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The following databases are new for the Fall semester.  If you are interested in learning more about any of the databases you can come to workshops, have one-on-ones with any of our reference librarians.  If you are interested in bringing your class in to learn more about these databases place your request here. 

• 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.
   
• 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.
   
• 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.
   
• Black Drama ON-CAMPUS ONLY
  --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 Nearly a quarter of the collection will consist of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Femi Euba, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.
   
• Black Thought and Culture  ON-CAMPUS ONLY
   --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.
   
• Congressional Universe
  --the most comprehensive resource of its kind.  You can explore government in action with the most comprehensive online resource available for Congressional hearings, public issues, legislation, history, and legal research. It also allows in-depth research with access to the full-text of more than 211 years worth of detailed information about Congress, including member biographies, committee assignments, voting records, financial data, and the full-text of key regulatory and statutory resources. Lexis-Nexis
   
• Criminal Justice Periodicals Index [CPLI] ON-CAMPUS ONLY
  --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.
   
• Ethnic NewsWatch ON-CAMPUS ONLY
  --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 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.
  
   
• 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.
   
• Historical New York Times  ON-CAMPUS ONLY
  --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 1851-2000 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.
   
• International Index to Music Periodicals - Full Text [IIMPFT]
  ON-CAMPUS ONLY
  --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.
  
• 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.
  
  
• Now in EbscoHost 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. Interface: WebSpirs. Coverage: 1963-present.
   
• Now in EbscoHost 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. EbsoHost
   
• Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800 ON-CAMPUS ONLY
  --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.
  
   
• Pictures of Record Online ON-CAMPUS ONLY
  --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.
   
• ProQuest Digital Dissertations  ON-CAMPUS ONLY
  --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.
   
• ReferenceSuite @ FACTS.com  ON-CAMPUS ONLY
  --delivers five databases.  FACTS.com brings together complete content from the Facts On File World News Digest since 1940 and selected content from six other core reference databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the last 60+ years.  FACTS.com also delivers in-depth features on "Historic Events" drawn from the 60-year Facts On File archive.  Full content of four of these databases--Issues and Controversies On File, Today's Science On File, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, and The World Almanac Encyclopedia--is also available here.
   
• Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage ON-CAMPUS ONLY
  --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.
   

Offsite access to most databases in this list is possible through the use of 16-digit library ID (I-Card) Number. Enter it when prompted to do so.
Authentication for most databases above is not required if you are a participant in the IUP/Stargate Agreement package.

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