Databases: M-R
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Database |
Description |
|---|---|
| MasterFILE
Premier |
Description: Provides abstracts
and indexing for more than 3,100 periodicals, plus searchable full text
for more than 1,500 active periodicals. Subjects covered include general
reference, business, health, multicultural and more. Total coverage includes
over 4 million articles. Coverage: 1984 - present Vendor: EBSCOhost |
| MathSciNet |
Description: MathSciNet
is the searchable Web database providing access to over 59 years of Mathematical
Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications (from 1940 to the present).
The full text of all reviews from 1940 to the present is available on MathSciNet.
Coverage: 1940 - present Vendor: American Mathematical Society |
| MEDLINE |
Description: MEDLINE is
the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database covering the fields
of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system,
and the preclinical sciences. The MEDLINE file contains bibliographic citations
and author abstracts from approximately 4,600 current biomedical journals
published in the United States and 70 foreign countries. Coverage is worldwide,
but most records are from English language sources or have English abstracts. Coverage: 1966 - present Vendor: EBSCOhost |
| Mental
Measurements Yearbook |
Description: Mental Measurements
Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains fulltext information
about and reviews of all English-language standardized
tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology,
and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks. Coverage: current Vendor: SilverPlatter |
| Middle
Search Plus |
Description: Provides abstracts
and indexing for over 169 magazines, and searchable full text for 52 of
the most frequently used magazines in middle school libraries, including
115 pamphlets. Total coverage includes nearly 400,000 articles. Coverage: 1984 - present Vendor: EBSCOhost |
| Military & Government | Description: Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles. Vendor: EBSCOhost |
| MLA
Bibliography |
Description: The MLA International
Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association, consists of bibliographic
records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, and
includes coverage from 1963 to the present. The MLA International Bibliography
provides access to scholarly research in over 4,400 journals and series
and 1,000 book publishers. It also covers relevant monographs, working papers,
proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats. Coverage: 1963 - present Vendor: EBSCOhost |
| National Criminal Justice Abstracts | Description: Contains summaries
of more than 140,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State,
and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles,
and unpublished research. Coverage: Early 1970's to present Vendor: National Criminal Justice Reference Service |
| netLibrary |
Description: Provides access
to electronic books (eBooks) and information. The collection is composed
of reference, scholarly, and professional eBooks. These eBooks can
be viewed, searched, and checked out via the Internet. Coverage: various publication dates Vendor: netLibrary |
| NewspaperARCHIVE.com | Description: NewspaperARCHIVE includes fully searchable newspaper pages from more than 400 cities and towns—from The Washington Post to the Stevens Point Gazette (see full title list). An excellent tool to research genealogy, history, culture and newsworthy events in a local context. Years of coverage vary, but some newspapers go back as far as the 1700s and include titles from the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom. Pages are reproduced in PDF format. Coverage: 1700s - (updates vary) |
| Newspaper Source |
Description: Newspaper Source provides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. Coverage: Current Vendor: EBSCOhost |
| North American Immigrants Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories | Description: North American
Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories (IMLD) provides a historical
record of what it was like to immigrate to the United States and Canada.
Coverage: 1840-present, with the majority of the coverage from 1920-1980. Vendor: Alexander Street Press |
| North American Women's Letters and Diaries |
Description: North American
Women's Letters and Diaries (NAWLD) includes the immediate experiences of
107 women, as revealed in more than 9,000 pages of diaries and letters. Coverage: Colonial to 1950 Vendor: Alexander Street Press |
| Nursing & Allied Health Collection Basic |
Description: Designed for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and
researchers, this database provides full text for 100 journals covering the
areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied
health disciplines. Vendor: EBSCOhost |
| Nursing & Allied Health Collection Comprehensive |
Description: Designed for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and
researchers, this database provides full text for nearly 400 journals covering
the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied
health disciplines. Vendor: EBSCOhost |
| Nursing Consult |
Description: Mosby's Nursing Consult brings the leading resources together in one integrated
online service to help nurses efficiently find answers to pressing clinical
questions. Mosby's Nursing Consult is the perfect resource for the clinical
nurse, the nurse administrators and the nurse faculty. Vendor: Elsevier |
| OmniFile
Full Text |
Description:
Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database
providing the complete content from six of Wilson's full-text databases:
Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers'
Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
Full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included
when available: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text,
Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books,
and Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. Coverage: 1994 - present Vendor: WilsonWeb |
| Oxford English Dictionary | Description: Traces the
usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international
English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals
to film scripts and cookery books. Coverage: 1st, 2nd Editions and all supplements are included. Currently being revised. For more help |
| Pre-CINAHL | Description: A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information
(no subject searching), which are available to searchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing. |
| Primary
Search |
Description: Provides the
full text of 35 magazines for young readers and abstracts and indexing for
116 magazines. Primary Search includes Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia,
the World Almanac for Kids and the World Almanac of the USA. Coverage: 1984 - present Vendor: EBSCOhost |
| Project
Muse |
Description: Project Muse
provides worldwide, networked, subscription access to the full text of the
Press's 40+ scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Coverage: 1995 - present Vendor: Project Muse |
| ProQuest
Direct |
Description: Searches the
following article databases simultaneously: ABI/Inform
Global, Criminal Justice Periodicals,
ProQuest Newspapers, and ProQuest
Nursing Journals. Vendor: ProQuest Direct |
| ProQuest
Newspapers |
Description: Indexing, abstracting
and full-text of over 300 state, national and international newspapers.
Includes full-text coverage of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Madison
Capital Times. Coverage: 1989 - present Vendor: ProQuest Direct |
| PsycArticles |
Description: PsycArticles
contains full text journal articles in the field of psychology and psychological
aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology,
education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Coverage: 1985-present (unless otherwise noted) Vendor: CSA |
| PsycINFO |
Description: PsycINFO (R)
contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books,
and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the
field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such
as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology,
linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Coverage: 1872 - present Vendor: CSA |
| PubMed | Description: PubMed is the
National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database covering the fields
of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system,
and the preclinical sciences. The PubMed file contains bibliographic citations
and author abstracts from approximately 3,900 current biomedical journals
published in the United States and 70 foreign countries, as well as access
to pre-medline articles. Coverage is worldwide, but most records are from
English language sources or have English abstracts. Coverage: 1966 - present Vendor: National Library of Medicine |
| Readers'
Guide Full Text |
Description: Indexes and
abstracts the periodicals most often found in school, public, and college
libraries, as well as the New York Times. |
| Regional Business News | Description: 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. This database is updated on a daily basis. Coverage: current Vendor: EBSCOhost |
| Royal Society of Chemistry Online Journals Archive | Description: Coverage: 1841-2004 Vendor: Royal Society of Chemistry |
Revised 22 Aug 2006
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