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Academic Search Complete  (EBSCOhost)
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Provides full text for nearlymore than 5,000 scholarly publications covering all academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Click here for a journal title list.

Access World News  (Newsbank)
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Access World News from NewsBank provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international news sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. Coverage: Varies by news source and newspaper.

AccessScience
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The online encyclopedia of science and technology from McGraw-Hillis is the first place to go on the Internet to start your research into biology, chemistry and other science & technology subjects.

ACE - Bibliography of Resources Pertaining to the Social History of Aquidneck Island
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This database is intended as a guide to the resources available pertaining to the social history of Aquidneck Island for teachers from Kindergarten to 12th grade, and other interested parties. All materials have been located in repositories on Aquidneck Island. There are additional resources on the subject that are available off-island, but they were not accessed for use in this bibliography. This biography was created by ACE,

ACS Publications  (American Chemical Society)
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Thirty-five full-text journals in chemistry are available from the American Chemical Society. Other services are also offered. ACS Publications' FREE E-mail Alerts includes ASAP Alerts which are daily or weekly e-mail alerts of when individual articles (Articles ASAP) are released on the web, prior to being assigned to an issue. Also offered is Table of Contents Alerts that are e-mail alerts of the Table of Contents (TOC) for specific issues on the day the complete issue is posted on the web, enabling you to scan the issue's entire contents at once. Listing of the individual journals..

African American Newspapers, 1827-1998  (Newsbank)
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Explore African American history, culture and daily life in the 19th and 20th centuries. Coverage 1887-1998.

AGRICOLA  (Government)

Agricola is a database of bibliographic records created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators. The database is divided into two sections, an online public access book catalog (667,000) records and a journal article citation index (985,000 records), and covers materials dating from the 16th century to the present. The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including plantand animals sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, environmental management, conservation efforts, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farm practices,and food and nutrition." --NELINET Liaison

Alternative Press Index  (FirstSearch)
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Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change. Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Highly recommended comprehensive guide to alternative sources of information. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary.

Alternative Press Index Archives  (FirstSearch)
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Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change. Archive for Alternative Press Index. Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Covers years 1969-1990.

AltHealth Watch  (EBSCOhost)
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Alt HealthWatch is a full text and image database comprised of publications focused on the area of complementary and alternative approaches to health including holistic counseling and rehabilitation counseling. The large body of international resources includes peer-reviewed journals, reports, and proceedings, association and issue-oriented newsletters, professional publications, consumer magazines, background pamphlets and reference material. The database provides in-depth coverage on both professional and consumer levels across the full spectrum of subject areas addressed by "ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE."

Amazon.com

Amazon provides a ready source for book reviews and in print availability on books.

America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1876  (Newsbank)
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Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876 offers 350,000 fully searchable issues from over 700 historical American newspapers. Focusing largely on the 18th and early 19th centuries, this online collection is based on Clarence S. Brigham´s " History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820" and other authoritative bibliographies. Includes coverage of the Newport Gazette, 1777; Newport Herald, 1787-1791; and Newport Mercury1758-1886; as well as newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia.

AnthroSource  (American Anthropological Association (AAA))
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The premier online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists. Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource brings 100 years of anthropological material online to scholars and the public. Anthrosource contains content from over 32 AAA publications and is a complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003.

Applied Science &Technology  (Wilson Web)
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Restrict search in Subject Area to: Applied Science & Technology
AST is a subject concentration in Wilson OmniFile Full Text covers Acoustics, Aeronautics, Applied Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Atmospheric Sciences, Automatic Control, Automotive Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Communication & Information Technology, Computer Databases & Software, Construction, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Engineering & Biomedical Materials, Energy Resources & Research, Environmental Engineering, Fire & Fire Prevention, Food & Food Industry, Geology, Industrial Engineering, Machine Learning, Machinery, Marine Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgy, Mineralogy, Mining Engineering, Neural Networks, Nuclear Engineering, Oceanography, Optical & Neural Computing, Petroleum & Gas, Physics, Plastics, Robotics, Solid State Technology, Space Science, Textile Industry & Fabrics, Transportation, Waste Management, Other Industrial & Mechanical Arts.

Art & Humanities Citation Index  (FirstSearch)
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Citations and abstracts referencing many of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Articles from 8,795 journals. From 1980 and updated weekly.

Art Abstracts  (Wilson Web)
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Produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for more than 400 leading international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. This database covers a broad range of art topics such as advertising, archaeology, crafts, folk art, graphic arts, interior design, video, film, architecture and art history. Coverage for this database spans from 1984 to the present. Examples of publications indexed in Art Abstracts include: American Art, American Artist, Archaeology, Ceramics Monthly, Creative Review, Entertainment Design, Journal of Popular Film and Television, etc.

Art Index Retrospective: 1929 - 1984  (Wilson Web)
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Produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, provides a searchable index covering more than 55 years of art journalism from over 420 notable publications. Coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks and museum bulletins and also includes publications in French, Italian, German, and Dutch. Art Index Retrospective features many document types including feature articles, interviews, film reviews, book reviews, bibliographies, exhibition listings, reports, conferences anthologies, editorials, reproduction of works of art, notices of competitions and awards, and letters to the editor published throughout the world. Subjects covered include advertising art, antiques, archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, crafts, decorative arts, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, motion pictures, museology, non-western art, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, television, and textiles.

ArticleFirst  (FirstSearch)
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Index of articles from nearly 12,500 journals in all disciplines.

ARTstor  (ARTstor)
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ARTstor is a digital library of nearly 700,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. The Digital Library serves users both within the arts and in disciplines outside of the arts. This includes historians of art and architecture and others engaged in the visual arts, as well as individuals in fields as diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies.Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals  (EBSCOhost)
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The Avery Collection is the only comprehensive American guide to the current literature of architecture and design. This database surveys more than 2,500 US and foreign journals. Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals covers international, scholarly and popular periodical literature, including publications of professional associations; US state and regional periodicals; and major serial publications in the architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America and Australia.


Biology Digest  (FirstSearch)
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Life-science information written in a non-technical style.

BioOne.1 and BioOne.2 
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BioOne provides integrated access to a thoroughly linked information resource of interrelated journals focused on biology, ecological and environmental sciences. BioOne is a valuable aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals.

Birds of North America
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The Birds of North America Online is the electronic counterpart of Birds of North America (BNA), which was completed in 2002 as a joint project among the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, American Ornithologists' Union, and Academy of Natural Sciences. The printed version comprises 18 volumes and covers the 716 bird species nesting in the United States and Canada. Online, the file will be updated periodically with "contributions from researchers, citizen scientists, and designated reviewers and editors." BNA Online is also building image and video galleries to illustrate the behaviors and habitat of these species. It is planned that each online species account will include recordings of bird song and calls, selected from Cornell's Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds.

Book Review Digest Plus   (Wilson Web)
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Coverage: 1983-present. Drawing from thousands of periodicals, Book Review Digest Plus indexes reviews of both fiction and non-fiction, and provides many full-text reviews and substantial review excerpts. Retrieve book summaries, bibliographic data, full-text reviews, review excerpts, or basic citations. Entries currently encompass some 1,300,000 reviews covering over 660,000 books and growing with daily updates. More than 115,000 full text reviews. Descriptive annotations of more than 150,000 books.

Book Review Digest Retrospective   (Wilson Web)
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Coverage: 1905-1982. This database provides excerpts from and citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Covers 300,000 books. Virtually every book has at least one substantial review excerpt (up to 500 words), most have at least two, and many books have several review excerpts for a complete picture of how the book was received at the time it was published. Cites over 1.5 million book reviews. Accurate, detailed indexing of over 500 key English-language popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals.

Business and Industry  (FirstSearch)
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This database contains important facts, figures and key events for international public and private companies, industries, products, and markets for manufacturing and service industries. This database covers all the primary business information sources--from leading trade magazines, newsletters, and the general business press to international business dailies.

Business and Management Practices  (FirstSearch)
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This database addresses the practical aspects and approaches to business management. Provides real-world know-how that focuses on how organizations make and implement decisions, develop and launch new strategies, and plan for change. Includes case studies and how-to articles. Topics covered include benchmark planning, best practices, business plans and corporate culture.

Business Dateline  (FirstSearch)
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Citations on regional business articles.

Business Full Text  (Wilson Web)
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Provides access to a multitude of outstanding sources - from the NY Times Business Section and the Wall Street Journal to magazines and scholarly journals. Included are feature articles, product reviews, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, obituaries, surveys, book reviews and reports from associations & societies. Includes full text from over 400 publications as far back as 1995. Abstracting/indexing of an additional 800 publications back to 1982. Subjects covered include accounting, advertising, banking, economics, finance, human resources, international business, management, marketing, small business and technology.

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

Business Source Premier  (EBSCOhost)
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Business Source Premier provides full text for over 2,800 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more. This database is updated on a daily basis. Business Source Premier via Business Searching Interface


Campus Research: Law  (Thomson West)
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Campus Research is a research service for news, business and law related information. It includes full-text information and access to both current and archived materials. Campus Research includes thousands of news databases arranged geographically and topically, with hundreds of newswires as well as business, trade and professional journals and publications. It is especially useful for law-related resources, including both primary law and secondary legal analysis.

CANCERLIT  (Government)

"CANCERLIT® is a bibliographic database that contains more than 1.4 million citations and abstracts from over 4,000 differentsources including biomedical journals, proceedings, books, reports, and doctoral theses. Produced by the National CancerInstitute's International Cancer Information Center, CANCERLIT has been in existence for more than twenty years andcontains references to the vast realm of cancer literature published from 1963 to the present. CANCERLIT is updated withmore than 8,000 records every month." --CANCERLIT

CANCERnet  (Government)

CANCERnet provides information on different cancers and their treatments and more.

Catholic Periodical and Literature Index  (EBSCOhost)
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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.

CHEMID  (Government)

CHEMID is a chemical dictionary file for over 344,000 compounds of biomedical and regulatory interest. Records include CAS Registry Numbers and other identifying numbers, molecular formulae, generic names, trivial names, other synonyms, MeSH headings, and file locators which lead users to other NLM files. In addition, SUPERLIST provides names and other data used to describe chemicals on over 30 key federal and state regulatory lists.

Child Care & Early Education Research Connections  (Columbia University)

A continually updated multidisciplinary database related to child care and early education consisting of over 10,000 resources, including peer-reviewed journal articles, books, research reports, grey literature, government publications, and more. Resources are selected from over 500 journals and 300 publishers. Research Connections is a partnership among the National Center for Children in Poverty at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University; the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the Institute for Social Research, the University of Michigan; and the Child Care Bureau, Administration for Children and Families of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

ChoiceReviews.online
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CHOICE reviews significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education.ChoiceReviews.online provides Web access to the entire database of CHOICE reviews published since September 1988. The database is updated monthly, generally at mid-month, with reviews that will be printed in the next monthly issue of CHOICE. The newest reviews appear, arranged by academic discipline and broad cross-disciplinary topic, in Current Issue.They also are searchable by using Advanced Search, selecting by CHOICE Issue Date, and combining with various other criteria.

Chronicle of Higher Education
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Username and password available at the Reference Desk (401-341-2289).
Published weekly, The Chronicle is the No. 1 news source for college and university faculty members and administrators." --The Chroncicle

CINAHL with Fulltext  (EBSCOhost)
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The world´ s most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 520 journals indexed in CINAHL. Includes coverage of over 1200 professional journals in nursing, 17 allied health disciplines, and health sciences librarianship, with coverage as far back as 1982. In addition, CINAHL offers access to healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software in nursing, audiovisuals, and book chapters. CINAHL with Headings contains CINAHL-specific headings.

CiteSeer.IST

CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeer aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of the scientific literature and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness in the access of scientific and scholarly knowledge.

ClasePeriodica  (FirstSearch)
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Indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences, humanities, science and technology. Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.

ClinicalTrials  (Government)

The U.S. National Institutes of Health, through its National Library of Medicine, has developed ClinicalTrials.gov to provide patients, family members and members of the public current information about clinical research studies.

Communication & Mass Media Complete  (EBSCOhost)
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Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. This database originated with the acquisition and subsequent merging of two popular databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies -- CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). Communication & Mass Media Complete provides an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in any and all aspects of communication and mass media.

Contemporary Women's Issues  (FirstSearch)
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Contemporary Women's Issues with citations.

CQ Researcher
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The CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports. Contains reports dating back to 1991.

Credo Reference
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Offering access to over 1 million individual entries, Credo Reference (formerly xreferplus) contains all types of reference books : dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and books of quotations, and subject-specific titles covering everything from the arts to accountancy and law to literature.

Criminology  (Sage Publications)
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Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full-text of 21 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 23 years, encompassing over 5,000 articles. It covers such subjects as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.


DIRline  (Government)

DIRLINE focuses primarily on health and biomedical information resources including organizations, government agencies, information centers, professional societies, voluntary associations, support groups, academic and research institutions, and research facilities and resources. Records contain resource names, addresses, phone numbers, and descriptions of services, publications, and holdings.

Dissertations  (FirstSearch)
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This covers all academic subjects. It provides an index to dissertations from most U.S. and selected foreign academic institutions. More than 1,500,000 dissertations and theses are included from 1861 to the present.

Dissertations-Salve Regina University  (Salve Regina University)

Salve Regina Dissertaions from the Ph. D. Humanities program are available online.


Ebrary
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Ebrary is a growing collection of electronic books and other documents. At present through the Academic Complete Collection Salve Regina University patrons have access to over 22,000 titles. Included in these titles is a collection of more than 1,050 historical and geopolitical maps of academic interest. More than 180 different academic publishers have contributed material to the Academic Complete Collection. Most titles in the collection have been published within the last two years.
Ebrary includes a rich collection of titles in many subject areas, ranging from Business and Economics, Computers and Technology, Life and Physical Sciences, Social and Behavioral Sciences, to Law and General Reference, that are not available in any other collection.

EBSCOhost  (EBSCOhost)
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A collection of full-text and abstract databases in the humanities, nursing, business, and life sciences.

EconLit  (FirstSearch)
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This database provides citations for dissertations and articles from journals, books, and working papers on economics.

EDGAR Database of Corporate Information  (Government)

Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Education Full Text  (Wilson Web)
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This database has comprehensive coverage of an international range of English language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. Educational topics covered include adult education, comparative education, continuing & distance education, educational technology, elementary & secondary education, higher education, instructional media, literacy standards, multicultural education, pre-school and special education, teacher education & evaluation, and teaching methods. Includes full text of more than 300 publications as well as indexing/abstracting of over 700 journals as far back as 1983.

Educator's Reference Desk  (Syracuse University)

The Educator's Reference Desk provides access to the following resources:
Resource Collection - Links to over 3000 resources on a variety of educational issues. This collection includes Internet sites, educational organizations, and electronic discussion groups.
Lesson Plans - The Lesson Plan Collection contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans which were written and submitted by teachers from all over the United States.
Question Archive - A collection of over 200 responses to popular questions on the practice, theory, and research of education. These responses may include citations from the ERIC database, Internet sites, discussion groups, and/or print resource information.
ERIC Database - The ERIC database, the world's largest source of education information, contains more than one million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice.

Encyclopedia Britannica
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An online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica, including Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.The encyclopedia includes maps, tables, and graphs.

Encyclopedia Judaica   (Gale CENGAGE Learning)
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Provides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature, from Kabbalah to "Americana" and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures. Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd edition is important to scholars, general readers and students.

Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change   (Gale CENGAGE Learning)
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Explores major topics related to global warming and climate change-ranging geographically from the North Pole to the South Pole, and thematically from social effects to scientific causes. Covers the science and history of climate change, the controversies over climate-change theories, the role of societies, the industrial and economic factors, and the sociological aspects of climate change.

Encyclopedia of Race and Racism  (Gale CENGAGE Learning)
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Examines the anthropological, sociological, historical, economic, and scientific theories of race and racism in the modem era. Delves into the historic origins of ideas of race and racism and explores their social and scientific consequences. Includes biographies of significant theorists, as well as political and social leaders and notorious racists.

ERIC  (EBSCOhost)
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The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. The database contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full-text documents from ERIC.

eScholar

eScholar is a digital archive of the intellectual product created by the faculty, research staff, and students of Salve Regina University and is accessible to end users both within and outside of the institution. Currently it contains the university's doctoral dissertations, The Journal of Interdisciplinary Feminist Thought, selected Pell Honors Students' theses and faculty and staff publications.


Fed Sys  (Government)

GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys) provides public access to government information submitted by Congress and Federal agencies and preserved as technology changes. Some collections currently available on FDsys are: Compilation of Presidential Documents (1993 to Present); Congressional Bills (103rd Congress to Present); Congressional Documents (104th Congress to Present); Congressional Hearings (105th Congress to Present); Congressional Record (1994 to Present); Congressional Reports (104th Congress to Present); Federal Register (1994 to Present); Public and Private Laws (104th Congress to Present).

Film and Television Literature Index    (EBSCOhost)
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A comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing. Subject coverage includes film and television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. Offers indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications and selected coverage of 300 more. Publications include Film Journal International, Journal of British Cinema and Television, Film Criticism, Post Script, Variety, and more.

First Research  (Dun & Bradstreet)
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First Research Industry Profiles cover over 200 industries and are updated every 90 days. Its Industry Profiles cover more than 300 business sectors and highlight industry trends and business issues. Other products include Call Prep Sheets (one-page industry overviews), Email Alerts (industry updates), and State Profiles (summaries of economic and business issues affecting a business in any state).

FirstSearch Databases  (FirstSearch)
 User guide for FirstSearch
A list of subject-specific databases ranging from medicine, tobusiness, and including others in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia  (EBSCOhost)
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Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry


Gale Virtual Reference Library            (Gale CENGAGE Learning)
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Access to electronic reference titles subscribed to by the McKillop Library. Subjects covered include religion, history, the arts and social sciences.

General Science Full Text  (Wilson Web)
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General Science Full Text covers scientific information from the fields of astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, earth science, environment, genetics, health, mathematics, microbiology, nutrition, oceanography, physics, physiology, and zoology. It includes full text from over 80 periodicals and abstracting/indexing of another 280 titles. Coverage is from the present to 1984.

GEOBASE  (FirstSearch)
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Worldwide literature on geography and geology.

GPO Access  (FirstSearch)
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GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of importantinformation products produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted." --GPO Access

GreenFILE    (EBSCOhost)
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GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. It is a collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles which includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Multidisciplinary by nature, GreenFILE draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.


Handbook of Research on ePortfolios  (Idea Group Inc)
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The single source for comprehensive coverage of the major themes of ePortfolios, addressing all of the major issues, from concept to technology to implementation. It investigates commercial and academic ePortfolio systems—home-grown, off the shelf, and open source. Contains a compendium of over 370 terms with detailed definitions. Over 800 comprehensive references to existing literature and research on ePortfolios.

Health Services and Sciences Research Resources  (Government)

HSRR is a searchable database of information about research datasets and instruments/indices employed in Health Services Research, and the Behavioral and Social Sciences. The database provides descriptions of research resources including links to PubMed and links to sources for additional information or access to the resources.

Historic Campus Architecture Project  (Council of Independent Colleges)

A searchable database of historic buildings, master plans, and landscape features on nearly 370 college campuses is now available online, thanks to the Council of Independent Colleges and the J. Paul Getty Trust. The database covers about 2,000 campus sites, many of them in considerable detail, and includes some 4,300 illustrations. There are almost 100 sections on Salve Regina buildings and architects associated with them.

Historical New York Times Access  (ProQuest)
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Newspaper coverage dating back to the first issue in 1851, is available. Current years (latest 10 years are covered in Lexis-Nexis). Each issue of every newspaper is indexed so that finding articles on the editorials, editorial cartoons, obituaries, and letters to the editor from well-known people, arts, sports, business, and popular culturecan be easily found.

History Reference Center  (EBSCOhost)
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History Reference Center is a full text history reference database designed for undergraduate research. The database features full text for more than 2,400 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers. It also includes full text for more than 130 leading history periodicals. The database contains more than 61,100 historical documents; more than 66,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 110,200 historical photos and maps; and more than 80 hours of historical video.

Hoover's Online
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Hoover's, Inc. delivers comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence that drives business growth. Our database of 12 million companies, with in-depth coverage of 25,000 of the world's top business enterprises, is at the core of our business tools and services that customers find vital to their business operations. Hoover's editorial staff of some 80 editors and researchers bring vital business information and knowledge to their coverage, updating the site daily to bring our visitors and subscribers the most up-to-date business information in the industry.

HSTAT  (Government)

HSTAT is a free, web-based resource that provides access to full-text documents useful for providing health information and for health care decision making. HSTAT's audience includes health care providers, health service researchers, policy makers, payers, consumers and the information professionals who serve these groups.

Humanities E-Book  (American Council of Learned Societies)
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The ACLS HEB Project is a collaboration of nine learned societies, over 75 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan´ s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars. The ACLS HEB Project includes nearly 1,400 titles selected by scholars in the humanities. Approximately 350 titles are added each year. The collection includes both in- and out-of-print titles ranging from 1885 through 2006.

Humanities Full Text  (Wilson Web)
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This database covers the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities. Subject areas include archaeology, classical studies, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, literary criticism, literature, music, performing arts, philosophy and religion. The database cites feature articles, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, works of fiction, drama and poetry, and reviews of ballets, theatre, dance, movies, musicals, operas, plays and television programs. Coverage is from the present to 1984. The database includes the full text of over 200 publications and abstracting/indexing of another 550 titles.


De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors

De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors - Short biographical essays of all the Roman emperors from the accession of the Emperor Augustus to the death of the Emperor Constantine XI Palaeologus. Each essay on this site, which is peer reviewed, is written by a scholar and is accompanied by a bibliography, illustrations, and footnotes.

Idea Group Reference E-Access  (Idea Group Inc)
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Reference E-Access is an aggregated online database comprised of a comprehensive and authoritative collection of reference titles from Idea Group, Inc. This database contains full-text articles and chapters regarding research, trends, technologies, and challenges in the fields of information science, technology and management. This online database consists of thousands of reference articles and chapters that can be easily searched using basic or advanced searches. In addition, this extensive collection will continue to expand as more IGR titles are published. Our titles are highlighted.

Intelecom Online Resources Network

Access through username and password only. Username and password available at the Reference Desk (401-341-2289).
The INTELECOM Online Resources Network is a database of academic video clips - streamed on demand - for use in support of classroom instruction. The Sociology Collection consists of over 260 video clips ranging in length from 2 to 10 minutes. The Psychology Collection consists of an additional 68 clips. Sociology topics include issues such as crime, gender stratification, education, aging, work and the economy, groups and organizations, deviance, social movements, and more. The Psychology Collection includes interviews, computer graphics and animation, and real-life case studies that introduce key concepts and principles and provide an up-to-date look at the evolving science of psychology.

International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS)  (Government)

The International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) database provides access to bibliographic citations and abstracts from published, international, and scientific literature on dietary supplements. Users can choose to search the Full IBIDS Database, a subset of Consumer Citations Only or Peer Reviewed Citations Only.

International Bibliography of Theater and Dance  (EBSCOhost)
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International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text contains all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text for 100 titles, including Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and many more. Additional full text available includes more than 50 books & monographs.

International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center  (EBSCOhost)
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Offers information on all aspects of security and counter-terrorism and is designed to inform the analysis process. Content includes hundreds of full text journals and periodicals, hundreds of thousands of selected articles, and proprietary Background Information Summaries that pertain to terrorism and security. Combines background from scholarly writings with expert commentary from a variety of organizations, as well as timely reviews of recent developments across the international political, military, economic, social and technical spectrum.

Internet Archive
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The Internet Archive is a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Content includes movies, audio clips, concerts and over one million scanned texts. Access is free to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.


Data for Research  (JSTOR)
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A new way to search the JSTOR database! Provided by JSTOR for use by the research community. It provides a set of web-based tools for selecting and interacting with content from the JSTOR archive. The service also provides the ability to obtain data sets via bulk downloads or using a REST API. Features provided by the site include: Full-text and fielded searching of the entire JSTOR archive using a powerful faceted search interface. Using this interface one can quickly and easily define content of interest through an iterative process of searching and results filtering. Online viewing of document-level data including word frequencies, citations, key terms, and ngrams.

JSTOR  (JSTOR)
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JSTOR is an archive of complete full-text backfiles. The current collection includes journals from the Art & Science Collections I - V and the Arts & Sciences Complement and covers most academic disciplines. This collection is growing and currently has more then 500 titles.


K-12 Resources  (EBSCOhost)
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This is a collection of databases containing information suitable for students in K-12. This is a good resource for lesson planning for education majors.


Legal Systems of the World  (ABC-CLIO)
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Legal Systems of the World is a comprehensive reference work that covers the legal systems of every nation on earth, every state in the Union, and every province of Canada. From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, with nearly 400 entries, explores the structure, operation, and history of legal and judicial systems. It also analyzes transnational judicial bodies such as the World Court and the European Court of Human Rights, examines alternative legal systems from Roman to Islamic law, and explains universal legal institutions and concepts, from law schools to constitutional review.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
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Academic Universe from Lexis-Nexis is a news, law, and business information service. Includes up to date news; company and industry news from newspapers, trade journals, and other periodicals; company financial information from Disclosure, Standard & Poor's, and Hoover's; archival SEC filings; and accounting, auditing, and tax literature. All sources are full-text. Updated daily.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)  (EBSCOhost)
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LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

LibrarySpot

LibrarySpot is a virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information. LibrarySpot was designed to break through the information overload of the Web to bring the best library and reference sites together with insightful editorial in one convenient, user-friendly spot." --LibrarySpot

Literary Reference Center  (EBSCOhost)
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Literary Reference Center is a full text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. Literary Reference Center includes more than 10,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, 75,000 articles of literary criticism, 130,000 author biographies, full text of over 300 literary journals, 500,000 book reviews, 25,000 classic and contemporary poems, 11,000 classic and contemporary short stories, full text of over 7,500 classic novels (anticipated by Fall 2006), 3,000 author interviews, and over 1,000 images of key literary figures.

Literature Resource Center (LRC)  (Gale CENGAGE Learning)
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Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

LocatorPLUS  (Government)

LOCATORplus, is a catalog of books, journals, and audiovisuals and access points to other medical research tools.


MasterFILE Premier  (EBSCOhost)
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MasterFILE Premier provides full text for nearly 1,750 general periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,650 titles. This database features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, nearly 500 full text reference books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts; full text from 86,017 biographies, 105,786 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 341,655 photos, maps and flags.

MathSciNet  (American Mathematical Society)
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MathSciNet is a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature since 1940. MathSciNet provides Web access to the bibliographic data and reviews of mathematical research literature contained in the Mathematical Reviews Database.

Mediamark Reporter  (Mediamark Research & Intelligence)
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Note:You must register with Mediamark before you can use Mediamark the first time.
Mediamark Reporter provides information on demographics, lifestyles, product and brand usage, and advertising media preferences of consumers. MRI surveys 26,000 consumers annually throughout the continental United States using personal interviews and a self-administered questionnaire.
Instructions for Registering: Click on "Register for a free account." Make sure to use your Salve email address. An email will be sent to your account with a link to activate your account. After that you can use Mediamark with your email address and the password you created.

MEDLINE
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.This database corresponds to the print indexes Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index.
  • MEDLINE (Ebscohost)   User guide for Ebsco
    Linked full-text to library's resources.
  • MEDLINE (PubMed)   "PubMed is a project developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library ofMedicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It has been developed in conjunction with publishers ofbiomedical literature as a search tool for accessing literature citations and linking to full-text journals at Web sites of participating publishers." --Medline
  • MEDLINE (FirstSearch)   User guide for Firstsearch
    Indexing and abstracts with linked full text. Updated monthly. Connections to Library catalog.
Also see PubMed central.

MEDLINEplus  (Government)

MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.

Middle Search Plus   (EBSCOhost)
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Middle Search Plus contains full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Additionally, Middle Search Plus contains primary source documents such as Essential Documents in American History, and reference books such as the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia and the American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition.

Military & Government Collection  (EBSCOhost)
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Indexing and abstracts of journals in medicine. 1966 -. Updated monthly. Connections to Library catalog.

MLA Bibliography  (EBSCOhost)
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This database is produced by the Modern Language Association and is the most important index for students and scholars of literature. The MLA Bibliography indexes articles from journals worldwide that cover literary criticism and theory, language, linguistics and folklore. MLA Directory of Periodicals


Historical New York Times Access  (ProQuest)
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Newspaper coverage dating back to the first issue in 1851, is available. Current years (latest 10 years are covered in Lexis-Nexis). Each issue of every newspaper is indexed so that finding articles on the editorials, editorial cartoons, obituaries, and letters to the editor from well-known people, arts, sports, business, and popular culturecan be easily found.

National Center for Biotechnology Information  (Government)

NCBI provides public databases, conducts research incomputational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease.

Nature.com  (Nature Publishing)
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Nature is an interdisciplinary science journal, publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions. Nature also provides rapid, authoritative, insightful and arresting news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public. International weekly science journal. Besides the journal the site provides videos and podcasts.

Naxos Music Library
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The Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It offers the complete Naxos, Marco Polo, Da Capo catalogues, and selected titles from other labels. Most recordings come with scholarly notes which have been written by respected musicologists. All notes can be accessed and read while listening. NAXOS has 90,000-plus tracks, and more than 6,000 CDs. Over 7,000 composers are represented. Besides classical other genres include Jazz, Blues, World and Chinese music. New releases are added monthly.

netLibrary
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Over 8,000 full-text electronic books available online.

New Catholic Encyclopedia  (Gale CENGAGE Learning)
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NCE is the single most comprehensive reference resource on Catholicism. Over 12,000 individual articles, arranged alphabetically, the entries offer up-to-date commentary on the multifaceted religious body of one billion adherents, from its foundations in Judaism to the papacy of John Paul II. Readers will find both statistical and cultural information about the Catholic Church in countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Zimbabwe, as well as an entry for almost every Catholic diocese and religious organization in the United States. Exhaustive treatment is given to biblical studies, Christology, liturgical practice, and Byzantine Christianity, and ethical and moral issues of euthanasia, abortion, homosexuality, and the human genome.

Newport Daily News  (Newsbank)
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The Newport Daily News, established in 1846, covers the people and events of Newport, RI.
Coverage: May 14, 2001 - present.

America's Historical Newspapers contains: Newport Gazette, 1777; Newport Herald, 1787-1791; and Newport Mercury, 1758-1866.

Newspaper Abstracts  (FirstSearch)
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Newspaper abstracts from over 25 newspapers.

Newspapers - Selected Direct Links
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Links to the homepages of selected e-Newspapers including local papers.

Newspapers of the World

Gives access to hundreds of newspapers and news magazines from all continents. Newspapers may be selected by country or by title.

Notable Citizens of Planet Earth Biographical Dictionary

This dictionary includes more than 25,000 notable men and women whohave shaped our world from ancienttimes to the present day. The dictionary can be searched bynames, birth years, death years,positions held, professions, literary andartistic works, miscellaneousachievements, and other keywords." --Biographical Dictionary

Nursing Full Text PLUS  (OVID)
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A collection of 10 full-text online nursing journals hosted by Ovid. A variety of the top nursing journals available today with 100% searchable full text. Included in the collection is the Journal of Nursing Administration, the American Journal of Nursing, and Nursing Research.

The New York Times Books

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OED Online (Oxford English Dictionary)
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The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition,

OmniTax Library (CCH)  (CCH)
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Unlimited access to federal and state tax information plus explanations, analysis and practice aids. Includes daily tax news, FASB materials, as well as GAAP and GAAS guides.

Oral History Online  (Alexander Street Press)
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This landmark project makes English-language oral histories easily accessible for the first time, giving voice to typically unheard people from all walks of life from around the world. The database provides detailed indexing of oral history collections, repositories, and narratives, along with links to full text, audio, and video where available. Updated quarterly. Includes the Oral History Top 100 popularity rankings.


PapersFirst  (FirstSearch)
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An index of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Covers published information received by The British Library Document Supply Center.

Polling the Nations
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Polling the Nations is a comprehensive collection of public opinion, with information from not only the United States but also more than 100 countries around the world. Polling the Nations has collected more than 500,000 questions, from 14,000 surveys on 5,600+ topics. Subjects such as gun control, abortion, government, women, race relations, the economy, and children are covered. All told, more than 700 organizations are represented by the polls at this site. Among the polling sources are: Gallup, Harris, Roper, the Detroit Free Press and NYT/CBS News.

POPline  (Government)

POPLINE provides worldwide coverage of population, family planning, and related health issues, including family planning technology and programs, fertility, and population law and policy. In addition, POPLINE focuses on particular developing-country issues including demography, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, maternal and child health, primary health care communication, and population and environment. POPLINE citations are searchable with POPLINE keywords as well as MeSH headings. The file is produced by the Population Information Program at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. The database is funded primarily by the United States Agency of International Development.

ProceedingsFirst  (FirstSearch)
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An index of worldwide conference proceedings. Provides citations of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library.

Profiles in Science  (Government)

This site provides archival collections of prominent twentieth-century biomedical scientists The collections contain published and unpublished materials, including books, journal volumes, pamphlets, diaries, letters, manuscripts, photographs, audio tapes, and other audiovisual materials.

Project MUSE Basic College Collection   (John Hopkins University)
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The Basic College Collection is an interdisciplinary collection of scholarly peer-reviewed journals designed for institutions acquiring extensively in the humanities and social sciences. Titles in this collection are chosen based on a number of criteria, including the journal's presence in appropriate high quality indexes, inclusion in archival collections, and current usage in MUSE. The collection consists of over 130 journals including The Catholic Historical Review, ELH, The Henry James Review, Journal of the History of Ideas, and World Politics.

Proquest Newspapers  (Proquest)
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Proquest Newspapers provides:
  • Providence Journal-Bulletin from 1988-current
  • Wall Street Journal from 1982-current
  • NewYork Times from 1851-2001 (historical)


Providence Journal  (ProQuest)
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Daily newspaper from Providence, Rhode Island. Coverage: 1988-current

PsycARTICLES  (EBSCOhost)
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PsycARTICLES contains more than 25,000 full-text articles from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. Coverage includes general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.

PsycINFO  (EBSCOhost)
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PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Full-text for articles linked to EBSCO fulltext databases.

PubChem  (Government)

PubChem provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. It is a component of NIH's Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative. PubChem includes substance information, compound structures, and BioActivity data in three primary databases, Pcsubstance, Pccompound, and PCBioAssay, respectively. Pcsubstance contains more than 61 million records. Pccompound contains more than 25 million unique structures. PCBioAssay contains more than 1600 BioAssays.

PubMed Central  (Government)

PubMed Central is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature, developed and managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). This database consists of full text, indexes and abstracts.


Readers' Guide Full Text  (Wilson Web)
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Reader's Guide provides current events coverage in over 400 magazines and popular periodicals going back to 1983. Full text of nearly 200 publications is available. Included are such popular publications as Atlantic Monthly, Commonweal, Discover, Education Digest, Foreign Affairs, Fortune, Harper's, Life, Maclean's, Money, Nation, National Geographic, Newsweek, People, Psychology Today, Saturday Evening Post, Smithsonian, Time, US News & World Report and Yankee.

Readers' Guide Retrospective  (Wilson Web)
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Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. Current coverage for this database includes the years 1890 through 1982

Reference USA - Business
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Find directory information for 12 million U.S. businesses. Custom search allows searching by many criteria, making it possible to create customized lists by type of business, geographic area, and business size.

RefWorks  (Proquest)
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This is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool -- is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

Rhode Island General Assembly  (Government)

"Our Web site is designed to foster an energetic two-way flow of communication between Rhode Island, its legislators and their constituents,and the millions of citizens of the world who use the Internet." --Speaker John B. Harwood


Sage Journals Online  (Sage Publishing)
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SAGE Publications publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. Full text of journal articles is from 1999 – Present for most journals.

Salve Regina University Dissertations  (Salve Regina University)
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Salve Regina Dissertaions from the Ph. D. Humanities program are available online.

Sanborn Maps - Digital 1867-1970  (ProQuest)
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Large-scale maps of towns and cities in Rhode Island. In electronic form Users have the ability to easily manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and layer maps from different years.

Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film  (Gale CENGAGE Learning)
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This reference provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to film and film studies, covering such aspects as production, national traditions, studios, genres, critical theory and film history.

Science Direct Health and Life Sciences College Edition   (Elsevier)
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Health & Life Sciences from Science Direct contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. Science Direct's extensive and unique full-text collection covers authoritative titles from the core scientific literature, including high-impact factor titles such as THE LANCET, Cell and Tetrahedron.  It contains more than 1,100 full-text, scholarly journals,  coverage begins with 1995.

SciFinder Scholar  (CAS)
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Repeat Users: Enter database using your username & password
First Time Users : Click here to create user name and password: https://scifinder.cas.org/registration/index.html?corpKey=6C8344BEX86F35055X70C873001C8B338469
SciFinder Scholar provides quick and easy access to a wide diversity of research from many scientific disciplines including: references from over 9,500 currently published journals and patent information from more than 50 active patent issuing authorities; important discoveries that span the scientific century back to 1900; the latest scientific breakthroughs almost as soon as they are published with references added daily and some patent information as recent as two days ago; complete coverage of chemistry and the life sciences including biochemistry, biology, pharmacology, medicine, and related disciplines the world's largest collection of organic and inorganic substance information

SEC Edgar Database  (Government)

The SEC is an independent, nonpartisan, quasijudicial regulatory agency with responsibility for administering the federal securities laws. The purpose of these laws is to protect investors in securities markets that operate fairly and to ensure that investors have access to disclosure of all material information concerning publicly traded securities. The Commission also regulates firms engaged in the purchase or sale of securities, people who provide investment advice, and investment companies." --The SEC

Smithsonian Global Sound  (Alexander Street Press)
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This database includes an extraordinary array of more than 35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds. Specially developed, controlled vocabularies enable users to browse by musical instrument, geographic area, or cultural group, among other fields. Includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels.

Social Science Full Text  (Wilson Web)
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This database covers both the applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences. Subject areas covered include anthropology, criminal justice, economics, ethics, family & gender studies, geography, international relations, law, political science, psychiatry, psychology, social work, sociology and urban studies. Includes full text from over 200 publications and abstracting/indexing of over 600 publications as far back as 1983.

Social Works Abstracts  (EBSCOhost)
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Social Work Abstracts offers extensive coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1977. Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the database provides citations and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems. Researchers seeking scholarly and professional perspectives on subjects such as therapy, education, human services, addictions, child and family welfare, mental health, civil and legal rights, economics and more will find Social Work Abstracts to be an indispensable resource. Links provided to full-texr owned by Salve.

State of Rhode Island General Assembly  (Government)

"Our Web site is designed to foster an energetic two-way flow of communication between Rhode Island, its legislators and their constituents,and the millions of citizens of the world who use the Internet." --Speaker John B. Harwood

Statistical Abstracts of the U.S.  (Government)

"As the National Data Book it contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. Selected international data are also included...The Abstract is also your Guide to Sources of other data from the Census Bureau, other Federal agencies, and private organizations." --Statistical Abstracts of the U.S.

Switchboard  (Phone Directory)

The Switchboard Internet directory continues to gain momentum as one of the Web´ s most attractive sites, logging more than 9 million look-ups for people and businesses each week and nearly 1.3 million free searches daily. --The Switchboard


Teacher Reference Center  (EBSCOhost)
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Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators and education students. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more.

Theatre in Video with BBC Shakespeare     (Alexander Street Press)
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Contains more than 250 of the world´ s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries, all online in streaming video. From the most important productions of Shakespeare to rare, in-depth footage focusing on the work of Samuel Beckett, Theatre in Video offers more than 500 hours of online streaming video, and covers a wide range of 20th century theatre history. Users can bookmark specific scenes and then include those online links in their papers or course reserves.

Thomas Register

A database of American Manufacturers.

Thomas: legislative information on the Internet  (Government)

"Acting under the directive of the leadership of the 104th Congress to make Federal legislative information freely available to theInternet public, a Library of Congress team brought the THOMAS World Wide Web system online in January 1995, at theinception of the 104th Congress...Enhancements in the types of legislative data available, as well as in search and display capabilities,have been continuously added." --Thomas

TOPICsearch  (EBSCOhost)
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This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s K-12 classrooms.

TOXLINE  (Government)

Primarily English language items; international coverage. Citations in TOXLINE cover pre-1965-forward. The records are derived from about 18 secondary sources. Citations may be retrieved by entering free text terms as they may appear in titles, keywords and abstracts of articles. Chemical substances can be searched by entering their corresponding CAS Registry Numbers and/or synonyms.

ToxNet  (Government)

A cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas.


Campus Research: Law (Westlaw)  (Thomson West)
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Campus Research is a research service for news, business and law related information. It includes full-text information and access to both current and archived materials. Campus Research includes thousands of news databases arranged geographically and topically, with hundreds of newswires as well as business, trade and professional journals and publications. It is especially useful for law-related resources, including both primary law and secondary legal analysis.

Wall Street Journal  (ProQuest)
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Eastern edition ( 1984 - current )

Wilson OmniFile FullText Mega  (Wilson Web)
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OmniFile provides access to 6 core Wilson databases including full-text from over 2,000 publications and abstracting/and indexing of another 3,800 periodicals. Covers almost all areas of academic interest including art, biology,business, education, general sciences, humanities, law, library and information science and social sciences.

Wilson Web  (Wilson Web)
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Wilson Web - A collection of databases including the following:Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Wilson Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective,Biographies Plus Illustrated, and Readers Guide Retrospective.

World Almanac  (FirstSearch)
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Offers a fundamental reference source that includes biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, and statistics.

World Factbook  (Government)

The World Factbook is prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency for the use of USGovernment officials, and the style, format, coverage, and content are designed to meettheir specific requirements. Information was provided by the American GeophysicalUnion, Bureau of the Census, Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency,Defense Nuclear Agency, Department of State, Foreign Broadcast Information Service,Maritime Administration, National Imagery and Mapping Agency, National MaritimeIntelligence Center, National Science Foundation (Antarctic Sciences Section), Office ofInsular Affairs, US Board on Geographic Names, US Coast Guard, and other public and private sources. --The World Factbook

WorldCat  (FirstSearch)
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Books and other materials in libraries worldwide.


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