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McConnell Library Radford University

Trials of Databases and Other E-Resources

Summer 2007

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CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences
The first in a series of CSA Illustrata databases of searchable tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from the scholarly research and technical literature. CSA employs what it calls "deep indexing" to categorize data, variables and other content represented in tables, maps, photographs and other figures.
Trial sponsored by VIVA (the Virtual Library of Virginia) for college and university libraries in Virginia. Please send comments to: Gerald Gordon by July 5, 2007.

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Expired trials - Fall 2006

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Annual Bibliography of English Literature and Language
Lists monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published anywhere in the world. Unpublished doctoral dissertations are covered for the period 1920–1999. This release covers the complete volumes from 1920-2004. ABELL is compiled under the auspices of the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) by an international team of editors, contributors and academic advisors.  

purchased

AnthroSource
Provides full text of 22 journals published by the American Anthropological Association.

 

ArchivesUSA
A current directory of 5,596 repositories and 154,678 collections of primary source material across the United States. It includes the entire collection of the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections from 1959 to the present.

  Biography Resource Center with Marquis Who's Who
More than one million brief biographies from the Marquis Who's Who biographical directories added to the Biography Resource Center database.

purchased

C19 : the Nineteenth Century Index
The Nineteenth Century Index covers books, periodicals, government documents, newspapers, and archives. Includes the following indexes: Books: Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue; The Nineteenth Century (Chadwyck-Healey’s microform project at the British Library). Periodicals: Poole's Index to Periodical Literature; Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals (1824-1900); Periodicals Index Online (1790-1919); American Periodicals Series (1791-1919). Government Documents: House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (1801-1900). Newspapers:  Palmer’s Index to the Times (1790–1905). Archives:  almost 62,000 collections from archives across the United States.

purchased

Cabell's Business Directories
Provides directories of publishing opportunities in: Accounting; Economics and Finance; Management; and Marketing.

purchased

Communication and Mass Media Complete
Cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for over 390 journals and selected coverage of 200 journals.  Full text for more than 285 journals.

purchased

CQ Researcher Plus Archive
Back files of CQ Researcher from 1923 to present. (Our current subscription only goes back to 1991.) This would be a one-time purchase for the archive.

purchased

Criminal Justice Periodicals Index
Indexing for over 190 U.S. and international journals from 1981 to the present day. Over 55 of the journals most frequently accessed by legal professionals are available in full image.  

  Current Contents Connect
A multidisciplinary current awareness Web resource providing access to tables of contents and abstracts from over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books.. I ncludes the following editions:
- Life Sciences - Clinical Medicine - Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
- Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences - Engineering, Computing & Technology
- Social & Behavioral Sciences - Arts & Humanities.
  EDUCATION JOURNALS:
 

Education Full Text (H.W.Wilson)
Provides indexing of over 750 periodicals as far back as 1983, over 450 of which are peer-reviewed. Full text of articles from some 300 journals as far back as 1996.

purchased
 

ProQuest Education Journals (ProQuest)
Provides over 745 top educational publications, including nearly 600 of the titles in full text.

purchased

Europa World Plus
Online version of the Europa Year Book. First published in 1926, the year book is covers political and economic information on more than 250 countries and territories.

 

Literature Online (LION)
Up-to-date, fully searchable criticism and reference resources in addition to the full text of poetry, drama, and prose fiction from the seventh century to the present day. Includes the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature and 174 full-text journals.

  NEWSPAPERS:
 

Access World News (NewsBank)
Provides local, regional, national, and international newspaper coverage. NewsBank provides over 900 domestic titles and over 800 international titles. Over 500 titles exclusive to NewsBank, inc.
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NewspaperDirect PressDisplay
Provides online access to today's newspapers from around the world in full-color, full-page format. The collection currently includes over 340 titles. The service provides a 60-day backfile and the ability to perform keyword searches across all titles and entire backfile.
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purchased Periodicals Archive Online
An online periodical archive that makes the backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the full text of a growing number of digitized periodicals that have been indexed in its sister database, Periodicals Index Online. Currently, Periodicals Archive Online contains backfiles of over 425 journals, up to 1995.

 

Political Reference Suite
Integrates many of CQ Press's reference titles on government and politics into a searchable electronic format. This would include Historic Documents 1972-2005; Political Handbook of the World; Congress and the Nation, Vol. 1-11; Vital Statistics of American Politics; and Supreme  Court Yearbook.

 

PSYCHOLOGY JOURNALS:

 

ProQuest Psychology Journals (ProQuest)
Provides abstracts and indexing for more than 575 titles, with over 485 titles available in full text.
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Psychology & Behavioral Science Collection (EBSCOhost)
Provides nearly 575 full text journals, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles.
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purchased Times Digital Archive
A full-image online archive of every page published by The Times [of London] from 1785-1985. The text within the images is fully searchable at the article level.
 

Xreferplus
Full-text, aggregated content from over 200 reference books covering every major subject. Combines content from multiple publishers.
Send comments to: Gerald Gordon or Blair Brainard

 

Book Review Index Online
A comprehensive guide to book reviews that indexes more than 5 million review citations from thousands of publications.

purchased

Chronicle of Higher Education
Campuswide site license. The full text of the very latest issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education every Monday morning. Plus daily news updates, statistics, essays, grant listings, and unlimited, searchable access to every Chronicle published since September 1989.

  GeoScience World (Millennium Collection)
A comprehensive Internet resource for research and communications in the geosciences, built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals indexed, linked, and inter-operable with GeoRef. About 38 journals. Full-text coverage: 2000-2002 to present, with abstracts of backfiles.
purchased

Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition
Presents the numerical history of the United States. Contains more than 37,000 annual time series of quantitative historical information covering virtually every quantifiable dimension of American history: population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations, all from the earliest times to the present.

 

MarketLine Business Information Centre (MBIC)
This database offers a concise overview of 10,000 company, 2,500 industry, and 100 country profiles. It also offers 2,500 company SWOT analyses and is constantly updated with comments on the latest news.

purchased

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Covers content on “hot topic” social issues that are published in several print series from Greenhaven Press and also includes selected full-text articles from periodicals and newspapers, reference works, and statistical publications.

purchased Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900
A directory and index of nineteenth century newspapers and periodicals published in England. Indexes are provided by title, subject, place of publication (by town and county), issuing body and people.

 


If you have any questions about these trials or the selection process, please contact Gerald Gordon, Collection Development Librarian.