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ABI-Inform - Proquest[full text]
Covers national and international business and management literature. Also includes information on 60,000+ companies.

ACS Publications[full text]
Full text of journal articles from over 30 American Chemical Society publications, from 1996 to the present.

Agricola
Contains citations to approximately 680,000 books from the National Agricultural Library collections,and citations to 1.8 million professional journal articles covering 1979 to the present.

Anthropological Index Online
Covers the fields of anthropology and archaeology and indexes over 750 journals for the last thirty years.

Article First - FirstSearch
Indexing and some abstracts for journal literature in all subject areas.

Books in Print - FirstSearch
Over 2 million records of in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books from over 44,000 North American publishers. Includes U.S. publishers, distributors and wholesalers.

Britannica Online
Online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Congressional Universe[full text]
Searchable text of Congressional publications, federal laws and regulations, and information about members of Congress.

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Digital Dissertations
Citations and abstracts for thousands of doctoral disserations from 1861 to the present.

Electronic Collections Online - FirstSearch
Indexing for approximately 3000 academic and scholarly journals.

ERIC - FirstSearch
Abstracts for educational literature. CWU owns the entire microfiche collection of ERIC Documents. If you find a citation that begins with an ED number, check Microfiche MH-9 shelved on the 3rd floor to see if we have the article you want. For assistance, see a librarian in the Documents Dept., also on the 3rd floor.

GeoRef - FirstSearch
Abstracts for journal literature in the geosciences.

GPO Monthly Catalog - FirstSearch
Descriptions of materials in U.S. federal depository libraries (such as CWU).

Hoover's Online[full text]
Company information on the operations, strategies, histories, financial performance, and products of major US and global public and private enterprises.

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JSTOR [full text]
Contains the complete back files of 117 core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, and the social sciences. These journals have been digitized back to the first issue published, and many of the titles date back to the 1800s. Over 4 million pages are available.

Leisure Recreation and Tourism Abstracts
Indexing and abstracts of journal articles for those interested in research and strategic development of leisure, recreation, sport, tourism and hospitality activities, facilities, products and services. [Search Help]

Lexis Academic Universe [full text]
Thousands of full-text news sources (newspapers, wire services, transcripts and newsletters) from around the world, business and trade journals, industry and company information, hundreds of law reviews, and full text of Federal and state case law.

Marcive
Citations to U.S. Government documents from 1976 - present. When available, includes links to the Web version of documents.

MathSciNet
Searchable Web database providing access to over 59 years of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications (from 1940 to the present).

Medical Library - Proquest [full text]
Combines MEDLINE indexing with full images for more than 100 key medical titles. Offers coverage of all the major healthcare specialities.

MEDLINE - FirstSearch
Indexing and abstracts for journal literature in medicine and biology from 1965 - present.

MLA Bibliography - FirstSearch
Abstracts for published work in literature and linguistics.

Music Index
Index to more than 655 international music periodicals from 1979 to the present.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Abstracts for literature in criminal justice.

National Newspapers - Proquest [full text]
A major newspapers database, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, USA TODAY, Boston Globe and the Atlanta Journal/Constitution.

NetFirst - FirstSearch
Descriptions and links to Internet resources by subject.

netLibrary [full text]
Electronic full text of approximately 1,200 books in the areas of library reference, Choice Outstanding Academic Books, Computer Science and Technology, and Pacific Northwest History.
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Nutrition Abstracts
Topics and journal articles indexed include food composition and nutritive value, Human health and nutrition, disease and therapeutic nutrition, and physiology and biochemistry of nutrients. [Search Help]

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PAIS International - FirstSearch
consists of articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs. Covers from 1972 to the present with abstracts for most records from 1985.

Papers First - FirstSearch
Descriptions of papers presented at conferences.

Proceedings First - FirstSearch
Index of conference publications.

PsycInfo 1887 - FirstSearch
Journal articles, chapters, books, dissertations and reports on psychology and related fields, from 1887-present.

PubScience
"A World Wide Web service developed by the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) to facilitate searching and accessing peer reviewed journal literature in the physical sciences and otherenergy-related disciplines." This index provides journal article citations and abstracts only.

Research Library Periodicals - Proquest [full text]
This database indexes over 2,000 periodicals-- over 1,000 of them in full-text or full-image (with illustrations)--in a wide range of subject areas.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature - FirstSearch
Abstracts for journal literature in music.

Sociological Abstracts - FirstSearch
Citations (from 1963--) and abstracts (from 1974--) of journal articles covering sociology, social work, and other social sciences.

STAT-USA [full text]
U.S. economic performance data, National Trade Data Bank, and statisical information.

Statistical Universe
Comprehensive access to over 30,000 tables of statistical information. The service allows users to search summaries of statistical publications, then link to the full-text of selected publications on Statistical Universe and government Web sites.

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Tax Research NetWork [full text]
Access the CCH federal and state tax libraries. Get the latest tax news, detailed explanations, analysis, cases and other primary source material.

Union List of Periodicals - FirstSearch
Descriptions and holdings information for periodicals owned by libraries.

Value Line

Please note: when searching the Value Line Ratings &Reports files, company files currently are available only in the Adobe Acrobat .pdf format.  10/17/01

Includes full-page reports and analyst commentaries as well as Timeliness™ and Safety™ ranks on 1,700 stocks covered by The Value Line Investment Survey.

Washington State Newsstand - Proquest [full text]
Full text of Washington state and regional papers.

Web of Science
Index, abstracts, bibliographies, and cited references to articles from over 5,700 science journals.

World Almanac - FirstSearch [full text]
Desk reference tool for factual information.

WorldCat - FirstSearch
Descriptions and holdings information for materials owned by libraries worldwide.

Zack's University Analyst Watch [full text]
Provides analyst earnings estimates, detailed brokerage research on publicly traded companies, on-line screening for selection from 81 criteria, and Morningstar mutual fund data.

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Please Note:

[full text] This icon means the resource includes textual content in some form which can be printed, e-mailed or downloaded. This is in contrast with abstracts and citations, which represent or summarize actual text content.
For example, in theArticle First database, you might find a summary of an article from the journal Nature which will be useful in locating the article in the library stacks. However, in the Research Library Periodicals database, you might find the actual text of that same article, available online.


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