• A newly compiled directory of manuscript repositories, giving full addresses, including e-mail and URLs, opening hours, and details of holdings and areas of special interest. This directory updates and supersedes the Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States (DAMRUS) last published in 1988.
• Collection records from the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC). Information gathered and compiled by the Library of Congress (LC)from the 1950s through the end of 1997, covering some 76,000 collections. Each record also includes the LC's subject and name indexing of the collection.
• Names and detailed subject indexing of over 44,000 collections whose finding aids have been published separately in the major microfiche series, National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS).

The NUCMC and NIDS information has been integrated to provide a single record for each collection, with detailed information drawn from both resources when available. The first installment of a growing body of collection records submitted directly to ArchivesUSA has also been included.

Database provider: National Center for Education Statistics.

For dissertations and theses completed prior to those dates, references are given to the print edition of Dissertation Abstracts, American Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Abstracts. Abstracts may be consulted in those publications.

Not all dissertations from all participating universities are included in Dissertation Abstracts. Coverage depends on the date a university began online contribution of their abstracts to University Microfilms International (now ProQuest). Also, for many European universities the contribution of abstracts was the responsibility of the student.

ProQuest Digital Dissertations offers subscribers access to dissertations in digital format starting with titles published from 1997 forward. Users affiliated with participating doctoral-granting institutions may download for free PDF copies of disserations granted by their own institutions (but not from institutions other than their own). The free PDF downloads are available only from on-campus computers. Free preview copies of the first 24 pages of many dissertations (1997- ) are available to all users of the database. NOTE: It is possible to purchase copies of dissertations in a variety of formats online in the Dissertation Abstracts / Digital Dissertations database. However, if you wish to borrow disserations from other institutions, please contact the Interlibrary Loan Department.

Students who want tips on preparing digital dissertations and theses can go to ProQuest Digital Dissertations, Guidelines for Submitting Electronic Theses and Dissertations.

• University of Georgia Electronic Theses and Dissertations is a collection of the theses and dissertations submitted electronically to the Graduate School at the University of Georgia since the summer of 1999.

  All dissertations are included, although some may not be viewable from off campus. The record for an individual document is always viewable, and will indicate the availability of the document. The author of a dissertation or thesis, in conjunction with his or her major professor, makes the determination if the work will be publicly available. The database can be searched by keywords, author, title, department, major, major professor, committee members, etc. For additional information, click the Instructions button on any search screen. Since an individual's name may appear in the database in various ways (especially for faculty members on the advisory committees), use the Browse Search to find all variations.

  Most of the documents are in the PDF format.

  NOTE: The complete text of the dissertations and theses is not searchable in this database. However, for those that are publicly available, use the Adobe Find feature (binoculars icon) to search the text of an individual thesis or dissertation.

• Coverage Dates: Summer 1999-
• Updated: Ongoing
• Database Provider: galileo
• URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zzge
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To help users best compare journals and discover which are the most significant to them, JCR Web provides these data fields:

• Impact factor: Provides a way to evaluate or compare a journal's relative importance to others in the same field.
• Immediacy index: Measures how quickly the average article in a journal is cited, or how often articles published in a journal are cited within the same year.
• Article counts: The number of articles published in a journal in a particular year.
• Cited half-life: Benchmarks the age of cited articles.
• Source data: Provides information on which journals published reviews versus original research articles and how many references each of these published.

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NGE is a project of the Georgia Humanities Council in partnership with the Office of the Governor, the University of Georgia Press, and the University System of Georgia/GALILEO.

Information about each title is extensive and usually includes: the ISSN, status (active, ceased, forthcoming), price, publisher (name, address, telephone, website), frequency, if it is online, editor name, if it is refereed, subject category, a brief description, where it is indexed/abstracted, and, in many cases, a review. The Advanced Search option allows focused searches, for example, refereed (scholarly) journals published in the U.S. on psychology.

The database is made up of:

• The World Almanac and Book of Facts
• The World Almanac of the U.S.A.
• The World Almanac of U.S. Politics
• The World Almanac for Kids
• The World Almanac Knowledge Source

The default search on the Basic Search screen searches all 5 of the almanacs. If you wish to search them individually, go to the Advanced or Expert Search screens. Use the "Limit to" pull-down menu to restrict your search to only one of the almanacs.