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Business & Economics

ABI/INFORM DatelineFull Text More >Searches "news and analysis, information on local markets, and more gathered from major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city, state, and regional business publications."
Coverage: 1985 to present

ABI/INFORM GlobalFull Text More >Searches almost 1,800 journals covering "business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more."
Coverage: 1971 to present

ABI/INFORM Trade & IndustryFull Text More >Searches "more than 1200 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus. Provides users with the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. "
Coverage: 1971 to present

Conference Board Research Online CollectionFull Text More > A searchable collection of full-text research reports on the latest issues in business management and US and global economics. It includes studies of Fortune 500 companies on business trends, corporate citizenship and sustainability, corporate governance, ethics, human resources, operations and business process and productivity.
Coverage: Varies

EconLit More > Contains citations and abstracts for "journals, books, and working papers on economics."
Coverage: 1969 to present

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Full Text More > Provides access to full text of working papers and archives from 1973 to the present, as well as Economic Indicators and Releases and the NBER Digest. Patrons may register for e-mail notification service.
Coverage: 1973 to present

Education

ERICFull Text More > Contains published and unpublished journal articles and reports in the education field, from the U.S. Department of Education.
Coverage: 1966 to present

Gender Studies

Contemporary Women's IssuesFull Text More > A database of English language articles from numerous periodicals about women's issues. It may be searched using words or phrases, from a list of topics, or by geographic region. It "brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, 'gray' literature, and the alternative press - with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries."
Coverage: Approximately 1992+

History & Humanities

Arts & Humanities Search More > Searches over 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.
Coverage: 1980 to present

Literature

Literature Resource CenterFull Text More > Provides full text criticisms, biographies, bibliographies, and work overviews. "Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world, supplemented by the scholarly materials of the Scribner Writers Series and Twayne's World, U.S., and English Authors Series."
Coverage: 1992 to present

Medicine & Health

MEDLINE More > Contains citations and abstracts for more than 17 million articles in medicine.
Coverage: 1950 to present

Psychology

Annual Review of PsychologyFull Text More > Provides keyword searching of this journal via the Bowman Library online catalog.
Coverage: 1996 to present

PsycARTICLESFull Text More > Searches "over 50 top full-text psychology publications covering the disciplines of Human Physiology, Personality Psychology, Social Psychology, Educational Psychology, and more." The database includes all material from the print journals with the exception of advertisements and editorial board lists.
Coverage: Varies

PsycINFO More > Provides access to abstracts of international literature in psychology and related disciplines, including psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work.
Coverage: Varies

Social Issues & Public Policy

CQ ResearcherFull Text More > Provides original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on current events, including summaries and bibliographies. Controversial topics are addressed in a balanced, unbiased manner in the Congressional Quarterly tradition.
Coverage: 1991 to present

Opposing Viewpoints Resource CenterFull Text More >Brings together vital information for analyzing today's important social issues: "pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including images and podcasts, links to hand-selected web sites, and more." A trial subscription is available until February 28, 2011.
Coverage: Updated continuously

Sports Management

SBRnet: Sports Business Research NetworkFull Text More > Provides market research and industry news covering the sporting goods and sports marketing industry. Data is provided by the National Sporting Goods Association; the U.S. Department of Commerce; various sports governing bodies; and full-text articles from 14 magazines and newsletters.
Coverage: 1995 to present