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ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the U.S.

The ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. The Statistical Abstract of the United States is a one-volume, comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Use the Abstract as a convenient volume for statistical reference, and as a guide to sources of more information both in print and on the Web.

Education Source

This bibliographic and full-text database covers scholarly research and information to meet the needs of education students, professionals and policy makers. Education Source was developed from a merger of databases from EBSCO Publishing and H.W. Wilson and includes many unique sources that were never previously available. It offers the world’s largest and most complete collection of full-text education journals, and encompasses an international array of English-language periodicals, monographs, yearbooks, and more.

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Trial expires: Saturday, December 01, 2012

Social Sciences Index Retrospective

“Social sciences index retrospective, offers the ability to search a wide range of important journals in the social sciences. Topics include the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences. ” –Publisher description

Last year, EBSCO Publishing bought HW Wilson.  EBSCO is in the process of migrating all Wilson databases to the EBSCOhost platform.  The following Wilson databases acquired by the Baylor University Libraries have been moved to the EBSCOhost platform:

The remaining Wilson databases should be migrated to the EBSCOhost platform before the end of February 2012, and include the following resources acquired by the Baylor University Libraries:

  • Children’s Core Collection
  • Fiction Core Collection
  • Middle and Junior High Core Collection
  • Public Library Core Collection Nonfiction
  • Senior High Core Collection

Web of Knowledge — Book Citation Index

The Book Citation Index has been added to our Web of Knowledge subscription for a trial period. To use this feature, click on the “Cited Reference Search” link and complete the search form. Just below the search form you will see “Citation Databases” with a “+” to the left. click on that plus to view the options that allow you to narrow your cited search to books or chapters in books.

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Trial expires: Thursday, December 15, 2011

Australasian Digital Theses

This resource has been discontinued.  Trove will provide access to most theses and dissertations from this region.

Center for Research Libraries Online Catalog — Dissertations

Searchable online index of foreign (non-U.S.) doctoral dissertations held by the Center for Research Libraries.

Trove

Trove is a new discovery experience focused on Australia and Australians. Trove provides integrated access to millions of items from a range of the National Library’s collaborative services and from elsewhere. Metadata (information about items) is pooled from Australian sources including: The Australian National Bibliographic Database – containing location information from thousands of Australian libraries, The Picture Australia program, The Australian Research Online program, The Music Australia program, The Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts, and The People Australia program, and some overseas sources.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

IBSS includes bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates many different languages and countries. Journals are regularly indexed and some books are included each year. Abstracts are provided for half of all current journal articles and full text availability is continually increasing.

The following resources are no longer available from the OCLC FirstSearch service.  We have moved PAIS to ProQuest and the other 4 to EBSCOhost.

 

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