Ebooks is a catalog portal to the substantial sub-set of electronic books, in all subject areas, included in OCLC WorldCat.
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This web site provides access to the full-text content of 4,274 e-books purchased by the USC Libraries from netLibrary.
Education Research Abstracts Online (ERA) is a comprehensive database, comprising fully indexed abstracts which cover the current international research in education.
Articles from key journals and books in the fields of management, information science and engineering. Most, but not all, journals and books provide full-text access.
The ERIC database is an initiative of the U.S. Department of Education covering journal articles and reports including published and unpublished sources on education with some documents being full-text.
A meticulously researched global resource including political, economic and statistical information about more than 250 countries and territories, as well as international and regional organizations. The Europa World Year Book was first published in 1926 and, together with the nine Regional Surveys of the World, is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works.
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.
Contains millions of index terms to specialized subject encyclopedias, compendia, and scholarly handbooks.
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.
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.
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.
Access over 2,200 peer reviewed academic journals and selected books.
Search back files of Scientific American from 1845 to present.
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.
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.
Synthesis is an engineering and applied science e-books collection from Morgan & Claypool, which synthesizes important engineering research or development topics in lecture series format.