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MEDFORD LIBRARY
Electronic Resources, by Subject
Some electronic resources are provided by  DISCUS or  Collegiate DISCUS

All resources are by subscription only unless marked FREE ACCESS.
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Geology
Health & Medicine
History

Library & Information Science
Math
Nursing
Philosophy

Physics & Astronomy
Political Science
Psychology
Science
Sociology
Speech
U.S. Government


AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
When complete, will provide approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present.

Black Drama, 1850 to present
A collection of approximately 1,462 plays by 233 playwrights, together with detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.

Black Women Writers
Includes over 100,000 pages of fiction, poetry, and essays by black women writers worldwide.

U.S. History In Context
Access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 - 2000
Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. Includes 76 document projects with more than 2,200 documents, 30,000 pages of additional full-text documents, and 1,640 primary authors.

Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines
HarpWeek's collection of 19th century journals.


ANTHROPOLOGY

Anthropological Index Online (FREE ACCESS)

Annual Review of Anthropology


ART

SIRS Renaissance (SIRS Knowledge Source)
Provides current, dynamic information from more than 700 domestic and international sources on Architecture & Design, and Visual Arts, among other topics.  Many articles are accompanied by full-color graphics, including art reproductions, photographs, illustrations and maps. 

Symbols (FREE ACCESS)

World Wide Arts Resources (FREE ACCESS)

MoMA (FREE ACCESS)
Museum of Modern Art


Artchive
(FREE ACCESS)

WebMuseum (FREE ACCESS)

Art Tours (FREE ACCESS)


BIOLOGY
See also Chemistry, Health & Medicine, Science

BioOne
Provides access to the full-text of over 140 journals with research articles focused on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.

JSTOR 
Full text of over 253 scholarly journals in the Life Sciences Collection.

ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (CSA)

Biological Sciences (CSA)

Plant Science (CSA)

Annual Review of Cell & Developmental Biology

Annual Review of Genetics 

Annual Review of Immunology

Annual Review of Microbiology


BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

Business Source Premier
Provides full text for nearly 7,600 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922.

Business and Company Resource Center (InfoTrac)  
Company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Predicast's PROMT and Newsletter databases are fully integrated in this database.

Regional Business News
Coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

General Business File ASAP (InfoTrac)
P
rovides a combination of indexing, abstracts and full text for business and trade publications. Includes directory listings for companies as well as investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries.

Small Business Resource Center
Covers all major areas of starting and operating a business including financing, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting and taxes.

IHS Global Insight (Country Analysis and Forecast)
Offers economic and financial analysis, forecasting, and market intelligence for 204 countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. With more than 325 economists and analysts worldwide covering 170+ industries, tap into data, insights and tools to monitor, analyze and interpret global conditions affecting business.

OECD iLibrary
Full text of monographs and reports, 24 periodicals, and statistical databases of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, covering economic and social issues from macroeconomics, to trade, education, development and science and innovation.


CAREERS

Occupational Outlook Handbook (FREE ACCESS)
Regarding careers and occupations, this free government site tells you the training and education needed, earnings, expected job prospects, what workers do on the job, and working conditions

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Complete career research database of jobs, skills, and resources.

Vocations, Careers and Technical Education Collection
Content from over 300 largely full-text journals, this collection provides content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.

LearningExpress Library
Comprehensive collection of test-preparation tools, skill-building materials, and other career and life skills resources.  Requires free registration.


CHEMISTRY
see also Biology, Science

The Merck Index
A searchable encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs and biologicals. Includes chemical, common and generic names, trademarks, CAS registry numbers, molecular formulas and weights, physical and toxicity data, therapeutic and commercial uses, and chemical structures.

ACS Web Editions
Full text of articles from over 30 chemistry journals from the American Chemical Society.  Searchable by article title keyword, author, and/or journal title.

SciFinder
Explores the CAS (a division of the American Chemical Society) databases containing literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more.

TOXLINE (CSA)

Chemical and Engineering News
News edition of the American Chemical Society, 1998 to the present.

WebElements (FREE ACCESS)
In-depth information about each chemical element, with thousands of graphics and even multimedia.

Annual Review of Biochemistry


See also the Community of Science listings under Resources for Faculty.


COMPUTERS & TECHNOLOGY
(see also Library & Information Science)

Computer Source (EBSCOhost)
Contains more than 300 full text journals and magazines covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software. Provides a balance of full text technical journals and full text consumer computer titles.

SHAREWARE.COM (FREE ACCESS)
Huge site for shareware on the Internet.

Learn the Net (FREE ACCESS)

Finding Information on the Internet (FREE ACCESS)
Two tutorials on how to use the Internet

Search Engine Watch (FREE ACCESS)


CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Criminal Justice Collection (InfoTrac)
Over 700 journals indexed, with over 200 in full-text.

Criminal Justice Abstracts
Covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing. Contains indexes and summaries of international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports. 1968 - current

LegalTrac (InfoTrac)  
Index to articles from all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association
journals and legal newspapers.  Covers national and international law.

LLMC Digital Law Library
World's largest collection of legal literature and
government documents in microform. Over 7,500 titles, over 98,000 volumes, of interest to researchers in law and history.

South Carolina Code of Laws (FREE ACCESS)

U.S. Gov't Agencies on the Web (FREE ACCESS)

CIA (FREE ACCESS)

FBI (FREE ACCESS)

U.S. Department of Justice (FREE ACCESS)

Justice Information Center (NCJRS) (FREE ACCESS)

Legal Information Institute (FREE ACCESS)

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics (FREE ACCESS)

Zeno's Forensic Page (FREE ACCESS)

AllLaw (FREE ACCESS)

USC Law School Links (FREE ACCESS)

SC Dept of Public Safety (FREE ACCESS)

SC State Agencies (FREE ACCESS)

FindLaw (FREE ACCESS)


ECOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT
See also Biology, Science

BioOne
Provides access to the full-text of over 140 journals with research articles focused on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.

EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements (CSA)
Abstracts. Each entry includes a clear description of the project, sections on positive impact and negative consequences, and legal mandates. 1985-present.

Environmental Sciences & pollution Management (CSA)

GreenFILE (EBSCOhost)
Well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Multidisciplinary by nature, GreenFILE's collection includes scholarly, government and general-interest titles. Mostly indexing and abstracts; very little full-text.


EDUCATION

Educator's Reference Complete
A collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports. Content is almost entirely full-text, with the majority of the titles also covered in the ERIC database.

ERIC (EBSCOhost)
Contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.

The Chronicle of Higher Education 
The No. 1 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. 

LISA: Library & Information Science Abstracts (CSA)
An international abstracting and indexing tool designed for library professionals and other information specialists. Abstracts over 440 periodicals.

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
An extensive array of information about children's books and other children-focused media. In addition, the database contains more than 130,000 critical reviews of children's books.

CollegeSource
A virtual library representing over 30,000 college catalogs in full original page format with 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools.

Physical Education Index (CSA)
Database indexes articles from peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications in the field of Physical Education.

ERIC (CSA)

Knowitall.org (FREE ACCESS)
Educational resources and programs, including video and images, developed by SC Educational Television

 


ENGINEERING
Compendex
Comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database indexing 5,000 engineering journals and conference materials.  Some full-text links to ScienceDirect. 1884-present.

ENGLISH & LITERATURE

MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOhost)
Bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the This bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.6 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. No full-text.

Literature Resource Center
Rich in biographical, bibliographical, and critical content, LRC has information on literary works from all time periods writing in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more.   LRC sources include Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, Gale's  Literature Criticism and For Students Series.

Scribner Writers Series
Lengthy essays on the lives and works of about 1,600 important authors from around the world.

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
An extensive array of information about children's books and other children-focused media. In addition, the database contains more than 130,000 critical reviews of children's books.

Année Philologique
Covers Greek and Latin linguistics and literature and Greek and Roman archaeology, history, mythology, religion, epigraphy, numismatics and palaeography: all aspects of the ancient Mediterranean world.

Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (CSA)

Books & Authors (Gale)
A reader's guide to over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award winner and librarian's favorites lists. Helps a reader in exploring genre fiction, essential non-fiction and the authors behind the titles.

Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Sixty volumes of Romantic poetry composed by Scottish women, plus extensive contemporary critical reviews and numerous scholarly essays

Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Over 80 volumes of poetry by 50 Irish women writing between 1768 and 1842, plus numerous biographical and critical essays.

Communications Abstracts
Index with abstracts. 1977-present.

SC Literary Map (FREE ACCESS)
Information on SC authors, by county.


See also Research Resources for non-literary research for English class research. 

 

PRIMARY SOURCES

LitFinder
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. Also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary.

American Studies Texts Online (FREE ACCESS)
Core texts in American literature and history, with full-text, from the University of Virginia.

Black Drama, 1850 to present
A collection of approximately 1,462 plays by 233 playwrights, together with detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.

Black Women Writers
Includes over 100,000 pages of fiction, poetry, and essays by black women writers worldwide.

Latin American Women Writers
An extensive searchable collection of prose, poetry, and drama composed by women writing in Mexico, Central America, and South America. Also included are essays by Latin American feminists and about the feminist movement that address both the universal concerns of women in every age and the distinctive issues of their struggles in the region.

Latino Literature
A collection of more than 100,000 pages of poetry, fiction, and over 450 plays written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latino authors.

Caribbean Literature
A searchable collection of poetry and fiction produced in the region during the 19th and 20th centuries, written in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages.

EEBO: Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership
Searchable TEXT works from the first book printed in English in 1475 through 1700. The assembled collection of 125,000 volumes covers literature, philosophy, politics, religion, geography, science and all other areas of human endeavor. These are readable editions that link immediately to the corresponding ProQuest image files (listed directly above).


HOW TO CITE SOURCES

MLA Style Guidelines  (FREE ACCESS)
From the MLA homepage, choose "MLA Style" then "Frequently Asked Questions About MLA Style," then "How do I document sources from the World Wide Web in my works-cited list?" 


FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Latin American Women Writers
An extensive searchable collection of prose, poetry, and drama composed by women writing in Mexico, Central America, and South America. Also included are essays by Latin American feminists and about the feminist movement that address both the universal concerns of women in every age and the distinctive issues of their struggles in the region.

Latino Literature
A collection of more than 100,000 pages of poetry, fiction, and over 450 plays written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latino authors.

Caribbean Literature
A searchable collection of poetry and fiction produced in the region during the 19th and 20th centuries, written in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Foreign Languages (FREE ACCESS)

Foreign Languages for Travelers (FREE ACCESS)

Latin American Network Information Center (FREE ACCESS)

Spanish (FREE ACCESS)


GEOLOGY
See also Science

GeoRef (CSA)

GeoScienceWorld (CSA)

Oceanic Abstracts (CSA) 

HEALTH & MEDICINE
See also Biology, Nursing, Science

Health Reference Center - Academic  Indexes over 200 health-related journals and includes the full-text of the current 5 years of more than 180 academic journals, plus other pamphlets and articles.

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Searchable online version of the journal. 

Liebert Online
Full text of journals from Mary Ann Liebert Publishers, with topics related to Biomedical Research/Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Clinical Medicine/Surgery, Complementary/Alternative Medicine, Engineering/Informatics, Law, Psychology, and Public Health/Policy.

Physical Education Index (CSA)
Database indexes articles from peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications in the field of Physical Education.

PILOTS: Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress (CSA)  
Includes citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, 1871-current.

MEDLINE (EBSCOhost)
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals. No full-text.

Medline (CSA)

MEDLINEplus  (FREE ACCESS)
MEDLINEplus will help answer health questions, by topic.  Also contains a database of full-text drug information and an illustrated medical encyclopedia.

PubMed (FREE ACCESS)
PubMed indexes many of the same journals as Medline, but also includes the many citations that are not about biomedicine and health, primarily from general science and chemistry journals.

Medscape (FREE ACCESS)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (FREE ACCESS)

National Library of Medicine (FREE ACCESS)

Bioethics Research Library at Georgetown University (FREE ACCESS)


FOR THE LAYPERSON

Health & Wellness Resource Center 
Indexes about 700 health/medical journals, most with full-text, many with images. Hundreds of health-related pamphlets, and links to carefully-selected core of health/medical websites.

Health Source: Consumer Edition
Provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.

Hands on Health - South Carolina (FREE ACCESS)
Health and wellness Web sites selected for SC residents by the Medical University of SC Library
.

Mayo Clinic Health Oasis (FREE ACCESS)


HISTORY

U.S. HISTORY

U.S. History In Context
Access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.

Sabin Americana
Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, this collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more. With over 6 million pages from 29,000 works.

American History in Video
The largest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 440 hours and more than 1,400 commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.

Lexis-Nexis Congressional Publications
Comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information. Primarily full-text.

Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
When complete, will provide approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present.

American Civil War Research Database
Online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War. The database contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, with 15,000 photographs, thousands of regimental rosters and more.

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 - 2000
Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. Includes 76 document projects with more than 2,200 documents, 30,000 pages of additional full-text documents, and 1,640 primary authors.

Historical Statistics of the United States
Statistics from over 1000 sources and the standard source for the quantitative facts of American history. Create custom tables, which can be downloaded, printed, or graphed.

Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978
Contains nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978.

Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926
Digital images of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926.

American Foreign Relations Since 1600: A Guide to the Literature
A searchable bibliography covering America's foreign relations from the colonial era into the 21st century. No full-text, other than annotations.

 

 

Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines
HarpWeek's collection of 19th century journals.

HarpWeek
Full-text of Harper's Weekly (1857-1912) as scanned images, with a series of indexes.

BRITISH HISTORY

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB)
An illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women from around the world who shaped all aspects of Great Britain's past, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000.

Times Digital Archive
First published in 1785, The Times of London is widely considered to be the world's 'newspaper of record'. The Times Digital Archive allows users to search over 200 years of this historical source.

Listener Historical Archives
A weekly publication from the BBC, from 1929 - 1991, that served as the medium for reproducing radio and television programmes in print. It is our only record and means of accessing the content of many early broadcasts. As well as expanding on the intellectual broadcasts of the week, The Listener also discussed major literary and musical programmes and provided book reviews.

EEBO: Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership
Searchable TEXT works from the first book printed in English in 1475 through 1700. The assembled collection of 125,000 volumes covers literature, philosophy, politics, religion, geography, science and all other areas of human endeavor. These are readable editions that link immediately to the corresponding ProQuest image files (listed directly above).

WORLD HISTORY

World History In Context
Offers reference content, academic and scholarly journals, and thousands of primary sources, images, and maps about the 20th century.

World History in Video
This resource currently provides access to 325 titles, equaling approximately 269 hours of documentary video. Upon completion, the collection will contain 1,000 hours of streaming video that offers access to more than 1,750 important, critically acclaimed documentaries from filmmakers worldwide.

LLMC Digital 
(Law Library Microform Consortium )
World's largest collection of legal literature and government documents in microform. Over 7,500 titles, over 98,000 volumes, of interest to researchers in law and history.

Political Handbook of the World
Searchable database of country political profiles by Regime Type, Party System, Electoral System, System of Government, and Region.

 


LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE

LISA: Library & Information Science Abstracts (CSA) 
An international abstracting and indexing tool designed for library professionals and other information specialists. Abstracts over 440 periodicals.

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

Ulrichsweb
Bibliographic and access information on serials published throughout the world, covering all subjects. Entries provide pricing, subscription and distribution details as well as publisher, editor contacts. May include reviews excerpted from Magazines for Libraries and Library Journal.


MATH

MathSciNet
A comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature since 1940, MathSciNet provides access to signed reviews of mathematical research literature contained in the Mathematical Reviews Database and links to original articles.

SpringerLink
The world’s most comprehensive online collection of scientific, technological and medical journals, books and reference works, with over 1,250 peer reviewed journals and 10,000 eBooks online.

ScienceDirect 
Scientific, technical and medical research, with online access to over 1,100 key scientific, technical, medical and social science journals. 

JSTOR 
Includes full text of scholarly journals. For the list of journals included, go to Browse JSTOR Journals by Discipline.

SIAM Journals Online
Access to 16 journals from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Full-text from 1997 to the present and backfiles for 1953-1996.


NURSING
(see also Health & Medicine and Science)
CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCOhost) 
A comprehensive source of full text for nursing and allied health journals, providing full text for more than 620 journals indexed in CINAHL. Contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index – with no embargo.

Nursing & Allied Health Collection: Expanded (EBSCOhost)
Full text for more than 200 journals covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCOhost)
Provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.

OVID Nursing Journal Collection
Fourteen of the most respected nursing titles with 100% searchable full text. Full-text begins (usually) with 1996 issues. Unlimited access to all tables of contents and bibliographic citations for every journal, plus free tables of contents for more than 1000 biomedical e-journals.

InfoTrac Nursing and Allied Health Collection
Provides over 600 full text journals covering areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines.

Nursing and Allied Health Collection (Gale)
All aspects of the Nursing profession -- from direct patient care to health care administration -- are covered in this collection. Includes nearly 400 titles.

Nursing Resource Center
Important reference information with nursing-specific texts from Thomson Delmar. Additionally, relevant journal results from top publications in the field and animated depictions of the human anatomy complement the core reference texts.


PHILOSOPHY

Philosophy Research Base  (FREE ACCESS)
Links to large philosophy sites and to specific subject subsections in those sites.  Mostly Western philosophy, but includes some links for non-Western.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (FREE ACCESS)

Année Philologique
Covers Greek and Latin linguistics and literature and Greek and Roman archaeology, history, mythology, religion, epigraphy, numismatics and palaeography: all aspects of the ancient Mediterranean world.

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (FREE ACCESS)


PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY
See also Science
IOP (Institute of Physics) Electronic Journals
Indexes over 40 established journals in all branches of pure and applied physics and a number of magazine titles including the internationally acclaimed Physics World, reflecting the growth and interdisciplinary nature of scientific research and application. Little full-text.
Annual Review of Astronomy & Astrophysics

POLITICAL SCIENCE
See also U.S. Government

PAIS International (CSA Illumina)
Identifies over 500,000 sources related to policy approaches of concern to governments, including economic, political, and social background information and statistics. The scope is international, with access at global, regional, national, and local levels. 1972 - current.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (CSA)
Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science, international relations, law, and public administration / policy.

CultureGrams
Country reports that provide snapshots of the world’s cultures.

Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978
Contains nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978.

Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926
Digital images of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926.

American Foreign Relations Since 1600: A Guide to the Literature
A searchable bibliography covering America's foreign relations from the colonial era into the 21st century. Includes more than 16,000 annotated entries, puts emphasis on journal articles and essay collections, and features special sections on bibliographic, historiographic, and biographic sources in each chapter. No full-text, other than annotations.

Political Handbook of the World
Searchable database of country political profiles by Regime Type, Party System, Electoral System, System of Government, and Region.

World Data Analyst
Resource for retrieving, comparing and customizing data on the world's nations.


PSYCHOLOGY

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCOhost)
Provides coverage of more than 550 full text journals, including more than 525 peer-reviewed titles. Covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

PsycINFO
Over 2 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. Ninety-seven percent is peer-reviewed.

PubMed (FREE ACCESS)
PubMed indexes many of the same journals as Medline, but also includes the many citations that are not about biomedicine and health, primarily from general science and chemistry journals.

PsycARTICLES (EBSCOhost)
Searchable full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. Contains more than 40,000 articles from 53 journals - 45 published by the APA. 1985 to present.

ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (CSA)
An index, with abstracts, to more than 650 journals in health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.

PILOTS: Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress (CSA)  
Includes citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, 1871-current.

ScienceDirect 
Scientific, technical and medical research, with online access to over 1,100 key scientific, technical, medical and social science journals. 

Web of Science
Primarily Science Citation Index Expanded, 1987-2001. Over 700 scientific journals.  Little full-text.

JSTOR 
Includes full text of scholarly journals. For the list of journals included, go to Browse JSTOR Journals by Discipline.

Science In Context
An in-depth, curriculum-oriented science database that provides a one-stop resource for all science-related research needs.

SpringerLink
The world’s most comprehensive online collection of scientific, technological and medical journals, books and reference works, with over 1,250 peer reviewed journals and 10,000 eBooks online.

PubMed (FREE ACCESS)
PubMed indexes many of the same journals as Medline, but also includes the many citations that are not about biomedicine and health, primarily from general science and chemistry journals.

SciFinder
Explores the CAS (a division of the American Chemical Society) databases containing literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more.

See also other Community of Science listings under Resources for Faculty.


SOCIOLOGY

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 - 2000
Database of interpretive questions in Women's History and documents that address the question. More than 1,731 documents, 22,000 pages, and over 600 links to other websites are included. Also has a dictionary of social movements and organizations and a chronology of U.S. Women's History.

CultureGrams
Country reports that provide snapshots of the world’s cultures.

Sociological Abstracts (CSA)

Social Services Abstracts (CSA)

ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (CSA)
An index, with abstracts, to more than 650 journals in health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.


SPEECH

Opposing Viewpoints In Context
An online library of current event topics--the facts, as well as the arguments, of each topic's proponents and detractors, plus Topic Overviews.

Facts.com: Issues & Controversies  
Information on more than 250 controversial topics in the news. Chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars, bibliographies and contact information augment the balanced, accurate coverage of current and historical events.
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