: Metabolism: Muscle and bone:
Nervous system; Signals; and Transporters. Each covers several diseases
and also provides a gene map, related links, and address for appropriate
associations. Additionally, a link to the new, searchable gene map of the human
genome is available at the top of every page.
Medscape
SciCentral.com
Launched as a new e-mail news alert. Visitors to the site can, after
registration, sign up to receive a free weekly newsletter. You select which of over 120 topics will be monitored in your
newsletter. Topics cover medicine, general science, and special features like
science policy and ethics.
Science.Gov
Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information
provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development
results.
Vesalius
A detailed collection of anatomical images and surgical
techniques. Developed for medical students and physicians.
The Image Archive covers 16 areas of the human body, and the Clinical
Folios section, listed by topic, includes narrative, sketches, and text
illustrating a specific procedure, and transparencies.
QuickTime and Shockwave are needed for the transparencies.
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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 --
ie. our last 12 years of the stock guide on a web site.
Buckmaster Internet Annual
Stockholder Reports
Extensive Information on Each Company including:
Company name and address, Phone number, Fortune 500 rank, 10-K reports (one per
year, back as far as 1993), A link to the company's WWW home page (when
available), Ticker symbol along with stock price and historical information
(when available), News articles about the company, & High and low resolution
images of the company's annual report (both current and up to 6 years of
previous reports, when available). These are actual scanned images, not PDF
files!
Off-Campus Access
ComAbstracts
The ComAbstracts database contains abstracts of articles published in the primary professional literature of the
communication's) field.
Off-Campus Access
EBSCO - Academic Search Premier
This resource contains full text for nearly 3,400 scholarly publications. This collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Off-Campus Access
EBSCO - Business Source Premier
As the world’s largest full text business database, Business
Source Premier provides full text for more than 7,400 scholarly business
journals and other sources, including full text for nearly 1,100 peer-reviewed
business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to
business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top
scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922.
Off-Campus Access
EBSCO - MasterFILE
Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,050 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 more than 350 full text reference books, 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
Off-Campus Access
EBSCO - Regional Business News
Regional Business News is a full-text newswire database that incorporates business wires from all over the world. It includes the most recent 30 days of information from
wire services, such as: A&G Information, Africa News Service,
InterPress Service, Resource News International, South American Business, M2
Communications, PR Newswire, Business News Wire, Canadian Corporate News, and
more.
Off-Campus Access
FirstSearch Databases - FirstSearch
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.
Off-Campus Access
Internet Annual Stockholder Reports service.
Annual Stockholder Reports Based on the Fortune 500* list as published in Fortune* Magazine
Off-Campus Access
Science
Direct
Collection of over 1 million articles from 1995 to present
covers a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines, including:
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Business &
Management Science, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Earth Sciences, Economics,
Engineering & Technology, Environmental Science,
Materials Science, Mathematics & Computer Science,
Microbiology & Immunology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology & Toxicology,
Physics, and Social Sciences. Full-text access to over 687 journals
subscribed to by the University of Minnesota Twin
Cities Library.
Off-Campus Access
Wilson Web OmniFile
Full Text Mega -Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database
providing the complete content -indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text
databases: Standard Catalogs, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text,
Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
Off-Campus Access
BizMove.com
BizMove calls itself the Small Business
Knowledge Base. It has hundreds of pages of practical information on topics
such as personnel audits, cash flow management, marketing plans and
reducing costs-and that's just the tip of this informational iceberg. Click on the
Free Stuff button to check out the Small Business Directory for newsgroups
and dozens of other useful links.
BizPlus
This site says it's the Internet Small-Business
Center-and that's not just bragging. You'll find a ton of links for small-business
information, ranging from picking a name for your company to creating
business plans to securing trademarks. BizPlus also offers Web hosting and
site creation services.
Dun & Bradstreet
Get the lowdown on more than 50
million businesses in 200 countries worldwide. D&B offers information on
1,500 data elements, including a company's history, financial performance,
payment history and market position. (Most services are fee-based.) There's
also advice on topics such as database marketing, collections and receivables.
Hoover's IPO Central
Kiplinger.com
This well-rounded Web site keeps a
watchful eye on the stock market and keeps you up to date on the latest
business news. You'll also find business forecasts, tax information, chat
forums, online magazines and subscription information.
Quicken.com Small Business
Find
business tax information at Quicken's small-business page, or peruse the
Industry Library with its newspaper and magazine articles for more than 20
industry types. Download a business plan template, an employee time sheet
and other business forms, or join one of the forums to swap war stories with
other business veterans.
Researching Companies Online
A tutorial on how to find different types of free company
information on the Internet. The tutorial can either be followed in full for a
comprehensive overview of business information searching, or users can skip to
specific chapters such as "Researching Public Opinion," "Learn
about an Industry," or "Research Nonprofit Organizations."
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
The world's largest
business federation, the chamber represents nearly 3 million companies, 3,000
state and local chambers, 775 business associations and 85 American
Chambers of Commerce abroad. At its site you'll find legislative updates,
Y2K information, and tons of resources for small businesses on topics such as
debt collection and membership information.
Yahoo Business
Here's a great launchpad to
countless business-related sites. They're organized into 40 major topics that
include business schools, economic indicators, finance and investment, taxes,
trade and transportation-and each link leads to more. You'll also find news,
shopping, classifieds and message boards.
Business Management
Information
Buckmaster Internet Annual Stockholder Reports
Extensive Information on Each Company including:
Company name and address, Phone number, Fortune 500 rank, 10-K reports (one
per year, back as far as 1993), A link to the company's WWW home page (when
available), Ticker symbol along with stock price and historical information
(when available), News articles about the company, & High and low resolution
images of the company's annual report (both current and up to 6 years of
previous reports, when available). These are actual scanned images, not PDF
files!
Off-Campus Access
Business and Company Resource Center
1980 - Mar 2001
Business & Company Resource Center brings together in a single database company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.
Off-Campus Access
ComAbstracts
The ComAbstracts database contains abstracts of articles published in the primary professional literature of the
communication's) field.
Off-Campus Access
EBSCO - Academic Search Premier
This resource contains full text for nearly 3,400 scholarly publications. This collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Off-Campus Access
EBSCO - MasterFILE
Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,050 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 more than 350 full text reference books, 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
Off-Campus Access
FirstSearch Databases - FirstSearch
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.
Off-Campus Access
Science
Direct
Collection of over 1 million articles from 1995 to present
covers a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines, including:
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Business &
Management Science, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Earth Sciences, Economics,
Engineering & Technology, Environmental Science,
Materials Science, Mathematics & Computer Science,
Microbiology & Immunology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology & Toxicology,
Physics, and Social Sciences. Full-text access to over 687 journals
subscribed to by the University of Minnesota Twin
Cities Library.
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Wilson Web OmniFile
Full Text Mega -Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database
providing the complete content -indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text
databases: Standard Catalogs, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text,
Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
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Internet Annual Stockholder Reports service.
Annual Stockholder Reports Based on the Fortune 500* list as published in Fortune* Magazine
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Better Business Bureau
BBB Online isn't just for consumers. Here's some of the stuff you'll find at
the site: guidelines for ethical advertising practices, information about
scams and schemes aimed at businesses, tips for merchants accepting personal
checks and advice on applying for its online privacy seal for your site.
Directories
AnyWho
Brought to you by AT&T Labs' Internet Directory Group, AnyWho lets you tab your way through people, business, reverse lookup (you key in the phone
number) and Web site searches. If you
want customers to find you, add your listing to the directory. Its mapping and driving directions feature ensures they'll not only find you on the Web but in your town as well.
Big Yellow
Think of it as yellow pages on steroids. Let your fingers do the walking through 17 million business listings and 100 million residential listings to unearth postal addresses, phone numbers and
e-mail addresses. A section called BizGuide offers information and advice on technology, home-office issues and more.
Go2Net
Use Go2Net's MetaCrawler to search for information using some of the Web's top search sites, such as Excite, Infoseek and Lycos. This one-stop search shop can be a great time saver.
Switchboard
Need a copy shop near your client's office? Switchboard can tell you where to go. You can also track down e-mail and postal addresses for long-lost colleagues and map a route to their door. Search tools help you scour the Web and steer you to scads of business-related sites.
WhoWhere
WhoWhere lets you search for lots of things-e-mail addresses, phone numbers, home pages, toll-free numbers, even ancestors. Clicking on Yellow Pages brings up a map of the United
States. Once you click on a state you can choose to search by category or business name.
WorldPages
WorldPages incorporates 112 million U.S. and Canadian white and yellow pages listings, 9 million e-mail addresses, 30 million URLs and links to more than 200 worldwide directories.
Its mapping feature lets you enter any address in the United States and see a map for that location. You can even integrate the directory service into your own site and add or edit your listing.
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American
Chemsitry Society Journals
Provides a comprehensive collection, of
high-quality information products and services that advance the practice of
the chemical and related sciences
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EBSCO - Academic Search Premier
This resource contains full text for nearly 3,400 scholarly publications. This collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
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EBSCO - MasterFILE
Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,050 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 more than 350 full text reference books, 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
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Ingenta
Ingenta is a multidisciplinary database
providing access to article summaries from over 27,000+ publications.
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Science
Direct
Collection of over 1 million articles from 1995 to present
covers a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines, including:
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Business &
Management Science, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Earth Sciences, Economics,
Engineering & Technology, Environmental Science,
Materials Science, Mathematics & Computer Science,
Microbiology & Immunology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology & Toxicology,
Physics, and Social Sciences. Full-text access to over 687 journals
subscribed to by the University of Minnesota Twin
Cities Library.
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Wilson Web OmniFile
Full Text Mega -Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database
providing the complete content -indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text
databases: Standard Catalogs, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text,
Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
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Science.Gov
Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information
provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development
results.
ChemWeb.com
You have arrived at the largest online Chemical Community in the world! It is FREE to become a member of
ChemWeb.com. Simply fill out the online Join Form.
ChemWeb.com is a unique resource which combines all relevant information needed by those in research chemistry and the chemicals industry. As a new visitor you might want to take a look at the many services we offer. You will first need to register as a member before you can take advantage of these resources.
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ComAbstracts
The ComAbstracts database contains abstracts of articles published in the primary professional literature of the
communication's) field.
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EBSCO - Academic Search Premier
This resource contains full text for nearly 3,400 scholarly publications. This collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
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EBSCO - MasterFILE
Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,050 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 more than 350 full text reference books, 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
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FirstSearch Databases - FirstSearch
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.
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Science
Direct
Collection of over 1 million articles from 1995 to present
covers a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines, including:
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Business &
Management Science, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Earth Sciences, Economics,
Engineering & Technology, Environmental Science,
Materials Science, Mathematics & Computer Science,
Microbiology & Immunology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology & Toxicology,
Physics, and Social Sciences. Full-text access to over 687 journals
subscribed to by the University of Minnesota Twin
Cities Library.
Off-Campus Access
Wilson Web OmniFile
Full Text Mega -Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database
providing the complete content -indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text
databases: Standard Catalogs, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text,
Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
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Science.Gov
Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information
provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development
results.
9-11.com
Health and medical resources. Search, metasearch (separately) or browse by topic.
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ComAbstracts
The ComAbstracts database contains abstracts of articles published in the primary professional literature of the
communication's) field.
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Computer
Database via InfoTRAC on GaleNet
Full text, abstracts, and references for computer-related articles from newsstand and trade publications, covering all aspects of computers, peripherals, software, semiconductors, communications, and telecommunications. Articles include product announcements, hands-on product reviews, technical advice, tutorials, buyers guides, and company profiles.
Coverage: Current year to date + the previous 3 years. Updated:
Daily.
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EBSCO - Academic Search Premier
This resource contains full text for nearly 3,400 scholarly publications. This collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
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EBSCO - MasterFILE
Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,050 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 more than 350 full text reference books, 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
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FirstSearch Databases - FirstSearch
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.
Off-Campus Access
Science
Direct
Collection of over 1 million articles from 1995 to present
covers a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines, including:
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Business &
Management Science, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Earth Sciences, Economics,
Engineering & Technology, Environmental Science,
Materials Science, Mathematics & Computer Science,
Microbiology & Immunology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology & Toxicology,
Physics, and Social Sciences. Full-text access to over 687 journals
subscribed to by the University of Minnesota Twin
Cities Library.
Off-Campus Access
Wilson Web OmniFile
Full Text Mega -Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database
providing the complete content -indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text
databases: Standard Catalogs, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text,
Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
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Science.Gov
Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information
provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development
results.
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Construction WebLinks
A searchable collections of links for the construction industry and related fields, including architecture and
engineering. Included in Organizations are federal and state agencies, commonwealths, and territories and their
laws and regulations; bidding and contract decisions, regulatory updates, and other legal documents of
interest to the building industry; business and trade organizations; and colleges, universities, and libraries.
Industry Topics contains licensing, financing, building codes, insurance and bonds, specifications, statistics,
and more.
Architecture sites:
AIA Online (American Institute of Architects)
Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century American (Library of
Congress)
Digital Archive of American Architecture
Digital Archive of European Architecture
Great Buildings Online
The Kidder Smith Images on American Architecture
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ComAbstracts
The ComAbstracts database contains abstracts of articles published in the primary professional literature of the
communication's) field.
Off-Campus Access
EBSCO - Academic Search Premier
This resource contains full text for nearly 3,400 scholarly publications. This collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Off-Campus Access
EBSCO - MasterFILE
Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,050 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 more than 350 full text reference books, 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
Off-Campus Access
Ingenta
Ingenta is a multidisciplinary database
providing access to article summaries from over 27,000+ publications.
Off-Campus Access
National
Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts (NCJRS) - CSA
The NCJRS: National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database is published by the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice's National Criminal Justice Reference Service, an information clearinghouse for people around the U.S. and the world involved with research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control. The NCJRS Abstracts Database contains summaries of over 174,000 U.S. and international publications, including federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, audiovisual presentations, and unpublished research. The NCJRS Abstracts Database excludes most legal decisions, opinions, and statutes. The collection has been developed to meet the needs of criminal justice professionals, researchers, policymakers, and technical and legal experts. Unique elements of the collection include agency produced documents and final grant reports of Office of Justice Programs sponsored research. Documents are either written in English or have an English-language summary.
Subject coverage includes: Alternatives to Incarceration, Community Involvement, Correctional Facility Design, Corrections, Corrections Technology, Crime Mapping, Court Management, Courts, Crime Deterrence and Prevention, Criminal Justice Statistics, Criminology, Defense Technology, Domestic Preparedness, Drug Policy, Forensic Technology, Human Resource Development, Juvenile Justice, Law Enforcement, Police Training, Probation and Parole, Program Evaluation, Policy and Planning, Restorative Justice, Substance Abuse, Terrorism/Counter Terrorism,
& Victims of Crime.
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Social
Services Abstracts - CSA
Provided in collaboration with NDSU, CSA Social Services Abstracts provide
bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human
services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and
community development, and is updated monthly. Major areas of subject
coverage include: Community development; Crisis intervention; Evaluation
research; The family and social welfare; Gerontology; Policy, planning,
forecasting; Poverty and homelessness; Professional issues in social work;
Social development; Social work education; Support groups/networks; Violence,
abuse, neglect; and Welfare services. Published by Sociological Abstracts,
a division of Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, and covering the dates of 1980 -
current.
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Sociological
Abstracts - CSA
Provided in collaboration with NDSU, CSA Sociological
Abstracts is a primary resource for accessing the latest research
sponsored in sociology and related disciplines in the social and
behavioral sciences, and is updated monthly. The database draws
information from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and
other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and
dissertations. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and
nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles. Major areas of subject
coverage include: Community development; Culture and social
structure; Demography and human biology; Environmental interactions;
Evaluation research; Family and social welfare; History and theory of
sociology; Management and complex organizations; Mass phenomena and
political interactions; Methodology and research technology; Policy,
planning, forecast and speculation; Radical sociology; Rural and urban
sociology; Economic development; Social development; Social
differentiation; Social psychology and group interaction; Sociology of the
arts, business, education; Health and medicine and law; Religion and
science; Studies in violence and power; Welfare services; and Women's
studies. Published by Sociological Abstracts, a division of
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, and covering the dates of 1963 - current.
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Wilson Web OmniFile
Full Text Mega -Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database
providing the complete content -indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text
databases: Standard Catalogs, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text,
Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
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Minnesota Magazine Index
MNMag is an index of articles on local and statewide politics, news, current events, history and the arts that appear in nine Minnesota
magazines. Produced since 1991 by the staff in the History Department at the Minneapolis Public Library, MNMag now includes over 14,000 citations.
Online Survey Research: Public Opinion Centers (tons of
links)
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice
Statistics
Public attitudes toward crime and criminal justice-related topics (full
text)
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FirstSearch Databases - FirstSearch
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.
Off-Campus Access
Science
Direct
Collection of over 1 million articles from 1995 to present
covers a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines, including:
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Business &
Management Science, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Earth Sciences, Economics,
Engineering & Technology, Environmental Science,
Materials Science, Mathematics & Computer Science,
Microbiology & Immunology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology & Toxicology,
Physics, and Social Sciences. Full-text access to over 687 journals
subscribed to by the University of Minnesota Twin
Cities Library.
Off-Campus Access
Wilson Web OmniFile
Full Text Mega -Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database
providing the complete content -indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text
databases: Standard Catalogs, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text,
Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
Off-Campus Access
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EBSCO - Academic Search Premier
This resource contains full text for nearly 3,400 scholarly publications. This collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Off-Campus Access
EBSCO - MasterFILE
Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,050 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 more than 350 full text reference books, 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
Off-Campus Access
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.
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Wilson Web OmniFile
Full Text Mega -Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database
providing the complete content -indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text
databases: Standard Catalogs, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text,
Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
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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 --
ie. our last 12 years of the stock guide on a web site
Internet Annual Stockholder Reports
service
Annual Stockholder Reports Based on the Fortune 500* list as published in Fortune* Magazine
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EBSCO - Academic Search Premier
This resource contains full text for nearly 3,400 scholarly publications. This collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
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EBSCO - MasterFILE
Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,050 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 more than 350 full text reference books, 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
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EBSCO
- MasterFILE
Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,050 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 more than 350 full text reference books, 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
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Ingenta
Ingenta is a multidisciplinary database
providing access to article summaries from over 27,000+ publications.
Off-Campus Access
Consumer Price Index (CPI) Inflation Conversion Factors
This site provides tables of Consumer Price Index (CPI)
inflation conversion factors to convert to 1999 (preliminary), 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, and CPI (1982-84)
dollars for all years since 1800. In addition, it has graphs showing historical
trends of price levels, movie prices, government spending, debt and deficits,
election costs, minimum wages, congressional pay, and various other interesting
items.
The Encyclopedia of Law & Economics
Attempts to provide
a survey of the whole law & economics literature, with a total number of
pages of approximately 3,000.
Law and Economics Resources
Law and Economics sites
Wilson Web OmniFile
Full Text Mega -Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database
providing the complete content -indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text
databases: Standard Catalogs, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text,
Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
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