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Provides a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary database with full-text, peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, and searchable cited references for nearly 1,000 journals.

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Contains current photos and a selection of pictures from the large image, print and negative library of the Associated Press. Now includes AP graphics files. [Does not include the audio and text files]. Allows one user at a time.

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Indexes alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines covering cultural, economic, political and social change. Provides alternative viewpoints on internationally significant subjects.

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Indexes alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines covering cultural, economic, political and social change. Provides alternative viewpoints on internationally significant subjects.

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Includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure's. etc.

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Indexes articles, news stories, letters and other items listed on the table of contents pages of journals.

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Focuses on disciplines of study within associate degrees and certification programs. Areas explored include accounting, agricultural sciences, child care services, cosmetology, culinary arts, forestry, food service management, graphic arts, hair dressing, hospitality management, interior design, journalism, plumbing, heating & air conditioning, veterinary technology and welding to name a few.

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Contains information for international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations.

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Indexes current reference sources and retrospective works that provide information about individuals, living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.

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Accesses Bowker's Books In Print database of in-print, out-of-print and forthcoming books, audio books and videos that are available in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. Includes many full-text reviews.

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Provides full text for journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

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Consists of databases in mostly scientific fields including life sciences, environmental and aquatic sciences, computer sciences, materials sciences and engineering, aerospace, as well as social sciences and humanities.

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Indexes Latin American journals in the social sciences and humanities, and science and technology. Offers access to bibliographic citations from documents published in scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.

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Abstracts journal articles and links to Internet resources on consumerism and consumer protection.

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Contains author, title, and subject guide information for most American dissertations; contains a guide to theses since 1962 and abstracts for theses since 1980.

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Contains many full-text doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Also indexes dissertations and theses back to 1861. A subset of this database is Dissertations & Theses @ ODU, which allows you to access the citations and abstracts of all ODU student dissertations and theses, as well as the full text in PDF format, when available.

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Provides access to a wide variety of rare newspapers and periodicals for the study of all aspects of the eighteenth century. Collection I, covering 1693-1793, is from the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Collection II, 1699-1812, is from the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.

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Provides current and retrospective news stories, periodical articles, and company and industry financial data covering virtually every subject category.

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Group of databases covering science, social science, humanities and business.

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Provides a collection of scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain. All major subject areas are covered with particular emphasis on agriculture, biological sciences, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public administration, religion, and sociology.

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Contains encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. For some titles there may be a more recent edition in print format.

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Accesses Bowker's Books In Print database of in-print, out-of-print and forthcoming books, audio books and videos that are available in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. Includes many full-text reviews.

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Contains current articles, news summaries, broadcasts and transcripts from hundreds of international sources. All articles are in English and are from translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, wire services, newspapers, magazines, and government documents. Allows a maximum of 14 users at a time.

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Contains scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies.

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Provides a scholarly journal archive for full text journals through the following collections: Arts & Sciences, Biological Sciences, Health & General Sciences, Language & Literature, Life Sciences. The JSTOR Arts and Sciences I-IV Collection is funded through the generous support of the Friends of the Library.

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Provides full-text documents from business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options.

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Provides access to general periodicals covering business, education, health, science and more, reference books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts, biographies, primary source documents, Magill Book Reviews, as well as an image collection of photos, maps and flags.

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Provides access to America's Historical Newspapers (1690-1922), American Broadsides and Ephemera (1760-1900), American State Papers (1789-1838), U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817-1980) and Global NewsBank, and also highlights major news events with special reports collections with news, maps, etc. Allows a maximum of 14 users at a time.

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Provides a group of databases, including Biosis Previews, Evidence Based Medicine Reviews, Health and Psychosocial Instruments, Philosopher's Index, and Zoological Record.

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Includes the electronic version of the 2nd edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, along with quarterly updates.

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Provides searchable database of journals from science, technical, professional, medical, humanities, arts and social science disciplines, including many full text articles.

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Contains dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, plus more detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series.

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Indexes papers from every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop, and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.

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Indexes proceedings of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library.

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Contains many full-text doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Also indexes dissertations and theses back to 1861. A subset of this database is Dissertations & Theses @ ODU, which allows you to access the citations and abstracts of all ODU student dissertations and theses, as well as the full text in PDF format, when available.

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Indexes major journals across many scientific disciplines. Search for articles by topic, author, source title, or author address. Includes Cited Reference Search that finds articles that have cited specific works by an author.

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Indexes high-quality, peer-reviewed research journals in the sciences and includes links to many full text articles.

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Indexes journals across social science disciplines, and indexes individually selected, relevant items from the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Includes Cited Reference Search that finds articles that have cited specific works by an author.

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Provides detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on periodicals published throughout the world.

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Provides access to the online version of Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present) as part of the ISI Web of Knowledge.

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Contains biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts and statistics on a wide range of subjects.

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Contains records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 11th century.

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