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ABI/Inform Global

Provides citations to articles (some full text and Adobe Acrobat PDF) on business, international business, marketing, management, finance and related areas.
1970 to present |

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Academic Search Complete

Find articles in all subject areas in over 9000 journals, with full text for about 5300. Updated daily.
Dates vary, some as early as 1865 to present |

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AGRICOLA

Search for journal articles and books in botany, plant science, and agriculture.
1979 to present |

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Alt HealthWatch

Lists articles on non-traditional medical theories and therapies, such as complementary, holistic and integrated approaches.
1990 to present |

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America: History and Life

Citations to articles, books, and dissertations on U.S. and Canada from prehistory to the present.
1964 to present |

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American Chemical Society journals

Searchable full text of most ACS journals.
Note: downloading large amounts of material will result in loss of use for this product for the entire university.Varies; current plus four years plus back issues |

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Annual Reviews

Full text of outstanding review articles in the sciences and social sciences.
1996 to present |

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Art Abstracts

Locate information on visual arts and crafts, photography, archaeology, architecture, art history, and related areas in magazines and journals.
September 1984 to present |

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ARTstor

A digital library of art images, associated information, and software tools with approximately 300,000 images of art, architecture and archaeology with initial strengths in European, American and Asian cultures.
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ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials (ATLAS)

Find scholarly and non-scholarly journal and magazine articles on religion.
1949 to present |

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Bayou State Periodical Index

Covers popular magazines about Louisiana in all subject areas.
1985 to 2006 |

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Biography Resource Center

Locate full-text biographies from reference books, citations to magazine and journal articles, and selected web sites.
Dates vary |

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BioOne1 (direct)
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Provides the full text of high impact, peer-reviewed English-language bioscience journals and bulletins published by societies and non-commercial publishers.
2000 to present |

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BIOSIS

Search international biological science journals.
1984 to present |

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Book Collection: Nonfiction

Full text of over 3500 nonfiction books aimed at school and public library users.
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Book Index with Reviews

Locate information on, or browse descriptions of in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books.
Current information only |

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Britannica Online

Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. English language. May use British spelling.
Current information |

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Business Source Complete

Find articles about business in magazines, newspapers and journals, author profiles, and country economic reports.
Varies, some as early as 1886 to present |

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Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA)

Provides citations and abstracts of journal articles, papers, proceedings, reports, and other scholarly information in: BioOne, Criminal Justice Abstracts, and Philosophers Index.
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Catholic Periodical and Literature Index

Citations to articles published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers.
1988 to present |

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Catalog of U.S. Government Publications

Search and retrieval service that links to Federal agency online resources or identifies government publications distributed to Federal Depository Libraries. As some government documents are printed in various languages, some non-English language materials may be represented in the catalog.
1994 to present |

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Choice Reviews Online

Reviews of academic books, electronic resources and Internet sites. Also subject essays with recommended books.
1987 to present |

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CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)

Provides articles, conference proceedings, policy briefs, and books on international relations, mostly 1990s to present.
Dates vary, mostly 1990s |

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CINAHL Plus with Full Text

Provides citations to most English-language nursing journals, publications from the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing, and journals from allied health disciplines. Also covers consumer health, health sciences librarianship, chiropractic, and health services administration literature.
1982 to present |

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Classical Music Library

Online streaming primarily classical music. Browse or search by composer, artist, instrument, category, etc.
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CollegeSource Online

20,840 college catalogs in cover-to-cover, original page format, plus career, counseling, and financial aid resources. Includes international schools, sometimes with no English translation.
1995 to present |

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Columbia Earthscape

An interdisciplinary resource on earth and environmental sciences and their economic, political, social, and public policy dimensions.
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ComAbstracts

Abstracts of English-language articles published in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field.
Dates vary, mostly mid-1980s to present |
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ComIndex
Available only on one computer in the Reference area. Ask a librarian for help or more information.
Dates vary |

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Communication & Mass Media Complete

Merged CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). Mostly magazines and journals with some encyclopedia and handbook entries.
Dates vary, includes current publications |

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Computer Science Index

Search professional magazines, scholarly journals, and some books in computer science.
Mid 1960s to present |

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Computer Source

Search popular and scholarly journals in fields such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software.
Varies, some as far back as 1985 to present |

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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. English-language.
1991 to present |

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Criminal Justice Abstracts

Provides coverage of major English-language criminology journals and books, and reports from government and nongovernmental agencies. A summary of the findings, methodology, and conclusions is provided.
1968 to present |

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Criminal Justice Periodicals

Periodical literature for criminal justice from 1986 to present.
1986 to present |

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Digital Sanborn Maps

Images of street maps from selected Louisiana cities.
1867 to 1970 |

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Dissertation Abstracts Online

Citations to all U.S. doctoral dissertations and some masters theses on all topics from 1861 to present. Abstracts can be found for dissertations since 1980. Note: on July 21, 2007 this will change names to ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
1861 to present |

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Diotima
This free web-based database provides access to a variety of materials on the study of women and gender in the ancient world.
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Duke University Press Journals Online

Browse among 29 electronic journals in the humanities and social sciences from Duke University Press.
2000 to present |

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Earthscape -- see Columbia Earthscape.
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EBSCOhost databases

A collection of databases in many different subject areas with much full-text.
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EBSCO Animals

Brief essays on animals, with indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Citations include taxonomic classification, geographic distribution, and a link to search family. Within some of the full text, image links are available for Windows computers. Images are accessed by double-clicking any image graphic.
2003 |

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Economia y Negocios

Spanish-language database of business and economics journals.
1980s to present |

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Electronic Journal Service (EBSCO)

Provides full-text electronic articles (some full-text & full-content, eg. Adobe Acrobat PDF) on humanities, science, and social science for the past few years.
Dates vary |

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EconLit

Journals, books, and working papers on economics. Some non-English material.
1969 to present |

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Environment Index

Locate articles on environmental issues and policy in over 1000 international journals.
Varies, 1950s to present |

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ERIC
Dissertations, theses, articles and other documents about education. Some non-English material.
1966 to present |

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Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
A searchable index of journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. Books written by a single author are not indexed in MFI; for these, check library catalogs that have strong collections in medieval studies.
1992 to present |

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Fuente Academica

Spanish-language scholarly articles from 200 Latin America and Spainish journals.
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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

A general-interest encyclopedia with over 25,000 articles on all subjects, some biographical information.
Updated annually |

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GeoRef

Note: We have changed companies for GeoRef. Find scholarly articles, meeting papers, maps, theses, dissertations and books in geoscience; some non-English-language material.
Covers North America since 1785; other areas of the world since 1933 |

- Grove Art is now Oxford Art
- Grove Music is now Oxford Music
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Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

Reference data for chemistry, physics and other sciences. From latest print edition.
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HAPI Online

Hispanic American Periodicals Index online, with citations to journal articles, book reviews, documents, covering the politics, history, economics, society, arts and literature of Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States; also searchable in Spanish and Portuguese; some non-English-language material.
1970 to present |

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HarpWeek

Browsable and searchable full text and images of the magazine Harper's Weekly.
1857 to 1877 |

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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

Find articles on nursing, nutrition, and other medical topics in almost 850 magazines and journals, with full text for nearly 600. Also a database of all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs Updated daily.
Dates vary, some as far back as 1975 to present |

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HeinOnline

Browse and search for articles in law reviews, criminal justice periodicals, the Federal Register, federal legislative history, presidential publications, US statutes, and Supreme Court decisions. (Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.)
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History Reference Center

Articles on history from over 1000 reference books, encyclopedias and other books, 60 history magazines, 58,000 historical documents, 43,000 biographies, and 12,000 historical photographs and maps.
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Hoover’s Company Records

Provides brief private and publicly-held company profiles with short financial info and top competitors.
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Hospitality & Tourism Index

Industry and scholarly articles on the tourism and hospitality industries from more than 500 journals and magazines.
Varies, some as far back as 1950 to present |

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ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)

Provides data sets and their code books for political and social science research. Raw data only; you must know SPSS or other statistics software to use.
Dates vary | Numeric data and code books
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In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives

Locate letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials mostly free on the Web.
Primarily 19th and 20th century |

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Index to Legal Periodicals & Books

Articles on law from law journals and reviews and other sources.
Indexing 1981 to present, full text access to some items published after 1995 |

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Information Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA)

Covers more than 450 information science journals, books, research reports and other publications.
Varies, some as far back as 1960 to present |

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International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text (IIMP FT)

Indexes more than 370 international music periodicals from over 20 countries. IIMP also includes retrospective coverage from over 185 periodicals dating back as far as 1874. IIMP covers nearly all aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes. Includes indexing to non-English language publications.
1874 to present |

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International Political Science Abstracts

Search for articles in leading international political science journals.
1989 to present |

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Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts

Indexes magazines and journals on the internet and personal computing in the home and business.
Varies, 1980s to present |

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Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Citations for books, journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues) pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
Journals from 1842 to present, book essays 1993 to present |

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JSTOR

A large collection of full-text scholarly articles in many subject areas. We receive the Arts & Sciences I and II, Biological Sciences, Ecology & Botany, Health & General Sciences, Language & Literature, and Music Collections.
beginning of each journal to 3, 4 or 5 years ago |

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Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan

Articles on all aspects of Japan, from the print encyclopedia of the same name.
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Learning Express Library

Practice tests and ebooks for improving performance on academic and professional tests. Includes practice exams for GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, and TOEFL. Also mathematics, reading, and other skill improvement tutorials. Requires registration.
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Legal Collection

Search for articles in scholarly law journals.
Varies, as far back as 1965 to present |

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LexisNexis Academic

A large database that provides access to full-text articles and documents that span a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. Includes some non-English titles.
Coverage generally begins in the mid-1980s |

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Library, Information Science, and Technology Abstracts (LISTA) Full Text

Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, search engines, printed and electronic information sources, the information industry, scholarly communication, and electronic publishing. LISTA indexes journal articles from more than 600 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings.
1966 to present |

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Literary Reference Center

Research authors of literature and their works in scholarly journals, books, and encyclopedias. Includes literary criticism, plot summaries, author biographies, book reviews, full text poems, short stories, and classic novels.
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Literature Resource Center

Full text and citations to magazine and journal articles on authors, literature, literary movements, etc.
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The Los Angeles Times

Searchable full text of the daily newspaper.
1985 to present |

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MAS Ultra (School edition)

Searchable full text of about 500 high school level magazines and journals, pamphlets and reference books. Includes images like maps and flags.
Dates vary, 1975 to present for some titles |

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MathSciNet

Provides bibliographical access to the world's mathematical literature. Includes some non-English language material.
1940 to present |

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MedicLatina

Over 100 Spanish-language medical journals.
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MEDLINE
Contains bibliographic information covering anatomy, diseases, chemicals and drugs, psychiatry and psychology, biological sciences, physical sciences, social sciences, and health care. MEDLINE contains all records published in Index Medicus and corresponds in part to the International Nursing Index. Includes some non-English language material.
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EBSCO MEDLINE

1966 to present |

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PubMed

PubMed is a free public service of the National Library of Medicine.
1966 to present |

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Medline journal abbreviation decoder (a Medline tool)
Medline/PubMed displays journal names in an abbreviated form. Search the abbreviation on this page to find the complete journal title.
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Mental Measurements Yearbook

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. This contains data from 1989 to present, beginning with Yearbook 9. For each test, the database provides the name of the test author, publication information, scoring information, and the number of the Mental Measurements Yearbook in which the test was described originally. The full text for each record includes an overview of the test, a description of the test materials and time needed, and one or more reviews of the test. Note: text of the actual test is not provided.
1989 to present |

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Merck Index
Library purchase in memory of Dr. Anthony DiMaggio, professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry.
Chemical encyclopedia with brief entries on thousands of chemical substances including physical properties.
Current information |

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Mergent Online

Text and financial data on U.S. and international publicly-held companies, also country profiles; search by company name or ticker symbol. Note: We can only have three users on at a time; please click Log Out when you are finished (upper right corner).
Current information |

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Military & Government Online

Search for full text articles in about 300 magazines and journals and 245 pamphlets about the government and military.
Dates vary, most mid 1990s to present |

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MLA International Bibliography

The MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association of America, consists of bibliographic records with abstracts related to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. The MLA International Bibliography provides access to scholarly research in nearly 4,000 journals and series. It also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats. Includes some non-English language material.
1926 to present |

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MRI+
(MediaMark online)MRI+ is the online version of MediaMark Reports, the business demographic information service. Note: You must create an account using your Loyola e-mail and any password before using. Upper and lower case are different, so please remember which you use. Works with Microsoft Internet Explorer v.5 and above and Netscape Navigator v.6 and above.
1963 to present |

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Music-in-Print

An online source for locating specific works of individual composers. This online version of the Music-In-Print volumes on Sacred Choral, Classical Vocal, Orchestral, String, Classical Guitar, Woodwind, and Piano Music In Print. Includes non-English language material.
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Music Index Online

Online index to over 700 music magazines and journals covering classical and popular music.
1979 to present |

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National Criminal Justice Reference System
(NCJRS)Contains summaries of 170,000 publications including Federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Subject areas include corrections, courts, crime prevention, criminology, drugs and crime, juveniles, law enforcement, statistics, technology, and victims of crime. Agency produced documents and final grant reports of Office of Justice Programs sponsored research are unique parts of the collection. Many documents are from State and local government or international sources as well as from the book and journal literature. Documents must either be written in English or have an English-language summary.
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Nature

Search and browse for articles in this scientific journal from its beginning to the present day.
1869 to present |

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Naxos Music Library

Search for, browse among and listen to classical, jazz and other musical recordings.
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netLibrary

A collection of online full-text eBooks (electronic versions of printed books) purchased by the Monroe Library. Before you can use netLibrary eBooks you will need to create an account with a username and password that will serve as your "virtual library card". Only current students, faculty, and staff of Loyola University may access our eBook collection. You can access eBooks from home or from on campus but you must create your account from a computer on campus.
Dates vary |

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New Catholic Encyclopedia

The full text of the 15-volume 2003 New Catholic Encyclopedia, with articles on theology, philosophy, history, literary figures, saints, musicians and much more.
2003 |

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The [New Orleans] Times-Picayune

Searchable full text of the daily newspaper.
1992 to present |

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The New York Times

Searchable full text of the daily newspaper.
1980 to present |

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The New York Times (Historical)

Article and page images of every issue of the New York Times newspaper from 1851 through 2004.
1851 to 2004 |

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Newspaper Source

Selected full text of 30 national and international newspapers, over 200 regional U.S. papers, and television and radio news transcripts, updated daily. Does not include the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
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OCLC WorldCat

Catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide. All material cataloged by OCLC member libraries including: books manuscripts computer data files maps computer programs, musical scores films and slides newspapers journals sound recordings magazines videotapes (Does not include book chapters or individual articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers.) Over 48,000,000 records added since 1971. Includes non-English language material.
Before 1000 BC to present |

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Oxford Art Online

Visual art encyclopedia online with over 45,000 articles includes bibliographies and links to many images. Also includes the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Oxford Companion to Western Art Formerly Grove Art Online.
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Oxford English Dictionary
(OED)The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
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Oxford Language Dictionaries Online

Bilingual dictionaries for English to and from Chinese, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Includes audio pronunciation from native speakers. Also usage examples and phrases, grammar, verb tables, pronunciation charts, spelling and punctuation assistance. Additionally, there are correspondence templates with sample letters CVs and resumes, notes in life and culture and idiomatic usage. (Russian, Japanese, and Polish will be added in the future.)
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Oxford Music Online

Music encyclopedia with the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (over 29,000 articles), the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, and the Oxford Companion of Music. Formerly Grove Music Online.
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Oxford Reference Online Premium

Search for entries in many Oxford University Press dictionaries and other reference books, including foreign language dictionaries.
Dates vary |

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Philosopher's Index

Provides citations and abstracts to articles and books on philosophy and related fields. Includes some non-English language material.
1940 to present |

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Pollstar
News, columns, charts, boxoffice, tour & concert bookings, and more information on the music industry. Login by reference librarian required. Please come to the front desk for assistance with electronic version, or find the print version in music current periodicals section on the library first floor.
Varies, archives from 2000 |

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Professional Development Collection

Nearly 550 professional education journals and many reports.
Varies, some as early as 1965 |

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Pre-CINAHL

Now part of CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes the newest articles before they go into CINAHL. They have limited bibliographic information; there is no true subject searching, only by title words.
Dates vary, mostly recent one or two months |

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Primary Search

Searchable full text from more than 60 magazines for elementary-school-aged children with articles listed without text for another 30 titles. Also includes pamphlets and some reference.
Dates vary, 1990s to present |

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Project MUSE
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Provides full text articles of scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences, including literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, education, political science and gender studies. Coverage dates vary by journal title.
1993 to present |

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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

Citations to all U.S. doctoral dissertations and some masters theses on all topics from 1861 to present. Abstracts can be found for dissertations since 1980. (Formerly called Dissertation Abstracts International.)
1861 to present |

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ProQuest Religion

Search magazines and scholarly journals on religion. (Formerly called Religious Periodicals.)
1986 to present |

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PsycARTICLES

Full text articles in psychology. PsycARTICLES includes more than 39,000 full-text articles from 53 journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations. All journals included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO.
1985 to present |

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PsycINFO

Provides citations and abstracts to articles, book chapters and books on subjects relating to psychology. Also provides citations to dissertations in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law. Includes some non-English language material.
1887 to present for articles; 1987 to present for books |

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Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

Search almost 575 professional psychology journals, most peer-reviewed. Nearly all full text is also included in PsycINFO.
Varies, some as early as 1965 |

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PubMed with Get it!
(Medline)PubMed, a free service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations and additional life science journals. The categories covered in the database include anatomy, organisms, diseases, chemicals and drugs, techniques and equipment, psychiatry and psychology, biological sciences, physical sciences, social sciences, health care and more. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE contains all records published in Index Medicus and corresponds in part to the printed International Nursing Index with significant material from Index to Dental Literature. Includes some non-English language material. Note: PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
1966 to present |

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Medline journal abbreviation decoder (a Medline tool)
Medline/PubMed displays journal names in an abbreviated form. Search the abbreviation on this page to find the complete journal title.
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Readers Guide Retrospective

Explore articles in the popular press (not scholarly journals), reflecting 20th century American culture, society, science, and politics.
1890 to 1982 |

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RefWorks

A web-based citation manager, keeps track of your book, chapter, journal and magazine article and other citations to help write foot and end notes. For off-campus access to RefWorks, call the Reference Desk for the required Group Code.
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Regional Business News

Full text articles from 75 business publications from around the country. Includes New Orleans CityBusiness. Updated daily.
Dates vary, mostly mid-1990s to present |

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Religion and Philosophy Collection