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ComAbstracts Date range 1980-current |
Research from the communications field. |
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Communication & Mass Media Complete Date range current |
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 create a research and reference resource encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. CMMC offers cover-to-cover (?core?) indexing and abstracts for more than 420 journals, and selected (?priority?) coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 600 titles. |
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Communications Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection Date range 1982-current |
Includes the full text of 16 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, encompassing over 5,000 articles in the field of communications. |
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Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI) Date range 1980-current |
The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences. |
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Ad*Access Date range 1911-1955 |
Presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines. |
| Adam Matthew TRIAL (March 30, 2012 - April 30, 2012) |
Adam Matthew Education publishes digital primary source collections for colleges and universities. Based in Chicago, AMe is the North American arm of the Adam Matthew Group and benefits from the same award-winning collections and dedication to customer service that has defined Adam Matthew since 1990. 'Experience the Original' and see how these online resources can transform teaching and research at your institution. |
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African Journal Archive Date range Varies |
The African Journal Archive is a retrospective digitisation project of full-text journal articles published in Africa, in the Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities, providing access to a multi-disciplinary, multi-country digital archive of Africa?s research and cultural heritage contained in its journal literature. |
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American History In Video Date range 1890 to Present |
American History in Video includes approximately 1,000 hours of newsreels from the late 1890s to the 1980s. Beginning with the Spanish American War, the early films provide documentary footage of actual people, places, and events together with interviews and other broadcast content from the period. In addition to the ?officially received? perspectives offered by newsreels, this collection includes some 200 hours of rare, hard-to-find, and diverse perspectives as captured in a wide range of short films. Alongside the contemporaneous materials are some 750 high-quality documentaries from video content producers such as The History Channel that Covering the full gamut of American history from the pre-Colonial period through the twentieth century. |
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American Memory Date range 1450-current |
Library of Congress historical collections online, comprised of written and audio-visual materials, with roughly 120 collections in all subject areas. |
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Blackwell Synergy Date range 1997-current |
The Blackwell Publishing Full Collection comprises 803 journals from across Science, Technology, Medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences collections. |
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Cambridge Journals Online Date range Dates vary |
Full text access to Health Sciences and Social Sciences titles from Cambridge University press. |
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Chronicle of Philanthropy Online Date range 1997 - Current |
The Chronicle of Philanthropy site license offers access to the complete publication from 1997 to present, as well as access to exclusive online content and to the Chronicle's Guide to Grants. The Chronicle provides annual surveys on giving, executive compensation, endowments, and other Chronicle research projects. |
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CIA World Factbook Date range Current |
Prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency, the World Factbook provides national-level information on countries, territories, and dependencies. |
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CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online Date range 1991-current |
Resource for theory and research in international affairs. It includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. |
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Clase and Periodica Date range 1975-current |
Index of over 2,600 scholarly Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. Articles are published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages. |
| Columbia Gazetteer of the World |
The Columbia Gazetteer of the World is an encyclopedia of geographical places and features covering the entire World. The entries include information on many of the following: demography; physical geography; political boundaries; industry, trade, and service activities; agriculture; cultural, historical, and archeological points of interest; transportation lines; longitude, latitude, and elevations; distance to relevant places; pronunciations; official local government place-names and changed or variant names and spellings.Their length varies from a brief notation on a small village to an essay on a country or region. |
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CQ Public Affairs Collection Date range 1960-current |
Features reporting on vital issues, statistical and historical analyses, historic documents and primary source materials, as well as a directory of key government, nonprofit, and private organizations. |
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CQ Researcher Date range Current |
Weekly publication providing original in-depth analysis of the most current major and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, pros and cons, two bibliographies and more. |
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CQ Weekly Date range Current |
CQ Weekly Online offers full coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering. Produced by the largest news team on Capitol Hill. |
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eHRAF World Cultures Date range Dates vary |
A cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life. |
| Ethnographic Video Online |
Alexander Street Anthropology is a comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behavior. Featuring cross-searchable access to the acclaimed Ethnographic Video Online and Anthropology Online collections, Alexander Street Anthropology provides Anthropologists, Sociologists and cultural historians with an expansive and multifaceted survey of the discipline. Researchers can explore a wide range of materials?from documentaries and field notes to written ethnographies and reference works. |
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Global Road Warrior Date range Current |
Global Road Warrior is a comprehensive business travel, telecommunications and business culture reference.. The Global Road Warrior covers 175 countries. Each country listing includes: Key facts, Communications, Service support and Technical support contacts, Business culture insights, Language tips, top 150 travel web sites, regional maps, international dialing guide, mobile connectivity problems and solutions, currencies of the world and more. |
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HLAS Online Date range 1936-current |
The Handbook of Latin American Studies is a selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America. |
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Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective Date range 1907-1984 |
Provides full text plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing of major scholarly sources in the humanities and social sciences, as well as numerous lesser-known specialized magazines. |
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In The First Person Date range Dates vary |
In the First Person is an index which provides limited full-text access to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. |
| International Encyclopedia of Communication Online |
This online version of the The International Encyclopedia of Communication offers instant access to the most authoritative and up-to-date scholarship in Communications. |
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Left Index Date range 1982-current |
Guide to literature of leftist and radical media, with an emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. |
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LexisNexis Academic Universe Date range Dates vary |
Large database covering federal and state court opinions, statutes, and regulations. Also has extensive coverage of news publications, news transcripts, and company information. |
| Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts online (LLBA) |
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, and dissertations. |
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Literary Market Place Online Date range Current |
literarymarketplace.com contains 2 important reference works, Literary Market Place and International Literary Market Place: Literary Market Place (LMP) is the directory of America and Canadian book publishing, and The International Literary Market Place (ILMP), provides a similar scope of publishing data for more than 180 countries around the world. |
| MIT Cognet |
MIT CogNet is an online location for the brain and cognitive science community?s scientific research and interchange.MIT CogNet provides access to a comprehensive platform which includes pre-eminent resources from several fields, such as artificial intelligence, linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy and education. The platform provides an ever-growing electronic collection of relevant books, journals, conference proceedings, calls for papers and grey literature, and provides searchable access to ten major reference works published by the MIT Press; Over 530 MIT Press books in full-text PDF; the full text of six MIT Press journals; and abstracts from more than 25 journals from other publishers like Cambridge University Press, the British Psychological Society, Kingston Press, Ltd., and Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. |
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Original Sources Date range Prehistory-current |
Searchable full-text of Primary works by the most important figures in all aspects of World History. |
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Oxford Language Dictionaries Online Date range current |
language resources never before available online: fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages. Available language pairings include Chinese-English, French-English, German-English, Italian-English, Russian-English, and Spanish-English. |
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PAIS International Date range 1972-current |
Covers articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, hearings and statistical directories about public affairs, including public policy and social issues. |
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Project Muse Date range Dates vary |
Project MUSE is a collaboration between libraries and publishers providing full-text access to over 300 humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. |
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Roper Center iPoll Date range 1935-current |
iPOLL is and up-to-date source for US nationwide public opinion polls. It is full-text retrieval system organized at the question-level, and includes nearly a half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys since 1935. The data is updated daily. |
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SAGE Journals Online :: SAGE Premier Collection Date range 1999 - current |
SAGE Premier collection is comprised of full-text access to nearly 500 journals published by SAGE covering all academic disciplines, but specializing in Social Sciences. |
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ScienceDirect Date range through 1995 |
ScienceDirect is a search platform which provides access to more than 1000 full-text journals in a wide range of subject areas. |
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Social Services Abstracts Date range 1980-current |
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. |
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Sociological Abstracts Date range 1952-current |
Sociological Abstracts indexes and abstracts the literature in socology (and related disciplines) from an international selection of journals, serials, conference papers, books, and dissertations. |
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Urban Studies & Planning: A SAGE Full-Text Collection Date range 1960-current |
Includes the full text of 12 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 37 years, and encompasses over 2,500 articles. |
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Web of Knowledge (ISI) Date range 1980-present |
ISI Web of Knowledge is a Web portal the ISI Citation databases through Web of Science: Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index, as well as Current Contents and Journal Citation Reports. |
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Last Updated: 01/05/2012






