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Abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations and exhibition reviews with comprehensive bibliographic coverage of modern and contemporary art, architecture, design and photography. The time period coverage includes the 19th and 20th centuries. Covers literature published since 1974. A list of periodicals indexed is available. Updated monthly. |
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Art Full-Text and Art Retrospective Indexes citations to articles from over 600 journals published worldwide with broad coverage of art-related topics including fine, applied and media arts, architecture, and design. Also indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in the indexed journals. A list of periodical titles for either Art Index or Art Index Retrospective is available. |
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comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design,
history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city
planning, historic preservation and interior design and decoration.
Indexes articles from nearly 800 US and foreign architectural journals
published worldwide, 75% of which are not indexed in any other source.
Includes articles from previous electronic version as well as records
converted from Avery Library card file, with records dating from
the 1860s to the present. A list of periodical titles indexed is
available. |
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Bibliography of the History of Art The
Bibliography of the History of Art indexes and abstracts articles,
art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and art
exhibition and dealer's catalogs. This extensive and comprehensive
index covers European and American art from late antiquity to the
present. |
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Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) Indexes over 500 journals that cover industrial design, interior design, fashion, graphic design, typography, packaging, etc., since 1973. Supplementary databases provide contact information for craft & design organizations, special collections of design & craft, design & craft education programs, and periodicals. Online help is available. Coverage is worldwide. Updated annually. |
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Composed of Grove Art, Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encylcopedia of Aesthetics & Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Contains over 41,000 articles on the art and architecture of Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas and the Pacific, with links to images and further information in museum and other art-related web sites. Help is available. |
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Indexes the contents of books, journals, conference proceedings, library school theses, pamphlets, and book reviews in the literature of Library and Information Science published since 1980. Contains over 185,000 citations from English- and non-English-language sources. |
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An international and interdisciplinary index to non-mainstream, alternative sources of information in the humanities and the social sciences, focusing on ecology, labor, socialism, democracy, national liberation, indigenous peoples, and gender issues. Indexes 300 alternative, Left, and radical newspapers, magazines and periodicals. |
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Business & Company Resource Center | (Novel) Search
for information about brands, companies and corporations, company
profiles and histories, investment reports, news articles, and press
releases. A title
list of journals and other sources is available. |
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Full text of articles from over 400 publications as far back as 1995. Quality abstracting and indexing of more than 800 publications as far back as 1982. Search using the Wilson subject thesaurus developed specifically for this product. |
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EBSCO MasterFile Select | (Novel) Contains full text, citations and images for articles from over 750 journals and newspapers in all subjects. A list of titles covered is available. |
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Comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. Full text of articles cover to cover, from hundreds of journals, make this a valuable source for education research. |
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Includes the print Encyclopedia Britannica as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. Nearly 120,000 articles and 14,000 illustrations. |
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ERIC
| Contains annotated references to nonjournal material in the monthly Resources in Education (RIE) and to journal articles issued in the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Contains almost 1 million records from over 2,000 titles published since 1966. A list of sources is available. Updated monthly. |
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General Science Collection | (Novel) General Science Collection provides information on all aspects of the scientific world and offers full-text coverage for more than 60 of the most popular science publications, including Archaeology, Astronomy, Discover, National Wildlife, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, and many others. Subject areas covered include the observation, description, identification, and experimental investigation of phenomena and the application of science to industrial or commercial objectives. The database also includes Great Scientific Achievements of the Twentieth Century, a multi-volume encyclopedia from Salem Press. |
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Health Reference Center- Academic | (Novel) Over one million full-text articles from the literature of the health sciences, including medical & nursing journals, consumer health magazines, newsletters, pamphlets, and newspaper articles. Most articles include images. A list of titles is available. |
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Humanities Full-Text is a full text database that provides digital versions of a large array of prestigious academic journals in disciplines ranging from Anthropology, the Arts, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Literature, Literary Criticism to further support the Humanities, Art, and Social Science scholarship at the Institute. Humanities Full-Text provides access to over 500 journals in these disciplines. |
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InfoTrac Custom Newspapers | (Novel) This database includes over 150 full text newspapers, including 7 New York State newspapers and the New York Times, which is indexed in full text for the full current year. |
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An online database of over 1,400 materials and processes of the latest materials typically unnoticed or difficult to reach by the design community. For architecture, interiors, furniture design, sports related design, consumer product design, apparel, automotive design, aerospace, military, medical, environmental design. |
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Full-text indexing (1985- present) of several major New York State newspapers, including the New York Times and the New York Post. |
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A multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. Also included, when available, are full-text articles from five additional periodical databases: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. |
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ProjectMuse is a full text database that provides digital versions of a large array of prestigious academic journals in disciplines ranging from Anthropology, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Literature, Literary Criticism to further support the Humanities, Art, and Social Science scholarship at the Institute. ProjectMuse provides access to over 300 journals in these disciplines. |
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This site searches millions of records describing library books to put the most widely held and relevant items near the top of any search results list. It helps students focus on the most commonly held and important sources of information held in library collections. |
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Offers the coverage in current events , curriculum support, and quality periodicals research. |
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Full text and page images from scores of key publications, plus abstracting and indexing of hundreds of others. An in-demand resource for a wide variety of users from students to social workers, Social Sciences Full Text covers the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.High quality indexing of periodicals as far back as 1983. |
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Twayne's Author Series | (Novel) Find biographical, bibliographical, and critical full-text information about US, English, and world authors. |
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Use WorldCat to search for information about books, periodicals, and other materials held in OCLC member libraries worldwide. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century. Updated daily. |
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Last Updated: Feb. 1, 2005 (sk) |