Citations and selected full-text for popular newspapers/magazines and scholarly journals in nearly every academic discipline, some dating back as far as 1965.

Full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications.

Full-text and Citations of articles, books, book chapters, maps, videos, etc. acquired by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and cooperating institutions in the agricultural and related sciences providing worldwide coverage from 1970 to the present.

Citations and full-text for 180 publications dating back to 1990 covering complementary and alternative medicine.

Citations to articles, books, book chapters and dissertations published worldwide covering the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Coverage extends back to 1964.

Citations to scholarly scientific conferences and information resources published by the American Chemical Society.

Citations to international art publications, yearbooks and museum bulletins in advertising art, antiques, architecture, computers, fashion, graphics, industrial design, photography, sculpture, television, textiles, and video from 1984 to the present.

Citations to journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture extending forward from 1990.

Citations to international multidisciplinary journals in the arts and humanities and selected relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals back at 1975.

Citations to basic and applied research on all aspects of marine, freshwater, and brackishwater organisms and environments including information on biology and ecology of aquatic organisms, exploitation of living resources, and related legal, policy, and socioeconomic issues. Coverage is from 1998.

Citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life from the sixteenth century to the present.

Comprehensive citations to current and retrospective biographical dictionaries and who's whos indexing individuals, both living and deceased for every field of activity and from all areas of the world.

Citations to international journals focusing on vital biological and medical research findings, clinical studies, including discoveries of new organisms. Some citations back to 1969.

Contains abstracts and full text articles for more than 3,100 popular nonfiction books. Includes general and high interest articles on civics, social studies, science, careers, health, sports, adventure, hobbies, technology, biographies and more.

Citations and excerpts to reviews of current adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction chosen from 95 selected American, British and Canadian periodicals in the humanities, social and general sciences, as well as library review media. Coverage from 1983 to the present.

Complete record of in-print and forthcoming books published and distributed in the United States. (This is NOT the library catalog for USM.)

Citations and selected full-text for scholarly business journals (some back to 1886 or the first issue published for that journal). Contains detailed author profiles for the 20,000 most-cited authors in the database. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.

Citations and selected full-text for scholarly business journals (back to 1886 or the first issue published for that journal). Also included are financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.

Citations to over 23 million documents from more than 9000 journals and 150 countries, covering literature from 1907 to the present. Sources of documents include journals, patents, conference proceedings, dissertations, technical reports, books, and more.

The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) is an acquisition, research, and reference service that offers more than 1,800,000 MARC records and more than 315,000 reviews of children's books--all full text searchable from 37 review sources.

More than 66,000 concise, evaluative reviews of significant scholarly publications -- both in print and electronic form -- in more than 40 disciplines spanning the humanities, science and technology, and social sciences. Coverage from 1988 to the present.

Citations to international theory and research in international affairs (from 1991 onward) including working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. For teachers, it includes original case studies written by leading international affairs experts, course packs of background readings for history and political science classes, and special features like the analysis of a bin Laden recruitment tape with video.

Citations and selected full-text coverage (back to 1982) of journals in nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. Includes access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters.

The Cochrane Library contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It includes reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more. Cochrane reviews bring you the combined results of the world's best medical research studies, and are recognised as the gold standard in evidence-based health care.

Over 9,900 College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover original page format including 2-year, 4-year, graduate, and professional schools. Available on the Emerald computer in Information Services. Ask at Reference Desk for access at USM Gulf Coast.

Citations to articles published in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field. Coverage goes back as far as 1982 for some journals.

Citations to quality research in communication, mass media and other closely-related fields of study encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline.

Citations to 70 communication journals and full-text access to the Electronic Journal of Communication, a peer reviewed quarterly journal of original scholarship in communication. Additionally, an electronic white pages for more than 5,000 professionals and students in the communications field and an index to more than 12,000 communication related web pages at 230 communication web sites.

Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1985.

Computers & Applied Sciences Complete covers the spectrum of the applied sciences, representing knowledge on traditional engineering challenges and providing material for research concerning the business and social implications of new technology. CASC provides indexing and abstracting for academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources. Full Text is available for more than 500 periodicals. Subject areas include the many engineering disciplines, computer theory, and new technologies.

Provides access to more than 25 years of congressional information, including facts and figures on almost any topic of current interest. It covers the full text of congressional working papers and bills, as well as the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, the U.S. Code, and the Congressional Record. Also provides member biographical and committee assignment information, voting records, and financial data.

Abstracts and selected full text covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. Includes Evidence-Based Reports, Encyclopedias & Reference Books, Fact Sheets & Pamphlets, Medical News, Drug & Herb Information, Alternative Sources, Images & Diagrams, and Videos & Animations.

CWI is a multi-disciplinary, full-text database that bribgs together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press -- with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries. CWI contains more than 2,000 unique sources from 250 participating organizations, and is upadated weekly with more than 10,000 records each year. 98% of articles are available as full-text; comprehensive coverage begins in 1992.

Updated daily, COS Funding Opportunities includes more than 16,000 grants from around the world.

The CQ Library provides Web access to two of CQ's premier print publications, the CQ Weekly and The CQ Researcher. The CQ Weekly is known as the pre-eminent resource for Congress-watchers who need nonpartisan information on Capitol Hill. The CQ Weekly on the Web includes access to the full text of all articles published since 1983. CQ Researcher covers the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more.

Credo Reference is a full-text ready reference tool. This database features over 240 reference titles from various publishers, which contain entries from every major subject, as well as multi-dimensional cross references.

Citations to articles in major journals, books, and reports from government and nongovernmental agencies in criminology and related disciplines. Topics include crime trends, prevention projects, corrections, juvenile delinquency, police, courts and sentencing. Coverage is from 1968 forward.

Dissertations & Theses @ is a service for universities whose graduate students actively publish their doctoral dissertations and/or master's theses with ProQuest's UMI Dissertation Publishing. Available to qualifying institutions on the ProQuest platform, Dissertations & Theses @ provides individual universities with access to the citations and abstracts of dissertations and theses their graduate students have published through UMI Dissertation Publishing. In addition to citations and abstracts, the service provides free access to 24 page previews and the full text in PDF format, when available. In most cases, this will be graduate works published in 1997 forward.

From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection now contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in A. W. Pollard and G. R. Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement.

Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.

Collection of article databases covering a wide range of subject disciplines including business, education, health, and newspaper sources.

This Spanish language database, which focuses on business and economics, consists of more than 60,000 bibliographic records. Coverage dates back to the early 1980s and includes over 200 periodicals published in Latin America and Spain.

Consolidation of over 8,000 e-journals from all major publishers, covering practically all disciplines.

Citations to ecological research beginning in 1998 with coverage ranging from habitats to food chains, from erosion to land reclamation.

Citations to international literature on economics (back to 1969) including journal articles, books, dissertations and working papers, conference proceedings, collected essay volumes and full text book reviews.

The eHRAF Collection of Archaeology is a cross-cultural database containing information on prehistory. This unique, annually-growing eHRAF database is organized by archaeological traditions and the full-text documents are subject-indexed to the paragraph level.

Yale's eHRAF (Human Relations Area Files) World Cultures database from is a multi-cultural database that provides users with in-depth information on all aspects of cultural and social life. From the vendor: "eHRAF is unique because each culture or ethnic group contains a variety of source documents (books, articles, and dissertations) that have been indexed and organized according to HRAF's comprehensive culture and subject classification systems: the Outline of World Cultures (OWC), and the Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM). These retrieval systems extend search capability well beyond keyword searching thus allowing for precise culture and subject retrieval, even in a foreign language. The Development and Applications of the HRAF Collections will provide you with an extended overview of these resources. As a multicultural database, eHRAF appeals to many academic disciplines in the social sciences, humanities, medicine, and any other area with an interest in cultural diversity."

Collection of authoritative encyclopedia articles covering all areas of information.

Citations and selected full text for most journals used in the Environmental discipline as well as 80 monographs (such as Encyclopedia of World Environmental History, Advances in Water Treatment & Environmental Management, etc.), and full text for the conference papers of the North American Association of Environmental Education.

Bibliographic citations (back to 1966) to both ERIC Documents (ED) and Educational Journals (EJ). ERIC Documents include books, conference proceedings, curriculum guides, bibliographies and literature reviews, U.S. Dept. of Education reports, Congressional hearings and reports, and more. Most ERIC documents through 2004 are available in the Reading Room of Cook Library on microfiche.

Issues & Controversies @ FACTS.com provides full-text access to articles on hundreds of controversial topics, in addition to a live newsfeed from Reuters® and thousands of in-depth features, images, charts, and primary documents. Other features include "By the Numbers" statistical overviews of major issues, Issues: Pro and Con (a listing that highlights important topics of debate), and a directory of contact organizations. Full-text coverage begins in 1995 and is updated biweekly.

Issues & Controversies in American History @ FACTS.com provides full-text articles on controversial topics, covering 1600 to the present. Features such as biographies, timelines, photographs, and maps augment the curriculum-based coverage of historical events, and give the points of view on all sides of the debates as they were promulgated at the time. Biographies, timelines, background articles, photographs, and maps augment the curriculum-based coverage of historical events. Carefully selected primary documents, linking directly to the factual coverage, give the points of view on all sides of the debates as they were promulgated at the time.

Today's Science @ FACTS.com features overview articles linked to detailed news coverage, illustrations, editorial cartoons, an automatic glossary, Hot Topics, scientist biographies, and curriculum materials targeting multiple grade levels, including correlations to National Science Education standards. Full-text coverage begins in 1992 and is updated weekly.

The Facts on File World News Digest Database @ FACTS.com includes a live Reuters® newsfeed and "Top Stories" timelines linked to original coverage of news stories back to October 1940. Other features include original essays created for the online version, such as Country Profiles, Key People, Key Events, and Key Issues.

Provides over 25,000 informative encyclopedia articles on all subjects.

Provides current directory information about associations (state, regional, national, international), research centers, government advisory groups, special libraries, newsletters, newspapers, broadcasters, american religious groups, publishers, and other databases and directories.

Index to public opinion Gallup polls since 1935. Includes Gallup Poll News Service articles, Gallup Poll Tuesday Briefing articles, and Gallup Management Journal articles that feature in-depth public opinion and management data analyses. Replicas of historical news stories and press releases are available as well.

Abstracts to more than 300 core titles in the fields of horticulture, garden and landscape design and history, botany, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy.

Citations and selected full text coverage for more than 60 of the most popular science publications providing information on all aspects of the scientific world. Full text information dates back to 1992.

International bibliographic citations and extensive abstracts to primary journals, books, monographs, reports and theses in the area of physical and human geography and international development issues from 1990 to the present.

Citations to international literature in geology and geosciences of North America since 1785 and the geology of the rest of the world since 1933. Includes items from special bibliographies produced on request for state surveys or societies, and annual subject and author indexes.

Publications from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)

Broad search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. * Convenient hook-up to Findit! to help searchers locate materials in the USM Libraries.

Government Printing Office "Monthly Catalog" of approximately 50 percent of published government documents. Many administrative documents and reports are excluded, as are items classified for reasons of national security. USM Libraries do not receive all government documents which are produced by the GPO. Please use the library catalog, ANNA, to determine whether the title you are interested in is available from the USM Libraries.

GreenFILE offers information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles include content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact. Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. GreenFILE is multidisciplinary by nature and draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.

Provides citations and full-text to scholarly journals in the medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong. Full text dates as far back as 1975.

American Historical Association's database of citations to World History (not US and Canada) covering the years 1450 to the present. Includes journals, books and dissertations. Over 310,000 entries in 54 languages. Coverage since 1972.

Full text access to more than 1,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, 60 history magazines, 58,000 historical documents, 43,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 12,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.

Citations and selected full-text covering scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. Coverage dates back to 1965.

Human Resources Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to human resources, including human resource management, employee assistance, organizational behavior, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains 60,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline, such as: Journal of Human Resources, Personnel Psychology, and Work & Occupations. EBSCO has digitized the full archive of this index, bringing coverage back to 1975.

Citations and selected full text access to hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Includes data from American Humanities Index and Humanities International Index.

Provides access to 22 society magazines and transactions and over 1700 selected conference proceedings.

Information Science & Technology Abstracts is a leading database in the areas of information science. ISTA indexes journal articles from more than 450 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings and patents, with ongoing comprehensive coverage of the most important periodicals in this field. Coverage dates back to the mid 1960s.

Citations to journals, conference proceedings, technical reports, books, dissertations and reports in the fields of physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computing, information technology, manufacturing and production engineering and related fields (materials science, oceanography, nuclear engineering, geophysics, environmental science, biomedical engineering, and biophysics.)

Citations and abstracts to over 200 of the most respected and widely-read insurance industry journals and magazines, including the Journal of Risk and Insurance, and the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty.

Citations and full-text access to all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text for 100 titles, including Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and many more.

Covers nearly all aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes. The database draws its current content from more than 375 international music periodicals from over 20 countries, and also indexes feature music articles and obituaries appearing in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Coverage begins in 1996.

Abstracts to literature related to personal computing products and developments in business, the Internet, the home, and all other applied areas. Special focus on specific topics such as Macintosh and Windows platforms, programming, web development and more.

Citation index of scholarly journals in the Arts & Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences. Contains the references cited by the authors of the articles covered by the index. You can use these references to do cited reference searching. A cited reference search enables you to find articles that cite a previously published work. In addition to cited reference searching, you can search these databases by topic, author, source title, and address.

Journal Citation Reports is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. It is the only source of citation data on journals, and includes virtually all areas of science, technology, and social sciences. Journal Citation Reports can show you the:

• Most frequently cited journals in a field
• Highest impact journals in a field
• Largest journals in a field

Citation and article counts are important indicators of how frequently current researchers are using individual journals. By tabulating and aggregating citation and article counts, JCR offers a unique perspective for journal evaluation and comparison.

The JSTOR database contains the digitized backfiles of core scholarly journals back to their first issues, some as far back as the 1800's. There are over 4 million digitized pages from over 580 journals, with more titles being added constantly. Multidisciplinary collections cover the arts and sciences. Specialized collections cover business, ecology and botony, general science, language and literature, mathematics and statistics, and music.

Keesing's Online is a monthly digest of worldwide political, diplomatic and economic affairs. Published continuously since 1931, Keesing's is the standard for thorough, objective coverage of significant events for every country as well as the major international organizations.

This searchable database provides you with curriculum information on a variety of subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education. With a growing database of over 7,000 curricula, frameworks, and standards from 1983 through 2006, kcdlonline provides you with a direct link to the curricula you need and contact information on the agencies that issue the curricula. The database contains over 3,000 records with full-text documents.

This database contains full text for nearly 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. The Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.

Full-text sources of business information, including business and financial news, U.S. and international company financial information from government or private sources, market research, industry reports, and actual SEC filings.

Comprehensive full-text resource for Congressional hearings, public issues, legislation, history, and legal research. Contains more than 211 years worth of detailed information about Congress, including member biographies, committee assignments, voting records, financial data, and the full-text of key regulatory and statutory resources.

Provides full-text access to primary source material such as Federal, State and Court of Appeals case law, Federal and State statutes and regulations and secondary source material such as legal news and law reviews. Also includes tax law, patents, European Union law, International case law, and law school directories.

Full-text of national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources.

Citation and selected full-text to articles in English and foreign-language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, books, and library school theses, plus over 300 books per year in the field of Library and Information Science.

Continued ISTA coverage (beginning in 1960) and more. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management, the information industry. LISTA indexes periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings.

Information on thousands of authors and their works. Includes plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, articles of literary criticism, book reviews, 25,000 classic and contemporary poems, 11,000 classic and contemporary short stories, full text of over 7,500 classic novels (anticipated by Fall 2006), 3,000 author interviews, and over 1,000 images of key literary figures. Also includes Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism, The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Literary Encyclopedia, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, all of MagillOnLiterature Plus, and the Bloom Series of over 500 books. To access, select Literary Reference Center from the list given.

Full-text biographical, bibliographical, and critical content information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, short stories, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more.

Citations and some full-text articles, reports and special issues from 300 of the most wanted K-12 magazines; Essential Documents of American History (a database of over 1,000 original historical); the CIA World Factbook; Department of Education's College Guide; full text for 14 Macmillan Books; full-text for 500 pamphlets; and full text for nearly 5,000 Magill Book Reviews.

Citations and full text of general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. Full text is available as far back as 1975 for several key publications.

MathSciNet is an electronic publication offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. Over 80,000 new items are added each year, most of them classified according to the Mathematics Subject Classification.

Citations to articles from more than 4800 journals in the biomedical field including medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Coverage extends back to at least 1985.

Comprehensive guide to over 2,000 English language, commercially available contemporary testing instruments in psychology, education, business, and leadership. Entries contain test purpose, publisher, pricing and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts. Provides coverage from Volume 9 to the present of the print version.

Full-text for 140 popular, middle school magazines (assigned a reading level indicator - Lexiles), thousands of biographies, historical essays and student pamphlets. Additionally, includes Essential Documents in American History, Our States reference series, Funk & Wagnall's Encyclopedia, American Heritage Dictionary, the Encyclopedia of Animals, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.

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.

Citations to journal articles, books and dissertations in the areas of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Also included are recently added listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature. Coverage back to 1963.

Morningstar.com Library Edition data reports cover more than 20,000 securities.

Full-text access to quality peer-reviewed journals in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

Now in EBSCOHost - Indexes articles on classical and popular music found in over 725 periodicals from over 40 countries and in 23 languages. Coverage includes feature articles, news notes, obituaries, performance notes, and reviews of books, recordings, and published music from 1979 to the present.

Detailed information on more than 180 different conditions and the conventional and natural treatments used to treat them, over 200 herbs and supplements, plus drug-herb and drug-supplement interactions for more than 75 drug categories. To access, select Natural & Alternative Treatments from the list given.

The complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues of over 130,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Whilst listening, you can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database.

Online collection of electronic books (also catalog in ANNA), representing a wide range of research, reference, and reading materials. The collection includes over 27,000 book titles.

Full-text news resource 500 US and Canadian newspapers, news sources and domestic and international newswires. Coverage extends back to 1991, and includes a collection of maps. NewsBank NewsFile Collection also includes three Mississippi newspapers: Clarion-Ledger (Jackson), Hattiesburg American, and Sun Herald (Biloxi).

Selected full text for 114 major U.S. and international newspapers. International coverage includes The News (Mexico), and The Hong Kong Standard. Coverage varies but many extend back to 1995.

WTT - Professional Edition, a Web version of the TRC Thermodynamic Tables, represents a complete collection of critically evaluated thermodynamic property data primarily for pure organic compounds. References to experimental data sources and information and methodology related to the evaluations can be found in complementary hard-copy publications: TRC Thermodynamic Tables - Hydrocarbons. Ed. M. Frenkel, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, Standard Reference Data Program, Publication Series NSRDS-NIST-75 (1942-2007), Gaithersburg, MD. TRC Thermodynamic Tables - Non-Hydrocarbons. Ed. M. Frenkel, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, Standard Reference Data Program, Publication Series NSRDS-NIST-74 (1955-2007), Gaithersburg, MD.

Searchable database of book reviews and book annotations of fictional literature. It is a good source for a variety of booklists for all ages. Also includes Reader's Advisory, Book Discussion Guides, New Author Read-alikes, and BookTalks.

Index to worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment. Includes marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics. Coverage is from 1998 forward.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. It provides access to viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

USM Libraries have selected titles in the Opposing Viewpoints Series. Do a SERIES search in the Anna library catalog to find out which titles are available on the library's shelves.

Provides the history and development of English words during the last 800 years and uses quotations from the works of some 5,000 authors as illustrations.

Oxford Music Online is 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.

For more in-depth information about the editorial changes behind the Grove relaunch, please visit the Grove Music Online page.

Oxford Music Online also features Colin Larkin's landmark Encyclopedia of Popular Music — online for the first time by popular demand. The most comprehensive reference work devoted exclusively to popular music, the Encyclopedia is the authoritative biographical encyclopedia of rock, pop, and jazz artists, covering popular music from 1900 to the present. It is exhaustive, meticulous, authoritative — and incredibly fun to read.

In early 2009, Richard Taruskin's The Oxford History of Western Music will be offered through Oxford Music Online for a one-time purchase fee. This outstanding resource sets the details of music, the chronological sweep of figures, works, and musical ideas, within the larger context of world affairs and cultural history.

Oxford Music Online has been created with the latest in online technology to give users a robust and unique research experience. Search and browse capabilities allow users to refine their results by source, and specific era or subject category. Users can also choose to view biographies, subject entries, or images when searching or browsing. Advanced search capabilities, including biography and bibliography searching, provide users with powerful tools for content navigation. Product-specific timelines and topical guides provide users with pathways into the content. Context-sensitive Help pages are available throughout the site to guide users through the features and functionality. Oxford Music Online will offer the most extensive and easily searchable online music resource available, a virtual music library of unparalleled scope and depth.

Read more about titles in Oxford Music Online

• Grove Music Online
• Encyclopedia of Popular Music
• The Oxford Companion to Music
• The Oxford Dictionary of Music

The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and over 400 journals of philosophy and related inter- disciplinary fields. The Philosopher's Index database is produced by the Philosopher's Information Center and corresponds to the print publication "The Philosopher's Index." It is a major source of information in the areas of aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics; it is also a rich source of material on the philosophy of various disciplines, such as education, history, law, religion, and science. Coverage is from 1940 to the present.

19th Century Masterfile (NCM) is a collection of more than 60 indexes to periodicals, books, newspapers, patents, and US/UK Government Documents printed prior to 1925.

Citations and full-text for popular, elementary school magazines (all full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator - Lexiles) and student pamphlets. Also includes the American Heritage Children's Dictionary and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. Full-text backfiles go as far back as 1989, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as 1984.

Designed for professional educators, this database provides citations and full-text coverage of a select group of education journals and reports. Full text information in the Professional Development Collection dates as far back as 1965.

Full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in general and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research psychology. The database contains articles from 59 journals - 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. Coverage spans 1984 to present.

Full text publications covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO.

Citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines (medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law), dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Coverage spans 1887 to present and includes international material selected from more than 2,100 periodicals in more than 25 languages.

Provides comprehensive full text for regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). Regional Business News has full text for more than 60 sources.

Full-text coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.

Provides comprehensive tax research information including federal editorial materials, state and local tax information, estate planning materials, IRS rulings and releases, federal court decisions, and pending and enacted tax legislation.

Provides access to over 200,000 citations on international music corresponding to the printed RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. This file is produced by the Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale. Coverage is from 1969 to the present with monthly updates.

Now in EBSCOHost - Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals 1800-1950 (RIPM) focuses on nineteenth-century music and musical life. It includes access to nineteenth-century periodicals of international significance from 15 countries, contemporary writings about composers, performers, compositions, and an immense bibliography of music.

Sabin Americana (American History and Culture Online: The Sabin Collection, 1500-1926)- full-text published pamphlets, tracts, memoirs, congressional legislation, correspondence, broadsides, biographies, histories, fiction and poetry, eulogies, sermons and innumerable other genres of materials representing the American and European views of the colonization of the Americas, the American Revolution, the days of the early Republic and Jacksonian period, the antebellum period, Civil War, era of Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction, the settlement of