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GENERAL/MULTIDISCIPLINARY
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This
section contains a wide variety databases, including:
Associations (Organizations) Directory; Book Reviews; Children's
Resources; Dissertations; Encyclopedia Britannica; Essays; General
Reference Resources; General, Comprehensive, and lower-level journal
databases; Government Publications; Electronic (online) Books;
Newspapers; Statistical Data; Vocational Resources)
The following
two points may assist you in using them effectively.
Multidiscipline databases such as General OneFile,
ProQuest [All combined], and Wiley
Interscience contain information from many subject
areas, combined into one database. See description of the individual
for details on their exact content.
The following
is a selective list of the specialty databases, described in detail
below, to keep in mind for any and all of your research projects.
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AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive
- Associations
Unlimited
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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Europa World
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Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia
- Oxford
English Dictionary
- Oxford
Reference Online Premium
- Searchasaurus
- SIRS
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AccuNet/AP
Multimedia Archive 
Includes images.
Searchable
archive of the Associated Press photo files.
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AgeLine
Includes full text.
AgeLine is
produced by AARP. Its references come from the gerontology collection
of AARP's Research Information Center, as well as selected articles
from 300 magazines and journals. All references include original
abstracts. |
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All
ProQuest [combined databases] via
ProQuest
Includes full text.
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ArticleFirst via FirstSearch
Indexes journals covering science,
technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities and
popular culture. |
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Associations
Unlimited via InfoTrac Web
Includes full text.
Contains information
for approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional,
state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields,
including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations.
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Biography
and Genealogy Master Index via
InfoTrac Web
This
database provides extensive lists of sources where biographical
information may be obtained. While the database itself does not
provide information concerning individuals, it indicates the resources
where this information may be found. |
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Biography
Reference Bank via Wilson Web
Includes full text.
Contains
articles and abstracts dealing with over 500,000 people. Where
full text is not available, a list of databases is provided, indicating
other databases in which full text of abstracts may be found.
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This
database is provided as part of Troy University's participation
with the Alabama Virtual Library (AVL). Click on the AVL logo
to read more about. |
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Book
Collection: Nonfiction via EbscoHost
Includes full text.
Designed
for school libraries, contains more than 2,000 full-text
books addressing many areas of school curriculum, including social
studies and science.
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Book
Review Digest Plus via Wilson Web
Includes full text.
Covering
over 550,000 books, provides indexes of reviews of current fiction
and non-fiction, with over 100,000 reviews in full text.
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This
database is provided as part of Troy University's participation
with the Alabama Virtual Library (AVL). Click on the AVL logo
to read more about. |
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Books
in Print via Bowker Publishing
Contains publishing
and pricing information with some book reviews.
Useful for literature searches. |
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CollegeSource
Online via CollegeSource
Includes full text.
Provides
access to a large number of college catalogs as well as links
to their respective Web pages and profiles.
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Contemporary
Women's Issues via FirstSearch
Indexes books,
journals, and various agencies, to address such issues as health
and human rights. |
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CQ
Researcher via
CQ Electronic Library
Includes full text.
Offers
in-depth, non-biased 12,000-word reports on political and social
issues, covering such topics as health, international affairs,
education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy.
Reports date back to 1991.
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Dissertation
Abstracts Online via FirstSearch
Abstracts of dissertations. Many of
these are not available through interlibrary loan. |
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EBSCO
Animals via EbscoHost
Includes full text.
For
the elementary reader, provides in-depth information in the Encyclopedia
of Animals on a variety of topics relating to animals. |
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Encyclopedia
Britannica
Includes full text.
Online Encyclopedia
Britannica, in several reader-level editions, contains articles,
images, and related Internet links. |
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Europa
World
Includes full text.
Europa World
is the online version of the Europa World Year Book, a
valuable source of world-wide information covering political and
economic information about more than 250 countries and territories,
from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. |
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Fiction
Connection
Provides lists
of suggested reading in fiction and biography titles. Users may
select by author, genre, timeframe, etc., to find similar titles.
Reviews, excerpts, and other information are included. |
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Funk
& Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia via
EbscoHost
Includes full text.
This database
provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of
subject areas. |
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General
OneFile via InfoTrac Web
Includes full text.
A large index
combining the academic and non-academic periodicals of many InfoTrac
databases, covering a broad range of such topics as business, humanities,
and technology. |
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General
Reference Center Gold via
InfoTrac Web
Includes full text.
General interest
database that integrates a variety of sources in one easy-to-use
interface. Provides information on current events, popular culture,
business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies,
and more. |
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GPO
Access
This service
of the Government Printing Office provides indexing to some documents
and full text of others. |
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Informe
via InfoTrac Web
Includes full text.
A collection
of general Hispanic magazines with full text, covering business,
health, technology, culture, and other current topics. |
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Journal
Search via Serial Solutions
Use Journal
Search to search for the location of full text-journals within
the online databases provided by Troy. This does not provide full
text of articles but indicates where full text is found,
if it’s available in at least one of Troy’s online databases.
Be sure to look at dates of holdings to see if your article is available.
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LexisNexis
Academic via LexisNexis
Includes full text.
A primary
resource for full text journal articles, this is the gateway
to a number of databases embedded within. After you are in these
databases, click the appropriate area of interest in the left-hand
column. Resources include business articles, case law, law reviews,
industry reports, company reports, statistics, and health care news.
Clicking the various buttons at the top of their page (How Do I?,
Sources, News, etc.) produces helpful information. |
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Library,
Information Science & Technology via EbscoHost.
Includes full text.
Text is linked from other Ebsco databases.
Indexes
over 600 periodicals, books, research reports, and proceedings,
with coverage extending back to mid-1960s.
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MAS
Ultra - School Edition via
EbscoHost
Includes full text.
Designed
for high school students, database provides full text from
nearly 600 general interest and current events publications, covering
a broad range of topics.
Contains
American Heritage Dictionary and World Almanac & Book of
Facts. |
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MasterFile
Premier via EbscoHost
Includes full text.
Intended for
general rather than scholarly audience, contains full text
for over 2,000 periodicals, as well as biographies, primary source
documents, and images. |
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Middle
Search Plus via
EbscoHost
Includes full text.
Provides full
text for more than 150 popular magazines for middle and junior
high school research, as well as reference books and thousands of
biographies and primary resource documents. |
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MLA
Directory of Periodicals via EbscoHost
Offers
detailed information on over 7,100 journals, primarily those pertaining
to literature and the arts. Entries include editorial contact information,
as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices, and submission
guidelines. Does not include articles. |
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MLA
International Bibliography via EbscoHost
Includes full text.
Text is linked from other Ebsco databases.
Index to the writings about literature,
criticism, language, linguistics and folklore. |
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National
Newspaper Abstracts
via ProQuest
Includes full text.
Full-text content
of primary articles in three national newspapers: New York Times,
Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. |
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NetLibrary
Includes full text.
A specially created online
collection of nearly 50,000 full-text books, in a broad range of academic
subject categories. These are actual academic books that have been digitized
for the convenience of library users. Make sure to read HELP.
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Newspaper
Source via
EbscoHost
Includes full text.
Regional US
and international newspapers, with selected full text. |
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Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Center via InfoTrac Web
Includes full text.
A
source for information on conflicting viewpoints on social issues.
Geared to high school and General Studies college courses, it includes
articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links
to Web sites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. |
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Oxford
English Dictionary via Oxford University Press
Includes full text.
Guide to the
meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words,
past and present. Includes words from Great Britain, North America,
South America, Australia, New Zealand, and the Caribbean.
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Oxford
Reference Online Premium
Includes full text.
More
than 150 full-text reference sources, e.g., subject-specific
and general encyclopedias, handbooks, and dictionaries covering
many academic disciplines.
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Primary
Search via
EbscoHost
Includes full text.
Provides full
text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school
research. Also contains Encyclopedia of Animals, Funk &
Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia, and American Heritage Children’s
Dictionary. |
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ProQuest
Newspapers via
ProQuest
Includes full text.
Also try Newspaper Source. |
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RCLweb
Consists of annotated
lists of resources recommended by the Association of College Research
Libraries for inclusion in academic libraries. The core list features
65,000 titles in 58 curriculum-specific subject, with reviews of
all items. |
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Searchasaurus
via EBSCO Publishing
Includes full text.
A
database for children, this also contains a section called Pictures,
which includes photos of people, place, maps, historical subjects,
flags, and natural science subjects, some of which might be useful
to any audience.
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SIRS
Discoverer
Includes full text.
General
Reference Database Designed for Young Researchers. |
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SIRS
databases, including:
SIRS Government
Reporter
Includes full text.
Thousands
of full-text documents and graphics concerning health, science,
economics, politics, foreign affairs, business, and industry. Informative
rather than scholarly.
SIRS
Renaissance
Includes full text.
Current Perspectives on the Arts & Humanities.
SIRS
Researcher
Includes full text.
General
Reference source covering social scientific, historic, economic,
and political issues from national and international publications.
Informative rather than scholarly. |
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SocINDEX
with Full Text via EbscoHost
Includes full text.
SocINDEX with
Full Text is a very comprehensive sociology research database, featuring
more than 1,300,000 records with subject headings from a 15,000
term sociology-specific thesaurus. The database contains full text
for 235 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895,
and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also
includes full text for 545 books and monographs, and full text for
6,601 conference papers. |
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SPORTDiscus
via EbscoHost
Includes full text.
Provided by
the Sport Information Resource Centre, SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive
indexing of sport, fitness and related disciplines. Linked to full-text
articles in other databases. |
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Vocational
and Career Collection via EbscoHost
Includes full text.
Designed for
vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community
colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection
provides full-text coverage for 400 trade and industry-related
periodicals with indexing for 650. |
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Westlaw
Campus via Westlaw
Includes full text.
An online legal
research tool designed and built especially for undergraduates and
other non-law-student students. |
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Wiley
Interscience via Wiley
Includes full text.
This
database, containing only resources published by John Wiley &
Sons, covers a number of disciplines, especially business, psychology,
and social sciences. Resources consist mostly of journals, but
also online books and reference works. Most, but not all, materials
are full text. Searching it takes a little patience, but there
is excellent material.
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Wilson
Select Plus via FirstSearch
Index with some
abstracts of science, humanities, education and business resources.
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World
History Collection via EbscoHost
Includes full text.
Over 150 full-text
titles covers a wide-range of world-wide historical topics, including
culture, government, heritage, regional issues, sociology, and more. |
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WorldCat
via FirstSearch
A
specialized database used to determine location of books and journals
not held by Troy University, for purposes of Interlibrary Loan.
Information includes the libraries that own the item, what editions
or issues they hold, in which of their libraries (general, medical,
science, etc.) it is found, and whether it’s in the reference
or circulation collection. |
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World
Data Analyst via
Encyclopedia Britannica
Includes full text.
Offers detailed
statistical comparisons of countries around the world, using both
the most recent statistics and historical figures. Allows for creating
tables and charts. Contains articles on countries from Britannica
Concise Encyclopedia. |
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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