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Dates Covered: varies by journal
Updated: Not available
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: Yes; selective
This is a general interest database covering a wide variety of topics including social sciences, business, humanities, general science and education. Of the over 3000 journals indexed, approximately one third are full-text. To use this database, select Articles & Indexes, then choose EBSCO, then click on Academic Search Premier. Current students, faculty and staff of the University of South Alabama can access Expanded Academic Index from their offices or homes. Citations and, in many cases, complete articles can be printed, saved to a disk, or e-mailed to the user's account. TIP: When searching a topic, Academic Search and other EBSCO databases may be searched simultaneously by checking the boxes for each database and then choosing ENTER. Some full-text articles are available in pdf format so that you get a full image of the article as it appears in the journal. To read pdf files, you need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader; it can be obtained for free from Adobe's web site at http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html.
Dates Covered: 1991 - present (full-text);
1985 - present (citations)
Updated: As the journals are published
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: Yes
The ACM Digital Library contains approximately 9000 full-text articles from ACM publications. The Digital Library has two methods of searching: search and browse. Search mode allows you to search ACM publications by keyword, phrase, expression or author. Searching can be limited by publication, classification and date. Browse provides you with a tables of contents service. Full-text articles require the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Download the latest version for free from the Adobe web site at http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html.
Dates Covered: 1985 - present More than 750,000 citations from 3,000+ publishers, including ACM, covering:
books,
Updated: Weekly
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: Links to ACM Digital Library
journal articles, conference proceedings, doctoral dissertations, master's theses,
and technical reports. Browse by search term, author, reviewer, or type of publication.
Search by basic word or phrase from the front page or choose Advanced Search
to combine terms or modify searches by item type, date published, or author.
Dates Covered: 1981 - present ( journals);
1970 - present (books)
Updated: Not available
Access: Public
Full-text: No
Produced by the National Agriculture Library, AGRICOLA has two indexes that have to be separately searched -- the Online Public Access Catalog and the Journal Article Citation Index. The OPAC contains records for books, audiovisual materials, serial publications and other items owned by the NAL and its cooperating libraries. The Journal Article Citation Index contains records for articles, book chapters, reports and reprints on agricultural topics. Both databases can be browsed or searched by keyword. The Advanced Keyword search allows for searching by Boolean operators. Searches can also be grouped together using parentheses.
Dates Covered: 1990 - present
Updated: Quarterly
Access: Public
Full-text: No
The AUL Index to Military Periodicals provides citations to articles in a little over 100 military journals, among these are Army Times, Navy Times, Jane's Intelligence Review, Air Force Times, International Defense Review, Military Intelligence and Marine Corp Gazette. For a complete list of titles indexed, see the Air University Library homepage.
Dates Covered: information not available
Updated: information not available
Access: Public
Full-text: No
This is an index to major microforms sets held by Alabama academic libraries and the Birmingham Public Library. It can be searched by either keyword or title.
Dates Covered: 1960s - present
Updated: Varies
Access: Public
Full-text: No
Anthropological Index Online is a bibliographic database to current periodicals in the Museum of Mankind Library. It incorporates the former Royal Anthropological Institute Library. AI can be searched by keyword, author, title, journal, or subject heading. A search can be restricted by using the Continent, Region, and Subject Area limiters at the bottom of the search screen. Boolean searching is allowed. References can be printed or e-mailed.
Dates Covered: 1990 - present
Updated: Daily
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: No
Available through the Alabama Virtual Library's subscription to FirstSearch, Article1st provides access to citations and abstracts to journal articles in many different fields, among these are social science, business, humanities and science.
Dates Covered: 1990 - present
Updated: Weekly
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: No
Arts and humanities citation index. Over 8000 periodical titles are indexed in this database. AHS is available on a per-search basis through FirstSearch. The University Library pays for every search you submit, so please plan your search strategy carefully.
Dates Covered: 1973 - present
Updated: Not available
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: Selective
The American Society of Civil Engineers' electronic information retrieval service to all its publications published since 1973. The CEDB provides access to over 80,000 bibliographic and abstracted records. Full-text articles are in PDF format and require the Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Dates Covered: 1980 - present
Updated: not available
Access: Requires registration with ChemWeb but the registration is free.
Full-text: No
Indexes and abstracts approximately 140 journals in the field of chemistry. You can search for an author or search using keywords in the title or the abstract. Results provide you with the bibliographic citation, the abstract and the CNR. To register at ChemWeb, go to http://chemweb.com/join. Registration is free.
Dates Covered: 1980 - present
Updated: Quarterly
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: No
Indexing and abstracting information for the life sciences. Includes links to full-text articles in ScienceDirect, Springer-Verlag and EBSCO Online. Basic limits such as language, author, title, subject and keyword can be set on the first screen. To choose other limits, select the Limit Your Search button before doing your search. Other limits include document type, publication year, and Abstract Indicator. Choose the Set Limits button and then do the search. For help using Biological Abstracts, try SilverPlatter Databases on Southcat Plus. Please logout after your search as the USA Library's subscription is for one user at a time.
Dates Covered: Varies
Updated: Weekly
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: No
Books-in-Print provides access to records of books that are in print, about to be printed, or out of print. It only includes those titles published in North America. It provides general information on a book such as title, author, publisher, publishing status, subject terms, and isbn. In order to use Books-in-Print through InfoTrac, patrons must be current University faculty, staff, or students.
Dates Covered: varies
Updated: Daily
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: Yes
Business Source Elite covers business, management, economics, banking, finance, accounting and other business topics. Wall Street Words, a dictionary of financial terms, is linked directly to words within the citations and full text. Some full-text articles are available in pdf format so that you get a full image of the article as it appears in the journal. To download pdf files, you need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader; it can be obtained for free from Adobe's web site at http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html
Dates Covered: Current
Updated: not sure
Access: On campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: Yes
The Clinical Pharmacology website contains information on prescription, OTC, new and investigational drugs; herbal and nutraceutical products; pediatric, adult and geriatric dosing; drug photos and product identification; patient education in English and Spanish; drug interactions and adverse reactions screening; intravenous compatibility reports; patient-specific profiles and clinical alerts; advanced searching and drug comparisons; state-specific prescription writing.
Dates Covered: varies for the particular
college catalog
Updated: not sure
Access: University Library only
Full-text: Yes, in pdf format. Requires Adobe
Acrobat Reader
CollegeSource Online provides the complete text of approximately 9800 college and university catalogs; two-year schools and professional schools are also included. In order to view the complete text of these catalogs, you need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer -- it can be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html.
Dates Covered: 1970 - present
Updated: constantly
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: Yes
Access to legislative information. Contains an index of congressional publications, legislative histories, testimony from congressional hearings, current information about bills as they move through Congress, the Congressional Record and the Federal Register, the National Journal and information about congressional committees and members.
Dates Covered: not available
Updated: not available
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: Yes
Contemporary Authors includes current writers in fiction, journalism, non-fiction, television, movies, poetry and drama as well as authors writing in other areas. Writers included are mostly current and cover the entire world. CA's search engine allows the use of the Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT and the proximity operators W and N. You can also search for an exact phrase by putting quotation marks around the phrase. The truncation symbol in CA is the asterisk (*) and the wildcard is the question mark (?).
Dates Covered: 1992 - present
Updated: Weekly
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: No
Contemporary Women's Issues indexes journals, newsletters, government reports, factsheets and research reports in a cross-disciplinary approach to information about women.
Dates Covered: 1861 - present
Updated: Not available, but dissertations as recent as last semester
are included
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: Full-text dissertations can be purchased from UMI; USA dissertations
are available for free in pdf.
UMI's Dissertation Abstracts includes citations
for dissertations from 1861. In 1980, UMI also began to include abstracts for
doctoral dissertations; abstracting for master's theses began in 1988. The database
contains approximately 1.5 million records, many of which can be ordered directly
from UMI in either paper or pdf format. It is necessary to have Adobe Acrobat
Reader installed on your computer to read pdf files. University of South
Alabama dissertations in electronic format are available to you free of charge;
look for 
in to the record
along with the ![[pdf format]](images/PDFsm.gif)
pdf
icon. Acrobat is free from Adobe at http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html.
If you are at a library computer, you can still order an electronic dissertation.
UMI provides a PIN number which is not restricted by IP address, so you can
place an order on-campus then go to your home computer, enter the PIN and download
the dissertation. Dissertation Abstracts can be searched by keyword (searches
the title and the abstract), author and UMI publication number. You can also
order a dissertation from home through Dissertation
Express if you have the author, title or UMI order number. Dissertation
Express does not provide abstracts; it only gives the citation information.
Dates Covered: 1969 - present
Updated: Monthly
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: No
EconLit provides indexing and abstracting for journal articles, books and dissertations. It is available on a per-search basis through FirstSearch. The University Library pays for every search you submit, so please plan your search strategy carefully.
Dates Covered: Varies by access method
Updated: Varies by access method
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: ERIC Documents (EDs) are available full-text from 1996
ERIC stands for the Educational Resources Information Center. It is a federally-funded project that provides information on a variety of education-related issues. The ERIC database includes citations and abstracts from journal articles as well as from research papers and reports on educational research and practice. ERIC is available through several sites on the Web and through various database providers; search methods and syntax will vary according to the provider you use. ERIC citations include an accession number that begins with either EJ or ED (example: ED417929.) EJ indicates journal articles; these must be looked up in SOUTHcat to determine if the library owns the journal. Items that have a number beginning with ED can be found on microfiche on the second floor of the University Library; they are filed by the ED number.
Dates Covered: 1980 - present
Updated: Monthly
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: Yes; selective
Ethnic NewsWatch is a full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. The database covers social, political and educational subjects. Coverage includes issues in other countries such as Ireland, Israel and the Middle East, Mexico, Bosnia, Armenia, China, and Nigeria. The database can be searched using keyword, natural language or field searches. Searchable in both English and Spanish.
Dates Covered: Current
Updated: not sure
Access: On campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: Yes
Evidence Matters provides best therapy options for a specific patient with a confirmed diagnosis employing a straightforward, ask-a-question interface. Current peer-reviewed research results are organized in an evidence-based manner into summary graphs or tables, based on therapy effectiveness, safety, and cost.
Dates Covered: 1980 - present
Updated: Daily
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: Yes; selective
This is a general interest database that provides abstracts and some full-text to a variety of journals in a wide range of subjects such as astronomy, religion, law, history, humanities, current events, social sciences and the general sciences. Current students, faculty and staff of the University of South Alabama can access Expanded Academic Index from their offices or homes. Citations and, in many cases, complete articles can be printed, saved to a disk, or e-mailed to the user's account. Some full-text articles are available in pdf format so that you get a full image of the article as it appears in the journal. To download pdf files, you need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader; it can be obtained for free from Adobe's web site at http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html
Dates Covered: not listed
Updated: depends on the government agency producing the statistics
Access: Public
Full-text: Yes
FedStats, maintained by the Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy, provides quick access to statistical data from over 70 federal government agencies. The database is searchable, but currently statistics from 70 agencies are included in the search engine. FICSP plans on adding more agencies to this site. All agencies' statistics can be accessed by choosing A to Z and then picking the name of the agency. The entire Statistical Abstract of the United States is available in pdf format when you choose Statistical Reference Shelf.
Dates Covered: not available
Updated: not available
Access: Public
Full-text: No
Gale's Literary Index is an index to the printed volumes of all 43 of Gale's literary series, including Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Something about the Author, Short Story Criticism and Poetry Criticism. The Literary Index can be searched by author, title or nationality. The information retrieved about an author includes nationality, pseudonyms, birth and death years, titles of works by the author, and the Gale series in which the author is included. The University Library owns many of the titles indexed in the Literary Index; they can be found in the Reference Department.
Dates Covered: 1987 - present
Updated: Last updated February 18, 1999
Access: Public
Full-text: No
gender Inn was designed to be an interdisciplinary database in feminist studies, so it covers research in literature, sociology, pedagogy, history and psychology. Its primary emphasis, however, is on literary criticism. gender Inn includes mainly monographs and essay collections; journal articles are only added in special cases. This database also does not include items that the designers feel can be easily found in a standard bibliography on the topic. gender Inn provides two search methods; a simple query and an advanced query. The advanced query allows you to specify the field the engine searches (complete text, author, title, abstract, thesaurus, publisher) and to narrow your search by publication year.
Dates Covered: 1980 - current
Updated: Daily
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: Yes; selective
This database provides articles on business and management topics. It includes directory listings for companies and investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries. Current students, faculty and staff of the University of South Alabama can access General Business File from their offices or homes. Citations and, in many cases, complete articles can be printed, saved to a disk, or e-mailed to the user's account.
Dates Covered: 1785 - present (North American);
1933 - present (International)
Updated: 24 times a year
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: No
Indexes and abstracts records about geology and earth science. For help using GeoRef, try SilverPlatter Databases on Southcat Plus.
Dates Covered: depends on periodical accessed
Updated: quarterly
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: No
Government Periodicals Universe is a part of the Lexis-Nexis family of products and provides bibliographic information for articles in government published magazines and newsletters. GPU can be searched by keyword, title, author, agency, subject (using CIS's controlled vocabulary) or periodical information. Searches can be narrowed by date and Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT and others) are allowed. The wildcard symbol is an asterisk (*) -- it replaces one letter in a word. The truncation symbol is the exclamation mark (!); it is used at the end of a word to replace more than one letter.
Dates Covered: 1976 to present
Updated: monthly
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: No
Index to all kinds of U.S. government documents; included among these are Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments.
Dates Covered: Varies according to the database
Updated: Varies according to the database
Access: Public
Full-text: Yes
GPO Access provides free electronic access to federal government information from a variety of sources, including The Federal Register, The Code of Federal Regulations, The Congressional Record, Congressional Bills, Commerce Business Daily, Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, and The Government Locator Service. Files from approximately 4,500 federal agencies are also available for downloading through the Federal Bulletin Board; individual agencies attempt to ensure the currency of these files by uploading them to the FBB themselves.
Dates Covered: 1990 - present (full text)
Updated: Daily
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: Yes
Health Source: Consumer Edition covers nutrition, exercise, medical self-care, drugs and alcohol, and other health topics. Full-text is available for journal articles, pamphlets and 20 reference books -- including Stedman's Medical Dictionary. Some full-text articles are available in pdf format so that you get a full image of the article as it appears in the journal. To download pdf files, you need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader; it can be obtained for free from Adobe's web site at http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html
Dates Covered: 1990 - present (full text)
Updated: Daily
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: Yes
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition covers nursing and allied health. Full-text is available for journal articles and reference books -- including Stedman's Medical Dictionary. Some full-text articles are available in pdf format so that you get a full image of the article as it appears in the journal. To download pdf files, you need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader; it can be obtained for free from Adobe's web site at http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html
Dates Covered: 1954 - present
Updated: 3 times a year
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: No
Historical Abstracts covers materials on
the history of the world, excluding the United States and Canada, from 1450
to the present. For articles about the history of the United States or Canada,
see America:
History and Life. Historical Abstracts can be searched by many
different fields, including keyword, subject, author, document type, language
and time period. The keyword search is the easiest, but the subject search can
help you add related terms to your search; choose Advanced Search and click
on the ![[Subject browse]](images/browse.gif){kind=small}
icon next to the Subject Terms box to browse the subject
list.
Dates Covered: Current + 5 years backfiles
Updated: not sure
Access: On campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: Yes
Full-text of the ICE Proceedings, published by Thomas Telford, the publishing wing of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Search engine searches all Thomas Telford journals, but it is possible to limit to only ICE Proceedings journals.
Dates Covered: Current
Updated: not sure
Access: On campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: Yes
Evidence Matters provides best therapy options for a specific patient with a confirmed diagnosis employing a straightforward, ask-a-question interface. Current peer-reviewed research results are organized in an evidence-based manner into summary graphs or tables, based on therapy effectiveness, safety, and cost.
Dates Covered: 1950 - present
Updated: Varies according to funding and research activity; last update
May 10, 2000
Access: Public
Full-text: Yes
The International Data Base is a source of demographic and socioeconomic data for countries around the world. It includes such data as population characteristics, ethnicity, religion, language, literacy, employment, income, infant mortality, fertility, marital status and life tables. The U.S. Bureau of the Census, the National Statistics Office, the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and UNESCO all contribute data to the IDB.
Dates Covered: 1979 - current
Updated: Daily
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: Not applicable
The Illinois Researcher Information Service, or IRIS, is available in both web and telnet versions. It contains information on funding opportunities through both federal and private agencies. IRIS can be searched in both a basic and an advanced mode. The basic search allows you to search by keywords or phrases in all fields, subjects/keywords, deadlines, academic qualifications or sponsor type (federal or nonfederal). The advanced search allows you to expand on these fields and search keywords or phrases in all fields, sponsor/agency, program title, subjects/keywords, deadlines, keywords or phrases in the program abstract, activities supported , citizenship, academic qualifications, restrictions (women, minority applicants, Illinois residents, University of Illinois community) or sponsor type (federal or nonfederal). The IRIS Alert Service allows you to create your own profile and get automatic notification of funding opportunities. The IRIS Expertise Service allows faculty to create electronic curriculum vitae and post them to the web.
Dates Covered: differs for each journal
Updated: differs for each journal
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: Yes
JSTOR is an archive of back issues of academic journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. It covers a journal from the very first issue. For an alphabetical list of journals go to Journals Currently Available. Current issues are not included. JSTOR can be searched by keyword, topic, title, author and dates and includes both a Basic Search and an Advanced Search mode. Boolean searches and phrase searching using quotation marks around the phrase can be performed in the Advanced Search. Articles can be printed using either Adobe Acrobat Reader or JSTOR's JPRINT module, both of which you'll need to download to your computer. Your browser's print button will only print what's on the screen one page at a time. For more information on printing, JPRINT and Acrobat Reader, see Printing JSTOR Articles. Both JPRINT and Acrobat Reader can be downloaded from this page. USA subscribes to the Arts & Sciences I Collection, the Arts & Sciences II Collection and the Ecology and Botany Collection. For a list of these titles see Arts & Sciences I Collection Titles , Arts & Sciences II Collection Titles and Ecology and Botany Collection Titles.
Dates Covered: Depends on database accessed
Updated: Depends on database accessed
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: Yes; except Medline
Lexis-Nexis's Academic is a web-based version of Lexis-Nexis designed specifically for academic institutions. It provides online, full-text access to legal cases and decisions, newspapers and magazines, country profiles, law reviews, company financial information, biographical information and more. Searching Lexis is relatively simple, especially if you've been used to the dial-up access. Pull-down menus help narrow your choices and the search tips below the search form give simple advice on making your search as relevant as possible. For some tips on quick and easy searching, try the Academic Universe Knowledge Base, download the Smart Card or check out Tips for Using Lexis.
Dates Covered: 1976 - present
Updated: Monthly
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: No
MarciveWeb DOCS is the Web version of the Government Printing Offices' record database. It includes records for all items published by GPO and has the shipping list records for items that are not yet cataloged. Within records, Marcive has active links to web sites where the document is located. This database allows an Express Search and a Combined Search. The Express Search allows you to perform a simple word search and specify the index you want to search; SuDoc, Stock Number, GPO Item, Monthly Catalog and OCLC are the available indexes. The Combined Search lets you specify a number of items such as title, author, subject, notes, anyword, format, date and language.
Dates Covered: 1940 - present
Updated: Current Mathematical Publications: Daily; Mathematical
Reviews: Monthly
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: Yes
MathSciNet provides full-text, online access to Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications. It is available seven days a week with the time period from 6:00 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time being reserved for database maintenance. MathSciNet allows searching using Boolean operators, but it also has some specialized features. The Author Identification feature allows you to search for an author and find all the formats of that author's name. MSC Identification provides the means to search MathSciNet using the Mathematics Subject Classification. Records can be viewed in HTML, DVI or Postscript. Direct links to articles available online through ScienceDirect and JSTOR are included in this database. MathSciNet also includes links to articles published in Springer journals and in SIAM's electronic journals; SIAM journals are only available IF the University Library subscribes to the print copy.
Dates Covered: 1966 - present
Updated: Weekly
Access: Public
Full-text: No
Medline provides access to bibliographic citations in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the preclinical sciences and the health care system. The database currently contains over nine million records. Medline is available through two search systems, PubMed and EBSCO. Which one you choose depends upon your needs. PubMed allows you to narrow your search to the electronic holding of the University Libraries by including loprovusalib[sb] as part of your search. Example: loprovusalib[sb] and drugs
Dates Covered: 1989 - present
Updated: irregularly
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: Yes
Produced by the Buros Institute, the Mental Measurements Yearbook contains full-text information about and reviews of English-language standardized tests used to measure education skills, vocational aptitude, personality, and psychological state. Some limit fields available in MMY include Acronym, Accession Number, Test Author, and Publisher. Use either "in" or = with these limits. Example: an=15099790 or 15099790 in an; for more help using Mental Measurements Yearbook, try SilverPlatter Databases on Southcat Plus.
Dates Covered: 1963 - present
Updated: Not available
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: No
This is the Modern Language Association Bibliography. It indexes articles, books and book chapters on literature, criticism, folklore, language and linguistics.
Dates Covered: Early 1970s - present
Updated: Not available
Access: Public
Full-text: Yes, selective
Subjects covered in NCJRS Abstracts Database include courts, crime, drugs, corrections, law enforcement, juvenile crime, crime statistics and crime victims. The full text of items published by NCJRS sponsoring agencies (the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office for Victims of Crime, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice, and the Office of National Drug Control Policy) since 1995 are available at the NCJRS home page at http://www.ncjrs.org/. Other items may be for sale by NCJRS; check the Sales field of the record for availability. Materials are also available for interlibrary loan. The NCJRS database Help screen provides very useful tips for both searching the database and for obtaining the items found through a search.
Dates Covered: Current
Updated: Daily
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: Yes
Newspaper Source provides selected full text for 143 U.S. and international newspapers. Some full-text articles are available in pdf format so that you get a full image of the article as it appears in the journal. To download pdf files, you need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader; it can be obtained for free from Adobe's web site at http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html
Dates Covered: 1972 - present
Updated: Monthly
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: No
PAIS International indexes books, articles, conference proceedings and other materials about public affairs. It is available on a per-search basis through FirstSearch. The University Library pays for every search you submit, so please plan your search strategy carefully.
Dates Covered: 1993 - present
Updated: Weekly
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: No
"Papers included in every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library." Choose General databases.
Dates Covered: 1940 - present
Updated: unavailable
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: No
The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracting for books and journal articles in the field of philosophy plus related areas such as religion, ethics, aesthetics and epistemology. Available limit fields in this index include Document Type, Language and Publication Year. For help using Philosopher's Index, try SilverPlatter Databases on Southcat Plus.
Dates Covered: antiquity - present
Updated: continually
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required or with AVL
card)
Full-text: Selective
PoemFinder allows you to find a poem using Basic Search, by typing in a word or a phrase. If you want to search by specific fields, just choose Advanced Search. Here you can restrict your search to such fields as the poem's title, first line, last line, author or original language. You can also do a Boolean search by combining terms in the three different search boxes. PoemFinder's Subject Navigator allows you to browse for poems on such subjects as the human condition, religion, history and society. The University Libraries also have access to Story Finder.
Dates Covered: 1986 - present
Updated: Quarterly
Access: Public
Full-text: No
Index to the population literature world-wide. Document types included are books, articles, dissertations, data files and working papers as well as other material on population. Subject coverage includes all areas of interest to researchers on population topics; fertility, mortality, population size, migration, research methodology and historical demography are among the topics indexed in Population Index. The search form allows you to choose either citations only (short format) or citations with abstracts (long format).
Dates Covered: 1993 - present
Updated: Weekly
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: No
Index to every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library. Includes citation and table of contents information. Choose General databases.
Dates Covered: 1990 - present
Updated: Not available
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: Yes
EBSCO's Professional Development Collection is designed for educators and contains full-text articles from over 240 journals. Some full-text articles are available in pdf format so that you get a full image of the article as it appears in the journal. To download pdf files, you need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader; it can be obtained for free from Adobe's web site at http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html
Dates Covered: 1967 - present
Updated: Not available
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: No
PsycINFO is an index for articles, books and book chapters in the field of psychology. All of the databases can be searched at simultaneously or a specific database can be opened by clicking in the checkboxes next to the database(s). Basic limits such as language, author, title, subject and keyword can be set on first screen. To choose other limits, select the Select Other Limits button before doing your search. Other limits include document type, publication year, age group, and population. Choose the Set Limits button and then do the search. For more help using PsycINFO, try SilverPlatter Databases on Southcat Plus.
Dates Covered: 1946 - present
Updated: Weekly
Access: Public
Full-text: No
RAND publishes documents on national security, public policy and public welfare of the United States. Any topic that touches on these (such as biology, sociology and physical sciences) may be included in RAND Abstracts. Searching can be done on author, title, abstract and document number fields. The Boolean AND and OR can be used in searches, but they cannot be used together in the same search.
Dates Covered: 1996 to present
Updated: Not available
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: Yes -- to journals subscribed to in print by Alabama libraries
ScienceDirect can be customized in some ways to help you focus on your particular discipline; for help see ScienceDirect Usage Tips at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/page/static/scidir/static_scidir_splash_usage1.html. You can also download a pdf Quick Reference Guide. To use this, you will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded for free from the Adobe web site at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html.
Dates Covered: Not available
Updated: Not available
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: Yes
Available through InfoTrac's Literature Resource Center. You can do a keyword search, a title search or an "authors by type" search. LRC also has an Advanced Search option.
Dates Covered: varies by database
Updated: Not available
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required or with AVL
card)
Full-text: Yes
SIRS Knowlege Source consists of three
databases: SIRS Government Reporter, SIRS Renaissance and SIRS
Researcher. The Goverment Reporter provides accessto information
by and about the United States Government. Current and historical documents
are available, as are Supreme Court decisions and information about government
agencies and elected officials. A Presidential Directory is available with biographical
information, including a picture if you click on the camera icon (![[camera]](images/camera.gif){kind=small}
)
at the top of the screen. The SIRS Government Reporter actually consists
of eight separate databases: U.S. Government Documents, U.S. Supreme Court Decisions,
Historic Documents, National Archives Documents, Congressional Members Directory,
Federal Agency Directory, U.S. Justices Directory and U.S. President's Directory.
The U.S. Government Documents database is the default; if you want information
from the others, choose Additional Databases and
choose the one you are interested in.
The default database in SIRS Renaissance, Current Perspectives on the Arts and Humanities, provides information on Architecture & Design, Culture, Film, Radio, Television & Video, Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy & Religion, Visual Arts. Many articles are accompanied by full-color graphics, including art reproductions, photographs, illustrations and maps. SIRS Renaissance also consists of four more additional content databases: Award Recipients, Glossary of the Arts, Recommended References and Lifetime Readings. To get information from one of these, choose Additional Content Databases.
SIRS Researcher provides full-text articles from around 1500 newspapers, magazines, journals and government publications on social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political and global issues. The default database is Full-Text Articles. SIRS Researcher contains three additional content databases: Today's News, World Almanac® Excerpts and Maps of the World. In addition, SIRS Researcher selects articles of particular interest and includes them in Spotlight of the Month. These articles can be found by searching the full-text database at any time and will remain in the Spotlight of the Month Archive for the remainder of the year. To search any of the additional content databases, choose Additional Databases.
Dates Covered: 1975 - current
Updated: Annually
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: No
SPORT Discus is an international database to journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertations on sports medicine, exercise physiology, biomechanics, psychology, training techniques, coaching, physical education, physical fitness, active living, recreation, history, facilities and equipment. It is a product of the Sport Information Resource Centre of Canada. Limits include document type, publication year, age group, and population.
Dates Covered: 1995-1997
Updated: Annually
Access: Public
Full-text: Yes
Provides statistical data in the following subjects: commerce, geography, health, mortality, law enforcement, population, prisons, vital statistics and trade as well as other areas of interest. In order to read and print the tables from Statistical Abstracts, you must have Adobe's Acrobat reader downloaded and identified to your browser. Get a free copy of Acrobat at http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html.
Dates Covered: not available
Updated: not available
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: some full-text
Online access to Statistical Abstracts and the full-text of its tables, an index to over 100,000 statistical publications (check SOUTHcat for availability in the Government Documents area), and web sites with statistical information. For quick answers, choose Power Tables.
Dates Covered: Varies by database accessed
Updated: Varies by database accessed; some are updated daily.
Access: Public
Full-text: Yes
Thomas is a searchable, full-text database to major legislation (by bill number, subject, and title), bills (full text, summaries, and status), public laws, the Annals of Congress, the Congressional Record and the Congressional Record Index, roll call votes, Congressional committee reports, historical documents, and information about the legislative process. A new feature, called Congress in the News, has been added to provide quick access to bills that have appeared in the news recently. The Résumés of Congressional Activity have also been added for the 91st to the 105th Congresses. These Résumés give workload statistics for Congress.
Dates Covered: not available
Updated: not available
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: Yes
The Twayne Author Series includes Twayne's U.S. Authors, English Authors and World Authors. Available through InfoTrac's Literature Resource Center. You can do a keyword search, a title search or an "authors by type" search. LRC also has an Advanced Search option.
Dates Covered: Current
Updated: Twice a year
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: No
Provides holdings information for journals and other serial items held by OCLC member libraries. The search form has an "Only Search My Library" option to check in order to determine your library's holdings.
Dates Covered: 1976 - current
Updated: Weekly
Access: Public
Full-text: No, but provides front page access.
Provides access to the front pages of U.S. patents; information on this page includes bibliographic data, an abstract and a description of the patent's contents. The USPTO Patent Database can be searched using Boolean operators or by patent number. For very specific searching, use the Advanced Search option which allows you to search on 27 different fields, including assignee name, application number, application date, inventor name and inventor city.
Dates Covered: 1200 - current
Updated: Daily
Access: On-campus and remote (USA ID required)
Full-text: No
Provides access to the records for any material types cataloged by the approximately 24,000 OCLC member libraries including monographs, serials, videos and data files.
Dates Covered: 1991 - current
Updated: Daily
Access: Public
Full-text: Yes
xxx.lanl.gov is an electronic archive of research papers in science, math, computation and language and nonlinear sciences. According to the Web site "This archive is based upon activities supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation . . . with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and . . . the U.S. Department of Energy." Papers are available in a variety of formats, and users can retrieve either through the web or through e-mail. Authors may also submit their own papers to the archive. Users can register to receive, via e-mail, a list of newly submitted papers in their areas of interest.
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