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• Design & Applied Arts Index [on-campus]
  The Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) contains annotated references from more than 500 design and craft journals and newspapers published from 1973 onwards. Topics covered include graphic design, computer aided design, animation, advertising, industrial design, multimedia design and marketing.
• Digital Dissertations (Dissertation Abstracts from Proquest) [on-campus]
  Coverage 1861 – present. Indexes U.S., Canadian, British, and other European dissertations and theses; dissertations abstracted since 1980, theses abstracted since 1988. A 24 page preview of dissertations published since 1997 is available. The full text of dissertations may be obtained by clicking the free download button.
  
  

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• EBSCO Animals [on-campus] [help]
  Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
• Environment Complete   [on-campus] [help]
  Coverage: Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete contains more than 1,772,000 records from more than 1,680 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,108 active core titles) as well as more than 100 monographs. The database also contains full text for more than 650 journals.
• ERIC (EBSCO) [on-campus] [help]
  Coverage: 1966 - present. Indexes Current Journals in Education (CIJE) and Resources in Education (RIE). Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).
• EconLit [on-campus] [help]
  Coverage: 1969 - present. Subject indexing and abstracts of journals, books, collective volumes, dissertations, and working papers in Economics.
• Encyclopedia Britannica Online [on-campus][help]
  Coverage: includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use Encyclopædia Britannica Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
  

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• FARS (Financial Accounting Research System) CD-ROM in Langsdale only. Coverage: Current; updated quarterly. Contains the full text of official FASB and AICPA literature including FASB Statements, Interpretations, Technical Bulletins, and Concepts Statements; ARBs 43-51; APB Opinions and Statements; and AICPA Accounting Interpretations and Terminology Bulletins.
• Films On Demand [help]
  Educational films available through streaming video.
• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia [on-campus] [help]
  This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedia entries covering a variety of subject areas.

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• General BusinessFile ASAP [on-campus] [help]
  Coverage: 1979 - present. Indexes more than 2600 business and trade publications with substantial full text. Includes SIC Descriptions with links to industry articles and Investext with full-text investment reports.
• Greenfile  [on-campus] [help]
  Coverage: offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.  

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• Health Source Plus (consumer edition) [on-campus] [help]
  Coverage: 1990 - present. Searchable full-text for nearly 190 journals and abstracts and indexing for over 200 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. Now includes Clinical Reference Systems and Stedman's Medical Dictionary. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).
• Health Source Plus (nursing edition) [on-campus] [help]
  Coverage: 1990 - present. Searchable full-text for nearly 580 journals and abstracts and indexing for over 615 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. Now includes Clinical Reference Systems. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).
• HEIN ONLINE: [On-campus]
  Coverage: varies. A retrospective collection of over 90 law reviews, with over 200,000 articles. Full-text is available, in graphical image format.

• Historical Abstracts [on campus]
  1954 to the present: Information on articles, books, and dissertations about non-U.S. and non-Canadian history from 1450 to the present. Covers more than 2000 journals in 50 languages. Includes links to full text of selected journal articles.

• Historical Newspapers (Proquest)
  • The New York Times (1851-2003) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Coverage: Sept 18,1851-Dec 31, 2003
  • The Wall Street Journal (1889-1989) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Coverage: July 8, 1889-Dec 31, 1989
  • The Washington Post (1877-1990) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Coverage: Dec 12, 1877-Dec 31, 1990
• Hoover's Company Records[on-campus] [help]
  Coverage: 2002-current. Find in-depth company information on over 5,000 companies with Hoover's Company Records. Each profile provides an overview and history, as well as as information on key people, products, subsidiaries and competitors.
• Humanities International Complete (EBSCO) [on-campus]
  Humanities International Complete is an essential collection for comprehensive coverage of the humanities with some full text content. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index (over 2,000 titles and 2 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 770 journals.

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• JSTOR [on-campus]
  Electronic archive of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes complete runs of journals with full-text of all articles published prior to the most current five years.

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• Key Business Ratios [on-campus]
  Description: D&B's Key Business Ratios help you understand the true performance of a company, by benchmarking it against its industry peers. The 14 key business ratios cover all critical areas of business performance—solvency, efficiency and profitability. And, using an individual company's financial statements with Key Business Ratios, you can generate a comparison of a company's own business ratios with the industry.
  Time span: Current year.

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• Lexis-Nexis Academic [on-campus] [help]
  Coverage: 1970 - present. Features full text of many newspapers and periodicals.  Also offers business news, legal materials such as federal & state codes, case law and legal journals.
• Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts [on-campus]
  indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
• Literature Resource Center [on-campus] [help]
  Coverage: varies. Includes the series Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC), and Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB) and full-text articles from 34 literary journals.

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• Masterfile Premier [on-campus] [help]
  Coverage: 1990 - present. Indexes more than 3,100 magazines covering general subjects. Includes full-text for over 1,000 journals.
• MAS Ultra - School Edition [on-campus] [help]
  This database contains full text for nearly 500 popular high school magazines. MAS Ultra also provides more than 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100, 544 primary source documents and an image collection of 235, 186 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily.
• Medline [on-campus] [help]
  Coverage: 1966 – present. Indexes/abstracts more than 3,200 journals from the biomedical field.
• Mental Measurements Yearbook (EBSCO) [on-campus] [help]
  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.
  
• Mergent Online [on-campus] [help]
  Coverage: Current. Mergent Online contains the electronic versions of the Mergent (formerly Moody's) Manuals (Industrial, OTC, Banking and Finance, and International), covering over 10,000 U.S. companies and thousands for foreign companies. The financial data for most companies covers 15 years. Industry reports are included.
• Military & Government Collection [on-campus]
  Coverage: various dates. Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 350 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 titles.
• Mintel Market Reports [on-campus]
  Mintel provides access to hundreds of reports on a variety of European, UK-specific and US consumer markets. Each report that Mintel publishes provides a unique overview of a market including its dynamics and prospects. Visitors to the website can search by keyword or browse for relevant publications by 'category'.
  Note that academic users of this site must first agree to the academic conditions of use. Then you must create and sign in using a profile consisting of an email address and a password before you can see the reports that are available.
• MLA International Bibliography [on-campus]
  Provides indexing of over 4,000 journals and series. Also indexes books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Includes links to full text of selected journal articles.
• Morningstar.com Library Edition [on-campus]
  Description: Find a stock or fund to meet your needs, research current or prospective holdings or see how your investments work together. Morningstar's data reports cover more than 20,000 securities. Coverage: Historical data back to 1996.

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• National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
  Coverage:  1975 - present. NCJRS contains abstracts of 160,000 criminal justice publications including journal articles; federal, state, and local government reports; books; research reports; and unpublished research; it also offers the full text of more than 1,500 publications at NCJRS and the U. S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. (URL: http://www.ncjrs.org)
• National Newspapers (NA5) with Washington Post [[on-campus]]
  Coverage: Varies with each title back to 1984. Full text of 5 newspapers:
  Baltimore Sun, Christian Science Monitor, New Yirk Times Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition and the Washington Post.
• NetLibrary [on-campus] [help]
  Coverage: Varies. A collection of E-texts covering specifically chosen by Maryland Academic Libraries. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).
• New York Times [on-campus]
  Coverage: N/A. See National Newspapers.
• New York Times Historical Coverage (Proquest) [on-campus]
  The New York Times (1851-2003) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Coverage: Sept 18,1851-Dec 31, 2003

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• Opposing Viewpoints (Gale) [on-campus]
  Covers social issues, such as Gun Control, Genetic Engineering, Censorship, Endangered Species, and Terrorism. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center brings together viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, biographies of social activists, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazines articles, as well as links to more than 1,800 reviewed and subject-indexed web sites. It takes its name from the Opposing Viewpoints print series published by Greenhaven Press, an imprint of the Gale Group.
• Oxford English Dictionary [on-campus]
  Coverage: 2nd and New Editions. The OED describes English as it is today, but also records the history and development of the language through descriptive techniques and quotations.

• PAIS - Public Affairs Information Service  [on-campus]
  Coverage: 1972 – present. Indexes 3600 journals, books, and government documents in the fields of political science, policy, public administration, society. 
• Project Muse (All Titles) [on-campus]
  Coverage varies. Searchable index of over 110 journals in the humanities and social sciences. Selected full text.
• Primary Search [on-campus] [help]
  Provides full text for nearly 70 popular magazines for elementary school research. Updated daily.
• Professional Development Collection (EBSCO) [on-campus] [help]
  Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.
• Proquest Historical Newspapers
  
  • The New York Times (1851-2003) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Coverage: Sept 18,1851-Dec 31, 2003
  • The Wall Street Jounal (1889-1989) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Coverage: July 8, 1889-Dec 31, 1989
  • The Washington Post (1877-1990) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Coverage: Dec 12, 1877-Dec 31, 1990
• PsycARTICLES [on campus]
  This database provides full text articles on current issues in psychology from respected sources, spanning from 1987 to the present. PsycARTICLES includes more than 35,000 full-text articles from 49 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. All journals included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO.
• PsycINFO  [on-campus] [help]
  Coverage: 1887 – present. Indexes 1,300 Psychology journals from nearly 50 countries. Also includes abstracts for dissertations, books and book chapters. Same coverage as PsycLit.
• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection [on-campus] [help]
  This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Nearly very full text title included is indexed in PsycInfo. Updated daily.

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• ReferenceUSA [on-campus]
  Coverage: Current. Provides directory, sales and employee size information for more than 12 million businesses in the U.S.
• Regional Business News [on-campus]
  Coverage: Varies. Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Included in this database are Arizona Business, Business North Carolina, Crain's New York Business (and other Crain Communications editions), Des Moines Business Record, Enterprise Salt Lake City, Fort Worth Business Press, Orange County Business Journal, Westchester County Business Journal, etc.

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• Science Resource Center (Gale) [on-campus]
  Part of Thomson Gale's growing science product line, Science Resource Center is an in-depth, curriculum-oriented science database that provides a one-stop resource for all science-related research needs. This 24/7 resource reflects curriculum trends and focuses on key concepts taught in school classrooms including biology, chemistry, physics, earth science, math, environmental science, life science, medicine, space science, computer science, technology, history of science, science and society, science as inquiry, science-related biographies and more.
• Soc Index with full text (Ebsco) [on-campus]
  This index features more than 1,300,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociology-specific thesaurus designed by expert lexicographers. This product also contains informative abstracts for more than 620 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895. In addition, this file provides data mined from more than 500 "priority" coverage journals as well as over 1,390 "selective" coverage journals. Further, extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference papers, and other sources is included.
• STAT-USA [on campus] [help]
  Coverage: current. Stat-USA is a gateway to databases that assemble current information on business, economics, and trade from diverse government sources. It is divided into two parts: the State of the Nation section covers domestic statistics and Globus/NTDB cover information relating to US foreign trade. Most of the information deals with marketing and investing opportunities in foreign countries. Stat-USA is a subscription service available to the Langsdale Library as part of the government depository program.

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• Tests in Print (EBSCO) [on-campus] [help]
  Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, 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).
  

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• Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (Bowker) [on campus]
  Bibliographic database providing detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on journals, magazines and newspapers published throughout the world.

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• Wall Street Journal [on-campus]
  Coverage: 1984 - present. Includes full text of Eastern edition of Wall Street Journal newspaper.
• Wall Street Journal Historical Coverage (Proquest) [on-campus]
  The Wall Street Jounal (1889-1989) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Coverage: July 8, 1889-Dec 31, 1989
• Washington Post [on-campus]
  Coverage:1996 - current.
• Washington Post Historical Coverage (Proquest) [on-campus]
  The Washington Post (1877-1990) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Coverage: Dec 12, 1877-Dec 31, 1990
• WorldCat [on-campus] [help]
  Coverage: Varies. International database of collections (including books, journals , dissertations, documents, and other materials) held by libraries worldwide. Maryland libraries that own copies of the items display at the top of the list of libraries so you can easily determine if local libraries own the material needed. Records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.

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• XRefer Plus - See Credo Reference

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