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AARP Ageline - (1978-present) database that provides bibliographic references and original abstracts for materials related to aging and middle age, from an interdisciplinary perspective of psychology, economics, sociology, gerontology, public policy, business, health and health care services, and consumer issues. Documents on health care and policy comprise about half the database.

ABI/Inform Complete is the the searchable collection including: ABI/INFORM Global; ABI/INFORM Dateline; and, ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry. ABI/INFORM Global covers more than 1,600 leading business and management publications, with over 700 in full-text. ABI/INFORM Dateline covers more than 140 full-text local, city, state, and regional business publications, as well as business-oriented newswire services across the U.S. and Canada. ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry covers more than 700 full-text publications and is designed to help researchers study and compare specific trades and industries.

AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive - is an electronic library containing The AP's current year's photo reports and a selection of photos from their 50 million image print and negative library. The Multimedia Archive also includes graphics, text and audio - all from The Associated Press.

ACM Digital Library - (Coverage varies in individual journals, magazines and proceedings) full-text access to the journals, magazines, and conference proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery. 

ACM Electronic Guide to Computer Literature - available on CD-ROM in Reference. 

African American Poetry, 1760-1900 -  (1760-1900) A collection of over 2,500 full-text poems by African American poets. 

Ageline - see AARP Ageline

AGRICOLA (1970- present) is a bibliographic database consisting of literature citations for journal articles, monographs, proceedings, theses, patents, translations, audiovisual materials, computer software, and technical reports pertaining to all aspects of agriculture. This extensive database provides selective worldwide coverage of primary information sources in agriculture and related fields. This is also available from the National Agricultural Library

AIDS and Cancer Research Abstracts - (1982-present) multidisciplinary coverage of virology, immunology, and oncology. 

Alternative Press Index - Comprehensive guide to alternative sources of information.  International and interdisciplinary with in-depth coverage in the humanities and social sciences.  Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines.

Aluminium Industry Abstracts -(1972-present) provides coverage of literature on aluminum, production processes, products, applications. 

America: History and Life - Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.  Links to full-text of articles available in JSTOR database.

American Chemical Society - full-text access to the American Chemical Society's 30 core journals in chemistry.

ANB Online -- the American National Biography is the premier biographical resource for notable people in American history. 

Annual Reviews - (Full Text: 1996-present; Table of Contents only: 1984-1995) Access the full-text of 28 Annual Reviews titles in the physical sciences, biomedical sciences, and social sciences.  Click here for more information about Annual Reviews, or go directly to the search screen. 

Army Official Records - available on CD-ROM in Reference. 

.Article First -(1990-present) contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of more than 12,500 journals in business, humanities, medicine, popular culture, science, social science, and technology. Updated daily.

 

Arts & Humanities Search - (1980-present) records referencing many of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.

Associations Unlimited  A directory of non-profit associations; includes national, international and U.S. regional organizations. 

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BHA:  Bibliography of the History of Art - Bilingual bibliographic database on the history of post-classical western art. Includes:

• RAA (Repertoire d'Art d'archeologie) - 1973-1989
• RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) - 1973-1989
• BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art) - current
  

Biography and Genealogy Master Index - reference sources on people, living and deceased, worldwide. 

Biological Abstracts (1995-2002) offers abstracts and citations tojournal articles in the biological sciences

.Biological Sciences - (1982-present) offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology, ecology. 

Biology Digest - (1989-present) lengthy abstracts in life sciences subject areas. 

Biotechnology & Bioengineering Abstracts - (1982-present) provides coverage of ground-breaking research, applications, regulatory developments and new patents. 

Books in Print with Book Reviews - use Global Books in Print.

Britannica Online - (See Encyclopaedia Britannica Online) 

Business & Company Resource Center - company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and articles.

Business Index ASAP - (1980-present)includes citations on finance, acquisitions & mergers, trade, money management, banking.

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Cambridge Journals Online - provides online access to full text for over one hundred twenty-five journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts

CARL UnCover - (See ingenta) 

CCH Internet Tax Research NetWork - current, complete federal and state tax information.  Provides tax news, detailed 
explanations, analysis, cases and other primary source material. 

Ceramic Abstracts/World Ceramic Abstracts -  a comprehensive database for the ceramics industry, providing international coverage on the manufacture, processing, applications, properties and testing of traditional and advanced ceramics. 

CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online - CIAO is designed to be the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. 

CINAHL - nursing and allied health literature.  Links to full-text of articles available in OVID Nursing I & II databases.

The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective:  November 1860 - April 1865 - Contains the full text of over 11,000 articles gleaned from over 2500 issues of newspapers published between Nov. 1, 1860 and Apr. 15, 1865. The text begins with the events preceding the outbreak of war at Fort Sumter, continues through the surrender at Appomattox, and concludes 
with the assassination and funeral of Abraham Lincoln. Included are descriptive news articles, eye-witness accounts and official reports of battles and events, editorials, advertisements and biographies. 

Clase and Periodica - Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities available through OCLC FirstSearch.

Cochrane Reviews - see EBM Reviews: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Computer & Information Systems Abstracts - this database provides a comprehensive monthly update on the latest theoretical research and practical applications. 

Computer Database - find citations on computer-related product news, and reviews in area such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.

Congressional Universe - offers access to a variety of information by and about the United States Congress. 

Consumer Index - consumerism and consumer protection, info about specific products.

Contemporary Women's Issues - international, includes sociology, education, health. 

 

Contents1st - tables of contents for over 12,000 journals.

Corrosion Abstracts - provides the world's most complete source of bibliographic information in the area of corrosion science and engineering. 

COS Funding Opportunities - The most comprehensive source of funding information available on the Web, with more than 23,000 records, representing over 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion.

CQ Researcher - source of the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, all the pros and cons, bibliographies and more. 

Criminal Justice Abstracts - provides coverage of the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, extensive coverage of books, and access to reports from government and nongovernmental agencies.

Criminal Law Reporter - Criminal Law Reporter is the nation's foremost resource on the enforcement and interpretation of criminal law. 

Dance On Disc - available on CD-ROM in Reference. An updated version is online at the New York Public Library click here

Dissertation Abstracts Online - full range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions. 

 

 

Dow Jones Interactive- replaced by Factiva

 

EBM Reviews: Best Evidence -  The Best Evidence Collection consists of two journals: ACP Journal Club, a publication of the American College of Physicians, and Evidence-Based Medicine, a joint publication with the British Medical Journal Group. The editors of Best Evidence screen the top clinical journals on a regular basis and identify studies that are both methodologically sound and clinically relevant. They write an enhanced abstract of the chosen articles and provide a commentary on the value of the article for clinical practice. 

EBM Reviews: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - includes the full text of the regularly updated systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare prepared by The Cochrane Collaboration. 

EBM Reviews - Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE)- a full text database containing critical assessments of systematic reviews from a variety of medical journals.  DARE is produced by the expert reviewers and information staff of the National Health Services' Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (NHS CRD) at the University of York, England, and consists of structured abstracts of systematic reviews from all over the world.  DARE records cover topics such as diagnosis, prevention, rehabilitation, screening, and treatment. 

EconLit - abstracts for articles from 400+ journals/papers/books in economics. 

 

 

eHRAF collection of ethnography - cross-cultural database containing more than 350,000 pages of descriptive information on cultures and ethnic groups of the world. Contains a variety of source documents (books, articles, and dissertations) that have been indexed and organized according to HRAF's comprehensive culture and subject classification systems: the Outline of World Cultures, and the Outline of Cultural Materials.
 

Electronics & Communications Abstracts - citations on electronics, engineering and communication. 

Emerald Full Text - 40,000+ searchable articles from over 100 Emerald journals. Subjects covered include management, HRM, marketing, librarianship, mechanical engineering, electronic and electrical engineering. Online archive back to 1989.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online - full-text of the encyclopedia giant. 

Encyclopedia of Associations - (See Associations Unlimited) 

Engineered Materials Abstracts - citations regarding the research, manufacturing practices, properties and applications of  polymers and ceramics. 

English Poetry Full-Text Database - includes 4,450 works by 1,350 poets from the Anglo-Saxon period to the end of the nineteenth century. 

English Verse Drama - contains more than 1,500 works from the late thirteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. 

Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management - coverage of the environmental sciences, with abstracts and citations from over 1500 scientific journals, plus conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications. 

ERIC - guide to published and unpublished educational materials, including journal articles, book research reports, and more. The best resource for information in any education-related topic.  (Provided by Ovid, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, and FirstSearch)

Evidence Based Medicine Reviews - see EBM reviews above 

Expanded Academic ASAP - some fulltext and indexing in all subject areas, popular and scholarly publications.

E*Subscribe is the electronic delivery service for "ED" documents in the ERIC database published since 1993. Comprehensive access is recommended through ERIC.  After doing an ERIC search click on the EDRS Full Text button.

Factiva - offers full-text searching of about 8,000 newswires, newspapers, magazines, trade journals, pictures, websites and company reports in 22 languages containing current information on business and many of the social sciences including criminal justice, interior design, law, media studies, political science, race, class and gender, speech communications and visual and performing arts. This contains the information from Dow-Jones plus the Reuters Company and replaces the Dow Jones Interactive Database. Full Text available

FACTS.com - is the complete content from the Facts On File World News Digest since 1980 and selected content from six other core reference databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the last 20 years.

Finance/Accounting Literature Database - available on CD-ROM in Reference. 

FINDEX: The Worldwide Directory of Market Research Reports, Studies and Surveys - a guide to published, commercially available market and business research. 

FirstSearch - provides citation access to over 40 databases, including subjects such as education, arts and humanities, general science, social science, news and current events, and business.

FISonline has been replaced by Mergent Online.

Gale Database of Publications and Broadcast Media - information on newspapers, periodicals, radio stations, television stations, and cable TV companies. 

Gale Virtual Reference Library - a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office).

General Reference Center Gold ASAP - includes citations on business, industry, current events, the arts, science.

 

GEOBASE - worldwide literature on geography, geology, ecology, and related areas.

Global Access - provides detailed financial information about U.S. and international companies. It is now replaced by Thomson research.

Global Books in Print - contains all of the information in Books in Print, as well as listings of English language titles from Canada, U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. It also contains reviews of selected titles. Plus listings of audio cassettes and compact discs, primarily spoken recordings, and videos.

GPO Monthly Catalog - index of documents printed by U S government. 
 

GRADLINE - profiles more than 28,000 graduate and professional programs, in 300 academic disciplines, offered by more than 1,500 colleges and universities.  

Grapurchat - index to Radford College newspaper from 1921-1978. 

GRE Powerprep Software - available on CD-ROM in Reference.

Grove Dictionary of Art Online - online version of the 34 volume reference work. 

Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Online now called New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

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HAPI - (Health and psychosocial instruments) Provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science

HarpWeek: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction I & II (1857-1877)  - provides full- image reproduction of Harper's Weekly, 1857-1877 and a very elaborate index to the magazine. HarpWeek requires a special printing application.  Click here to download the printing application, and read the instructions for installing the file on your computer.

Health and Wellness Resource Center  - (1997 - present)
Use this Resource Center to find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, Prescription Drugs, etc. Included are links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases. The material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.

Health Reference Center Academic (1980 - present) - use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.

Highwire Press - Offers the full-text of scientific research journals in the life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, and social sciences.  McConnell Library subscribes to the following ten journals:  Academic Psychiatry, American Journal of Psychiatry,  Biophysical Journal, Clinical Chemistry, Journal of Applied Physiology, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Cell Biology, Journal of General Physiology, Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry, Molecular Biology of the Cell.  The journal Science is also available.  The full-text of back issues of numerous other journals are freely available from this site. 

Historical Abstracts -  Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada).  Links to full-text of articles available in JSTOR database.

Human Relations Area File (HRAF) see eHRAF Collection of Ethography

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IDEAL - fulltext articles from over 170 journals from Academic Press in the sciences, psychology, and sociology from 1996 to 2002. 

InfoTrac - (See Expanded Academic ASAP,  Health and Wellness Reference Center, Computer Database, Books in Print with Book Reviews, General Reference Center Gold ASAP, or Business Index ASAP). 

InfoTrac OneFile - news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics:  business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.

ingenta - An index to over 26,000 periodicals covering a wide variety of subjects. Searching is free, and full-text articles may be ordered with a personal credit card.

INSPEC - computing, electrical engineering, information technology, physics. 
This database is no longer available. Try searching Computer Database or Computer & Information Systems Abstracts or Microcomputer Abstracts

International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text - draws its content from more than 210 scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals, and also indexes a variety of documents such as biographical profiles, conference papers, obituaries, interviews, discographies, reviews and events.

Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts (formerly Microcomputer Abstracts) - microcomputing for business, education, industry, home. 

Internet Database Service - (See Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) 

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Johns Hopkins University Press - (See Project Muse) 

JSTOR - searchable database of the full texts of backfiles of selected journals in the fields of Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, and Sociology. 

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe - A full-text database providing access to a wide range of news, business, legal, medical, and reference information. 
 

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts - covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, semantics and syntax. 

Literary Index - A master index to every literary series published by the Gale Group, including Contemporary Literary Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and others.

The LWW Collection - includes full-text journal articles from 140 biomedical journals from the publisher Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.  The appropriate journals can be accessed through PsycINFO and CINAHL.  The entire collection can be searched through Journals@OVID Full Text. 

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Maps101 Academic - features over 4,000 maps, including U.S. and world maps, and historical, outline, and thematic maps. Also includes: Geography in the news; United States reference atlas; World reference atlas; and games related to maps and geography.

Materials Business File - focuses on industry news, international trade data, government regulations and management issues related to the metals and materials industries. 

MathSciNet - the electronic version of Mathematical Reviews and Current Math Publications, published by the American Mathematical Society. 

MD Consult - MD Consult is the most comprehensive online clinical information resource available. Its integrated collection of the most trusted medical books, journals, drug information, and many other resources make it easy for physicians and clinical staff to quickly find answers and stay up-to-date in medicine.  MD Consult includes: 

• over 50 of the world's best medical journals 
• over 35 renowned reference books 
• over 600 clinical practice guidelines 
• nearly 3,000 customizable patient education handouts 
• drug information for more than 30,000 medications

Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts - provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the serials literature in mechanical and transportation engineering and their complementary fields, including forensic engineering, management and marketing of engineering services, engineering education, theoretical mechanics and dynamics, and mathematics and computation. This database provides in depth, comprehensive coverage of the international engineering literature with the monitoring of over 2,600 serial titles as well as numerous non-serial publications. Mirror site

Mechanical Engineering Abstracts - citations cover mechanical engineering, engineering management, and production engineering. This database is no longer being updated. For current records in this subject area, see the Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts database above.

MEDLINE - professional medical literature.  (Access provided by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, National Library of Medicine, and FirstSearch) [Click here for a list of journals indexed in MEDLINE]
 

Mental Measurements Yearbook - contains information and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks.  Full-text available

Mergent Online - This replaces FISOnline. It includes: U.S. company data, covering 10,000 public companies and their SEC filings; International company data; U.S. annual reports: current and historical annual reports on 10,000 U.S. public companies; International annual reports: annual reports on all companies in the International company data database. (previously Moody's) Mergent Online is currently (Jan. 2003) not compatible with Netscape 4.7 or older and if you are a Mac user.

METADEX - comprehensive source for information on metals and alloys: their properties, manufacturing, applications, and development. 

Microbiology Abstracts - database provides comprehensive coverage of research in microbiology and related fields. 

Microcomputer Abstracts - (See Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts) 

MLA Bibliography - folklore, languages, linguistics, literature.

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Nation - The Nation is America's oldest weekly magazine. Its 135+ years of reporting, opinion, and criticism make for an unmatched collection of primary source material, indispensable to anyone interested in the history of politics, culture, books and the arts in the U.S. and around the world. To Enter one must click Subscriber Log-In on the top right of the page.

NASW (National Association of Social Workers) Clinical Register - contains listing of registered social workers, including address and phone number, education and specialization, type of practice, and license information. 

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians - online version of the 29 volume 2nd editon reference work. Click on "Subscribers enter here" link. Full-text available.

netLibrary - a growing collection of over 33,000 eBooks. Most are recent, but our subscription includes a collection of free eBooks which has many literary classics. You must set up an individual user name and password with netLibrary to check out eBooks.   

Newsbank - available on CD-ROM in Reference. 

New York Times - The New York Times (1851-1999) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Niles Register - Cumulative Index, 1811-1849. Includes over 350,000 listings of people, places, and events from: The Weekly register (1811-1814); Niles' weekly register (1814-1837); and, Niles' national register (1837-1849).

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Oceanic Abstracts -  focused exclusively on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment. 

OCLC Union Lists of Periodicals - lists libraries worldwide which own periodicals. 

Ovid - provides citation access to five databases covering nursing, psychology, literature, education and sociology. 

Ovid Nursing Collection - 28 nursing journals that are available full-text through Ovid, including the American Journal of Nursing, Cancer Nursing, JOGNN - Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing, and more. 

Oxford English Dictionary - full-text of the 22-volume Oxford English Dictionary, second edition, which merges the original OED with the supplements prepared throughout this century.

Oxford University Press - provides online access to 134 periodical titles in the fields of the humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.  

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PAIS International - Public Affairs Information Service indexes articles, books, government documents, conference proceedings. 
 

PapersFirst - citations of papers presented at conferences and symposia.

Peterson's GRADLINE - (See GRADLINE) 

Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) is an electronic index to millions of articles published in 4,079 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. PCI is unique in combining a broad subject base with deep chronological coverage going back over 200 years. It covers 37 key subject areas in the humanities and social sciences and offers vast variety within these subject areas. PCI currently indexes over 13 million articles since the eighteenth century and every article in each journal is indexed.

Plant Science - a bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts of scientific literature on plant science, focusing on all plant scientific aspects, especially on pathology, symbiosis, biochemistry, genetics, biotechnology, environmental biology. 

Population Index - primary index for world's population literature. 

ProceedingsFirst - citations from meetings worldwide, presents overview of activities.  

Project Muse - provides access to the full text of over 100 Johns Hopkins University Press and other scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Mirror site: click here

PsycARTICLES - is the American Psychological Association's full-text journal article database.  Through PsycINFO, McConnell Library provides full-text access since 1999 to the 40 journals published by the Association. 

PsycFirst - NO LONGER AVAILABLE; try searching  PsycINFO. 

PsycINFO - contains citations covering psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.

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Registry of Nursing Research - Produced by Sigma Theta Tau International, the International Honor Society of Nursing, this registry indexes over 11,000 studies in the field of nursing. 

RILM abstracts of music literature - Provides broad international coverage of Western and Eastern classical, pop, folk, and jazz music, as well as interdisciplinary studies on music, including records in over 202 languages from 5,200 journals. Single user only.

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online - makes available 2000 original articles from over 1300 leading international experts across the discipline of philosophy.

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Safety Science & Risk Abstracts - this database provides comprehensive, timely information across the fields of public health, safety, and industrial hygiene. 

Scholarly Communications Project - site provided by Virginia Tech.  Includes publishing electronic journals, experimenting in scholarly electronic communications, and providing access to selected VT library resources.

SIGI PLUS - is a self-assessment and up-to-date career guidance information system.  It is necessary to log on first with your Radford University e-mail username and  password and proceed to SIGI PLUS where you setup a username and password for that system.

SilverPlatter - provides citation access to over ten databases including education, psychology, literature, sociology and physical education. 

Social Services Abstracts - provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,600 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.

Social Work Abstracts - citations cover topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse. 

Sociological Abstracts - English-language journal citations in sociology, social work, and other social sciences. 

SPIN - (Sponsored Programs Information Network) allows for campus-wide access to a database which is updated daily.  Users are allowed to conduct searches using a host of indexed fields.  SPIN currently contains over 8,000 federal and non-federal funding opportunities.

SPORT Discus - topics covered include sports medicine, exercise physiology, biomechanics, psychology, training techniques, coaching, physical education, physical fitness, active living, recreation, history, facilities and equipment.  

Statistical Universe - Indexes and abstracts statistical publications issued by the federal government, state governments, private publishers, and international and intergovernmental organizations. Includes a searchable version of the tables in Statistical Abstract of the United States, from the 1996 edition and all more current editions. Statistical Universe is also the web equivalent of the printed American Statistics Index, Statistical Reference Index, and Index to International Statistics, all located in the Statistical Sources section.  

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Thomson research - provides detailed financial information about U.S. and international companies. This replaces Global Access.

TOXLINE - provides citations to all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens.

Ulrich's Periodical Directory - is a bibliographic 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.

UnCoverWeb - (See ingenta)

Union Lists of Periodicals - holdings for journals and other covered items among OCLC member libraries.  It can help you determine if a library holds a specific journal issue.

Value Line Investment Survey - a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy. Limit: 3 concurrent users.

Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library - (See Online Journal of Knowledge Synthesis for Nursing or Registry of Nursing Research) 

Virginia Heritage:  Guide to Manuscript and Archival Collections in Virginia - Virginia Heritage is a union database of finding aids to archival and manuscripts collections in thirteen Virginia repositories.

Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Company - Table of contents to McConnell Library's collection of deeds, plats, maps, ledger books, correspondence, and annual reports of the Virginia Iron, Coal & Coke Company. 

Virginia View - Web version provides detailed information on career planning and higher education. 

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Wall Street Journal - The Wall Street Journal (1889-1985) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Washington Post - The Washington Post (1877-1988) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Water Resources Abstracts - provides summaries of the world's technical and scientific literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources. 

WELDASEARCH - contains abstracts to journal articles, research reports, books, standards, patents, theses and special publications in the areas of joining metals, plastics and ceramics, metal and ceramic spraying, thermal cutting, brazing, soldering. 

 WorldCat - books and other materials owned by libraries worldwide.

World Ceramic Abstracts - see Ceramic Abstracts

Worldscope GLOBAL - financial reports on companies worldwide. 

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