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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

Berkeley Electronic Press

Berkeley Electronic Press (Bepress) is a publisher of peer reviewed electronic journals and a creator of tools to facilitate access to research published within institutions. The ResearchNow Collection facilitates access to 57 peer reviewed bepress journals current through the ResearchNow portal. The journals cover research in economics, business, marketing, law, political science, public affairs, humanities, health, medicine, science, and technology.

Provider: Berkeley Electronic Press
Updated: Aug 30, 2013 4:05pm

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

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

Cell Press

Cell Press, an imprint of Elsevier, publishes biology research and reviews. Cell Press journals include the flagship journal Cell, Neuron, Immunity, Molecular Cell, Developmental Cell, Cancer Cell, Current Biology, Structure, Chemistry & Biology, Cell Metabolism, Cell Host & Microbe and Cell Stem Cell.

Provider: Elsevier
Updated: Sep 13, 2013 10:04am

Cengage Learning eTextbook Collections

Cengage Learning eTextbook Collections offer online access to core text books covering a range of subjects. Adding Cengage Learning eTextbook Collections to the library online collection offers users access to texts that are used and needed by students and provide academics a unique resource to aid teaching and facilitate learning.

Provider: Cengage Learning
Updated: Sep 13, 2013 10:05am

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

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

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

De Gruyter Online Journal Archive : Complete Collection

The de Gruyter Online Journal Archive comprises the full text content of 155 academic journals, published between 1826 and 2010.    It is offered to institutions as an outright perpetual purchase, either as a Complete Collection, or as a selection of subject-based packages: Library and Information Science; Science, Technology and Medicine; Linguistics, Literature and Communications; Classical Studies and Theology; Philosophy; and Law. Individual titles are also available on request.

Provider: De Gruyter
Updated: Oct 29, 2014 2:24pm

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

Early English Books Online

Early English Books Online (EEBO) provides online access to 22.5 million pages from more than 125,000 books from 1473 to 1700. EEBO is being further enhanced through the JISC-funded Text Creation Project*, that is re-keying 20% of the titles in the collection to make them fully searchable for the first time. *The EEBO-TCP project is an international scholarly collaboration and partnership between Oxford University, the University of Michigan, JISC, the Council on Library and Information Resources, and ProQuest.

Provider: ProQuest
Updated: Oct 26, 2017 10:05am

Eighteenth Century Collections Online

Consisting of significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, Eighteenth Century Collections Online bears witness to what many scholars consider the three most significant events in world history — The American Revolution, The French Revolution and The Industrial Revolution.

Provider: Gale
Updated: Jul 2, 2020 10:28am

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

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

Cambridge Journals Digital Archive

The Cambridge Journals Digital Archive comprises of 171 journals published by Cambridge University Press. The archive contains approximately 350,000 articles, over 3,318,700 pages;    The Cambridge Journals Digital Archive is comprised of the following subject collections:    Scientific, Technical and Medical;  Humanities and Social Sciences, Part 1; Economics  History  Law  Politics and International Relations;  Humanities and Social Sciences, Part 2 with • Anthropology and Archaeology  • Asian Studies  • Classics  • Music  • Drama  • Language and Linguistics  • Philosophy  • Religion.

Provider: Cambridge Journals
Updated: Aug 30, 2013 4:09pm

General OneFile

General OneFile and InfoTrac Custom Newspapers are a unique collection of journals and English language newspapers, providing one of the largest aggregations of full text periodical content available to Further Education institutions. General OneFile serves as the Public library's ultimate periodical resource, with more than 11,500 titles, and a great deal of full-text, 60% of which are recommended by Bowker's "Magazines for Libraries" publication. We've included the right reference, newspapers and audio content to complement the robust collection of magazines and journals

Provider: Gale
Updated: Sep 20, 2017 9:04am

British History Online: premium content

British History Online – Premium Content is a digital library of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and early modern history of Britain made up of 122 volumes of the Calendar of State Papers, Domestic and the Calendars of State Papers for Scotland and Ireland, the Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, and the National Archives Calendar of Close Rolls;    The online calendar texts are fully cross-searchable with a range of other material for the early modern period, and offer scholars the opportunity to comment on, and correct, the recognised shortcomings of some volumes.

Provider: Institute of Historical Research
Updated: Aug 30, 2013 4:33pm

British Online Archives : Colonial and Missionary Records

British Online Archives: Colonial and Missionary Records is a thematic series contained as a sub-set within the digitized archival content known as British Online Archives (BOA), distributed by Microform Academic Publishers (MAP). 

Provider: Microform Academic Publishers
Updated: Jul 25, 2017 11:53am

British Online Archives: Communist Party of Great Britain

Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) is a thematic series contained as a sub-set within the digitized archival content known as British Online Archives (BOA), distributed by Microform Academic Publishers (MAP). 

Provider: Microform Academic Publishers
Updated: Jun 20, 2017 10:41am

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