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PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) is an index to periodicals, books, and international, federal and state documents published since 1915. Subjects covered include economics, the media, health conditions, banking and business, politics, law and ethics, social issues, and public administration.  How to Search This Database
An excellent starting point for students and scholars of British life and world affairs in the nineteenth century, this database indexes the Times of London from 1790 to 1905. It also provides the full text of this newspaper from 1800 to 1870.  It is especially useful for researchers in the fields of history, politics, economics, business, the arts, and genealogy. For a step-by-step demonstration.  How to Search This Database
PAPERSFIRST (index to conference papers) covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by the British Library from 1993 to the present. Extensive Help pages are available for basic, advanced and expert searches. PapersFirst is updated twice a month.
Originally published by Columbia University as a 17 volume printed set, The Papers of Alexander Hamilton are now available in online form.  The letters and other papers included span three decades and cover the years 1768 – 1794.  The database can be searched by keyword, personal name, state, and date range.  A Cumulative Index is available.
A landmark in historical scholarship, The Papers of George Washington encompasses five separate series and the complete diaries. This digital edition offers the complete Papers released through 2009 in one online publication. Researchers may search the full text and by date, author, or recipient across all volumes and series.

Documents the life and work of one of the most important political and constitutional thinkers in our nation’s history. As chief author of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, secretary of state during the Louisiana Purchase, and the fourth president of the United States, James Madison (1751-1836) played a central role in the American founding and the growth of the early Republic. Users may browse documents categorized by the role Madison played in American politics (Congressman, Secretary of State, President), or they may search documents by keyword or date. The collection spans the 1750s to the 1820s.
Since 1950, the writings of the "author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, [and] father of the University of Virginia" have been compiled in the ongoing project, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. This database brings together all thirty-six volumes published through 2009 into one searchable online resource. In addition, it includes the first four volumes of the Retirement Series which documents the time between Jefferson’s return to private life and his death in 1826.
Past Masters series encompasses large collection of full-text electronic editions in the history of political thought and theory, education, religious studies, economics, classics, history and philosophy of science, germanic studies and sociology.
Includes information about all US patents (including utility, design, reissue, plant patents and SIR documents) from the first patent issued in 1790 to the most recent issue week. Full-text information, including the inventor's name, patent title and description, are provided for patents from 1976 to the present online. Pre-1976 information is searchable only by patent number and classification. More extensive information on patents from 1967 - 1975 available in the print title Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office - Patents (located in U.S. Government Documents - 2nd Floor, Call No. C 21.5:). Electronic database updated weekly. Provided by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. User's Web browser must be able to display TIFF images (more about system requirements).  How to Search This Database
Published in Philadelphia from 1728 through 1800, The Pennsylvania Gazette is considered The New York Times of the 18th century. It provides a first hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of each of the periods. Thousands of articles, editorials, letters, news items and advertisements cover the Western Hemisphere, from the Canadian Maritime Provinces, through the West Indies and North and South America, giving a detailed glimpse of issues and lifestyles of the times. Also included is the full-text of such important writings such as: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Letters from a Farmer, Thomas Payne`s Common Sense, The Federalist Papers, etc.  How to Search This Database
Searches the following databases simultaneously: Academic Search CompleteProvided by TexShare,  Art Abstracts,   Art Index Retrospective: 1929 - 1984,   Communication & Mass Media Complete,   Essay & General Literature Index,   Humanities Abstracts,   Humanities International Index.  How to Search This Database
Periodicals Archive Online database is the new name of PCI Full Text---an archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Researchers can access over 200 years of scholarship on a wide variety of subjects.  How to Search This Database
PIO indexes hundreds of humanities, science, and social science journals from different countries in several languages. Many full-text articles are included. Coverage for some journals begins in the 17th century. Especially useful for scholarly book reviews.  How to Search This Database
An international index with abstracts to books and scholarly journals of philosophy and related fields written after 1939.  It covers ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, logic, and metaphysics, as well as material on the philosophy of disciplines such as law, religion, science, history, and education. It is the most important database for philosophy.  How to Search This Database
Searches the following databases simultaneously: Academic Search CompleteProvided by TexShare,   Essay & General Literature Index,   Humanities Abstracts,   Humanities International Index,   Religion and Philosophy CollectionProvided by TexShare,   America: History & Life,   Historical Abstracts,   How to Search This Database
Physical Education Index (1970-) covers a broad collection of materials including, but not restricted to, peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents and popular press. Subject coverage includes kinesiology, coaching, sports law, sports equipment, business and marketing, sports psychology, patents, health education and physical therapy as well as other sports-related topics.  How to Search This Database
Searches the following databases simultaneously: Academic Search CompleteProvided by TexShare,   INSPEC(engineering, computer science, physics),   General Science Abstracts,   and Science & Technology CollectionProvided by TexShare.   How to Search This Database
The PILOTS bibliographic database, covering the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and to offer both current and retrospective coverage.
Play Index

Indexes more than 30,000 plays written from antiquity to present and published from 1949 to present. The plays include mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, Broadway plays, radio and television plays, and classic drama. Users can search for plays by title; author; subject (sisters, culture conflict, marriage); style (symbolism, experimental theater); genre (comedy, melodrama, musical); cast type; and more.  Play Index provides the full publication details needed to locate a particular play. How to Search This Database
Political Handbook of the World provides information on the major aspects of each country's government and political party system. Each country profiles include: key facts; government and political history; current Issues: political parties and organizations; legislatures and cabinets; communications.  How to Search This Database
Political Science (ProQuest)- Abstracts only ProQuest's Political Science Abstracts contains over 6 million records and 700,000 full-text articles from nearly 700 leading journals. It is useful for doing research on political science topics, but also for related disciplines such as international relations, public administration, economics, foreign policy, legislative studies, and ethnic and area studies. The database also contains indexing for related dissertations, government documents, conference reports, publications of international agencies, and other grey literature.
An index of books, articles, working papers, and other material on population topics. Population Index begins in 1986 and stops in 2000.  How to Search This Database
Searches one or all of the EBSCO databases simultaneously.  How to Search This Database
A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to searchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing.  How to Search This Database
Presidential Recordings of Lyndon Johnson Digital Edition The presidential recordings of Lyndon B. Johnson contain nearly 400 phone conversations, beginning in July 1964 and ending in July 1965. When completed, this collection will span Johnson's entire presidency. Each conversation is presented with its transcription and corresponding audio file. In addition to introductory essays providing historical context, the editors have prepared extensive annotations for each conversation.
Primary Search provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates back to 1993.  How to Search This Database
Indexes citations of every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library. Covers 1993 to the present.
Indexes and abstracts more than 700 journals. The collection includes full-text for nearly 550 education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. The majority of full text titles included in the database are available in PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in the Professional Development Collection dates as far back as 1965.  How to Search This Database
Provides full-text access to more than 300 scholarly journals in arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics. Coverage is from 1993 to the present. A list of titles indexed is available under "journals". Searching can be done within all journals, a selection of journals or just one journal. Searching is simple, with help pages for basic and advanced searches.  How to Search This Database
ProQuest Congressional Provides access to the publications of the United States Congress from 1970 to the present including Congressional committee hearings and reports, the Congressional Record, the United States Code, the Code of Federal Regulations and the Federal Register, bill texts, and legislative histories for Public Laws. Online full-text availability for these documents covers 1989 to the present. For publications running from 1970 to 1988, ProQuest Congressional provides indexing with abstracts. This indexing provides access to McDermott Library’s U.S. Serial Set collection on microfilm. For access to publications produced by the U.S. Congress before 1970, consult the printed CIS Index on reference index aisle 1A on the 2nd floor of McDermott Library.  How to Search This Database
ProQuest Statistical Insight ProQuest Statistical Insight is a full-text database containing thousands of statistical charts and tables derived from federal and state government agencies, international bodies, and private organizations. ProQuest Statistical Insight's content is quite broad and includes demographic data as well as data about crime, economics, health, education, labor, and the environment. Older paper copies of these indexes (American Statistical Index, the Index to International Statistics, and the Statistical Reference Index) are available on microfiche for 1974-2000 in the Microform Index Area.  How to Search This Database
ProQuest Statistical Datasets Resource for building statistical tables from over 100 licensed and public domain datasets. "ProQuest Statistical Datasets is a Web-based research solutions tool that provides fast and easy access to 1.5 billion data points from licensed and public domain datasets within an easy-to-use interface. With this dynamic new tool, you can scan the contents of over 530 datasets, select subjects and variables of interest, and view your data in side-by-side tables and charts."   How to Search This Database
The PsycArticles database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. This database contains more than 100,000 searchable full text articles from 48 journals published by the American Psychological Association and 11 from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 59 journals. Coverage spans from 1894 to the present.  How to Search This Database
PsycINFO is the premier online index for researching psychological literature, including related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. PsycInfo indexes over 2,100 psychology journals, including book chapters, books and dissertations. The index starts in 1806 (1887 for journals) and is updated weekly. This version of PsycInfo includes links to electronic journals.  How to Search This Database
Comprehensive database providing nearly 575 full text publications, including 550 peer-reviewed journals. It covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1965. Updated daily.  How to Search This Database
PsycTESTS® Produced by the American Psychological Association (APA),PsycTESTS® is a one-of-a-kind database providing descriptive summaries, full text (if available), and relevant citations on the development and assessment of tests and measures that can be used in research and teaching. This repository includes unpublished tests, tests developed by psychologists for which no source documentation is available, and information about commercially published tests. Information on each test includes: data on the scope of the test, test implementation, a high-level overview of the test’s development, and reliability and validity data (when available). Coverage begins in 1910 and the database is updated monthly.
Searches all of these databases simultaneously: Academic Search CompleteProvided by TexShare,   Econlit,   Military & Government CollectionProvided by TexShare,   Social Sciences Abstracts.  How to Search This Database

Available on Mobile McDermott Mobile McDermott		 PubMed, developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine, provides access to citations and abstracts from biomedical literature. Over 10,500 journals are indexed by PubMed with coverage back to the 1950s. Links to full-text articles at other journal Web sites are provided for many of the citations within PubMed. PubMed includes the Medline database as well as in-process citations.  How to Search This Database
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