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ABI/INFORM
Coverage: 1971 - Present
Updated: Monthly
Contains international, national, local, and regional business news coverage for 60,000+ public and private companies. Information on advertising, marketing, finance, economics, human resources, taxation, computers, etc., plus industry news. Includes both Hoover’s Company Capsules and Company Profiles.
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Coverage: 1980 - Present
Updated: Daily
Academic OneFile is a premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.
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AccessScience
Updated: Regularly
AccessScience features fully searchable content from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, Yearbook of Science & Technology, and the Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms.
Accounting Research Manager
Updated: Regularly
Accounting Research Manager provides access to objective and analytical accounting, auditing and SEC information with primary source data from standards boards and regulators.
ACLS Humanities E-Book
Updated: Regularly
A digital collection of over 1,700, fully searchable, high-quality books in the Humanities. Available 24/7 on- and off-campus through standard web browsers, with unlimited user access.
African American Newspapers 1827-1998
Updated: Regularly
Provides access to content from historical African American newspaper. This database will continue to be updated through Fall 2009.
AGRICOLA
Coverage: 1970 - Present
Updated: Daily
Database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators covering materials in all formats, including printed works from the 15th century. The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences.
Alternative Press Index
Coverage: 1991 - Present
Updated: Quarterly
Citations and abstracts to nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines.
Alternative Press Index Archive
Coverage: 1969 - 1990
Updated: Quarterly
Citations and abstracts to over 700 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines.
America: History & Life
Coverage: 1964 - Present
Updated: Monthly
Citations and abstracts to the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada from prehistoric times to the present.
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American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I
Updated: Not Applicable
Broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900. Primary sources.
Applied Science & Technology Index
Coverage: 1983 - Present
Updated: Monthly
Citations and abstracts to international and English language periodicals, covering engineering, mathematics, physics, and computer technology.
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Archive of Americana
Updated: Not Applicable
The Archive of Americana provides access to primary documents from American history. It contains African American Newspapers 1827-1998 and Connecticut Historical Newspapers, American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800, and Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
Art Index
Coverage: 1929 - Present
Updated: Monthly
Citations to American and foreign periodicals, covering the fields of archaeology, architecture, art history, interior design, and others.
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ARTFL
Coverage: 12th Century - Present
Updated: Regularly
The ARTFL Database, produced by the University of Chicago, contains French texts from the 12th to the 20th Centuries, the first edition of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, and numerous other full-text resources.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Coverage: 1994 - Present
Updated: Weekly
Online Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Arts & Humanities Search
Coverage: 1980 - Present
Updated: Weekly
The online equivalent of ISI's Art & Humanities Citation Index. Provides complete access to articles from over 1300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals and to relevant articles in over 5000 social science and science journals.
ARTstor
Updated: Regularly
The ARTstor Digital Library contains a repository of over one million images and related data and the tools to actively use these images. Students who need to access or download ARTstor images for a course or who simply want to maximize the power of this database should consult the ARTstor Help Wiki http://help.artstor.org/wiki/index.php/Digital_Library). Both students and faculty can learn to use ARTstor images in presentations by consulting the ARTstor Presenting Help page (http://help.artstor.org/wiki/index.php/Presenting). For additional functionality, such as sharing groups of images and adding commentary to images, professors should retrieve the password for instructor privileges.
ASM Journals
Coverage: 1992 - Present
Updated: Regularly
The American Society for Microbiology's 11 journals cover the spectrum of microbiology, from molecular and cellular biology to biomedical research and technology.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
Coverage: 1949 - Present
Updated: Regularly
Full text version of the ATLA Religion Database (ATLA), offering a collection of major religion and theology journals. Journals representing all major religious faiths, major denominations, and language groups are included.
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Basic BIOSIS
Coverage: 1994 - Present
Updated: Monthly
Citations and abstracts to approximately 350 basic life science journals found in college and university libraries. Search Hint: Try using BIOSIS Previews before using Basic BIOSIS.
Bible - King James Bible
Updated: Not Applicable
Searchable King James Bible (1611 edition).
Bibliography of Asian Studies Online
Updated: Continually
The Bibliography of Asian Studies Online references principally western-language articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971.
Biography & Geneaology Master Index
Updated: Semiannually
Citations to nearly 12 million biographical sketches in more than 2700 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference works.
Biography Index
Coverage: 1984 - Present
Updated: Monthly
Index to biographical material in books and journals.
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Biological & Agricultural Index
Coverage: 1983 - Present
Updated: Monthly
Citations to the agricultural and biological science literature.
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Biology Digest
Coverage: 1989 - Present
Updated: 9 times per year
Citations and comprehensive abstracts to the literature of the life sciences. Created to meet the needs of college undergraduates and high school students.
BIOSIS Previews
Coverage: 1998 - Present
Updated: Monthly
Citations to the journal and book literature in the life sciences fields
Book Index with Reviews
Updated: Regularly
Book Index with Reviews provides access to book titles, and music and DVD/video titles with full-text reviews and tables of contents.
Book Review Digest
Coverage: 1983 - Present
Updated: Monthly
English-language fiction and non-fiction books excluding reviews of textbooks, government publications, and technical books in law and the sciences. Some 7000 adult and children's books are reviewed and added to the list every year.
Business & Company Resource Center
Coverage: 1982 - Present
Updated: Continually
Citations, with 50% full text, to the business literature. Also includes company profiles, industry information, and more.
Business Organizations, Agencies, & Publications Directory
Updated: Annually
Directory of new and established organizations, agencies, and publications worldwide.
Cabell's Journal Directories
Updated: Regularly
Publishing information for business, education, and psychology journals. Entries include: contact information, manuscript guidelines, journal acceptance rates, number of reviewers, circulation, price, type of readership, etc.
Cambridge Histories Online
Updated: Regularly
This historical reference compendium allows instant access to the texts of the Cambridge Histories series.
Catholic Periodical & Literature Index
Coverage: 1981 - Present
Updated: Regularly
The Catholic Periodical and Literature Index Online is the product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Library Association. The database includes indexed citations to articles published in Roman Catholic periodicals, papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers. This database contains more than 300,000 records covering Roman Catholic publications.
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Children's Core Collection
Updated: Regularly
The Core Collection covers fiction and nonfiction works, story collections, picture books, graphic novels, and magazines recommended for readers in preschool through sixth grade. Professional literature for youth librarians, both periodicals and books, is also covered.
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CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
Coverage: 1991 - Present
Updated: Monthly
CIAO is a source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
CINAHL with Full Text
Coverage: 1982 - Present
Updated: Bimonthly
Full text articles in nursing, allied health, and biomedicine literature.
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Coverage: 1975 - Present
Updated: Quarterly
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities.
Classical Music Library
Updated: Monthly
Contains 30,000-plus classical music tracks for listening and searching. Two thousand new tracks are added each month. Freely allows for online listening, using static URLs to link directly to pieces of music, and creating playlists in individual user accounts. To download tracks, there is a fee. If you are in the Library and require headphones, you may check them out at the Circulation Desk.
Cochrane Library
Updated: Quarterly
The Cochrane Library is a unique source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care. Published on a quarterly basis, The Cochrane Library is designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care.
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Updated: Continually
An index useful for locating English-language poems in anthologies. Also includes 13,000 full-text poems, commentaries, biographies, and bibliographies.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Coverage: 1915 - present
Updated: Regularly
Communication & Mass Media Complete indexes journals in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to the communication discipline.
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Conference Board
Coverage: 1995 - Present
Updated: Regularly
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 F500 companies on business trends, leadership decisions, performance excellence, corporate governance, HR, productivity, CRM and more.
Connecticut Historical Newspapers
Coverage: 1764 - 1876
Updated: Not Applicable
Historical newspapers covering several date ranges and publications.
Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI)
Coverage: 1992 - Present
Updated: Biweekly
Citations to over 1500 sources (periodical and non-periodical) published by more than 100 organizations around the world. Focuses on timely and relevant topics for women including health, human rights, the work place, legal status, and more.
Counseling and Therapy in Video
Updated: Regularly
Counseling and Therapy in Video provides video for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. The videos in the collection provide a multiplicity of perspectives, and allow students and scholars to see, experience, and study counseling techniques in action. Also contains lectures of therapists talking about their own work.
CQ Global Researcher
Coverage: 2007 - Present
Updated: Regularly
Modeled after the award-winning CQ Researcher, CQ Global Researcher provides students with definitive, in-depth coverage of global affairs from a number of international viewpoints. Available exclusively online, CQ Global Researcher offers focused, readable, single-topic reports on vital world issues. Written by seasoned journalists with years of international experience, these reports make use of such popular sections as "current situation," "pro-con," and a new feature called "voices from abroad." By exposing students to a wide range of viewpoints CQ Global Researcher provides a comprehensive snapshot of today's most pressing issues.
CQ Researcher
Coverage: 1991 - Present
Updated: Weekly
The award-winning CQ Researcher explores a single hot issue in U.S. and world news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology.
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Updated: Continually
The DARCroom is a digital image library based on material from the Fairfield University Archives and Special Collections. Its aim is to provide an ongoing database of photographs, newspapers, documents, and memorabilia depicting the life and history of Fairfield University.
DiMenna-Nyselius Library Catalog
Updated: Continually
Find books, media materials, and more available at the library.
Dissertation Abstracts
Coverage: 1861 - Present
Updated: Monthly
Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions. Includes some master’s theses and foreign language dissertations.
Dow Jones Newswires
Updated: Daily
Real-time news on the stock market, encompassing company and industry news, economic and political events, updates on all major financial markets, and analysis of trends. Stories from The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and SmartMoney are included.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800
Updated: Not Applicable
Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the renowned bibliography by Charles Evans. Primary sources.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
Updated: Not Applicable
Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the distinguished bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker. Primary sources
EBSCOHost Electronic Journals Service
Updated: Continually
Access to over 300 full-text journals, and abstracts for the full collection of EBSCO Online journal titles.
EconLit
Coverage: 1969 - Present
Updated: Monthly
Citations and abstracts to economic literature. Books, dissertations, and working papers are included.
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Education Full Text
Coverage: 1983 - Present
Updated: Daily
Education Full Text brings you comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. Full text of articles cover to cover, from hundreds of journals, make this a one-stop source for research. Coverage includes 87 journals not covered by ERIC’s CIJE.
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Educator's Reference Complete
Coverage: 1980 - Present
Updated: Continually
A selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Updated: Continually
Electronic version of Encyclopaedia Britannica, plus an Internet guide and a version of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
ERIC
Coverage: 1966 - Present
Updated: Monthly
The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related journal articles and documents. The ERIC database corresponds to two printed journals: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE).
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Ethnic NewsWatch
Coverage: 1985 - Present
Updated: 8 times per year
Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
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Expanded Academic ASAP
Coverage: 1980 - Present
Updated: Continually
Expanded Academic ASAP is comprised of more than 3,500 indexed and full-text titles — of which 2,100 are peer-reviewed — in all disciplines with more than 20 years of backfile coverage.
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Facts on File World News Digest
Coverage: 1940 - Present
Updated: Continually
Coverage of news and significant events from around the world. It includes features on Key People, Key Events, Key Issues, and Country profiles, as well as a searchable hourly news feed from Reuters. Special "Ahead in Time" and "Back in Time" links allow researchers to see how events unfold over time.
FirstSearch
Updated: Regularly
Access any of our FirstSearch databases from this link.
Gale's Literary Index
Updated: Continually
Indexes the reference works Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.
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Coverage: 1980 - Present
Updated: Continually
Citations, with 50% fulltext, to popular magazines, newspapers, and newswires. Useful for "hot-button" topics and current events.
General Reference Center Gold
Coverage: 1980 - Present
Updated: Continually
Citations, with over 50 percent fulltext, to general interest periodicals, select newspapers, reference books, and magazines for children.
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General Science Index
Coverage: 1984 - Present
Updated: Monthly
Citations and abstracts to journals in the areas of anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, computer science, earth science, and others.
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GEOBASE
Coverage: 1980 - Present
Updated: Monthly
Citations and abstracts to the literature of geography, geology, ecology, international development, and their related disciplines.
Google Scholar
Updated: Regularly
Google Scholar allows for searching across many disciplines and sources. Subject coverage strengths include: Physics, Engineering, Social Science, Business, Biology, Chemistry, Medical. Source types include: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Specify Fairfield University (via Scholar Preferences) for enhanced access to our library resources. See the Google Scholar Guide http://www.fairfield.edu/library/lib_googlescholarguide.html for search tips and help finding full text.
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Coverage: 1976 - Present
Updated: Monthly
Citations to items published by the Government Printing Office (GPO).
GreenFILE
Coverage: Varies - Present
Updated: Regularly
GreenFILE is a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Contains both scholarly and general interest articles.
Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables
Updated: Not Applicable
This handbook has been designed to provide scientific investigators with a comprehensive and self-contained summary of the mathematical functions that arise in physical and engineering problems.
HaPI - Health & Psychosocial Instruments
Coverage: 1985 - Present
Updated: Semiannually
Citations to information on measurement instruments in the fields of nursing, psychology and others.
Hartford Courant - Historical
Coverage: 1764 - 1922
Updated: Regularly
The Hartford Courant - Historical offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
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Health & Wellness Resource Center
Coverage: 1993 - Present
Updated: Continually
Citations, with 80% full-text, to consumer-oriented and professional journals, pamphlets, and reference books in the medical field. Also includes medical-related streaming videos.
Health Source: Nursing & Academic
Updated: Continually
Covers nearly 540 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 570 journals.
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Historical Abstracts
Coverage: 1954 - Present
Updated: Monthly
Citations and abstracts to the history of the world from 1450 to the present, excluding U.S. and Canada.
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History Resource Center - U.S.
Updated: Regularly
This database covers United States history from colonial times to the present. It contains articles from journals, magazines and newspapers; reference works; primary source documents; time lines; historical maps and atlases, and audio and video clips of historic speeches and events.
History Resource Center: World
Updated: Regularly
This database provides extensive coverage of 20th century world history, and also covers the Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient Near East and Asia as well as the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the modern Middle East and Latin America. It contains articles from journals, magazines and newspapers; reference works; primary sources; a graphical time line, research guide, historical maps and images.
HLAS Online
Coverage: 1935 - Present
Updated: Regularly
The Handbook of Latin American Studies Online is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by academics from around the world.
Hoover's Company Records
Updated: Regularly
Find brief information on over 15,000 companies. This resource delivers information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more. Use the title or company field to search company names.
Humanities Full Text
Coverage: 1984 - Present
Updated: Daily
Humanities Full Text brings you full text plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. The database indexes, abstracts and delivers the full text of feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama, and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs, and more.
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iCONN
Updated: Daily
Provides a collection of essential library and information resources. Searches all iCONN databases simultaneously.
In the First Person
Updated: Regularly
Indexes oral history collections in English from around the world. Contains pointers to audio and video files, full text, and bibliographic records. With future releases, the index will broaden to identify other first-person content, including letters, diaries, memoirs, and autobiographies, and other personal narratives.
Informe
Updated: Continually
Citations to and the full-text of popular Spanish-language and bilingual periodicals. Includes title annotations in both English and Spanish to assist users.
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InfoTrac Junior Edition (for K-12)
Coverage: 2005 - Present
Updated: Daily
InfoTrac Junior provides junior high and middle school students with a wide variety of reference resources as well as age appropriate articles from newspapers and magazines.
InfoTrac Student Edition (for K-12)
Coverage: 1985 - Present
Updated: Regularly
InfoTrac Student Edition provides curriculum and general interest articles especially designed for secondary schools. It also contains reference materials, and podcasts and broadcast transcripts from National Public Radio, NASA, the U.S. Census Bureau and more.
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International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry, & Tech
Updated: Regularly
Originally published for the National Research Council, ICT offers data on physical, thermodynamic, mechanical, and other key properties and is a major reference source used by those involved in chemistry, physics, and engineering.
International Political Science Abstracts
Coverage: 1951 - Present
Updated: Regularly
International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA), produced by the International Political Science Association, includes current indexing and abstracts of the leading journals in political science.
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iPOLL
Coverage: 1935 - Present
Updated: Daily
iPOLL is a comprehensive and up-to-date source for United States public opinion and survey data. Valid email address required for login. If you are uncomfortable supplying your own email address, you may use reference@mail.fairfield.edu.
IRIS
Updated: Regularly
IRIS is a database of funding opportunities in every field from agriculture to zoology. You can also view upcoming deadlines in 25 subject areas.
Journal Citation Reports
Coverage: 2003 - Present
Updated: Regularly
Provides a systematic, objective means to evaluate the world's leading research journals. It is the only source of citation data on journals, and includes virtually all specialties in the areas of science, technology, and social sciences.
Journal Locator
Updated: Continually
Find a specific Library journal title in print or online.
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Updated: Continually
Contains archive images of searchable scholarly journals in various disciplines. Subscription includes: Ecology & Botany Collection, Arts & Sciences Complement Collection, and Arts & Sciences Collections I through VI (which include Business, Language & Literature, Mathematics & Statistics, Social Sciences,and Music collections).
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Coverage: 1992 - Present
Updated: Daily
Kids InfoBits is designed especially for students in kindergarten through grade five. Complete with an engaging, developmentally appropriate graphic interface, premier reference content and the best magazines for elementary students.
Knovel Critical Tables
Updated: Regularly
Contains tables of physical, solvent, and thermodynamic properties. The physical property tables alone include over 13,000 inorganic and organic compounds, and pure substances. The solvent property tables have 385 solvents, and the thermodynamic property tables have 500 compounds.
Latino American Experience
Updated: Continually
The Latino American Experience is a full-text resource which explores the history and culture of U.S. Latinos. Content spans from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas, through the Spanish and Mexican settlement of much of what is now the United States, to the triumphs and challenges facing the present-day U.S. Latinos.
LegalTrac
Coverage: 1980 - Present
Updated: Regularly
Students, faculty and legal researchers will all find the legal publications they need in LegalTrac. Drawing on a wide variety of the most highly regarded legal publications, LegalTrac provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Each title included in LegalTrac is selected on the basis of criteria provided by a special advisory committee of the American Association of Law Libraries. LegalTrac also contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.
LexisNexis Academic
Updated: Continually
Mostly full-text news, business, and law databases.
LexisNexis Business
Coverage: Varies - Present
Updated: Continually
Access to accounting literature, business news, business directories, and company information (financial reports, company profiles, company comparisons, and SEC filings and reports).
LexisNexis Congressional
Coverage: 1970 - Present
Updated: Regularly
The LexisNexis Congressional service provides access to historic and current congressional information. It includes the full text of congressional publications, finding aids, a bill tracking service, and the full text of public laws and other research materials.
LexisNexis Legal
Coverage: Varies - Present
Updated: Continually
Access to federal and state case law, federal and state code and regulations, international legal materials, tax law, patents, legal news, etc.
LexisNexis News
Coverage: Varies - Present
Updated: Continually
Access to full-text newspapers, magazines, journals, newsletters, and transcripts.
LexisNexis People
Coverage: Varies - Presnet
Updated: Continually
Access to biographical information, including obituaries, information on elected officials.
LGBT Life
Updated: Regularly
LGBT Life is the definitive index to literature regarding Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender issues. This database contains indexing and abstracts for LGBT specific core periodicals and reference works. LGBT Life provides comprehensive coverage of traditional academic, cultural, lifestyle, and regional publications, including The Advocate, Lesbian News, Washington Blade, Bay Area Reporter. LGBT Life also indexes and abstracts the full run of many historically significant titles such as ONE (1953 - 1967), The Ladder (1956 - 1972), Mattachine Review (1955 - 1964), Christopher Street (1976 - 1995) and Body Politic (1971 - 1987).
Library Literature & Information Science
Coverage: 1984 - Present
Updated: Daily
Library Literature & Information Science is a bibliographic database that indexes articles and book reviews of key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets are also indexed.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Updated: Regularly
This bibliographic database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Literature Criticism Online
Updated: Regularly
Provides online access Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Centuary Literary Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, and Children's Literature Review. For access to Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, and other literature products from Gale, St. James Press, and Twayne Publishers, please use Gale's Literary Index.
Literature Online (LION)
Coverage: 1700 - Present
Updated: Continually
A fully searchable library of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources. Searches the MLA International Bibliography (MLAIB) and Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) as part of the Criticism & Reference portion of LION.
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Updated: Continually
Literature Resource Center covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors.
Marquis Who's Who on the Web
Coverage: 1985 - Present
Updated: Daily
Features comprehensive profiles on over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science & technology, the arts, entertainment and sports.
MathSciNet
Coverage: 1940 - Present
Updated: Continually
Access to Mathematical Reviews and current mathematical publications.
MEDLINE (via PubMed)
Coverage: Varies - Present
Updated: Continually
Citations and abstracts to the journal literature in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, and much more. Currently indexing approximately 4,300 biomedical journals published in the U.S. and 70 foreign countries.
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Coverage: 9th - 17th Yearbooks
Updated: Regularly
Descriptive information, critical reviews, and list of references are provided in the entries of commercially published English language tests. Indexes the 9th to 17th Yearbooks. The Library owns the 1st-15th editions in the reference collection: Ref LB3051.B87.
Mergent Online
Updated: Continually
Contains US and International company data and annual reports.
MLA International Bibliography
Coverage: 1926 - Present
Updated: Quarterly
Part of the Literature Online (LION) Database, MLA Bibliography includes citations and abstracts to literary criticism, linguistics, language, folklore, etc.
Morningstar
Updated: Continually
Provides data analysis of stocks, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, closed-end funds, and variable annuity/life subaccounts. Screeners allow users to evaluate stocks or mutual funds and to create unique stock or fund screens. Morningstar analysts reports provide investment information. Portfolio X-Ray uses the input of two or more stocks and/or mutual funds to see how they work together as a portfolio.
MultiSearch
Updated: Continually
Use MultiSearch to search across multiple databases.
NetLibrary
Updated: Regularly
A collection of approximately 4500 copyrighted books and over 3400 public domain titles available to you around the clock, anywhere you have access to a networked computer. To access the collection, create your own account for free, then search the full text of an electronic book, browse, or check out a title.
New York Times - Historical
Coverage: 1851 - 4 years ago
Updated: Annually
The New York Times - Historical offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
NewspaperDirect PressDisplay
Coverage: Previous 60 Days - Present
Updated: Daily
Offers full-color page images of newspapers from all around the world in English and foreign languages. It is current, providing today's papers, and it provides the entire paper, including ads. Also offers the ability to listen to and translate selected articles, subscribe to an RSS feed, and blog about what you read.
Oxford Art Online
Updated: Continually
Oxford Art Online contains the full content of Grove Art Online, as well as the full text of the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (4 vols), the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, as well as new Grove/MoMA learning resources, a world art timeline and thematic guides, and linking with ARTstor.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online
Coverage: 1884 - Present
Updated: Quarterly
The Oxford English Dictionary is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words from across the English-speaking world.
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
Updated: Regularly
Oxford Language Dictionaries provides access to English translation dictionaries for Russian, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Chinese. Each volume contains hundreds of thousands of words and translations, notes on meaning and usage, and enhanced features like verb tables. The Chinese and Russian dictionaries also have online keyboard features for typing Chinese and Russian characters.
Oxford Music Online
Coverage: 1890 - Present
Updated: Continually
Oxford Music Online combines all of the content of Grove Music Online with The Oxford Companion to Music and The Oxford Dictionary of Music.
Oxford Reference Online Premium
Updated: Continually
Brings together language and subject dictionaries and reference works into a single cross-searchable resource. Contents include: English dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, quotations, maps and illustrations, timelines, encyclopedias, and reference works in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
PAIS International & Archive
Coverage: 1915 - Present
Updated: Monthly
Citations and abstracts to articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, and statistical directories in economic, political science, public administration, and international law.
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PapersFirst
Coverage: 1993 - Present
Updated: Semimonthly
Citations to papers presented at conferences worldwide. An aid to every congress, symposium, exposition, workshop, and meeting added to the British Library Document Supply Centre’s proceedings collection since October 1993.
Philosopher's Index
Coverage: 1940 - Present
Updated: Quarterly
Citations to philosophical periodicals and books.
Poets On Screen
Updated: Regularly
The Poets On Screen Library contains audio-visual clips of poets reading their own and other poets's work.
Pop Culture Universe
Updated: Regularly
A digital library of information on American and world popular culture, past and present, including entries on: new technology , Internet memes and chatspeak, movies, TV, radio, music, comics and graphic novels, sports and pastimes, fads, fashion, and fast food.
ProceedingsFirst
Coverage: 1993 - Present
Updated: Semiweekly
Tables of contents of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Each record lists the papers presented at each conference. Like its companion, PapersFirst, it also provides access to the British Library Document Supply Centre.
Project MUSE
Updated: Continually
Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
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Coverage: 1992 - Present
Updated: Regularly
Provides access to a wide range of biology topics. The database includes over 285 titles, with more than 250 available in full text. With thousands of articles available online, ProQuest Biology Journals includes some of the most popular information resources for users in academic, government, and public research environments.
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Proquest Black Newspapers
Coverage: 1989-Present
Updated: Daily
ProQuest Black Newspapers provides access to Black newspapers from across the U.S. Titles include: Afro-American Red Star, Call and Post, Chicago Defender, Houston Post, Michigan Chronicle, Muslim Journal, New Journal & Guide, New York Amsterdam News, Los Angeles Sentinel.
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ProQuest Computing
Coverage: 1990 - Present
Updated: Regularly
Includes over 350 titles, with nearly 300 available in full text. Topics include: Artificial intelligence, Computer games, Computer graphics, Computer networks, Computer programming, Computer security, Computer systems, Database management, Electronic data processing, Hardware, Information science and information theory, and Software.
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ProQuest Curriculum Package
Updated: Regularly
The Proquest Curriculum Package is a custom package of Proquest full-text databases that includes the following subjects: Biology, Computing, Education, Health and Nursing, Psychology, Science, and Social Science. Includes newspaper and journal articles.
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ProQuest Education Journals
Coverage: 1991 - Present
Updated: Regularly
Gives users access to over 745 top educational publications, including nearly 600 of the titles in full text. Topics include not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.
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ProQuest Health Management
Coverage: 1986 - Present
Updated: Regularly
This database is designed to meet the needs of researchers studying the field of health administration. This high-demand healthcare management content provides the most reliable and relevant information on a wide range of topics, including hospitals, insurance, law, statistics, business management, personnel management, ethics, health economics, and public health administration.
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ProQuest Newspapers
Coverage: Varies - Present
Updated: Daily
Provides access to some of the most respected newspapers from all over the country, each with its own unique geographic perspective. Coverage includes: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Boston Globe, and USA TODAY.
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ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
Coverage: 1986 - Present
Updated: Regularly
Provides users with healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. This database is geared towards researchers at healthcare facilities as well as nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions. Provides abstracting and indexing for more than 690 titles, with over 570 titles in full-text.
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ProQuest Psychology Journals
Coverage: 1971 - Present
Updated: Regularly
Provides abstracts and indexing for more than 610 titles, with over 520 titles available in full text, as well as full-text access to 4000 dissertations. Users get access to charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements essential to psychological research.
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ProQuest Science Journals
Coverage: 1986 - Present
Updated: Regularly
Features over 490 titles—with more than 380 available in full text. In full-text format, researchers have access to all the charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements so vital to scientific and technical literature. Areas covered include: Physics, Engineering, Astronomy, Biology, Earth Science, and Chemistry.
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ProQuest Social Science Journals
Coverage: 1994 - Present
Updated: Regularly
Includes over 510 titles, with more than 280 available in full text on topics that include: Addiction Studies, Family Studies, Urban Studies, and International Affairs.
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PsycARTICLES
Coverage: 1987 - Present
Updated: Regularly
Covers general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology. Over 28,000 full-text articles are available from journals published by American Psychological Association, Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber.
PsycINFO
Coverage: 1872 - Present
Updated: Continually
Citations and abstracts to journals, book chapters, and dissertations in the field of psychology. Citations link to PsycARTICLES for full-text.
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Updated: Continually
In-depth information on periodicals. Coverage includes publication type, ISSN, publisher, editor, circulation, and more.
Reference Universe
Updated: Regularly
Allows you to search print and electronic reference holdings.
ReferenceUSA
Updated: Regularly
Over 12 million U.S. business listings.
RefWorks
Updated: Not Applicable
RefWorks is a Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows users to create their own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. They can use these references in writing their papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds. You can freely create your own personal account. Also, try the Microsoft Word Write-N-Cite plug-in. Consult the RefWorks Guide for more information. For off-campus access: enter the group code you were given in your registration confirmation email, or retrieve the group code now, using your StagWeb login and password.
Registry of Nursing Research
Updated: Continually
Over 11,000 studies, some unpublished elsewhere, none peer-reviewed. Includes studies in clinical nursing research, education, administration, management, systems, transcultural studies, history, philosophy, and informatics.
ReQuest Catalog
Updated: Daily
Online family of catalogs including most libraries in Connecticut.
RIA CheckPoint
Updated: Continually
Complete libraries of Federal, State & Local and International tax research materials.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Updated: Quarterly
REP Online includes more than 2000 articles written by international experts across the discipline of philosophy. Coverage comprises Anglo-American, ethical, political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental, and contemporary philosophy.
Science Citation Index
Coverage: 1994 - Present
Updated: Weekly
Online Science Citation Index.
Science Direct
Updated: Continually
Index to citations to Elsevier journals on a variety of subjects in the sciences.
Science Resource Center (K-12)
Updated: Regularly
This database focuses on key concepts taught in school classrooms including biology, chemistry, physics, earth science, math, environmental science, life science, medicine, space science, computer science, technology, history of science, science and society, science as inquiry, science-related biographies and more. It contains articles from full-text academic journals, science-related magazines and newspapers, multimedia records including pictures, illustrations, and audio and video clips, links to 500 Web sites chosen for their relevancy to the curriculum, a time line covering science subjects from antiquity to today, and content Level indicators to help students choose articles that meet their needs.
Serials Directory
Updated: Continually
Information on approximately 180,000 U.S. & international periodicals. Coverage includes description, where indexed & abstracted, publisher, frequency, price, and more.
SIRS Researcher
Coverage: 1988 - Present
Updated: Monthly
Citations and abstracts to 1200 domestic and international newspapers, magazines, journals, and government publications. Geared towards school and public library researchers.
Sixties, The: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974
Updated: Regularly
The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974 documents the key events, trends, and movements in 1960s America, vividly conveying the zeitgeist of the decade and its effects into the middle of the next. The database contains letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral histories, as well as accounts from official, radical, and alternative organizations, posters, broadsides, pamphlets, advertisements, and Universal newsreel footage of the times. The collection is further enhanced by scholarly research guides, featuring richly annotated primary-source content that is analyzed and contextualized through interpretive essays by leading historians.
Smithsonian Physical Tables
Updated: Regularly
Comprising 901 tables concentrating on a broad scope of common physical and chemical data, the information provided is of general interest to scientists and engineers, and of particular interest to those involved with physics in its larger sense.
Social Sciences Citation Index
Coverage: 1994 - Present
Updated: Weekly
Online Social Sciences Citation Index.
Social Sciences Full Text
Coverage: 1983 - Present
Updated: Daily
Social Sciences Full Text covers the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences, including the literature of anthropology, economics, geography, law and criminology, political science, social work, and sociology.
Social Services Abstracts
Coverage: 1980 - Present
Updated: Monthly
CSA Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,600 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.
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Sociological Abstracts
Coverage: 1952 - Present
Updated: Monthly
CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added after 1963 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles.
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STAT-USA
Updated: Continually
Current and historic economic, financial and trade statistics.
Teacher Reference Center
Updated: Regularly
Teacher Reference Center indexes titles from teacher and administration trade journals, periodicals, and books. It provides coverage on topics such as assessment, best practices, continuing education, current pedagogical research, curriculum development, elementary education, higher education, instructional media, language arts, literacy standards, school administration, science and mathematics, teacher education, and more.
Theatre In Video
Coverage: 1930 - Present
Updated: Regularly
From the most important productions of Shakespeare to rare in-depth footage focusing on the work of Samuel Beckett, Theatre in Video, when complete, will offer more than 500 hours of online streaming video, available electronically for the first time. With live television broadcasts of New York productions from the 50s, revivals of classic works and experimental performances from the 60s and 70s, as well as important contemporary performances, Theatre in Video covers a wide range of 20th century theatre history. Unlike Hollywood adaptations, these are the actual original productions, captured and recorded while performed for a live theatre audience.
Twayne's Authors Series
Updated: Continually
Provides literary criticism and biographical information for approximately 600 authors worldwide, from Aristophanes to Bharati Mukherjee, as well as analyses of literary movements and genres.
Value Line
Updated: Weekly
Comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1700 stocks, over 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy.
Web of Science
Coverage: 1994 - Present
Updated: Weekly
Online Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged
Updated: Not Applicable
The premier American lexicographical work, the 1993 edition is published here in electronic form for the first time. A dictionary of the English language containing 450,000 vocabulary entries.
Westlaw
Updated: Regularly
A multipurpose database providing news, law-related, and business information. The News & Business component provides access to newspapers, trade, business and professional publications, newswires, broadcast transcripts, foreign language publications and company information. The legal component includes federal and state case law, statutes and administrative rules and regulations as well as law reviews and journals. Also contains American Jurisprudence 2d and American Law Reports.
What Do I Read Next?
Updated: Regularly
An source for recommendations on classic, mainstream or genre fiction and nonfiction titles covering a wide range of subjects for all age levels. Search by title, author, subject, keyword, time period, geographic location, character and reading level.
WorldCat
Updated: Daily
OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide.