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ABI/INFORM Global (via ProQuest) (Some Full-Text): Index to over 1600 business and management periodicals. Some images (e.g., tables, charts) in full-text.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1971. Updated weekly.
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Digital Library & Portal (Full-Text): This service includes online access to all ACM publications and selected co-distributed publications as well as online access to conference proceedings, archives from the beginning (where available). It also includes the ACM Online Guide to Computing Literature, with over 500,000 bibliographic citations to computing literature from 1985 forward and annual updating of 20,000-25,000 items per year.
Materials included. Note: EMU does not subscribe to Online Computing Reviews Service.
African American Biographical Database (Some Full-Text): Largest collection of electronic biographical information on African Americans, 1790-1950.
Updated bimonthly.
American Journey Online (Full-Text): Each key topic in American history and culture addressed by the series encompasses hundreds of carefully selected, rare documents, pictures, and archival audio and video - while essays, headnotes, and captions by scholars set the sources in context. Full text searchability and extensive hyperlinking provide fast and easy access and cross-referencing. Topics: African-American Experience, American Revolution, Asian-American Experience, Civil War, Constitution and Supreme Court, Great Depression & the New Deal, Hispanic-American Experience, Immigrant Experience, Native American Experience, Westward Expansion, Women in America.
AncestryPlus (Full-Text): With over 1.2 billion records in over 3,000 databases, AncestryPlus is a comprehensive online source of information for conducting genealogical and local history research available. Included in AncestryPlus are the digitized images of the U.S. Federal Census from 1790 forward, the American Genealogical Biographical Index, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, and much more. An online tutorial is available.
NOTE: Available from on-campus only.
Applied Science & Technology Abstracts (Some Full-Text): Indexes 350 international and English-language periodicals, covering engineering, mathematics, physics, and computer technology. Includes articles, interviews, meetings, conferences, exhibitions, new product reviews/announcements, and more.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1984. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
Art Index/Abstracts (1984- ) (Some Full-Text): Database cites articles from 420 art periodicals published throughout the world. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1984. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
ArticleFirst (Some Full-Text): Indexes 12,500 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture and allows browsing of contents pages.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1990. Updated daily. (via FirstSearch)
Arts & Humanities Search (Some Full-Text): Index to 1300 leading arts and humanities journals.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1980. Updated weekly. (via FirstSearch)
arXiv.org (Full-Text): An electronic archive and distribution server for research papers covering the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. Both preprints and published papers are available.
Associations Unlimited (Full-Text): Contains information for approximately 444,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations. For some 2,500 major U.S. national associations, provides full-text association materials such as brochures, pamphlets, and membership application forms.
BasicBIOSIS (Some Full-Text): Index to 375 life science journals most easily found in college and university libraries.
List of periodical titles. Coverage: Last 5 years. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
Biography Index (Some Full-Text): Coverage includes 2700 English-language periodicals and more than 1,800 books added each year. Includes autobiographies, bibliographies, biographies, critical studies, fiction and drama, pictorial works, poetry, juvenile literature, obituaries, journals, collections of letters, book reviews, and interviews.
Coverage started: 1984. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
Biological & Agricultural Index (Some Full-Text): Indexes 250 English-language periodicals in life sciences and agricultural subjects, published in the U.S. and elsewhere. Includes book reviews.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1983. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
BioOne (Full-Text): BioOne offers a browsable and searchable aggregation of the full-texts of over 50 bioscience research journals. Most of these titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers.
List of journals and publishers. Coverage started: 2000.
Blackwell Synergy (Some Full-Text): Blackwell Synergy holds the content for about 740 Blackwell Publishing journals, the majority of which are published on behalf of international scholarly and professional societies. While citations and abstracts for all articles can be searched and displayed, full-text is available only for articles from the 135 journals to which EMU subscribes.
List of EMU subscription titles. Coverage: varies with title.
Book Review Digest (Some Full-Text): Indexes 100 periodicals published in the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain, covering over 7,000 adult and children's books each year. Includes English-language fiction and nonfiction.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1983. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
CINAHL (via FirstSearch) (Some Full-Text): Indexes 900 nursing, allied health, biomedical and consumer health journals, publications of the American Nursing Association, and the National League for Nursing.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1982. Updated monthly.
CINAHL (via ProQuest) (Some Full-Text): Indexes 900 nursing, allied health, biomedical and consumer health journals, publications of the American Nursing Association, and the National League for Nursing. Includes the full text of over 2000 doctoral dissertations.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1982. Updated monthly.
CQ Researcher (Full-Text): For controversial topics of public interest, each weekly issue provides background information, a clear statement of opposing positions, the outlook for the future, and an annotated bibliography.
Coverage started: 11/91.
CQ Weekly (Full-Text): Provides nonpartisan feature-length articles on a full array of policy topics confronting the U.S. Congress, as well as updates on committee activity, the status of bills and votes, side-by-side comparisons of competing versions of bills.
Coverage started: 1983. Updated weekly.
Chemistry Journals (American Chemical Society [ACS]) (Full-Text): Search the full text of 28 American Chemical Society journals, either individually or across all titles.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1879.
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (Full-Text): Contains full-text of reviews of more than 110,000 children's books. Reviews are provided by independent reviewers as well as 20 other organizational sources, including the American Library Association's Booklist, ALAN, The Bulletin, CCBC Choices, KIRKUS, KLIATT, and VOYA.
Under "Children's Literature Comprehensive Database", click on 'Registered Users'.
CiteSeer (aka ResearchIndex) (Full-Text): CiteSeer (also known as ResearchIndex) offers five million citations and over 400,000 full-text documents in the field of computer science. Papers are derived from proceedings of symposia, journals, books, and other sources.
Cochrane Library (Full-Text): "The Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases, including The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, which "are full text articles reviewing the effects of healthcare. The reviews are highly structured and systematic, with evidence included or excluded on the basis of explicit quality criteria, to minimise bias."
Cochrane Library contents.
NOTE 1: To connect to the contents, click the "Log on anonymously" button on the right side of the screen. When you are done, please click the "Exit" button at the top of the screen.
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NOTE 3: Up to two users at a time. Try again later if you cannot connect.
College Catalogs (Full-Text): CollegeSource® Online features over 7,800 College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format representing 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools.
While you can search for schools by different criteria and view school profiles (including admission requirements, financial aid options) from any computer, full college catalogs can only be viewed in EMU's Bruce T. Halle Library, Information Commons North, First Floor.
Columbia Earthscape (Full-Text): This "is an integrated, interdisciplinary resource that connects the Earth and environmental sciences with their social, political, and economic dimensions... [It also offers] a dynamic, inquiry-based educational resource, featuring illustrated lectures, animations, video and image banks, exercises and labs, syllabi, and basic textbook readings. columbia earthscape also gives policy makers and professionals a ... collection of environmental legislation, regional studies, international environmental documents, and white papers. And it offers scientists an educational venue in which to incorporate their research as well as a growing archive of journal articles, journal abstracts, conference literature, full-text monographs and selected chapters, and online data sets."
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry (Some Full-Text): This release "includes 13,000 poems in full text, and 250,000 poetry citations, in addition to several important new features—commentaries, biographies, bibliographies, notes on form, and a glossary of prosodic terms, all written by William Harmon or written under his editorship. Also new to this release is the ability to search by author category (Asian-American, Irish, Polish, etc.)."
Computer & Information Systems Abstracts (Some Full-Text): Citations, with abstracts, to the worldwide literature on theoretical and applied computer science. Sources include books, journals, conference proceedings, and government reports.
List of source titles. Coverage started: 1981. Updated monthly.
Computer Abstracts International (Some Full-Text): Indexes and abstracts the contents of over 200 computer science periodicals.
List of source titles. Coverage started: 1987. Updated monthly.
Computer Database (Some Full-Text): This database indexes about 600 periodicals that cover the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries and provides full-text of some of the articles.
List of source titles. Coverage started: 1980. Updated daily.
Conference Board Research Database (Full-Text): This "is a searchable database of full-text research reports on the latest issues in business management and US and global economics. Proprietary, nonbiased research includes studies of Fortune 500 companies on business trends, leadership decisions, performance excellence, corporate governance, HR, productivity, CRM and more."
Coverage started: 1995.
Contemporary Women's Issues (Full-Text): This is “a multidisciplinary, full-text database that 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.”
List of titles. Coverage started: 1992. Updated 26 times per year.
Criminology: SAGE Full-Text Collection (Full-Text): This source includes the full-text of 15 journals published by SAGE and participating societies. It covers such subjects as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.
List of titles. Coverage: varies with title. Oldest starts 1982.
Department of Energy (DOE) Information Bridge (Full-Text): Full-text and bibliographic records of 60,000 Department of Energy (DOE) research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.
Coverage started: 1995.
Detroit News & 4 Other Michigan Newspapers (Full-Text): In addition to the Detroit News (1999- ), other Michigan newspapers included are the Battle Creek Enquirer (May 2002- ), Grand Rapids Press (2002- ), Lansing State Journal (1999- ), Port Huron Times Herald (1999- ).
Note: After connecting to database, click on "America's Newspapers".
Dow Jones Interactive see Factiva
Eastern Michigan University Theses and Dissertations (Full-Text): Site offers the full-text (in PDF format) of many EMU theses and dissertations mostly published after 1996. Search by keyword in title or abstract, author name, or advisor name.
EconLit (Some Full-Text): Subject indexing and abstracts of about 400 economics journals and over 500 collective volumes per year, plus books, dissertations, and working papers.
List of titles. Coverage started: 1969. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
Education Abstracts (Some Full-Text): Index to the contents of about 400 education periodicals.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1983. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
Electronic Collections Online (ECO) (Some Full-Text): Index to the contents of over 2700 journals in a variety of subject areas. EMU is paying for access to online full-text for 664 of the titles. Articles are presented in page image formats (predominately PDF) that include all original content and images. The interface supports cross-journal searching and browsing within selected journals. Users can view bibliographic information for all journals and view full-text articles from journals to which their institution subscribes. Adobe's free Acrobat PDF viewer and CatchWord's free RealPage viewer are required to view the full-text articles.
List of titles available full-text to EMU community. List of all titles available. Coverage started: 1995, but varies by journal. Updated daily. (via FirstSearch)
eLibrary Elementary (K-6) (Full-Text): Geared to children in grades K-6, contains the full-text of selected articles from: about 40 magazines (e.g., Ranger Rick, Time for Kids, Sports Illustrated for Kids); 8 newspapers; about 40 reference books (e.g., Columbia Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Britannica Intermediate Ed); as well as maps, pictures, TV & radio transcripts, more than 14,000 streaming audio and video files, more than 100,000 editor screened and selected websites indexed by topics appropriate to K-6 study.
Periodical coverage started: 1981. Updated daily.
Emerald Fulltext (Full-Text): Fulltext articles from over 100 Emerald journals covering such fields as management, HRM, marketing, librarianship, mechanical engineering, electronic and electrical engineering.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: Varies by title; earliest 1988.
ERIC (Some Full-Text): The ERIC database contains abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1966. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
ERIC Documents (ED) Full-Text (E*Subscribe) (Full-Text): The full-text (in Adobe PDF format) of ERIC Level 1 documents (those cleared by the contributor for distribution in all media), and Level 2A (documents restricted to dissemination on microfiche and in electronic subscriptions only). This represents about 80% of the collection of the ERIC ED collection. (NOTE: This does not include the full-text of journal articles indexed in the ERIC database Current Index to Journals in Education [CIJE].)
Coverage started: 1993. Updated monthly.
Limited to 10 simultaneous users. Please click 'Logoff E*Subscribe' (on the left side of the screen), and then the 'Logout' button, when you complete your work.
Expanded Academic ASAP (Some Full-Text): This multidisciplinary database indexes about 3,200 mostly academic titles and offers full-text from about 2,000 of the titles.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1980. Updated daily.
Factiva (Formerly Dow Jones Interactive) (Full-Text): Browse the latest issues of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Barron's, Business Week, Fortune, and Forbes. Search and display the text of these as well as about 8,000 other local and global newspapers, newswires, trade journals, newsletters, magazines and transcripts.
Review Sources. Coverage started: varies by title. Updated daily.
Limited to 3 simultaneous users. To allow others to use the database when you complete your work please click "logout" on the right side of the navigation bar toward the top of the screen.
Facts.com (Full-Text): Answer questions about events, issues, statistics, and people of the last 20 years with selected content from seven databases, including Facts On File World News Digest, Issues and Controversies On File, Today's Science On File, Editorials On File, Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, Reuters On-Line News Service, and World Almanac and Book of Facts. Delivers additional special features including maps, photographs, historic documents, and overviews of key issues, newsmakers and events.
Coverage started: 1940. Updated weekly.
FactSearch (Some Full-Text): Contains full-text statistical statements on current social, economic, political, and environmental public policy issues. Entries come from more than 1,000 print sources as well as a wide range of Web-based resources.
List of publication titles. Coverage started: 1984. Updated quarterly. (via FirstSearch)
GenderWatch (Full-Text): GenderWatch (GW) is a full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports, and conference proceedings that focus on how gender impacts on a broad spectrum of subject areas.
List of titles. Coverage started: 1970.
General BusinessFile ASAP (Some Full-Text): This business database indexes about 3,000 periodical titles, provides full-text for some of them, and offers 200,000 company profiles as well as more than 50,000 full-text Investext® reports.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1980. Updated daily.
General Reference Center Gold (Some Full-Text): An index to the contents of about 1000 periodicals, with about 60% available with full-text.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1980. Updated monthly.
NOTE: There is a delay when adding new issues of certain titles to the database. List of embargoed titles and their database inclusion delays.
General Science Abstracts (Some Full-Text): Index to about 150 Journals and magazines from the U.S. and Great Britain, covering such subjects as anthropology, astronomy, biology, computers, earth sciences, medicine and health.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1984. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
GEOBASE (Some Full-Text): Index to the worldwide literature on geology, geography, and ecology.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1980. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
Grove Dictionary of Art (Full-Text): 45,000 articles on the art and culture of Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas and the Pacific from prehistory until today with links to images and further information in museum and other art-related web sites.
Updated continuously.
Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Full-Text): The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Edition contains the complete text of the encyclopedia, notated musical examples, and links to digital sounds, images, and web sites.
Updated quarterly.
NOTE: Only 1 user at a time.
Grove Dictionary of Opera (Full-Text): 11,000 articles cover all aspects of opera, from composers, librettists and social history to singers, conductors and directors, to cities, opera houses, costumes, choreography and set design.
Updated regularly.
HarpWeek (Harper's Weekly 1857-1912) (Full-Text): HarpWeek contains all the pages of Harper's Weekly (1857-1912) as scanned images, together with a series of indexes: subject, illustrations, advertising, literary genre, people by occupation/role in society.
Health & Wellness Resource Center (Some Full-Text): Indexes over 400 health/medical journals; nearly 2,200 general interest publications (magazines and pamphlets) covering health care topics; a broad collection of reference titles including The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, The Gale Enclyclopedia of Childhood & Adolescence, PDR Family Guide to Nutrition and Health, Medical and Health Information Directory.
List of periodical titles. List of pamphlets. Coverage started: Magazines, Journals, Newsletters 1980. Updated monthly.
Highwire Library of the Sciences and Medicine (Some Full-Text): Search citations and abstracts from about 375 Highwire-hosted journals in the biological, medical, physical, and social sciences and/or search Medline. Free access to about 700,000 full-text articles from the Highwire-hosted journals.
Journals published online with Highwire assistance.
Journals with free full-text articles.
History Cooperative (Full-Text): Site offers the full-text of a collection of history journals: American Historical Review, Common-place, Environmental History, History of Education Quarterly, The History Teacher, Journal of American History, Journal of World History, Labour History, Labour / Le Travail, Law and History Review, Western Historical Quarterly, William and Mary Quarterly.
Coverage started: Varies, earliest: 1999.
History E-Book Project (Full-Text): Site offers 775 books of high quality in the field of history. These are works of major importance to historical studies—books that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, and are frequently cited in the literature.
Title List.
History Resource Center: US (Full-Text): The History Resource Center: U.S. provides integrated access to over 1,000 historical (primary) documents, more then 30,000 reference articles, and over 65 full-text journals covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes access to the citations for over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
Title List.
Humanities Abstracts (Some Full-Text): Indexes about 400 periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature.
List of periodical titles. coverage started: 1984. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
Index to Legal Periodicals (Some Full-Text): Indexes articles from legal journals, yearbooks, institutes, bar association organs, law reviews, and government publications originating in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
List of titles. Coverage started: 1981. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
InfoTrac Custom Full-Text Newspapers (Full-Text): Includes the full-text of articles from the last 365 days of the New York Times. Other newspapers from around the United States as well as Australia, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Mexico have varying full-text coverage dates.
List of newspapers and coverage dates.
InfoTrac Junior Edition (Some Full-Text): This database is comprised of a variety of full-text sources that support the curriculum needs of junior high and middle school students. It offers 100+ indexed and 90+ full-text general interest magazines, thousands of newspaper articles from the Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, and full-text reference books, e.g., Information Please™ Almanac, Columbia Encyclopedia.
List of titles. Coverage started: 2000. Updated daily.
InfoTrac OneFile (Some Full-Text): This multidisciplinary database indexes nearly 8,000 titles and includes more than 4,200 full-text titles. It includes indexing of The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor; full-text from 89 wire services covering agriculture, general news, broadcast news, government, business press releases, industry topics, sports and current events from all over the world; and indexing and some full-text from general interest magazines; refereed academic journals; business publications; technology periodicals; plus specialty titles in law, health care and computers.
List of titles. Coverage started: 1980. Updated daily.
InfoTrac Professional Collection (Some Full-Text): This database is a custom selection of more than 300 full-text journals geared to the needs of professional educators.
List of titles. Coverage started: 1983. Updated daily.
InfoTrac Student Edition (Some Full-Text): This database is comprised of a variety of full-text sources that support the curriculum needs of secondary school students. It offers 330+ indexed and 270 full-text periodical titles, more than 40,000 full-text newspaper articles, 14 full-text reference books, 500 historical images and more than 300 full-color maps.
List of titles. Coverage started: 1985. Updated daily.
Ingenta (Some Full-Text): Search and browse the contents of over 27,000 periodicals. Full text of some articles available via EMU Library subscriptions.
Periodical titles. Coverage started: 1985. Updated daily.
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Full-Text): Covering both the social and behavioral sciences, this full-text encyclopedia includes over 3,800 signed articles and 90,000 bibliographic references.
International Who's Who (Full-Text): "From heads of state, politicians, religious leaders and ambassadors, to the eminent and successful in business, finance, technology, film, music, fashion, sport, literature and the performing arts, The International Who's Who outlines the lives and achievements of nearly 21,500 of the most distinguished men and women from almost every country in the world."
Investext® (included with General BusinessFile ASAP) (Full-Text): Provides the full text of about 50,000 company, industry, and geographic research reports written by analysts at more than 600 leading investment banks, brokerage houses and consulting firms worldwide. When you enter General BusinessFile ASAP, click the link that says [Investex ].
Issues & Controversies @ FACTS.com (Full-Text): This full text reference database "presents and enhances the full backfile of Issues and Controversies on File, which has probed more than 250 controversial topics in the news since its debut in September 1995. Chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars, bibliographies and contact information augment the balanced, accurate coverage of current and historical events."
JSTOR (Full-Text): Complete text of the backfiles of about 600 core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, and the social sciences.
List of full text periodicals by title and discipline.
Kids InfoBits (Full-Text): This database is designed for grades K-5. It features a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine, newspaper and reference content for information on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Kluwer Online (Full-Text): Complete contents of about 265 Kluwer journals in subjects including sciences, social sciences, technology, and humanities.
List of full text titles and start dates.
Kraus Curriculum Development Library Online (Some Full-Text): This searchable database of curricula, frameworks, and standards brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education. Documents starting with the 20th edition (2001) are available in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat reader required). Over 200 of the documents included in past editions of KCDL are available through hyperlinks to the issuing agencies' web sites and all other indexed materials from 1993-2000 are available full-text on microfiche on the 2nd floor of the Halle Library.
LearnATest (Full-Text): LearnATest.com/Library is the leading source of test preparation materials and interactive practice exams, based on official tests. The purpose of this service is to help individuals improve scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams. LearnATest provides immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and individualized analysis of an individual’s score. In addition, course and study material is available for individual use.
LexisNexis Academic (Full-Text): Access to a wide range of FULL-TEXT news, business, legal and government information sources, as well as company, country, financial, market research and industry reports, biographical and medical and health information.
List of titles. Updated daily.
LexisNexis Congressional (Full-Text): In addition to the indexing and abstracting of the CIS's Index to the Publications of the United States Congress, it provides the FULL-TEXT of Congressional hearings, committee reports, bills, selected committee prints, public laws, Congressional Record, Federal Register, U.S. Code.
Library Literature (Some Full-Text): Indexes about 200 library and information science periodicals.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1984. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
Literature Online (LION) (Full-Text): Literature Online contains criticism and reference resources in addition to the full text of poetry, drama, and prose fiction from the seventh century to the present day. Contemporary criticism is available through the full text of 120 current literature journals that can be accessed through the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL), which contains over 880,000 records of literary criticism from 1920 to date.
Literature Resource Center (Full-Text): LRC combines biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information to deliver a complete reference/resource package on authors and their works (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism). Centering on Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism, this data set is augmented with full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical material illuminating an oeuvre or era. In partnership with Merriam-Webster, Inc., LRC offers the Encyclopedia of Literature including over 10,000 entries for authors, works, literary landmarks, literary and critical terms, mythological and folkloric figures, fictional characters, literary movements, and prizes.
MathSciNet (Some Full-Text): Access to the contents fo Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications.
List of periodical titles. Updated daily.
Media Review Digest (Some Full-Text): Provides extensive review coverage of educational media, along with strong supplemental coverage of entertainment resources from 1989 to the present. In addition to providing citations to reviews of media resources in several leading print publications, the Media Review Digest database also contains links to over 300,000 full-text reviews and related resources accessible on the Internet.
List of periodical titles. Updated quarterly.
MEDLINE (via FirstSearch) (Some Full-Text): Indexes about 3500 medical journals published internationally.
Journal database browser. Coverage started: 1965. Updated monthly.
Mental Measurements Yearbook (Full-Text): Contains descriptive information and critical reviews of more than 2,000 commercially-available standardized English-language educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement and intelligence tests. It contains the text of test reviews starting with the Ninth Mental Measurements Yearbook.
Updated every six months. NOTE: Up to four users at a time. Try again later if you cannot connect.
Mergent (formerly Moody's) Online (Full-Text): Service includes: Company Data Direct/U.S. -- Covers 10,000+ public companies and their SEC (EDGAR®) filings; Company Data Direct/International -- More companies from more countries than any other international database, with global searching across databases; Country Statistical Profiles.
Click on 'Enter Mergent Online' to begin. NOTE 1: 3 simultaneous users. NOTE 2: Mergent Online is currently not compatible with Netscape 4.7 or older and the Apple Macintosh® operating system.
MLA Bibliography (Some Full-Text): Index to about 4000 periodicals published worldwide covering literature, languages, linquistics, and folklore.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1963. Updated ten times per year. (via FirstSearch)
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database (Some Full-Text): Contains summaries of more than 140,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Most documents 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, and Bureau of Justice Assistance, all part of the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, and the Office of National Drug Control Policy) since 1995 are available in full text online at the NCJRS Web site, the Justice Information Center, at http://www.ncjrs.org/.
Coverage started: early 1970's.
National Journal Group's Policy Central (Full-Text): Includes the National Journal, a leading weekly on politics, policy and government; Markup Reports & Bill Status, comprehensive coverage of every House and Senate committee and subcommittee markup session; Technology Daily, monitoring news and trends in information technology politics and policy; Almanac of American Politics, analysis and data on every member of Congress and their states and districts; and a few other politics and policy databases.
Coverage started: 1977- (National Journal archives). Updated daily.
netLibrary (eBooks) (Full-Text): eBooks are electronic versions of printed books. Through this service we now have access to about 14,000 copyrighted books in addition to about 4,000 public domain titles.
Complete list of titles is available as two Excel spreadsheets: eBooks Michigan and MEL Ebooks
New York Times (June 1980- ) (Full-Text): Text-only articles from June 1980. When connected, click the word 'Sources' on the top right menu, type 'new york times' (without the quotes) in the Source List search box, click the 'Find Title' button, click 'Search This Title' below 'New York Times, The'. In the search dialog box that appears, fill in your search terms. (In Step Four, you might want to expand the time frame of your search beyond six months.)
New York Times Backfile (1851-2001) (Full-Text): Every backfile issue from 1851-2001 has been digitized from cover to cover in pdf format, including news stories, editorials, photos, graphics, and advertisements.
NewsBank-NewsFile (Full-Text): Full-text news resource containing coverage of current issues and events from over 500 US and Canadian newspapers, news sources and domestic and international newswires. More than 70,000 articles selected annually provide regional, national and international perspectives and coverage of the arts, and people and professions in the news.
List of titles. Coverage started: 1991. Updated daily.
Nursing Journals Full-Text (via ProQuest) (Full-Text): Search and display the text of about 275 nursing journals.
List of titles. Coverage started: 1992 (Varies by title). Updated as published.
OAIster (Full-Text): "OAIster is a project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Services [whose] goal is to create a collection of freely available, difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources that are easily searchable by anyone."
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (Full-Text): Provides full text information on about 70 controversial social issues. It "brings together viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazines articles, as well as links to more than 1,000 reviewed and subject-indexed web sites."
NOTE: Two users at a time. Try again later if you cannot connect.
Oxford English Dictionary Online (Full-Text): "The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (volumes 1 and 2) and 1997 (volume 3)...The OED is currently being revised, with the aim of producing a completely updated third edition by the year 2010. Draft material from the revision programme will also be published online..."
Updated quarterly.
PAIS International (Some Full-Text): Index of articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs.
List of titles. Coverage started: 1972. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
Periodical Abstracts Full-Text (Some Full-Text): Index to about 2000 general and academic journals, covering business, current affairs, economics, literature, religion, psychology, women's studies, and others.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1987. Updated weekly. (via FirstSearch)
Physics Journals (Full-Text): Full-text of a collection of physics journals published by the American Institute of Physics, the American Physical Society, the American Vacuum Society, and the Institute of Physics.
Coverage started: 1995 or 1997.
Project Muse (Full-Text): Project Muse is an online journal collection containing the full-text of 112 titles in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
List of periodical titles. Coverage: varies with journal; often starts with 1995. Updated when new issues are available.
The Prokaryotes (Full-Text): The electronic version of The Prokaryotes begins with an online implementation of the content currently found in the printed reference work, The Prokaryotes: Second Edition (1992). Approximately 25% of the content will be fully updated each year over a four-year period until the work is completely revised. Thereafter, material will be continuously added to reflect developments in Prokaryotic microbiology.
PsycARTICLES (Full-Text): "PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APAs Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. It contains all the material (with the exception of ads and editorial board lists) from nearly 50 top psychology publications."
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1988+. Updated monthly.
PsycINFO (Some Full-Text): Index to the contents of about 1400 journals, chapters, books, dissertations and reports on psychology and related fields.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1887. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
PubMed Central (Full-Text): PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive of the full-text of about 90 health and life sciences journals.
Coverage: varies with title.
Readers' Guide Abstracts (Some Full-Text): Index to the contents of about 180 popular periodicals published in the U.S. and Canada.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1983. Updated monthly (via FirstSearch)
Safari (Information Technology Books Online) (Full-Text): Read or browse online the full texts of what will be a collection of 100 information technology/programming books. Conduct searches across the complete texts of all the books.
NOTE: Two users at a time. Try again later if you cannot connect.
Science Citation Index Expanded (Some Full-Text): A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,900 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines. Part of the Web of Science.
Coverage started: 1995. Updated daily.
3 Simultaneous Users Only. Please log off when you finish to allow access to others.
ScienceDirect (Some Full-Text): Search and browse descriptions of articles in over 1,200 science, social & behavioral science, technology, and medical journals. Search and browse the full text of about 100 journals EMU subscribes to. You can limit your search to only those full text titles subscribed to by EMU.
Full text journals subscribed to by EMU. Coverage started: 1995 (EMU Full text: 1997).
Scirus (Science web sites and journal articles) (Some Full-Text): Covers "over 105 million science-related pages, consisting of 90 million Web pages, as well as 17 million records from sources such as ScienceDirect, IDEAL, MEDLINE on BioMedNet, Beilstein on ChemWeb, BioMed Central, US Patent Office, E-Print ArXiv, Chemistry Preprint Server, Mathematics Preprint Server, CogPrints and NASA."
Updated daily.
Short Story Index (Some Full-Text): The electronic version of the standard reference work Short Story Index. An index to short stories written in or translated into English that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals. Content indexes approximately 65,000 stories; 56,000 stories from approx. 3,400 collections; 8,300 stories from 182 periodicals in Humanities Index and Readers' Guide. The full text of about 900 stories are included.
Coverage: 1984-1997. Updated annually.
SIRS Discoverer (K-9) (Full-Text): Geared to children in grades K-9, contains thousands of full-text articles selected from more than 1,200 magazines, newspapers, and government documents. Also included are The World Almanac for Kids, Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus.
Updated monthly.
SMEALSearch (Full-Text): "SMEALSearch is a niche search engine that searches the web and catalogs academic articles as well as commercially produced articles and reports that address any branch of Business. The search engine crawls websites of universities, commercial organizations, research institutes and government departments to retrieve academic articles, working papers, white papers, consulting reports, magazine articles, and published statistics and facts. For certain documents, the database only stores the hyperlinks to those documents. SMEALSearch performs a citation analysis of all the academic articles accessed and lists them in order of their citation rates in academic papers (the most cited articles are listed first). Articles available through the SMEALSearch engine can be downloaded (for fair use) without any charges. However, some articles may have only the abstracts listed, and may have to be purchased directly from the appropriate sources."
Social Sciences Abstracts (Some Full-Text): Index to the contents of about 400 English-language periodicals in sociology, anthropology, geography, economics, political science, and law.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1983. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
Social Sciences Citation Index (Some Full-Text): A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Part of the Web of Science.
Coverage started: 1995. Updated daily.
3 Simultaneous Users Only. Please log off when you finish to allow access to others.
THOMAS - U.S. Congress on the Internet (Full-Text): Created by the U.S. Library of Congress, this site contains a vast array of information about the work of the U.S. House and Senate. Included, among other things, are: Bill Summary & Status [93rd through 107th Congresses (1973 - present)]; Bill Text [101st - 107th Congresses (1989 - present)]; Public Laws by Number [93rd through 107th Congresses (1973 - present)]; full text of Congressional Record [(1989 - present)]; full text of Committe Reports [104th - 107th Congresses ]; House and Senate directories; US Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1873.
Updated daily.
Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive (Full-Text): Full-text of the Times Literary Supplement from 1902-1939, plus the TLS Index. Issues to the end of 1990 will be added by the end of 2000.
Click on 'Subscribers'.
TOXNET (Toxicology Data Network) (Some Full-Text): The U.S. National Library of Medicine sponsors TOXNET, a collection of databases covering toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related topics. The databases include: CCRIS (Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System), ChemID_plus_, DART/ETIC (Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology), EMIC (Environmental Mutagen Information Center), GENE-TOX (Genetic Toxicology), HSDB (Hazardous Substances Data Bank) and HSDB Structures, IRIS (Integrated Risk Information System), NCI-3D Database, TOXLINE (Toxicology Literature Online), and TRI (Toxics Release Inventory).
Wall Street Journal (via Factiva) (Full-Text): Full-text of articles from January 1984. When connected, put a check next to "Your Current Source List" under 'Select Sources'; Click the phrase Source browser; Type wall street journal in the search box; Select Publication: The Wall Street Journal and click the Add Selected Sources button; Click the Add to Search button; set the range of dates you want to search, where to search, e.g., full article, headline and lead paragraph, and type your search terms.
Limited to 3 simultaneous users. To allow others to use the database when you complete your work please click "logout" on the right side of the navigation bar toward the top of the screen.
Wall Street Transcript Archives (Full-Text): Interviews with leaders of financial markets--CEOs, analysts, money managers--providing opinions and investment recommendations.
Coverage started: September 1, 1997. Updated weekly.
Web of Science (Some Full-Text): Two databases are available. Science Citation Index Expanded: A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,900 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines. Social Sciences Citation Index: A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.
Coverage started: 1995. Updated daily.
3 Simultaneous Users Only. Please log off when you finish to allow access to others.
Who's Who on the Web (Full-Text): Over 1 million biographies taken from 20 Marquis Who's Who print titles. Updates to biographies made daily, and new biographies added daily.
NOTE: Up to two users at a time. Try again later if you cannot connect.
Wiley Interscience Journals (Full-Text): Site offers browsable and searchable full-text of over 500 science and social science journals. EMU has access to the text of about 260 of the titles.
List of EMU subscribed titles.
Wilson Business Abstracts (Some Full-Text): Indexes 300 International English-language business magazines, covering accounting, finance, management, and small business.
List of periodical titles. coverage started: 1986. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
Wilson Select Plus (Full-Text): Index to the contents of about 1300 periodicals, all with ASCII full text online.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1994. Updated weekly. (via FirstSearch)
World Almanacs (Full-Text): The World Almanacs database includes the contents of: The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1998; The World Almanac of the U.S.A.; The World Almanac of U.S.; Politics; The World Almanac for Kids.
Updated annually. (via FirstSearch)
World Almanacs (Full-Text): The World Almanacs database includes the contents of: The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1998; The World Almanac of the U.S.A.; The World Almanac of U.S.; Politics; The World Almanac for Kids.
Updated annually. (via FirstSearch)

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