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Article Databases: Goddard Library subscribes to many electronic databases containing full text materials and also citations to print materials unavailable elsewhere on the Internet. Some resources are restricted to UCR students, who can also use the library proxy server to access these resources remotely.
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Mostly Full-Text Some Full-Text Citation/Abstract
Access Science(Campus Access Only)
Contemporary Authors
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Lexis-Nexis (Campus Access Only)
National Newspapers(Campus Access Only)
PoemFinder (Campus Access Only)
ScienceDirect (Campus Access Only)
 
Rochester Post-Bulletin
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
AskERIC
Career and Technical Education
CINAHL (Campus Access Only)
Computer Database
Criminal Justice Periodicals
EBSCO Online(Campus Access Only)
ERIC E*Subscribe
Expanded Academic ASAP
General BusinessFile ASAP
General Reference Center Gold
Health Reference Center-Academic
Infotrac OneFile
MnLINK Gateway
ProQuest Databases
SearchBank
FirstSearch - Basic Access
FirstSearch - Complete Access
     (Access Only for WSU Students)
 
 
 
(Not Full-Text)
Company Profiles
e-psyche (Campus Access Only)
ERIC (PALS Version)
ERIC (FirstSearch Version)
ERIC (CSA Version)
MEDLINE
Social Services Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts
 
 
Indexes for Librarians
   
     
     
     
   
     
     
     
     
     
   
   
   
   
   
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Mostly Full-Text

Access Science
An online encyclopedia of science and technology
Contemporary Authors
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on approximately 100,000 U.S. and international authors.
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select (CLC--Select) is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works, and sources for further study.
Lexis-Nexis
Access to a wide range of full-text articles in domestic and international newspapers such as the New York Times. Also provides access to legal, medical, business, and reference information. Campus access only.
National Newpapers
Access to five national newspapers (Minneapolis StarTribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post) via the Bell & Howell Information and Learning Center website.
PoemFinder
An index to 550,000 poems and access to 40,000+ complete full-text poems. Campus access only.
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect® is the premier electronic information service for the interdisciplinary research needs of academic, corporate and educational institutions, offering comprehensive coverage of literature across all fields of science.
Some Full-Text
AskERIC
An Internet site with education information primarily for educators, librarians, and parents. Provides access to the ERIC index, and an electronic library of educational resources some full-text articles available.
Business Magazines Index
An index to over 250+ business magazines. Some articles are full text.
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health)
An index to health science journals from 1982 to date. Also includes an index to 14 full-text nursing journals. Access to quick Cinahl help. Campus access only.
Computer Database
An index to computer magazines, some articles are full text.
EBSCO Online
EBSCO Online provides access to the Full Text of all online journal subscriptions, and Tables of Contents and Abstracts of many more!
ERIC E*Subscribe
Full-text access to most of the documents indexed in ERIC.
Expanded Academic Index
An index to academic magazines, some articles are full text.
General Reference Center
An index to popular magazines, some articles are full text.
Health Index
An index to health magazines, some articles are full text.
MnLINK Gateway
An internet site with links to a variety of academic, public and government library catalogs throughout Minnesota. Also has links to various electronic indexes.
SearchBank
Up-to-date index similar to general, academic and business magazine databases available through PALS. Look here for news that happened yesterday. This database also contains a health index. Campus access only.
Citation/Abstract
Company Profiles
Contains information on over 80,000 U.S. businesses, including information about public and private companies,with an emphasis on hard-to-find private companies.
e-psyche
The e-psyche database is designed to meet the information research needs of professionals, students and the general public in the field of psychology and related behavioral disciplines. It covers over 4000 journals, newsletters, dissertations, preprints, web sites, technical reports, and conference proceedings. Campus Access Only.
ERIC (PALS Version)
ERIC (FirstSearch Version)
An important database in the field of education, ERIC provides access to both journal literature (Journals in Education) and report literature (Resources in Education).
ERIC (CSA Version)
The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. The ERIC database corresponds to two printed journals: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Both journals provide access to some 14,000 documents and over 20,000 journal articles per year.
Medline
An electronic index with over 11 million citations and abstracts to medical literature. Search the index using either PubMed or Internet Grateful Med.
Social Services Abstracts
CSA Social Services Abstracts provide bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
Sociological Abstracts
CSA Sociological Abstracts Database is a primary resource for accessing the latest research sponsored in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database draws information from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles.

Indexes for Librarians

ArticleFirst
Journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.
BIP (This IS NOT the library's catalog--Books in Print)
This is a database of books currently published or distributed in the United States.
Business Magazines Index (PALS version)
Includes Infotrac's Business and Wall Street Journal Indexes
 
Education Abstracts- Full-Text (Access Only for St. Mary's University Students)
Contains article citations to over 400+ English-language in education journals and yearbooks. Many articles published after 1995 are available full-text.
FirstSearch - Basic Access
This OCLC service provides access to WorldCat and several other general files. This link provides access to a very limited number of full-text files.
FirstSearch - Complete Access (Access Only for WSU Students)
Complete access to OCLC's FirstSearch. For authorized patrons, this link does provide access to all available full-text files.
Gale Literature Databases (Trial Over End of October 1999)
Contains biographical, bibliographical, and critical information on over 1200 authors from ancient times to the present.
General Magazine Index (PALS version)
Includes Infotrac's Expanded Academic, General Magazine and New York Times Indexes
GPO (This IS NOT the library's catalog--GPO Monthly Catalog)
To locate government documents available in Goddard Library, first search the GPO catalog. Then return to the library catalog in WebPALS and search the library catalog by author or title of the document.
Health Index (PALS version)
Includes Infotrac's Health Index
LC Authorities
Use this resource to determine the wording of subject headings and name entries used by the Library of Congress.
MULS: A Union List of Serials
MULS contains over 140,000 serial titles and holdings of libraries in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Displays school codes only by codes not by name.
NetFirst
Bibliographic citations including abstracts, subject headings, and classification codes. Includes a variety of Internet accessible resources including World Wide Web pages and Listservs. New resource types, including Usenet newsgroups, FTP sites, Gopher servers, and electronic publications in many formats will be coming soon.
UnionLists
Holdings for journals and other covered items among OCLC member libraries. It can help you determine if a library holds a specific journal issue.
WorldCat
Records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.