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19th Century Masterfile (Poole`s Plus) 
This database indexes books, newspapers, patents, and government documents published during the 19th and 1920-1924.
Health & Environmental Research Online (HERO) 
HERO contains the key studies EPA uses to develop environmental risk assessments for the public. EPA uses risk assessments to characterize the nature and magnitude of health risks to humans and the ecosystem from pollutants and chemicals in the environment.
Academic Search Premier 
Coverage: 1975-present (with selected older titles). A multi-disciplinary database with significant full-text. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study.
ACM Digital Library
Full-text of every article and most proceedings published by the Association for Computing Machinery
ACS Web Editions
Coverage: 1879-present. Full text access to the journals published by the American Chemical Society.
African Women`s Bibliographic Database
Coverage: 1986-present. The database indexes books and government documents; articles appearing in edited books; periodical and journal articles; Masters theses and Ph.D. dissertations as well as a few B.A. theses and honors papers; conference papers; and videocassettes.
Africana Periodical Literature Bibliographic Database
Coverage: varies by title. Articles from English language and multi-lingual journals and periodicals that specialize in African Studies or consistently cover the African continent.
Agricola
Coverage: 1500-present. Primary resource for world-wide access to agricultural information.
America: History and Life
Coverage: 1964-present. A resource for studying the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES)
Coverage: 1990-present. Resources about East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union published in the United States and Canada.
L Annee Philologique
Coverage: 1924-present. Includes periodicals in the field of classical studies covering topics such as ancient Greek & Roman literature, philology, archaeology, history, law, philosophy, and science.
Annotated Bibliography on Antisemitism
Coverage: varies. The Project on Antisemitism is comprised of three online databases: Bibliographies and Reference Works, Antisemitism throughout the Ages, and Antisemitism in Literature and in the Arts. Works on the Holocaust are included as part of the history of antisemitism in the twentieth century.
Antarctic Bibliography
Coverage: 1951-present. Covers all disciplines related to Antarctica including biological and geological sciences, medical sciences, meteorology, oceanography, atmospheric and terrestrial physics, expeditions, logistics equipment and supplies, and tourism.
Anthropological Literature
Coverage: 19th century-present. A bibliographic index to articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies.
Anthrosource
Coverage: varies. Complete archive of all American Anthropological Association journals; current issues of 11 AAA journals.
Art Full Text
Coverage: 1984-present. Abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications, covering subjects including archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, crafts, motion pictures, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, photography, and related fields. Includes over 250 full text periodicals from 1997+
Art Index Retrospective
Coverage: 1929-1984. Find contemporary criticism of art at the time of its debut, track the body of work of an artist or movement, find artists` interviews and other commentary, and much more.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Coverage: 1989-present. Articles and other materials on archaeology, architecture, art, Asian studies, classics, dance, film, TV & radio, folklore, history, language & linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, theater, theology & religious studies. PART OF WEB OF SCIENCE, click on `Change Limits` to select Arts & Humanities only.
arXiv
Coverage: varies. arXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology.
ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
Coverage: (1987+) Indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.
ASTIS: Arctic Science and Technology Information System
Coverage: 1978-present. Contains records describing publications and research projects about northern Canada. ASTIS includes all subjects and covers the three territories, the northern parts of seven provinces and the adjacent marine areas.
ATLA Religion Database
Coverage: 1949-present. Produced by the American Theological Library Association, covering biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues.
AUL Index to Military Periodicals
Coverage: 1988-present. Indexes military & aeronautical periodicals.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Coverage: 1930s-present. Avery indexes international scholarly and popular periodical literature, the publications of professional associations, US state and regional periodicals, and the major serial publications published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation. Expanded coverage includes obituary citations providing biographical data — often the only information available for less-published architects
Bibliography of Asian Studies
Coverage: 1971-present. Materials on East, Southeast, and South Asia, with emphasis on humanities and social sciences.
Bibliography of Native North Americans
Coverage: 1586-present. Materials on native peoples of North America published from the sixteenth century to the present.
Bibliography on Cold Regions Science and Technology
Coverage: 1951-present. Covers all disciplines related to cold regions including biological and geological sciences, medical sciences, meteorology, oceanography, atmospheric and terrestrial physics, expeditions, logistics equipment and supplies, and tourism.
Biological Abstracts
Biological Abstracts® is a comprehensive reference database covering life sciences journal literature.
BioOne Abstracts and Indexes
Coverage: 1998-2000 to present. This BioOne bibliographic database is an indexed and fully-searchable collection of abstracts that link to the fulltext articles available from the BioOne organization. BioOne provides a unique aggregation of over 82 high-impact bioscience research journals from more than 66 publishers.
Black Literature Index
Coverage: 1827-1940. Fiction, poetry and literary reviews; materials indexed are available on microfiche, Micro PS 153.lN5 B53 1987.
Business and Company Resource Center
Coverage: varies. A fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.
Note: Part of NOVEL
Business Source Premier
Coverage: varies. World`s largest full text business database, with Coverage including virtually all subject areas related to business. Also included are country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group, and Country Watch.
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP)
Coverage: July 1976-- ; older material added as time perimts. The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) is the finding tool for electronic and print publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government. The CGP contains descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Coverage: varies. Enables research in areas related to communication and mass media, incorporating the content of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study.
Complementary and Alternative Medicine - a subset of PubMed
Coverage: varies. The search will be automatically limited to the complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) subset of PubMed.
Conference Papers Index
1982 - current. Conference Papers provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science.
Cumulative subject index to the Monthly catalog of United States Government publications, 1900-1971 Call Number: CASE Ref Document Z1223 .A16 1973
Very useful for any topic prior to 1971.
Dissertation Abstracts Online
Coverage: 1861-present. Dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe.
DOE Information Bridge
Coverage: varies. Provides free public access to full-text documents and bibliographic citations of Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature.
E-Print Network
Coverage: varies. A collection of scientific or technical documents circulated electronically to facilitate peer exchange and scientific advancement. Included are pre-publication drafts of journal articles (preprints), scholarly papers, technical communications, or similar documents.
ECO
Coverage: varies. Electronic Collections Online is an OCLC collection of scholarly journals.
EconLit
Coverage: 1969-present. The American Economic Association's electronic database is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature, covering virtually every area related to economics.
Energy Citations Database
Coverage: 1943-present. The Energy Citations Database (ECD) provides free access to over 2.6 million science research citations with continued growth through regular updates. There are over 221,000 electronic documents, primarily from 1943 forward, available via the database. Citations and documents are made publicly available by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management Online
1967 - current. This multidisciplinary database provides comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 6000 serials including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications. The database contains over 3,077,778 records as of September 2009.
ERIC
Coverage: 1966-present. The Educational Resource Information Center, containing citations and abstracts from educational and education-related journals and ERIC documents (on microfiche and online).
Ethnic NewsWatch
Coverage: 1960-present. A database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses.
Fed in Print (Federal Reserve Bank of San Franscisco)
Coverage: varies. A comprehensive index to Federal Reserve economic research.
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
Coverage: 1991-present. Journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
Film & Television Literature Index
Coverage: 1988-present. A database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing, including such subjects as film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
Film Literature Index
Coverage: 1976-2001. Contains citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews. Continued by Film and Television Literature Index.
First Nations Periodical Index
Coverage: varies. Contains journals of mainly Canadian Native content, providing access to information about First Nations.
GenderWatch
Coverage: varies. A database of diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas, providing important historical perspective on the evolution of the women`s movement and the changes in gender roles.
Geobase
1980-present. Covers worldwide literature on geography, geology, ecology, and related disciplines.
GeoRef
Coverage: 1785-present. A comprehensive geosciences database containing over 2.8 million bibliographic records to the geoscience literature of the world.
GreenFILE
Offers well-researched but accessible information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles include content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact. Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
Hapi Online
Coverage: 1970-present. A source for journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States.
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, history of education, and more.
HLAS Online--Handbook of Latin American Studies
Coverage: 1935-present. A bibliography of journals and books on Latin America covering topics in both the humanities and social sciences.
HUD USER Bibliographic Database
Coverage: varies. A bibliographic database dedicated to housing and community development issues such as housing policy, building technology, economic development, and urban planning.
Humanities & Social Science Index Retrospective
Coverage: 1907-1984. Allows search of a wide range of important journals in the humanities and social sciences.
Index Islamicus
Coverage: 1906-present. An international bibliography of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world.
Index to Jewish Periodicals
Coverage: 1988-present. An index on Jewish history, activity and thought, including coverage of contemporary Jewish and Middle Eastern affairs.
INSPEC
Coverage: 1969-present. A bibliographic database providing abstracts and indexing to the world`s scientific and technical literature.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Coverage: 1951-present. An online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research. For book reviews, search title of book and REVIEW in Publication Type.
International Medieval Bibliography
Coverage: 1967-present. Providing a comprehensive, current bibliography of articles for subject areas including classics, English Language and Literature, History and Archaeology, Theology and Philosophy, and others.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Coverage:1784- present. Includes literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
JSTOR
Coverage: varies. Over 800 core scholarly journals. Current issues are unavailable for a varying number of years (frequently 2 to 5 years).
LexisNexis Academic
Coverage: varies, generally 1980s-- . A multi-disciplinary database, with especially strong news, business and legal material.
LexisNexis Congressional
Coverage: varies. Includes the online version of CIS Index to Publications of the United States Congress, including abstracts and legislative histories as well as stories from the Washington Post, Roll Call, and The Hill; and links to hot bills/topics and other websites.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Coverage: 1966-present. Indexes more than periodicals, books, research reports and proceedings covering librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Literature Online [LION]
Coverage: 1920-present. A library of works of English and American poetry, drama and prose; literature journals and other criticism and reference sources.
Literature Resource Center
Coverage: varies. Covers biographies, literary criticism and journals in fields of literature, language, linguistics and folklore for all modern languages.
MathSciNet
Coverage: 1940-present. Offers access to reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature.
Military & Government Collection
Coverage: varies. Military & Government Collection includes periodicals, academic journals, and other content. M&GC provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.
MLA (Modern Language Association) Bibliography
Coverage: 1926-present. The essential database to search for scholarly material in the area of literature and language.
Monthly catalog of United States government publications Call Number: Z1223 .A18
Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1951-1976
National Newspaper Index (Gale Group)
Coverage: 1977-present. Provides access to the indexing of America\'s top five newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.
OAIster
Coverage: varies. OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources which can be thought of as a finding aid to scholarly digital collections. Not all materials are available as open access.
PAIS Archive
Coverage: 1915-1976. Covers all aspects of public affairs including political science, sociology, health, etc with an international view. Coverage includes foreign language materials and some U.S. congressional documents. Current materials are in PAIS International.
PAIS International
Coverage: 1972-present. Covers all aspects of public affairs including political science, sociology, health, etc. with an international view. Coverage includes foreign language materials and some U.S. congressional documents. Older materials are contained in the PAIS Archive.
PapersFirst
Coverage: 1993-present. An index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.
Peace Research Abstracts Journal
Coverage: 1999-2007. Indexes materials covering peace studies and international relations, foreign & military policy, war, population, economics, labor issues, technology & industry, politics, law, and social issues.
Note: Click on the
Philosopher`s Index
Coverage: 1940- present. Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields.
Physical Education Index
Coverage: 1970-present. Features a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology.
Political Science Journals (Basic)
From Hein Online, searchable full text of 50 influential legal periodicals.
Popline
Coverage: 1970-present. A database on reproductive health, providing citations with abstracts to materials in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues.
Population Index (Jstor)
1937-1999. Abstracts of articles about population issues. Continues Population Literature and is continued by Population Index (Princeton).
Population Index (Princeton)
Coverage: 1986-2000. Abstracts of articles about population issues. Continues Population Literature and Population Index.
Population Literature
Coverage: 1935-1936. Abstracts of articles about population issues. Continued by Population Index.
Professional Development Collection
Coverage: varies. Professional Development Collection provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.
Project Muse
Coverage: 1995-present. Provides access to humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from a number of scholarly publishers.
PROLA
Coverage: 1893-present. The online archive for the Physical Review, published by the American Physical Society.
PsycInfo
Coverage: 1887-present. Contains citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines.
PubMed
1966 - covers the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the pre-clinical sciences.
Note: links to Colgate subscribed content will not work off campus from www.pubmed.gov
RAMBI: The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
Coverage: 1979-present. A bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies, including texts in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages.
Readers` Guide Abstracts
Coverage: 1983-present. Contains indexing and abstracting of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada.
Readers` Guide Abstracts & RG Retrospective
Coverage: 1890-present. Extends coverage of Readers` Guide Abstracts to reflect the history of 20th century America.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Coverage: 1969-present. Comprehensive database of scholarly articles, essays, proceedings, books, reviews, and more; covering musicology, ethnomusicoloy, performance practice, theory, pedagogy, musical instruments. For reviews, Refine Search by Document Type Review of ...
Sage Public Administration Abstracts
Coverage: 1988-present. Provides abstracts covering recent literature on all aspects of public administration.
SciFinder Scholar Call Number: QD1 .S35
Coverage: 1907-present. Covers the literature of all aspects of chemistry including biochemistry. Use is restricted to current students, faculty and staff for non-commercial research. Client software is on computers in the libraries and various computer labs.
Note: On workstations in the Case and Cooley Libraries, and Wynn Hall
Simbad Astronomical Database
Coverage: Varies. The SIMBAD astronomical database provides basic data, cross-identifications, bibliography and measurements for astronomical objects outside the solar system.
Social Services Abstracts
Coverage: 1980-present. Covers current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
Sociological Abstracts Online
Coverage: 1963-present. Covers the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
SPIN Web
Coverage: 1975-present. More than 1.5 million article abstracts from leading physics publications.
TOXLINE
Coverage: Current 5 years. Information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens.
Water Resources Abstracts
1967 - current. Water Resources Abstracts provides summaries of the world`s technical and scientific literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources. Abstracts are drawn from journals, books, conference proceedings, and technical reports in the physical and life sciences, as well as from engineering, legal and government publications.
Web of Science
Coverage: 1989-present. Access to Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and/or Arts & Humantities Citation Index. Multidisciplinary coverage.
Note: WOS searches Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index simultaneously by default.
Women`s Studies International
Coverage: 1972-present. Covers the core disciplines in Women`s Studies including the latest scholarship in feminist research. Women`s Studies International has the highest percent of coverage for core titles in the field.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Coverage: 1975-present. Covers the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy.
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