DATABASES "A - B"

ACM Digital Library

Computer science database of abstracts and full-text articles from ACM journals, magazines, and conference proceedings from 1991 forward; Table of Contents with citations from articles published in ACM journals and magazines from 1985 forward; and, Table of Contents with citations from articles published in volumes of conference proceedings from 1985 to 1996.

Academic Search Premier

Academic Search™ Premier contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,200 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier contains unmatched full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, etc.

African American Music Reference

African American Music Reference is bringing together text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. The database is constantly expanding to include comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

African-American Poetry, 1750-1900

Contains nearly 3,000 poems by African-American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Indexes over 2000 serial titles pertaining to all aspects of agriculture; Coverage from 1979-present

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Historical coverage of the US and Canada from prehistory to the present

American Periodicals Series Online

Consists of digitized reproductions of more than 1,100 eighteenth and nineteenth century American newspapers and periodicals. Derived from the acclaimed American periodicals series microform collection I, II, and III.

A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles in the technologies from acoustics to metallurgy to waste management; Coverage from 1993-present

A bibliographic database that indexes articles from periodicals published throughout the world and indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals; Coverage from 1984-present

Index of articles from the contents pages of over 12,000 journals in business, humanities, medicine, popular culture, science, social science and technology

Arts and Humanities Citation Index

Contained within Web of Knowledge (see below)

Coverage: 1977-present

To access the Web of Science, you must be searching from a Purdue University Calumet-registered PC.

Temporarily Unavailable due to problems in West Lafayette

The world's largest chemical facts databases include structures, physical properties, reactions and literature quotations covering 7.5 million organic and approximately one million inorganic and organometallic compounds

To access Beilstein/Gemlin, you must download and install the Primary ICA Client. Must be Purdue Calumet student, faculty or staff.

When prompted for career account information: for career alias use your Novell username, and for the password use your Novell password.

Coverage includes a wide range of scientific journals, from popular to professional, that pertain to biology and agriculture; Coverage from 1983-present

Biomedical Reference Collection:Basic

Birds of North America

This database provides scientific information for each of the 716 species of birds nesting in the USA and Canada, with image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, recordings of bird's songs and calls selected from the collection in Cornell's Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds. Also includes extensive bibliography for each species.

Black Drama

This edition of Black Drama  contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays

Black Thought and Culture

Non-fiction works by African-American leaders and others who have dealt substantially with issues of race in America. Includes books, essays, articles, speeches, letters, interviews, and other materials, some of which have not previously been published.

Contained within OmniFile Full Text Mega (see below). A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles covering accounting, banking, economic, marketing, real estate and transportation; Coverage from 1982-present

Business Source Premier

This is the industry's most used business research database, providing the full text for more than 2,300 journals. Business Source Premier provides full text back to 1965, and searchable cited references back as far as 1998. Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.

DATABASES "C"

China National Knowledge Infrastructure

A collection of databases available in both Chinese and English consisting of China Academic Journals (CAJ), China Core Newspapers (CCND), China Dissertations (CDMD), China Conference Proceedings (CPCD) and China Academic Journals Bibliography. Also available are the Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China and the Encyclopedia of Taiwan.

CINAHL (New platform, no longer OVID)

Designed specifically to meet the information needs of nurses and allied health professionals; provides access to virtually all English-language nursing journals; 1982-present

Cochrane Library

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 recognized as the gold standard in evidence-based healthcare.

COMDISDOME

(Communication Sciences and Communication Disorders Dome)

Provides access to books, journal articles, dissertations, people, institutions, web resources, and grants in the fields of speech/language pathology and audiology.

The ComAbstracts database contains over 11,000 abstracts of articles published in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field

Compendex is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world with 7.5 million records referencing 5,000 engineering journals and conference materials dating from 1969.

Corporate Resource Net

Provides access to the tables of contents and bibliographic data from current issues of the world's leading scholarly research journals

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DATABASES "D - F"

Access provided through First Search.

Over 83,000 online documents from the ERIC Document Reproduction Service; 80% of the documents available from 1993 to the present

Early English Books Online (EEBO)

Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700.

EBSCO Animals

EBSCO Host Research Databases

Singualar site access for more than 25 databases covering a wide spectrum of topics.

Access provided through First Search.

Contained within OmniFile Full Text Mega (see below). A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles dealing with all aspects of education, literacy, school administration, teachers and teaching

Contains over 700,000 citations covering research documents, journal articles, technical reports and curricular materials in the field of education; Coverage from 1966-present

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Family & Society Studies Worldwide

Family & society studies worldwide is the world's most comprehensive, systematic, and non-evaluative resource of research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of family science, human ecology, human development and social welfare. FSSW provides over 455,000 abstracts and bibliographic records drawn from over two thousand professional journals, books, popular literature, conference papers, government reports, and other sources, many of which are indexed exclusively in FSSW. Approximately 10,000 abstracts are added each year.

Online access to over 30 subject-specific periodical and newspaper databases

Funk & Wagnalls

DATABASES "G - I"

The Garland encyclopedia of world music online is a comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples.  Each volume contains an overview of a geographic region, a survey of its musical heritage, and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances. Articles include detailed photographs that show musicians, musical instruments, and the cultural context of dances, rituals, and ceremonies. Other images include drawings, maps, and musical examples for further study. Contains the full text of the 10 volume print encyclopedia (originally published in 1997), which is searchable all together for the first time.

Contained within OmniFile Full Text Mega (see below). A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles in the sciences, including astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, food, genetics, microbiology, physics, physiology and zoology

Global Development Finance (GDF)

GreenFILE

GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records.

Health Business Full Text

Health Source: Consumer Edition

Health Source®: Consumer Edition is a rich collection of consumer health information. This resource provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Fit Pregnancy, Harvard Health Letter, HealthFacts, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, and many others. This database also includes searchable full text for current, health-related pamphlets and more than 130 health reference books, including books published by the People's Medical Society. Additionally, Health Source: Consumer Edition contains more than 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names; and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary. Health Source®: Consumer Edition covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, women's health, etc

Health Source: Nursing & Academic

This resource provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong, including full text from Creative Nursing, Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Journal of Community Health Nursing, Journal of Nursing Management, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Forum, Nursing Inquiry, and many more. In addition, this database includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.

Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present(excluding the United States and Canada)

Cites articles from English-language periodicals about art, classical studies, communications, film, folklore, history, linguistics, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology; Coverage from 1984-present

Contained within OmniFile Full Text Mega (see below). Covers Archaeology, Art, Classical Studies, Communications, Dance, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, History, Journalism, Linguistics, Literary & Social Criticism Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Religion and Theology

International Financial Statistics (IFS)

A standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. It reports, for most countries of the world, current data needed in the analysis of problems of international payments and of inflation and deflation, i.e., data on exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts. Information is presented in country tables and in tables of area and world aggregates.

Indiana's virtual library, with abstracts and indexing for over 3,100 scholarly journals; full-text available for over 1000. Includes abstracts of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor

DATABASES "J - L"

KNOVEL

A collection of technical reference books with topics from adhesives to textiles. This database also contains interactive tables, tables with graph plotter, chemical structure searches, spectra viewer and many other useful technical tools.

Lexis-Nexis Academic

Provides full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications

A bibliographic database that indexes articles and book reviews of key library and information science periodicals; Coverage from 1984-present

Linguistics Abstracts

Provides immediate access via the World Wide Web to more than 30,000 abstracts from nearly 400 linguistics journals published since 1985

LISTA

LISTA indexes more than 690 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

DATABASES "M - O"

MasterFILE Premier

Searchable Web database providing access to over 60 years of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications; Coverage from 1940-present

McClathchy Tribune

MDConsult

Full text access to selected medical texts, medical journals, clinical practice guidelines, drug information, patient handouts and CME materials with a particular emphasis on primary health care. Titles that can be accessed have a blue notepad icon next to them, not all titles have full text access. Titles available can change without notice at the discretion of the publisher, Elsevier.

Bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature from Index Medicus and International Nursing, as well as other sources of coverage in the areas of allied health and medicine; Coverage from 1966-present

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Mental Measurements Yearbook

Fulltext information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas from Yearbooks 9 through 15.

Middle Search Plus

Military& Government Collection

Indexes critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Coverage includes journal articles, series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies and other materials; Coverage from 1963-present

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Newspaper Source

Newspaper Source™ provides cover-to-cover full text for 28 national (U.S.) & international newspapers, including The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc. The database also contains selected full text for more than 260 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, Daily News (New York), San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from ABC, CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc.

Nurse Theorists

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This resource contains video programs about the life and work of various nurse theorists. These Portraits of Excellence programs from FITNE feature: Virginia Henderson: definition of nursing; Dorothy Johnson: behavioral systems model; Imogene King: interacting systems framework; Madeleine Leininger: Culture Care Diversity & Universality; Myra Levine: the conservation model; Betty Neuman: Neuman systems model; Margaret Newman: health as expanding consciousness; Florence Nightingale: life and work; Dorothea Orem: self-care framework; Rosemarie Parse: theory of human becoming; Ida Orlando Pelletier: nursing process discipline; Hildegard Peplau: interpersonal relations in nursing; Martha Rogers: science of unitary human beings; Sr. Callista Roy: Roy adaptation model of nursing; Reva Rubin: theory of maternal identity; and Jean Watson: a theory of human caring.

A multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content -indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six databases: Education, General Science, Humanities, Readers' Guide, Social Sciences, and Wilson Business; Coverage from 1982-present

Initially offering milions of words, phrases, and translations, in French, German, Spanish and Italian, the site will expand to include many other languages such as Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Polish. Included are usage examples and illustrative phrases, grammar guidance, click-through verb tables and pronuciation charts, expalantions of grammatical terms and help with spelling and punctuation. Also included are hundreds of correspondence templates including sample letters, CVs and resumes to provide practical help with writing in each language. Contextualized language reference help includes notes on life and culture, guidance on grammar and idiomatic usage, and Words of the Day.

DATABASES "P - R"

A bibliographic index with abstracts covering the full range of political, social, and public policy issues; Coverage from 1972-present

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Patrologia Latina Database

A full-text electronic version of the Latin portion of the Patrologiae Cursus Completus, published by nineteenth-century ecclesiastical publisher Jacques-Paul Migne. Its 221 volumes cover the works of the Latin Fathers, from Tertullian in 200 A.D. to Pope Innocent III in 1216.

Primary Search (EBSCOHost)

Professional Development Collection

Professional Development Collection™ provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers. This collection offers information on everything from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice. Professional Development Collection includes full text for Chronicle of Higher Education, Educational Leadership, Journal of Education, Journal of Higher Education, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Theory Into Practice, and nearly 520 high quality education journals. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports

Proquest Dissertations and Theses

Includes citations for dissertations ranging from 1861 to those accepted last semester. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts; master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Titles available as native or image PDF formats include free twenty-four page previews.

Proquest Historical Annual Reports

Database offers corporate annual reports for more than 800 U.S. companies from 1884 to the present, including companies' financial performance, key officers, competitors, and market trends.

Covers general and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology; contains more than 25,000 searchable full-text articles from 42 journals published by APA and allied organizations from 1988-present.

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Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines.  Worldwide coverage to over 1400 journals in more than 30 languages, and includes books and book chapters in English.  Coverage from 1872-present.

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PUBMED Central (PMC)

PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

To access the PubMed Central, you just need to click on the link to the left. It is a free service.

Contained within OmniFile Full Text Mega (see above). Coverage includes Aging, Astronomy, Children, Consumer Education, Current Events, Education, Environment, Foreign Affairs, Health, History, Journalism, Medicine, Nutrition, Politics, Religion, Science, Sports, and Television

Regional Business News

Regional Business News provides full text for more than 50 regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications).

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Ebooks

The RSC eBook Collection is a comprehensive overview of research and opinion in a multitude of areas of chemical science. Continually updated and expanded throughout the year the RSC eBook Collection provides access to new content as it is published and continuous access to the full RSC catalogue of books. The eBook Collection is fully searchable and indexed to chapter level, with all documents provided as pdfs.

DATABASES "S - U"

Science Citation Index

Contained within Web of Knowledge (see below)
Coverage: 1977-present

To access the Web of Science, you must be searching from a Purdue University Calumet-registered PC.

ScienceResearch.com

This site is "a free, publicly available web portal allowing access to numerous scientific journals and public science databases." Search for materials in the topics of astronomy, biology, chemistry, computers, environmental sciences, engineering, health and medicine, materials science, mathematics, physics, and social sciences. Also includes links to related sites.

SciFinder Scholar

SciFinder Scholar is a research discovery tool that allows college students and faculty to access a wide diversity of research from many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more!

SciFinder Scholar is provided for the educational learning, teaching and academic research of the current Purdue University Calumet students, faculty and staff. Commercial use of SciFinder is strictly prohibited. Thus, patentability research and research performed with the intention of delivering results outside of the Purdue Calumet Campus are not allowed. Likewise, the distribution of SciFinder data by assignment, sale, sublicense, loan, or other means to an unauthorized user is prohibited.

In order to use SciFinder on your computer you will need to click on the download link and follow the instruction given below.

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Social Sciences Citation Index

Contained within Web of Knowledge (see below)
Coverage: 1977-present

To access the Web of Science, you must be searching from a Purdue University Calumet-registered PC.

Contained within OmniFile Full Text Mega (see above). A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles in the social sciences, including anthropology, criminology, family studies, gender studies, gerontology, psychology and sociology

SPIE Digital Library

DESCRIPTION: Contains more than 70,000 full-text papers on optics and photonics from SPIE journals and proceedings published since 1998. It also includes citations and abstracts for most SPIE papers published since 1990.

A Canadian comprehensive reference library for all aspects of sport, physical fitness, sport science and recreation; Coverage from 1975 to the present

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

A dynamic reference work offering support to the academic study of philosophy.

Statesman’s Yearbook Online

Interactive, updated resource that provides answers to thousands of questions about world politics, economics, culture, and society.

Stat-USA

An online service providing the most recent economic, business, and international trade information produced by the U.S. Government.

Topic Search (EBSCOHost)

DATABASES "V - Z"

Web Of Knowledge

Provides access to the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Web of Science Corporate Editions

Webmath.com

Webmath is a math-help web site that generates answers to specific math questions. The math answers are generated and produced real-time, at the moment a web user types in their math problem and clicks "solve." In addition to the answers, Webmath also attempts to show to the student how to arrive at the answer as well

Women and Social Movements in the United States
1620-2000

This database brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies that document the multiplicity of women's activism in American public life. Thousands of pages of materials provide scholars and students with in-depth access to the published histories and records of women's organizations throughout the United States. It also has documented projects on a broad range of topics of interest to today's students, each including footnotes to introductory material, annotations of primary documents, a bibliography, and a list of related Web links.

WorldCat

A catalog of books, web resources, and other material world- wide. Offers 49 million+ bibliographic records representing 400 languages. Includes books, computer programs, manuscripts, maps, video tapes, musical recordings and other media.

World Development Indicators (WDI)

Economic development, indicators, history and statistics; social indicators and statistics.