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Business Source Complete
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Business-related articles from many peer-reviewed and other journals, reports, company profiles, and other sources.
- Business Source Complete is a scholarly business database that provides full-text access to many peer-reviewed business related journals, including disciplines such as marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Indexing and abstracts for the many important scholarly business journals as far back as 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the 20,000 most-cited authors in the database. Additional full-text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
- Coverage Dates: Dates vary. Some content goes as far back as 1886.
- Updated: Daily
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- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbbc
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MEDLINE with Full Text (EBSCO)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Index and abstracts of journal articles in the health sciences with links to full text.
- MEDLINE (with Full Text) combines the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database with links to the complete text of articles from leading medical journals. The database offers information related to the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. MEDLINE with Full Text provides full text for nearly 1,200 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Of those, more than 1,000 have cover-to-cover indexing in MEDLINE. It also includes MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from current biomedical journals, citations from Index Medicus, the International Nursing Index and the Index to Dental Literature.
  Database provider: EBSCO Publishing, Inc. (produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health).
- Coverage Dates: 1966- ; full-text from 1990-
- Updated: Daily
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- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbmf
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Physical Education Index (ProQuest)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Index of scholarly articles and research pertaining to physical education topics.
- Physical Education Index provides citations and abstracts on a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, health education, physical therapy, and sport sociology/psychology.
  Records are indexed and classified from peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications.
- Coverage Dates: 1970 to the present
- Updated: Monthly
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- Database Provider: cambridge
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=phyd-uga1
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SPORTDiscus with Full Text (EBSCO)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
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Index of physical education journals.
- SPORTDiscus with Full Text covers physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport administration, officiating, sport law & legislation, college & university sport, disabled persons, facility design & management, intramural & school sport, doping, health, health education, biomechanics, movement science, injury prevention rehabilitation, physical therapy, nutrition, exercise physiology, sport & exercise psychology, recreation, leisure studies, tourism, allied health, occupational health & therapy, public health and more.
- Coverage Dates: 1772-present
- Updated: Monthly
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- Languages: English and non-English
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=spos-uga1
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Ageline (EBSCO)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Index to social gerontology journals.
- Ageline provides bibliographic citations of social gerontology journals. These include periodicals that focus on aging in psychological, health-related, and social and economic contexts. The delivery of health care to the older population and its associated costs and policies is covered as well as consumer, employment, and public policy issues. Produced by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
- Coverage Dates: 1978-
- Updated: 3 times a year
- Database Provider: EBSCO
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xage-uga1
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America: History & Life with Full Text (EBSCO)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
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History and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
- America: History & Life is the definitive bibliographic citation tool for the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. It includes indexing for 1700 English language historical journals, including selected local history journals. Full-text coverage is provided for nearly 200 journals and over 90 books. The database also includes citations to dissertations and book reviews in American 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.
- Coverage Dates: Selective coverage back to 1964
- Updated: Ongoing
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- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=amcl-uga1
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Education Research Complete (EBSCO)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Articles on education practice and educational research.
- Covers professional and scholarly journals in all areas of education from early childhood to adult education. Indexes more than 2,200 journals and provides full text for over 1,300. Also contains the full text of selected reference books and conference papers.
- Coverage Dates: 1865-
- Updated: Monthly
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xeaf-uga1
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ERIC (at EBSCOhost)
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Educational Resources Information Center. Index and abstracts of articles, books, and documents covering education research and practice.
- ERIC (at EBSCOhost) covers all aspects of education and educational research, includes both abstracts of published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics. It corresponds to the printed indexes of RIE (Resources in Education) and CIJE (Current Index to Journals in Education). This database is produced by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education. The EBSCOhost version of the ERIC database includes the searchable Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors. The EBSCOhost version of ERIC is updated quarterly; to see citations of articles and documents added since the last update (but not the full text) go to Department of Education's ERIC web site.
- Coverage Dates: 1966-
- Updated: Quarterly
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- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zber
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LexisNexis Academic
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Full text news, business, legal, medical, and reference information.
- LexisNexis Academic contains approximately 5,000 publications, virtually all include full text. Many types of publications are included: newspapers (in English, other languages, and translations of international papers), legal news, general interest magazines, medical journals, trade publications, company financial information, transcripts, wire service reports, government publications (such as the federal case law, U.S. Code, Code of Federal Regulations, Congressional Testimony, etc.), law reviews, and reference works (such as the Forbes Annual Directory, the Official Guide/American Marketplace and the US Global Trade Outlook).
  If you wish to search for articles published in only a specific publication, click on 'Sources' in the black bar at the top of the screen. Search for the publication, click on 'Find Title', then choose "Search This Title" next to the publication you want to search. This will paste the name of the publication into the search screen, and will ensure that you are searching the correct section of LexisNexis.
- Coverage Dates: Dates of coverage vary by publication
- Updated: Varies by publication (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, annually)
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- Languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
- Database Provider: lexis_nexis
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zxau
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ProQuest Statistical Insight ((formerly LexisNexis Statistical Insight))
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Statistics published by the U.S. government and other agencies.
- - ProQuest Statistical Insight consists of,
    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 intergovernmental 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.
  - Coverage Dates: 1970s-
  - Updated: Biannually
  - Database Provider: proquest
  - URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xstu-uga1
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PsycINFO
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The major index for articles, books, chapters, dissertations, and reports in psychology. The American Psychological Association offers YouTube videos on how to use PsycINFO.
- PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines. Some articles are available in full text. Journal coverage includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals from nearly 50 countries. The historic portion of the database comes from from three sources: Psychological Abstracts (1927-1966), Psychological Bulletin (1921-1926), and all journals published by the American Psychological Association plus the American Journal of Psychology from the first issue of volume 1, number 1 in November 1887.
  Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987-present. Over 60,000 references are added annually.
- PsycINFO online help:
  
  PsycINFO Search Help/Training Center includes Search Tips and How-To's and a search guide specific to the EBSCOhost interface.
  The APA also offers YouTube videos on how to use PsycINFO.
  Produced and copyrighted (c) by the American Psychological Association.
- Coverage Dates: 1887 to the present
- Updated: Monthly
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- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbpy
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SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
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Index and abstracts to articles in sociology.
- SocINDEX with Full Text features more than 2,066,400 records with subject headings from a 19,750+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 777 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full text for more than 820 books and monographs, and full text for 13,947 conference papers.
- Coverage Dates: 1880-present
- Updated: Monthly
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=son9-uga1
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Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest)
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Index and abstracts to articles in sociology.
- Sociological Abstracts is a primary resource for accessing research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. International in scope, over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations are covered. Records added after 1974 contain nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles.
  Included in the database is the searchable Thesaurus of Sociological Indexing Terms.
- Coverage Dates: 1963 to the present
- Updated: Monthly
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- Database Provider: cambridge
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=sooi-uga1
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Sports Business Research Network
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Information on sports and business.
- Sports Business Research Network combines market research from the largest single research supplier to the industry, the National Sporting Goods Association; the U.S. Department of Commerce; various sports governing bodies; and full-text articles from 14 magazines and newsletters published by Miller Freeman, the world's largest sporting goods trade publisher, and newsletters provided by leading independent industry experts. In mid-1999, SBRnet added buyTRACK, an exclusive tracking study of sporting goods purchasing habits on the Internet, to its already comprehensive database. buyTRACK data are provided by Harris Interactive, a leading market research firm specializing in Internet-based data collection and analysis.
- Coverage Dates: 1993 to the present
- Updated: Monthly
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- Languages: English
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xsbn-uga1
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Broader Databases

Academic Search Complete
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Articles from some peer-reviewed journals as well as monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and other sources.
- Academic Search Complete is a 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 is updated daily and features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.
- Coverage Dates: Dates vary. Some content goes as far back as 1865.
- Updated: Daily
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- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbac
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Emerald Fulltext
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Full text articles from over 100 business and library science research journals.
- Emerald Fulltext contains the full text of 42,000 articles in over 100 research journals in the fields of management, marketing, and library/information science, 1994-present. You may do a topic search of the entire database or browse journals issue by issue. The full text is usually in both HTML and PDF formats.
- Coverage Dates: 1994- full text; 1989- abstracts
- Updated: Daily
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: Emerald Journal Publishing Limited
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=emeu-uga1
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OregonPDF in Health & Performance
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Provides full-text dissertations in areas related to health and performance.
- OregonPDF in Health & Performance provides over 10,000 dissertations and theses in full-text in areas related to health and performance. Academic areas of interest include biochemistry, biomechanics, dance, exercise physiology, history or philosophy of physical education, kinesiology, motor control, obesity, recreation, sports marketing, sports medicine, psychology, and tests and measurements.
- Coverage Dates: 1948
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=oreg-uga1
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ScienceDirect
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Articles from scholarly journals on all the sciences, including the social sciences.
- ScienceDirect provides full text access to scholarly journals published by Elsevier and its subsidiaries.
- Coverage Dates: 1995 - present (Academic Press journals: 1996 - present)
- Updated: Ongoing
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- Database Provider: Elsevier
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xsdi-uga1
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