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Artcyclopedia --guide to great art on the Internet.

Art Full Text -- Dates cover: indexing 1984+, abstracting 1994+ and full text 1997+. Topics cover: Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Computers in Art, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles and Video.

BioMed Central --over 100 Open Access journals covering all areas of Biology and Medicine

Britannica Online--Encyclopaedia Britannica via the Web.

Business and Company Resource Center--Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.

Business and Company ASAP --information on companies, markets and industries. From market trends, mergers and acquisitions to current management theory and company overviews. Access business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles with full text and images.

Custom Newspapers--search a collection of 150 newspapers, both national and international.

DOAJ -Directory of Open Access Journals --this service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Covers all subjects and languages. There are 1691 journals in the directory. Currently 414 journals are searchable at article level.

EBSCOhost--Several databases are available, including Academic Search Elite which provides full-text for nearly 1250 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and much more.

Gale Virtual Reference Library -- a database of encyclopedias, almanacs and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Grove Music Online -- Grove Music Online comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition.

Health Reference Center Academic--use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug Abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc.

Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module --find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories and information on: fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health, Safety, Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Prescription Drugs, Herbal remedies, and alternative or complementary treatments. Includes links to diet, cancer and health assessment.

Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (JAAOS)--is a review journal and published by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the world's largest medical association of musculoskeletal specialists. Reviews may be accessed in full-text and PDF versions.

National Newspaper Index--provides quick access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.

New York State Newspapers-- contains ten major newspapers published in the state of New York, including the New York Times, New York Post and The Buffalo News.

ProQuest --online information services provide access to thousands of current periodicals and newspapers, many updated daily and containing full-text articles from 1986.

PubMed Central --U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature

The Twayne Author--Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Library Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles.