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  • ABI/INFORM Complete  Some full text available
    Includes ABI/INFORM Dateline, ABI/INFORM Global, and ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry. Accounting, business, finance, international business, marketing, and management journals as well as company and industry topics from 1923 to the present. more
  • Academic Search Complete  Some full text available
    Arts, humanities, science, social sciences, business, and technology journals, e-books, and other electronic resources from 1887 to the present. more
  • ACM Digital Library  Some full text available
    Full text of articles published by ACM (journals, magazines, and conference proceedings) and bibliographic citations from major publishers in computing and information systems subject areas. more
  • Ageline  Some full text available
    Gerontology, health care, and psychology articles and the gerontology collection of AARP's Research Information Center from 1978 to the present. more
  • America: History and Life  Some full text available
    U.S. and Canadian history covering the prehistoric era onwards for journals published worldwide from 1964 to the present. more
  • American History in Video  Full text available Add'l Info
    Streaming videos available online for the study of American history. more
  • AnthroSource  Full text available Add'l Info
    Journals from the American Anthropological Association (AAA) including current issues for the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications. Access to archival content in JSTOR for key AAA publications. more
  • APA Guide to Electronic References (2012)   Add'l Info
    This new addition to APA citation focuses solely on the citing of electronic resources and includes a wide variety of citation examples. more
  • ArchiveGrid  
    Provides online access to nearly a million descriptions of archival collections owned by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide. more
  • ArticleFirst  Some full text available
    Science, technology, medicine, social science, business, humanities, and popular culture journals from 1990 to the present. more
  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index  Some full text available Add'l Info
    Multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the arts and humanities, from 1975 to the present. more

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  • Bibliography of the History of Art  Some full text available
    Fine arts, architecture, and folk and popular art of Europe and the Americas, from the Getty Museum. Includes coverage from three databases: BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art or Bibliographie d'histoire de l'art), which covers 1990-2007, IBA (International Bibliography of the History of Art), which covers 2008 and part of 2009, and RILA (Repertoire de la litterature de l'art), which covers 1975 to 1989. more
  • BIOSIS Previews  Some full text available Add'l Info
    Agriculture, biochemistry, biotechnology, health, medical, microbiology, and pharmacology journals for the past five years. more
  • Bond Reports (Standard & Poor's)  Full text available
    Includes detailed information on current bond offerings. more
  • Books24x7  Full text available Add'l Info
    NOTE:  "Share a Link" links to individual books are not currently working.
    Collection of electronic books (e-books) on finance, IT, and technical topics. UMUC Faculty: Please note that due to limitations on the concurrent number of users, the e-books in this database are not meant to be used as assigned textbooks. more
  • Business Insights: Essentials  Some full text available
    NOTE:  June 19, 2013: The "Generate PDF" buttons are not working.
    Industry rankings, financial data, and reports including company profiles, products and brand information, investment reports, statistics, company financial overviews, financial ratios, and business events and trends. Some sources from 1980 to the present. Includes e-book reference texts. more
  • Business Source Complete  Some full text available
    Business, management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and company and industry information journal articles, case studies and industry reports from 1886 to the present. Also includes Datamonitor company, industry, and market research reports as well as investment and research reports from other sources, EIU Country Reports and Profiles, financial data, e-books, monographs, major reference works, conference proceedings, and case studies. more

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  • CAMIO  Full text available
    Catalog of Art Museum Images Online: resources of more than 95,000 works of art from prominent museums around the world. more
  • Chicago Manual of Style Online  
    Online editorial style and publishing practices manual for the 15th and 16th editions. more
  • Christian Science Monitor  Full text available
    Part of the ProQuest Newspapers collection. more
  • Chronicle of Higher Education  Full text available
    NOTE:  Academe Today is not part of the library subscription to the Chronicle; it is only available to individual subscribers.
    Source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. Includes contents of the latest issue; articles published since 1974; daily news and advice columns; job listings; discussion forums; and RSS feedsmore
  • CIAO  Full text available
    International affairs, politics, economics, public policy, culture and conflict journal articles and e-books from 1991 to the present. more
  • CINAHL  Some full text available
    Nursing, allied health, alternative therapies, case management, consumer health, critical care, evidence-based practice, health administration, health informatics, mental health, pharmacology, and medical equipment journal articles since 1982. more
  • CINAHL Complete  Full text available
    Full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for many of the journals indexed in CINAHL. more
  • Clase and Periodica  Some full text available
    Index of journals (primarily in Spanish and Portuguese) published in the humanities, social sciences, science, and technology from 1975 to the present. more
  • Communication & Mass Media Complete  Some full text available
    Communication and mass media topics, including business communication, in journals, major journalism reviews, and recent encyclopedia and handbooks from 1915 to the present. more
  • Company Profile (Standard & Poor's)  Full text available
    Includes comprehensive profiles of publicly traded companies. more
  • Computer Database  Some full text available
    Business and technical publications in the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries from 1980 to the present. more
  • Computers & Applied Sciences Complete  Full text available
    Covers the research and development of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. more
  • Contemporary Women's Issues  Full text available
    Gender equity, pay equity, health, family life, legal status, reproductive rights, women in the workplace, women in business, education and political issues from 1992 to the present. more
  • Criminal Justice (ProQuest)  Some full text available
    Articles from U.S.and international criminal justice journals. more
  • Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text  Some full text available
    Covers essential areas related to criminal justice and criminology. more
  • Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection  Full text available Add'l Info
    Criminology and related discipline topics from SAGE e-journals, May/June 2005 to June/July 2009 only - dates of coverage vary by journal title. more

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  • D&B Key Business Ratios  Full text available
    NOTE:  Public company data is currently unavailable. The vendor is working to resolve the issue.
    Provides business ratios for industries in areas of solvency, efficiency and profitability searchable by industry name and SIC code. Contains certain, not all, SIC codes for 800 business sectors and over 1 million companies, private and public. more
  • Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest)  Some full text available
    Includes full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works prior to 1997. Citations from 1637 - present. more

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  • Factiva  Full text available
    News, business, management, company, and industry information from news sources, magazines, journals, industry publications, websites, and company reports from 1985 to the present. Financial data includes stock quotes, company comparisons, financial snapshots, SEC Filings, interactive charting, and historical market information. Also includes articles on topics in the social sciences and humanities. more

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  • Gale Virtual Reference Library  Full text available
    Encyclopedias and specialized e-book reference sources for business, communications, criminal justice, education, environmental sciences, finance, history, homeland security, literature, political science, psychology, sciences, and sociology. more
  • GenderWatch  Full text available
    Gender issues articles in a wide range of subject areas, particularly women's studies, family studies, psychology, contemporary culture, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) studies. more
  • General BusinessFile ASAP  Full text available
    Access to broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals, and company directory listings with full text and images available. more
  • GeoRef  Some full text available
    Geoscience journal articles, books, maps, government reports, conference papers, and theses. more
  • GeoRef In Process  Some full text available
    Contains unedited records that are still in the process of being indexed prior to their integration in the main GeoRef database. Geoscience journal articles, books, maps, government reports, conference papers, and theses. Considered as a supplement to the GeoREF database. more
  • Google Scholar  Some full text available Add'l Info
    Provides a sampling of academic resources, including summaries of articles and books in a variety of fields. Look for the Find It @ UMUC links for access to full text in UMUC library databases. more
  • GPO Monthly Catalog  Some full text available
    U.S. government publications, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records, judiciary materials, and documents issued by executive departments and agencies, from 1976 to the present. more
  • GreenFILE  Full text available
    Includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling. more

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  • Health Source: Consumer Edition  Full text available
    Wide range of consumer health information in popular periodicals, pamphlets, and electronic reference books from 1984 to the present. Also includes Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionarymore
  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition  Some full text available
    Articles on medicine and health with an emphasis on nursing and allied health subjects in scholarly journals and e-books from 1987 to the present. Also includes the Clinical Pharmacology database, providing access to up-to-date drug monographs. more
  • Historical Abstracts  Some full text available
    World history from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada) in journal articles from 1955 to the present. more
  • Homeland Security Digital Library  Full text available Add'l Info
    Access to homeland security related U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources from universities, organizations and local and state agencies. more
  • Hoover's  Full text available Add'l Info
    Includes information on a large number of US and non-US public and private companies. Depending on the company, data provided on company histories, key executives, products/operations, subsidiaries/affiliates, industry information, competitors, news, financial data and ratios, SEC filings, IPO alerts, and more. Custom report builder available. Also offers information on money management, career development, news, and business travel. more

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  • IBISWorld  Full text available
    Includes U.S. and global industry research reports for a large number of market segments. more
  • IEEE Computer Society Digital Library  Full text available Add'l Info
    NOTE:  To get full text, click on the PDF and HTML links, not the FindIt buttons.
    Articles on a wide variety of computer science and information technology topics in select journals, select transactions, and abstracts with partial full text of select conference proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society from 1995 to the present. more
  • In the First Person  Some full text available
    An index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories from 1500 to 1990. more
  • Industry Surveys (Standard & Poor's)  Full text available
    Industry reports including analyses, trends, statistics from 1998 - present, available in HTML, PDF, and Excel formats. Includes IPC (economic and stock market outlooks) reports. more
  • International Security & Counter-Terrorism Reference Center  Some full text available
    Includes security & counter-terrorism articles, news feeds, and reports. more

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  • JSTOR  Full text available Add'l Info
    Arts, business, education, language, literature, and science journals. Provides an historical perspective because coverage starts as early as the 1900s and extends up to 3-5 years prior to the current year. more

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  • MasterFILE Premier  Some full text available
    Arts and humanities, social sciences, science, technology, and business in periodicals, electronic reference books, primary sources and more from 1975 - present. more
  • MEDLINE  Some full text available
    Medicine, nursing, dentistry, and health services administration journals from 1965 - present. more
  • Mergent Online  Full text available
    Financial information, directory data, and histories for public companies worldwide from 1991 to the present, and industry reports from 2003 to the present. Individual and comparative company and industry financial information and ratios can be created and downloaded for statistical analysis. Includes EDGAR reports, which are found in the Government Filings tab. more
  • Military & Government Collection  Some full text available
    Current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, in journals, periodicals, and pamphlets and updated weekly. more

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  • New York Times  Full text available
    Part of the ProQuest Newspapers collection. more
  • New York Times Historical  Full text available
    Offers full page and article images from 1851-2009 with searchable full text back to the first issue. Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. more

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  • OAIster  Some full text available
    Catalog of a very large number of records representing digital resources from many contributors. more
  • Online Learning Report 2012 (Chronicle of Higher Education)  Full text available
    2012 report on issues in online learning: MOOCs and experiencing the online classroom. more
  • Oxford Art Online  Full text available
    Full text access through the Oxford Art Online portal to e-book information in the multi-volume Grove Dictionary of Art as well as The Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, with thumbnail art images and links to searchable image databases and websites. more
  • Oxford Reference  Full text available
    Cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference e-books published by Oxford University Press and the Oxford Companions Series. Also includes Literature and Western Civilization collections from Oxford. more
  • Oxford Scholarship Online E-Books  Some full text available
    NOTE:  Full text is available for history and psychology collections only.ADVISORY
    Oxford e-book titles in history and psychology. more

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  • PapersFirst  Some full text available
    A wide variety of subjects including sciences, medicine, biotechnology, social sciences, and humanities. Indexes papers and addresses presented at conferences and meetings worldwide from 1993 to the present. more
  • Philosopher's Index  Some full text available
    Covers scholarly research published in journals and books, including contributions to anthologies and book reviews. Covers research published since 1940 within the fifteen fields of philosophy. more
  • PILOTS Database  Some full text available
    Includes citations on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, covering the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress and produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. more
  • Points of View Reference Center  Full text available
    Series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Provides large number of topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument),counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide. more
  • Political Handbook of the World  Full text available Add'l Info
    Facts and analysis about government and political information on countries around the world. more
  • Political Science Complete  Some full text available
    Includes information on the global political sciences in journals and e-books. more
  • Primary Search  Full text available Add'l Info
    Elementary school related magazines, pamphlets, and reference titles from 1984 to the present. Includes reading level indicators (Lexiles); The World Almanac of the U.S.A. and The World Almanac for Kids; The Encyclopedia of Animals; Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia; and full text for pamphlets and more, all in e-book format. more
  • ProceedingsFirst  Some full text available
    A wide variety of subjects discussed at worldwide conferences, congresses, exhibitions, meetings, and symposia from 1993 to the present. more
  • Professional Development Collection  Full text available
    Education and library science journals from 1965 to the present. more
  • Project Muse  Full text available Add'l Info
    Literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics journal articles. more
  • PROMT (Predicasts Overview of Markets and Technology)  Some full text available
    Articles on companies, the products and technologies they produce, and the markets in which they compete in journals, reports and newspapers from the past three years plus the current year. more
  • ProQuest Computing  Some full text available
    Top computing journals covering subjects such as database design, software development, e-commerce, networking, intranets and the Internet from 1990 to the present. more
  • ProQuest Newspapers  Full text available
    News topics from 5 major newspapers published in the United States; dates of coverage vary by newspaper title. more
  • PsycARTICLES  Full text available Add'l Info
    Full text articles from psychology journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations. Coverage spans from 1894-present. more
  • PsycBOOKS  Full text available
    Collection of chapters in PDF from a large number of e-books published by APA and other distinguished publishers. more
  • Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection  Full text available
    Scholarly psychology journals; dates of coverage vary by journal title. more
  • Psychology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection  Full text available Add'l Info
    Psychology and related discipline topics from SAGE e-journals, May/June 2005- June/July 2012 only - dates of coverage vary by journal title. more
  • PsycINFO  Some full text available
    Scholarly psychology material including original research, articles, literature reviews, case studies, and descriptions of tests from 1887 to the present. more
  • Public Affairs Index  Some full text available
    Covers all aspects of national and global contemporary public policy issues. more

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  • ReferenceUSA  Full text available Add'l Info
    Includes, in module format, detailed information on a large number of U.S. businesses and U.S. residents. Information is compiled from Yellow Page and White Page telephone directories, corporate annual reports, SEC 10K reports, Chamber of Commerce directories, state directories, and other public information sources. Unlisted residential numbers are not included. more
  • RefWorks  
    Web-based bibliographic management tool: can build online personal database, manage references, and generate in-text citations and bibliographies in numerous citation styles. more
  • Regional Business News  Some full text available
    Current U.S. regional business, political, and economic news. more
  • Register of Companies and Executives (Standard & Poor's)  Full text available Add'l Info
    Brief descriptions of publicly traded and private companies and short summaries of executives and directors. more

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  • Safari Books Online  Full text availableADVISORY
    Large number of electronic books, training videos, rough cuts, short cuts, and articles from leading publishers online, in PDF format for chapter and whole-book downloads on business, management, and technology topics. UMUC Faculty: Please note that due to limitations on the concurrent number of users, the e-books in this database are not meant to be used as assigned textbooks. more
  • SAGE Knowledge: SAGE Reference eBook Collection  Full text available
    Encyclopedias and handbooks in e-book format covering multiple disciplines. more
  • Science Citation Index Expanded  Some full text available Add'l Info
    Multidisciplinary database covering journal literature of the sciences, from 1899 to the present. more
  • ScienceDirect  Some full text available Add'l Info
    NOTE:  If you have a problem saving PDF files, click here: ADVISORY
    Science, arts and humanities, social science, business, engineering and technology, mathematics, medicine, psychology, and biotechnology journals from 1995 to the present. more
  • Social Sciences Abstracts  Some full text available
    Anthropology, political science, economics, psychology, geography, sociology, and law journals from 1983 to the present. more
  • Social Sciences Citation Index  Some full text available Add'l Info
    Journal literature in the social and behavioral sciences, including related topics in economics, business, law, management, and sciences from 1898 to the present. more
  • Social Services Abstracts  Some full text available
    Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. more
  • SocINDEX with Full Text  Some full text available
    Primarily a full text sociological database with articles dating from 1895 to the present. Also contains the full text for sociological e-books, monographs, and conference papers. more
  • Sociology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection  Full text available Add'l Info
    Sociology and related discipline topics from SAGE e-journals; May/June 2005 to June/July 2013 - dates of coverage vary by journal title. more
  • Standard & Poor's (S&P) NetAdvantage  Full text available
    Includes access to the S&P Modules: Bond Reports, Company Profiles, Industry Surveys, Register of Companies and Executives, and Stock Reports. more
  • Stock Reports (Standard & Poor's)  Full text available
    Equity analysis of publicly traded companies listed on the New York, American, NASDAQ and regional stock exchanges. more
  • Sun (Baltimore)  Full text available
    Part of the ProQuest Newspapers collection. more
  • Survey of Distance Learning Programs in Higher Education, 2012-13 Edition  Full text available
    A detailed statistical profile of trends in distance learning, covering, but not restricted to: revenue and enrollment growth, evolution of cost structure, trends in salaries, use of tutoring, delivery mediums, developments in faculty training and certification, grants and financial aid to students, student loans, assessment and retention practices, marketing, and many other venues. more

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  • Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory  Full text available
    Directory information on serials publications in a variety of media types covering all subjects; updated weekly. Indicates which journals are academic, peer reviewed, or scholarly. more

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  • Wall Street Journal  Full text available
    Part of the ProQuest Newspapers collection. more
  • Wall Street Journal Historical  Full text available
    Offers full page and article images from 1889-1994 with searchable full text back to the first issue. Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. more
  • Washington Post  Full text available
    Part of the ProQuest Newspapers collection. more
  • Web of Science  Some full text available Add'l Info
    Gateway to Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Social Sciences Citation Index. more
  • World Almanac  Full text available
    Brief information including biographies, Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedia entries, facts, and statistics for both the United States and the world, in e-book format. Almanacs updated annually; encyclopedia quarterly. more
  • WorldCat  Some full text available
    A catalog of books and periodicals owned by libraries around the world. Updated daily. Links to some full text electronic books. more

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