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Humanities

ARTstor
ARTstor provides curated collections of art images and associated data for noncommercial and scholarly, non-profit educational use.

FirstSearch - Arts and Humanities Databases

Grove Music Online
Oxford Music Online comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition. Articles that have been updated since their appearance in print are date-stamped in the upper right corner of the screen.

The Literature Resource Center
The foundation of the LRC is built on Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism and Dictionary of Literary Biography. Also included are: full-text, excerpted material from Gale's Literature Criticism and For Students series as well as critical essays on major authors via links to more than 260 prominent literary journals.

NYPL Digital gallery
NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

Radical Scatters
Emily Dickinson's Fragments and Related Texts. 1870-1886.

Sciences

CINAHL Plus with Full Text
CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 560 journals indexed in CINAHL. Also includes legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. Special features: click "print" or "email" from the page describing the article, then choose APA citation style; create a folder to save articles; set up search alerts. Use PDF toolbar print icon to print PDF articles.

FAITS - Faulkner Advisory on Info Tech Studies
An online technology report library that contains information on critical issues, trends, market conditions, products, services and vendors driving the information technology industry.

FirstSearch - Engineering and Technology Databases

FirstSearch - General Science Databases

FirstSearch - Life Sciences  Databases

FirstSearch - Medicine and Health Sciences  Databases

General Science Collection
Full-text of more than 60 popular science publications including the encyclopedia: Great Scientific Achievements of the Twentieth Century.

GreenFILE
GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. It contains nearly 300,000 records; a small percentage are full-text.

Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module
Provides collection of books, journals, magazines and pamphlets for consumers and health care professionals. Includes information on alternative therapies.

Health Reference Center
Health-related articles, encyclopedia entries, brochures; some full-text.

MEDLINE
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.

New England Journal of Medicine
Online version of weekly general medical journal, with new medical research findings, more.

Science Direct
More than nine million scientific/technical scholarly research articles from 2500 journals plus books; many full-text. Click the "Search" link, then "Journals" tab to search only journals. Special features: e-mail article authors; save searches and create search alerts.

Science Reference Center
Science Reference Center contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. NEW: science video clips and photos; use "Images/Video" link.

Social Sciences

AnthroSource
AnthroSource serves the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists and anthropology students.

Business & Company Resource Center with Investext Plus
This database offers company profiles and news, industry news, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Thomson Financials' Investext Plus database is fully integrated in this database.

Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier provides full text for more than 8,800 serials, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Also offers SWOT analyses, company & industry profiles, market research reports for many companies. Special features: click "print" or "email" from the page describing the article, then choose MLA or APA citation style. Use PDF toolbar print icon to print PDF articles.

Career and Vocational Periodicals Database
A subset of InfoTrac Onefile, this database contains career-specific information.

Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. Online, The Chronicle is published every weekday and features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more.

CQ Researcher
Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Website includes issues back to 1991.

CQ's Electronic Encyclopedia of American Government.

Education Research Complete
Education Research Complete offers the world’s largest collection of full text education journals. Education Research Complete also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues

ERIC
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.

FAITS - Faulkner Advisory on Info Tech Studies
An online technology report library that contains information on critical issues, trends, market conditions, products, services and vendors driving the information technology industry.

FirstSearch Databases
FirstSearch offers dozens of individual databases on business, economics, consumer affairs, education, current events, law, and other social sciences topics. Some offer full-text; most index articles only. Click "Info" button for details on each database.

HarpWeek
Full-text articles with pictures from Harper's Weekly Civil War issues, 1857-1865.

Hoover's Online
Basic information on companies and industries. Business database with stock prices and information on corporations. Useful for Stock Market Project. New feature: Click "Build Custom Report."

Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts

Military & Government Collection
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military. This database provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.

Morningstar.com
Find information on mutual funds and current stock prices. To choose a mutual fund, click Tools > Basic Screener > Mutual Fund > set criteria.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Information on social issues, overviews, statistics, links to websites and full text-articles.

Professional Development Collection
Information for educators, librarians and education researchers. Contains full text for more than 500 journals and more than 200 educational reports.

PsycARTICLES
PsycARTICLES™ is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association and others. Covers 60 peer-reviewed journals and chapters from selected APA books.

Regional Business News
Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Science Direct
Scientific and technical research articles from the publisher Elsevier; some full-text. Includes social sciences as well as sciences. Special features: e-mail article authors; save searches and create search alerts.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy
The newspaper of the nonprofit world. It is the No. 1 news source, in print and online, for charity leaders, fund raisers, grant makers, and other people involved in the philanthropic enterprise.

Westlaw Campus Research
Use this database to search for state and federal laws, cases and regulations. Just click "I agree" button on the initial page, then click the "Law" tab.

Yahoo Finance
Free web site with financial information. Searches by ticker symbol; use Symbol Lookup. Useful links: Profile (under Company section) offers company overview; Charts > Technical Analysis for graph comparing stock to Dow, etc. for the year; under Quotes, see Historical Prices.

Other

INFORME
A collection of Spanish periodicals, some with full text.

SUNYConnect
Many of our resources are made possible by the support of:

SUNY Connect logo the SUNY-wide electronic library initiative and EmpireLink, a pilot project initiated by the New York  State Library to provide the people of New York  State with free access to full text,  online, commercial databases through their libraries.

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