Effective July 1, 2004 Williams
Library will no longer offer Gale Group and InfoTrac academic databases on
our
Online Databases
page. In their place researchers can now access
two EBSCO databases that contain even more full-text scholarly and popular
content:
Academic Search Premier
and
MasterFILE Premier.
Academic Search Premier
is the world's largest scholarly,
multi-disciplinary full text database and contains:
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Information in
nearly every area of academic study including: biology, psychology,
religion & theology, sociology, humanities, education, computer
sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics,
arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and more
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8,000 abstracted and
indexed journals (more than 6,600 of these are peer-reviewed)
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Full text from more than
4,600 publications
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3,500 peer-reviewed,
full-text journals
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PDF backfiles to 1975 or
further are available for well over one hundred journals
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Searchable
references are provided for more than 1,000 titles
MasterFILE Premier
is a general interest database that
contains:
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Information covering
general reference, business, health, education, general science,
multicultural issues, and more
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Full-text coverage for
2,000 periodicals
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Full text for more than 360
reference books
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84,000 full-text
biographies
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86,000 primary source
documents
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An Image Collection of more
than 100,000 photos, maps, and flags
For a quick
cross reference of old databases to new or existing databases, see the
table below.
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