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ABI-Inform Dateline via ProQuest Direct
Focuses on hard-to-find local and regional business news. MORE DETAILS...

1985+
ABI-Inform Global via ProQuest Direct
In-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management, advertising, marketing, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. MORE DETAILS...

Abstracts: 1971+
Full text: 1991+
ABI-Inform Trade & Industry via ProQuest Direct
Provides users with the latest trade and industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. MORE DETAILS...

Abstracts: 1971+
Full text: 1991+
Academic Search Elite via Ebsco
Broad coverage —including biological sciences, economics, communications, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences and women's studies. MORE DETAILS...

Abstracts: 1984+
Full text: 1990+

ACM Portal
Association of Computing Machinery Portal includes: ACM journals, magazines and proceedings. MORE DETAILS...


Abstracts: 1985+
Full text: 1991+

ADA Compliance Guide
Covers disability, reasonable accommodation, undue hardship, readily achievable barrier removal, program accessibility and the law's many other key terms in plain English. MORE DETAILS...


annual guide

Almanac of American Politics 2004
Features key votes of Congress, important committee changes, election forecasts, primary results and more. MORE DETAILS...

American FactFinder (U.S. Census Data)
From the U.S. Census Bureau is the source for population, housing, economic and geographic data.

AP Photo Archive
Contains more than 800,000 photographs covering significant news and features events of the 20th century, etc. MORE DETAILS...

Applied Science & Technology [via Wilson Omnifile]
Features full-text articles in virtually every area of science, engineering, and technology. MORE DETAILS...


1983+

Art Full Text via WilsonWeb
Covers the world of the arts such as art history, graphic arts, interior design, architecture, video and more. MORE DETAILS...


Abstracts: 1994+
Full text: 1997+
ASME Technical Journals
Contains the fulltext of all the journals of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a professional organization focused on technical, educational and research issues of the engineering and technology community. MORE DETAILS...
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Biological & Agricultural Index [a subset of Wilson Omnifile]
Provides full-text articles from groundwater pollution to genetic engineering and covers the entire range of sciences related to biology and agriculture. MORE DETAILS...


1994+

choose Omnifile with BioAg as subject

BioOne Abstracts and Indexes
This BioOne bibliographic database is an indexed and fully-searchable collection of abstracts that link to the fulltext articles available from the BioOne. MORE DETAILS...


Abstracts: 1998
with links to
fulll text in BioOne
BioOne
Offers the full text of high-impact bioscience research journals, many published by small societies and non-commercial publishers. BioOne currently contains approximately 40 journals. MORE DETAILS...

Abstracts: 1971+
Full text: 1991+
Biotech Channel via Dialog1
Covers biotech news and industry, patents, regulatory information, R&D and more. MORE DETAILS...

Books24x7
Search, browse, and view the full contents of hundreds of top technical and computer manuals and books. MORE DETAILS...

eBooks
Britannica Online (Encyclopædia)
The complete 32 volume Encyclopædia Britannica...online! MORE DETAILS...
The Buffalo News via Infotrac
The Buffalo News coverage starts with January 1, 1996. Can be searched by keyword, title, date, and section. MORE DETAILS...
Business and Company Resource Center via Gale
Global business info: company profiles, industry ranking, stock prices, investment reports, industry statistics, marketing data, emerging tech reports, etc. MORE DETAILS...

Business Full Text [a subset of Wilson Omnifile]
Covers today's leading English­language business magazines. Topics include accounting, personnel, and small business. MORE DETAILS...


Abstracts: 1990+
Full text: 1995+

choose Omnifile with Business as subject
Business Intelligence Channel via Dialog1
Covers business associations and foundations, biographical info on company leaders, company details, financials, industry, product information. MORE DETAILS...

Business Source Elite via Ebsco
Covers topics such as management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more. MORE DETAILS...

1990+
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CAMIO
CAMIO — Catalog of Art Museum Images Online — offers rights-cleared, high-quality art images for class projects, art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, and research resources. MORE DETAILS...

CCH Tax Network
Provides access to a full library of federal and individual state tax information as well as tax news and comprehensive analysis. MORE DETAILS...
Clinical Pharmacology via Ebsco
Contains current, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs. Drugs may be searched by their generic or brand names. MORE DETAILS...
Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Researcher
The CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology.

1991+
CountryWatch
Up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world: political, economic, and business information. MORE DETAILS...
CQ Researcher
The Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology.

1991+
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Deaf Web Net
Allows you to cross-search select deafness related web sites. These sites were chosen for their excellence.
Dialog1
Covering the categories of World News, Business Intelligence, Marketing, Biotech, Chemistry, Energy, Engineering, Intellectual Property, Pharmaceuticals. MORE DETAILS...
Dissertations & Theses via Proquest
The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester; those published from 1980 forward also include 350- word abstracts, written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Of the millions of titles listed, UMI offers over 1.8 million in full text.

The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. MORE DETAILS...

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ebrary
A collection of 13,000+ electronic books (ebooks) online. Strong in key academic subject areas including Business & Economics, Computers, Technology & Engineering, Humanities, Life & Physical Sciences, and Social and Behavioral Sciences. MORE DETAILS...

eBooks

Education Full Text [a subset of Wilson's OmniFile]
Covers contemporary education issues, including government funding, instructional media, multicultural education, info technology, etc. MORE DETAILS...


Abstracts: 1994+
Full text: 1996+

choose Omnifile with Education as subject
Elsevier Science Direct
Access to the full text of 1,000+ scientific, technical, medical, mathematical, management and social science journals from Elsevier. MORE DETAILS...

1995+
Emerald Fulltext
Over 130 full text management journals. Covers the major management disciplines including marketing, HR and organizational development, quality and operations management. MORE DETAILS...

Abstracts: 1989+
Full text: 1994+
Emerging Markets from ISI
Covers Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Eastern and Southeastern Asia. For each country, info about current events, companies and industries, financial markets, macroeconomic issues, and legal and political affairs. MORE DETAILS...
Encyclopædia Britannica Online
The complete 32 volume Encyclopædia Britannica...online! MORE DETAILS...
Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy and Spectrometry
Provides a comprehensive explanation of spectroscopic and related techniques together with their applications.
Energy Channel via Dialog1
Covering aspects of energy including: alternative, coal, industry intelligence, nuclear, petrochemical, petroleum, utilities. MORE DETAILS...
Engineering Channel via Dialog1
Covering engineering news and industry, patents, R&D. MORE DETAILS...

ERIC via Ebsco (with links to full text ERIC Documents)
A complete bibliography of educational materials from the Educational Resources Information Center at the U.S. Department of Education. MORE DETAILS...


Abstracts: 1966
Full text: 1996
European Patents (Espacenet)
Free patent access from the European Patent Office.

patents
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FACCTs
Faulkner Advisory on Computer and Communications Technologies (FACCTs) is covers the world of IT and telecommunications. MORE DETAILS...

Factiva
A joint venture between Dow Jones and Reuters. Search the full-text of 8000 international business and general publications; Screen for U.S. and foreign companies matching your criteria; Get financial profiles for companies worldwide; Get historical stock prices as well as currency data and market indexes, etc. MORE DETAILS...



FirstGov
A centralized place to find information from 20,000+ local, state, and U.S. Government Agency websites.

U.S. Government
Website

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Gardner's Art Through the Ages
Access to 880 /electronic/images from the 10th edition of Gardner's Art Through the Ages (Harcourt, 1996). Useful to those taking the course, Art and Civilization. MORE DETAILS...
General Science Collection via Ebsco
Provides information on all aspects of the scientific world and offers full-text coverage for more than 60 of the most popular science publications, including Astronomy, Discover, National Wildlife, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, and many others
. MORE DETAILS...

Full text: 1992+
General Science Full Text [a subset of Wilson Omnifile]
Covers astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, earth science, environmental issues, mathematics, medicine, physics, and zoology. MORE DETAILS...

Abstracts: 1993+
Full text: 1995+

choose Omnifile with Gen. Sci as subject

Global Market Information Database from Euromonitor
An integrated database providing key business intelligence, marketing data and reports on countries, companies, markets, and consumers from over 200 countries. MORE DETAILS...

Grove Dictionary of Art Online
The 34-volume Dictionary of Art is now online. Covers all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the 1990s.
MORE DETAILS...

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Harrison's Online via AccessMedicine
The complete contents of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 16th Edition. The first edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine was published more than half a century ago. Over the decades, this textbook has evolved to reflect the continuing advances in the field of internal medicine and to meet the growing information base required of medical students and clinical practitioners. Harrison's continues to define the practice of medicine-encompassing all the essential aspects - basic science, pathophysiology, clinical signs/symptoms, diagnosis, and up-to-date treatment.


 

Health & Wellness Resource Center
Find magazines, journals, newspapers and information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, Prescription Drugs, Herbal remedies, and alternative or complementary treatments, etc. MORE DETAILS...


1980+

Health Source: Consumer Edition via Ebsco
Consumer health information on many health topics including drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, health, sports medicine and more. MORE DETAILS...


Full text: 1985+

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Version via Ebsco
Covers nutrition, exercise, medical self-care, drugs and alcohol, and much more. In addition, provides full text for 1,000+ pamphlets and 23 books. MORE DETAILS...


Abstracts: 1984+
Full text: 1990+
Hoover's Online
Covers 50,000 public and private enterprises worldwide. Business info includes news, business features, lists, stock quotes, and global industry overviews. MORE DETAILS...

Humanities Full Text [a subset of Wilson's Omnifile]
Feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, reviews of plays, operas, ballets, dance, musicals, movies, and TV and radio programs.
MORE DETAILS...


Abstracts: 1984+
Full text: 1995+

choose Omnifile with Humanities as subject
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IEEE/IEE Electronic Library (Xplore)
Provides full-text access to over 12,000 IEEE and IEE publications, including journals, conference proceedings, and IEEE Standards. MORE DETAILS...

1988+
Intellectual Property Channel via Dialog1
Covering aspects of intellectual porperty: copyrights, patents, trademarks. MORE DETAILS...
Investext
Find investment, company and industry reports from over 500 brokers in North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. MORE DETAILS...

ISI Emerging Markets
Covers Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Eastern and Southeastern Asia. For each country, info about current events, companies and industries, financial markets, macroeconomic issues, and legal and political affairs. MORE DETAILS...

J
JSTOR
A unique database of the complete backfiles of core scholarly journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Not only text, but accompanying charts, graphs, equations, and pictures are reproduced. MORE DETAILS...

Full text: starts from volume 1; excludes latest 3-5 years
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Knovel
Knovel is an interactive full-text database that contains over 700 of the leading scientific and engineering reference handbooks and conference proceedings in full-text format. MORE DETAILS...

eBooks
L

LexisNexis Academic
Access to full-text legal, medical, business, biographical and news and information from over 5000 sources. MORE DETAILS...

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MAS Ultra - School Edition via Ebsco
Covers popular high school level magazines. MORE DETAILS...

Abstracts: 1984+
Full text: 1990+
MasterFile Select via Ebsco
Full text from over 750 general reference, business, consumer
health, general science, humanities, and multi-cultural periodicals. MORE DETAILS...

Abstracts: 1984+
Full text: 1990+
Mergent Online
Provides detailed inform about public companies in the United States and around the world. Use Mergent Online to find basic information like addresses and industry codes, financial highlights, company histories, actual financial reports, annual reports, real-time news, and insider stock holdings. MORE DETAILS...
Military and Government Collection via Ebsco
Search military titles, trade publications and newsweeklies. MORE DETAILS...
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National Trade Data Bank
The National Trade Data Bank (NTDB), part of the STAT-USA database, is the U.S. Government's most comprehensive source of international trade data. Includes basic export information, trade statistics, market research reports, overseas contacts, how-to guides, and trade opportunities.
MORE DETAILS...

Net Advantage from Standard & Poors
Covers markets, industries, stocks, bonds, dividends, and S&P Analysis. Search by publication or by type of data, including companies, executives, industries, stocks, bonds, funds, dividends. S&P Publications included: Bond Guide, Corporation Records, Dividend Record, Earnings Guide, Industry Surveys, Mutual Fund Reports, The Outlook, Standard & Poor's Register, Stock Guide and Stock Report. MORE DETAILS...
netLibrary
A collection of approximately 4500 titles of electronic books (ebooks) online. Conduct full-text searches of every word in every ebook available in our subscription. RIT Llbrary and other libraries have joined together to make up the Nylink Custom Library collection. MORE DETAILS...

eBooks

New York Red Book Online
Widely recognized as the most accurate, up-to-date text on the decision makers in all segments of New York State Government.
Contains pertinent technical, biographical and reference material and more.


published every
two years
New York State Newspapers via Infotrac
Provides selected full text for select NYS newspapers. MORE DETAILS...
Newspaper Abstracts with fulltext via ProQuest Direct
Select full-text from newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and more. Includes articles, reviews, editorials, editorial cartoons, etc. MORE DETAILS...

1989+
Newpaper Source via Ebsco
Provides selected full text for 140+ U.S. and international newspapers. MORE DETAILS...
News of the World via Dialog1
African and Middle Eastern news, Asian, Pacific Rim and Australian news, Canadian news, European news, Mexican, Central American and South American news, United States news. MORE DETAILS...

NTID Deaf Art/Deaf Artists  (formerly known as IADA: International Archive of Deaf Artists Images)
A resource that highlights the work of artists who are deaf. Includes slides, descriptions of work, and where the work is installed.

O
Omni Full Text Mega via WilsonWeb
Covers six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education, General Science, Humanities, Readers' Guide, Social Sciences and Business. In addition, select full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology, Art, Biological & Agricultural, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature & Information Science. MORE DETAILS...

1994+
Opposing Viewpoints
An online library of current event topics--the facts as well as the arguments of each topic's proponents and detractors.
MORE DETAILS...

Optics InfoBase
InfoBase is the Optical Society of America's online database of both current and past volumes of all its journals. It also contains recent proceedings from OSA conferences. MORE DETAILS...
 

 
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Patents - European
Patent access from the European Patent Office.

patents
Patents - U.S.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) access to the full-text patent databases.

patents - 1976+
Pharmaceuticals Channel via Dialog1
Covering pharmaceuticals related info: drug pipeline summaries, intelligence, newsletters, pharma patent information, literature and news. MORE DETAILS...

Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA)
Indexes all American Physical Society (APS) journal material published from 1893 to present. Access to the full text of articles from 1985-present


1985+
Primary Search via Ebsco
Primary Search provides full text from 50 children’s magazines appropriate for elementary schools and children’s reading rooms and more. MORE DETAILS...
Professional Development Collection via Ebsco
Provides a highly specialized collection of information especially for professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers.
MORE DETAILS...

Full text: 1965+
Proquest Health Management
Provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, literature, political science, and psychology.MORE DETAILS...

1986+
PsycARTICLES via Ebsco
PsycARTICLES is an online database containing full-text articles from 49 peer reviewed journals published by APA and allied organizations. Covers general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology. MORE DETAILS...

1987+
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Reader's Guide Full Text part of WilsonWeb's OmniFile
Covers the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the U.S. and Canada. MORE DETAILS...

1994+
then search within omnifile

Reference USA - Business Data
C
ontains basic information on more than 12 million U.S. businesses. MORE DETAILS...

Regional Business News via Ebsco
Incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. MORE DETAILS...

varies
Research Library via ProQuest Direct
Provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, literature, political science, and psychology.MORE DETAILS...

1971+
RISI (formerly Paperloop)
RISI covers the following industries: pulp and paper, wood products, timber, tissue, and nonwovens. It contains market news and information from leading pulp and paper industry publications and is a source for economic analysis of the global forest products industry.MORE DETAILS...

current

RIT Archives Photography Collection
Online archive of /electronic/images of RIT academics, student activities, and the campus.

Rochester Business Journal Full Text Archive
Contains articles and features from the Daily Edition on the Internet and the newspaper’s hard-copy publications.

1996+
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Safari Tech Books
Search, browse, and view the full contents of nearly 100 of the top O'Reilly technical and computer books. MORE DETAILS...

eBooks

SAGE Journals Online
SAGE Publications publishes over 485 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. MORE DETAILS...


1999+
Science Direct via Elsevier
Access to the full text of 1,000+ scientific, technical, medical, mathematical, management and social science journals from Elsevier. MORE DETAILS...

1995+
Scientific American Archive Online
Scientific American Archive Online is a comprehensive, searchable science and technology resource containing the full text and graphics of every Scientific American issue from 1993 to the present. In addition, the newly introduced Scientific American Mind monthly title will also be included. Among the topics covered in the archive are: health and medicine, cosmology and astronomy, chemistry, life sciences, physics, oceanography, medicine, mathematics, archaeology, and much more. MORE DETAILS...

1993+

SIRs Government Reporter
Documents from the U.S. government. Information on health, science, economics, environment, politics, foreign affairs, workplace issues, business and industry is included. MORE DETAILS...


Abstracts: 1971+
Full text: 1991+

SIRs Renaissance
Select full-text articles covering cultures, architecture, philosophy, religion and visual arts. MORE DETAILS...


1992+

SIRS Researcher
Select full-text articles covering a a variety of social, scientific, historic, economic, political and global issues. MORE DETAILS...


Abstracts: 1971+
Full text: 1991+

Social Sciences Full Text part of WilsonWeb's OmniFile
Covers the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, law and criminology, political science, social work, sociology, etc. MORE DETAILS...


Abstracts: 1994+
Full text: 1995+

then search within omnifile
Special Education Online
Provides full text of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Law Report® (IDELR), Early Childhood Law and Policy Reporter and complete Federal Education Statutes and Regulations and more. MORE DETAILS...
SPIE Digital Library
The SPIE Digital Library from the International Society for Optical Engineering currently includes more than 120,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings . MORE DETAILS...

1998+