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  • Academic Search Elite Full text database covers virtually every area of academic study: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies and more. Database covers 2,000 journals, including 1,561 peer-reviewed titles from 1985 to current. Updated daily.
  • American Chemical Society Publications Database of full text ACS journals covering biochemistry, environmental science, and analytic, organic and inorganic chemistry. The ACS database includes 35 journals from 1996 to current. Updated weekly. A Legacy Archives database covers 23 journals with 460,000 full text articles from 1879 to 1995. The database also has the weekly Chemical & Engineering News from 1998 to current and is searchable and displays citations and table of contents. Please see our bound journal collection for the full text of articles beginning with volume 20, 1942 to present.
  • ArchiveGrid ArchiveGrid, a union catalog of archival collections, provides access to nearly a million collection descriptions and online archival finding aids of archival material from more than 2,500 libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives around the world. ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories. Users can obtain more information on many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies.
  • Art Index - Book Reviews Bibliographic and some full text reviews of books as well as excerpts of book reviews, and some obituaries and film reviews. See BOOK REVIEW DIGEST PLUS description.
  • ArticleFirst OCLC citation index of articles from the contents pages of journals. It covers business, science, humanities, social sciences, medicine, technology and popular culture. Database covers more than 16,000 journals with 23 million records from 1990 to present. Updated daily.
  • Bibliographic Index Plus Bibliographic entries cover over 530,000 bibliographies appearing in periodicals, as whole books or parts of books, published in English and many other languages. Some records offer a link to an audio file recording of the full text in multiple languages. Records that show Full Text are the full text of citation, abstract, review and the bibliography. The database indexes 1982 to current and full text for 1995 to current. Our print holdings include 1937-1994.
  • Book Review Digest Plus Bibliographic and some full text reviews of books as well as excerpts of book reviews, and some obituaries and film reviews. Includes book review citations and full text of book reviews from Humanities Index, Education Index, Art Index, Business Periodicals Index, and Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature. Database covers 1983 to current. Our print holdings are 1905 - current.
  • Britannica.com Full text content of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Additional sources on this website are: Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Quotations, Britannica World Atlas, and an interactive timeline.
  • Business Periodicals Index - Book Reviews Bibliographic and some full text reviews of books as well as excerpts of book reviews, and some obituaries and film reviews. See BOOK REVIEW DIGEST PLUS description.
  • Business Source Premier Full text sources cover business, marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics. The file includes country economic reports from the Economic Intelligence Unit and Datamonitor company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies. It also provides full text for more than 350 scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. Additional full text content includes market research reports, industry reports, and SWOT business venture analyses. Database covers 2,300 journals including 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Updated daily.
  • CAMIO CAMIO is the Catalog of Art museum Images online. Its collection ranges from 3000 BC to the present and includes about 95,000 works of art. Among these works, users can search through photographs, paintings, sculpture, decorative and utilitarian objects, prints, drawings and watercolors, jewelry and costumes, textiles and architecture - plus audio, video and mixed media.
  • Central Search A search engine that enables users to simultaneously search across multiple information sources (databases, electronic journals, library catalogs, the World Wide Web, etc.) from one, simple, easy to use interface. Search all available databases or select a subject area.
  • Chemical Abstracts via STN Easy In addition to Chemical Abstracts, STN offers 100 searchable files covering: biology, engineering, patents, physics, medicine (Medline), food, chemical inventory lists, material safety data sheets, and chemical toxicity. Access to STN Easy via an academic (non-business) account is restricted to the following hours: 1 am Sunday to 5 am Monday; 5 pm to 5 am the following day Monday through Friday; 5 pm Friday to 10 pm Saturday. Many files are updated weekly.
  • ClasePeriodica Clase indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. Periodica covers journals in science and technology. Databases offer access to bibliographic citations from documents published in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages. Sources include: articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, and technical reports. Databases cover 2,700 sources with 455,000 records. Dates covered Clase: 1975 to present. Periodica: 1978 to present. Updated quarterly.
  • Consulta Ocenet Consulta provides full text information Spanish covering classical literature, dictionaries and other reference works, images, biographies, and journal literature. All content is provided in Spanish, while the search interface is available in either Spanish or English.
  • Contemporary Authors Database This Gale database provides biographical and bibliographical information about 130,000 current U.S. and international authors of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures and television. Authors in the database include literary greats of the early 20th century, and authors from around the world whose works have been translated into English or published in the U.S. Search fields include: author name, subject or genre, full text, awards, nationality, and title of work. Variant names and pseudonyms used by an author are also searchable.
  • Current Biography Illustrated Full text entries in this database offer more than 15,000 biographies and 9,400 obituaries with photographs from all of the volumes of Current Biography Yearbook. You can search by biographee name, profession, and even the full text of the database. Offers a link to an audio file recording of the full text in multiple languages. Images of biographees can be copied and pasted into documents. Database covers 1940 to current. Our print holdings are 1940 to current
  • Diccionario de la Real Academia Española Full text content of the Royal Spanish Academy Dictionary. Important - if you are on campus, you must allow pop-ups in both your browser and the Google Toolbar. To enter the site, click on "Ir al NTLLE." On the next page click the word "Aceptar." Any questions, please call the library at 724-223-6070.
  • Dissertations & Theses This ProQuest database is a collection of more than 2 million dissertations and theses with citations and abstracts from 1861 to current. Dissertations written from 1997 forward include a 24 page preview. Documents were published by North America and European institutions. Subject coverage includes: business, medicine, literature, history, sciences, social sciences and the arts. The database has a citation generator with styles included for APA, MLA, Chicago, and Turabian.
  • eBooks on EBSCOhost More than 850 eBooks and 3,900 publicly accessible eBooks are available to W&J ID card holders through our subscription to eBooks on EBSCOhost. These electronic books supplement our collection of printed books and cover many topics such as: business, health, science, history, literature, and the social sciences. Browse eBook holdings in Geotom catalog by typing NetLibrary as author. Create your own account to access eBooks 24 hours a day.
  • EBSCOhost Opens to links to 19 full text databases from Ebsco Publishing ranging from general reference collections, newspapers, education, health, regional business news, psychology, and other subject-specific databases. Covers more than 3,500 journals. Updated daily.
  • ECO An OCLC multi-disciplinary database of scholarly journals. Includes bibliographic information and original content and images of articles. It lets you view abstracts and full text articles from journals to which your library subscribes. Subjects range from economics and science to social sciences. Database covers 5,390 sources with 3.6 million records from 1995 to present. Updated daily.
  • EconLit (EBSCOhost) Database from the American Economics Association provides many full text articles (or links to the full text) in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics and monetary theory. Database covers 1,400 sources with 1 million records from 1969 to present. Updated monthly.
  • Education Index - Book Reviews Bibliographic and some full text reviews of books as well as excerpts of book reviews, and some obituaries and film reviews. See BOOK REVIEW DIGEST PLUS description.
  • ERIC Abstracts and full text of journal articles and reports on education topics. Database covers 100,000 sources with 1.1 million records.
  • Essay and General Literature Index Bibliographic database that cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Search by author, subject or keywords. Offers auto-generated citations in MLA, Chicago, and APA styles. Database indexes 1985 to current. See our print holdings for 1900 to 1984.
  • GPO Citation index of U.S. government publications from the GPOMonthly Catalog. Covers all types of documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, judiciary materials, and documents issued by executive departments. Database has 507,000 records from 1976 to present. Updated monthly.
  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition Full text of 550 scholarly journals focusing on many nursing and allied health, and medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database also includes Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names. Updated daily.
  • Historical Abstracts Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, and history of education. The database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. Includes a link to Clio Notes with chronologies of international events arranged by historical time period and geographic area.
  • Humanities Index - Book Reviews Bibliographic and some full text reviews of books as well as excerpts of book reviews, and some obituaries and film reviews. See BOOK REVIEW DIGEST PLUS description.
  • Humanities International Complete This database provides full text of more than 1030 journals, books and other published sources from around the world. This database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,200 journals and 2.71 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. Most of the journals are covered from 1980 to present. The database includes brief author profiles and an online thesaurus for keyword searching. Click on the drop-down More menu on the search screen and choose Cited References to search for articles that cite a person's work.
  • JSTOR (with embargos) Full online text of back issues of about 450 peer-reviewed journals as far back as the 1800s in the arts, sciences, ecology, botany, language, literature, and music. Note that the content of the most recent 3 to 5 years of some journals in JSTOR is not available to protect rights of content providers.
  • Lexi-PALS Drug Guide This database from Lexi-Comp provides descriptions of more than 1450 medications and natural products for patients. Each entry is in question-and-answer format and includes intended medicinal purpose, possible side effects, and drug interactions. Lexi-PALS may be searched by pharmaceutical name or brand name. There are also 600 Spanish language leaflets representing the most subscribed and commonly used medications. The database is offered on EBSCOhost and is updated monthly.
  • LexisNexis Academic Full text database of news, legal information, health and medical news, and noteworthy people in business and the news. Excellent source of business information including company stock quotes and charts, executives, SIC and NAIC codes, links to financials and Hoovers Company Records. Includes complete coverage of U.S. federal and state courts, and complete Shepard's Citations? service for all federal and states court cases back to 1789. Database covers 6,000 sources.
  • MathSciNet The American Mathematical Society provides this searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. Article reviews are in full text, but the articles are not. MathSciNet contains over 2.4 million items and more than 1 million links to articles from 1900 journals. It also offers bibliographic data from digitized articles dating back to the early 1800s. Search the database by author name, text of the review, article title, or journal name.
  • MEDLINE National Library of Medicine's Medline offers abstracts from all areas of medicine, including dentistry, nursing, psychiatry, veterinary medicine, toxicology, and health service administration. Database covers 19,000 sources with 17 million records from 1950 to present. Updated daily.
  • MLA International Bibliography Citations of journal articles, books and dissertations in literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, and the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Database covers 4,400 international journals and 1,000 book publishers with 1.8 million citations from the mid 1920s to present.
  • National Bureau of Economic Research Full text database of economics reports and working papers aimed at professional economists in academic institutions, business, and government. Offers unbiased reports with a focus on developing new statistical measurements assessing the economic effects of public policies, and projecting the effects of alternative policy proposals. NBER has a Macro History Database detailing business cycle expansion and contraction dates, and various other data sets. Documents date from 1921 to current.
  • Newspaper Source Full text of 28 national and international newspapers, selected full text for more than 260 regional newspapers, and some full text television and radio news transcripts. Sources include: The Washington Post, The Times (London), New York Times (1989 to present) and Wall Street Journal (1995 to present). Television and radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, FOX News, and NPR. Database coverage varies by newspaper with some beginning 2000 to present. Updated daily.
  • Oceano Diccionarios This is a Spanish language dictionary resource produced by Oceano that includes more than 350,000 entries. It includes grammar descriptions and a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms. The search interface begins with either Spanish or English. Diccionarios also provides bilingual access with Spanish to English, French, German and Portuguese.
  • Oceano Universitas Full text document database produced by Oceano that offers over 191,000 articles in Spanish, historical documents (mostly full text), an image gallery, biographies, maps, a timeline, anatomical atlases, interactive simulations and dictionaries. Universitas provides a selection of over 650 of the most significant works of world literature (complete texts and compilations), all in Spanish. Note that the search engine does not recognize accents, so a search for ?pera and opera will produce the same results.
  • OCLC FirstSearch Collection of citation and abstract databases ranging from general reference collections to special, subject-specific databases. Files available include: WorldCat, Dissertations, ArticleFirst, PerAbs, ECO, WilsonSelectPlus, Ebooks, and SIRSResearcher. OCLC FirstSearch is a good starting point since it shows which files may be most relevant to your search keywords. After you view your FirstSearch results you can link to one of the eight databases above by clicking on the database name and clicking the Search button in that database.
  • OED Full text content of the Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd. ed. Includes: definition, pronunciation, etymology, quotations illustrating use of a word, and a date chart of earliest use of a word.
  • PapersFirst Citation index of papers presented at congresses, symposia, conferences, expositions, and meetings worldwide. Database includes 6.5 million records from 1993 to present. Updated twice a month.
  • Philosopher's Index Database provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, logic, and metaphysics as well as material on the philosophy of disciplines, such as law, religion, science, history, and education. Covers 1940 to present.
  • Points of View Reference Center POV Reference Center is a full text database designed to provide students with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The content serves as a guide to debate, developing arguments, writing position papers, and for development of critical thinking skills. Over 1,140 essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study and are accompanied by thousands of supporting articles from the world?s top political and societal publications. POV includes the Video Encyclopedia of the 20th Century, providing students with a searchable collection of some of the most important social, political, and cultural moments of the 20th century. Most of the publications and broadcast sources are covered from 1996 to present. Updated daily.
  • Proceedings This database is a citation index of proceedings from congresses, symposia, conferences, expositions, workshops and meetings worldwide. Database has 192,000 records from 1993 to present. Updated twice a week.
  • Project Muse: Basic Undergraduate Collection Project MUSE is a core Liberal Arts collection of heavily indexed and peer-reviewed journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Database includes 340 full text journals from 80 scholarly publishers from 1995 to present for most sources.
  • PROLA Physical Review Online Archive is the American Physical Society's online archive for Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, and Physical Review A-E. It contains full text of all APS journal articles published from 1893 to 2004. [Articles in the most recent four years to present are not part of PROLA, but you can view citations and abstracts of those articles.]
  • PsycARTICLES Full text peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles from American Psychological Association journals. It includes all articles, book reviews, and letters to the editor from each journal. Database covers 63 journals (including 50 APA journals) with 134,000 articles from 1894 to present.
  • PsycCRITIQUES Produced by the American Psychological Association this is a database of full text reviews of current scholarly and professional books in psychology. The database replaces the print journal Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books. Database comprises a searchable file of 40,000 reviews dating back to 1956. Updated weekly.
  • PsycINFO Produced by the American Psychological Association this database contains citations and abstracts of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, in psychology, anthropology, nursing, education, psychiatry, medicine, pharmacology, and sociology. Database covers 2,100 journals in 25 languages with 2.3 million citations from 1887 to present. A feature of this database is cited reference searching in which you can search for articles that cite a person's work.
  • Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature Provides abstracts of articles from 470 popular magazines as far back as 1983. Subject coverage includes arts, business, computers, education, entertainment, film and television, health and medicine, history, literature, news and current events, photography, music, politics, popular culture, science, and sports. Includes only a few peer-reviewed periodicals. Some articles have a link to full text in other databases or on a publisher website.
  • Regional Business News Full text database that includes more than 80 regional business publications covering metropolitan and rural areas within the United States and Canada. Sources include regional newspapers, trade publications, newswires such as the Associated Press, and radio and TV news transcripts. Database includes more than a million articles. Most of these sources are in full text from 1996 to current.
  • RILM Abstracts of Music Literature International Repertory of Music Literature (RILM) is a comprehensive music bibliography featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. There are over 550,000 records in RILM on traditional music, popular music, and classical music, representing disciplines that include musicology, ethnomusicology, pedagogy, psychology, anthropology, sociology and others. All document types and media such as books, conference proceedings (going back to 1835), journal articles, dissertations as well as internet resources, sound recordings and motion pictures are included. RILM also features bilingual abstracts and all non-Roman scripts. Sound recordings and motion pictures that present the results of scholarly research or fieldwork are also included. RILM's coverage is from 1967 to present. Updated monthly.
  • Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy REP Online is a full text online resource in philosophy and related disciplines. Covers an unparalleled breadth of subject matter, including Anglo-American, ethical and political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental and contemporary philosophy. Encyclopedia includes 2,000 original entries from a team of over 1,300 of the world's most respected scholars and philosophers. Updated periodically.
  • ScienceDirect Database covers about 2,600 peer-reviewed journals in medicine, health, life sciences, psychology, arts, humanities, education, business, economics, and social sciences. Provides access to millions of authoritative full text articles from 1995 to current. Advanced Search mode is recommended. Updated weekly.
  • SciFinder Scholar SciFinder Scholar retrieves information from databases produced by Chemical Abstracts Service. (New users, please register here) The SciFinder Substructure Module (SSM) feature provides substructure access to the chemical substance database. Database coverage includes: polymer science, food science, biology and life sciences, and GenBank numbers. The web version gives us access to: CAS REGISTRY - original source and final authority for CAS Registry Numbers - updated daily. CASREACT - chemical reactions including reactants, reagents, catalysts, and reference information. CHEMCATS - chemical source information with addresses and contact information. CHEMLIST - chemical regulatory information including national inventory status. MEDLINE - biomedical literature from 1950 to present. CAPlus - abstracts and links to scientific journals and patent literature. There is a Keep Me Posted for current awareness on topics of your choice. Our CAS contract gives us shared access with two other colleges. There may be brief time periods when we cannot access SciFinder because of this concurrent use. A feature of this database is cited reference searching in which you can search for articles that cite a person's work.
  • The Left Index Bibliographic citations and abstracts and some full text articles in this database offer links to the literature of the left and radical media. Subject coverage includes the labor movement, art and aesthetics, social and cultural theory, history, race and ethnicity, law and much more. Database includes more than 478,000 citations and abstracts from 150 periodicals, chapters of books, and theses. Database coverage is 1982 to present with monthly updating.
  • Web of Science Database of searchable journal citations and abstracts of articles from scholarly journals in the following areas of research: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Some of the subject areas covered include: biology, chemistry, zoology, political science, history, social issues, law, sociology, philosophy, and women's studies. A feature of this database is cited reference searching in which you can search for articles that cite a person's work. Database contains more than 12,000 journals with nearly 3 million records from 1988 to present. [If search session does not start, click on "establish a new session."]
  • Women's Studies International Bibliographic citation database covers the core disciplines in Women's Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Subject coverage includes sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education. WSI includes the following database files: Women Studies Abstracts, Women's Studies Database, Women of Color and Southern Women, MEDLINE Subset on Women, and New Books on Women & Feminism. Database includes more than 646,000 records from 2000 periodicals, book chapters, theses, web documents and grey literature. Coverage is from 1972 and earlier to the present.
  • WorldAlmanac Brief biographies, nations of the world, and facts and statistics from The World Almanac and four other almanacs. Database includes 32,000 records covering 1998 to present. Updated annually.
  • WorldCat Worldwide union catalog of bibliographic records of books, films, journals, newspapers, selected websites, and other material. Includes records representing 400 languages. Database includes over 95 million records of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries since 1971. Dates covered are before 1000 BC to present. Updated daily.
  • WorldCat Dissertations Bibliographic citations of all dissertations and theses cataloged by Online Computer Library Center member libraries. Database includes 8 million records from the late 19th century to current. Dissertations cover all subjects. Some dissertations include an abstract. OCLC produces this database. Updated daily.