Articles & Databases
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Health Reference Center-Academic (Gale/InfoTRAC) - Provides searchable access to popular medical and consumer health information, much of it full-text, including a dictionary, a home medical guide, medical tests, drug information, directories, and pamphlets and articles on health subjects. |
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Healthy People 2010 Healthy People 2010 provides a framework for prevention for the Nation. It is a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats. |
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Hispanic American Periodicals Index - HAPI (UCLA Latin American Center) - The Hispanic American Periodicals Index includes articles on subjects relating to Hispanics in the United States and Latin American subjects. Coverage begins in 1970. Also consider using the Handbook of Latin American Studies from the Library of Congress. |
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Historical Abstracts (EBSCO) - Historical Abstracts provides in depth coverage to a large number of journal articles in modern history, which it defines as since 1450. It covers all area of the world except the United States and Canada, which are covered by America History and Life. Coverage begins in 1954. Abstracts are provided for most citations. |
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Hoover's Company Profiles (ProQuest) - Find up to date proprietary editorial content covering more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives. Hoover's, widely recognized as a leading provider of corporate data, delivers in depth industry analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more. |
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Humanities Abstracts (EBSCO/Wilson) - Humanities Index is the basic periodical index in the humanities, including literature, history, archaeology, gender studies, and philosophy. It indexes the content of about 300 journals, mostly in English. The electronic version begins in 1984; older articles must be searched in the paper index in the library. |
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ICPSR (The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) ICPSR is the worlds largest online archive of social science data, supplying data files for use with statistical software such as SAS, SPSS and Stata. If you have questions about ICPSR, please contact our ICPSR Official Representative, Dr. Heidi Berggren, athberggren@umassd.edu. |
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IEEE Xplore Digital Library (IEEE) - Electrical and computer engineering- research and development. Search and retrieve full text of IEEE and IEE/IET publications including transactions and proceedings from more than 120 IEEE journals, 900 active IEEE standards, and the proceedings of 400 annual conferences. The majority of the content dates back to 1988; content from select publications back as far as 1950. |
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InfoTrac Searchbank databases (Gale/InfoTRAC) - Health, business, reference, academic and general interest indexes and FULL-TEXT articles. |
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INSPEC (EBSCO) - INSPEC created by the IET (The Institution of Engineering and Technology), is the leading bibliographic database providing abstracts and indexing to the world's scientific and technical papers in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computing and information technology. Containing over 7 million records, INSPEC provides coverage from over 3,500 journals, 1,500 conference proceedings as well as numerous books, dissertations and reports. |
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Inspec Archive Science Abstracts 1898-1968 (EBSCO) - Inspec Archive Science Abstracts 1898-1968 created by the Institution of Engineering and Technology, is the leading bibliographic database providing abstracts and indexing to the world's scientific and technical papers in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, and computing and control engineering. |
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ISI Emerging Markets (ISI) - Internet Securities, Inc. 's Emerging Markets Information Service aggregates and produces unique content including financial, economic and political news and information . It includes full-text news articles, financial statements, industry analyses, equity quotes, macroeconomic statistics, and market-specific information, which are derived directly from thousands of local and leading international information providers, in both English and the local language. Emerging markets covered by Internet Securities include Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil , Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Central America; Central & Eastern Europe: Belarus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine; Southeast Europe: Albania, Armenia , Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Serbia - Kosovo, Montenegro, Slovenia, Turkey; Asia:Cambodia, China - Hong Kong, Taiwan; India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka , Thailand, Vietnam, Australia ; Central Asia - Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan; North Africa & Middle East: Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait , Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, UAE. MENA Other Countries covers Algeria, Cyprus, Iraq, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Yemen, Sudan and Syria. Sub-Saharan Africa: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Sub-Saharan Other. |
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Iter Gateway (Iter) - is a database of more than 945,000 records for articles, essays, books, dissertation abstracts, encyclopedia entries and reviews. This material has been collected from 7,218 publications, including 1,617 journals. Updated daily, with thousands of new records added annually, this powerful research tool is of essential use to scholars of the Middle Ages and / or the Renaissance (400-1700). |
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Journal Citation Reports® Science Edition ~ 2009 ONLY ~ (Thomson Reuters) - EXCEL File for 2009 only of the JCR Science Edition contains data from over 7,300 journals in science and technology for the year 2009 ONLY. All of the data that you see for journals and subject categories come from journal data published in 2009. If you search for a particular journal, you will see the 2009 data for that journal, including -- The number of articles published in the journal in 2009, the number of citations to that journal from articles published in 2009, and the Impact Factor calculated from 2009 data, and so on. |
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JSTOR A full-text online collection of core scholarly journals from their first issues (some date back to the 1800's) to between two and five years prior to the present. Subject coverage includes arts & sciences, education, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, anthropology, Asian studies, economics, population studies, sociology and botany and ecology. The journals can be browsed by journal issue or searchedby keywords, topics, titles, authors and dates. The journals included in JSTOR are also listed in and linked from the Journals, Magazines & Newspapers in Our Library. |
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LISTA (EBSCO) - (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts) - indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. |
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Literature Criticism Online (GALE) - Cross-search two or more of Gale's literature archive resources, including Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online, Literature Criticism Online, and Something About the Author Online. Search biographical and critical essays on the lives, works and careers of the worlds most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. |
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Massachusetts Special Collections Directory "A database of over 600 archives and manuscript collections in Massachusetts." |
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MassChip Massachusetts Community Health Information Profile(Massachusetts Department of Public Health) - provides data at the city or town level, "to access health needs, monitor health status indicators, and evaluate health programs." One of the two options, Instant Reports, is available from the library's workstations. This option gives basic data at the community level (i.e. smoking in Fall River ). Custom Reports, more detailed, are available only to those who download the MassCHIP client into their own computer-this is not possible in the library. |
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MathSciNet Mathematical Reviews on the Web (American Mathematical Society) - "provides searching of over 59 years ofMathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications." |
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Medline (EBSCO) - MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals. |
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MEDLINEplus (National Library of Medicine) - Provided by the National Library of Medicine for the layperson who wants to research health questions. Includes information on specific health topics, full-text publications, dictionaries, newsletters, and directories. |
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Mental Measurements Yearbook (EBSCO) - From the Buros Institute, contains descriptive information and critical reviews of new and revised tests from all of the the Buros Institute's Yearbooks (1935-present). The database covers more than 2,200 commercially-available tests in categories such as personality, developmental, behavioral assessment, neuropsychological, achievement, intelligence and aptitude, educational, speech & hearing, and sensory motor. Each entry includes test name and classification; author(s); publisher, publication date; price; time requirements; score descriptions; levels; and intended populations. (Updated every six months) |
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Mergent Online (Mergent) - a comprehensive global company database, both U.S. public and international public-equivalent companies, includes details on items from SEC filings such as business description, history, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt and capital stock. Financial statements are presented in "as-reported" form and in native currencies. Search by company name or ticker symbol, or search across all global boundaries to find companies that match specific financial and/or textual search criteria. Use Company Analysis feature to compile reports on selected companies. |
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Mergent WebReports (Mergent) - is an online database that allows you to access a vast archive of corporate and industry related documents. WebReports contains more than 180,000 documents covering over 100 countries and industries. |

