Database Journal List: Charleston Mercury, Christian Recorder (Philadelphia), Colored American (Weekly Advocate, New York), Delaware County Pennsylvania newspapers, Frederick Douglass Paper (Rochester, NY), Freedom's Journal (New York), Godey's Lady Book, National Era (Washington, DC), New York Herald, North Star (Rochester, NY), Pennsylvania Gazette, Provincial Freeman (Chatham, Canada West (now Ontario)), Richmond Enquirer, Village Record (West Chester, PA) Tutorials/Search Aids: Topical Study Guide available in database.

For the period 1914-1958, use the print volumes in the Main Library Reference Room.

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• 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.

HAPI Thesaurus Help Database provider: UCLA Latin American Center, University of California.

Historical Newspapers Online, from Proquest, contains the full text of many American historical newspapers, including many that are no longer published. Both well-known and obscure publications are included.

Notable titles include:

• Atlanta Constitution, 1868-1939
• Christian Science Monitor, 1908-1994
• New York Times, 1857-2004
• Wall Street Journal, 1889-1990
• Washington Post, 1877-1991

Database provider: Iter.

• Palmer's Index to The Times covers 1790 to 1905.
• The Official Index to The Times covers 1906 to 1980.

  In addition,Palmer's Full Text Online contains Palmer's Index to The Times (1790 - 1905) and currently provides access to the full text of articles from January 9, 1800 to 1870.

  Search Tip: Use the Browse button next to each search field to find the best search term for your topic.

• Coverage Dates: 1790 - 1980
• Database Provider: chadwyck_healey
• URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xoit-uga1
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In addition,Palmer's Full Text Online currently provides access to the full image of articles from January 9, 1800 to 1870.

• Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802 - 1907
• Stead's Index to Periodicals, 1890 - 1902
• Jones & Chipman's Index to Legal Periodical Literature (1786 - 1922)
• Richardson's Index to Periodical Articles in Religion (1890 - 1899)
• Cumulative Index to a Selected List of Periodicals (1896 - 1899)

The name Poole's Plus honors the legacy of the American bibliographer and scholar William Frederick Poole. His Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906 (published in 7 volumes, and generally referred to as Poole's) is more than the first great index to Anglo-American periodicals. Through it, Poole effectively invented periodical indexing.

NOTE: Choose: Contents; then Series I.

Database provider: Johns Hopkins University Press, in collaboration with the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University.

• Gale Virtual Reference Library complements titles in the Gale E-Book Collection with the following additional titles:
  
  • Almanac of American Education, 2006 ed., 2006
  • Copyright Catechism: Practical Answers to Everyday School Dilemmas, 2005
  • Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy, 2nd ed., 3v, 2002
  • Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd ed., 5v, 2004
  • Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, 2nd ed., 4v, 2002
  • Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd ed., 8v, 2003
  • A Financial History of Modern U.S. Corporate Scandals: From Enron to Reform, 2006
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Transformation of the Supreme Court, 2004
  • Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce, 2v, 2002
  • Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History, 2v, 1999
  • Handbook of Fixed Income Securities, 7th ed., 2005
  • Handbook of Mortgage Backed Securities, 6th ed., 2006
  • Historical Dictionary of the Old South, 2005
  • International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family, 2nd ed., 4v, 2003
  • National Survey of State Laws, 5th ed., 2005
  • St. James Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide, 2v, 2003
  • World Education Encyclopedia, 2nd ed., 3v, 2002
  • Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies, 4v, 2002
  • Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations, 11th ed., 6v, 2004
  • Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States, 6th ed., 2004
• Coverage Dates: varies
• Updated: varies
• Languages: English
• Database Provider: gale
• URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=galj-uga1
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• Web of Science (Arts and Humanities Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index)
• Current Contents Connect (last 5 years)
• Journal Citation Reports (1999-)

Education & Training Materials

The collection contains extended narratives of African American activists, business people, former slaves, performing artists, educators, lawyers, physicians, writers, church leaders, homemakers, religious workers, government workers, athletes, farmers, scientists, factory workers, and more--both the famous and the everyday person.

Many of the biographies include an illustration or photograph of the person, a bibliography or links to other resources. New biographies are added quarterly, and updates are also made quarterly to incorporate new facts and new interpretations as needed. Produced by Oxford University Press under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies.

It is included in the Literature Resource Center. Once you are on the LRC search page, click the link for Gale Group Databases. Scroll down to select Biography and Genealogy Master Index. Once on the search page, click the Sources Indexed link to see the extensive list of print publications indexed by BGMI.

The Digital Library of Georgia is a gateway to Georgia's history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources.

Many of the materials are from the holdings of GALILEO member institutions, and the Digital Library of Georgia continues to grow through its partnerships with libraries, archives, museums, government agencies, and allied organizations across the state.

To search or browse the holdings of the Digital Library of Georgia, visit the DLG homepage at: http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu

A complete listing of digital collections available through the DLG is at: http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/CollectionsA-Z/

Based at the University of Georgia Libraries, the Digital Library of Georgia is a GALILEO initiative.

Users can create an account in order to use personalization tools, including creating a Favorites list, but a personal account is not required for accessing eBooks through the GALILEO interface. A personal login is required when accessing through library catalogs and through the NetLibrary web site.

NetLibrary Titles Index for Shared Collections 1 and 2 (at SOLINET).

Database provider: NetLibrary, a Division of OCLC.

The OCLC NetFirst database has been integrated into WorldCat. NetFirst bibliographic citations describe Internet-accessible resources, including World Wide Web pages, interest groups, library catalogs, FTP sites, Internet services, electronic journals, and newsletters. NetFirst is no longer available as a separate database.

WorldCat listings include netLibrary ebook records.

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The Digital Library of Georgia is a gateway to Georgia's history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources.

Many of the materials are from the holdings of GALILEO member institutions, and the Digital Library of Georgia continues to grow through its partnerships with libraries, archives, museums, government agencies, and allied organizations across the state.

To search or browse the holdings of the Digital Library of Georgia, visit the DLG homepage at: http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu

A complete listing of digital collections available through the DLG is at: http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/CollectionsA-Z/

Based at the University of Georgia Libraries, the Digital Library of Georgia is a GALILEO initiative.

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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The Digital Library of Georgia is a gateway to Georgia's history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources.

Many of the materials are from the holdings of GALILEO member institutions, and the Digital Library of Georgia continues to grow through its partnerships with libraries, archives, museums, government agencies, and allied organizations across the state.

To search or browse the holdings of the Digital Library of Georgia, visit the DLG homepage at: http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu

A complete listing of digital collections available through the DLG is at: http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/CollectionsA-Z/

Based at the University of Georgia Libraries, the Digital Library of Georgia is a GALILEO initiative.

The project was funded by a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services. The first 18 months of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first newspaper published in a Native American language, is also available through the Georgia Historic Newspapers database.

Database provider: Digital Library of Georgia.

Database provider: The Digital Library of Georgia.

The Digital Library of Georgia is a gateway to Georgia's history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources.

Many of the materials are from the holdings of GALILEO member institutions, and the Digital Library of Georgia continues to grow through its partnerships with libraries, archives, museums, government agencies, and allied organizations across the state.

To search or browse the holdings of the Digital Library of Georgia, visit the DLG homepage at: http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu

A complete listing of digital collections available through the DLG is at: http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/CollectionsA-Z/

Based at the University of Georgia Libraries, the Digital Library of Georgia is a GALILEO initiative.

The project was funded by a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services. The first 18 months of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first newspaper published in a Native American language, is also available through the Georgia Historic Newspapers database.

Database provider: Digital Library of Georgia.

In addition,Palmer's Full Text Online currently provides access to the full image of articles from January 9, 1800 to 1870.

• Search Tables Base Edition: selected statistical tables drawn mainly from sources published by the U.S. government since about 1998.
• Search Abstracts:
  • American Statistics Index (ASI) abstracts (1970-) and full text (ca 2004-) of Federal government sources
  • Statistical Reference Index (SRI) abstracts (1980-) of state and private sources
  • Index to International Statistics (IIS) abstracts (1983-) of international and inter-governmental sources

Coverage ranges across many topics including income, production, retail and wholesale trade, interest rates, economic indicators, demographics, energy, environmental protection, agriculture and fisheries, crime, medicine, and education.