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Subject Description

A full-text database which includes major legislation (by bill number,
subject, and title), bills (full text, summaries, and status), public
laws, the Congressional Record and the Congressional Record Index,
Congressional committee reports, historical documents, and information
about the legislative process.

A selection of official statements, testimony, transcripts, foreign
policy factsheets, and country information which has been printed and
released electronically by the U.S. Department of State.

African Studies scholars, all disciplines.

All aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity: ancient Greek and Latin language
and linguistics, Greek and Roman history, literature, philosophy, art,
archaeology, religion, mythology, music, science, early Christian
texts, numismatics, papyrology, and epigraphy from the second
millenium B.C. through the early middle ages (c. 500-800 A.D.)

All aspects of education.

Applied science and technology literature.

Art of Europe and the Americas (4th century to modern).

Bibliographic information about titles in print in the Spanish
language from all countries on all subjects.

Biographical information with bibliographical references on over
90,000writers who were active prior to 1960 and whose works continue
to influence contemporary literature. Includes writers of fiction,
general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures,
television and other fields from the US and around the world.

Biographical subjects from antiquity to the present. All fields and
nationalities. Individual and collective biographies.

Biographical, geographical, scientific, historical, and general
information.

Biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and
physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate
to medicine and health care.

Books in Print, Paperbound Books in Print, Subject Guide to Books in
Print, Forthcoming Books, Books Out of Print, and Books in Print
Publishers Directory.

Cabinet officers--Directories, Heads of state--Directories.

CLIO is the online catalog for materials added to the Columbia
University Libraries since 1981, and for some material acquired before
that date. Not only does CLIO contain records for materials cataloged
since 1981, but it also has records for materials acquired and in the
process of being cataloged, or currently on order. CLIO contains
records for: books, serials, sound recordings, music scores,
microforms, maps, computer software, videocassettes, and other visual
materials.

Complete and comprehensive coverage of the electronic database
industry worldwide. Covers more than 11,500 databases, 3,700
producers, 899 online services, and 1,201 vendors and distributors of
database products.

Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary
materials; documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State,
Labor, Office of the President, etc.).

Contains descriptive and directory information for more than 64,000
newspapers, periodicals, newsletters, directories, television and
radio stations, and cable TV companies in the US and Canada.

Contains detailed descriptions of more than 30,000 US, Canadian, and
international university-related and other nonprofit research
organizations. RCSD contains four sections: Research Centers
Directory, International Research Centers Directory, Government
Research Directory,and Research Services Directory.

Contains directory information on over 3,500 accredited schools in the
U.S. and Canada offering 2 year and 4 year undergraduate degrees and
over 1,600 accredited schools in the U.S. and abroad offering graduate
degrees. Also covers study abroad, summer and language study programs,
career and job information, and K-12 schools.

Contains information drawn from many government agencies about each
country in the world. For example, it covers geography, people,
governments, economics, communications, transportation, and
defense. It also includes abbreviations for international
organizations, selected international environment agreements, weights
and measures, estimates of gross domestic products on an exchange rate
basis, and regional maps.

Contemporary, historical and mythological Native American
women. Includes biographical sketches and selected bibliography.

Diplomatic and consular service, American--Registers.

Diplomatic and consular service--United States--Registers.

EDUCAT is the online catalog of the Milbank Memorial Library of
Teachers College. EDUCAT contains records for: all materials cataloged
since 1975, except current periodicals; selected education materials
published 1900-1965; the Adelaide Nutting History of Nursing
Collection; the American Curriculum Collection; the David Eugene Smith
Collection in Mathematics Education.

ESTC, the English Short Title Catalogue, contains bibliographic
records for books, pamphlets, broadsides, songs and ephemera (such as
advertisements) published in Great Britain or her dependencies in any
languages and for materials published in English published throughout
the world from 1473-1800.

English language dictionary, presented as a service of Britannica
Online.

Eureka is a composite online catalog of 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.

European Medieval History and related topics.

Facts and statistics about current social, economic, environmental,
and political issues.

Familiar quotations: a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs
traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature.

Full range of academic subjects.

Full-text databases for an expanding number of U.S. government
publications, including the Congressional Record and Index,
Congressional bills, documents and reports, History of Bills, Public
Laws, the U.S. Code, the Federal Register, the Code of Federal
Regulations, Economic Indicators, GAO Reports, Supreme Court
Decisions, and many others.

Geology worldwide, including information on energy sources, volcanic
eruptions, earthquakes, ground water pollution, dinosaurs, landslides,
and erosion, as well as the history of the earth, the structure of the
earth, the study of ore deposits, and geostatistics. GeoRef does not
cover astrophysics, biology, hydraulics, meteorology, climatology, or
oceanography.

Greek literature, history, and culture.

History of science and technology and allied historical fields.

Includes reviews of current English-language fiction and nonfiction
books. Excludes reviews of textbooks, government publications, and
technical books in law and the sciences.

Information about Latin America, the Caribbean, the United
States-Mexico border region and Hispanics in the United States.

Information on most products and services available in the U.S. and
Canada, including those related to high technology, genetic
engineering, and biotechnology, as well as the industrial
sector. Software, computer hardware, and electronic products are
emphasized. Sales, distribution, and product information for food
processors, equipment and supply agents, wholesalers and distributors,
supermarket chains and convenience stores, importers, and exporters,
warehouses, and transportation firms.

Information on the proper names found in any of Geoffrey Chaucer's
works. Each entry gives definition, references to occurrences in
Chaucer's works with brief descriptions of context, etymology, and a
bibliography of primary and secondary works. Includes six astrological
maps as well as a glossary of astronomical and astrological terms.

International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF): Holdings of
Archives, List of Members, and Bibliography of Publications.
Bibliography of Latin American Cinema.

Links to library catalogs, free-nets, campus-wide information systems,
bulletin board services, and other information services and databases.

Literature, linguistics, language, and folklore.
[these keywords were put in the Subject Description field instead of
the Subject Keywords field because the ERC did not want the keywords
to be presented in alphabetical order]

Middle East Studies scholars, all disciplines.

More than 3,500 news stories per day, organized into more than 500
categories -- with updates every 10 minutes.

News and financial information from emerging market countries.

Online periodical article delivery and current awareness alerting
service. Multidisciplinary. Contains tables of contents for journals
and citations to articles from journals; some citations include
summaries.

Over 120,000 entries for nonprofit membership organizations providing
directory (eg, phone, address) and descriptive (e.g., organization
profile, conference schedule) information. Contains three sections:
U.S. National Organizations; International Organizations; Regional,
State & Local Organizations.

Pegasus is the online catalog of the Columbia University Law School
Library. The collection serves the Law School students and
faculty. Pegasus includes: U.S. federal and state law, selected
Commonwealth jurisdictions, major foreign language collections (e.g.,
the legal literature of Germany, France, Italy and Argentina) and,
since 1983, vernacular and Western language materials pertaining to
law in Japan and the People's Rep. of China.

Poems and poem quotations.

Provides access to the subject catalogs of the German Archaeological
Institute, a rich source of citations to books, articles, and essays
on classical, early Christian, Byzantine, early Medieval, and ancient
Middle Eastern antiquities, art, and archaeology. Includes the subject
catalog of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome, the
Bibliography of Iberian Archaeology from the German Archaeological
Institute in Madrid, and the Archaeology of Roman Provinces from RGK
Frankfurt.

Provides comprehensive access to the ethnic, minority and native press
in the United States.

Provides full-text searchable copies of the United States Code and the
Code of Federal Regulations. It also provides links to the texts of
other legal materials on both governmental and non-governmental
servers, including U.S. Congressional publications, U.S. state and
territorial laws, laws of other nations, and treaties.

Psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry,
nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics,
and other areas.

Public policy and research analysis.

Research in all disciplines relating to Eastern Europe and the former
Soviet Union published in the United States and Canada.

Selection of biographies of living or dead African American women "who
have made significant contributions to social reform, politics, arts
and entertainment, religion, business, education, and the professions
from the Colonial era to the present."-- Introduction

South Asian Studies scholars, all disciplines.

Specialized databases, reference tools and other services for
professionals and students in all areas of engineering.

Statistics and supporting documentation for business and economic
information produced by the U.S. government.

Statistics in U.S. government publications, intergovernmental
organizations' publications, trade associations' publications, and
more.

The RLIN bibliographic database is a composite online catalog of 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.

The arts and humanities. Related social science and science
information.

The clinical and non-clinical aspects of health care
delivery. Evaluation of patient outcomes; effectiveness of procedures,
products, programs, services, and manpower; health insurance; health
policy; health services research; health economics and financial
management; laws and regulation; personnel administration; quality
assurance; licensure; accreditation services and processes;
administration and planning of health facilities.

The most complete historical record of the English language: the
largest dictionary of the English language, containing 615,000 word
forms with 139,900 pronunciations, 219,000 etymologies, and 2,436,600
quotations.

The online Encyclopedia Britannica contains over 66,000 articles,
thousands of illustrations, maps, graphs, photographs, and links to
over 1,000 Internet resources. Many of the articles include
bibliographies and statistics. Britannica Online also incorporates the
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (10th edition).

This joint library catalog of Union and General Theological Seminaries
contains records for items cataloged since 1976/77. Subject strengths
include Biblical studies, canon law, church history, comparative
religion, ecumenics, hymnology, general theology, missiology,
patristics, and sacred music.

U.S. Congressional materials: bills, laws, hearing transcripts,
committee prints, documents, the Congressional Record, Federal
Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Code.

U.S. and Canadian history.

United States--Politics and government--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

United States. Congress--Biography, United
States. Congress--Directories

United States. Congress. House--Directories.

United States. Congress. Senate--Directories.

Women's studies, gender studies, feminist theory and criticism.

World history, excluding the U.S. and Canada, from 1450 to the
present.

Worldwide literature in engineering and technology excluding patents
and standards.

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Subject Keywords

Input commas between each term. Hyphenated words are OK. Abbreviations such as U.S. are OK. Do not use any other punctuation. If other puncutation is needed, e.g., semi-colons, double dashes, input the terms in the Subject Description field instead.

Terms will be automatically alphabetized. If you do not want the terms presented in alphabetical order, input the terms in the Subject Description field instead.

Examples:

agriculture, biochemistry, bioengineering, biology, biotechnology,
botany, clinical medicine, ecology, experimental medicine, genetic
engineering, genetics, microbiology, pharmacology, veterinary
medicine, zoology

computing and control, electrical engineering and electronics,
information technology, physics

automation, cataloging, CD-ROMs, censorship, circulation,
classification, copyright, education in librarianship, employment
opportunities, library schools, material preservation, online
searching, personnel management, publishing trends

Africa, alcoholism and drug abuse, arms control, Asia, California,
China, civil defense, civil justice, communication satellites,
communications, cost analysis, criminality, critical technologies,
Delphi and long-range forecasting, economics, education, energy and
nuclear power, environment, Europe, expert systems, former Soviet
Union, game theory, gaming, health care costs and coverage,
health-related research, housing, human resources, information
sciences, international trade and economics, justice & public safety,
Latin America, logistics, management, mathematical programming, Middle
East, military manpower, narcotics control, NATO, New York City,
operations research methods, policy sciences, population, program
budgeting, public policy, R&D systems acquisition, regulatory issues,
SDI, smoking, space technology and planning, systems analysis,
television and communications policy, terrorism, transportation,
U.S. foreign relations, urban studies, USSR, water resources

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Years Covered

1977 to the present.

10th edition (1993).

1473-1800.

1785 to the present (geology of North America) and 1933 to the present
(geology outside of North America).

1972 to the present with abstracts starting in 1985.

1972, 1979-March 1997.

1976 to the present for the Current Bibliography of the History of
Science from the journal ISIS. 1987 to the present for the Current
Bibliography in the History of Technology from the journal Technology
and Culture.

1976-1987 volumes of L'Annee Philologique.

1980-1994 (coverage will always lag several years behind paper version).

1981-present, with some older materials.

1983 to the present, with abstracts starting in August 1994.

1987 to 1991 only.

1987 to the present for many journals and mid-1991 to the present for
television programs.

1996 to the present. The publisher is creating retrospective coverage
for 1993-1995 which should be available in November 1997.

1996-97.

1996/1997.

8th century B.C to c. 6th century A.D.

9th edition, 1901.

Colonial era to the present

Covers 1861 to the present; includes abstracts for doctoral
dissertations beginning July 1980 and for masters theses beginning
spring 1988

Current.

Current edition only

Current through early 21st century.

Current year.

December 1984 to the present.

Fall 1988 to the present.

February 1983 to the present with abstracts starting in January 1994.

Journals, 1969-present; Books, 1987-present; Dissertations,
1987-present; Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics, 1984-present.

July 1976 to the present.

Mathematical Reviews, 1940-present. Current Mathematical Publications,
1985-present. Current Index to Statistics, 1975-present. Index to
Statistics and Probability, 1910-68. Index to Computing Reviews,
1984-90. ACM Guide to Computing Literature, 1981-89. Stanford
Technical Reports in Computer Science, 1954-present.

May 1984 to the present with abstracts starting in March 1993.

Most files are from the 104th Congress (1995/1996) - present; bill
text and the Congressional Record are from the 103rd Congress
(1993/1994) - present.

Most files are from the 104th Congress (1995/1996) - present; bill
text and the Congressional Record are from the 103rd Congress
(1993/1994) - present; Congressional Record Index and History of Bills
are from the 98th Congress (1983) - present.

News sources: 1993 to the present. Financial sources: 1991 to present.

Religion Index 1 - Periodicals, 1949-1996; Religion Index 2 -
Multi-author works, 1960-1996; Research in Ministry, 1981-1996; Index
to Book Reviews in Religion, 1949-1996; Methodist Reviews Index,
1818-1985.

September 1984 to the present with abstracts starting in Spring 1994

Sociological Abstracts, 1963 to the present. Social Planning/Policy &
Development Abstracts, 1979 to the present.

The U.S. Code and Code of Federal Regulations are the most recent
versions available; the other files vary.

Varies by file; approximately early 1990s to the present.

Varies by file; indexing is for 1970 to the present.

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Content Type

Bibliographic citations and publisher information.

Citations.

Citations and abstracts; book reviews are full-text.

Citations with content notes.

Citations, abstracts.

Citations, abstracts, full-text.

Citations, full-text.

Citations, usually with abstracts.

Citations, with library locations where available.

Cited references, bibliographic information, some author abstracts
available.

Description of a scheduled event, event's title, location, and date
as well as the sponsoring organization's name, contact person, and
address.

Full-text.

Index and abstracts, with links to full-text.

Internet resources.

Online library catalog.

Online library catalogs and other Internet resources.

Tables of contents for journals and citations to journal articles.

Union catalog of library holdings.

Union catalog of museum library holdings.

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Updated

Annually.

Bi-weekly.

Continuously.

Current Mathematical Publications updated daily; Mathematical Reviews
updated monthly.

Daily.

Five times a year.

Irregularly.

Monthly.

Quarterly.

Semi-annually.

Sociological Abstracts updated in March, May, July, September, and
November. Social Planning/Policy & Development Abstracts updated in
June & November.

Ten times per year, approximately 45,000 records annually.

Tri-annually.

Twice a year.

Varies by file.

Varies by file: daily to annually, as appropriate.

Varies by file; bill text and the Congressional Record files are
updated daily; the others intermittently.

Varies by file; bill text is updated several times each day, the
Congressional Record files are updated daily; the others
intermittently.

Varies by file; some files updated hourly.

Varying intervals.

Weekly.

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Regions

All, with emphasis on Western religions.

Asia: China, India. Europe: Baltic States, Bulgaria, Czech Republic,
Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine. Latin America:
Andean Region, Brazil, Chile.

Caribbean, Latin America, North America.

Europe and North America.

Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

Greece and the Greek-speaking world.

International.

International, except the United States and Cananda.

International, with emphasis on Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

International; most citations are from U.S., Canadian, and British
publications.

Latin America, Spain, and 16 other non-Spanish speaking countries.

Mostly U.S.

North America and the United Kingdom.

North America.

Primarily U.S.; some foreign.

U.S.

U.S. and Canada.

U.S. and Great Britain.

U.S. and international.

U.S. only.

U.S., with selected Canadian coverage.

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Languages

All.

English & non-English publications from English-speaking countries.

English and Spanish.

English and other European languages

English or French.

English or German.

English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

Greek.

Multi-lingual; primarily English.

Original languages and full English translation.

Primarily English but some foreign language journals.

Primarily English, Western European, Eastern European and Russian.

Spanish. Searchable in English or Spanish.

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Sources

1,500 tables and charts from over 250 sources.

5,200 scientific and technical journals.

500 serials on recent developments in 96 subject areas of the
biological and biomedical sciences in those areas that are most widely
held by public and academic libraries, as recorded in the OCLC Online
Union Catalog.

A fairly comprehensive list of Religion periodicals with extensive
coverage of essay collections and Festschriften.

Academic and general publications such as journal articles, books and
book chapters, research reports, and government documents relating to
aging.

All Rand publications.

An increasingly comprehensive collection of all the surviving texts of
Greek literature from the Homeric age to the middle ages. The project
ultimately aims a comprehensive coverage through 1453.

Approximately 100 leading periodicals published in the United States,
Canada, and Great Britain.

Approximately 3,600 journals published world-wide.

Approximately 300-400 international music periodicals, both scholarly
and popular.

Approximately 400 current journals and retrospectively approximately
1,000 journals. Cites selected exhibition reviews and book reviews.

Approximately 8000 journals, plus patents, symposia, books, and
proceedings.

Art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, exhibition
and dealers catalogs, and more than 2,500 periodicals.

Articles and books, autobiographies, bibliographies, biographies,
critical studies, fiction, drama, pictorial works, poetry, juvenile
literature, obituaries, journals, collections of letters, book
reviews, and interviews.

Articles and essays two or more pages long in anthropological and
archaeological periodicals and edited works. Anthropological
Literature is based on the collection of the Tozzer Library at Harvard
University.

Articles from more than 1,500 top general and academic journals;
records for transcripts of significant segments of more than 80 news-
and lifestyle-oriented television and radio programs.

Articles in 250 English-language journals.

Articles, audiovisual materials, books, book chapters, computer
databases and software, maps, manuscripts, serials, and sound
recordings acquired by the National Agricultural Library and
cooperating institutions.

Articles, book and media reviews, and dissertations on U.S. and
Canadian history, from more than 2100 journals in 40 languages, as
well as from a selection of volumes of essays.

Articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works and other
materials appearing in more than 400 key social science and humanities
journals published throughout the world.

Articles, books, and dissertations; more than 2100 journals in 40
languages, as well as from a selection of volumes of essays.

Articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book
chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs.

Articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews and
dissertations in the history of science and technology and allied
historical fields. It covers the contents of over 600 journals, and
the partial contents of several hundred more.

Based on L'Annee Philologique, the key bibliographic resource for
classicists.

Books, dissertations, journal articles, book reviews, essays in
collections, obituaries, bibliographies.

Books, periodical articles, essays, reviews and manuscripts; a
near-comprehensive list of Medievalist periodicals.

Collected by John Bartlett from ancient and modern literature.

Contains newspaper, magazine, and journal articles; sources range from
the American Reporter and Asian Pages to the Washington Jewish Press,
Wind River News, and Yakima Nations Review.

Corresponds to the Thomas Register of American Manufacturers and the
Thomas Food Industry Register.

Daily newspapers, news wire services, newsletters and company reports,
etc., as well as extensive statistical data (tabular and Excel
spreadsheets), macroeconomic analyses, market and currency reports,
etc.

Detailed records supplied by the listed scholars themselves.

Dissertations.

Feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries,
bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and
poems), and reviews of plays, operas, ballets, dance, musicals,
movies, and television and radio programs.

GeoRef corresponds to these printed publications: Bibliography and
Index of North American Geology, Geophysical Abstracts, Bibliography
and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America, Bibliography and
Index of Geology.

Information from 10,000 publishers.

Journal articles, books, essays in books. Women's Studies Database
(U. of Toronto),1972+. Women's Studies Abstracts, 1984+. Publications
of the University of Wisconsin: New Books on Women & Feminism, 1987+;
WAVE: Women's Audiovisuals in English, 1985-90; Women, Race &
Ethnicity: A Bibliography, 1970-90; History of Women and Science,
Health & Technology, 1970-95. Women of Color and Southern Women: A
Bibliography, 1975+. Women's Health and Development: An Annotated
Bibliography.

Major engineering journal articles, conference papers and reports from
all branches of engineering.

Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications.

More than 1,300 of the world s leading arts and humanities journals
and selected articles from more than 5,800 social science and science
journals. Indexes articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters,
reviews, and more.

More than 100 leading journals and magazines: biographical sketches,
symposia, conferences, review articles, selected letters to the
editor, and special issues of journals published as supplementary
issues, review issues, or laboratory guides. Also cites book reviews.

More than 200 key international arts publications.

More than 200 library and information science periodicals from around
the world. Books, conference proceedings, library school theses,
pamphlets and book reviews are also indexed.

More than 240 periodicals: includes a wide range of scientific
journals, from popular to professional, that pertain to biology and
agriculture.

More than 350 key international, English-language periodicals in the
social sciences, providing accurate, up-to-date coverage of this
multi-faceted, interdisciplinary field.

More than 350 key, international English-language periodicals in the
applied sciences and technology. Indexes interviews, meetings,
conferences, exhibitions, discussions, corrections, continued
articles, new product reviews, new product announcements, technically
valuable editorials, technically valuable letters, tables, charts,
diagrams, buyers guides, directories, and conference proceedings; it
also cites book reviews.

More than 400 English-language periodicals and yearbooks. Indexes
selected series and supplements and cites book reviews.

More than 400 major economic journals, books, book reviews,
dissertations, and collective volumes (essays, proceedings,
etc.). Citations to working papers, especially those issued by the
National Bureau of Economics (NBER) and the Abstracts of Working
Papers in Economics from Cambridge University Press are a great
strength of EconLit.

More than 450 journals that provide exceptional coverage in the areas
of the social work profession, theory and practice, areas of service,
social issues, and social problems.

News sources include Reuters, UPI, AFP, Christian Science Monitor,
BusinessWire, PR Newswire, ESPN's Sports Ticker, Commerce Business
Daily, Newsbytes, The New York Times Syndicate, United Media,
Universal Press Syndicate, and exclusive online material from smaller
sources.

Nonjournal material issued in the monthly Resources in Education (RIE)
and journal articles issued in the monthly Current Index to Journals
in Education (CIJE).

Original publications including monographs, journal articles, other
serial publications, working papers, doctoral dissertations,
machine-readable data files, and relevant acquisitions lists and
bibliographies.

Over 1,000 professional publications, academic journals, and trade
magazines.

Over 17,000 multidisciplinary journals.

Over 300 publications, including newspapers, periodicals, the
Congressional Record, and congressional hearings.

Over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide; books, essay
collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and
bibliographies.

Over 650 journals covering both the nursing literature and the allied
health fields.

Poems in anthologies. 15,000 authors are represented; reference is
made to 558 separate anthologies.

Popular periodicals, book reviews.

Professional and academic literature in psychology and related
disciplines: over 1,300 journals in more than 20 languages, and to
book chapters and books in the English language. Popular literature is
excluded.

Provides access to the following databases: American Statistics Index,
Index to International Statistics, and Statistical Reference Index.

Published literature on health services, technology, administration,
and research: journal articles, monographs, technical reports, meeting
abstracts and papers, book chapters, government documents, and
newspaper articles.

Scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings.

Significant news articles, reviews, editorials, commentaries,
editorial cartoons, and other items in more than 50 national and
regional newspapers, including the New York Times, USA Today, the
Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Wall Street
Journal.

Thousands of files from over 50 Federal agencies, including the
National Trade Data Bank, the Economic Bulletin Board, Global Business
Procurement Opportunities, and Bureau of Economic Analysis Economic
Information.

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Content Provider

African Studies Department, Area Studies Division, Columbia University
  Libraries.
American Association of Retired Persons.
American Economic Review.
American Mathematical Society.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, an operating program of the
  Getty Information Institute.
BIOSIS.
Bibliography of the History of Art.
Chadwyck-Healey.
Columbia University Press.
Congressional Information Service.
Educational Resources Information Center.
Elsevier Science.
Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.
Engineering Information, Inc.
Garland Press.
H.W. Wilson Company.
Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).
Institute for Scientific Information®
Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) Information Division.
Internet Securities, Inc.
Library of Congress.
Little, Brown and Company.
Middle East Studies Department, Area Studies Division, Columbia
  University Libraries.
Modern Language Association of America.
National Agricultural Library.
National Archives and Records Administration.
National Association of Social Workers.
Office of Clerk - U.S. House of Representatives.
Office of Population Research, Princeton University.
Pierian Press, Inc.
Produced by the University of Illinois Library for the American
  Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
Public Affairs Information Service.
Rand Corp.
Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, the Office of the Senate
  Sergeant at Arms, and the Office of the Secretary of the Senate.
Sociological Abstracts, Inc.
South Asian Studies Department, Area Studies Division, Columbia
  University Libraries.
The Current Bibliography of the History of Science from the journal
  ISIS; the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology from 
  the journal Technology and Culture.
The U.S. Code and Code of Federal Regulations are from the Office of
  the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives.
The UnCover Company.
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
U.S. Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration.
U.S. Department of State, Office of Information Services.
U.S. Government Printing Office.
U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
UMI.

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Electronic Presentation Provider

ABC-CLIO
African Studies Department, Area Studies Division, 
  Columbia University Libraries
American Mathematical Society
American Theological Library Association
Biering & Brinkmann
BRS Software Products
Chadwyck-Healey
Chemical Abstracts Service
ClariNet Communications
Columbia University
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