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ABI/INFORM Dateline ProQuest
Full-text database providing access to local and regional business news coverage of large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news.
ABI/INFORM Global ProQuest
Full-text database providing coverage of business topics including advertising, management, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers and company information.

ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry ProQuest
Full-text database providing coverage of more than 750 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus.
Abstracts in Anthropology Baywood Publishing NEW
An abstracts database available to LIU users due to the library's print subscription, covering anthropological topics in Cultural Anthropology Physical Anthropology Archaeology Linguistics. The database is upated twice a year.

Academic Search Premier EBSCOhost
Academic Search Premier provides full text for more than 4,500 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
Accounting and Tax ProQuest
Full-text database providing coverage of accounting and tax topics appearing in key industry publications and newspapers.
 
AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive AccuNet
Photos of significant news events, political leaders, historical figures, and celebrities on the state, regional, national, and international levels dating back to 1840.
ACM Digital Library (ACM - Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library) NEW
A collection of citations and full text from ACM journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings. It contains the full text of journals, magazines, transactions, conference proceedings, newsletters, and other publications by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), its Affiliated Organizations, and Special Interest Groups (SIGs), including an archive dating back to the 1950's. The ACM is a major force in advancing the skills of information technology professionals and students worldwide, providing a portal to the computing literature through authoritative publications and pioneering conferences.

Alt-Health Watch (Alternative Health Watch) EBSCOhost
This alternative health database provides full text for more than 140 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.
Alt-Press Watch (APW) ProQuest
A full text database comprised of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.

ATLA Religion Database Ovid
An international database produced by the American Theological Library Association (ATLA), covering topics such as Biblical studies, world religions, Church history, and religious perspectives on social issues. The international database consists of more than 1,100,000 records covering the research literature of religion in over 30 languages from 1,400 international journals and 14,000 multi-author works in and related to the field of religion. RDB includes a full range of index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews from Religion Index One (RIO), Religion Index Two (RIT), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR). The full file covers data from 1949 to the present.
 
America: History and Life EBSCOHost
Abstracted bibliographic references to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide including state and local history journals. Includes approximately 6,000 citations of book and media reviews as well as abstracts of dissertations. Every year approximately 16,000 new entries are added.
American Chemical Society Journals ACS
Full text of most titles published by the American Chemical Society from 1879 to the current ACS Web Editions.

American Medical Association ProQuest
Search the publications of the American Medical Association including JAMA, American Medical News and the Archives sources for citations and abstracts.
Animal Behavior Abstracts Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Under the editorial guidance of one of the world's leading ethologists, Animal Behavior Abstracts is an indispensable resource for scientists in behavioral and related studies. Significant papers relevant to animal behavior, with subjects ranging from neurophysiology to behavioral ecology, from genetics to applied ethology, are covered. Animal Behavior Abstracts surveys all of the important journals dealing with the biology of particular taxonomic groups. And researchers will find both field and laboratory inquiries summarized.
ARTstor Andrew W. Mellon Foundation NEW
ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 700,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

Art Abstracts
WilsonWeb NEW
A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. It also indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. The abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles.
ArticleFirst FirstSearch
An index of over 12,000 periodicals with daily updates. Covers a wide range of subjects.
ASFA 1: Biological Sciences and Living Resources CSA
Provides coverage of basic and applied research on aquatic organisms. All aspects of marine, freshwater, and brackish water organisms and environments are examined, including information on biology and ecology of aquatic organisms, exploitation of living resources, and related legal, policy, and socioeconomic issues.
 

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BA: Biological Abstracts WebSPIRS
Leading abstracting and indexing reference source for life sciences information.
Biological Science Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
This interdisciplinary database offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Supporting over two dozen areas of expertise, this CSA database provides access to literature from over 6000 serials, as well as conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and selected books and patents.
Biology Digest CSA
A compilation of abstracts and indexes of domestic and international literature in the area of life sciences, primarily intended for an audience at the high school or undergraduate college level. Its purpose is to aid in keeping students and instructors current on the latest developments in biological research. Key information such as methods involved and conclusions drawn from the respective research is retained.

Books in Print Bowker
Bibliographic database with more than 5 million in-print, out-of-print, forthcoming, audio book, and video titles. Includes full-text reviews from 15 respected, professional sources such as Booklist, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Choice, as well as the first chapter of more than 30,000 entries.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online Brooklyn Public Library NEW
Digitized collection of the historic Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper, produced by Brooklyn Public Library's Brooklyn Collection and funded by the Library and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was published from 1841 to 1955, then revived for a short time from 1960 to 1963. Phase one of the digitization project covers the period from October 26, 1841 to December 31, 1902, representing half of the Eagle's years of publication.

Business and Company ASAP
Gale InfoTrac
Providing researchers with information on companies, markets and industries. From market trends, mergers and acquisitions to current management theory and company overviews. Access business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles with full text and images.

Business and Company Resource Center
Gale InfoTrac via NOVEL
Search for company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.
Business Source Premier EBSCOhost
Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 8,350 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

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Cambridge Journals NEW
Provides full-text peer-reviewed academic journals published by Cambridge University Press.
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
CSA's Internet Database Service provides access to more than 50 databases covering major areas of research, including materials science, environmental sciences and pollution management, biological sciences, aquatic sciences and fisheries, biotechnology, engineering, computer science, sociology, art history, and linguistics.

CCH Internet Tax Research NetWork
Provides access to the CCH federal and state tax libraries. The latest tax news, detailed explanations, analysis, cases, and other primary source material is available as well as the Federal Estate and Gift Tax Reporter and tax forms.
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) NEW
Provides an extensive array of information about more than 900,000 children's books, video and audio recordings, film strips, and other children-focused media. Records come with all of the official cataloging data, subject terms, and annotations. In addition, CLCD contains more than 130,000 critical reviews of thousands of children's books, ranging from the earliest baby board books to novels and nonfiction for young adults, and an average of more than 1500 new reviews are added to the database monthly. Includes award information and placement on Best Books lists.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text EBSCOhost
Provides indexing for 3,001 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. CINAHL Plus with Full Text also contains searchable cited references for more than 1,155 journals and provides full text for hundreds of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1937 are also included.

CINAHL Select EBSCOhost
A resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database contains more than 170 full text journals with PDF coverage back as far as 1973 including 120 peer-reviewed publications. All journals in this collection are indexed in CINAHL. CINAHL Select is updated on a weekly basis via EBSCOhost.

ClasePeriodica FirstSearch
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities.
 
Clinical Pharmacology Gold Standard NEW
Provides up-to-date, peer-reviewed, clinically-relevant information on all U.S. prescription drugs, as well as off-label uses and dosage, herbal supplements, nutritional and over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs. (Clinical Pharmacology OnHand (PDA) Access: Pharmacy Faculty and Students: Please obtain the required PDA promotion codes from College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences - Dr. Schilit, 718 488-3460)
 

Cochrane Library (Wiley InterScience) NEW
A unique source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care. Published on a quarterly basis, The Cochrane Library is designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
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Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
COMPUSTAT Standard & Poor's Research Insight NEW
Standard & Poor's Compustat® database provides financial, statistical and market information on active and inactive companies in the U.S. and Canada, covering over 99% of the U.S. total market cap. The Compustat database can be accessed via the 5th floor Library Cyber Lab computers only. Please ask the Cyber Lab student assistants for logon assistance. Manuals for the database are available in hardcopy from the Cyber Lab student assistants (school i.d. required for in-house use), or electronically via the links below.

COMPUSTAT Manuals

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Getting Started (North America)
Beyond Basics
Report and Chart Library
Data Guide
The Conference Board NEW
This Full-Text database provides access to the Conference Board’s library of research reports. The Conference Board is a not-for-profit organization which conducts and publishes Business Management and Global Economics research. Topics covered include business forecasts, human resources, marketing, operations, taxation, outsourcing, and more. Economic materials include US and Global economic indicators, as well as analysis and forecasts of regional, national, and international economic conditions.
Conference Paper Index CSA NEW
Provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science. Records include complete ordering information to obtain preprints, abstracts, proceedings and other publications derived from the conference, together with title and author information needed to track the specific papers.

Country Commerce and Country Finance EIU See also Economist Intelligence Unit
Published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), these business guides provide a comprehensive range of intelligence on operating conditions and practices, financial opportunities, commercial laws and regulations, and much more on over 47 countries. Coverage of the latest e-commerce issues is also provided.
Provides access to over 250 reference books from 50 publishers that cover topics including art, medicine, history, technology, science, law, literature, quotations, business, and social sciences. It contains a total of over 2 million entries, includeing 180,000 audio pronunciation files; 66,000 art, science, & medical images; and 90,000 atlas images of places and geographic features, as well as customizable, exportable data tables from the US Census & other sources. Entries also provide cross-reference links ("xreferences") to related entries from other books and publishers across the entire collection.

Criminal Justice Abstracts
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The criminology database from SAGE Publications, contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines. Covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing.
Custom Newspapers Gale InfoTrac
Search a collection of 500 newspapers, both national and international.

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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) DOAJ NEW
Covers free, full text, scientific and scholarly journals in all subjects and languages.

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ebrary
Currently offers over 20,000 full-text books, sheet music titles, maps, reports, and other authoritative documents from more than 180 leading academic, trade, and professional publishers. The collections are particularly strong in health sciences, business, economics, computers, technology, education, history, biography, classics, and selected social & behavioral sciences. Publishers include The McGraw-Hill Companies, Random House, Penguin Classics, Taylor & Francis, Yale University Press, John Wiley & Sons, Greenwood, and more. Note: to use ebrary, you must first download and install the ebrary Reader on your computer. Please click here for on campus access if you experience difficulty with the main url.
ESBCO Animals EBSCOhost
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.

EbscoHost Electronic Journals Service (EJS)
EbscoHost EJS is an e-journal manager and is used to access electronic journal subscriptions at the Long Island University Brooklyn Campus. Many of the same electronic titles and most of the pre-1996 issues can be found on the fourth floor in Periodicals Department.

EBSCOhost Research Databases
A variety of ready reference sources from various databases including MagillonLiterature, MasterFile Select, Primary Search, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, EBSCO Animals, TOPICsearch, MLA International Bibliography, MAL Directory of Periodicals. and Health Source - Consumer Edition.
ECO (OCLC Electronic Collections Online) FirstSearch
An OCLC collection of scholarly journals.
Ecology Abstracts Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Ecologists will find in this journal the essence of current ecology research across a wide range of disciplines, reflecting recent advances in light of growing evidence regarding global environmental change and destruction. Ecology Abstracts focuses on how organisms of all kinds - microbes, plants, and animals - interact with their environments and with other organisms. Included are relevant papers on evolutionary biology, economics, and systems analysis as they relate to ecosystems or the environment.
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) EIU See also Country Commerce and Country Finance
Published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), these business guides provide a comprehensive range of intelligence on operating conditions and practices, financial opportunities, commercial laws and regulations, and much more on over 47 countries. Coverage of the latest e-commerce issues is also provided.
Education Full Text WilsonWeb NEW
A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere. English-language books relating to education published in 1995 or later are also indexed. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source documents. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996.

Education Research Complete EBSCOhost NEW
An online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals, as well as full text for more than 750 journals, and includes full text for more than 100 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers.

Emerald Fulltext
Emerald Insight NEW
Provides full text access to almost 150 journals. Emphasis is on business, technology, and library & information science, but some coverage is also given to education, health, science, public policy, and criminal justice. Journals can be browsed issue by issue or searched by keyword.
Environmental Sciences and Pollution Mgmt CSA
This multidisciplinary database, provides unparalleled and comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 6000 serials including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) CSA
Abstracts indexed in Resources in Education (RIE), an index of education documents collected by the National Education Information Network, and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE), which indexes professional journals in education and related fields. (ERIC Documents from 1990 to present are available on microfiche at the periodicals Desk. on the 4th floor).
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) ERIC
Web site of U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education sciences which provides access to education literature and resources.
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) FirstSearch
Ethnic NewsWatch ProQuest
Full-text articles from magazines, journals, and newspapers of the ethnic, minority, and Native American Press.
Expanded Academic ASAP Gale InfoTrac
Interdisciplinary database covering content from the arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology. General subject database containing citations, abstracts, and full text articles from magazines, journals, and newspapers. Coverage dates back to 1980.

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Film & TV Literature Index with Full Text  EBSCOhost NEW
An online tool for film and television research. It is a comprehensive bibliographic and full text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes film scholars, college students, and general viewers.
FirstSearch
Databases indexing articles and books in subject areas including: arts, humanities, business, economics, conferences, consumer affairs, people, education, engineering, technology, sciences, medicine, news, public affairs, law, and social sciences.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
EBSCOhost
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. The database contains various images and offers brief biographies. This database is updated annually.

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Gale Databases Gale InfoTrac
Consists of Business and Company Resources, Expanded Academic ASAP, General Business File ASAP, National Newspaper Index, History Resource Center: US, Literature Resource Center - LRC, InfoTrac OneFile and Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliographic on InfoTrac. See individual annotations for details.
Gale Databases Gale InfoTrac via NOVEL (a statewide virtual library provided free to the public by the New York State Library)
Consists of Health Reference Center Academic, Business and Company Resources, Junior Edition - K12, The Twayne Authors Series, Informe, Custom Newspapers, New York State Newspapers, National Newspaper Index, Health and Welness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module and Gale Virtual Refernce Library. See individual annotations for details.

Gale Literary Index
Gale
Indexes the literary criticism and biography sets published by Gale Research including: Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism 1400-1800, Poetry Criticism, Black Literature Criticism, and more. These books can be found in the Reference Collection.
Gale Virtual Reference Library Gale InfoTrac via NOVEL
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Included in this collection are works covering Public Relations, Psychology, Medicine, Literature and more.

GenderWatch ProQuest
Full-text articles from magazines, journals, newspapers and other sources devoted to women's issues throughout the disciplines. Coverage dates back to the 1970s.
General Business File ASAP Gale InfoTrac
Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available. Indexes articles on finance, acquisitions and mergers, international trade, money management, new technologies and products, local and regional business trends, investments, and banking going back to 1980. Many of the articles are full text.
General Science Collection EBSCOhost
Provides information on all aspects of the scientific world, including the observation, description, identification, and experimental investigation of phenomena, as well as the application of science to industrial or commercial objectives. Offers full text coverage of more than 60 of the most popular science publications as well as the encyclopedia, Great Scientific Achievements of the Twentieth Century.
 
Google Scholar Google NEW
When accessing Google Scholar via the library's website from off campus you will be asked for your barcode so that you will have access to LIU’s full text journals. Google Scholar, accessed directly (not through the library's website) will provide citations but not full text of most articles.

GPO (Government Printing Office) FirstSearch

Grove Art Online
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Contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts, painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts, and photography from prehistory to the present day. Compiled over a period of 15 years, it represents the work of more than 6,800 scholars from around the world, each writing on his or her own specialist field of study.

Grove Music Online
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Comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, edited by Barry Kernfeld (London, 2002). Articles that have been updated since their appearance in print are date-stamped in the upper right corner of the screen.

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Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module Gale InfoTrac via NOVEL NEW
Use this Resource Center to find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, Prescription Drugs, Herbal remedies, and alternative or complementary treatments, etc. Included are links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.

Health and Safety Science Abstracts Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
This database provides a comprehensive, timely survey of recent work relating to public health, safety, and industrial hygiene. Cited studies are geared to help individuals identify, evaluate, and eliminate or control risks and hazards across the spectrum of environmental and occupational situations. The database provides the latest perspectives on topics of widespread concern such as aviation and aerospace safety, environmental safety, nuclear safety, medical safety occupational safety, and ergonomics. Health and safety related aspects of pollution, waste disposal, radiation, pesticides, epidemics - and countless other phenomena having the potential to threaten the public, the environment, or the workplace itself - are reported here. Drawing on government reports as well as journal articles, conference proceedings, books, and other publications, Health and Safety Science Abstracts synthesizes the most important new developments in safety science and human factors research.
Health Reference Center Academic Gale InfoTrac via NOVEL
Citations and full-text from reference books and periodicals on subjects including fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health and safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, and prescription drugs.
Historical Abstracts ABC-CLIO
Annotated references to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). Currently over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered as well as approximately 3,000 citations to useful historical books and citations to abstracts of dissertations. Every year over 20,000 new citations are added.
History Resource Center: US Gale InfoTrac
Provides access to historical (primary) documents, more then 30,000 reference articles, and over 65 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes access to the citations for over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
History Resource Center: World Gale InfoTrac
A comprehensive collection of reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronlogic research materials for the study of world history. From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals.

Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Center for Homeland Defense and Security NEW
Provides quick access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies.

Hoover's Online
Company information on public and private enterprises in the U.S. and around the world, including company profiles, in-depth and historical financials, lists of officers, and the ability to create lists of companies by location, industry, sales, and/or type.

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Informe 1994- Gale Info Trac
Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
InfoTrac OneFile Gale InfoTrac
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.
Information Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA) EBSCOhost NEW
A leading database in the areas of information science. ISTA indexes journal articles from more than 450 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings and patents, with ongoing comprehensive coverage of the most important periodicals in this field. Coverage dates back to the mid 1960s.

Ingenta Select Ingenta NEW

International Index to Music Periodicals Chadwyck-Healey
Covers aspects of the world of music, from scholarly studies to the latest crazes.
International Political Science Abstracts EBSCOhost NEW
International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA), produced by the International Political Science Association, includes current indexing and abstracts of the world's leading journals in political science. This database covers nearly 900 journals published from 1989 to the present.
IPA: International Pharmaceutical Abstracts CSA
Abstracts of articles, reports, and meeting papers from sources containing pharmaceutical information.
IRWI: Information Research Watch International CSA
Reports new, ongoing and completed research in information and library science and related fields from around the world. Compiled from records supplied by the researchers themselves, the database gives access to information about current research prior to its appearance in the published literature, with details of researcher affiliation, research funding and funding bodies, duration, status of project and researcher contact information. Currently contains over 8,500 records from more than 70 countries stretching back over 20 years.
ISI Web of Knowledge Thomson Scientific NEW Now Remotely Accessible
Includes Journal Citation Reports® on the Web: Science Edition 2005, Journal Citation Reports® Social Sciences Edition 2005, Medline®: 1950 - present, Web of Science: Science Citation Index Expanded (1996-present) and Web of Science: Social Sciences Citation Index (1996-present).

Issues & Controversies
Issues and Controversies is similar in depth and scope to the well-known print reference source from Facts on File. The database is an efficient way to research contentious contemporary issues while providing analysis and background information.

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Journal Citation Reports: Science Edition (2005) ISI Web of Knowledge NEW Now Remotely Accessible
Journal Citation Reports®, a Web-based research tool that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. Journal Citation Reports Science Edition contains data from over 5,900 journals in science and technology.

Journal Citation Reports: Social Science Edition (2005) ISI Web of Knowledge NEW Now Remotely Accessible
Journal Citation Reports®, a Web-based research tool that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. Journal Citation Reports Social Science Edition contains contains data from over 1,700 journals in the social sciences.

Junior Edition - K12
Gale InfoTrac via NOVEL
Formerly SuperTOM Junior, this periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

JSTOR
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Provides access to long runs of backfiles of scholarly journals, making complete archives of full text available and searchable over the World Wide Web. Coverage begins with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s, and extends to a "moving wall" of 2 to 5 years prior to the most recently published issue. Includes 239 journals in economics, history, political science, sociology, ecology, mathematics, statistics, archaeology, classics, and Asian, African, Slavic, Latin American, and Middle Eastern studies, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. Please click here for on campus access if you experience difficulty with the main url.

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Knovel Library Knovel NEW (Trial)
Over 650 books and databases are available in the Library Product, which includes the primary offering Knovel Interactive Library and Premium Content. Knovel Interactive Library is sub-divided into Subject Area Collections and Subject Areas such as Biochemistry, Biology & Biotechnology, Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Food Science, Pharmaceuticals, Cosmetics & Toiletries Safety, and Health & Hygiene.

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LexisNexis Academic Universe
Wide-ranging database of news, legal, and business information. Includes full text articles and information from magazines, newspapers, journals, directories, and financial reports. Access company profiles, medical and health topics, state and country profiles, state and federal case law, and much more.
Lexi-Comp Online NEW (Pharmacy Faculty and Students Only - Username & Password Required via College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences)
Provides clinical information and advanced technology that provides healthcare professionals with the resources they need to improve point-of-care decisions. Knowledge areas include pharmacology, interactions, diagnostic procedures and laboratory tests, pharmacogenomics, natural products, poisoning and toxicology, dentistry, infectious diseases, and patient education. Information is stratified by several areas of specialty, including Pediatrics, Cardiology, Oncology, Geriatrics, Psychology, and Anesthesiology. Username and password required. Please contact Dr. S. Schilit at College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences to obtain username and password: Tel: (718) 488-3460 or E-Mail: sara.schilit@liu.edu.

Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) CSA
An international abstracting and indexing tool designed for library professionals and other information specialists. LISA currently abstracts over 440 periodicals from more than 68 countries and in more than 20 different languages.
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA) Ebsco NEW
Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

Library Literature and Information Science Full Text
WilsonWeb NEW
A bibliographic database that indexes articles and book reviews in more than 234 key library and information science period