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ABI/INFORM COMPLETE
Business and management scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, regional business news, and newsletters.
Yes Yes Yes No
ACCUNET/AP
Archive of news photographs and other graphics from the Associated Press.
No No No No
ACM DIGITAL LIBRARY
All journals, magazines, transactions, and proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Yes Yes No No
ACS PUBLICATIONS
The American Chemical Society's periodicals in full text.
Yes Yes No No
AGRICOLA
Citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators.
Yes No No No
AIDSEARCH
Indexes the medical literature concerning all aspects of HIV/AIDS.
Yes No Yes No
ALDRICH
Search Sigma-Aldrich products.
No No No No
ALT-PRESSWATCH
Full-text database of newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.
No Yes No No
AMERICA: HISTORY AND LIFE
Articles on the history and culture of the U.S and Canada.
Yes No Yes No
AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY JOURNALS
Journals of the American Mathematical Society.
Yes Yes No No
ANTHROPOLOGICAL INDEX ONLINE
Anthropological Index to Current Periodicals in the The Anthropology Library at the British Museum.
Yes No No No
APPLIED SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGY
Part of Wilson OmniFile. Topics include chemistry, computers, physics, telecommunications, and others.
No Yes Yes No
ART FULL TEXT
Part of Wilson OmniFile.Covers general art periodicals.
No Yes Yes No
ARXIV.ORG
Open access to thousands of e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology.
Yes Yes No No
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HISTORY OF ART
The most comprehensive scholarly research index to the literature of art history.
Yes No Yes No
BIOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY MASTER INDEX
Index to biographical sketches current and retrospective, covering both contemporary and historical world figures.
No No No No
BIOLOGICAL & AGRICULTURAL
Part of Wilson OmniFile. Covers general biology and agriculture periodicals.
No Yes Yes No
BIOLOGICAL ABSTRACTS
Index of more than 4000 journals in the life sciences and biomedical research.
Yes No Yes No
BLACKWELL-SYNERGY JOURNALS
More than 700 scholarly journals covering business, science, medicine, law, and social and behavioral sciences.
Yes Yes Yes No
BOOKS IN PRINT
Search for books that are in print.
No No No No
BRITANNICA ONLINE
General encyclopedia covering all subjects.
No No No No
BUSINESS SOURCE PREMIER
Over 3000 scholarly journals and business periodicals focused on business subjects.
Yes Yes Yes No
CCH TAX RESEARCH NETWORK
Provides access to professional level information on tax law.
No No No No
CHEMIDPLUS
Provides access to structure and nomenclature information for the identification of chemical substances cited in NLM databases.
No Yes No No
CHICANO DATABASE
Indexes all types of material on Mexican-American topics and the broader Latino experience.
Yes No No No
CHILD ABUSE, CHILD WELFARE & ADOPTION
Indexes literature covering all aspects of child abuse, child welfare, and adoption.
Yes Yes Yes No
CINAHL PLUS WITH FULL TEXT
Indexes nursing journals, publications from the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing, and journals from 17 allied health disciplines.
Yes Yes Yes Yes
CLASSICAL MUSIC LIBRARY
Streaming classical music service that enables listening to pieces on campus and at home.
No No No No
COLLEGE SOURCE ONLINE
College catalogs in original page format representing 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools.
No No No No
COMMUNICATION AND MASS MEDIA
Excellent starting point for communication studies research. Incorporates the old NCA "CommSearch" database as well as Penn State's "Mass Media Articles Index."
Yes Yes Yes No
COMMUNITY OF SCIENCE FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES DATABASE
Funding information related to research, collaborative activities, travel, curriculum development, conferences, fellowships, and post-doctoral positions.
No No No No
COUNTRY WATCH
Source of global information, country reports, and real-time news for all countries.
No No No No
CQ RESEARCHER
CQ Researcher covers controversial issues and current topics in the news.
No Yes No No
CQ WEEKLY
Covers developments in the U.S. Congress.
No Yes No No
CRIMINAL JUSTICE ABSTRACTS
Indexes major journals in criminology and related disciplines.
Yes No Yes No
DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
Yes Yes No No
DISSERTATIONS & THESES: HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES
Collection of scholarly research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, this database covers more than 1 million dissertations and theses. Full text available for most from 1997-present.
No Yes No No
E-SCHOLARSHIP REPOSITORY
Access to UC research papers. It is a project of the eScholarship initiative of the California Digital Library.
Yes Yes No No
EBSCOhost (Academic Search Premier)
General magazine and journal index.
Yes Yes Yes No
EDUCATION ABSTRACTS
Part of Wilson OmniFile. Covers education issues.
No Yes Yes No
EDUCATION INDEX RETROSPECTIVE
Index of over 500 periodicals covering all areas of education from 1929-1983.
Yes No Yes No
EIU ViewsWire
From the Economist Intelligence Unit, highlights and analysis of important economic and political events in 195 countries.
No Yes No No
EMERALD LIBRARY
Covers all major management disciplines including marketing, human resources management, library and information management and operations management.
Yes Yes No No
ERIC
Indexes Education literature and related documents.
Yes No Yes Yes
ETHNIC NEWS WATCH
Collection of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
No Yes Yes No
EXPERTSEARCH
Search multiple databases at one time or view a list of the library's e-journals.
Yes No Yes No
FACTIVA
Contains full text newspapers and newswires. Also provides financial data.
Yes Yes No No
GALE VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY
Search and browse reference resources including enyclopedias and dictionaries.
No Yes No No
GENDER WATCH
Covers gender and women's issues related to business, education, literature, arts, health sciences, etc.
Yes Yes Yes No
GENERAL SCIENCE ABSTRACTS
Part of Wilson OmniFile. Indexes periodicals in general science.
Yes Yes Yes No
GENIUS SEARCH
Use to identify interest and expertise for partnering, consulting activities, and sponsored funding matches.
No No No No
GEOREF
Access to over 2.3 million references to articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses, covering the geology of North America from 1785 to the present; and the rest of the world from 1933 to the present.
Yes No No No
GOOGLE SCHOLAR
Covers scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
Yes Yes No No
GRANT ADVISOR DATABASE
Source of information on grant and fellowship opportunities for U.S. universities.
No No No No
GROVE ART ONLINE
Comprises the full text of "The Dictionary of Art" and "The Oxford Companion to Western Art".
No Yes No No
GROVE MUSIC ONLINE
Comprises the full text of "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians," second edition, "The New Grove Dictionary of Opera," and "The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz".
No Yes No No
HANDBOOK OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Covers scholarly literature on Latin American topics.
Yes No Yes No
HISTORICAL ABSTRACTS
Indexes materials on world history (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
Yes No Yes No
HOOVER'S COMPANY RECORDS
Profiles of more than 40,000 public and private companies. Includes company history, key officers, and some financials.
No Yes No No
HUMANITIES ABSTRACTS
Part of Wilson OmniFile. Covers topics in the Humanities.
No Yes Yes No
IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY JOURNALS
Full-text of the Society's journals and many conference proceedings.
Yes Yes No No
IN THE FIRST PERSON
An index to letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narratives.
No Yes No No
INDUSTRY SNAPSHOTS NORTH AMERICA
More than 600 industry overviews, including many hard-to-find industries. Covers market size, market share, sales, and growth.
No Yes No No
INGENTACONNECT
General magazine and journal index.
Yes No No No
JSTOR
Extensive archive of full text journals in many subjects. The most recent 3-5 years are not included.
Yes Yes Yes No
KLUWER JOURNALS (at SPRINGERLINK)
Kluwer Journals are now available through SpringerLink.
No No No No
LEGAL PERIODICALS & BOOKS
Part of Wilson OmniFile. Indexes legal periodicals and law books.
No Yes Yes No
LEXISNEXIS ACADEMIC UNIVERSE
Contains the full text of newspapers from around the world as well as materials for legal and business research.
Yes Yes No Yes
LEXISNEXIS ACCOUNTING
Contains a number of accounting related publications.
No Yes No No
LEXISNEXIS CALIFORNIA COURT OF APPEALS
Searchable California Court of Appeals rulings.
No Yes No No
LEXISNEXIS CALIFORNIA STATUTES
Searchable California statutes (codes).
No Yes No No
LEXISNEXIS CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT
Searchable California Supreme Court rulings.
No Yes No No
LEXISNEXIS COMPANY DOSSIER
Company profiles and financial information.
No Yes No No
LEXISNEXIS LEGAL RESEARCH
Search state and federal cases from this form, or choose other options, such as codes or law reviews.
Yes Yes No No
LIBRARY LITERATURE
Part of Wilson OmniFile. Cover the literature of Library and Information Science.
No Yes Yes No
LIBRARY, INFORMATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ABSTRACTS
Covers over 600 periodicals in librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management.
Yes No Yes No
LITERATURE RESOURCE CENTER
Author biographies, critical overviews, and selected articles of literature criticism.
No Yes No No
LOS ANGELES TIMES
Search or browse issues of the Los Angeles Times from December 1996 to the present. Newsstand, ProQuest.
No Yes Yes No
MAS ULTRA, SCHOOL EDITION
General magazines, selected for their usefulness to junior high and high school students.
No Yes Yes No
MATHSCINET
An index to articles, books, and conference proceedings on mathematics, statistics, and computer science.
Yes No Yes No
MEDLINE
Covers the literature of medicine and life sciences.
Yes No Yes No
MENTAL MEASUREMENTS YEARBOOK
From the Buros Institute, contains information and critical reviews of educational, personality, aptitude, achievement and intelligence tests.
No No No No
MERCK INDEX
Index to significant chemicals, drugs, and biological substances.
No Yes No No
MERGENT ONLINE
Extensive financial data on public companies.
No No No No
MILITARY & GOVERNMENT COLLECTION
Current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government.
No Yes Yes No
MLA BIBLIOGRAPHY
Index for literature criticism, linguistics, and languages. Best for advanced research topics.
Yes No Yes Yes
MUSE
Full text journals, including some relating to the humanities. (Recent years only.)
Yes Yes No No
NASW CLINICAL REGISTER
Directory of clinical social workers in the United States.
No No No No
NATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESEARCH SERVICE ABSTRACTS
Covers research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control.
Yes No Yes No
NETLIBRARY REFERENCE CENTER
Search and browse reference resources including enyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, handbooks, thesauri and more.
No No No No
NEW YORK TIMES
Search or browse issues of the New York Times from January 1995 to the present. Newsstand, ProQuest.
No Yes Yes No
NEWSSTAND (PROQUEST)
Hundreds of U.S. and international papers.
No Yes Yes No
OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY
Includes etymology and usage of English words throughout history, with examples.
No No Yes No
OXFORD JOURNALS
A collection of journals offered by Oxford University Press.
Yes Yes Yes No
OxResearch
Provides succinct analytical articles covering world and regional economic and political developments of major significance, 1986-present.
No Yes No No
PHILOSOPHER'S INDEX
International coverage of the literature of philosophy, including books, articles, and book chapters.
Yes No Yes No
PHYSICAL EDUCATION INDEX
Covers physical education, kinesiology, sport law, motor learning, recreation, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology.
Yes No Yes No
PILOTS: Published Internat'l Literature On Traumatic Stress
Covers literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations.
Yes No Yes No
PRIMARY SEARCH
Magazines for children. Useful for educators seeking age appropriate materials.
No Yes Yes No
PROLA
Full text archive of Physical Review Series I, II, and III; Physical Review Letters ; and Reviews of Modern Physics.
Yes Yes No No
PSYCARTICLES
Full text of journals published by the American Psychological Association.
Yes Yes Yes No
PSYCINFO
Provides citations and abstracts to journal articles, books and technical reports in the field of psychology.
Yes No Yes Yes
PUBMED
Provides free access to MEDLINE citations and additional life science journals.
Yes No No No
PUBMED CENTRAL
National Library of Medicine's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
Yes Yes No No
RAND CALIFORNIA
Statistical and other information on California public policy and economics.
No No No No
READER'S GUIDE
Index to subjects in the popular press from 1982-present.
No Yes Yes No
READER'S GUIDE RETROSPECTIVE
Index to subjects in the popular press from 1890-1982.
No No Yes No
REGIONAL BUSINESS NEWS
Includes 65 business journals, newspapers and newswires from major metropolitan areas within the United States.
No Yes Yes No
RIVERSIDE PRESS-ENTERPRISE
Search the Press-Enterprise from Sept. 92-present.
No Yes No No
ROPER POLLS - LEXISNEXIS
Full text of Roper opinion polls.
No Yes No No
SAFARI TECH BOOKS ONLINE
Provides access (search or browse) to the electronic versions of a broad range of technical books from leading publishers.
No Yes No No
SAGE JOURNALS ONLINE
Multidisciplinary database of more than 400 scholarly journals.
Yes Yes Yes No
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SUN
Search the Sun from Nov. 2001-present.
No Yes No No
SCIENCE DIRECT
Access over 1000 scientific, technical & medical peer-reviewed journals.
Yes Yes Yes No
SCIRUS
Done by the scholarly publisher, Elsevier, this database allows you to search for scholarly journals and/or Web sites with significant content. Some full text available through the Pfau Library's ScienceDirect subscription (watch for the clickable logo).
Yes No No No
SCITATION
Journals published by the American Institute of Physics, plus access to the SPIN index of physics publications.
Yes Yes No No
SERIALS DIRECTORY
Directory of journals, magazines, and newspapers, providing basic publishing information, contacts, and more.
No No No No
SOCIAL SERVICES ABSTRACTS
Covers research focused on social work, human services, and related areas.
Yes No Yes Yes
SOCIAL WORK ABSTRACTS
Covers social work and related journals, including theory and practice, areas of service, and social issues.
Yes No Yes No
SOCIOLOGICAL ABSTRACTS
Indexes materials published in major journals of sociology.
Yes No Yes No
SPIN FUNDING
Infromation on grant programs and funding information.
No No No No
SPIN Physics Index
Indexes more than 100 major physics, astronomy, and engineering journals and conference proceedings.
Yes Yes No No
SPRINGERLINK
Full text articles of journals from Kluwer and Springer.
Yes Yes No No
STAT-USA
Import and export information and other national and international data, includes, The National Trade Data Bank.
No No No No
STN EASY
Online version of Chemical Abstracts. Covers biochemistry, chemistry and chemical engineering. Password required. For further information, click "Yes" to the right under Guide.
Yes No No Yes
TABLEBASE
Provides access to statistical information from a variety of sources, including some marketing and industry data.
No No No No
TELEVISION NEWS ARCHIVE (Vanderbilt)
Contains abstracts and online video of news broadcasts.
No No No No
TESTLINK
Search for testing instruments.
No No No No
TESTS IN MICROFICHE
The Tests in Microfiche database is a searchable list of educational and psychological testing instruments available in microfiche in the Pfau Library. An index is available in print format in the Microforms room.
No No No No
UMI DIGITAL DISSERTATION
Freely access the most current two years of citations and abstracts in the Dissertation Abstracts database and view the first 24 pages.
No No No No
US INDUSTRY AND TRADE OUTLOOK
Government statistics on industries and trade.
No No No No
WALL STREET JOURNAL (Eastern ed.)
Search or browse issues of the Wall Street Journal Eastern Edition from January 1984 to the present. Newsstand, ProQuest.
No Yes Yes No
WILEY INTERSCIENCE
Access to over 300 scholarly journals in psychology, education, and life and medical sciences.
Yes Yes No No
WILSON OMNIFILE: FULL TEXT MEGA
General magazine and journal index.
Yes Yes Yes No

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