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| Google Scholar provides access to scholarly literature on the web. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. If Calvin has access to an electronic journal, links to the articles in that journal will appear in Google Scholar Read the full annotation |
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| A wealth of online resources maintained by the Government Printing Office, the official disseminator of all U.S. government information for all three branches of government. Read the full annotation |
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The GPO Monthly Catalog is an index of U.S. Government Printing Office documents on all subjects of interest to the U.S. government including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; laws; judiciary materials; documents issued by executive departments.
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| GreenFILE is a research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. GreenFILE will serve as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The total number of records exceeds 300,000, and full text is provided for more than 4,600 records from open access titles. Read the full annotation |
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Guide to Reference is the “source of first resort” for identifying local materials that answer users’ questions, training reference staff, inventorying and developing reference collections, assisting interlibrary loan staff, and serving as a gateway to the wider repertory of the reference literature.
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| H-Net Reviews is an online
scholarly review source for books in the Humanities and Social Sciences. H-Net Reviews are published online via discussion networks and the H-Net web
site. This format permits reviews to reach scholars with a speed unmatched in
any other medium and makes possible discussion between reviewers, authors and readers. Read the full annotation |
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The contributing members of the Consortium of European Research Libraries present this union catalog of materials from Europe's multilingual print culture "hand press" period, from the 15th century to the 1830s.
This resource integrates descriptive records for major European national, university and research library holdings. Topics include intellectual history, social history, transmission of thought, and the history of printing and the history of the book. The Hand Press Book database includes citations for works in Latin, Middle French, and other archaic languages.Read the full annotation |
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| The Handbook of Latin American Studies is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars and edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Each year approximately 130 scholars from around the world choose 5,000 works for inclusion alternating between the social sciences and the humanities. Read the full annotation |
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| HarpWeek provides online access to Harper’s Weekly, the 19th
century "Journal of Civilization." Harper's Weekly is primary source material including the editorials, news stories,
illustrations, cartoons, and advertisements that formed American public opinion of the era. Read the full annotation |
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| Health Reference Center Academic
provides full text access to nursing, allied health
and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters;
pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical overviews; and reference books. Read the full annotation |
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The HDA contains digital collections related to Calvin College & Calvin Theological Seminary in the academic departments of Art, Biology, CAS, and History.
- Art: images relating to Art History as well as instructional aids including images of famous
buildings around the world, fiber arts, maps, and ceramics.
- Biology: images of seedless plants, gymnosperms, and
angiosperms.
- CAS: images of costumes through the
ages and theater buildings from various countries.
- History: images of life in 11 Turkish cities from Adana to
Tarsus and China through the ages.
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The HLSI identifies sermons contained in
books owned by the Hekman Library. Find sermon citations based on scripture passage, author, title, keyword, or subject and then use the call number to locate
the book on shelf.
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| HeritageQuest Online includes all of the images, and extensive
indexing, from the 1790 - 1930 U.S. federal censuses. It offers more
than 22,000 digitized book titles, including early family histories and
local histories. Additionally, there are more than 250 primary-source
documents such as tax lists, city directories, probate records and
more. It also includes Periodical Source Index (PERSI), Revolutionary
War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, the Freedman’s
Bank Records, and the U.S. Serial Set Private Relief Actions, Memorials
and Petitions. Read the full annotation |
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| The HEP Literature Database is an index of approximately 500,000 journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports,
conference papers and theses. HEP is managed by the Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center and powered by their SPIRES database platform. Read the full annotation |
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| Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts is the leading electronic bibliography for historical study with indexing for more than 2,000 journals. In addition to key historical journals from
virtually every major country Historical Abstracts includes a selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities
that are of special interest to researchers and students of history. Read the full annotation |
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| The standard source for statistical data on U. S. History, with over 37,000 data sets on topics ranging from
migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America. Includes essays placing the data in historical context. Read the full annotation |
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| An international bibliography of nearly 10,000 sources, with journal articles, conference proceedings, books, dissertations, serials, and maps related to the history of science, technology, and medicine. Covers 1975 to the present. Read the full annotation |
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| Humanities Abstracts contains abstracts (summaries) of feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays and television and radio programs. It indexes nearly 600 journals covering a variety of subjects in the humanities, including philosophy, film, folklore, religion, music, and the performing arts. Read the full annotation |
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| IEEE Explore provides full-text access to more than 200,000 articles in more than 130 IEEE journals, magazines, and transactions. To search for full-text material, click the button for Search subscribed full-text content only in the Publications box on the right. Read the full annotation |
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| IMB surveys approximately 1000 journals, festschriften, collections of essays, conference proceedings and exhibition catalogs. IMB contains over 300,000 records with a focus on the European Middle Ages from 400-1500 AD. with some material realting to the Middle East and North Africa. Read the full annotation |
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Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Full Text provides over 389,000 complete bibliographic records from 972 legal
journals and 1,400 monographs to articles and government publications
originating in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland,
Australia and New Zealand. Full text of articles is available for over
200 titles. Covers corporate, criminal, real estate, and tax law;
recent court decisions; and new legislation.
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| The IoP Journal Database indexes and presents full text articles for nearly sixty electronic journals
related to physics and astronomy extending from 1874 to the current. Read the full annotation |
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Internet Library of Early Journals is a project which
aims to digitize 18th and 19th century journals including: The Annual Register,
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, The Builder
Gentleman's Magazine, Notes and Queries, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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The ITER bibliography includes literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance. (400-1700) Citations for books, journal articles, reviews, bibliographies, catalogs, abstracts and discographies are
included along with citations for essays in books, conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition
catalogs.
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| JSTOR is a database consisting of only full-text articles from interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journals. Journals are included on the basis of number of subscribers the journal has, citation analysis, recommendations from
experts in the field, and the length of time that the journal has been
published. Coverage for each title begins with the first publication, with most titles ending coverage between three and five years ago. Read the full annotation |
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Hekman Library's 268 Kluwer E-journals are available via the "SpringerLink" online journal collection which includes citations for articles in more than 1,250
peer-reviewed journals. Most journals are available online from Volume I, Issue I.
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| The LegalTrac database presents indexing for all major law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty
law publications, bar association journals and thousands of law-related
articles from general interest publications. LegalTrac also includes
selective full text. Also included are: British Commonwealth, European
Union and International Law. Read the full annotation |
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| LexisNexis Academic is an extensive set of full-text electronic databases of news, business, company, and legal information. It contains major archives of federal and state case law, media transcripts, and other full-text material. For more information consult the LexisNexis Academic help documents and/or search tutorial. Read the full annotation |
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| The Library Literature database includes records for selected library journals, books, conference
proceedings, library school theses, pamphlets, and book reviews. Read the full annotation |
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| This world-class bibliographic database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. LISTA indexes nearly 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science. Read the full annotation |
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| LRC is primarily a literature criticism database, comprised of the complete Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Dictionary of Literary Biography, selected coverage from ten Gale literature criticism series, many single set literary monographs, and a large periodical file of literature titles containing biographies, criticism, essays and more. Articles and entries are all full-text. (Note that Hekman Library also owns some of these literature resources in print; see Gale's Literary Index for an index to the print materials.) Read the full annotation |
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MathSciNet is a carefully
maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and
bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences
literature extending back to 1864. MathSciNet contains
over 2 million items and over 700,000 direct links to original
articles. Over 80,000 new
items
are added each year, most of them classified according to the
Mathematics Subject Classification.
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| The Medieval Feminist Index covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. Read the full annotation |
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| Citations from approximately 4,800 worldwide journals with approximately 13 million references to journal articles in life sciences and a concentration on biomedicine. The majority of the publications covered in MEDLINE are scholarly journals from 1966 to the present. Read the full annotation |
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| This version of Medline is integrated into the citation linking feature found in the Web of Knowledge database. This Medline is far more sophisticated than the other Medline version offered by the library. This one is recommended for advanced researchers. Read the full annotation |
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| The Michigan Newspapers from the "America's Newspapers from
NewsBank" collection provides full-text articles from the electronic
editions of record for the Detroit News, Grand Rapids Press, and the Lansing
State Journal in one database. Read the full annotation |
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| MICROMEDEX Health Care Series and Care Notes System is a comprehensive tool to educate patients and a resource for clinicians
who need instant answers on drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care,
patient education, and alternative medicine all in one place. Read the full annotation |
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| A custom colletion of over 400 journals, covering all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs. Key subjects include ocioeconomic effects of war, governmental policies, the structure of armed forces, and many more. Read the full annotation |
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| The Ministry Resource Center Database contains links to all the resources found in the Ministry Resource Center located on the fourth floor of Hekman Library. Resources include: books, audio visual sources, pamphlets, Internet sites. Read the full annotation |
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| The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books,
articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures,
folklore, and linguistics. MLA International Bibliography dates back
to 1925 and contains over 2 million citations from more than 4,400
periodicals and 1,000 book publishers. Subscription to the MLA International Bibliography also includes access
to the MLA Directory of Periodicals database. Read the full annotation |
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| The MLA Obituary Index is an on-line version of an index of obituary citations published annually
by the Music Library Association in its quarterly journal, Notes.
The index facilitates access to information about musicians and other
members of the music world. Obituary citations are compiled from a wide
range of sources; selection criteria have varied by editor. Read the full annotation |
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| The NASA Technical Reports Server provides access to NASA's current and historical technical literature. NTRS searches three major collections: NACA (1915-1958), NASA (1958-present), and NASA Image eXchange (NIX) (1900-present). Search results include: conference papers, images, journal articles, photos, meeting papers, movies, patents, research reports, and technical videos. Read the full annotation |
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| The National Academies Press was created under a charter granted by the United States Congress to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. Read the full annotation |
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| Contains summaries of more than 150,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Read the full annotation |
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| Contains summaries of more than 185,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Read the full annotation |
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