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Hand Press Books is a a catalog of European printing in the early modern era (from the 15th century  to the 1830s). HPBD is created by the Consortium of European Research Libraries, whose members represent national and university library in 25 countries. Some citations include copy specific information, including donor, previous owner, and more. This database supports research in intellectual history, social history, and transmission of thought, as well as in the history of printing and the history of the book.
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The Handbook of Latin American Studies (Online) is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources. With the introduction of HLAS Online, the Handbook becomes available in three formats: the original print volumes, now published by the University of Texas Press; the CD-ROM produced and updated by the Fundación Histórica TAVERA (Madrid, Spain); and this Internet version. Updated weekly, HLAS Online provides rapid, comprehensive access to future, current, and retrospective volumes of the Handbook.
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HarpWeek: The Civil War Era contains Civil War era (1857-1865) editions of Harper's Weekly , a leading, national weekly during the second half of the nineteenth-century. The full-text database includes stories, illustrations, book revies, serialized novels, advertising and maps from the weekly.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 650 journals. This database is updated on a  daily basis.
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Hispanic American Periodicals Index contains article citations from more than 400 scholarly journals published in Latin America or addressing Latin American and U.S. Hispanic topics. Coverage begins in 1970, and the database is updated annually with about 9,000 new records each year.
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Historic and Archival Images (world accessible) This collection includes 300 photographs of the Wright family and of the Wrights' flying exhibitions in Europe and the United States. The collection provides thorough coverage of the Wrights' early inventive period documenting their early gliders and flight testing in both North Carolina and Ohio.
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Historical Abstracts provides historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). The coverage from approximately 2,000 journals is from 1969 to present. The publisher, ABC-CLIO, is planning online access to pre 1969 citations in the near future.
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History of Science, Technology and Medicine incorporates Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, and the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia dells Scienza. Citations reflect the contents of more than 1,000 journals, and partial contents of several hundred more. Coverage is from 1976 to date. The database is updated annually, adding about 9,500 reords each year.
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Humanities International Complete provides 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 Humanities International Index (over 1.6 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. Humanities International Complete is an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought. Humanities International Complete is an essential collection for comprehensive coverage of the humanities with full text content.
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Images. MD Images.MD, the online encyclopedia of medical images, 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.
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In the First Person is a landmark index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. Working with archives, repositories, publishers, and individuals the database has indexed first person narratives from hundreds of published volumes—those that are publicly available on the Web and those that are held by repositories and archives around the world. The intent is to make it possible to find and explore the voices of more than 300,000 individuals.
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Index to Hispanic Legislation (World Law Index, Part 1) describes the national laws, decrees, decree-laws, and regulations of the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking nations of Latin America plus Haiti, Brazil, the Philippines, Portugal, Spain, and nations from the Portuguese-African region. Over 40 nations are represented. Subject coverage is comprehensive, from 1976 through 1997, with more than 60,000 records.
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Index to Nineteenth-Century American Art Periodicals is the only online index to art periodicals that were published in the United States during the 19th century. The journals indexed represent a nearly complete coverage of art journals from this period. Since entire journal contents are indexed — articles, art notes, illustrations, stories, poems, and advertisements — the index is a valuable source of information on popular culture and industry, as well as artists and illustrators, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture and design, exhibitions and sales, decoration, and collecting. The database includes nearly 27,000 records. Connect to:  Index to Nineteenth-Century American Art Periodicals

Inspec indexes over 4000 scientific and technical journals and some 2000 conference proceedings, as well as numerous books, reports and dissertations. In addition to comprehensive indexing of the literature in physics, electrical/electronic enginnering, computing, control enginnering and information technology, it also has significant coverage in areas such as materials science, oceanography, nuclear enginnering, geophysics, biomedical engineering and biophysics.
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Inspec Archives 1898-1986 provides electronic access to Science Abstracts Journals 1898-1968. The Inspec Archive covers over 70 years of international scientific and te  chnical literature in physics, electrical and electronic engineering, and computing and control engineering. For more details see the Inspec Archives web site
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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. IPI serves as a valuable addition to EBSCO's business coverage, and will interest researchers in economics, social scientists, and insurance and government organizations. Coverage dates as far back as 1965 and features a controlled vocabulary of index terms which reflect current industry terminology.
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I.S.I. (Institute for Scientific Information ) Citation Database is the combined title for Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index. These citation databases are also know as the Web of Science.  The Web of Science is a subset of the I.S.I Web of Knowledge. ISI Citation Databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. It is indexed so that you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work.
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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 contains over 110,000 records from nearly 900 journals published from 1989 to the present. Approximately 8,000 new records are added to the database each year.
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Inter-Play provides access to the locations of printed plays in collections, anthologies and periodicals. Most of the plays cited are not indexed in the standard printed play indexes such as Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections or H. W. Wilson's Play Index. For plays by the most familiar authors (e.g. Shakespeare), you should also consult your local library's catalog. Approximately 16,130 locations are currently cited to plays in many languages. Separately-published plays are not included as these may also be located through local library catalogs. Inter-Play is updated frequently in order to include recent publications.
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JSTOR (Journal Storage Project) assists academic libraries in archiving and preserving major scholarly journals. The JSTOR project provides complete electronic backfiles of core journals in a variety of subjects. Full text coverage begins at the first issue of each journal and usually ends within five years of the present. Recently published issues are not available. Disciplines include anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, and sociology. You may search the entire database, search selected journals, or browse journal tables-of -contents.
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LANDSAT 7 Satellite Images provides digital snapshots of Ohio from space. Images of Ohio are available for download or web viewing. Several views are provided, including infrared and true color composite. New imagery is available every 16 days.
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 LearningExpress Library offers students and adults unlimited, 24/7 access to targeted skill-building interactive courses in math, reading, and writing, as well as hundreds of online interactive practice tests that prepare them for several types of exams including grade school achievement tests, the SAT, GED, U.S. Citizenship, and civil service positions. Complete answer explanations accompany each response so that patrons understand why a particular answer is correct or incorrect. All practice tests include instant diagnostic score reports that help patrons to target those skill areas that need the most attention. To help students master the SAT and recently added essay, instant score reports provide immediate feedback on how well they performed in each of five writing skill areas.LearningExpress Library can be accessed from any web-enabled computer in the library, computer lab, office, or home.To take a test at LearningExpress Library, you first set up your own individual account. Note: You must set up your account while at an authenticating site (on campus or at an Ohio public library or school). Thereafter, the account is accessible from anywhere.
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Legal Collection is a collection of respected, scholarly peer-reviewed publications including law journals, documents, and case studies. This database is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world. Legal Collection offers full text for nearly 250 of the world's best law journals. This database provides information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment and much more. Full text journals contained in this database include: American Journal of Criminal Law, California Law Review, and many more. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1965.
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The Lexi-PALS Drug Guide is a database of Patient Advisory Leaflets from Lexi-Comp that provides vital education on medications for patients. The approach for each pamphlet is to present each medication in an easy to follow and understand question-and-answer format. The database consists of over 1,450 medication and natural product leaflets, with an additional 600 Spanish language leaflets representing the most subscribed and commonly used medications.

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LexisNexis Academic contains general news and reference information, as well as legislative, legal, business, financial, health, medical and statistics. Updated daily.
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Lexis-Nexis Congressional offers access to a variety of information by and about the United States Congress. Congressional Universe provides access to: Congressional publications from1970 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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LGBT Life with full text contains all of the content available in LGBT Life as well as full text for 50 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens of full text monographs. The database includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBT Thesaurus containing over 6,300 terms. Full text content available in LGBT Life with Full Text includes The Advocate, Gay Parent Magazine, Girlfriends, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies, James White Review, ISNA News, Ladder, Lesbian Tide, New York Blade, ONE, Tangents, Washington Blade, and many more.
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Library Literature and Information Science indexes key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Books, chapters within books, conference proceedings, selected state journals, library school theses, and pamphlets are also indexed. List of journals indexed.
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Literary Reference Center (Ebsco) is a comprehensive literary reference database that provides a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else
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Literature Resource Center (Gale) provides information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more. Some of the sources it draws from are Dictionary ofLiterary Biography, Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, 19th Century Literature, 20th Century Literature, and Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. In addition it provides links to online articles from 74 literary journals and over 5,000 websites
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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.
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MasterFILE Premier (popular magazines) provides full text for more than 1,900 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for over 2,510 periodicals. The database also contains full text for reference and travel books; biographies; primary source documents; and an image college of photos, maps, and flags.
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Math/Sci/Net provides access to Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications beginning in 1940 and continuing to the present. Mathematical Reviews provides timely reviews or summaries of articles and books that contain new contributions to mathematical research. MR covers articles and books in applied areas that contain new mathematical results or give novel and interesting applications of known mathematics. The full text of all reviews from 1940 to the present is and items listed in the annual indexes of Mathematical Reviews but not given an individual review are also included. Current Mathematical Publications is a subject index of bibliographic data for recent and forthcoming publications. Most items are later reviewed in Mathematical Reviews. All items in Mathematical Reviews appear first in Current Mathematical Publications. The database is updated daily.
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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 in native Spanish. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. A wide range of topics are covered including neuroscience, cardiology, nephrology, biomedicine, clinical research, pediatrics, human reproduction, clinical pathology, cancer research, and hematology. Publications covered in this database include Revista Medica del IMSS, Revista Mexicana de Patologia Clinica, Boletin Medico del Hospital Infantil de Mexico, Archivos de Neurociencias, Revista Biomedica, Veterinaria Mexico, Salud Publica de Mexico, ACIMED, and more.
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 MEDLINE 2002- (current) - contains the most current years of the National Library of Medicine's online database of references to journal articles in the health sciences. Coverage of basic research and the clinical sciences is broad, and includes medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Information in the database comes from 3,900 journals in 40 different languages. More than half of these journals are published in the United States, and almost 90% of the current references are to articles in English.
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 MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's online database of references to journal articles in the health sciences. Coverage of basic research and the clinical sciences is broad, and includes medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Information in the database comes from 3,900 journals in 40 different languages. More than half of these journals are published in the United States, and almost 90% of the current references are to articles in English. Historical citations (1950-1965) are included if they have been updated to current Medical Subject Headings. For all historical citations, see MEDLINE 1950-1965 ("oldmedline")
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MEDLINE 1950-1965 (oldmedline) contains citations to articles from international biomedical journals covering the fields of medicine, preclinical sciences, and allied health sciences. The citations were originally printed in hardcopy indexes published from 1953 through 1965. OLDMEDLINE contains only journal article citations. No abstracts are available.  For citations since 1966 see MEDLINE.
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Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. First published by Oscar K. Buros, the MMY series allows users to make knowledgeable judgments and informed selection decisions about the increasingly complex world of testing. MMY provides coverage from Volume 9 to the present.  

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 Mergent Online provides business information, including financial reports, company news and securities data. Mergent Online contains company data and annual reports for both U.S. and international companies. U.S. company data includes SEC (EDGAR) filings. Mergent Online is the successor to FISonline, which was created when Mergent acquired the Financial Information Services division of Moody’s® Investors Service.
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Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary The tenth edition of a standard dictionary.
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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.
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MLA Directory of Periodicals, produced by the Modern Language Association of America, lists over 4400 periodicals in the areas of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore that are covered regularly in the MLA International Bibliography. The directory provides addresses, advertising rates, and information about submissions for publication.
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MLA International Bibliography provides a classified listing and subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. In annually indexes more that 45,000 books and articles. A product of the Modern Language Association of America, the database covers 1963 to the present and is updated ten times each year.
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NASW Clinical Register 2001 is a listing of registered social workers, including their address and phone number, education and specialization, type of practice, and license information.
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NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology) and its search engine Entrez offer a single source for searching numerous databases in the life sciences.

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Natural & Alternative Treatments contains detailed information on more than 180 different conditions and the conventional and natural treatments used to treat them, over 200 herbs and supplements, plus drug-herb and drug-supplement interactions for more than 75 drug categories.
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Naxos Music Library is  a comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Users can also read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in the database.
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NIAAA -- ETOH Database is the most comprehensive online bibliographic database containing over 100,000 records on alcohol abuse and alcoholism. ETOH is updated monthly and contains research findings from the late 1960s to the present, as well as historical research literature.
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The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is one of the most extensive sources of information on criminal and juvenile justice in the world, providing services to an international community of policymakers and professionals. NCJRS is a collection of clearinghouses supporting all bureaus of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs: the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Office for Victims of Crime, and the OJP Program Offices. It also supports the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
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New Testament Abstracts is a product of a partnership between ATLA and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology. The database has become an indispensable research and bibliographic aid for scholars, librarians, clergy and students of the New Testament and its historical milieu. The database contains more than 38,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 13,500 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts.
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New York Times (Historical) includes every page of every issue of The New York Times from 1851-2004. The New York Times is the paper of record for the United States and the definitive voice of American journalism since 1851. This is an unparalleled source of history as it was reported and is an excellent source of historical information on nearly every topic. You may expect to find national, international, and local news, photographs, maps, editorials, advertisements, obituaries, and book reviews.
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 NewsBank News is a collection of full-text newspapers available online. The database includes 17 Ohio newspapers, plus other major newspapers from other states. Content includes local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.
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Newspaper Source provides selected full text coverage for more than 240 newspapers and other sources. This collection includes cover-to-cover full text for USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor and The Times (London) as well as selected full text from more than 180 regional newspapers including: Boston Globe, Detroit Free Press, Houston Chronicle, Miami Herald, San Jose Mercury News, etc. Full text transcripts are also included from Face the Nation, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, 60 Minutes, O'Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes, CNN, CNBC, National Public Radio (NPR), etc
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Official Documents of the United Nations (ODS) covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Older UN documents are added on a daily basis. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards.
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OhioLINK is an online catalog of more 30 million items held in over 86 Ohio college and university libraries. Use OhioLINK to search for and request items online. Updated daily.
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Old Testament Abstracts is a product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Biblical Association. The database features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. Abstracts from over 450 journals are included. All abstracts are in English, regardless of the language of the original work. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and much more. Coverage in the database dates back to 1978.
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Oxford Art Online is an innovative new gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location. With the 2007 complete redesign of Grove Art Online, as well as the addition of substantial new Oxford reference content, Oxford Art Online offers the most extensive and easily searchable online art resource available today, a virtual art reference library of unparalleled scope and depth.
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Oxford English Dictionary is a historical dictionary of the English Language from the Middle Ages to the present. It lists all English words (about one million - over twice as many as any other dictionary) and defines their meanings at specific times in history, showing how meanings have changed over time. One of the Oxford English Dictionary's important features is the quotation that illustrates the use of the word and indicates the date it was first used in print.
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Oxford Reference Online provides full text of about 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works from Oxford University Press.
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Oxford Music Online is a new gateway that offers users the ability to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online, has been completely redesigned with a number of functional enhancements and new content.
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 Oxford Scholarship Online is a cross-searchable library containing the full text of over 1,150 Oxford books in the areas of Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion. Specially-commissioned abstracts and keywords are available at book and chapter level, and up to 200 new and recently-published books are added each year.
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PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) covers the literature of public affairs -- current issues and actions which affect the world communities, countries, people and governments. PAIS concentrates on topics that are or might become the subject of legislation. It references more than 425,000 international journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, research and conference reports, publications of international agencies, Internet sites and more. It is updated monthly.
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Papers_First contains citations to papers included in every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library.
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PBS Video Database of America's History & Culture includes access to hundreds of video volumes on American History and Culture indexed into more than 37,000 program segments.
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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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Physical Education Index entires are indexed and classified from peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications. . PEI abstracts feature a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, health education, kinesiology, motor learning, physical therapy, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology.
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Population Index includes 42,000 citations related to population studies from the Population Index database from 1986-present.
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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.
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Proceedings_First includes citations of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library.
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Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection covers emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. This database includes nearly 515 full text titles and over 490 peer-reviewed journals.
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PsycINFO, 1887 to the present, provides worldwide coverage to literature in psychology and related disciplines, from more than 1,300 journals, dissertations, and book chapters. Updated quarterly.
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PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
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Religion and Philosophy Collection provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of  philosophy. Religion & Philosophy Collection offers nearly 300 full text journals, including nearly 250 peer-reviewed titles,   making it an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies. This database is updated  daily via EBSCOhost.
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is an international bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines. RILM provides a broad, international coverage and concise abstracts. All scholarly works are indexed (articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, Festschriften, films and videos, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings, conference proceedings, reviews, etc.).  Concert reviews, recording notes, pedagogical manuals, etc. are indexed if they are of  scholarly interest.
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Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies describes material on the social sciences and humanities published in the Commonwealth of Independent States and Eastern Europe — books, manuscripts, dissertations, and articles from more than 10,000 periodicals. More than 700,000 records cover from 1992 to the present, with bimonthly updates.
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Safari Tech Books Online provides full text of electronic books in computer science, information technology, and related fields from O'Reilly and Associates and Pearson Technology Associates.
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Sanborn Maps are large scale street plans produced by the Sanborn Fire Insurance company from 1867 to 1970. Sanborn Maps show the outline of each building including the location of windows and doors together with street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers.
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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.
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Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI) provides access to current bibliographic information and cited references from more than 5700 of the world's leading professional scientific research journals. The ISI Citation Databases collectively index more than 8,000 high quality, peer-reviewed journals cover-to-cover, providing complete bibliographic data, searchable author abstracts (science and social sciences), and cited references. Researchers can search the citation data (the footnotes of each article), taking a known, relevant paper and finding other, more recent papers that cite it.
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Science Online offers a comprehensive, curriculum-oriented overview of a broad range of scientific disciplines. Science Online offers these features:

• Topics, Terms, and Principles: thousands of essays on major topics and issues in science and technology
• Images, Videos, and Animations: diagrams, illustrations, images, videos and flash animations
• Experiments and Activities: science experiments and activities covering key principles in science, indexed by grade range, subject category, and time required
• Biographies: biographies of key scientists throughout history
• Definitions
• News Articles
• Timeline: chronology of science history, organized by time period or scientific topic
• National and State Science Education Standards: authoritative content tied directly to the curriculum

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SCIPIO SCIPIO is an art and rare book sales catalog describing art auctions and rare book catalogs for sales from the late sixteenth century to scheduled auctions not yet held. Records include the dates and places of sales, the auction houses, sellers, institutional holdings, and titles of works. Updated daily, SCIPIO has more than 528,000 records.
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Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI) provides access to current bibliographic information and cited references, covering more than 1700 of the world's leading social sciences journals in a broad range of disciplines. It also covers individually selected, relevant items from leading natural and physical science journals. The ISI Citation Databases collectively index more than 8,000 high quality, peer-reviewed journals cover-to-cover, providing complete bibliographic data, searchable author abstracts (science and social sciences), and cited references. Researchers can search the citation data (the footnotes of each article), taking a known, relevant paper and finding other, more recent papers that cite it.
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Social Sciences Images (world accessible) The Social Sciences database of the OhioLINK Digital Media Center contains images and other media related to the social sciences.
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Social Work Abstracts contains information on the fields of social work and human services from 1977 to present. The database provides coverage of more than 450 journals in all areas of the profession, including theory and practice, areas of service, social issues, and social problems.
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SocINDEX is a comprehensive, high quality sociology research database. This index features citations with subject headings from a sociology-specific thesaurus designed by expert lexicographers. SocINDEX contains informative abstracts for more than 590 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895. SocINDEX provides data mined from more than 500 "priority" coverage journals as well as 1,040 "selective" coverage journals. Extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference papers, and other sources is included. Searchable cited references are also provided. SocINDEX offers coverage from all subdisciplines of sociology, including abortion, anthropology, criminology, criminal justice, cultural sociology, demography, economic development, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, politics, religion, rural sociology, social psychology, social structure, social work, sociological theory, sociology of education, substance abuse, urban studies, violence, welfare, and many others.
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Sociological Abstracts ( 1963-2005) is a primary resource for accessing the latest research sponsored in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database draws information from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles. The Sociological Abstracts subscription ended June 2005. For most current citations in sociology, see SocINDEX.
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SportDiscus offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains over 600,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800. The content also consists of multi-disciplinary, international references from journal and magazine articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and more. SPORTDiscus is provided by the Sport Information Resource Centre.

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) is a Web-based, dynamic reference work, designed to be responsive to new research. The SEP is not yet complete, but so far includes over 600 substantial, in-depth entries with bibliographies. Entries are written and updated by experts or groups of experts, normally solicited by invitation by a member of the distinguished Board of Editors. All entries and updates undergo rigorous review. (from the "Charleston Review")
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STAT-USA is a comprehensive collection of business, economic, and trade information databases from the U.S. Department of Commerce: National Trade Data Bank; Economic Bulletin Board; Global Business Procurement Opportunities, and Bureau of Economic Analysis Economic Information.
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Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). TIP is produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska

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TOPICsearch is a current events database that allows researchers to explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for articles from magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, biographies, book reviews, public opinion polls, EBSCO's Current Issues database, and government information.
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Toxline covers toxicological information from a diverse set of sixteen separate sources. With coverage from 1966 to the present, TOXLINE offers over 2 million bibliographic records with in-depth abstracts. The U.S. National Library of Medicine supplies the majority of the information on TOXLINE. It provides references to published material, as well as research in progress, on many topics such as: adverse drug reactions, air pollution, carcinogenesis via chemicals, drug toxicity, food contamination, occupational hazards, pesticides and herbicides, toxicological analysis, water treatment, and more. Almost all of TOXLINE's bibliographic citations include abstracts, indexing terms, and Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Registry Numbers.
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20th Century African-American Poetry contains works by more than 100 poets, including Audre Lorde, Langston Hughes, Rita Dove, and emerging poets. Biographical profiles accompany each poet's work. Connect to: 20th Century African-American poetry.

20th Century English Poetry contains over 44,000 poems by 288 poets, incorporating the Modern Poetry Collection and The Faber Poetry Library. The complete text of each poem is included, and any integral images are also scanned. Introductions and prefaces to the volumes are included, as are all notes and any prose sections. Connect to: 20th Century English Poetry

Vente et Gestion (Formerly French Business Source) 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.
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Vocational & Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full text coverage for nearly 360 trade and industry-related periodicals.
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The Wall Street Journal is the financial newspaper of record. It offers in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as first rate coverage of hard news.
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Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. Housed and edited at Brown University its goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader. The Women Writers Project supports research on women's writing, text encoding, and the role of electronic texts in teaching and scholarship.
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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. Nearly 800 essential sources include: journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, Web sites & Web documents, and grey literature. Over 2,000 periodical sources are represented. Women’s Studies International includes the following database files: Women Studies Abstracts, Women’s Studies Bibliography Database, Women’s Studies Database, Women Studies Librarian, Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research, and Women’s Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography.
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World Almanac includes biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, and statistics. This database incorporates the full text of The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A, The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, The World Almanac for Kids, and the World Almanac Knowledge Source. The World Almanac and Book of Facts is a single reference source that covers arts and entertainment, information about U.S. cities and states, people in the news, the nations of the world, sports, the environment, vital statistics, science and technology, computers, taxes, economics, national defense, historical anniversaries, and much more.
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World Book Web is a suite of online research tools that delivers encyclopedia articles, primary source collections, educator tools, student activities, pictures, audio, and video, complemented by current periodicals and related Web sites. All the databases are editor-screened for authenticity and age-appropriate content.

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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. Highlights:

• Country Snapshots
• Comparative Statistics
• Historical Statistics
• Ranked Statistics
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WorldCat contains records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century. Contains over 30 million bibliographic records.
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy.
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