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Academic Search Premier (1975 - current) "The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals." - EBSCO  Additionally, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,043 journals in its collection. Areas of coverage includes social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, languages and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. Updated daily.

African American Newspapers, 1827-1998

American Chemical Society (ACS) - "The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society provides the worldwide scientific community with a comprehensive collection of the most cited peer-reviewed journals in the chemical and related sciences. In addition to 34 research journals, the society also publishes the premier weekly newsmagazine of the chemical enterprise, Chemical & Engineering News. With the ACS Journal Archives, ACS Publications provides searchable access to over 130 years of original research in chemistry, including more than 750,000 articles dating back to the inaugural volume of the Journal of the American Chemical Society in 1879." from the ACS website

ArticleFirst (1990 - current) INDEX. Contains citations to articles from over 15,000 periodicals. Subjects indexed include business, humanities, medicine, social sciences, and technology. Accessed via FirstSearch.

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - "combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals. The ATLA Religion Database includes more than 555,000 article citations from more than 1,656 journals (518 currently indexed), more than 232,000 essay citations from over 16,700 multi-author works, and more than 511,000 book review citations. Full text is provided for more than 266,000 electronic articles and book reviews. This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association." From EBSCO's website.

Books in Print (Current) INDEX. Bibliographic, book ordering and subject classification information for currently published titles. Includes books covering all subjects provided they are commercially available in the U.S. Updated monthly.  Available via the Nebraska Library Commission.

British Medical Journals Online - BMJ - Citations and Full text. "This site launched in May 1995 and contains the full text of all articles published in the weekly BMJ since January 1994. In addition, it contains material that is unique to the website. Currently access to the entire site is free. From 2005, some users will have to pay for some content..," from the BMJ website.
More information can be found at: http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/327/7409/241 

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CINAHL Plus with Full Text - provides citations and full text articles for more than 3,001 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937.

Clinical Pharmacology -- provides access up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.

Cochrane Controlled Trials Register

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)

Cochrane Methodology Register

College Source - An online repository of over 29,000 college and university course catalogs. You may search by program, institution, and even nicknames like "Ole Miss." Covers the offerings of two- and four-year schools as well as graduate programs.

CQ Researcher Online - (1991-current): This is an online version of the printed CQ Researcher that contains original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. It offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.

ELibrary (Coverage varies) FULL TEXT. Offers more than 1,500 full-text sources, including magazine articles, newspapers, books, images, multimedia clips, radio and television transcripts, photographs, and maps. Available via the Nebraska Library Commission.

Electronic Collections Online (ECO) (1995 - current) INDEX.  A collection of articles from journals of various subjects.  Cross-journal searching and browsing are available for several journals. Users can view bibliographic information for all journals and view full text articles from journals to which their institution subscribes.  Accessed via FirstSearch.

ERIC (1966 - current) INDEX/ABSTRACTS. Contains annotated references to nonjournal material issued in the monthly Resources in Education (RIE) and to journal articles issued in the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Accessed via FirstSearch.

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Family & Society Studies Worldwide

FirstSearch INDEX/ABSTRACTS. A collection of databases covering subjects in the humanities, social sciences, education, and health sciences. You may search for books, articles, and other materials. The databases are ArticleFirst, CINAHL, ECO, ERIC, GPO Access, MEDLINE, PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst, and WorldCat.

FORENSICnetBASE/LawENFORCEMENTnetBASE - a collection of 279 (and growing) current, full-text, electronic books on subjects related to forensics and law enforcement.

Government Printing Office Database (GPO Access)
(1976 - current) FULLTEXT. Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executie departments, etc. Free online use of many Federal databases, including the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, GAO reports,the United States Code, Regulations, the Congressional Record and Congressional Bills. Updated monthly. Accessed via FirstSearch.

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Health Source: Consumer Edition - This resource provides access to nearly 300 full text, consumer health periodicals, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Harvard Health Letter, HealthFacts, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, and many others. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 300 periodicals.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition - Provides full text access to 550 health journals, with emphasis on nursing and the allied health fields. Also, abstracts and indexing for 850 journals are included.

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Historical Statistics of the United States - "Historical Statistics of the United States has long been the standard source for quantitative indicators of American history. The revised, updated, and expanded Millennial Edition contains considerably more information than its immediate predecessor: five volumes rather than two, more than twice as many pages of data and documentation, and a tripling of the number of data series - 37,339 in the new edition." - from the HSUS website.

Kiplinger Special Service (Current) FULLTEXT. Contains current news headlines and summary daily reports. Digital back issues of Kiplinger letter; Kiplinger's Washington letter, Kiplinger's Tax Letter, Kiplinger's Agriculture Lette, Kiplinger's California Letter, and Kiplinger's Personal Finance Adviser are available. Provides links to financial, economic, and regulatory business resources. Available courtesy of the Nebraska Library Commission.

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JSTOR - "The scholarly journal archive." Full-text journal backfile articles from humanities and social sciences periodicals. Subjects include history, literature, languages, mathematics, African-American studies, business, economics, finance, philosophy and anthropology, among others. For information about JSTOR, visit their site at http://www.jstor.org/about/.

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MEDLINE (1965 - current) INDEX/ABSTRACTS. Indexes more than 9,580 medical and health-related journals published all over the world. It is produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and is updated monthly. Articles indexed tend to be highly specialized, as the periodicals are aimed primarily at doctors and researchers. Accessed via FirstSearch.

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NLC's Electronic Library (Coverage varies). CITATIONS/FULL TEXT. A collection of web resources compiled and maintained by the Nebraska Library Commission. Topics vary, covering the humanities, social sciences, general sciences, education, among others.

Naxos Music Library - SOUND FILES. "Naxos Music Library [NML] is the world's largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 25,370 CDs with more than 362,900 tracks.
On average, 500 new CDs are added to the library every month.

The library offers the catalogs of more than 50 classical, jazz and world music labels with more labels joining every month."

netLibrary (Current) CATALOG. A collection of over 23,000 books in electronic format, available for check-out via netLibrary. You may search titles on our online catalog, Unicorn. These electronic books may be checked out. You must create a personal account on netLibrary's site to check out books, but registration is free. Available courtesy of the Nebraska Library Commission.

Oxford English Dictionary Online

PAIS International (1972 - current). INDEX. Contains references to more than 553,000 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, and more.

PapersFirst (1993 - current ) INDEX. Indexes papers included in every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library. This resource is updated 24 times a year. Accessed via FirstSearch.

Philosopher's Index (1940 - current)  INDEX.  "The Philosopher's Index, considered the most thorough index of journal literature on the subject, features author-written abstracts covering scholarly research published in journals and books, including contributions to anthologies and book reviews.  The database covers the fifteen fields of philosophy and contains research published since 1940 including nearly 570 journals from 43 countries with content representing a variety of languages". - From EBSCO's website.

ProceedingsFirst (1993- ) INDEX/FULL TEXT. Citations and some full text content of every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library. This resource is updated 24 times a year. Accessed via FirstSearch.

PsycARTICLES Definitive source for full text articles on current issues in psychology. Search 39,000 articles from 52 scholarly, professional journals.

PsycINFO (1887 - current) INDEX/ABSTRACTS. From psychology journals and books. Contains nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in over 35 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year. PsycINFO also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.

PubMed - (1950's - current) "A service of the National Library of Medicine, PubMed includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles... These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources," from the NIH website.

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Serials Solutions - HOLDINGS LIST. Serials Solutions is a list of magazines, journals, newspapers, etc., available through Cochrane Woods Library. Use this resource to identify and link to articles available in full-text in the databases to which the library subscribes. In the near future, you will also be able to discover the magazines, journals, newspapers, etc., to which the library subscribes in print.

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WestLaw Campus Research - A comprehensive collection of news, business and law-related information. It provides current and archival news sources; business, trade and professional journals; comprehensive primary and analytical law-related sources. It is powered by Westlaw, the leading online legal and news service. Included are: United States Code Annotated (USCA), all federal and state cases including supreme court cases, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Federal Register and European Union Law.

Wilson Biographies Plus (1998 - current) FULL TEXT. Contains more than 111,000 biographies and obituaries as well as more than 32,000 photographs of the subjects. Many of the biographies are enhanced with full text, abstracts, and citations from H.W. Wilson databases. It contains full text articles from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference books published by H.W. Wilson, history, and over 65,000 profiles licensed from a number of respected reference publishers.

Wilson OmniFile Full Text Select (1994 - current) FULL TEXT. A multidisciplinary database that provides 100% full text articles, with their accompanying indexing and abstracts, from the following Wilson databases: Art Full Text, Applied Science and Technology Full Text, Biological and Agricultural Index, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature and Information Science Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.

World Almanac (Current) FULL TEXT. Includes the contents of: several almanacs, such as The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics and The World Almanac for Kids. This resource is updated annually. Accessed via FirstSearch.

WorldCat (1000BC - current) CATALOG. World's largest catalog of materials with over 52 million records in over 400 languages. Users can see library holdings for each item in the database. This database was developed and is maintained through the cataloging efforts of OCLC member libraries. It is a useful resource for interlibrary loan. Includes books, videos, journal titles (but not citations to articles), microfiche, computer programs, music CDs, etc. WorldCat is updated daily. Accessed via FirstSearch.

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