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ABI/Inform searches periodicals and news sources covering different aspects of business information, including: scholarly research, businesses traditions and trends, corporate strategies, management techniques, and competitive and product information. Some full-text articles. (ProQuest)

Comprehensive database of bibliographic records for over 5 million book, audio book, and video titles. Also includes publishers catalogs, lists of 400 awards from 10 countries, and selected reviews. (Bowker)
Full-text and abstracted articles on companies and industries
appearing in U.S. and international publications with a strong global
focus on products. Maximum number of
simultaneous users: 6. (RDS, Gale)
Business & Management Practices
"Business & Management Practices emphasizes the practical side of business and management ... how organizations make decisions, adopt and implement new technologies and techniques, and plan for change and expansion." Covers 300 core and professional business journals. Some full-text. Maximum number of
simultaneous users: 6. (RDS, Gale)
Comprehensive business periodicals database offering full-text for nearly 1300 general business and academic journals on management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more. (EBSCOhost)

CINAHL
Provides indexing for over 1200 nursing, allied health and health sciences journals.
Dissertations
Indexing and abstracts for over 8000 publications with full-text for over half of the publications. (EBSCOhost)
ERIC
Health & Safety Sciences Abstracts
"This database provides a comprehensive, timely survey of recent work relating to public health, safety, and industrial hygiene." (CSA)
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Health Source: Consumer Edition offers a resource for finding authoritative information on health-related questions specifically geared to the general public. Includes some full-text. (EBSCOhost)

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides more than 520 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong. Includes some full-text. (EBSCOhost)
Contains citations to literature on health services, technology,
administration, and research. Focuses on both the clinical and non-clinical
aspects of health care delivery. (Ovid)
Access to a wide range of full-text material in News (General, U.S., World, News wires & transcripts, Non-english language, Business, Legal, University, Medical, Arts & Sports);
Business (Business News, Industry & Market News, Accounting Literature, Company Information [financial reports, profiles, SEC & EDGAR filings & reports], Business Directories); and
Legal (Legal News & Reviews, Case Law, Codes & Regulations [U.S. federal and state], Canadian Legislative Materials, European Union Law, Commonwealth & Foreign Nations, Patent Research Tools, and Legal Career Resources)
Abstracted articles from medical journals.
- Ovid :

- EBSCOhost :

- FirstSearch:
- Old
Medline: citations from 1958-1965
- PubMed:

- Web of Knowledge: 1950 - present

Catalog of items owned by the seven University
of Louisville Libraries.
Medline citations from 1958 through 1965, that were published in the Cumulated Index Medicus. (U.S. National Library of Medicine) 
ProQuest Digital Dissertations
Formerly known as Dissertations Abstracts International. Contains 1.6 million citations for dissertations and theses from over 1,000 graduate schools. Provides indexing back to 1861 and full-text availability to titles back to 1997 (full-text availability varies by author's institution). Free full-text downloads can be sent to an email account.

Includes a cross-section of general periodicals, ABI/INFORM business periodicals, and several national newspapers in full-text. (ProQuest)

PsycARTICLES
Database of full-text journals from the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. PsycARTICLES is only searchable within the OVID version of PsycINFO.
Provides indexing and abstracting for the professional and
academic literature (books, book chapters, dissertations and 1300
journals) in psychology and related disciplines.
- Ovid:
includes PsycARTICLES (links to Minerva show UofL journal holdings); 1872 to the present
- EBSCOhost
a>: 1887 to the present.
Covers all topics in popular U.S. magazines from 1890-1982. In addition to coverage of news events and social, political, and humanities topics, it includes articles on such popular topics as cars, fashion, food, gardening, hobbies, radio and TV, sports, and travel. (H. W. Wilson)

Social Sciences Citation Index
Indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines in the social sciences. Includes and is searchable by references cited in each article. Maximum number of
simultaneous users: 13 (split between Arts & Humanities Citation Index,
Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Journal Citation
Reports). (ISI's Web of Science)

Indexes books, articles, dissertations, and other research in all aspects of sports, including sports training, coaching, and fitness. Covers 1975 to the present. (EBSCOhost)
Contains statistical data produced by the U.S. government; important international intergovernmental organizations; professional and trade organizations, business organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities. (Lexis-Nexis) 
Provides "...tabular data on companies, industries, products and demographics." 90% full-text. Maximum number of
simultaneous users: 6. (RDS, Gale) 
