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Indexing and abstracts for 3,484 journals with fulltext for over 2,000 journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles.
VAST is a package of video collections, accessible through the new Academic Video Online cross-search.Contains references to journal articles, books, essays (as they appear in collected works), and book reviews in religion and related fields from 1949 to the present. There are selected records that span back to 1818.
Credo Reference is a full-text online reference service. The collection includes over three million entries from hundreds of well-regarded titles from some of world's the best reference publishers. Contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy, science to Shakespeare and law to literature.Searchable database of all the articles contained in journals published by Duke University Press.
An index only database that provides access to essays in nearly 5,300 anthologies and collections. Coverage spans the entire range of humanities and social sciences, including literary works, art history, drama, and film. Coverage begins in 1985 to present.Films On Demand is a vendor of web-based digital video delivery service.A collection of 57 subject-specific indexes and databases.A research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology.Indexes, abstracts and full text of the premier journals in archaeology, art, film, literature, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology. Indexing dates back to 1984. Full text of articles begins in 1995.InformaWorld hosts journals, eBooks, abstract databases and reference works published by the Taylor & Francis group, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare.Ingenta is a document delivery service and comprehensive index to over 23,000 scholarly scientific and technical journals. Several options allow you to set up an alerting service or deposit account for ordering articles sent to your desktop. The copyright and service fee is quite pricey, but the database is handy for verifying citations.Provides full text access for scholarly journals in the areas of African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, and sociology. The Life Science Collection is also available. This database covers a complete journal run from the first issue up to the most recent three to five years.Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) is an entirely new research tool for the social sciences and humanities. A scholar-curated library of discipline-based subject modules, OBO is designed to help busy researchers find reliable sources of information in half the time by directing them to exactly the right chapter, book, website, archive, or data set they need for their research. Each entry is a selective guided tour through the key literature on a topic, receives multiple peer-reviews as well as Editorial Board approval, and is designed to facilitate a research experience with no dead ends. All citations are linked through to your collection via OpenURL, full-text via DOIs, or to the web via links to OCLC, WorldCat, and Google Books, allowing users to locate quickly full-text content directly from OBO. OBO is the ultimate collection development tool for librarians and time saving tool for students and researchers.
Indexes every published congress, symposium, conference exposition, workshop and meeting received by the British Library Document Supply Centre. Indexing begins in 1993.Provides full text links for philosophers and theologians such as Aquinas, Aristotle, Plato as well as other early political thinkers from the 17th and 18th centuries.The Philosopher's Index is a bibliographic database with informative author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in the fifteen fields of philosophy, published in journals and books since 1940.The POIESIS database contains 42 full-text journals, 8 conference proceedings, and 8 book series. The database is dedicated to various areas of philosophy, which include: Aesthetics, Ethics, Catholic Intellectual Thought, History of Philosophy, Peace & Violence Studies, Social and Political Philosophy, as well as many Journals which publish in all areas of Philosophy.Proceedings indexes the published literature of the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia workshops and conventions in a wide range of disciplines.Access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in the areas of arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. The coverage is from 1990 to the present.ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated full-text database in the market today totaling more than 11,250 titles—with over 8,400 titles in full text. It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets.The SEP is a dynamic reference work, in which each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and updates are refereed by the members of an editorial board before they are made public. SEP covers wide variety of subject disciplines within the sciences and humanities, including aesthetics, ethics, feminism, philosophy of law, logic, metaphysics, and philosophy of science.
