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• Academic Search Premier
  --provides full text for nearly 3,180 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. EBSCOhost.
   
• Academic Universe
  -- provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information allowing retrieval of documents that meet your specific research needs. Interface: LEXIS/NEXIS. Coverage: 1978-present.
   
• ACS Web
  -- online collection of over 30 American Chemical Society Journals and Magazines in full text (HTML or PDF).
   
• America: History & Life
  --a  complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Coverage includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities. The database also includes citations to abstracts of dissertations published in these areas.
   
• Anthropological Index
  --one of the major indexes for Social and Cultural Anthropology. It also covers physical anthropology, archaeology and linguistics. Based on the collection of the Royal Anthropological Institute's Museum of Mankind Library, it indexes over 700 journals worldwide. Period Covered : Vo. 22-32 - approximately last 10 years.
   
• Applied Science & Technology Abstracts
  -- indexes and abstracts articles in more than 410 English-language periodicals published in the US and elsewhere. Coverage includes trade and industrial publications, directories, conference proceedings, and special issues such as buyers' guides. Interface: EBSCOhost.
   
• Art Abstracts
  -- indexes and abstracts journals from more than 313 periodicals worldwide, as well as yearbooks, museum bulletins, and reproductions. Interface: EBSCOhost.
  
  
• AskJake - jointly administered knowledge environment
  -- content lists of journal titles in 195 databases 
  
  
• Biological Abstracts
  -- leading indexing and abstracting reference source for life sciences information covering journal literature published in over 70 countries. Interface: WebSpirs. Coverage: 1998-present.
   
• Biological Sciences
  --an interdisciplinary database offering abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Supporting over two dozen areas of expertise, this CSA database provides access to literature from over 6000 sources including serials, conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs, and selected books and patents. Interface: CSA Coverage: 1982-present.
  
  
• Biology Digest
  --abstracts and indexes of domestic and international literature in the area of life sciences. It is primarily intended for an audience at the high school or undergraduate level. Its purpose is to aid in keeping students and instructors current on the latest developments in biological research. Interface: CSA. Coverage: 1989-present
  
  
• Biomedical Reference Collection Basic
  --designed for doctors, research scientist, students, clinical specialists and managers, this database provides full text for over 100 journals in a variety of areas pertaining to medical study. All titles included in the Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic Edition are indexed in MEDLINE
  
  
• Business & Company ASAP
  -- access to literature on all l business and management topics. Includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies as well as information on Finance, Trade, New Technologies, Trends and more. Interface: SearchBank
  
   
• Business Source Premier
  -- provides full text for over 1,320 scholarly business journals and indexing/abstracting of over 2,000 journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more. Interface: EBSCOhost. Coverage: 1984 (full text 1990)-present.
  
  
• Cambridge Scientific Abstract
  --through its Internet Database Service (IDS), provides multiple databases in the fields of biological and medical sciences, as well as related links to web sites through CSA's Web Resources Database. See also Biological Sciences, Biology Digest, Conference Papers Index, Medline, Plant Science and Toxline. Interface: CSA.
   
• CARL Uncover--Now Ingenta
  -- service that offers a periodicals database that indexes nearly 18,000 multi-disciplinary titles and contains over eight million article citations. CARL Uncover's Reveal, a current awareness service, is available to IUP students, faculty, and staff.  Interface: Web. Coverage: 1988-present.
   
• Center for Research Libraries
  --an international not-for-profit consortium of colleges, universities and libraries that makes available scholarly research resources to users everywhere. Open to scholars and researchers, its outstanding collections include more than five million volumes of research materials rarely held in North American libraries. Interface: Web. Coverage: Current.
   
• CINAHL
  -- database designed specifically to meet the informational needs of nurses and allied health professionals. It is the equivalent to Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. Interface: EBSCOhost.
   
• College Source Online
  -- features over 12,100 College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover original page format including 2-year, 4-year, graduate, and professional schools.    Note: restricted to on-campus users.
   
• Conference Papers Index
  -- 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. Records include complete ordering information to obtain preprints, abstracts, proceedings and other publications derived from the conference, together with title and author information needed to track the specific papers. Interface: CSA Coverage: 1982-present.
   
• Community of Science Funding Opportunities
  -- A fully searchable database of more than 20,500 funding opportunities for research, travel, conferences, seminars, scholarships, curriculum development, training, postdoctoral awards, equipment, artistic pursuits, and more. Searches may be by keyword, sponsor, deadline, or several other options. Interface: Web. Coverage: current.
   
• Criminal Justice Abstracts
  --indexes major journals in criminology and related disciplines, extensive coverage of books, and unparalleled access to reports from government and nongovernmental agencies. For each document, an informative summary of the findings, methodology, and conclusions is provided.
   
• Current Biography
  full-text of biographies and obituaries on the more than 15,000 people that have appeared in Current Biography Yearbook since 1940. The articles are supplemented with recent citations from Biography Index. Interface: WebSpirs. Coverage: 1940-present.
  
  
• Davis Bacon Wage Determination
  --The Davis Bacon Wage Determination Database contains wage determinations made by the U.S. Department of Labor under the mandate of the Davis-Bacon Act and related legislation. The Department determines prevailing wage rates for construction-related occupations in most counties in the United States. Ask librarian to log you on.
   
• Dissertation Abstracts International
  -- comprehensive source of dissertation information, which includes Comprehensive Dissertation Index, Dissertation Abstract International (sections A, B, and C), Masters Abstracts International, and American Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts. Interface: FirstSearch. Coverage: 1861- present (abstracts from 1980-present).
   
• E*Subscribe
  -- online access to ERIC documents (most available in PDF files from IUP database E*Subscribe (1996-present), or for documents before 1996 check Pilot Online Catalog for microfiche collection by submitting the ED number). These documents can be accessed by searching the E*Subscribe site at the above link or by searching the ERIC database and clicking on the link EDRS DOCUMENT.
  
  
• EBSCO Animals
  Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Click here for more info
   
• EBSCO Online Citations
  --provides access to electronic journals and full text of articles for those journals managed through EBSCO Online, as well as usage of Online Links in EBSCOhost.
   
• EBSCOhost
  -- EBSCO Information Services provides multiple databases from EBSCO Publishing via EBSCOhost. Databases include Academic Search , Business Source Premier, Newspaper Source, Health Source Plus, Comprehensive Medline, Clinical Reference Systems, USP DI, The Serials Directory and EBSCO Online Citations. See these titles for individual descriptions.
   
• EconLit
  --indexes and abstracts more than 450 international economic journals. Its source material includes journal articles, essays, research papers, books, dissertations, book reviews, and working papers. The database contains more than 350,00 records covering 1969-present. EBSCOhost.
   
• Education Full Text
  -- indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from more than 400 English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the US and elsewhere as well as English-language books published since 1995. Interface: WebSpirs.
   
• Emerald
  --full-text access to peer reviewed journals in the areas of Business and Management, Health and Environment, Library and Information Management, Training and Education, Material Science and Technology.
   
• Encyclopedia Britannica Online
  --Encyclopedia Britannica is the world's most comprehensive reference product, a distinction it has held since its first publication in 1768.Encyclopedia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use Encyclopedia Britannica Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
   
• Environmental Knowledgebase
  -- is the online version of Environmental Periodicals Bibliography produced and published by the International Academy at Santa Barbara.

• ERIC (Webspirs)
  --a combination of the paper indexes Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Items retrieved from RIE are documents assigned ED numbers (most available in PDF files from IUP database E*Subscribe, or see microfiche by submitting the ED number). Items retrieved in CIJE are journal articles assigned EJ numbers. Journal titles must be checked against the Library's periodical holdings determine local availability. Interface: WebSpirs. Coverage: 1966-present.
   
• ERIC (EBSCO)
  --a combination of the paper indexes Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Items retrieved from RIE are documents assigned ED numbers (most available in PDF files from IUP database E*Subscribe, or see microfiche by submitting the ED number). Items retrieved in CIJE are journal articles assigned EJ numbers. Journal titles must be checked against the Library's periodical holdings determine local availability. Interface: EBSCOhost.. Coverage: 1966-present.
  
  
• EssayGenLit
  -- Find contents in collected works focusing on humanities and social sciences Interface: OCLC FirstSearch.
  
  
• Expanded Academic Index
  -- From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers - with full text and images! Interface: SearchBank
  
  
• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
  Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry. Click here for more info
  
  
• Gale Literary Index
  -- A free online index to forty of Gale's printed sources.  A quick and easy way to locate biographies of authors and critical essays on their writings.  The entries include location information only; not textual information is available.
  
  
• GeoRef
  -- American Geological Institute's database containing over 1.9 million records of North America since 1785, and other areas of the world since 1933. It is equivalent to Bibliography of North American Geology, Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America, Geophysical Abstracts, and the Bibliography and Index of Geology. Additional items come from special bibliographies. Interface: EBSCOhost..  Coverage: 1785-present.
   
  
• Government Catalog
  -- Most comprehensive catalog index to U.S. Federal government publications. Interface: Web. Coverage: 1976-present.
   
• GPO Access
  -- GPO Access. Government Printing Office's One Stop Source for Official Government Information.   Web access.
  
  
• Health Reference Center
  --access to  articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health & Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only. Interface: SearchBank
   
• Health Source: Nursing Academic Edition
  -- provides full text for over 255 health periodicals, over 1,065 health pamphlets, and 23 health reference books. This database is updated daily. Interface: EBSCOhost. Coverage: 1984 (full text 1990)-present.

• Highwire Press
  --online full-text articles in science and medicine.

• Historical Abstracts
  -- A reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Contains over half a million entries with annotated references to information on topics from the Renaissance to the former Yugoslavia, and much more.
  
  
• InfoTrac
  -- also referred to as "SearchBank", includes Expanded Academic Index, Business & Company ASAP, and Health Reference Center Databases.
   
•  Ingenta (CARL Uncover)
  -- service that offers a periodicals database that indexes nearly 18,000 multi-disciplinary titles and contains over eight million article citations. CARL Uncover's Reveal, a current awareness service, is available to IUP students, faculty, and staff.  Interface: Web. Coverage: 1988-present.
  
  
• JSTOR
  -- Online archives of over 125 journals in African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics. JSTOR is designed specifically for archiving journals, so it does not include the most recent 2-5 years of each title.
  
  
• Kraus Curriculum Development Library(kcdlonline)

-- searchable database of curricula that brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education.

• Lexis-Nexis / Academic Universe
  -- provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information allowing retrieval of documents that meet your specific research needs. Interface: LEXIS/NEXIS.
  
  
• Literary Index (Gale )
  -- A free online index to forty of Gale's printed sources.  A quick and easy way to locate biographies of authors and critical essays on their writings.  The entries include location information only; not textual information is available.
  
  
• MLA Bibliography
  -- index produced by the Modern Language Association consisting of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. It provides access to scholarly research in over 3,000 journals and series. Also covered are relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, dissertations, and other formats. Interface: WebSpirs. Coverage: 1963-present.
   
• MLA Directory of Periodicals
  --The MLA Directory of Periodicals, produced by the Modern Language Association of America, lists over 3,700 periodicals in the areas of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore that are covered regularly in the MLA International Bibliography with addresses, advertising rates, and information about submissions for publication. Webspirs.
   
• Marcive WebDocs
  -- database corresponding to the printed Monthly Catalog which contains approximately 50 percent of the published government documents (others being classified or for in-house use only). Citations from the annual Periodicals Supplement and the US Congressional Serial Set Supplement are also included. Interface: Web. Coverage: 1976-present.
  
  
• MAS Ultra - School Edition
  Provides full text for over 460 general interest and current events magazines. Click here for a complete title list. Click here for more info
   
• Medline (Comprehensive Medline)
  -- National Library of Medicine's database which combines the paper indexes Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, and Index to Dental Literature. Interface: EBSCOhost. Coverage: 1966-present.
   
• Medline (from CSA)
  -- National Library of Medicine's database which combines the paper indexes Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, and Index to Dental Literature. Interface: CSA.
   
• MedScape
  -- For health professionals and interested consumers, features peer-reviewed articles, "zoomable" color graphics, self-assessment features, medical news, Medline Reviews, and annotated links to Internet resources. Interface: Web.
   
• Mental Measurements Yearbook
  -- database produced by the Buros Institute containing full-text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas. Interface: WebSpirs. Coverage: Equivalent to paper editions.

• Military Library FullTEXT
  Provides full text for over 320 military related periodicals and general interest magazines. Click here for a complete title list. Click here for more info
  
  
• Multimedia Aids
  -- Sources for free and almost free photos, graphics, clipart, and animations.
   
• Music Index Online
  -- covers more than 640 international music periodicals; includes musicological and organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries. Coverage: 1979-present.   Note: restricted to on-campus users.
   
• NASW Clinical Register
  --"NASW Register of Clinical Social Workers,"11th Edition,  provides a listing of clinical social workers
  who have met national standards for education and experience established by the NASW Competence
  Certification Commission on recommendation of the Committee on Clinical Social Work.  Silverplatter.
  
  
• NCJRS
  -- database of the US Department of Justice, abstracting more than 145,000 criminal justice publications. Literature covered includes US federal, state, and local governments' documents, books, journals, unpublished research reports, and program descriptions and evaluations. Many of the documents are available in the Library on microfiche. Interface: CD-ROM. Coverage: 1970s-present.
  
  
• Netlibrary
  --collection of electronic monographs
  
  
• NewsBank
  
  
  • NewsBank NewsFile Collection   (1991-Current) - News articles covering social, economic, environmental, government, sports, the arts, people, health and science issues and events from more than 500 U.S. regional and national newspapers, wire services, and broadcasts.
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• Newspaper Source
  -- provides selected full text articles from 143 US and international newspapers. This database is updated daily. Interface: EBSCOhost. Coverage: 1990-present.
    
• Philosopher's Index

  --provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. Webspirs.
   

• Plant Science
  Plant Science is a bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts of scientific literature on plant science, focusing on all plant scientific aspects, especially on pathology, symbiosis, biochemistry, genetics, biotechnology, techniques and environmental Biology. It is the online equivalent to Current Advances in Plant Science. Interface: CSA. Coverage: 1994-present.
  
• Project MUSE
  -- provides full-text online scholarly journals from academic presses covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others. Currently available on-campus only.
  
  
• PsycInfo
  -- American Psychological Association database containing summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations in the field of psychology and related disciplines. It covers over 1300 journals in 25 languages. Interface: EBSCOhost. Coverage: 1887-present (1987-present for chapter and book coverage).
   
• PubMed
  -- PubMed is a project developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It has been developed in conjunction with publishers of biomedical literature as a search tool for accessing literature citations and linking to full-text journals at Web sites of participating publishers. Interface: Web
   
• PubScience
  -- A service developed by the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) to facilitate searching and accessing peer reviewed journal literature in the physical sciences and other energy-related disciplines. Interface: Web.
  

• Regional Business News
  --A full text newswire database that incorporates business wires from all over the world. Included in this database are A&G Information, Africa News Service, Inter Press Service, Resource News International, South American Business, M2 Communications, PR Newswire, Business News Wire, Canadian Corporate News, News Bytes News Network and Phillips Business Information Highlights. This database is updated on a daily basis.
  

• SearchBank
  -- includes Expanded Academic Index, Business & Company ASAP, and Health Reference Center databases. Interface: SearchBank.
   
• Serials Directory
  -- provides up-to-date bibliographic information and pricing for over 155,000 US and international periodicals. Interface: EBSCOhost. Coverage: Current.
   
• Service Contract Act Wage Determination Database
  -- The Service Contract Act Wage Determination Database (SCA) contains unsigned copies of the latest wage determinations developed by the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL). These wage determinations, issued by the Wage and Hour Division in response to specific notices filed, set the minimum wage on federally funded service contracts. For in-library use only! Please ask a reference librarian to log you on!
   
• Social Work Abstracts
  --database, produced by the National Association of Social Workers, Inc., contains more than 35,000 records, spanning , from social work and other related journals. 1977 to the present. Silverplatter.
   
• Sociological Abstracts
  -- databases covering sociology and related disciplines by including bibliographic citations, abstracts and enhanced dissertation citations. It covers approximately 2500 journals in 30 languages from 55 countries. Interface: EBSCO.
   
• STAT-USA
  -- site providing access to current trade-related information produced by the many agencies of the federal government active in promoting U.S. exports. Made available courtesy of the Federal Depository Library Program. Interface: Web. Coverage: Current.
   
• Statistical Universe
  -- world's most comprehensive access to statistical information, allowing users to search summaries of statistical publications then link to the full text of selected publications on Statistical Universe or government Web sites. Interface: LEXIS/NEXIS. Coverage: 1978-present.
  
  
• TOC Premier
  --provides table of contents information for over 23,000 of the most recently published journals. Types of journals range from business to scientific, technical and medical as well as general interest. This database contains over 18 million citation records, dating back to 1995. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost
  
  
• Toxline
  -- rapid access to information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. This database provides bibliographic citations and abstracts from journal articles, monographs, technical reports, theses, letters, meeting abstracts, papers and reports. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, information in the database is drawn from a number of discrete files including Toxicity Bibliography and Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology. This version of TOXLINE does not contain information from Chemical Abstracts Service, BIOSIS, or International Pharmaceutical Abstracts; furthermore, it is a "rolling 5-year" database, consisting of records from the last 5 years plus the current year. Interface: CSA. Coverage: last five years plus current year.
  
  
• USP DI Volume II, Advice for the Patient
  -- provides patient-oriented drug information in lay language such as proper use of medications, precautions, and side effects. Interface: EBSCOhost. Coverage: Current.
  
  
• WebMedLit
  -- WebMedLit is a web-based alert service which provides citations, abstracts, and full-text articles from premier medical websites and medical journals. Provided by SilverPlatter. Interface: Web. Coverage: 1999-present.
   
• WorldCat
  -- OCLC's Online Union Catalog, which includes all records cataloged by the OCLC member libraries. Included are records for materials in many formats including books, journals, maps, newspaper, and manuscripts, in over 400 languages. Interface: FirstSearch. Coverage: some materials are as old as 1000 B.C., through the present. Updated daily.

Offsite access to most databases in this list is possible through the use of 16-digit library ID (I-Card) Number. Enter it when prompted to do so.
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