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Academic Search Complete  (EBSCOhost)
 
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.


International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center  (EBSCOhost)
 
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.


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


CQ Researcher
 
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.


JSTOR  (JSTOR)
 
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.


Data for Research  (JSTOR)
 
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.


Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
 
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.


Campus Research: Law  (Thomson West)
 
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.


CIAO  (Columbia International Affairs Online)

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is designed to be the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. You can receive monthly updates about new content on CIAO, by joining the the CIAO mailing list. To join, simply send a message to ciao-request@columbia.edu with "subscribe"in the message field. Be sure to send the message from the e-mail address at which you would like to receive the CIAO updates.


Polling the Nations
 
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.


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


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

E-BOOKS

Ebrary
 
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.


Humanities E-Book  (American Council of Learned Societies)
 
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.


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


Encyclopedia of Race and Racism  (Gale CENGAGE Learning)
 
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.

DICTIONARIES & ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Credo Reference
 
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.


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).

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