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ABI/INFORM Global	Full-text database
(Proquest) - citations, abstracts, and full text for articles in business and management periodicals.
Academic Search Premier	Full-text database
(Ebscohost) - provides full text for thousands of scholarly publications, including peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.
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	Database
(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	Database
(Alexander Street Press) - 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.
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 National Biography	Database
(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 Women's History	Database
(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.
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	Full-text database
(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
(Silverplatter) - citations and abstracts from life sciences literature
Black Drama	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.
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.
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.
Classical Music Library	Database
(Alexander Street Press) - 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.
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.
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.
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	Full-text database
(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.
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.


Database of Recorded American Music	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
Dissertation Abstracts	Database
(Firstsearch) - citations and abstracts for dissertations and theses covering all academic subjects. 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.
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	Database
(Ebscohost) - covers 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 Britannica	Full-text database

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.
Essay and General Literature Index	Database
(Wilson) - cites essays and articles contained in collections from the United States, Great Britain and Canada focusing on the humanities and social sciences.
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	Database
(Gale) - provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.
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.
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
Grove Art Online (via Oxford)	Full-text database
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)	Database
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.


Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI)	Database
(Ovid) - citations to identify and evaluate measurement tests used in health and psychosocial studies
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 Reference Center Academic	Full-text database
(Gale) - provides an integrated collection of general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books and pamphlets. Records are available in a combination of indexing, abstracts or full text formats. Designed for nursing and allied health students, as well as consumer health researchers.
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.


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.
LexisNexis Environmental	Full-text database
covers a wide range of environmental issues, with abstracts from 1975 to the present. Source types include journals, newspapers, federal and state codes and regulations, law reviews, and regulatory agency decisions.
Library Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA)	Database
(Ebscohost) Coverage includes topics in librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management, with coverage dating back to the mid-1960s.
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 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 Select	Full-text database
(Ebscohost) - provides full text coverage for periodicals in subject areas including general reference, business, health, education, general science, and multicultural issues. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1985.
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	Full-text 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.
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	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