The GrayLIT Network makes the gray literature of U.S. Federal Agencies easily accessible over the Internet. It taps into the search engines of distributed gray literature collections, enabling the user to find information without first having to know the sponsoring agency.
Developed by the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), in collaboration with DOD/DTIC, NASA, and EPA, the GrayLIT Network is a portal for technical report information generated through federally funded research and development projects.
Access to Google Scholar with Penn-only links to full-text articles. Once authenticated through Penn's proxy, full-text articles to which Penn Libraries subscribe will become available within the Google Scholar search results.
World Bank time series statistical data covering 1970 to the present, with forecast data for up to seven years, for the 138 countries reporting public and publicly-guaranteed debt. Data include external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, key debt ratios, average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructuring, and scheduled debt service projections.
The Gartner Group is a leading provider of market research reports, specializing in the information technology (IT) industries. These reports provide business technology research, consumer and market intelligence.
Bibliographic citations with abstracts for materials on philanthropy, the foundation world, the nonprofit sector, and charitable giving collected by the Foundation Center libraries and other sources. Topics covered include theory, philosophy, and workings of domestic and international philanthropy; composition, administration, management, and revenue generation in the nonprofit sector; the impact of government policies and funding including legal and tax implications of local, state, and federal regulation and legislation; voluntarism and company-sponsored foundations and corporate giving; and histories of individual foundations.
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Contains over 2000 venture capital, mezzanine, and LBO firms. Search by firm name, person, or investment criteria, such as: geography or industry preference, investment size, funding stage preference, etc.
Monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases
Holdings: December 2003-present.
The Global Market Information database [GMID] provides key business intelligence on countries, companies, markets and consumers. It is an integrated on-line information system covering over 350 markets and 207 countries. It includes statistics, in-depth market analysis reports, company profiles and sources. Business and Management, Economics, General Business, Management, Marketing. Automotives and transport, Consumer markets, Economic indicators, Foreign trade, Industrial markets, IT and telecommunications, Information Technology, Leisure and lifestyles, Population and households, Resources and environment, Retailing,Service markets.
The Ethical Corporation is an independent source of objective analysis concerning developments in business ethics and corporate responsibility.
Full text, comprehensive archival database providing access to more than 400,000 articles in nearly 200 ethnic, minority and native press newspapers, magazines, and journals. Full text archive of Phila Tribune, Jewish Exponent , and nearly 200 other ethnic, minority and native press newspapers, magazines, and journals -- both English and Spanish.
Holdings: Covers 1990 to date. Updated monthly.
eMarketer reports combine original analysis with aggregated numbers from leading sources worldwide. The database includes industry reports, company articles, market projections and analytical commentaries covering every topic from eAdvertising to Wireless. EMarketer also includes a comprehensive compilation of up-to-date internet and e-business statistics (eStat database).
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Covers accounting, consumer economics, monetary policy, labor, demographics, modeling, economic theory, and planning. Primarily English language, some foreign language publications included.
Holdings: 1969 to the present. Book reviews (1994- ), Dissertations (1987- ), Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics (1984- ).Updated monthly.
Broad based resources for earth and environmental science. Includes data on conferences, seminars, books and journals, together with links to additional resources. Includes Earth Affairs magazine.
Access to over 600 institutional investors and their advisors. In depth profiles of active U.S. and international firms. Public and corporate pension funds, endowments and foundations, banks, insurance companies and others. Finance
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Numerical data on stocks, bonds, interest rates, exchange rates and other economic indicators. International coverage.
The broad subject areas of engineering and applied science are comprehensively represented. Coverage includes nuclear technology, bioengineering, transportation, chemical and process engineering, light and optical technology, agricultural engineering and food technology, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics and communications, control, civil, mechanical, materials, petroleum, aerospace and automotive engineering as well as narrower subtopics within all these and other major engineering fields.
Holdings: 1884 - present. Updated weekly.
A searchable database of full-text research reports on the latest issues in business management and US, Canada and global economics. Proprietary, nonbiased research includes studies of 500 companies on business trends, leadership decisions, performance excellence, corporate governance, HR, productivity, CRM and more. Economics material includes US and global economic indicators and analysis and forecasts of regional, national, and international economic conditions. Full-text coverage from 1995 to date.
Holdings: 1995 to date
Topics indexed in PROMT include: new product development, market share, advertising strategy, mergers & acquisitions, use of materials, computer industry, federal regulation, consumer attitude, sales and consumption, orders and contracts, initial public offerings.
Project Muse provides full text access to articles from over 300 scholarly journals in the humanties, arts, social sciences and sciences. Coverage begins in 1995 or more recently and in most cases continues to the present. Issues are available both as images and as text; searching is possible both within each title and across the whole database.
Indexing with abstracts of U.S. and foreign domestic and international public policy research literature.
OSIRIS is a comprehensive database of listed companies, banks and insurance companies around the world. Covering 125 countries OSIRIS contains information on over 31,000 companies. In addition to the income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement and ratios OSIRIS provides news, ownership, subsidiaries, ratings (from all the top 3 agencies: 19 ratings provided), earnings estimates, stock data, additional industry codes (Dow Jones Global Indexes) and access to regulatory filings for US companies.
Cross search entire suite of Bureau van Dijk databases.
ORBIS is BvD's global information product that enables you to search across all 10 million companies. It utilises a simple one-screen searching format which is ideal for end-users.
Abstracts of national labour, social security and related human rights legislation from more than 170 countries. Topics include: freedom of association, collective bargaining, elimination of child labour and forced labour, equal opportunity, employment policy, employment and work conditions, occupational safety, social security, and migrant workers.
The Latin Americanist Research Resources Project, initially a project of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), is a cooperative initiative of North American, Latin American, and Caribbean libraries. Its goal of expanded access to Latin American research resources has three core components: I.Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC): provides article titles from the tables of contents over 800 periodicals published in Latin America and the Caribbean. They cover all fields and are searchable by article title keyword, author, journal title, country, and date.
II. Presidential Messages: contains digital images of over 75,000 pages of presidential speeches, including ministerial reports, from the early 19th century to the present from Mexico and Argentina. III. ## Latin American Open Archives Portal (LAOAP): is a portal service providing access to social sciences grey literature produced in Latin America by research institutes, non-governmental organizations, and peripheral agencies. It encompasses working documents, pre-prints, research papers, statistical documents, and other difficult-to-access materials that are not controlled by commercial publishers.
Knowledge@Wharton is a bi-weekly online resource that offers the latest business insights, information and research from a variety of sources.
Wharton Research Data Services - WRDS is a comprehensive sources of financial, accounting, economic, management, marketing, banking, and insurance data. WRDS offers access to datasets from COMPUSTAT, CRSP, Dow Jones Averages, EVENTUS, FDIC , FISD , Foreign Exchange Rates , Forrester, Global Insight (formerly DRI), GOVPX, I/B/E/S, IRI, IRRC, ISSM, LSPD, Media Metrix, OptionMetrics, PACAP, PHLX, Nastraq, NYSE TAQ, The Conference Board and Thomson Financial. Access to WRDS requires a Wharton password.
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Contains time series data for the years 1960, 1965, 1970 and annually from 1975-2004 for around 80 sets of telecommunication statistics (updated) covering telephone network size and dimension, mobile services, quality of service, traffic, staff, tariffs, revenue and investment. Selected demographic, macro-economic, broadcasting and information technology statistics are also included. Data for over 200 economies are available. Business and Management, Communication, Computers and Electronics, Electrical Engineering.
International bibliography on the history of science and technology from pre-history to the present. The History of Science, Technology, and Medicine file describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields. Most citations are in English. Also covers French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
Holdings: 1975 to the present. Updated annually.
Fulltext of official IMF publications, documenting and supporting the activities of the IMF in promoting international monetary cooperation, exchange stability and orderly exchange arrangements, forsting economic growth and high levels of employment, and providing temporary financial assistance to countries to help ease balance of payments adjustment.
Holdings: 1981-present.
Market data on computers, peripherals, software, storage, the Internet, and communications equipment. Details include sales and shipment forecasts, market share, installed base, and planned purchases. Download data entries as Excel spreadsheets.
US government-sponsored database of policy strategy-related documents on homeland security. Topics covered include: borders and immigration, emergency management, infrastructure protection, intelligence and counterintelligence, law and justice, management and economics, military, politics and government, public health, technology, terrorism and threats, war, weapons and weapon systems, natural disasters, and public safety.
Global Health consists of more than 800,000 records from 1910 on - equivalent to 300 volumes of research covering public health, tropical and communicable diseases, nutrition, helminthology, entomology and mycology.
Holdings: 1910-
-from Wiley InterScience
Bibliography of works on Latin America selected by scholars and edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Covers anthropology (including archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnology), art, economics, geography, government and politics, history, international relations, literature, music, philosophy, and sociology.
Holdings: 1935 to the present. Updated monthly.
The ISI Citation Indexes include the Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address, as well as for articles that cite a known author or work.
Holdings: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1945-present
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present
Updated weekly.
The NIH/FDA Genetic Modification Clinical Research Information System (GeMCRIS) is a comprehensive information resource and analytical tool for scientists, research participants, sponsors, institutional oversight committees, federal officials, and others with an interest in human gene transfer research.
Francis covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities and social sciences. It is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature with emphasis on current trends in European and world literature. Other subjects covered include: art and archeology, business, education, economics, geography, health, history of science, Latin American Studies, linguistics, management, philosophy, prehistory, and sociology. English, French, German, Spanish and some other languages.
Holdings: 1984 to the present. Updated monthly.
Wharton Research Data Services - WRDS is a comprehensive sources of financial, accounting, economic, management, marketing, banking, and insurance data. WRDS offers access to datasets from COMPUSTAT, CRSP, Dow Jones Averages, EVENTUS, FDIC , FISD , Foreign Exchange Rates , Forrester, Global Insight (formerly DRI), GOVPX, I/B/E/S, IRI, IRRC, ISSM, LSPD, Media Metrix, OptionMetrics, PACAP, PHLX, Nastraq, NYSE TAQ, The Conference Board and Thomson Financial. Access to WRDS requires a Wharton password.
You are required to register on a campus computer. After that you can log onto Forrester.com from anywhere. A comprehensive market report research site. Reports include IT spending, Product Life Cycle Management, Automotive, Financial Services, Supply Chain Management and Telecom.
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Indexes education-related journal articles and other publications. Cross-file search with other CSA databases.
A single point of access to select U.S. EPA environmental data. This website provides access to several EPA databases providing information about environmental activities that may affect air, water, and land anywhere in the United States.
With Envirofacts it is possible to learn more about environmental activities in your area of choice or to generate maps of environmental information.
The Energy Citations Database was developed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) to improve access to Departmental and predecessor agency scientific and technical information. The database contains bibliographic records for 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). Energy Citations Database includes bibliographic records of literature in disciplines of interest to DOE such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science and related disciplines.
Holdings: 1948 - present
Indexes economic, social, and technological development resources worldwide through cross-database searching in nine databases produced by European development and economic assistance research centers. Topics covered include: administration, agriculture, culture, education, environment, finance, health, industry and technology, information, international relations and international cooperation, labor, population, society, trade, and transport.
A practical guide to regulations, operating conditions, and corporate practices in more than 50 countries; updated annually. Tax regulations, Employment Practices, Business, Import, Export, International Trade,
Holdings: 1996 - Present
Includes a global health bibliography, annotated list of international health-related websites and organizations, and handy resources for students and researchers intending to enter the global health field.
Indexes education journals, 1983 - present. Some full-text. For earlier years, see Van Pelt Reference Stacks: L11 .E38, 1929 - . Topics include: Arts, Comparative Education, Competency-based Education, Educational Technology, Elementary Education, Government Funding, Higher Education, Language Arts, Multicultural/Ethnic Education, Parent-Teacher Relations, Preschool Education, School Administration, Science and Mathematics, Secondary Education, Special Education, Student Counseling, Teacher Education, Teacher Evaluation, and Teaching Methods.
Holdings: 1983-
A compilation of news analysis, market research, best practices and descriptions of doing business for e-commerce in 60 countries. Including the U.S.
Earthtrends is a comprehensive online database that focuses on the environmental, social and economic trends that shape the worls. The site presents information from world renowned data sources such as the World Bank and the United Nations Environment Program
E-LIS is an electronic open access archive for scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, in Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related application activities.
DIALNET is a current awareness service for Spain's scholarly community. Its database of journal citation records derives from thousands of journals, most of which are published in Spain. The project, currently a collaboration of ten Spanish university libraries, began in 2001, but its table-of-contents coverage may include many decades of an individual journal.
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Primary sources, fulltext and image for declassified United States government documents from the second half of the twentieth century to the present. The collection provides coverage for domestic and international events, as well as institutional and personal interaction within the government.
Holdings: Declassified documents issued from 1941 through the 1990s. Documents have been declassified since 1974.
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Bibliographic citations with indexing on contemporary public affairs and policy issues worldwide related to a wide range of topics: agriculture, banking, finance, business, demographics, education, health, environment, planning, public administration, law and legislation, and international relations. The PAIS Archive extends current PAIS coverage back to 1915. Materials indexed include journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, and Internet material. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed.
Holdings: 1915-
Indexes books, articles, conference papers and reports on various aspects of international education from publishers in Australia and overseas.
D&B's Financial Information Database, consists of aggregated financial statements of U.S. corporations, partnerships, and proprietorships. 14 key business ratios are presented as medians with upper and lower quartiles. Ratios are arranged by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Codes and subdivided by asset size.
Company and product information for 50,000+ US high tech manufacturers, developers and services, including US divisions of foreign firms. Historical cd-roms available for use in the Library.
Holdings: Updated quarterly.
Covers theory and research in international affairs.
Holdings: 1991 -
A "central repository for the most current and topical electronic resources" in cognitive science and its six core areas: philosophy of mind, computational intelligence, cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and cognitive anthropology.
CIOS/Comserve is an online resource for communication scholars containing several services, including an index to 27 key communication periodicals, the Electronic Journal of Communication, a full text scholarly journal, descriptions of graduate programs in communication, academic job postings, events calendar and electronic white pages to help locate communication scholars.
Holdings: Dates of coverage vary, earliest indexed journal begins in 1962.
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This subscription includes: China Yearly Macro-economy Statistics; China Monthly Macro-economy Statistics; Monthly Reports on Economy Development; China City Statistics; China County Statistics;China Industrial Data. (2002) and Population Atlas. Daily News is in Chinese only.
We do not subscribe to: 1. Statistical Yearbooks. (CD & book at Lippincott Library Ref desk.), Census Data,Full text, online access requires password. To access the password for this resource, you will be required to authenticate yourself as an authorized Penn user. If you have further questions, please ask at the Lippincott Library Reference Desk.
REQUIRES FREE REGISTRATION. Fulltext European Union / European Community legislation, case law, and preparatory documents. Includes treaties between EU member states, international agreements, secondary legislation, and supplementary legislation, decisions of Community law courts and opinions of the Court of Justice of the EC and opinions of the Advocates-General, and parliamentary questions.
Available in Lippincott Library Only.
CEIC provides very detailed economic statistics with an emphasis on Asian countries.
This database is available at Lippincott Library at terminal 7B. It consists of 4 separate databases.
The first three sets are:
Asia.
Non-Asia. Includes Brazil, EU, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Japan, Turkey, UK, USA.
China.
Datasets for the above include:
National Accounts, Industrial, Sales, Construction-Property, Demographic-Labor, Domestic & Foreign Trade, Stock Markets, Banking, Industrial, Inflation, Monetary, Banking, Forex, Investment, Tourism, and Transport/Telecom.
The fourth data set is: Daily.
Datasets for the Daily database include: Country Financials for 35 economies. Deposit Rates, Forward Rates, Interbank, Lending Rates, Swaps, Monetary, Futures, Prices and SARS cases. (the disease)
To log in enter. CCH Tax Research NetWork provides comprehensive federal and state tax information, including tax codes, regulations, court cases, IRS publications, editorial commentary and explanation.
To log in click on enter. Includes Capital Changes Reporter, Federal Securities Law Reporter, and laws and regulations on federal securities, aviation, global securities, banking, telecommunications, energy, product liability, consumer safety and information technology.
Currently this resources works only in IE. Information on global emerging markets. Covers political risk, finance, macroeconomic performance, outlook and forecast, industry sectors and the business operating environment. Economic indicators, autos, automobiles, chemicals, commercial banking, defense and security, food and drink, freight transport, information technology, infrastructure, insurance, oil and gas, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, telecommunications, tourism.
International market research reports on the subjects of consumer goods, energy, financial services, healthcare, technology, telecoms, ecommerce and human relations.
Business & Industry is a database containing information on public and private companies, industries, markets, and products. It covers the manufacturing and services industries and is international in scope. B&I provides Industry overviews, forecasts, trends, market size and more.
Available in Lippincott Library Only
Real-time and historical pricing, indicative and fundamental data, customized analytics and business news
The world's most comprehensive reference database in the life sciences. It covers original research reports and reviews in biological and biomedical areas. Coverage includes traditional areas of biology, such as botany, zoology and microbiology, as well as related fields such as plant and animal science, agriculture, pharmacology and ecology. Interdisplinary fields such as biochemistry, biophysics, and bioengineering are also included. Resources in all languages are represented.
Holdings: 1993 to the present. Updated monthly.
Updated daily provides nearly 3,300 full text scholarly publications, including more than 1,000 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 6000 journals. This database offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more.
Business Source Premier contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals including Harvard Business Review, California Management Review,Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Marketing Research (JMR), Journal of Marketing, Journal of International Marketing, etc.
The database also includes other sources of full text information such as country economic reports from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), Global Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch and detailed company profiles from Datamonitor for the world's 5,000 largest companies.
-from Berkeley Electronic Press
Holdings: 2000-
Contains bibliographic citations from the journal holdings of the de facto national anthropological library of Britain the Library of the British Museum Department of Ethnography (Museum of Mnakind), which incorporates the former Royal Anthropological Institute library. Broad geographical coverage emphasizes the Commonwealth and Africa and extends to Eastern Europe, the Americas, Asia, Australasia, and the Pacific including both standard journals and many titles outside the mainstream. All areas of anthropology and archaeology are represented with particular strength in sociocultural anthropology, ethnology, and material culture.
Holdings: 1957 to the present. Limited data for the pre-1970 period.
AMADEUS contains detailed information on over 5 million public and private companies in 34 European countries. It includes up to 10 years of detailed information (consolidated statements are also provided when available) in a standardised financial format comprising 22 balance sheet items, 24 profit and loss account items and 25 ratios. The descriptive information includes: official national identification number, address, telephone, fax, website, legal form, year of incorporation, senior managers, auditors, number of employees, quoted/unquoted indicator, industry and activity codes and, when available, a trade description in the local language and English.
You can use AMADEUS to find detailed information about both individual companies and groups of companies. The software allows you to search by any combination of over 100 search criteria. You can search, display and download information in the currency of your choice. It's also easy to identify companies by very specific criteria.
AMADEUS incorporates company tree diagrams and graphical, presentation and analysis software to allow you to interpret and analyse the information.
Amadeus data is also available through the Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS) listed listed under Bureau van Dijk.
Fulltext for project documents, evaluation reports, terminal reports, country cooperation frameworks (CCFs), and United Nations development assistance frameworks (UNDAFs) produced by the United Nations Development Programme, its contractors, and cooperating countries. Continues UNDP development reports, indexed by AccessUNDP.
Holdings: 1998-present
Bibliographic descriptions of UNDP-funded project reports for projects conducted globally, interregionally, or regionally, especially in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America, the Arab states, and Europe. Topical sectors covered include: agriculture, education, employment, forestry, fisheries, health, human settlements, humanitarian aid and relief, industry, natural resources, political affairs, population, science and technology, social conditions and equity, transport and communications, general development issues (policy and planning), and international trade, development economics, and development finance.
AccessUNDP identifies documents included in the Penn Library's microfiche UNDP Project Reports collection, 1972-1998 [Van Pelt Microtext: Microfiche 1100].
Topics of concern to the United Nations through its publications and documents: international affairs and diplomacy, political science, contemporary history, international law, peacekeeping, human rights, trade and economic development, environmental affairs, international statistics and demography, public administration, and atomic energy.
AccessUN identifies documents included in the Penn Library's microprint/microfiche UN Documents and Publications (Readex), 1946-present.
Holdings: Covers 1951 to the present. This subscription covers retrospective indexing back to 1946 as it becomes available
Journal Citation Reports provides journal comparison by accumulating and tabulating citation and article counts. It includes the JCR Science edition,and the JCR Social Sciences edition. Allows searching for Citation and Article Counts, Impact Factor, Immediacy Index, Cited Half-Life, Citing Half-Life, Source Data Listing, Citing Journal Listing, Cited Journal Listing, Subject Categories, Publisher Information and Journal Title Changes
This freely accessible Web site gives research professionals working in a variety of occupations an invaluable tool to identify individuals, departments and laboratories that have made fundamental contributions to the advancement of science and technology in recent decades. ISIHighlyCited.com reveals the face of research--the people behind the accomplishments in 21 broad subject categories in life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, engineering and social sciences. These individuals are the most highly cited within each category for the period 1981-1999, and comprise less than one-half of one percent of all publishing researchers.
Includes Islamic Finance Information Service. News, company, industry, financial and economic data direct from more than 60 emerging markets in Asia, Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe. ISI Emerging Markets provides information straight from the local markets and from over 4400 publications. It provides access in English and fifteen additional languages including Russian, Chinese, French, German, and Spanish.
Holdings: Current Service
The ISI Citation Indexes include the Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address, as well as for articles that cite a known author or work.
Holdings: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1945-present
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present
Updated weekly.
Humanities and social sciences. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages.
General, multidisciplinary fulltext periodical database, covering all scholarly disciplines, with many general and popular magazines, and news sources. Includes bibliographic citations with indexing and abstracts for more than 16,000 periodicals.
Holdings: Coverage varies: mostly 1990s to present.
Factiva is a full-text online service that provides access to sources of national and international news, business, health and general information. News sources include newspapers magazines, media transcripts, wire services, pictures and WEB sites. In addition, FACTIVA provides access to several financial databases. FACTIVA covers 8,000 sources in 22 languages. FACTIVA is a joint venture between Dow Jones and Reuters.
Holdings: Dates vary. Most publications begin in the late 1980's or early 1990's
Factiva is a full-text online service that provides access to sources of national and international news, business, health and general information. News sources include newspapers magazines, media transcripts, wire services, pictures and WEB sites. In addition, FACTIVA provides access to several financial databases. FACTIVA covers 8,000 sources in 22 languages. FACTIVA is a joint venture between Dow Jones and Reuters.
Holdings: Dates vary. Most publications begin in the late 1980's or early 1990's
Statistical Universe indexes statistical data published in federal, state, and selected privately published titles, at the table level. In some cases the fulltext of the document is also available.
Database collection for environmental studies. Environment Abstracts is the principal bibliographic abstracting service for the scholarly, professional, and olicy literatures on the environment. Topics covered include: air pollution; chemical and biological contamination; energy; environmental education; environmental design and urban ecology; food and drugs;general aspects of U.S. and non-U.S. pollution and conservation problems; land use and misuse; noise pollution; non-renewable resources; oceans and estuaries; population planning and control; radiological contamination; renewable terrestrial and aquatic resources; solid waste; transportation; water pollution; weather modification and geophysical change; wildlife. Special emphasis is placed on acid rain research, including atmospheric processes, deposition monitoring, impact on aquatic and terrestrial systems, control technologies, economic and health issues, and U.S. policy and planning. Energy research issues include economic aspects of U.S. energy development and utilization; U.S. policy and planning issues; international and non-U.S. political and economic issues; general research and development programs; multiple issues; energy resources and reserves; petroleum and natural gasresources; coal resources; unconventional resources; solar energy resources, conversion, and consumption; fuel transport and storage and transmission systems; nuclear resources and power; hermonuclear power; energy consumption and conservation; industrial energy consumption and conservation; transporatation energy consumption; residential energy consumption and conservation; and environmental impact. Additional databases provide fulltext news periodical coverage of environmental issues, U.S. federal and state statutory and regulatory information, including case law and agency actions, and federal and state waste site and hazardous material records (including Superfund, NPL and SPL, RICRA, CERCLA, LUST, FINDS,and MSDS).
U.S. legislative publications and government information. Much of the material is fulltext. Includes pending bills, laws, legislative histories, committee reports and documents, selected Congressional hearings and committee prints, and biographical data about members of Congress.
Holdings: Indexing begins with 1970; earliest fulltext from mid-1980's. Congressional Record from 1985.


