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ABI/INFORM Complete (via ProQuest) 1971+
Contains over 1600 business-related journals, many in full-text. Also includes ABI Dateline and Trade & Industry.

Academic Search Elite (via Ebscohost) 1984+
A large, multidisciplinary database that indexes and abstracts over 3,200 popular and scholarly journals in all fields of study. Full-text is available for more than half of these journals.

ACM Digital Library 1954+
Full-text of all publications from the Association for Computing Machinery. Also includes the Online Guide to Computing Literature, a separate database indexing and abstracting thousands of journal articles, books, and other publications.

ACS Web Editions 1879+
From the American Chemical Society, Web Editions consists of the full-text over 30 ACS journals from volume 1 to the present, covering all aspects of chemistry.

AgeLine (AARP) 1966+
A free database containing abstracts of journal articles and other publications relating to all aspects of aging and gerontology.

AGRICOLA
Access to the National Agricultural Library book and article databases. The Journal Article Citation Index contains citations to articles from thousands of journals.

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 over 7 million digital reproductions of primary sources from over 100 important historical collections from the Library of Congress.

Annual Reviews 1996+ (dates vary)
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 availabe in print format.

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

AP Stylebook
The online AP Stylebook offers the most recent version of the Stylebook for searching or browsing.

ATLA Religion (via Ebscohost) 1949+ Access limited to one user at a time.
From the American Theological Library Association, this database offers abstracts to over 1500 journals (600 current), book reviews, and essay collections in all fields relating to religious study.

Britannica Online
Provides the full-text of the Encyclopedia Britannica, as well as the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus.

Business & Company Resource Center (via Infotrac) 1977+
Abstracts and full-text from thousands of 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) 1985+
Mainly full-text coverage of over 1700 journals in the fields of business, management, and economics. Also includes thousands of Datamonitor company profiles.

Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities
These directories list scholarly publishing opportunities in Business and Education subject areas including Accounting, Economics and Finance, Management, Marketing, Educational Curriculum and Methods, Educational Psychology and Administration, and Educational Technology and Library Science.

The Charleston Advisor
Critical reviews of information sources on the Internet.

The 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 Limited to one user at a time. Click "Logout from CRO" when finished.
Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries is a premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education.

Classical Music Archives
Thousands of streamable or downloadable classical music files (in MIDI, WMA, and MP3 formats).

Communication & Mass Media Complete (via Ebscohost) 1915+
Contains full-text articles from over 200 journals, and indexing for 400 journals in all areas of mass communication studies.

CountryWatch
Political, economic, business, demographic, cultural, and environmental information and statistics; daily news coverage by country; comparable country data sets; maps.

CQ Researcher
From 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.

Criminal Justice Periodicals Index (via ProQuest) 1981+
Abstracts and partial full-text of articles from over 200 journals and other publications in all fields of criminal justice including corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and family law.

Daily Life Online
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. [More information...]

Dartmouth Dante Project
The Dartmouth Dante Project (DDP) is a searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy - the Commedia.

DSM-IV-TR Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
The standard diagnostic tool used by mental health professionals.

EBSCO databases 
This allows you to search several or all of the databases the Library subscribes to through the Ebscohost interface at the same time.

Education Full Text (via WilsonWeb) 1983+
Contains abstracts and full-text articles from more than 500 periodicals, books, and yearbooks. (Partial full-text begins in 1996.)

Encyclopedia Britannica
The 26-volume encyclopedia with added audio and video, the Year in Review series and a World Atlas.

ERIC (via Ebscohost) 1966+
A public database sponsored by the U. S. Department of Education, ERIC contains more than one million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. Most ERIC "ED" documents 1993-present are accessible online through ERIC. Older documents are on microfiche in Arrigoni Library.[more information...]

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

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Multi-volume encyclopedias in areas of History, Business, and Medicine.

General Science Collection (via Ebscohost)
Provides basic scientific information with full-text coverage for more than 60 popular science magazines, as well as the multi-volume encyclopedia Great Scientific Achievements of the Twentieth Century.

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

Health & Wellness Resource Center (via Infotrac) 1980+
Mostly full-text from over 800 journals, covering the fields of consumer health and fitness, nursing, and medicine. Also includes major reference books and Alternative Health Module.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (via Ebscohost) 1990+
Information on nursing, allied health, and related medical fields. Mainly full-text of 850 journals. Includes Stedman's Medical Dictionary.

HighWire
Provides partial full-text to biological, medical, physical, and social science journals.

History Cooperative 1999+ (dates vary)
Search or browse full-text articles from Journal of American History, American Historical Review, History Teacher, and others.

Human Resources Law Cases
HR Law Cases is a database of U.S. Supreme Court and Federal Court decisions involving such topics as discrimination, disabilities, employee benefits, family and medical leave, hiring, independent contractors, labor relations, privacy, religious accommodation, race and gender, whistle blowing, and wrongful discharge.

¡Informe! (via Infotrac) 1993+
Full-text of 80+ popular Hispanic magazines, in Spanish.

InfoTrac Custom Newspapers (via Infotrac) 1996+ (dates vary)
Full-text of hundreds of national and international newspapers.

InfoTrac New York Newspapers (via Infotrac) 1996+ (dates vary)
A subset of Custom Newspapers (above), this database includes several regional newspapers from across New York State. *These newspapers are also searched in the above database.*

JSTOR 1886+ (dates vary)
Full-text archive of over 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.

Lexis-Nexis Academic 1985+ (some earlier)
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) 1965+
Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

Literature Resource Center
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.

MasterFILE Select (via Ebscohost) 1984+
Covers over 2000 general popular magazines, over 800 available full-text, covering all disciplines.

MEDLINE (via PubMed) 1966+
Medline indexes 4,600 biomedical and health science journals. PubMed also includes PREMEDLINE, HEALTH STAR and other databases. Links to full-text articles are included when available.

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, and more.

MLA International Bibliography (via Ebscohost) 1926+
Citations to 1.7 million article from over 4400 journals pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Also covers relevant books, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats. Citations and subject headings, with some full-text. Also contains the MLA Directory of Periodicals.

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.

NASW Clinical Register (via WebSPIRS)
NASW Register of Clinical Social Workers, 10th Edition, provides a listing of clinical social workers who have met national standards for education and experience.

National Criminal Justice Research Service 1970+
This free resource offers abstracts of journal articles as well as federal, state, and local government reports, books, and research studies. Also includes a separate search for available full-text publications.

National Library of Medicine Gateway
Searches a variety of government databases including MEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, MEDLINEplus, LOCATORplus, ClinicalTrials.gov, and DIRLINE.

Naxos Music Library
Over 85,000 streaming recordings of classical music, as well as jazz, folk, new age, and Chinese music.

netLibrary
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 the ORION catalog to find books in Iona's netLibrary collection.

New York Times (via ProQuest) 1980+
Abstracts begin in 1989, full-text begins 1999. Lexis also contains full-text of the New York Times beginning in 1980; or search New York Times Historical database below.

New York Times Historical Newspapers (via ProQuest) 1851 - 2003
Searchable full-text scanned images (pdf) of every issue of the New York Times. Searches can be limited by date, section of newspaper, and more.

Newspaper Source (via Ebscohost) 1997+ (dates vary)
Full-text of over 200 regional, national, and international newspapers. Also includes transcripts from major television and radio broadcasts.

NoodleTools
NoodleTools is a step by step guide to create, save, and publish MLA or APA references lists. NoodleBib takes care of punctuation, alphabetization, formatting, and produces a polished source list for import into Word.

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 OCLC FirstSearch) 1940+ Access limited to one user at a time.
Abstracts to articles from over 560 journals, book reviews, and more.

Population Index 1986 - 2000
A free database providing abstracts of articles, reports, books, and other publications on all aspects of population study.

Professional Development Collection (via Ebscohost) 1965+
A collection of information for professional educators and education researchers. This collection offers information from over 500 full-text journals on everything from children’s health and development to pedagogical theory and practice.

Project Gutenberg
Over 12,000 electronic books freely available (most written before 1925).

ProQuest databases
This searches all of the databases the Library subscribes to through the ProQuest interface at the same time (ABI/INFORM, Research Library, Criminal Justice Periodicals, ProQuest Newspapers). *This will not search the New York Times Historical Newspapers database.*

ProQuest Health Management
Full-text from 550 journals and doctoral dissertations in all areas of healthcare administration.

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

Primary Search (via Ebscohost)
Primary Search (for elementary school students) provides partial full-text for more than 150 popular magazines for elementary school research and for curriculum development. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).

PsycARTICLES (via Ebscohost) 1988+
Full-text of over 50 psychology journals, most published by the American Psychological Association. *All full-text articles can also be accessed when searching the much larger PsycINFO database.*

PsycINFO (via Ebscohost) 1887+
Contains over 1.5 million records from more than 1700 periodicals in all fields relating to psychology, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.

Psychiatry Online
Includes DSM-IV-TR and Casebook, popular psychiatry journals, textbooks, news, and more. [more information...]

PubMed Central
A publicly available resource providing full-text access to 150+ life science journals. Some journals have a six month to one year delay period before recent issues become available.

Regional Business News (via Ebscohost) 1984+
Full-text coverage of approximately 70 regional business news journals.

Research Library (via ProQuest) 1971+
This large, multidisciplinary database provides abstracts from 2,600 journals in the arts and humanities, as well as business, health, social sciences, and sciences. Two-thirds of the titles include full-text.

RePEC: EconPapers
A free resource from Research Papers in Economics containing working papers, article abstracts, and more, in all areas related to economics.

RIA Checkpoint Requires password - Ask Reference
Provides tools for accounting and tax research including complete tax law, expert analysis, treatises, IRS and court rulings, tax-related news, and more. *Ask the Reference Desk -- (914) 637-7716 -- for username and password.*

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

ScienceDirect
Abstracts from over 1800 journals. Coverage focuses on science and medicine, with some social science, computer, and business journals.

SEC EDGAR
Provides public access to the full-text of documents filed by companies with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These include annual reports on form 10-K, quarterly reports on form 10-Q, and many more. Also search Lexis and Mergent for more SEC filings and company information.

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 WebSPIRS) 1977+
Indexing and abstracts of more than 450 journals in social work, human services, and related fields.

SRDS
Provides current information including advertising rates and data, dates, and contact information for all types of media.

THOMAS
A government website that offers current and past bill text, summary, sponsors, and votes; committee information; the Congresional Record, and more.

TOPICSearch
A current events database containing full-text information from 1000+ newspapers, magazines, and other news sources on popular topics.

Twayne's Author Series (via Infotrac)
Over 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.

ValueLine Investment Survey Limited to 3 users at a time; No password required, click log-in link.
Reports for 1700 U.S. stocks including projections; company and industry commentary. Issued weekly.

Wall Street Journal (via ProQuest) 1984+
Abstracts begin in 1982, full-text in 1984.

Westlaw Campus Research
Legal research, news, and business related information provided through several connected databases. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click "Go".

WorldCat (via FirstSearch)
A catalog of over 55 million bibliographic records of books, journals, archival material, and much more, from libraries around the country and the world.

 

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