ABI Inform                                                                               Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required

Description:  Covers nearly every aspect of business, including:  accounting, actuarial science, business communication, economics, finance, financial services, human resource management, industrial/organizational psychology, information systems, international business, management, marketing, and risk management.  Citations include abstracts of articles from over 1,800 current business periodicals. 

Description: Full text of scientific reviews published by Annual Reviews.  Biochemistry back to 1997; Cell and Developmental Biology back to 1996; Genetics back to 1996; Immunology back to 1996; Microbiology back to 1996; Psychology back to 1996; Clinical Psychology back to 2005.

Description: ArchiveGrid is an online service that provides access to detailed archival collection descriptions. It includes nearly a million descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide. Subject strengths include: History, Humanities, Art & Architecture, Social Sciences and Genealogy. It is an important destination for searching for historical documents, personal papers and family histories held in archives throughout the world.

Description: Complete collection of bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical research literature published from more than 4,000 journals internationally. It provides access to the information in virtually every life science discipline and contains nearly 7.7 million archival records from as far back as 1969, with more than 370,000 citations added each year.

Description: Approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major    African-American leaders. Primary source materials including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, oral histories, interviews, periodicals and trial transcripts covering 250 years.  Teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, veterans, entertainers, and others are represented.

Business Rankings Annual
Online Provider: Gale

Description: Part of Gale's Digital Library Collection, this online version of Business Rankings Annual contains information related to rankings on companies, products, services, and activities culled from a variety of published sources such as periodicals, newspapers, financial services, directories, statistical annuals and other printed material.

Description: This online resource offers access to Cabell’s publishing directories in management, business, education and psychology. If you are someone that would like to submit research work for publication, this new directory will offer all the requirements you might need to get your work submitted properly.  Requirements for publication, including publication frequency, rates of acceptance and number of external reviewers are all included in this directory. 

CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online)  
Full Text Available: images
Online Provider: OCLC

Description: CAMIO is a premiere resource of works of art from prominent museums around the world. Showcasing a wide range of fine and decorative art, CAMIO provides high-quality art images for education, research and enjoyment. Every work in CAMIO is represented by at least one high-resolution image and a description. JPEG format is used in various sizes for easy storage and use. All content is rights-cleared for educational use. The art can be searched in a variety of ways, including by Keyword, Title, or Museum.

Online Provider: CAS. Limited concurrent user access - if unable to connect, please try again at a later time.

Note:  Chemical Abstracts is also available via STN Easy. Please contact the library for logon ID and password.| Restrictions: Access only from 5:00 PM to 5:00 AM, Monday thru Friday. Access all day Saturday and Sunday.

Description: Authoritative reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources with coverage back to 1988.

Description:  The Chronicle of Higher Education Online is a primary source of news and information for the college and university community. It is published every weekday and features the complete contents of the latest issue, daily news, advice columns, discussion forums, current job listings, etc. Articles published since September 1989 are fully searchable.

CQ Researcher:  Explores a single current events topic in depth each week.  Reports range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education, science and technology. Objective and balanced, reports feature comments, pro and con, from all sides of an issue.  Coverage back to October 25, 1991.

CQ Global Researcher:  Offers researchers international perspectives on the most vital world issues with original, single-topic reports, written in the same balanced, unbiased style as CQ Researcher.

CQ Weekly:  Reports non-partisan analysis of news & events happening in the US Congress. Covers virtually every act of Congress, delivering nonpartisan news and analysis unavailable anywhere else.

Description: Contains indexes and summaries of international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on a wide range of topics in criminal justice such as crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing.  Coverage is from 1968 to present.

Dissertation Abstracts                                                                            
Online Provider: FirstSearch | Note: Password Required

Description:  Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the US at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. 

Description: Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,870 journals, as well as full text for more than 1,060 journals, and includes full text for more than 133 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers

                                     
Full Text Available:  Articles
Online Provider: FirstSearch

Description:  Citations only.  Access to a growing collection of journals in a variety of subject areas.  Full text for articles is provided only when available through another FirstSearch database.  Articles from many journals can be purchased on a per-article use basis.

Description: Part of Gale's Digital Library Collection, the Encyclopedia of Associations Online is a source for locating professional societies, trade associations, labor unions, cultural and religious organizations, fan clubs, and other groups in all subject areas. Geographic coverage includes U.S. national and regional, state, and local organizations.

Description: Part of Gale's Directory Library Collection, a bibliographic guide to citations covering over 1,100 subjects of interest to business personnel. Includes abstracts and indexes, almanacs and yearbooks, bibliographies, online databases, research centers and institutes and much more.

Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online  
Full Text Available: Encyclopedic Entries
Online Provider: McGraw-Hill's AccessScience

Description: McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online provides fully searchable content to over 8,500 online articles in the 10th Edition of the McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. It covers all major areas of science and technology.

ERIC                                                                                                            
Online Provider: EBSCO | Note: ERIC is also available from FirstSearch. ERIC from FirstSearch

Description:  ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, is a national information system supported by the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional 
information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.  EBSCO provides links to recent "ED" documents.

  

  
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Description: Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text is a comprehensive full-text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film. The database will provide indexing and abstracts for more than 600 publications, as well as full text for more than 90 journals and nearly 60 books. It includes Variety Movie Reviews and a collection of excellent motion picture images.

Business Rankings Annual
Description: Part of Gale's Digital Library Collection, this online version of Business Rankings Annual contains information related to rankings on companies, products, services, and activities culled from a variety of published sources such as periodicals, newspapers, financial services, directories, statistical annuals and other printed material.

Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
Description: Part of Gale's Digital Library Collection, this media directory contains thousands of listings for radio and television stations and cable companies. It provides address, phone, fax numbers, and e-mail addresses; key personnel, including feature editors; owner information; hours of operation; networks carried and more.

Encyclopedia of Associations (National & Regional, State and Local Organizations of the U. S.)
Description: Part of Gale's Digital Library Collection, the Encyclopedia of Associations Online is a source for locating professional societies, trade associations, labor unions, cultural and religious organizations, fan clubs, and other groups in all subject areas. Geographic coverage includes U.S. national and regional, state, and local organizations.

Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources
Description: Part of Gale's Digital Library Collection, it identifies live, print and electronic sources of information listed under alphabetically arranged subjects--industries and business concepts and practices. Listings are arranged by type of resource (directories, databases, newsletters, indexes, research centers, etc.) within each subject. Many entries also provide e-mail addresses and URLs covering online resources.

Market Share Reporter
Description: Part of Gale's Digital Library Collection, it affords an immediate overview of companies, products and services and cites original sources. A convenient arrangement by four-digit SIC code helps business decision makers and researchers easily access needed data for more than 2,000 entries. Each entry features a descriptive title; data and market description; a list of producers/ products along with their market share; and more.

Description: The Gale Virtual Reference Library is an online full-text collection of valuable reference books in multiple subject areas. This collection includes many multidisciplinary reference e-books, including some with primary source documents.  The collection can be browsed by subject or searched by keyword.  Individual titles can also be accessed from the RU Library Catalog.   

Description: This database explores broad current events and controversial topics from a global perspective. Information is arranged in topical “portals.” These portals provide a wide range of materials, including a brief overview of the topic, reference sources for background information, global news articles, images and videos, podcasts, primary source documents, scholarly journal articles, and more. All materials are full text and link to other related portals within the database. Global Issues in Context can be searched or browsed by issue or geographic region.

Description: This is a fully cross-referenced and indexed source for the quantitative facts of American history, topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America. Tables are fully searchable, customizable, and downloadable.

Description:  Searchable scientific and engineering tables/handbooks in chemistry and chemical engineering.

                                         
Full Text Available: Statistics
Online Provider: Lexis-Nexis

Description: Find national income and production statistics, retail and wholesale trade data, interest rates, economic indicators, and social and demographic statistics, plus data on energy, environmental protection, agriculture and fisheries, crime, and much, much more.  Crucial yet elusive statistical data from federal agencies, U.S. Congress, state governments, United Nations, and international organizations.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Online Provider: EBSCO

Description: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

Description: Part of Gale's Digital Library Collection, it affords an immediate overview of companies, products and services and cites original sources. A convenient arrangement by four-digit SIC code helps business decision makers and researchers easily access needed data for more than 2,000 entries. Each entry features a descriptive title; data and market description; a list of producers/ products along with their market share; and more.

Description: Free full-text access from 1981 to present.

Search Tips: You may be prompted to register at this site to be able to retrieve full-text articles.  There is no cost for registering.

OAIster
Online Provider: FirstSeach

Description: OAIster is a union catalog containing digital resources from open archive. It has 19 million items on multidisciplinary resources from more than 1,000 contributors. Digital resources in OAister include digitized books and articles, born-digital texts, Audio and Video files, Photographic images, and downloadable statistical Data sets.

Description: Palgrave Dictionary of Economics allows full text searching of the over 1,850 articles contained in the 8 volume print edition of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition. It covers major topics in Economics as well as a range of interdisciplinary subjects, including: Health, Education and Welfare; Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; and Law and Economics. Features include hyperlinked cross-references within articles, links to related sites, sources of further information and bibliographical citations, and incorporation of quarterly additions and updates.

Description: PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles (some of which are free) and other related resources.

Description:  Sage provides online full-text access to more than 485 scholarly journals in business, humanities, medicine, science, social sciences, and technology.  Coverage varies from the first date of publication through present or from 1999 through present.  

Description:  ScienceDirect is part of Elsevier, the world's largest scientific, technical and medical information provider. RU provides online full-text access to articles from 28 scholarly journals in business, computer science, economics, education, psychology, and sociology (covering 2004 to present). ScienceDirect also provides complimentary access for additional titles. The titles and coverage will vary and may change at any time. 

SciFinder Scholar (web version)-- Web version of SciFinder Scholar is available to authorized RU users after completing an online registration. To obtain the registration URL that is specified for Roosevelt users, please contact the Library Reference Desk at refdt@roosevelt.edu (Downtown Auditorium Library) or schlib@roosevelt.edu (Schaumburg Library). Please make the request of the registration URL with your Roosevelt University email account as this registration URL can only be sent to your Roosevelt e-mail address, and you are able to register only with your Roosevelt e-mail account. Here is the Instruction on how to complete the Online registration form.

Note: Currently the SciFinder Scholar database is accessible only from on-campus computers. Limited concurrent user access. If unable to connect, please try again at a later time.

Description: SciFinder Scholar, a product of the American Chemical Society, is a graphical software package that lets you search Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases. It contains nearly 22.4 million citations from over 9,000 journals worldwide and covers the full spectrum of chemistry-related information. It provides access to patent information, conference proceedings, and the CAS Registry of chemical substances. SciFinder Scholar also covers biology, life sciences, food sciences, engineering, physics and other sciences. For tips and guides on how to search and explore the basic functionality of SciFinder Scholar, please see the Support & Training pages provided by CAS.

Description: The SRDS suite of online resources provides the most current, objective information about marketing  and advertising opportunities in consumer magazines, radio, TV and cable. Search or browse in magazines, radio networks, or TV and cable networks for demographics, contact information, circulation, and publication information with these comprehensive online sources.

                                        
Full Text Available: Statistics
Online Provider: Lexis-Nexis

Description: Find national income and production statistics, retail and wholesale trade data, interest rates, economic indicators, and social and demographic statistics, plus data on energy, environmental protection, agriculture and fisheries, crime, and much, much more.  Crucial yet elusive statistical data from federal agencies, U.S. Congress, state governments, United Nations, and international organizations.

Value Line Investment Survey                                               
Full Text Available: Company and Industry Profiles
Online Provider: Value Line

Description:  Online version of the print resource.  Provides "snapshot" profiles for 3,500 companies and 100 industries.  Company profiles contain timeliness and safety ranks, projected annual return, historical financial statistics, and other information.  Industry profiles offer timeliness ranking, assessment of operating environment, and 5-year historical financial statistics.

Women and Social Movements in the United States, Scholar’s Edition  
Full Text Available:  Essays
Online Provider: Alexander Street Press

Description: Provides in-depth access to the published histories and records of women’s reform organizations at both national and state levels in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes variety of primary source documents, images, scholarly essays, book reviews, website reviews and teaching tools.

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