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Find full-text electronic journals available at The University of Akron. Search for title words/phrases or browse individual collections.
Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
AccessScience is an online encyclopedia of science and technology. AccessScience contains encyclopedia articles, dictionary terms, biographies, research updates, and science news.
McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine.com is an innovative online resource that provides students, residents, clinicians, and researchers with instant answers to clinical questions from the most trusted sources. To keep pace with the changing practice of medicine, AccessMedicine delivers the latest medical advances and knowledge from recognized physicians delivered in a digital aggregation with online desktop, PDA, iPod, and MP3 compatible device solutions. AccessMedicine goes where you need it most!
Updated daily by world-renowned physicians and expanded continuously, AccessMedicine is designed for direct access to the information necessary for completing evaluations, diagnoses, case management decisions, conducting research, medical education, or self-assessment and board review.
The Associated Press Photo Archive is an electronic library containing the current photos and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library. It contains roughly 750,000 of the AP’s best pictures.
ACM Digital Library provides bibliographic information, abstracts, index terms, reviews,and the full-text for ACM conference proceedings. ACM journals, magazines, and newsletters are also available at this site, as well as through the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center.
The Aerospace Database provides bibliographic coverage of basic and applied
research in aeronautics, astronautics, and space sciences. The database also
covers technology development and applications in complementary and supporting
fields such as chemistry, geosciences, physics, communications, and electronics.
In addition to periodic literature, the database also includes coverage of
reports issued by NASA, other U.S. government agencies, international institutions,
universities, and private firms. The database is indexed using a master authority
file of about 28,000 controlled-vocabulary terms.
3000 poems by African-American poets in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Includes or has links to full-text.
This database contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage for AGRICOLA dates back to 1970 and includes more than 2.5 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture.
Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers an immediate resource of full-text articles, from more than 170 international, and often peer reviewed, reports, proceedings, association and consumer newsletters. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. 1990- present.
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Aluminium Industry Abstracts (AIA), formerly World Aluminum Abstracts (WAA), provides comprehensive coverage of the world's technical literature on aluminum, production processes, products, applications, and business developments. The Aluminium Industry Abstracts database includes information abstracted from approximately 2,300 scientific and technical journals, government reports, conference proceedings,dissertations, books, and patents. The database is indexed using a master authority file of about 28,000 controlled-vocabulary terms.
Aluminium Industry Abstracts (AIA), formerly World Aluminum Abstracts (WAA), provides comprehensive coverage of the world's technical literature on aluminum, production processes, products, applications, and business developments. The Aluminium Industry Abstracts database includes information abstracted from approximately 2,300 scientific and technical journals, government reports, conference proceedings,dissertations, books, and patents. The database is indexed using a master authority file of about 28,000 controlled-vocabulary terms.
America: History and Life is a comprehensive bibliography of articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. AHL offers abstracts and citations for articles appearing in over 2,000 journals published worldwide in history, related humanities, and the social sciences. Coverage also includes citations to book reviews from approximately 100 major journals of American history and culture and relevant dissertations from Dissertation Abstracts International.
American dramatic literature from 1714 to the present. Includes or has links to full-text.
Digitized images of the pages of over 1,100 historic American magazines, journals, and newspapers. Includes or has links to full-text.
40,000 poems of American writers from the 17th to the early 20th century. Includes or has links to full-text.
Index to books, articles, reviews, collections, and dissertations in English studies.
ANTE: Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering (formerly Current
Technology Database), is an abstracting and indexing service monitoring
approximately 350 academic and trade publications from the U.K. and the U.S.
Coverage includes new technologies such as information technology and
computing, electronics, biotechnology, medical technology, as well as
engineering (including construction, electrical and chemical engineering) and
allied subject areas. Abstracts are available from January 1993 to the present.
An online thesaurus is available.
Anthropology Plus provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies.
AnthroSource is the premier online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists. Anthrosource combines digital access to the AAA's peer reviewed journals, newsletters and bulletins with high-level electronic content functionality.
Indexes several hundred international journals plus yearbooks and museum bulletins on art including archaeology, architecture, city planning, crafts, films, graphic arts, industrial design, landscape architecture, museology, and photography. The electronic counterpart to the printed Art Index.
1929- present. Updated monthly.
Full text of 2000 works in French. Includes or has links to full-text.
Index to articles from over 12,000 journals.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities.
ARTstor is a rich digital library that offers coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library's initial content includes approximately 500,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's software tools support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline. This community resource will be made available solely for educational and scholarly uses that are noncommercial in nature.
Index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion.
Audit Analytics has information on over 20,000 public registrants and over 1,500 audit firms. It is the most comprehensive market intelligence tool for the audit industry available today.
AuditAnalytics.com currently offers over 80 data fields to its users. Access to this data is available as on-line user subscriptions, as enterprise data feed subscriptions, and in custom reports.
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Beilstein (organic chemistry) and Gmelin (inorganic/organometallic chemistry) are separate databases searchable with the Crossfire interface. Available for use in the Science and Technology Library, 104 Auburn Science and Engineering Center. UA faculty, students and staff may download Crossfire software for use on personal computers.
21 versions of the Bible in full text, from the 10th to the 20th centuries. Includes or has links to full text. On-Campus only.
A comprehensive bibliographic guide, providing nearly 40,000 records of the literary works of approximately 300 American writers from the American Revolution to 1930. Includes or has links to full-text.
This on-line version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains over 680,000 records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.
Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. BNNA contains more than 80,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present.
Index to articles, books, and other materials in art history, covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index indexes current, easily accessible references sources, as well as important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world. Searching Biography and Genealogy Master Index Online enables you to quickly determine which (of more than 1,700) publications you need to consult for accurate and accessible biographical information. No matter what famous (or infamous) person you\'re looking for, you should find them here — the total number of biographical sketches indexed now exceeds 15 million.
This database combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.
Index and abstracts to international journal articles in biological and medical research. BIOSIS Previews also covers books and meetings. Includes or has links to full-text.
Comprehensive listing of books currently published or distributed in the United States.
Business and Industry is no longer updated; the 1994-2006 material will remain in place indefinitely. You may wish to search: Business Source Complete.
This is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the ultimate collection of bibliographic and full-text content. Business Source Complete contains far more active, peer-reviewed, business related journals than any other database currently available. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals.
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Ceramic Abstracts/World Ceramics Abstracts is produced by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts in conjunction with CERAM Research Ltd. This is a comprehensive database for the ceramics industry, providing international coverage on the manufacture, processing, applications, properties and testing of traditional and advanced ceramics. Source materials include over 200 journals, conference proceedings, books, patents, standards and company product literature. All abstracts are in English. The database is indexed using a master authority file of about 28,000 controlled-vocabulary terms.
Ceramic Abstracts/World Ceramics Abstracts is produced by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts in conjunction with CERAM Research Ltd. This is a comprehensive database for the ceramics industry, providing international coverage on the manufacture, processing, applications, properties and testing of traditional and advanced ceramics. Source materials include over 200 journals, conference proceedings, books, patents, standards and company product literature. All abstracts are in English. The database is indexed using a master authority file of about 28,000 controlled-vocabulary terms.
Index to resources on Mexican-American and Latino topics. Includes or has links to full text.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. CINAHL Plus with Full Text also contains searchable cited references for more than 1,160 journals and provides full text for hundreds of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1937 are also included.
CSA Civil Engineering Abstracts provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of
the serials literature in civil engineering and its complementary fields,
including forensic engineering, management and marketing of engineering
services, engineering education, theoretical mechanics and dynamics, and
mathematics and computation. This database provides comprehensive international
coverage with the monitoring of over 3,000 serial titles as well as numerous
non-serial publications.
Many of the more recent records in the database include fields containing cited references, corresponding author’s e-mail address, and publisher contact information. All records are indexed using a controlled vocabulary of about 12,500 terms and each record is also assigned a classification code which makes the record retrievable by broad subject area. Furthermore, every source journal is assigned a level of coverage indicating its relevance to the engineering disciplines and this level of coverage is included in each record abstracted from that source publication.
Many of the more recent records in the database include fields containing cited references, corresponding author’s e-mail address, and publisher contact information. All records are indexed using a controlled vocabulary of about 12,500 terms and each record is also assigned a classification code which makes the record retrievable by broad subject area. Furthermore, every source journal is assigned a level of coverage indicating its relevance to the engineering disciplines and this level of coverage is included in each record abstracted from that source publication.
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. Includes or has links to full text.
Classical Music Library includes recordings of music written from the earliest times (eg Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera. We add repertoire according the MLA publication ‘A Basic Music Library’ to ensure Classical Music Library includes at least one recording of each work listed. We provide multiple recordings of most major works, to enable comparative listening. Classical Music Library also includes many works not in the MLA list, and is increasingly adding recordings by great performers and composers.
Resources included in ComDisDome are referred and selected based on their relevance to the field of Speech Pathology and Audiology and its research. Each item is linked to related items, providing your users with the most richly networked and easily navigable representation of their professions'
content and community available today. In the Dome you will also find the "Grants" section that will allow you to get connected to any sources of grant funding. You also have the ability to see what grants have been awarded and in what areas of research allowing you to connect with the researchers receiving the grants. The Dome also enables users to instantly save and annotate their findings in an online personal folder system for later use and easy export to popular reference management software. Additionally, Dome users will receive web space on which they can easily post saved folders to share findings with their colleagues and students.
Index, abstracts, and full text for journals in communication and mass media. Includes or has links to full text.
Index and abstracts to engineering literature from international journals, conferences, and reports. Includes or has links to full text.
Index and abstracts to engineering literature published 1884-1968.
Computers have become the essential means for storing, processing, and accessing
all the world's information. This makes it vital to keep up with the latest
developments in an increasingly sophisticated technology. There are thousands of
sources in this growing field - and only Computer and Information Systems
Abstracts provides fast, organized access to all of them, including hard-to-find
conference literature.This database provides a comprehensive monthly update on
the latest theoretical research and practical applications around the world.
From its inception as one of the earliest databases in the field, Computer and
Information Systems Abstracts has proven itself an essential resource. This
database provides international coverage with the monitoring of over 3,000
serial titles as well as numerous non-serial publications. The database is
indexed using a master authority file of about 28,000 controlled-vocabulary
terms.
Index, abstracts, and full text of articles covering the latest information and current trends in high technology. Includes or has links to full text.
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete (CASC) covers the spectrum of the applied sciences, representing knowledge on traditional engineering challenges and providing material for research concerning the business and social implications of new technology. CASC provides indexing and abstracting for more than 1,300 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources. Full Text is also available for more than 500 periodicals. Subject areas include the many engineering disciplines, computer theory, and new technologies.
Contemporary Women's Issues is no longer updated; the 1992-2006 material will remain in place indefinitely. You may wish to search: Women's Studies International or Gender Studies Database.
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The Copper Data Center Database (CDC) provides an online bibliographic database of the world's literature on copper, copper alloys and copper technology since 1965. The Copper Data Center Database covers copper technology from smelting and hydrometallurgy through the performance of copper and copper alloys in their end-use applications and service environments. It references data on the properties and performance of copper and copper alloys and on applications of the copper metals. Over 60,000 documents have been indexed into this database, including 5582 documents published between 1863 and 1964. This database provides international coverage with the monitoring of over 2,400 serial titles as well as numberous non-serial publications.
The Copper Data Center Database (CDC) provides an online bibliographic database of the world's literature on copper, copper alloys and copper technology since 1965. The Copper Data Center Database covers copper technology from smelting and hydrometallurgy through the performance of copper and copper alloys in their end-use applications and service environments. It references data on the properties and performance of copper and copper alloys and on applications of the copper metals. Over 60,000 documents have been indexed into this database, including 5582 documents published between 1863 and 1964. This database provides international coverage with the monitoring of over 2,400 serial titles as well as numberous non-serial publications.
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Corrosion Abstracts provides the world's most complete source of bibliographic information in the area of corrosion science and engineering. International sources of literature are scanned and abstracted in the areas of general corrosion, testing, corrosion characteristics, preventive measures, materials construction and performance, and equipment for many industries. Corrosion Abstracts provides engineers and scientists with a resource for solving corrosion problems by reviewing the documented experience of others and providing summarized findings in the article abstracts. The database is indexed using a master authority file of about 28,000 controlled-vocabulary terms.
Corrosion Abstracts provides the world's most complete source of bibliographic information in the area of corrosion science and engineering. International sources of literature are scanned and abstracted in the areas of general corrosion, testing, corrosion characteristics, preventive measures, materials construction and performance, and equipment for many industries. Corrosion Abstracts provides engineers and scientists with a resource for solving corrosion problems by reviewing the documented experience of others and providing summarized findings in the article abstracts. The database is indexed using a master authority file of about 28,000 controlled-vocabulary terms.
The CSA Engineering Research Database covers the international serial and
non-serial literature pertaining to civil, earthquake, environmental,
mechanical, and transportation engineering including their complementary fields
of forensic engineering, management and marketing of engineering services,
engineering education, theoretical mechanics and dynamics, and
mathematics/computation. Content includes basic and applied research, design,
construction, technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality,
environmental safety, energy production and developments in new technologies.
Over 3,000 primary journals indexed plus trade literature, patents, newspapers,
press releases, conference proceedings, books and reports. Subfiles that make
up the CSA Engineering Research Database can be searched separately if desired.
The subfiles are:
ANTE: Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering
Civil Engineering Abstracts
Environmental Engineering Abstracts
Earthquake Engineering Abstracts
Mechanical and Transportation Engineering Abstracts
ANTE: Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering
Civil Engineering Abstracts
Environmental Engineering Abstracts
Earthquake Engineering Abstracts
Mechanical and Transportation Engineering Abstracts
The CSA High Technology Research Database with Aerospace brings together in
one place the most comprehensive bibliographic coverage of research, emerging
technologies, applications and companies in the areas of aeronautics,
astronautics, computer & information technology, electronics, communications,
solid state materials and devices, and space sciences. Everything from
theoretical research through practical application is covered. Over 1,000
primary journals indexed plus patent information, conference proceedings,
books, theses and reports. The subfiles that make up this database can be
searched separately, if desired. The subfiles are:
Aerospace and High Technology Database
Computer and Information Systems Abstracts
Electronics and Communications Abstracts
Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts
Aerospace and High Technology Database
Computer and Information Systems Abstracts
Electronics and Communications Abstracts
Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts
The CSA Materials Research Database with METADEX brings together in one place the majority of the leading materials science databases, with specialist content on materials science, metallurgy, ceramics, polymers, and composites used in engineering application. Everything from raw materials and refining through processing, welding and fabrication to end us, corrosion, performance and recycling is covered in depth for all metals, alloys, polymers, ceramics, and composites. Over 3,000 primary journals plus trade literature, patents, newspapers, press releases, conference proceedings, books and reports. The subfiles that make up this databae can be searched separately, if desired. The subfiles are:
Aluminium Industry Abstracts
Ceramic Abstracts/World Ceramics Abstracts
Copper Data Center Database
Corrosion Abstracts
Engineered Materials Abstracts
Materials Business File
METADEX
WELDASEARCH
Aluminium Industry Abstracts
Ceramic Abstracts/World Ceramics Abstracts
Copper Data Center Database
Corrosion Abstracts
Engineered Materials Abstracts
Materials Business File
METADEX
WELDASEARCH
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Several databases of electronic images or videos; will eventually also include sound, numeric data, and other types of electronic media.
Digital videos covering many subjects. Currently includes videos from the distributor Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Index to doctoral dissertations and master's theses from North America and Europe. Includes or has links to full text.
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440 novels and short stories of 80 American writers, 1774-1850. Includes or has links to full text.
From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this incomparable collection now contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Libraries possessing this collection find they are able to fulfill the most exhaustive research requirements of graduate scholars - from their desktop! - in many subject areas, including: English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.
Earthquake Engineering Abstracts (EEA) provides comprehensive authoritative
coverage of earthquake engineering and earthquake hazard mitigation. EEA is
currently comprised of approximately 102,000 records (full citations and
abstracts) from 1971 forward, plus several hundred earlier classic papers and
reports. EEA includes approximately 44,000 journal articles -- indexes and
abstracts of all major journals that publish significant earthquake engineering
research; approximately 36,000 meeting abstracts -- proceedings of conferences
and major meetings in earthquake engineering research, and approximately
23,000 research reports' abstracts -- abstracts of research monographs and
technical reports including Earthquake Engineering Research Center Reports
and Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center Reports. The database is
indexed using a master authority file of about 28,000 controlled-vocabulary
terms.
ebrary’s Business, Marketing and Economics collection offers students and faculty access to thousands of authoritative full-text eBooks, research reports, company profiles and case studies to support undergraduate and graduate business study. ebrary’s Online Sheet Music database provides simultaneous, multi-user access to thousands of sheet music titles.
EBSCO Animals (for elementary school students) provides thousands of easy-to-read entries about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, dinosaurs and prehistoric animals. Each entry begins with a simple category breakdown of the animal including Kingdom, Class, Order, Genus & Species, and Geographical Locale as well as a detailed description. Many entries include colorful images.
EBSCOhost ECONOMIA Y NEGOCIOS is produced in Peru by ESAN (Escuela de Administración de Negocios para Graduados), the oldest graduate school of business in the Spanish-speaking world. This Spanish language database, which focuses on business and economics, consists of more than 60,000 bibliographic records. Coverage dates back to the early 1980s and includes over 200 periodicals published in Latin America and Spain.
EconLit, published by the American Economic Association, provides bibliographic coverage of a wide range of economics-related literature. An expanded version of the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) indexes of journals, books, and dissertations, EconLit covers both economic theory and application. Literature covered is of interest to researchers, academics, product managers, advertisers, product development specialists, and public policy professionals. EconLit includes information that is of prime relevance to many industries and research establishments world-wide. Over 80% of all current records include abstracts. Also included are fulltext of book reviews published in the Journal of Economic Literature since 1993.
Full text of 11 major editions of Shakespeare's works, and related works. Includes or has links to full text.
OhioLINK has ended its subscription to this database. It will not be updated after July 1st, and will be removed on August 1st. You may wish to search: ERIC.
Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. This massive file offers the world’s largest and most complete collection of full text education journals. Education Research Complete also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues.
The eHRAF Collection of Ethnography is a Web-based, multi-cultural database for disciplines with an interest in cultural diversity.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online is a comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century, the world’s largest library of the printed book on microfilm, available through its imprint Primary Source Microfilm™. In the most ambitious single digitization project ever undertaken, nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800 will be made available online over the course of the next two years. When complete, the product will allow full-text searching of more than 33 million pages of material, in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
Full text of 96 works of prose fiction written in the British Isles, 1700-1780. Includes or has links to full text.
Full text of 6000+ research journals. Includes or has links to full text.
Online reference books on diverse topics. Includes or has links to full text.
The ETD Center is a free, online database of Ohio’s masters and doctoral theses and dissertations from participating OhioLINK member schools. It contains the abstract for all included theses and dissertations. The full-text is also available if it was submitted.
Many scientific discoveries start here - with new hardware applications that
make the research possible. Advances in electronics and communications are
constantly leading to important new instrumentation for research. And the
comprehensive guide to ongoing work in this field is Electronics and
Communications Abstracts - now expanded and jointly published with Engineering
Information. In short, the journal tracks every relevant source of information
necessary to keep abreast of this complex, highly competitive discipline. This
database provides international coverage with the monitoring of over 3,000
serial titles as well as numerous non-serial publications. The database is
indexed using a master authority file of about 28,000 controlled-vocabulary
terms.
Full text of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Access to the Encyclopædia Britannica, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, and Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia.
600 physics demonstrations on video.
The growing importance of polymers, ceramics, and composites in a variety of structural and other advanced applications requires the in-depth coverage provided by Engineered Materials Abstracts (EMA). Citations regarding the research, manufacturing practices, properties and applications of these materials have been taken from 1,300 journals, plus dissertations, government reports, conference proceedings, and books indexed by expert editors from Materials Information. Begun in 1986, Engineered Materials Abstracts is an electronic database containing Ceramics, Composites and Polymers subfiles. EMA is specifically designed to serve materials sciences researchers, engineers and scientists. The database is indexed using a master authority file of about 28,000 controlled-vocabulary terms.
More than 175,000 poems by over 1,400 poets from British Commonwealth and ex-colonial countries, 600-1900. Includes or has links to full text.
Full text of over 1800 plays written in prose for the stage, from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century. Includes or has links to full text.
Full text of over 2200 works of poetry intended for the stage. Includes or has links to full text.
Environment Complete contains all of the content available in Environment Index, as well as full text for 400 journals, including many of the most used journals in the discipline, such as Environment (back to 1975), Ecologist, Conservation Biology, etc. Environment Complete also provides full text for 80 monographs, such as Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (3 volumes), Advances in Water Treatment & Environmental Management, etc. Further, the database offers full text for the conference papers of the North American Association of Environmental Education.
Environmental Engineering Abstracts covers the world literature pertaining to
technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental
safety, and energy production. More than 700 primary journals are thoroughly
indexed and abstracted. Over 2,500 additional sources, including monographs
and conference proceedings, are also monitored for relevant articles.
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.
ERIC indexes education-related literature, beginning in 1966. The ERIC database is the world’s largest source of education information, containing abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. The database covers descriptions and evaluations of programs, research reports and surveys, curriculum and teaching guides, instructional materials, position papers, and resource materials. In 1993, ERIC began indexing education-related books, including the output of major publishers.
Contains composite financial data from over 190,000 anonymous financial statements of manufacturing, wholesaling, retailing, service, and contracting businesses operating in 600 industries. Designed to be particularly useful to lending and credit risk professionals who want to compare one company's performance relative to other companies in the same line of business.
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Factiva.com provides world-class premium content, financial data including stock quotes, company comparisons, financial snapshots, SEC filings, interactive charting, and historical market information. Factiva's global news and business information service also combines the content sets of Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing. Includes full text Wall Street Journal (1979 - current), New York Times (1980 - current), Washington Post, Newsweek, Business Week, Forbes, and Fortune. Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times are not available to academic subscribers.
Film & Television Literature Index is a comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing. It has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes film scholars, college students, and general viewers. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
Index to multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities, social sciences, and economics.
Fuente Academica is a unique collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. This database provides full text coverage (including PDF) for nearly 200 scholarly Spanish language journals. Content is provided in Spanish from respected publishers worldwide.
Over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Includes or has links to full text.
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Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index™ (GLHI) is the premier resource for access to articles about plants and gardens. Topics include horticulture, garden and landscape design and history, botany, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy. This index and abstract product is designed for gardening enthusiasts, professionals, and students of horticulture and of garden and landscape design and history. Indexed and abstracted are more than 300 core titles, the majority of which are published in English.
Gender Studies Database, produced by NISC, combines NISC’s popular Women’s Studies International and Men’s Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. GSD covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. This database includes more than 696,750 records with coverage spanning from 1972 and earlier to present.
Index and abstracts to articles, books, maps, reports, and other literature on geology and geosciences. Includes or has links to full text.
A comprehensive Internet resource for research and communications in the geosciences, built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals indexed, linked, and inter-operable with GeoRef
Gongwer News Service provides daily coverage of issues in and around Ohio's government and political systems. Gongwer's daily Ohio Report provides coverage of every bill in the General Assembly and closely tracks the activities of the executive and judicial branches. Gongwer provides a suite of products to monitor and track political and policy developments.
Catalog of U.S. government documents.
An online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day.
A 30+ volume online encyclopedia containing all things music.
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Catalog of European printing of the hand-press period.
Page images and indexes to Harper's Weekly, covering the Civil War and Reconstruction periods. Includes or has links to full text.
Provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.
Information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Includes or has links to full text.
Index, abstracts, and full text focusing on many medical disciplines. Includes or has links to full text.
HeinOnline is an expanding collection of legal information
including the following collections: Law Journal Library; Code of Federal Regulations; English Reports, Full Reprint (1220-1865); European Center for Minority Issues; Federal Register Library; Foreign & International Law Resources Database; Legal Classics; Philip C. Jessup Library; Session Laws; Treaties and Agreements Library; U.S. Attorney General Opinions; U.S. Federal Legislative History Library; U.S. Presidential Library; U.S. Statutes at Large; U.S. Supreme Court Library; and World Trials.
Archive of free full-text science articles.
Index and abstracts to articles covering world history from 1450 to present (excluding U.S. and Canada). Includes or has links to full text.
Index to journal articles, books, proceedings, and other literature in the history of science, technology and medicine, and allied historical fields.
The HSDL collection provides quick access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies. The resources are reviewed and selected by a team of homeland security researchers and organized in a unique homeland security taxonomy. HSDL content includes state-of-the-art multi-media offerings and other valuable assets identified by CHDS master's degree participants and instructors.
Humanities E-Book is an online collection of over 1500 books of high quality, covering most humanities disciplines and area studies. Humanities E-Book was formerly known as the History E-Book Project.
Contains full text for over 550 journals of interest in art, philosophy, history, communications, and general interest.
Humanities International Complete is a comprehensive database of humanities content, providing full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from American Humanities Index and Humanities International Index (over 1.6 million records) plus unique full text content.
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IBISWorld provides immediate access to vital information on every industry in the US Economy publishing Americas largest collection of Industry Market Research Reports with over 700 available. All reports are written at the 5-digit level of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and are 30-40 pages in length.
ICPSR maintains and provides access to an archive of social science data in electronic format. Its holdings include data sets relevant to the study of political science, sociology, demography, history, economics, international relations, gerontology, public health, criminal justice, education and many other fields.
IEEE Xplore indexes all IEEE publications for the years 1988 to the present and selected earlier content. University of Akron students and faculty may access the full-text from 1998 to the present of journals, transactions, magazines, and some conference proceedings. The “Access Information” link at IEEE Xplore shows which full-text titles and years we may access. Check the UA Libraries Catalog and OhioLINK for the availability of other materials, or request them via ILLiad.
images.MD compiles more than 55,000 images from more than 90 collections ranging from allergy to urology, each accompanied by detailed and informative text contributed by more than 2,000 medical experts. Images are derived from Current Medicine’s renowned series of illustrated atlases.
In the First Person provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world. With future releases, the index will broaden to identify other first-person content, including letters, diaries, memoirs, and autobiographies, and other personal narratives.
Index to articles from 42 art journals published in 19th century U.S.
Index to citations in 1,000 journals with full-text access to almost 900 journals. Covers many subject areas at the undergraduate level. Includes or has links to full text.
Index and abstracts to articles, proceedings, books, and reports in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology. Includes or has links to full text.
Inspec Archive 1898-1968 provides electronic access to Science Abstracts Journals 1898-1968. The Inspec Archive covers over 70 years of international scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical and electronic engineering, and computing and control engineering.
Insurance Periodicals Index (IPI), formerly produced by the NILS Publishing Co., Inc. in cooperation with the Insurance & Employee Benefits Division (IEBD) of the Special Libraries Association (SLA), indexes and abstracts over 200 of the most respected and widely-read insurance industry journals and magazines, including the Journal of Risk and Insurance, and the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty.
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International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text contains all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text for 100 titles, including Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and many more. Additional full text available includes more than 50 books & monographs.
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text contains all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text for 100 titles, including Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and many more. Additional full text available includes more than 50 books & monographs.
International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA), produced by the International Political Science Association, includes current indexing and abstracts of the world's leading journals in political science. This database covers nearly 900 journals published from 1989 to the present.
Lists over 10,000 titles in all subject areas, browsable by subject,author, title, and broad Dewey Classification scheme.
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JCR presents quantifiable statistical data to determine the relative importance of journals within their subject categories.
The JSTOR archive holds the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the 1600s. New titles and disciplines are being added regularly. Issues of journals are never “out”; they are always accessible, and in excellent condition. The capacity for searching across disciplines opens up vast possibilities for scholarship and research.
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Describes the theory and practice of chemical engineering, the industrial production and uses of chemical materials, and basic subjects of chemistry.
Knovel has gathered together, on a single powerful research platform, over 800 essential reference books and databases from the world's leading scientific publishers and professional societies in 18 industrially important subject areas.
KCDLOnline is a database of curriculum guides from schools districts and educational organizations all over the country. Some of the most recent guides are available full-text. Older guides are available in the Bierce Library Microforms department and are arranged by their Document Number.
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LearningExpress Library provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.
This database contains full text for nearly 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. The Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.more.
Index to legal periodical literature from 1980 to date. Approximately 25% of the articles are available in full text.
Full text news, business, legal, medical, and reference information. Includes or has links to full text.
LexisNexis Congressional offers access to a variety of information by and about the United States Congress. Congressional Universe provides access to: U.S. Serial Set from 1789-1969, Congressional publications from 1970 to the present. CIS Legislative Histories for public laws going back to 1970. Testimony from congressional hearings. Bills as they move through the House and Senate. The Congressional Record and Federal Register. Information about members and committees. The National Journal.
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GLBT Life with Full Text contains all of the content available in GLBT Life as well as full text for 50 of the most important and historically significant GLBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens for full text monographs. The database includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized GLBT Thesaurus containing over 6,300 terms.
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Library/Information Sciences & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) with Full Text was formerly Information Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA). EBSCO Publishing continues ISTA’s renowned coverage of information science and significantly increases the coverage of library science. 149 ISTA titles are upgraded to Core coverage, and 121 new periodicals are included. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, search engines, printed and electronic information sources, the information industry, scholarly communication, and electronic publishing. LISTA indexes journal articles from more than 600 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings. With coverage extending back to 1966, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.
Literary Reference Center™ is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It has been specifically designed for public libraries, secondary schools, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research. Literary Reference Center is a full text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. Literary Reference Center includes more than 10,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, 75,000 articles of literary criticism, 130,000 author biographies, full text of over 300 literary journals, 500,000 book reviews, 25,000 classic and contemporary poems, 11,000 classic and contemporary short stories, full text of over 7,500 classic novels (anticipated by Fall 2006), 3,000 author interviews, and over 1,000 images of key literary figures. In addition, Literary Reference Center also includes Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (six volumes), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Literary Encyclopedia, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, all of MagillOnLiterature Plus™, the Bloom Series of over 500 books from Chelsea House Publishers edited by Harold Bloom, complete content of hundred of literary journals, and hundreds of literary books from Taylor & Francis, ME Sharpe, Peter Lang, Oxford University Press and many other publishers.
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MAS Ultra: School Edition (for high school students) provides full text from over 515 periodicals covering general reference, health, science, and other areas. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for 581 magazines. Full text is also available for many biographies and primary source documents, pamphlets, reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book and World Almanac & Book of Facts), and an Image Collection of 91,000 photos, maps & flags.
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,950 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 nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,011 biographies, 83,472 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
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Materials Business File focuses on industry news, international trade data, government regulations and management issues related to the metals and materials industries. Citations for this database are pulled from 2,000 journals, plus patents, dissertations, government reports, conference proceedings, and books indexed by expert editors from Materials Information. Begun in 1985, Materials Business File is the database equivalent of the bulletins Steels Alert, Polymers/Ceramics/Composites Alert and Nonferrous Metals Alert. Together they cover new technologies, new materials and other industry developments reported in the press. The database is indexed using a master authority file of about 28,000 controlled-vocabulary terms.
Materials Business File focuses on industry news, international trade data, government regulations and management issues related to the metals and materials industries. Citations for this database are pulled from 2,000 journals, plus patents, dissertations, government reports, conference proceedings, and books indexed by expert editors from Materials Information. Begun in 1985, Materials Business File is the database equivalent of the bulletins Steels Alert, Polymers/Ceramics/Composites Alert and Nonferrous Metals Alert. Together they cover new technologies, new materials and other industry developments reported in the press. The database is indexed using a master authority file of about 28,000 controlled-vocabulary terms.
Index and summaries of articles and books on mathematical research. Includes or has links to full text.
CSA Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts provides citations,
abstracts, and indexing of the serials literature in mechanical and
transportation engineering and their complementary fields, including forensic
engineering, management and marketing of engineering services, engineering
education, theoretical mechanics and dynamics, and mathematics and computation.
This database provides in depth, comprehensive coverage of the international
engineering literature with the monitoring of over 2,600 serial titles as
well as numerous non-serial publications.
Many of the more recent records in the database include fields containing cited references, corresponding author’s e-mail address, and publisher contact information. All records are indexed using a controlled vocabulary of about 12,500 terms and each record is also assigned a classification code which makes the record retrievable by broad subject area. Furthermore, every source journal is assigned a level of coverage indicating its relevance to the engineering disciplines and this level of coverage is included in each record abstracted from that source publication.
Many of the more recent records in the database include fields containing cited references, corresponding author’s e-mail address, and publisher contact information. All records are indexed using a controlled vocabulary of about 12,500 terms and each record is also assigned a classification code which makes the record retrievable by broad subject area. Furthermore, every source journal is assigned a level of coverage indicating its relevance to the engineering disciplines and this level of coverage is included in each record abstracted from that source publication.
MedicLatina is a Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals.
Index and abstracts of journal articles in the health sciences. Includes or has links to full text.
Index to articles from international biomedical journals, 1953-1965. Includes or has links to full text.
Index and abstracts of journal articles in the health sciences. Includes or has links to full text.
MEDLINE with Full Text includes all of the content available in MEDLINE as well as cover-to-cover full text for 1,014 journals indexed as cover-to-cover in MEDLINE, including hundreds of journals not available as full text in any other EBSCO database.
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains fulltext information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks. This database product contains data from Yearbooks 9 through 15.
Business and financial information for investment research. Includes or has links to full text.
METADEX is the only comprehensive source for information on metals and alloys: their properties, manufacturing, applications, and development. Information from over 2,000 journals, plus patents, dissertations, government reports, conference proceedings, and books are indexed by expert editors from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. Begun in 1966, METADEX contains over 950,000 references and is the database equivalent of Metals Abstracts, Metals Abstracts Index, and Alloys Index. The database is indexed using a master authority file of about 28,000 controlled-vocabulary terms.
The importance of rapid access to patent literature for all engineering disciplines - and especially for the materials science and engineering fields - is widely recognized. To help you in keeping up with the latest patents related to materials science and engineering, your search of selected Cambridge Scientific Abstracts materials collection database now retrieves patents directly related to your area of interest from the MicroPatent Materials Patents database, in addition to our bibliographic records.
When you search related materials science databases, this supplemental database is searched simultaneously. If the search produces any matches to your regular IDS search, you will see the choice for "MicroPatent Materials Patents." By clicking on this choice, you will find abstracts of patents related to your IDS search.
The MicroPatent Materials Patents database supplements the Internet Database Service (IDS) by providing monthly updates of US, European (EP) and Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) patents that are directly related to your area of interest. The contents of the database are drawn from the MicroPatent database using a carefully structured series of searches. This supplemental database provides Materials Collection subscribers with the most up-to-date and efficient way of reviewing pertinent patent information. All databases related to engineering materials, materials development, properties, processing and engineering topics are covered by this feature. Databases that Provoke a Search in MicroPatent Materials Patents:
Aluminium Industry Abstracts
Ceramic Abstracts/World Ceramics Abstracts
Corrosion Abstracts
Engineered Materials Abstracts
Materials Business File
METADEX
WELDASEARCH
Aluminium Industry Abstracts
Ceramic Abstracts/World Ceramics Abstracts
Corrosion Abstracts
Engineered Materials Abstracts
Materials Business File
METADEX
WELDASEARCH
Middle Search Plus (for middle school students) provides full text from over 140 popular middle school magazines. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for over 170 magazines. Full text is also available for biographies, historical essays and student pamphlets. Additionally, Middle Search Plus contains primary source documents including Essential Documents in American History, reference books including the Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia and American Heritage® Dictionary, 4th Edition from Houghton Mifflin, the Encyclopedia of Animals and an Image Collection.
List of periodicals in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore that are covered regularly in the MLA International Bibliography.
Index to books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Includes or has links to full text.
Bibliography of books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in Ohio, 1796–1850.
The Music Index covers over 670 journal titles relating to music and the performing arts.
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The "NASW Register of Clinical Social Workers," provides a listing of clinical social workers who have met national standards for education and experience established by the NASW Competence Certification Commission on recommendation of the Committee on Clinical Social Work.
Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music.
Naxos Music Library Jazz is one of the most comprehensive collection of Jazz music available online. It offers close to 20,000* tracks of jazz from over 1,900* albums. Over 500* jazz artists are represented. Naxos Music Library Jazz comprises Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz. Naxos Jazz, along with Prophone and Proprius, brings you the world of international Jazz, covering Sweden and Scandinavian jazz artist. US-based Fantasy has the world's deepest jazz catalogue and offers the very best in blues and R&B. All these can be accessible from computers in academic libraries, home or office.
Online books on many subjects. For off-campus access, first create a personal netLibrary account while on campus.
Offers comprehensive coverage of a wide range of science-related fields and topics. Subjects of articles include botany, physics, evolution, nuclear power, mathematics and environmental studies.
The New York Times (1851-2004) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Online full-text newspapers, including 17 Ohio newspapers. Includes or has links to full text.
Newspaper Source contains selected full text for 245 regional U.S. newspapers, eighteen international newspapers, six newswires, nine newspaper columns, and cover-to-cover full text for The Christian Science Monitor and The Los Angeles Times. This database also contains indexing and abstracts for four national newspapers.
With digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
An illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2001
Historical dictionary of the English language.
Full text of about 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works from Oxford University Press.
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Index and abstracts of articles, books, government documents, and other literature on public affairs. Includes or has links to full text.
Index of papers presented at conferences.
Access to bibliographic and full-text patent databases of the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO).
The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.
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Polymer Library (formerly Rapra Abstracts) is the only database in the world which is dedicated exclusively to information on rubbers, plastics, adhesives and polymeric composites. There are more than 700,000 records in the database from 1972 to the present, covering commercial, marketing, technical and academic aspects of the rubber and plastics industry. Source material for the database is selected from more than 500 journals in a wide range of languages from 30 different countries including North America, Australia, Europe, Japan, and China. Source material is also collected from books, technical reports and trade literature. In 1994, patent information relating to rubber and plastics industries was added to the database.
Polymer Library (formerly Rapra Abstracts) is the only database in the world which is dedicated exclusively to information on rubbers, plastics, adhesives and polymeric composites. There are more than 700,000 records in the database from 1972 to the present, covering commercial, marketing, technical and academic aspects of the rubber and plastics industry. Source material for the database is selected from more than 500 journals in a wide range of languages from 30 different countries including North America, Australia, Europe, Japan, and China. Source material is also collected from books, technical reports and trade literature. In 1994, patent information relating to rubber and plastics industries was added to the database.
Polymers - A Property Database provides scientific and commercial information on polymers in a single, first-stop reference invaluable to anyone involved in polymer science and technology. It guides the user through the primary literature via reference citations and through the realm of supplier details by providing trade names and commercial product information.
The Previews Project is a web-based tool designed to facilitate the request, preview and evaluation of electronic resources by UA students, faculty and librarians. Access to the Previews Project website is restricted to UA users only.
Primary Search (for elementary school students) provides full text from 57 children’s magazines appropriate for elementary schools and children’s reading rooms. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for over 80 magazines. Other full text sources include: The World Almanac of the U.S.A. and The World Almanac for Kids; The Encyclopedia of Animals; Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia; and full text for over 100 pamphlets.
Index of conference proceedings.
Index, abstracts, and full text for professional educators. Includes or has links to full text.
Thousands of classic books from the start of this century and previouscenturies. This collection adds an electronic book per day to its list.
This database offers complete text and images from such journals as Nursing, Nursing Management, Nursing Economics, Nursing Forum, RN, Journal of Nursing Education, Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Researcher, and Nursing Diagnosis.
Index, abstracts, and full text covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Includes or has links to full text.
Index and abstracts of articles, books, chapters, dissertations, and reports in psychology. Includes or has links to full text.
Index and abstracts of historical psychological journals, 1872-1966.
PsycNet is a searchable interface to all APA databases and publications.
Government website of medical literature citations andlinks to full-text journals of participating publishers.Drawn primarily from MEDLINE and PREMEDLINE databases.
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Directory of over 11 million entries for U.S. businesses and professionals.
RefWorks is a Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds. To sign up for a RefWorks account, point your browser to https://www.refworks.com/Refworks/newuser.asp and view the quick start guide.
A full text newswire database that incorporates business wires from all over the world. Includes or has links to full text.
Index, abstracts, and full text covering such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Includes or has links to full text.
Index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion.
RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale) Abstracts of Music Literature published by Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, New York, contains records in over 100 languages; entries include original-language titles, title translations in English, full bibliographic information, and abstracts in English, as well as author, journal, and in-depth subject indexes. RILM currently contains nearly 400,000 entries.
Routledge Encyclopedia Of Philosophy Online expands this acclaimed Encyclopedia well beyond print reference boundaries. The full content of the classic 10-volume set remains at its core, but REP Online is also a living, growing resource designed to grow along with the discipline itself. Taking full advantage of the flexibility of the Web format, each year the REP editorial team brings a diverse range of new material, including newly commissioned entries by leading scholars, making REP Online the essential philosophy reference for faculty and students in a wide range of disciplines.
Index and abstracts in Slavic studies, covering articles, books, and other literature on social sciences and humanities.
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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, this collection is a cornerstone in the study of the western hemisphere.
Electronic books in computer science, information technology, and related fields.
Large-scale street plans of Ohio communities, produced by the Sanborn Fire Insurance company from 1867-1970.
Index, abstracts, and cited references for articles in the sciences. Includes or has links to full text.
Authoritative articles on all sciences by scientists who do the research reported. Edited for the interested layman. Features science and the citizen, computer reactions, the amateur scientists, reviews of current books in science and bibliographies.
SciFinder Scholar is the premier index with abstracts for the field of chemistry and related areas. Available for use in the Science & Technology Library, 104 Auburn Science and Engineering Center. UA faculty, students and staff may download SciFinder software for use on personal computers. You will need your UAnet ID and password to access the download. For additional information about Scifinder Scholar please visit http://gozips.uakron.edu/~bolek/scifind.htm
Catalog of auction catalogs of art objects and rare books.
Searchasaurus (for elementary and middle school students) is a colorful, easy-to-use search interface for elementary and middle school students. Searchasaurus provides access to magazine articles, pictures, encyclopedias, and a dictionary through an animated interface with a dinosaur theme that encourages students to enhance and develop basic search methodologies. Lexile limiters allow searchers to specify the reading level of materials retrieved.
Provides up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information and pricing for over 178,500 U.S. and international periodicals. Updated quarterly.
Lists approximately 7000 international institutions with holdings related to the performing arts, including information about special collections.
SimplyMap is a web-based mapping application that lets users quickly create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using powerful demographic, business, and marketing data. SimplyMap turns complex data into valuable information that is easily accessed through an innovative and user-friendly interface.
Index, abstracts, and cited references for articles in the social sciences. Includes or has links to full text.
The Social Work Abstracts database, produced by the National Association of Social Workers, Inc., contains more than 45,000 records, spanning 1977 to the present, from social work and other related journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization, and more.
SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 1,600,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 253 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers.
Index and abstracts to articles in sociology. Includes or has links to full text. Sociological Abstracts is no longer updated (1963-2005).
Index, abstracts, and full text covering sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure. Includes or has links to full text.
New developments in solid state and superconductivity technology will have a
profound impact on virtually every industry in the foreseeable future - with
far-reaching economic consequences. Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts
provides unparalleled access to current research and applications across the
field. The journal presents global coverage on all aspects of theory,
production, and application of solid state materials and devices - as well as
the new high- and low-temperature superconductivity technology, now highlighted
in every issue. Just a few of the topics covered include , phase, crystal, and
mechanical properties of solids , optical and dielectric properties ,
conductive and magnetic properties , exotic electronic structure and energy
gaps , SQUIDs , impurity effects , flux structures and critical current ,
ceramics , twinning phenomena, and more. Solid State focuses on problem solving
and commercially viable applications of the new high-tech advances. This
database provides international coverage with the monitoring of over 3,000
serial titles as well as numerous non-serial publications. The database is
indexed using a master authority file of about 28,000 controlled-vocabulary
terms.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text offers comprehensive, bibliographic and full text coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains over 230 full text titles. In addition, SPORTDiscus with Full Text also contains over 650,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800; over 20,000 dissertations and theses and reference to articles in 60 different languages. Click here for more info.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy includes articles on people, concepts, books, and other topics in philosophy. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a dynamic reference work. Each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field.
Summaries of research of the 50 state academies of sciences.
Economic, business, and international trade information from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Includes or has links to full text.
Student Research Center (grades 6-12) is a search interface designed for students in grades 6 through 12. SRC provides students in secondary schools with the most appropriate research tools to easily obtain the information that they need from their EBSCO databases.
Students can easily pre-determine which content sources (e.g., Magazines, Newspapers, Biographies, Country Reports, Film & Video) will be included with their search. They can also search their databases by topic heading, make use of an online dictionary and encyclopedia, explore the top searches of the day, and even limit their search according to appropriate Lexile reading levels.
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Thomas Register is a comprehensive online resource for finding companies and products manufactured in North America.
Thomson ONE Banker is a revolutionary desktop solution that flexibly delivers the critical information and analysis tools investment banking professionals need-via one complete and intuitive interface. Whether you're an information professional or investment banker, Thomson ONE Banker provides access to relevant real-time global market data, news, and authoritative content from industry-leading sources. Thomson ONE Banker streamlines the investment banking workflow and enables you to make well-informed decisions with confidence.
Full text covering social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. Includes or has links to full text.
A full compilation of papers since the 1996 series of the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (TRR Journal) is accessible electronically. TRB's journal contains technical papers prepared by researchers that are peer-reviewed by TRB committee members. Included are selected papers from the TRB Annual Meetings, along with some papers from other sources and conferences.
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References to books, technical reports, conference proceedings, journal articles and on-going research in the field of transportation.
References to books, technical reports, conference proceedings, journal articles and on-going research in the field of transportation.
12,000 poems and with biographical profiles by more than 100 African-American poets. Includes or has links to full-text.
Over 52,000 works from more than 316 poets. Includes or has links to full-text.
Over 44,000 poems by 288 poets. Includes or has links to full-text
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Online version of the 28-volume printed encyclopedia.
Catalog of journals held by libraries worldwide.
The Electronic Text Center's holdings include approximately 70,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in thirteen languages.
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Vente et Gestion provides full text coverage for French language business journals serving both the academic and the professional researcher. This collection also includes publications covering topics such as accounting & tax, administration, industry & manufacturing, marketing, logistics, technology and others.
Index, abstracts, and full text for 350 trade and industry related periodicals. Includes or has links to full text.
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Weldasearch is a comprehensive database containing abstracts to journal articles, research reports, books, standards, patents, theses and special publications in the areas of joining metals, plastics and ceramics, metal and ceramic spraying, thermal cutting, brazing, soldering and related topics. Every aspect of welding and allied processes is covered including design, metallurgy, fatigue and fracture mechanics, equipment for joining and cutting processes, corrosion, surfacing, micro joining, quality control, nondestructive testing, safety, commercial applications, market statistics and news of the industry.
Weldasearch is a comprehensive database containing abstracts to journal articles, research reports, books, standards, patents, theses and special publications in the areas of joining metals, plastics and ceramics, metal and ceramic spraying, thermal cutting, brazing, soldering and related topics. Every aspect of welding and allied processes is covered including design, metallurgy, fatigue and fracture mechanics, equipment for joining and cutting processes, corrosion, surfacing, micro joining, quality control, nondestructive testing, safety, commercial applications, market statistics and news of the industry.
Women’s Studies International, produced by NISC, covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Coverage includes more than 548,220 records and spans from 1972 and earlier to present. This database supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education. Over 2,000 periodical sources are represented.
Full text of several World Almanac publications.
World Data Analyst Online lets users analyze countries and regions at a glance. World Data Analyst offers detailed statistical comparisons of countries around the world, using both the most recent statistics and historical figures. Users can create tables, charts, and even export the information to a spreadsheet for printing and data crunching.
WDI Online is the premiere data source on the global economy. It contains statistical data for over 600 development indicators and time series data from 1960-2004 (selected data for 2005) for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators. Data selection screens are intuitive and easy to use. Results can be scaled, indexed against a particular year, viewed by percentage change, and charted. These features plus data export options in standard formats like Excel make WDI Online the most useful tool yet for researching developmental data.
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The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online provides annotated entries for all important 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 1965 and early 2004. The scope is international, with coverage extending to more than 118 languages and representing every country in North America, South America, and Europe, and nearly every country in Asia, Africa, and Australasia. The more than 97,679 records in this version cite several hundred thousand additional reviews of books, productions, films, and audio recordings.
The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online provides annotated entries for all important 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 1965 and early 2004. The scope is international, with coverage extending to more than 118 languages and representing every country in North America, South America, and Europe, and nearly every country in Asia, Africa, and Australasia. The more than 97,679 records in this version cite several hundred thousand additional reviews of books, productions, films, and audio recordings.
A combined catalog of libraries from around the world. When you find an item you want, check to see if it is available in the UA Libraries Catalog or OhioLINK. If not, request the item with ILLiad.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts is no longer updated; the 1975-2006 material will remain in place indefinitely. You may wish to search: International Politcal Science Abstracts.
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The complete work of William Butler Yeats. Includes or has links to full text.