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The entire AAS collection features over 7500 periodical titles from the seventeenth through the late nineteenth century.

Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from journals and reference sources covering the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.
 

Developed to meet the increasing demands of scholarly research, Academic Search Ultimate offers students an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes. Includes over 9,000 active full-text journals and magazines

Academic Video Online delivers video titles spanning a wide range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. Curated for the educational experience, the massive depth of content and breadth of content-types (such as documentaries, films, demonstrations, etc.) makes this database a useful resource for faculty and students alike.
Accessible Archives (see History Commons)

Diverse primary source materials reflecting broad views across American history and culture. These collections are encyclopedic in scope.

Please note: Accessible Archives can be found under H in the A-Z list under “History Commons”.

Access to 4,300 cross-searchable, full-text titles across the humanities and related social sciences. Titles have been selected and peer reviewed by ACLS constituent learned societies. The collection includes both in- and out-of-print titles ranging from the 1880s through the present.

A comprehensive collection of full-text articles from over 50 Association for Computing Machinery publications dating back to the 1950s. The ACM Guide also provides access to more than 1.8 million bibliographic sources and citations from computing books, journals, proceedings and theses beyond ACM's proprietary literature.
the American Chemical Society publishes more than 40 journals, Chemical & Engineering News, ACS Legacy Archives, and the ACS Symposium Series.

Provides full text articles from peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals.

A free preprint service for African scholars.

patient drug information, available in both English and Spanish. Published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, AHFS includes more than a thousand drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers.
(See Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition)

The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012.
Index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from as far back as 1910.

Includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the 20th century. Consists of works published between 1740 and 1900. Includes journals, general interest magazines, children's publications, civil war periodicals and early professional journals.

American Prison Newspapers brings together hundreds of newspapers published within prisons by incarcerated people over the past 200 years. When complete, the collection will contain newspapers from prisons in every state, representing penal institutions of all kinds, including women-only institutions.
Comprehensive collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 40 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences, including Economics.
Index to current periodicals held in the Anthropology Library at the Centre for Anthropology, The British Museum.

Offers access to more than a century of full-text anthropological knowledge, across the breadth and depth of the discipline.

Full text of American Psychological Association books.
Indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.
ArchiveGrid includes over 7 million records describing archival materials, bringing together information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more. With over 1,400 archival institutions represented, ArchiveGrid helps researchers looking for primary source materials held in archives, libraries, museums and historical societies.
Collections cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history. Particular strengths include U.S. foreign policy; U.S. civil rights; global affairs and colonial studies; and modern history.

Includes full-text, indexes and abstracts from hundreds of art periodicals and peer reviewed journals and thousands of art dissertations. Indexing of almost 200,000 art reproductions provides examples of styles and art movements, including works by emerging artists. The database covers fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film, and architecture, and also includes a database-specific thesaurus.

North America's largest collection of digitized French resources, including classic works of French literature.

(Artstor has moved. Artstor is now searchable in JSTOR)
The JSTOR platform is now the official home for the complete Artstor Digital Library, an unmatched collection of rights-cleared images and media,  Artstor on JSTOR, as it is now known, is integrated with JSTOR’s thousands of journals, books, research reports, and primary source collections.
 

arXiv.org is an open access database hosted by Cornell University Library and contains e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.

Also or previously known as::AP Images
contains over 4.6 million photographs dating back to 1826, tens of thousands of graphics, more than 4,500 hours of audio files dating from the 1920’s, and news stories and headlines dating from 1997. The content is primary source and is provided by The Associated Press.
Also or previously known as::AP Newsroom
AP Newsroom contains breaking news, feature stories, photographs, graphics and audio clips produced by the AP’s network of award-winning journalists, who operate in more than 250 locations worldwide.
Also or previously known as::AP Style Book
The AP Stylebook is a writing style guide for journalists. It is published and updated every other year to reflect changes in writing style and new guidelines.
Also or previously known as::ADS
The ADS maintains three bibliographic collections containing more than 15 million records covering publications in astronomy and astrophysics, physics, and general science. *Please note that all abstracts and articles in the ADS are copyrighted by the publisher, and their use is free for personal use only.
produced by the American Theological Library Association, ATLA contains more than 1.7 million bibliographic records of research literature on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues. Coverage spans from 1949 to the present.

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Biography Reference Bank
This database is no longer available. We suggest using Credo Reference instead.

bioRxiv (pronounced "bio-archive") is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. It is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a not-for-profit research and educational institution. By posting preprints on bioRxiv, authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals.

Spanning 2,000 primary source documents related to African American history, from the movement to abolish slavery to the contemporary era, this collection is openly available to anyone interested in U.S. Black history, and the ways the past is reflected in current events.

On campus access: Limited to Axinn Library.
Off campus access: Contact course instructor
combines the Encyclopædia Britannica and Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools.
Digitized version of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, which was originally published from 1841 to 1955, then revived for a short time from 1960 to 1963.
Concise ebooks covering specific areas of business, including supply & operations management, international business, social media, finance, accounting, public relations, and marketing strategy.

Provides full text, going as far back as 1886, for over two thousand journals, including more than one thousand peer-reviewed titles, in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.

Learn how to start, finance, or manage your small business. Includes sample business plans, how to guides, articles, and more.
Also or previously known as::Business Insights: Essentials
Includes business, company, and industry periodical articles, news articles, and press releases. Provides detailed information for domestic and international companies and associations, including information on corporate hierarchical structures, company financials and earning estimates, investment reports, corporate chronologies and company histories, brands and product information, industry and company rankings, market share data, industry overviews, HR Law Case Digests, and PDF reports on the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) for select companies.

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Assists authors in publishing journal articles. The index in each Directory helps match the characteristics of a manuscript to journals' topic areas and lists acceptance rates. Also includes information on the style and format of most journals to further assist in organizing and preparing manuscripts.
Over 300 peer-reviewed academic journals for the global market, containing the latest research from a broad sweep of subject areas.
This database collects and standardizes data about offset projects and offset credits issued by five of the largest offset registries: American Carbon Registry (ACR), ART TREES (ART), Climate Action Reserve (CAR), Gold Standard (GLD), and Verra (VCS).

AnswerConnect (formerly IntelliConnect) is a tool for researching CCH content. CCH products track, report, explain and analyze tax and related law in over approximately 700 publications in print and electronic form for tax, accounting, legal, human resources, banking, securities, insurance, government and health care professionals.

Email ereference@hofstra.libanswers.com for access Yes

Statistical information from US census data.

Operated by the American Chemical Society, ChemRxiv is a free online submission, distribution, and archival service for unpublished preprints in chemistry and related areas.

Search the most authoritative automotive repair information available to car owners.
provides full text for more than 1,300 journals in nursing & allied health, including many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index, with no embargo.
The CIOS is a not-for-profit academic organization whose goal is to support research and education in communications-related disciplines (human communication studies, speech communication, rhetoric, journalism, mass communication, etc.) and to provide support for research and development of new relevant technologies. CIOS is the publisher of the peer-reviewed scholarly journal, "The Electronic Journal of Communication" and creator of ComIndex, the Visual Communication Concept Explorer, ComVista, ComAbstracts, ComAnalytics, ComContents, and ComUpdate.
A collection of six databases that contain different types of independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Includes: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Methodology Register, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Health Technology Assessment Database, NHS Economic Evaluation Database. Also includes a seventh database that provides information about groups in The Cochrane Collaboration.
Incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study. Includes indexes, abstracts and full text.
Also or previously known as::Computer Database
provides access to leading business and technical publications in the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries. Includes journals and periodicals on computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications, and the application of technology.

Database of congressional publications and legislative histories. Also includes member biographies, committee assignments, voting records, and financial data; and the full text of key regulatory and statutory resources.

Searches open access repositories and journals. Produced in the UK.

Maintained by the Modern Language Association (MLA). It allows you to search and upload material. It provides access to a wide range of materials including datasets, code and software, syllabi as well as a range of other scholarly resources.

A free health and medical research database for openly available content related to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Cost of Living Index (COLI)
This index can be accessed in print or via desktop shortcut, currently available on the Library's Full Service Student/Lab PC’s, as well as in Axinn 108 Classroom.

An online collection of videos for the study of counseling, social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling.

Provides information on each of the recognized countries of the world. Includes demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental information, as well as daily news coverage.
Building on the reporting and analysis done throughout the year by CQ's news staff, the Almanac offers original narrative accounts of every major piece of legislation that lawmakers considered during a congressional session since 1946, with new content published every 2 years (per congressional session).
Comprehensive coverage of Congressional action starting from 1945 and updated with new content every 4 years (each presidential election year).
Explores the central ideas, ideologies, and frameworks underlying the study of politics, and highlights the intersections of politics with philosophy, cultural studies, sociology, religion, psychology, history, and economics.
Explores the events, policies, people, ideas, institutions, groups, and movements that have created and shaped political life in the United States from the colonial period to the present day.
Highlights the political relationships between the U.S. and Latin America, since the year 1800.
This reference work explores the trends in longitudinal variables asked in the national Election Day exit polls from their beginning in 1972 to the present.
The institutional history of Congress along with analysis on the 2008 and 2010 shifts in power of the U.S. Senate and House of Represenatives.
Offers facts and analytical chapters that explain the structure, powers, and operations of the office and the president’s relationship with Congress and the Supreme Court.
Includes detailed information about the Supreme Court, from its origins and how it functions, to the people who have shaped it and the impact of its decisions on American life.
Includes coverage of every major aspect of federal and gubernatorial elections throughout U.S. history.
Published annually since 1972, the Historic Documents Series primary source documents ranging from presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.
Provides reports on issues looming on the congressional horizon, plus a complete wrap-up the previous week's news, including the status of bills in play, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, debates and all roll-call votes.
Provides information on the major aspects of each country's government and political party system, including key facts, government and political history, current issues, political parties and organizations, legislatures and cabinets, and communications information. Also profiles more than 38 non-UN intergovernmental organizations, such as OPEC, NATO, the WTO, regional banks, and the agencies and specialized bodies of the United Nations.
Provides information on members of the U.S. Congress and their districts. Nonpartisan profiles of every member provide candid analysis of personalities, political styles, legislative agendas, political ambitions, and reputations at home and on the Hill. as well as data on their constituencies, apportionment, and redistricting.
Reference resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. Includes all of the individual CQ databases, listed separately.
Research reports covering the areas of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published online 44 times a year by CQ Press.
Coverage and analysis of every decision from the Supreme Court from 1989 to 2010. Includes year-end overviews, case summaries, essays on the most significant cases from each year and the trends in each term, tables and figures on voting patterns and trends in constitutional law, biographies of justices, and reference documents for understanding how the Supreme Court works.
Traces the history of the laws dealing with enfranchisement and disenfranchisement of African Americans and provides the election return data for African-American candidates in national and sub-national elections.
Offers more than 230 tables and charts covering the full spectrum of American politics dating back to 1788.
Statistical coverage of public approval of the president, elections, vetoes, executive orders, foreign affairs, the executive branch, congressional and judicial relations, public appearances, and much more
A research and reference tool providing data on the American voter, major and minor political parties, campaigns and elections, and historical and modern races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships.
Provides contact and descriptive information on more than 10,000 federal government offices, regulatory agencies, congressional committees, judicial offices, public interest groups, nongovernmental organizations, and international organizations.

Supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. As well as U.S. and international scholarly journals, it includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, dissertations, crime reports, crime blogs and other material relevant for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice, law enforcement and related fields.

Includes: Criminal Justice Database (1981 - current) and
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database (1975 - current)

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  • Criminal Justice Database‎ (1981 - current): International and scholarly journals, correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, crime blogs and other material supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends.
  • National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database‎ (1975 - current): Journal articles, reports, books, audiovisual presentations and unpublished research in criminal and juvenile justice, law enforcement, etc.

Complete tables of contents and bibliographic information from the world’s leading scholarly journals.

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Visualization engine for public US Government data
Datastream/Refinitiv
Datastream/Refinitiv is now accessible in C.V. Starr 104 (Martin B. Greenberg Trading Room). Please see this website for hours and access details: https://www.hofstra.edu/business/finance/trading-room/
on-line reference for bibliographic information on major computer science publications.
Comprehensive literary biographies of more than 143,000 past and present authors, historians, journalists, screenwriters, publishers, and playwrights. The biographies discuss the lives and careers of the literary figures profiled, along with the critical response to their works. Additionally, you can search for essays on publishing houses and literary topics.

Makes accessible material from hundreds of libraries and universities worldwide. Includes peer reviewed articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings and other scholarly material may be found here.

Freely available full text of scientific and scholarly periodicals.
Searches many of HUL's print and online resources (books, ebooks, journal articles, etc.) using Discovery.
Also or previously known as::Current Research@Hofstra

Full text of dissertations and theses produced by Hofstra students.

Dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1861 to the present day.

A multidisciplinary streaming video database, offering documentary films for higher education.
publications in this collection focus primarily in the humanities and social sciences, including nontraditional and interdisciplinary publications.

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Contains more than 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement.

A free preprint service for the Earth sciences

Collection of academic ebooks; includes online reader utility.
Contains more than 1.1 million records from 1886-present, covering virtually every area related to economics.

Includes: Education Database and ERIC . see "Additional Info" below.

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  • Education Database: Coverage spans the literature on primary, secondary and higher education as well as special education, home schooling and adult education.
  • ERIC: Education and related topics - journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs
supports the study and application of education across all levels of education, including early childhood education, primary and secondary education, and higher education. The database supports global study and research, including thousands of full-text journals, dissertations and other relevant sources.
Provides full text of articles from as far back as 1996, in addition to indexing of periodicals dating back to 1983. Subject coverage includes adult education, multicultural/ethnic education, teaching methods and much more.
provides full text for titles in the Eric database and covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty--such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. It also provides insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy.
Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content.
The Education Resource Information Center contains more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.

sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to education-related literature. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.

Europa World is the online version of the Europa World Year Book, a source of information on world-wide affairs. First published in 1926, the year book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
Indexes printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.

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General news and business articles including the full-text of the Wall Street Journal, company profiles, economic reports, and exchange rates.
Streaming video database, providing multidisciplinary educational programs from Films Media Group.

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Also or previously known as::Gale Virtual Reference Library
Reference eBooks on wide array of subjects.
Gale LegalForms offers a wide selection of essential state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms that may be customized for the most common legal procedures.
Search across Gale Research Complete resources, including periodicals, literature, primary sources, eBooks, business, and more.
General interest resource of over 13,000 periodical and news titles.
Geosciences index database containing records for journals, books, maps, government reports, conference papers, and theses and dissertations.
Analyze important global issues and events through topic overviews, international viewpoints, news, and multimedia content.
Search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Links to full text provided by Hofstra will appear to those who have been authenticated through the Library's website.
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Also or previously known as::FDsys, GPO, U.S. Government Publishing Office Federal Digital System
Provides free online access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.

Discover awarded grants from the leading government and private funding agencies from around the world.

Environmental database collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.

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Contains over 275,000 journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States.

Curated selection of 2,000+ Harvard Business School case studies
• Selected by editors at Harvard Business Press 
• Immersive real-world scenarios and commentary
• Case studies are read-only and are 100% functionally restricted (cannot share, save, copy or print)

76 readings covering the foundational concepts, theories, and frameworks that business students must learn. These readings are authored by faculty at Harvard Business School. Each reading includes a teaching note, related course materials, and exhibit slides.

 

Select "Log In" then "Hofstra" from the list of members.  

Search 550k+ full-text items in addition to over 18 million digitized library materials across all academic disciplines.

 

Also or previously known as::Health Reference Center Academic
Articles from a wide range of full-text nursing and allied health journals, magazines, newsletters and select consumer health information sources with full-text reference works and hundreds of health-related videos and multimedia.
Search a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to alternative medical practices.

Provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Offers access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.

Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
Includes AHFS Consumer Medication Information

Includes more than 100 million pages of legal history available in an online, fully-searchable, image-based format. Provides comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 1,800 law and law-related periodicals. Contains the Congressional Record Bound volumes in entirety, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, famous world trials dating back to the early 1700′s, legal classics from the 16th to the 20th centuries, the United Nations and League of Nations Treaty Series, all United States Treaties, the Federal Register from inception in 1936, the CFR from inception in 1938, and much more.

Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, indexing more than 2,300 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.
Also or previously known as::Accessible Archives

Diverse primary source materials reflecting broad views across American history and culture. These collections are encyclopedic in scope.

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Engineering ebooks.
Note:  Titles licensed by the Hofstra University Library are identified with Subscribed content (S) icon.

A resource for discovery of scientific and technical content published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners, including full-text documents from some of the world's most highly-cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics.

Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.

meets the research needs of Spanish-speaking users with a wide range of full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America.
Indexes approximately 4.5 million articles from 13,500 publications. Some full text available.
Includes over two million bibliographic references to international materials dating back to 1951. Incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Over 2,800 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books are included each year.
IPA Source (https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/ ) - IPA Source is currently the largest collection of literal translations and International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions of vocal literature on the web. IPA Source is used by artists and instructors to promote comprehension and accurate pronunciation of foreign language texts to imbue each syllable with the appropriate emotional content. The IPA catalog consists of 15,765 professionally translated and transcribed works from 923 composers and 1,143 poets including texts of arias, art song, and liturgical texts in French, Italian, German, Spanish, English, and Latin.
Includes secondary source material pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books and journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues).

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Also or previously known as::Journal of the American Medical Association
Includes the full text of Journal of the American Medical Association and other JAMA publications, as well as the specialty Archives Journals. All the journals publish Online First content.
Compiled by 275 specialists from around the world, the Guide includes almost 300 alphabetically arranged entries and subentries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.
JoVE Video Journal includes video demonstrations and detailed text protocols; JoVE Science Education includes easy-to-understand video demonstrations covering Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Psychology, Clinical Medicine, and Engineering.

JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.  It provides full-text searches of almost 2,000 journals. In addition, more than 3 million of the images in Artstor are now discoverable alongside JSTOR’s vast scholarly content, providing you with primary sources and vital critical and historical background on one platform.

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A multidisciplinary streaming video database, offering films from the Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation, and many more.

Search articles from multidisciplinary journals covered in Korean Citation Index (KCI). KCI is managed by the National Research Foundation of Korea and contains bibliographic information for scholarly literature published in South Korea.

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L’Année philologique, published by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique, is a specialized bibliographic database of scholarly works relating to all aspects of Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. The online database includes all volumes of the annual index, beginning with Volume I published in 1928.

Contains books, theses, reports.
Note: This resource contains a link to Connecting-Africa which provides access to over 35,000 documents.

LexisNexis
LexisNexis has changed. Please go to the "N" page and use the link for Nexis Uni instead.
international abstracting and indexing tool designed for library professionals and other information specialists. Subject coverage includes all aspects of librarianship, library users, information retrieval and more.

Includes the following two databases (direct links and descriptions under "Additional Info" below):
 

  • Library and Information Science Abstracts
  • Library Science Database
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Provides indexing of over 400 journals, including key library and information science periodicals. Subjects include automation, cataloging, censorship, circulation procedures, classification, copyright legislation, government aid, library associations and conferences, library equipment and supplies, personnel administration, preservation of materials, and more. Coverage reaches as far back as 1980.

Full-text access to a selection of publications relevant to library and information science. It covers a range of titles and topics relevant to the theoretical and applied study of library science, including trade publications aimed at the library profession as well as scholarly journals.

Abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.

Includes the following two databases (direct links and descriptions under "see note" below):
 

  • Linguistics Database
  • Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
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  • Linguistics Database‎: full-text journals and other sources in linguistics, including many titles indexed in Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA).Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
  • and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)‎ (1973 - current): Abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.

Includes full-text journals and other sources in linguistics, including many titles indexed in Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA). It covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.

Indexes journals, books, research reports and proceedings in the areas of librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage extends back to the mid-1960s.
Also or previously known as::Artemis Literary Sources
This interface allows researchers to search across 3 Gale databases at one time: Gale Virtual Reference Library, Literature Resource Center, Literature Criticism Online.
Also or previously known as::Literature Criticism Online
Includes 10 Gale literature series, which in all comprise tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays. Contemporary Literary Criticism profiles influential writers via excerpted passages from selected criticism. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
presents the major literary figures and nonfiction writers of 1900 to 1999. Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism presents overviews of four to eight authors of 1800 through 1899. Shakespeare Criticism includes general and specific critical interpretations from the 17th century to the present. Literature Criticism 1400-1800
includes resource on the greatest writers of the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Restoration eras. Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism provides critical opinion on early literature, Poetry Criticism is a collection of biographical sketches, author portraits, primary bibliographies and much more. Short Story Criticism profiles short story writers of yesterday and today. Drama Criticism
features critical opinions, biographical sketches and chronological lists of plays and playwrights. Children’s Literature Review provides critical reviews of the works of the most popular and influential authors of the genre.
Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines are combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more to provide information on authors, their works, and literary movements.
provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.
Greek and Latin texts alongside English translations.
Premium basic sciences ebooks for medical and health curriculum. Courtesy of the Health Sciences Library of the School of Medicine.

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Includes all the literary works, reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries that are included in MagillOnLiterature, as well as all the biographies and author essays included in MagillOnAuthors.

Database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. Bibliographic data from retrodigitized articles dates back to the early 1800s.

The U.S. National Library of Medicine® (NLM®) premier life sciences database. 

Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.

Provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Mental Measurements Yearbook contains information for a complete evaluation of test products within such areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language.
US taxable and municipal fixed income and evaluation data. Includes a wide-range of bond data including both issuer and bond level terms and condition data, US taxable bonds, municipal bonds and retail notes.
Industry research database.
Includes over one million financial statements of U.S. corporations, partnerships and proprietorships both public and privately owned, in all size ranges, and includes over 800 different lines of business as defined by the U.S. Standard industrial Classification (SIC) code numbers.
Searches industry benchmarks compiled from D&B’s database of public and private companies, featuring 14 key business ratios for public and private companies in 800 lines of business.

Offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database. Includes periodicals, academic journals, and other content.

Modern Language Association’s system for documenting sources in scholarly writing.

Use of the MLA Handbook Plus is subject to the publisher’s licensing terms: https://mlahandbookplus.org/pages/terms_of_use
Offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations dating back to the 1920's and containing over 2.3 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers.
MorphoBank assists scientists building the Tree of Life - the genealogy of all living and extinct species. In this endeavor scientists must collect data on all heritable features - both genotypes (e.g., DNA sequences) and phenotypes (e.g., anatomy, behavior, physiology). MorphoBank is part of the new and growing cyberinfrastructure for phenotypes to house, save and share information on anatomy, physiology, behavior and other features of species. The genomic part of this work is archived at the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
Indexes and abstracts of articles about music, musicians, and the music industry for more than 475 periodicals, as well as book reviews, obituaries, news, and selective coverage for more than 230 periodicals. Digitized content from 1970 to present.

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Also or previously known as::NCJRS

Covers literature related to research, policy and practice in criminal and juvenile justice and drug control. Search over 189,000 U.S. and international publications, including federal, state and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, audiovisual presentations and unpublished research.

Provides access to Nature Publishing Group's publications, Nature research journals and Nature Reviews journals, plus a range of academic journals including society-owned publications. Includes news and comment from Nature, NatureJobs plus access to Nature Network and Nature Education's Scitable.com.
Peer-reviewed open-access journal that publishes on engineering, medicine, natural sciences, and psychology.
Offers streaming access to more than 65,000 CDs of standard and rare repertoire. Includes the complete catalogues or selected titles from over 350 classical, jazz and world music labels. The library is constantly growing. Classic pop and rock music as well as Chinese orchestral music are also represented.
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In order to access Naxos off-campus via the mobile app, Hofstra users need an activation code. The code is: Hofstra14KYV. This code is required after users are prompted to log-in with their Hofstra credentials.

Essays and reviews of books and the arts, including music, theater, dance, and film.

Full text of The New York Times (starting in 1985)
Provided by LexisNexis, full text coverage is from June 01, 1980 through current. (Abstracts from January 1, 1969 - May 31, 1980.) Also includes The New York Times on the Web online articles.
Coverage of the New York Times from 1851 through 4 years prior to the current year.
Also or previously known as::Infotrac Newsstand

A full-text newspaper resource providing access to more than 1,100 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.

Coverage from 1940 to 1994.
Coverage: 2010 - recent (3-month embargo).

Full text for more than 40 (U.S.) & international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are also provided.

Also or previously known as::LexisNexis

Provides access to full-text news, business and legal publications.

NoveList offers access to fiction searchable by age, Lexile score, and curricular themes. Enables quick creation of reading lists for lesson planning.
Research full-text titles cited in CINAHL and other resources to support specialized care, treatment, and patient management.

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Maintained by OCLA (WorldCat), this site describes itself as a union catalog of millions of records representing open access digital resources. The collection includes more than journal and book items. Dissertations, archival and other scholarly material may also be found here. To search use Searching OAIster Only Records.
the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's periodic reviews of member and non-member economies.
This is a centralized search engine for the growing number of institutional repositories of open-access theses and dissertations. It is international in scope.
Open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses.
The Directory of Open Access Repositories. Maintained by the Centre for Research Communication in the UK. It also maintains a list of institutional repositories.
Contains a range of perspectives on many important issues, with over 13,000 pro/con viewpoints. Includes a variety of resource types: reference, news, primary sources, multimedia and more.
Includes over 230 academic and research journals covering a broad range of subject areas, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organizations. From the Oxford University Press.

Offers access and simultaneous cross-searching to an expanding range of Oxford’s acclaimed art reference works: Grove® Art Online, the Benezit® Dictionary of Artists, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, as well as many specially commissioned articles and bibliographies available exclusively online.

English dictionary includes present-day meanings as well as the history of individual words and of the language, traced through 3 million quotations, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to films scripts and cookery books.

Access to multiple music reference resources. Offers more than 8,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, instruments and notation, forms and genres, and individual works.

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Includes PAIS International & PAIS Archive. PAIS International includes journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more from over 120 countries throughout the world. In English and other languages. PAIS Archive includes monographs, periodical articles, notes and announcements, and analytics. Content relates to public and social policies, such as Prohibition, suffrage, pacifism, civil rights, McCarthyism, Vietnam War, and Watergate.
A multidisciplinary aggregation of Open Access journals & papers. Free full text PDF articles from hundreds of disciplines.
Peterson’s Test and Career Prep offers a central hub for standardized test prep, college planning, career assessment, job searches, and more.
Bibliographic database covering scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. Features author-written abstracts covering scholarly research published in journals and books, including contributions to anthologies and book reviews.
An index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by a community of philosophers. Indexes almost all philosophy journals and book publishers.
Use Instructions: create an account/profile and associate with Hofstra.
Also or previously known as::PROLA
The American Physical Society's online archive for Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, and Physical Review A–E. It contains all APS journal articles published from 1893–2008. Each January, another year is added to the archive.
Database of over 58,000 trials, reviews and guidelines evaluating physiotherapy interventions
Also or previously known as::Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress
Bibliographic database covering the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress. Incluldes citations to literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events.
Industry data. Includes industry analysis, market research, company profiles, industry statistics, industry contacts, industry glossaries. Also offers the full-text of Plunkett's industry almanacs.
Web-based resource for information on public policy issues with indexing and linking to the output of over 350 think tanks and similar organizations.
Country Reports for 100 countries, which assess potential political, financial, and economic risks to business investments and trade. Provides risk forecasts and analysis based on the Coplin-O'Leary Rating System, the original political risk rating system, including alternative regime scenarios.

Includes over 140 leading political science and international relations journals.

Includes: PAIS Index, Policy File Index, Political Science Database and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. (see "Additional info")


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  • PAIS Index‎ (1914 - current):Includes PAIS International & PAIS Archive. PAIS International includes journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more from over 120 countries throughout the world. In English and other languages. PAIS Archive includes monographs, periodical articles, notes and announcements, and analytics. Content relates to public and social policies, such as Prohibition, suffrage, pacifism, civil rights, McCarthyism, Vietnam War, and Watergate.
  • Policy File Index‎ (1990 - current): resource for information on public policy issues with indexing and linking to the output of over 350 think tanks and similar organizations.
  • Political Science Database‎ (1985 - current): Includes over 140 leading political science and international relations journals.
     
  • Worldwide Political Science Abstracts‎ (1975 - current): Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration & policy.
     
Database of public opinion polls containing the full text of 600,000+ questions and responses, from 18,000+ surveys and 1,700+ polling organizations, conducted from 1986 through the present in the United States and more than 100 other countries around the world.

Open access theses and dissertations

Discover preprints for key research articles ahead of the formal publication in a journal from a range of international selected and evaluated preprint repositories in the sciences, social sciences and arts & humanities.

A collection of over 500 education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.

Full-text of scholarly journals from over 120 university presses and scholarly societies in the humanities and social sciences.

Projectr EDU is a collection of streaming films from suppliers Grasshopper Film, MTV Documentary Films, Canyon Cinema and more. A streaming platform for both the casual and adventurous viewer, Projectr EDU presents a curated and ever-expanding collection of independent, international and documentary films that proudly amplify diverse, daring, and underrepresented voices from around the world.
Individual ProQuest databases can be found alphabetically under the resource title without the "ProQuest" prefix. Alternatively, view the full list of ProQuest databases by clicking on this link or selecting ProQuest from the "Vendors/Providers" drop-down menu at the top of the page.

The world's most comprehensive curated collection of multi-disciplinary dissertations and theses from around the world, offering over 5 million citations from thousands of universities. On the Web of Science platform see connected research via citation linking.

authoritative ebooks in a range of subjects from the world's top publishers.
PsyArXiv offers pre-prints of research in the following fields: Engineering Psychology, Life Sciences, Meta-science, Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Social and Behavioral Sciences
Contains full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology, from the American Psychological Association (APA). Includes journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to the present.
Abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in behavioral science and mental health. Journal coverage from the 1800s to the present.
Also or previously known as::Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology
A peer-reviewed open-access online journal that brings together philosophers of science and theoretically inclined biologists to interact across disciplinary boundaries.
PubChem is the world's largest collection of freely accessible chemical information. Search chemicals by name, molecular formula, structure, and other identifiers. Find chemical and physical properties, biological activities, safety and toxicity information, patents, literature citations, and more.

Designed to complement other databases and collections, this database brings together or links to full text for publicly available scholarly content from a number of different sources from around the world. It includes content from major subject repositories such as arXiv as well as open access journals. Content includes journal articles, pre-prints, books, conference papers and reports.

Full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine.

Citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

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Index of over 700 selected periodicals (mostly scholarly) acquired from 29 African countries. Date range is from 1991-2011. The QIAPL indexing project closed as of 2012.

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A selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Material listed in Rambi is compiled from thousands of periodicals and from collections of articles - in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages- mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library, a world center for research on the Jewish people and Eretz Israel.
Also or previously known as::RRIMO
Online access to all titles published in 1995 and later in the seven Recent Researches in Music series: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, 19th/20th centuries, American (including MUSA), and Oral Traditions.

Full text coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

market research reports in the fields of energy, healthcare, and consumer markets.
Guide to publications on music from all over the world; includes records for articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, Festschriften, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings, conference proceedings, electronic resources, reviews, and more.

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Understand context for hundreds of science topics through overviews, journals, news, interactive experiments, and more.
Full text of journals spanning the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology, and Medicine.
Features online reference sources in the areas of Literature, History, Science and Health. Both the Defining Documents and Milestone Documents contain a wealth of primary source material. Each document is accompanied by a summary and an analysis to provide context for the document.

Provides scholarly literature in sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities published in leading open access journals from Latin America, Portugal, Spain, and South Africa.

Includes over 50 databases and over 2100 selected websites from 12 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results.

Full-text scientific database. Includes journal articles and book chapters. Contains Philosophy of Science.
covering the science, technology, and health sciences disciplines. Though this collection contains more eBooks than those HUL licenses, this link will take you to our subscribed and open access title list.

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Browse original scholarly essays on authors from around the world. Places authors and their works in personal and historical context.
Provides bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials.
MRI-Simmons Insights examines the demographics, attitudes, media habits of adult US consumers and their impact on product purchases.
*Note: This database has a 10 simultaneous user limit.

Provides indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journalsacross a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work and sociology.

Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Includes journal articles, dissertations, and citations to book reviews.
Provides abstracts and indexes of international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Includes journal articles, citations to book reviews, abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.

Includes the following two databases (direct links and descriptions under "see note" below):
 

  • Sociological Abstracts
  • Sociology Database
  • Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts
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International literature in sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction and more.

Bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. Contains records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800, as well as dissertations and theses and reference to articles in 60 different languages.
a collection of over 650 electronic books in the engineering discipline.
Database of journals in the areas of behavioral science, biomedical & life sciences, business & economics, chemistry & materials science, computer sciences, earth & environmental science, engineering, humanities, social sciences, law, mathematics & statistics, clinical medicine, physics and astronomy. Includes full text.
Database of media rates and information. Cataloging more than 100,000 U.S. and international media properties. Includes detailed ad rates, dates and contact data, and direct links to media kits and audit statements.
Industry and company analysis including S&P Industry Surveys, Stock Reports (S&P Equity Research) with drill-downs for key ratios, benchmarks and analysis down to sub-industry levels, plus auditability to click-through for the sources behind company financial items.
Multifaceted statistics portal containing statistics, studies and reports from over 18,000 sources of data from businesses, government departments, market research concerns or associations.
The Student Activism collection is intended to serve as a scholarly bridge from the extensive history of student protest in the United States to the study of today's vibrant, continually unfolding actions. The collection captures the voices of students across the great range of protest, political actions, and equal-rights advocacy from the 20th and early 21st century United States. The primary sources are broad-based across time, geography, and political viewpoint — from conservative to anarchist.

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Provides indexing and abstracts for 280 teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
Browse over 900 video interviews with important figures in television from the past 25 years.
A research service that integrates accounting & auditing, tax, and other content. Areas covered include federal tax, state & local tax, international tax, accounting, auditing and corporate finance, estate planning, payroll, pension & benefits.
Digital archive of the London Times, from 1785 to 1985.
Users can search by PICO to locate Systematic Reviews. Articles are ranked by Evidence Pyramid. Search Evidence Based Synopses, Random Controlled Trials, Clinical Trials, Case-Controlled Studies, primary research, and more.

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Provides detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals (also called serials) of all types and subject areas. Ulrich's records provide data points such as ISSN, publisher, language, subject, abstracting & indexing coverage, full-text database coverage, tables of contents, and reviews written by librarians.
Pools major UN databases and those of several international into one single internet environment. The databases, tables and glossaries cover a wide range of themes including Agriculture, Crime, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Health, HIV/AIDS, Human Development, Industry, Information and Communication Technology, National Accounts, Population, Refugees, Tourism, Trade, as well as the Millennium Development Goals indicators.
An integrated look at revenue and spending across federal, state and local governments

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Vault is best known for its influential rankings, ratings, and reviews on thousands of top employers and hundreds of internship programs. Vault provides detailed information on nearly 5,000 companies in more than 120 industries. Vault also includes education requirements, skill requirements, salaries, advancement prospects, etc. for more than 840 professions, as well as employer, career, and interviewing guidebooks.
Video Clips for Early Education & Child Development. Contains 360+ video titles to increase your understanding of children's thinking and learning.

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The full-page images of this digitized newspaper provide genealogists, researchers and scholars with cover-to-cover access to recent newspaper content. Every page is full-text searchable. Coverage: 2008 - recent (3-month embargo).
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Coverage: 2008 - recent (3-month embargo).

Search across all subscribed content on the Web of Science platform simultaneously.

Search the worlds leading scholarly journals, books, and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities and navigate the full citation network.

Collection of academic ebooks published by Wiley. Database also includes journal articles.

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Provides relevant content on companies and the advertising agencies that work with them. Winmo can be used to identify agency clients, locate critical information about them, reveal the right contacts at those clients for prospecting, find a company by searching by the brand it owns, check out the competition, and more.
online catalog of Hofstra library holdings.

Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection includes 105 document projects and archives and more than 53,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written altogether by about 2,200 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.

A collection of primary sources that traces the global history of women’s international agendas and their influence on the course of events and shifts in attitudes that have come to define modern life.

Consists of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide between 1960 and 2012. Contains over 130,300 annotated entries.
Database of all material cataloged by OCLC member libraries including books, manuscripts, websites and internet resources, maps, computer programs, musical scores, films and slides, newspapers, journals and magazines, sound recordings, articles, chapters, and papers.
Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration & policy.
WRDS provides the user with one location to access data across multiple disciplines including Accounting, Banking, Economics, Finance, ESG, and Statistics. Specifically, WRDS provides access to S&P Capital IQ, CRSP, NYSE, Thomson Reuters, Bureau van Dijk, Global Insight, OptionMetrics and other important business research databases.
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zbMATH Open (formerly known as Zentralblatt MATH) is the world's most comprehensive and longest-running abstracting and reviewing service in pure and applied mathematics. It is edited by the European Mathematical Society (EMS), the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and FIZ Karlsruhe.
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