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ABI/INFORM   Most scholarly and comprehensive way to explore and understand business research topics. Search nearly 1800 worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Expanded international coverage. Fast access to information on 60,000 + companies with business and executive profiles. Includes The Wall Street Journal.   Yes
         
Academic Search Complete   Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.   Yes
         
ACM Guide to Computing Literature   The Guide is a collection of bibliographic citations and abstracts of works published by ACM and other publishers. The Guide contains more than 750,000 citations from 3,000+ publishers, including ACM, covering: books, journal articles, conference proceedings, doctoral dissertations, master's theses, and technical reports.   No
         
African American Studies Center (AASC)   The AASC provides students and scholars with online access to the finest reference resources in African American studies.   Yes
         
AGRICOLA   This bibliographic database provides more than 2.5 million citations from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Library. Coverage for this database dates back to 1979. AGRICOLA offers a variety of source types related to agriculture.   No
         
Alt HealthWatch   This alternative health database provides full text for 180 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.   Yes
         
America: History & Life   An 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 1964 to present, this database is a bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history. Strong English-language journal coverage is balanced by an international perspective on topics and events, including abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages.   Linked
         
ArchiVision   ArchiVision: an architecture photo archive, currently holds over 50,000 images in the Education Archive. The ArchiVision Educational Archive was created for in-depth study and analysis by students of architecture and art. ArchiVision is the image resource for architecture, landscapes, public art and design.   No
         
Art Abstracts   This database, produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for 378 leading international publications pertaining to a variety of art types. This bibliographic database indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.   No
         
ArtSEARCH
[Library Only]
  ArtSEARCH, the national employment bulletin for the arts can be searched by category, state, and date. The database is updated every 3 business days with up to 1000 listings available daily. Find positions in theatres and performing arts centers, universities, colleges and schools, dance companies, museums, and other arts organizations.   Yes
         
ARTstor   ARTstor is a non-profit organization created by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As part of its ongoing effort to become a community resource, ARTstor has developed a rich digital library that offers coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library's content includes approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's software tools support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.   No
         
Arts and Humanities Citation Index   A comprehensive index of the top scholarly research journals in the arts and humanities.   No
         
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, created by the Getty Research Institute, is the only comprehensive American guide to the current literature of architecture and design. This database surveys more than 2,500 US and foreign journals. The index covers international, scholarly and popular periodical literature, including publications of professional associations; US state and regional periodicals; and major serial publications in the architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America and Australia. In addition, this database also provides nearly 13,000 citation records for architects’ obituaries.   No
 
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Background Notes   These handy guides provide information on a country's leaders, politics, economy, and relations with the U.S.   Yes
         
Bayou State Periodical Index   A subject guide to some 50 periodicals published in Louisiana on topics of particular interest to the people of this state.   No
         
La Bibliotheque des Lettres   A French bibliographic database that contains the text of eight major French literary collections.   Yes
         
Biography Resource Center   This database combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.   Yes
         
Biological Abstracts   Biological Abstracts, produced by BIOSIS, is a complete collection of bibliographic references to life science journal literature published internationally. This database provides users with easy access to information published in virtually every life science discipline.   No
         
Book Collection: Nonfiction   Book Collection: Nonfiction is a rich research database for school and public libraries, and includes general interest, high interest, leveled full text articles on civics, social studies, science, careers, health, sports, adventure, hobbies, technology, biographies and much more. This database contains informative abstracts and full text for more than 3,100 popular nonfiction books.   Yes
         
Books in Print   Bowker’s Global Books in Print is an authoritative and comprehensive database that provides publication data for books, e-books, audios, and videos. The global version covers monographs from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and South Africa. It contains bibliographic information for nearly nine million titles including in-print, out-of-print, on-demand, and forthcoming titles. In addition, Global Books in Print includes over 10,000 author biographies, 1,200,000 annotations, 600,000 cover images, 400 Bestseller and Awards Lists, and 800,000 full-text reviews from 14 sources including Library Journal and Choice.   Yes
         
Business Source Complete   This is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the ultimate collection of bibliographic and full text content. Business Source Complete contains far more active, peer-reviewed, business related journals than any other database currently available. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals.   Yes
 
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Canadian Literary Periodicals Index   Indexes most Canadian primary materials (poems, short stories, novels, plays and literary essays) and most secondary materials (critical articles, book reviews, interviews and bibliographies) in the field of Canadian literature. Coverage is 1992 to present.   No
         
CCH Internet Tax Research Network
[Library Only]
  Current and complete Federal and State Tax information.   Yes
         
CINAHL Plus
with Full Text
  CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. CINAHL Plus with Full Text also contains searchable cited references for more than 1,160 journals and provides full text for hundreds of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1937 are also included.   Yes
         
Chronicle of
Higher Education

[Library Only]
  Online, The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle's web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; and vibrant discussion forums.   Yes
         
College Source Online   A web-based service that provides access to college information (profiles, web links, and .pdf format catalogs).   Yes
         
Communication
and
Mass Media
Complete
  Provides research in areas related to communication and mass media. The database includes full text for 285 journals.   Yes
         
Communication
Abstracts
(CIOS)
  Contains abstracts of articles published in the primary professional literature of the communications field. Journal coverage dates back to the mid 1980s. Search by word, phrase or author.   No
         
Compendex   Compendex is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research available today, containing over seven million references and abstracts taken from over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports.   No
         
Computer Science Index   Computer Science Index offers abstracting and indexing of academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources at the highest scholarly and technical levels of computer science. The collection covers more than 6,500 periodicals and books, with coverage going back to the mid 1960s.   Linked
         
Computer Source   Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.   Yes
         
CQ
Researcher
  Offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important issues. Each report is on a single topic—more than 12,000 words of text and extensive bibliographies. The database goes back to 1923 and also affords immediate access to the newest CQ Researcher reports as they are published.   Yes
         
CQ
Weekly
  Congressional Quarterly's magazine on government, commerce, and politics.   Yes
         
Credo Reference   A digital reference library of 100 titles that places a world of factual information at your fingertips. Offering access to individual entries, Credo Reference contains the following types of reference books: dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and books of quotations, not to mention a host of subject-specific titles covering everything from the arts to accountancy and law to literature.   Yes
         
Criminal Justice Periodicals   Indexes over 100 journals, newsletters, and reference books with subjects ranging from police methods to computer crime.   Yes
         
CSA Databases   Provides access to the following databases: CSA Illustrata and Philosopher's Index.    
         
CSA
Illustrata:
Natural
Sciences
  Database of searchable tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from scholarly research and technical literature.    
         
Current Research @   Contains citations, abstracts and some full text to dissertations written at UL Lafayette.   Part
 
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Deutsches Wöerterbuch   Deutsches Wörterbuch is one of the most important etymological dictionaries of the German language. The title, literally translated to English, means "German dictionary." It was started by the Grimm Brothers in 1838.   Yes
         
Dissertation Abstracts   Contains citations to 1.2 million dissertations and masters theses. Coverage begins in 1861, with abstracts available since 1980, and thesis abstracts since 1988. Researchers can preview many recent documents electronically through ProQuest Digital Dissertations, which lets users see the first 24 pages of thousands of documents online.   No
 
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EBSCO Animals   Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.   Yes
         
EBSCOhost Databases   List of all EBSCO databases subscribed to by Dupré Library.   Yes
         
EBSCOhost Journal Services (EJS)   A gateway to thousands of e-journals containing millions of articles from hundreds of different publishers, all at one web site.   Yes
         
Economia y Negocios   Economia y Negocios is produced in Peru by ESAN (Escuela de Administración de Negocios para Graduados), the oldest graduate school of business in the Spanish-speaking world. This Spanish language database, which focuses on business and economics, consists of more than 60,000 bibliographic records. Coverage dates back to the early 1980s and includes over 200 periodicals published in Latin America and Spain.   No
         
Engineering Village 2
(Compendex)
  The Internet version of Engineering Index, the world's premier source of engineering abstracts. It includes over 5 million abstracts from EI Compendex Web (CPX Web), full text Research articles, patents, standards and specifications, handbooks, and Current Trends in Engineering.   No
         
Environment Index   Contains more than 1,590,000 records from 1,500 domestic and international titles going back to the 1950s (including 960 active core titles) as well as 100 monographs. Environment Index also features an in-depth thesaurus, and author profiles will be provided for 3,000 authors in the discipline.   Linked
         
ERIC   ERIC, the U.S. Department of Education Educational Resource Information Center database, contains citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals, as well as full text of more than 2,200 digests.   No
         
ERIC Website   Provides free access to over 107,000 full-text non-journal documents via the ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) website.   Yes
 
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French Business Source   See Vente et Gestion    
         
Fuente Academica   Fuente Academica is a unique collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. This database provides full text coverage (including PDF) for nearly 200 scholarly Spanish language journals. Content is provided in Spanish from respected publishers worldwide.   Yes
         
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia   This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.   Yes
 
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GeoRef   Produced by the American Geological Institute, this database is a comprehensive geoscience database containing over 2.2 million bibliographic records from more than 3,000 journals and other sources. GeoRef provides coverage in subject areas such as mineralogy and crystallography, general mineralogy, mineralogy of silicates, and mineralogy of non-silicates.   No
         
GreenFILE   GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records.   Part
         
Grove Art Online   See Oxford Art Online    
         
Grove Music Online   See Oxford Music Online    
 
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Health e-Links   Funded by grants from the National Library of Medicine and the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, Health e-Links provides directory information and links to health related sites in Louisiana and nation wide.   No
         
Health Source: Nursing/
Academic Edition
  This database provides nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.   Yes
         
Historical Abstracts   A resource that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. This database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.   Linked
         
History Reference
Center
  History Reference Center offers full text from more than 1,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for 60 history magazines, 58,000 historical documents, 43,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 12,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.   Yes
         
Hoover's Company
Records
  Find up to date proprietary editorial content covering more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives. Hoover's, widely recognized as a leading provider of corporate data, delivers in depth industry analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more.   Yes
         
Hospitality & Tourism Index   Hospitality & Tourism Index is a bibliographic database covering scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. This comprehensive database contains more than 500,000 records from more than 500 titles, with coverage dating as far back as 1965.   Yes
         
Hotel &
Travel Index
  The industry's most comprehensive hotel directory with more than 41,000 hotel, motel, resort and inn listings worldwide.   Yes
 
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IEEE/IET Electronic Library   All Journals from ASPP, all proceedings from Proceedings Order Package, all IEEE Content and a full backfile to 1988.   Yes
         
Information Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA)   Information Science & Technology Abstracts is a leading database in the areas of information science. ISTA indexes journal articles from more than 450 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings and patents, with ongoing comprehensive coverage of the most important periodicals in this field. Coverage dates back to the mid 1960s.   Linked
         
Ingenta   An index to journals in all disciplines, but predominately science and social science. Provides document delivery service.   Part
         
International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA)   International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA), produced by the International Political Science Association, includes current indexing and abstracts of the world's leading journals in political science. This database covers nearly 900 journals published from 1989 to the present.   Linked
         
Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts   Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts (formerly Microcomputer Abstracts) provides abstracts and indexing for literature related to personal computing products and developments in business, the Internet, the home, and all other applied areas. Over 400 of the most important trade publications, mainstream computer magazines, and professional journals are covered, including those that focus on specific topics such as Macintosh and Windows platforms, programming, web development and more.   Linked
 
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JCR
Journal Citation Reports
  Journal citation statistics used to determine which journals have the most research influence at the journal level.   No
         
JSTOR   The library’s subscription to JSTOR includes the Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, and V Collections, and the Arts & Sciences Complement. The Arts & Sciences Collections represent the building blocks of an interdisciplinary archive of journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.   Yes
 
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Learning Express Library   A comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help users succeed on academic or licensing tests. Offers immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of results.   N/A
         
Legal Collection   This database contains full text for nearly 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. The Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.   Yes
         
LexisNexis (Academic)   Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information, Contains news stories from the Baton Rouge Advocate and the Times-Picayune.   Yes
         
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text
(LISTA)
  Formerly Information Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA). EBSCO Publishing continues ISTA’s renowned coverage of information science and significantly increases the coverage of library science. 149 ISTA titles are upgraded to Core coverage, and 121 new periodicals are included. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, search engines, printed and electronic information sources, the information industry, scholarly communication, and electronic publishing. LISTA indexes journal articles from more than 600 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings. With coverage extending back to 1966, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.   Yes
         
L'Ile   Le Centre de documentation virtuel sur la litterature et les ecrivains quebecois.   No
         
Literary Reference Center   A comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. Literary Reference Center is a full text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. Includes MasterPlots.    
         
Literature Criticism Online   Full-text access to Thomson Gale's Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC), Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC), Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (NCLC), and Literature Criticism 1400-1800 (LC).   Yes
         
Literature Online   A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 192 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.   Yes
         
Literature Resource Center   Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series. Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 full-text titles.   Yes
 
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MarciveWeb DOCS   The Catalog of US Government Publications in web based format.   No
         
MAS Ultra
School Edition
  Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for over 500 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides nearly 550 full text pamphlets, 253 full text reference books, nearly 100,000 biographies, 76,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.   Yes
         
MathSciNet   Database providing access to Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications.   No
         
MedicLatina   MedicLatina is a Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals.   Yes
         
MEDLINE   MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.   No
         
Mental Measurements Yearbook   Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, the database provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. First published by Oscar K. Buros, the MMY series allows users to make knowledgeable judgments and informed selection decisions about the increasingly complex world of testing. MMY provides coverage from Volume 9 to the present.   Yes
         
Mergent Online   Access to the following products: U.S. Company Data, International Company Data, U.S. Company Archives, International Company Archives, U.S. Annual Reports, International Annual Reports, U.S. HSD Equity Pricing (20+ Years History), International HSD Equity Pricing (20+ Years History), Unadjusted Equity Pricing, Mergent Equity Research Reports, Standardized Financials, Standardized Financial Transparency, Factsheets Plus, Institutional Holdings, Insider Trades, Expanded Long-Term Debt, Executive Biographies, Competitor Reports Industry Reports (North America), Industry Reports (Asia Pacific), Industry Reports (Europe), Industry Reports (Latin America)   No
         
Military & Government Collection   Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.   Yes
         
MLA Bibliography   The MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association of America, consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore and includes coverage from 1926 to the present.   Yes
         
MLA Directory of Periodicals   The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.   No
 
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NetLibrary Collection III
  Provides access to over 11,200 e-book titles online. User must establish his own account. Index to titles in NetLibrary Collection III   Yes
         
New York Times (1851-2004)   The New York Times (1851-2004) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.   Yes
         
Newspaper Source   Newspaper Source provides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.   Yes
         
Nursing Reference Center   A point-of-care resource intended for staff nurses, nurse administrators, nursing students, nurse faculty, and hospital librarians. It delivers the best available and most recent clinical evidence and knowledge on conditions and diseases via a nursing-specific graphical interface.   Yes
 
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OHG Online
see
Hotel & Travel Index
  Now called the Hotel & Travel Index   Yes
         
Oxford Art Online   The most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day.   Yes
         
Oxford English Dictionary   Contains the complete text of the OED's twenty-volume Second Edition and three-volume Additions.   Yes
         
Oxford Music Online   Includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed.; The New Grove Dictionary of Opera; and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd. ed.   Yes
         
Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection   Find a wealth of facts, figures, definitions, and translations from 170+ Oxford reference titles, including more than 50,000 additional in-depth, scholarly articles from titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions series, plus all 20,000 quotations from the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.   Yes
 
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Philosopher's Index   The Philosopher's Index is a bibliographic database with informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. The literature covered goes back to 1940 and includes journal articles, books, book chapters such as contributions to an anthology, and book reviews.   No
         
Primary Search   Primary Search provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.   Yes
         
Professional Development Collection   Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.   Yes
         
Project Muse   Provides full-text, online access to over 350 humanities and social sciences journals from over 60 scholarly publishers.   Yes
         
ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source   Offers full-text information from leading nursing, allied health, and related publications.   Yes
         
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection   This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.   Yes
         
PsycINFO   PsycINFO (R) contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.   Yes
         
PubMed   PubMed is a service of the National Library of Medicine that includes over 15 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.   No
 
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Reference USA   An online database that provides directory information on US businesses.   No
         
Regional Business News   This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications, including Greater Baton Rouge Business Report and New Orleans City Business.   Yes
         
Religion and Philosophy Collection   This database provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Religion & Philosophy Collection offers more than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles, making it an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.   Yes
 
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Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970   Provides access to large-scale maps of Louisiana towns and cities. These maps are valuable historical tools for anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of Louisiana's cities, towns, and neighborhoods.   Yes
         
Science and Technology Collection   The Science & Technology Collection contains over 800 leading full text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community. Topics include aeronautics, astrophysics, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, and materials science. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,700 publications.   Yes
         
Science Citation Index   A comprehensive index of the top scholarly research journals in the sciences accessed through Web of Science.   No
         
SciFinder Scholar
[Library Only]
  SciFinder Scholar is an online version of Chemical Abstracts (CAS), designed especially for use by students and faculty. CAS is the most comprehensive database of references to the chemical, chemical engineering, allied sciences and patent literature. SciFinder is available on the computers in the Reference Online Center in Dupré Library - just click on the icon on the desktop. Remote access to SciFinder is not available.   No
         
Scopus   Scopus is an abstract database covering 25 million abstracts from over 14,000 titles across 4,000 publishers from Elsevier. Scopus is a multidisciplinary (scientific, technical, medical and social science literature) navigational tool that contains records going back to the mid 1960s.   No
         
Scribner Writers Series   Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series.   Yes
         
Serials Directory   Provides up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information and pricing for over 178,500 US and international periodicals.   No
         
SIRIS: Smithsonian Institution Research Information System   Search the Smithsonian Art Online for 1.7 million records, with links to 138,000 images, video and sound files from dozens of Smithsonian libraries, archives, museums, and specialized research units.   No
         
Social Sciences Citation Index   A comprehensive index of the top scholarly research journals in the social sciences accessed through Web of Science.   No
         
SocINDEX with Full Text   SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 1,600,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 253 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers.   Yes
         
SPORTDiscus   Provided by the Sport Information Resource Centre, SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains over 650,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800; over 20,000 dissertations and theses and reference to articles in 60 different languages.   Linked
 
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ThomasNet   ThomasNet.com combines the vast expertise and databases of Thomas Register and Thomas Regional with the power and speed of the latest search technology. Searchers can explore over 650,000 manufacturers, distributors and service providers; and specify and design using millions of downloadable CAD drawings.   Yes
         
Twayne Authors Series   Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles.   Yes
 
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Ulrich’s Web   The Bowker’s Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory and Ulrich’s Serials Analysis System are available via Ulrich’s Web. The Periodicals Directory profiles a quarter of a million serials published throughout the world. Information on academic and scholarly journals, consumer and trade magazines, monographic series, electronic and other periodic publications is updated weekly. The Serials Analysis System allows libraries and academic departments to analyze their serials holdings against core lists of academic titles. This tool assists in selection and deselection of journals and other serial titles. It can be used to produce reports for budgetary justification, accreditation, grant applications, and administrative reviews.   No
 
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Vente et Gestion (formerly
French Business Source)
  Provides full text coverage for French language business journals serving both the academic and the professional researcher. This collection also includes publications covering topics such as accounting & tax, administration, industry & manufacturing, marketing, logistics, technology and others.   Yes
 
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Web of Knowledge   A comprehensive index to over 8,000 of the top scientific and scholarly research journals in the world.   No
         
World Book   Explore every article from the 22-volume print set plus videos, sounds, maps, and more. Subscription includes: World Book Advanced, World Book Online Reference Center, World Book Discover, World Book Kids, World Book Spanish Student Discovery Encyclopedia, L'Encyclopédie Découverte.   Yes
         
WorldCat (OCLC)   Cataloging information for books and other materials from libraries around the world.   No
         
World History Collection   World History Collection offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. World History Collection contains cover-to-cover full text for nearly 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964.   Yes
 
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Zoological Record   Animal biology and biodiversity research literature.   No
 
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