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ABI/INFORM Dateline	Full-text database
(Proquest) – covers local and regional business news and analysis, from 1985- present.
ABI/INFORM Global	Full-text database
(Proquest) - citations, abstracts, and full text for articles in business and management periodicals.
ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry	Full-text database
(Proquest) – Provides industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, from business periodicals with a trade or industry focus, from 1971 – present.
Academic Search Complete (Ebsco)	Full-text database
provides more than 7,000 multidisciplinary full-text periodicals, nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals, and more than 11,600 monographs, reports, conference proceedings, dating back as far as 1887.
ACM Digital Library	Full-text database
The ACM DL is a full-text repository of papers from ACM journals and other publications, with conference proceedings included.
African American History and Culture	eRef Collection
(FactsOnFile) - an electronic encyclopedia covering African-American history, from African beginnings through the slave trade, civil rights movement to the present, organized by category: biography, primary sources, subject, timeline, images, and maps and charts.
African American Song (Alexander Street Press)	Audio Database
includes jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression, spanning more than 100 years, from the era of post-reconstruction through the civil rights movement. PLEASE NOTE: the entire content of the African American Song database has been integrated into the American Song database.
Ageline	Database
(Ebscohost) - covers topics related to aging, with content in the health sciences, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, and public policy. AgeLine indexes journals, books, reports, dissertations, consumer guides, and educational videos, from 1978 - present.
Agricola	Database
(Free on the Web) - materials relating to agriculture. Unlimited access on the Internet.
Alt-HealthWatch	Full-text database
(Ebscohost) - This alternative health database provides full text for more than 140 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.
Alternative Press Index	Database
(Firstsearch) - Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines, for in-depth coverage in the humanities and social sciences. This database is not available by remote access. You must be on campus at Garden City, Hauppauge or Manhattan Center in order to use it.
America: History and Life	Database
(Ebscohost)- covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present, indexing 1,700 journals from 1964 to present.
American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications	Database
provides access to 37 journals in the chemical, biochemical and related sciences, dating as far back as 1996. Chemical and Engineering News is also included.
American National Biography	eRef Book
(Oxford) - the online version of the 24 volume reference work, with special subject collections in Black History, Women's History, Asian Pacific American Heritage, Hispanic Heritage, and American Indian Heritage.
American Song (Alexander Street Press)	Audio Database
provides access to cross cultural music from America's past, including American Indians, immigrants, pioneers, and political activists.
American Women's History	eRef Collection
(FactsOnFile)- explores the various aspects of American women's history, organized by category: biography, primary sources, subject, timeline, images, and maps and charts.
Annual Reviews	Full-text database
a collection of critical reviews published annually in 32 disciplinary areas within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Annual Reviews Back Volumes, dating back to 1932, are included.
Applied Science and Technology Full Text	Full-text database
(Wilson) - includes data from scientific and technical periodicals, featuring charts, illustrations, photos, diagrams charts, as well as select full text articles. Indexing dates back to 1983 and full text, from 1997.
ArchiveGrid	Database
(First Search) - provides access to detailed descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide.
Art Full Text	Full-text database
(Wilson) - covers a broad range of subject areas, from Computers in Art to Art History, Fashion Design to Sculpture. Includes indexing from 1984 and select full text dating back to 1997. Indexing of reproductions of works of art appearing in featured periodicals is also provided.
Article First	Database
(Firstsearch) - index of articles from nearly 12,500 journals
ARTstor	Database
Contains some 500,000 digital images of works of art, architecture and archaeology from all periods and from diverse cultures, with accompanying software for searching, viewing and creating presentations. Copy and paste the following URL to check for system requirements: http://www.artstor.org/using-artstor/u-html/requirements.shtml
Atlanta Constitution (Historical)	Full-text database
(Proquest) - offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue from the year 1868 to 1925.


Basic Biosis	Database
(Firstsearch) - a wide range of bioscience topics. This database is not available by remote access. You must be on campus at Garden City, Hauppauge or Manhattan Center in order to use it.
Biography Reference Bank	eRef Collection
(Wilson) - covers 500,000 people from antiquity through today. Combines the in-depth, original profiles of Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated, the thorough periodicals coverage of Biography Index, and full-text articles, page images, and abstracts from the complete range of Wilson databases, to bring you Wilson's largest biography database yet.
Biological Abstracts	Database
(Ovid) - covers diverse topics in life sciences including biochemistry, agriculture, microbiology, neurology, and pharmacology, from 1969 to the present.
Black Drama (Alexander Street Press)	Full-text database
Contains the full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 150 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.
Black Newspapers	Full-text database
(Proquest) - a collection of significant Black newspapers from the United States.
Books in Print	Database
(Bowker) - bibliographic citations, book reviews and publisher information for in-print, forthcoming, and out-of-print books.
Boston Globe (Historical)	Full-text database
(Proquest) - offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue from the year 1872 to 1901.
Business & Company Resource Center	Full-text database
(Gale) - company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.
Business Full Text	Full-text database
(Wilson) - includes a broad range of topics in business and marketing, covering trade, scholarly, and news publications. Indexing dates back to 1982, with full text coverage beginning in 1995.
Business Source Premier	Full-text database
(Ebscohost) - provides full text for more than 8,500 scholarly business journals (over 350 of which date as far back as 1922) and other sources, including over 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications, covering virtually all subject areas related to business.


Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities	Database
includes directories of journals in the areas of Accounting, Economics & Finance, Management, Marketing, Educational Curriculum & Methods, Educational Psychology & Administration, Educational Technology & Library Science, Psychology & Psychiatry. Each journal entry includes area of focus, type of review process, acceptance rate and number of external reviewers.
CAMIO	Database
(First Search) - Catalog of Art Museum Images Online includes works of art from around the world contributed and described by leading museums. All content is rights-cleared for educational use.
Chicago Tribune (Historical)	Full-text database
(Proquest) - offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue from the year 1890 to 1969.
Christian Science Monitor (Historical)	Full-text database
(Proquest) - offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue from the year 1908 to 1991.
Cinahl Plus with Full Text	Full-text database
(Ebscohost) - provides full text for more than 560 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937.
ClasePeriodica	Database
(First Search) – indexes Latin American journals in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English covering social science, humanities, science and technology.
Classical Music Library (Alexander Street Press)	Audio Database
offers the world's largest multi-label collection of music recordings for libraries, featuring performers from 32 independent and major classical labels, including EMI Classics. In addition, links to biographical and reference materials are provided.
Cochrane Library	Full-text database
(Wiley) - a collection of evidence-based health care resources including Cochrane Reviews, the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, NHS Economic Evaluation Database, Health Technology Assessment Database, and the Cochrane Methodology Register. The Cochrane Reviews are provided in full text.
College Source	Database
(Career Guidance Foundation) - CollegeSource provides complete, cover-to-cover, original page format access to over 15,000 college catalogs.
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry	Database
(Columbia U. Press) - a comprehensive English source for locating poems included in anthologies.
Comdisdome	Database
(CSA) - includes topics in audiology and speech-language pathology, covering journal articles, books, dissertations, grants, websites, and information on relevant authors and institutions. Journal coverage, 1949 to the present, includes citations and abstracts with some full text available.
Communication & Mass Media Complete	Full-text database
(Ebscohost) - provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. This database originated with the merging of the CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index databases.
Community Resource Database of Long Island	Database
(Free on the Web) - Online directory of health, human service, and education agencies and programs on Long Island - services for children, teens, adults, families, and seniors in both Nassau and Suffolk counties.
Comprehensive Handbook of Social Work & Social Welfare	eRef Book
(Wiley) – an online version of the four volume handbook covering professional, practice, policy and research issues in social work.
Computing Reviews	Database
(ACM) - includes reviews of articles and books in computing literature, providing an overview of the latest in the field, as well as archival access dating as far back as 1974.
Contemporary Women's Issues	Full-text database
(Firstsearch)- provides full-text international coverage of critical issues influencing women, particularly in the social sciences, political science, psychology and health, from 1992 - present.
Contemporary World Music (Alexander Street Press)	Audio Database
provides access to world music including a wide variety of genres such as reggae, Bollywood, Balkanic jazz, and blue grass.
Core Historical Literature of Agriculture	Full-text database
a premier scholarly resource to document the experience of the individual farm family, the establishment and evolution of farm communities, the pressures affecting rural culture, and the shifting and evolution in rural culture in response to national and world events. Supplementing the published literature are the diaries, letters, photographs, and farm records that are critical resources to understand rural life, its role and place in American society.
Counseling and Therapy in Video (Alexander Street Press)	Video Database
provides an online collection of videos of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. The collection includes filmed footage of therapy and scripted sessions, as well as lectures, presentations and interviews featuring well-known therapists
CQ Electronic Library	Full-text database
(CQ Press) - includes CQ Researcher (1991- present), CQ Weekly (1983- present), CQ Public Affairs (1930's - present) and CQ Encyclopedia of American Government.
CQ Encyclopedia of American Government	eRef Book
(CQ Press)- provides concise, up-to-date explanations of the who, how, and why of American democracy.
CQ Public Affairs Collection	Full-text database
(CQ Press) - (1930's - present) includes primary source documents, statistical overviews, and contact information as well as in-depth reporting on current affairs.
CQ Researcher	Full-text database
(CQ Press) - (1991- present), includes original, comprehensive, and unbiased reporting and analysis on issues in the news.
CQ Weekly	Full-text database
(CQ Press) - (1983- present), covers issues related to the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering.
Credo Reference	eRef Collection
an online full text collection of electronic reference books in a variety of subject areas.
Criminal Justice Abstracts	Database
(CSA) - provides abstracts and bibliographic citations from 1968- present on topics in criminology. Coverage includes international journals, books, governmental and nongovernmental reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology.
Criminology: A Sage Full-Text Collection	Full-text database
(CSA) -includes the full-text of 15 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back twenty years, encompassing over 4,100 articles. It covers such subjects as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.
Current Research@	Full-text database
(Proquest) - Adelphi-authored dissertations and theses. Full text is available from 1997 to present, and abstracts from 1980 to the present.
Custom Newspapers	Full-text database
(Gale) - a full-text newspaper database that lets you search over 95 newspapers electronically by title, headline, date, author, section or other assigned fields.


Dance in Video (Alexander Street Press)	Video Database
contains 250 dance productions and documentaries from the 20th Century, online in streaming video
Database of Recorded American Music	Audio Database
You MUST have the latest version of Quicktime installed on your computer to utilize this database. If you don't have it, you can download it from: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download
Dissertations & Theses: Full Text (Proquest)	Full-text database
includes over 1 million full text and 2.4 million citations for dissertations and theses from around the world, dating as far back as the 1870’s. Please note: full text documents may be up to 500 pages. Please use discretion and consider all options before printing.
Dissertations (see Current Research@)	Full-text database
(Proquest) - Adelphi-authored dissertations and theses. Full text is available from 1997 to present, and abstracts from 1980 to the present.


Early American Newspapers	Full-text database
(Readex) - a full text searchable archive of 460 historic American newspapers.
Ebscohost	Database
citations, abstracts and full-text for articles in general and academic periodicals, covering various disciplines.
Econlit with Full Text (Ebscohost)	Full-text database
full text coverage of a broad range of topics in economics including country studies, economic forecasting, environmental, labor and urban economics, and governmental regulations, dating as far back as 1969.
Education Full Text	Full-text database
(Wilson) - indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals and yearbooks. Books relating to education published in 1995 or later are also indexed. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996.
Education: A Sage Full Text Collection	Full-text database
(CSA) - includes the full text of 26 peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of topics in education, dating as far back as 1966.
Electronic Collections Online	Database
(Firstsearch) - Provides bibliographic information for a multi-subject collection of journals.
Encyclopedia of Associations: International Organizations (Gale)	eRef Book
covers worldwide membership organizations, including U.S.-based organizations with a multinational membership.
Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of the U.S. (Gale)	eRef Book
covers nonprofit membership organizations of the U.S of national scope.
Encyclopedia of Associations: Regional, State and Local Organizations (Gale)	eRef Book
covers nonprofit membership organizations of the U.S on the regional and local level.
Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources (Gale)	eRef Book
covers a wide range of live, print and electronic sources of information of interest to business professionals.
Encyclopedia of Social Work	eRef Book
(Oxford) - covers contemporary issues, historical foundations and key figures in the field.
Encyclopedia of Sociology Online	eRef Book
(Wiley-Blackwell) – updated version of the 11 volume source, covering classical sociology, contemporary developments, and key figures in the field.
Eric (CSA)	Database
(CSA) - covers conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs in the field of Education, from 1966 to the present.
Eric (Ebcohost)	Full-text database
(Ebscohost) - citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals, as well as full text of more than 2,200 digests.
Eric (Firstsearch)	Database
citations for articles in education periodicals and for documents on ERIC microfiche
Eric (Free on the web)	Full-text database
the United States Department of Education operates this ERIC database containing more than one million records going back to 1966. More than 100,000 non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), are available in full-text at no cost.
Europa World Plus	Database
(Routledge) - the online version of the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Regional Surveys of the World series. First published in 1926, the year book covers political and economic information for more than 250 countries and territories.


Family & Society Studies Worldwide	Database
(Ebscohost)- an international database covering topics in family dynamics, family law, human development, social welfare, reproduction issues, work and gender roles, AIDS/HIV, and related issues, from 1970 to the present.
Film Literature Index	Database
(Free on the Web)- 1976-2001. FLI indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. The periodicals range from the scholarly to the popular.
FirstSearch	Database
Gives library users instant access to more than 75 databases, including WorldCat, NetFirst, ArticleFirst, and Union Lists of Periodicals.Best of all, library holdings are displayed up front, so users can easily identify items in their own library's collection.


Gale Literature Resource Center	Full-text database
(Gale) - provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.
Gale Virtual Reference Library	eRef Collection
an online full text collection of electronic reference books in a variety of subject areas.
General Science Full Text	Full-text database
(Wilson) - includes full text articles, as well as graphs, charts, and graphics within a broad range of topics in general science. Indexing begins in 1984, with full text coverage beginning in 1994.
Geobase	Database
(Firstsearch) - worldwide literature on geography, geology and ecology. This database is not available by remote access. You must be on campus at Garden City, Hauppauge or Manhattan Center in order to use it.
Georef	Database
(Ebscohost) - contains over 2.6 million bibliographic records from more than 3,000 journals and other sources. Provides coverage in subject areas such as mineralogy and crystallography, general mineralogy, mineralogy of silicates, and mineralogy of non-silicates.
GeoRef In Process	Database
(Ebsco) - a supplement to the GeoRef database, it contains records in the process of being indexed prior to their integration in GeoRef. Some records originate from older, non-English language literature and more current records are not yet complete.
Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)	Full-text database
(free on the web) - a public database of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations. Contains the official full texts of published documents in their original language. Each document is accompanied by a summary in English and subject terms selected from the multilingual index to GLIN. All summaries are available to the public, and public access to full texts is also available in participating jurisdictions.
Google Scholar	Database
A search engine designed to find scholarly material on the web. Using this link will allow you to retrieve full text articles, if they are within Adelphi Libraries' collection of electronic resources, while accessing Google Scholar. For more information about Google Scholar, consult the About Google Scholar page at http://scholar.google.com/scholar/about.html.
GPO Monthly Catalog	Database
citations for U.S. government publications
GreenFILE	Full-text database
(Ebsco) – a collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles including content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
Grove Art Online (via Oxford)
Now accessed via the Oxford Art Online gateway, Grove Art includes the full text of The Grove Dictionary of Art, a landmark reference work containing more than 45,000 articles. This gateway also provides image links and access to The Oxford Companion to Western Art; The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics; and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
Grove Music Online (via Oxford)
Now accessed via the Oxford Music Online gateway, Grove continues to provide online access to the entire content of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. This gateway also provides access to The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music.
Guide to Reference	eRef Book
an online version of Guide to Reference Books, a core publication of librarianship in the United States


Health & Wellness Resource Center	Full-text database
(Gale Cengage) - includes journal and encyclopedic information on medicine and consumer health.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) (Ebscohost)	Database
provides citation information for each behavioral measurement instrument, identifying the source in which the instrument can be found.
Health Management	Full-text database
(Proquest) - provides full-text information covering all aspects of health administration, including public health and safety, hospitals, finance, personnel management, insurance, population studies, labor relations and law.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition	Full-text database
(Ebscohost) - this database provides nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Historical Abstracts	Database
(Ebscohost)- covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, indexing more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.
Historical Newspapers	Full-text database
(Proquest) - offers full page and article images with searchable full text of the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, and Atlanta Constituion. (See coverage dates below.)
Hoover's	Database
provides current information on public and private businesses in the US, financial comparisons of companies and competitors, defunct companies and annual/quarterly financials from 1994 - present.
Humanities Full Text	Full-text database
(Wilson)- provides citations and some full text in a broad range of subject areas including literature, art, archeology, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion, history, and gender studies. Some original works of poetry, fiction, and drama are included. Indexing dates back to 1984, with select full text coverage beginning in 1994.
Humanities International Complete (HIC)	Full-text database
(Ebsco) - covers a broad range of subjects in the humanities, providing the full text of 770 journals as well as book chapters, with journals dating as far back as 1925.


IEEE Computer Society Digital Library	Full-text database
the Society is dedicated to advancing the theory, practice, and application of computer and information processing technology. Their Digital Library provides online access to 22 society magazines and transactions and over 1,200 selected conference proceedings.
Infotrac Custom Newspapers	Full-text database
A full-text newspaper database that lets you search over 150 national and international newspapers electronically by title, headline, date, author, section or other assigned fields.
INSPEC	Database
(Ebscohost)- provides access to the literature of physics, electronics and electrical engineering, computing and information technology, from 1969 to the present.
International Index to Music Periodicals	Full-text database
(Proquest) - is a Full Text resource for music information. It provides instant access to abstracts and selected full-text coverage of over 300 of the most important scholarly and popular music journals.
International Index to the Performing Arts	Full-text database
(Proquest) -provides access to journal literature of the various performing arts including dance, film, theater, circus, and puppetry from 1998 onwards (with 29 titles full-text), and provides retrospective access to many selected titles.


Jazz Music Library (Alexander Street Press)	Audio Database
provides access to a growing collection of jazz artists and ensembles appearing on major jazz record labels. Current and past artists include: Andre Previn, Bix Beiderbecke, Charlie Parker, Chuck Mangione, Dave Brubeck, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, and Thelonious Monk.
Journals@Ovid Full Text	Full-text database
An aggregate of hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies. Each Journals@Ovid title is linked to other Journals@Ovid titles, and to bibliographic databases on Ovid Online such as MEDLINE, CINAHL, and PsycINFO.
JSTOR	Full-text database
a searchable scholarly archive providing the full text of journal articles in business, economics, history, political science, literature, sociology, as well as other key fields in the humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences. Coverage of each journal begins with its first volume (going back to the 1880s, in some cases), and usually excludes the most recent 2-5 years.

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LexisNexis Academic Universe	Full-text database
provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options.
LexisNexis Congressional	Full-text database
covers a broad range of Congressional information including House and Senate documents, committee reports, bill tracking and bill texts and campaign finance information. Provides the full text of the National Journal, as well as a searchable CIS/Index, the primary indexing & abstracting source for legislative information since 1970. The Statutes at Large includes both full text and synopses of public laws back to 1789.
Library Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA) (Ebscohost)	Full-text database
indexes more than 700 journals as well as books, research reports and proceedings, and contains the full text for more than 270 journals and 20 monographs. It extends as far back as the mid’1960’s.
Library Literature	Full-text database
(Wilson)- indexes articles and book reviews in library and information science periodicals. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included, beginning in 1994.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts	Database
(CSA) - provides abstracts and bibliographical citations from 1973-present in the study and use of language, including topics such as psycholinguistics, special education, nonverbal communication and hearing and speech physiology.
Literature Criticism Online (Gale)	eRef Collection
provides online access to the full collection of Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, and Children’s Literature
Literature Resource Center	Full-text database
(Gale) - provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.
Los Angeles Times (Historical)	Full-text database
(Proquest) - offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue from the year 1881 to 1969.


Masterfile Premier	Full-text database
(Ebsco) – a multidisciplinary database of journals, books, primary source documents and an Image Collection, with full text dating as far back as 1975.
Mathscinet	Database
(AMS) - is the searchable Web database providing access to over 55 years of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications from 1940 to the present. The database is updated daily.
Medline (Firstsearch)	Database
1965 TO PRESENT(Firstsearch)- citations and abstracts for articles in nursing and biomedical journals
Medline (Pubmed)	Database
citations and abstracts for articles in biomedical journals
Medline with Full Text	Full-text database
(Ebscohost) - provides full text for nearly 1,200 journals indexed in MEDLINE, including more than 1,400,000 full-text articles dating back to 1965.
MedlinePlus	Database
(free on the web) - extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 650 diseases and conditions. Includes lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and dictionary, information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.
Mental Measurements Yearbook	Database
(Ovid) - contains information and critical reviews, updated biannually, of new and revised tests from the 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th Yearbooks, covering more than 2,200 commercially-available tests on topics in psychology, education, speech & hearing, and sensory motor issues.
Mergent Online	Database
contains information updated daily on over 11,000 companies and 25,000 international companies, historical stock pricing dating back over 30 years, historical information outlining merger and acquisition activity, Moody's debt ratings, and corporate bond ratings.
Military & Government Collection	Full-text database
(Ebscohost) - offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. Provides full text for more than 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.
MLA International Bibliography	Database
(Firstsearch) - provides citations from items worldwide in the areas of literature, language, linguistics and folklore. The databases indexes journals, series, books, essay collections, papers, proceedings and dissertations from over 6,500 sources dating from 1963.
Music Online (Alexander Street Press)	Audio Database
Provides streaming audio and video access to our Alexander Street Press music databases including: American Song, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, Dance in Video, Jazz Music Library, and Opera in Video. Users can also select a single database by using the dropdown menu at the bottom of the screen.
Musical America Directory	Database
(CBM) - An online version of the annual Musical America Directory. Also includes current music industry news, reviews, etc.


NASW Clinical Register (1977 to Present)	Database
(Ovid) - provides a listing of clinical social workers who have met national standards for education and experience established by the NASW Competence Certification Commission on recommendation of the Committee on Clinical Social Work.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service	Database
(CSA) - includes abstracts of government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, audiovisual presentations, and unpublished research in policy and practice related to criminal justice, from 1972 to the present.
National Newspapers (27)	Full-text database
(Proquest) - includes coverage of 27 newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, plus other important U.S., international and minority interest papers.
National Newspapers Index	Database
(Gale) - provides quick access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.
National Trade Database	Database
(StatUSA) - a comprehensive source of world trade data.
Naxos Music Library	Audio Database
provides online access to the complete recordings from the Naxos, Marco Polo, and Decapo catalogs in streaming audio format. Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk, and Chinese music are all represented in this collection. Brief biographies of individual composers are also included.
Net Advantage	Database
(Standard & Poor) - provides online access to S & P's Industry Surveys, Company Profiles, Stock Reports, Corporation Records, and The Register of Corporations. Commentary on stocks, bonds, and mutual funds, as well as analysis of industry trends is included. Coming soon - select Compustat data.
New York State Newspapers	Database
(Gale) - ten major newspapers published in the state of New York, including the New York Times and the New York Post.
New York Times (Historical)	Full-text database
(Proquest) - offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue of the New York Times. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue from the year 1851 to 2003.
Newspaper Source	Full-text database
(Ebscohost) - full text for 159 regional U.S. newspapers, 18 international newspapers, six newswires, and nine newspaper columns, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Los Angeles Times
Newspapers, Historical	Full-text database
(Proquest) - offers full page and article images with searchable full text of the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, and Atlanta Constituion. (See coverage dates below.)
Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets (JSTOR)	Full-text database
A collection of more than 20,000 digitized 19th C. British pamphlets held by research libraries of the UK. These primary sources, including the Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection, illuminate the socio-political, cultural and economic landscape of the 1800’s. Please note: in order to limit your search to the Pamphlet Collection you must check the “Pamphlet” box, within the “Limit to” section of the screen.


OAIster	Database
(First Search) - provides access to open-archive collections of digital resources in the form of texts, images, audio files, videos, and datasets.
OmniFile Full Text (Wilson)	Full-text database
Provides a gateway to all Wilson databases to which the library subscribes.
Opera in Video (Alexander Street Press)	Video Database
contains important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries, and delivered online through streaming video.
Oxford Art Online (includes Grove Art)	eRef Collection
a gateway to art research; includes Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
Oxford Music Online (includes Grove Music)	eRef Collection
A gateway that provides individual or simultaneous access to Grove Music Online, The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music.
Oxford Reference	eRef Collection
(Oxford) - the Premium Collection provides multidisciplinary subject reference works, including the Oxford Companions Series, as well as English and foreign language dictionaries, and language reference works.
Oxford-English Dictionary	eRef Book
(Oxford) - The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world It also offers the best in etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet. The Second Edition of the OED is currently available as a 20-volume print edition as well as online. This resource is sponsored by the Friends of the Adelphi Library.


Pais Archive	Database
(CSA) - provides historical perspective on many of the 20th century's public and social policies, including references to articles, books, and more, from 1937 - 1976.
Pais International	Database
(CSA) - index to articles, books, conference proceedings, etc. about public affairs.
Papers First	Database
(Firstsearch)- index to papers presented at conferences
Philosopher's Index (Ebscohost)	Database
provides international coverage of journals and books on a wide range of topics in philosophy, including ethics, epistemology, the philosophy of history, education, language, politics, science, and religion, dating as far back as 1940.
Physical Education Index	Database
(CSA) - index of peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, as well as popular articles. Abstracts are included as of 2001. Content ranges from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance.
Play Index	Database
(Wilson) - indexes over 30,000 plays published from 1949 to the present.
Proceedings First	Database
(Firstsearch) - citations of congresses, symposia, conferences etc.
Professional Development Collection	Full-text database
(Ebscohost) - designed for professional educators, providing a highly specialized collection of over 500 full text journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles.
Project Muse	Full-text database
provides the full text of scholarly journals in fields including literature, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics. Years of coverage vary by title with selected titles beginning as early as 1993. **Note: if you receive any gateway errors when using the link above, use this alternate URL: http://0-muse.uq.edu.au.alicat.adelphi.edu/
PROLA - Physical Review Online Archive	Full-text database
published by the American Physical Society, includes the archive of Physical Review from 1893 to 2001, Physical Review Letters from 1958 to 2001, and Reviews of Modern Physics from 1929 to 2001.
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Proquest Health Management	Full-text database
(Proquest) - provides full-text information covering all aspects of health administration, including public health and safety, hospitals, finance, personnel management, insurance, population studies, labor relations and law.
ProQuest Historical Atlanta Constitution	Full-text database
(Proquest) - offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue from the year 1868 to 1925.
ProQuest Historical Boston Globe	Full-text database
(Proquest) - offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue from the year 1872 to 1901.
ProQuest Historical Chicago Tribune	Full-text database
(Proquest) - offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue from the year 1890 to 1969.
ProQuest Historical Christian Science Monitor	Full-text database
(Proquest) - offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue from the year 1908 to 1991.
ProQuest Historical Los Angeles Times	Full-text database
(Proquest) - offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue from the year 1881 to 1969.
ProQuest Historical New York Times	Full-text database
(Proquest) - offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue of the New York Times. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue from the year 1851 to 2003.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers	Full-text database
(Proquest) - offers full page and article images with searchable full text of the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, and Atlanta Constituion. (See coverage dates below.)
ProQuest Historical Wall Street Journal	Full-text database
(Proquest) - offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue from the year 1889 to 1987.
ProQuest Historical Washington Post	Full-text database
(Proquest) - offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue from the year 1877 to 1988.
ProQuest Newspapers	Full-text database
(Proquest) - citations, abstracts and full text of articles in national and regional newspapers
Proquest Psychology Journals	Full-text database
(Proquest)- a searchable collection of journals in a variety of areas of psychology, 1971-present. Full text dissertations are also included, from 2000 – 2005.
ProQuest Research Library Collection	Full-text database
(Proquest)- citations, abstracts and full text for articles in general and academic periodicals and newspapers covering various disciplines.
ProQuest Selectable Full Text Newspapers	Full-text database
Provides access to several newspapers, many updated daily and containing full-text articles dating back to1984.
PsycArticles (APA)	Full-text database
full-text database of journals published by APA and other publishers, including subject areas such as applied psychology, health, theory, research, and social/personality.
PsycBooks (APA)	eRef Collection
full-text database of APA books, classic books, and entries from the Encyclopedia of Psychology.
PsycExtra (APA)	Full-text database
covers the gray literature of trade publications and other information disseminated outside of peer-reviewed journals. Indexes newsletters, magazines, newspapers, reports, government reports, and consumer brochures.
PsychiatryOnline (includes DSM-IV)	eRef Collection
(APPI) - provides a searchable version of DSM-IV-TR, DSM-IV-TR Casebook and its Treatment Companion, the APA Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders, and Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry. Self-assessment tools for study, board certification and re-certification are also included.
Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP)	Full-text database
(PEPWEB) - the web-based version of the PEP (Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing) Archive. It includes the full text of 18 psychoanalytic journals through the year 2003. In addition, coverage of 25 classic psychoanalytic books, by Melanie Klein, Donald W.Winnicott, and Wilfred R. Bion, among others, is provided.
PsycInfo (APA)	Database
provides scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences, indexing journals, books, reviews, and dissertations.
PsycNET	Full-text database
(APA) - Provides a cross searchable interface for APA databases, PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKS, and PsycEXTRA. The latter includes gray literature such as reports, newsletters and consumer brochures.
Pubmed (Entrez)	Database
citations and abstracts for articles in biomedical journals.
PubMed Central	Full-text database
the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

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Readers Guide Full Text	Full-text database
(Wilson)- indexes popular periodicals, covering topics of general interest such as current events, fashion, fine arts, education, business, sports, film and television and more. Citations date back to 1983, with select full text beginning in 1994.
Readers' Guide Retrospective	Database
(Wilson) - a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States during the years 1890 through 1982.
ReferenceUSA (infoUSA)	Database
provides access to the U.S. Businesses module, containing detailed information on more than 14 million U.S. businesses, updated monthly, and the U.S. Residential module, with information on 135 million U.S. households.
Regional Business News	Full-text database
(Ebscohost) - provides full text coverage for regional business publications, including business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Religion and Philosophy Collection	Full-text database
(Ebscohost) - provides coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Full text coverage dates back to 1975.
Resources for College Libraries (RCL)	Database
(Bowker) - the successor to Books for College Libraries, 3rd edition, the core list of 50,000 recommended book titles for academic libraries published by ALA. RCL provides a basic, retrospective list of 62,000-plus hand-selected books and electronic resources to complement the current reviews offered by Choice.


Sage Reference Online	eRef Collection
A searchable collection of over 90 encyclopedias and handbooks in the social and behavioral sciences, business, education and health, and history.
Scientific American Archive Online	Full-text database
(Ebscohost)- contains the full text of the editorial contents of Scientific American Magazine, from January 1993 through to the present. It includes topics in all fields of science, as well as technology.
Scifinder Scholar	Database
(CAS) - provides scientific research and patent information included in the CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) databases, as well as in MEDLINE. The CAS databases include CAplus, CAS Registry, CASREACT, CHEMCATS, and CHEMLIST, searchable by author, topic, substance identifier, chemical structure, and chemical reaction.
Scopus	Database
(Elsevier) - provides comprehensive coverage of scientific, technical, medical, and social science information, including citation data, dating as far back as 1966 to the present. In addition, 3,500 of its 18,000 journal titles cover the arts and humanities.
Serials Directory	Database
(Ebscohost) - provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials. Contains over 182,000 U.S. and international titles.
Social Sciences Full Text	Full-text database
(Wilson) - includes citations and abstracts, 1983 to the present, with some full text articles, 1995 to the present, in applied and theoretical aspects of sociology, anthropology, geography, economics, political science and law.
Social Services Abstracts	Database
(CSA) - provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development, from 1980 to the present.
Social Work Abstracts (Ebscohost)	Database
provides extensive coverage of social work, covering theory and practice, areas of service and social issues. Coverage extends as far back as 1965.
SocIndex with Full Text	Full-text database
(Ebscohost)- a comprehensive research database covering a broad range of topics in the social sciences, with full text journal articles dating as far back as 1895. Full text coverage of books, monographs, and conference papers is also included.
Sociological Abstracts	Database
(CSA)- provides bibliographic information from 1963 - present in the international literature in sociology and related disciplines. Coverage includes journal articles, book reviews, books, and book chapters.
SPORTDiscus	Database
(Ebscohost) - offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. Contains over 600,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800.
Stat-USA	Database
contains the National Trade Database, a comprehensive source of wold trade data, and statistical files from the governmental departments and agencies


Theater in Video (Alexander Street Press)	Video Database
contains more than 250 of the world’s major plays, including selections from the BBC Shakespeare Series, together with more than 100 video documentaries, online in streaming video.
Twayne Author Series	Database
(Gale) - spans the literary tradition through hundreds of years and includes 600 authors from around the world. The entries offer an introduction and critical interpretation and discussion of an author's life and works.


Ulrich's Web	Database
(Bowker) - provides comprehensive information on periodicals, including peer review status. Covers consumer and trade magazines, academic and scholarly journals, newspapers, newsletters, electronic publications, monographic series, and magazines.

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Wall Street Journal (Historical)	Full-text database
(Proquest) - offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue from the year 1889 to 1987.
Washington Post (Historical)	Full-text database
(Proquest) - offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue from the year 1877 to 1988.
World Almanacs	eRef Collection
(Firstsearch)- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs. Includes biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, statistics.
World News Digest	Database
(FactsOnFile)- covers major political, social, and economic events since November 1940.
Worldcat	Database
(Firstsearch) - citations to books and other materials in libraries worldwide

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Academic Search Complete (Ebsco)	Full-text database
provides more than 7,000 multidisciplinary full-text periodicals, nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals, and more than 11,600 monographs, reports, conference proceedings, dating back as far as 1887.
Dissertations & Theses: Full Text (Proquest)	Full-text database
includes over 1 million full text and 2.4 million citations for dissertations and theses from around the world, dating as far back as the 1870’s. Please note: full text documents may be up to 500 pages. Please use discretion and consider all options before printing.
Masterfile Premier	Full-text database
(Ebsco) – a multidisciplinary database of journals, books, primary source documents and an Image Collection, with full text dating as far back as 1975.
OmniFile Full Text (Wilson)	Full-text database
Provides a gateway to all Wilson databases to which the library subscribes.
Oxford Reference	eRef Collection
(Oxford) - the Premium Collection provides multidisciplinary subject reference works, including the Oxford Companions Series, as well as English and foreign language dictionaries, and language reference works.
Project Muse	Full-text database
provides the full text of scholarly journals in fields including literature, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics. Years of coverage vary by title with selected titles beginning as early as 1993. **Note: if you receive any gateway errors when using the link above, use this alternate URL: http://0-muse.uq.edu.au.alicat.adelphi.edu/
ProQuest Research Library Collection	Full-text database
(Proquest)- citations, abstracts and full text for articles in general and academic periodicals and newspapers covering various disciplines.

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Essay & General Literature Index (Wilson)	Database
Provides citations for 86,000 essays and book chapters. Covers the humanities and social sciences, including literary works, art history, drama, and film, from 1985-present. Note: to check to see if the library owns this title click on “Library Owns?” If not owned by Adelphi, you can check ConnectNY for holdings in our consortium.
Nursing Made Incredibly Easy (Books@Ovid)	eBook
a collection of over 50 ebooks, including titles such as Nursing Care Planning Made Incredibly Easy, Straight A’s in Nursing Pharmacology, RN Expert Guides: Cardiovascular Care and Health Assessment Made Incredibly Visual.
Proquest Digital Microfilm	Full-text database
provides access to 25 local and national microfilmed newspapers, including The New York Times and Washington Post, in their original full-image, from 2008 – present.

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