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http://www.noblenet.org/ssc/research/databases/

 

ABI/INFORM – Trade & Industry

Indexes and abstracts over 700 trade journals covering avery major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, etc.

 

Academic OneFile

Academic OneFile contains 8,000 academic journals, mainly in full-text, available in HTML and PDF formats. It also contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full-text New York Times content to 1995

 

Academic Search Premier

Provides abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education and more. Also offers full text for over 2,300 journals with many dating back to 1990. Includes coverage of over 1,700 peer-reviewed journals.

 

African American Song; Alexander Street Press

An extensive online listening library of African American music.

 

Biography Resource Center

This database combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search. With the Complete Marquis Who's Who(R), find quick reference information on an additional 900,000 people.

 

Business Source Premier

Provides comprehensive access to abstracts and indexing for over 1100 titles, including The Wall Street Journal, plus searchable full text for more than 655 business periodicals. Also includes Wall Street Words, a dictionary of financial terms.

 

Classical Music Library; Alexander Street Press

A web-based music listening library of classical music.

 

Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM); NYU

A web-based music listening library with a scholarly resource of recordings, including CD quality audio, liner notes, and from important labels.

 

Education Research Complete

Bibliographic and full text resource covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education.

 

Educator’s Reference Complete

Educator's Reference Complete indexes more than 1,100 periodicals (450 are full-text academic journals) as well as hundreds of full-text ERIC reports. The database is intended for the K12 educator or administrator as well as education students, faculty, and researchers. It covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college; topics include educational specialties such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing, and also issues in administration, funding, and policy.

 

eLibrary

General subject, full-text database that indexes reference books, magazines, radio/television transcripts, maps, newspapers, and pictures.

 

ERIC

ERIC is a large database containing references to information in the field of music education. Material comes from the Resources in Education and the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education, as well as information produced by the Educational Resource Information Center.

 

Expanded Academic ASAP

Use this SearchBank database to find information on: astronomy, religion, law, history, psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, communications, and the general sciences. This is a full-text version of Expanded Academic Index (InfoTrac).

 

General Business File ASAP

Use this SearchBank database to research business and management topics. The database includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies as well as investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries and indexes 1000 journals (460 of which include full-text).

 

General OneFile

Database system that provides access to many full-text databases

 

General Reference Center Gold

Use this SearchBank database to search magazines, reference books, and newspapers for information on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, and sports.

 

Grove Music (online) http://www.grovemusic.com/index.html

Comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

 

Historic American Sheet Music; Duke University

Provides access to digital images of 3042 pieces from the collection, published in the United States between 1850 and 1920.

 

InfoTrac Junior Edition

This periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

 

International Index to Music Periodicals Full-Text (IIMP)

Access to more than 430 music periodicals from over 20 countries. Range of subject areas in both scholarly and popular music journals.

 

JSTOR

Comprehensive online journal archive of full-text scholarly journals.  JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily humanities and social sciences with links to the music discipline.

 

Kraus Curriculum Development Library Online

kcdlonline is a searchable database of curricula, frameworks, and standards brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education.

 

Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music; (Johns Hopkins)

Focus on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. All pieces of the collection are indexed on this site and a search will retrieve a catalog description of the pieces. An image of the cover and each page of music will also be retrieved if the music was published before 1924 and is in the public domain.

 

Lexis-Nexis Academic

This database system includes the full-text of thousands of journals and newspapers. Special collections include business, congressional, environmental, legal, medical, and statistical information. (note: within LexisNexis Academic are links to LexisNexis Statistical, LexisNexis Environmental, and LexisNexis Congressional)

 

MasterFILE Premier

Over 2700 journals are indexed by this general subject database and 1500 of the journals include full text.

 

MAS Ultra – School Edition

This database was designed specifically for high school libraries and provides full-text to over 500 popular general interest and current events publications.

 

Music Index Online, (EBSCO)

Contains over 800 music periodicals from over 40 countries, with English translations from 22 languages. Classical and popular world of music organized by Subject and Geographic headings.

 

Naxos Music Library

A web-based music listening library with several different genres to choose from.

 

Professional Development Collection

Provides a highly specialized collection, of over 240 full-text journals, designed for professional educators.

 

Project Muse

Full-text journal collection from Johns Hopkins University Press. SSC subscribes to the Standard Collection.

 

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

The Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database with nearly 515 full text titles. This database covers information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

 

Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries; Alexander Street Press

This is an extensive online listening library of world music.