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Academic Search Premier

4,450 of 7780 journals indexed are full text

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Agricola via EBSCO

Approximately 2%-3% full-text

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Alt Healthwatch

Mostly full-text.

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American Humanities Index Index Only

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Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic

Mostly full-text

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Business Source Premier

3,650 of 6,800 journals indexed are full-text

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CancerLit

Index Only 1.3 million citations/abstracts

No Full-text

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Clinical Pharmacology

Full-text drug monographs.

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Communication & Mass Media Complete Product of merging CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index; 200+full-text journals

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Computer Source: Consumer Edition

300 of the 450 publications indexed are full-text

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Corporate ResourceNet

1300 of the 1800 journals are supposed to be full-text. Full-text profiles of 5,000 companies as well.

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EBSCO Animals

Text of encyclopedia is full-text. Only some images available

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ERIC via EBSCO

Less than 1% of the database is full-text—2,200 educational digests and 980+ education-related journals (abstracts).

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Fuente Academica

150+ sources indexed are available full-text

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Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia

Full-text of 25,000+ encyclopedia entries

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Health Source: Consumer Edition

277 of the 300 journals indexed are full-text. Full-text for 20 reference books and 1200 pamphlets, and many reports.

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Health Source: Nursing/Academic

591 of 850 journals indexed are full-text. Full-text for 20 reference books and 1200 pamphlets, and many reports.

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Knight-Ridder Collection

Full-Text available for most recent 90 days of the 100 newspapers indexed.

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MAS Ultra

Designed for high schools. 550 publications (back to 1975), pamphlets, reference books, photos. Approximately 90% full-text.

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Masterfile Premier

Full text for 2000 of 2600 periodicals indexed. Also includes full-text (back to 1975) documents, book reviews, biographies, etc.

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MedicaLatina

130+ full text medical research and investigative journals (by Latin American Publishers) in Spanish

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Medline Via EBSCO

Abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals; Less than 5% full-text

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Middle Search Plus

150 of the 200 journals indexed are full text. Full text images, essays, documents, etc. Lexiles included.

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Military & Government Collection

300 of the 400 journals indexed are full text, plus full text of over 200 pamphlets

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Newspaper Source

Cover to cover for USA Today, Christian Science Monitor & The Times (London) and 20 other national/international papers. Selected full-text for 200 regional newspapers. Full-text coverage for selected TV & radio news programs.

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Novelist

Book reviews & annotations.

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Novelist K-8

Subset of Novelist. Full-text of book reviews and annotations for K-8 readers.

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Nursing & Allied Health Collection: Basic

Full-text for at least some of each of the 100 titles indexed.

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Primary Search

60 of the 80 indexed periodicals are available full-text. Also contains maps, photos and full-text for over 100 pamphlets. Lexiles included.

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Professional Development Collection: Education

600 of the 800 indexed journals are available full-text; 350 are peer-reviewed.

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Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection

Approximately 550 full-text journals; 500 are peer-reviewed.

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Regional Business News

75 periodicals full-text (included journals, newspapers, and newswires).

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Religion & Philosophy Collection

300 full-text journals; 250+ are peer-reviewed.

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Searchasaurus

Combines Middle Search, Primary Search, an encyclopedia, and encyclopedia of animals, a dictionary and a picture archive. 155 full-text journals.

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Topic Search

78,000 full-text articles (selective from 1,450 periodicals) on social, political, economic, and scientific issues.

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Last updated: December 14, 2006 - 12:26pm by eric.hildreth