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Indexes and Databases Descriptions

Access Science provides access to science reference materials including the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology.

Use this database to search peer-reviewed journals that are published or co-published by the ACS.

Agricola is the catalog of the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Library. It provides citations to agricultural literature.

Use this database to research thousands of people, from all eras and walks of life, whose lives have shaped the United States of America.

This database contains the legislative and executive documents of Congress from 1789 to 1838. The collection includes documents that cover the years 1789 to 1817 – a time period not covered by the U.S. Congressional Serial Set database.

Annual Reviews publishes reviews of scientific literature within the biomedical, physical, and social sciences disciplines.

This index describes articles, news stories, letters, and other items from journals. It then provides a list of libraries that have the journal titles.

Associations Unlimited provides data from the Encyclopedia of Associations and from the IRS. and from the IRS.

Uses for this database include locating associations, monitoring association trends, and identifying related associations.

This interdisciplinary database offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science.

The Birds of North America database is a comprehensive reference covering the life histories of North American birds. Features include video clips of birds and audio clips of songs and calls.

Use this bibliographic database of print, video, and audio materials to determine if resources are in-print, out-of-print, or forthcoming.

This database provides information on companies, markets, and industries. Content includes market trends, mergers and acquisitions, current management theory, and company overviews.

Business and Company Resource Center is a database of company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals.

This website links to college catalogs, maps, school profiles, and school websites. Use this website to find information about schools around the world or to search the catalogs of the schools in The University of Montana system, including Western.

This work includes important developments and achievements in modern insect science.

Use this database to find computer-related product information. Also find news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications, and the application of technology.

This database holds information on chemical substances such as descriptive and numerical data on chemical, physical, and biological properties of compounds. It includes systematic and common names of compounds, literature references, and structure diagrams and their associated connection tables.

This full-text database contains all Congressional Quarterly publications, including the CQ Researcher and the CQ Encyclopedia of American Government.

This is a database of newspaper articles from newspapers around the world.

This database is useful for curriculum development. Use it to find reference content for the core curriculum areas of literature, history, biographies, science, and social studies.

This database contains the full text of selected books, from the first book published in English through the age of Shakespeare.

This link takes you to a list of Ebsco publishing databases to which Western subscribes. Choose one database to search or search them all at once.

Academic Search Premier is the largest academic multiple subject database. It includes articles from thousands of peer-reviewed journals, representing a wide array of disciplines. This database is updated on a daily basis.

This is the electronic version of Chilton’s Total Car Care Series. Use this database to search for auto repair manuals for vehicles manufactured from 1946 to the present.

This is a business research database, providing full-text articles. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business.

Although primarily a bibliographic database, CINAHL does contain some full-text. The CINAHL database is a source of information for the professional literature of nursing, allied health, biomedicine, and healthcare.

This is a companion database to CINAHL. Ebsco is currently working to merge the two databases.

This database provides full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of business journals, newspapers and newswires from metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

This database provides full-text coverage for trade and industry related periodicals covering a variety of fields such as health and medicine, mechanics, advertising, and business and management.

This database of scholarly journals provides bibliographic information for all journals, as well as abstracts and full-text articles from journals to which Western subscribes.

This resource contains a collection of education reference works, sample lesson plans, and an archive of questions and responses concerning the practice, theory, and research of education.

Emerald provides access to articles from management journals, library information science journals, and engineering and applied science and technology journals.

This is the online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica and also the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus.

This electronic reference work covers all aspects of geology including earth history, earth materials, surface processes, regional geology, economic geology, engineering geology, petroleum geology, geochemical and mineral exploration, and the history of geology.

ERIC contains annotated references to non-journal material issued in the monthly Resources in Education (RIE) and to journal articles issued in the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE).

Bibliographic citations and full-text articles are included in this database featuring U.S. racial and ethnic minority newspapers, consumer magazines, and some journals. The database focus is on African American, American Indian, Asian American, and U.S. Latino publications.

This multiple subject database meets research needs across all academic disciplines, including arts and the humanities, social sciences, science, and technology. Use this database to access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers.

FACTS.com is the online version of the Facts on File World News Digest. There are also special features, such as an obituary index. Search this database to find domestic and world news coverage from 1980 to the present.

This webpage index links to PDF versions of federal and state court forms, other government forms, and business contract forms.

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

This database provides historical and current perspectives on the evolution of gender roles as they affect both men and women. It supports gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender studies; family studies; gender studies, and women’s studies.

Use this multiple subject database to find articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals. Find the latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.

The GeoRef database provides citations and abstracts to geosciences literature. The database contains references to geosciences journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. It covers the geology of North America from 1693 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present.

This database is the collaborative work of a number of leading earth science organizations. It is intended for use in geoscience research.

This database of U.S. government publications contains all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments.

This is the online version of the 34-volume 1996 publication, The Dictionary of Artand the online version of the 2001 publication, The Oxford Companion to Western Art. Current articles and images are added on an ongoing basis.and the online version of the 2001 publication, . Current articles and images are added on an ongoing basis.

This is the online version of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition). Current information is added on an ongoing basis.

Find alternative medicine-focused magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, videos, and reference information. Included are links to diet, cancer, health assessment sites, and government databases.

Use this database to find articles on fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health and safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, etc.

This source of quantitative facts of American History is broad in scope. Users can merge columns from multiple tables to create custom tables, which can be downloaded, printed, or graphed.

History Resource Center: U.S. is a collection of current full-text periodicals, multimedia reference articles, and overviews and facsimiles of historic documents.

This periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school. It contains magazines, newspapers and reference books with information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

This periodical database is designed for elementary school students. It provides access to full-text magazines, newspapers, and reference books with information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports, and more.

This database is designed for high school students. It provides access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers, and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports, and more.

Ingenta offers citations and many abstracts to academic and professional research articles. Ingenta charges per article for full text. Most of the articles found on Ingenta can be obtained through Inter-Library loan, usually for free.

JSTOR is an archive of scholarly journals. JSTOR provides scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.

Kids InfoBits meets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine articles, newspaper articles, and reference content.

Use this database to find articles in major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals, and legal newspapers. Included are articles on federal and state cases, laws and regulations, legal practice, and taxation.

The Leisure Tourismdatabase provides access to leisure, recreation, tourism, and hospitality research. This resource includes information that maps and mirrors the latest research developments in key areas of the industry.

(Library, Information Science &Technology Abstracts)

LISTA indexes periodicals, books, research reports, and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management.

Updated daily, this database contains information about all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing.

PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources. that includes citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

NetLibrary contains digital full-text versions of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, and literature and fiction works.

Search the electronic editions of local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers and magazines.

Coverage includes international news, business, lifestyle, entertainment, sports, and science and technology.

The New York Times (1851-2003) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Infotrac OneFile is a one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics. It provides millions of full-text articles, many with images, and it is updated daily.

Opposing Viewpoints is a source for information on social issues. This database contains articles, topic overviews, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites.

This resource contains numerous reference works published by the Oxford University Press. It contains an ever-expanding and continually updated list of Oxford publications including dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, atlases, quotations, timelines, subject-specific reference works, etc.

Papers First is the OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.

Use this database to search for published proceedings such as meetings, conferences, workshops, etc.

Infotrac Professional Collection is an on-line collection of professional journals for educators. It features professional journals published expressly for teachers and administrators.

This American Psychological Association database contains the full text of articles from many APA journals and EPF (Educational Publishing Foundation) journals.

The Reference USA database contains information on U.S. businesses, U.S. households, U.S. health care providers, Canadian businesses, and Canadian residents.

This research management tool helps researchers gather, manage, store and share references, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

ScienceDirect is the largest electronic collection of science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. It provides access to books, journals, and reference works.

Scientists are the intended user-group for this database. Scopus is an abstract and citation database of scientific research literature and web sources.

Use this database to find entry requirements for thousands of colleges and graduate schools. Find guides for succeeding at graduate school entry exams, and take on-line practice versions of the exams.

The U.S. Serial Set, an ongoing collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under the directive of Congress, captures every aspect of American life from the early 19th century onward. This database provides full-text access to all of the information included in the Serial Set.

What Do I Read Next? is a database of titles, plot summaries, award information, etc. It is a reader’s advisory tool that generates lists of suggested reading based on user interests.

This database searches abstracts on articles in the fields of science and medicine.

This database provides access to publications about applied science and technology, primarily peer-reviewed journals.

This database contains full-text articles from over 100 art journals.

This bibliographic database cumulates citations to Art Index volumes 1-32 of the printed index published between 1929 and 1984.