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ABI/INFORM Complete (via ProQuest)
Provides search and discovery for 1,600+ business-related journals, many in full-text.

ABI/INFORM Dateline (via ProQuest)
Provides search and discovery for content from 190+ magazines, daily newspapers, and wire services covering local and regional business news about companies, local markets, employment opportunities, data on benefits and compensation, corporate strategies, etc. Includes such titles as Crain's Chicago Business, Business Journal: Central New York, Smart Business Pittsburgh, Sacramento Business Journal, and Texas Business Review. Content available from 1985 - Current.

ABI/INFORM Global (via ProQuest)
Provides search and discovery for nearly 3000 domestic and international periodicals covering economics, current business conditions, management theory and practice, marketing and advertising, finance, etc. Access to information on 60,000+ companies with business and executive profiles. Includes the Wall Street Journal.

ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry (via ProQuest)
Searches 1,200+ business periodicals with a trade or industry focus. Provides current industry news, product and competitive information, and marketing trends from publications on every major industry. Content available from 1971 - Current.

Academic Search Elite (via EBSCOhost)
A large, multidisciplinary database that indexes and abstracts 3,200+ popular and scholarly journals in all fields of study. Full-text is available for more than half of these journals.

AGRICOLA: the National Agricultural Library Catalog
Open-access to the National Agricultural Library book and article databases. The Journal Article Citation Index contains citations to articles from thousands of journals covering US agriculture and related issues.

American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications
ACS publishes journal content covering all aspects of chemistry and related subjects. This database provides access to indexing and abstracts for all ACS publications. Full-text is available for all issues of the Journal of Chemical Education, etc..

American Memory Collection
American Memory is a free resource of digital images, documents, audio, and video embracing all aspects of American history and culture. Provides access to 7 million+ digital reproductions of primary sources from 100+ important historical collections from the Library of Congress.

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)
ABELL "contains 880,000 records, covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards." Content available from 1920 - Current.

Annual Reviews: A nonprofit Scientific Publisher
Scholarly coverage of 12 disciplines in the sciences and social sciences. Articles provide evaluations of recent advances in the primary research literature and include comprehensive bibliographies. Back issues are available in print format.

arXiv.org
Open access to 725,000+ e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics. Owned and operated by Cornell University.

Associated Press (AP) Images
Contains current photos and graphics from the Associated Press and extensive archives of historical images.

Associated Press (AP) Stylebook
The online AP Stylebook offers the most recent version of the Stylebook for searching or browsing.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library
Provides access to full text of all articles published by ACM, and bibliographic citations from major publishers in computing. Resources include the Online Guide to Computing Literature, a database indexing and abstracting thousands of journal articles, books and other publications relating to computer science.

ATLA Religion Database (via EBSCOhost)
From the American Theological Library Association (ATLA), this database offers abstracts to 1,500+ journals (600 current), book reviews, and essay collections in all fields relating to religious study.

Barron's (via ProQuest)
This premier business publication's detailed indexing helps users quickly find the news information they need. Content available from 1988 - Current.

Black Newspapers (via ProQuest)
A collection of significant newspapers and journals published by African-Americans.

Britannica Online Academic Edition
This portal, designed for university students and faculty, provides access to, and search functionality for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, various important magazines and periodicals, etc.

Business & Company Resource Center (via Gale)
Abstracts and full-text from 4,000+ business related publications. Information on more than 400,000 companies including profiles, industry rankings, products and brands, investment reports, marketing data, and more.

Business Source Elite (via EBSCOhost)
Mainly full-text coverage of over 1000+ journals in the fields of business, management, and economics. Also includes thousands of Datamonitor company profiles.

Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities
Cabell's provides online directories for scholarly publishing opportunities in various subject areas. Searching Cabell's, via Iona's access, will return directory results in the areas of Business and Education.

Charleston Advisor
Critical reviews of web resources for information professionals, etc.

Checkpoint
This online portal, produced by Thompson Reuters, provides tools for conducting accounting and tax research. It's search interfaces allow users to discover documents on tax law, expert financial analyses, IRS and court rulings, tax-related news and more.

Chicago Manual of Style Online
Completely searchable, The Chicago Manual of Style Online provides quick answers to style and editing questions. Also includes the Quick Guide with clear examples of how to use Chicago-style citation, the Chicago Style Q&A, and Tools, such as sample forms, letters, and style sheets.

Choice Reviews Online: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries(Limited to one user at a time)
Choice is a premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and internet resources of interest to those in higher education.

Communication & Mass Media Complete (via EBSCOhost)
Search and discovery of full-text articles from 200+ journals, and indexing for 400+ journals in all areas of mass communication studies.

Communication Abstracts (via EBSCOhost)
Comprehensive source of information about communication-related publications, covers major communication-related articles, reports, chapters, and books from a variety of publishers, research institutions, and information sources

Congressional Digest Debates Online (Pro & Con Publishers)
Access to the archives of Congressional Digest, Supreme Court debates, and international debates covering a wide-range of public and international policy issues.

CountryWatch
Provides political, economic, business, demographic, cultural, and environmental information and statistics on countries around the world. Also includes databases of daily news coverage by country, comparable country data sets and regional maps.

CQ Researcher
Showing publications of Congressional Quarterly, each report addresses a controversial current issue, including historical perspective, recent developments, opposing viewpoints, and sources for additional research.

CQ Weekly
This weekly publication from Congressional Quarterly offers expert coverage of the U.S. Congress: news, bill status, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, investigations, hearings, debates and more.

Daily Life Through History  
A comprehensive, cross-disciplinary resource that includes full-length reference books, book chapters, encyclopedia articles, primary documents, and more all centered on everyday life through history and world cultures today.

Dartmouth Dante Project
Produced by Dartmouth University, this searchable, full-text database contains more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy and other works.

DSM-IV-TR Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
A searchable, ebook version of this standard diagnostic tool used by mental health professionals. Accessible via PsychiatryOnline.

eBook Collection on EBSCOhost
Thousands of e-books ranging from reference books, to scholarly monographs, to computers manuals, that may be "checked-out" and read online. Users may also search Iona's library catalog to find books in Iona's eBook collection.

EBSCO Databases
Multidisciplinary, cross-database search of content Iona subscribes to on EBSCO.

EconPapers
Using RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) bibliographic data and repositories, EconPapers provides access to 1,000,000+ free economic working papers, articles and software items.

EDGAR: SEC Search Portal
Provides public access to the full-text of documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). These include annual reports on form 10-K, quarterly reports on form 10-Q, etc.

Education Full Text (H.W. Wilson) (now via EBSCOhost)
Provides full text of articles from 350+ journals as far back as 1996, in addition to indexing of more than 770 periodicals dating back to 1983. Subject coverage includes adult education, multicultural/ethnic education, teaching methods and much more.

English Literary Renaissance
A special 40th anniversary virtual issue of the journal English Literary Renaissance containing some of the most important articles from past issues of the publication.

ERIC (via EBSCOhost)
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to 1.3 million+ records and links to 323,000+ full-text documents on education and related fields. Content available from 1993 - Current. Older documents are on microfiche in Arrigoni Library. [more information...]

European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 (via EBSCOhost)
This database, created in partnership between the John Carter Brown Library and EBSCOhost, is comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas, written in Europe before 1750. It contains 32,000+ records, and covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples when first encountered by Europeans.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia Database (via EBSCOhost)
Provides 25,000+ encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

Gale Directory Library
An ebook portal containing authoritative directories on businesses, publishers, associations, etc.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
An ebook portal for multi-volume encyclopedias and reference works covering a wide range of subjects, as well as a collection of classic literature full-texts and criticisms.

Gallup Brain
The Gallup Brain features answers to 125,000+ questions, and responses from 3.5 million+ people interviewed by The Gallup Poll since 1935.

Government Photos and Images
A large collection of photos and images made available by the U.S. government.

Government Printing Office (GPO) Access
A public service of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) that provides free electronic access to information produced by the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the Federal Government.

GreenFILE (via EBSCOhost)
A research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with information on topics such as global warming, recycling, and alternate fuel sources. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles and government documents and reports.

Grolier Online
This online portal provides access to Iona's e-copies of the Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia and The New Book of Knowledge. All titles can be searched simultaneously using the Go Grolier search box. Also note that Grolier Online provides interfaces that cater to users at different levels.

Health Reference Center, Academic (via Gale)
This multi-source database provides access to the full text of 1775+ nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in InfoTrac's award-winning Health Reference Center. Contains the Alternative Health Module.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (via EBSCOhost)
Information on nursing, allied health and related medical fields. Mainly full-text of 460+ journals. Includes Stedman's Medical Dictionary.

HighWire Press
Produced by Stanford University, HighWire is the largest archive of free, full-text biological, medical, physical, and social science journals on the web.

History Cooperative
A web portal to historical scholarship made available by the American Historical Association (AHA), the Organization of American Historians (OAH), the University of Illinois Press and the National Academy Press, in partnership with JSTOR. The portal includes links to full-text issues of the American Historical Review and the Journal of American History.

Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information
This search interface provides free public access to 208,000+ full-text documents and bibliographic citations of Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature. Documents are primarily from 1991 forward and were produced by DOE, the DOE contractor community, and/or DOE grantees. Legacy documents are added as they become available in electronic formats.

InfoTrac Newstand (via Gale)
Provides access to more 1,000+ major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world. (Formerly InfoTrac Custom Newspapers.)

InfoTrac New York State Newspapers
A subset of InfoTrac Newsstand, this database includes regional newspapers from across New York State.

Iter Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
A web portal directing learners to free and subscription databases of literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). The portal includes a link to the Iter Bibliography, a premier bibliography, containing 1.1 million citations for secondary source material on the period.

JSTOR
Full-text archive of 400+ core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and business. Coverage generally ends 3-5 years before the current year. Journals can be browsed individually or searched as a group.
The purchase of JSTOR Arts & Sciences Collections I, II, III was funded through the Institute of Museum and Library Services by an Act of Congress, in accordance with the FY 2005 Consolidated Appropriations Bill.

Key Business Ratios
Mining information from the Dun & Bradstreet (now a subsidiary of Mergent, Inc.) database of financial information on 60 million+ companies from 209 countries around the world, Key Business Ratios (KBR) can be used to assess a firm's strengths and weaknesses relative to competing firms or an entire industry.

Lexis-Nexis Academic
Provides access to full-text publications in 5 categories: News, Business, Legal Research, Medical, and Reference. Thousands of varied sources including 350 newspapers, thousands of magazines, journals, newsletters, and transcripts from major television and radio broadcasts. [more information...]

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LITA) (via EBSCOhost)
Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

Literature Resource Center (via Gale)
Biographies, bibliographies, and criticism. Much of the content is based on Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select and the Dictionary of Literary Biography Online. Partial full-text from over 230 literary journals, 120,000+ author biographies. Includes the Merriam-Webster's® Encyclopedia of Literature.

MAS Ultra-School Edition (via EBSCOhost)
Designed for secondary school libraries, this database contains full-text for nearly 500 popular magazines. It also, provides 360+ full-text reference books, 85,670+ biographies, 105,700+ primary source documents, and a School Image Collection of photos, maps, flags, color PDF's and expanded full-text backfiles (from 1975) for key magazines.

MEDLINE (via EBSCOhost)
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, etc. The database searches citations from 4,800+ current biomedical journals and often provides links to full-text articles.

Mergent Online
Financial information on thousands of companies worldwide; also includes industry reports. Company information includes annual reports, company histories, SEC financial statements, stock information, directories, etc.

Military & Government Collection (via EBSCOhost)
This database offers a collection of magazines, academic journals, and other content relating to current events in the military and government.

MLA International Bibliography (Via ProQuest)
A subject index for books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics dating back to 1925 and containing 2.2 million+ citations from 4,400+ periodicals and 1,000+ book publishers.

NASW Register of Clinical Social Workers, 14th ed. (via OVID)
Provides a listing of clinical social workers who have met national standards for education and experience established by the NASW Competence Certification Commission on recommendation of the Committee on Clinical Social Work.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database
Open-source database containing summaries of 210,000 + criminal justice, juvenile justice, and substance abuse resources housed in the NCJRS Library collection.

National Library of Medicine (NLM) Gateway
This online portal, produced by the National Institute of Health (NIH), provides search and retrieval for a variety of open access government databases compiling resources for medical professionals. It includes PubMed/MEDLINE, MeSH, UMLS, ClinicalTrials.gov, TOXNET, Images from the History of Medicine, LocatorPlus, etc.

National Newspapers Premier (via ProQuest)
Major national newspapers including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, plus other important international and minority interest papers. Most articles available full-text or PDF full-image. Date ranges vary.

Naxos Music Library
Online access to 85,000+ streaming recordings of classical, jazz, folk and world music.

New York Times (1980 - Current) (via ProQuest)
Often considered the official U.S. newspaper, the NYTimes publishes the complete text of important documents, speeches and presidential press conferences. Content available from 1980 - Current. Search New York Times Historical Newspapers below for content from 1851-2007.

New York Times on ProQuest Historical Newspapers (1851 - 2007)
Searchable, full-text, scanned images (PDF) of historic issues of the New York Times. Searches can be limited by date, section of newspaper, etc. Content available from 1851-2007.

Newspaper Source (via EBSCOhost)
Provides ull-text of 200+ regional, national, and international newspapers. The database also includes transcripts from major television and radio broadcasts.

OECD iLibrary
OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) iLibrary is OECD's Online Library for books, papers and statistics and the gateway to OECD's analysis and data. Indexes 480 complete databases with 4.5 billion+ data points produced since 1998.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online
Definitions, history, and quotations for over half a million words, both past and present, from the OED. Includes new additions and updates.

Philosopher's Index (via EBSCOhost)
A bibliographic database covering scholarly research from 1940 to the present. Including 560+ journals from 40+ countries, in a variety of languages, this database covers all major fields of philosophy. It features abstracts of scholarly research published in journals and books, including contributions to anthologies and book reviews.

Population Index
A free database providing abstracts of articles, reports, books, and other publications on all aspects of population study.

Primary Search (via EBSCOhost)
Primary Search provides full-text of 70+ popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full-text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full-text content available from 1990 - Current.

Professional Development Collection (via EBSCOhost)
A collection of information for professional educators and education researchers. This database offers information from 500+ full-text journals on everything from children’s health and development to pedagogical theory and practice.

Project Gutenberg
Contains 12,000+ public domain, electronic books (most written before 1923).

ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals Index
A comprehensive database focuses on U.S. and international criminal justice journals, providing research support for students interested in careers in criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law and industrial security.

ProQuest Databases
This tool searches multiple Proquest databases, including ABI Complete, Research Library, Criminal Justice Periodicals, and ProQuest Newspapers; New York Times Historical Newspapers not included.

ProQuest Education Journals
Gives users access to 900+ top educational publications, including 600+ titles in full-text; covers not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics. Content available from 1988 - Current.

ProQuest Health Management
Full-text of 800+ journals and doctoral dissertations in all areas of healthcare administration.

ProQuest Psychology Journals
Search full-text journals in psychology and related fields.

ProQuest Research Library
This large, multidisciplinary database provides abstracts from 2,600 journals in the arts and humanities, as well as business, health, social and other sciences. Many of the titles provide full-text articles.

ProQuest Social Science Journals
Search full-text journals covering the social sciences.

PsycARTICLES (via EBSCOhost)
Full-text of 50+ psychology journals, mostly published by the American Psychological Association. (Note: All full-text articles can also be accessed by searching the much larger PsycINFO database.)

Psychiatry Online
A web-based portal featuring theDSM-IV-TR® - the most widely used psychiatric reference in the world - and The American Journal of Psychiatry, along with a variety of other popular psychiatry journals, textbooks, news and more.

PsycINFO (via EBSCOhost)
The PsycINFO database, produced by the American Psychological Association’s (APA), contains 3 million+ records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600's. Journal coverage spans from the 1800's to the present and includes material from 2,500+ international periodicals in all fields relating to psychology.

PubMed Central
PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). PMC provides access to 150+ journals. (Note: Many journals have a six month to one year delay period before issues become available.)

Regional Business News (via EBSCOhost)
Full-text coverage of approximately 70 regional business news journals.

Reference Universe
Search indexes of Iona's entire print and online reference collection college through one interface. Citations may connect to full-text articles.

Sage E-Reference
Encyclopedia of Career Development and other e-book reference titles from Sage Publications.

Sage Journals Online
SAGE Journals Online contains 600+ journals covering business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine. The full text of every issue is available from Volume 1, Issue 1 to the present.

ScienceDirect (via SciVerse)
Abstracts from 1800+ journals. Coverage focuses on science and medicine, with some social science, computer, and business journals.

Scitation
Openly available through the American Institute of Physics (AIP), Scitation is a leading online publishing platform for science and technology content. Home to more than 30 scholarly publishers, Scitation hosts, and makes searchable, over 2 million articles on physics, chemistry, geosciences, engineering, acoustics, etc.

Serials Directory (via EBSCOhost)
Serials Directory provides bibliographic information and current pricing for 250,000+ US and international titles, including newspapers. It provides data from 108,200+ publishers worldwide, such as e-mail and internet addresses. Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Classifications are provided for all titles.

Simmons Study of Media and Markets -- Choices 3
A program on Ryan Library, Arrigoni Libray, and LaPenta computers. In Windows, Start Simmons...Choices3. Simmons allows you to analyze consumer and product data from 5000 questions asked of more than 30,000 adults.

Social Work Abstracts (via OVID)
Produced by Wolters Kluwer Health, this database provides indexing and abstracts for 450+ journals in social work, human services, and related fields.

SRDS
SRDS, founded as Standard Rate and Data Service, is a virtual interaction between advertising agencies, marketers and media properties. SRDS is the leading search engine for media opportunities, rates and contact data for magazines, digital media, newspapers, television, direct marketing, out-of-home and radio.

State Photo and Multimedia Galleries
Hosted by the federal government, this portal provides access to photos of US location by state. Many phots are available for use in the public domain, but some may be protected by license.

Teacher Reference Center (via EBSCOhost)
TRC provides indexing and abstracts for 280+ of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

THOMAS
Produced by the Library of Congress, THOMAS makes federal legislative information freely available to the public. Searchable offerings include Bills and Resolutions, Congressional Records, Federal Schedules and Calendars, Federal Committee Information, US Treaties and Government Resources for Teachers.

Twayne's Author Series (via Gale Virtual Reference Library)
Provides access to 600+ books on individual U. S., English, and World authors giving an in-depth look into their life, works, and involvement in literary movements and genres.

Ulrich's Web Serials Directory
Bibliographic and publisher information on 300,000+ periodicals of all types, academic and scholarly journals, open-access publications, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more from around the world.

ValueLine Investment Survey (Limited to 3 users at a time - No password required)
Reports on 1700+ U.S. stocks including projections and company and industry commentary. New data issued weekly. Iona subscription is limited to 3 users at a time.

Wall Street Journal (via ProQuest)
The WSJ is considered the US's preeminent publication for business news and information on financial markets worldwide. Content available from 1984 - Current.

WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch)
FirstSearch provides access to OCLC's union database of catalogs from libraries around the world. Through this portal, students can search through 55 million+ bibliographic records of books, journals, archival material, etc. and request items be deliver to Iona College through Inter-Library Loan (ILL).

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