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LexisNexis academic
Provider: LN
Full-text of thousands of newspapers, magazines, news transcripts, reference works, and legal materials. Includes NY Times (1980-current)
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971 - present.
WorldCat
Provider: OCLC
A catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials held by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries. Includes manuscripts, maps, films and sound recordings. Covers works published before 1,000 BC-present.
Credo reference
Provides full-text access to over 240 reference books, encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations, etc., in various fields including art, law, literature, social sciences, and technology. Formerly known as Xrefer Plus.
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Access world news
Provider: NewsBank
Newspaper collections from NewsBank provide full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for more than 700 newspapers around the globe, including the NY Times (2000-present). Database covers 1977-present.
Alternative press index
Provides abstracts to alternative news sources including radical and left journals, newspapers and magazines. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary. Covers 1991- present. Alternative Press Index Archive, a companion database covers 1969-1990.
Alternative press index archive
Alternative Press Index Archive is a comprehensive guide to alternative sources of information published from 1969-1990. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary. Indexes alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Alternative Press Index provides coverage from 1991-present.
Article first
Provides citation information to articles from a variety of journals in business, the humanities, medicine, science, social science, and technology. Provides a list of libraries that have the journal title for most items. Covers 1990-present.
Arts & humanities citation index
Provider: FirstSearch
Citations to more than 1,300 arts and humanities journals and to relevant articles on arts and humanities in over 5,800 social science and science journals. Records include articles, bibliographies, editorials and reviews. Covers 1980-present.
Biography and genealogy master index
Provides citations to reference sources and important retrospective works that cover individuals both living and deceased from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.
Biography resource center
Provides access to biographical sources on over 325,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals.
Book review digest.
Publisher: [Bronx, N.Y.] : H.W. Wilson Co., 1906-
Provides abstracts and citations to reviews of English language adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction titles. Reviews are selected from journals in the humanities, sciences, social sciences and library science fields. Covers 1983-present.
Book review index
Provider: Gale
A comprehensive online guide to book reviews with over five million review citations from thousands of publications. Covers 1965-present.
Books in print
Lists U.S. books in print, out-of-print, and forthcoming. Includes audio and video titles and full-text books reviews. Covers 19th century-present.
Britannica online
Offers a fully searchable and browsable collection of authoritative reference sources,including Britannica's entire encyclopaedic database, articles not yet in the print Britannica encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica book of the year. Current Coverage.
Directory of open access journals
Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Aims to cover all subjects and languages.
Dissertation abstracts online
Provides citations to approximately 99 percent of all American dissertations accepted at an accredited institution since 1861, when U.S. academic doctoral degrees were first granted. Masters theses selectively included since 1962. Includes abstracts for doctoral dissertations published since July 1980. Some Canadian dissertations and an increasing number of papers accepted in institutions abroad are also included. Professional (M.D., LL.D.)and honorary degrees not included. Covers 1861-present.
Ebrary
Academic Complete includes more than 30,000 current e-books from leading publishers. It spans all subjects, including business and economics (4,500 titles); computers and information technology (3,000 titles); education (2,100 titles); engineering and technical fields (2,400 titles); health and biomedical sciences (2,100 titles); history and the humanities (6,300 titles); life and physical sciences (2,400 titles); social and behavioral sciences (5,100 titles); and reference books and maps (2,100 titles)
Ingenta
Provides citations and abstracts from scientific, professional and academic journals. Offers search interface for MEDLINE, UnCover, and online articles found in "Ingenta journals." Most articles are available in full-text to registered users, via fee-based document delivery options.
JSTOR
Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
Library and information science abstracts
Provider: CSA
Provides bibliographic citations and abstracts in topics related to librarianship, information science, and technology. Covers 1969-
Library, information science & technology abstracts
Publisher: Ispwich, Mass. : EBSCO Pub., 2005-
Contains abstracts and full text of journal articles, books, research reports, and proceedings relating to all areas of library and information science. Covers 1964 - present.
NetLibrary
Searchable collection of current electronic books from university and commercial publishers and electronic books in the public domain.
OCLC FirstSearch electronic collections online
Oxford English Dictionary
Contains the complete text of the 20-volume OED, 2nd edition, published in 1989. Presents the words that have formed the English vocabulary from the time of the earliest records down to the present day, with all the relevant facts concerning their form, sense, history, pronunciation, and etymology. Coverage current.
PapersFirst
Provides citations to papers included in every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library. Covers October 1993-present.
Pennsylvania Newspaper Record
Contains full-text transcriptions of articles, advertisements and statistics from newspapers published in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Covers works published from 1819-1870.
Periodical Abstracts
Provides abstracts of general and academic journals covering business, current affairs, economics, literature, religion, psychology, women's studies, and other fields. Covers 1987-present.
Periodicals index online (Chadwyck)
Index to journal articles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, including some published as far back as 1770. Includes periodicals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages.
PerseĢe
Provides full-text online versions of back issues of selected French journals in the humanities and social sciences.
Polling the nations
A compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries from 1986 to the present. All the surveys reported were conducted using scientifically selected random samples. Covers 1986-present.
ProceedingsFirst
Provides citations of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition,workshop and meeting received at the British Library. Covers October 1993-present.
Project Muse
Provides access to journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Disciplines covered are humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
RLG union catalog (RLIN)
A comprehensive database that provides citations to books, journals archives,maps, sound recordings,films,computer files and more. Reflects the collections of major research libraries, archives, museums, law, medical, and theological libraries; public and corporate libraries; and historical societies.
Science citation index
Cited references, bibliographic information, and selected abstracts of scholarly research articles published in over 5,300 scientific and technical journals.
ScienceDirect
Provides full-text,online access to journal articles in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. Full-text is available only for journals to which the TriColleges subscribe. Full-text access for most journals goes back to 1993. Abstracts are available for non-subscribed journals.
Social sciences citation index
Holdings:
HC: 1997- ; BMC: 1956- ; SC: 1956-
Publisher: Philadelphia : Institute for Scientific Information.
"An international multidisciplinary index to the literature of the social, behavioral and related sciences."
Web of science
Provider: ISI
Provides access to the citation indexes: Social Sciences Citation Index and Science Citation Index. These multidisciplinary databases can be searched by subject, author, and journal title. Articles that cite a known author or work can also be searched. Cited reference searching helps identify more recent articles on the same topic. Science citation index coverage: BMC: 1955-present; HC: 1972-present; SC: 1984-present. Social sciences citation index coverage: BMC: 1956-present; HC: 1997-present; SC: 1956-present.
World almanacs
Includes the contents of: the World Almanac and Book of Facts, the World Almanac of the U.S.A., the World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and the World Almanac for Kids. Biographies, encyclopedia entries and statistics are also included. Covers 1998-present.