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- Provides abstracts, full-text, and/or full-text with images
of records of articles taken from over 1,000 business journals. Also features 27 national newspapers.
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A premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects,
Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the
New York Times back to 1995.
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Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
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Access Science is an updated database version of the McGraw-Hill
Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. The database offers full access to
more than 7100 articles and 115,000 dictionary terms, new and revised content
from the Encyclopedia's editors and contributors, recent research developments
and updates, biographies of scientists, and learning resources and study guides.
- Provides indexing to the wealth of accounting and tax literature. Selected titles within this collection are available in full-text format.
- Contains full-text articles from ACM journals, magazines, and conference proceedings since 1991, Table of
contents from ACM journals and magazines since 1985, and citations to articles published in conference proceedings from 1985 to 1996.
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ADMYTE ( CD-ROM; Ask at Reference Desk)
Archivo Digital de Manuscriptos y Textos Espanoles: Images and text of medieval
Spanish manuscripts and early imprints. The series will ultimately
include all texts written in Castellan prior to 1615.
- Includes the complete text of major 19th century African-American newspapers. Also included are early biographies, essays and editorials and vital statistics in 8 works such as Freedman's Journal (1827-1830), The North Star (1847-1851) and Frederick Douglass Paper (1851-1859).
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AGRICOLA * [1970 - Updated
monthly]
Features records that describe publications and resources encompassing all
aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines. Produced by the National
Agricultural Library.
- Indexes over 200 journals from the alternative, radical and left presses, newspapers and magazines covering cultural, economic, political
and social change. Includes selected abstracts from research journals.
- A complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States
and Canada from prehistory to the present. The database also includes citations
and links to book and media reviews.
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Provides information on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. Some of the many subjects covered include: anthropology, culture & the arts, economics, education, and geography. Sources indexed include journals, books, dissertations, online resources and selected government publications published in the U.S. and Canada.
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Biographical resource on more than 18,000 people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. The
ANB Online features thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search capabilities. All articles originally included in the
ANB Online were on biographical subjects who died before the end of 1995.
Articles on important figures who have died since 1995 are being added in
quarterly updates.
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APS Online will span 7 million pages of content, from the first American
magazines, published in 1741, to the World War II period--200 years of American
history as recorded in magazines, journals and newspapers. Covers the fields of
religion, science, political science, history as well as related disciplines. Articles may be printed or downloaded in Adobe® PDF.
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American Sign Language Dictionary
(CD-ROM; Ask at Reference Desk)
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A digital collection of early American newspapers from 1690 to 1922, that includes the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1860-1920.
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Anglo-Saxons (CD-ROM; Ask at Reference
Desk)
An interactive multimedia CD on the exploration of the Anglo-Saxons' art,
literature and way of life. It examines many objects in the British Museum and
includes some important historical written materials and data about
archaeological sites from the period.
- Provides a survey of all important journals dealing with the biology of particular taxonomic groups. Significant papers relevant to animal behavior, with subjects ranging from neurophysiology to behavioral ecology, from genetics to applied ethology, are covered.
- This database covers Greek and Roman antiquity and includes volumes from 1949 to
2004 of the index L'Annee Philologique.
It indexes 1,500 periodicals each year as well as 500 articles in collections and conference papers.
Vol. 1-75(1924-2005) available in the stacks: PA2.M35a
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Annenberg/Pew Archive of Presidential Campaign Discourse (CD-ROM; Ask at Reference
Desk) [June 2000-]
Contains transcripts of speeches, television ads and debates of twelve United
States general election Presidential campaigns from 1952 through 1996.
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Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL). Now
Literature Online
- The Associated Press, is one of the world’s largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery. AP's mission is to be the essential global news network, providing distinctive news services of the highest quality, reliability and objectivity with reports that are accurate, balanced and informed. For more than a century, AP photographers have captured the greatest moments in history, news, sports and entertainment.
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Indexes international and English language periodicals, covering engineering, mathematics, physics and computer technology. Includes articles, interviews, meetings, conferences, exhibitions, new product reviews/announcements, and more.
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Contains citations and abstracts of journals from 16 different countries
(including the U.S. and U.K.). Subjects include cultural anthropology,
education, ethnic studies, family, unemployment, immigration, industrial
relations, politics, psychology, religion, sociology, and social work.
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Indexes key international English-language arts publications. Includes periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition and award notices, exhibition listings, interviews, film reviews and more.
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Art Index Retrospective 1929-1984 cites articles from periodicals
published throughout the world. Periodical coverage includes English-language
periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published
in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. In addition to articles, Art
Index Retrospective indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed
periodicals.
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Comprises the full text of The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, edited by
Hugh Brigstocke (2001). Articles that have been added or updated since their appearance in print are date-stamped in the upper right corner of the screen.
- Covers all aspects of modern and contemporary art, traditional fine arts of painting, sculpture and drawing. The database's scope extends from artists and movements beginning with
Impressionism, in the late 19th century, up to recent works and trends in the late 20th century. It incorporates abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, and exhibition catalogs and reviews.
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Indexes journal articles in science, technology,
medicine, social science, business, the humanities and popular culture.
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Citation index to articles in more than 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.
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Searchable database of more than 300,000 digital images and associated catalog data.
ARTstor covers many time periods and cultures, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Users can search, view, and download images.
Subject Coverage includes architecture; art; design; images; Latin American Studies; photography. Software requirements: java and flash player and must enable browser pop-ups in order to use all the features of
ARTstor.
- Provides bibliographic access to all American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) journals, conference proceedings, books,
standards, manuals, magazines and newsletters.
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Indexes over 600 international journals, multi-author works, and book reviews from the research literature of religion and related fields in 26 languages.
- The single most important bibliographical research tool for research in
architecture, urban design, historic preservation and urban planning history.
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Comprehensive collection of information on over 8 million organic compounds.
Includes information on structures, substructures, reactions, properties and
citations to the literature. Note: Access through the Crossfire Commander
software is available in the Chemistry Computer Lab and/or
public computers in Falvey Memorial Library.
- Covers history of the British Isles, and of the British Empire and Commonwealth, from 55BC to the present. Indexes books, articles in collective volumes, and about 700 journals.
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Indexes print and electronic journal articles, books, essays, conference proceedings and exhibition catalogues; the database also contains its backfiles: the
International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA) and the Repertoire d'Art et d'Archaeologie
(RAA). Includes European art from Late Antiquity to the present, American art from the European arrival to the present, and Christian and European art in Africa, Asia and Australia.
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Indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most
important retrospective works, that cover individuals, both living and
deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.
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A comprehensive database of biographical information on nearly 220,000 people from around the world,
and across all disciplines and subject areas and throughout history. Access to more than 330,000 biographies from respected Gale Group sources with
full-text articles available from more than 250 magazines as well as more than 20,000 images, and in-depth coverage of
key events.
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Provides abstracts to articles published in life sciences research journals worldwide focusing on vital biological and medical research findings, pharmacological studies and discoveries of new organisms.
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Indexes English-language periodicals in such fields as animal husbandry, botany, genetics, cytology, physiology, veterinary medicine and zoology.
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Provides access to full-text articles from peer-reviewed journals and papers in
the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. The articles, available
in both HTML and PDF formats, are published by American Institute of Biological
Sciences member societies and other related organizations.
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A comprehensive reference covering the life histories of North American birds.
Contents are updated frequently, with contributions from researchers, citizen
scientists, and designated reviewers and editors. In addition, BNA Online
contains image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and
nestlings, and more. And each online species account contains recordings of that
bird's songs and calls, selected from the extensive collection in Cornell's
Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds.
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Bizminer Academic offers "Sole Proprietor and Start-Up" and "Industry Financial Reports" with average income statements, cash flows, balance sheet and financial ratios for benchmarking and projections for smaller private enterprises. It is searchable by keyword, SIC code or industry cluster.
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When completed, this database will contain the full-text of
1,200 plays, written from the mid-1800s to the present, by more than 100
playwrights worldwide including such notables as Langston Hughes and Zora Neal
Hurston. The plays are accompanied by reference materials, performance
information and images. The collection covers key writings from the Harlem
Renaissance, the Black Arts movement from the 1960s and 1970s as well as 20th
century African and Caribbean drama.
Bloomberg Professional *
(Only available to Villanova students, faculty, and non-administrative staff)
Bloomberg Professional assists users in finding a wide variety of financial information,
provides in-depth financial data and gives students the ability to perform in-depth analysis
such as correlation analysis, theoretical pricing models, and potential arbitrage pricing
discrepancies on various financial products. Bloomberg facilitates the monitoring global
financial market data and news and provides current and historical financial statement data.
Detailed information on risk analysis and financial solvency can also be found for most securities.
Note: The Bloomberg workstations are funded by Falvey Memorial Library, but
housed in the Applied Finance Lab in Bartley Hall. To schedule a Bloomberg
session contact the Applied Finance Lab Coordinator, James Jablonski at
610-519-5857 or visit to lab to check their hours of operation.
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Indexes book reviews published in U.S., Canadian and British periodicals, covering over 7,000 adult and children's books each year. Includes English-language fiction and nonfiction.
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This database covers some 300,000 books, citing more than 1.5 million book reviews. Master records for each book include the title's essentials
(author, descriptive summary, publisher, publication year, page count, ISBN, indicator of illustrations, and more) plus links to review excerpts and
review citations. Virtually every book has at least one substantial review excerpt, presenting the most evaluative passages of the review, and most have at
least two. These excerpts, together with the descriptive summaries of the books, deliver a complete picture of how the book was received at the time
it was published.
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A comprehensive online guide to book reviews with over five million review
citations from thousands of publications.
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Use Books in Print to find records for in-print,
recently out-of-print and forthcoming books from over 44,000 North American
publishers.
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Consists of articles from the print Encyclopaedia Britannica,
plus hundreds of additional articles not found in the print version. Also features the
Britannica Book of the Year (1995-) and the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary.
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The database consists of more than 160 journals spanning the late 17th through early 20th centuries, and covering a range of topics such as literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences. This resource has facsimile page images and searchable full text for nearly 500 British periodicals published.
- Contains facts, figures, trends, forecasts and overviews, dealing with public and private industries, markets, and products for all manufacturing service industries at an international level from over 600 leading trade and business publications.
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Focuses on the practical aspects and approaches of business management, covering over 300 core management journals and trade publications.
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This a full text database that indexes and abstracts articles from 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 selected periodicals. Full text
coverage of select titles begins in January 1995.
- Directory of new and established organizations, agencies and publications worldwide.
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Business Source Premier, designed specifically for business schools and libraries, provides more than 3,600 full-text scholarly publications,
including more than 1,050 peer-reviewed journals with titles such as the Harvard Business Review and the OECD Economic Surveys. More than 200 of the journals have PDF
full text back to 1965 or the first issue published. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 4,400 journals.
This database offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business. Another
segment of this database provides domestic and international company reports (including detailed SWOT reports), a business citation search, and an image
database
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Click on Member Area button. Provides the publishing guidelines of journals in the following areas: accounting, management, marketing, educational curriculum and methods, educational psychology and administration, and psychology. Includes address for submission, review information ( such as type of review, acceptance rate) and type of articles (current issues, literature reviews, etc.)
Cambridge Structural Database (CSD)*
This database is the only comprehensive collection of small-molecule organic and
organometallic crystal structures and contains crystal structure information,
chemical, and bibliographic data for about 350000 organic and metal-organic
compounds. Available
at <http://citrixweb.villanova.edu> under
Academic Applications in the Library folder. First-time user of Citrix
click here.
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Indexes Papal documents, Church documents, journal articles, books, book
chapters and reviews, movie and theater reviews and interviews.
CDP Chronic Disease Prevention File (Ask at Reference
Consultation Desk)
Contains five searchable components: Health Promotion and Education (HE) database, AIDS School Health Education (SA) database, HE/SA combination database, Chronic Disease Prevention Directory (CDPD) database and State Profile database.
CensusCD+Maps: 1992 (CD-ROM; Ask at Reference Consultation Desk)
Contains U.S. Census data, expenditures and forecasts for locations: a
valuable marketing and business research tool.
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Provides access to a growing collection of over 300 books on chemistry and chemical engineering from CRC Press.
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Focuses on the economic statistics of China, arranged by regions and categories. Coverage includes monthly and yearly
reports on China's macroeconomic development, statistical databases on China's population and economy at the county and city level, and
financial indicators of more than 568 industrial branches. Some of the major databases available are: China Yearly Macro-economy Statistics, 1949- ;
China City Statistics, 1996- ; China County Statistics, 1997- ; China Monthly Macro-economy Statistics, 1998- ; China Industrial Data, 2001-
Monthly Reports on Economy Development, 2002- ; Various statistical yearbooks, 2002-.
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Reviews scholarly publications suitable for university library collections. The reviews are arranged by academic department and the “reviewers are primarily teaching faculty… selected for their subject expertise.” More than 22,000 print and electronic publications are examined each year, of which about 30% are reviewed.
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Not a completely full-text resource but an enhanced version of CINAHL, this database indexes and provides full text for 329 selected nursing journals. References are provided for an additional 2,500 journals in the fields of nursing and allied
health, as well as publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, and
audiovisuals.
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Provides access to a growing collection of over 139 civil engineering books published by CRC Press, including
The Civil Engineering Handbook and Environmental Engineers Handbook.
- Contains full-text of
more than 11,000 articles from over 2500 issues of both Northern and Southern newspapers published between Nov. 1, 1860 and Apr. 30, 1865. Contains news articles, eye-witness and official reports of battles, editorials, advertisements, biographies and over 700 images of battlefield maps and illustrations.
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Includes 13,000 poems in full-text and 250,000 poetry citations, in addition to several important new features—commentaries, bibliographies, notes on form and a glossary of prosodic terms.
- Abstracts articles published in the primary professional literature of the communications field. Complements ComIndex.
- Indexes articles in major professional journals in the communications field. Complemented by
ComAbstracts.
- Distinct from ComAbstracts and ComIndex (listed above), Communication Abstracts is produced at Temple University and provides
abstracting coverage of books and journals in all areas of communication studies (mass, interpersonal and new communication technologies).
Older issues available in print (index area of Reference collection: P 87.C6).
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The database combines two earlier databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). CMMC offers cover-to-cover (core) indexing and abstracts for over 300 journals, and selected (priority) coverage of over 100 more, for a combined coverage of over 400 titles. This database includes full text for nearly 200 journals. Many major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable citations from their first issues to the present.
Community Health Data Base (CHDB)*
[2000, 2002; Updated biannually]
Only available to the Villanova Community; for more information ask at Reference Desk or Nursing Lab.
The central component of the database is the Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Surveys that provide timely information on
the residents, children and adults who live in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties. The survey targets key information about health status, personal health behaviors and access to and utilization of area health services.
Data available at the census tract, ZIP code, county and regional level.
The survey has been conducted eight times since 1983; the database covers
only the 2000 and 2002 surveys.
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An interdisciplinary engineering database featuring references and abstracts from 5000+ journals, conferences and reports.
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Covers computer science at the highest scholarly and technical levels. Subject areas include artificial intelligence, expert systems, system design, data structures, computer theory, computer systems and architecture, software engineering, human-computer interaction, new technologies, social and professional context and much more.
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An authoritative reference on Congressional trends, actions, and controversies.
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Provides access to every facet of U.S. Legislative
activity: hearings transcripts and submitted testimony, committee reports, bills, public laws,
congressional member public interest group ratings, selected committee prints, congressional
documents, the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations,
and the U.S. Code.
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A source of biographical information on current authors in many fields and from many countries. Sketches provide personal facts, careers, writings, biographical sources, etc. Also search
the
Literature Resource Center for Contemporary Authors, the Dictionary of Literary Biography and numerous other resources.
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Provides information on women in over 150 countries. Disciplines range from sociology, psychology, health, education and human rights. Includes journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, along with fact sheets.
Corpus Augustinianum Gissense (CAG 2)*
The CAG 2 database contains all known works by Saint Augustine in the best
available critical editions. CAG 2 also includes a bibliographic database of
more than 27,000 references to secondary literature on Augustine's life and
works. Available
at <http://citrixweb.villanova.edu>. First-time user of Citrix
click here.
A CAG 2 user manual in pdf format is also on Citrixweb. (Collection of the
Augustinian Institute, Falvey Memorial Library)
County and City Data Book:
(Ask at Reference Consultation Desk)
Presents statistics on such topics as population, health, crime, education,
income, trade for each county and incorporated city with 25,000 inhabitants or
more.
County Business Patterns: (Ask at Reference
Consultation Desk)
Provides business data on various sectors of the U.S. economy, such as:
construction, manufacturing, retail trade and real estate.
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CQ Global Researcher explores international perspectives in a digestible, easy-to-access format
featuring popular sections such as “Current Situation," “Issue Questions” and
“Pro-Con." Maps, charts, and other explanatory graphics are included as well.
CQ Global Researcher is published monthly, with each report—also available
in magazine-style PDF format—covering a pressing political, social,
environmental, or regional issue from around the globe. Each original report is
written by a seasoned journalist with years of international experience.
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Combines many CQ Press resources for research in American government, politics,
history, public policy, and current affairs. Access is provided to Congress and the
Nation (1945-2004), Historic Documents Series (1972 -), Political
Handbook of the World, Supreme Court Yearbook (1989 -), Vital
Statistics on American Politics and the Washington Information Directory.
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The CQ Researcher Plus Archive adds more than 3,000 reports, published
between 1923 and 1990 to CQ Researcher. Each report in the Archive
addresses the significance and legacy of the events and issues of its day. The report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health,
international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.
Each CQ Researcher report is based on a common structure: overview,
background, current situation, pro/con section, special focus, chronology,
bibliography and next step.
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Congressional Quarterly's flagship publication covering government, commerce, and politics
contains detailed floor votes dating back to August 1983. Articles can be
searched by topics, bill numbers, date ranges, committees and floor votes are
searchable by House and Senate, topic, bill number, and date range.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts covers crime trends, crime prevention and
deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment
and sentencing. The database contains indexes and summaries of international
journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on a wide
range of topics in criminal justice.
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Contains the full text and all the images of the 23,000 biographies and obituaries of artists, politicians, business people, journalists, actors, writers, sports figures, scientists, and other people prominent in the news that have appeared in
Current Biography Yearbook since 1940.
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CDPSP is a comprehensive retrospective digest of the news presented to the Soviet and Russian public for more than a half-century, from the beginnings of the Cold War through the emergence of Russia in the new balance of power. Each week it presents a selection of Russian-language press materials, carefully translated into English. The translations are intended for use in teaching and research. They are therefore presented as documentary materials without elaboration or comment, and state the opinions and views of the original authors, not of the publisher of the journal.
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Provides access to full-text of master's theses from the Arts and Sciences College starting with 2006. Selective full-text coverage from 1996.
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A reference work providing 50,000 specially-written signed biographies of the
men and women who shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest
times to the end of the year 2000. State-of-the-art search options, extensive
internal cross-referencing, access to articles from the original Dictionary
of National Biography, and navigation by "themes" combine with rigorous
research and scholarship to make the Oxford DNB one of the most innovative and
important reference sites available online.
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A Comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses with over 2.4 million dissertations and theses included from around the world. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637, and more than 65,000 new citations are added to the database every year.
Where available, PQDT provides 24 Page Previews of dissertations and theses. In addition, nearly one million are available for download in PDF format. (Digital dissertations and theses are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be Native PDF, some PDF Image).
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Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 consists of more than
37,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides. It includes information about every
aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions
through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the
Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic
imaginable.
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Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. Based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph B. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker and supplemented by thousands of new items.
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Full-text page images of over 96,000 titles listed in Pollard and
Redgrave’s Short-Title Catalogue, Wing's Short-Title Catalogue,
and Thomason Tracts
which cover titles printed in English between 1473-1700. For searchable text of selected titles
see Early English Books Online -Text Creation Partnership below.
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Searchable full-text of selected texts from EEBO. When complete 25,000 titles
will be available.
The text links to the page images in EEBO (above).
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Business Source Premier, designed specifically for business schools and libraries, provides more than 3,600 full-text scholarly publications,
including more than 1,050 peer-reviewed journals with titles such as the Harvard Business Review and the OECD Economic Surveys. More than 200 of the journals have PDF
full text back to 1965 or the first issue published. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 4,400 journals.
This database offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business. Another
segment of this database provides domestic and international company reports (including detailed SWOT reports), a business citation search, and an image
database
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This database provides over 300,000 bibliographic references from 500 leading journals of business and economics;
articles are indexed only. Many of these journals, however, will be available in full text format from the
E-Journals List.
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The American Economic Association's electronic bibliography. Indexes journals, books, dissertations, working papers and collective volumes.
Economic Census: 1992 :
(Ask at Reference Consultation Desk)
Includes statistical information from the 1992 Economic Census and several
related data sets. The "Report Series" includes data covering all sectors for
the U.S., states, counties, places and metropolitan areas. Also the "ZIP Code
Statistics" includes specialized set of data from the censuses of retail trade,
service industries, and manufactures.
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Country Reports, Country Profiles and
Market Indicators and Forecasts from the Economist Intelligence Unit offer
monthly and annual in depth analysis, data and ratings for the infrastructure,
demographics, political scene, domestic economy, foreign trade, including
regional and industrial sector breakdowns for over 200 countries.
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More than 400 English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the U.S. and elsewhere. Subjects include administration, teaching methods and curriculum, literacy, government funding, and more.
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This database includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
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Access the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 26 million pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
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Provides access to a growing collection of over 270 electrical engineering books published by CRC Press, including
The Engineering Handbook and CRC Handbook of Engineering Tables.
- Full-text journal articles on management and economics. This database
can also be searched. Villanova subscribes to a portion of the journals
offered full-text in Emerald.
Encyclopaedia Judaica (Ask at Reference Desk): Contains
26 volumes of the original text, updated and with hyperlinks, rare films,
photographs, slide shows, music, maps, charts, and tables.
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The Encyclopedia contains more than 2,100 entries including 1,000
biographical entries on major figures in philosophical thought throughout
history.. Among the many topics covered are African, Islamic, Jewish, Russian,
Chinese, and Buddhist philosophies; bioethics and biomedical ethics; art and
aesthetics; epistemology; metaphysics; peace and war; social and political
philosophy; the Holocaust; feminist thought; and much more.
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Provides cross-cultural approach while emphasizing religion's role within
everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture. This new
edition is the definitive work in the field for the 21st century. Includes
almost all of the 2,750 original entries updated as well as approximately 600 entirely
new articles.
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Provides abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice, and full-text ERIC digests.
ERIC
[1966- ]
The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S.
Department of Education
provides access to bibliographic records of journal and non-journal literature. ERIC also contains a growing collection of full-text materials in Adobe PDF format, including reports from the
What Works Clearinghouse.
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Indexes essays published in book collections covering philosophy, religion, social and political science, economics, law,
education, linguistics, science, the various arts, literature and history.
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A full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Contains articles, editorials, columns, reviews, etc. Searchable in English or Spanish.
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This database provides a fulltext patent and mosaic image search of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), European Patent Office, and Patent Abstracts of Japan.
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Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. NOTE: MFI does not include books written by a single author, but does offer links to catalogs of libraries with strong collections in medieval studies to search for such books.
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A comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing.
It has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes film scholars, college students, and general viewers.
Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
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To be released in eight parts, the collection, provides perspectives about more than 100 countries outside of the U.S, featuring transcripts of foreign news broadcasts translated into English from materials selected by the CIA for distribution to U.S. policymakers and security analysts. The first series of this historical archive features the Middle East, Africa (Sub-Saharan) and South Asia.
Frank Lloyd Wright: Presentation and
Conceptual Drawings
(Ask at Reference Desk): Contains more than 860
architectural and design projects spanning Wright's seventy year career. It is a
scholarly electronic publication featuring nearly 5,000 drawings from the Frank
Lloyd Wright Archives.
Fuente Académica * (EBSCO)
[1990- ; Updated monthly]
Fuente Académica is a full text Spanish language database with a rapidly growing collection of scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain.
It is a multidisciplinary database that indexes articles from more than 200
Spanish language scholarly journals and magazines. Coverage includes literature, linguistics, history, business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, philosophy and theology.
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Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources is a research guide for business topics. Use it to identify the handbooks, manuals, encyclopedias, article databases, statistical sources, periodicals and trade and professional associations for industries and issues important to doing business in the US.
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Provides cross searching in encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized
reference sources for multidisciplinary research including arts, business,
social sciences and sciences.
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A master index to literary series published by Gale. It combines and cross references more than 130,000 author names (including pseudonyms and variant names) and more than 140,000 titles. For biographical information and critical essays.
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An Information Technology (IT) advisory service that provides timely,
widely-quoted, critical reports on the broad IT and computer industry.
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Searchable collection of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum such as the arts, the humanities and the
social sciences. There is in-depth coverage of subjects that are uniquely central to women's lives including family, the workplace and societal
roles. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, books, conference proceedings and more.
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Indexes articles from U.S and British publications on anthropology, astronomy, biology, computers, earth sciences, medicine and health, etc. Includes articles, reviews, biographical sketches and letters to the editor.
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Indexes the worldwide literature on geology, geography and ecology.
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Global Financial Data features historical data on worldwide stock exchanges, bond indices, intraday data, futures data, interest rates, population data, and much more, there are currently 20,000 data sets
available. All data is clearly defined, easy to read, and is readily downloadable into
Excel.
- Global Insight *
Provides historical economic and financial data time series and includes access to U.S., regional and global macroeconomic indicators, industrial markets, foods, crops, metals, financials, housing, Federal Funds, price indices and national accounts. Data is gathered from government agencies, private entities and international organizations such as the IMF and
OECD updated when made available by the source. To access data, link to
DataInsight Web where you can search by criteria or do a keyword search and download results directly to
Excel.
- Global Market Information Database (Euromonitor)*
This resource is a database of demographic, economic, lifestyle, and consumer
market information for over 350 markets and 207 countries. Statistics cover
consumer lifestyles, retailing, and consumer market sizes and forecasts. The
data includes 6-year historic market size data for more than 330 consumer
products in 52 countries, plus 5-year forecasts. Lifestyle indicators for 71
countries, lifestyle reports for 65 countries, and country profiles for 250
countries are also included.
Off-campus access may not be available. Please send an email if you are unable to access with your Villanova user name and password.
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GNPD (Global New Product Development) is a global database of new
products built by monitoring trade shows, press releases, consumer and trade
magazines and shoppers in the field scouring. Use it to generate ideas and for
trendspotting.
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Follow these steps
to connect to full text of selected articles from the Falvey
collection. Currently most useful in the areas of science, medicine, and technology.
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Has records of government publications from July 1976.
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The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) is the finding tool for electronic and print publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government. These publications make up the National Bibliography of U.S. Government Publications. The CGP contains descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online.
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Comprises the full text of The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, edited by Hugh Brigstocke, The Concise Oxford Dictioanry of Art Terms, and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
edited by Michael Kelly. Articles that have been added or updated since their appearance in print are date-stamped in the upper right corner of the screen.
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A bibliography on Latin America which alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities.
- Indexes articles, book reviews, documents and literary works about Latin America, the Caribbean Basin, and Hispanics in the U.S., from over 400 social science and humanities journals.
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Access to information on measurement instruments in the health fields, psychosocial sciences and organizational behavior.
The instruments themselves are not included.
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This legal database provides fully-searchable and image-based text of over 500 law journals, Supreme Court Reports,
Treaties in Force, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (1977-2003) and the
Federal Register (1936-1994).
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Contains 32 volumes of primary sources. Each volume includes
approximately one hundred documents covering the most significant
events of the year. These documents range from presidential speeches,
international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S.
governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.
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An annotated reference guide to the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada)
from 1450 to the present. Includes journal articles, book reviews and
dissertations.
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The New York Times Historical is a unique full-image archive that brings you the entire historical run of
The New
York Times, in-depth coverage of science and politics. It offers complete coverage from 1851-to
the present with the exception of the most current two years.
Includes classified ads, comics and cartoons, photos, maps, graphics,
etc., editorials and commentary.
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A compendium of statistics from over 1000 sources last updated in the distant
1975 and has been expanded to include over 37,000 data series. Topics ranging
from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are
each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field. The fully
searchable and downloadable edition will permit users to graph individual tables
and create customized tables and spreadsheets reflecting their own particular
areas of interest.
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Indexes and abstracts articles in more than 300 periodicals in archaeology, art ,
classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts,
philosophy, religion, world history and world literature.
- Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of humanities and social sciences journals. Content from H.W. Wilson's International Index is also included.
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Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research holdings include several time series and other types of aggregate data, its holdings consist mainly of raw data derived from surveys, censuses, and administrative records. The data holdings contain some 6,000 studies and 450,000 files that cover a wide range of social science areas such as population, economics, education, health, social and political behavior, social and political attitudes, history, crime, aging, and substance abuse.
Click for searching tips.
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Tables of contents of IEEE transactions, journals, magazines, conference proceedings, published since 1988. Includes full-text from 1998 to present of journals to which Falvey Library subscribes.
- The Index of Christian Art is the largest archive of Medieval art. It
traces the history and evolution of iconographic themes and concepts in early
Christian and Medieval art in all media and in all geographic areas. The
electronic version of the Index of Christian Art contains approximately
20-25% of the contents of the print archive. Some records have links to images
at the bottom of the record, only those listed as "public images" can be
accessed.
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To Search Only Index to legal Periodical select in the Subject
Area drop down menu LEGAL (ILP). The database provides coverage of English language legal information via indexing of scholarly articles
and books. International coverage includes periodicals from the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
The full text of select law reviews begins in 1994.
- Table of contents to more than 28,000 publications (6000 are full-text). Years of coverage vary with the journal, from 1988 to date. Includes publications in all major disciplines; especially strong in the sciences and social sciences. Online access to the journals to which Falvey Library subscribes is free. Register only if you want to set up a Table of Contents (TOC) alert or to save your searches.
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Access abstracts to the scientific and technical literature in physics,
electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering,
computers and computing, and information technology.
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The International Encyclopedia of Communication is an authoritative and comprehensive reference work sponsored by the International Communication Association. The contributors are all respected scholars in their areas of specialty. For Communication students this, rather then Wikipedia, should be the first place to look for background and orientation to topics across the spectrum of communication topics. The scope of subjects covered include theory, philosophy, interpersonal communication, organizational communication, foreign media systems, technology, media policy and research methods. To find what you need browse alphabetically, by subject, people, place or period or search the full text of articles for your own keywords.
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A comprehensive, current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany
volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide.
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This bibliographic database produced by International Political Science Abstracts is an index of articles from
periodicals published throughout the world. The abstracts summarize the source articles. Articles in English are
abstracted in English; those in other languages are abstracted in French. All titles translated into English.
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A bibliography of more than 300 scholarly journal titles pertaining to the Middle
Ages and the Renaissance.
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Provides the impact factor (the relative importance of journals within a
given field) and other citation data for around 7,300 scholarly and technical
journals worldwide. Coverage is multidisciplinary and international,
incorporating journals from 3,300 publishers approximately 200 disciplines, and
60 countries.
- An alphabetical arrangement on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. It also treats figures and kinds of inquiry from other fields that have been shaped by or have themselves shaped literary theory and criticism as well as figures, who did not explicitly deal with, but who still deeply affected, literature, literary theory or literary criticism.
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Provides Villanova users access to full-text articles from
47 nursing journals and to citations to articles in over 700 scientific, technical and
medical journals. Years covered vary with the journal but most date from 1996 to date.
- A searchable and browsable archive of full-text core journals in the humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
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The online edition presents a wide scope of articles on chemical
substances—including their properties, manufacturing, and uses. It also focuses
on industrial processes and unit operations in chemical engineering, as well as
covering fundamentals and scientific subjects related to the field.
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Provides full-text access to a wide range of news (national, international,
regional, business,
legal, and foreign language), business (company financial news and information,
accounting, auditing & tax information, industry and market news), and
legal (law reviews, federal case law,
state legal research) sources.
It also features news transcripts, the U.S. Code, Constitution & Court rules, state and
country profiles, medical
abstracts, and reference & directory sources.
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Library and information-science periodicals published internationally, and more than 600 books per year.
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Contains full-text of almost all the items in the Corpus Christianorum Series Latina and Continuatio Medievalis.
It also contains text from the beginning of Latin literature through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).
Included are the main works of Thomas Aquinas and certain Latin works of Descartes. (formerly CETEDOC).
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This database keeps abreast of cutting-edge developments in disciplines
concerned with the nature and use of language.
Coverage includes all aspects of the study of language including phonetics,
phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including
descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.
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Comprehensive coverage allows access to past, present, and ongoing developments in librarianship, information science, online retrieval, new information technologies, and publishing. Indexes and abstracts
approximately 7,000 publications annually, including over 440 journals and selected conference proceedings, book reviews and research report series,
with content from more than 68 countries and in 20 languages.
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Incorporates a large range of searchable, digitized primary texts, some of
which are rare and difficult to find, alongside contemporary works from
throughout the English-speaking world, plus an extensive collection of criticism
and reference works, including full-text literary journals and resources for
over 14,000 authors.
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Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every
age and literary discipline. The LRC is built on Contemporary Authors Online and Dictionary of Literary Biography
Online and Scribner Writers Series, containing more than 10,000 biocritical essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars as well as
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select.
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MagillOnHistory offers extensive coverage of the ancient world;
American History, including colonial and pre-colonial US and Canada; cultures
and civilizations in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, the Americas and
Oceania; In addition, this database provides intensive coverage of the twentieth
century, with special focus on economics, science, human rights, the
environment, and the arts.
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The MagillOnLiterature Plus is comprised of approximately 30,000 records, more than 1,000 images, and has a glossary of 1,310 literary terms. MagillOnLiterature Plus contains editorially reviewed critical analyses, brief plot summaries, and extended character profiles covering works by more than 8,500 long and short fiction writers, poets, dramatists, essayists, and philosophers. MagillOnLiterature Plus also contains over 6,500 biographical essays on more than 3,500 different authors, including up-to-date lists of each author's principal works.
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"The Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850" provides digital facsimile images on every page of 61,000 works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850. Full-text searching on more than 12 million pages provides researchers unparalleled access to this vast collection of material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport.
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Provides full-text access to the S&P Industry Surveys, the
Executive Compensation database, Global Reports Library which contains
full-color, online, international company source documents including annual
reports, annual report summaries, financials, interims, and IPO prospectuses for
13,000 companies around the world, and the GICS Sub-Industry Financial
Highlights Report which provides recent industry-level valuation, profitability,
performance and financial risk data.
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The database contains 10,000+ Company Profiles both US and International containing : company overviews, business descriptions, company history, executive listings, product listings, locations, news and commentary; 2,000+ Industry Reports with market forecasts; 50+ Country Reports.
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Provides marketing reports for many industries and demographic reports on a variety of age groups. Documents are formatted as Adobe Acrobat or PowerPoint files.
Requires Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher.
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Searchable online database features comprehensive profiles on over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals in all fields
of endeavor including: government, business, science & technology, the arts, entertainment and sports. The database accesses current biographies that appeared in any one of the many
Marquis print titles searching by name, gender, occupation, geography, hobbies and interests, religion and much more.
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Provides access to a growing collection of over 260 math books for Champman & Hall and CRC Press., including categories on Mathematics for Finance, Math for Science and Engineering, and Math for Biology and Medicine.
- Indexes the American Mathematical Society
publications Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications.
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Provides access to a growing collection of over 140 mechanical engineering books published by CRC Press, including
The Engineering Handbook and CRC Handbook of Mechanical Engineering.
- MHMG is a searchable directory of medical and health companies both public and private. Also included are extensive reports on healthcare demographics, healthcare economics, medical devices, pharmaceuticals and healthcare services.
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This database contains full-text translations of primary sources from AD 640-1600. There are over three thousand pages of medieval sources annotated and edited to the high standard expected of a university press with over a century of experience.
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Same authoritative database now available in Web of Science's streamlined version. Citations export easily to
EndNote when you search using Explorer (rather than Firefox).
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Provides descriptive information and critical reviews on more than 2,200
commercially-available tests in categories such as personality, developmental,
behavioral assessment, neuropsychological, achievement, intelligence and
aptitude, educational, speech & hearing, and sensory motor. Coverage includes
the 9th to 16th Yearbooks, January 2007. Note: Does NOT include the
tests.
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Provides research to 15 years of detailed financial
statements for international and U.S. companies included in the Moody's (now
Mergent) Manuals; enables customized viewing and output to retrieve company
reports and financials into software applications such as Word, Excel or Adobe,
and enables accurate cross-border searches using a variety of financial and text
variables.
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Features the full text of all of Mergent / Moody's Corporate Manuals from 1909 to the present. Once you enter the database select the option for "Corporate Manuals" and begin your search.
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A daily email newsletter offering a concise, translated briefs covering some of the key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing in the media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspora.
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Mintel is a leading publisher of consumer market reports for the UK, Europe and the US. Management, marketing and managerial accounting students at VSB are heavy users of the focused market reports the library makes available from
MarketRearch.com, Datamonitor and GMID, but are not always
sufficiently served. Users must accept "terms of use" and create a profile
with their Villanova email address.
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MIT CogNet is an electronic community for researchers in cognitive and
brain sciences. Includes library of electronic books and journals from
the MIT Press as well as other publishers, professional associations,
institutions and individuals.
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Consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language,
linguistics, and folklore. Includes citations to articles from over 3000
journals and series published internationally, as well as monographs,
collections, and various types of reference works. Access the
MLA Directory of Periodicals from here.
- Provides performance and financial data on over 6,000 mutual funds.
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The largest resource for historical research prior to 1925. The
database includes over 60 subject indexes to periodicals, newspapers, books,
US Congressional Record, US and UK government documents and US Patents.
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The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts database provides users with information covering the fields of law enforcement and criminal justice. The database contains summaries of more than 190,000 publications including books, government reports; research reports; and unpublished research. It also includes content from 189 journals, including 12 with core coverage.
- Central source for the sale of scientific, technical, engineering
and related business information produced by or for the U.S. government and
complementary material from international sources. The NTIS Collection has nearly 3 million titles on topics such as business and management studies, international marketing reports and technology innovations.
- Contains data related to international trade, particularly exports and is part of STAT_USA. The Export Connection is available as CD-ROM at reference desk.
- Provides access to several databases that allow you to search for nucleotide sequences, protein
sequences, macromolecular structures, whole genomes and MEDLINE through PubMed.
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The complete set is a scholarly presentation of persons and subjects related to Catholicism and the humanities. Coverage includes topics such as abortion,
divorce, cloning and reproductive technologies. In addition, this edition also features biographies of contemporary religious figures, thousands of photos,
maps, and illustrations, and completely updated bibliographical citations.
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A research and bibliographic aid of the New Testament and its historical milieu.
It features more than 33,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 12,600 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts. Article coverage in the database dates back to 1985.
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The New York Times Historical is a unique full-image archive that brings you the entire historical run of
The New
York Times, in-depth coverage of science and politics. It offers complete coverage from 1851
to the present with the exception of the most current two years.
Includes classified ads, comics and cartoons, photos, maps, graphics, etc., editorials and commentary.
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Niles' Register: Cumulative Index, 1811-1849 (CD-ROM; Ask at Reference
Consultation Desk)
Includes over 350,000 listings of people, places and events in U.S. history.
- Provides a broad, detailed, and immediate record of the experience of immigration supporting research in history, sociology, ethnic and diversity studies, women’s studies, labor studies and literature. The materials begin around 1840 and extend to the present, focusing heavily on the period from 1920 to 1980. Coverage includes personal narratives such as letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories as well as several thousand pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews.
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Features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs,multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies.
Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and much more.
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Provides indexing, abstracting, and selected full text to the Wilson databases for Business, Education, General Science, Humanities,
Readers' Guide, and the Social Sciences. Also includes selected full text to the Wilson databases for Applied Science & Technology, Art, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and
Library Literature & Information Science.
- Provides an accessible and invaluable source of information of electronic archives to leading journals of opinion. Search the full text of over 740 years of archives including
Harpers Magazine, The New Republic, The Nation, Commentary,
Scientific American, NACLA, Commonweal, American Spectator,
National Review and The New York Review of Books. An invaluable
resource, providing in-depth analysis of topics such as the cold war, the
Arab-Israeli conflict, American foreign policy, defense, the Supreme Court,
affirmative action, welfare, crime, immigration, religion, education, art,
literature, militarism, human rights violations, environmental destruction,
classical music, and much more.
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Access information on social issues through viewpoint articles, topic
overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to web sites and
full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
A reference work providing 50,000 specially-written signed biographies of the
men and women who shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest
times to the end of the year 2000. State-of-the-art search options, extensive
internal cross-referencing, access to articles from the original Dictionary
of National Biography, and navigation by "themes" combine with rigorous
research and scholarship to make the Oxford DNB one of the most innovative and
important reference sites available online.
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The database includes essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists, as well as major works and essays on literary movements, periods, themes and encompasses the range and depth of American literary history from the 1600s to the present day.
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The world's leading authority on the history and development of the English language since 1150.
Based on the
1989 2nd edition, a 20-volume set, with additions from 1993-1997 and the 3rd edition (in
progress) from 2000-. Approximately
1,000 new and revised entries will be released quarterly online.
- Features 100 well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books,
plus an encyclopedia, and provides a single cross-searchable web database.
Covers a broad range of subjects including general reference, language,
humanities and social sciences, science and medicine, and business.
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Covers global public policy and social issues. Indexes periodical articles,
books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, and other
English-language materials published around the world.
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Over 500,000 papers included in every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium and meeting received at The British Library.
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Contains the full text and translation of the meetings of the English
parliament from Edward I to Henry VII. All surviving records of the parliaments,
including many texts never before published, are given in full, with new
scholarly introductions to each parliament. The parliament rolls themselves are
freshly transcribed from the original documents, while the transcripts
incorporate precise information about the text in the documents (e.g., deleted
and unreadable text) never before available. Over 100 specimen images show the
rolls themselves, while a sophisticated search system permits retrieval of words
and phrases across the whole text.
- Contains full-text of scholarly editions of many philosophers, theologians and literary writers: Anselm, Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Austen, British Philosophy 1600-1900, Continental Rationalist, Descartes, Dewey, Hegel, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, Leibniz, Locke, Luther, Nietzsche, Ockham, Pierce, Plato, Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill and Wittgenstein, Mary Shelley, John Synge and Mary Wollstonecraft.
- A complete electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina. Covers the history of Latin Christianity until AD 1216.
Requires Netscape Version 6.0 or higher or Internet Explorer Version 5.0 or higher.
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A complete electronic version of Jean-Paul Migne’s Patrologiae Graecae. PG contains more than 160 volumes of Greek material (with
Latin translations) relevant to the study of the history of the Christian Church from its beginnings through the Council of Florence in 1439.
- Full-text transcription and digitized image of the actual newspaper
page as it originally appeared.
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Full-text transcriptions from 6 nineteenth century Delaware County newspapers.
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Greek and Latin texts and translations of major authors.
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Contains the complete text of articles covered beginning with 1981. It DOES NOT include advertising, calendar listings, horoscopes, sports statistics, stock tables, weather, weddings, engagements and puzzles.
- Indexes and abstracts books and more than 480 journals of philosophy and related fields in many languages. The book reviews in the print version are not included in the online version.
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Abstracts a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula,
to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology,
motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment,
business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology.
Health education and physical therapy are also covered as they continue to become more prevalent
in our society.
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Provides access to a growing collection of over 230 books from CRC Press and the Institute of Physics Publishers, including books on astronomy.
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This index provides bibliographic citations over some 30,000 plays published individually or in anthologies and collections going back to 1949.
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Features the full-text of current, recent and back issues of the world's leading philosophy journals.
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Comprehensive country profiles chronicling national history, government, and political parties, as well as profiles on intergovernmental organizations, development banks, and the agencies and specialized bodies of the United Nations.
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An essential resource for readers who want authoritative information on the members of Congress.
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The database includes 12,000 surveys and 250,000 questions on more than 3,500 topics. Scope is international, from the United States, to more than 60 other countries.
- Abstracts articles from journals, conference proceedings and hard-to-find documents. Includes scientific research and government policies.
- A
Web edition of Poole's Index to Periodical
Literature, 1802-1906, covering 479 American and English periodicals of the 19th century. The database has integrated
essential date and title information not contained in the original volumes.
To search only this database, from the Multi-Title Periodical Indexes
select Poole's Index to Periodical
Literature, 1802-1906.
- A searchable and browsable annotated bibliography database of books, journal articles, working papers, and other material on population topics.
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Indexes proceedings of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library.
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Searchable collection of recent full-text humanities, social science and mathematics journals published by
Johns Hopkins University Press. Click
here to learn how to cite articles in Project Muse
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Provides abstracts, full-text, and/or full-text with images of records of articles taken from over 1,000 business journals. Also features 27 national newspapers.
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Provides access to complete information from leading nursing and related publications in over 280 titles. All the source publications are available in the ASCII full-text format. Nearly all of them also offer articles in the full-image and Text+Graphics formats.
Coverage is from 1988 to present.
- TO SEARCH ONLY PsycARTICLES PLEASE CHECK OFF BOX
NEXT TO DATABASE NAME. Access from the American Psychological
Association database 58 top full-text psychology publications covering the disciplines of
human physiology, personality psychology, social psychology, educational psychology and more.
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Contains citations and abstracts to journal articles, books and book chapters in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines.
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Searches all MEDLINE citations and Pre-MEDLINE citations, and features links to
participating online - journals. To identify the journal click
here.
ALSO AVAILABLE: Web of Science’s
streamlined version of Medline. Citations export easily to EndNote
when you search using Explorer (rather than Firefox).
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Contains commentary and primary resources in the United States Federal Tax
Code.
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An international database of music scholarship covering all areas of music
including interdisciplinary studies of music, dance and music therapy. The
database indexes articles, books, bibliographies, films and videos, and book,
record and concert reviews.
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A selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study
of Eretz Israel. Coverage includes important articles published througout the world in the field of Judaica, mainly from the holdings of the Jewish
National and University Library, and offprints of articles from journals or collections
in the library. Rambi also lists articles
from secondary sources.
- Readers' Guide Full Text is part of the
Wilson OmniFile. It provides indexing and full text articles from both the popular press and peer reviewed journals.
Select full text is from 1994 onwards.
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Provides citations to the most popular general-interest periodicals published in
the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.
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The online home of the report of the AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases offers instant Web-based access to he complete text of the
Red Book®, the complete visual library of over 2,000 images, vaccine status information, infectious disease news, and much more.
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Provides indexing of more than 12,000 electronic and print reference works matched to Falvey Library's collection.
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Never type a bibliography again! RefWorks will help you easily gather, manage, and store bibliographic citations for all types of information, as well as generate footnotes and bibliographies.
- This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for 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.
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An English language index of periodical literature produced with summaries of
articles of various languages from scholarly journals in the fields of theology
and religion covering Christianity, Judaism, and other world religions.
Biblical, systematic, historical, and practical theology are some of the
specific areas included.
Research Insight / Compustat PC Plus -- North America and Global Databases (Ask at Reference Desk)
Find financial information on thousands of public companies. Detailed income statements and
balance sheets are included. Restricted to Villanova staff, faculty and student use.
Available at <http://citrixweb.villanova.edu>
under Academic Applications in the Library folder. First time user of
Citrix click here
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First-time users have to register. The Roper Center has a large archive of public opinion information. It contains nearly 500,000 questions and
responses from national public opinion surveys going back to 1935. Among the many survey sources are Gallup, Harris, New York Times, Wall Street
Journal, ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC. The archive includes full datasets required to conduct bivariate and multivariate analyses using RoperExpress.
- Web access to the 10-volume print encyclopedia, published in 1998 with quarterly updates.
Note that this encyclopedia uses British spellings, such as 'armoury,' 'colour'
and 'theatre.'
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Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, this collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more. With over 6 million pages from 29,000 works, this collection is a cornerstone in the study of the western hemisphere.
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Provides access to current bibliographic information and cited references from scientific and technical journals in a broad range of disciplines. Search by article title word, journal title, author, cited author or reference, or address word (e.g. author's institution).
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Provides citations and abstracts of articles in over 1800 journals (mainly scientific, technical and medical). Full-text is available only to the 327 titles to which Villanova University subscribes.
SciFinder Scholar*
Searches Chemical Abstracts PLUS (1907 - updated daily), CASREACT,
REGISTRY files from Chemical Abstract Service and MEDLINE. Available
at <http://citrixweb.villanova.edu> under
Academic Applications in the Library folder. First-time user of Citrix
click here.
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Gain access to detailed bio-critical essays on the lives and works of
important authors from around the world. Each entry averages 15-20 pages in
length and includes a concise essay, hyperlinks for cross-referencing, a
citation and biographical information that places the author's work in personal
and historical context. Coverage includes titles such as American Writers,
British Writers, European Writers, Latin American Writers, and
Modern American Women Writers.
SDC Platinum
Our subscription to SDC Platinum includes only the Mergers and Acquisitions Database. To access SDC
Platinum, please visit Falvey Memorial Library and use one of our workstations on the first floor.
Falvey Login Instructions: Username (Pubstat) Password - Blank, there is no password. Select "This computer" in the menu, not VUAD. The SDC icon will appear once the computer opens up, click on that and begin your search. or go
Applied Finance Lab in Bartley Hall
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Provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, as
well as theatrical productions, reviews of productions and other material
related to Shakespeare published or produced between 1968 and 2003, with
coverage continuing to extend forward and backward in time.
- Search and browse reference resources including encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, handbooks, thesauri and more.
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Provides a practical way to locate over 76,000 short stories online. The database includes the full text of 1,600 stories. More than 4,025 collections are indexed and made searchable by author, title, subject,
keyword, date, literary technique, and source, or any combination thereof. Coverage is retrospective back to 1984.
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Index to international, English language journals in sociology, anthropology, geography, economics, political science and law.
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Provides access to current bibliographic information and cited references from the journal literature in the social sciences. Search by article title word, journal title, author, cited author or reference, or address word (e.g. author's institution).
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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 1,406 serials
publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and
citations to book reviews.
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Abstracts covering sociological topics in fields such as anthropology, economics, education, medicine, community
development, philosophy, demography, political science, and social psychology. Journals published by sociological associations,
groups, faculties and institutes, and periodicals containing the term "sociology" in their titles are abstracted fully.
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Indexes major American and Russian physics and astronomy journals. Contains the abstracts of over 80 scientific journals published by the American Institute of Physics as well as from other scientific journals.
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Sports Business Research Network provides sports marketing information: market size, and demographics; sports participation, licensing, financial and retail trends; international marketing and professional sports trends. It includes buyTRACK which tracks the sales of sporting goods purchases on the Internet. Some international coverage.
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The majority of SRDS titles are now available online. The one exception is the
Lifestyle Market Analyst title which is still only available in print at
the Information Desk. Directory, including rates and circulation,
for advertisers in newspapers, magazines, broadcast media, interactive media and
out of home venues.
- Economic, business and international trade information produced by the U.S. Government.
- Provides a comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
- Provides the index and abstracts to American Statistics Index (U.S. government statistical sources). Contains over 100,000
statistical publications and is searchable by subject, category, title and author.
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Provides valuable in-depth coverage and analysis of every decision from the nation's highest court since the 1989-1990 term. Users can explore the actions and opinons of the U.S. Supreme Court with clear and in-depth analysis of every decision made by the nation's highest court.
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When you need to find out which company manufactures a brand or if you can use a tradename for your new product, search TESS through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Electronic Business Center. Link to Search pending and registered trademarks and then New User Form Search (Basic).
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A research center at the University of California, Irvine, has collected and
digitized most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of
Byzantium in 1473. It currently provides access to 2,500 authors and 10,000
works. Updated quarterly.
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) (CD-ROM; Software installed on PC (On Cart) in Academic Integration Office.)
The text and searchable database is in Latin, instructions and navigation tools are
in English and German. This electronic edition includes entries from the letter
A to M, O and P to poctio- and porta to propos.
Thomae Aquinatis Opera Omnia (CD-ROM; Software installed on PC (On Cart) in Academic Integration Office)
This database contains the complete works of St. Thomas Aquinas in Latin, together with 61 other medieval Latin writings related to Thomas Aquinas.
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Contains directory information on United States Companies, Services, and Products.
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The Times is the "world's newspaper of record" and covers all major international historical events from the French Revolution to the Falkland War. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching. It is a digital reproduction, cover to cover, of the paper in PDF files.
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TOCS-IN provides the tables of contents of a selection of Classics, Near Eastern Studies and Religion
journals. Covers published works from 1992-present.
- Provides citations to journal articles, monographs, technical reports, theses, letters, meeting abstracts, papers and reports covering toxicological, pharmacological, biochemical and physiological effects of drugs and other chemicals.
- A free trademark database with access to selected trademark information, obtained from its internal trademark database, which includes the full bibliographic text of pending and registered trademarks. Provides access to the trademark text data currently available on two of PTO's Cassis CD-ROM products: Trademarks Registered and Trademarks Pending. The PTO's trademark data on the Web is updated on a two-month cycle
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"World's largest and most comprehensive bibliographic resource on transportation information... produced and maintained
by the Transportation Research Board (TRB)." The TRIS Database contains references to books, technical reports, conference
proceedings and journal articles in the field of transportation.
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- The US Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Database contains the full bibliographic text of pending and registered trademarks. Pending trademark applications are entered in the database several months after filing.
Requires Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher.
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Contains demographic, economic and government data for varying time
periods including all the data from the last 3 editions of the State and
Metropolitan Area Data Book and the County and City Data Book.
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Designed to help investors analyze and select stocks by performing a broad
range of functions including sorting, filtering (screening), graphing and
reporting on individual stocks and groups of stocks.
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Provides access to full-text of master's theses from the Arts and Sciences College starting with 2006. Selective full-text coverage from 1996.
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Provides basic statistical information on American government and politics. It is a powerful tool for researching statistical data on politics on the United States.
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The online edition is the one resource you can trust to navigate the complicated web of official Washington. It's your one-stop source for the right information.
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Provides access to over a growing collection of over 65 books from CRC Press on all aspects of water, including storm water and water pollution.
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Provides access to current bibliographic information and cited references from scientific and technical journals in a broad range of disciplines. Search by article title word, journal title, author, cited author or reference, or address word (e.g. author's institution).
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Contains over 11,000 entries, including some 4,900 new and revised listings, detailed listings contain entrants’ dates and places of birth; education and training; commissions and exhibitions; museums holding their work; professional positions; awards; books and articles by and about them; the media in which they work; their dealers and representatives; and their mailing addresses.
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This database represents 400 years of biographical history which includes 110,000 "life stories" from 1607 to the present. Coverage of inventors, explorers, colonists, abolitions, important figures in business, government, the military, education, literature and other remarkable people who helped shape American history.
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Searchable online database features comprehensive profiles on over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals in all fields
of endeavor including: government, business, science & technology, the arts, entertainment and sports. The database accesses current biographies that appeared in any one of the many
Marquis print titles searching by name, gender, occupation, geography, hobbies and interests, religion and much more.
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Includes full-text profiles of persons, living and deceased, and prominent in
many professions including literature, art, music, film, politics, education and
history. The up-to-date bibliographies include links to book and articles about
the person and in some citations there is a photograph of the person.
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Full-text pre 1850 women's writing
in English, or in English translation. Covers various genres and issues.
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Features: The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1998, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and The World Almanac for Kids.
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"The World Bank e-Library is an online fully cross-searchable portal of over 4,500 World Bank documents. The collection consists of over 1,800 World Bank publications and over 2,700 Policy Research Working Papers."
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"The database covers external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructuring, and scheduled debt service projections for all countries reporting through the Debtor Reporting Service."
The WDI and GDF Online is owned and copyrighted by the World Bank and the users may not copy, reverse engineer, modify, decompile or disassemble WDI and GDF Online or its operating software. While every effort has been made to ensure the high quality and accuracy of WDI and GDF Online, the Bank does not warrant that the functions contained in WDI and GDF Online shall meet the users? requirements or that the operation of WDI Online shall be uninterrupted or error-free.
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News and forecasts from the World Bank's Prospects Group with most recent value
and time series statistics on macroeconomic indicators, financial measures and
commodities for 292 economies. The GEM Online is owned and copyrighted by the
World Bank and the users may not copy, reverse engineer, modify, decompile or
disassemble GEM Online or its operating software. While every effort has been
made to ensure the high quality and accuracy of GEM Online, the Bank does not
warrant that the functions contained in GEM Online shall meet the users
requirements or that the operation of GEM Online shall be uninterrupted or
error-free
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"World Development Indicators (WDI) publication is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. The 2007 WDI includes more than 900 indicators." The WDI and GDF Online is owned and copyrighted by the World Bank and the users may not copy, reverse engineer, modify, decompile or disassemble WDI and GDF Online or its operating software. While every effort has been made to ensure the high quality and accuracy of WDI and GDF Online, the Bank does not warrant that the functions contained in WDI and GDF Online shall meet the users? requirements or that the operation of WDI Online shall be uninterrupted or error-free.
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Provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, as
well as theatrical productions, reviews of productions and other material
related to Shakespeare published or produced between 1968 and 2003, with
coverage continuing to extend forward and backward in time.
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A catalog of library holdings worldwide. WorldCat will indicate any local library holdings and also offers an
inter-library loan request option.
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WRDS is available in the Applied Finance Lab during regular lab hours. Graduate students may request their
own user name and password by clicking the WRDS link above. Undergraduates, or those needing immediate (faster) assistance should
contact Dan Overfield at (610) 519-8129 for help.
Covers over 30,000 companies and includes security prices and trading
volume, income and balance sheet items. Provides access to IBES' analyst
projections for earnings and sales. WRDS also contains stock market indices,
bond prices and interest rates, mutual fund and stock ownership information,
options data, and a wide array of macroeconomic time series. International data,
marketing and industry reports, and web usage data are also available on WRDS.
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Indexes journals, newsletters, monographs, magazines, books, dissertations, and conference proceedings in all major areas of zoology, including behavior, ecology, evolution, genetics, habitat, nutrition, parasitology, reproduction, taxonomy and zoogeography.
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