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BOOLEAN & PROXIMITY |
ABI/Inform Complete
Business and Management.
Includes contents of all ABI/Inform databases.
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Title List
Type in ABI/Inform Complete in the Database/Product box and click
Search. |
Full-text for some titles.
Earliest index coverage begins with 1923 |
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And, Or, And Not
W/# within # words of 2nd term
W/para within same paragraph
w/doc within document
text
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# words from each other
pre/# 1st term must
precede 2nd term and be within # words |
ABI/Inform Dateline
Local and Regional
Business and management Information
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Title
List Click on your choice of format |
Indexes 175 journals, 170 have
at least some full-text. Earliest coverage begins with 1985. |
* Truncation. Use at end of word.
? Wildcard. Use to replace 1 letter |
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W/# within # words of 2nd term
W/para within same paragraph
w/doc within document
text
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# words from each other
pre/# 1st term must
precede 2nd term and be within # words
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ABI/Inform Global
Global business,
management and financial database
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Title
List Click on your choice of format. |
Indexes over
2,700 publications, with more than 2,000
available in full text. Earliest indexing begins
with 1971. |
* Truncation. Use at end of word.
? Wildcard. Use to replace 1 letter |
And, Or, And Not
W/# within # words of 2nd term
W/para within same paragraph
w/doc within document
text
Not w/# terms can't be within
# words from each other
pre/# 1st term must
precede 2nd term and be within # words
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ABI/Inform Trade & Industry
Trade and Industry
database.
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Title List
Click on your choice of format |
Indexes over 1,200
publications, with over 1,150 in full-text.
Earliest coverage begins with 1971 |
* Truncation. Use at end of word.
? Wildcard. Use to replace 1 letter |
And, Or, And Not
W/# within # words of 2nd term
W/para within same paragraph
w/doc within document
text
Not w/# terms can't be within
# words from each other
pre/# 1st term must
precede 2nd term and be within # words |
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Academic OneFile
All Academic subjects.
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Title List |
Indexes over 9000 titles.
Full-text for at least 25%. Earliest indexing begins with 1980.
Updated daily. |
* Truncation. Use at end of word.
? Wildcard. Use to replace 1 letter
! Wildcard. Use to replace 1 or
no letters. |
And, or, not
W# 1st term must come 1st with #
number words
N# terms must be within # words of each other,
order doesn't matter |
Academic Search Premier
Academic journals in all
subject areas.
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Title List |
Index of over eight thousand
academic journals, over four thousand are full-text. 1975-current. |
? single character
* one or more character truncation |
And, or, not |
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ACM Digital Library
Journals published by
the Association for Computing.
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See links under
BROWSE
THE DIGITAL LIBRARY |
Full-text for 21
Association for Computing journals, and
transactions. Indexing for some journals
starts with 1985. Full-text begins with 1991. Full-text for proceedings not available |
* Truncation. Use at end of word.
? Wildcard. Use to replace 1 letter (?? For
two letters) |
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Near = relevance ranked, closer together
listed first |
ACS Publictions (Chemistry)
Indexes journals
published by the American Chemical Society
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Title List |
Index to American Chemical
Society journals and monographs. |
Automatic truncation. |
And, Or, Not. |
African American Song
Online listening resource
for African American song
|
not applicable |
16,000 tracks of great historical recordings
in the area of African American song |
not applicable |
not applicable |
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Agricola
A
combination of Journal index and
online public access catalog for the National Agricultural Library.
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Title List |
Index only.
No full-text.
Index to journal
articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and
technical reports related to agriculture.
Indexing starts with 1979. |
Not applicable |
AND (&)
OR (+)
NOT(-) |
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Alternative Press Index
Cultural,
economic, political and social change.
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Title List |
Approximately 2% full-text
indexes over 440
journals, newspapers and magazines, including 290 currently published
sources. Indexing begins with 1991 and the database is updated four times a
year. |
+ at end of word to search for plural forms.
*Truncation at end of word. Type at least 3
letters before you truncate.
? or # for internal truncation. # for single
letter, ? for multiple letters. |
And, or, not W# for with, N# near |
Alt HealthWatch
Complementary, holistic
or alternative healthcare
|
Title List |
Indexes over 140 full-text journals concerning
complementary, holistic or alternative healthcare and wellness. The database
includes full-text pamphlets and reports.
1990-current |
? single character
* one or more character truncation |
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America: History & Life
North
American history--U.S. & Canada
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Title List
(combined list of journal indexed in either America: History and Life or
Historical Abstracts) |
Index Only. No full-text.
Over 2,400 journals in 40 different
languages are indexed. Coverage begins with 1964. |
*for unknown number of letters
? for one letter |
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Annual Reviews
Full Text database to 39
Annual Reviews in Science and Social Science
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Title
List |
Indexes full-text for 39 Annual
reviews in the areas of Biomedical Science, Physical Science and Social
Science. |
* Truncation. Use at end of word.
? Wildcard. Use to replace 1 letter |
And, or, not |
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Anthropological Index Online
Index to
Ethnography & Anthropology Journals in the British Museum
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Journals
Indexed in AIO |
Index Only
No full-text Indexes
the periodicals in the Museum of Mankind Library since 1970. The Museum of
Mankind is the Department of Ethnography of the British Museum.
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Not applicable |
Not applicable |
AnthroSource
Anthropology
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Title List |
Full Text index to over 30
anthropology journals. Most covers 2000's and 1990's. |
not applicable |
Use "quotations" to restrict
search to exact phrase. |
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Applied Science & Technology
Index
Science, Engineering & Technology
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Title List |
Very little full-text
Index
to over 600 periodicals in science, engineering, and technology. Indexing
begins in 1983.
Weekly Updates |
*Truncation at end of word. Type at least 3
letters before you truncate.
? for internal truncation.
Use one ? for character. |
And, or, not, in |
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Art
Abstracts
Art
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Title List
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Very little full text
Indexes over
400 leading art publications, covering all art topics from architecture to
video and including art reproductions. Indexing begins in 1983.
Abstracts start 1990.
Updated Weekly |
+ at end of word to search for plural forms.
*Truncation at end of word. Type at least 3
letters before you truncate.
? or # for internal truncation. # for single
letter, ? for multiple letters. |
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ARTbibliographies Modern
Modern
Art
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Title List |
No full-text
Contains full abstracts
of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations,
and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art, with
more than 13,000 new entries being added each year. Entries date back as far
as the late 1960s. |
? Single letter either at end or in middle
of word
* multiple letters either at the end or
within word |
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Near (within 10 words)
Within #
Before
After |
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ArticleFirst
Broad
academic database.
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Title List
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Very little full-text.
Index
to articles from almost 12,500 journals in all subjects. Indexing begins
with 1990 and is updated daily. |
+ at end of word to search for plural forms.
*Truncation at end of word. Type at least 3
letters before you truncate.
? or # for internal truncation. # for single
letter, ? for multiple letters. |
And, or, not W# for with, N# near |
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Citation index for Arts
and Humanities Journals. Available through Web of Science
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Title List |
Fully covers 1,144 of the
world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually
selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science
journals 1981 to current. No full-text access,
index only. |
* Truncation. Use at end of
word. ?
single character internal truncation
$ one or no character
truncation |
And, Or, Not
Same - same field |
ARTstor
Digital Library of Art
Images
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not applicable |
Digital library of over
500,000 art, architecture and archaeology images. |
not applicable |
not applicable |
ArXiv e-Print archive (physics,
math, computer science)
Archive for Research
papers in physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences,
and quantitative biology.
|
not applicable |
highly-automated electronic
archive and distribution server for research papers in
physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear
sciences, and quantitative biology. |
not applicable |
not applicable |
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Auto Repair Reference Center
Automobile repairs
|
Not applicable |
Full-text info on auto repair of vehicles
produced 1954-current model years. Information not available for many makes
and models. |
Not applicable |
Not applicable |
Basque Database
Basque people and
culture.
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Core Journals |
indexes information about Basque topics written or
produced after 1994. Formats included are articles,
books, chapters of edited books, dissertations, and other publications.
Included are Basque-related videos and DVDs, musical recordings, maps, and
other media.
No full-text |
* truncation at end of word |
And, Or, Not, Near |
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Bibliography of the History of Art
Art
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Title List |
Index Only
No full-text.
Index
to periodical articles, books, conference proceedings, exhibition catalogs,
collected essays and dissertations on post-classical Western art,
architecture and decorative arts. Indexing covers 1973 through the present. |
0 or more characters
? 0 or 1 character |
Adj = next to each other in order entered
and, not, or
with = in same field, no order.
near = in same record, no order. Add number
to specify within certain range |
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Biography & Genealogy Master Index
Biographical Reference Sources
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Sources Indexed |
Index only.
No Full-text
Index
to more than 700 biographical dictionaries and Who's Who resources. It is
updated twice a year. Use it to search for sources of biographical
information in reference books. |
*at end to pick up
all variations.
? to replace single character |
AND,
OR, NOT
W# for with, N# near |
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Biography Index
Biographical sources
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Title List
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No full-text
Indexes over 2,700
periodicals and 1,800 books. Indexing begins with 1984 and is updated
weekly. |
+ at end of word to search for plural forms.
*Truncation at end of word. Type at least 3
letters before you truncate.
? or # for internal truncation. # for single
letter, ? for multiple letters. |
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Biological Abstracts
Biology
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Title List |
Index Only
Minimal
access to full-text through link-resolver
Indexes over 3,700 journals.
Indexing starts with 1969.
Updated quarterly. |
* 0 or more characters
? 0 or 1 character |
and, not, or
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Biological & Agricultural Index
Life
Sciences and Agriculture
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Title List
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Very little full-text
Indexes 366 key
periodicals in life sciences and agriculture. Indexing begins with 1983
and is updated weekly. |
+ at end of word to search for plural forms.
*Truncation at end of word. Type at least 3
letters before you truncate.
? or # for internal truncation. # for single
letter, ? for multiple letters. |
And, or, not W# for with, N# near |
Blackwell Reference Online
All Subjects
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Title List |
Access to over 270 electronic
reference works. |
not applicable |
not applicable |
BNATax Management Library
A database of tax
information, analysis and practice tools.
|
not applicable |
Tax planning resource. BSU
does not subscribe to the entire database. Only high-lighted resources
available.
Mostly full-text. |
* wildcard. Use to replace
any number of letters.
? Single letter internal truncation.
$ Use at end of word to
search for synonyms of word.
% Use at end of word to find
different forms of word (i.e. plurals, different cases.) |
And &
OR
NOT
XOR = Limits to items
containing one of two terms but which do not contain both terms. |
Book Collection: Nonfiction
Information on over 3,600
popular nonfiction books
|
not applicable |
Information on popular
nonfiction books aimed at patrons of school and public libraries. |
? Single letter either at end or in middle
of word
* multiple letters either at the end or
within word |
And, Or, Not |
Book Index with Reviews
Book Reviews
|
not applicable |
Full-text of book and media
reviews. |
? Single letter either at end or in middle
of word
* multiple letters either at the end or
within word |
And, Or, Not |
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Book Review Digest
Indexes
117 sources for book reviews.
|
Title List |
Very little full-text
Indexes 117 sources for book
reviews.
1983 to present.
Updated
weekly. |
+ at end of word to search for plural forms.
*Truncation at end of word. Type at least 3
letters before you truncate.
? or # for internal truncation. # for single
letter, ? for multiple letters. |
And, or, not W# for with, N# near |
BookNews Online
Full-text of book reviews
published in Reference & Research Book News and SciTech Book News
|
not applicable |
Full-text of book reviews
published in Reference & Research Book News and SciTech Book News
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Click the "word variants" option
under Search Qualifiers
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Click the "exact phrase" option
to specify words in exact order. Click "exact words" option to specify exact
words in no particular order |
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Books In Print
Full-text
book reviews from sources including Choice, Kirkus, Library Journal,
Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal.
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Not applicable |
Directory Index. Contains information on
publishers and published books.
1979 to present.
Updated weekly. |
$ or * Truncation for multiple characters.
Type at least 3 letters first.
? for single characters anywhere in term
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And, or, not |
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Business and Company ASAP
Business
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Title List |
Earliest indexing begins with
1980. |
* Truncation. Use at end of word.
? Wildcard. Use to replace 1 letter
! Wildcard. Use to replace 1 or
no letters.
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And, or, not
W# 1st term must come 1st with #
number words
N# terms must be within # words of each other,
order doesn't matter |
Business & Company Resource
Center
Business and company
information drawn from reference books & journals
|
Title List |
Indexes over 4000 journals and
draws info from a number of reference sources, mainly full-text.
Earliest indexing starts in mid 1980's. |
* Truncation. Use at end of word.
? Wildcard. Use to replace 1 letter
! Wildcard. Use to replace 1 or
no letters.
|
And, or, not
W# 1st term must come 1st with #
number words
N# terms must be within # words of each other,
order doesn't matter |
Business Knowledge Research
(Conference Board)
Business
|
not applicable. |
Business publications from The
Conference Board |
not applicable |
And, Or, And Not |
Business Source Premier
All
disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM,
accounting, finance and economics
|
Journals &
Magazines
Other Sources |
Indexes over 3000 business,
marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance & economics journals.
Updated daily.
1965-current. |
? single character
* one or more character truncation |
And, or, not |
Catalog of U.S. Government
Publications
Government Publications
|
Not Applicable |
Catalog of United States
Government publications. |
? or * for truncation
# internally for any number
variant letters
! internally for 1 character
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And & +
or |
Not ~ |
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CCH Internet Tax Research Network
Taxation
|
not applicable |
Full-text tax law materials |
! Truncation. Use at end of word.
* one character. Use anywhere except
beginning of word. ** means 2 characters. |
And, or, not
W# within number
W/sen within 20 words
W/par within 80 words |
Checkpoint (Accountancy,
Taxation)
Taxation
|
not applicable |
Full-text |
* within word to represent one
or more characters. At the end of a word to truncate.
? within word to replace one
letter. Can be used in multiples, i.e. - h??ver
# at beginning of word to
disable plurals. Example - #cat searches for cat but not cats |
OR
AND &
NOT ^
" " exact phrase
/number example /4
means search for word before /4 and word after /4 and retrieve only the
items where the two words are within 4 words of one another.
/s within same sentence
pre/s within same
sentence and in same order as entered in search.
/p within same
paragraph
pre/p within same paragraph
and in same order as entered in search. |
Chemical Abstracts
SciFinder Scholar
Chemistry Database
|
Title List |
Chemistry database starting with
1907. Available only to BSU students, staff and faculty. Only
available on BSU main campus. A research tool for accessing
information in Chemical Abstracts databases. Covers all areas of chemistry
and related scientific disciplines. Indexes of more than 9,000 journals,
including cover-to-cover of 1,500 key chemical journals (1994-), patents,
conference proceedings, technical reports, books, and dissertations. |
No truncation. Use natural
language phrases. SciFinder automatically searches related terms and
considers alternate spellings and word endings when retrieving results. |
Not or Except to exclude terms. |
Children's Literature
Comprehensive
Information about
children's books, video and audio recordings, film strips, and other
children-focused media.
|
Not applicable |
Over 900,000 Marc catalog
records for Children's books, video and audio recordings, film strips, etc. |
Not applicable |
Not applicable |
Choice Reviews Online
Book & Media Reviews
|
not applicable |
Book and media reviews from 1988
to current. |
not applicable |
Or, And |
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CINAHL with Full Text
Nursing
and Allied Health
|
Title List |
20% to
25% full-text
2,737 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database
contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982 |
* Truncation. Use at end of word |
