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|   |  | Academic Search Premier | | Academic institutions worldwide depend on this database for their core resource of scholarly information. Academic Search™ Elite contains full text for 1,839 journals. The database includes PDF images for the great majority of journals; many of these PDF's are native (searchable) or scanned-in-color. The diverse content is a valuable resource for your library, supporting core curriculum degree requirements and elective classes. This scholarly collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, etc.
"Academic Search Elite is a user-friendly, flexible, and customizable system for researchers and librarians. Very highly recommended for all libraries." Christine K. Oka, Bibliographic Services, Northeastern University - from Library Journal, June 15,1999. |
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|   | |     | Education |
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|   |  | ERIC | | ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information, citations, abstracts and full text articles from over 980 educational and education-related journals. |
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|   |  | Professional Development Collection | | Professional Development Collection™ provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers. This collection offers information on everything from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice. Professional Development Collection includes full text for Chronicle of Higher Education, Educational Leadership, Journal of Education, Journal of Higher Education, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Theory Into Practice, and nearly 520 high quality education journals. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. |
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|   |  | Education Research Complete (with ERIC) | | Education Research Complete is the most authoritative online resource for education research. This massive file offers the world's largest and most complete collection of full-text education journals. It is a bibliographic and full-text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.
Education Research Complete also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,100 journals, as well as full text for nearly 1,300 journals. This database also includes full text for more than 550 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers. |
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|   |  | Art & Architecture Complete | | Art & Architecture Complete™ is the definitive research database for the study of art and architecture. This database provides full-text coverage of more than 330 periodicals and 215 books. In addition, Art & Architecture Complete offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for nearly 730 academic journals, magazines and trade publications. The database also provides selective coverage for more than 70 additional publications and an Image Collection of over 64,000 images provided by Picture Desk and others.
Art & Architecture Complete has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes art scholars, artists, designers, college students, and general researchers.
This database covers a wide variety of pertinent subjects, including antiques, art and art history, interior and landscape design, and much more. |
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|   | |     | Business |
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|   |  | Business Source Premier | | Business Source® Elite provides full text coverage of scholarly business, management and economics journals. This rich collection also includes publications covering topics such as accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales, etc. Business Source Elite offers full text for 1,113 business publications and will soon contain expanded PDF backfiles for 150 titles (back to 1985 or the first issue published for that journal). 5,000 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included. |
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|   |  | Regional Business News | | Regional Business News provides full text for more than 50 regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). |
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|   | |     | Medical |
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|   |  | CINAHL Plus with Full Text | | The CINAHL database is the authoritative source of information for the professional literature of nursing, allied health, biomedicine, and healthcare. For nearly forty years the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature® print index has indexed English-language and selected foreign-language journals covering nursing and other specialised health care areas.
The database also includes relevant materials from seventeen allied health disciplines, plus biomedicine, management, behavioural sciences, health sciences librarianship, education, and consumer health. The CINAHL database provides references to books, book chapters, pamphlets, audiovisuals, dissertations, educational software, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, nurse practice acts,
critical paths, and research instruments. |
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|   |  | PRE - CINAHL | | A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to searchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing. This enables users to gain access to article citations that otherwise would not be available. Once the bibliographic records are complete, they are added to the CINAHL database and removed from Pre-CINAHL.
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Medicine, Nursing, and Health
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A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to searchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing. This enables users to gain access to article citations that otherwise would not be available. Once the bibliographic records are complete, they are added to the CINAHL database and removed from Pre-CINAHL. |
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|   | |     | Library Science |
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|   |  | Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) | | Is a free database accessible by anyone interested in libraries and information management. This world-class bibliographic database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieva |
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