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Coverage:
1971-
Article citations and abstracts (some full text and image) for 1600+ U.S. and international business publications, covering business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, etc. Includes access to the Wall Street Journal.
User information
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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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1954-
Provides abstracts of scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present and citations to book reviews, media reviews and dissertations. Usage info: Licensed for 6 simultaneous users.
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Indexes citations to articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies published in English and other European languages from the 19th century to the present. Usage info: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.
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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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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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1969-
Provides indexing and abstracts of scholarly articles, books, and essays on European and world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada, which are covered in: America: History and Life). Usage info: Licensed for 6 simultaneous users.
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1989-
Provides indexing and abstracts to articles on political science published in scholarly journals and yearbooks worldwide. Usage info: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
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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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1915-
Contains citations and abstracts to print and electronic articles, books, and government publications on issues of public policy, including politics, government, economy, marine policy, and law.
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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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1872-
Provides citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
Journal coverage list for PsycINFO
Online tutorial for searching
Guide to searching PsycINFO
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1963-
Abstracts and indexes international literature in sociology and related disciplines in social and behavioral sciences. Citations to journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
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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.
More about Web of Science
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1996-
Offers translated and English language news and information compiled from non-United States media sources. Coverage includes political, environmental, scientific, technical, and socioeconomic issues and events. Contains information derived from full-text and summaries of newspaper articles, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports. Usage info: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
For 1974-1996 use Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) daily reports 1974-1996
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Over 50 million bibliographic records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries; includes records describing manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.
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1975-
"CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts is building on the merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts, published by IFI/Plenum, 1975-2000, and ABC POL SCI, published by ABC-CLIO, 1984-2000. The database 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"--Online factsheet.
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