| Alphabetic List of Databases: "A's" |
| ABI/INFORM Complete |
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| ABI/INFORM Complete is a full-text database that provides a wealth of business related information, including thousands of journals and company profiles. The Complete version consists of three ABI/INFORM resources: Dateline, Global, and Trade & Industry. Each database can be selected and searched separately and the Complete version has an archive that dates back to the 1960s in some cases. |
| Academic OneFile |
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| Academic OneFile is a comprehensive database provided by DISCUS that contains more than 8,000 journals, the majority of which are provided in full-text. It also includes hundreds of podcasts and news transcripts. |
| Academic Search Premier |
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| Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,172 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. |
| ACM Digital Library |
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| The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Digital Library is a vast collection of citations and full-text from ACM journal and newsletter articles, and conference proceedings. It is the full-text repository of papers from publications that have been published, co-published, or co-marketed by ACM and other publishers. |
| AGRICOLA |
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| AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and its cooperators. Production of these records in electronic form began in 1970, but the database covers materials in all formats, including printed works from the 15th century. Although the AGRICOLA database does not contain the full-text materials, thousands of AGRICOLA records are linked to full-text documents online, with new links added daily. |
| America: History & Life |
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| A complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises over 490,000 bibliographic entries for periodicals dating back to 1954, providing an incomparable research tool for students and researchers of US and Canadian history. Links to full-text via JSTOR when available. |
| American Chemical Society Publications |
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| The American Chemical Society's Web Editions are the online versions of the ACS print journals with access to the current year plus the preceeding four years. They are full--text articles with all supplementary material deliveried in two formats: HTML and PDF. |
| American Civil War Research Database |
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| The American Civil War Research Database is the definitive online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War. Millions of soldiers and thousands of battles and photographs can be searched in this powerful resource. |
| American FactFinder |
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| American FactFinder is an online source for population, housing, economic and geographic data that presents the results from four key data programs:
--the 1990 Decennial Census
--the 1997and 2002 Economic Census
--the 1996-2002 American Community Survey
--the July 1, 2000 to July1, 2002 Population Estimates Program |
| American History in Video |
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| This is the most comprehensive collection of history videos available online. The thousands of titles include archival materials, newsreels, documentaries, commercial and government videos and more. |
| Annual Reviews |
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| Since 1932, Annual Reviews has offered comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading authors. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 29 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Its publications are among the most highly cited in scientific literature. All Annual Reviews series are ranked within the top ten publications for their respective disciplines. |
| Anthropological Index Online |
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| Anthropological Index Online is based on the journal holdings of The Anthropology Library of the British Museum which receives periodicals in all branches of anthropology, from academic institutions and publishers around the world.. |
| Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA) |
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| ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts on the Web is provided by CSA and is an indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Updated monthly, ASSIA provides a comprehensive source of social science and health information for the practical and academic professional.
ASSIA currently contains over 375,000 records from over 500 journals published in 16 different countries, including the UK and US. |
| ArchiveGrid |
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| ArchiveGrid provides a guide to locating historical collections around the world, with nearly a million collection descriptions. ArchiveGrid does not provide full-text, but does act as a guide for knowing where specific documents and collections are housed. |
| ArticleFirst |
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| ArticleFirst describes items listed on the table of contents pages of individual issues of nearly 13,000 journals from a wide variety of disciplines. Each record describes one article, news story, letter, or other item from a journal. Subjects include business, science, the social sciences, humanities, medicine, technology, and popular culture. |
| Arts & Humanities Search |
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| Arts and Humanities Search fully covers over 1,300 journals in the field. It indexes the world's leading arts and humanities journals including selected articles from social science and science journals. |
| ARTstor |
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| ARTstor is a repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related cataloging data about those images. The ARTstor Charter Collection is derived from the several source collections, which are themselves the product of collaborations with libraries, museums, photographic archives, publishers, slide libraries, and individual scholars. These include: The Image Gallery (a deep and broad collection of images of world visual art and culture); The Art History Survey Collection; The Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection; The Huntington Archive of Asian Art; The Illustrated Bartsch (which contains Old Master European prints from the 15th to 19th Centuries); The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive (wall paintings and sculpture from the Buddhist cave shrines); and The MoMA Architecture and Design Collection. |
| ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts |
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| Overwhelmingly cited by a majority of aquatic science librarians as their primary database, the ASFA series is the premier reference in the field of aquatic resources. Input to ASFA is provided by a growing international network of information centers monitoring over 5,000 serial publications, books, reports, conference proceedings, translations and limited distribution literature. ASFA is a component of the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Information System (ASFIS), formed by four United Nations agency sponsors of ASFA and a network of international and national partners. |