Instructions for off-campus access to databases
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| Academic Search Premier (1984 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Academic Search Premier is the world's largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database designed specifically for academic institutions. This resource indexes over 4300 periodicals and contains full text for over 3400 scholarly publications. Academic Search Premier includes full-page images as well as color embedded images. This scholarly collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. |
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| Access Science Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form AccessScience is an online encyclopedia of science and technology. AccessScience contains encyclopedia articles, dictionary terms, biographies, research updates, and science news. |
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| ACM Digital Library (1985 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library provides bibliographic information, abstracts, index terms, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in ACM journals, magazines, and conference proceedings since 1985. In the future, citations to ACM materials will be added to OhioLINK's Electronic Journal Center; direct access to the ACM Digital Library is provided as an interim service. |
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| African-American Poetry Database (1760 - 1900) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Contains nearly 3,000 poems. All of the poems are available full-text. |
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| America: History and Life Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Provides a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. |
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| American Chemical Society Journals Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form ACS Journals provides abstracts and full text for journals and magazines from the American Chemical Society. This site is the source for older ACS journals, known as the ACS Journal Archives. Current ACS journals are available both through this site and through the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center. |
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| American Drama Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Contains hundreds of plays written by American dramatists. |
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| American Heritage Dictionary Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Provides definitions for new words, biographical entries, and lists of synonyms, usage notes, or examples of usage taken from published works of well-known writers. |
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| American National Biography Online Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form American National Biography Online is a 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. Also included are over 900 articles from The Oxford Companion to United States History, which provides information on the landmark events in U.S. history and gives context to the lives included in ANB Online. 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, but coverage of people in this category is not yet complete. |
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| American Periodicals Series Online (1741-1900) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form American Periodicals Series Online contains page images of more than 1,100 historic American magazines, journals, and newspapers. These resources illuminate the development of American culture, politics, and society across some 150 years. Articles can be searched by author, source, and words in the complete text. The collection is arranged in three series: 1741-1800, the period of transition from British colony to emerging nation; 1800-1850, pre-Civil War and the era of debate over slavery; and 1850-1900, Civil War and Reconstruction. Magazines of these periods cover the literature, science, religion, arts, and history of the time. |
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| American Poetry Database (1600 - early 1900s) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Contains the full-text of over 40,000 poems by more than 200 writers. |  |
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| America's Newspapers Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form America's Newspapers is a collection of full-text newspapers available online. The database includes 17 Ohio newspapers, plus other major newspapers from other states. Content includes local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded. |
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| Annals of American History This database is not available off-campus. 2000 primary documents in American history, including historical accounts, speeches, memoirs, poems, editorials, and cultural criticism. Also includes 500 pictures, hundreds of video clips, and audio of famous speeches. |
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| Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (1920 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Lists monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays, and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world. Subjects covered include English language, literature, bibliography, and culture. |
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| Anthropology Plus (1984 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Anthropology Plus provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers excellent coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present. Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. |
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| AP Multimedia Archive Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Contains approximately 500,000 photos and selections of pictures from the AP image and print negative library. Pictures cover local, state, national and international subjects. |
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| Applied Science & Technology Abstracts (October 1983 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Provides citations to articles in more than 400 engineering, science, and technology journals as well as industry publications. Updated monthly. |
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| Art Abstracts (1929 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Covers 220 leading international art publications. Can be searched by artist's name, work of art, title of publication, title of article, or subject. Updated monthly. |
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| ARTFL (1600 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form ARTFL consists of 2000 texts in the French language ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. |
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| ArticleFirst (1990 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Contains citations to journal articles covering the humanities, popular culture, science, technology, business and the social sciences. Updated daily. |
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| Arts and Humanities Citation Index Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form A&HCI is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes over 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from another 6,900 major journals in the areas of the sciences and social sciences. A&HCI also provides access to an article's cited references or the footnotes from an author's bibliography. |
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| ATLA Religion Database (1949 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Provides access to over 1 million citations from international journals, multi-author works, and book reviews related to religious and theological scholarship. (1949 - present) |
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| Avery Index to Architecture Periodicals (1977 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Indexes more than 1,000 periodicals published worldwide on all areas of architecture. Updated Daily. |
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| The Bible in English Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form The full-text of 21 editions of the Bible written in English. Can be searched by contents, keyword, and parallel text (by chapter). |
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| Bibliography of American Literature (1955 - 1991) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Provides nearly 40,000 records of the literary works of approximately 300 American writers from the period of the Revolution to 1930. | | |
| Bibliography of the History of Art (1973 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present; it indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals. Updated quarterly. |
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| Biography Index (July 1984 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Contains more than 150,000 citations to biographical information from books, periodicals, and newspapers. Updated monthly. |
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| Biological & Agricultural Index (July 1983 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Covers 225 English language publications related to biology and agriculture. Updated monthly. |
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| Biological Abstracts (1980 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form An international database covering the life science disciplines. Nearly 7,000 journals are indexed. Updated monthly. |
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| Book Review Digest (January 1983 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Indexes book reviews published in 95 selected periodicals. Each citation contains an excerpt from the review. Updated monthly. |
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| Business and Company Resource Center (January 1980 - present) Click here for off-campus access via remote authentication Use this database to find articles on: finance, acquisitions and mergers, international trade, money management, new technologies and products, local and regional business trends, investments and banking. |
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| Business and Industry Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Contains broad-based business information at an international level. |
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| Business Source Premier (1984 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Business Source Premier indexes over 3200 periodicals and contains full text for over 2700 scholarly journals and business periodicals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, etc. Business Source Premier contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals and also includes many leading journals in the areas of economics, finance, and accounting, as well as country economic reports. More than 200 of the journals have PDF full text back to 1965 or the first issue published. Business Source Premier contains PDF images for the great majority of journals; many of these PDF's are native (searchable) or scanned-in-color. |
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| Chicano Database (1967 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Identifies all types of material on Mexican-American topics and about Chicanos; it also includes the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, Central American immigrants, and the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database, covering psychological, sociological, and educational literature. Updated quarterly. |
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| CINAHL (1982 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Covers over 900 journals related to nursing and the allied health disciplines. Updated monthly. |
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| Clase and Periodica Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Clase and Periodica is an index of articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues. CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIÓDICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Together, they offer access to citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages. |
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| Cleveland News Index This databases is available to anyone off-campus Includes indexing of local news stories, feature articles and reviews from: The Plain Dealer, Cleveland Magazine (1983 - present), Northern Ohio Live (September 1990 - present), and Ohio Magazine (October 1990 - present). Obituaries from The Plain Dealer and the Cleveland Press are included from 1976 to the present. |
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| Clinical Pharmacology Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs. Search by generic or brand name, indication, contraindication, adverse reaction or therapeutic classification. Monographs include description, mechanism of action, pharmacokinetics, indications, dosing by indication, including FDA-approved and off-label uses, and pediatric, adult and geriatric dosing, contraindications, adverse reactions, classifications, and costs. Includes patient education records in English or Spanish. |
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| College Source This database is not available off-campus Catalogs from nearly 3,000 U.S. colleges and universities, plus 700 international schools. Catalogs are available full-text in PDF format. |
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| Columbia Encyclopedia Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Provides over 50,000 articles, each consisting of a precise definition of the word or phrase being searched. Entries often include cross references to related articles or bibliographic references to other works. |
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| ComDisDome This database is not available off-campus The Dome is the premier information service for speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and students in the field of Communication Sciences and Disorders. In one convenient location, the Dome will quickly identify and connect you to reliable information from multiple sources including books, journal articles, dissertations, grants, authors, institutions, websites. |
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| Communication & Mass Media Complete (1915 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Communication & Mass Media Complete incorporates CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource in the communication and mass media fields. 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. Furthermore, 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. CMMC contains a sophisticated controlled vocabulary and comprehensive reference browsing. |
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| Compendex (1969 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Compendex Historical (1884 - 1968) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Offers abstracts and bibliographic citations for all engineering disciplines on an international basis. Updated weekly. |
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| Computer Source Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology with abstracts and indexing for over 330 periodicals. Topics include computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software. This database features over 250 full text periodicals covering valuable market information in computers, telecommunications, electronics, and the Internet. |
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| Contemporary Authors (1960 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form A bio-bibliographical guide covering more than 100,000 writers from a wide range of media. Includes current writers of both fiction and non-fiction, poets, broadcast and print journalists, and literary greats of the early twentieth century. Coverage also includes some writers who were active prior to 1960 and whose works continue to influence contemporary literature. |
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| Contemporary Women's Issues Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Provides full-text access to global information about women. (Update and coverage varies with section.) |
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| Digital Disserations (Dissertation Abstracts) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Dissertation Abstracts (Digital Dissertations) contains more than 1.6 million entries for doctoral dissertations and master's theses. The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Since 1997, new publications have been available electronically, and many publications can be ordered through the system for a fee. The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. |
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| Digital Media Center Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form OhioLINK Digital Media Center current components: Art and Architecture Images, Borror Laboratory of BioAcoustics Recorded Animal Sounds, Digital Video Collection, Dolphin Embryo Digitized Slides, Foreign Language Videos, Geology Digital Photographs, Greek and Latin Inscriptions, Historic and Archival Collections, Kent State Shootings Oral Histories, Lake Erie’s Yesterdays, LANDSAT 7 Satellite Image Server, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Digital Images, Reproductive Physiology Animations, Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, Saskia Art History Images, Science Database, Social Science Collections, and Wright Brothers Digital Photographs. |
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| Early American Fiction Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Contains hundreds of works written by American novelists and short story writers, 1774-1850. |
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| EBSCO Databases Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Menu of databases provided through EBSCO Publishing. These databases are also listed individually on the various Ritter Library database pages. |
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| EconLit (1969 - present) This database is not available off-campus. Covers the international literature on economics. Provides bibliographic citations, with selected abstracts of journal articles, books, dissertations, working papers, collected works, conferences, book reviews, and more. Topics include economic development, forecasting, and history; fiscal and monetary theory; business and public finance; international, healthcare, regional and urban economics, and more. Updated monthly. |
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| Economist Intelligence Unit - Country Commerce This database is not available off-campus. Country Commerce is a practical reference guide to the specific operating conditions, commercial laws and business regulations in more than 50 countries. It offers unbiased guidance on critical issues such as obtaining proper permits and registrations, protecting your intellectual property in the Internet age and complying with local tax laws-including e-commerce rules. |
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| Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (1623 - 1866) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Consists of selected full-text from eleven major editions of Shakespeare's works, adaptations, and related writings. |
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| Education Abstracts (1983 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Covers 400 international periodicals, yearbooks, and book series in education addressing a wide variety of topics. Updated monthly. |
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| Eighteenth Century Fiction (1700 - 1780) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Offers the complete text of 96 works of British prose fiction. |
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| Electronic Journal Center Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form More than one million full-text articles in all subject areas. |
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| Electronic Reference Books Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form The OhioLINK Electronic Reference Books collection contains special-topic reference books - encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical collections, guides from ABC-CLIO - an educational reference publisher. |
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| Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center (2000 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center is a free online database of masters' theses and doctoral dissertations from graduate students in participating Ohio colleges and universities. |
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| Encyclopedia Britannica Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Full text of the Encyclopædia Britannica. |
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| Encyclopedia Britannica School Edition Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Full text of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, and Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia. |
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| Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Spanish edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. |
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| English Poetry Database (600 - 1900) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Contains the full-text of over 160,000 poems written in English. Over 1,350 poets are included. It does not include American poetry. |
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| English Prose Drama (1501 - 1900) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Contains the full-text of 1600 plays written in prose. This source is based on plays listed in the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. |
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| English Short Title Catalogue (1473 - 1800) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Describes works printed in any language in England or its dependencies produced prior to the nineteenth century. |
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| English Verse Drama (late 1300s - 1900) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Contains the full-text of over 2200 plays by hundreds of different authors. This source is based on materials listed in the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. |
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| ERIC (1966 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form A national education database sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. It consists of over 900,000 citations from periodicals, reports, and other sources spanning the entire field of education and related areas. Updated monthly. |
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| ERIC Documents This database is available to anyone off-campus Contains the full-text of ERIC documents from 1993 - present. |
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| Essay & General Literature Index (June 1983 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Provides access to over 65,000 essays and articles in anthologies and collections, emphasizing the humanities and social sciences. Updated semi-annually. |
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| FRANCIS Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (63%), social sciences (33%), and economics (4%); strong in religion, the history of art, and literature, with particular emphasis on current trends in European and world literature. |
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| Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry. |
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| GeoRef (1785 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Provides historical and current information in geology and related areas. |
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| Google Scholar This database is available to anyone off-campus Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. |
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| GPO Monthly Catalog (1976 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Contains records on all subjects of interest to the U.S. government. Updated monthly. |
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| Grove Music This database is not available off-campus The culmination of more than 12 years of work by 2,400 scholars. Information on the history and development of music, composers, performers, instruments, and musical forms. Covers every type of music, from classical to popular to jazz. Over 4,000 illustrations. |
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| Hand Press Book (1455-1830) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Includes records for European printing of the hand-press period (c. 1455-1830) from the Consortium of European Research Libraries, whose 48 members represent national and university libraries in 25 countries. |
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| Handbook of Latin American Studies (1990 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Offers scholarly evaluations of books, journal articles and other resources in the field of Latin American studies. Updated annually. (1990 - present) |
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| HarpWeek: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction (1857 - 1871) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Full-text archive of Harper's Weekly, a national publication during the American Civil War era. Contains articles, editorials, illustrations, and advertisements. Search by date, keyword, literature genre, and individuals' standing in society or occupation. |
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| Health Source - Consumer Edition Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Health Source: Consumer Edition is a rich collection of consumer health information. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for over 190 journals, as well as abstracts and indexing for over 200 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. Also included are the patient-oriented drug manual, USP DI: Volume II Advice for the Lay Patient and 20 health reference books, including books published by the People's Medical Society, plus over 1000 health-related pamphlets; 7000 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); and Stedman’s Medical Dictionary. This full text database covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children’s health, women’s health, etc. |
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| Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 590 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 625 journals. This product offering also includes USP Pharmacopoeia DI: Volume II Advice for the Lay Patient and Stedman's Medical Dictionary. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong. |
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| Historical Abstracts (1955 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Contains references about the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). |
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| History of Science, Technology and Medicine (1975 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science and technology and allied historical fields. Updated annually. |
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| Humanities Abstracts (1984 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Provides cover-to-cover indexing of 400 English-language periodicals. Includes feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, and reviews of the following: plays; operas; ballets; dance; musicals; motion pictures; videotapes; videodiscs; television and radio programs; and works of fiction, drama, and poetry. Excludes advertisements, meeting announcements, editorials, and letters to the editors. Updated monthly. |
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| Humanities International Index Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Humanities International Index indexes journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. Produced by Whitston Publishing, Humanities International Index provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals, with deep backfiles for some of the most important journals in the area of humanities. The database includes all data from American Humanities Index plus bibliographic records from international journals, books and reference works. This database provides citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations. |
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| In The First Person This database is available to anyone off-campus In the First Person is a new library index that lets users perform in-depth field and keyword searches across all letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials that are freely available on the Web and Alexander Street databases. With a single search, users can access thousands of personal narratives in English from archives and repositories everywhere. The search returns citation information and links to full text, audio, and video whenever available. Every imaginable topic, historical event, and person is covered, from World War I and II to popular culture, music to medicine, Hitler to John Wayne, gay rights to September 11th. It’s the most comprehensive archive of social memory yet created – a one-stop starting point for historians, sociologists, genealogists, linguists, and psychologists who want to find, explore, and analyze human experiences. It will be updated quarterly. |
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| Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Indexes 42 art journals published in the US during the 19th century and offers information on popular culture and industry, artists and illustrators, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture and design, exhibitions and sales, decorations, and collecting. |
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| Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (1985 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Covers international law (public and private), comparative law, and municipal law of countries other than the United States, British Isles, and British Commonwealth; indexes articles as well as book reviews from more than 450 legal periodicals, including journals, essay collections, festschrifts, and congress reports. Updated quarterly. |
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| Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (1981 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Includes citations to articles from 630 law periodicals, case notes, legislative notes, and more. Items indexed are from the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Updated monthly. |
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| Ingenta (Fall 1988 - present) This database is available to anyone off-campus A database of current article information taken from well over 17,000 multidisciplinary periodicals. Contains brief descriptive information for over 7,000,000 articles. Offers you the opportunity to order fax copies of the articles from this database for a fee. |
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| Inside Information Plus (1966 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Describes articles on all topics appearing in 21,000 of the most-requested titles in the British Library Document Supply Centre's collection of 65,000 serials. Updated weekly. |
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| INSPEC (1969 - present) INSPEC Archive (1898 - 1968) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Provides access to the world's scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology; also has significant coverage in areas such as materials science, oceanography, nuclear engineering, geophysics, biomedical engineering and biophysics. |
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| International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance is an index to journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance. IBTD is a multicultural and inter-disciplinary research tool for theater students, educators and professionals. IBTD was initiated by the American Society for Theatre Research. Since 1984, the Theatre Research Data Center (TRDC) at Brooklyn College has published 14 volumes of the IBTD. These volumes comprise a fully indexed, cross-referenced and annotated databank of journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries. TRDC will continue indexing various titles for the database as well as coordinating international contributors. |
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| LearningExpress Library Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form LearningExpress Library offers students and adults unlimited, 24/7 access to targeted skill-building interactive courses in math, reading, and writing, as well as hundreds of online interactive practice tests that prepare them for several types of exams including grade school achievement tests, the SAT, GED, U.S. Citizenship, and civil service positions. Complete answer explanations accompany each response so that patrons understand why a particular answer is correct or incorrect. All practice tests include instant diagnostic score reports that help patrons to target those skill areas that need the most attention. To help students master the SAT and recently added essay, instant score reports provide immediate feedback on how well they performed in each of five writing skill areas. To take a test at LearningExpress Library, you first set up your own individual account. Note: You must set up your account while at an authenticating site (on campus or at an Ohio public library or school). Thereafter, the account is accessible from anywhere. |
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| LexisNexis Academic Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Contains the full-text of newspapers for the past 20 years, company news and financial information, federal and state legislative materials, medical and health information, general information sources and much more. Updates and coverage vary with section. |
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| Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts indexes periodicals, 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. |
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| Library Literature (December 1984 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Indexes materials in library and information science. Includes periodical articles, book and periodical reviews, and audiovisual materials. Updated monthly. |
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| Literature Resource Center (January 1980 - present) Click here for off-campus access via remote authentication The Literature Resource Center combines content from three main sources: Contemporary Authors, offering biographical coverage of more than 120,000 writers; Contemporary Literary Criticism, featuring entries on all authors appearing in CLC since vol. 95 of the print series and complete profiles of 266 most studied authors from editions prior to vol. 95; and Dictionary of Literary Biography, containing more than 10,000 biocritical essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars. Also included is content selected from Children's Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Drama Criticism, Drama for Students, Literature from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Literature of Developing Nations for Students, Literature and Its Times, Novels for Students, Poetry Criticism, Poetry for Students, Shakespearean Criticism, Shakespeare for Students, Short Story Criticism, Short Stories for Students, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. |
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| Marquis Who's Who This database is not available off campus. Marquis Who’s Who features comprehensive profiles on over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science & technology, the arts, entertainment and sports. |
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| MasterFILE Premier Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Provides full text for over 1,900 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more. |
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| MathSciNet (1940 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Searchable web version of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications. This database is produced by the American Mathematical Society. Updated daily. |
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| Medicare and Medicaid Answers Now This database is not available off-campus. A comprehensive source for health-related reimbursement and compliance information. |
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| MEDLINE last five years Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form 1966 - present Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form 1953 - 1965 (OLDMEDLINE) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. An international index for medical literature. Addresses all aspects of medicine and healthcare and offers citations from nearly 4,000 periodicals and books. Updated weekly. |
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| Mental Measurements Yearbook (1985 - present) This database is not available off-campus Descriptive information, references, and critical reviews of psychological tests. |
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| Mergent Online This database is not available off-campus Mergent Online features financial reports, company news and EDGAR filings for 15,000 U.S. public companies and 20,000 international companies. |
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| Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary This database is available to anyone off-campus Contains over 160,000 word entries plus a thesaurus and spelling help. |
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| MLA Directory of Periodicals Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form MLA Directory of Periodicals lists over 4400 periodicals in the areas of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore that are covered regularly in the MLA International Bibliography. The directory provides addresses, advertising rates, and information about submissions for publication. |
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| MLA International Bibliography (1963 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Provides over a million citations to scholarly publications in literature, modern languages, and linguistics. Updated monthly. |
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| Morgan Bibliography of Ohio Imprints (1796–1850) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Morgan Bibliography of Ohio Imprints, 1796–1850 describes books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in Ohio, from the earliest in 1796 through 1850. The bibliography is compiled and maintained by Richard P. Morgan of the Morgan Library of Ohio Imprints. The bibliography includes names of libraries that own copies of these historical materials to aid in locating originals. Through a partnership with the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, many titles formerly owned by the Morgan Library are now in the AAS collections. The Morgan Library of Ohio Imprints is also compiling an Ohio Name and Institution Index of those names and institutions mentioned in the imprints. |
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| Music Index This database is not available off-campus Indexing for more than 670 international classical and popular music periodicals. Indexing covers musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries. |
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| Musical America This database is not available off-campus Musical America features over 14,000 detailed listings of worldwide arts organizations and over 10,000 artists, artist managers, orchestras, opera companies, concert series, festivals, competitions, music schools and departments, record companies, facilities, services and products. Also included are feature articles and editorials. |
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| National Underground Railroad Freedom Center E-Books Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form National Underground Railroad Freedom Center E-Books provides digital versions of historical books from the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. You can search for specific words or phrases within books, or view entire books. Some of the transcribed pages link to images of the original printed pages. |
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| Naxos Music Library This database is not available off-campus. Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Whilst listening, users can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database. |
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| NetLibrary Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Full-text books availableto browse, view, and check out online. |
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| NewsBank See America's Newspapers. |
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| Newspaper Source Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Newspaper Source contains selected full text for 245 regional U.S. newspapers, eighteen international newspapers, six newswires, nine newspaper columns, and cover-to-cover full text for The Christian Science Monitor and The Los Angeles Times. This database also contains indexing and abstracts for four national newspapers. |
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| Ohio Capitol Connection Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Information on the actions and activities of the Ohio legislature and state government, including the complete texts of bills, amendments, and analyses; opinions and decisions; proposed rules and policies; meeting agendas and results of a number of state departments and agencies. It updates the status of bills daily and reports daily on the actions of each standing legislative committee. |
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| Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center Click here for off-campus access via remote authentication Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. |
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| Oxford English Dictionary (2nd Edition) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Can be searched for both current and historical definitions of a word. Can also provide quotations and search for the occurrence of a word in any definition. Updated periodically. |
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| Oxford Reference Online Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form 100 well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books, plus an Encyclopedia, in a single cross-searchable database. |
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| Oxford Scholarship Online This database is not available off-campus Oxford Scholarship Online combines OUP's core scholarly books in four disciplines (Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science and Religion and Theology) and powerful research tools into one cross-indexed, fully searchable database. |
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| PAIS Database (1972 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form The Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) database contains citations and abstracts to periodical articles in business and the social sciences. Entries included in PAIS emphasize public policy and modern political, social, and economic issues. Updated monthly. |
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| PapersFirst (1993 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Provides access to individual papers presented at conferences worldwide, covering every congress, symposium, exposition, workshop and meeting added to the The British Library Document Supply Centre's collection. Updated monthly. |
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| ProceedingsFirst (1993 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Provides tables of contents of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Each record contains a list of the papers presented at one conference. ProceedingsFirst provides access to the British Library Document Supply Centre's collection of conference proceedings. Updated monthly. |
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| Professional Development Collection (Educators) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Professional Development Collection [Educators] provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers. This collection offers information on everything from children’s health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice. The Professional Development Collection includes abstract and index coverage for over 585 well-known professional development titles, and searchable full text for 504 journals covering the most current topics in the field of education. |
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| Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection covers emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. This database includes nearly 515 full text titles and over 490 peer-reviewed journals. |
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| PsycINFO 1967 - present Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form 1872 - 1966 Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Covers the literature of psychology and related disciplines from an extensive collection of periodicals, books, and dissertations. Updated quarterly. |
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| Regional Business News (Last 30 days) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Regional Business News is a collection of full text newswires that incorporates news information from all over the world. Information provided by these sources covers business, political, economic and other diverse, international news events. In order to maintain the most current collection of news, this database contains the most recent 30 days of information from each of these wire sources. |
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| Religion and Philosophy Collection Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Religion and Philosophy Collection covers such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. With over 290 full text journals and unparalleled coverage of the subject areas, the Religion & Philosophy Collection is an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies. |
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| RILM Music Abstracts (1969 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Provides over 200,000 citations on music and related disciplines from an international perspective. Updated monthly. |
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| RLG Union Catalog (advent of printing - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Serves as a comprehensive union catalog for everything from books and serials to archives, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, photographs, posters, and computer files. Reflects the collections of major research and academic libraries; archives and museums; law, medical, and theological libraries; art and music libraries; area studies collections; public and corporate libraries; historical societies and book clubs. Updated daily. |
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| Roget's II This database is available to anyone off-campus Roget's II: The New Thesaurus Containing 35,000 synonyms and over 250,000 cross-references in an easy-to-use format, this thesaurus features succinct word definitions and an innovative hyperlinked category index. |
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| Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies (1992 - present) Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Describes material on the social sciences and humanities published in the Commonwealth of Independent States and Eastern Europe. Includes books, manuscripts, dissertations, and articles from more than 10,000 periodicals. Updated bimonthly. |
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| Safari Tech Books Online Click here for off-campus access via OhioLINK/OPAL remote authentication form Safari Tech Books Online Electronic books in computer science, information technology, and related fields from O'Reilly and Associates and Pearson Technology Associates. These books can also be found, and linked to, by searching the Ritter Library’s OPAL catalog. |
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