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The American Association of University Professors introduces a new online project—the AAUP Journal of
Academic Freedom. "Scholarship on academic freedom...is typically scattered
across a wide range of disciplines." There is now "...one place to track the
developing international discussion about academic freedom and its collateral
issues."
Articles from 8,000+ peer-reviewed journals and reference sources, the majority in full-text, covering the disciplines of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more
Full-text New York Times content from 1995 to the present
Podcasts and transcripts from National Public Radio (NPR), Cable News Network (CNN), and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
"The
world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search
Premier contains indexing for over 8,000 publications, with full text for
more than 4,450 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available
for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided
for more than 1,000 titles."
America: History and 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.
* Comprehensive
source for biographical information
* Over 350,000 biographies of people from around the world and throughout
history
* Quick reference information on nearly one million people from
Who's Who sources
* Full-text articles from hundreds of magazines and links to selected
biography Web sites
Book Review Index Online Plus, like Book Review Index Online , includes more than 5 million review citations; it also includes more than 634,000 full-text reviews from InfoTrac OneFile and InfoTrac Expanded Academic. Access to full-text reviews allows users to conduct research in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, education, psychology, and more.
The online version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica includes not only the full text of the encyclopedia itself but multimedia content and definitions from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Tenth Edition) as well.
For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high
school students
* Comprehensive
periodical and reference resource for business, management and investment
topics, with Newsletters ASAP and Predicast's PROMT databases
* Articles from academic and general business, industry & management
periodicals, newsletters, newspapers and newswires (4000+ indexed
titles; 2900+ full-text)
* Investment and broker research reports
* Company & association directory listings from a number of sources
* Additional content from reference sources covering industries,
company histories, associations, brands, market share, and more
"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 titles. Business Source Premier is superior to the
competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management,
MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost."
The Chronicle is a source of news,
information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. Online, The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice,
and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle's Web site features the complete contents of the
latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles
published since September 1989; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as
online CV management, salary databases, and more.
*This database is only available on the Columbia College campus.
"CINAHL® Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for more than 750 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of those, 426 are not found with full text in any version of Academic SearchT, Health Source® or Nursing & Allied Health CollectionT. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index - with no embargo."
"Communication & Mass Media Complete provides
the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.
CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication
Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous
other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create
a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of
the communication discipline. CMMC offers cover-to-cover ("core") indexing and abstracts for over
390 journals, and selected ("priority") coverage of 200 more, for a combined coverage of nearly
600 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for 285 journals."
"This database contains more than 300 full text journals and magazines
covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial
intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software.
Computer SourceT provides a balance of full text technical journals
and full text consumer computer titles."
Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.
* Full-text
articles from over 100 U.S. and international newspapers
* New York Times (2000-)
* Christian Science Monitor (1996-)
* Post & Courier (Charleston, SC; 2000-)
* Atlanta Journal-Constitution (1998-)
* 40+ other domestic papers
* Times (London; 1996-)
* 60+ other international papers
* Updated 1-3 days after publication of the print newspapers.
* Complete lists of newspapers included, with beginning dates of
coverage
Provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
* A full-text, open-access source of peer-reviewed or editorial-quality journal articles
* Includes journals that report primary results of research or overviews of research results to a scholarly community
"The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact."
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.
"ERIC®,
the Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education
literature and resources. The database provides access to information
from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education
and Resources in Education Index. ERIC provides full text of more
than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information
and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related
journals."
For
college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school students
(1980 - present)
* Comprehensive
periodical database covering all academic disciplines
* Millions of full-text articles from 2000+ scholarly, refereed
and professional journals and selected general interest magazines
* Indexing of additional professional and general periodicals
A master index for Gale Group's major literature series
containing authors' biographies and critical
essays on their writings. Included in the index are cross-references to more than
130,000 author names and more
than 140,000 titles.
*This database is only available on the Columbia College campus.
For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high
school students
(1980 - present)
* Articles from
academic and general business, industry & management periodicals,
newspapers and newswires (3300+ indexed titles; 2600+ full-text)
* Investment and broker research reports Company directory listings
* InfoTrac interface
For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school
students
(1980 - present)
* Comprehensive
periodical database covering all subjects and all types of periodicals
* Periodicals from nearly all InfoTrac collections merged into a
single database
* Over 25 million full-text articles on all subjects from over 5000
periodical titles
* Articles from newswires and general, professional, scholarly and
children's periodicals
* Indexing of the New York Times, other major newspapers and 8000+
periodicals
For high school students through adults
(1980 - present)
* Magazine,
newspaper and reference articles on a variety of topics of general
interest
* Millions of full-text articles from over 900 general magazine
titles
* Reference information from encyclopedias, dictionaries and almanacs
* Coverage of school subjects, current events and consumer interest
topics
"Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From
one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses,
books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint
repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you
identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research."
For advanced middle school students through adults
(1980 - present)
* Portal to
health information from a variety of sources for general users;
includes "Alternative Health Module" content
* Full-text articles from 400 health, nursing, allied health and
medical journals, including 30+ alternative health periodicals
* Health-related articles from 2,200 general interest magazines
* Medical encyclopedia articles, pamphlets, drug information and
hospital directory, including alternative health reference titles
and herbal medicine information
* Access to health news and key health Web sites
For college-level and other adult researchers
(1980 - present)
* Health and
medical periodicals and reference information for academic researchers
* Full-text articles from 600+ health, nursing, allied health and
medical journals
* Health-related articles from 1,500 general interest magazines
* Articles from medical reference titles and pamphlets
provides access to nearly 80 full-text, consumer health magazines
includes searchable full text for current, health-related pamphlets and more than 130 health reference books
contains more than 5,100 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names; and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary
"This
resource provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing
on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health
is particularly strong, including full text from Creative Nursing,
Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, Issues in Mental Health
Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Child & Adolescent
Psychiatric Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Journal of Community
Health Nursing, Journal of Nursing Management, Journal of the Society
of Pediatric Nurses, Nursing Diagnosis, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Forum,
Nursing Inquiry, and many more. In addition, this database includes
the Clinical Pharmacology database, providing access to up-to-date,
concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription
drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter
products and new drugs."
A premier resource for historians on the Web that provides access
to the full-text of current issues of the following journals: The
American Historical Review, The Journal of American History, Law and
History Review, The William and Mary Quarterly, The History Teacher,
The Western Historical Quarterly, Common-place, and Labour/Le Travail.
History Resource Center: U.S. provides a complete overview of U.S. history covering the most-studied events, issues and current
information. Selected by expert history advisors for its relevance in the undergraduate
curriculum, the content combines:
* Original materials from Primary Source Microfilm's digital archives-including documents, monographs, pamphlets, first-person accounts, etc
* Encyclopedic articles built from the foundation of respected MacMillan Reference USA and Charles Scribner's Sons information, as well as other Thomson Gale original, proprietary content such as country and era overviews
* Full-text periodicals and scholarly history journals
* A historical bibliography
* Links to digitized special collections
* Audio and Video clips of historic speeches and events
History Resource Center: World is a comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronlogic research materials for the study of world history. From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals.
For
middle school students, their teachers and parents
(Latest four years)
* Magazine,
newspaper and reference sources on all subjects
* Full-text
articles from 130+ magazines, with full image of 60+ titles
* Maps, articles from reference books and newswire articles
* Includes short stories, poems, quizzes, experiments and activities
* Toolbox to help students learn research and writing skills
For
K-5 students, their teachers and parents
(1990's - present)
* Articles,
pictures and reference information on all subjects
* Full-text articles from 120+ children's magazines, reference sources
and newspapers
* 2,500 searchable images and maps
* Reading levels assigned to most articles
* Includes activities, recipes, experiments, poetry and stories
by children
* Teacher Toolbox to help teach research and writing skills
For college-level and adult researchers and advanced high school
students
(1980 - present)
* Index to law
and legal periodicals with selected full-text articles
* Indexing of over 1400 titles; full-text articles from 100+ titles
* Major law reviews, legal newsletters, bar association journals
and international titles
* Law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general
interest titles
Provides access to more than 6,000 news, business, and legal sources
Offers full-text of newspaper, magazine, journal, and wire service articles; television and
radio broadcast transcripts; blog postings and other Web publications; biographical information;
foreign language news publications; law reviews; federal and state cases and codes; Canadian and
European Union court cases and legislation; and patents
Also includes LexisNexis Company Dossier; company profiles; SEC filings; country
profiles; and Shepard's Citations service for federal and state court cases going back to 1789
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
indexes more than 550 core journals, 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals
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
"This service delivers
electronic access to peer-reviewed journals published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. This critical
mass of content exceeds 28,000 papers from more than fifty-five authoritative journals, all
full-text searchable and linked to external bibliographic databases. Liebert Online is
universally acknowledged for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in the most
promising areas of biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine and
surgery, and law."
Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
LitFinder is international in scope, covers all time periods, and contains a wealth of primary literature content, including more than 126,500 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, 5,000 full-text short stories, 2,800 full-text essays, 1,800 full-text speeches, and 1,000 full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary. A subject navigator provides over 10,000 subject headings, and basic and advanced search modes allow users to search by keyword, author, subject, work title, work date, nationality, gender, timeline, and more.
"Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra - School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, more than 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost."
"MEDLINE®
provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry,
veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and
much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH
(Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy
and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,800 current
biomedical journals. Included are citations from Index Medicus, International
Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, HISTLINE, SPACELINE, PREMEDLINE®,
AIDSLINE®, BIOETHICSLINE®, and HealthSTAR®. Users of MEDLINE will be excited
to learn that this is now a 'full text database'."
"Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles."
"MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers."
Designed for nursing students, the Nursing Resource Center brings together in an easy-to-use interface disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts. The information is written in accessible language for students completing class assignments and preparing for clinicals as they learn how to care for and treat patients. Search results are returned in tabs that correspond to steps in the nursing process.
"Open Humanities Press (OHP) is an international open access publishing collective in critical
and cultural theory.
OHP journals are fully peer reviewed, scholarly publications that have been chosen
by OHP's editorial advisory board for their outstanding contribution to contemporary theory. OHP's
journals are independent, published under open access licences and free of charge to readers and
authors alike."
"The Oxford African American
Studies Center (AASC) provides students, scholars and librarians with online access to the finest
reference resources in African American studies. AASC features the new, three-volume Encyclopedia of
African American History 1619-1895, the three-volume Black Women in America, and the highly acclaimed
Africana, a five-volume history of the African and African American experience. The
Center also includes content from the African American National Biography project and the Encyclopedia of African American Art and Architecture.
In addition to these major reference works, AASC offers other key resources from Oxford's reference
program, including the Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature."
Coverage dates: Plays written from Antiquity to present and published from 1949 to present
Search over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the
present in the convenient electronic form that patrons prefer. An invaluable aid to finding the
perfect plays to match your production resources, Play Index covers a wide range of plays written
in or translated into English. Search for plays by title, author, subject, style, genre, cast type, and more.
"PLOS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the
world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource." Open access to 7 online peer-reviewed journals in the fields of Biology, Medicine, Computational Biology,
Genetics, Pathogens and Neglected Tropical Diseases.
"Primary Search®, designed specifically
for elementary school libraries, contains full text for nearly 70 popular, elementary school magazines.
All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for
over 100 student pamphlets. Additionally, Primary Search includes the Encyclopedia of AnimalsT, and
features Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, providing students with easy-to-read encyclopedic entries
written specifically for kids. The database also provides the American Heritage® Children's Dictionary,
3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image Collection"
"Provides online, worldwide institutional subscription access to the full text of over 200 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics."
"This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost."
"PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources."
"This database provides comprehensive full text
coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business
journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This
database is updated on a daily basis."
Researching science topics has never been easier -- with Science Resource Center, thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations are just a few clicks away and the latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites. The database covers curriculum-related science topics and offers teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify content directly correlated to state and national standards.
Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series, including African American Writers,
African Writers,
American Nature Writers,
American Writers,
Ancient Writers,
The Books of the Bible,
British Writers,
European Writers,
Latin American Writers,
Modern American Women Writers,
Science Fiction Writers,
Supernatural Writers, and Writers for Children.
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism.
Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances. The virtues of accessible scholarship and a keen interest in performance, from Shakespeare's time to our own, have characterised the journal from the start.
The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs.
Shakespeare Survey Online makes all issues of the Survey, including over 90% of the original images, available online for the first time. Volume 60, due in October 2007, will be added to Shakespeare Survey Online on publication.
For
students in grades 1-9, their teachers and parents
* Articles,
pictures, reference information and Web sites on all subjects
* Age appropriate, full-text articles and images selected from 1,600+
U.S. and international magazines, newspapers, government publications
and reference sources
* Reading levels assigned to all articles Maps, pictures, photo
essays, activities, biographies, country facts, current events
* Links to age appropriate Web sites with reading level indicators
For
advanced middle school students through adults
* Articles,
images, reference information, Web sites and more on all subjects
* Articles selected from 2,500+ U.S. and international magazines,
newspapers, government publications and reference sources
* News, current events and organized links to evaluated Web sites
* Includes special features on - literature, terrorism and other
topics
* Interactive textbook on citizenship with teacher resources
* Images, maps, country profiles, primary sources and Supreme Court
decisions
*This database is only available on the Columbia
College campus.
Search this database to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.
"SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 1,910,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 397 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1908, and 150 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 720 books and monographs, and full text for 6,743 conference papers."
For high school students, their teachers and parents
(1985 - present)
* Articles and
reference information on topics most often researched in high schools
* Over 3 million full-text articles from 400+ periodical titles
* Newswire articles and articles from reference sources
* Selection of maps and historical images
The
acclaimed Twayne's Authors Series of literary criticism offers in-depth
introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence
of literary movements and to the development of literary genres. This
online series features the content of nearly 600 books that comprise
three print series --United States Authors, English Authors and World
Authors -- each of which were carefully coordinated with input from
librarians and educators to include authors universally studied in
high schools and colleges.
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