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Linguistic Bibliography Online

The Linguistic Bibliography Online is an essential linguistic reference tool that is unique in its field. It provides over 250.000 bibliographical references to scholarly publications in linguistics and is by far the most comprehensive bibliography in the field.

Provider: Brill
Updated: Aug 30, 2013 4:09pm

Biography Resource Center

Biography Resource Center is an online biographical reference database is covering figures of note in the areas of literature, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, arts and newsmakers.

Provider: Gale
Updated: Sep 13, 2013 11:25am

Cinema Image Gallery

Cinema Image Gallery is a rich digital resource of cinema and television images, and accompanying historical and biographical data. All material is cleared for educational use.

Provider: The HW Wilson Company
Updated: Nov 26, 2013 4:37pm

American Chemical Society Legacy Archives

Over four hundred and sixty four thousand articles from the complete backfiles of twenty two journals published by the American Chemical Society between 1879 and 1995. Titles include some of the most highly-cited journals in the field, such as Chemical Reviews, the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and the Journal of Organic Chemistry.

Provider: American Chemical Society
Updated: Oct 28, 2013 3:45pm

BioOne

BioOne is an aggregation of high-impact bioscience research journals featuring timely content on a wide array of today's most pressing topics; including global warming, stem cell research, and ecological and biodiversity conservation. 

Provider: BioOne
Updated: Nov 26, 2013 4:26pm

Computer Database

Computer Database comprises more than 800 indexed journal titles, almost 450 of which are provided in full text. This collection is ideal for those who need to keep pace with the fast changing world of high technology by accessing today's most well read and influential periodicals on the computer, telecommunications and electronics industries in a single place.

Provider: Gale
Updated: Sep 13, 2013 11:25am

American National Biography

American Dictionary of National Biography Online is a source of information about over 19,000 people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture.    

Provider: Oxford University Press
Updated: Aug 30, 2013 4:12pm

BIOSIS Previews

BIOSIS Previews contains bibliographic data & abstract text for research published in the life sciences. BIOSIS Previews is the world's most comprehensive reference database for life science research. It covers original research reports and reviews in traditional biological and biomedical areas. It also covers references to primary journal literature on vital biological research, medical research findings and discoveries of new organisms.

Provider: Thomson Reuters
Updated: Oct 6, 2015 2:44pm

Current Contents Connect

Current Contents Connect® is a current awareness database that provides easy Web access to complete tables of contents, abstracts, bibliographic information, and abstracts from the most recently published issues of leading scholarly journals, as well as from more than 7,000 relevant, evaluated websites.

Provider: Thomson Reuters
Updated: Sep 13, 2013 10:11am

Annual Reviews

Annual Reviews publications provide primary research literature in 37 disciplines for the biomedical, life, physical and social sciences. The articles are written by leading scholars who are dedicated to helping scientists and researchers navigate the vast amount of research and data that is available to them. For over 75 years Annual Reviews has become an indispensible part of the development of many disciplines.

Provider: Annual Reviews
Updated: Aug 30, 2013 4:05pm

Bridgeman Education

Bridgeman Education is the online educational resource of the Bridgeman Art Library. It offers subscribers unlimited access to an archive of over 390,0000 images of art, history and culture – all copyright cleared for educational use.

Provider: Bridgeman Art Library
Updated: Aug 30, 2013 4:18pm

Derwent Innovations Index

Derwent Innovations Index® facilitates rapid, precise patent searching, letting you conduct patent and citation searches of inventions in chemical, electrical, electronic, and mechanical engineering.   This resource merges the value-added patent information from Derwent World Patents Index® with the patent citation information from Derwent Patent Citation Index®. You can use additional descriptive information and coding to quickly grasp a patent's significance and its relationship to other patents. Reduce duplication of R&D; track competitors' activities; detect and avoid patent infringement; identify potential gaps in the marketplace and possible licensing opportunities.

Provider: Thomson Reuters
Updated: Sep 13, 2013 10:12am

Art Full Text

The Art Full Text database includes the Art Abstracts database and is an indexing of an international selection of publications, many of them peer selected. The database contains abstracts and indexing of 552 periodicals from 1984 onwards, abstracts for every article indexed, and the full text of articles from 252 journals dating from 1997.

Provider: The HW Wilson Company
Updated: Aug 30, 2013 4:13pm

Brill Journal Archive Online

Brill Journal Archive Online has over fifty thousand articles from more than eighty journals covering subjects such as biology, human rights, international law, and the social sciences. Titles include one of the world's oldest academic journals on Chinese studies, T'oung Pao.   

Provider: Brill
Updated: Aug 30, 2013 4:08pm

Embase

Biomedical research and clinical practice with a special focus on all aspects of drug discovery and development. Embase provides users with timely access to pharmacological and biomedical literature to keep them up to date with the latest scientific developments. It contains records from over 7,000 journals from over 70 countries, which are fully indexed. Over 18 million bibliographic records are included with over 2,000 new records being added each working day.

Provider: Elsevier
Updated: Sep 22, 2015 12:15pm

Art Museum Image Gallery

Art Museum Image Gallery is a rich digital resource of art images and related multimedia gathered from the collections of distinguished museums around the world. Access to this resource allows users to manipulate the images to suit their educational needs outside the Art Museum Image Gallery interface. This pedagogical flexibility is enabled by all the images being cleared for educational use.

Provider: The HW Wilson Company
Updated: Nov 26, 2013 4:21pm

British Academy Publications Online

An online collection of academic monographs and essay collections from the distinguished British Academy list.

Provider: Oxford University Press
Updated: Aug 30, 2013 4:19pm

Essential Science Indicators

With all the resources they need in one place, Essential Science Indicators℠ users can determine the influential individuals, institutions, papers, publications, and countries in their field of study — as well as emerging research areas that could impact their work.   This unique and comprehensive compilation of science performance statistics and science trends data is based on journal article publication counts and citation data from Thomson Reuters databases. It is an ideal analytical resource for policymakers, administrators, analysts and information specialists in government agencies, universities, corporations, private laboratories, publishing companies and foundations, as well as members of the scientific press and recruiters. 

Provider: Thomson Reuters
Updated: Sep 13, 2013 10:18am

Begell Digital Library

Begell Digital Library is a full text database providing the latest research data and information across a broad spectrum of engineering and biomedical sciences and applied works.

Provider: Begell House Inc
Updated: Aug 30, 2013 4:05pm

Brockelmann Online

Brockelmann Online consists of both original volumes of the Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur as well as the three supplement volumes. It is full-text searchable, making it much easier to consult for researchers and students. 'Brockelmann' is an indispensible research tool for anyone working on the Islamic world in general and the Middle East in particular.     

Provider: Brill
Updated: Aug 30, 2013 4:16pm

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