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Abstracts, classified and indexed by author and subject, covering of anthropological scholarship:  Cultural Anthropology, Physical Anthropology, Archaeology, Linguistics.  The Thomas Cooper Library Reference Department also has a print copy GN 1 .A15.

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Category: Anthropology & Archaeology, Linguistics
Material Type: Journals
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 2001 -
Notes: No additional information provided.

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One of the most frequently searched databases.  Covers all subject areas.  Has a mix of magazines and journals, including many that are peer-reviewed.
Category: African-American Studies, Anthropology & Archaeology, Art, Astronomy, Biology, Business, Business-Accounting, Business-Economics, Business-Finance, Business-International Business, Business-Management, Business-Marketing, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Classical Studies, Comparative Literature, Computer Science, Consumer Health, Counseling, Criminal Justice, Education, Engineering, English Literature, Environment, Exercise & Sports Science, Film Studies, Foreign Language & Literatures, General Purpose Databases, Geography, Geology, History, Hospitality & Tourism Management, Journalism & Mass Communications, K-12 Resources, Law, Library Science, Linguistics, Marine Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Military Science, Music, Nursing, Pharmacy, Philosophy, Physical Education, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Administration, Public Health, Religious Studies, Science - General, Social Sciences, Social Work, Sociology, South Carolina Research, Sport Management, Statistics, Theatre & Dance, Women's & Gender Studies
Material Type: Journals, Magazines, Newspapers
Access: On & Off Campus
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Access  indexes approximately eighty-five popular periodicals and most major city and regional magazines not indexed in the Readers’ Guide.
Category: Art, Film Studies, General Purpose Databases, Hospitality & Tourism Management, Library Science, Science - General, Theatre & Dance
Material Type: Book Reviews, Magazines, Newspapers
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1987 - current
Notes: Titles Indexes

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Accessible Archives provides collections of primary source materials in full text databases. The following collections are available:
  • African American Newspapers (National Era, 1847-1860; Frederick Douglass Papers, 1851-1856; Provincial Freeman, 1854-1857; The Christian Recorder, 1861-1893 (excluding 1892).
  • The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800, Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalog, Pennsylvania Newspaper Record
  • The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
  • South Carolina Newspapers, 1732-1780


See notes in collection entries for more details.
Category: African-American Studies, History, South Carolina Research
Material Type: Newspapers
Access: On & Off Campus
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Indexes most publications from the main U.N. bodies - General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council, Secretariat and International Court of Justice and many publications such as UNEP, UNDP, UNFA, UNHCR, WFC and UNITAR. Also includes full text of UN Resolutions from the General Assembly (1981-present), the Security Council (1974-present) and the Economic and Social Council (1982-present).
Category: Political Science
Material Type: Government Information
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1998 - current
Notes: Government Documents Department has Index to United Nations Documents and Publications (1946- )

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Provides full-text and full-page-image access to electronic books in most humanities disciplines and in area studies.
Category: African-American Studies, Art, English Literature, History, Political Science, Religious Studies, Women's & Gender Studies
Material Type: Electronic Books
Access: On & Off Campus
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Notes: Title List

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Bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since its founding in 1947 are available in the library together with selected works published by affiliated organizations.
Category: Computer Science
Material Type: Journals, Proceedings
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1947 - current
Notes: Tables of Contents for ACM Newsletters published since 1985 are available in the Digital Library.

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Create reports from statistics gathered by the Association of College and Research Libraries and the National Center for Education Statistics' academic libraries survey.

Username and login required for logon is available to USC faculty, students, and staff in the Ejournals [TDNet] listing.


Category: Library Science
Material Type: Statistics
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 2000 to present
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Find total expenditures for advertising by company, industry, and brand/product category. Data covers over 3 million brands in 18 industries with expenditure breakdown by media type, including Internet, cable and network TV, radio, outdoor, major national newspapers and hundreds of business-to-business and consumer magazines. Customized reports can easily be exported to spreadsheets and flowchart programs.

Limited to one (1) user at a time, so please click *Logout* in the top right corner when you are done with your session.



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Category: Business, Business-Management, Business-Marketing, Journalism & Mass Communications
Material Type: Company Profiles, Industry Information, Reference Sources
Access: On & Off Campus
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Find both U.S. and international advertisers, advertising agencies, public relations firms, and media buying services.

Limited to two (2) users at a time. When you finish searching, do not just close the window, click SIGN-OFF, otherwise you stay logged in for 30 minutes.
Category: Business, Business-Management, Business-Marketing
Material Type: Company Profiles, Directories, Industry Information
Access: On & Off Campus
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Notes: The Agency Database contains detailed profiles of nearly 13,500 U.S. and international advertising agencies, including accounts represented by each agency, fields of specialization, breakdown of gross billings by media, contact information on agency personnel, etc.

The Advertiser Database contains exclusive information on over 24,000 U.S. and international advertisers who each spend more than $200,000 annually on advertising. Each listing includes advertising expenditures by media, current agency, fiscal year-end and annual sales, contact information on key personnel, brand name info, S.I.C. classifications and other key data.

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Provides full production and cast information, as well as a bibliography of source materials for American feature films, produced from 1900 to 1970.
Category: Film Studies
Material Type: Reference Sources
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1893 - 1973
Notes: No additional information provided.

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African-American Biographical Database (AABD) brings together biographies, rare books, and historical information on thousands of African-Americans. These biographical sketches (including photographs and illustrations) have been assembled from Chadwyck-Healey’s acclaimed Black Biographical Dictionaries 1790-1950.
Category: African-American Studies, History
Material Type: Biographies, Reference Sources
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1790 - 1950
Notes: Biographical portraits from newly uncovered dictionaries as well as from other published reference sources, obituary files, slave narrative collections, internet sites, etc. will be added as the database expands. AABD does not include anyone born after 1950, but does include death dates up to 1998.

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Includes  National Era, 1847-1860; Frederick Douglass Papers, 1851-1856; Provincial Freeman, 1854-1857; The Christian Recorder, 1861-1893 (excluding 1892). 


You may also be interested in the African American newspapers in Chronicling America.  The papers have been digitized and are freely available.
Category: African-American Studies
Material Type: Newspapers
Access: On & Off Campus
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Contains more than 2,500 full text poems written by African American poets of the late 18th and 19th centuries. Also contains citations and tables of contents.
Category: African-American Studies, English Literature
Material Type: Reference Sources
Access: Thompas Cooper Library Only
Coverage: 1760 - 1900
Notes: CD-ROM available on stand-alone computer in Thomas Cooper Library only. Ask at Reference Desk for assistance with CD-ROM 01.

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The Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. 

 The core content includes:
  • Africana Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895
  • Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present
  • Black Women in America
  • African American National Biography Concise
  • Oxford Companion to African American Literature

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World Newspaper Archive is a fully searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the globe. Current modules cover African, Latin American, and South Asian newspapers. Created in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries - one of the world’s largest and most important newspaper repositories.

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AGRICOLA has more than 3.3 million citations to literature on agriculture, agricultural production and economics, rural sociology, animal sciences, chemistry, plant sciences, natural resources, pesticides, animal sciences and water resources.  Also freely available from the National Agricultural Library at http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/.
Category: Biology, Geography
Material Type: Books, Dissertations & Theses, Journals, Patents, Proceedings, Reports
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1979 - current
Notes: Periodicals Indexed

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Alexander Street is an electronic publisher of award-winning online collections in the humanities and social sciences. Alexander Street collections are available to library and educational institutions through annual subscription or a one-time purchase of perpetual rights.
This is a vendor which the library system has subscribed to several resources. Listed below are all the resources from this vendor. Clicking on the name of a resource will take you to the full details page for that resource. For more information on this vendor click on Full Details.

American Civil War Research Database
American History in Video
Black Drama
Black Studies in Video
Black Thought and Culture
Black Women Writers
Caribbean Literature
Classical Scores Library, Volumes I and II
Dance in Video
Ethnographic Video Online: Volume 1
Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines
Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Latin American Women Writers
Latino Literature
North American Theatre Online
Opera in Video
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
World History in Video

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Alt HealthWatch provides indexing and full text for more than 160 complementary, alternative, and holistic health care publications, approximately 20 of which are peer-reviewed.
Category: Consumer Health, Medicine, Nursing
Material Type: Audio and Visual
Access: On & Off Campus
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Fulltext content from over 2,000 sources, including local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers, news video, and news blogs.  Coverage varies by title, with some titles providing fulltext since the late 1970s.

Easy shortcut links to search just The State or South Carolina newspapers.

NewsLibrary.com has some newspapers not in our subscription to America's Newspapers.  You can search NewsLibrary as an index for free but will be prompted to pay for the full article.
Category: General Purpose Databases
Material Type: Newspapers
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: Varies by Title
Notes: No additional information provided.

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An index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Strong English-language journal coverage is balanced by an international perspective on topics and events, including abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages. The database also includes citations and links to book and media reviews.
Category: African-American Studies, Art, History, Political Science, Religious Studies, Social Work, Theatre & Dance, Women's & Gender Studies
Material Type: Book Reviews, Books, Dissertations & Theses, Journals
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1954 - current
Notes: No additional information provided.

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This item is only available in the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections Department, Hollings Library.


American Book Prices Current cumulates auction records for books and manuscripts to facilitate searching.
Category: Library Science
Material Type: Reference Sources
Access: Free Internet Resource
Coverage: 1975 - current
Notes: This item is only available in the Special Collections Department, Hollings Library. Please ask Special Collections staff for assistance.

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ACS Publications provides searchable access to over 130 years of original research in chemistry, including more than 750,000 articles contained in 3 million plus pages of chemistry findings, dating back to the introduction of the Journal of the American Chemical Society in 1879.
Category: Chemistry & Biochemistry, Engineering, Pharmacy
Material Type: Journals
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: Varies by Title
Notes: No additional information provided.

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The American Civil War Research Database is an online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War. The database contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 15,000 photographs.
Category: History, South Carolina Research
Material Type: Biographies, Reference Sources
Access: On & Off Campus
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Contains population, housing, economic and geographic data. Also allows creation of reference and thematic maps.
Category: Business, Business-Economics, General Purpose Databases
Material Type: Government Information, Statistics
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Coverage: 1990 - current
Notes: No additional information provided.

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Directory of U.S.-owned headquarters, subsidiaries, branches, and affiliates in 196 countries around the world.
Category: Business, Business-International Business, Business-Management
Material Type: Company Profiles, Directories, Industry Information, Reference Sources
Access: On & Off Campus
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Video content is pulled from commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.  Historical eras range from discovery and exploration through the late 20th century.

You may also be interested in the University Libraries own Moving Image Research Collections.
Category: History
Material Type: Audio and Visual, Reference Sources
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: Date Varies
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Table of contents and full text for recent issues of journals published by AIP and subscribed to by Thomas Cooper Library.
Category: Astronomy, Physics
Material Type: Journals
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: Varies by Title
Notes: No additional information provided.

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All of the journals listed on this site are available full text to the USC-Columbia campus.
Category: Mathematics, Statistics
Material Type: Journals, Proceedings
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: Varies by Title
Notes: No additional information provided.

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Contains over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children’s and women’s magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.  With the digitized page images researchers can see all of the original typography, drawings, graphic elements, and article layouts exactly as they were originally published.

In addition, a Search for Periodicals function in APS leads to bibliographic information and a summary of the historical significance of all the periodicals represented in the database.

This resource was acquired by University Libraries with generous contributions from the Department of History in the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, USC-Columbia.

 


Category: African-American Studies, Art, General Purpose Databases, History, Women's & Gender Studies
Material Type: Magazines
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1740 - 1900
Notes: No additional information provided.

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All of the journals listed on this site are available full text to the USC-Columbia campus.
Category: Physics
Material Type: Journals
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: Varies by Title
Notes: No additional information provided.

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Not all journal titles listed by this provider are available to the USC-Columbia campus. The Provider’s complete list of journals is displayed, but USC can access the full text of only those journals to which the USC Libraries subscribe.
Category: Biology, Public Health
Material Type: Journals
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: Varies by Title
Notes: No additional information provided.

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Includes poems from over 200 American poets and six anthologies of American poetry. CD-ROM available on stand-alone computer in Thomas Cooper Library only. Ask at Reference Desk for assistance with CD-ROM 03.
Category: English Literature
Material Type: Reference Sources
Access: Thompas Cooper Library Only
Coverage: Colonial-Early 20th C.
Notes: CD-ROM available on stand-alone computer in Thomas Cooper Library only. Ask at Reference Desk for assistance with CD-ROM 03.

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All of the journals listed on this site are available full text to the USC-Columbia campus.
Category: Nursing, Public Health
Material Type: Journals
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: Varies by Title
Notes: No additional information provided.

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Année Philologique is an index of publications related to the history, language, literature and civilization of ancient Greece and Rome.
Category: Anthropology & Archaeology, Classical Studies, History, Linguistics, Philosophy
Material Type: Books, Journals
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1959 - 2002
Notes: No additional information provided.

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Seeks to provide a useful and intelligent synthesis of the primary research literature for a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines. Full text of recent volumes available as well as abstracts, titles and authors from 1984 to present.
Category: Anthropology & Archaeology, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Counseling, Environment, Geography, Geology, Marine Science, Nursing, Pharmacy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health, Sociology
Material Type: Journals
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: Varies by Title
Notes: No additional information provided.

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Provides online access to the bibliographic references to journal articles on anthropology in the Museum of Mankind Library.
Category: Anthropology & Archaeology, Social Sciences
Material Type: Journals
Access:
Coverage: 1965 - current
Notes: Titles Indexed

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Provides current issues of American Anthropological Association’s journals and bulletins as well as archived issues of all the AAA’s journals, newsletters and bulletins. Journal issues generally appear online prior to distribution in print.
Category: Anthropology & Archaeology, Social Sciences, Sociology
Material Type: Book Reviews, Journals
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: Varies by Title
Notes: No additional information provided.

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AP News provides near real-time access to top world-wide news from Associated Press on a continuous basis.
Category: Business, Journalism & Mass Communications
Material Type: Newspapers
Access: On & Off Campus
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Covers a wide variety of applied science specialties—from acoustics and aeronautics, to neural networks and nuclear & civil engineering.
Category: Computer Science, Engineering, Science - General
Material Type: Audio and Visual
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage:
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ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts on the Web is an indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.
Category: Counseling, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health, Social Sciences, Social Work, Sociology
Material Type: Journals
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1987 - current
Notes: Titles Indexed

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This resource contains a directory which supersedes the Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States (DAMRUS) last published in 1988, collection records from the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC), and records from the major microfiche series, National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS).
Category: General Purpose Databases, Library Science
Material Type: Directories, Reference Sources
Access: Thompas Cooper Library Only
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Notes: CD-ROM available on stand-alone computer in Thomas Cooper Library only. Ask at Reference Desk for assistance with CD-ROM 37.

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Electronic version of the 128 books of the War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.
Category: History
Material Type: Electronic Books
Access: Thompas Cooper Library Only
Coverage: 1860 - 1884
Notes: CD-ROM available on stand-alone computer in Thomas Cooper Library only. Ask at Reference Desk for assistance with CD-ROM 04.

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This database offers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications—now with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
Category: Art, Film Studies, Theatre & Dance
Material Type: Book Reviews, Journals
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1984 - current
Notes: H.W. Wilson index

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Indexes nearly 600 art periodicals.  
Category: Art, Film Studies, Theatre & Dance
Material Type: Book Reviews, Journals, Magazines
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1929 - 1984
Notes: H.W. Wilson index

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Ranges from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises.
Category: Foreign Language & Literatures
Material Type: Books, Reference Sources
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 13th - 20th Century
Notes: In most cases standard scholarly editions were used in converting the text into machine-readable form, and the data contain page references to these editions.

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Arts & Letters Daily is a web portal owned by The Chronicle of Higher Education. It features links to high quality news stories, features and reviews on a wide range of topics.
Category: Art, English Literature, History, Music, Philosophy, Political Science
Material Type: Book Reviews, Magazines, Newspapers
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Web of Science includes three indexes:

  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975 to present)
  • Social Sciences Citation Index (1956 to present)
  • Science Citation Index Expanded (1899 to present)

This database indexes multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index covers some titles back to 1975.

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ASFA series is the premier reference in the field of aquatic resources. Input to ASFA is provided by a growing international network of information centers monitoring over 5,000 sources. 
Category: Biology, Environment, Marine Science
Material Type: Books, Dissertations & Theses, Journals, Proceedings, Reports
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1978 - current
Notes: ASFA is a component of the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Information System (ASFIS), formed by four United Nations agency sponsors of ASFA and two international partners.

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Not all titles listed by this provider are available to the USC-Columbia campus. USC users can access the full text of only those journals to which the USC Libraries subscribe.  In your results list, please ignore "$Buy This" icons and try the PDF or HTML links.   If you are prompted to LOGIN, you should request the article through our Interlibrary Loan service.
Category: Engineering
Material Type: Journals
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: Varies by Title
Notes: No additional information provided.

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This database is designed specifically for the research needs of two-year colleges, and provides comprehensive coverage of the most relevant associates program level content.
Category: General Purpose Databases
Material Type: Audio and Visual
Access: On & Off Campus
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ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA’s online collection of major religion and theology journals. 
Category: Counseling, Religious Studies
Material Type: Book Reviews, Journals
Access: On & Off Campus
Coverage: 1949 - current
Notes: The ATLA Religion Database includes more than 555,000 article citations from more than 1,656 journals (518 currently indexed), more than 232,000 essay citations from over 16,700 multi-author works, and more than 511,000 book review citations. Full text is provided for more than 266,000 electronic articles and book reviews.

List of titles included in ATLA.

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The Atlanta Constitution (1868-1945) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
Category: History, Journalism & Mass Communications
Material Type: Newspapers
Access: On & Off Campus
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Contains repair and maintenance information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles. New repair procedures, TSBs and updates are added to the product on a regular basis.
Category: General Purpose Databases
Material Type: Reference Sources
Access: On & Off Campus
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