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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.  Here is a link to a beta version of Academic Universe due to be released in January: New Academic Universe Interface Interface  This beta version is available On Campus Only until it is released in January. LEXIS/NEXIS. Coverage: 1978-present. Lexis-Nexis Wiki For Higher Education Research Assistance
   

• Access NewspaperArchive
  --Access NewspaperARCHIVE contains tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages, dating as far back as the 1700s. It is your gateway to searching and reading historical newspapers online including the Indiana Gazette and other Pennsylvania newspapers. Use the archive to view, save and print full-page newspapers from around the world. Content on Access NewspaperARCHIVE is a unique primary resource, as newspapers provide information as news happened and not necessarily the way it was remembered.

•  Access World News [NewsBank]-- Find current and archived state, national, and international articles on issues, events, people, government and more with the collection of full-text newspapers and other news sources including the New York Times (2000-Current), Philadelphia Inquirer (1981-Current), Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (1990-Current), and the Washington Post (1977-Current).  Paid advertisements & obituaries are excluded. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds

• 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
   
• 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.  --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.
   
• 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.
   
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index
  -- The Arts & Humanities Citation Index, part of Web of Science,  is an index to the journal literature of the these disciplines. The database indexes more than 1,160 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.   Please follow this link for more information about Web Of Science.  Complete coverage for the Arts & Humanities is 1975-Present.  ☼Licensed with Performance Funds  
   
• 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
   

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• 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 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
   
• 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
   
• 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.
  
   
• 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.
   
• British Periodicals Online
  --British Periodicals traces the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals' and beyond. On completion this unique digital archive will consist of almost 500 periodical runs published from the 1680s to the 1930s, comprising six million keyword-searchable pages and forming an unrivalled record of more than two centuries of British history and culture. Currently IUP subscribes to Collection I only which consists of more than 160 journals that comprise the UMI microfilm collection Early British Periodicals.  Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences.  Proquest/Chadwyck.  ☼Licensed with Performance Funds
   
• 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 Directories [Cabell's]  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.
   
• 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.

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• Cabell's Directories  [Business, Education and Psychology] 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
   
• CHEMLIBnetBASE
  --CHEMLIBnetBASE is a searchable e-book collection of 260+ chemistry titles from CRC Press.
   
• CHEMnetBASE
  --CHEMnetBASE is a chemistry resource that pulls Chapman & Hall/CRC’s premier chemistry references, with all of their facts, formulas, tables, illustrations, and references together online.  A free browser plug-in is available that allows you to draw and upload graphical structure queries. If you are having difficulties installing the plugin, please check the information provided on the Technical Support page.
   
• 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
   
• Cochrane Library ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN
  -- The Cochrane Library contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It includes reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more. Cochrane reviews bring you the combined results of the world’s best medical research studies, and are recognized as the gold standard in evidence-based health care.
   
• 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.
   
• 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.
   
• 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
   
• 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
   
• 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.

• 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
   

• 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 (2007-08)  is a one-stop mega-database for national, international, and state level contacts.   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 
   

• Credo Reference ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN
  --Credo Reference is a leading provider of reference services for libraries and information centers.  There are over 270 titles consisting of an aggregate of 3.1 million entries all interconnected by over 100,000,000 links.  Partnering with many of the world's leading publishers, Credo Reference combines publishing expertise with the latest digital technologies to unlock the knowledge value of reference material. 
   
• 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

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• 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.

  E

•  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 Directories [Cabell's]  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.
   
• 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 (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

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• 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

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• 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.
   
• GeoRef In Process
  -- GeoRef In Process contains unedited records that are still in the process of being indexed prior to their integration in the main GeoRef database. Some of the records originate from older, non-English language literature while other, more current records are simply not yet complete. This database is intended as a supplement to the main GeoRef database. Interface: EBSCOhost. 
   
• 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.
   
• GreyNet
  --GreyNet, the Grey Literature Network Service was founded in 1992. The goal of GreyNet is to facilitate dialog, research, and communication between persons and organisations in the field of grey literature. GreyNet further seeks to identify and distribute information on and about grey literature in networked environments. GreyNet's collections of Conference Preprints (2003-2007) are now available in the OpenSIGLE Repository. The work of some 200 authors and researchers in the field of grey literature over the last 5 years is now online accessible.
   
• GreenFILE
  -- GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.      Interface: EBSCOhost. Coverage: 1985 (full text 1990)-present.
   
• Grove Art Online  [Now called Oxford Art Online] ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN
  Grove Art Online  [Now called Oxford Art Online] OFF-CAMPUS-- Remote Access Link
  --Grove Art Online Is now called Oxford Art Online .  It 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 [Now called Oxford Music Online]  ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN
   Grove Music Online [Now called Oxford Music Online]  OFF-CAMPUS-- Remote Access Link
  --Grove Music Online is now called Oxford Music Online.  It is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition; 29 volumes), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition; 3 volumes). Grove Music Online will be updated annually to ensure it remains the most up to date music reference work on the Internet.  ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds

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• Health and Safety Science Abstracts
  -- Health and Safety Science Abstracts database provides the latest perspectives on topics of widespread concern such as aviation and aerospace safety, environmental safety, nuclear safety, medical safety occupational safety, and ergonomics including health and safety related aspects of pollution, waste disposal, radiation, pesticides, epidemics - and countless other phenomena that have the potential to threaten the public, the environment, or the workplace itself. Drawing on government reports as well as journal articles, conference proceedings, books, and other publications, this database synthesizes the most important new developments in safety science and human factors research.  Interface: CSA. Coverage: 1981-present.
   
• Health Source: Consumer Edition
  -- provides full text for over 300 consumer health periodicals, over 1,100 health pamphlets, and 145 consumer health reference books. Also included is Stedman's Medical Dictionary, which provides users with access to terminology of genetics, oncology, pediatrics, emergency medicine, bacteriology, and laboratory medicine.   Interface: EBSCOhost. Coverage: 1985 (full text 1990)-present.
   
• Health Source: Nursing Academic Edition
  -- provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for more than 800 journals. This database includes Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to 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 drugs. This database is updated daily. Interface: EBSCOhost. Coverage: Some full text beginning in 1975.
   
• Highwire Press
  --online full-text articles in science and medicine.

• Historical Abstracts
  -- A reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Contains over half a million entries with annotated references to information on topics from the Renaissance to the former Yugoslavia, and much more.  --EBSCOhost
   
• Historical New York Times - ProQuest 
  --offers full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating back to the 19th century. The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue--cover to cover--in downloadable PDF^® files. Overall dates of coverage are 1851-2004 for The New York Times. This premier newspaper database represents the first initiative to not only reach back into the past to digitize historical newspaper information but also to provide that information as both full-page-images and as article images.  Researchers can use the database to find not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements but also historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements. The date range searching tool lets users search on, before, or between two dates.☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• Historical Pittsburgh Courier - ProQuest 
  --Historical Pittsburgh Courier: 1911-2002.  As one of the most nationally circulated Black newspapers, the Courier reached its peak in the 1930s.  A conservative voice in the African-American community, the Courier challenged the misrepresentation of African-Americans in the national media and advocated social reforms to advance the cause of civil rights. this collection offers full page and article images with searchable full text. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. ☼Licensed with Performance Funds
   
• Historical Wall Street Journal - ProQuest 
  --offers full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating back to the 19th century. The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue--cover to cover--in downloadable PDF^® files. Overall dates of coverage are 1889-1990 for The Wall Street Journal. This premier newspaper database represents the first initiative to not only reach back into the past to digitize historical newspaper information but also to provide that information as both full-page-images and as article images.  Researchers can use the database to find not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements but also historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements. The date range searching tool lets users search on, before, or between two dates.☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• Hospitality & Tourism Complete
  -- covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. This collection contains more than 670,000 records, with coverage dating as far back as 1965. There is full text for more than 200 publications, including periodicals, company & country reports, and books. EBSCOhost. ☼Licensed with Performance Funds
   
• Humanities & Social Science Retrospective  1907-1984
  -- Wilson's Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of humanities and social sciences journals. Content from H.W. Wilson’s International Index is also included.   WilsonWeb. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds   
   
• Humanities Full Text
  -- Wilson's Humanities Full Text is the most comprehensive resource available in its field. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines with indexing from 1983 forward and full text from 1995. Topics includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of humanities  journals.   Interface: WilsonWeb.☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds    
   

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• IEEE 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
   
• In the First Person
   --In the First Person is a free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. It lets you keyword search more than 650,000 pages of full-text by more than 15,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some 3,500 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records. Note: we also subscribe to one of the companion titles Black Thought and Culture.
   

• Indiana Gazette
  --In Access NewspaperARCHIVE, you can access historical newspapers online including the Indiana Gazette and other Pennsylvania newspapers. Use this browse form to limit your search to USA>Pennsylvania>Indiana to see the newspaper titles from our city. Note: There is a publisher delay so that the most current issue for the Gazette is December 31, 2007.  IUP Libraries also maintains coverage for the current issues in paper copy until the microfilm is received.
   

• InfoTrac
  -- also referred to as "SearchBank", includes Business & Company Resource Center, InfoTrac OneFile, Biography Resource Center and Literature Resource Center Databases.

• InfoTrac General OneFile  
  -- A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Coverage: 1980 - Jan 2004.  Updated daily. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
  
   
•  Ingenta (CARL Uncover)
  -- 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.
   
• Institute of Physics (IOP)  ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN
  --The Institute of Physics is a leading international professional body and learned society, established to promote the advancement and dissemination of physics. This subscription includes 37 current journal titles and the historical archive dating back in some titles to 1874.  ☼Some content licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• International Index to Music Periodicals - Full Text (IIMPFT)
  --draws its coverage from more than 400 international music periodicals from over 20 countries and 60 Full Text Titles. IIMP also contains retrospective coverage dating back to 1874. Included in the current and retrospective content are complete-run titles, from inception to the present (or final) issue, and many partial run titles. IIMP covers nearly all aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
  
   
• International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center
  -- offers information on virtually every dimension of security & counter-terrorism and is designed to inform the analysis process, as well as enhance the general understanding of security and terrorism-related issues. ISCTRC provides a comprehensive Open Source Intelligence Resource for analysts, risk management professionals, and students. Content includes hundreds of full text journals and periodicals, hundreds of thousands of selected articles, news feeds, reports, summaries, books, blogs, FAQs, and proprietary Background Information Summaries that pertain to terrorism and security. EBSCOhost.  ☼Licensed with Performance Funds and support from the John P. Murtha Institute for Homeland Security
   
• ITER 
  --Iter was created in 1995-96 for the advancement of learning in the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, through the development of online resources.  Resources include Iter Italicum, International Directory of Scholars, Renaissance Quarterly, etc. ☼Content licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• IUP LIBRARIES INTERNET ARCHIVES SITE 
  --IUP Libraries has a presence in the Internet Archive where IUP Publications, PA Documents and other Special Collections items have been scanned and made available to the public.  These documents include various items including back issues of IUP Magazine, Graduate and Undergraduate Catalogs, The OAK, the Report of the Superintendent of  Common Schools of Pennsylvania (1860), just to name a few.  This site is brought to you in partnership with IUP Libraries and Lyrasis.

 

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• Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Criticism and Theory ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN
   --   The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of literary theory and discourse. It presents a comprehensive historical survey of the field's most important figures, schools, and movements. It includes more than 240 alphabetically arranged entries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Fund
   
• Journal of Applied Physiology 
  -- publishes original papers that deal with diverse areas of research in applied physiology, especially those papers emphasizing adaptive and integrative mechanisms. The wide scientific span of the Journal rests on physiology as its keystone. Moreover, theoretical articles on research at any level of biological organization ranging from molecules to humans fall within the broad scope of the Journal. Coverage October,1996-Present. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Fund
   
• Journal of the American Medical Assn. (JAMA) 
   --  the JAMA Web site includes the full text of JAMA, published by the American Medical Association. JAMA is published weekly, 48 issues per year, and new issues are posted on the Web site at 3 PM CT on Tuesdays. Full Text content begins with 1998 to Present; Table of Contents, Abstracts and Selected Full Text are available from May,1992-1997;Table of Contents and Abstracts only from 1975-1992; Table Of contents only from 1966-1974. Coverage (with full text)1998-Present.☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Fund
   
• JSTOR
  OFF Campus temporary Link: http://voyager.ship.edu/rpas/validate.cgi?db=JSTOR
  -- Online archives of over 500 journals in African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics. JSTOR is designed specifically for archiving journals, so it does not include the most recent 2-5 years of each title.  Follow this link to IUP JSTOR Journal Collections  Currently we subscribe to the entire JSTOR archive:  all five Arts & Sciences Collections, the Health & General Sciences Collection, the Biological Sciences Collection, and the Business II Collection. ☼Some content licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds

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• Knovel ChemEssentials ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN
  -- Knovel Corporation has granted online access to four premium chemistry-related reference e-book titles to colleges and universities worldwide.  The titles are:
  
    º International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology  -- Originally published by Smithsonian Institution Press in 1954, this classic reference source comprises 901 tables of general interest to scientists and engineers, and of particular interest to those involved with physics in its larger sense.The seven most important tables were made interactive for increased searchability and user-friendliness.
  
    º Knovel Critical Tables -- This important, interactive Knovel reference contains tables of physical, solvent, and thermodynamic properties. The physical property tables alone include over 21,000 inorganic and organic compounds, and pure substances. The solvent property tables have data for 385 common solvents, and the thermodynamic property tables have data for over 15,000 compounds. Additionally, several tables make use of the interactive Equation Plotter to plot thermodynamic properties as a function of temperature.
  
    º Smithsonian Physical Tables (9th Revised Edition) -- Originally published by Smithsonian Institution Press in 1954, this classic reference source comprises 901 tables of general interest to scientists and engineers, and of particular interest to those involved with physics in its larger sense. In 2003, Knovel undertook the conversion of this publication into full-text searchable electronic format that makes data easily accessible
  
    º Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables -- This handbook has been designed to provide scientific investigators with a comprehensive and self-contained summary of the mathematical functions that arise in physical and engineering problems.
   
• Kraus Curriculum Development Library (kcdlonline)
  -- searchable database of curricula that brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education.

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• Legal Collection
  --centered on the discipline of law and legal topics, this is a collection of respected, scholarly peer-reviewed publications including law journals, documents, and case studies. This database is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world. Legal Collection offers full text for more than 260 of the world's best law journals.  It is a subset of Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier and Communication and Mass Media Complete. EBSCOhost.
   
• Lexi-PALS Drug Guide
  --a database of Patient Advisory Leaflets from Lexi-Comp that provides vital education on medications for patients. The approach for each pamphlet is to present each medication in an easy to follow and understand question-and-answer format. The database consists of over 1,450 medication and natural product leaflets, with an additional 600 Spanish language leaflets representing the most subscribed and commonly used medications

• Lexis-Nexis / 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. Quick Guide to Finding Legal Cases.
   
• Library Information Science & Technology Abstracts
  -- LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.   EBSCOhost.
   
• Library Literature and Information Science
  -- indexes articles cover to cover from key library and information science periodicals. This database produces by the H.W. Wilson Company encompasses some 390 journals, over 300 books annually, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses and pamphlets. Coverage reaches as far back as 1980.   EBSCOhost.
   
• Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts      
   -- database of interest to both generalists and specialists in keeping abreast of cutting-edge developments in disciplines concerned with the nature and use of language. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. Coverage 1973- Present. Interface: CSA ☼Some content licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• Literary Index (Gale )
  -- 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.
   
• Literature Online [LION]
  --Literature Online is a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 168 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. There are full-text journals, including Signs, Critical Inquiry and Nineteenth-Century Literature.  It is also cross-searchable with Early English Books Online. Proquest/Chadwyck-Healey.  ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• Literature Resource Center
  A complete literature reference database designed for both the undergraduate and graduate student as well as the sophisticated casual user. Rich in biographical, bibliographical, and critical content.  It is the premier Internet resource for information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more.

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• Marcive WebDocs
  -- database corresponding to the printed Monthly Catalog which contains approximately 50 percent of the published government documents (others being classified or for in-house use only). Citations from the annual Periodicals Supplement and the US Congressional Serial Set Supplement are also included. Interface: Web. Coverage: 1976-present.
  
• MAS Ultra - School Edition
  Provides full text for over 460 general interest and current events magazines. Click here for a complete title list. Click here for more info

•  MathSciNet
  -- MathSciNet is a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature since 1940. MathSciNet provides Web access to the Mathematical Reviews Database that is the database of bibliographic information and reviews created and maintained by the American Mathematical Society.  Journals, conference proceedings, and books of mathematics research are covered.☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• MedLine with Full Text
  -- the world's most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for nearly 1,200 journals indexed in MEDLINE. This wide-ranging file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the MEDLINE index - with no embargo. With full-text coverage dating back to 1965, MEDLINE with Full Text is the definitive research tool for medical literature.   EBSCOhost. ☼Licensed with Performance Funds
   
• Medline (from CSA)
  -- National Library of Medicine's database which combines the paper indexes Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, and Index to Dental Literature. Interface: CSA.
     
• Mental Measurements Yearbook New Interface!!!
  --Mental Measurements Yearbook , produced by the Buros Institute, includes consumer-oriented test reviews. The purpose of the Yearbook is to provide evaluative information to promote informed test selection. Typical test entries include descriptive information, professional reviews, and reviewer references. To be included, a test must be commercially available, be published in the English language, and be new, revised, or widely used since it last appeared in the series. The first yearbook was published in 1938. Interface: EBSCOhost
   
• Military and Government Collection  
  Provides full text for over 320 military related periodicals and general interest magazines. Click here for a complete title list. Click here for more info

• MLA International Bibliography
  -- index produced by the Modern Language Association consisting of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. It provides access to scholarly research in over 3,000 journals and series. Also covered are relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, dissertations, and other formats.  EbscoHost. Coverage: 1963-present.
   
• MLA Directory of Periodicals
  --The MLA Directory of Periodicals, produced by the Modern Language Association of America, lists over 3,700 periodicals in the areas of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore that are covered regularly in the MLA International Bibliography with addresses, advertising rates, and information about submissions for publication. EbscoHost
  
• Multimedia Aids
  -- Sources for free and almost free photos, graphics, clipart, and animations.
   
• Music Index Online
  -- covers more than 640 international music periodicals; includes musicological and organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries. Coverage: 1979-present.   Note: restricted to on-campus users.
   
• Music Index Online -- On EBSCOhost
  -- covers more than 640 international music periodicals; includes musicological and organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries. Coverage: 1979-present.  

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• Nature Online 
  --the homepage of the International weekly journal of science. This site provides access to with full access to our current and archived content from the journal. Nature appears weekly and publishes papers from any area of science with great potential impact. The importance of Nature papers often extends well beyond the confines of the specific discipline concerned. (Nature's "impact factor", measured by ISI is higher than any other interdisciplinary scientific journal.) Nature also publishes a broad range of informal material in the form of Opinion articles, News stories, Briefings and Recruitment features, and contributed material such as Correspondence; Commentary; News and Views; Scientific Correspondence; book, software and product reviews; etc. Coverage: 1997-Present ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• NAXOS
  -- the most comprehensive collection of classical and jazz music available online, this new service is now available to libraries, educational institutions, and music professionals, offering an instant music collection with over 75,000 tracks of classical, jazz, and other genre available for one low subscription fee.  Music is available for listening at a library listening station or from any computer with Internet access via remote log in options. Libraries no longer have to worry about lost or stolen recordings and can provide music to students from anywhere in the world. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• NCJRS
  -- database of the US Department of Justice, abstracting more than 145,000 criminal justice publications. Literature covered includes US federal, state, and local governments' documents, books, journals, unpublished research reports, and program descriptions and evaluations. Many of the documents are available in the Library on microfiche. Interface: CD-ROM. Coverage: 1970s-present.
   
• NDLTD Union Catalog
  The NDLTD [Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations]Union Catalog will serve as a repository of rich graduate educational material contributed by a number of member institutions worldwide. This project will increase the availability of student research for scholars, empower students to convey a richer message through the use of multimedia and hypermedia technologies and advance digital library technology worldwide.  IUP is a member of the NDLTD since 2004.
   
• Netlibrary ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN with First Use
  --collection of electronic monographs.  New IUP users must set up a user name and password with the free registration link "Create a free account" at very top, right of the NetLibrary page.  These accounts must be set up using computers on the IUP campus.  Once registered, users can access NetLibrary from off campus as well. ☼Some content licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) 
   --  the NEJM site includes the full text of NEJM, published by the New England Journal of Medicine. NEJM is published weekly, 48 issues per year. Full Text content begins with 1993 to Present; Abstracts only from 1975-1992  Coverage (with full text)1993-Present.☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Fund
   
• New York Times Full Image  - NewsBank ON-CAMPUS ONLY
  --Full image of the current issues of the New York Times.  This resource is an electronic image edition and as such is an exact digital reproduction of the printed edition, with keyword searching and ability to browse the full publication. All pages, including advertising, photos and graphics are included. For access to the backfiles go to the bottom of the Access World News Search page.
   
• New York Times Full Image - Magazine   - NewsBank ON-CAMPUS ONLY
  --Full image of the current issues of the New York Times.  This resource is an electronic image edition and as such is an exact digital reproduction of the printed edition, with keyword searching and ability to browse the full publication. All pages, including advertising, photos and graphics are included. For access to the backfiles go to the bottom of the Access World News Search page.
   
• New York Times Full Image - Advanced Sunday Edition  - NewsBank ON-CAMPUS ONLY
  --Full image of the current issues of the New York Times.  This resource is an electronic image edition and as such is an exact digital reproduction of the printed edition, with keyword searching and ability to browse the full publication. All pages, including advertising, photos and graphics are included. For access to the backfiles go to the bottom of the Access World News Search page.
   
• New York Times Historical  - ProQuest 
  --offers full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating back to the 19th century. The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue--cover to cover--in downloadable PDF^® files. Overall dates of coverage are 1851-2004 for The New York Times. This premier newspaper database represents the first initiative to not only reach back into the past to digitize historical newspaper information but also to provide that information as both full-page-images and as article images.  Researchers can use the database to find not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements but also historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements. The date range searching tool lets users search on, before, or between two dates.☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds

 
• NewsBank Full-Text Newspapers --Find current and archived state, national, and international articles on issues, events, people, government and more with the collection of full-text newspapers and other news sources including the New York Times (2000-Current), Philadelphia Inquirer (1981-Current), Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (1990-Current), and the Washington Post (1977-Current).  Paid advertisements & obituaries are excluded. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• Newspaper Source
  -- provides selected full text articles from 143 US and international newspapers. This database is updated daily. Interface: EBSCOhost. Coverage: 1990-present.
   
• Nineteenth Century Masterfile:Series I  
  --Series I is the flagship of Nineteenth Century Masterfile including core periodical indices spanning nearly all the periodicals of the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth century.  Title list includes: Poole's Index to Periodical Literature(1802-1906), Index to Legal Periodical Literature (1786-1922), Index to Periodical Articles in Religion (1786-1922), Psychological Index (1894-1905), Index to Periodicals (1894-1906), and Cumulative Index to a Selected List of Periodicals (1896-1899) Note: the first installment of the monumental Catalogue of Scientific Papers 1800-1900 has just been activated. From Paratext. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• NLM Gateway
  Gateway is "One-stop shopping" for an increasing number of the information resources of the National Library of Medicine (NLM).  It’s targeted for the Internet user who comes to NLM not knowing exactly what is here, or how best to search for it.  A single interface that searches in multiple retrieval systems, Gateway provides a single address, look, and feel. The Gateway now accesses:

  • MEDLINE®/PubMed
  • TOXLINE Special -- totxicology citations
  • LocatorPlus -- catalog information for books, serial titles, audiovisuals
  • MedlinePlus -- consumer health information
  • ClinicalTrials.gov -- information for the public about clinical trials
  • DIRLINE® -- directory of health organizations
  • Meeting abstracts on HIV/AIDS, health services research, and space life sciences
  • HSRProj -- health services research projects
  • OMIM -- Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
  • HSDB® -- Hazardous Substances Data Bank
  • Document delivery through Loansome Doc®
  • UMLS Metathesaurus®.
     
• Novelist Plus
  --your guide to find fiction.  NoveList Plus is an online readers' resource with information on over 250,000 fiction and readable nonfiction titles, and approximately 20,000 new titles are added each year. In addition, feature content such as lists of award-winning books, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and book lists on high-interest topics are included.
   
• Novelist K-8 Plus
  --your guide to find children's fiction. NoveList® K-8 is a great online resource for helping teachers, school media specialists and kids find that next great fiction read. Now NoveList K-8 Plus provides access to information on over 30,000 nonfiction titles designed to support the curriculum and kids’ pleasure reading. Created especially for kids (and the adults who work with them), it has a colorful, graphic-rich homepage and is very easy to use.
   
• Nutrition Care Manual [NCM] ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN
  --This one-stop Web-based nutrition manual delivers all the great diet and disease information in the  Manual of Clinical Dietetics. NCM is based on the Nutrition Care Process: Nutrition Assessment, Diagnosis, Intervention, Monitoring and Evaluation.  Our subscription is limited to 10 concurrent users.☼Licensed with Performance Funds 

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• OMNIFILE FULLTEXT
  -- Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.  Full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature & Information Science Full Text.  Indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text coverage in 1994. Each database has its own start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full text; start dates for full-text rights to individual journals vary within a database.   WilsonWeb.   ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds 
   
• 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
  
   
• OregonPDF in Health& Performance ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN
  --OregonPDF in Health & Performance cooperates with colleges and universities throughout the world to make available graduate dissertations and theses in areas related to health and performance. The intellectual focus of the collection is physical activity. Academic areas of interest include biochemistry, biomechanics, dance, exercise physiology, history or philosophy of physical education, kinesiology, motor control, obesity, recreation, sports marketing, sports medicine, sports pedagogy, sports psychology, and tests and measurements.  Interface: Web.
   
• Oxford Art Online  ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN
  Oxford Art Online   OFF-CAMPUS-- Remote Access Link
  --formerly called Grove Art Online, this database 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
   
• Oxford 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   
   
• Oxford English Dictionary [OED]
  -- The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world. It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
•  Oxford Music Online   ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN
   Oxford Music Online   OFF-CAMPUS-- Remote Access Link
  --formerly called Grove Music Online, this database is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition; 29 volumes), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition; 3 volumes). Oxford Music Online will be updated annually to ensure it remains the most up to date music reference work on the Internet.  ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
  
   
• Oxford Reference Online [ORO]
  -- Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.  The Premium Collection contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press plus added functionality and more detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series, to enhance the coverage already provided. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books, giving subscribers unprecedented access to a comprehensive information resource. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds  

  
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• PAIS International                                                                      
   -- database contains references to more than 460,000 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. PAIS International includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world. In addition to English, some of the indexed materials are published in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Coverage 1972- Present.  Interface: CSA ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• PAST MASTERS--Philosophy  ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN
   -- The Past Masters® series of full-text humanities databases is focused on the needs of the scholarly community in the human sciences. They assemble and publish cohesive collections of excellent editions.  Past Masters series provides scholars with significantly-enhanced and highly-flexible access to the classic texts.  Currently,  IUP owns the following titles in the Philosophy Collection: Aristotle: Complete Works; Hegel: OUP Translations; Locke: Philosophical Works and Selected Correspondence; Plato: Complete Dialogues; Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill; Santayana: Works; Wittgenstein: Collected Works. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• PAST MASTERS--Women Writers  ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN
   -- The Past Masters® Women Writers Collection includes not only the correspondence and journals, but also the primary works of important women writers in the English Language.  Currently IUP owns the complete Women's Writers Collection including: Austin, Baillie, Behn, Bluestocking Feminism, Brontë, Eliot, and Mary Shelley to name a few.  ☼Licensed with Performance Funds
   
Pennsylvania County Histories 1870-1900
-- This collection includes 47 books on the histories of counties in Pennsylvania.  Each book includes chapters which cover in great detail: local history, geology, geography, weather, transportation, lists of all local participants in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, government, medical and legal professions, churches and ministers, industry and manufacturing, banking and insurance, Schools and teachers, noted celebrations, fire departments and associations, cemeteries, family his and vital statistics, roads and bridges, public officials and legislators, and many others.  Most of these large volumes were published between 1884 and 1900 and have long formed the cornerstone of local historical and genealogical research. They are encyclopedic in scope and virtually limitless in their research possibilities. Due to the size of Pennsylvania, it has been divided into four sections: East, Central, North West and South West. Follow this link to the titles included in this collection: http://www.accessible.com/about/aboutAC.htm ☼Licensed with Performance Funds


  

• Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800
  --published in Philadelphia from 1728 through 1800, the Pennsylvania Gazette is considered The New York Times of the 18th century. It provides the reader with a first hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of each of the periods. Thousands of articles, editorials, letters, news items and advertisements cover the Western Hemisphere, from the Canadian Maritime Provinces, through the West Indies and North and South America, giving a detailed glimpse of issues and lifestyles of the times. Also included is the full-text of such important writings such as: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Letters from a Farmer, Thomas Payne`s Common Sense, The Federalist Papers, etc.
   
• Philosopher's Index
  --produced by the Philosopher's Information Center, is a current and comprehensive bibliographic database covering scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. The Philosopher’s Index, considered the most thorough index of journal literature on the subject, features author-written abstracts covering scholarly research published in journals and books, including contributions to anthologies and book reviews.  --EBSCOhost

Physical Review Journals Online  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)
 
• Pictures of Record Online
  --was developed for use in many disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, art history, political science, biology, architecture, and others. The units contain essays, bibliographies, and detailed annotations for each of the many images in each series.
   
• Pittsburgh Courier - ProQuest 
  --Historical Pittsburgh Courier: 1911-2002.  As one of the most nationally circulated Black newspapers, the Courier reached its peak in the 1930s.  A conservative voice in the African-American community, the Courier challenged the misrepresentation of African-Americans in the national media and advocated social reforms to advance the cause of civil rights. this collection offers full page and article images with searchable full text. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. ☼Licensed with Performance Funds
   
• Plant Science
  --Plant Science is a bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts of scientific literature on plant science, focusing on all plant scientific aspects, especially on pathology, symbiosis, biochemistry, genetics, biotechnology, techniques and environmental Biology. It is the online equivalent to Current Advances in Plant Science. Interface: CSA. Coverage: 1994-present.
   
• Poiesis ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN
  --POIESIS [Philosophy Online Serials] is a subscription based reference and publishing service offering searchable access to the full text of hundreds of current, recent, and back issues of a growing number of philosophy journals and series. IUP's subscription allows users to search the entire database for any word or combination of words, and to view up to a paragraph of text around each "hit." If IUP has a print or electronic subscription to such a journal, POIESIS allows our users to click on the paragraph display and jump to the full text display of that journal.  Other articles of interest can be requested via interlibrary loan.
    
• Pre-CINAHL
  -- companion to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to researchers only for the time when these atricles are being assigned additional indexing. Interface: EBSCOhost.
   
• Pre-CINAHL & CINAHL
  --use this link to search both Pre-CINAHL and CINAHL at the same time. EBSCOhost.
  
   

• Primary Search
  --Primary Search provides full text for more than 50 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost
   
• Project MUSE
  -- provides full-text online scholarly journals from academic presses covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.
   
• PsycARTICLES
  -- American Psychological Association database containing full text articles on current issues in psychology from respected sources, spanning from 1987 to the present. PsycARTICLES includes more than 35,000 full-text articles from 49 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. All journals included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO. Interface: EBSCOhost.  ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• PsycARTICLES and the Psychological & Behavioral Science Collection
  --use this link to search these two databases at the same time. EBSCOhost.
   
• PsychiatryOnline.com 
  -- American Psychiatric Association's  database of books and journals that features DSM-IV-TR® and The American Journal of Psychiatry.  This database provides the cornerstones of an unsurpassed collection of psychiatric references, including books and journals.  Psychiatry Legacy collection provides access to all journals from first published issue: 1844-1997. See list of books and journals below:
  Books
  DSM-IV-TR: http://www.psychiatryonline.com/resourceTOC.aspx?resourceID=1
  DSM-IV-TR Handbook of Differential Diagnosis: http://www.psychiatryonline.com/resourceTOC.aspx?resourceID=10
  Cases from DSM-IV-TR Casebook and its Treatment Companion: http://www.psychiatryonline.com/resourceTOC.aspx?resourceID=2
  APA Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders: http://www.psychiatryonline.com/resourceToc.aspx?resourceID=4
  The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry: http://www.psychiatryonline.com/resourceToc.aspx?resourceID=5

   Journals Coverage: First issue to present for all titles
  American Journal of Psychiatry: http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/
  Psychiatric Services: http://psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/
  Psychosomatics: http://psy.psychiatryonline.org/
  Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences: http://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/ 
  Academic Psychiatry: http://ap.psychiatryonline.org/
  Psychiatric News: http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/

  
  Psychiatry Online ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
  Psychiatry Legacy collection ☼Licensed with Performance Funds

  
   

• Psychological & Behavioral Science Collection
  --a comprehensive database providing nearly 550 full text publications, including more than 500 peer-reviewed journals. The database covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.  It is a subset of Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier and Communication and Mass Media Complete. EBSCOhost.
   
• Psychology Directories [Cabell's]  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.
   
• PsycINFO
  -- American Psychological Association database containing summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations in the field of psychology and related disciplines. It covers over 1300 journals in 25 languages. Interface: EBSCOhost. Coverage: 1887-present (1987-present for chapter and book coverage).
   
• Public Library of Science (PLoS)
  --The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.  PLoS will publish its own journals. PLoS Biology launched its first issue on October 13, 2003, in print and online. PLoS Medicine will follow in 2004.  Web.
   
• PubMed
  -- PubMed is a project developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It has been developed in conjunction with publishers of biomedical literature as a search tool for accessing literature citations and linking to full-text journals at Web sites of participating publishers. Interface: Web
   
• PubMed Central
  -- PubMed Central [PMC] is an archive of Life Sciences Journals.  It is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences journal literature. Access to the full text of articles in PMC is free, except where a journal requires a subscription for access to recent articles. Interface: Web

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• RCLweb [Resources for College Libraries]
  --A direct successor to 1988’s Books for College Libraries (BCL3), RCLWeb [Resources for College Libraries] is the online version of this resource. It offers a core collection of hand-selected titles in 58 curriculum-specific subject areas.  RCLweb, is brought to you by ACRL's Choice and Bowker. Titles have been selected for your academic library by more than 300 subject specialists and bibliographers.  Web.
   
• Readers' Guide Retrospective
  -- Wilson's Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. Current coverage for the database includes the years 1890 through 1982. WilsonWeb. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds    
   
• ReferenceUSA
  --ReferenceUSA is an Internet-based service from the Library Division of infoUSA. This database contains detailed information on more than 14 million US businesses and  over 210 million residences.  This service is provided by the IUP Office of Career Services through ESF funds.
   
• Regional Business News
  --a full text newswire database that incorporates business wires from all over the world. Included in this database are A&G Information, Africa News Service, Inter Press Service, Resource News International, South American Business, M2 Communications, PR Newswire, Business News Wire, Canadian Corporate News, News Bytes News Network and Phillips Business Information Highlights. This database is updated on a daily basis.
   
• Religion & Philosophy Collection
  --a comprehensive database covering such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. This database offers more than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles, making it an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for journals in the database.  It is a subset of Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier and Communication and Mass Media Complete. EBSCOhost.
   
• RILM
  -- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is an international bibliography of scholarly writings on music as well as music-related disciplines. Dating from 1967 through the present, this database offers indexing of sources published in over 140 languages. Interface: EBSCOhost. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds

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• Serials Directory
  -- provides up-to-date bibliographic information and pricing for over 155,000 US and international periodicals. Interface: EBSCOhost. Coverage: Current.
   
• Service Contract Act Wage Determination Database
  -- The Service Contract Act Wage Determination Database (SCA) contains unsigned copies of the latest wage determinations developed by the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL). These wage determinations, issued by the Wage and Hour Division in response to specific notices filed, set the minimum wage on federally funded service contracts. For in-library use only! Please ask a reference librarian to log you on!
   
• Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) --Web of Science
  -- The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences. It fully indexes more than 1,725 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Disciplines include Anthropology, History, Industrial Relations, Law, Linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, Urban Studies and Women's Studies among others.  Complete coverage is 1956-Present. ☼Licensed with Performance Funds 
  
  Social Sciences Full Text
  -- Wilson's Social Sciences Full Text is the most comprehensive resource available in its field. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines with indexing from 1983 forward and full text from 1994. An in-demand resource for a wide variety of users from students to social workers, Social Sciences Full Text covers the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.  Topics includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences  journals.   Interface: WilsonWeb.☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds     
   
• SocINDEX with Full Text
  --SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The index features more than 1,300,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociology-specific thesaurus designed by expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 242 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers. EBSCOhost.
   
• Sociological Collection
  --a comprehensive database covering information in all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure. This database provides complete full text for more than 500 important journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all 525 journals in the collection.  It is a subset of Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier and Communication and Mass Media Complete. EBSCOhost.
   
• SportDiscus with Full Text
  -- the world's most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for more than 350 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the SPORTDiscus index - with no embargo. With full-text coverage dating back to 1985, SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of sports & sports medicine literature.   EBSCOhost. ☼Licensed with Performance Funds
   
• Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
  --was developed to help you maximize your research efforts in today's fast moving investment market. It accomplishes this by providing a suite of advanced search engines that allow you to quickly locate critical information and capture it as either printed copy or electronic files. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• Standard 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
   
• Statistical Universe
  -- world's most comprehensive access to statistical information, allowing users to search summaries of statistical publications then link to the full text of selected publications on Statistical Universe or government Web sites. Interface: LEXIS/NEXIS. Coverage: 1978-present.
   

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• Teacher Reference Center
  - Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.  EBSCOhost
   
• Tests in Print
  -- Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).   EBSCOhost.
   
• Times Digital Archive 1785 - 1985  
  -- Researchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.
  Coverage: 1785-1985  ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• Toxline
  -- rapid access to information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. This database provides bibliographic citations and abstracts from journal articles, monographs, technical reports, theses, letters, meeting abstracts, papers and reports. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, information in the database is drawn from a number of discrete files including Toxicity Bibliography and Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology. This version of TOXLINE does not contain information from Chemical Abstracts Service, BIOSIS, or International Pharmaceutical Abstracts; furthermore, it is a "rolling 5-year" database, consisting of records from the last 5 years plus the current year. Interface: CSA. Coverage: last five years plus current year.
   
• Twentieth Century African-American Poetry 
  -- A database of modern and contemporary African American poetry, featuring almost 9,000 poems by 62 of the most important African American poets of the last century, including Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde and Rita Dove. Proquest/Chadwyck-Healey. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• Twentieth Century English Poetry 
  -- A collection of 598 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Thom Gunn, Fleur Adcock, Paul Muldoon, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy, and incorporating the poets in The Faber Poetry Library.  Proquest/Chadwyck-Healey. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• Twentieth Century North American Drama 
  -- This edition of Twentieth Century North American Drama contains 1,122 plays by 170 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.  More than 150 of the plays are published here for the first time, including a number by major authors.The plays themselves have been selected using leading bibliographies and with the editorial advice of scholars and the playwrights themselves.  ☼Licensed with Performance Funds
   

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• USA Trade Online
  --access to the latest U.S. foreign trade data. Only available in Stapleton Library. Ask Librarians to log you on. Made available courtesy of the Federal Depository Library Program. Interface: Web. Coverage: Current.

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• Vault
  --This web service is an Online Career Library.  It includes Industry Career and Employer Guides, Career Topic Guides and Career Profiles for over 50 top career paths.  It also includes sections on Internships, Interviewing and other job seeking resources.  This service is provided by the IUP Office of Career Services through ESF funds.
   
• Vocational & Career Collection
  --provides full text coverage for 400 trade and industry related periodicals including American Machinist, Contemporary Longterm Care, Pediatric Nursing, Wireless Week, Drug Store News, Video Business, Reeves Journal, Hotel and Motel Management, Restaurant Business, Advertising Age, and many more. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for 650 journals.  Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1985.  EBSCOhost.

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• Wall Street Journal - ProQuest 
  --This database offers full-text articles from the world's leading financial newspaper.  It provides detailed abstracting and indexing for the current file (1987-present).   Through a complementary database, ProQuest Historical Newspapers, you even can get complete page images from the entire run of the paper, dating back to the first 1889 issue to the current file in 1990.  Proquest/Chadwyck-Healey. ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
   
• Web of Science
  -- The Social Sciences Citation Index, Science Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a suite of multidisciplinary indexes to the journal literature of the these disciplines. These databases index more than 6,650 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines, more than 1,725 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines, and more than1,160 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.  Please follow this link for more information about Web Of Science.  IUP provides complete coverage for these three citation indexes: Science and Social Sciences from 1900-Present. Coverage for the Arts & Humanities is 1975-Present. ☼Licensed with Performance Funds  
   
• WebFeat--DiscoverySearch 
  --WebFeat is a new federated search engine that can search many databases at the same time.  It is still in the implementation/test phase. 
   
 
• Wikipedia
  --Wikipedia is the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. It is written collaboratively with lots of people (including many experts) editing, improving entries and making thousands of changes an hour.  All changes are recorded in the article history.  Although inappropriate changes are removed quickly, at any time there maybe biased, erroneous, and even false information in any record.  Use critical thinking skills when evaluating Wikipedia articles.  Some information can be corroborated in databases (like Encyclopedia Britannica Online) that utilize more traditional editing practices.
   
•  WilsonWeb
  -- Includes indexing from Humanities and Social Science Retrospective (1907-1984), Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982), Education Retrospective (1929-1983) and Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition, a multi-disciplinary current database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text and the Essay and General Literature Index.   Indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text coverage in 1994.   WilsonWeb.   ☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds    ;
    
• Women and Social Movements 
  --This Worldwide Web site is intended to serve as a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1700 and 2000, the website seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools.☼Licensed with Performance  Funds
   
• Women Writers  ON-CAMPUS ONLY or VPN
   -- The Past Masters® Women Writers Collection includes not only the correspondence and journals, but also the primary works of important women writers in the English Language.  Currently IUP owns the complete Women's Writers Collection including: Austin, Baillie, Behn, Bluestocking Feminism, Brontë, Eliot, and Mary Shelley to name a few.  ☼Licensed with Performance Funds
   
•   Women's Studies International
  --Women’s Studies International, produced by NISC, covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Coverage includes more than 548,220 records and spans from 1972 and earlier to present. This database supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education. Over 2,000 periodical sources are represented. EBSCOHost☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds
• WorldCat
  -- OCLC's Online Union Catalog, which includes all records cataloged by the OCLC member libraries. Included are records for materials in many formats including books, journals, maps, newspaper, and manuscripts, in over 400 languages. Interface: FirstSearch. Coverage: some materials are as old as 1000 B.C., through the present. Updated daily.☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds

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• Zoological Record Plus (1964 - Present)
  --ZR Plus, produced by BIOSIS, provides extensive coverage of the world's zoological and animal science literature, covering all research from biochemistry to veterinary medicine. The database provides an easily searched collection of references from over 4,500 international serial publications, plus books, meetings, reviews and other non serial literature from over 100 countries. Zoological Record has long been recognized as the "unofficial register" for taxonomy and systematics, but other topics are also given comprehensive treatment using indexing in both controlled- and natural-language format. An online thesaurus of around 10,000 controlled terms arranged in hierarchies makes it easy to locate appropriate search terms. Scope notes and related term references are also provided (Coverage 1978 - Current).☼Licensed with Student Technology Fee Funds

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Offsite access to most databases on this list is possible through the use of the 16-digit library ID (I-Card) Number and his/her last name. Enter these items when prompted to do so.
Authentication for most databases above is not required if you are using the Virtual Private Network [VPN] campus option. 

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