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Academic Search Premier from
EBSCOHost
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ACM Digital Library:
Association for Computing Machinery database.
Full text is available for ACM publications.
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ACS Journals Search the journals published by the
American Chemical Society. Full text and Archives available.
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AGRICOLA: from the National Agricultural Library, indexes
journals (1970-), books, etc. which relate to agriculture, including plant,
animal and veterinary science; agribusiness; economic, public policy,
environmental issues.
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America History & Life from
EBSCOHost
- Annual Reviews: This series contains analytic review articles covering a wide range of disciplines in the biomedical, physical and social sciences.
All of the titles listed below are available in our library. You can search their contents and read abstracts of articles using the Annual Reviews online database. Then use the library's print copies to read the complete article.
The full text of articles from these Annual Reviews is available only in print:
Some online full text is available for the following titles (for older volumes, use the library's print copies) :
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Annual Review of Anthropology
(301.2 An 55, r)
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Annual Review of Biochemistry
(572 An 5, r)
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Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology (571.6 An 5, r)
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Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics
(577 An 2, r)
- Annual
Review of Entomology (595.7 An 5, r)
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Annual Review of Genetics
(576.5 An 5, g)
- Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics (599.935 An 5, r)
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Annual Review of Microbiology (579 An 5, r)
- Annual
Review of Nutrition (613.2 An 5, r)
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Annual Review of Physiology (612.058 An)
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Annual Review of Plant Biology (581.1058 An)
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Annual Review of Psychology (150.058 An)
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ArtCyclopedia: search by
artist, title of work, or museum, plus selected articles and news
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Art Resource:
images and links to museum collections -- Check rules for use of images from each museum or collection.
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ATLA Religion Database from
EBSCOHost
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Britannica Online: contains the complete Encyclopędia
Britannica and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, with over 72,000
articles, 10,000 illustrations, and 75,000 definitions.
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Business Source Elite from
EBSCOHost
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CHID: Combined Health Information Database: Health and
wellness related resources on selected topics, 1985- .
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Clinical Pharmacology from
EBSCOHost
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CogPrints - Cognitive Sciences E-Print Archive
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Communication and Mass Media Complete from
EBSCOHost
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CQ Congressional Quarterly: CQ Weekly and CQ
Researcher online
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Crime and Justice Data
Online: State and local data about crime and justice from the U.S.
Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics.
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DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals.
Search journals published only on the web.
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EBSCOhost Periodical Indexes
Complete List
Choose from several databases -- search them separately, or search several
databases simultaneously. Many articles are full-text online.
Access to EBSCOhost is restricted to Central College students, faculty, and
staff. (Guide to
using EBSCOhost)
- Academic Search Premier
- America History & Life
- ATLA Religion Database
- Business Source Elite
- Clinical Pharmacology
- Communication & Mass Media Complete
- ERIC
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
- Health Source: Consumer Edition
- LISTA: Library, Information
Science & Technology Abstracts
- Newspaper Source
- Primary Search
- Professional Development Collection
- PsycInfo
- Regional Business News
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
- Topic Search
- Vocational and Career Collection
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Energy Citations Database: Choose "Advanced Search."
Search here for for publicly available energy and energy-related scientific and
technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor
agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic
Energy Commission (AEC). 1948 - . Some full text available
online.
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ERIC from
EBSCOHost. Some full text available online.
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ERIC via FirstSearch
: Index to literature in the field of Education.
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Find Articles.com
Search articles in academic, industry and general interest publications.
Some are full text online. Some are abstracts only and must be requested
through Interlibrary Loan.
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FirstSearch: contains information about books,
journal articles, films, computer software and other types of material in over
50 separate databases. If you use the general link to
FirstSearch you will be able to search up to three databases at a time, or
you can go directly to the search screen of an individual database by choosing
from the list below. Access to FirstSearch is restricted to Central College
students, faculty and staff.
You can use the following link to determine which
FirstSearch database indexes a particular journal title.
Periodical Titles in
FirstSearch.
*Free access to these databases is provided by SILO (State of Iowa
Libraries Online)
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ArticleFirst - An OCLC index of articles from nearly 15,000
journals
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ECO - Electronic Collections Online. Abstracts
from over 3,000 Scholarly journals.
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ERIC - Journal
articles and reports in education
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GPO - U.S. government publications
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MEDLINE - All areas of medicine, including
dentistry and nursing
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PapersFirst - An index of papers presented at
conferences worldwide
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Proceedings - An index of worldwide conference
proceedings
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WorldCat - Books and other materials in
libraries worldwide
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AGRICOLA - Materials relating to all aspects of agriculture,
forestry, and animal science
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AHSearch - Online Arts and Humanities Citation Index
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AltPressIndex - Indexes journals covering cultural, economic,
political & social change
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AltPressIndex Archive - Index of journals 1969-1990
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BioDigest - Life-science information written in a
non-technical style
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BooksInPrint - In-print, out-of-print, & forthcoming books,
now with reviews!
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BusDateline - Regional information vital to businesses
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BusIndustry - Business and Industry. Facts, figures and key
events
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BusinessOrgs -
Organizations that serve business and industry
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ClasePeriodica -
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities
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ConsumerIndex - Index of articles providing
consumer information
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CWI - Contemporary Women's Issues on health and
human rights
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Dissertations - Dissertations accepted at
accredited U.S. institutions
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EconLit - Journals, books, and working papers on
economics
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GEOBASE - Worldwide literature on geography,
geology, and ecology
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Media Review Digest -
Reviews of educational media and entertainment resources
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NewsAbs - Significant items in over 50 national
and regional newspapers
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PAIS & PAISArchive -
Public Affairs Information Service database
is no longer available from FirstSearch. Now available from
CSA
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Handbook of Latin American Studies
Online: Humanities and social sciences in and about Latin America.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition from
EBSCOHost
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Health Source: Consumer Edition from
EBSCOHost
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HighWire Press: Includes partial full-text of 800+ journals in
Biology, Chemistry, Medicine, Neuroscience, Plant Science, Psychiatry, etc.;
coverage varies by title.
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In The First Person: an index to oral histories and personal narratives with links to fulltext, audio, and video when available.
- Ingenta (formerly UnCover: current article information taken from
well over 18,000 multidisciplinary journals.
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JSTOR: Full text archive of over 500 scholarly journals in the arts,
humanities and sciences, with complete digitized back runs of core scholarly
journals starting with the very first issues CURRENT ISSUES of JOURNALS
ARE NOT AVAILABLE HERE.
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LexisNexis Academic: provides access to legal, business, medical,
news & reference information. Many items are in full text online. Access to
Lexis/Nexis is restricted to Central College students, faculty and staff.
(Guide to using
LexisNexis Academic and
List of Sources Indexed in Lexis Nexis Academic)
- LISTA: Library,
Information Science & Technology Abstracts from
EbscoHost
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Literary Index
(Gale Group): "Gale's Literary Index is a master index to the major
literature products published by Gale Group, Inc. It combines and cross
references more than 135,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant
names, and more than 165,000 titles into one source."
Click here to find
titles Geisler Library holds.
- Literature Resource Center: Provides single-search access to an extensive collection of classic literary reference works, such as Gale's Dictionary of Literary Biography series, as well as critical information on authors and their works and current journal articles in literary studies.
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MLA Directory of Periodicals - Detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400
currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries
include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation,
subscription prices and submission guidelines.
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MLA International Bibliography - Indexes books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies on literature, language, linguistics, folklore.
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MEDLINEplus: Quality health care information from the National
Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
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National Library of Medicine Gateway: "The NLM Gateway allows users
to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine
(NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus,
AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus
and DIRLINE." The Gateway does simultaneous searching in multiple
NLM databases.
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NewsBank: Provides access to full text of
more than 700 world and U.S. regional and local newspapers including the
Des Moines
Register (1999- ). Access to this resource is
restricted to current Central College students, faculty and staff.
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Newspaper Source from
EBSCOHost - provides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and
international newspapers. Also contains full text television & radio news
transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.)
newspapers. Updated daily.
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PAIS:
Public Affairs Information Index.
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Physical Education Index:
Indexes and provides abstracts for many types of publications dealing with all
aspects of Physical Education and Exercise Science, from Education and Coaching
to Law and Patents.
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Population Index: is
the primary reference to the world's population literature, including books,
journals and other sources. Includes demographics and related subjects such as
health, human biology, human migration, sociological aspects of population,
1986-
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Primary Search from
EBSCOHost -full text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary
school research, which are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
Full text information dates as far back as 1990. Updated daily.
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PrimateLit from U.
of Wisconsin. Search the literature on primatology research from 1940-
present.
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Professional Development Collection from
EBSCOHost - Designed for professional educators, this database provides a
highly specialized collection of more than 550 high quality education journals,
including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles, and more than 200 educational
reports.
- Project MUSE - A multidisciplinary collection of online scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
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PsycINFO from
EBSCOHost. Psychology and related fields since 1887.
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PubMed: PubMed is a service of the
U.S. National Library of Medicine that
includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals
for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes some links to full
text articles and other related resources.
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Regional Business News from
EBSCOHost - provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business
publications, incorporating coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and
newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Updated on a daily basis.
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature from
EBSCOHost - is an international bibliography of scholarly writings on music
as well as music-related disciplines, which indexes of sources published
in over 140 languages. 1967 - present.
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STN: (Scientific and Technical information Network) Provides access
to CA (Chemical Abstracts),
CAOLD,
CIN and
REGISTRY. This
interface is password protected. Geisler Library has
limited hours of access. It
is only searchable with assistance from a chemistry faculty member or a librarian. Please contact
your chemistry prof. or a
librarian to set up an appointment to search STN.
(Guide to preparing
a search on STN and
STNEasy
Overview)
- Teacher Reference Center from EBSCOHost - Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
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Print Indexes available
at Geisler Library
Periodical Titles in OCLC FirstSearch
http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/periodicals/default.htm
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Source List
http://cisweb.lexis-nexis.com/sourceselect/listSources.asp?srcpdn=academic&product=universe&unix=http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe
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