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ProQuest Central

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ProQuest Central serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels.

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ProQuest Ebook Central is a web-based ebook lending platform.

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ProQuest India Database

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ProQuest Indian Journals is a specialized set of full-text, scholarly journals across major subject disciplines, including business, medical, science, technology, social sciences, and humanities.

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ProQuest Research Library is a multi-disciplinary index suitable for both undergraduates and graduate students.

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This database offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work and sociology.

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Include a detailed description of a publication's statistical contents and primary bibliographic information like title, date, collation, agency report number (if any), and periodicity.

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Requires registration. This resource is the only Internet-based reference for over 150,000 domestic and international print and electronic publications including magazines, journals, e-journals, newsletters, and monographs. It provides quick and easy access to detailed publication information including, titles, formats, publisher addresses, editor contacts, circulation data, and ISSN numbers.

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Rarebooks.stanford.edu is a resource for scholars, students, librarians, book professionals, and collectors. Here you can search across and within the full text of over 100 rare book bibliographies, library catalogs and sales catalogs. Subjects cover early printing, world literature, natural history, science, medicine, theology, cultural and area studies, Judaica, music, theology, art and architecture, among others.

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Reference Universe

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Contains millions of index terms to specialized subject encyclopedias, compendia, and scholarly handbooks.

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Refworks

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RefWorks is a Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows users to create their own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. Researchers can use these references in writing their papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds.

First time users can create an account on refworks.proquest.com and select the “Create Account” link and use your USC email to start the account.

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SAGE Premier

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This resource is the largest journals package offered by SAGE. It includes international, peer-reviewed journals, including high-impact research titles published on behalf of nearly 300 scholarly and professional societies. Its interdisciplinary coverage is unparalleled, spanning subject areas including business; humanities; social sciences; science, technology, medicine; and many more.

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ScienceDirect

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Access over 2,200 peer reviewed academic journals and selected books.

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Search back files of Scientific American from 1845 to present.

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Scirus

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Scirus searches an international collection of institutional repositories and other resources, so it can be a good way to find technical reports, preprints, and other less common publications.

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SPIE Digital Library

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The SPIE Digital Library contains the world's largest collection of optics and photonics applied research. With more than 445,000 papers spanning biomedicine, communications, sensors, defense and security, manufacturing, electronics, energy, and imaging, the SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive research database available on optics and photonics research.

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Times Digital Archive

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Researchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page.

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The University of Adelaide's Barr Smith Library has established a digital Press with an electronic edition of each new book published as well as print.The electronic editions are Open Access and free, in PDF format.

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With Merriam-Webster's Visual Dictionary Online either search ideas within organized subject fields to quickly locate more than 20,000 terms with full definitions or consult over 6,000 illustrations of a wide variety of objects from all aspects of life.

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All dissertations, theses and published material based on theses cataloged by OCLC members, including all subjects.

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