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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. User guide for


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. User guide for Thomson West


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.


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. Provides subsets of the following Wilson databases:
    Applied Science & Technology Full Text
    Art Full Text
    Biological & Agricultural Index
    Index to Legal Periodicals & Books
    Library Literature & Information Science Full Text User guide for Wilson Web


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. User guide for JSTOR


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. User guide for JSTOR


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. User guide for EBSCO<I>host</I>


Military & Government Collection  (EBSCOhost)
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Indexing and abstracts of journals in medicine. 1966 -. Updated monthly. Connections to Library catalog. User guide for EBSCO<I>host</I>


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. User guide for


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. User guide for Wilson Web


Intelecom Online Resources Network
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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.

E-BOOKS

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. User guide for Gale CENGAGE Learning


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. User guide for ABC-CLIO

DICTIONARIES & ENCYCLOPEDIAS

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. User guide for

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