Patron Books In Print, Bowker’s newest and first-ever offering designed specifically to meet the needs of library and bookstore patrons, features the renowned Books In Print® database in a user-friendly, easy-to-navigate format, complete with patron-specific features and enhancements. PatronBooksInPrint.com gives patrons the opportunity to discover over 7.5 million book, audio book, and video titles in a pleasing environment that caters to both the most inexperienced and most advanced searcher.

Global Books in Print with Reviews contains over 7.5 million bibliographic records including active and inactive video and audio records. It features over 1.2 million reviews and 3.1 million annotations of titles produced by more than 425,000 publishers.

Provides excerpts from and citations to reviews of more than 8,000 current English language works of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction each year. Indexing begins in 1983 (for earlier coverage, refer to the printed version on the third floor under call number Z1219 .C96).

Sponsored jointly by the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), this site provides select digital access to American newspapers from 1880 to 1910 and from mainly ten states. Additionally, access to an invaluable directory of newspapers published in the United States from 1690 to the present is available. The directory can be browsed by title or searched by state, county and city, date, keyword, frequency, language, or type of newspaper. The directory usually offers comprehensive information, such as titles, alternative titles, publication places, geographic coverage, persistent links, publishers, dates of publication, descriptions, frequencies, languages, subjects, general notes, LCCN, OCLC numbers, succeeding titles, and links to holdings.

Produced by The Conference Board, Business Knowledge Research is a searchable collection of full-text research reports on the latest issues in business management and U.S. and global economics. Proprietary, nonbiased research includes studies of Fortune 500 companies on business trends, leadership decisions, performance excellence, corporate governance, human resources, productivity, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and more. Full-text coverage from 1998 to date. Economics material includes topline U.S. and global economic indicators and analysis and forecasts of regional, national, and international economic conditions.

This is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. It contains indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,300 journals, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the 40,000 most-cited authors in the database. More than 4,300 journals and magazines are indexed and abstracted in Business Source Complete with full text available for more than 3,200 titles covering the fields of management, economics, finance, accounting,international business, etc. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.

The following databases can be searched via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts: Criminal Justice Abstracts, Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection, ERIC, GeoRef, GeoRef in Process, Health and Safety Science Abstracts, PILOTS Database, Social Services Abstracts and Sociological Abstracts.

Search for artists by name, nationality, or time. Paintings can be accessed as well as some biographical information.

Formerly CCINFO Chemical and Occupational Hazards. Produced by the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, CCOHS includes the following databases: MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets for manufacturers and suppliers), CHEMINFO (Comprehensive health and safety information on pure chemicals), CHEMpendium (CHEMINFO, CESARS, CHRIS, DSL/NDSL, HSDB, NJHS Fact Sheets, NIOSH Pocket Guide, Transport TDG, Transport 49CFR), RTECS (Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances), MSDS Management Service (A custom collection of MSDSs specific to your workplace), OSH References (OSHLINE, NIOSHTIC, NIOSHTIC-2, HSELINE, CISILO, Canadiana), Canadian enviroOSH Legislation plus Standards (National, Regional and plus Standards Editions) *French and Spanish versions of these databases are also available, follow the links provided in the side bar.

Produced by the U.S. Census Bureau, CenStats allows access to many business-related statistical databases, including USA Counties, County Business Patterns, Zip Code Business Patterns, and International Trade Data. Also available is the Annual Survey of Manufactures, Building Permits, Census Tract Street Locator and Consolidated Federal Funds Report.

The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities. Our Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map.

CINAHL, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, is the most comprehensive resource for nursing and allied health literature. CINAHL provides indexing for 2,928 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1981. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable cited references for more than 1,200 journals are also included. Full text material includes 72 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.

Classical Scores Library will contain 400,000 pages of the most important classical music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 8,000 musical scores. Many items have associated audio tracks in Classical Music Library, so that subscribers to both collections can listen to a recording online while following along with the full score. Classical Scores Library allows users to access multiple types of scores across various composers, genres, and time periods. Within seconds, beginning music students can explore Beethoven’s entire compositional output, or music experts can compare different musical settings of the Magnificat from the 15th century to the 21st century—without the need to find and carry heavy scores and multiple CDs.

The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Cochrane reviews represent the highest level of evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions. In addition to Cochrane reviews, The Cochrane Library provides other sources of reliable information, from other systematic review abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations and individual clinical trials – all the current evidence in one single environment.

An online library including over 44,000 college catalogs and more than 37,600,000 course descriptions. Search for colleges by keyword, location, majors, cost, and other criteria.

Designed to be the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs, Columbia International Affairs Online publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. Each section of CIAO is updated with new material on a regular schedule. Working papers are augmented every month, as are conference proceedings, policy briefs and economic indicators. Links and resources, the schedule of events and the response files are updated weekly. New journal issues and books are added as they become available.

Communication & Mass Media Complete provides an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in any and all aspects of communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals to create a comprehensive research and reference resource in the communication and mass media fields. CMMC offers cover-to-cover ("core") indexing and abstracts for over 500 journals, and selected ("priority") coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of over 690 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for over 380 journals. Many major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable citations from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915).

Derived from the classic Oxford Dictionary of Music and written by Michael Kennedy, a renowned authority on classical music and chief music critic for The Sunday Telegraph, from 1989 to 2005, the dictionary includes over 14,000 entries on musical terms from allegro to zingaro, and on musical works from Aida to Tosca, as well as musical instruments and their history, composers, librettists, musicians, singers, and orchestras. It also boasts comprehensive works lists for major composers. Fully revised and updated, the 5th edition of this established reference work contains over 200 new entries, including information on approximately 150 new performers.

The Conference Board is the world’s most widely-quoted private source of management and economic research. The Conference Board creates and disseminates knowledge about management and the marketplace to help businesses strengthen their performance and better serve society. Working as a global, independent membership organization in the public interest, we conduct research, convene conferences, make forecasts, assess trends, publish information and analysis, and bring executives together to learn from one another.

Contains two collections, the primary one containing dictionaries, thesauruses, and other word and language books published before 1901, including grammars. Shows the development of English and lexicography. Serves additionally as a research tool for lost words and usages. Holdings lists are arranged in many ways, including by main entry, language, lexicographer (Nathan Bailey, Samuel Johnson, John Walker) and time period. The second collection contains twentieth-century material and continues the representation of works of already represented lexicographers as well as others, with an emphasis on an historical approach. Both English and foreign-language materials appear in both collections. Housed in the Indiana State University Rare Books and Special Collections Department.

Corporate ResourceNet is designed to meet the diverse information needs of today’s companies. This database contains full text articles from nearly 1,350 quality magazines and journals. The database includes full text sources ranging from general publications such as Fortune and Money to trade publications such as American Demographics, Chemical Week, Electronic Business and Restaurant Hospitality. The collection of titles includes top management journals such as Academy of Management Executive, California Management Review, Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. In addition, this database also includes detailed company profiles for the world's 5,000 largest companies. Many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1985.

Produced by Congressional Quarterly, CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports. Every 12,000-word report is written by an experienced journalist and features comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of every issue. Numerous charts, graphs and sidebar articles -- plus a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a list of contacts -- round out each report.

CJA provides comprehensive coverage of the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, books, and reports from government and nongovernment agencies. Each entry contains a summary of the findings, methodology, and conclusions. Coverage from 1968 to date. NCJRSA (National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts) covers the field of criminal and juvenile justice. The collection, with holdings from the early 1970s to the present, indexes more than 170,000 publications, reports, articles, and audiovisual products from the United States and around the world. These resources include statistics, research findings, program descriptions, congressional hearing transcripts, and training materials. Both databases are searched separately. Search results can be combined.

Criminal Justice Periodicals provides indexing of over 200 U.S. and international criminal justice journals, newsletters, and law reporters. Subjects covered include abortion, arrest (police methods), child abuse, commercial crime, computer crime, corrections administration, court reform, crime prevention, drug abuse, drug enforcement, due process of law, evidence, family law, fingerprinting, forensic science, industrial security, jail administration, judges, juvenile offenders, law enforcement, legal aid, narcotics trafficking, negligence, organized crime, parole officers, prisons, recidivism, rehabilitation, security forces, victimless crimes, violence, and more. Coverage from 1981 to the present.

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 PILOTS bibliographic database, covering the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress, is produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in White River Junction, Vermont. The PILOTS database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and to offer both current and retrospective coverage.

Counseling and Therapy in Video provides an online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. Counseling and Therapy in Video will include 400 hours and more than 330 videos on completion. The videos in this collection, drawn from the catalogs of Microtraining Associates, Psychotherapy.net, and the University of Manchester Department of Psychiatry, have been created by a variety of organizations and individuals dedicated to the advancement of education and training in counseling and therapy.

Contains important editions of the works of American educators and educational psychologists such as Dewey, Barnard, Hall, James, Mann, and Thorndike. Also contains editions of early educational journals and a number of early American children's books and even a few textbooks. Housed in the Indiana State University Rare Books and Special Collections Department.

Contains books, letters, manuscripts, articles, pamphlets, clippings, scrapbooks, and similar material related to Eugene V. Debs, socialism, and other "isms." Holdings lists are available for various materials within the Debs Collection including blue books, correspondence abstracts, pamphlets and selected photographs. Housed in the Indiana State University Rare Books and Special Collections Department.

Profiles of people who influenced U.S. life and history.

An illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2001. Updates are added three times a year. Produced by Oxford University Press.

Search more than 2 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Coverage is from 1861 to the present. Those 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. Of the 2 million titles listed, UMI offers over 1.8 million in full text (fee-based). The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. Some 47,000 new dissertations and 12,000 new theses are added to the database each year. Titles available as native or image PDF formats include free twenty-four page previews. Dissertations and theses produced at Indiana State University since 1996 can be freely downloaded.

A service provided to universities that actively publish their graduate students' dissertations and theses with ProQuest's UMI® Dissertation Publishing. Dissertations & Theses @ enables individual universities to access the citations and abstracts of all their student's dissertations and theses, as well as the full text in PDF format, when available.

DDM-Online is an international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines. The database contains more than 12,000 records, including the contents of the earlier printed editions of Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology as well as supplements contributed from musicological centers throughout the world. DDM-Online is updated periodically throughout the academic year.

Shows satellite images of environmental change compiled by the United States Geological Survey.

Contains all the online electronic books cataloged by OCLC member libraries.

The following databases can be searched via EBSCOhost: Academic Search Premier, Biological Abstracts, Business Source Premier, CINAHL, Clinical Pharmacology, Corporate ResourceNet, EBSCO Animals, ERIC, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, GeoRef, Health Business FullTEXT, Health Source: Consumer Edition, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, Knight Ridder Collection, MAS Ultra - School Edition, MasterFILE Premier, MEDLINE, Middle Search Plus, Military & Government Collection, MLA Directory of Periodicals, MLA International Bibliography, Newspaper Source, Primary Search, Professional Development Collection, PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO, Regional Business News, SPORT Discus.

Image Quick View puts the power of article images directly onto each Result List, for instant access to the enlarged image.Also available from the EBSCOhost New Features page, where users can learn about and sample newly released features, Image Quick View adds pertinent thumbnail images such as charts, photos, maps and illustrations, from over 3,300 journals, to Result List items. Full-sized images can be viewed by simply clicking on any thumbnail image in the Result List, without opening the record first, providing users with instant views of the article's image content.

EMMA is a centralized on-line site to find key information about municipal securities, free of charge. The information on EMMA is presented in a manner specifically tailored for retail, non-professional investors who may not be experts in financial or investing matters. EMMA makes available official statements for most new offerings of municipal bonds, notes, 529 college savings plans and other municipal securities since 1990. EMMA also provides real-time access to prices at which bonds and notes are sold to or bought from customers, as well as prices paid in inter-dealer transactions, for most trades occurring on or after January 31, 2005. In addition, issuers sometimes issue new bonds to establish escrows to pay-off existing bonds (usually to refinance their debt at a lower interest rate), and EMMA provides access to advance refunding documents that set out the details of these escrow arrangements.

Emerald Fulltext provides access to full-text articles from more than 120 journals published by MCB University Press, covering a wide range of management and library & information services journals. It also offers access to specialized engineering, applied science and technology journals. The Emerald Alert service provides personal e-mail notification of new articles published online.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use EB Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 130,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors. Through this database, you can find more than 72,000 articles, updated and revised by EB editors and contributors; over 10,000 illustrations, including photographs, drawings, maps, and flags; and more than 75,000 definitions--including pronunciation guides and word histories.

A full text database with over 2,200 entries about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and dinosaurs.

Online access to the entire text of the Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics with continuous updating to the text, periodic additions of new material and extensive links to primary literature and important websites. Contains the full text of all 2,500 peer-reviewed entries totaling 2.5 million words. Also includes breaking news prepared specially for the Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS) includes peer-reviewed articles, essays and news in the biological and life sciences, with more than 3,000 original articles written by 5,000 of the worlds leading scientists, over 12 million words. More than 6,000 illustrations are provided. Core coverage: biochemistry, biodiversity, cell biology, clinical medicine, developmental biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, history & philosophy of science, immunology, microbiology, molecular biology, neuroscience, plant science, structural biology and virology. All articles have a list of references, some of which provide links to external Web sources. Appendix and glossary components provide descriptions of biochemical and taxonomical data, acronyms and abbreviations, synonyms, units, and other technical data. "Special Essays" were commissioned to address 50 "hot topics."

Coverage of the diversity of religious traditions organized according to historical, geographical, and ethnographic continuities.

The best way for the ISU community to search ERIC is via EBSCOhost. ERIC provides extensive coverage of major developments in educational research and practice. ERIC includes citations to educational journal articles and unpublished educational documents. ERIC consists of more than one million citations that originally appeared in the print Resources in Education (RIE, non-journal publications, 1966 to the present), and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE, education journal article citations, 1969 to the present). ERIC documents are materials such as curriculum guides, research reports, and program descriptions which have almost never been published in the traditional sense, i.e., in a journal or book. Most ERIC documents will be available either online through ERIC or in the ISU Library in microfiche format. The EBSCOhost version of ERIC provides quick links to search the ISU Library catalog for journals cited in ERIC. EBSCOhost also offers links to interlibrary loan forms and the option of searching of other databases at the same time as ERIC.

Via the Educational Research Information Center's freely available web site, ERIC provides extensive coverage of major developments in educational research and practice. ERIC includes citations to educational journal articles and unpublished educational documents. ERIC consists of more than one million citations that originally appeared in the print Resources in Education (RIE, non-journal publications, 1966 to the present), and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE, education journal article citations, 1969 to the present). ERIC documents are materials such as curriculum guides, research reports, and program descriptions which have almost never been published in the traditional sense, i.e., in a journal or book. Most ERIC documents will be available online through ERIC or in the ISU Library in microfiche format. ISU may or may not have journals cited in ERIC.

A full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press with articles dating back to the 1960s. A rich collection of articles, editorials, columns, reviews, etc. that provides a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints -- the other sides of the stories. Free text searching and complete indexing makes Ethnic NewsWatch easy to search. In both Spanish and English interfaces.

Provides complete content from the Facts On File World News Digest since 1980 and selected content other reference databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the last 20 years. It also provides historical information drawn from the 60-year Facts On File archive. Included are maps, photographs, historic documents, and overviews of key issues, newsmakers and events since 1980.Updated weekly; headline news stories from Reuters are updated hourly.

Monographs and copies of periodical articles by ISU faculty, staff, and administrators. Books are frequently purchased when by a member of the ISU community. All faculty are identified as such in bibliographic records found in LUIS, the online catalog. Housed in the Indiana State University Rare Books and Special Collections Department.

Bowker’s readers’ advisory tool, Fiction Connection, can help both librarians and booksellers provide advice to their patrons for their next great read. Confidently say, “If you like this, try this!” Fiction Connection can direct readers to books they will enjoy by having patrons type in a title of a book they already love, or readers can casually browse titles by selecting a topic, genre, setting, character, location, and timeframe.

FC&S provides objective information particularly in the area of insurance policy interpretation to all types of insurance professionals. The complete print service now is comprised of eight volumes: Fire & Marine, Personal Lines, Casualty & Surety, Umbrella, Directors & Officers Liability, Guide to Policies I and II, and Companies & Coverages. The current FC&S Online permits subscribers to retrieve over 5,000 documents through a state-of-the-art content management system and graphical user interface. Today's FC&S Online brings the information contained in the eight print volumes to the desktops of thousands of insurance professionals throughout the world.

The following databases can be searched via OCLC FirstSearch: WorldCat (Index to books and other materials in libraries worldwide), ArticleFirst (Index of articles from nearly 12,500 journals), ContentsFirst (Table of contents of nearly 12,500 journals), NetFirst (Database of Internet resources), UnionLists (OCLC Union Lists of Periodicals), FactSearch (Facts and statistics on topics of current interest), PapersFirst (Index of papers presented at conferences), Proceedings (An index of conference publications), WorldAlmanac (The World Almanac and Book of Facts).

Contains textbooks used or published primarily from 1840-1940/45 in Indiana and textbooks written or edited by Hoosier writers or related material primarily . Provides approximately 1,500 titles in 1,800 volumes for the study of practice and content. Also allows for the study of the publishing history of works held in depth. The collection is fully searchable on the ISU Library Catalog. Holdings lists are also available, arranged by subject or category. Housed in the Indiana State University Rare Books and Special Collections Department.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO is also a source of knowledge and information. We help developing countries and countries in transition modernize and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices and ensure good nutrition for all. Since our founding in 1945, we have focused special attention on developing rural areas, home to 70 percent of the world's poor and hungry people.

Produced by the Foundation Center, this resource provides instant access to information on thousands of grantmakers and their giving interests. Authoritative lists of potential funders can be created in just a few easy steps. It offers extensive program details for more than 1,500 leading foundations; detailed application guidelines for more than 7,200 foundations; and sponsoring company information for corporate givers. This service includes a searchable file of over 400,000 grants and can be searched by trustee, officer and donor names.

Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These electronic reference books can searched in groups or individually.

A master index to more than 100 reference works published by Gale. These works contain complete biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings. More than 130,000 author names and 170,000 titles are indexed here. Most of these reference works are available in the ISU Library Reference Collection.

A full text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. GenderWatch supports programs in business, education, literature and the arts, health sciences, history, political science, public policy, sociology and contemporary culture, gender and women's studies and more. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, NGO and special reports. GenderWatch contains a significant body of archival material, in some cases as far back as 1974.

Contains the Bibliography of North American Geology, the Bibliography and Index of Geology, the Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North American, and Geophysical Abstracts. Coverage is from 1785 to the present.

GeoScienceWorld is a nonprofit corporation formed by a group of leading geoscientific organizations for the purpose of making geoscience research and related information easily and economically available via the Internet. GSW is an unprecedented collaboration of six leading earth science societies and one institute. These Founders have worked together with other geoscience societies and university presses to develop an electronic research resource that is unprecedented in our field of science. Initially, GeoScienceWorld will deliver online the aggregated journal content of the Founding Organizations and of other not-for-profit and independent geoscience publishers. With time, other material such as maps, books, and geoscience digital data will be included or inter-linked. When technically practical, GSW will include non-English publications.

GDF Online, produced by the World Bank, provides access to statistical data for the 138 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System. The database covers external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructuring, and scheduled debt service projections.

Database of searchable full-text legislative and executive branch publications. Includes Congressional bills, the Congressional Record, public and private laws, the U.S. Code, the Code of Federal Regulations, the Federal Register and other government resources.

The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry includes 13,000 full-text poems, 250,000 poetry citations, bibliographies, biographies and a glossary of terms.

GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.

Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.). The database contains more than 45,000 articles and over 22,000 links to important art images in galleries and museums around the world. Updates, new articles and new image links will be added as an on-going feature of this dynamic product.

Comprising the full text of the second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Grove Music Online also includes over 3,000 links to related sites, including sound archives and illustrations. Updated quarterly. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera is now part of Grove Music Online.

Interactive database of PDF documents from government agencies and other authorative sites regarding H1N1. This resource is produced and made freely available by ebrary.

Provides a comprehensive survey of recent work relating to public health, safety, and industrial hygiene. Health and safety related aspects of pollution, waste disposal, radiation, pesticides, epidemics - and countless other phenomena having the potential to threaten the public, the environment, or the workplace itself - are reported here. Drawing on government reports as well as journal articles, conference proceedings, books, and other publications. Published in association with the University of Southern California's Institute of Safety and Systems Management. Updated monthly; 5,600 abstracts per year. Coverage: 1981-present.

This database provides full text coverage for more than 130 well-known administrative journals. Health Business FullTEXT Critical for hospital administrators and managers, this database includes publications covering the business of health care administration, and much more.

With Health Source: Consumer Edition you can search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for over 190 journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men’s Health, as well as abstracts and indexing for nearly 180 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. Information provided in this database should not be viewed as a means for self-diagnosis or a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 540 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 570 journals.

Contains studies and general works on psychology illustrating the development of thinking and research on human memory. This collection is being received in periodic gifts. Housed in the Indiana State University Rare Books and Special Collections Department.

The world's leading historical bibliographic database, with abstracts of journal articles and citations to books and dissertations, dating back to 1955. Historical Abstracts is a guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding North America). A special emphasis is placed upon the inclusion of English-language journal and book titles published throughout the world. Each year over 1,700 journal titles published worldwide are scanned for articles of interest to historians and key English-language history and review journals are examined for books related to historical study. In all, over 20,000 new abstracts and citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations are added to the database annually. Historical Abstracts on the Web is an excellent resource for a variety of disciplines including Multicultural Studies, Sociology, Psychology, Women's Studies/Gender Studies, Religion, Anthropology, Political Science, History of Scientific, Economic, Business, Education, Music, Art, and Law Disciplines.

Search for historical articles from The New York Times (1851-2001) and The Wall Street Journal (1889-1987). Available are full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

The HRAF collection of ethnography. HRAF is a consortium of educational, research, and cultural organizations, and government agencies; its mission is to encourage and facilitate the study of human culture, society, and behavior. This mission is accomplished mainly through the compilation, indexing, and distribution of a collection of ethnographic and other texts that are indexed by culture and subject. Today, HRAF has over 400 member institutions located in over 30 nations.

The Homeland Security Digital Library is composed of homeland security related documents collected from a wide variety of sources. These include federal, state, tribal, and local government agencies, professional organizations, think tanks, academic institutions, and international governing bodies. Resources are carefully selected and evaluated by a team of librarians and subject-matter specialists. The HSDL is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security.

A bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals, covering the time period 1907-1984. Coverage includes well-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. A wide range of interdisciplinary fields is covered through a broad array of humanities and social sciences journals. Content from H.W. Wilson’s International Index is also included. Subjects covered include: addiction studies, anthropology, archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, community health & medical care, corrections, criminal justice, criminology, dance, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, film, folklore, gender studies, geography, gerontology, history, international relations, journalism, law, linguistics, literary & social criticism literature, minority studies, music, performing arts, philosophy, planning & public administration, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, religion and theology, social work, sociology and urban studies.

Provides full-text coverage of articles from more than 95 periodicals, along with citations from more than 350 periodicals. It covers disciplines such as archaeology, classical studies, folklore, history, journalism, communications, photography, languages, literature, politics, music and performing arts, philosophy and theology. Full-text coverage begins in 1995 (for earlier coverage, refer to print issues of Humanities Index, in Reference).

Humanities International Index is a comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), Humanities International Index provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals and contains more than 1.6 million records.

Designed for the serious researcher, ICPSR, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, offers downloadable data from a vast archive of social science research. Many files are in SPSS or SAS format; familiarity with these programs is assumed for users of the data. First-time users will need to create a free MyData account; subsequent visits to download data will require logging in to the account.

The Index to Early American Periodicals covers a collection of 1,000 periodicals, which the ISU Library owns on microfilm, published in America between 1741 and 1935. The three indexes cover separate time periods and are thought to include all known periodical publications that had their inception and ending during this time period. The actual periodicals are found in the ISU Library Microforms Annex in three microfilm collections of the same names (referred to as APS I, APS II and APS III). Therefore, when searching the microfilm for a citation be sure to note the appropriate microfilm collection. The name of the microfilm collection is given on the final citation along with reel number and all other information needed to find a citation.

This is an online version of the Indiana Biography Index, which indexes select books and periodicals publications published in or after 1990 with information about people with strong connections to Indiana.

Contains books, maps, and other material pertaining to Indiana. Augments holdings in the general collections. Emphasis on county histories, literary figures, and the arts. Housed in the Indiana State University Rare Books and Special Collections Department.

Contains 60,000 typescripts sponsored initially by the WPA's Federal Writers Project begun in the late 1930s. A microfilm edition is available for purchase. Several indexes are available as a guide to locating relevant material. Housed in the Indiana State University Rare Books and Special Collections Department.

Industry Surveys provides in-depth economic and business information on 52 major U.S. industries through comprehensive reports, which are available for searching by company name or industry. It also includes a Monthly Investment Review, which provides investment advice on 115 key industries. Each survey analyzes operations, highlights current problems and opportunities and provides valuable insights by accurately forecasting future trends. Also included in NetAdvantage is Investment Reviews and other market and investment news, including Market Snapshot, Company Quote, Equity Indexes Page, The Outlook's Market Insight, S & P Stock Picks and Pans, Economic Calendar, Economic Insight, Industry in Focus and Stovall's Sector Watch.

Popular Spanish-language magazines and pamphlets in both Spanish and English interfaces.

Choose from among these databases: Academic Search Elite, Biography Resource Center, Business Source Premier, Business Wire News, Clinical Reference Systems, Dun & Bradstreet Million Dollar Directory, EBSCO Animals, EBSCO Online Citations, ERIC, Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, Health Source: Consumer Edition, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, Informe!, MAS Ultra: School Edition, MasterFILE Premier, MEDLINE, Middle Search Plus, Newspaper Source, Primary Search, Professional Development Collection, TOPICsearch, USP DI Volume II, Advice for the Patient (US Pharmacopeia) and What Tree Is It?. NOTE: you can choose either the INSPIRE or the EBSCOhost interfaces from the INSPIRE opening menu. Most databases will be found via both interfaces. However, each interface has some unique features. The EBSCOhost interface has several built-in links especially for ISU-affiliated users, including links to Interlibrary Loan and clickable links that will search the LUIS Online Catalog.

The Web of Science, available through ISI Web of Knowledge, provides access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. Web of Science includes three databases that can be searched together or separately: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. This resource also provides a unique searching method, cited reference searching. With this resource, users can navigate backward in time using cited references to uncover the research that influenced an author's work or navigate forward in time using Times Cited to discover the impact a paper or other published item has had on current research. Also available for some citations are links to the full text of selected articles. With Web of Science, users can export records directly to leading biblographic management programs: EndNote, Reference Manager and ProCite. Coverage is from 1984 to the present.

JSTOR [Journal Storage] is a unique full-text digital archive of over 350 core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues. The collection covers material from the 1800s up to a 'moving wall' of between 1 and 8 years before current publication. JSTOR is made available to academic institutions around the world on a site-license basis. Users at participating institutions can search, browse, print and save any article from the collection. As of November 2003, JSTOR is searchable within the following 27 disciplines: African American Studies (8 journals); African Studies (12 journals); Anthropology (16 journals); Archaeology (10 journals); Asian Studies (14 journals); Botany (8 journals); Business (46 journals); Classical Studies (11 journals); Ecology (21 journals); Economics (26 journals); Education (7 journals); Finance (5 journals); General Science (7 journals); Geography (8 journals); History (40 journals); History of Science (9 journals); Language & Literature (48 journals); Latin American Studies (7 journals); Mathematics (17 journals); Middle East Studies (9 journals); Music (31 journals); Philosophy (17 journals); Political Science (26 journals); Population Studies (9 journals); Slavic Studies (4 journals); Sociology (29 journals); Statistics (13 journals).

Contains an emphasis on popular music in scores and sheet music, including arrangements, primarily from ca. 1900-1972. Included in the more than 14,000 items are approximately 7,500 dance band sets, country music, and performance music. Housed in the Indiana State University Rare Books and Special Collections Department.

LANIC's mission is to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America. Our target audience includes people living in Latin America, as well as those around the world who have an interest in this region. While many of our resources are designed to facilitate research and academic endeavors, our site has also become an important gateway to Latin America for primary and secondary school teachers and students, private and public sector professionals, and just about anyone looking for information about this important region. LANIC's editorially reviewed directories contain over 12,000 unique URLs, one of the largest guides for Latin American content on the Internet.

LearningExpress Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons—students and adult learners—succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.

Provides access to a wide range of information from thousands of publications, including magazines, journals, newspapers, newsletters, wire services, etc.. Most results are full-text. Choose from a variety of databases within these major categories: News, Business, Legal Research, Medical and Reference. The News section offers the full-text of regional, U.S. & international newspapers, magazines, newsletters & journals and also includes wire service articles, transcripts of television and radio news broadcasts, entertainment and sports reviews, campus news and non-English language news. News articles are updated continuously throughout the day. The Business section offers the full-text of business articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, wires & transcripts, updated continuously throughout the day. Also available is detailed company financial data, SEC filings & reports, industry & market news, accounting journals & literature and various business-related directories. The Legal Research section provides access to vast amounts of legal information and is sub-divided into legal news & law reviews, federal & state case law, federal & state codes and regulations, international legal materials, patent research and career information. The Medical section offers full-text articles from medical & health news sources and journals as well as abstracts from the National Library of Medicine's Medline. The Reference section provides access to biographical information, country profiles, polls & surveys, quotations, state profiles and the World Almanac.

Indexes periodicals, electronic journals, monographs, conference proceedings and other materials concerned with libraries and librarianship. Indexing begins in 1984 and is updated twice weekly.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) is available FREE to any library - compliments of EBSCO Publishing. LISTA indexes more than 550 core journals, 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; 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.

Provides access to the full text of poems, stories, essays, plays and speeches. The poetry collection is international in scope, covering antiquity to the present. More than 100,000 full-text poems are available, plus over 800,000 poem citations and excerpts, a guide to locating poems on specific subjects, detailed explanations of more than 1,000 poems, and detailed profiles of poets and their works. Thousands of full-text short stories are also available, ranging from the classic to the contemporary. Also included are writer biographies, story explanations and a guide to locating short stories on particular subjects or in specific genres. The essays focus on the humanities and social sciences, and include biographies and literary criticism. Subjects include literature, history, economics, sociology, art and architecture, philosophy, psychology, science and drama. Plays cover the range of dramatic expression and constitute the most complete single-source of full-text plays. Speeches provided include the best-known speeches of the past 2,500 years categorized into easily searchable genres.

Digital library of primary sources in American social history from Cornell University and the University of Michigan.

Various materials either provided for deposit on a regular basis from organizations or reflecting a one-time gift. Among the manuscripts are local history materials, Indiana Civil War letters and memoirs, and lexicological materials, including the papers of Mitford Mathews. Other manuscript materials include journals of Gilbert Coble's encounters with Jesse Stuart and a collection of Paul Hagan's music compositions (Paul Hagan is an alumnus of the University whose sacred organ compositions are kept in photocopy format on acid-free paper). Housed in the Indiana State University Rare Books and Special Collections Department.

MarketLine provides company, industry and country profiles. More than 10,000 company profiles are available, containing: company overviews, business descriptions, company history, executive listings, product listings, locations, news and commentary. Company geographical coverage is 45% US, 35% Europe, 15% Asia, 5% rest of world. More than 2,000 industry profiles are available, providing: 5 year historical and 5 year forecast market values/volumes; market segmentations; company/product market shares; identification of major trends and significant growth points; and analysis of each market's competitive landscape. More than fifty country profiles are available, providing access to country data points, trends and analysis, including: economic performance and GDP; an assessment of the potential for development; and detailed market and industry analysis of the country's business environment. Also available in DBIC is news, comment and analysis concerning breaking industry news, merger and acquisition activity, product launches and regulatory changes.

Provides full text for over 460 general interest and current events magazines.

Provides full text articles from over 1,800 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,800 periodicals. Full text backfiles go as far back as January of 1990, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as January of 1984.

MathSciNet is a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature since 1940. It contains bibliographic information and reviews created and maintained by the American Mathematical Society. It continues the tradition and extends the scope of the work begun by the paper publication Mathematical Reviews in 1940. Journals, conference proceedings, and books of mathematics research are covered. It provides timely reviews or summaries of articles and books that contain new contributions to mathematical research. Approximately 1700 current serials and journals are reviewed in whole or in part.

TThe McClatchy-Tribune Collection includes a 90-day archive of approximately 290 newspapers from the McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. This database is updated daily.

PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. he PubMed search system provides access to the PubMed database of bibliographic information, which is drawn primarily from MEDLINE and PREMEDLINE. In addition, for participating journals that are indexed selectively for MEDLINE, PubMed includes all articles from that journal, not just those that are included in MEDLINE. Finally, PubMed also provides access to the molecular biology databases included in NCBI's Entrez retrieval system. It is expected that access to additional National Library of Medicine databases will be added in the future. Coverage extends from 1966 to date. If a publisher has a WWW site that offers full text of its journals, PubMed provides links to that site. The MEDLINE file contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from approximately 3,900 current biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 foreign countries. The PREMEDLINE database provides basic citation information and abstracts before the full records are prepared and added to MEDLINE. New records are added to PREMEDLINE daily.

The Dun & Bradstreet MDDI Total U.S. database provides comprehensive marketing information on both public and private companies and their executives throughout the United States. Includes unlimited searching, viewing and printing of detailed, location-specific company profiles with contact information, executive biographies and proprietary eight-digit SIC codes.

Available via EBSCOhost, MEDLINE contains abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 publications found in Index Medicus, the International Nursing Index and the Index to Dental Literature; additional table of contents information for 2,400 titles, provided by the British Library Document Supply Center; Comprehensive MEDLINE is available in specific year subsets dating back to 1966.

For consumer health information, consider using MEDLINEplus from the National Library of Medicine. MEDLINEplus is for anyone with a medical question. Both health professionals and consumers can depend on it for accurate, current, medical information. This service provides access to extensive information about specific diseases and conditions and also has links to consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health, clearinghouses, dictionaries, lists of hospitals and physicians, health information in Spanish and other languages, and clinical trials. MEDLINEplus is designed to assist you in locating appropriate, authoritative health information sources. To accomplish this, NLM creates and maintains web pages that point to selected web sites. MEDLINEplus is not a list of every web page on health, but is a selected list of authoritative sources under such categories as dictionaries; doctors/dentists; hospitals; organizations; clearinghouses; databases; publications/news; libraries.

Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains full-text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks.

Comprehensive reference guide for medical diagnosis and therapy made freely available online by Merck Research Laboratories, a Division of Merck & Co., Inc.

Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.

MLA International Bibliography is an index of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included. In addition, the MLA Directory of Periodicals and the association's proprietary thesaurus used to assign descriptors to each record in the Bibliography are also included. Examples of titles offered in MLA International Bibliography include: Journal of International Folklore, Journal of English and German Philology, Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Popular Film and Television, Language and Communication, Language Teaching Research, Modern Language Journal, etc.

The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.

An electronic version of Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books, and Local Legends. The Motif-Index is primarily an index; however, references are usually provided to one or more works where information about the motif may be found.

Music Index Online is compiled from more than 690 international music periodicals offering access to historiographic, ethnographic and musicological data. More than one million items are indexed, dating back to 1979. A broad range of subjects is covered, including past and present personalities, the history of music, forms and types of music, musical instruments from the earliest times to modern electronic instruments, plus computer produced music. In addition, book reviews, reviews of music recordings, tapes and performances are indexed. First performances and obituaries are noted.

The "NASW Register of Clinical Social Workers," 11th Edition provides a listing of clinical social workers who have met national standards for education and experience established by the NASW Competence Certification Commission on recommendation of the Committee on Clinical Social Work. The first "NASW Register of Clinical Social Workers" was published in 1976, with a supplement issued in 1977. Updated editions were published in 1978, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1995, and 1997. The "NASW Register" has become an important resource for identifying social workers who are qualified providers of mental health services. Like its predecessors, this edition aims to advance sound professional practice standards by providing a uniform method to identify qualified clinical social work practitioners.

NCJRSA (National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts) covers the field of criminal and juvenile justice. The collection, with holdings from the early 1970s to the present, indexes more than 170,000 publications, reports, articles, and audiovisual products from the United States and around the world. These resources include statistics, research findings, program descriptions, congressional hearing transcripts, and training materials. The abstracts include the title, author, sponsoring agency, purchasing address, and journal citation, as well as a 100 to 200 word summary of the document's contents.

The NCJRS Virtual Library searches for 7000+ full-text publications found on the NCJRS web site and the web sites of the agencies of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. The Office Justice Programs includes the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, and the Office for Victims of Crime.

The NFPA mission is to reduce the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life by developing and advocating consensus codes and standards, research, training, and education. NFPA is an international nonprofit membership organization founded in 1896 as the National Fire Protection Association. Today, with more than 75,000 members representing nearly 100 nations and 320 employees around the world, NFPA serves as the world's leading advocate of fire prevention and is an authoritative source on public safety. In fact, NFPA's 300 codes and standards influence every building, process, service, design, and installation in the United States, as well as many of those used in other countries

Abstracts and indexing for New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal.

NTIS is the federal government's central source for the sale of scientific, technical, engineering, and related business information by or for the U.S. government and complementary materials from international sources. You can access information on more than 750,000 of these products from this web site. Thousands of new products are added each week. Additionally, many records now include free links to the full-text publication on an agency's web site, or can be downloaded directly from the NTIS archival copy for a nominal charge. NTIS is a freely available web resource.

Naxos Music Library, an online collection of music, includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks. Included is classical, jazz, world, folk and Chinese music from more than 1,000 composers. While listening, users can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists. The Naxos Music Library is streamed in 64K, which is near-CD quality.

Contains primary and secondary materials pertaining to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and to the Civil War era. Includes books, letters, transcriptions, photographs, and microfilmed collections and documents. Housed in the Indiana State University Rare Books and Special Collections Department.

A searchable collection of ebooks (electronic versions of printed books), with access to the full-text of hundreds of newly published books plus hundreds of classic works of literature and history that are now in the public domain. Books can be browsed for quick research or reference or checked out for longer term use. Users must set up their own account to use this resource.

Networks Financial Institute (NFI) is an outreach of Indiana State University's College of Business and exists to help the financial services industry transform itself through better leadership, creative collaboration, and community-based financial literacy initiatives. This link takes you to NFI reports, policy briefs, working papers, and ResearchBuzz, the NFI newsletter.

The New York Times (1851-2001) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Retrieves chemical and physical property data for chemical species.

Newspaper Source contains full text for 224 regional U.S. newspapers, 26 international newspapers, 22 newswires and newspaper columns, 36 TV and radio news transcripts, The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today and The Washington Post (for a total of 310 full text newspapers and other sources).

From OCLC's FirstSearch. Bibliographic citations of a variety of Internet resources including web pages and listservs. Citations include summary descriptions and subject headings.

A searchable database of occupational safety and health information from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). The database contains over 30,000 citations; links to full-text are provided for many citations.

Your entrance to the knowledge resources of the National Library of Medicine, NLM Gateway allows users to search many NLM databases at the same time, including MEDLINE/PubMed.

Includes biographies and narratives of fugitive and former slaves published in English before 1920.

Reader's advisory for non-fiction books.

Over 275,000 images from the New York Public Library's collections.

The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. The index includes more than 20,000 English works in various formats that meet specific criteria. Users can search listings by author and title, browse new listings, browse by author, browse by title, browse by subject and browse serial archives. The website also offers pointers to significant directories and archives of online texts, special exhibits of particularly interesting classes of online books and information on how readers can help support the growth of online books.

The following database can be searched via OVID: Health and Psychosocial Instruments.

The OED is viewed as the ultimate authority on the English language and offers complete information on pronunciations, functions, etymologies and meanings for the English language, from Anglo-Saxon times to current usage. The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with its Additions Series, published in 1993 and 1997. Revised and new entries will be added to the online Dictionary every quarter.

Oxford Reference Online brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works published by Oxford University Press, containing well over 60,000 pages. You can search the contents of the entire collection, individual titles or within the following subject areas: Art & Architecture, Biological Sciences, Classics, Computing, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Economics & Business, English Dictionaries & Thesauruses, English Language Reference, Food & Nutrition, General Reference, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Military History, Modern Languages, Mythology & Folklore, Performing Arts, Physical Sciences & Mathematics, Politics & Social Sciences, Quotations, Religion & Philosophy and Science.

For almost six years now, we have been hard at work on the Music Genome Project. It's the most comprehensive analysis of music ever undertaken. Together our team of thirty musician-analysts have been listening to music, one song at a time, studying and collecting literally hundreds of musical details on every song. It takes 20-30 minutes per song to capture all of the little details that give each recording its magical sound - melody, harmony, instrumentation, rhythm, vocals, lyrics ... and more - close to 400 attributes! We continue this work every day to keep up with the incredible flow of great new music coming from studios, stadiums and garages around the country. Pandora™ is the doorway to this vast trove of musical information. With Pandora you can explore to your heart's content. Just drop the name of one of your favorite songs or artists into Pandora and let the Genome Project go. It will quickly scan its entire world of analyzed music, almost a century of popular recordings - new and old, well known and completely obscure - to find songs with interesting musical similarities to your choice. Then sit back and enjoy as it creates a listening experience full of current and soon-to-be favorite songs for you.

Provides information on diseases, health and wellness, medication, and clinical trials for consumers.

From OCLC's FirstSearch. Provides access to individual papers presented at conferences, congresses, expositions, workshops, symposia and meetings worldwide.

The Pew Research Center is an independent opinion research group that studies attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues. It is best known for regular national surveys that measure public attentiveness to major news stories, and for polling that charts trends in values and fundamental political and social attitudes. Reports can be browsed, searched by keyword or limited by topic or time period. All of its current survey results are made available free of charge via this web site.

Provides information about vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.

Poem Finder is a comprehensive poetry database, international in scope, covering poetry from antiquity to the present. It contains more than 100,000 full-text poems, over 800,000 poem citations and excerpts, a guide to locating poems on specific subjects, detailed explanations of more than 1,000 poems, and detailed profiles of poets and their works.

Contains citations and abstracts to literature on family planning and population law and policy.

Provides full text for over 50 children’s magazines and over 100 children’s pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student.

The Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) provides access through group or item records to about 65% of the Division's holdings, as well as to some images found in other units of the Library of Congress. Many of the catalog records are accompanied by digital images--about one million digital images in all.

Provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 450 full text journals, designed for professional educators.

Provides full text of over 100 Johns Hopkins University scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.

The following databases can be searched via ProQuest: ABI/INFORM Global, Criminal Justice Periodicals, Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch, National Newspaper Abstracts, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, ProQuest Education Journals, ProQuest Science Journals, ProQuest Social Science Journals, Research Library, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Wall Street Journal.

ProQuest Digital Microfilm is a browser based system that provides a simple and convenient way to access microfilm content in a digital format. ProQuest Digital Microfilm allows the user to retrieve, view, print and email specially digitized images from ProQuest microfilm. ISU Library patrons currently have access to the New york Times and Wall Street Journal from 2008 to the present. Please note that content is made available at the same time as corresponding microfilm reels, so the most recent issues may not yet be available in this format.

Search more than 600 full-text journals in education and related fields. Coverage ranges from 1988 to the present.

Search full text and images for more than 350 journals and magazines in science and technology. Subject coverage includes computers, engineering, physics, telecommunications, and transportation. Coverage ranges from 1994 to the present.

Search more than 250 full-text periodicals covering the social sciences.

PsycARTICLES is a definitive source of searchable full text articles on current issues in psychology. The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. The database contains more than 35,000 searchable full text articles from 41 journals published by the American Psychological Association and eight journals from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 49 journals. Coverage now spans from 1987 to the present.

Contains hundred of thousands of citations and summaries of journal articles, technical reports, dissertations, books and book chapters, covering the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Covers 1887 to present, updated weekly.

PubChem provides information on the biological activities of small molecules, and is a component of NIH's Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative.PubChem is organized as three linked databases within the NCBI's Entrez information retrieval system. These are PubChem Substance, PubChem Compound, and PubChem BioAssay. PubChem also provides a fast chemical structure similarity search tool.

Provides information for over 150,000 domestic and international print and electronic publications including magazines, journals, e-journals, newsletters, and monographs. PubList provides access to publication information including, titles, formats, publisher addresses, editor contacts, circulation data, and ISSN numbers.

PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. he PubMed search system provides access to the PubMed database of bibliographic information, which is drawn primarily from MEDLINE and PREMEDLINE. In addition, for participating journals that are indexed selectively for MEDLINE, PubMed includes all articles from that journal, not just those that are included in MEDLINE. Finally, PubMed also provides access to the molecular biology databases included in NCBI's Entrez retrieval system. It is expected that access to additional National Library of Medicine databases will be added in the future. Coverage extends from 1966 to date. If a publisher has a WWW site that offers full text of its journals, PubMed provides links to that site. The MEDLINE file contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from approximately 3,900 current biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 foreign countries. The PREMEDLINE database provides basic citation information and abstracts before the full records are prepared and added to MEDLINE. New records are added to PREMEDLINE daily.

PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

Contains examples of fine printing; early books; travel literature; European and American culture and literature; and various subcollections. Includes the Bunce Collection of amatory and erotic works, Gilbert Coble Collection of Jesse Stuart and Lowney Turner Handy Writers' Colony Collection. Also available are holdings lists of locally-held items pertaining to Samuel Johnson and William Shakespeare. Housed in the Indiana State University Rare Books and Special Collections Department.

Regional Business News is a collection of full text newswires that incorporates news information 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 Newswire, Canadian Corporate News, News Bytes News Network and Phillips Business Information Highlights. Information provided by these sources covers business, political, economic and other diverse, international news events. In order to maintain the most current collection of news, this database contains the most recent 30 days of information from each of these wire sources. Several hundred articles are added to Business Wire News database each day.

Search over 4,050 periodicals - over 2,800 in full text - on a broad range of subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests. Coverage ranges from 1971 to the present.

IDEAS (Internet Documents in Economics Access Service) provides access to the complete RePEc database. RePEc is a collaborative effort of over 100 volunteers in 45 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. This freely available database indexes more than 300,000 working papers, articles, chapters, books and software components. More than 200,000 of these documents can be downloaded in full text. Bibliographic data is contributed by more than 450 institutions, including university departments, research outlets and publishers. IDEAS is run by members of the Department of Economics of the University of Connecticut.

Research Starters are study and research guides designed specifically for advanced high school students, college students and selected graduate students. They consist of comprehensive, yet concise topic summary articles of about 3,000 words in length written by researchers, scholars and other subject matter experts.This resource is being offered on a trial basis to Indiana State University through Summer 2009.

Combined catalog of more than 100 million books, web resources, and other materials from libraries throughout the world. From this database, you can electronically request items via interlibrary loan.