Friday, February 03, 2006

Trial Databases

Following Databases are Available on Trial Basis Feb. 1-March 31 through OCLC FirstSearch:

ATLA Religion (ATLAReligion): Religious and theological literature for students and faculty

  • Supports religious and theological scholarship in and faculty research.
  • Contains thousands of citations from international titles and multi-author works in the field of religion.
  • Includes a full range of index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews from three ATLA print indexes: Religion Index One (RIO), Religion Index Two (RIT), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR).
  • Spans over 50 years with selected records going back to 1818.

ATLA Serials Database (ATLAS): Full-text articles on religion and theology

  • Supports religious and theological scholarship in and faculty research.
  • Contains the full text of thousands of journal articles and book reviews from international titles and multi-author works in the field of religion.
  • Spans over 50 years.

General Science Abstracts (GenSciAbs): General science literature from the U.S. and Europe

  • Covers everything from supernovas to marine pollution and is the ideal source for researchers seeking information on a variety of scientific topics.
  • Abstracts leading journals and magazines from the United States and Great Britain.
    Describes biographical sketches, symposia, conferences, review articles, selected letters to the editor, special issues of journals published as supplementary issues, review issues, laboratory guides, and book reviews.

MLA International Bibliography (MLA): Literature, language, linguistics, folklore

  • Provides over one million citations for items from journals and series published worldwide.
  • Indexes books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies.
  • Contains in each record a bibliographic citation for a journal article, book, or other item including information about the libraries that own the library resources.
  • Includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals, which provides full information on more than 4,000 journals and series in the MLA International Bibliography Master List of Periodicals. The Directory of Periodicals includes many of the periodicals that are indexed in the MLA International Bibliography database. The electronic Directory of Periodicals is updated every six months.

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