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Academic Search Premier - FT

An excellent starting point for searching in many fields, ASP indexes 8,025 publications with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. The database contains 6,850 peer-reviewed, abstracted and indexed journals, including embedded images, and provides coverage for most academic areas of study, including education, psychology, economics, communications, computer sciences, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences and biology, chemistry, religion, and women's studies. From EBSCOhost.

Access Science

The online McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 9th edition, provides access to the full text of this distinguished science encyclopedia including over 8,000 articles, 110,000 dictionary terms, in-depth biographies and hundreds of weekly research updates, in all areas of science and technology.

AIDSearch

A combination of the MEDLINE AIDS/HIV Subset, AIDSDRUGS, and AIDSTRIALS databases, this database focuses on research, clinical aspects, and health policy issues related to AIDS. Coverage is from 1980 to the present and includes dictionary definitions, citations from journal articles, government reports, letters, technical reports, meeting abstracts/papers, theses, books and audiovisuals.

Alt-HealthWatch - FT

This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It includes the full text of articles from more than 140 international and frequently peer-reviewed and professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings, association & consumer newsletters (most from 1990 to the present), plus hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.

Anthropology Review

Search over 2300 reviews covering the entire range of anthropological publications, including books, audiovisual materials, software and multimedia, exhibits, tourist sites, conferences, and on-line resources. This database is searchable by author, title, subject, year, medium, or reviewer.

ARTbibliographies Modern

This database contains more than 289,000 records providing full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, Ph.D. dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art. Information is included on artists, art movements, art history and theory, design, photography, performance art, graffiti, and crafts. Entries date back as far as the late 1960s and are updated six times a year. From WilsonWeb.

Art Index Retrospective

This bibliographic database cumulates citations to Art Index volumes 1-32 of the printed index published between 1929-1984. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. In addition to articles, Art Index Retrospective indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.

Art Museum Image Gallery

This useful resource contains more than 96,000 high-quality images, spanning artistic creation from 3000 B.C. to the present, with art from many cultures. Each image has a full description, with many including curatorial text, provenance data, and detail views for many images. The Gallery covers both fine and decorative art. Images are rights-cleared for educational use.

Biography Resource Center / Who's Who - FT

This comprehensive resource contains more than 414,000 biographies on more than 320,000 people from Gale biographical sources, periodicals, and Marquis' Who's Who, as well as full text articles from more than 265 magazines chosen for biographical content in a broad range of subject areas. Updated twice a month, this database may be searched by name, nationality, ethnicity, occupation, or gender.

Child Abuse, Child Welfare, and Adoption

A resource on the maltreatment, safety, permanency and well-being of children, the database includes over 31,600 citations and abstracts from 1965 to the present of professional literature, mainly of U.S. origin. Publication types include books, journal articles, final reports from federally-funded grants, conference papers, unpublished papers, reports on completed or continuing research, as well as descriptions of service programs and prevention and treatment strategies.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)

This international affairs database covers publications from 1991 onward and includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. Teaching materials such as original case studies by international affairs experts and course packs of background readings for history and political science classes, are included. The database is updated monthly.

Contemporary Literary Criticism - FT

This is an extensive full-text collection of critical essays on over 600 contemporary authors. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works, and sources for further study. Searchable by author name, title, subject/genre, or critic name, the database is updated bi-monthly. From InfoTrac.

Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature

his free database on the Web invites you to create a booklist based on your own criteria, including age of reader, genre, historical period, gender of protagonist, multicultural themes, and award winners. You will exit the Ludcke Library web site when you click here.

Dictionary of Art - FT

This comprehensive database provides access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with constant additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links. The Dictionary covers all visual arts from prehistory to the 1990s and includes 45,050 articles and over 1500 color images and line drawings, as well as 40,000 links to important art images in galleries and museums around the world.

Digital Dissertations

Search here for citations and abstracts to doctoral dissertations and master's theses from 1861 to the present. Dissertations submitted since 1980 include a 350 word abstract written by the author and those submitted since 1997 also include a 24-page preview.

Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plans - FT

This collection contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans which have been written and submitted by teachers from all over the United States. Lesson plans are listed by subject, including Arts, Computer Science, Foreign Language, Health, Information Literacy, Interdisciplinary, Language Arts, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physical Education, Science, Social Studies, and Vocational Education. Searches may be limited by grade level.

Encyclopedia Britannica - FT

An excellent starting point for many subjects, this database contains the complete full text, college level encyclopedia with more than 120,000 articles, updated and revised by EB editors and contributors; over 10,000 illustrations, including photographs, drawings, maps, and flags; and more than 75,000 definitions--including pronunciation guides and word histories--from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. It includes citations from the Britannica Book of the Year and a searchable Internet directory with more than 130,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.

EnviroLink

Search here for comprehensive, up-to-date environmental information and news. This non-profit clearinghouse for the environmental community contains articles on the environment and links to hundreds of organizations and volunteers. Links to email lists, events, and “actions you can take”.

ERIC - now links to Full-Text Articles & Documents

ERIC is a national database covering the literature of education and related fields, with almost 800,000 records from 1966 to the present. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, ERIC indexes journal articles, selected books and ERIC documents. ERIC digests and bibliographies are full text.
This database vendor, EBSCOhost, offers links to full-text education articles from other EBSCOhost databases, as well as ERIC documents from the Eric Document Reproduction Service from 1993 to the present.

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Ethnic Newswatch - FT

This full-text database includes over one million articles (over 237,000 in Spanish) from 264 publications covering 1990 to the present, with some titles dating back to the 1980s. Articles are from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Coverage includes a wide range of current topics and countless other social, political and educational subjects as well as coverage of issues in Ireland, Israel and the Middle East, Mexico, Bosnia, Armenia, China, Nigeria and the Ukraine, among other countries. A timeline of world events from 1990 to the present is included.

Expanded Academic ASAP - FT

Full-text articles from over 1,700 journals and magazines, with citations and abstracts for many more back to 1980. It includes coverage of topics such as social sciences, humanities, science and technology, national news and general interest. More than 1,400 journals are refereed. From InfoTrac.

Gateway to Educational Materials

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, this database contains over 32,000 educational resources from federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial sites. Resources include lesson plans, activities, and projects.

General Business File - FT

Full text of 460 business periodicals, press releases and trade journals, with citations and abstracts for over 500 more are included in this database. Articles are on a range of business subjects: finance, acquisitions & mergers, international trade, money management, new technologies & products, local & regional business trends, investments and banking. The database also includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies as well as analysts’ reports on major companies. From Infotrac.

General Reference Center Gold - FT

This database indexes over 700 titles, with over 400 in full-text, of general interest sources: magazines, newspaper articles, children's magazines, almanacs, encyclopedias, dictionaries, reference books and more. It includes a 20-year backfile of citations and abstracts.

Global Books in Print with Reviews

Search over 11,000 titles of in-print, out-of-print and forthcoming books, audio books, and videos in this database. Searches can be limited by country of publication and the database can be browsed by subject (juvenile, history, computers, etc.), as well as author, title, and publisher. The database also includes best-seller lists from Publisher’s Weekly from 1895 to 2003 and many other features.


Health Reference Center - Academic - FT

Full-text articles on fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, disease, public health, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs and more are available here. This database combines indexing of approximately 195 periodicals, eight reference books, and over 700 pamphlets; more than 1,800 overviews from Clinical Reference Systems; selective indexing for articles in approximately 1500 additional general interest titles; and full text for more than 185 periodicals, all reference books, overviews, and pamphlets. From InfoTrac.

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Issues & Controversies - FT

This full-text resource discusses more than 300 hot topics and controversial issues. It combines objective analysis, clear explanations of opposing points of view and numerous special features, with charts, maps, time tables and bibliographies. From Facts on File.

JSTOR - FT

JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing an archive of important scholarly journal literature. A retrospective digitization project, JSTOR provides a collection of complete backfiles of scholarly journals, starting with the first issues, many of which date from the 1800s. JSTOR journal titles may be searched collectively or individually or by discipline groupings. The most recent 2-5 years of currently available journals are excluded from JSTOR. This is an excellent source for scholarly research in the social sciences and humanities.

Journals @ OVID Full-Text - FT

This database offers full text of 15 peer-reviewed psychiatry journals, not available on any other database. This is an amazing resource for Biological Bases of Behavior and Psychopathology. Also included are citations for more than 900 high quality medical and scientific journals. From OVID.

K-12 Resources - FT

These four databases from InfoTrac provide periodical articles and primary source materials appropriate to K-12 students. Kids Edition is for elementary students, Junior Edition for middle school and junior high students, and Student Edition for high school students. Student Resource Center - Junior includes primary documents, biographical information, photographs, illustrations, and audio and video clips suitable for middle school level students.

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe - FT

This wide-ranging resource provides full-text access to publications that cover top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; U.S. Code; and state legal research.

Massachusetts Area Newspapers - FT

This news database contains the full text of all staff-written news stories, features, columns, and editorials published in The Boston Globe from 1980 to the present, the Boston Herald from 1997 to the present, the Springfield Union-News from 1988 to the present, and the Worcester Telegram and Gazette from 1989 to the present. Provided by the Boston Public Library with funding through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

Medline - with links to Full-Text Articles

This medical database offers information from such fields as medicine, nursing, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. While it contains a limited number of full-text articles, the database has abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals, citations from Index Medicus, the International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, PREMEDLINE, AIDSLINE, BIOETHICSLINE and HealthSTAR.

Mental Measurements Yearbook

MMY, published by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements, contains the most recent descriptive information and critical reviews of new and revised tests from the Buros Institute’s 9th through 15th Yearbooks. The database covers more than 2,200 commercially-available tests in categories such as personality, developmental, behavioral assessment, neuropsychological, achievement, intelligence and aptitude, educational, speech and hearing, and sensory motor. Entries include test name and classification, author(s), publisher, price, time requirements, score descriptions, levels, and intended populations and are updated every 6 months.

MLA International Bibliography

Essential to the study of humanities, this database indexes critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics and folklore from over 3500 journals, series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings and other materials. The database includes all records indexed from 1963 to the present, approximately 1,400,000 records.

Natural Standard

This health database provides evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. Rating scales are used to evaluate the quality of evidence and information is incorporated in comprehensive peer-reviewed monographs. Contributions are from more than 100 academic institutions.

NetLibrary e-Books - FT

This collection of approximately 7000 E-books (3500 in the public domain) available online through NetLibrary is a useful addition to the print book collection. Search by broad topics, such as "special education" or "marketing" to see a list of book titles available. Books can be downloaded and read via an E-Book reader, or read online. Books from the public collection may be printed in their entirety or from the private collection 5,000 words at a time.

New York Times 1851-1999 - FT

This amazing resource provides full text of the contents of the New York Times in its original layout and format from the first edition in 1851 through 1999. Each page of each issue is included and the full text of each article is searchable.

New York Times Book Review - FT

This Web-based database of book reviews, many by distinguished authors, provides free reviews of books published from 1996 to the present. Search by author or title. Earlier reviews are available on a per cost basis.

NYPL Digital Gallery

Search over 337,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the New York Public Library collections. These include illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more. Subject matter is arranged in broad categories such as Arts and Literature, Cities and Buildings, Culture and Society, History and Geography, Nature and Science.

PILOTS Database

An index to the literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental health consequences of exposure to traumatic events, this database includes over 22,000 references (journal articles, books and book chapters) Records are searchable by keyword ("All Indexes"), author, title, and assessment instrument and include citation and abstract. You will leave the Ludcke Library web site when you click here.

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Project Muse - FT

This resource provides full-text access to articles and images of over 220 peer-reviewed journals in the social sciences, arts and humanities, including ethnic and women's studies, culture, history, and politics. Articles are rated according to how well they match the search criteria.

Professional Collection - FT

This database from InfoTrac provides full-text access to more than 300 periodicals of interest to teachers and school administrators. Subjects include arts and humanities, child and adolescent psychology, learning disabilities, school law, and science and technology.

Proquest Education Journals

An excellent addition to the education databases, Proquest provides access to 397 journals in full text and/or image formats. Coverage dates from 1988 and includes many topics within the field of education.

PsycARTICLES - FT

The database contains more than 25,000 searchable full-text articles from 42 journals published by the APA and allied organizations. Subjects covered include general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. Coverage is from 1988 to the present.

PsycINFO - with links to Full-Text Articles

This superb database contains more than one million citations and abstracts including limited full-text linking to journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports, all in the field of psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Journal coverage, spanning 1887 to the present, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals written in over 35 languages. The database is published by the American Psychological Association. From EBSCOhost.

Social Science Citation Index

A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences, this database provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references from more than 1,725 journals covering more than 50 social science disciplines. It also indexes individually selected items from over 3,300 of the world’s leading scientific and technical journals.

SocIndex with Full Text

This new database from EBSCO provides great depth and breadth of coverage of sociology. Sub-disciplines covered include abortion, anthropology, criminology, cultural sociology, demography, ethnic and racial studies, gender studies, marriage and family, politics, religion, rural sociology, social psychology, social work, urban studies, and more. The database includes full text of 241 journals, some dating back to 1895, as well as full text of over 500 books and monographs and full text of 6711 conference papers.

Wilson Art Fulltext

This database offers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications—now with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. The database provides full text content as far back as 1997, abstracting as far back as 1994, and indexing as far back as 1984. From WilsonWeb.

Women and Social Movements

Rated an Outstanding Academic Title 2004 by Choice, this database includes 61 document projects with 1645 documents and at least 21,000 pages of additional full-text documents. Each document project is a collection of annotated primary source documents and the projects cover a broad range of topics relating to women’s social movements from colonial times to the present. The site also includes lesson plans, a Dictionary of Social Movements, and a Chronology of Women’s History.

Women's Studies International

A useful resource for Women’s Studies, this database provides indexing and abstracting from 1972 to the present of the core disciplines in Women's Studies research. Over 800 items indexed include journals, newspapers, newsletters, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, important websites and web documents. Subjects include feminist studies, violence and abusive relationships, psychology and body image, marriage and divorce, women’s rights, social welfare, racial/ethnic studies, and historical studies.

World Cat

This comprehensive online catalog of the collections of the 24,000 member libraries of the OCLC consortium comprises more than 36 million records for books, serials, manuscripts, audiovisual materials, computer files, and other media. The scope is international and publications in all languages are included. Items range from the earliest written documents to e-books. The database is extremely useful for identifying and locating materials.

World Shakespeare Bibliography

From the Folger Shakespeare Library, this database provides annotated entries for books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1968 and early 2003. The scope is international with more than 86,000 records.