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Trials & New Databases

New Databases 2001-02

Snow Index to Brunswick Newspapers: Index to Brunswick, Maine newspapers from 1853-1960.
Readers’ Guide Retrospective: Indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. The complete database covers the years 1890 through 1982.
New York Times Archive: Contains full text of the New York Times from 1851 to date.
Web of Science: Contains Social Sciences Citation Index and Science Citation Index from 1997 to date.
RISM : International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600: The most comprehensive annotated index and guide to music manuscripts produced after 1600.
RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (1800-1950): The only annotated index and guide to music periodicals of the 19th century, offering a firsthand perspective of 19th-century music and musical life. Includes contemporary writings about composers, performers, compositions and "just about any imaginable topic".
SciFinder Scholar: SciFinder Scholar is a desktop research tool for students and faculty that provides easy access to the rich and diverse scientific information offered by the CAS databases, dating back to 1967.
Contact Sue O’Dell in the Hatch Science Library for software installation instructions.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences: Online version of the print resource, regularly updated. Contains over 3,000 signed and peer-reviewed articles, focusing on biological topics.
Polling the Nations
PsycArticles: Full-text access to journals from the APA and selected EPF (Educational Publishing Foundation) journals, most from 1988 to the present.
Early English Books Online: "From the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War, Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave’s Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing’s Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661)."

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