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Newly acquired resources, added over the last 6 months. Select the link to read database description and access resource.: CQ (Congressional Quarterly) Global Researcher; OAIster (Open Archive Initiative Collections)
ABSEES: ABSEES (American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies) provides an index of East-Central Europe and former Soviet Union journals, books, dissertations, online resources and government publications published in the United States and Canada. Covers 1990 to the present.
ACLCP: Association of College Libraries of Central Pennsylvania. F&M students have borrowing privileges at all libraries in this consortium. Search listed catalogs separately, or simultaneously using WorldCat (search, then check for ACLCP libraries).
ACS (American Chemical Society) Publications: Provides fully edited articles with complete graphics and links from all 33 ACS publications. Articles appear online anywhere from two weeks to three months before the article is available in print. Coverage extends back to 1879.
ANB Online: The American National Biography includes more than 17,400 men and women whose lives have shaped the nation. Updated quarterly.
ARTFL Project: Database of classical French writings that includes literary works, political tracts, philosophical writings, and technical treatises.
ARTstor: ARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields. The ARTstor Library's initial content includes approximately 500,000 images and its software tools 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. Please see ARTstor's Help Wiki for additional information.
ATLA Religion Index: Comprehensive database in religious and theological scholarship. Includes index citations, journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews from ATLA's print indexes: Religion Index One (RIO), Religion Index Two (RIT), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR). Covers from 1949 to the present.
Academic Universe: See Lexis Nexis Academic
Accessible Archives: Primary source material from 18th and 19th century periodicals. Includes Godey's Ladies Book (1830-80), Pennsylvania Gazette (1728-1800), Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective (1860-1865), African American Newspapers: The 19th Century.
AccessScience: Full access to more than 7100 articles, 115,000 definitions, 2,000 biographies, and research advances in science and technology. Updated daily.
African American Newspapers: the 19th century: Primary source material from 18th and 19th century periodicals, provided by Accessible Archives.
AGRICOLA: Over 2.9 million records covering every major agricultural subject. Compiled by the National Agricultural Library of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Covers 1970 to the present.
Alternative Press Index: Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines; covering cultural, economic, political & social change. Covers 1991 to the present.
Alternative Press Index Archive: Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines; covering cultural, economic, political & social change. Covers 1969 to 1990.
America: History and Life (6): Comprehensive bibliography of articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to present. Covers abstracts 1964 to the present.
America's Historical Newspapers: Fully searchable, cover-to-cover reproductions of early American newspapers including titles from all 50 present states. Includes: Early American Newspapers, Series 1 (1690-1876), Early American Newspapers, Series 2 (1758-1900) and Early American Newspapers, Series 3 (1829-1922).
American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1: Fully searchable facsimile images of approximately 15,000 broadsides (political materials) printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900. Ephemera includes: government proclamations, tax bills, town meeting reports, autobiographies, dying confessions of convicted criminals, theater playbills, sheet almanacs, advertisements, patriotic and popular songs and poems.
American Chemical Society Publications: Provides fully edited articles with complete graphics and links from all 33 ACS publications. Articles appear online anywhere from two weeks to three months before the article is available in print. Coverage extends back to January 1996.
American Factfinder: Access to the latest population, housing, and economic data from the US Census Bureau.
American National Biography: Includes more than 17,400 men and women whose lives have shaped the nation. Updated quarterly.
L'Annee Philologique: L'Annee Philologique is a full text database published by the Societe Internationale de Bibliographie Classique. Covers volumes 20 (1949) to 75 (2004), with 12,500 new records added each year.
Annual Reviews: Searchable full-text access to annual reviews in the biomedical, physical, and social sciences. Tables of contents from 1984 to 1994; Full text and abstracts from 1995 to date; Future content through 2001.
Anthropology Plus (3): This resource is the combination of Anthropology Index and Anthropological Literature. Provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. Covers over 2500 journals, 19th century to the present. Updated quarterly.
Anthrosource: Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource brings anthropological material online to scholars and the public.
Applied Science and Technology Full Text: English-language periodicals covering engineering, mathematics, physics, and computer technology. Covers October 1983 to the present. Link will launch OmniFile Full Text Mega. Choose database from Subject Area.
Archives USA (4): Locate primary resources held in over 118,000 Special Collections with links for contact and access information.
Art Full Text: Variety of international English-language arts publications. Indexing from 1984 to present, abstracting from 1994 to present. Link will launch OmniFile Full Text Mega. Choose database from Subject Area.
Article First: Periodicals index and abstract resource for over 15,000 titles in the areas of business, science, humanities, social science, medicine, technology and popular culture. Covers 1990 to the present.
Arts & Humanities Search: Over 1.4 million records referencing more than 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Covers 1980 to the present.
BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art): Covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present, the Bibliography of the History of Art indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 1,400 periodicals. Covers 1973 to the present.
Background Notes: Factual publications that contain information on all the countries of the world with which the United States has relations. They include facts on the country's land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and its relations with other countries and the United States.
Benjamin Franklin, Papers of: Project sponsored by the American Philosophical Society, Yale University, and the Packard Humanities Institute. Site contains Vol. 1 - 37 (1706-1782) of the published Yale series, and unpublished writings from 1783-1792. Site also contains the full text of his autobiography.
Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS): The online version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS), referencing principally western-language articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia. Coverage extends back to 1971.
Biological Abstracts: A comprehensive reference database covering life sciences journal literature. Covers 2003 to the present.
BioMed Central: An independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.
BioOne: Searchable full text aggregation of more than forty bioscience research journals. The titles are published by scholarly societies and have formerly been available in print. Access to individual journal titles can also be found on the Biology "by Subject" page.
Book Orders, online: Order library materials online. Link will prompt for your F&M username and password. This service is only available for faculty, staff and administration. Any questions regarding online ordering may be directed to our Acquisitions Librarian, Marty Gordon.
Book Review Digest: Indexes reviews for over 7,000 adult and children's books each year. Includes English-language fiction and nonfiction. Covers January 1983 to the present.
Books in Print: Featuring millions of English and Spanish language titles published in North America and abroad, GlobalBooksInPrint.com offers users the capacity to search by traditional bibliographic elements such as author, title, ISBN, etc. as well as market, review source, vendor, price range and more, GlobalBooksInPrint.com offers price comparisons and availability information from international vendors. The database also contains valuable added content such as professional reviews, tables of contents, and previews of full-text.
Business Full Text: Indexes more than 300 international English-language business magazines covering accounting, finance, management, and small business. Covers January 1986 to the present.
Business Management: Index of over 795 sources, providing practical aspects and approaches to business management. Covers 1995 to present.
Business Research (Lexis-Nexis): Business information, including industry and market news, company profies and financial reports, and SEC filings.
Business Source Premier: A comprehensive business research database, providing full text access for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications and over 8,000 other periodicals. Covers marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics. Detailed profiles of 10,000 companies are included. Updated daily.
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online): A 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.
CIS Index (Congressional Universe): Indexing, abstracting, and some full-text of publications of the U.S. Congress. Covers 1970 to the present.
CQ (Congressional Quarterly) Almanac: The CQ Almanac Online Edition brings together authoritative congressional reporting since the 79th Congress. The site pairs all of the content from the print volumes with electronic features that make navigating the content fast and easy. Coverage extends back to 1945. You can view and search across all of our CQ resources here.
CQ (Congressional Quarterly) Global Researcher: Provides a comprehensive snapshot of today's most pressing global issues, with focused, readable, single-topic reports. Written by seasoned journalists with years of international experience, report sections include "Current Situation", "Pro/Con", and a new feature called "Voices from Abroad." You can view and search across all of our CQ resources here.
CQ (Congressional Quarterly) Researcher: Published in print and online 44 times a year, the single-themed CQ Researcher report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. You can view and search across all of our CQ resources here.
CQ (Congressional Quarterly) Weekly: CQ Weekly covers virtually every act of Congress, delivering nonpartisan news and analysis unavailable anywhere else, fully archived to 1983. Get 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. You can view and search across all of our CQ resources here.
CQ's Politics in America: An essential resource for any collection that serves readers who want authoritative information on the members of the Congress. The profiles of the 535 members plus the delegates offer concise and candid analysis of personalities, political styles, legislative agendas, political ambitions, and reputations of members at home and on Capitol Hill. Detailed state and district information plus a wealth of information on campaign finance, partisan caucuses, standing committees, and other member data round out the book. You can view and search across all of our CQ resources here.
Campus Research (Westlaw): Research service, includes: thousands of news databases arranged geographically and topically; hundreds of newswires as well as business, trade and professional journals and publications; and superior law-related resources, including both primary law and analysis.
Census.gov: The Census Bureau serves as the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy.
Chicago Tribune: Chicago newspaper, provided by NewsBank. Covers 1985 to present.
ChoiceReviews.online (3): Provides access to the entire database of CHOICE reviews published since September 1988. The database is updated monthly, generally at mid-month, with reviews that will be printed in the next monthly issue of CHOICE. The newest reviews appear, arranged by academic discipline and broad cross-disciplinary topic. Covers September, 1988 to present.
Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective: Full text primary resource newsarticles provided by Accessible Archives. Compare news coverage between the North and South. Features The Charleston Mercury, The New York Herald, and Richmond Enquirer.
Clase and Periodica: CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities, covers 1975 to present. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology, covers 1978 to present.
Classical Music Library: Classical Music Library offers an impressive classical music collection enabling you to listen to a continually growing collection - currently over 20,000 titles. This Classical Music Library service is a complete collection of recordings, accompanied by a vast reference database.
College Reporter: Digital archive of the F&M College newspaper, which began in print in 1873. Currently covers a 86-year time period from 1915 to 2001. Eventually, the entire run of the F&M student newspaper will be digitized and made available via the web. The last phase of the project will involve digitizing the years 1873 to 1914.
CollegeSource: Contains over 4,000 United States and international college and university full-text catalogs.
Congressional Universe: Indexing, abstracting, and some full-text of publications of the U.S. Congress. Covers 1970 to the present.
Contemporary Women's Issues: International information on women from disciplines such as sociology, psychology, health, education, and human rights. Covers 1995 to the present.
Country Studies: The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world.
Credo Reference: A digital reference library that places a world of factual information at your fingertips. Containing 100 high-quality reference books from the world's leading publishers: dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and books of quotations, not to mention a host of subject-specific titles covering everything from the arts and literature to technology.
Current Mathematical Publications: Mathematical reviews on the web. Database included in MathSciNet. Covers 1940 to the present.
Dance Education Literature and Research Descriptive Index: Created by the National Dance Education Organization. Research in the field of dance education in the United States including: student achievement, kinesthetic learning/brain research, creative process, integrated arts/interdisciplinary education, multi-cultural infusion, children-at-risk, equity issues, policy, certification and teaching standards, national and state standards.
Digest of Education Statistics: Produced by the National Center for Educational Statistics, a federal agency. Includes data from enrollment to outcomes, for gradeschool through post-secondary education.
DYABOLA (1): Navigable and source-oriented text and image registration system, which is equipped with a semantic network, a syntax generator and a data- scrolling machine. DYABOLA is primarily a complete programme for the administration of libraries, subject catalogues, inventory books, photograph archives and any other form of text and image documents.
EDGAR (SEC Filings and Forms): Through its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval site EDGAR, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) makes all submissions by U.S. public companies since 1993 available in full-text. Beginning in November 2002, all foreign companies listed on U.S. exchanges are also required to file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically through EDGAR.
eHRAF World Cultures: A collection of ethnographic texts arranged by culture and subject. Currently contains over 90 cultures. Updated yearly.
Early American Newspapers, 1690-1922: see America's Historical Newspapers
EconLit: Comprehensive, international, partially annotated bibliography of economics literature. Indexes over 300 journals as well as books, dissertations, working papers, and collective volumes. Covers 1969 to the present.
ERIC: Index to journal articles, government studies, books, dissertations, and other material on education and related fields that combines citations of sponsored reports, from Resources in Education, and over 750 journals, from the Current Index to Journals in Education. Covers 1982 to the present.
Education Full Text: Indexes more than 400 domestic and international English-language periodicals and yearbooks. Subjects include administration, teaching methods and curriculum, literacy, and government funding. Covers 1984 to the present.
Encyclopaedia of Islam (3): Includes articles on distinguished Muslims of every era and origin, tribes and dynasties, crafts and sciences, political and religious institutions, the geography, ethnography, flora and fauna of various countries with significant Islamic populations (the old Arabo-Islamic empire, the Islamic countries of Iran, Central Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Indonesia, as well as the Ottoman Empire) and on the history, topography and monuments of the major towns and cities therein.
Encyclopedia Britannica (with Webster's Dictionary): Latest article database, including articles not in the print edition, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, and the Britannica Book of the Year (1994 - present), with thousands of web links selected by editors.
Encyclopedia of Religion: Now in its second edition (2006), the most comprehensive reference source treating the full spectrum of religious studies. Articles are cross referenced. Contains a thirty-one page synoptic outline and a voluminous detailed index.
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index: Journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. Covers 1994 to the present.
FedStats: Access to statistical data from over 100 agencies of the federal government.
Film and Television Literature Index: A comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
FirstSearch: A collection of over 60 subject-specific indexes and databases (most are listed here).
GPO Access: Provides access to government information such as laws, bills, the budget, and much more. Database produced by the Government Printing Office.
GPO Catalog of U.S. Government Publications: Finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online. Covers July 1976 to the present.
Gale Virtual Reference Library: A digital reference collection that places factual information at your fingertips. Containing high-quality reference books in history, medicine, religion and the social sciences, now accessible wherever you are.
Gale's Literary Index: Master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references over 159,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for over 210,000 titles into one source.
General Science Full Text: Journals and magazines from the U.S. and Great Britain, covering all major scientific fields. Indexing from 1984 to present, abstracting from 1993 to present.
GEOBASE: More than 500,000 records covering international literature on geology, geography, and ecology. Covers 1980 to present.
GeoRefS: Nearly 2 million records about geology and earth sciences. Covers 1785 to the present (North America) and 1933 to the present (entire world).
Global Books in Print: see Books in Print
Godey's Ladies Book: 19th century periodical reflects American women's experience. Powerfully illustrated, features fashion, music and book reviews. An excellent primary resource for cultural study; provided by Accessible Archives.
Grove Music Online: see Oxford Music Online
Handbook of Latin American Studies: Selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America, with citations (some in Spanish or Portuguese) to materials in the humanities and social sciences. Covers 1935 to the present.
HarpWeek: the Civil War Era 1857-77: Access to Harper's Weekly during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Provides both text and image searching capabilities.
Health, United States: Health, United States is an annual report on national trends in health statistics. Includes highlights section, chartbook, and 151 trend tables.
Historical Abstracts (6): Comprehensive international historical coverage (excluding the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Covers abstracts from 1955 to the present.
Human Relations Area Files World Cultures Online (HRAF Online): see eHRAF World Cultures
Humanities Full Text: Indexes over 300 English-language periodicals covering classical studies, history, literature, performing arts, philosophy, and related fields. Covers 1984 to the present.
ICPSR Direct: Search the extensive holdings of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, encompassing political, social, economic, and educational data, and download data and documentation to your own computer for analysis. Most datasets require the use of a quantitative analysis program, such as SPSS, Data Desk, or Excel, to produce useful results. Contact F&M's institutional liaison to the ICPSR, Professor Robert Friedrich in the Government Department, at 291-4162 or robert.friedrich@fandm.edu for more information.
ICSD (Inorganic Crystal Structure Database): This database contains information on all inorganic crystal structure including pure elements, minerals, metals, and intermetallic compounds including their atomic coordinates that have been published since 1913. It is updated twice a year. Limited to 4 Simultaneous Users.
INSPEC: Contains close to 10 million bibliographic records taken from more than 3850 scientific and technical journals, including comprehensive access to literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers, computing, information technology, manufacturing, production and mechanical engineering. Covers 1969 to the present.
ITER Bibliography: Iter, meaning 'a journey' or 'a path' in Latin, is a growing database of books and journals dealing with the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
Index Islamicus: The most comprehensive bibliography for Islamic Studies. Produced by an editorial team working at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, its records cover scholarship deemed significant to the field. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews, with books being indexed down to the chapter level. Coverage extends back to 1906.
IngentaConnect (formerly Uncover): Table-of-contents service for over 17,000 periodicals. NOT considered a subject index. Covers many titles from 1988 to the present.
Intelligencer Journal - Lancaster New Era (Lancaster): Local newspaper, provided by NewsBank. To search all four Lancaster newspapers (and other regional titles), choose Local Papers. Covers March 1, 2008 to June 27, 2009 (Saturdays and Holidays only) and June 29, 2009 to present (Monday-Saturday). Complete coverage information can be found here.
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences: Covers scholarship and fields that have emerged and matured since the publication of the original international edition. Highlights the expanding influence of economics in social science research and features new articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences. 2nd Edition (2008)
International Financial Statistics (5): A standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. The database, published by the International Monetary Fund, contains approximately 32,000 time series covering more than 200 countries and areas. Covers 1948 to the present.
International Monetary Fund: see International Financial Statistics
JStor: A collection of full-text articles from over 1500 scholarly journals, many dating from the nineteenth-century to the last 4 or 5 years. Select Advanced Search to strategically search amongst 45 disciplines. Choose PDF from within JStor to properly view and print articles. For convenience, JStor can be added to Facebook.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism: An overview of the major landmarks of criticism from classical antiquity to the present day.
Lancaster Intelligencer Journal: Local newspaper, provided by NewsBank. To search all four Lancaster newspapers (and other regional titles), choose Local Papers. Covers September 5, 1989 to June 26, 2009. Complete coverage information can be found here.
Lancaster Intelligencer Journal - Lancaster New Era: Local newspaper, provided by NewsBank. To search all four Lancaster newspapers (and other regional titles), choose Local Papers. Covers March 1, 2008 to June 27, 2009 (Saturdays and Holidays only) and June 29, 2009 to present (Monday-Saturday). Complete coverage information can be found here.
Lancaster New Era: Local newspaper, provided by NewsBank. To search all four Lancaster newspapers (and other regional titles), choose Local Papers. Covers September 5, 1989 to June 26, 2009. Complete coverage information can be found here.
Lancaster Sunday News: Local newspaper, provided by NewsBank. To search all four Lancaster papers (and other regional titles), choose Local Papers. Covers September 10, 1989 to present. Complete coverage information can be found here.
Legal Periodicals Full Text: Indexes articles from 620 legal journals, yearbooks, institutes, bar associations, law reviews, and government publications originating in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. Includes book reviews. Covers August 1981 to the present. Link will launch OmniFile Full Text Mega. Choose database from Subject Area.
Legal Research (Lexis-Nexis): Legal resources, including law reviews, state and federal case law, patent law, and law school directories.
Lexis Nexis Academic: Connections to newspaper articles (including New York Times and Washington Post), business information (including SEC filings), and legal resources (including state and federal case law).
Liber8: Provides a single point of access to the economic information that the Federal Reserve System, other government agencies, and data providers have to offer. They specifically selected non-technical sources that would be simpler to use and easier to understand.
Library Catalogs, not F&M (LibDex): Choose from a huge list of international colleges and universities.
Library & Information Science Full Text: Indexes more than 200 international library and information-science periodicals and more than 600 books per year. Covers December 1980 to the present. Link will launch OmniFile Full Text Mega. Choose database from Subject Area.
Library of Congress: The ultimate library catalog! Over 40 million monograph records.
Literary Index, Gale's: Master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references over 159,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for over 210,000 titles into one source.
Los Angeles Times: Los Angeles newspaper, provided by Academic Universe. Covers Jan. 1, 1985 through the current issue.
MLA Bibliography: The Modern Language Association's index of articles, book chapters and essays in literature, languages, and folklore. Covers 1963 to the present.
Mathematical Reviews: Mathematical reviews on the web. Database included in MathSciNet. Covers 1940 to the present.
MathSciNet: Encompassing both Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications, this index is the most comprehensive in the discipline. Covers 1940 to the present.
Medline: MEDLINE provides access to over 12 million citations back to the mid-1960's in all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing.
MedlinePlus Health Information: Presents up-to-date health care information, selected by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, for use by health care consumers and health professionals. Hundreds of health topics are listed alphabetically and are also grouped into 32 groups. PubMed database searches, with the search queries already formulated, can be initiated from any of the health topics in order to search for more information.
Mental Measurements Yearbook (4): Provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. All entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing)�and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts. To be included in the MMY, a test must be commercially available, be published in the English language, and be new or revised since it last appeared in the series. Covers 1916 to the present.
Modern Languages Association: Bibliography: Index of articles, book chapters and essays in literature, languages, and folklore. Covers 1963 to the present.
Music Literature (RILM): Over 200,000 citations on international music describing books, articles, and dissertations. Produced by the Repertoire Internationale de Litterature Musicale. Covers 1967 to the present.
Nature Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (3): A comprehensive encyclopedia dealing with all disciplines broadly defined as the "life sciences." It is updated on a regular basis.
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics: This encyclopedic dictionary is a comprehensive topical starting point for research in economics.
New York Times (most): National newspaper, provided by Academic Universe. Offers searchable ASCII text (no images) to abstracts and full-text. Jan. 1, 1969 - May 31, 1980, abstracts; June 1, 1980 through the current issue, full-text
New York Times: The New York Times (Sep 18, 1851 - Dec 31, 2006, full-text) 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.
NewsBank: Full-text access to major U.S. and international newspapers, including the Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, and local Lancaster newspapers. Coverage varies, 5 to 20 years.
Nineteenth Century Masterfile: A reference service covering the Nineteenth Century, providing indexes to major indexing and information sources of that period. Contains full indexing of the New York Times from 1863 to 1905.
OAIster (Open Archive Initiative Collections): Provides access to digital resources using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Digital resources include items such as digitized books and articles, born-digital texts, audio files, images, movies and datasets. These resources, often hidden from search engines. The owners of these resources share them with the world using OAI-PMH.
OED (Oxford English Dictionary): The complete text of the Oxford English Dictionary's twenty-volume Second Edition and three-volume Additions Series, as well as draft material from the current OED project.
OmniFile Full Text Mega: Access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from thousands of sources. Coverage back as early as 1982.
Oxford Art Online: A new gateway into art research and the access point for Oxford art reference publications, including Grove Art Online, with its tens of thousands of subject entries, biographies, bibliographic citations, and images. Oxford Art Online also includes The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online: This multi-language resource offers completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, as well as unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages.
Oxford Music Online: A new gateway that offers users the ability, for the first time ever, to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online, has been completely redesigned with a number of functional enhancements and new content. Oxford Music Online also includes Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music.
Oxford Reference Online: The largest, most up-to-date, authoritative, and accessible reference work in the world. This huge resource contains almost 2 million words and phrases from Oxford's English language and bilingual dictionaries. Individual Oxford titles may be found amongst our Electronic Resources - By Subject pages.
PAIS International: Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) is an index to policy-oriented literature (books, journal articles and U.S. and foreign government documents). International coverage of information about political, economic and social issues and events in specific countries. Covers 1972 to the present.
PAIS Archive: Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) is an index to policy-oriented literature (books, journal articles and U.S. and foreign government documents). International coverage of information about political, economic and social issues and events in specific countries. Covers 1915 to 1976.
PROLA (Physical Review Online Archives): Access the full text of Physical Review Sections A-E , Physical Review Letters and Reviews of Modern Physics. Covers 1893 to the present.
Past Masters: A collection of definitive full-text electronic editions of classical writings in philosophy including published and unpublished original works, articles, essays, and correspondence. Boolean searching provided.
Pennsylvania Gazette: The New York Times of the 18th century, offering social, political and cultural perspectives of the period. Primary source material from Accessible Archives.
Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County (1819-70): Primary source material from 18th and 19th century periodicals, provided by Accessible Archives.
Periodical Abstracts: General and academic journals covering business, current affairs, economics, literature, religion, psychology, women's studies, and others. Covers 1987 to present.
Philadelphia Daily News: Philadelphia newspaper, provided by NewsBank. Covers 1978 to present.
Philadelphia Inquirer: Philadelphia newspaper, provided by NewsBank. Covers 1981 to present.
Philosopher's Index: The comprehensive scholarly database covering book and journals since 1940 in philosophy.
Physical Review Online Archives (PROLA): Access the full text of Physical Review Sections A-E and Physical Review Letters. Covers 1985 through 1996.
Poole's Plus: See Nineteenth Century Masterfile
Population Index: An annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other material on population topics. Covers 1986 to the present. Updated quarterly.
Project Muse: Searchable access to scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, sciences and mathematics.
PsycARTICLES: Contains more than 100,000 searchable full text articles from 57 journals published by the American Psychological Association and 8 from allied organizations. Covers 1894 to the present.
PsycINFO: The APA's index of journals, books, dissertations, and reports on psychology and related fields. Includes indexing from Psychological Abstracts. Covers 1840 to the present.
RCLweb: A resource to find research materials, enhance course curriculum, and aid in collection development. Updated quarterly to provide the latest recommended titles (including Choice) mapped to 58 curriculum-specific subject areas.
RILM Music Abstracts: Over 200,000 citations on international music describing books, articles, and dissertations. Produced by the Repertoire Internationale de Litterature Musicale. Covers 1967 to the present.
Readers' Guide Full Text: Indexes over 200 popular U.S. general interest periodicals. Covers 1983 to the present.
Readers' Guide Retrospective: Comprehensive indexing of 500 of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. The complete database covers the years 1890 through 1982.
Religion Index (ATLA): Comprehensive database in religious and theological scholarship. Includes index citations, journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews from ATLA's print indexes: Religion Index One (RIO), Religion Index Two (RIT), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR). Covers from 1949 to the present.
Request for Library Material: Order library materials online. Link will prompt for your F&M username and password. This service is only available for faculty and professional staff. Any questions regarding online ordering may be directed to our Acquisitions Librarian, Marty Gordon.
Research in Dance Education: see Dance Education Literature and Research Descriptive Index
Roper Center iPoll & RoperExpress: iPoll is a comprehensive database of over 500,000 public opinion questions and answers asked in the US since 1935. RoperExpress offers on demand access to the full datasets required to conduct bivariate and multivariate analyses on archived surveys. Access requires a simple, one-time registration and a valid F&M email address.
SEC Filings and Forms: see EDGAR (SEC Filings and Forms)
SciFinder Scholar (0-2): Provides access a wide diversity of research from many scientific disciplines, including biomedical science, chemistry, engineering, materials science and agricultural science. SciFinder includes references from over 10,000 journals and patents, discoveries from the mid-1800s to present, breakthroughs as they are published, and the world's largest collection of organic and inorganic substance information. Users must register for a username and password. Contact Dale Riordan, Science Librarian for assistance.
Science Full Text, General: Journals and magazines from the U.S. and Great Britain, covering all major scientific fields. Indexing from 1984 to present, abstracting from 1993 to present.
Science Citation Index (Web of Science): Key index to articles from major journals in all areas of science and technology. Use to find other articles citing a specific article (footnotes in reverse). Covers 1965 to the present.
Social Sciences Full Text: Indexes over 300 English-language periodicals covering anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, social work, sociology, and related fields. Includes both Abstracts and Full Text Articles. Covers 1983 to the present.
Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science): Key index to articles from major journals in all areas of the social sciences. Use to find other articles citing a specific article (footnotes in reverse). Covers 1965 to the present.
Sociological Abstracts: Full version comprehensive database of over 1500 journals covering sociology, social work, and other social sciences. Covers 1963 to the present.
Statistical Abstract of the United States: The National Data Book contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. Selected international data are also included. The Abstract is also your Guide to Sources of other data from the Census Bureau, other Federal agencies, and private organizations.�
Statistical Universe & DataSets: A research solutions tool that provides access to more than 5.3 billion data points from licensed and public domain datasets. Users can scan the contents of the collection, select subjects and variable of interest, and view data in side-by-side tables and charts. This resource is completely interactive and results are instantaneous. Each time a user clicks on a new element, the elements that are shown in the display area are updated, and a new table, chart, and/or map appear. When using "Customize Data", please allow time for the data to appear on the screen.
Sunday News (Lancaster): Local newspaper, provided by NewsBank. To search all four Lancaster papers (and other regional titles), choose Local Papers. Covers September 10, 1989 to present. Complete coverage information can be found here.
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers: Provides information on 155,000 companies, 60,000 product & service classification headings, and 124,000 brand names. Access is free but requires individual registration to search. Updated annually.
Ulrichsweb: Begun in 1932, this reference tool contains the latest international bibliographic information on journals, magazines and newspapers. With over 186,100 regularly and irregularly issued serials classified under 897 subject headings, Ulrich's is the most comprehensive directory available worldwide. It also includes more than 39,900 serials available exclusively online or in addition to hard copy and 6,300 serials are indicated as available on CD-ROM. Updated weekly.
Uncover: see IngentaConnect
Value Line Investment Survey (3): A comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the stock market, and the United States economy. Limited to 3 Simultaneous Users.
Vital Statistics on American Politics: Basic statistical information on American government and politics, this resource can serve as a fundamental reference tool for those who wish to stay informed about numerous aspects of American politics. You can view and search across all of our CQ resources here.
Wall Street Journal: Featured in Newspaper Abstracts. Type in your keyword search, then (next line) type Wall Street Journal and select "source." Covers 1982 to the present.
Washington Information Directory: A guide to national organizations and U.S. Government agencies. You can view and search across all of our CQ resources here.
Washington Post: Newspaper, provided by Academic Universe. Covers Jan. 1, 1977 through the current issue.
Web of Science (ISI): The Institute of Scientific Information's premier citation databases in the physical, life, and social sciences. Search for articles that cite a known author or work or by standard search queries. Covers 1965 to the present.
Westlaw, Campus Research: Research service, includes: thousands of news databases arranged geographically and topically; hundreds of newswires as well as business, trade and professional journals and publications; and superior law-related resources, including both primary law and analysis.
Wilson Select Plus: Provides indexed and abstracted records with accompanying full-text periodical articles, many of which are linked to citations in other FirstSearch databases.
Women Writers Online: Features over 350 searchable texts by pre-Victorian women writers .
World Almanac: Includes the contents of the most current editions of the World Almanac and Book of Facts, the World Almanac of the U.S.A., the World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and the World Almanac for Kids.
WorldCat: The OCLC Online Union Catalog. Nearly 60 million records of many types of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries around the world. *NOW* available in limited format as Worldcat.org. Updated daily.
World Bank: see World Development Indicators
World Development Indicators: A data source on the global economy, this resource, published by the World Bank, contains statistical data for over 600 development indicators and time series data from 1960 to the latest compiled for over 200 countries as well as 18 country groups. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators.
XReferPlus: see Credo Reference
Zenon DAI: Provides bibliographical indexing to the holdings of 9 DAI libraries. (See also DYABOLA)

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