ABI/INFORM GLOBAL (1971-) is an abstracting and indexing tool for more than 1500 business periodicals, including 200 English language foreign publications. It also contains the full text of over 600 journals from 1992 to the present.

ACCESSUN indexes United Nations publications from 1966 to date, and provides the full-text of most UN resolutions. Other documents cited in AccessUN may be found Mugar Library's microfiche collection of United Nations Documents and Publications.

ACCUNET/AP MULTIMEDIA ARCHIVE is an electronic library of photographs and other graphic images, drawn from the collections of the Associated Press. The archive currently contains 700,000 photos, most of which are contemporary photographs taken since 1995. The archive includes thousands of historical images, dating back to the 1800s. The archive also makes available "charts, graphs, tables, and maps from the AP's graphics portfolio." Copies of the images in the archive may be downloaded or printed for educational use.

ACM DIGITAL LIBRARY contains bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since 1985. While full-text is available for most articles, full-text is not yet available for every proceeding article published before 1991. As of September 30th, 1999, the library includes over 31,000 full-text articles from ACM journals, magazines, and conference proceedings; tables of contents with over 7,000 citations from articles published in ACM journals and magazines from 1985 forward; tables of contents with nearly 35,000 citations from articles published in over 700 volumes of conference proceedings since 1985.

AGRICOLA, created by the National Agricultural Library of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, provides access to the agricultural literature of the world. It contains over 3.3 million bibliographic records of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials and technical reports from 1979 to the present. 1400 journals are indexed by the database.

AIDSEARCH is a combination of three database files (AIDSLINE, AIDSTRIALS, and AIDSDRUGS) that provides information about Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and related topics. Coverage is from 1980.

ALT-HEALTH WATCH is a full-text database of periodicals, peer-reviewed journals, academic and professional publications, magazines, consumer newsletters and newspapers, research reports, and association newsletters focused on complementary, alternative and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Alt-Health Watch provides in-depth coverage -- on both professional and consumer levels -- across the full spectrum of more than two hundred therapies, modalities and perspectives addressed by integrated medicine. Cumulative quarterly updates keep the content current while the initial seven years of back issues provide critical depth and perspective.

ALTERNATIVE PRESS INDEX: indexes roughly 380 alternative, radical, and left publications. Subjects covered by this index include African-American studies, gay and lesbian studies, feminism, socialism, anarchism, labor studies, social theory, alternative organizations, community organizing, prisons, ecology, indigenous people's rights, and internationalism. English, French, and Spanish language periodicals are indexed. Coverage is from 1991 to the present..

AMERICA: HISTORY AND LIFE is an international index to journal articles, book and media reviews and dissertation on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. The database coverage is from 1964 to the present..

AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES (ABSEES) covers North American (U.S. and Canadian) scholarship on East-Central Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. It contains bibliographic records for journal articles, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications. Period of coverage is 1990 to the present.

ANNUAL REVIEWS provide systematic, periodic examinations of scholarly advances in a number of fields of science through critical authoritative reviews. The comprehensive critical review not only summarizes a topic but also roots out errors of fact or concept and provokes discussion that will lead to new research activity. The critical review is an essential part of the scientific method.
Please note: there are some guidelines for use: those using Annual Reviews online may "view, reproduce or store copies of articles comprising the series provided that the articles are used only for their personal, noncommercial use." Uses beyond the "Fair Use" Copyright limitations require permission of the publisher. Any uses and or copies of this publication in whole or in part must include the customary bibliographic citation, including author attribution, date, article title, Annual Reviews Online, and the URL and MUST include a copy of the copyright notice.

ANTHROPOLOGICAL INDEX ONLINE indexes approximately 750 scholarly journals and other serial publications in the field of anthropology held by the British Museum Department of Ethnology (Museum of Mankind). Materials are collected in all languages and for all geographical areas. Coverage is from 1965 to the present.

ANTHROPOLOGICAL LITERATURE describes articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies. Updated quarterly, Anthropological Literature indexes articles two or more pages long in works published in English and other European languages from the late 19th century to the present.

ART INDEX is an index to periodicals, yearbooks and museum publications, both domestic and foreign. Book reviews are available in a separate section of the index. Subjects covered include archaeology, architecture, art history, crafts, motion pictures, graphic arts, interior design, landscape architecture and others. Coverage is from 1929 to date.

ARTBIBLIOGRAPHIES MODERN indexes and provides abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews covering artists and movements beginning in the late 19th century to the present. Photography is covered from its invention in 1839. Lesser-known artists, performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, graffiti, artists' books, theater arts, crafts, jewelry, and illustration are included in addition to painting, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. Coverage is from 1974 with 13,000 new entries added annually. Emphasis on foreign-language publications.

ARTFL French language texts from the Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language.

ASFA I: Biological Sciences and Living Resources. Major areas of coverage include: aquaculture, aquatic organisms, aquatic pollution, brackish water environments, conservation, environmental quality, fisheries, freshwater environments, limnology, marine biotechnology, marine environments, meteorology, oceanography, policy and legislation and wildlife management. Indexing is from 1971 to date.

ASSOCIATIONS UNLIMITED contains information on over 400,000 international, national, regional, state and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields. It includes IRS data on US 501(c) nonprofit organizations.

ATLA RELIGION DATABASE, produced by the American Theological Library Association, indexes citations in the scholarly fields of religion. It covers the research literature of religion in more than 30 languages and contains articles from 650 journals, essays from 14,000 multi-author works, and more than 300,000 book reviews. Coverage is from 1949 to date.

AVERY INDEX TO ARCHITECTURAL PERIODICALS indexes over 1,000 international periodicals on architecture, archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation. Coverage begins in the 1930s (selective coverage dates back to the 1860s) and continues to the present with daily updates. The source of the Index is the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HISTORY OF ART covers American and European art from late antiquity to the present. The database indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogs and articles from more than 2500 periodicals. Coverage is from 1973 to date.

BIOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY MASTER INDEX is a comprehensive index to nearly 12 million biographical sketches in more than 2700 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.

BIOSIS is the electronic version of Biological Abstracts  (held at the Science-Engineering Library). It covers many science disciplines, including biochemistry, ecology, microbiology, neurosciences and many others. Materials indexed are in many languages. Coverage is from 1989 to date.

BOOKS IN PRINT gives publication information for books, audio recordings and videos, currently available from American publishers. Also included is information for books that have gone out of print within the last ten years. Many records include brief reviews from sources such as Publishers Weekly, Choice, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal.

BUSINESS SOURCE PREMIER indexes, abstracts and provides full text of business publications, scholarly publications and peer-reviewed journals. It covers over 8,000 journals with full text for over 4,000 of these titles. Among the sources covered in this database are EIU (Economist Intelligence Unit) country economic reports, company profiles from Datamonitor, and monographs.

CHILD ABUSE, CHILD WELFARE AND ADOPTION is a database containing more than 26,000 bibliographic citations and abstracts of professional literature on the maltreatment of children. Publication types include books, journals, government reports, conference papers, state annual reports, curricula, and unpublished papers. Coverage is from 1965 to the present.

CHILD DEVELOPMENT & ADOLESCENT STUDIES is a database containing "references to the current and historical literature related to the growth and development of children through the age of 21. Included are book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals, and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations that cover the biomedical and social sciences worldwide. Over 10,000 new records added each year. " Coverage is from 1927 to the present.

COLLEGE SOURCE ONLINE is an extensive collection of full-text college catalogs from two year, four year, and professional schools. This resource can be used as a directory by means of a "criteria search" option that allows the user to search for institutions by affiliation, enrollment, degree level, major, state, or tuition.

COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY lists notices of proposed government procurement actions, contract awards, sales of government property, and other procurement information.

COMMUNICATION ABSTRACTS indexes and summarizes major articles, reports, and books concerned with communication theory, interpersonal communication, mass communication, organizational communication, small group communication, speech, advertising and marketing, broadcasting, journalism, public opinion, public relations, radio, and television. The electronic version provides coverage from 1998 to the present.

COMPENDEX (via Engineering Villiage 2) is a comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research containing over seven million references and abstracts taken from over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports. The broad subject areas of engineering and applied science are comprehensively represented. Online coverage is from 1969 to the present. Approximately 250,000 new records are added to the database annually from over 175 disciplines and major specialties within engineering. Compendex is updated weekly.

CONFERENCE BOARD RESEARCH DATABASE consists of full-text research reports on the latest issues in business management and on US and global economics. Research covers business trends, leadership decisions,
performance excellence, corporate governance, human resource management, productivity, and more. Full-text coverage is from 1998 to date. Economics material includes US and global economic indicators and analysis and forecasts of regional, national, and international economic conditions.

CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY RESEARCHER is a full text resource offering basic background on many contemporary issues of interest to Congress. An excellent starting point for research into major public issues, this source gives summary coverage to all sides of the issues along with extremely useful bibliographies.

CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS, CONTEMPORARY LITERARY CRITICISM AND THE DICTIONARY OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY brings three literary resources together in a single database of information on the lives and writings of nearly 100,000 authors.

• Contemporary Authors provides a comprehensive collection of biographies of currently active authors.
• Contemporary Literary Criticism Select provides excerpts from critical works on most major twentieth century writers, grouped by individual titles within an author's body of work. Extensive bibliographies are also included for each individual work, and for the author as a whole. This resource should be used in conjunction with the print version of Contemporary Literary Criticism (Mugar Reference X PN 771 .C59) which covers a larger number of  more obscure authors.
• Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detailed literary biographies of authors from a wide variety of genres, nationalities, and literary forms. Should also be used in conjunction with the print version of the Dictionary of Literary Biography (Mugar Reference X PS 21 .D52M).

CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S ISSUES is a full-text database, international in scope, covering such subjects as violence and sexual exploitation, human rights, development, health, family life and the arts. Sources include journals, research reports, newsletters, alternative press literature and fact sheets. Coverage is from 1992 to date.

CORPTECH DIRECTORY OF TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES contains information on 50,000 public and privately-held technology, manufacturing and service companies. Companies can be searched by company name, location, and/or industry.

COS FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES is a research funding database that includes more than 20,500 grants from around the world. Updated daily, COs Funding Opportunities provides information on "research, collaborative activities, travel, curriculum development, conferences, fellowships, postdoctoral positions, equipment acquisition, operating and capital expenses, and more."

CURRENT INDEX TO STATISTICS (CIS) is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. Coverage, in most cases is "from 1974 (or first issue if later) to the current end year from 111 "core journals" (and pre-1974 coverage for a number of them), selected articles since 1974 from about 900 additional journals (cumulatively), and about 8,000 books in statistics published since 1974."

DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS REFERENCE SYSTEM (DDRS) is a digital archive of over 75,000 declassified documents culled from presidential libraries in the United States. These documents originate with "various government agencies, including the White House, the CIA, the FBI, the State Department." The period of coverage extends from the mid 1940's to the 1970's.

DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS ONDISC has citations to dissertations accepted for doctoral degrees at accredited North American institutions and more than 200 institutions elsewhere. Coverage for dissertations is from 1861 to date: Abstracts are available from 1980 to date. The print counterparts are Dissertation Abstracts International, American Doctoral Dissertations and Comprehensive Dissertation Index. It also contains citations to masters' theses from 1962 to date. Abstracts for theses are available from 1988 to date.

ECO (ELECTRONIC COLLECTIONS ONLINE) provides information from academic journals. Journals may be searched by author and subject. Tables of contents may be browsed. Articles from journals which the Library subscribes to through ECO may be printed or read online.

ECONLIT contains citations to, and selected abstracts of, the international literature in the field of economics. It is produced by the American Economic Association and corresponds to the print Journal of Economic Literature and the Index of Economic Articles. It covers journal articles, dissertations and books, as well as chapters and articles in books and conference proceedings. Topics include economic theory and history; monetary theory and financial institutions; labor economics; international, regional and urban economics and other related subjects. Coverage is from 1969 to date.

EDUCATION FULL TEXT is a database that indexes and abstracts articles from more than 400 English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere. English-language books relating to education published in 1995 or later are also indexed. All levels of education, from preschool to adult are covered as are educational administration, evaluation and current issues in education. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full text coverage begins in January 1996.

EIU (ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT) publications; our subscription includes Country Profiles and Country Reports for 48 African and Latin American countries and the following publications: Business Asia, Business China, Business Eastern Europe, Business Europe, Business Latin America, Country Commerce, Country Finance, and Country Monitor. Reports can be searched by title of publication, country and by key word.

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN INDUSTRIES "provides detailed, comprehensive information on a wide range of industries in every realm of American business."

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ISLAM ON CD ROM. This comprehensive work includes the first nine volumes of the print edition as well as the three indexes (proper names, subjects, and technical terms) and the glossary. The Encyclopedia contains over 10 million words and thousands of articles on all aspects of Islam as well as figures, line drawings, genealogical tables, and maps. All images are searchable. The search engine allows for wildcard, Boolean, and proximity searching in both Arabic transcription and English. Available only on Mugar workstation 17.

ENGLISH SHORT TITLE CATALOG. " The English Short Title Catalogue provides extensive descriptions and holdings information for letterpress materials printed in Great Britain or any of its dependencies in any language—as well as for materials printed in English anywhere else in the world. Coverage is from the beginnings of print to 1800 including all recorded English monographs printed between 1475 and 1700. The English Short Title Catalogue is updated daily." --from the RLG ESTC site

ENVIRONMENT ABSTRACTS covers air, water and noise pollution; solid and toxic wastes; radiological contamination; toxicological effects; control technologies; resource management; population; endangered species; and geophysical and climate change. Indexing is for 800 English-language journals as well as conference papers and proceedings. Coverage is from 1975 to 2001.

ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGEBASE ONLINE (EKOL) Index with abstracts to over 400 English-language journal titles providing broad coverage and focus upon the interdisciplinary nature of environmental studies from 1973 to the present. Sources include specialized scientific and technical publications as well as legal, public policy, socioeconomic, philosophical, and popular periodicals. The library has contracted for 5 simultaneous users.

ERIC is a bibliographic database sponsored by the US Dept. of Education, corresponding to the print Resources in Education (RIE) and the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Mugar Library owns a microfiche set of the ERIC documents in RIE. Those citations are distinguished in the database by an accession number beginning with ED. The database covers 1982 to date.

ETHNIC NEWSWATCH is a full-text database of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. The database contains more than 700,000 articles from 200 publications. Searchable in both English and Spanish, it includes more than 150,000 articles in Spanish. Coverage is from 1990 to the present.

FEDERAL REGISTER is issued by the US Government Printing Office (GPO), and published on the Web by Community of Science. The Federal Register (FR) lists US federal agency announcements and information, such as presidential documents, agency meetings, grant opportunities, and proposed federal regulations. The GPO publishes a new edition of the Federal Register every business day, which COs uploads on a regular basis into its FR database.

FIAF FILM & TV INDEXES index articles published in more than 300 film and television periodicals from 1972 to the present. The indexes cover primarily English and French-language magazines and journals.

FRANCIS includes multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities, social sciences and economics. The database is strong in religion, the history of art and literature with emphasis on current trends in European and world literature. Coverage is from 1984 to date.

GENERAL SCIENCE FULL TEXT is a database that indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain, plus the full text of selected periodicals. Periodical coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals. General Science Full Text also covers The New York Times Science Section (published weekly on Tuesday). Indexing begins with May 1984. Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in March 1993. Full text coverage begins in January 1995.

GEOREF, established by the American Geological Institute, covers the geology of North America from 1785 to the present and worldwide publications from 1933 to date. It includes references to all publications of the US Geological Survey. There is indexing for 3500 journals in 40 languages. 60,000 new records are added each year.

GPO (US GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE) is a resource for information on United States government publications. It includes books, reports, studies, maps, etc. Database coverage is from 1976 to date.

GROVE ART ONLINE is an online version of the 34 volume print Dictionary of Art (1996). Comprising more than 45,000 signed articles on the visual arts, it is kept current with quarterly updates and additions. This site also incorporates links to over 130,000 images, searchable by artist, title, dates, location or by keyword.

HANDBOOK OF PSYCHIATRIC MEASURES The complete, unabridged text of the Handbook of Psychiatric Measures, in fully searchable form (also available in print at the Mugar reference desk). In addition, the CD-ROM includes complete copies of 108 measures discussed in the handbook.

HISPANIC AMERICAN PERIODICALS INDEX is a source for U.S.-Hispanic and Latin American topics. Cited articles are from more than 400 scholarly journals published worldwide. Coverage is from 1970 to date.

HISTORICAL ABSTRACTS Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). Indexing is from 1969 to date.

HISTORICAL NEW YORK TIMES is a full-image archive of the entire historical run of The New York Times, from 1851-2001. Every word appearing in the New York Times for this period is indexed, including those found in display and classified ads, comics and cartoons as well as editorials. Full page in-context pdf images as well as individual item pdf images are available.

INDEX TO 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN ART PERIODICALS indexes 42 art journals published in the US during the 19th century, providing nearly complete coverage of journals from this period. The Index describes the entire journal contents - articles, art notes, illustrations, stories, poems, and advertisements and offers information on popular culture and industry, artists and illustrators, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture and design, exhibitions and sales, decorations, and collecting. The file includes 27,000 records.

JAMA RESOURCE CENTERS is a series maintained by the Journal of the American Medical Association of easy-to-use, peer-reviewed collections of resources on specific conditions. Sites are produced by JAMA editors under the direction of a medical editor and expert editorial review panels, and are designed for physicians and other health professionals. The sites are updated frequently.

JOHNS HOPKINS' GUIDE TO LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM. This standard critical reference provides essay-length entries and bibliographies of key thinkers and their thoughts. The Guide will be updated regularly, and the full text is searchable - unlike the printed version (Mugar Z6514.C97 J64 1994).

JSTOR is a full-text collection of back issues (from volume 1 to approximately five years ago) of core scholarly journals. Includes journals in African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, classics, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics.

LEXISNEXIS ACADEMIC is a full-text database that includes newspapers, wire services, transcripts of television and radio broadcasts, medical and health journals, trade journals, accounting literature, company financial reports, law reviews, statutory and case law, and public opinion polls. The database is international in scope, and includes newspapers in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, and German. Dates of coverage vary depending upon the publication.

LEXISNEXIS CONGRESSIONAL is an online version of the CIS Index, which abstracts US Congressional publications from 1970 to the present. The publications include Bills, Hearings, Committee Prints, House and Senate Reports, House and Senate Documents, Senate Treaty Documents, Senate Executive Reports, and the Congressional Record. These publications are
available in the CIS microfiche collections of Mugar Library and Pappas Law Library. LexisNexis Congressional contains the full text of publications issued since 1995, and of some publications issued as far back as 1980. The database also includes Public Laws, the US Code, the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, and a search form (Inside Washington) for news analysis of Congressional activity.

LEXISNEXIS STATISTICAL is an online version of three indexes: American Statistics Index, covering 1973 to the
present; Index to International Statistics, covering 1983 to the present; and Statistical Reference Index, covering 1980 to the present. The database indexes and abstracts social, demographic, and economic statistics published by the U.S. government, the U.N. and other international governmental organizations, as well as US state governments, and US private nonprofit and commercial associations and organizations. Most of these publications are available in the ASI, IIS, and SRI microfiche collections in Mugar Library. The PowerTables section of the database contains complete statistical tables, and may be searched separately.

LINGUISTICS ABSTRACTS ONLINE "searches more than 15,000 abstracts from nearly 300 linguistics journals published since 1985." In addition to journal articles, this database also covers working papers and theses. Entries appear in the database within six months of publication.

LION LITERATURE ONLINE from Chadwyck Healy, is a collection of full text literary databases and complementary reference databases. Click on "Individual Collections" to see a description of the databases listed below or to search a single collection. Other search options listed on the introductory screen can be used to search the whole database at once.
--Boston University subscribes to the following titles:

• 20th Century American Poetry
• African-American Poetry (1750-1900)
• American Poetry (1600-1900)
• Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
• Early English Prose Fiction (1500-1700)
• Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (1591-1911)
• Eighteenth Century Fiction (1700-1780)
• English Drama (1280-1915)
• English Poetry (600-1900)
• The Faber Poetry Library (20th century)
• King James Bible
• Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged

LLBA (LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE BEHAVIOR ABSTRACTS) is the electronic version of the print title of the same name. It includes abstracts from approximately 2000 international serials, recent books, occasional papers, monographs, technical reports, dissertation listings and citations to book reviews. Coverage is from 1973 to date. .

MATHSCINET is a database of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications. These are publications of the American Mathematical Society which index and review the literature of mathematics. Coverage is from 1940 to date.

MEDIAMARK REPORTER, is a database of demographic and marketing information, including data on product usage and media exposure. The database is updated annually, based on a survey of persons aged 18 and over in the continental United States.

MEDLINE, compiled by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, contains nearly 8,000,000 records from more than 7300 publications, including bibliographic citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. Articles are in English and many foreign languages. Access to coverage for the current year and the previous five years is available through WebSPIRS. Access to the complete database from 1965 to the present is available through the PubMed website.

MERGENT ONLINE consists of financial information on U.S.and international companies. The database consists of the following components: U.S. and International Company Data, Archives, Annual Reports, Factsheets Plus, Factsheets Express, Institutional Holdings, Insider Trades, Expanded Long-Term Debt, Equity Portraits, and Corporate Bond Portraits. The Database also includes Country Profiles with basic data on countries and Industry Reports, to be available in August, 2003.

MIDDLE ENGLISH COMPENDIUM comprises three major resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a "HyperBibliography" of Middle English prose and verse, and an associated network of electronic resources.

MLA BIBLIOGRAPHY is produced by the Modern Language Association of America. It indexes critical materials on modern language, literature, linguistics and folklore. It provides access to over 3000 journals and series, monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies and dissertations. The materials indexed are in many languages: Indexing is from 1981 to date.

MUSIC INDEX ONLINE locates citations from a wide range of scholarly and professional periodical publications in all fields of music. The index's scope is international, though data is drawn chiefly from publications in English and European languages. For coverage prior to 1979, consult the print volumes (1947+ ) in the Music Library.

NEW TESTAMENT ABSTRACTS is a database that contains over 33,000 article abstracts. It also offers more than 800 book abstracts and some software abstracts are added annually. The material it covers is written in various languages. This database is the result of a partnership between the American Theological Library Association and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology.

NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) Working Papers online resource allows users to view and download NBER Working Papers full-text in Adobe PDF format. "Founded in 1920, the National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. The NBER is committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community."

• PDF documents may be e-mailed
• Search for Working Papers by keywords (author, title, abstract, number)

OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY, 2ND EDITION is the leading historical dictionary of the English language.

OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY, NEW EDITION. This updated version includes "draft material from the current OED project, representing the latest progress towards a completely revised and updated Third Edition - at present, this consists of entries in the range M to Mamzer, with more entries added quarterly."

OXFORD REFERENCE ONLINE contains about 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these works

PAIS (PUBLIC AFFAIRS INFORMATION SERVICE) is a bibliographic database of citations to public policy literature in books, journal articles and government documents. It includes materials published in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish . Coverage is from 1972 to date.

PATROLOGIA LATINA DATABASE comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian (AD 200) to the death of Pope Innocent III (1216). The database contains the full texts, as well as "all prefatory material, critical apparatus and indexes."

PHILOSOPHER'S INDEX indexes and abstracts books, contributions to anthologies and articles from approximately 300 journals annually, from 1940 to date for English-language sources and from 1967 to date for non-English sources. Although materials indexed are in many languages, all abstracts are in English. It covers philosophy and related fields, including aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics and the philosophy of various disciplines such as education, history and law.

POLLUTION ABSTRACTS covers broad scientific research pertaining to all forms of pollution including air, water, waste, radioactive material and toxic emissions, as well as land and noise. Coverage is for the current year and one previous year.

PROJECT MUSE provides access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics. Coverage varies for each journal.

PSYCINFO is a bibliographic database that indexes journal articles, dissertations, books, book chapters, technical reports, and other documents in psychology and the behavioral sciences. Abstracts are included. The materials indexed are in English and many other languages. Coverage is from 1887 to the present.

READER'S GUIDE FULL TEXT is a database that indexes and abstracts more than 240 of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada, plus the full text of more than 120 of those periodicals. In addition to news and current events, it covers business, politics, sports and many other subjects. Indexing begins with 1983 and full text coverage begins in January 1994 for most titles.

REGIONAL BUSINESS NEWS
Regional Business News supplements Business Source Premier by providing full text coverage of regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature or Ripertoire International de Littirature Musicale, is an international bibliography of articles, festschriften, congress and conference reports, and dissertations in the field of music and related disciplines. Citations from 1969-1996 are fully abstracted and indexed in English; full indexing is available for citations after 1997. Titles for citations appear in their original language and in English translation where applicable. New and retrospective citations and abstracts are added monthly.

ROUTLEDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY on CD/ROM includes the complete text of the print edition: over 2,000 entries varying in length from 500 to 15,000 words. The CD/ROM offers additional search capabilities and allows access by entry and by keyword. Researchers can search by theme, philosophical tradition, region, philosopher, etc. Each entry begins with a short overview and concludes with references for further reading. Bibliographies are annotated. Cross references in the text are linked to other sections of the Encyclopedia. Available only on Mugar workstation 17.

RURAL DEVELOPMENT ABSTRACTS ONLINE indexes English and foreign language journal articles, reports, conferences, and books about all aspects of rural development in developing countries from environmental management to technical progress, poverty and women's studies. Coverage includes policy and development, land reform, employment, land and water resources, biotechnology, microfinance, education and extension, health and nutrition. Updated weekly with a ten-year backfile.a

SCIENCE DIRECT is a Web-based information source for scientific, technical, and medical research offering access to more than 1100 full text electronic journals from 1995/96+ across 16 fields of science, including the social sciences.

SCIFINDER SCHOLAR (CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS) is a client-server-based service providing access to the Chemical Abstracts database. Chemical Abstracts is a comprehensive index to the world's chemical literature. It covers articles from over 8,000 journals, patents from 29 national patent offices and two international bodies, as well technical reports, books, conference proceedings, and dissertations from around the world.

SOCIAL SCIENCES FULL TEXT is a database that indexes and abstracts articles from more than 415 English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere, plus the full text of over 115 of those periodicals. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals. Indexing coverage begins with periodicals published in February 1983. Full text coverage begins in January 1995.

SOCIAL WORK ABSTRACTS Social Work Abstracts Plus, produced by the National Association of Social Workers, provides two separate databases: Social Work Abstracts and the Register of Clinical Social Workers. Social Work Abstracts contains information on the fields of social work and human services from 1977 to the present. The database provides coverage of more than 450 journals in all areas of the profession. The Register of Clinical Social Workers is a directory of clinical social workers in the United States.

SOCIOLOGICAL ABSTRACTS is a bibliographic database providing access to the world's literature in theoretical and applied sociology and related fields. It contains abstracts of journal articles from Sociological Abstracts since 1974, Social Planning/Policy and Development Abstracts (SOPODA) since 1979 and relevant dissertations since 1986.

SOURCE OECD is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. It comprises 20 book collections by theme, containing all of OECD's monographs and reports; 24 periodicals; a reference title; and the OECD statistical databases.

SPORT DISCUS is produced by the Sport Information Resource Centre. The database contains citations to articles, theses and dissertations in the areas of sports medicine, exercise psychology, biomechanics, coaching, physical education, sport law and fitness. Coverage is primarily from 1975 to the present, although citations have been selected from as far back as 1830. Many citations include descriptive abstracts

SPRINGERLINK includes the full text of close to 500 journals from the Springer publishing group and other participating publishers. One can search across all journals in the abstracts and bibliographic data and, using "expert search," in the full text of the articles. Access to the full text itself is available only for journals to which we subscribe.

STAT!-REF provides access to the full text of 30 current leading clinical, biomedical textbooks on the World Wide Web, including the DSM-IV, USP DI, Mosby's GenRx, Review of General Psychiatry, and more. The program allows users to search one textbook individually, or to select up to 30 titles to be searched simultaneously. All search results, full text and tables-of-contents can be browsed and printed. Additional features include chapter bibliographies, links to relevant journal article citations from the MEDLINE database, and selected tables, figures, illustrations and video images.

STUDIES ON WOMEN AND GENDER ABSTRACTS includes citations and abstracts for journal articles, books, and conference proceedings on women's studies and gender studies. Coverage is from 1995 onward.

TABLEBASE is a database of statistical data on companies, products, industries, markets, demographics and countries. Tabular data is drawn from statistical annuals, trade association reports, government agencies, international organizations, newsletters and journals.
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THOMSON RESEARCH (formerly Global Access): Comprehensive financial information on over 12,000 U.S. publicly-held companies, including Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, annual reports of U.S. and international companies, spreadsheet financials, price and earnings data, and overview reports, compiled from SEC documents.

TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE "Contains the records of 27,233 trans-Atlantic slave ship voyages made between 1527 and 1866. This CD-ROM provides the basis for answering questions on the timing, direction, composition, and human experiences of the forced movement of African peoples to the Americas.

U.S. PATENTS contains abstracts of the approximately 1.7 million U.S. patents issued since 1975.

WEB OF SCIENCE is the Web interface to the citation databases from the Institute of Scientific Information. Coverage is from 1983-. The databases include:

• Science Citation Index Expanded. covers 5300 journals (2000 more titles than the print version) and is updated with 16,000 new records every week .
• Social Sciences Citation Index. covers 1700 journals and is updated with 2800 new records every week.
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index. covers 1100 journals and is updated with 2200 new records every week.

WILSON BUSINESS FULL TEXT is a database that indexes and abstracts articles from more than 345 English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere, including the leading business magazines and trade and research journals, plus the full text of over 160 of those periodicals. Indexing begins in July 1982. Full text coverage begins in January 1995.

WNC: WORLD NEWS CONNECTION provides full-text summaries in English of international newspaper articles, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals and non-classified technical reports. Searching can be done by topic, geographic area, and by date.

WOMEN WRITERS ONLINE is a product of the Brown University Women Writers Project. It is a full text database of pre-Victorian women's writing in English. Covering the period 1400-1850, WWO includes fiction, poetry, and drama, as well as writings in religion and philosophy, history and politics, science and medicine.

WOMEN'S STUDIES INTERNATIONAL is a database (citations or citations/abstracts) of over 232,000 records combining ten women's studies resources, including Women Studies Abstracts (1984-), Women's Studies Database (1972-), European Women from the Renaissance to Yesterday: A Bibliography (1610-), POPLINE Subset on Women (1964 and earlier-), Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research (1975-1995), Women's Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography (1995) and four files from Women's Studies Librarian.

WORLDCAT is the OCLC Online Union Catalog in a user friendly version. It contains more than 32 million records of items owned by libraries around the world, as well as the Boston University Libraries. Every item in the catalog has a listing of libraries which own it. It contains records for books, journals, musical scores, computer programs and much more. (It does not include records for individual articles or stories in journals, magazines, newspapers or book chapters.) New records are added daily.