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The Special Care Dentistry Association serves as a resource to all oral health care professionals who serve or are interested in serving patients with special needs through education and networking to increase access to oral healthcare for patients with special needs.

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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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SPORTDiscus

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Comprehensive database for sports & sports medicine literature. Includes international literature, conference proceedings, audiovisuals and more. Coverage dates back to 1985.

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This database provides specialized, editorially curated A&I resources critical to researchers with an academic, professional or personal interest in the field of physical education. Through scholarly and trade literature, the database covers a wide range of topics, ranging from physical and health education to fitness and recreation and the business of sports, as well as kinesiology, physical therapy, motor learning, and sport sociology and psychology.

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Step-by-step presentation of protocols with coverage including cell and molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, protein science, and imaging.

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A database of lab protocols pulled from Methods in Molecular Biology and other sources covering a wide range of biological sciences focus areas. Good for finding well-established protocols for lab use.

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SpringerLINK

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The SpringerLink database is the online central access point for Springer resources in all disciplines including arts, humanities, and social sciences, with particular strength in Science-Technology-Medicine.

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SRDS is produced by Standard Rate and Data Service, which compiles contact information and ad rates for a variety of media sources.

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Detailed data on specific companies and industries, including profiles, financial data, stock information, competitors and competition, and forecasts for future business.

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The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a freely available online encyclopedia pertaining to all issues in philosophy and written by contemporary philosophers from various institutions of higher learning.

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STAT!Ref

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A curated collection of e-resources from a variety of publishers and across many healthcare disciplines.

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State Archives of Assyria Online (SAAo) is an open-access web resource that aims to make the rich Neo-Assyrian materials found in the royal archives of Nineveh, and elsewhere, more widely accessible.

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Resources, information, products, and links to facilitate effectiveness of partnership between state data centers and the United States Census Bureau to provide efficient access to census data.

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Kaiser Family Foundation site providing information on a number of health and demographic indicators in the United States. Browse by category or by location.

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State Papers Online

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(1509-1782) This collection of English State Papers covers the reigns of the Tudors, the Stuarts, and the Hannovers (up to George III's rule in 1782). Provided by Gale-Cengage.

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Statista

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Statista is one of the first statistic portals in the world to integrate data on over 80.000 topics from over 18.000 sources onto a single professional platform and providing companies, business customers, research institutions, and the academic community with direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets.

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Published between 1879-2012 by the U.S. Census Bureau, sources of data include the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and many other Federal agencies and private organizations. Ceased publication after 2011.

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French novelist Stendhal, Marie-Henri Beyle, was born in Grenoble in 1783 and died in Paris in 1842. This growing collection of his manuscripts includes new transcripts and annotations by literary scholars is from the Universite Stendhal in Grenoble and Grenoble's public library.

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A comprehensive source for identifying thousands of articles, books, government documents, loose-leaf services, court opinions, and Internet sites that compare state laws on hundreds of subjects.

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Tool searching multiple resources (including PubMed and National Guidelines Clearinghouse) for citations to evidence-based health information.

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Since that first issue, the newspaper has consistently provided thoughtful analysis and commentary on the week`s news and society at large with extensive coverage of court cases, murders, executions, crime, sports careers and culture crimes to titillate its readers.

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An open source collection of lectures and research methods on global health developed by leaders in the field. This resource is useful for learning about different aspects of global health and course planning.

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Supreme Court Insight

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Supreme Court Insight, 1975-2016, is a complete online collection of full opinions from Supreme Court argued cases, including per decision, dockets, oral arguments, joint appendices and amicus briefs. Content associated with each case is compiled on a dynamic page organized to facilitate understanding of the judicial process, and is also retrievable on a document by document basis. This module covers content through the 2016/2017 term.

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Sur, 1931-1992

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Founded in 1931 by Argentine intellectual Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979), Sur became a highly influential journal in Latin America and Europe and featured the writings of the leading figures in literature, philosophy, history and the plastic arts from Latin America, North America and Western Europe. With translations, the journal introduced Latin Americans to Europeans, and European and North American readers to Latin Americans. Through the social commentary and selected contributors, Sur advanced an Argentine version of Liberalism at a time when many countries were dealing with reactionary regimes, military rule and economic chaos.

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Surveys & Data

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This resource is from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and provides data and analysis on a broad range of topics related to medical education including medical school enrollment surveys, faculty salaries, and the physician speciality data book.

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Swank Digital Campus

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This academic streaming collection offers film titles drawn mostly from popular production companies and includes films, documentaries and TV shows. USC Libraries will maintain a collection of at least 200 titles however the availability of titles may vary. Preference will be given to those titles that have been requested by faculty for reserves.

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The online version of the printed Sweets Catalog File (In AFA Reference,Call No. TH455.S7864), this free website (with ads) allows searching by word or the MasterFormat 2004. Includes links to articles in Architectural Record.

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W. B. Yeats Collection

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The major works of W.B. Yeats in all genres, including poetry, plays, criticism and fiction, published between 1885 and 1995.

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Wall Street Journal

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New users are required to create an individual user account using their USC email address.
  • Students will have seamless access through graduation
  • Faculty and staff will be required to refresh access once a year. An email will notify the user when they need to refresh
  • For those who have a personal WSJ membership and want to take advantage of the complimentary school-sponsored membership can call 1-800-JOURNAL to cancel

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Includes thousands of Chinese journals in the humanities and social sciences from mainland China from 1997 on. Also includes select monographic series titles, such as 元史及民族与边疆研究集刊, 藏外佛教文献, etc.

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Contains full text and abstracts of theses and dissertations in the humanities and social sciences from key research institutions in mainland China.

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Covers a wide range of Chinese laws, regulations and policies at both national and regional levels, international treaties and conventions, and judicial cases and interpretation from 1949 onward.

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WARC

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Previously known as the World Advertising Research Center, WARC provides a wide range of information on advertising and marketing trends around the world including expenditure data, case studies, industry trends and consumer insight.

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Washington Post

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The full-page images of this digitized newspaper provides cover-to-cover access to recent newspaper content. Every page is full-text searchable. Coverage: 2008 - recent (3-month embargo).

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Water Resources Abstracts provides summaries from 1967 to the present of the world's technical, scientific, and public policy literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources as well as the legal aspects of water supply, use, control, or management.

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Web of Science

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Interdisciplinary collection of journal articles, conference proceedings, and books. Collection of seven online database: Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Index Chemicus, Current Chemical Reactions, and Book Citation Index. Coverage is 1900-present.

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The Arabic manuscripts collection of the Wellcome Library (London) comprises around 1000 manuscript books and fragments relating to the history of medicine.

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Images from British Wellcome Museum holdings including historical, contemporary, biomedical, and clinical collections.

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Includes 20,000+ volumes and 650,000+ articles of Chinese literary and historical materials compiled by the national and local government agencies mostly during the 1980s and 1990s. To access the database, please click the link “click to enter” on the homepage, then click “文史资料专题库 (第一期)" under “SuperStar specialty” section, and then you will then be able to browse and search the wenshi ziliao collection.

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Collection of databases designed for quantitative analysis of financial data: Compustat Global & EMDB; Fama French Momentum and Liquidity; Audit Analytics; EVENTUS; Blockholders; CUSIP Master File; Federal Reserve Bank Reports; Bureau van Dijk; DMEF - Direct Marketing Educational Foundation; FDIC; Bank Regulatory; CBOE Indexes; Execcomp; CRSP - Center for Research in Security Prices; Compustat North America; Dow Jones; Mutual Funds Links (MFLINKS); Thomson Reuters; TRACE; NYSE TAQ; PHLX; SEC Disclosure of Order Execution; I/B/E/S International; IRI - Information Resources Inc.; Penn World Tables.

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