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Academic Search Premier   (EBSCO)

4683 full-text
8172 indexed

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ACM Digital Library: Choose Search the Digital Library to search and Browse the Digital Library for tables of contents access.

29 full-text journals

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ACM Guide to Computing Literature: Includes bibliographic citations from major publishers in computing. Links to available fulltext from ACM Digital Library.

Citations; Links to fulltext in ACM Digital Library

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ACS Journals: Web editions of  the American Chemical Society journals. Includes all journals from year of first issue.

30 full-text journals

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African Journals Online: full-text articles can be ordered -- see Article Order info
Citations and abstracts
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AgeLine: social gerontology and aging-related articles, books, and reports.
Abstracts
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AGRICOLA: indexes to books and articles on agriculture.

Citations only

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Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals

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Alabama's Major Microform Collections: index only. Title and keyword searching

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about Alt-Health Watch: covers holistic medicine
Contains full-text
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AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine)
Selected full-text
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American Mathematical Society Journals: access is for the journals to which we have print subscriptions, Conformal Geometry and Dynamics, Representation Theory, Journal of the AMS, Proceedings of the AMS, and Transactions of the AMS
Full-text
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  AMS Journals: Access to American Meteorological Society journals Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (1970-current), Journal of Applied Meteorology (1962-2004, including Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climate, 1983-1987), Journal of Climate (1988-1996), and Weather and Forecasting (1986-2004).
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AnthroSource
Full-text
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Article1st Choose General & Subject Specific Databases. (FirstSearch)

Abstracts only

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about ARTFL Project: contains nearly 2000 texts including classic works of French literature
Full-text
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Arts and Humanities Search:citation index. Choose Per-Search databases. (FirstSearch)

Citations only

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ASCE Civil Engineering Database: ASCE's electronic information retrieval service to all its publications.

29 full-text journals

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ASME Technical Publications: Mechanical engineering. 12 of the journals are indexed in EBSCO's Academic Search Premiere.
18 full-text journals
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Auto Repair Reference Center
Full-text
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Beilstein's Abstracts: available for free through ChemWeb but you must register. Registration is free.

Abstracts

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Bibliography of Asian Studies
Citations
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Biological Abstracts: indexing and abstracting for life sciences. Includes links to full-text articles in ScienceDirect, Ingenta and EBSCO Online(SilverPlatter)

Abstracts + links to full-text articles in ScienceDirect and other services

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BioOne: fulltext bioscience research journals
72 full-text journals and 1 full-text book
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BioOne Abstracts and Indexes: does not contain full-text but links to full-text in BioOne
links to the full-text in BioOne
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about Blackwell/Synergy: access is for titles marked in green and titles for which the libraries have current print subscriptions
Full-text
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Books-in-Print
Citations
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Business and Company Resource Center (InfoTrac)

Full-text

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Business Source Premier: (EBSCO): includes trade journals, country economic reports, industry reports and market research reports

1131 peer-reviewed full-text
7594 full-text sources

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Cambridge Journals Online: full-text is only available for journals that we also receive in print
Full-text
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Catchword: some of the journals the University Libraries subscribes to in print (now Ingenta)
Full-text
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CINAHL: nursing and allied health (EBSCO)
Full-text
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ClasePeriodica: Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities (FirstSearch)
Citations only
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Clinical Pharmacology: The Clinical Pharmacology website contains information on prescription, OTC, new and investigational drugs; herbal and nutraceutical products. This is a Biomedical Library database.

Full-text

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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews: The premiere resource for Evidence-Based Medicine reviews. This is a Biomedical Library database.

Full-text

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CollegeSource Online College catalogs on the web. Our license is for use in the University Library building only.

Full-text

University Library building only

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ComDisDome Service: The Communications Sciences and Disorders Dome is an information database developed for educators, clinicians, researchers, and students in the fields of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology. This is a Biomedical Library database.

Full-text

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  Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)
over 200 full-text journals
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LexisNexis® Congressional: legislative information.

Selected full-text

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Contemporary Authors: bio-bibliographical. Current writers

Full-text

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Contemporary Women's Issues: cross-disciplinary approach to women's issues. Choose Per-Search Databases. (FirstSearch)

Full-text

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CQ Researcher: current controversial topics. Please logout when finished as we only have 5 simultaneous users.
Full-text
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Dissertation Abstracts/Digital Dissertations

Abstracts.
Free USA dissertations in pdf format
PDF -- $

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Dissertation Express: free access to the citations, without abstracts, of the dissertations in Dissertation Abstracts. Ordering database only. Search by author, title or UMI order number.

Citations only

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DynaMed: A medical information database with over 1,800 clinical topic summaries. Designed for use at the point of care, providing best available evidence and updated daily. This is a Biomedical Library Database.

Full-text

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  EBSCO

  Many databases include Full-text

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EBSCO Electronic Journal Service: e-journals that accompany print subscriptions.

Full-text

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EconLit: Choose Per-Search databases. (FirstSearch)

Abstracts

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Emerald Library: journals in engineering, business, management, marketing and information science.

139 full-text

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ERIC (1967 - current) (EBSCO)

ERIC Digests and ERIC Documents are full-text (1993-2004, if available)

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ERIC (1966 - current) http://www.eric.ed.gov/
ERIC Documents are full-text (1993-) if available
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Ethnic Newswatch

Selected full-text

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Evidence Matters: This is a Biomedical Library database.

Full-text

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Expanded Academic ASAP 1980 - (InfoTrac)

1402 full-text
2583 indexed

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FedStats: statistics from U.S.  government agencies[Back to Top]

Full-text

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  FirstSearch

Citations and abstracts

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Gale Literary Index: index to the printed literary series published by Gale, including Contemporary Literary Criticism and Contemporary Authors. Some, but not all, of these titles can be found in the Library's Reference Department.

Citations

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Gale Professional Collection Online: includes over 300 fulltext journals for educators
Full-text and abstracts
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Gale Virtual Reference Library: encyclopedias and reference materials
Full-text
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gender Inn: Women's and Gender Studies database

Abstracts

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General Business File ASAP  (InfoTrac)

706 full-text
1183 indexed

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General Reference Center Gold: newspapers, reference books and magazines. (InfoTrac)
Includes full-text
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GEOBASE: geology. geography and ecology. ChoosePer-Search databases (FirstSearch)

Abstracts

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GeoRef:  Index to articles about geology and the earth sciences. (SilverPlatter)

Abstracts

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Lexis Nexis® Government Periodicals: index to government magazines and newsletters

Citations

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GPO: choose General & Subject Specific Databases (FirstSearch)

Citations

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GPO Access: access to the full-text of many government publications.  

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  Haworth Press: electronic access to journals to which USA subscribes
full-text
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Health and Psychosocial Instruments: abstracts, reliability and validity scores for measurement s
Abstracts
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  Health Business Fulltext Elite: articles from over 400 journals. (EBSCO)
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Health Source: Consumer Edition: full-text access to articles, pamphlets and reference books. (EBSCO)

280 full-text

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Health Source: Nursing/Academic: full-text access to scholarly articles and other information in nursing and allied health. (EBSCO)

480 full-text
510 indexed

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  HealthSTAR: health services, technology, administration, and research
Selected full-text
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about HeinOnline
Full-text
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History Cooperative Journals: includes American Historical Review, Journal of American History and William and Mary Quarterly
Full-text
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History E-Book Project
Full-text
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History Reference Center:encyclopedias, reference books and primary material (EBSCO)
Full-text
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IEEE Xplore: Electronic access to the full-text of IEEE journals (1998 and above) except IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Potentials, and Proceedings of the IEEE. Journals and proceedings not subscribed to may be searched for citations. The University Library also has older issues on microfiche.

Yes (1998 - )

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Index Translationum: information on books translated and published in Unesco Member States. Covers natural sciences as well as literature, humanities and social science.
Citations
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¡Informe! (Revistas en Español): Hispanic magazines. (InfoTrac)
Includes full-text
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  InfoTrac

Many databases include Full-text

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InfoTrac OneFile
Includes full-text
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Ingenta: formerly Uncover. Full-text is available for journals to which the University Library subscribes.
Includes full-text
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Integrated Medical Curriculum: This is a Biomedical Library Database

Full-text

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International Data Base (IDB): demographic and statistical data for all countries of the world.

Full-text

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IRIS: database of funding opportunities in the arts, sciences, social sciences and humanities.

Full-text

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about ISI Web of Science: Online version of Science Citation Index.
No Full-text
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jake: help finding where a journal title is indexed or is available full-text
No Full-text
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JSTOR: online access to digitized journals. USA subscribes to the Arts & Sciences I Collection , the Arts & Sciences II Collection, the Arts & Sciences III Collection, the Ecology & Botany Collection, the Business Collection, the Language & Literature Collection and the Music Collection

Full-text except last 3- 5 years depending on the journal

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Knovel K-Essentials: access to International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Knovel Critical Tables, Smithsonian Physical Tables, Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables, Military Handbook, Metallic Materials Properties Development & Standardization and Engineering Problem Solving: A Classical Perspective.
Full-text
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Labor Relations Reporter: (BNA's Labor and Employment Law Library
Full-text
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LegalTrac: law reviews and journals. (InfoTrac)
Selected full-text
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LexisNexis® Academic: database of news, business and legal research. For educational activities only. [Back to Top]

Full-text

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Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (EBSCO)
Citations and abstracts
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Literature Resource Center: includes Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select and the Dictionary of Literary Biography, as well as full-text journal articles. (InfoTrac)
Full-text
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LitFinder: includes poems, essays, stories, plays and speeches
Selected
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Marcive: covers federal documents published since 1976.

Abstracts

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MathSciNet: database for mathematics and statistics.

Provides direct links to full-text articles from Science Direct and JSTOR.

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MDConsult: Includes medical texts, journal articles and practice guidelines among other reference sources.

Full-text

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Medline (OVID):  via PubMed    The National Library of Medicine's free search service to MEDLINE, Pre-Medline and other related databases.

OVID has selected full-text. PubMed contains abstracts + links to full-text journals held by USA

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MEDLINEplus:provides extensive consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health and other reliable sources on over 600 diseases and conditions.

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Mental Measurements Yearbook: information about and reviews of English-language standardized tests. (SilverPlatter)

Full-text

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Mergent Online: Company information from Moody's Manuals and Fact Sheets.
Full-text
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Metapress: online access to journals to which USA subscribes. Registration is necessary to retrieve the full-text. Journals with this icon are the ones that have full-text.
Full-text
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Micromedex: Micromedex database provides excellent clinical information on drugs, diseases, acute care, toxicology and alternative medicines. It also contains an array of patient education materials. Biomedical Library database.

Full-text

Contact Biomedical Library Reference at 251-460-7044 for ID and password
Military and Government Collection (EBSCO)
320 full-text
360 indexed
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MLA: via EBSCO: links to some full-text via JSTOR and other EBSCO databases

Citations only

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Mobile Register: 1992 - present. Data from 10/01 to 1/10/03 is currently unavailable
Full-text
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about NASA Astrophysics Data
Abstracts
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National Conference on Social Welfare Proceedings: (1874 - 1982)
Full-text
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National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database: citations and abstracts for criminal justice literature from the U.S. government.

Abstracts

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National Geographic Publications Index

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Newspaper Source: index to 143 U.S. and international newspapers. (EBSCO)

Selected

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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Full-text
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Oxford English Dictionary   Campus, remote access with USA ID or AVL card
Oxford Journals Online
152 full-text
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Oxford Reference Center Premium
Full-text
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PapersFirst: all conference papers received by the British Library. Choose General & Subject Specific databases. (FirstSearch)

Citations only

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Periodicals Archive Online (PCI Full Text): backfiles for periodicals in the humanities and social sciences
Full-text
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Philosopher's Index: (SilverPlatter).

Abstracts

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Physical Review Online Archive
Full-text
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Physics Reviews: review articles published in Institute of Physics journals -- full text is available for Journal of Physics B, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Measurement Science and Technology
Full-text for journals to which we subscribe
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Population Index

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ProceedingsFirst: index to conference publications received by the British Library. Choose Choose General & Subject Specific Databases. (FirstSearch)

Citations only

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Professional Development Collection: educational topics.(EBSCO)

239 full-text
325 indexed

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PsycARTICLES: includes APA journals (EBSCO)
Full-text
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PsycINFO  Citations and abstracts for the literature of psychology. (EBSCO). [Back to Top]

Abstracts

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PubMed: the National Library of Medicine's free search service to MEDLINE, Pre-Medline and other related databases.

Abstracts + links to full-text journals held by USA

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Rand Abstracts: citations and abstracts for Rand publications. Rand's research area of interest is public policy research and analysis.

Abstracts

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Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890 - 1982
Citations
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Regional Business News: (EBSCO) Includes wire services from all over the world
Full-text
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RIA Checkpoint
Full-text
Campus only
Royal Historical Society Bibliography: indexes books and journal articles
No Full-text
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ScienceDirect: full-text journals. Choose either Journals or Search.

Full-text for journals subscribed to in Alabama

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Scribner's Writers Series: critical articles

Full-text

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SciFinder Scholar: version 2006. Login is required for downloading the necessary software to run SciFinder Scholar. For USA faculty and students only. Available only on USA campuses. Instructions for download and installation are on the page after you login.   USA ID required; must be on campus to use
Scitation: searches AIP, APS, ASCE, ASME journals
Full-text
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  SilverPlatter   Campus, USA ID for remote access

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SIRS Knowledge Source: information by and about the U.S. government

Full-text

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Social Work Abstracts Plus: includes the 2003 edition of the NASW Clinical Register
Abst