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Contemporary Authors A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television and other fields. Provides complete biographical and bibliographical references for more than 90,000 authors in the U.S. and around the world.
 
EBSCOhost *
Access to full-text for over 1,250 journals with many dating back to 1990; abstracts and indexing for nearly 2,880 scholarly journals with many dating back to 1984; coverage of 1,666 peer-reviewed journals.
Electronic Collections Online*  This is an index to the OCLC collection of scholarly journals. It includes bibliographic information for all journals and lets you view abstracts and full-text articles from journals to which SLC subscribes. The dates covered are 1995-present and it is updated daily.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences This site is intended for scientists, students, librarians and other professionals who wish to search and use ELS material prior to official publication of the full work in 2001. The full-text of over 1800 articles can be searched on this site as well as author and contents details for a further 1150 articles currently in preparation. Articles are added on a regular basis.
 
Ethnic NewsWatch
A full-text collection of more than 470,000 articles from 200 newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press, 1985 to the present. This database includes 100,000 articles written in Spanish and can be searched in Spanish or English.
Gender Studies DatabaseThe Gender Studies Database (GSD) combines NISC's popular Women's Studies International, Men's Studies and Sexual Diversity Studies databases with relevant contributions from the Child Development & Adolescent Studies as well as Family & Society Studies Worldwide databases. GSD covers the spectrum of gender engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Links to freely available and indexed full-text articles and documents on the web are available.
Grove's Dictionary of Art The most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts. Coverage is worldwide from prehistory to the present day.
Grove's Dictionary of MusicAcknowledged as the authority on all aspects of music, the New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians provides the researcher with biographies, bibliographies, full-text articles and links to related Web sites.
Health Reference Center * More than 235,000 health sciences citations and full-text articles are included in this database.
 
JSTOR
Full text reproductions of dozens of scholarly journals in the fields of African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies and sociology.
LEXIS-NEXISOver 1 billion documents from the leading provider of legal, news and business information.
MathSciNet Provides access to Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications from 1940 to the present.
 NORD's Rare Disease Database (SLC users ask for password at Reference Desk) The largest database of understandable information on rare disorders. Over 1,100 diseases are included. Full-text is searcheable with password access. SLC users ask for password at Reference Desk.
Project Muse Full-text articles from at least 190 scholarly electronic journals in the humanities and social sciences. Literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many other fields are represented. Coverage varies; the earliest available issues of journals date from 1995 onward.
 
ProQuest Direct *
A combined general-purpose database, comprising Periodicals Abstracts, Newspaper Abstracts and ABI/Inform.
PsycARTICLES This database contains the full-text of articles from APA journals and selected EPF (Educational Publishing Foundation) journals for the years 1989 to Present.
  ScienceDirect* ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.
        
  

 

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