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CREDO Reference (formerly XreferPlus)
CREDO Reference is the world's largest online reference service featuring over 240 full-text reference titles with over 3 million entries from 55 highly-respected publishers. MORE DETAILS...

eBooks
ABI-Inform Global via ProQuest Direct
In-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management, advertising, marketing, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. MORE DETAILS...

Abstracts: 1971+
Full text: 1991+
Academic Search Elite via Ebsco
Broad coverage —including biological sciences, economics, communications, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences and women's studies. MORE DETAILS...

Abstracts: 1984+
Full text: 1990+

Applied Science & Technology [via Wilson Omnifile]
Features full-text articles in virtually every area of science, engineering, and technology. MORE DETAILS...


1983+
Books24x7
Search, browse, and view the full contents of hundreds of top technical and computer manuals and books. MORE DETAILS...

eBooks
Current Contents Connect
A multidisciplinary current awareness Web resource providing access to complete bibliographic information from over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books. MORE DETAILS...

1998+
Dissertations & Theses via Proquest
The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester; those published from 1980 forward also include 350- word abstracts, written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Of the millions of titles listed, UMI offers over 1.8 million in full text.

The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. MORE DETAILS...

ConnectNY
Connect NY is a unified catalog of participating academic libraries in NY. It is designed to allow authorized users of participating libraries to borrow materials from other Connect NY libraries if the books are not owned by their home library or if their library's copy is already checked-out.

ebrary
A collection of 13,000+ electronic books (ebooks) online. Strong in key academic subject areas including Business & Economics, Computers, Technology & Engineering, Humanities, Life & Physical Sciences, and Social and Behavioral Sciences. MORE DETAILS...

eBooks

Encyclopædia Britannica Online
The complete 32 volume Encyclopædia Britannica...online! MORE DETAILS...

Factiva
A joint venture between Dow Jones and Reuters. Search the full-text of 8000 international business and general publications; Screen for U.S. and foreign companies matching your criteria; Get financial profiles for companies worldwide; Get historical stock prices as well as currency data and market indexes, etc. MORE DETAILS...



FirstSearch
OCLC's FirstSearch is an interactive online information system of 35+ multidisciplinary databases. MORE ABOUT FIRSTSEARCH DATABASES...
Collection of databases
General Science Full Text [a subset of Wilson Omnifile]
Covers astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, earth science, environmental issues, mathematics, medicine, physics, and zoology. MORE DETAILS...

Abstracts: 1993+
Full text: 1995+

choose Omnifile with Gen. Sci as subject

Health Source - Consumer Edition via Ebsco
Information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.


Abstracts: 1984+
Full text: 1990+

LexisNexis Academic
Access to full-text legal, medical, business, biographical and news and information from over 5000 sources. MORE DETAILS...

MasterFile Select via Ebsco
Full text from over 750 general reference, business, consumer
health, general science, humanities, and multicultural periodicals. MORE DETAILS...

Abstracts: 1984+
Full text: 1990+
netLibrary
A collection of approximately 4500 titles of electronic books (ebooks) online. Conduct full-text searches of every word in every ebook available in our subscription. RIT Library and other libraries have joined together to make up the Nylink Custom Library collection. MORE DETAILS...

eBooks
Omni Full Text Mega via WilsonWeb
Covers six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education, General Science, Humanities, Readers' Guide, Social Sciences and Business. In addition, select full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology, Art, Biological & Agricultural, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature & Information Science. MORE DETAILS...

1994+
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online
The OED is is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million English words, both present and past. MORE DETAILS...

PapersFirst via FirstSearch
Provides access to individual papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses, and symposia. MORE DETAILS...


1993+

ProceedingsFirst via FirstSearch
Provides tables of contents of papers presented at conferences worldwide. MORE DETAILS...

Table of Contents
1993+
Research Library via ProQuest Direct
Provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, literature, political science, and psychology.MORE DETAILS...

1971+

SAGE Journals Online
SAGE Publications publishes over 485 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. MORE DETAILS...


1999+

SIRs Government Reporter
Documents from the US government. Information on health, science, economics, environment, politics, foreign affairs, workplace issues, business and industry is included. MORE DETAILS...


Abstracts: 1971+
Full text: 1991+

Sirs Renaissance
Select full-text articles covering cultures, architecture, philosophy, religion and visual arts. MORE DETAILS...


1992+

SIRS Researcher
Select full-text articles covering a a variety of social, scientific, historic, economic, political and global issues. MORE DETAILS...


Abstracts: 1971+
Full text: 1991+

SpringerLink
SpringerLink is an integrated full-text database for journals and books published by Springer. SpringerLink currently offers over 1,250 fully peer-reviewed journals and more than 10,000 books online. SpringerLink offers free access to search, tables of content, abstracts, and alerting services. Full-text access is available to those journals subscribed to by RIT Libraries and via the RIT Libraries MORE linking service. MORE DETAILS...

partial

Web of Science: Science Citation Index Expanded
Produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) this multidisciplinary database covers 5,900 major journals across more than 150 scientific disciplines. MORE DETAILS...


1983+
Wilson Omni Full Text Mega via WilsonWeb
Covers six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education, General Science, Humanities, Readers' Guide, Social Sciences and Business. In addition, select full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology, Art, Biological & Agricultural, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature & Information Science. MORE DETAILS...

Full text: 1994+

WorldCat via FirstSearch
The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 44 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages. Covers information back to the 11th Century. MORE ABOUT FIRSTSEARCH DATABASES...

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