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Database name / provider	Description
Academic Search Premier / EBSCOhost Coverage: ca. 1975 -- (varies with journal) Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Contains indexing for more than 8,200 publications, with full text for nearly 4,700 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier contains unmatched full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, etc.
AccessScience / AccessScience Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Full text of the 10th edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, plus news, recent developments in research, scientists' biographies, and links to related Web sites.
Acccounting Research Manager / CCH Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	A comprehensive financial reporting knowledgebase that provides materials designed to help solve your most pressing issues. Updated daily, it is the most timely, complete, interpretive and objective resource for your financial reporting needs. Our subscription includes CCH’s 10K Look up tool which is a powerful search engine that retrieves data on SEC filings (e.g. Forms 10-K, 10-KSB, Form 10-Q, 10-QSB, 8-K) from the SEC EDGAR filings database. Powered by 10-K Wizard, users can quickly find specific data within extensive SEC filer information on people, companies and industries. With 10-K Lookup, Accounting Research Manager subscribers can streamline their research by having access to accounting, auditing and SEC interpretations and guidance, plus actual SEC filings.
AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive / AccuWeather/AP Coverage: 1995 -- Full text: n/a Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Features state, regional and national photos from North America, as well as some international photographs. Images can be searched by description, location, or time period. Pictures from the Archive cannot be sold, syndicated, loaned or used for advertising or for trade without written consent of AP. Users cannot republish any of the photographs on a web page.
ACS Publications / ACS Publications Coverage: 1996 -- Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	The University's "Web edition subscriber" agreement permits full text access to the content of all American Chemical Society journals EXCEPT the following titles: Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, Chemical & Engineering News, Chemical Innovation, Chemistry Letters, Modern Drug Discovery, Today's Chemist at Work.
AGRICOLA / FirstSearch Coverage: 1970 -- Full text: No Available off-campus: No	Records from 881 journals and other materials covering every major agricultural subject.
Alternative Press Index / FirstSearch Coverage: 1991- Full text: No Available off-campus:** No	Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines covering cultural, economic, political & social change. Includes selected abstracts from research journals.
Annual Reviews / Annual Reviews Coverage: 1996 -- Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Online access to the full text of the following Annual Reviews titles: Anthropology, Biochemistry, Cell & Developmental Biology, Energy & the Environment, Ecology & Systematics, Immunology, Microbiology, Nutrition, Physiology, Phytopathology, Psychology, Public Health, Sociology. You can search the content of all 29 Annual Reviews titles. However, you can only view the full text of the titles to which Benedictine subscribes.
ArticleFirst / FirstSearch Coverage: 1990 -- Full text: No Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Citations to articles found in the table of contents of nearly 12, 500 journals, covering science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index / FirstSearch Coverage: varies with journal Full text: No Available off-campus:** No	Indexes over 1000 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals including selected articles from social science and science journals.
ATLA Religion Database & ATLA Serials / EBSCOhost Coverage: 1949 -- Full text: Some Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	includes more than 460,000 article citations from more than 1,500 journals (651 currently indexed), more than 260,000 essay citations from over 15,400 multi-author works, and more than 423,000 book review citations. This database begins in 1949 although indexing for some journal titles extends back into the nineteenth century.
BioDigest / FirstSearch Coverage: 1989 -- Full text: No Available off-campus:** No	Detailed abstracts written in a nontechnical style for students and interested nonscientists in biology, ecology & health.
Books In Print / FirstSearch Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	In-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audios and videos, with reviews.
BusDateline / FirstSearch Coverage: 1985 -- Full text: Some Available off-campus:** No	Articles on regional business activities and trends as well as major stories on local firms, their products and executives.Provides online articles from regional publications, Business Wire press releases, and major newspapers.
Business and Industry / FirstSearch Coverage: 6/1994 -- Full text: Yes Available off-campus:** No	Contains important facts, figures and key events dealing with public and private companies, industries, products and markets for all manufacturing and service industries at an international level. B&I focuses on a body of literature that includes leading trade magazines, newsletters, the general business press and international business dailies.
Business and Management Practices / FirstSearch Coverage: 1995 -- Full text: Yes Available off-campus:** No	Full-text coverage of more than 300 core management journals and trade publications with a focus on the practical aspects and approaches of business management. Also included are specific management-related articles from over 300 additional respected business sources. Full-text is available for approximately 60% of cited articles.
Business Source Elite / EBSCOhost Coverage: 1985 -- Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Includes 1,103 scholarly business, management and economics journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 1,750 journals. Includes full text (PDF) coverage dating back as far as 1985, and detailed Datamonitor company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies.
Catholic Periodical & Literature Index / EBSCOhost Coverage: 1981- Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Covers all aspects of the Catholic faith and lifestyle, and includes over 370,000 index citations of articles and reviews published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal Indexes documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers. Covers content from over 200 periodicals.
Chronicle of Higher Education / Chronicle of Higher Education Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators
CINAHL Plus with Full Text / EBSCOhost Coverage: 1937 -- Full text: Some Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 560 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of those, nearly 400 have cover-to-cover indexing. With more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937, CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.
Clase & Periodica / FirstSearch Coverage: n/a Full text: No Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. Offers access to more than 300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages. Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.
Classical Music Library / Alexander Street Press Coverage: n/a Full text: n/a Available off-campus: No	A fully searchable database of distinguished classical recordings. It includes tens of thousands of licensed recordings that users can listen to on the Internet. The audio selections are cross-referenced to a database of supplementary reference information. Users browse, search, click, and then listen to the music over the Internet through their headphones. Please note that due to the streaming requirements of this product, it is only accessible from on campus.
CollegeSource / CollegeSource Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Features over 18,878 College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format representing 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools. (Note: Requires Adobe Acrobat to view catalog pages, available at http://www.adobe.com)
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) / Columbia International Affairs Online Coverage: 1991 -- Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Scholarly source for theory and research in international affairs; includes papers, projects, proceedings, books, journals, policy briefs and teaching materials including case studies and background readings.
Communication & Mass Media Complete / EBSCOhost Coverage: n/a Full text: Some Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	C&MMC provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. It offers full text for over 200 titles and contains citation coverage for additional sources; bibliographic and keyword references to 26 journals in communication studies, with coverage extending to the inaugural issue of each -- some from as far back as the early decades of the 20th century; and citation coverage of over 40,000 articles related to mass media and published in over 60 research journals, as well as major journalism reviews, recent encyclopedias, and handbooks in the area of communications studies.
Contemporary Women's Issues / FirstSearch Coverage: 1992 -- Full text: Some Available off-campus:** No	Provides full text access to global information on women. Journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, along with fact sheets are easily accessed through CWI. Information on women in over 150 countries is compiled in a single collection bringing together such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health, education and human rights. Includes links to full-text articles for many articles.
CQ Global Researcher / Congressional Quarterly Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	CQ Global Researcher offers international perspectives on the most vital world issues with original, single-topic reports.
CQ Researcher / Congressional Quarterly Coverage: 1991- Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	This award-winning database 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. Every report is written by an experienced journalist and features comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of every issue. Numerous charts, graphs and sidebar articles -- plus a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a list of contacts -- round out each report. The database offers access to issues dating back to October 25, 1991. PDF files are available for full issues dating back to January 1996; for issues published since January 2001, PDF files are in color.
Dissertation Abstracts (Proquest Digital Dissertations) / Proquest Coverage: 1861 -- Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	References, abstracts and full text (1997 onwards) of doctoral dissertations from accredited American and Canadian, selected British and European universities, covering all academic subjects. Masters theses are also included from accredited North American Universities.
EBSCO Animals / EBSCOhost Coverage: n/a Full text: Some Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Includes many illustrations.
EconLit / FirstSearch Coverage: 1969 -- Full text: No Available off-campus:** No	Subject indexing and abstracts of journals and from over 700 collective volumes per year, plus books, dissertations, and working papers.
Electronic Collections Online / FirstSearch Coverage: 1995 --, varies by journal Full text: No Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	A growing collection of journals in a variety of subject areas, all articles are indexed. Users can view bibliographic information for all journals and view indexed content for all journals.
Emerald / Emerald Coverage: varies by journal Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name and Library ID number)	Over 150 full-text journals in business, organizational development and other fields.
Encarta Encyclopedia and World English Dictionary / Microsoft Network Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (no login required)	Gateway to 17,000 articles, multimedia, a talking dictionary, thesaurus, and a world atlas. Some content may be restricted to subscribers only.
ERIC / EBSCOhost Coverage: 1984 -- Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Contains over 700,000 citations covering research documents, journal articles, technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations, and curricular materials in the field of education.
Ethnic Newswatch / Proquest Coverage: 1990 - Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Full-text general reference database of over 200 newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in both English and Spanish interfaces.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia / EBSCOhost Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Gale Virtual Reference Library / Gale Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Full text access to the follow reference titles: American Decades Primary Sources, Countries and Their Cultures, Dictionary of American History, Encyclopedia of Bioethics, Encyclopedia of Education, Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in America, Encyclopedia of Religion, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders, Genetics, New Catholic Encyclopedia
GEOBASE / FirstSearch Coverage: 1980 -- Full text: No Available off-campus:** No	Covers journals, books, monographs, conference proceedings, and reports on geology, geography, and ecology.
Google Scholar - Beta / Google Coverage: n/a Full text: Some Available off-campus: Yes (Internet resource, no login required)	Includes peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all areas of research from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Just as with Google Web Search, Google Scholar orders your search results by how relevant they are to your query, so the most useful references should appear at the top of the page. This relevance ranking takes into account the full text of each article as well as the article's author, the publication in which the article appeared and how often it has been cited in scholarly literature. Google Scholar also automatically analyzes and extracts citations and presents them as separate results, even if the documents they refer to are not online. This means your search results may include citations of older works and seminal articles that appear only in books or other offline publications.
GPO / FirstSearch Coverage: 7/1976 -- Full text: No Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Index to all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.).
GrantSelect / GrantSelect Coverage: n/a Full text: n/a Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Updated daily, more universities, community colleges, libraries, K-12 school districts, community nonprofits, researchers, and individuals use GrantSelect for its extensive list of funding opportunities. Offering more than 10,000 funding opportunities and the largest collection of sponsored research opportunities, GrantSelect is the most effective, user friendly and comprehensive tool available for any grant seeker.
GreenFILE / EBSCOhost Coverage: n/a Full text: Some Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.
Harper's Weekly / HarpWeek Coverage: 1857-1877 Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Full page images from Harper's Weekly during the Civil War Era, Reconstruction and Gilded Age I & II (1857-1889) searchable by date, literature genre, and the occupation of persons.
Health Source: Consumer Edition / EBSCOhost Coverage: 1984 -- (indexing & abstracting), 1990 -- (full text) Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Full text of nearly 150 health periodicals, over 1,000 health pamphlets, and 20 health reference books covering nutrition, exercise, medical self-care, drugs and alcohol, and more. the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Also features searchable full text for nearly 300 journals.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic / EBSCOhost Coverage: 1984 -- (indexing & abstracting), 1990 -- (full text) Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Full text of nearly 550 full text journals in the health sciences, with an emphasis on nursing and allied health. Also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.
Hoover's / Hoover's Coverage: See description Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Company & industry information, including key numbers, key people, history, products, and financial information for the current year and the past two years.
Humanities International Complete / EBSCOhost Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Includes all data from American Humanities Index and Humanities International Index (over 1.6 million records) plus unique full text content.
I-SHARE / I-SHARE Coverage: n/a Full text: No Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Contains more than seven million bibliographic records and more than 21 million item records, representing the cataloging of the 65 members of the I-SHARE consortium (formerly ILCSO). You can login using your library ID number and PIN or just login anonymously as guests, however you must log with your library ID to request materials.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism / JHUP Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	The Johns Hopkins Online Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of literary theory and discourse. Revised extensively to reflect a decade of rapidly changing scholarship, the Online Guide features 48 new entries and subentries. Compiled by 275 specialists from around the world, the Online Guide presents a comprehensive historical survey of the field's most important figures, schools, and movements. It includes more than 240 alphabetically arranged entries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.
JSTOR / JSTOR Coverage: varies with journal Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Collection of full text journals in the arts and sciences and literature. Arts & Sciences I Collection includes 117 titles in fifteen disciplines. The Language & Literature Collection includes 58 titles spanning the literary cultures of many different countries, and in several languages, including Arabic, Italian, and German. Developed with the help of the Modern Language Association, this collection includes PMLA and a range of core journals in the diverse fields of literary criticism that have emerged in the last thirty years.
LexisNexis Academic / LexisNexis Coverage: varies Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	The full text of a multitude of articles from newspapers, journals and magazines in the areas of law, business, news, reference and medicine.
LexisNexis Congressional / LexisNexis Coverage: varies Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	LexisNexis Congressional allows you to explore Congress in action with the most comprehensive online resource available for congressional publications and legislative research. Use LexisNexis Congressional to pinpoint expert testimony on the leading issues of the day, tap authoritative sources of statistics, projections, and analyses, discover a law's intent by tracing its legislative history, obtain information about Members of Congress, access the full text primary source congressional publications, monitor legislation and public policy on almost any topic, review the Federal regulations that implement legislation, and learn the makeup and mission of congressional committees.
Liebert Online / Liebert Online Coverage: varies by journal Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Over 50 journals in a variety of medical and health sciences fields
Literature Resource Center / Galenet Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Combines the popular Contemporary Authors database with selected full text from the Gale critical collections series, including Contemporary Literary Criticism Select Online (biographies and more than 5,600 critical articles on 600 authors); Dictionary of Literary Biography Online (nearly 10,000 biocritical essays on 7,000 authors); 285,000 full-text articles from more than 130 literary journals; full text of the Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature; 4,000 synopses for the most-studied titles; and links to 5,000 author-related Web sites.
MAS Ultra / EBSCOhost Coverage: 1975- Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Designed specifically for high school libraries, is a comprehensive reference database that offers full text for nearly 500 important periodicals going back as far as 1975. This is a quality resource for academic libraries that offer teaching programs, MLS programs and other areas of study that lend toward high school research. Full text coverage also includes 150 reference books including the World Almanac and Book of Facts and the CIA World Fact Book, 88,000 biographies, more than 60,000 full text primary source documents and an image collection of over 91,000 photos, maps and flags. Reading level indicators (Lexiles) are also included for all full text articles, and EBSCO has recently expanded full text backfiles (to 1975) for key magazines.
MathSciNet / AMS Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for mathematical sciences literature.
MEDLINE (FirstSearch) / FirstSearch Coverage: 1965 -- Full text: No Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Over 12 million abstracted articles from medical journals worldwide, including the fields of clinical medicine, dentistry, education, experimental medicine, health services administration, nursing, nutrition, pathology, psychiatry, toxicology, and veterinary medicine.
MEDLINE (Web of Science) / Thomson Scientific Coverage: 1950 -- Full text: No but contains links to full text Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Records cover 1950 - present
Military & Government Collection / EBSCOhost Coverage: varies Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, including periodicals, academic journals, and other content. Provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles.
MLA International Bibliography / GaleNet Coverage: 1963 -- Full text: No Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from journals and series published worldwide.
netLibrary / netLibrary Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (as long as account is set up on-campus first)	Collection of over 2000 e-books. Important: read instructions on how to set up a netLibrary account on-campus before attempting to access netLibrary off-campus.
Newspaper Abstracts / FirstSearch Coverage: 1989 -- Full text: No Available off-campus:** No	Items from national and regional newspapers: news articles; reviews; editorials; commentaries; editorial cartoons.
Newspaper Source / EBSCOhost Coverage: varies Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Provides selected full text articles from 143 U.S. and international newspapers including: The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Daily News, The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, and The San Jose Mercury News. International coverage includes The News (Mexico), and The Hong Kong Standard, and much more.
Oxford English Dictionary / Oxford University Press Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources. The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Oxford Music Online / Oxford Univ. Press Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Incudes the full text of The New Grove Dictinary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed.; The New Grove Dictionary of Opera; the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed.; and over 3000 links to related Web sites, including sound archives and illustrations.
PapersFirst / FirstSearch Coverage: 10/1993 -- Full text: No Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Index of papers presented at conferences, including every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library.
Primary Search / EBSCOhost Coverage: varies Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	A database designed specifically for elementary school libraries and children’s reading rooms, Primary Search® is a valuable resource for any academic institution offering coursed in children’s education, library studies, etc. This database contains full text for more than 50 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets. Additionally, Primary Search includes the Encyclopedia of Animals™, and features the Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, which provides students with easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids. This database also provides the American Heritage® Children’s Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image Collection of 91,000 photos, maps and flags.
Proceedings / FirstSearch Coverage: 1993-10-01 … Full text: No Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Citations and the table of contents for every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library.
Professional Development Collection / EBSCOhost Coverage: varies Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of more than 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. Also contains more than 200 educational reports.
ProQuest Newsstand / ProQuest Coverage: varies Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Full text of the Chicago Tribune, New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
PsycARTICLES / EBSCOhost Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Contains more than 40,000 articles from 53 journals - 45 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 8 from allied organizations.
PsycINFO / EBSCOhost Coverage: 1987 -- Full text: Some Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Coverage is worldwide, and includes references and abstracts to over 1400 journals and dissertations in more than 30 languages, and to book chapters and books in the English language.
Regional Business News / EBSCOhost Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Full text coverage for 75 regional business publications from U.S. metropolitan and rural areas.
Sage eReference / Sage Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	47 full text reference resources with titles ranging from the Handbook of Death and Dying to the Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology and the Encyclopedia of Environment and Society.
Sage Premier / Sage Coverage: varies Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	The SAGE Full-Text Collections are award-winning, discipline-specific research databases of the most popular peer-reviewed journals in Communication Studies, Criminology, Education, Health Sciences, Management & Organization Studies, Materials Science, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Urban Studies & Planning published by SAGE Publications and participating societies. These comprehensive databases include more than 450 journals, 240,000 articles, book reviews, and editorials, with all the original graphics, tables, and page numbers. The collections provide researchers and students with a research environment that is easy to use and complete with the most up-to-date content and backfiles.
Sanborn Maps of Illinois / ProQuest Coverage: 1867-1970 Full text: Yes (digital images) Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Dating from 1867 to 1970, the Digital Sanborn Maps project encompasses most towns and cities in Illinois. The maps contain information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. Extensive information on building use is given, ranging from symbols for generic terms such as stable, garage, and warehouse to names of owners of factories and details on what was manufactured in them.
Saskia Art Images Collection / Saskia Coverage: n/a Full text: No Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, including images from many important collections and archaeological sites. The images are displayed in both high resolution and thumbnail format. The descriptive data about the images includes references to their occurrence in 19 major art history texts.
Science Citation Index Expanded / Thomson Scientific Coverage: 1996 -- Full text: No but contains links to full text Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Provides access to bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references from approximately 5,900 of the world’s leading scholarly science and technology journals covering more than 150 disciplines. MEDLINE 1950 - present is also searchable through this interface.
Science Direct / Elsevier Coverage: 1993 -- (in general; some individual titles vary) Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Full-text electronic access to nearly 250 Academic Press, W.B. Saunders and Churchill Livingstone journals as well as selected Elsevier journals.
SIRS Researcher / FirstSearch Coverage: 1988 -- (Indexing); 7/1994 -- (Summaries) Full text: Yes Available off-campus:** No	A general reference database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, historic, economic, political, and global issues. Articles are selected from domestic and international newspapers, magazines, journals and government publications.
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage / S&P Coverage: varies Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage is a comprehensive source of business and investment information, offering on-line access to popular Standard & Poor’s research products such as Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, The Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, among others.
STAT!Ref / National Library Alliance Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	STAT!Ref online is a cross-searchable, healthcare reference that integrates core titles with evidence-based resources and innovative tools.
STAT-USA / US Dept. of Commerce Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available off-campus:Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	A single point of access to authoritative business, trade, and economic information from across the Federal Government. It consists of two main databases: 1) State of the Union® (SOTN). Use SOTN to gauge the direction of the U.S. economy and access a repository of economic indicators on topics such as employment, wholesale and retail prices, monetary and housing trends, gross domestic product, etc. 2) Global Business Opportunities (GLOBUS) & the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB®). Over 200,000 current and historical documents on export opportunities by industry, country, and product; political and socio-economic conditions in hundreds of countries; and much more. STAT-USA also includes information from non-federal sources such as the Institute for Supply Management and Cantor/Fitzgerald, among others.
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory / Bowker Coverage: n/a Full text: No Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Database providing detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on serials published throughout the world. It covers all subjects, and includes publications that are published regularly or irregularly and are circulated free of charge or by paid subscription.
Value Line Investment Survey / Value Line Investment Survey Reports Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy.
Web of Science / Thomson Scientific Coverage: 1991 -- Full text: No but contains links to full text Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Includes Science Citation Index Expanded: provides access to bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references from approximately 5,900 of the world’s leading scholarly science and technology journals covering more than 150 disciplines. MEDLINE 1950 - present is also searchable through this interface.
Wiley Interscience / Wiley Interscience Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Access to electronic versions of many of the journals that the library currently subscribes to in paper. All other Wiley InterScience journals are available as table of contents and article abstracts. Individual full-text titles are listed under "Find journals & newspapers at Benedictine".
WilsonSelectPlus / FirstSearch Coverage: 1994 -- Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Full text and abstracts from the following Wilson databases: Reader's Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts. (Please note that each periodical can begin on a different month and year.)
World Almanacs / FirstSearch Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Full text of the most recent editions of The World Almanac & Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and The World Almanac for Kids
WorldCat / FirstSearch Coverage: n/a Full text: No Available off-campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Over 57 million records of items cataloged by libraries worldwide, including books, manuscripts, Web sites and Internet resources, computer programs, dissertations, films and slides, journals and magazines, maps, musical scores, newspapers, sound recordings, scholarly papers, and videos.
Worldscope / FirstSearch Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available off-campus:** No	Financial reports on companies worldwide, derived from corporate annual and 10K reports, disclosure statements, newspapers, and wire services. Each record includes a description of the business, selected financials, key ratios, and officers.

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Last updated: November 21, 2008