Diversity Articles Databases
AcademicOneFileAcademic OneFile is a major source of full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources, with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.
Last update: 02-02-2009
ArticleFirst (OCLC FirstSearch)
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Contains bibliographic citations describing items listed on the table of contents pages of over 16,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. The database contains over 27,000,000 records, from 1990-date. Although this database does not contain any full text articles, it does link to full text articles in Wilson Select Plus.
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Users: UDM students, faculty, staff, and onsite patrons
Number of Simultaneous Users: unlimited
Print Copy: may view and make one copy of screen
Use of Information: information for personal, scholarly, non-commercial use only
Download: temporary download permitted; re: one term
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Interlibrary Loan: may provide citation but not document
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General Reference Center Gold (Gale)
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This is a general interest database that integrates a variety of sources in one easy-to-use interface. General Reference Center Gold includes articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals, many with full-text and images. Find the latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more. The journal articles in this database are in InfoTrac OneFile; other Gale items are only in this database.
Database includes: Full-text
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Copyright: protected by U.S copyright laws
Users: UDM students, faculty, staff, and onsite patrons
Number of Simultaneous Users: unlimited
Print Copy: single excerpt of the data; single copy for support of personal research needs
Use of Information: research and internal non-commercial use only; may not use as a component of, or basis for, a directory, database, or other publication prepared for sale or other form of distribution
Download: may not upload, download or transmit for sale or conveyance; may download electronically a single copy of excerpts of records for nonprofit educational and research purposes
Sharing: no third-party sharing of materials
Interlibrary Loan: interlibrary loan not permitted
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Diversity Studies Collection (Gale)
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This collection of over 150 journals supports social science, history and liberal arts coursework, focusing on cultural differences, contributions and influences in the global community.
Database includes: Full-text
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Users: UDM students, faculty, staff, and onsite patrons
Number of Simultaneous Users: unlimited
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Use of Information: research and internal non-commercial use only; may not use as a component of, or basis for, a directory, database, or other publication prepared for sale or other form of distribution
Download: may not upload, download or transmit for sale or conveyance; may download electronically a single copy of excerpts of records for nonprofit educational and research purpose
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Gender Studies Collection (Gale)
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This collection of journals seeks to provide balanced coverage of GLBT issues, covering such topics as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and many more.
Database includes: Full-text
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Copyright: protected by U.S copyright laws
Users: UDM students, faculty, staff, and onsite patrons
Number of Simultaneous Users: unlimited
Print Copy: single excerpt of the data; single copy for support of personal research needs
Use of Information: research and internal non-commercial use only; may not use as a component of, or basis for, a directory, database, or other publication prepared for sale or other form of distribution
Download: may not upload, download or transmit for sale or conveyance; may download electronically a single copy of excerpts of records for nonprofit educational and research purposes
Sharing: no third-party sharing of materials
Interlibrary Loan: interlibrary loan not permitted
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JSTOR
Full text of over 1,200 core academic journals in most disciplines. Coverage starts with the first issue published, and continues, ending 3-5 years before the current year. An additional year of journals published is added annually. The Libraries own current paper issues of many titles in the collections. Follow this link to see a listing of all JSTOR collections available at UDM or download a complete list of all journals included in these collections.
Database includes: Full-text
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Copyright: protected by U.S copyright and proprietary rights
Users: UDM students, faculty, staff, and onsite patrons
Number of Simultaneous Users: unlimited
Print Copy: reasonable printing; may not copy entire issue or issues of a journal
Use of Information: may not utilize materials for commercial purposes, including but not limited to sale of materials, fee-for-service use or bulk reproduction or distribution in any form
Download: may not download or attempt to download an entire issue or issues of a journal from the database
Sharing: no third-party sharing of materials; no infringing on the intellectual property rights of third party who contributed to database
Interlibrary Loan: may provide printed materials from the database in accordance with the Copyright Act of the U.S.; only printed materials, not electronic copies, may be used in interlibrary loan
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PAIS International (ProQuest)
The PAIS International database from CSA contains references to more than 553,300 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed.
PAIS International includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world. In addition to English, some of the indexed materials are published in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
The database backfile dates to 1972: PAIS International includes records from the print PAIS Bulletin 1977 and forward; and from the PAIS print Foreign Language Index published 1972-1990, at which time it merged with the PAIS Bulletin.
Database includes: Abstracts & indexes
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WorldAlmanac (FirstSearch)
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Includes the full text of all of the World Almanac titles (The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of US Politics, The World Almanac for Kids), and the Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia.
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Copyright: may not provide access outside the U.S.; protected by U.S copyright laws
Users: UDM students, faculty, staff, and onsite patrons
Number of Simultaneous Users: unlimited
Print Copy: may view and make one copy of screen
Use of Information: information for personal, scholarly, non-commercial use only
Download: temporary download permitted; re: one term
Sharing: no third-party sharing of materials
Interlibrary Loan: may provide citation but not document
Reserves: may not place materials on reserve
Persistent Links: links
Course Packs: no course pack allowed
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