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Containing 1270 titles and almost 1 million pages this collection represents the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media.  The Topic Guide contains more information about this collection.

Index to nineteenth century periodical articles, information about books, newspaper articles, and government publications.  The core sources of this database are Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906) and Stead's Index to Periodicals (1890-1902).  The Index to the New York Daily Tribune 1875-1906 is also available. Patent and government document indices include subject matter index of patents issued by the U.S. (1790-1873); descriptive catalog of the government publications of the U.S. (1774-1881); compilation of the message and papers of the presidents (1789-1897); Hansard's Index to debates, House of Commons only (1803-1830); and Cobett's Parliamentary history of England (1066-1803).  Dates of coverage varies but primarily 1802-1906.

This resource is available to all residents of Milwaukee, including Marquette students who reside on or near campus.  You must have a valid Milwaukee Public Library card and personal identification number (PIN) to gain free access to this subscription database.

Provides access to the 990-PF tax returns for private foundations from 2001 to present.  NOTE: Older Wisconsin data is also available via Foundations 990-PF Tax Returns from the Internal Revenue Service.

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Abbreviationes, the first database of medieval Latin abbreviations, is designed for use in both learning and teaching of medieval Latin paleography.  It is also a useful reference and reference tool for scholars using medieval Latin manuscripts or early printed books.  Abbreviationes consists of a database (Main Dictionary) and a database application (Abbreviationes) suitable for everyone from the novice to the expert.  Furthermore, the database currently comprises over 70,000 entries, nearly five times as many as you would find in the printed dictionaries by Walther, Chassant, De la Brana, Cappelli, and Pelzer combined.  The Main Dictionary will continue to grow steadily since it includes annual updates and enhancements.  Internet Explorer is the recommended Web browser for use with this database.

Provides in-depth coverage of business conditions, trends, corporate strategies and tactics, management techniques, competitive and product information, and a wide variety of other topics.  Full text is provided for more than 600 of the business and management publications included in ABI-INFORM.  1971 to present.

This database covers more than 700 publications, mostly trade journals.  It's designed to help researchers study and compare specific trades and industries, including telecommunications, computing, transportation, construction, petrochemicals, and many others.  Mostly 1990's to present, though there are some journal titles for which coverage goes back to the 1980's and a very few going back to the 1970's.

Covers North American scholarship on Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union and includes bibliographic records for journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications.  1956 to present.

Guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world.

Provides full text for over 7,000 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and much more.  Coverage varies by publication.  Some full-text PDFs from 1985 to present.

Provides historical coverage for over 2,000 newspaper titles.  Fully searchable are tens of millions of newspaper pages (in PDF) from the U.S., Canada, Denmark, Ireland, Jamaica, Japan, Germany, South Africa and the United Kingdom.  There are over 700 Wisconsin newspapers represented. Access NewspaperARCHIVE is a subset of NewspaperArchive.com. Coverage varies by title, however, some go back to the 1700’s.  Many of the titles cover the 1800’s and 1900’s.  Access to this database is funded by the State of Wisconsin and it is available only in Wisconsin.

AccessScience is the online version of the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology with access to all the articles, fully illustrated.  In addition, it includes new trends and developments in science and technology from the McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology volumes, and definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms.  AccessScience also includes biographies of scientists, Nobel Prize winners in all fields for all years, headlines from the journal Science News, and links to related web sites.

Features cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts to 300 key publications in accounting, auditing, and financial management from the U.S. and overseas, including AICPA and FASB publications.  Also included are citations to relevant articles from over 800 newspapers, business journals, dissertations, and news magazines,making this database an authoritative resource for accounting and financial information.  There is only limited full-text (~200 titles).  Coverage is 1990 to the present for all publications, but a few publications are indexed as far back as 1971.

FASB (Financial Accounting Standards Board) — Statements and interpretations, staff positions, technical bulletins, special reports, implementation guides and related proposal-stage literature.  Plus, Accounting Research Bulletins and APB Opinions. AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) — Statements of Position, Audit and Accounting Guides, Practice Bulletins, Accounting Interpretations, Issues Papers and related proposal-stage literature. SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) — SEC background and interpretive materials, hot topics, and literature updates.  Rules, regulations and releases of the 1933 and 1934 Acts, Financial Reporting Releases, Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Releases, Staff Accounting Bulletins, Staff Legal Bulletins, Staff speeches, SEC releases of final and proposed rule changes and much more. EITF (Emerging Issues Task Force) — Abstracts, Minutes and Issues Summaries. PCAOB (Public Company Accounting Oversight Board) — Rules and regulations (proposed and final). IASB (International Accounting Standards Board) — Accounting standards and related proposal-stage literature.  Current data only.

Complete Acta Sanctorum published over a period of 300 years, including prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus, indexes, Biblioteca Hagiographica Latina reference numbers.  Covers 1643-1940.

This archival site contains images of major print advertisements for a variety of commercial products.  Print ads are in digital format and can be searched by category, decade, year, brand name and title of magazines in which the print ads appeared.  Covers 1940 to present.

Numeric data only.  Produced by TNS-Media Intelligence (formerly called CMR or Competitive Media Reporting), Ad$pender provides advertising expenditure data for consumer products/services advertised within a universe of 11 consumer media formats.  The media formats covered are: ~200 consumer magazines, ~250 newspapers (national and smaller, also Sunday magazines), outdoor advertising, TV broadcasting (network, spot, and syndicated), and radio broadcasting (network and national spot radio).  Data can be retrieved by brand, product class/category, company name, etc.  The data are available monthly, quarterly and annually, for the period 1998 forward.

This database includes all digital materials in the UNC Institute of Aging, an inter-institutional program of the University of North Carolina based at UNC-Chapel Hill plus selected items digitally available on the internet, including reports and web sites.  This database does not include journal articles and is not a comprehensive index to the literature on aging.

Provides information for researchers, care providers, consumers and policymakers on health-related, psychological, social, demographic and economic aspects of older adults and aging. Includes material from 1978 on, with selective coverage from 1966 - 1977.

Indexes research and professional materials on alcohol, its use, and related consequences.  Includes bibliographic citations to over 70,000 journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers and audiovisual materials compiled by the Rutgers University Center of Alcohol Studies.  1987 to present.

10,000 citations and abstracts from journal articles, books and book chapters, dissertations, conference proceedings and reports covering all aspects of alcohol abuse and alcoholism.  Late 1960's to present.

Categorized registry of Web resources that list or provide access to the full title of journal abbreviations or other types of abbreviated publication titles (e.g., conference proceedings titles).

Provides access to professional and consumer publications focused on alternative approaches to health and medicine.  Full text of periodicals, peer-reviewed journals, academic and professional publications, magazines, consumer newsletters and newspapers, research reports, and association newsletters.  Coverage varies by title.  Good coverage from early 1990s to present; some coverage of earlier years.

Database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.  This interdisciplinary resource contains over 170 titles providing a source of viewpoints and perspectives to complement and challenge the coverage of the mainstream media.  1995 to present.

Research on American and Canadian history and culture.  Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts of periodical articles, book and media reviews, and dissertations.   1964 to present. 

Comprehensive biographical dictionary focused on American history offering portraits of more than 17,400 men and women whose lives have shaped the nation.  Covering the diversity of American social political, cultural, religious, economic, scientific, and popular life the online edition is updated quarterly, with hundreds of new entries each year and revisions of previously published entries to enhance their accuracy and currency.  The ANB Online features thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, and links to selected web sites.

American periodicals from 1700 to 1900.  Coverage varies by title.

Mobilization for war and how wars themselves have altered the fabric of everyday life.  The encyclopedia places major American conflicts -- from the Colonial Wars through the War on Terrorism -- in the context of cultural and social events and conditions on the homefront.  Articles include biographies and topics such as civil liberties, media, politics, popular culture, religion, memory and national identity, civic celebrations and monumental art, literature, the roles of women and minorities, veterans, science and technology, humor, and music.

This resource is available to all residents of Milwaukee, including Marquette students who reside on or near campus.  You must have a valid Milwaukee Public Library card and personal identification number (PIN) to gain free access to this subscription database.

Searchable American newspapers enable exploration of America's past. Available here: Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876 and Series 3, 1829-1922.

This resource is available to all residents of Milwaukee, including Marquette students who reside on or near campus.  You must have a valid Milwaukee Public Library card and personal identification number (PIN) to gain free access to this subscription database.

Comprehensive coverage of biblical subjects including extensive articles on books of the Bible, biblical persons, places, and events. Many articles include bibliographies.  Also available in printed form in Raynor Reference, BS440 .A54 1992.

Subject areas covered by ABELL include: English language: syntax, phonology, lexicology, semantics, stylistics, and dialectology; English literature: prose, poetry, fiction, film, biography, travel writing, literary theory, reviews, and studies of individual authors; Bibliography, including manuscript studies, textual studies, and the history of publishing; Traditional culture of the English-speaking world, including custom, belief narrative, song, dance, and material culture.  ABELL is a component database of Literature Online (LION).  To search ABELL, select "Criticism and Reference" from LION's main screen, then "Criticism" at the top center.  The resulting search screen offers a combined MLAIB/ABELL search, or the user may select either of the critical databases independently.  Primary coverage is 1920 to present; some items published between 1892 and 1919 have been indexed retrospectively.

The Anthropological Index Online is based on the journal holdings of The Anthropology Library at The British Museum (Museum of Mankind) which receives periodicals in all branches of anthropology, from academic institutions and publishers around the world.  1957 to present.

Combines two resources - Anthropological Literature and Anthropological Index.  Indexes journal articles (over 3,000 journals), reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies.  Late 19th century to present.

Full-text of American Anthropological Association Journals through 2003.  Older content is provided by JSTOR.  Current issues for the following journals: American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Anthropology and Humanism, Archaeological Publications of the American Anthropological Association, Cultural Anthropology, Ethos, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, NAPA Bulletin and PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review.  Coverage is up through 2003 for most journals.  Current issues of those titles listed above.

Provides indexing, abstracts and some full text articles for more than 390 periodicals.  Includes aeronautics and space sciences; atmospheric sciences; chemistry; computer technology and applications; construction industry; energy; engineering; food and food industry; geology; mathematics; metallurgy; meteorology; mineralogy; oceanography; physics; textiles; transportation; and other industrial and mechanical arts.  Indexing 1983 to present; abstracts beginning in March 1993; some full text beginning in 1997.

Useful for locating the unpublished papers of individuals and organizations in the archives of libraries, museums, and historical societies.  It searches over a million collection descriptions from over 2,500 repositories around the world and then provides detailed information about the holdings of each pertinent to your search.  You may also find out how to contact a particular archive, arrange a visit, or order a copy.

Provides access to the complete corpus of medieval Greek-Latin translations of the works of Aristotle which includes the texts that have been critically edited in the print series Aristoteles Latinus.  Other corpuses, both published and unpublished (future) editions, will be added to those of the Aristoteles Latinus series.  However, the electronic database will not be identical to the printed editions, as it will not contain the prefaces in which the manuscript tradition is described, nor will it include its apparatus of variant readings, their Greek-Latin comparative apparatus, or its bilingual indexes.  The ALD provides an integrated database of medieval translations of Aristotle's works.  The electronic and the printed editions are thus intended to be complementary.

The most complete database on Aristotelian scholarship available in either print or digital form.  Includes over 45,000 entries (four times more than the listings in Philosopher's Index), covers over 35,000 academic articles and book reviews, 6200 books, and over 1500 Ph.D. dissertations in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and other European languages.  1900 to present.

1984+ Cumulates Art Index Volume 33-to present.  Subjects covered:  advertising, art, antiques, archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, computers in art, crafts, decorative arts, fashion design, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, motion pictures, museology, non-western art, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, television, textiles, and video.  Indexing from 1984, abstracting from 1994.

Provides access to full-text French literature projects and reference works.  Includes Frantext, the French Women Writers Project, Provençal Poetry, Dictionnaires d'autrefois, Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedie, multiple editions of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française, etc.

The Art Museum Image Gallery is a digital resource of over 155,000 art images and related multimedia from distinguished museums around the world.  The images are rights-cleared for educational use.  It covers fine and decorative art: painting sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, textiles, costumes, jewelry, ceramics, furniture, glass, books and manuscripts, archaeological finds and more.  Art from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas spanning time from 3000 B.C. to the present is included.  The gallery can be searched alone or simultaneously with Art Abstracts, Art Index Retrospective and Biography Reference Bank.

Art Index Retrospective cumulates citations to volumes 1-32 of the Art Index.   Includes citations to articles in more than 420 periodicals published throughout the world, as well as yearbooks and museum bulletins. Also included are works of art reproduced in indexed articles.  1929-1984.

Web of Science combines Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index in one source.  Indexes can be searched individually or combined.  Search by words in author, title, keyword, abstract, journal title and author affiliation fields.  A unique Cited Reference Search feature allows ‘forward’ searching by locating articles that have cited an older document.  1980 to present.

This resource is available to all residents of Milwaukee, including Marquette students who reside on or near campus.  You must have a valid Milwaukee Public Library card and personal identification number (PIN) to gain free access to this subscription database.

Provides basic data, cross-identifications and bibliography for astronomical objects outside the solar system.  Search for stars, clusters, and nebulae in the Milky Way.

Covers the research literature of religion in over 30 languages from 1,400 international journals.  Full text access is available for 100+ journals.  Topics include: Biblical studies, world religions, Church history, and religious perspectives on social issues.  1949 to present.

The ATLASerials (ATLAS) project provides full-text, searchable access to more than 60 journals.  Printing articles is available by using the print function on the web browser. Coverage varies by title.  VPN required for off-campus access.

Auto repair manuals from 1945 to the present.

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BadgerCat is a project of Wisconsin Library Services (WiLS) and was created and funded by a subset of Wisconsin libraries.  Only authorized users from these libraries can search the database.  Marquette University is a particpant in this project.  BadgerCat contains the holdings of 500+ Wisconsin libraries and is a subset of the WorldCat database.

BadgerLink is a state government project that provides access to databases from several vendors.  Links to individual databases are provided within the Libraries’ listings.  A new BadgerLink feature allows searching across multiple databases in a single search.  Use the Advanced Search mode and check the databases to include.  Results will show the number of hits for each database and may be re-sorted by title, author, and date.

Provides information about the financial services industry, banking trends, topics, issues, and operations with comprehensive coverage of important industry sources.  Complete bibliographic information--including abstracts--is available for more than 220 industry publications, newsletters, Bank Marketing Association's Golden Coin Awards competition entries, Stonier Theses, and School of Bank Marketing papers--plus citations to banking-related articles from American Banker, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.  Full-text articles are included for selected high-demand titles.  Citations are 1981 to present.  Limited full-text coverage beginning with 1994 material.

Contains twenty versions of the Bible, including the King James Bible, William Tyndale's New Testament, Pentateuch and Jonah translations, the Coverdale, Bishops' and Geneva Bibles.  Texts from all eras are included, and texts from the Protestant, Roman Catholic and non-conformist traditions are represented.

BibleWorks is an original languages Bible software program.  It includes 90 Bible translations in 28 languages, 9 original language texts with 7 morphology databases, 6 Greek lexicons and dictionaries, 4 Hebrew lexicons and dictionaries, and 11 practical reference works.  New modules feature The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, 4th edition, and A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 3rd edition.

Bibliographic information on monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, bibliographies, proceedings, etc. dealing with Spanish literature including: literary theory, literary genres, popular culture, authors, etc.  Searchable by keyword, title, subject, author or reviewer, publication details, journal and publication year, or any combination of these terms.  1980 to present.

Covers the history, life and culture of native North Americans.  Compiled by Human Relations Area Files, it contains citations to works published from the sixteenth century to the present, including monographs, essays, journal articles, US and Canadian government documents and other publications.  Contains over 70,000 records.  1500's to present.

Comprehensive bibliography of scholarly writing about the history of Western art from late antiquity to the present.  BHA is the successor to RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art, and RAA (Repertoire d' Art et d' Archeologie).   It is produced by the Getty Research Institute and the Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique in France.  RILA is not available via FRANCIS, but a portion of RAA is.  BHA indexes and abstracts books, conference proceedings, dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogs and articles on fine arts—painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, and architecture—as well as decorative and applied arts.  Foreign publications are included.  1900 to present.

A Microsoft Windows program for reading, studying and searching the Bible.  Includes Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and English language versions as well as Greek and Hebrew language reference dictionaries.  The Greek and Hebrew texts include full grammatical tags and dictionary forms coded in the text.  Also provides links to some related Internet resources.

Thumbnail biographies of everyone who has served in the House or Senate from 1774-1989.  Post 1989 only lists are provided.  Sketches include name, state represented, birth/death information, education, public service positions held, etc.

Contains more than 46,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 20,000 photographs of famous persons (including historical and contemporary figures.)  The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth, date of death, keyword, and presence of images.  Includes full-text biographical articles from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference books including all the articles from all volumes of Current Biography, the World Author Series, Nobel Prize Winners, World Artists, World Film Directors, American Reformers, and numerous biographical books on musicians and composers from throughout history.

Full-text biographical information on more than 250,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.  Biographies can be located by subject name or by one or more personal facts such as birth and death years, places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender.

Index to the Black Literature microfiche collection.  This index allows users to search over 70,000 bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry and literary reviews published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827-1940.

The Black Studies Center is comprised of several databases including the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals, the full text of the Chicago Defender 1910-1975 an influential black newspaper, and Black Literature Index.  Ultimately, Black Studies Center will also include ProQuest Dissertations for Black Studies.

Three nonfiction collections are included: elementary (1,290 titles), middle (3,089 titles), and high school (2,448 title).

Contains citations for over 5,000,000 reviews published in academic and popular journals from 1965 to the present in thousands of academic and popular journals.  The academic publications are mainly in the humanities and social sciences.  One can search for reviews by book title, journal, date, and author of either the book or the review.  1965 to present.

Lists in-print, and forthcoming books published or distributed in the U.S. which are available to the general public or trade.  The database contains over 1.2 million bibliographic citations with prices and ISBN's.  Current edition only.

Der neue Pauly and its English edition, Brill’s New Pauly, are offered together online.  New Pauly, as the electronic version is called, covers the ancient world from the prehistory of the Aegean to Late Antiquity and represents the most complete database on the subject.  It includes the entire texts of Metzler’s Der neue Pauly, which was published 1996-2003 in 18 volumes (13 on Antiquity; 5 on the Classical Tradition; 1 index volume) and all volumes of Brill’s New Pauly currently in print (as of Summer 2007, vols. 1-10 [A-Phe] Antiquity and vols. I & II [A-Ius] Classical Tradition).  Features: more than 27,000 entries; fully searchable; fully cross-referenced; allows for Basic and Advanced searches; browsable alphabetical index in both German and English; includes maps and illustrations; Greek text searches.

Searchable and browsable collection of authoritative references, including the latest article database from the print Encyclopædia Britannica, articles specially written for Britannica Online, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, the Britannica Book of the Year, and links to other World Wide Web sites selected by Britannica editors.  1997 edition.

Business, company and industry information in journal and newspaper articles; financial analysts’ reports; encyclopedias, directories and other reference books.  For industry information, it allows searching by both SIC and NAICS codes.  Indexing of articles 1980 to present.  Full-text starts mostly in the 1990s.  Financial analysts’ reports: a rolling 3 years, embargoed 3-4 weeks. Reference books: current editions.

Index to local and regional business magazines, newspapers, and newswires focused on business.  Especially good for researching smaller, local, and private companies.  1985 to present.

All business databases available through ProQuest. Find information on accounting, taxes, banking, business in Europe and Asia, and more. Search in The Wall Street Journal and ABI-INFORM.  Coverage varies by database.

Full text access to weekly publications covering business in 40 cities across the U.S.

Provides information about scholarly publishing opportunities for the fields of business, education, and psychology/psychiatry.  Includes: contact information, editorial and manuscript guidelines, acceptance rate, and the review process.

Provides full text from over 2,150 journals covering business, management, economics, banking, finance, accounting and much more.  In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 1,570 journals.  This database contains popular business publications such as Business Week, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review, and hundreds of scholarly, peer-reviewed journals.  Also included is Wall Street Words, a dictionary of financial terms, linked directly to words within the citations and full text.  Full text backfiles go as far back as January of 1990, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as January of 1984.

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Contains 1500+ comprehensive essays on major authors, periods and genres.  For the author Companions each writer is placed in literary and historical context; their major works are analysed, either in separate chapters or grouped according to theme, and their influence on later writers assessed.  The generic and topical Companions cover periods of English literature such as Old English or the Victorian Novel, and literary genres such as Modernism or Greek Tragedy.  The Companions to Classical Civilisation examine key periods and aspects of the civilisations of ancient Greece and Rome.

Contains 1000+ essays addressing topics and figures ranging from Plato through Kant to Habermas, and philosophical movements such as the Scottish Enlightenment and German Idealism

Journal literature on complementary and alternative medicine.  Includes some links to freely available full-text articles.  1966 to present.

Uses a specialized search strategy to retrieve citations from the cancer subset of PubMed.  Indexes over 4600 biomedical journals.  1960's to present.

Includes citations to and abstracts of English language books and articles about the islands of the Caribbean and the mainland territories of Belize and the Guianas published from 1989 to 2008.  Covered subjects include culture, history, economics, slavery and the abolition of slavery, politics and elections.

Covers literature on philanthropy, foundations, the nonprofit sector (particularly such topics as fundraising and proposal development), and works related to charitable giving.  65% of the citations have abstracts.  Full-text access in selected journals only.  1989 to present.

Index to Roman Catholic periodicals as well as papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith, authored by Catholics or produced by Catholic publishers.  Covers 1981 to present.

Summary File 1 contains population and housing unit data based on Census 2000 questions asked of all people and about every housing unit. A total of 286 data tables are included in this file.  Population items include: sex, age, race, Hispanic or Latino origin, household relationship, and household and family characteristics. Housing items include occupancy status and tenure (whether the unit is owner- or renter-occupied). For most subjects, data for census block groups and census blocks are also shown. (Description from www.census.gov)

Complete 1990 US census data down to census block group, projections of demographics and consumer spending, complete map boundaries for all block groups, and county statistics from 1790 to 1996.  Allows user to select, report, and map data.

Indexes the world's chemical industry.  Search commercial chemicals by name, by CAS registry number, or by empirical formula.  Find chemical companies, their addresses, phones, fax, etc.  Includes the directory information from Chem Sources-Europe, Chem Sources-International, and Chem Sources-USA.  Chem Sources is not restricted to certain classes of chemical products.  Included are agriculturals, organics, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, reagents, resins, etc.  Also included is a section of chemical trade name products and services provided by thousands of chemical manufacturers.

The Chicago Manual of Style, "the bible of the publishing and research community," was first published in 1906, and now presented online in its revised 15th edition.  The complete site contents are browsable, indexed, and fully searchable.  15th edition (2003) plus current, updated Q&As.

Online full text of the daily newspaper from 1849-1986.  Also available online are daily issues from 1963 to the present.  Microfilm covering 1864 to 1872 is available on the lower level of Raynor.

Complete text of the weekly edition, plus a searchable archive; commentary and essays in the weekly Chronicle Review, plus exclusive digital content, such as blogs and e-newsletters; data from special reports in database format; podcasts, slide shows, and video. Site contains a summary of available features.  September 1989 to present.

Indexes journals in nursing and allied health, selected healthcare books, nursing dissertations, audiovisual materials, standards of practice and conference proceedings.  Includes full-text of over 600 journals.

Scientific literature and search engine that focuses primarily on literature in computer and information science.  Includes: Algorithms, metadata, services, techniques, software, PostScript and PDF research articles on the Web.  Coverage varies by publication.

Indexes all ASCE publications including the journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newsletters in the following fields: Aerospace Engineering, Architectural Engineering, Bridges & Highways, Construction, Engineering Mechanics, Environmental Engineering, Forensic Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Hydrology & Hydraulics, Irrigation and Drainage Management, Materials Engineering, Structural Engineering, Transportation, Urban Planning, Water Resources.  Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts of journal articles, conference papers, books, standards, manuals, magazine articles, and newletters.  Marquette subcribes to all ASCE journals and purchases many of the other ASCE publications, check MARQCAT for call numbers.  ASCE journals from 1999- present are also available online through links in MARQCAT.  1973 to present.

Provides bibliographic citations of articles indexed in over 2,600 scholarly Latin American journals, monographs, conference proceedings, book reviews, essays, etc.  This index is made up of two separate databases:  Clase which provides referencing to articles in the social sciences and humanities and Periodica which provides indexing to articles in the area of science and technology.  Thus, ClasePeriodica provides indexing to articles for a wide range of topics:  literature, politics, history, foreign affairs, medicine, biology, education, religion, sociology, etc.  Languages of referenced materials may be in Spanish, English, Portuguese or French.  Clase portion of the database is 1975 to present.  The Periodica portion is 1978 to present.

Multimedia course created by Dr. Stephen Cohen, co-author and editor of Pathways of the Pulp.  Includes four modules: Think in 3 Dimensions, Visualize the Access Opening, Create the Access Opening, and Clean and Shape the Root Canal System.  Includes learning objectives and overview for each module

Provides information on federally and privately supported clinical trials on a wide range of conditions and diseases.  Includes: descriptions of over 12,000 trials, including purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more information.  Current information only.

Over 7,000 college catalogs from 2-year, 4-year and graduate schools in the U. S., presented cover-to-cover in their original page format. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.  Current information only.

Comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.  It contains a wide range of scholarship including working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.  CIAO also contains teaching materials including 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.  1991 to present.

A major periodicals database related to communication and mass media.  Includes citation coverage of over 40,000 articles related to mass media and published in over 60 research journals, as well as major journalism reviews, recent encyclopedias, and handbooks in the area of communications studies.  Coverage varies by journal.

Includes communication-related articles, reports, papers, and books from a variety of publishers, research institutions, and information sources.  Recently expanded coverage now includes international literature in film studies, the role of technology in human communications, risk communication, crisis communication and public opinions.  1977 to present.

This database includes 16 full-text titles in the area of communication studies.  Most journals are 1982 to present.

Interdisciplinary engineering database that provides citations and abstracts to journal articles, technical reports and conference proceedings.  All engineering disciplines are covered.  1970 to present.  VPN required if off-campus and also using RefWorks.

Searchable full-text of seven primary sources on the history of the American Civil War: The War of the Rebellion:  A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.  Contains 127 books of the official government records of Army operations.  Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion.  Contains 30 books of the official government records of Navy operations.  Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.  Includes huge color maps covering various battles and theaters of operation, with a searchable index.  The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion.  Contains six massive books of the official government medical records, including over 1,500 illustrations.  The Southern Historical Society Papers.  Includes 52 books containing the collected publications of the Southern Historical Society, focusing on the Confederacy.  Campaigns of the Civil War.  Contains 19 books covering various major campaigns.  Confederate Generals Speak.  Includes 7 biographical and autobiographical books, covering Robert E. Lee, Jubal Early, J.E.B. Stuart, John B. Gordon, James Longstreet, G. Moxley Sorrel, and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.

A subject-oriented guide to popular computing literature.  The focus is on real-world applications.  Contains references to books and to published articles in journals and magazines, computer-related trade publications, general business and management periodicals that cover computer topics, and publications of computer and management-oriented professional societies and organizations.  1996 to present.

Research on the latest issues in business management and on US and global economics, covering topics such as business outlook, leadership decisions, performance excellence, corporate governance, human resource management, productivity, economic indicators and analysis/forecasts of regional, national, and international economic conditions.  Full-text materials only, also some webcasts.  No time-series data.  Mostly 2000 to the present.  Research reports, 1996 to present; Conference Board Review, 2000 to present; Webcasts, 2004 to present; Economic Working Papers, 2000 to present; Annual surveys (compensation for top executives and outside board directors; corporate giving), 1998/9 to present; Canada publications, 1998 to present.

Congressional Masterfile 1 indexes five major categories of U.S. congressional publications: congressional reports, published and unpublished hearings, documents, committee prints, and Senate executive reports and documents.  Covers 1789-1969.

Includes 570 full text journals and over 200 health related reference books.  Topics include: aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's men's, and women's health.

Multidisciplinary database providing full-text access to global information on women’s issues and gender studies.  Extensive international coverage from 190 countries (all material is in English) is provided from mainstream periodicals and the alternative press, including journals, newsletters, research reports, governmental agencies, non-profit groups, and pamphlets.  1992 to present.

CoPA, the Commercial Pattern Archive database provides a unique tool for researchers and designers to recreate or date clothing from 1868 to 2000.  There are several collections from the United States, Canada and the UK represented in this pattern collections database.

Covers the world's literature on copper, copper alloys and copper technology from smelting and hydrometallurgy through the performance of copper and copper alloys in their end-use applications and service environments.  It references data on the properties and performance of copper and copper alloys and on applications of the copper metals.  Sources covered include over 3,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases.  1965-present; also includes 5582 documents published between 1863 and 1964.

Provides corporate linkage information (hierarchy and ownership of corporate affiliates, subsidiaries, divisions, etc.) for major private and public companies in the US and abroad.  It corresponds to the print publication Directory of Corporate Affiliations.  Current data only.

Provides independent and objective information about the corporate governance, compensation and performance of the management of publicly-traded US companies.  The data are drawn primarily from the proxy statements of publicly traded companies (and occasionally from 10-K reports), and presented in Excel spreadsheets.  Each year’s historical data are a snapshot of the current database on June 30 of that year (the current database is called Board Analyst, and is updated continuously).

The COS Funding Opportunities accesses more than 25,000 records of private and federal funding sources representing nearly 400,000 opportunities worth over $33 billion across multiple disciplines (physical sciences, social sciences, life sciences, health & medicine, arts & humanities.)  Funding purposes include research, collaborations, travel, curriculum development, conferences, fellowships, postdoctoral positions, equipment acquisitions, capital or operating expenses.  Updated daily.  NOTE: To use the COS resources you must first create a profile and login using an on-campus computer.  Access from off-campus is based on the created login credentials.

This resource is available to all residents of Milwaukee, including Marquette students who reside on or near campus.  You must have a valid Milwaukee Public Library card and personal identification number (PIN) to gain free access to this subscription database.

Useful for analyzing the history, development, legislation, powers, and personalities of the U.S. Congress.  Includes biographical information and voting records.

Tracks the flow of money in politics.  Includes political parties, candidates, action committees, lobbyists and more.

Contains full text articles on controversial current events and social, political, economic, and international issues.  Each issue includes topic summaries, historical perspectives, recent developments, opposing viewpoints, and sources for additional research.  This resource is an EXCELLENT starting point for research on contemporary topics.  1960 to present.  VPN required for off-campus access.

Contains data, analyses, explanations, and historical material related to presidential, congressional, gubernatorial, campaigns, political parties, voters and demographics.

All material in the printed CRC Handbook of chemistry and physics is accessible in this online version as interactive tables and/or pdf displays.  Includes: basic constants, units, and conversion factors; symbols, terminology, and nomenclature; physical constants of organic compounds; properties of the elements and inorganic compounds; thermochemistry, electrochemistry, and kinetics; fluid properties; biochemistry; analytical chemistry; molecular structure and spectroscopy; atomic, molecular, and optical physics; nuclear and particle physics; properties of solids; polymer properties; geophysics, astronomy, and acoustics; practical laboratory data; health and safety information; mathematical tables.  Current edition only.

Online reference library providing full-text articles from 100 encyclopedias and dictionaries in a variety of subject areas: psychology, history, literature, business, medicine, law, technology, philosophy, art, popular culture, etc.  Keyword searching can be performed in individual titles, titles grouped by subject, or within the entire Credo Reference 100 collection.

Contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology, crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing and related disciplines.  1968 to present.

Covers the social sciences, education, and humanities relating to criminal justice.  Includes corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and family law.  Includes ASCII text, image, and Text+Graphics coverage for about 50 of the titles most frequently accessed by criminal justice researchers.  CJP also includes complete indexing and abstracts for another 140 relevant U.S. and international journals.  1981 to present.

Database includes 15 full-text titles in the area of Criminology.  Most journals are 1982 to present.

Searchable database of biomedical research projects funded by the Department of Health and Human Services.  Includes: Grant number, primary investigator and address of affiliated institution, project title, initial review group, and abstract for each project.  1972 to present.

Brief information on the cultures in 181 countries.  Includes 25 categories such as Land & Climate, People, Customs & Courtesies, Lifestyle, Society, History, Religion, Family, and Economy.  Also has multimedia content such as typical greetings and the national anthem.  Current information only.

A bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields.  The CIS Extended Database (CIS-ED) includes bibliography for the following types of items beginning in most cases in 1974, or with the first issue of the journal if later: the entire contents of over 100 "core journals" (including pre-1974 coverage for a number of the most important journals); selected articles since 1974 from about 900 additional journals in fields related to statistics; about 8000 books in statistics published since 1974

CUTDATA is a machining database that contains over 100,000 feed and speed recommendations.  It is based on work that began with the still popular Machining Data Handbook.

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Searchable catalogs providing access to "raw" datasets in various formats: XML, Text/CSV, KML/KMZ, Feeds, XLS, or ESRI Shapefile.  A catalog of tools links to sites that include data mining and extraction tools and widgets.

Database of primary sources dating between 1450 and 1910 copied largely from research libraries in Great Britain.  Primarily "advice literature," the sources address such themes as household management, education, leisure, shopping, sexuality, consumption, and sports.  The material is arranged thematically, along with essays by leading scholars.  The database is in five segments.  Defining Gender includes indexing that directs researchers to larger holdings of similar literature available on microform.  VPN required for off-campus access.

A multidisciplinary index (covering social sciences, humanities and sciences) allowing you to search through thousands of scholarly journal articles, books and documents in the Spanish language from Spain and Latin America.  Some journal article references include links to full-text.  Indexing begins with 1980.  Dialnet also includes access to a number of full-text theses from universities in Spain.

The 9-volume set of the Dictionary of American History is presented in a searchable e-book format.  Also included are maps and primary source documents related to specific periods in American history.  Current edition only.

Defines the vocabulary of the first six centuries (600-1150 A.D.) of the English language.

A complete record of surviving Old English taken from 3,047 texts.

A summary of most of the units of measurement to be found in use around the world together with the appropriate conversion factors needed to change them into a 'standard' unit of the SI.

A reference work that is an essential tool to make the often complex history of "what we think" accessible.  A distinguished team of international scholars explore new thinking in areas previously covered (communism, linguistics, physics) and present cross-cultural perspectives on more recent topics such as postmodernism, deconstruction and post-colonialism.  Current edition only.

Features the entire corpus of Barth’s Gesamtausgabe.  Digital version of the definitive Theologischer Verlag Zürich edition of Barth’s works in German, which currently comprises more than 40 volumes of sermons, letters, lectures, conversations, and academic writing.  Future additions to the collection will include: the 14-volume Kirchliche Dogmatik, English translations of selected works, photographs, audio files, and other archival content.

Contains all seminal works of the Reformation and post-Reformation eras (16th and 17th centuries), written by more than 300 Protestant authors: theological writings, biblical commentaries, confessional documents, and polemical treatises.

Papal and synodal decrees, catechisms and inquisitorial manuals, biblical commentaries, theological treatises and systems, liturgical writings, saints' lives, and devotional works.

This resource publishes declassified documents from a host of U.S. government agencies as they are released. It has become a key tool for scholars researching the U. S. after World War II in disciplines such as International Relations, Political Science, History, and Economics. Its over 78,000 documents contain records of the Cabinet, National Security Council, CIA, State Department, and Joint Chiefs of Staff, among others.

Provides approximately 10,000 records with location and descriptive information for government agencies, information and referral centers, professional societies, self-help groups, and academic and research institutions in health and biomedicine.  Topics include maternal and child health, diseases and conditions, and health services research and technology assessment.  Current information only.

DiscoveryGate is a multi-database system which includes more than 20 million structures, 11 million reactions and 350 million calculated and reported physical properties. In addition to this data, it links to journal articles, patents and reference sources on synthetic chemistry. It covers the areas of bioactivity, pharmacology, metabolism and toxicology and provides information on purchasing chemicals.

PC users outside of Raynor Memorial Libraries and all PC laptop users will need to download client software. Mac users do not need to download client software to use DiscoveryGate.

This database contains records for more than 2 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses.  Also included is the full text content for nearly 900,000 dissertations.  Includes extensive coverage of North American graduate schools, with coverage of some European universities beginning in 1989.  Includes bibliographic record of dissertations written in the United Kingdom and Ireland from as far back as 1716, with full abstracts, for titles available from 1986 in 'ProQuest Dissertations and Theses.  A separate database contains the subset of Marquette University doctoral dissertations in full text.

The Center for Research Libraries in Chicago has the largest collection of dissertations from foreign universities in North America.  These dissertations are readily available through Interlibrary Loan.  The Web site linked here takes you to CRL's online catalog of the dissertations.  Be sure to read the introductory information on the site, because there are special search features and because their cataloging is ongoing.  Thus all their holdings are not accessible here, though you can use other means to locate uncatalogued material.

The full text of all but the very earliest Marquette dissertations.

Dynamed is a clinical reference tool designed primarily for point-of-care use.  It provides information on over 3,000 topics with content updated daily.  It can be searched on or off campus and is deliverable via a hand-held device.

This resource is available to all residents of Milwaukee, including Marquette students who reside on or near campus.  You must have a valid Milwaukee Public Library card and personal identification number (PIN) to gain free access to this subscription database.

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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.

Search across all of the EBSCO databases.  Coverage varies by database and journal.

Also known as the "Evans Bibliography". Full text database of publications from colonial America and the early republic (1639-1800).  Users can do a field searches—author, title, genre, place of publication, publisher —as well as keyword queries in the full text.  They can also take advantage of a sophisticated subject category system.

Digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America, and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473 - 1700.  The collection contains over 100,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).  A wealth of subject areas includes English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.  The Basic search mode allows searching using a combination of the following fields: keywords, author, title, subject, bibliographic number (from the short-title catalogues), or date.  More about EEBO.

World's largest environmental law database developed by combining resources of the legal libraries of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Conservation Union (IUCN), and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).  Includes information on treaties, international soft-law and other non-binding policy and technical guidance documents, national legislation, judicial decisions, and law and policy literature.  Users have direct access to the abstracts and indexing information about each document, as well as to the full text of most of the information provided.  Coverage varies, some documents are from the 1800's.

A comprehensive, indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature, produced by the American Economic Association.  It includes coverage of over 400 major journals as well as articles in collective volumes (essays, proceedings, etc.), books, book reviews, dissertations, and working papers licensed from the Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics.  1969 to present.

This database includes 22 full-text titles in the area of education.  Most journals are 1982 to present.

Several databases are provided: EBSCO Animals - 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.  Middle Search Plus - Provides full text for nearly 100 magazines covering general topics appropriate for middle and junior high school students.  Primary Search - Provides full text for over 70 children's magazines and over 300 children's pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student.  Professional Development Collection - provides a collection of more than 550 education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles.  This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.  Coverage varies by database and journal.  Teacher Reference Center - provides indexing and abstracts for 270+ popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines.  Book Collection - Nonfiction - divided into elementary, middle, and high school collections.  Educational Administration Abstracts, and ERIC are also available.

Provides access to large collection of periodicals on all aspects of education including early childhood through higher education.  Also includes a collection of magazines for children.  1986 to present.

Bibliographic records related to educational administration, including educational leadership, management, research, and other areas relevant to the discipline.

Indexing and abstracts for more than 2,150 journals, as well as full text for nearly 1,200 journals covering such topics as early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.

ECCO is the electronic edition of The Eighteenth Century, the world’s largest collection of microfilmed printed books.  The collection contains works and literature in seven broad categories: history and geography; social sciences and fine arts; medicine, science, and technology; literature and language; religion and philosophy; reference works; and law.  Covers more than 180,000 English and foreign-language works published in the U.K., along with thousands of important works from the Americas.  With works from both major and minor authors of the period, this digitized collection of books, broadsides, sermons, pamphlets, bibles, and other rare materials offers researchers access to over 33 millions pages of text from the British Library and 1,500 libraries worldwide.  Included in this resource are the complete works of 28 prominent eighteenth-century authors, such as Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Paine, Alexander Pope, Adam Smith, Jonathan Swift, and John Wesley.  The database features full text searching, plus search and browsing capabilities via keyword, general subject area, title, author, language, date, and more.

A portal to eighteenth century newspapers and periodicals.  Consists of 165 journals published between 1685 and 1815.  List of titles.  These holdings supplement but do not duplicate what can be found in Early English Books Online (EEBO), Early English Newspapers and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO).  The range of topics includes the writings of Sir Isaac Newton; the French Revolution; reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe; political debates; coffee house gossip and discussion, literature, the theatre, origins and rise of romanticism, politics, revolution and rebellion, social issues, gender, society life, religion and the influence of the press.  VPN required for off-campus access.

Covers the history of the British Empire over five centuries by reproducing digital copies of primary documents.  Documents are organized under five themes—Cultural Contacts, c. 1492-1969; Empire Writing & the Literature of Empire; the Visible Empire; Religion & Empire; and Race, Class & Colonialism, c. 1783-1969.  VPN required for off-campus access.

Electronic version of the second edition of the 22 volume encyclopaedia covering Jewish life, history, culture and religion.  Includes more than 21,000 signed articles, 600 maps, charts, tables and illustrations and 168 photos.  Extensive cross-references, bibliographies, place-name lists, chronologies and a comprehensive fully searchable index are useful features.

Electronic version of the original 9 volume (plus 2 updates) set. Represents over 10 million words and thousands of articles dealing with the ancient, medieval, and modern peiods of Islamic studies.  Searches are possible in both Arabic transcription and English.  The search engine allows for wildcard, Boolean, and proximity searches.  Includes many hyperlinks for easy cross-referencing.

Full-text of the 2008 edition.

Comprehensive survey of African American history covering the trauma, tragedy, hope, and accomplishments of black culture and life since 1896.  Entries include both topical and biographical subjects.  Related entries are indicated along with bibliographic sources.

Essays treating concepts and doctrines, policymaking, commerce and science, human rights and arms control, with specific articles on topics ranging from anti-imperialism to environmental diplomacy, from refugee policies to terrorism and countermeasures.  Current edition only.

Covers all aspects of archaeology worldwide.

Access is provided via Business and Company Resource Center.  This resource combines three print titles: Encyclopedia of Associations:  International Organizations, Encyclopedia of Associations:  National Organizations of the U.S., and Encyclopedia of Associations:  Regional, State, and Local Organizations.  Each entry includes contact information (Association name, address, phone and fax), web site URL if available, awards given, meetings held, committees, as well as a brief description of the association or organization.  Current information only.

Social and cultural history of childhood from antiquity to the present.  Topics include: education, parenting, child labor, economics, images of childhood, children's literature, play, toys and games, health, physiology, law, the criminal justice system and social welfare.  Comparative articles include information about childhood in cultures throughout the world.  Current edition only.

Some 750 alphabetically arranged entries provide insights into the exciting cultural and political developments within Spain, including the cultures of Catalonia, Galicia and the Basque country.  Coverage spans from the end of the Civil War in 1939 to the present day, with emphasis on the changes made since the demise of the Franco distatorship in 1975.  Culture is defined in its broadest sense encompassing a wide variety of subjects.  Entries range from shorter, factual articles to longer overview essays which offer an in-depth treatment of major issues.  Users must have a NetLibrary account to view this e-book.

Tendencies and developments of European culture from the 1670s to the early nineteenth century (including in the American outposts of that culture).

Covers all aspects of human rights theory, practice, law, and history. Includes major figures, organizations and institutions, human rights events and crises, and human rights norms. Topics include: right to health and health care, Amnesty International, Balkan wars, the Internet, intellectual property rights, American Civil Rights Movement, globalization and many more.

Spans prehistoric times to the present, and treats both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland in detail.  Current edition only.

Alphabetically arranged with extensive cross-referencing this encyclopedia is an authoritative source of information about any particular aspect of linguistics or its applications.  Included in this online edition are over 7,500,000 words, audio files, extensive list of commonly used abbreviations, 200 language maps, and a list of languages of the world (including information on the number of speakers, language family, etc.).

Information on more than 1,600 medical disorders and concepts.  Each article includes in-depth discussion of causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, procedures, and other related topics.  Current edition only.

Cover topics in body systems and functions, conditions and common diseases, issues and theories, techniques and practices, devices and equipment and also discusses the roles of all major health professionals.  Current edition only.

The Encyclopedia of Philsophy contains more than 2,100 entries.  Among the many topics covered are African, Islamic, Jewish, Russian, Chinese, and Buddhist philosophies; bioethics and biomedical ethics; art and aesthetics; epistemology; metaphysics; peace and war; social and political philosophy; the Holocaust; feminist thought; and much more.  Also included are 1,000 biographical entries on major figures in philosophical thought throughout history.

Each entry of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field.  All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished editorial board before they are made public.  Consequently, this dynamic reference work maintains academic standards while evolving and adapting in response to new research.  You can cite fixed editions that are created on a quarterly basis and stored in the encyclopedia’s archives.

The second edition of The Encyclopedia of Religion is intended to reflect both changes in academia and in the world since 1987, includes almost all of the 2,750 original entries -- many heavily updated -- as well as approximately 600 entirely new articles.  This work preserves the much of the first edition's cross-cultural approach, while emphasizing religion's role within everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture.  An international team of scholars and contributors have reviewed, revised and added to every word of the classic work.  Current edition only.

Covers discussion of the people, politics, economics, religion, culture, and social systems of Russia from the earliest beginnings of the Russian nation (among the ancient Eastern Slavic tribes) to the end of czarist Russia and on through the rise and fall of the Soviet Union.  Current edition only.

Complete coverage of current statistical methods for applied psychology, sociology, market research, consumer behavior, management science, decision making and human resource management.

Provides authoritative information on the fundamentals of supramolecular chemistry; includes information on supramolecular advancements and methods in the areas of chemistry, biochemistry, biology, environmental and materials science and engineering, physics, computer science, and applied mathematics.  This is the online version of the 2 volume print edition, published in 2004.

Covers the modern history of the Middle East and North Africa, with major sections on Colonialism and Imperialism, the World Wars, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the United Nations' involvement in the region.  Each country in the region is reviewed, detailing its population, economy, and government.  Current edition only.

Spanish language encyclopedia from Encyclopedia Britannica; includes over 47,000 encyclopedia articles in the Spanish language plus images, maps, and tables. Also contains a dictionary, atlas, and timelines.

The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) describes works printed in any language in England or its dependencies from the beginning of printing through the end of the eighteenth century, as well as works printed in English anywhere else in the world during that period.  Appended to each record is a list of libraries which have reported holding a copy of the item described.  Covers 1473 to 1800.

Contains full text for more than 750 journals and covers the areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.

Contains more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 317,000 full-text documents from the Eduction Resource Information Center (ERIC).  1966 to the present.

Comprehensive database sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.  It indexes and provides abstracts for journal articles and specialized reports in educational fields such as early childhood education and development, perception and cognition, and testing.  1966 to present.  VPN required if off-campus and also using RefWorks.

Provides unlimited access to more the than 1.3 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials.  Advanced search interface allows for multiple concept searching.  Journal articles are generally not available full-text within the database but the records have a Find in a Library link that connects to Findit@MU for locating Marquette’s holdings.

Indexes and provides full text articles from newspapers and magazines published for ethnic communities in the U.S. Some material is in Spanish. Includes publications for African Americans, European Americans, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Jewish Americans, and Arab Americans.  1991 to present.

Indexes literature related to bioethics and professional ethics.  Includes citations and abstracts to journal articles, books and book chapters, bills, laws, court decisions, reports, news and audiovisual materials.  1976 to present.

Provides information on all 1,300 medieval bishoprics, archidoceses and patriarchates of the early, patristic and medieval Church.  It also has prosopographical information on 18,507 bishops, archbishops, and patriarchs for the period 1198-1503.  Although based on two standard print resources by C. Eubel and P. B. Gams, it will be enhanced to include information on members of individual religious orders and members of universities.

Contains over 650 primary digital documents.  The collection of periodicals, broadsides, books, and pamphlets encapsulates more than a century of social, cultural and historical documentation of American life.  Topics addressed include 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health and pastimes.  The collection is especially rich in conduct of life and domestic management literature.  In addition to primary materials, the database features an interactive event timeline, contextual essays, and a bibliography.  VPN required for off-campus access.

Full-text systematic reviews of health sciences literature, abstracts of additional reviews with commentary, and an extensive database of citations to controlled clinical trials.  1991 to present.  VPN required if off-campus and also using RefWorks.

Includes full-text Systematic Reviews, Evidence Summaries, and Best Practice Information Sheets.

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Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.  The database has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes film scholars, college students, and general viewers.  Covers over 300 journal and magazine titles for film and television reviews, scholarly and critical analysis of cinema and television, and articles of popular interest about film and television.  Provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications and selected coverage of 300 more.  About half the journals and magazines are film periodicals and the other half cover film and television with some regularity.  Full-text for 50 journal titles is provided.  Coverage varies by journal.

Comprehensive directory of over 92,000 U.S. foundations and corporate donors, as well as 1.3 million recent grants.  Current information only.  Raynor Memorial computers only. No wireless or off-campus access.

Descriptions of more than 6,000 foundations and public charities programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers.  Current information only.

Provides access to the 990-PF tax returns for private foundations registered in the state of Wisconsin.  1997 to 2004.  NOTE: More recent data is available via Foundation Center 990 Finder.

Directory of private grantmaking foundations in Wisconsin.  Current information only.

Multi-disciplinary database produced in France which indexes over 4,200 journals in the humanities and social sciences since 1984.  The subject descriptors and the abstracts are in both English and French.  It is particularly strong in religion, art history, literature, psychology, philosophy, education, linguistics, archeology, information science, and sociology.  Included are bibliographic citations to books as well as book chapters, journal articles, conference papers, exhibition catalogs, reports, legislation, teaching materials, and french dissertations.  1984 to present.

Collection of scholarly journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers.  This database offers full text content to many academic areas including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology.  This database provides full text (including PDF) for more than 200 scholarly Spanish language journals.  Coverage varies by publication.  Most are 1995 to present.

Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries.  Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.

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Search over 40 encyclopedias and dictionaries covering history, medicine, religion and social science.

Original research related to Information Technology and Business and Industry.  Includes current news, research reports, and white papers all related to information technology and how it affects various areas of business.  Those focus areas include: application integration, communication services, customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise applications, health care, higher education, IT management and services, security, semiconductors, servers, wireless technologies, and more.  Requires Checkmarq login.

Full text database composed primarily of the many ongoing periodicals that focus on women and women's issues, including academic and scholarly journals, regional publications, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, booklets and reports.  GenderWatch contains a significant body of archival material, in some cases as far back as 1974.

Included as part of Business and Company Resource Center.

A dataset compiled from personal interviews of over 40,000 U.S. participants responding to over 3.500 different questions from the time period of 1972-1998.  Main areas covered by the GSS include: socioeconomic status, social mobility, social control, the family, race relations, sex relations, civil liberties and morality.  Other areas include: religion, health, culture, job experiences, interracial friendships, gender, emotions, political preferences, etc.  Numerical data is in SPSS portable file format (readable by SPSS program.)  Accompanying Codebook (in PDF format) is included with dataset.  A web-based version of the GSS Codebook is freely available from the following Web URL: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/GSS/  In addition, a print copy of the GSS Codebook is available for limited checkout from the Raynor Library Reserve Desk

What makes GSSDIRS unique is it is web-based and allows users to perform such tasks as tagging variables of interest to them them while using the GSS codebook and then requesting extracts of the subset of tagged variables.  Users can also generate automatic, customized codebooks for an extract based on a list or set of variables, rather than repeating the tedious set of steps necessary to print out or save separate codebook pages.  From the site, users can obtain facsimiles of all GSS questionnaires, show cards, project reports, and additional documents.

Indexes literature related to ethics and public policy issues in genetics.  Includes citations and abstracts to articles, books and book chapters, bills, laws, court decisions, reports, news and audiovisual materials.  Covers 1976 to present.

Indexes literature related to ethics and public policy issues in genetics.  Includes citations and abstracts to articles, books and book chapters, bills, laws, court decisions, reports, news and audiovisual materials.  1976 to present.

Books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the study of women's history throughout the world.

A database of economic, financial, and demographic time series data.  The data can be downloaded to and used most easily with a spreadsheet package, but can be used in several other formats as well.  The database consists of four segments: 1. The BASIC ECONOMICS database contains approximately 6,000 monthly, quarterly and annual time series that date back to 1946 when available and end with the latest observations.  Data in this database consists of national-level information, taken from various Federal agencies such as the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Census, Labor Statistics, and the Federal Reserve Board, etc. as well as private organizations with their permission.  2. The BASIC WEEKLY database contains approximately 500 weekly time series that date as far back as 1959 where applicable.  Whenever possible, monthly counterparts are available in the DRI BASIC ECONOMICS database.  Financial variables, banking statistics, commodity prices, and other economic indicators from various Federal agencies and private organizations are included in this weekly database.  3 & 4. The DRI BASIC DAILY & FX (Foreign Exchange) databases are comprised of about 700 financial variables, commodity prices, interest rates and foreign exchange rates.  These data are uniquely stored at a weekday frequency where weekends are not included in the series.

The Spanish language version of Google Scholar.  This resource allows you to locate many full-text academic journal articles and other documents in the Spanish language covering a wide variety of topics from around the world.

GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports that offer a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment.  Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet.  The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.

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Annotated bibliography of material relating to Latin America covering anthropology, art, economics, education, geography, government, history, international relations, language and literature, law, music, philosophy, sociology, and travel.  Each volume also contains special articles on particular phases of life and culture or inter-American relations.  This online version is available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Indexes articles with descriptions and analyses of assessment tools used in health and psychology.  Health and Psychosocial Instruments provides access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.  1985 to present, with many earlier measures.  VPN required if off-campus and also using RefWorks.

Provides condensed information not only on chemistry related subjects but also on biology and biochemistry.

Provides access to data derived from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, the Kids' Inpatient Database, and the State Inpatient Databases.  Includes Tables and graphs on hospital utilization, access, charges, quality and outcomes at the national, regional and state level.  1997 to 2002.

Empirical data collected by health care researchers, public and private agencies.  Covers health care providers, costs, substance abuse, chronic health conditions, etc.  Includes Abstracts, project overviews, data collection instruments, and descriptions of variables found in the dataset.  Most datasets and documentation can be downloaded, from on campus computers, for research and personal use.  Before retrieving data users will be asked to set up a "MyData" account and provide information to verify their Marquette status.

This resource is available to all residents of Milwaukee, including Marquette students who reside on or near campus.  You must have a valid Milwaukee Public Library card and personal identification number (PIN) to gain free access to this subscription database.

Two databases are included: Health Source: Consumer Edition - Provides full text for over 255 health periodicals, over 1,065 health pamphlets, and 23 health reference books; and Health Source: Nursing Academic Edition - Provides full text for over 480 journals focusing on multiple medical disciplines.  This product also includes Clinical Pharmacology, providing information on prescription, over-the-counter and investigational drugs, herbal and nutritional supplements, and Stedmans Medical Dictionary.

Includes citations and abstracts for hundreds of scholarly journals, magazines and trade publications in nursing, psychology, and allied health. Full-text is available for many of the journals and also for more than 11,000 dissertations. Also includes evidence-based resources from the Joanna Briggs Institute: Systematic Reviews, Evidence Summaries, and Best Practice Information Sheets.

This database includes 26 full-text titles in the area of Health Sciences.  Most journals are 1982 to present.

Provides full text for over 255 health periodicals, over 1,065 health pamphlets, and 23 health reference books.

Provides nearly 480 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 510 journals.  This product offering also includes USP Pharmacopoeia DI: Volume II Advice for the Lay Patient and Stedman's Medical Dictionary

Contains the full-text of the 1963-64 hearings before the Presidential Commission on the AssAssassination of President John F. Kennedy. Also, included is the Commission's final report (commonly known as the Warren Report or Warren Commission Report.)  The full-text of the hearings and report are searchable by keyword(s.)  In addition to the hearings and report, also includes is Walt Brown's Index to the Warren Commission which contains an index to commission documents and exhibits.  NOTE:  facsimilies of Commission exhibits are NOT included in this database; please refer to the 26 volume print work held at the Raynor Reserve Desk, Investigation of the assAssassination of President John F. Kennedy; hearings before the President's Commission on the AssAssassination of President Kennedy (call number:  Raynor Reserves E842.9 .A54)  For facsimilies of Warren Commission Documents, please refer to the 5 CD set of the Warren Commission Documents (call number:  Raynor Library E842.9 .W373 2000)

A collaborative project between the William S. Hein Company, Cornell Information Technologies and the Cornell University Law Library Hein-On-Line provides retrospective full-text/image access to nearly 300 law reviews.  Coverage varies by journal.

This resource is available to all residents of Milwaukee, including Marquette students who reside on or near campus.  You must have a valid Milwaukee Public Library card and personal identification number (PIN) to gain free access to this subscription database.

Identifies world-wide multidisciplinary research dealing with Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the U.S.  Covers political, social and economic issues as well as the humanities including literature, art, religion, etc.  Includes bibliographic citations to both English language and Spanish language articles, book reviews, documents, and other materials appearing in over 400 key social sciences and humanities journals published throughout the world.  1970 to present.

Microscopic samples of human tissues from the cardiovascular, endocrine, gastrointestinal, immune, integumentary, renal, reproductive, respiratory, and skeletal systems.  The digitized slide images are available at one or more of the following magnifications: 4x, 10x, 20x, 40x, and 100x.

Covers historical writings on all areas of the world except the United States and Canada.  1972 to present.

Includes bibliographical references, maps and an index related to the Holocaust.

Index to articles appearing from 1851 to 1922.  For recent coverage of the New York Times, try Lexis Nexis Academic or Newspapers in ProQuest.

Statistical tables cover a variety of topics providing a wealth of information downloadable in Excel or CSV format.  Groups of tables can be downloaded in .zip format.  Individual tables can be customized and downloaded.

Reviewing each year’s major events since 1972, Historic Documents reproduces official public statements; noteworthy court decisions; reports by governmental agencies, including some from the United Nations; special studies by public and private groups; and speeches by prominent figures.  The documents have introductions providing background, a summary, and indication of subsequent events.  The online version can be searched by keyword, title, and topic.  There is also a cumulative index.

Covering all aspects of history this resource offers full text access to 2,500 reference books, 170 journals, plus biographies and many historical documents, photos, maps, and videos.

Provides profiles of 12 million companies, with in-depth coverage of 40,000 of the world's top business enterprises.  The in-depth profiles include extracted financial information, SEC filings, and lists of people (VIP's), products/operations, and competitors.  Our subscription includes only the Pro Tools.

HCCP includes the full text of all the papers issued by the British House of Commons between 1801 and 1945.  Keyword searching of the full text is possible, as is queries limited to standard fields in the bibliographic entries.  Hyperlinks lead searchers to related documents.

This dictionary includes all the units of the International System of Units (SI); many other units of the metric system used in everyday life or in science, either currently or recently; various non-metric scientific units such as the astronomical unit, the electronvolt, and the parsec; all the units of the English traditional systems that can be defined with reasonable precision; selected traditional units from cultures other than English; and certain measurement terms and notations which are not "units of measurement" in a strict sense, but which are used much as if they were.

Electronic version of seven print volumes published between 1994 and 2002.  Provides information on the manufacture of a variety of items, from everyday household products to heavy machinery to sophisticated electronic equipment.  Includes step-by-step descriptions of processes and explanations of technical terms and concepts.  Covers a broad range of manufacturing areas including: food, clothing, electronics, transportation, machinery, instruments, sporting goods, and more.  Each volume has its own A to Z product listing.

Evidence reports, clinical practice guidelines, technology assessments, reports of the Surgeon General, Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, and consumer guides.

Covers popular magazine and scholarly journal articles on a wide range of arts and humanities topics including literature, history, fine arts, performing arts, philosophy, religion, communications, and linguistics.  1986 to present.

Provides full text content for over 1,000 journals related to literary, scholarly and creative thought.

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Includes over 730,000 citations to articles from four databases - Medline, Agricola, Agris, and CAB Abstractson pertaining to the use and function of vitamin, mineral, phytochemical, botanical, and herbal supplements in human nutrition.  1986 to present.

IEL through IEEExplore includes roughly one third of the world’s publications in electrical engineering, electronics and computer science.  Browse tables of contents of specific publications or search by author or keywords in citation and abstract.  Also includes bibliographic citations, abstracts and full text (pdf) files of IEEE periodical articles, conference proceeding papers and standards and IEE periodical articles and conference papers.  1986 to present.

Over 900 full text (pdf) files of IEEE standards provided via IEEExplore.

This information analysis and media planning software from Interactive Market Systems provides a user-friendly interface to datasets from market research companies such as Simmons Market Research Bureau and Mendelsohn Media Research.  Marquette has access to three software modules: CrossTab, Cost Ranking and Reach & Frequency.  Here are their functions: CrossTab: allows the user to compare and contrast several variables (product, demographic or media information) across a selected population.  Cost Ranking: allows the user to sort and rank magazines or newspapers on any of eighteen variables, including percent coverage, composition, or CPM.  Reach & Frequency: allows the user to analyze demographic and product usage that are merged with probably reading and viewing habits using various databases.

An international bibliography of publications on all aspects of Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim world--including accounting, archaeology, architecture, arts, bibliography and scholarship, economics, education, geography and travel, history, law, libraries, natural and applied sciences, philosophy, politics and current affairs, religion, social sciences, theology, and zoology.  Search criteria include: subject, author, title, keyword in title, keyword, year, place of publication, type of literature, and publisher.  1906 to present.

The Index Theologicus database is a cumulation of the monthly issues of the theological periodical index, ZeitschriftenInhaltsDienst. Contains over 140,000 article records from more than 1000 sources worldwide going back to 1990. Subject headings and class titles are in German, while help screens are in English.  Includes full subject cataloging and classification beginning with records of March 1996; earlier literature provides subject headings for persons and biblical texts only. In addition, Index Theologicus provides author, title, and keyword searching.  1990 to present.

The Index Theologicus database is a cumulation of the monthly issues of the theological periodical index, ZeitschriftenInhaltsDienst. Contains over 140,000 article records from more than 1000 sources worldwide going back to 1990. Subject headings and class titles are in German, while help screens are in English.  Includes full subject cataloging and classification beginning with records of March 1996; earlier literature provides subject headings for persons and biblical texts only. In addition, Index Theologicus provides author, title, and keyword searching.  1990 to present.

Full text (in Latin) of the works of Aquinas and 61 other related Latin works.

Full text (in Latin) of the works of Aquinas and 61 other related Latin works.

Search and browse current article information from over 25,000 publications.   The database provides brief descriptive information for over 11 million articles.  You may search the database by topic and find a list of article citations or browse tables-of-contents of journals.  Ingenta offers the opportunity to order and pay for fax copies of articles.   While full-text articles are not available via Ingenta they may be available via subscriptions through other vendors.  Check the journal title in MARQCAT.

Indexes over 4,000 international journals and conference proceedings in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers, computing, information technology, manufacturing, production and mechanical engineering.  1969 to present.  VPN required if off-campus and also using RefWorks.

Requires registration with an eMarq account. An information service that specializes in federal and state tax information, and includes international tax treaties. Includes all state and federal tax codes, regulations, and cases, and Commerce Clearing House annotations and explanations. Coverage varies.

The 14 volume print edition is now online.  Includes 60,000+ journal articles, books, book chapters, and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries. IBTD with Full Text contains more than 450 full-text titles, including more than 140 full-text journals, and 300+ full-text books & monographs.

On-line index to plays in collections, anthologies, and periodicals developed by the Portland State University Library.  Please Note:  Call numbers listed are for materials owned by Portland State University and do not reflect Marquette Library holdings or call numbers.  It is advisable to open a second browser window and search MARQCAT to see if Marquette owns the source listed in the Inter-Play Index.

Abstracts, longitudinal studies, project overviews, data collection instruments, and descriptions of variables found in the dataset.  Most datasets and documentation can be downloaded, from on campus computers, for research and personal use.  ICPSR holds a wealth of data from a number of sources.  Among them:

National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
Health and Medical Care Archive
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive
International Archive of Education Data
2000 Census Data
Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys
Crimestat
Data Preservation Allicance for the Social Sciences
Data Sharing for Demographic Research
General Social Survey Data and Retrieval Information Systems
Homicide Research Working Group
Human Subject Protection and Disclosure Risk Analysis
Mexican American Trajectories: Family, Geography, and Intermarriage Across a Century
Minority Data Resource Center
Population and Environment in the U.S. Great Plains
Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods
Terrorism & Preparedness Data Resource Center

Before retrieving data users will be asked to create a "MyData" account and to provide information verifying their Marquette status.  Tutorials on downloading and reading data into SAS, SPSS, and STATA are avaialble in the Data User Help Center.  Instructors - check out the Online Learning Center (OLC) for tips on incorporating data analysis into your curriculum.

Includes inputs (funding, personnel, teaching resources, facilities, teacher & student preparation) and outputs (graduation and matriculation data, drop-out rates, test scores, job placement, etc.) of education.  Geared toward academics, policymakers and researchers in the field of education.  Also included are abstracts, project overviews, data collection instruments, and descriptions of variables found in the dataset.  Most datasets and documentation can be downloaded for research and personal use.  Before retrieving data users will be asked to create a "MyData" account and to provide information verifying their Marquette status.

ProQuest Asian Business provides the latest Asian and European business and financial information from key international publications including Far Eastern Economic Review, Asianweek, The Economist, Fortune, European Business Journal, and many more.  1986 to present.

This work is a supplement to the Lexikon des Mittelalters, the standard encyclopedia in medieval studies.  It offers newly written, peer-reviewed articles as well as notes to the original articles in the Lexikon.  Its chronological range is from 300 to 1500 CE, and it will cover all of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.  It also provides live links to the International Medieval Bibliography.  See also Lexikon des Mittelalters Online

Covers a broad spectrum of social science topics, e.g., abortion, inequality, gender, trade, conflict, masculinity and many more.

This monthly publication is 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.  Only numeric data is provided.  1975 to present.

Contains over 300,000 full bibliographical entries of articles, review articles, scholarly notes notes and similar literature on all aspects of medieval studies (1967-2003).  Using familiar, multilingual terminology defined by professional medievalists for medievalists, this database employs 120,000 index terms classified into six types (subjects, persons, texts, places, manuscripts, etc.).  Covers publications in over 30 languages.  Relevant to Classics, English language and literature, History and archaeology, Theology, Philosophy, Medieval European languages and literatures, Arabic and Islamic studies, Art history, etc..  Coverage begins in 1967.

Contains a list of books and articles listing the philosophical literature published in the following languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan.  Works best with FireFox on PCs or Firefox or Safari on Macs.

IntraText Digital Library includes books, periodicals, complete works and archives.  Religious, philosophical, literary, and scientific texts are available in more than 30 languages.

Investext features reports written by top analysts at over 1,000 leading investment banks, brokerage houses, and consulting firms worldwide.  Nearly 4,000 new reports are added each business day.

Contains the full-text of the 1978-1979 hearings conducted by the Select Committee on AssAssassination of the U.S. House of Representatives regarding the 1963 assAssassination of President John F. Kennedy.  The final report is included as well as index to the entire work.  Full-text of report and hearings is searchable by keyword(s).

Economic, social, political and stock market news and investment screening tools for financial investors (In PDF format).  Current 10 issues only (published Monday - Friday).

This full-text database contains in-depth and balanced articles dealing with contemporary issues and controversies.  Keyword and subject searching is available as well as being able to browse by topic.  A list of current hot topics is provided.  This resource (in addition to CQ Researcher) is an EXCELLENT starting point for research on contemporary topics.  September 25, 1995 to present.

A bibliography of scholarly materials on the Renaissance (1300-1700) and the Middle Ages (400-1500) published in over 300 journals since the 1840s.

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This resource digitizes an annual bibliography of German historical writing beginning with its volume for 1984 and running up to the present.  The bibliography—Jahresberichte fuer deutsche Geschichte—includes historical works on all periods of history and about all regions of the globe.  The database is updated daily and can be searched in numerous ways, including by author, title, keyword, subject heading, journal, publisher, and date of publication.

A full-text searchable database of articles on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.  It also treats related persons and fields that have been shaped by or have themselves shaped literary theory and criticism. Each entry includes a selective primary and secondary bibliography.  1994 to present.

This unique multidisciplinary resource presents quantifiable statistical data that provides a systematic way to determine the relative importance of journals within their subject categories, including highest impact journals, most frequently used journals, ‘hottest’ journals, and largest journals. The "Science" portion covers about 5,000 leading international science journals from ISI database and the "Social Science" portion covers 1700 leading journals from Social Science Citation Index.  Basic information about each journal is also included, e.g. publisher, frequency, title changes, subject categories assigned, etc.  Covers 2004 to 2006.  VPN recommended for off-campus access.

Full-text back files of nearly 400 of the most important journals in Business, Ecology, Economics, Finance, Management, History, Mathematics, Political Science, Population Studies, Language, Literature and Science.  Entire text of each journal is searchable.  VPN required for off-campus access.

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Covering all aspects of engineering Knovel includes over 2,000 full-text reference works and databases.

This resource is available to all residents of Milwaukee, including Marquette students who reside on or near campus.  You must have a valid Milwaukee Public Library card and personal identification number (PIN) to gain free access to this subscription database.

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Multi-media full-text database covering all of American history from the first settlements to the present by reproducing speeches, Supreme Court Decisions, legislation, treaties, letters, and essays.  These primary historical documents are enhanced by introductions setting each in their context, as well as by audio and video clips, illustrations, photographs, and biographies.

Index to periodicals, books, and Festschriften in classics and classical studies, including Greek and Latin linguistics and literature, and Greek and Roman archaeology, history, mythology, religion, epigraphy, numismatics, and paleography.  Records are classified in a two-part system: Ancient authors and texts, Subjects and disciplines.  Searching available by modern authors, full text, ancient authors and texts, subjects and disciplines, word(s) in the title, publisher, collection, and by periodical.  It is possible to limit a search by year of publication or by a range of years, and also by modern language (for French, English, German, Italian, or Spanish).  1969-2002.  Does not work well with pop-up blockers.

This resource is available to all residents of Milwaukee, including Marquette students who reside on or near campus.  You must have a valid Milwaukee Public Library card and personal identification number (PIN) to gain free access to this subscription database.

Selected sources for legal research.  This list was prepared by the Marquette University Law Library Librarians.

Indexes over 800 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals.  Also, indexes law-related articles from more than 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.  Selected full text from over 170 newspapers and magazines is also included.  1980 to present.

Contains information on dental office emergencies, tissue diseases, drugs, endodontics, periodontics, surgery, implants, clinical dentistry, and more.

This work is the standard encyclopedia in medieval studies, covering the period from 300 to 1500 CE for the whole of Europe and parts of Western Asia and North Africa.  It addresses not only Western civilization but also the Byzantine, Arabic/Islamic, and Jewish civilizations as well.  The information in the print edition has been enriched with English headwords, inbuilt translation aids, and a live link to a Cumulative Bibliography.  See also the International Encyclopedia for the Middle Ages

Features a rich variety of full text sources providing up-to-date information on current events, business, law, and medicine.  It includes regional, national, and international newspapers; magazines; wire services; business publications (trade journals, corporate annual reports, tax sources); legal resources (law reviews, court cases, briefs, federal and state codes); government documents; medical information (medical journals); and reference sources (directories, biographical information).  Coverage varies by title; very good coverage from the early 1990s to present, with some coverage as early as the mid-1970s.

New software interface for Lexis Nexis Academic. Currently in Beta version, but should be totally functional, and will become the new interface by the end of Dec. 2009. Easier to search than current Lexis Nexis Academic version.

Features a rich variety of full text sources providing up-to-date information on current events, business, law, and medicine.  It includes regional, national, and international newspapers; magazines; wire services; business publications (trade journals, corporate annual reports, tax sources); legal resources (law reviews, court cases, briefs, federal and state codes); government documents; medical information (medical journals); and reference sources (directories, biographical information).  Coverage varies by title; very good coverage from the early 1990s to present, with some coverage as early as the mid-1970s.

Includes text and status of Congressional bills; information about members of Congress and their districts, text of prepared statements before Congressional hearings, text of National Journal articles, and text of Congressional Record and Federal Register.  Analysis of appropriate bills gives information about relevant public policies. Click on "Publications" button to get online version of CIS/Index.  Index coverage is 1970 to present.  Full text coverage varies.

Indexing and abstracting service to a wide variety of statistical information from the U.S. government, state governments and private sources.  Statistics cover such topics as: demographics, crime, economics, health, education, international trade, labor, environment, energy, etc.  Includes some links to full-text statistical tables.  Also, provides links to related statistical web resources.  For statistics from U.S. government 1973 to present for indexing/abstracting and 1994 to present for full-text of some items.  For statistics from state governments and private sources: 1980 to present for indexing/abstracting of statistical data and 1998 to present for full-text of some items.

Lexi-PALS Drug Guide is a database of Patient Advisory Leaflets from Lexi-Comp providing education on medications for patients.  Each pamphlet presents a medication in an easy to follow and understand question-and-answer format. Over 1,450 medication and natural product leaflets, are included with an additional 600 Spanish language leaflets representing the most subscribed and commonly used medications.  Funded by BadgerLink this database is available in Wisconsin only.

Contains all of the content available in LGBT Life as well as full text for more than 120 LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as more than 140 full-text monographs/books.

Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, search engines, printed and electronic information sources, the information industry, scholarly communication, and electronic publishing.  Includes journal articles from more than 600 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings.  Coverage varies by title with coverage extending back to 1966.

Covers research in library, archives and information science and related disciplines.  Library Literature indexes some 300 English and foreign language journals, books, conference proceedings, library school theses and pamphlets.  Includes indexing, abstracts and many full texts or full images of articles.  Indexing is 1984 to present; selective full text, 1997 to present.

Contains the complete Latin texts of the following series: Corpus Christianorum Series Latina and Corpus Christianorum Continuation Medievalis.   Also contains important full-text works taken from other collections, such as the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, Sources Chrétiennes, Migne’s Patrologie Latina, Acta Sanctorum, and Analecta Hymnica Medii Aevi.  Complete Latin works of patristic and medieval writers, including Ambrose, Augustine, Bernard of Clairvaux, Cassian, Gregory the Great, Jerome, Marius Victorinus, Thomas à Kempis and Thomas of Celano.  Also contains the complete Latin texts of the Biblica Sacra Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (the 1975 Fischer edition), Concilia Oecumenica et Geralia Ecclesiae Catholicae, and Corpus Pseuepigraphorum Latinorum Veteris Testamenti.  VPN required for off-campus access.

Comprehensive literature database covering biography and criticism on authors and works from antiquity to the present day.  Included are over 1,000 books, literary encyclopedias and reference works, and hundreds of literary journals.  For more infomation after connecting, click on "Database Help" in the Search area..  Limited to use within Wisconsin.

LION contains the full text of 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama, and prose from the Anglo-Saxon period through the twentieth century.  Literary criticism can be found through ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, containing over 854,000 citations for scholarly books, articles, and reviews from 1920 to the present) and MLAIB (MLA International Bibliography, with its 1.7 million records from 1963 on), including the full text from 160 journals.  The database can be searched by author, text, or criticism and reference.  LION also offers the option of browsing the complete contents, full text journals, author index, or poets on screen (a multimedia feature).  Literary texts range from the seventh to the twentieth century.  Journal full text covers from 1988 to the present.

This resource is available to all residents of Milwaukee, including Marquette students who reside on or near campus.  You must have a valid Milwaukee Public Library card and personal identification number (PIN) to gain free access to this subscription database.

LitFINDER incorporates: Poem Finder, Story Finder, and Essay/Speech/Play Finder.  Each resource provides a search interface to thousands of full-text documents, literary excerpts and citations.  Access to this database is being funded by the State of Wisconsin.  Only computers within Wisconsin can access this resource.

Core publications from the executive, judicial, and legislative branches are represented, including the U.S. Statutes at Large, Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States, and Decisions of the United States Department of the Interior.  Material from over fourteen states is currently available, and ranges from Michigan house and senate journals to California Supreme Court and Appellate Reports.  Key legal reference works in Anglo-American law, such as the Century Edition of the American Digest, are represented, as are secondary sources such as legal periodicals and case reporters.  International law sections include primary and secondary legal materials from countries as varied as Great Britain, Canada and India.  Coverage is primarily historical, reflecting the consortium's focus on historical legal and government publications.  While some of these publications may be available in print or microfiche in libraries, particularly federal and state depository libraries in the United States, electronic versions are in many cases unique to LLMC Digital.  Also includes other material of significant interest to historical researchers and students, such as the constitutions and bylaws relating to Native American tribes, is also available.  As the collection develops it should include more publications with an appeal beyond the legal and academic communities.  Multi-jurisdictional collections relating to the British Empire, Native Americans, and Military Law are particularly promising.  Coverage varies by document.

Reproduces the Weimar Edition of Martin Luther's complete works in electronic form.  The pivotal Weimar Edition consists of over 117 quarto volumes.  It provides a historical-critical tool for theo logians, historians, linguists, literary critics.  The first volume of the Weimar Edition was published in 1883.

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Contains more than 2,100 entries.  Among the many topics covered are African, Islamic, Jewish, Russian, Chinese, and Buddhist philosophies; bioethics and biomedical ethics; art and aesthetics; epistemology; metaphysics; peace and war; social and political philosophy; the Holocaust; feminist thought; and much more.  Also included are 1,000 biographical entries on major figures in philosophical thought throughout history.

Numeric data only.  Provides access to the data published in the journal Main Economic Indicators.&nbps; Here are the indicators covered: national accounts, industrial production, leading indicators, business surveys, domestic finance, deliveries, stocks and orders, construction, domestic trade, labor, wages, prices, foreign finance, interest rates, foreign trade, balance of payments, purchasing power parities.  This covers the 30 OECD-member countries (see http://www.oecd.org/pages/0,3417,en_36734052_36761800_1_1_1_1_1,00.html for list), plus some data for some additional non-member countries.  For information on sources, definitions, and methodology, go to: http://lysander.sourceoecd.org/vl=3523109/cl=17/nw=1/rpsv/statistic/s16_source.htm?jnlissn=16081234.  For a listing of the subject codes, go to: http://www.oecd.org/std/meiheira.pdf  Works best with Internet Explorer.

The Making of Modern Law is the result of digitizing Nineteenth Century Legal Treatises and Twentieth Century Legal Treatises collections.  It includes nearly 10 million pages of legal history from America and Britain in more than 21,000 works from casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more - separated into 99 subject areas.  Individual titles are linked in MARQCAT.

This database includes 36 full-text titles in the area of Management and Organization Studies.  Most journals are 1982 to present.

The Mary Ferrell Foundation hosts the largest electronic archive of information covering the assAssassination of President John F. Kennedy, subsequent investigations, and the historical context of the time period.  Contains over 10,000 entries for names and organizations relevant to researchers of the JFK assAssassination.  Also included are documents, essays, photographs, audio and video clips.  Coverage dates range from the early 1960's to the present.

Provides full text for over 1,810 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more.

Mathematics Archives, a free resource from the University of Tennessee Knoxville, links to various WWW resources on mathematics, organized by topic.

Covers pure and applied mathematics and statistics, including applications to other fields, such as physics, computer science, and engineering.  Most entries contain either an author's abstract or a critical review.  Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts of journal articles, conference proceedings, and books from Current Mathematical Publications (CMP) and Mathematical Reviews (MR).  1940 to present.

40 medical reference books, over 50 medical journals and clinics, over 1,000 peer-reviewed clinical practice guidelines and Mosby’s GenRx, which includes information on over 30,000 medications.  Additional features include patient education materials, daily summaries of key publications, and a weekly review of health information from the lay press with links to related clinical information.&bnsp; Full-text coverage is available from 1995 or 1996 to the present for most publications.  VPN required for off-campus access.

Numeric data only.  Provides survey data on the demographics, media use (i.e. radio, TV, and newspapers and magazines), product usage and brand preferences of a sample of ~25,000 US consumers.  The product areas covered are:  apparel, appliances, automotive, baby products, beverages, cleaning products, financial, food, health care products, insurance, personal care products, pet products, real estate, recreation, shopping, snacks, tobacco.  Covered in depth are: magazines, multimedia, and television.  For a help guide to the database, click here.  Spring 1995-Spring 1999.  (An academic, discounted subscription does not include current data.)

Numeric data only.  Provides survey data on the demographics, media use (i.e. radio, TV, and newspapers and magazines), product usage and brand preferences of a sample of ~25,000 US consumers.  The product areas covered are:  apparel, appliances, automotive, baby products, beverages, cleaning products, financial, food, health care products, insurance, personal care products, pet products, real estate, recreation, shopping, snacks, tobacco.  Covered in depth are: magazines, multimedia, and television.  For historical data use the CD-ROM version.  VPN required for off-campus access.

Covers 219 health journals and includes bibliographic citations, abstracts and selected full text articles.

Includes full text (pdf) of books in their series, Manchester Medieval Sources.  Topics include the Normans, the Black Death, Catholic England and other theological subjects, women, Merovingian France, the reign of Richard II, and the annals of St-Bertin and Fulda.  Covers medieval studies from medieval studies from c. 600s to 1600.

International coverage of over 3,800 journals in the fields of medicine, public health, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the preclinical sciences.  Medline encompasses information from three print indexes, Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index, as well as other sources of coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care.  1966 to present.  VPN required if off-campus and also using RefWorks.

PubMed includes bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 5100 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries.  The molecular biology databases include DNA and protein sequences, genome mapping data and 3-D protein structures.  1950 to present.

Provides survey data on the demographics, media use (i.e. radio,TV, and newspapers and magazines), product usage and brand preferences of a sample of affluent US heads of household.  ('Affluent' is defined as household income of $75,000 or more.)  From Mendelsohn Media Research.

Covers the following product areas, services and utilities: airline travel, business/personal, domestic/foreign, airlines flown; apparel, men's, women's and children's; artwork and collectibles; beverage alcohol; boat ownership; books; car rental, business/personal, companies used; cellular telephone usage; charge, credit or debit cards; cigars and cigar accessories; computers, PC's, laptops, software; cosmetics; cruises; cultural activities, spectator events; entertaining at home, or away from home; entertainment appliances; equipment, materials for home maintenance; fragrances; fresh floral arrangements; home fitness equipment; home furnishings; home improvement materials; hotel and motel stays, business/personal, domestic/foreign; household appliances; insurance; internet access, online services; internet purchases; internet usage; jewelry and watches; leisure activities; long-distance telephone usage, domestic/foreign, companies used; luggage; mail order purchases; media consumption, magazines, radio, television, cable; men's lotions and creams; occupational responsibilities; pens and mechanical pencils; photographic equipment and film; private clubs' memberships; public activities; real estate; securities; sports, athletic equipment; sports, athletic participation; travel to specific destinations; traveler's checks; vehicle ownership, leasing; windows.  Covers August 2000 survey only.

A comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments, contains information essential for a complete evaluation of testing and assessment products covering such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.  Entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts.  To be included in the MMY, a test must be commercially available, be published in the English language, and be new or revised since it last appeared in the series.  Coverage is from the 9th Yearbook (1985) to the present.  Previous yearbooks are located in the Raynor Reference Collection BF 431 M44.

Comprehensive coverage for companies actively traded on the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ with enhanced product-level detail for 3,700 companies in the Healthcare, Technology, Media and Finance sectors.

Includes: U.S. and international company data and archives data, U.S. and international annual reports, institutional holdings data, insider trading data, FactSheets, FactSheets Express, expanded long-term debt, Experian National Business Database, equity and corporate bond portraits

Public company information; an online (.pdf format) version of the Mergent Manuals (formerly called Moody Manuals).  Annual company profiles include: company history, business description, lists of properties and subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt, capital stock, the letter to shareholders, up to seven years of income statements and balance sheets (as reported), and cash flow statements, etc.  Covers over 35,000 global companies from over 100 countries.  For some companies, the entries go back to 1909.

Current English language dictionary provided through Britannica Online.

Index of research, policy and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa covering 1900 and earlier to the present.

Provides full text for nearly 100 magazines covering general topics appropriate for middle and junior high school students.  Included with other education databases provided by EBSCO.

Patrologiae Graecae is a collection of the writings of the church leaders who wrote in Greek, including both the Eastern "Fathers" and those Western Christians who wrote before the Latin takeover of the West in the third century.  It includes, for example, the early writings collectively known as the Apostolic Fathers, such as the Epistles of Clement and The Shepherd of Hermas, the church historian Eusebius, the controversial theologian Origen, and the Cappadocian Fathers Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa.  PG's coverage extends to 1439, the date of the Council of Florence.  The texts are generally interlaced, with one column of Greek and a corresponding column on the other side of the page that is the Latin translation.  Where the Greek has been lost, such as in Irenaeus, the full text appears only in Latin, and the extant Greek fragments of the work are interspersed throughout the Latin text.  In one instance, the original is preserved in Syriac only and translated into Latin.  1st century A.D. to 1439.  VPN required for off-campus access.

Current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government.  Includes periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the Military and Government.  Cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.

A component of ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages, this Milton bibliography presents online the contents of John T. Shawcross's Milton: A Bibliography for the Years 1624-1700, Revised, and for the Years 1701-1799, published in 1984 and extensively revised for this publication.  Includes over 13,000 entries.  The bibliography brings together all manuscripts and editions of Milton's works, as well as all studies and criticism, allusions to and quotations of Milton during the years of coverage.  A detailed contents and subject guide are included; users may browse by century or year, or do keyword or phrase searches of the entire contents.

Full text newspaper articles from the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel.  1990 to 1999

Full text newspaper articles from the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel.  1997 to present.

Provides educators, researchers and students with data resources that can be used in the analysis of issues affecting racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States.  Data available for secondary analysis through MDRC span a variety of topics including housing, health, education, crime, income and wealth, youth behavior, and politics.  Ethnic and racial oversampling, as well as large sample sizes permit opportunities to analyze and learn about issues that affect race and ethnic minority populations.

Bibliography of scholarship in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.  Journal articles compose approximately 75% of the database.  Monographs(books), book chapters, conference proceedings, working papers, abstracts of dissertations and book series are included; book reviews are not.  Print, oral, and audiovisual sources are indexed.  Some full text included.  MLAIB is a component database of Literature Online (LION).  1920 to present (plus JSTOR journals dating as far back as the 1880s)

This resource is available to all residents of Milwaukee, including Marquette students who reside on or near campus.  You must have a valid Milwaukee Public Library card and personal identification number (PIN) to gain free access to this subscription database.

Based on the the index by Stith Thompson, this index classifies and indexes motifs (such as characters, actions, or events) in folk literature.  The index is an elaborate classification of these motifs into broad categories and will refer to pieces of literature where these motifs occur.

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Over two million abstracts from four databases comprise the Astrophysics Data System.  The databases included are:  Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics and Geophysics, and the arXiv.org preprints in Astronomy.  Abstracts are taken from publications, colloquia, symposia, proceedings, and NASA reports.  Topics included cover astronomy related subjects including electrical engineering, astrophysics, particle physics, and optics.  Included are bibliographic records and abstracts from journals, publications, conferences, proceedings, and internal NASA reports.  Journals and Conferences included in the Astrophysics Data System

Includes international, historical, longitudinal, and minority aging and gerontological research studies.  Also includes two major collections: Dynamic Population Aging in ECE Countries and the RAND Family Life Surveys.  Abstracts, project overviews, data collection instruments, and descriptions of variables found in the dataset.  Most datasets and documentation can be downloaded, from on campus computers, for research and personal use.  When retrieving data users will be asked to create a "MyData" account and provide information to verify their Marquette status.  Tutorials on downloading and reading data into SAS, SPSS, and STATA are avaialble in the Data User Help Center.

Includes data collected by the Bureau of Justice Statistics on crime, criminal offenders, crime victims, and the operation of the justice systems at all levels of goverment.  Abstracts, project overviews, data collection instruments, and descriptions of variables found in the dataset.  Most datasets and documentation can be downloaded, from on campus computers, for research and personal use.  When retrieving data users will be asked to create a "MyData" account and to provide information to verify their Marquette status.

This interactive site allows users to print or order existing maps or customize and print maps with features chosen by the user.  Physical, topographical, aerial, and satelite maps are available.  Includes Printable maps (PDF) for states, counties, state capitals, rivers and lakes.  Using Map Maker maps can be customized to include cities & towns, agricultural features (crops, farms, land, livestock, etc.), biology (amphibian distribution, bat range, breeding birds), boundaries (congressional districts, federal lands, indian lands, time zones, etc.), climate (annual precepitation, tornadoes, etc.), environment (air releases, toxic waste, water discharge permits, etc.), geology (coal fields, earthquakes, geological features, magnetic fields, mineral operations, etc.), history (electoral votes, popular votes, territorial acquisitions), people (crime, economy, health, etc.), transportation (airports, Amtrak stations, parkways & scenic rivers, etc.), water (dams, streams & waterbodies, water usage,).

These working papers are the initial findings of researchers at the National Bureau of Economic Research (some will later be published more formally).  The topical areas that NBER focuses on are: Aging, Asset Pricing, Children, Corporate Finance, Development of the American Economy, Economics of Education, Economic Fluctuations and Growth, Environmental and Energy Economics, Health Care, Health, Industrial Organization, International Finance and Macroeconomics, International Trade and Investment, Labor Studies, Law and Economics, Monetary Economics, Political Economy, Productivity, Stocks, Bonds, and Foreign Currency/Asset Pricing, and Taxation/Public Economics/Government Spending.  National Consumer Survey  from Simmons Market Research

From the Simmons Market Research Bureau, this study provides survey data on the demographics, media use (i.e. radio, TV, and newspapers and magazines), product usage and brand preferences of a sample of ~30,000 US consumers.  Covers almost 8,000 brands in these areas: alcoholic beverages; ailments and remedies; appliances; household items; home repair; auto products; services; business purchase influence; cats and dogs; computers; drinks; finance (banking, credit cards, insurance); food products; gum and snacks; haircare and shaving; household products; intermedia; kids' products (clothes, toys, baby care); license, vehicle, mileage; men's purchase of apparel; minicyles, mopeds, nopeds, motorscooters; motorcycles; personal care products; psychographics (lifestyle descriptors); radio listening; shopping, gifts, stores, restaurants; smoking; soap and laundry products; telephones; television viewing (non-cable and cable); travel; trucks, vans, SUVs; VCRs, TVs, stereos; vehicles; weekly travel by day, personal travel; women's purchase of apparel; women's toiletries and cosmetics.  1988 data only.

Covers corrections, courts, crime prevention, criminal justice statistics, drugs and crime, international resources, juvenile justice, law enforcement, research and evaluation, and victims.  NCJRS is a collection of clearinghouses supporting all bureaus of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, as well as the Office of National Drug Control Policy.  Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts of Federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research with occasional links to full text sources.  Early 1970's to present.

This resource is available to all residents of Milwaukee, including Marquette students who reside on or near campus.  You must have a valid Milwaukee Public Library card and personal identification number (PIN) to gain free access to this subscription database.

Searchable collection of full-text electronic books.  The NetLibrary collection consists of scholarly, reference, and professional ebooks from leading university presses and commercial publishers.  Ebooks can be viewed or checked-out online.  Most books in the Marquette NetLibrary collection were published from the mid 1990's forward, but there are selected earlier works; the public collection includes older books in the public domain.

The second edition of the New Catholic Encyclopedia appeared in 2003, thoroughly updating and revising the 1967 publication.  The new edition contains almost 12,000 articles in fifteen volumes, as well as maps, illustrations, tables, photos, and bibliographies.  The Encyclopedia contains information on persons, institutions, cultural phenomena, religions, philosophies, scientific developments, and social movements affecting the life of the Catholic Church over two millennia.  The online version permits searching by title and author of the entry, as well as by keyword in the full text.

Coverage for nearly 400 newspapers.  The collection includes newspapers from the U.S., Canada and the U.K.  Specific newspapers covered in the collection include: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The London Times, The Atlanta Constitution, Indianapolis Star, Newport Daily News, The Bridgeport Post, and the Times (London).  Coverage varies by title.  Earliest coverage begins mid-1700s.  Database Coverage List

Coverage of 300 + National and International news sources including the following:  Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Tribune, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, New York Times, Star Tribune, Times of London, Wall Street Journal, Wisconsin State Journal.

Indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to New Testament studies.  The content of over 500 journals is included with all abstracts in English, regardless of the language of the original work.  In addition, approximately 800 current books regarding New Testament studies are summarized annually.  New Testament Abstracts is a product of a partnership between American Theological Library Association and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology.  1980 to present.

Literary review of current books and issues in American life, politics, culture, and the arts, including music, theater, dance, and film.  The electronic edition of this important publication includes complete text and archives back to its 1963 founding, which may be searched by date or author; keyword; or by specific fields (title of article, author of article, reviewed author, reviewed work, and type of article).  1963 to present.

Index and full text with images of newspaper articles.

Index and full text with images of newspaper articles.

Published weekly between 1811 and 1849, Niles' National Register was arguably America's first national news magazine.  This electronic index provides access to its wealth of information.  Memorial Library has the journal on microfilm.  Consult the description of the journal in American Periodicals 1741-1900: An Index to the Microfilm Collections to link the index entries to specific microfilm reels.

Provides a single interface for searching multiple resources from the National Library of Medicine including Medline, Old Medline, LOCATORplus (NLM's online catalog), and Medlineplus.  Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts of journal articles; NLM catalog records for books, journals and audiovisual materials; meeting abstracts on AIDS/HIV; and consumer information on health conditions and medications.  Journal citations are available from 1958 to the present.

Provides information on over 155,000 fiction titles.  Searchable by author, title, series title and plot and searches can be limited by age group.  Also includes award winners, discussion guides, and recommended reading.

Similar to NoveList but limited to juvenile literature.

NTIS is the largest central resource for government-funded information in science, technology, engineering, and business fields.  Includes bibliographic citations and abbreviated abstracts from over 3 million publications.  Search results are abbreviated in this free search interface provided by the government.  Titles can be searched in MARQCAT for MU holdings and WorldCat to locate libraries that may lend the publications.  1964 to present.

A resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers.  Contains nearly 100 full text journals, including more than 80 peer-reviewed titles covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines.  Coverage varies by title with some dating from 1965 to current.

Covers over 500 periodicals related to Nursing. Full text coverage varies per title.

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Indexes articles in the Times of London.  Indexing for previous issues can be found via Palmer's Index to the Times 1790-1905.  The library owns a back file of the Times from March 18, 1788 to present and the Sunday times, 1993-present on microfilm (Microfilm S-101).  Current issues are available in Raynor Library Periodicals.

Indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies.  The content of over 450 journals is included with all abstracts in English, regardless of the language of the original work.  Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology.  Old Testament Abstracts is a product of a partnership between American Theological Library Association and the Catholic Biblical Association.  Covers 1978 - to present.  NOTE:  Database may be up to two years behind the print issues.  To retrieve the most current citations, consult the most recent print issues – Raynor Reference BS410 .O43x

Based on Dr. Victor A. McKusick’s book Mendelian Inheritance in Man, this database includes information on human genes and genetic disorders.  It is updated daily and includes links to other resources.  Includes textual information and references; links to Medline citations, sequence records, and other related resources.  Most content is from 1998 to the present.  Some references date back to the early 20th century.

Examines the practices, beliefs and communities of 15 different religions in the United States today.  Looks at the religious landscape of the U.S. and provides historical and current information regarding these religions and their followers, beliefs and traditions.  Religions discussed include:  Afro-Caribbean, Baha'i, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Jainism, Judaism, Islam, Native American, Paganism, Sikhism, Shinto, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism.  Includes text, timelines, maps, graphics, photos, video and audio clips regarding the beliefs and practices of the major diverse religions in the United States.

This resource is available to all residents of Milwaukee, including Marquette students who reside on or near campus.  You must have a valid Milwaukee Public Library card and personal identification number (PIN) to gain free access to this subscription database.

A finding list of Latin place names and their modern equivalents.  Although based on a German publication, this electronic resource can be used like a dictionary without knowledge of German.  The original in print was Orbis Latinus; oder, Verzeichnis der wichtigsten lateinischen Orts- und Ländernamen by J G.T. Graesse (1909).

This resource is available to all residents of Milwaukee, including Marquette students who reside on or near campus.  You must have a valid Milwaukee Public Library card and personal identification number (PIN) to gain free access to this subscription database.

Oxford Art Online provides access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. Hugh Brigstocke (2001).  Over 3,000 thumbnail art images and line drawings are displayed in the text of articles along with extensive image links.

A single-volume reference work on Classical Antiquity and the Greco-Roman world.  In electronic form, it contains thousands of hyperlinks that allow the user to jump between entries and explore associated topics, figures, and concepts.

An online version of the 60 volume print edition containing 50,000 biographies of individuals affecting all aspects of British history.  The biographical entries contain bibliographies, and there are over 10,000 images.  One can search in the full text as well as by place, date, and fields of interest.  A guide for citing the biographies is included (four formats - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Chicago [notes], Chicago [bibliography], and MLA).  Covers the 4th century through 2000.

Covers economic history through all time periods. General topics include: Geography; Agriculture; Production Systems, Business History, and Technology; Demography; Institutions, Governments, and Markets; Macroeconomic History and International Economics; Money, Banking and Finance; Labor; Natural Resources and the Environment; and Biographies.

A descriptive and historical dictionary of the English language.  Presents a record of the history and development of the language since its early origins before the Norman Conquest.

Twenty-two full text handbooks covering the major topics in Philosophy

Over 3,000 references, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur'anic materials, primary sources, images, and timelines.  Includes material from several reference works including: Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, The Islamic World: Past and Present, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, The Oxford History of Islam, and What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam.

Translate terms to and from French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russan, or Chinese.  Audio pronunciations will be added in 2008.

The Oxford Music Online database includes three dictionaries and one encyclopedia: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, and The Encyclopedia of Popular Music.

Contains over 175 dictionaries, encyclopedias, and language references published by Oxford University Press.  A whole shelf of reference tools at your fingertips.

Contains over 500 full-text books covering core philosophical areas such as aesthetics, history of philosophy, logic, metaphysics and many more.

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Covers current events, public policy issues, and the social sciences in general-- including economic and social conditions, government and politics, and international relations.  Indexes a broad range of materials--books, pamphlets, and publications of the U.S. government and of international organizations, in addition to selected articles in 1400 periodicals, including Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report and National Journal, scholarly journals like The American Political Science Review, and opinion magazines like National Review and New Republic.  1976 to present (English-language), 1972 to present (other languages).

Index to articles appearing in The Times of London.  Indexing continues via the Official Index to The Times 1906-1980.  The library owns a back file of The Times from March 18, 1788 to present and the Sunday times, 1993 to present on microfilm (Microfilm S-101).  Current issues are available in Raynor Library Periodicals.

Indexes every paper in the published congresses, symposia, conferences, expositions, workshops and meetings received by The British Library Document Supply Center from 1993 to date.

Registration is required to access this database. Market research on countries, markets and companies: it provides country demographics and economic conditions; consumer lifestyle profiles; sales volume, value and forecasts for 350 retail products; major brands and companies.  Data can be downloaded into Excel spreadsheets.  Coverage of countries and dates varies from module to module.

Full text of works by major philosophers and philosophical groups: Anselm, Aquinas, Aristotle, Calvin, Dewey, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, Locke, Luther, Nietzsche, Ockham, Peirce, Plato, Santayana, Sidgwick, Wittgenstein; British Philosophers (1600-1900), Continental Rationalists, and Political Philosophers.

Full text of Jacques-Paul Migne’s 19th century work of patristic and medieval Christian Latin texts from the 2nd to the 13th centuries, with related humanistic and ecclesiastical scholarship from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

Includes bibliographic citations covering areas related to peace research, including conflict resolution, international affairs, peace psychology, and other areas relevant to the discipline.

Indexes literature relevant to evidence-based physical therapy practice.  1952 to present.

Contains the full text content of 350 periodicals journals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues (some dating back 200 years) to 1995.

Index of thousands of journals in the humanities and social sciences.  It indexes every issue of over 4700 journals from their inception to 1995, across 37 subject areas and 44 languages and dialects.

Covers writings on a wide range of philosophical topics including aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, history of philosophy, logic, metaphysics, political and social philosophy, and the philosophy of other disciplines, such as education, history, language, law, religion, and science.  Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts of journal articles, books and other research publications; excludes book reviews.  English language journals and books 1940 to present; philosophy journals in other languages 1967 to present.

Contains full text of current, recent, and back issues of 66 philosophy journals.  Every word in every journal issue in the database is fully searchable, ncluding all articles, book reviews, footnotes, announcements, and notices.  Users can view up to a paragraph of text around each "hit;" many journal titles also allow full text display.

This resource is available to all residents of Milwaukee, including Marquette students who reside on or near campus.  You must have a valid Milwaukee Public Library card and personal identification number (PIN) to gain free access to this subscription database.

This database, produced by the National Center for PTSD, indexes literature from around the world on post-traumatic stress disorder and other forms of traumatic stress.  Includes over 24,000 citations, most with abstracts, to journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, pamphlets and technical reports.  19th century to the present.

A multi-dimensional resource on politics and policy.&nbps; It includes the full text of the National Journal, The Hotline, The Congressional Daily, The Almanac of American Politics, Markup Reports & Bill Status, The Technology Daily, Ad Spotlight and Poll Track.  These sources provide a daily news briefing on politics and poling data, a guide to political/special issue ads, information about congressional hearings, updates on important news and trends in information technology politics and policy.

Provides 45-65 page overviews of the history, economy, politics, and risk forecasts for 100 countries.  It provides 10 years of economic data, and prose description and analysis of the political players and situation written by experts.  Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.  Current year only.

Includes 19 full-text titles in the area of politics and international relations.  Most journals are 1982 to present.

Covers research in political science, international relations, law, public administration.  Indexing and abstracting is provided for over 1300 journals.  1975 to present.

Full text for nearly 400 journals, and indexing and abstracts for more than 800 journals.  Also includes 180 full-text reference books and monographs, and over 28,000 full text conference papers,

Database of public opinion polls containing the full text of 400,000 questions and responses from 14,000 surveys conducted by 700 polling organizations since 1986 in the U. S. and 80 other countries.  Questions are individually indexed in one of 4,500+ topics and six search fields: topic, question text, universe, polling organization and response categories.  1986 to present.

Scientific research and public policy on all aspects of pollution including air, marine, freshwater, land, sewage and watewater treatment, waste management, toxicology and health, noise, radiation, and environmental action.  Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts of journal articles, proceedings, and other research publications.  1981 to present.

Provides international coverage of literature on reproductive health, population, family planning, and related health issues.  Includes bibliographic citations with abstracts of journal and newspaper articles, books and book chapters, technical reports, theses and dissertations, and other documents.  1980 to present.

Provides an annotated bibliography of the world's population literature.  Contains abstracts for 46,035 of the demographic literature including books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials.  1986 to 2000.

Provides full text for over 70 children's magazines and over 300 children's pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student.  Included with other education databases available via EBSCO.

Provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities.  Coverage of the database spans 1940 to present and includes all publication categories (articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc.) and many subject areas (behavior, colony management, ecology, reproduction, field studies, disease models, veterinary science, psychology, physiology, pharmacology, evolution, taxonomy, developmental and molecular biology, genetics and zoogeography).

Indexes every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Center from 1993 to date.

A collection of more than 550 education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles.  This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.  Full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 700 journals.  Examples of titles offered include: Booklist, Curriculum Administrator, Education, Education Digest, Educational Leadership, High School Journal, Journal of Education, Journal of Educational Research, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Phi Delta Kappan, Reading Teacher, School Library Journal, and many others.  Coverage varies by title with some dating from 1965 to current.

Full-text access to journals published by the Johns Hopkins University.  Project Muse contains the full text of over 300 journals with emphasis on the humanities including literary theory, history and cultural studies.  Other disciplines included are political science, film, theatre, and performing arts.  List of Project Muse titles.   Coverage varies by title.

A large-scale, interdisciplinary study of the complex influences of community, family, and individual factors on human development over time, specifically how families, schoos, and neighborhoods affect child and adolescent development both positively and negatively.  Includes methodology used to gather PHDCN data, instruments, and scales used in key analyses.  Longitudinal studies following 6,000 children, adolescents, and young adults.  Community surveys conducted in 1995-1995 and 2001-2002.  Systematic Social Observations from 1995.  A searchable database of citations of known published works resulting from analyses of the PHDCN data is also available. Before retrieving data users will be asked to set up a "MyData" account and provide information to verify their Marquette status.  Tutorials on downloading and reading data into SAS, SPSS, and STATA are avaialble in the Data User Help Center.

Multidisciplinary database with 11,000+ titles, with over 8,000 titles in full-text.  It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets.  Over 160 subjects areas are covered extensively including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences and more.

This subset of Health Sciences in ProQuest, includes over 650 full-text journals, more than 12,000 dissertations in nursing and related fields, and easy access to evidence–based content from the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI.)  Click Browse to view evidence summaries, systematic reviews, and best practice information sheets from JBI; cultural competency and video training resources; and study paths.

Indexing, abstracts and selected full text or full images of articles in a wide range of magazines and journals.  It includes general interest and news publications as well as selected scholarly journals.  Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts of periodical articles; some full text and full image articles.  Coverage varies by title with good coverage for late 1980's to present, some earlier coverage.

Full text of 60 publications from the American Psychological Assocation.  Coverage varies by publication.

Includes 31 full-text titles in the area of psychology.  Most journals are 1982 to present.

Provides indexing of over 300 professional and scholarly periodicals related to psychology.  Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts of periodical articles; some full text and full image articles.  Good coverage for late 1980's to present, with some earlier coverage.

Coverage varies widely over the history of the title.  Indexes articles and provides descriptive, nonevaluative abstracts.  Provides content summaries and tables of contents for book chapters and books.  Subject coverage includes basic and applied psychology, abnormal and clinical psychology, experimental psychology, human and animal development, social psychology, professional psychology and educational psychology.  Also includes bibliographic citations and abstracts of periodical articles, reports and dissertations, books and chapters.  1987 to present for books and chapters; 1872 to present for journal articles and other material.  VPN required if off-campus and also using RefWorks.

Provides information on the biological activities of small molecules.  It includes substance information, compound structures, and bioactivity data via the three primary databases: PubChem BioAssay, PubChem Compound, and PubChem Substance.  Current information only.

Contains bioactivity screens of chemical substances described in PubChem Substance.  It provides searchable descriptions of each bioassay, including descriptions of the conditions and readouts specific to a screening protocol.   More than 170 bioassays are included.  Each bioassay contains a various number of data points.

Contains validated chemical depiction information provided to describe substances in PubChem Substance.  Structures stored within PubChem Compound database are pre-clustered and cross-referenced by identity and similarity groups.  Additionally, calculated properties and descriptors are available for searching and filtering of chemical structures.  A search for chemical properties is possible.

Chemical structures, synonyms, registration IDs, description, related URLs, database cross-reference links to PubMed, protein 3D structures, and biological screening results.

A directory of information about more than 150,000 serial publications and more than 8,000 newspapers around the world.  Current information only.

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This resource is available to all residents of Milwaukee, including Marquette students who reside on or near campus.  You must have a valid Milwaukee Public Library card and personal identification number (PIN) to gain free access to this subscription database.

This is a two-in-one database, with information on advertising agencies and on companies which advertise.  It corresponds to the print publications Standard Directory of Advertising Agencies and Standard Directory of Advertisers.  The Agency Database contains detailed profiles of nearly 13,500 U.S. and international advertising agencies, including accounts represented by each agency, fields of specialization, breakdown of gross billings by media, contact information on agency personnel and much more.  The Advertiser Database contains exclusive information on over 15,500 U.S. and international advertisers who each spend more than $200,000 annually on advertising.  Each listing includes advertising expenditures by media, current agency, fiscal year-end and annual sales, contact information on key personnel, brand name info, S.I.C. classifications and other key data.  Current data only.

Indexes over 20,000 print and electronic texts and provides links to Marquette's collections.

Online resource for compiling bibliographies and citations.  Requires a RefWorks account created on a campus computer.  Bibliographies can be printed, exported, and/or changed to another format (MLA, APA, etc.)  Many database vendors (ProQuest, Ovid, etc.) allow for the exporting of citations directly to an established RefWorks account.

ReferenceUSA consists of two databases: a business directory and a consumer directory.  The business directory contains ~11 million records primarily for private and public companies.  In addition, it includes schools, non-profit organizations, and governmental bodies.  The main search categories are: company name, line of business, company size, geographic location, and type of officer.  It also traces and links corporate ownership, so that you can find out who owns whom.  The consumer directory contains ~180 million records for individuals.  It is searchable by name, address, and phone number.  Current information only.

Indexes research literature on disability and rehabilitation.  Includes over 65,000 citations and abstracts for journal articles, reports, research projects, and conference papers.   1956 to present.

Covers articles in Christian (mainly Protestant), Jewish, and Muslim journals.  Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts of journal articles.  1958 to present.

Covers popular magazine and scholarly journal articles on religion.  1986 to present.

Francis is a large multi-disciplinary database produced in France which indexes over 4,200 journals in the humanities and social sciences since 1984.  The subject descriptors and the abstracts are in both English and French.  It is particularly strong in religion, art history, literature, psychology, philosophy, education, linguistics, archeology, information science, and sociology.  Includes bibliographic citations to books as well as book chapters, journal articles, conference papers, exhibition catalogs, reports, legislation, teaching materials, and french dissertations.  1984 to present.

A tax research service covering state and federal tax information, with some international coverage; covers the areas of estate planning, payroll, pensions & benefits.  Includes primary source materials (federal and state tax codes and regulations, tax court cases and rulings, legislation, IRS publications and forms); editorial materials (RIA Citator, US Tax Reporter, etc.) and current news and awareness materials.  Also includes several full-text journals from the publisher Warren, Gorham & Lamont.  Specific major titles included: Citator 2nd, Federal Tax Coordinator 2d, Journal of Corporate Taxation, Journal of Taxation, Practical Tax Strategies, and US Tax Reporter.  VPN recommended for off-campus access.

The RiskMetrics Governance Database (formerly called the IRRC Takeover Defense Database) covers more than 4,000 companies and allows users to identify companies that have poison pills, anti-greenmail, classified boards, golden parachutes, and other devices designed to prevent hostile takeovers and weaken shareholder rights.

The RiskMetrics Directors Database provides details on the structure and practices of the boards of directors and about the board members themselves (independence, meeting attendance, stock ownership, etc.) at approximately 1,500 U.S. companies in the S&P 500, S&P MidCap, and S&P SmallCap indexes.

Registration required. Twenty-five languages are available for self-study. Most languages have three proficiency levels plus additional material for listening, reading, and speaking.

Online version of the print Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.  Published in 1998 in print and CD-ROM editions, this is the first multi-volume encyclopedia released in the discipline since the late '60s.  With a summary providing a rapid orientation at the beginning of every in-depth article, the Encyclopedia is specially designed to meet the needs of all levels of users.  Includes over 2000 original articles from over 1300 experts in philosophy; 25,000 hot-linked cross-references between articles; editorially defined links to other philosophy resources; a comprehensive conceptual organization of key terms, themes, and names; and articles organized by theme, philosophical traditions by region, religious traditions, and period.

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Works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's.  Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents providing original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and more.

Indexes thousands of documents from around the world covering the latest advances and research in all areas of mobility engineering including ground vehicle, aerospace, off-highway, and manufacturing technology.  Coverage includes fuels and lubricants, emissions, electronics, brakes, restraint systems, noise, engines, materials, lighting, and more.  Indexing covers early 1900’s to the present.  Full text of SAE documents begins in 1998.

This resource offers a breadth of full-text IT related books.  Topics include: IT management, e-commerce/business, programming languages, graphics, hardware, multimedia, security and many others.  All of the titles are available in MARQCAT.  For a list by title Check MARQCAT.  Marquette has licenses for three simultaneous users.  If you have difficulty accessing this resource try again in a few minutes.

SAGE Full-Text Collections brings together journals from the following subject areas: Communication Studies, Crimology, Education, Management & Organization Studies, Nursing & Health Research, Politics and International Relations, Psychology, Sociology, and Urban Studies & Planning.  Coverage varies by title but most journals are 1982 to present.

Provides a single query interface to search multiple science resources including Information Bridge, E-print Network, Science Conference Proceedings, DOE R&D Accomplishments, Energy Citations Database, DOE R&D Project Summaries, Federal R&D Project Summaries, DOE Patents, and Energy Files.  Covers 1943 - present.

Included in Web of Science which combines Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index in one source.  Indexes can be searched individually or combined.  Search by words in author, title, keyword, abstract, journal title and author affiliation fields.  A unique Cited Reference Search feature allows ‘forward’ searching by locating articles that have cited an older document.  VPN recommended for off-campus access.

Science.gov is an interagency cooperative providing a unified search of the government’s scientific and technical information.  30 databases and over 1,700 web sites are included.  Material is selected by the following agencies: Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health & Human Services, Interior as well as the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA, National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Government Printing Office.  Science.gov mainly provides citiations and in some cases abstracts.

Covers biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.&bnsp; Includes full text for 181 periodicals, 595 reference books, and 23 encyclopedias.

Covers popular magazine and scholarly journal articles on a wide range of science topics including agriculture, biology, chemistry, computing, engineering, physics and telecommunications.  Includes bibliographic citations, abstracts and selected full text articles.  1986 to present.

SciFinder Scholar is a research tool designed to access chemical literature in databases provided by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS).  Two versions are available: client-based software (available on Raynor Memorial PCs and available for download) or via a web-based client.  Registration is required to use the web-based version.

Reviews scholarly books in technology, engineering, computer science, medicine, agriculture, and the physical & biological sciences.  Full text coverage March 2000 to present.

Includes documents from 21 societies and organizations as well as patents and governemnt data.  Organizations included are listed on the advanced search screen.

Full text of the following reference works: Dictionary of American history (7 vols., 1976), Dictionary of American history (2 vols., 1996), The Presidents : a reference history, 2nd ed. (1 vol., 1996), Encyclopedia of American social history (3 vols., 1993 with updates through 1997), and Dictionary of American biography, Supplements Nine (1 vol., 1994) and Ten (1 vol.,1995).  Also includes "Key events time line" and more than 600 photographs and more than 50 primary source documents to illumine the text.

Provides basic data, cross-identifications and bibliography for astronomical objects outside the solar system.  Search for stars, clusters, and nebulae in the Milky Way.

From the Simmons Market Research Bureau, this study provides survey data on the demographics, media use (i.e. radio, TV, and newspapers and magazines), product usage and brand preferences of a sample of ~30,000 US consumers.  Covers almost 8,000 brands in these areas: alcoholic beverages; ailments and remedies; appliances; household items; home repair; auto products; services; business purchase influence; cats and dogs; computers; drinks; finance (banking, credit cards, insurance); food products; gum and snacks; haircare and shaving; household products; intermedia; kids' products (clothes, toys, baby care); license, vehicle, mileage; men's purchase of apparel; minicyles, mopeds, nopeds, motorscooters; motorcycles; personal care products; psychographics (lifestyle descriptors); radio listening; shopping, gifts, stores, restaurants; smoking; soap and laundry products; telephones; television viewing (non-cable and cable); travel; trucks, vans, SUVs; VCRs, TVs, stereos; vehicles; weekly travel by day, personal travel; women's purchase of apparel; women's toiletries and cosmetics.  1988 survey data only.

Included in Web of Science which combines Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index in one source.  Indexes can be searched individually or combined.  Search by words in author, title, keyword, abstract, journal title and author affiliation fields.  A unique Cited Reference Search feature allows ‘forward’ searching by locating articles that have cited an older document.  VPN recommended for off-campus access.

Covers popular magazine and scholarly journal articles on a wide range of social science topics including history, social policy, law, defense and military issues, psychology, anthropology, culture, criminology, political science, social welfare and urban development.  Includes bibliographic citations, abstracts and selected full text articles.  1986 to present.

Through funding from the National Science Foundation, ICPSR has created a Social Science Variables Database (SSVD) that enables searching across studies at the variable level.  List of studies in the SSVD.  How the SSVD was constructed

Focuses on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.  Includes bibliographic citations to over 1,406 publications.  Includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.  1980 to present.

Contains the full text of the most recent editions of: Encyclopedia of social work; Social work dictionary; and: Social work almanac.

Covers research in sociology and related disciplines.  Sociofile indexes over 2000 journals from about 55 countries, providing bibliographic citations and abstracts for the journal articles.  1974 to present.

Includes 28 full-text titles in the area of sociology.  Most journals are 1982 to present.

Provides three types of information: Company profiles: in-depth analyses of the corporate social responsibility of public companies in the S&P 500 Index and the Domini 400 Social Index (total of ~660 companies), with ratings in seven areas:  community, diversity, employee relations, environment, non-US operations, product, and 'other'.  Involvement reports: comprehensive U.S. and International involvement lists covering the global publicly traded universe for seven controversial businesses or industries.  These are:  alcohol, contraceptives, firearms, gambling, military, nuclear power, and tobacco.  (This covers ~3,000 companies.)  Shareholder actions:  text of shareholder actions/resolutions and company responses.  Shareholder action reports go back to 1998; otherwise, current reports only.

A portal to the publications of the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), an international, non-governmental organization that studies and helps to formulate economic and social policy.  These publications include books, journals and statistics on economics, business, social sciences, development, statistics, environment, education, agriculture, investment, finance, governance.  Includes full-text journals; full-text books and annual reports; and statistical databases.  The books are organized by the following subject areas, called themes: agriculture & food; development; education & skills; emerging economies; employment; energy; enterprise, industry & trade; environment & sustainable development; finance & investment; general economics & future studies; governance; international development; nuclear energy; science & information technology; social issues & migration; statistics sources & methods; taxation; territorial economy; transition economics; and transport.  1997 to present for full-text periodicals and books.  Statistical data can go back to the 1960’s depending on the variable, and can be available in monthly, quarterly or annual intervals (again, depending on the variable).  Works best with Internet Explorer.

This resource is available to all residents of Milwaukee, including Marquette students who reside on or near campus.  You must have a valid Milwaukee Public Library card and personal identification number (PIN) to gain free access to this subscription database.

Includes book and journal literature in recreation, exercise physiology, sports medicine, coaching, and physical fitness, the psychology, history and sociology of sport, training, and conditioning.  Seventy percent of the database consists of periodical articles.  1949 to present.

Searchable news and market research from the National Sporting Goods Association and other industry sources on all aspects of sporting goods, sports equipment, participation, broadcasting and marketing.

For the print and broadcast media, provides directory and contact information, some format/audience information, standardized advertising rates and deadline dates, and links to online media kits, Web sites, and audit statements.  Current information only.

Each entry of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field.  All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished editorial board before they are made public.  Consequently, this dynamic reference work maintains academic standards while evolving and adapting in response to new research.  You can cite fixed editions that are created on a quarterly basis and stored in the encyclopedia’s archives.

Summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States from such sources as the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and many other Federal agencies and private organizations.

Provides online access to the full-text of 18 dental books, including Peterson's Principles of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Essentials of Oral Medicine, Oral Cancer, An Introduction to Orthodontics, and Surgical Manual of Implant Dentistry: Step-by-Step Procedures. Now includes three study guides for the National Board Dental Examinations, Parts I and II.

Provides online access to 12 full text books.  Includes: AAFP Conditions A to Z; Current Critical Care Diagnosis & Treatment; Current Diagnosis & Treatment...(Emergency Medicine, Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases, Orthopedics, Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Pediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynecology); Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment; and Current Surgical Diagnosis & Treatment.

A business, trade and economic information service provided by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Includes National Trade Data Bank, current and historical financial and economic data, international market research, trade opportunities, country analysis.  Coverage is current with some historical data.

Data collected by public and private health care agencies related to substance abuse and mental health.  Includes abstracts, project overviews, data collection instruments, and descriptions of variables found in the dataset.  Most datasets and documentation can be downloaded, from on campus computers, for research and personal use.  When retrieving data users will be asked to create a "MyData Account" and provide information to verify their Marquette status.  Tutorials on downloading and reading data into SAS, SPSS, and STATA are avaialble in the Data User Help Center.

Simultaneously searches multiple internet sites, including the National Guideline Clearinghouse, PubMed, and DARE, for evidence-based health information.  Includes Clinical practice guidelines, and citations and abstracts for review articles, systematic reviews and original research.  1966 to present.

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Offers searchable database containing 20,000 formulas for integrals, sums, series, and products, hypertext links, bookmark function, and notebook feature.  Includes TeX source code for selected formulas

Provides access to tabular information (i.e. statistical and rank information, and raw figures).  Subject emphasis is on business (companies, industries, products, countries and markets), but it also covers broader subject areas, such as trends and demographics.  Over 20,000 tables added per year; ~90% full-text and full-table coverage; US emphasis, but worldwide coverage.  Data is drawn from privately published statistical annuals, trade associations, non-profit research groups, government agencies, international organizations, industry reports prepared by investment research groups, and more than 1,000 periodicals (journals, trade magazines, newspapers, etc.)  1997 to present.

Indexing and abstracts for 270+ popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines.

TeachingBooks generates enthusiasm for books and reading by providing easy access to authors, illustrators and exceptional book resources all in one place.  Included are original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, thousands of book guides with activities for the library and classroom, and hundreds of audio excerpts of book readings for grades PreK-12.  TeachingBooks requires that you sign-up for a user profile, which essentially involves registering an email address and choosing a password for log-in.

Online version of the well-known Peterson’s Guides to higher education.  Also includes access to sample college entrance exams and certification and licensing tests which can be taken and scored online.  (Note: This requires registering for a free account within the database.)  Includes in-depth information on colleges and universities, graduate and professional programs, distance learning, corporate training, available scholarships and awards, preparatory entrance tests and more.  Available online practice tests include college entrance exams as well as certification and licensing tests.  Also available are online test preparation books.  Also included are sample college exams which can be taken and scored - Graduate Record Exam (GRE), Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), Law Schools Admission Test (LSAT), Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT), and Miller Analogies Test (MAT).  Sample civil service and licensing exams include: police, firefighter, postal, clerical, U.S. citizenship, etc.

Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language.  Tests in Print provides information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).   A score index permits users to identify what is being measured by each test.  TIP is directly linked to the critical, candid test reviews published in the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) series.  Users can research current test information from the TIP series and continue their search to all available test reviews published in the MMY series.

Four EBSCO theology article databases can also be searched together as a group:  ATLA Religion Database and ATLA Serials, Catholic Periodical and Literature Index, Old Testament Abstracts – see description, New Testament Abstracts – see description.

Indexes articles in The Times of London through Palmer's Index to the Times 1790-1905.  Indexing is continued via Official Index to The Times, 1906-1980.  The library owns a back file of The Times from March 18, 1788 to present and the Sunday Times, 1993-present on microfilm (Microfilm S-101).  Current issues are available in Raynor Library Periodicals

Contains virtually all ancient Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600, plus historiographical, lexicographic, and scholiastic texts from the period between 600 and 1453.  Includes the Septuagint and Greek New Testament.  NOTE:  Best viewed with Internet Explorer (ver. 5.0+) using the "GreekKeys" font.  Requires downloading and installation of a Polytonic Greek font available on TLG's font page.

A searchable, electronic version of the world's largest monolingual Latin dictionary.  Users can easily find detailed documentation of usage, etymology, and history of Latin words, as well as the survival of Latin words in other languages.  The TLL documents and describes the use of Latin in surviving texts to A.D. 600, and is used by Latin scholars, researchers, and students worldwide.

Full text (in Latin) of the works of Aquinas and 61 other related Latin works.  An electronic version of the printed concordance, Index Thomisticus.

Full text (in Latin) of the works of Aquinas and 61 other related Latin works.  An electronic version of the printed concordance, Index Thomisticus.

Thomson One Banker (T1B) is a portal to company information for approximately 12,000 US (the Disclosure dataset) and 13,000 foreign (the Worldscope dataset) public companies, representing about 96% of world market value in 50+ countries.  T1B also includes data about mergers & acquisitions in the Deals Analysis module.  Internet Explorer MUST be used for full functionality.  There are two interfaces: Thomson One Banker (the default), and Thomson Research.  The T1B interface can be used to: find pre-formatted information on currently active companies, or to perform screenings for companies based on various criteria.  Use the Thomson Research interface to research corporate documents (including full-text searching) for both active and inactive companies; you get to this interface from within the T1B interface by using the ‘Jump to’ drop-down menu feature (center of the top menu bar).  This will open a new browser window; it may also log you out of your Thomson One Banker session.  The database includes SEC (EDGAR) filings or documents; Annual Reports to Stockholders (and foreign equivalents); I/B/E/S tearsheets; and extracted financial data (spreadsheet format).  Indexing of SEC filings from 1968 to present.  Full text coverage: of SEC filings begins mostly in 1993, of US Annual Reports to Stockholders beginning mostly in 1997, of international company annual reports beginning in 1997, current I/B/E/S tearsheets only.  M&A Deals (mergers & acquisitions data) from 1985–present.

The complete digital edition of The Times (London) from 1785 to 1985.  Includes full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page.  The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.

The Times Literary Supplement online archive contains the complete text (in image format) of this primary source of twentieth-century British cultural and literary history.  Search features include author, book title, reviewer, subject, and date.  Covers 1902 to 1990.

Provides access to the following databases on toxicology and hazardous chemicals: HSDB - Hazardous Substances Data Bank, TOXLINE, ChemIDplus, IRIS - Integrated Risk Information System, ITER - International Toxicity Estimates for Risk, TRI - Toxic Chemical Release Inventory, CCRIS - Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System, GENE-TOX - Genetic Toxicology, and DART/ETIC - Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology/Environmental Teratology Information Center.  Includes citations to journal literature, government documents and special reports; chemical records and excerpts from monographs.  1950 to present.

The world's largest and most comprehensive bibliographic resource on transportation information, TRIS Online contains over a half million records of published and ongoing research on all modes and disciplines in the field of transportation.  Includes bibliographic records of material published in books, journal articles, technical reports and other media, including coverage of Federal, state, local and association publications and conference proceedings.  Selected links to full text or sources of full text are included.  1960s to the present, with some coverage of prior years.

A source of criticism by scholars on hundreds of years of literature--from Aristophanes to Bharati Mukherjee.  Each title contains a timeline of key events in the author's life, bibliographies of primary works, and a reference bibliography.

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An international directory of periodicals from over 80,000 U.S. and foreign serials publishers with information regarding their cost, where they are indexed, where they are published, etc.  Discontinued titles from 1974 onward are included.

Access to multinational treaties compiled under the auspices of the United Nations.  Current treaties are includes as well as some treaties dating from the beginning of the United Nations.

Includes 12 full-text titles in the area of Urban Studies and Planning.  Most journals are 1982 to present.

Information on the most varied aspects of medieval society: church institutions, the clergy, the Papal States, politics, the legal system, taxation, government and finance, secular society, the religious life, intellectual and artistic life, the economy, wars, law and order, the environment and natural disasters, and daily life.  Includes the complete collection of papal letters from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.  The database contains approximately 12 million words and is devoted to the papacies of John XXII, Benedict XII and Urban V.  Ut per litteras apostolicas provides an electronic version of the renowned Registres et lettres des Papes du XIIIe siècle (32 vols.; Rome, 1883- ) and Registres et lettres des Papes du XIVe siècle (48 vols.; Rome, 1899- ).

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Extensive index of television news indexing more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989.  Includes online streaming video of NBC newscasts from August 5, 1968 to the present and CNN news broadcasts beginning in 1995.  Current material will be made available 72 hours after originally broadcast.  Note: Requires free RealPlayer software to play video clips.

The huge panoply of Latin biblical texts which were in existence and use from the second century AD/CE until the time when the Vulgate became predominant are known under the common rubric of the Vetus Latina, or the Old Latin, Bible.  The term Vetus Latina refers to all those biblical texts translated into Latin which are not found in the Vulgate.  The textual tradition of the Vetus Latina is complex and incomplete.  Because there are a limited number of extant manuscripts that haphazardly cover the biblical text the basic sources are biblical citations or allusions that are found within the writings of the Latin Fathers or Greek patristic authors who were translated at an early date into Latin.  This database contains every citation, listed by book, chapter and verse of the Bible.  The citations can be searched individually or as a whole, following the biblical structure.  Within Vetus Latina the complete repertorium of H.J. Frede (Kirchenschriftsteller : Verzeichnis und Sigel, Freiburg, 1995) can be consulted online, as well as its updates.

The Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library provides data and information about nursing research.  There are two main components of the library - The Registry of Nursing Research includes information on nurse researchers, their research projects, and the findings of their research.  The Online Journal of Knowledge Synthesis for Nursing is a full-text peer reviewed publication with articles that synthesize research on various topics, note the implications for clinical practice, and make recommendations for future research.  The Registry began in 1997 but includes some prior material.  The Online Journal of Knowledge Synthesis for Nursing began in 1993.

Digital color images obtained by CT & MRI scanning and cryosectioning of a 39-year-old representative male cadaver and a 59-year-old representative female cadaver.

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The most frequently used daily financial newspaper in the US, it provides business and financial news coverage, personal and company profiles, feature reporting, special reports, and regular columns.  Indexing and ASCII full text of the Wall Street Journal.  The full-text is searchable, with additional searchable fields including section, page, and special feature.  Indexing from 1/5/1982, and comprehensive full-text from 1/2/1984.

Wall Street Transcript is a journal (originally published in print, and it still is; it began publication in 1963) whose content consists of transcripts of interviews with CEO's and other high-level corporate executives, and transcripts of interviews with investment analysts and money managers.  The transcripts are generally 2000 - 4000+ words each (except for the analyst roundtables which are considerably longer).  1997 to present.

Scientific research and public policy on water related topics, including pollution abatement, purification and treatment methods, groundwater issues, conservation, and water quality/quantity management. Includes sources from the life, physical, and social sciences, engineering and law.  Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts of journal articles, proceedings, and other research publications.  1967 to present.

Combines Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index in one source.  Indexes can be searched individually or combined.  Search by words in author, title, keyword, abstract, journal title and author affiliation fields.  A unique Cited Reference Search feature allows ‘forward’ searching by locating articles that have cited an older document.  1980 to present.  VPN recommnded for off-campus access.

Indexes articles from 45 monthly and quarterly periodicals on a wide range of topics including literature, religion, politics, social science, political economy, archaeology, science and the arts.  Includes bibliographic citations to periodical articles from sources such as Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, The Cornhill Magazine, The Dublin Review, The Fortnightly Review, The Nineteenth Century, The Quarterly Review, The Westminster Review.

The Complete Marquis Who's Who is included in the Biography Resource Center.  This file contains more than 900,000 thumbnail biographies from 20 Marquis sources including Who’s Who in America, Who Was Who in America, and Who’s Who in the World.

This resource is available to all residents of Milwaukee, including Marquette students who reside on or near campus.  You must have a valid Milwaukee Public Library card and personal identification number (PIN) to gain free access to this subscription database.

WISCAT is the statewide bibliographic database for Wisconsin.  It contains over 6.1 million bibliographic records with local holdings statements for 1255 libraries of all types throughout Wisconsin.

Contains the constitutions of the United States and of the State of Wisconsin; Jefferson's manual; rules and orders of the Senate and Assembly, and annals of the Legislature; profiles of state officials, senators, and representatives; also, statistical tables and history of state institutions.

Covers popular magazine and scholarly journal articles on a wide range of topics related to women and women’s issues.  Includes bibliographic citations, abstracts and selected full text articles.  1986 to present.

A textbase of out-of-print and manuscript works by women covering 1400 to 1850.  A subset of this database contains over 100 Renaissance texts with substantial introductory and contextual essays.  List of texts included

This resource is available to all residents of Milwaukee, including Marquette students who reside on or near campus.  You must have a valid Milwaukee Public Library card and personal identification number (PIN) to gain free access to this subscription database.

WorldCat is the OCLC Online Union Catalog, containing more than 35 million records describing items owned by U.S. libraries and libraries around the world; each record contains library holdings.  It is produced by the OCLC Online Computer Library Center and includes catalog records for books, manuscripts, computer data files maps, computer programs, musical scores, films and slides, newspapers, journals, sound recordings, magazines, videotapes.  WorldCat does not include book chapters or individual articles, or articles in journals, magazines, newspapers.

Numeric time series data only.  Social and economic indicator data in annual time series for 208 economies, and 18 regional and income groups.  With more than 600 indicators, this database of development data from the World Bank includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators for more than forty years, 1960 to present, where data are available.  The full-text of the print publication World Development Indicators can be found at Ref HC 59.69 .S63; there is also full-text online at the World Bank website, here.

The World Newspaper Archive will ultimately offer online full-text access to major newspapers from Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe.  It opens with part of its collection from Latin America, including papers from Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico.  When complete it will offer 35 papers with long publishing histories from the 19th and 20th centuries.

A Foreign News Service from the U.S. Government.  Provides full-text English language articles regarding current world affairs (i.e. military, political, environmental, scientific, technical, and socioeconomic issues and events, etc.)  Articles are searchable by keyword, region or topic.  Recent major headlines from various regions of the world can be browsed.  1994 to present.

Covers U.S. and international news including daily news feeds from Reuters, top stories of the year, chronologies, background information, photographs, and maps.  Includes the entire text of Facts on File World News Digest, selected editorials from Editorials on File, and additional content such as historic documents, biographies of world leaders, and country profiles.  1940 to present.

Online bibliography provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced since 1950.

Wharton Research Data Services, or WRDS, is a web-based data management system that allows faculty and students to easily retrieve information from a wide variety of financial, economic, and marketing data sources.  In other words, it is a data hosting and interface service.  Marquette has access to subscription-based datasets and some free datasets available through WRDS.  Faculty and graduate students may also request individual accounts for storage space on the WRDS servers. Account Request

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The major works of William Butler Yeats in all genres, including poetry, plays, criticism and fiction, published between 1885 and 1995.

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