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Inclusive coverage: 1984 to present.
"The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database"--About page. It also includes indexing and abstracts for additional periodicals.
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Indexes reference works (biographical dictionaries, who's who editions, subject encyclopedias, etc.) containing multiple biographies on individuals, living and deceased, from every field of activity worldwide. Usage info: Licensed for two concurrent users.
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Coverage:
1983-
Indexes and abstracts reviews of English-language adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction titles; reviews are selected from journals in the humanities, sciences, social sciences and library review media. Usage info: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
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1861- (Indexing); 1980- (Abstracting Dissertations); 1988- (Abstracting Theses).
Provides information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses, with subject, title, and author access to almost all American dissertations accepted at an accredited institution since 1861. Dissertations from all institutions since 1997 have 24-page previews freely available without restriction. Masters theses selectively indexed since 1962. Includes citations for thousands of Canadian dissertations and an increasing number of papers accepted in institutions abroad. Professional (e.g., M.D., LL.D.) and honorary degrees not included. Access info: Access to full text (PDF) of Notre Dame dissertations since 1997, restricted to users with valid Notre Dame NetIDs. Look for and click on the "Free Download" button on the search results screen.
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Coverage:
1980-
Provides indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for 3,500+ scholarly journals and general interest periodicals embracing all academic disciplines (citations only for The New York Times). Full text for some titles may be subject to publisher-imposed embargo periods.
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Successor to Dow Jones News Service, Factiva provides access to global news and business information, including newspapers, same-day newswires, company reports, and media programs. Usage info: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users. Access info: Historically Factiva only worked with IE version 5 or higher. Since then, several other browser options have been added.
Classroom Instruction (for training classes only)
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Online access to full text of public domain books, reproduced either from text provided by publishers or by selected university/large public libraries. "Limited preview" or "snippet view" or bibliographic information only for books not in the public domain.
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Google Scholar is Google's new search engine that focuses on academic content. Google Scholar indexes peer reviewed articles, abstracts, books, theses, pre-prints, and technical reports from academic publishers, universities, pre-print repositories, professional societies, and other scholarly organizations.
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Provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications, covering current news, business information, company directories, federal and state laws, regulations, legal cases, etc.
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Provides full text from over 1,810 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals. In addition to the full text, offers indexing and abstracts for over 2,780 periodicals. Full text backfiles go as far back as January of 1990, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as January of 1984.
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"Includes a 90-day archive of approximately 290 newspapers from the McClatchy-Tribune Information Services."
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Coverage:
1851-three years before present
Searchable database with access to every page of every issue from cover to cover, with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF from the first issue in 1851 to three years before the current year. Additional year of coverage added once a year.
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Beginning thru 1995.
Full text searchable journal collection of 350+ periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences (a subset of Periodicals index online). See Periodicals index online for more extensive indexing and links to selected full text articles.
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Beginning thru 1995
Index to millions of articles in over 4,500 periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences published beginning 1770 or subsequently; scope is worldwide, covering major Western languages. Complete PCI Index, including links to selected full text articles. Only the index is searchable.
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Coverage:
1890-1982
Provides comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States, 1890-1982.
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A current events database including the full text of teacher- and librarian-selected newspaper and magazine articles, pamphlets, biographies, book reviews, opinion polls, and government information on popular classroom topics.
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Coverage:
1900-
"... accesses multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. The databases are indexed so 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."--Tutorial screen.
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