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Cabell's Directories of Publishing Opportunities
Provides a detailed listings of journals providing publishing opportunities. Coverage includes journals in business (accounting, finance, management, marketing, economics)and journals in education (curriculum, administration, educational psychology, educational technology, and library science). Entries include name of the journal, address, contact information, guidelines for submitting manuscripts, and more.
Cambridge structural database system
Searchable database containing crystal structure information, chemical, and bibliographic data for about 400000 organic and metal-organic compounds. Note: This software requires Browser Pop-ups to be disabled.
Documentation for the search software and database is available here
CAMIO - OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images
CAMIO contains over 23,000 images of works of art representing a broad range of fine and decorative arts from well-known collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Lost Angeles County Museum of Art, the Asia Society, and the Victorian and Albert Museum. All works are represented by a high-resolution image and description. Some images also have additional views plus sound, video, and curatorial notes. Images are available for use classroom use, research, educational web sites, and other forms of educational projects. This tool is designed for use in studio art, art history, anthropology, religion, and other courses in the humanities. CAMIO replaces the AMICO Library.
Created in partnership with the Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick Libraries, this collection currently contains the full text of more than 19,000 poems by 177 poets including Bliss Carman, Isabella Valancy Crawford and Archibald Lampman.
This subscription is limited to four simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.
Career Insider (formerly Vault Career Library)
An online career library where you can: conduct employer research, find details on top career paths and detailed insider information about potential careers, read about job responsibilities for occupations that interest you, hiring/education requirements, lifestyle, compensation, and advice for newcomers in a particular career path, obtain overviews on 40 top industries, from investment management to manufacturing, and research salary ranges.
Access Career Insider and enter your wmich.edu email address. Vault will send a password that allows you to enter the Vault Career Library and view or download resources. This password is valid for 24 hours. If you wish to return to the career library after that time you may enter your email again to receive a new password.
Catalog of US Government Publications
The Catalog is a search and retrieval service that provides bibliographic records of US Government information products. Use it to link to Federal agency online resources or identify materials distributed to Federal Depository Libraries. Coverage begins with July 1976 and new records are added daily.
U.S. government census data grouped into categories such as people, business, geography, and others. Data files are available as well as prepared tables.
Chadwyck-Healy Literature Collections
Full text of English and American poetry, drama, and fiction from different time periods. The Literature Online database organized by collections. This subscription is limited to four simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.
Chicago Manual of Style Online
Provides a detailed and comprehensive guide to proper style and formatting for papers, articles, theses, dissertations, and books.
Domestic and Import vehicle information through the current model year. Provides repair, maintenance, recall/Technical Service Bulletins information, and diagnostic "Trouble codes". Updated monthly.
Chronicle of higher education
The number one source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.
The Chronicle's Web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; discussion forums; and career-building tools such as an online CV's, salary databases, and more.
CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
CIAO is a database of full text resources for theory and research in international affairs. It includes working papers from university research institutes and NGOs, proceedings from conferences, books, journals, policy briefs, case studies and course packs. Includes basic data and statistics collected by EIU on 203 countries. Coverage from 1991.
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health)
Indexes journals in nursing and related fields with full text for 560 of them. Some go back as far as 1937. Updated weekly.
Listen to recordings from dozens of classical music labels, including Arabesque, Bridge, EMI, Hanssler, Hyperion, and Newport Classic. Browse or search by composer, title, artist, label, genre, etc., and create your own playlists. Reference section includes composer biographies, a dictionary of terms, and other features.
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Contains more than 14,000 scores in PDF files for printing. Search specific composers, works, genres, instrument, time periods, etc., or browse the collection. Links to the audio recordings in Classical Music Library allow users to listen while viewing the score.
Clinical Pharmacology
Database for drug information including product comparisons, a newsletter, quick reference guide and the ability to create handouts for patient information and reports on drug interaction. Downloads to a PDA available from on campus computer
Evidence-based medicine databases including systematic reviews and a controlled trials register on the effects of health care.
Contains over 27,000 college catalogs including 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools. Available only in Waldo Library.
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This interdisciplinary environmental database provides current environmental and public policy information from research institutions, government agencies, and other organizations. Continuously updated. To access from off campus, please set up a username and password from the Login page while on campus.
Selectively indexes and abstracts articles from over 60 primary communications journals. Coverage varies from journal to journal.
ComDis Dome (Communications Sciences and Disorders Dome)
The ComDis Dome indexes and abstracts articles from over 150 journals, and other literature in the area of communications disorders, with a concentration on speech-language pathology and audiology. Covers 1950 to the present, with some coverage back to 1911.
The Dome offers features not found in typical research databases:
* Save and share - annotate and share results with others
* Authors' Database - detailed author profiles with contact information and linked publication records
* Exporting - into management software such as Endnote and Procter.
Indexes 80 core periodicals and annuals in communications, including related fields such as journalism, rhetoric, and social linguistics. The time period covered is from the initial publication date of the journal or 1979, whichever date is later.
Communications and Mass Media Complete
Provides quality research in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study. CMMC offers cover-to-cover (core) indexing and abstracts for over 420 journals, and selected (priority) coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 600 titles. This database includes full text for 301 journals.
Community Information Database
see Kalamazoo Community Information Database
Compendex
see Ei Compendex
Includes product introductions, news of computer hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology. Coverage 1980-present.
Conference Board Research Collection
A collection of full-text research reports on the latest issues in business including economics, management, forecasting, trends, and the marketplace for the United States and the global economy. Coverage from 1998 to date.
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Part of the Literature Resource Center, this directory provides brief biographical information about more than 120,000 authors from the US and elsewhere. Includes writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, journalism, and many other fields.
This expanding set, currently numbering more than 70 print volumes, provides biographical essays about influential people of African descent around the globe who have made significant contributions in their own countries and/or worldwide. Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Explore music from all regions and from every continent in this audio streaming database: reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Arab swing, African film, Bollywood, Indian classical, flamenco, klezmer, gospel, gagaku, and more.
Counseling and Therapy in Video
Browse and search a database containing several hundred videos on the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. These videos consist of counseling sessions and demonstrations, consultations, lectures, presentations, and interviews, teaching and discussion guides, and more. Updated with an additional 300 hours of streaming videos.
The Congressional Quarterly Congress Collection is a research and reference tool allowing an historical analysis of members of Congress, their legislative voting behavior, interest groups, and their interactions in crafting public policy.This subscription is limited to five simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.
Explores a current news issue in-depth each week. Articles typically include an overview and background of the issue, pro-con essays on a question in the issue, a chronology, and lengthy bibliography. Coverage from October 1991 to present.
CQ Voting and Elections Collection
Congressional Quarterly's Voting and Elections Collection contains a wealth of data, analyses, concise explanations, and historical material to help researchers investigate and understand voting and elections in America.This subscription is limited to five simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.
Coverage of the US Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, plus background. In-depth reports on issues looming, plus a complete wrap up of the previous week's news. Written in plain-English that makes it easy for people to understand complex legislation and its ramifications. Searches full-text, also by committee, bill number and date. 1983-present.
Full text online from over 400 encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference books. Search a topic, build a concept map or browse information sources organized by subject. Find text, images, sound files, sortable data tables and more.
Criminal Justice Periodicals Index Online (ProQuest Criminal Justice)
Searchable and browsable database of U.S.and international criminal justice journals. The database includes abstract and indexing for over 400 titles, with more than 170 available in full text.
CRL: Center for Research Libraries
"CRL is a consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves traditional and digital resources for research and teaching and makes them available to member institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery." CRL catalog.
