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• Academic [EBSCO] Search Complete
  --designed specifically for academic institutions,  ASC is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865. EBSCOhost.
   
• Academic OneFile
  --Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.  GALE InfoTrac
   
• Academic Universe
  -- provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information allowing retrieval of documents that meet your specific research needs. Interface: LEXIS/NEXIS. Coverage: 1978-present. Quick Guide to Finding Legal Cases.
   

• Accessible Archives
  --Accessible Archives was founded in 1990 with the goal of utilizing computer technology to make available vast quantities of archived historical information, previously furnished only on microfilm. In pursuit of this vision, primary source material has been selected to reflect a broad view of the times, and has been assembled into databases with a strict attention to detail allowing access to specific information with pinpoint accuracy.  IUP subscribes to Pennsylvania Gazette, The Civil War: a Newspaper Perspective and Pennsylvania County Histories.

• AccessScience
  -- provides the finest collection of science reference materials. This database offers easy accessibility to all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News^® headlines, biographies, and more. This online encyclopedia is tailored to researchers and students looking for the most relevant, readable, and trusted sources of information available. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• ACM Digital Library 
  --The ACM Digital Library is a vast collection of citations and full text from ACM journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings. As a member of PALCI, IUP subscribes to the entire Digital Library.  Coverage: 1950's forward where available.☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• ACS Web 
  -- online collection of over 30 American Chemical Society Journals and Magazines in full text (HTML or PDF). Also includes the Archives of these journals. Interface: ACSWEB Coverage: 1879-Present-- Complete List.
   
• African-American Poetry 1760-1900
  --The early history of African American poetry, from the first recorded poem by an African American (Lucy Terry Prince's 'Bars Fight', c.1746) to the major poets of the nineteenth century, including Paul Laurence Dunbar and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Proquest/Chadwyck-Healey.  ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• Ageline
  --is a searchable electronic database containing detailed summaries of
  publications about older adults and aging, including books, journal and
  magazine articles, research reports, and videos.

• Agricola
  --Compiled by the U.S. National Agricultural Library (NAL), this comprehensive source of bibliographic information consists of over 2.5 million citations to journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audio-visual materials, and technical reports. The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition. Coverage:1970-Present EBSCOhost.
   
• Agricola
  --Compiled by the U.S. National Agricultural Library (NAL), this comprehensive source of bibliographic information consists of over 2.5 million citations to journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audio-visual materials, and technical reports. The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition. Coverage:1970-Present NAL website.
  
   
• Alt HealthWatch
  -- focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. This database provides full text for articles from more than 140 international and often peer-reviewed reports and proceedings, as well as association and consumer newsletters. In addition, Alt HealthWatch includes hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. EBSCOhost
   
• American Association of State Colleges and Universities Grant Resource Center    ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN
  --The Grants Resource Center of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) provides concise and current information related to grants, funding agencies, and new developments in external funding. Click here for a direct link to their GrantSearch.  This service is provided by the IUP School of Graduate Studies and Research.
   
• America: History & Life
  --a  complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Coverage includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities. The database also includes citations to abstracts of dissertations published in these areas.
   
• American National Biography
  --The landmark American National Biography offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation. Published in 24 volumes in 1999, the American National Biography won instant acclaim as the new authority in American biographies. The publication of the online edition makes the ANB even more useful as a dynamic source of information -- updated quarterly, with hundreds of new entries each year and revisions of previously published entries to enhance their accuracy and currency. The American National Biography is published by Oxford University Press under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies.  ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• American Periodicals Series Online
  --This unique and valuable collection includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure's.  Proquest.  ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• American Physical Society--ALL  ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN
  --Titles in this database include:
       Physical Reviews A, B, C, D, & E
       Physical Review Letters
       Physical Review Index
       Review of Modern Physics
       Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA)
   
• Animals - EBSCO
  Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
   
• Annual Reviews Online
  --is a collection of authoritative, analytic reviews in 29 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.  Annual Reviews publications are and have been among the most highly cited in scientific literature.
   
• Anthropological Index
  --one of the major indexes for Social and Cultural Anthropology. It also covers physical anthropology, archaeology and linguistics. Based on the collection of the Royal Anthropological Institute's Museum of Mankind Library, it indexes over 700 journals worldwide. Period Covered : Vo. 22-32 - approximately last 10 years.
   
• Anthrosource ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN
  --AnthroSource, is the premier online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists. Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource brings 100 years of anthropological material online to scholars and the public, including: Current issues for 15 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly.  An electronic archive of all AAA journals. View holdings information. Seamless access to archival content housed at JSTOR for key AAA publications including American Anthropologist (for AAA members and subscribing institutions).
   
• Art Abstracts
  -- indexes and abstracts journals from more than 313 periodicals worldwide, as well as yearbooks, museum bulletins, and reproductions. Interface: EBSCOhost.
   
• ARTstor
  -- ARTstor provides curated collections of art images and associated data for noncommercial and scholarly, non-profit educational use.  The Charter Collection will provide students, faculty, curators, and staff with access to a large and expanding resource of digital images and data for teaching and research in art history, as well as - more broadly - in the humanities and other disciplines. Moreover, ARTstor's digital library will contain approximately half a million images by the summer of 2006. ARTstor's initial software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline. This community resource will be made available solely for educational and scholarly uses that noncommercial in nature.  ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
  
• Basic EBSCOhost
  This will allow you to see all databases available through EBSCOhost and search them simultaneously.
   
• Bibliography of Asian Studies ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN
  -- the online version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS), referencing principally western-language articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971.☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• Biography Resource Center
  -- a comprehensive database of biographical information on nearly 220,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
  
   
• Biological Sciences
  --an interdisciplinary database offering abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Supporting over two dozen areas of expertise, this CSA database provides access to literature from over 6000 sources including serials, conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs, and selected books and patents. Interface: CSA Coverage: 1982-present.
   
• Biological Abstracts (EBSCOhost)
  -- leading indexing and abstracting reference source for life sciences information covering journal literature published in over 70 countries. Interface: EBSCOhost. Coverage: 1969-present.☼Some content licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
•   Biological Abstracts (WebSpirs)
  -- leading indexing and abstracting reference source for life sciences information covering journal literature published in over 70 countries. Interface: WebSpirs. Coverage: 1998-present.

• Biology Digest
  --abstracts and indexes of domestic and international literature in the area of life sciences. It is primarily intended for an audience at the high school or undergraduate level. Its purpose is to aid in keeping students and instructors current on the latest developments in biological research. Interface: CSA. Coverage: 1989-present
   
• BioOne
  --BioOne is the product of innovative collaboration between scientific societies, academe and the private sector.  This database brings to the Web a valuable aggregation of the full-text of high-impact bioscience research journals.  BioOne provides integrated, cost-effective access to interrelated journals that focus on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences, many of which were formerly available only in print format from small societies and non-commercial publishers.  Coverage: 2000-present.☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• Black Drama 
  --contains the full text of nearly 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print. Nearly a quarter of the collection will consist of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Femi Euba, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• Black Thought and Culture  
   --approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975. The collection is intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art.  This database is intended to present a wide range of previously inaccessible material, including letters by athletes such as Jackie Robinson, correspondence by Ida B. Wells, prefatory essays by Amiri Baraka, political leaflets by Huey Newton, and interviews with Paul Robeson. Much of the material is fugitive, and almost twenty percent of the collection has not been published previously.☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• Book Collection: Nonfiction
  -- a rich research database that contains informative abstracts and full text for more than 1,600 popular nonfiction books. The database provides content representing a wide spectrum of works, including many of the complete series from top book publishers such as Millbrook Press, Inc., Lerner Publishing Group, Rourke Publishing, LLC, Capstone Press, Chelsea House, and Mason Crest Publishers. Content includes full text articles on literature, social studies, history, and science, as well as information on careers, health, sports, adventure, and technology.. Interface: EBSCOhost.
   
• Britannica Online
  --Encyclopedia Britannica is the world's most comprehensive reference product, a distinction it has held since its first publication in 1768.Encyclopedia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use Encyclopedia Britannica Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
   
• Business and Company Resource Center
  -- Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information. Interface: InfoTrac ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• Business Full Text
  -- Wilson Business Full Text provides fast, convenient access to a multitude of outstanding sources—from The New York Times Business Section and The Wall Street Journal to magazines and scholarly journals. With Quality abstracting and indexing of more than 850 publications, users will find feature articles, product reviews, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, obituaries, surveys, book reviews, reports from associations, societies, trade shows and conferences, and more.  Over 600,000 corporate names with cross-references to specific industries and countries are included, as well. Topics includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of business journals.   Interface: WilsonWeb.☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds    
   
• Business Source Premier
  -- provides full text for over 1,320 scholarly business journals and indexing/abstracting of over 2,000 journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more. Interface: EBSCOhost. Coverage: 1984 (full text 1990)-present.
   
• Cabell's Business Directories ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN
  -- Cabell Publishing, Inc. was founded in 1978, to help professors, graduate students and researchers publish their manuscripts. To achieve this goal, the company strives to maintain current information on the addresses, phone, e-mail and websites for a large number of journals. Also, the company seeks to provide information on publication guidelines and review information.
  
  
• Cambridge Scientific Abstract
  --through its Internet Database Service (IDS), provides multiple databases in the fields of biological and medical sciences, as well as related links to web sites through CSA's Web Resources Database. See also Biological Sciences, Biology Digest, Conference Papers Index, Medline, Plant Science and Toxline. Interface: CSA.
   
• CARL Uncover--Now Ingenta
  -- service that offers a periodicals database that indexes nearly 18,000 multi-disciplinary titles and contains over eight million article citations. CARL Uncover's Reveal, a current awareness service, is available to IUP students, faculty, and staff.  Interface: Web. Coverage: 1988-present.
   
• CCH OmniTax School Library
  -- Electronic version of CCH looseleaf services [including Standard Federal Tax Reporter]. Includes the CCH Federal Tax Service, IRS letter rulings, state tax reporters, and current news. Access is via IP authentication and requires IUP email address for access.  Limited to 35 simultaneous users.  Interface: Web. Coverage: variable.
   
• Center for Research Libraries
  --an international not-for-profit consortium of colleges, universities and libraries that makes available scholarly research resources to users everywhere. Open to scholars and researchers, its outstanding collections include more than five million volumes of research materials rarely held in North American libraries. Interface: Web. Coverage: Current.
   
• Chadwych-Healey Collections
  --Chadwyck-Healey literature collections offer users the potential to transform the scholarly discussion of literature and language past and present. Making the works of canonical writers, as well as their lesser-known contemporaries, accessible and available to sophisticated analysis in electronic form allows all users of Chadwyck-Healey collections - from specialist researchers to undergraduate students - to make new connections and serendipitous discoveries, thereby creating fresh avenues for critical debate, scholarly dialogue and linguistic research in the humanities.  Proquest/Chadwych-Healey☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• ChemoReception Web
  --ChemoReception Web covers every major facet of the chemical senses highlighting the sensory, behavioral, and biological aspects of taste, smell, and pheromones. Insight is provided into the effects of perfumes, fragrances, soaps, cosmetics, essential oils, foods, flavorings, aromas, spices, and much more. There are special sections on human behavior, physiology & pathology, and psychophysics.The ChemoReception Web explores how tastes, smells, and pheromones are received, perceived, and then translated into appropriate responses and actions. Access is provided to abstracts and book reviews derived from CSA's Chemoreception Abstracts database and to pertinent, editor-selected Web Sites from CSA's extensive Web Resources Database. Interface: CSA
•  Children's Literature Comprehensive Database [CLCD]
  The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) is an acquisition, research, and reference service that offers more than 1,450,000 MARC records and more than 315,000 reviews of children's books--all full text searchable from 37 review sources.
   
• CIAO [Columbia International Affairs Online] 
  --Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. It is also a widely-recognized source for teaching materials including original case studies written by leading international affairs experts, course packs of background readings for history and political science classes, and special features like the analysis of a bin Laden recruitment tape with video.☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• CINAHL with Full Text
  -- database designed specifically to meet the informational needs of nurses and allied health professionals. It is the equivalent to Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. Interface: EBSCOhost.
   
• The Civil War, a Newspaper Perspective
  --This database contains the full text of major articles gleaned from over 2,500 issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865. The text begins with the events preceding the outbreak of war at Fort Sumter, continues through the surrender at Appomattox, and concludes with the assassination and funeral of Abraham Lincoln. Included are descriptive news articles, eye-witness accounts and official reports of battles and events, editorials, advertisements and biographies.
  
   
• Classical Music Library
  -- Classical Music Library is the world's first classical music collection for listening on computers in the library. Brought to you by Classical, it is a complete collection of recordings with a supplementary reference database, enabling patrons to listen to music both in the library (with headphones) or across campus while simultaneously searching and browsing our vast reference database.☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• Clinical Pharmacology
  Clinical Pharmacology provides access up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.
   
• College Source Online
  -- features over 12,100 College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover original page format including 2-year, 4-year, graduate, and professional schools.    Note: restricted to on-campus users.
   
• Cogprints
  Cognitive Sciences Eprint Archive is an electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of Psychology, neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science (e.g., artificial intelligence, robotics, vison, learning, speech, neural networks), Philosophy (e.g., mind, language, knowledge, science, logic), Biology (e.g., ethology, behavioral ecology, sociobiology, behaviour genetics, evolutionary theory), Medicine (e.g., Psychiatry, Neurology, human genetics, Imaging), Anthropology (e.g., primatology, cognitive ethnology, archeology, paleontology), as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition.
   
• Columbia International Affairs Online [CIAO]
  --Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. It is also a widely-recognized source for teaching materials including original case studies written by leading international affairs experts, course packs of background readings for history and political science classes, and special features like the analysis of a bin Laden recruitment tape with video.☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• Columbia Gazetteer of the World 
  --The Columbia Gazetteer of the World is a comprehensive gazetteer and as such is an encyclopedia of geographical places and features. The information contained therein constitutes a gazetteer unrivaled in scope and unmatched in authority. Users can search by type of place, place name or a full keyword search of the content. Pronunciation of place names in the Gazetteer appear in parentheses next to place names. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• Columbia Granger's World of Poetry 
  --For over a century, Granger's® has been the definitive source in English for locating a poem in anthologies on library shelves. First published in 1904, The Columbia Granger's® Index to Poetry is now in its 12th edition.  In 1999, Granger’s went online as The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry.  Included in the online version are a series of key Columbia poetry titles: The Classic Hundred Poems, The Top 500 Poems, The Columbia Granger's® Index to Poetry in Anthologies, editions 8–12, The Columbia Granger's® Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works, editions 1-2, and The Columbia Granger's® Index to African-American Poetry. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• Communication Institute for Online Scholarship [CIOS]
  -- The Communication Institute for Online Scholarship is a not-for-profit organization supporting the use of computer technologies in the service of communication scholarship and education.  CIOS is the publisher of "The Electronic Journal of Communication" one the first five peer-reviewed online scholarly journals ever created (and perhaps the only one in continuous publication). And the CIOS is creator of ComIndex, the communications field's first electronic bibliographic index to academic services, and of the Visual Communication Concept Explorer an unmatched next-generation research tool for students and scholars researching in CIOS databases. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• COMMUNICATION STUDIES: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
  --The Sage Communications Studies Collection includes the full-text of 19 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 23 years, encompassing over 5,000 articles. It covers such subjects as Journalism, Public Opinion, Political Communication, Mass Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Cultural Studies / Intercultural Communication, Television / Film Studies, Media Studies, Business Communication, Organizational / Management Communication, Written Communication, Rhetoric, and Literacy Studies. The searchable database consists of bibliographic records (indexed summaries or abstracts) as well as the complete text of each journal article. Every bibliographic record in the Collection links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format.
   Interface: CSA. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds  NOTE: These titles are also available from the SAGE Premier database

   

• Communications & Mass Media Complete
  -- provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. This database originated with the acquisition and subsequent merging of two popular databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies -- CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). Communication & Mass Media Complete provides an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in any and all aspects of communication and mass media.
   
• Community of Science Funding Opportunities
  -- This resource is no longer licensed by IUP.  Grant Resource Center from the AASCU may provide helpful information on locating grants.  See description below.
   
• Computers and Applied Sciences Complete
  -- covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. CASC provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,300 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection. Full text is also available for more than 500 periodicals. EBSCOhost.
   
• Conference Papers Index
  -- provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science. Records include complete ordering information to obtain preprints, abstracts, proceedings and other publications derived from the conference, together with title and author information needed to track the specific papers. Interface: CSA Coverage: 1982-present.
   

• The CQ Electronic Library  ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN
  --offers an exceptional line of government, public policy and current awareness reference databases including: CQ Researcher (including an archive back to 1991) provides original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news.  CQ Supreme Court Collection, provides historical analysis with timely updates and expert commentary of Supreme Court decisions, biographies of Supreme Court justices, Supreme Court institutional history, and the U.S. Constitution. Washington Information Directory (WID) Online  is a one-stop mega-database for national, international, and state level contacts. CQ’s Electronic Encyclopedia of American Government is an A to Z reference on Congress, the Presidency, Supreme Court, and U.S. Election process.   The CQ Public Affairs Collection, is a storehouse of public policy content organized by 22 key topics, pulls together CQ's wealth of historic documents and primary source materials, statistical overviews, directory contact information.☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   

• The CQ Weekly  ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN
  --each issue of CQ Weekly is fully archived to 1983 on the Web.  It looks forward and back. There are in-depth reports on issues looming on the congressional horizon, plus a complete wrap up the previous week's news, including the status of bills in play, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, debates and all roll-call votes.  Just as important, CQ Weekly is written in plain-English prose that makes it easy for people "outside the beltway" to understand complex legislation, and its ramifications, just as well as any Washington insider. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   

• Congressional Universe - Lexis-Nexis
  --the most comprehensive resource of its kind.  You can explore government in action with the most comprehensive online resource available for Congressional hearings, public issues, legislation, history, and legal research. It also allows in-depth research with access to the full-text of more than 211 years worth of detailed information about Congress, including member biographies, committee assignments, voting records, financial data, and the full-text of key regulatory and statutory resources. Lexis-Nexis ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Fund  Quick Guide to Using Congressional Universe to Locate Legislative Information

   

• Contemporary Fashion (Gale Virtual Reference Library Title)
  --A reference book covering individual designers and fashion houses that have been active throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Informative essays mirror the many facets of the fashion world. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• Criminal Justice Abstracts New Interface!!!
  --indexes major journals in criminology and related disciplines, extensive coverage of books, and unparalleled access to reports from government and nongovernmental agencies. For each document, an informative summary of the findings, methodology, and conclusions is provided. Interface: CSA Coverage: 1968-Present.
  
   
• Criminal Justice Periodicals Index [CJPI]
  --is an essential resource for both students and professionals in any criminal justice field. The ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodical Index (CJPI) is the most comprehensive database of its kind. It covers the following subject areas: social sciences, education, and humanities.  The overall dates of coverage are 1981 - present of 190 titles. CJPI can provide information on virtually any criminal justice topic, including corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and family law. The database offers ASCII text, image, and Text+Graphics coverage for about 50 of the titles most frequently accessed by criminal justice researchers. CJPI also include complete indexing and abstracts for another 140 relevant U.S. and international journals. Sample sources include American Journal of Criminal Justice, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, International Journal of Offender Therapy & Comparative Criminology, Journal of Forensic Sciences, and Women Police.☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• CRIMINOLOGY: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
  --The Sage Criminology Collection includes the full-text of 23 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 23 years, encompassing over 5,500 articles. It covers such subjects as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.  The searchable database consists of bibliographic records (indexed summaries or abstracts) as well as the complete text of each journal article. Every bibliographic record in the Collection links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format.
   Interface: CSA. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds NOTE: These titles are also available from the SAGE Premier database
   
• CSLSP-e (The IEEE Computer Society Library Subscription Plan)
  --The IEEE Computer Society Library Subscription Plan (CSLSP-e) provides full-text internet access to 22 IEEE Computer Society periodicals and over 150 annual conference proceedings. Coverage includes 15 of the top 30 most highly cited journals in computer science. The backfile includes journal content to 1988 and conference proceedings back to 1995. More than 100,000 full-text documents are available through CSLSP. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
  
   
• Current Index to Statistics
  The Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. References are drawn from 162 core journals (as of 2003) that are fully indexed, and many non-core journals, proceedings, edited books, and other sources from which articles are selected that have statistical content. The Current Index to Statistics-Extended Database (CIS-ED) contains the cumulative contents of the CIS Print Volumes, together with substantial material from before the publication of the first volume, including coverage of some journals extending back to their founding.  The database on the query site is updated throughout the year as new information is received and processed. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
  
   
• Davis Bacon Wage Determination
  --The Davis Bacon Wage Determination Database contains wage determinations made by the U.S. Department of Labor under the mandate of the Davis-Bacon Act and related legislation. The Department determines prevailing wage rates for construction-related occupations in most counties in the United States.
   
• Dictionary of National Biography
  --the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography allows you to explore the lives of 50,000 people who have shaped the British past over the last 2,400 years - from the Greek explorer Pytheas to Princess Diana, and from the founding fathers of America to the Nawabs of Bengal. 50,000 biographies, 60 million words, 10,000 portrait illustrations - available online.☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
•  Digital Dissertations
  --encompasses both Dissertation Abstracts and full text for all  Proquest digital dissertations from 1997 to present.  With more than 1.6 million entries, the Dissertation Abstracts database is the single, authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses.  The database includes bibliographic citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. IUP LIBRARIES subscribes to ProQuest Digital Dissertations and so receives on-line access to the complete file of dissertations in digital format starting with titles published from 1997 forward. The full text of over 100,000 dissertations is available now at this Web site.☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• Discovery Education Streaming Video
  --Discovery Education streaming video is a digital video-on-demand and online teaching service with content from over 100 educational publishers including PBS®, Scholastic, BBC, AIMS,  Clearvue & SVE, to name a few.  The streaming video includes both clips and full length productions in such areas as Health, Science, Social Studies, Mathematics, Language Arts, Visual & Performing Arts, etc. To use this service you must be an IUP affiliated user.  To access the passcode please follow this link.  You will need to type your IUP domain name/network user name in the top box and your network password in the second box.  Example:
                                         User name: IUPMSD/ABCXYZ 
                                          Password: xyzabc
  Use the access code you find there to set up your unique user name and password for this service.
   
• Duke E-Journals ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN
  -- The e-Duke Scholarly Collection includes online access to twenty-nine Duke humanities and social science journals.
   
•  Early American Fiction 1789–1875
  --Early American Fiction includes the full texts of the first editions of American novels and short stories written before 1850 by authors of significance during their lifetimes. Well-known works by authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and James Fenimore Cooper are included alongside many works by lesser-known writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Early American Fiction  offers the full text of more than 700 first editions of American novels and short stories by such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain, as well as a host of minor writers of the period.  Proquest/Chadwyck-Healey.  ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• Early English Books Online [EEBO]
  Early English Books Online (EEBO) is a digital library of works from the STC I (Pollard & Redgrave), STC II (Wing), and Thomason Tracts bibliographies – currently comprising almost 100,000 individual titles for the period 1473-1700. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• EBSCO Animals
  Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Click here for more info
     
• EBSCOhost
  -- EBSCO Information Services provides multiple databases from EBSCO Publishing via EBSCOhost. Databases include Academic Search , Business Source Premier, Newspaper Source, Health Source Plus, Comprehensive Medline, Clinical Reference Systems, USP DI, The Serials Directory and EBSCO Online Citations. See these titles for individual descriptions.
   
• EconLit
  --indexes and abstracts more than 450 international economic journals. Its source material includes journal articles, essays, research papers, books, dissertations, book reviews, and working papers. The database contains more than 350,00 records covering 1969-present. EBSCOhost.
   
• EDUCATION: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
  -- The Sage Education Collection includes the full text of 26 peer-reviewed journals published by SAGE and participating societies distinguished by up to 40 years of backfiles, and encompasses over 8,000 articles. It covers such subject areas as: Adult and Continuing Education, Educational Administration, Educational Policy, Elementary and Primary Education, High School and Secondary Education, Higher Education, International Education, Leadership, Measurement and Testing, Multicultural Education and Diversity, Professional Development, Teaching and Instruction, Teaching Methods. The searchable database consists of bibliographic records (indexed summaries or abstracts) as well as the complete text of each journal article. Every bibliographic record in the Collection links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format. Interface: CSA. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds NOTE: These titles are also available from the SAGE Premier database

• Education Full Text
  --Education Full Text from the H.W. WilsonCompany provides comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks on Education including Full text of articles cover to cover, from hundreds of journals, it provides bibliographic information for articles from 750 periodicals and yearbooks, with indexing going back to 1983 and abstracts to 1994. Articles from books relating to education, which were published after 1995, are also included. Full text begins in 1996.  Topics include a wide range of contemporary education issues including, adult education, continuing education, library science, literacy standards, multicultural/ethnic education, teaching methods, etc.  WilsonWeb. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds   
   
• Education Research Complete
  -- the definitive online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals, as well as full text for more than 750 journals, and includes full text for more than 100 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers.   EBSCOhost.
  
   
• Education Retrospective 1929-1983
  --Education Retrospective from the H.W. WilsonCompany provides comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks on Education from 1929-1983. Topics include a wide range of  education issues including, adult education, continuing education, library science, literacy standards, multicultural/ethnic education, teaching methods, etc.  WilsonWeb. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds    
  
   
• eHRAF Collection of Ethnography ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN
  The eHRAF Collection of Ethnography is a cross-cultural database that contains over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life.  The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that the information is organized into cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level. Visit the HRAF homepage at www.yale.edu/hraf for an online user's guide and instructional exercises.  Follow this link http://www.yale.edu/hraf/Short_OCM_List_121503.pdf to the Short List of OCM [Outline of Cultural Materials] codes to aid in building search strategies. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• E-LIS E-Prints in Library and Information Science
  E-LIS is an open access archive for scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, on Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related areas. E-LIS relies on the voluntary work of individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and is non-commercial. It is not a funded project of an organization. It is community-owned and community-driven. We serve LIS researchers by facilitating their self-archiving, ensuring the long-term preservation of their documents and by providing word-wide easy access to their papers.
   
• Emerald 
  --full-text access to peer reviewed journals in the areas of Business and Management, Health and Environment, Library and Information Management, Training and Education, Material Science and Technology.
   
• Encyclopedia Britannica Online
  --Encyclopedia Britannica is the world's most comprehensive reference product, a distinction it has held since its first publication in 1768.Encyclopedia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use Encyclopedia Britannica Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.

• Encyclopedia of Crime & Justice (Gale Virtual Reference Library Title)
  -- This uniquely interdisciplinary resource covers legal, sociological, psychological, historical, and economic aspects of crime and justice worldwide. Entries cover civil and criminal issues, from domestic violence to terrorism. Entries cite pertinent legal cases as well as publications for further information. Also includes a glossary of related terms.☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• Encyclopedia of Small Business (Gale Virtual Reference Library Title)
  -- Designed to provide entrepreneurs with how-to information that they can apply to their own business. Contains 600 detailed articles and overviews of all the key information needs of small business owners, including financing, financial planning, business plan creation, market analysis, sales strategy, tax planning, and human resource issues.☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   

•  Endnote
  --client software the enables users to search online bibliographic databases, organize reference and images, and create bibliographies and figure lists instantly.  IUP users can pick up a copy of EndNote software with an I-card. Endnote Software is available free of charge with an I-Card from the IT Support Center at the Suites on Grant Lower, Suite G35. 724-357-4000. More Information. Download filter for IUP Pilot online catalog.   Download Other Endnote filters Tutorials  ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   

• Endnote Web
  --web client software that enables users to search online bibliographic databases, organize reference and images, and create bibliographies and figure lists instantly.  You must register a user name and password from an IUP computer or be on the VPN to use EndNote Web. Click here for a table comparing EndNote and EndNote Web.  Getting started. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   

• Environment Complete
  Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, and urban planning. This database also contains full text for more than 600 journals. An Environment Thesaurus is available to assist with advanced searching. Former titles: Environmental Issues and Policy Index, Environment Index.☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• E-PRINT NETWORK

  The E-print Network is  vast, integrated network of electronic scientific and technical information created by scientists and research engineers active in their respective fields, intended for use by other scientists, engineers, and students at advanced levels. E-Prints are scientific or technical documents circulated electronically to facilitate peer exchange and scientific advancement. Included are pre-publication drafts of journal articles (preprints), scholarly papers, technical communications, or similar documents relaying research results among peer groups.

   
• ERIC (Webspirs)
  --a combination of the paper indexes Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Items retrieved from RIE are documents assigned ED numbers (most available in PDF files from IUP database E*Subscribe, or see microfiche by submitting the ED number). Items retrieved in CIJE are journal articles assigned EJ numbers. Journal titles must be checked against the Library's periodical holdings determine local availability. Interface: WebSpirs. Coverage: 1966-present.
   
• ERIC (EBSCO)
  --a combination of the paper indexes Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Items retrieved from RIE are documents assigned ED numbers (most available in PDF files from IUP database E*Subscribe, or see microfiche by submitting the ED number). Items retrieved in CIJE are journal articles assigned EJ numbers. Journal titles must be checked against the Library's periodical holdings determine local availability, although the EBSCO interface will link to full text in other EBSCO databases. Interface: EBSCOhost.. Coverage: 1966-present.
   
• ERIC Web Portal E*Subscribe documents are now located here!!
  -- The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The new ERIC online system, released September 2004, provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. Effective October 1, more than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, will be available for free.
   
• Essay & General Literature Index
  --a unique reference database that provides access to nearly 65,000 essays found in over 5,300 printed anthologies and collections, with coverage dating as far back as 1985. Subjects covered in the database include archaeology, architecture, art, children's literature, classical studies, drama, economics, fiction, film, folklore, history, linguistics, music, poetry, political science, psychology, religion, women's studies and more, covering the entire range of the humanities and social sciences.  WilsonWeb.
   
• Ethnic NewsWatch + ENW, A History
  --covers news, culture and History from 240+ publications of ethnic, minority and native presses.  Designed to provide the "other side of the story", Ethnic NewsWatch and ENW, A History full text titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press. Both English and Spanish language search interfaces are provided. This does not affect the content. Coverage 1960 - Present. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• Federal Tax Reporter -- OmniTax School Library
  -- Electronic version of CCH looseleaf services [including Standard Federal Tax Reporter]. Includes the CCH Federal Tax Service, IRS letter rulings, state tax reporters, and current news. Access is via IP authentication and requires IUP email address for access.  Limited to 35 simultaneous users.  Interface: Web. Coverage: variable
  
   
• FirstSearch
  Welcome to OCLC's new FirstSearch® service, an interactive online information system available on the World Wide Web. GEOBASE and WorldCat are available through this service.
  
   
• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
  Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry. Click here for more info
  
  
• Gale Literary Index
  -- A free online index to forty of Gale's printed sources.  A quick and easy way to locate biographies of authors and critical essays on their writings.  The entries include location information only; not textual information is available.
   
• Gale Virtual Reference Library ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
  -- Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of eBook reference titles.  IUP subscribes to the following titles:
  
    º Contemporary Fashion --A reference book covering individual designers and fashion houses that have been active throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Informative essays mirror the many facets of the fashion world.
  
    º Encyclopedia of Crime & Justice -- This uniquely interdisciplinary resource covers legal, sociological, psychological, historical, and economic aspects of crime and justice worldwide. Entries cover civil and criminal issues, from domestic violence to terrorism. Entries cite pertinent legal cases as well as publications for further information. Also includes a glossary of related terms.
  
    º Encyclopedia of Small Business -- Designed to provide entrepreneurs with how-to information that they can apply to their own business. Contains 600 detailed articles and overviews of all the key information needs of small business owners, including financing, financial planning, business plan creation, market analysis, sales strategy, tax planning, and human resource issues.
  
    º Geo-Data: The World Geographical Encyclopedia -- Entries describe the physical geography of every nation and dependency on Earth. Physical features, climate, and vegetation are discussed in detail using a consistent set of rubrics. Every entry features a physical relief map designed to illuminate the text of the entry. A World Rankings appendix includes dozens of tables ranking major features of the Earth, such as largest river by length and volume, tallest mountains by continent, and deepest oceans. Includes a glossary of geographical and geological terms.
  
  º Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever  -- Containing the most extensive listing of movies available on video--more than 23,000 in all--and a multitude of cross-referencing within its 10 primary indexes, this new edition includes new movies, expanded indexing, a fresh introduction, and more of the beloved categories.
   
• General Science Full Text
  --General Science Full Text from the H. W. Wilson Company provides  bibliographic information for science articles from 300 science periodicals with indexing going back to 1984 and abstracts to 1995.  Full text begins in 1995 for over 100 titles.  Covers a broad range of fields in general interest periodicals—including The New York Times Science section—and specialized scientific journals as well. Topics include a wide range of scientific disciplines including, astronomy, conservation, earth science, zoology, etc.  WilsonWeb. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds    
   
• GeoBase
  --bibliographic database covering worldwide research literature in physical and human geography, earth and environmental sciences, ecology, and related disciplines.
   
• GeoBib
  --Online Geographical Bibliography (GeoBib) is the online version of Current Geographical Publications.  Beginning with January 2004, it will be available only online cumulating all Current Geographical Publications entries from 1984 to the present.
   
•  Geo-Data  (Gale Virtual Reference Library Title)
  -- Entries describe the physical geography of every nation and dependency on Earth. Physical features, climate, and vegetation are discussed in detail using a consistent set of rubrics. Every entry features a physical relief map designed to illuminate the text of the entry. A World Rankings appendix includes dozens of tables ranking major features of the Earth, such as largest river by length and volume, tallest mountains by continent, and deepest oceans. Includes a glossary of geographical and geological terms.☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
  
  
• GeoRef
  -- American Geological Institute's database containing over 1.9 million records of North America since 1785, and other areas of the world since 1933. It is equivalent to Bibliography of North American Geology, Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America, Geophysical Abstracts, and the Bibliography and Index of Geology. Additional items come from special bibliographies. Interface: EBSCOhost..  Coverage: 1785-present.
   
• Google Scholar
  --Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
   
• Government Catalog
  -- Most comprehensive catalog index to U.S. Federal government publications. Interface: Web. Coverage: 1976-present.
   
• GPO Access
  -- GPO Access. Government Printing Office's One Stop Source for Official Government Information.   Web access.
   
• Granger's World of Poetry 
  --For over a century, Granger's® has been the definitive source in English for locating a poem in anthologies on library shelves. First published in 1904, The Columbia Granger's® Index to Poetry is now in its 12th edition.  In 1999, Granger’s went online as The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry.  Included in the online version are a series of key Columbia poetry titles: The Classic Hundred Poems, The Top 500 Poems, The Columbia Granger's® Index to Poetry in Anthologies, editions 8–12, The Columbia Granger's® Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works, editions 1-2, and The Columbia Granger's® Index to African-American Poetry. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
•  Grant Resource Center (AASCU) ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN
  --The Grants Resource Center of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) provides concise and current information related to grants, funding agencies, and new developments in external funding. Click here for a direct link to their GrantSearch. This service is provided by the IUP School of Graduate Studies and Research.
   
• Grove Art Online  Cabell Publishing, Inc. was founded in 1978, our goal has been to help professors, graduate students and researchers publish their manuscripts. To achieve this goal, the company strives to maintain current information on the addresses, phone, e-mail and websites for a large number of journals. Also, the company seeks to provide information on publication guidelines and review information.
  Grove Art Online   OFF-CAMPUS-- Remote Access Link
  --Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with ongoing additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links and all the sophisticated search advantages possible with an online reference resource. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
•  Grove Music Online   ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN
   Grove Music Online   OFF-CAMPUS-- Remote Access Link
  --Grove Music Online is an integrated