ABI/INFORM provides in-depth coverage of business issues, management techniques, competitive information, and a variety of other topics. It indexes and abstracts articles from more than 1,000 leading business and management publications, including over 350 English-language titles from outside the United States. More than half of the articles are available in full-text or full-image.

Indexes over 2,900 publications, including scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multicultural studies,as well as popular magazines published from 1990-present. Full-text articles are provided for over 1,300 periodical titles.

Provides full-text and full-page-image access to titles in most humanities disciplines and in area studies. The books included have been recommended by scholars as significant contributions to their respective fields. Offered by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) in collaboration with ten learned societies and nearly 80 contributing publishers.

Full text of every article ever published by ACM.

The Agribusiness & Business Research Portal provides students and faculty easy access to a wide range of business resources available through the Robert E. Kennedy Library. The Portal offers in-depth help on a variety of business topics including company information and rankings, market share, industry ratios/overviews, international trade data, economic indicators, case studies, HHI, SEC filings, and much more!

This most comprehensive index to journals, conference proceedings, technical reports and other documents in the field of agriculture (1970-present). Abstracts are provided for some of the indexed items.

Access limited to 1988-2008 technical papers.

Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

The American Chemical Society (ACS) offers unlimited web access to its complete online collection of 30 journal titles. The full-text journals are in standard Internet formats (HTML, PDF) and also include images.

Presents the American Institute of Physics, a not-for-profit membership corporation which aims to promote the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics and its appliction to human welfare. Offers links to AIP publications, publishing servcies and links to other societs and WWW resources, and employment opportunities.

Since 1932, Annual Reviews has offered comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 29 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.

An archival collection of nearly 500,000 Associated Press current and historical photographs with descriptive captions. Historical photos are available from the mid-1800s, with an average of 800 contemporary photos added daily.

A good index to search for information on architects/designers, design firms, and building types or categories (1982-present).

Art & Architecture Complete (tm) is the definitive research database for the study of art and architecture. This database provides full-text coverage of more than 250 periodicals and 150 books. In addition, Art & Architecture Complete offers cover-to- cover indexing and abstracts for more than 630 academic journals, magazines and trade publications as well as for over 150 books. The database also provides selective coverage for more than 50 additional publications.

arXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics. The contents of arXiv conform to Cornell University academic standards. arXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution. arXiv is also partially funded by the National Science Foundation.

Search all recent technical documents published by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. Anyone can view the abstracts. Access to the full text is via ASABE membership or site license.View a list of publications included. You'll find journals from 1998 forward and all other ASABE technical publications from 2001 to current.Tips. Select a document type from the pull-down menu above and/or check one or more of the boxes to narrow your search. Entering a two-word term results in a search for either word. This is appropriate when the Keyword or Title box is checked. When searching the complete document, entering the word NEAR between the words results in a search for the complete term-- swine NEAR housing looks for the term swine housing.If you see boxes and ?? where there should be special characters, go to your toolbar View/Encoding and change setting to Western European.

The ASCE Research Library provides you with access to more than 40,000 full-text papers from ASCE Journals. Cal Poly only has access to journal articles not to conference papers.

ASM Materials Information consists of four main content areas: ASM Handbooks Online, featuring the complete content of twenty ASM Handbook volumes plus two ASM Desk Editions. ASM Alloy Center Online, featuring ASM property data, performance charts, and processing guidelines for specific metals and alloys. ASM Micrograph Center Online, with over 2500 micrographs for industrially important alloys. ASM Failure Analysis Center Online, with over 1000 case histories and authoritative handbook information on failure mechanisms and analysis methods. In addition, the ASM Alloy Phase Diagrams Center provides access to more than 11,000 binary and ternary phase diagrams and associated phase data.

Also known as the Encyclopedia of Associations, this comprehensive directory of U.S. and international associations and organizations includes a description of each association, phone number, address, FAX, and publications. A link to the organization's web page is often provided.

The Avery Index is a comprehensive architectural periodical index covering areas of architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, and urban planning (1860s-present). International in scope.

This database provides basic chemical properties and preparations for organic compounds. Beilstein is seachable in multiple ways, including chemcial structure, formula, and physical property parameters. Beilsein indexes periodicals, books, disserations, and patents. Online access to Beilstein is provided in the Computational Chemistry and Molecular Modelling Laboratory (CCMML).

BAS provides citations to Western-language journal articles that deal with the countries and civilizations of East, Southeast and South Asia or with the overseas Asian communities in North America, Europe and elsewhere in the world. Coverage begins in 1971. Book citations are available from 1971-1991. Users looking for books published since 1992 should consult LINK+, Melvyl, or WorldCAT.

World's most comprehensive life sciences database. It combines the journal content from Biological Abstracts with supplemental, non-journal content from Biological Abstracts/RRM.

BNA's Human Resources Library is the definitive source of information for planning and managing human resources. Intended for HR and employee relations practitioners, consultants, and lawyers, the Library provides practical, comprehensive, and timely information about hundreds of issues arising in today's complex workplace--from how to write and communicate employee work rules and policies, to how to design and implement training or other programs, to how to comply with federal and state employment laws and regulations.

The full range of tax information includes expert analysis from tax professionals integrated into a database of primary and secondary source materials that includes the Internal Revenue Code, tax regulations, federal tax cases and court decisions, current legislation, tax treaties, and federal and state tax forms. Also includes journal articles and working papers, and weekly updates of news and developments.

Full-text online version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well a dictionary, with hot links to more than 130,000 web sites that have been selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors. Through this service, you can find more than 72,000 articles; over 10,000 illustrations, including photographs, drawings, maps, and flags; and more than 75,000 definitions--including pronunciation guides and word histories--from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.

A multi-industry, international database that provides access to company, industry, market, and product information. Includes articles from over 900 trade and business publications covering business events in over 190 countries. Subjects include companies, industries, products, and markets. Contains articles and abstracts. ASCII full-text articles are available online for more than half of those sources.

The Business Research Portal provides easy access to a wide range of business resources available through the Robert E. Kennedy Library. The Portal offers in-depth help on a variety of business topics including company information and rankings, market share, industry ratios/overviews, international trade data, economic indicators, case studies, HHI, SEC filings, and much more!

CAB Direct helps you to find the most relevant, up-to-date and reliable information in the applied life sciences. Incorporating the leading bibliographic databases, CAB Abstracts and Global Health, CAB Direct provides access to these key resources directly from CABI Publishing.

Directories of publishing opportunities in journals relating to accounting, economics and finance, management, marketing, educational curriculum and methods, and psychology. To further assist you in organizing and preparing your manuscripts, the Directory includes extensive information on the style and format of most journals. If a journal has its own set of manuscript guidelines, a copy of these guidelines is published in the Directory. Also, each entry indicates the use of a standard set of publication guidelines by a journal. For example, some journals use the Chicago Manual of Style or the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Furthermore, the Directory describes the type of review process used by the editor(s) of a journal, type of review, number of reviewers, acceptance rate, time required for review, availability of reviewers comments, fees charged to review or publish the manuscript, copies required and manuscript topics. Information on the journal’s circulation, readership and subscription prices are also provided. The decision to place journals in their respective directory is based on the manuscript topics selected by the editor as well as the journals’ guidelines for authors.

Select NewsBank California Newspaper Package from the menu. A full-text collection of major dailies and regional papers. Beginning date of coverage varies from newspaper to newspaper. The newspapers may be searched individually or in groups.

Comprehensive tax and accounting research database covering tax and accounting laws and news on the international, federal, state and local levels. Provides access to a variety of primary sources, analysis, journals, news, cases, and rulings.

peer-reviewed open access research in chemistry from BioMed Central, the leading biomedical open access publisher. The Chemistry Central website currently features chemistry-related articles published in BioMed Central journals and independent journals utilizing BioMed Central's open access publishing services. JOURNAL TITLES: Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry (published by the Beilstein-Institut in cooperation with BioMed Central)BMC BiochemistryBMC Chemical BiologyBMC Structural Biology Geochemical Transactions (official publication of the Geochemistry Division of the American Chemical Society)

The Chicano Database is a comprehensive index to information about Mexican Americans/Chicanos in a variety of publications dating from the 1960s o the present. The broader Latino experience has been included since 1992. Updated quarterly.

Includes searchable database of reviews issued in the print magazine Choice since September, 1988.

CIAO is designed to be a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on.

CINAHL® Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index - with no embargo. CINAHL Plus with Full Text also contains: Author Affiliations Searchable Cited References Research Instruments Evidence-Based Care Sheets Quick Lessons & Search Strategies CINAHL Plus with Full Text includes PreCINAHL™ as a companion database for subscribers. PreCINAHL provides current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject indexing) that is available to searchers only while these articles are being indexed. This enables users to gain access to article citations that otherwise would not be available. Once the bibliographic records are complete, they are added to the CINAHL database and removed from PreCINAHL.

Indexing documents published in over 24 Latin American and Caribbean countries, ClasePeriodica is actually two files. CLASE indexes documents published in over 1300 journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers over 1400 journals specializing in science and technology. Primary publishing languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French and English.

Merges two popular databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies -- CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index. Offers citation coverage for citation coverage for research journals, major journalism reviews, trade publications and more. Full text is available for over 200 titles.

Provides full text access to global information on women from more than 1500 publications. Emphasis is on recent material gathered from journals, newsletters, and research reports generated by non-profit groups and government and international agencies (1992-present).

CountryWatch collects political, economic, corporate, and environmental information for 191 countries. It has two sections: 'Country Reviews,' updated twice a year, are reports which profile the political and economic trends of each country. 'Country Wire' is an online global news service providing current news from major international wire services.

Provides country profiles and reports on political, economic, corporate, and environmental news and trends for 191 countries around the world.

This is the full-text, online version of the very popular CQ Researcher. Presents brief overviews of current issues such as affirmative action, gun control, television violence, etc. A selected bibliography is given, and opposing viewpoints are sometimes included. This is an excellent source for getting ideas for a topic or for finding ways to focus or refine a broad topic.

This award-winning weekly magazine provides U.S. legislative news and analysis online. Access and search the full-text of all articles published since 1983. Known as the pre-eminent resource for Congress-watchers who need non-partisan information on Capitol Hill.

DigitalCommons@CalPoly promotes discovery, research, cross-disciplinary collaboration and support for instruction by collecting, preserving and providing access to scholarly, intellectual and creative work generated by Cal Poly faculty and students.

Includes most of the fire insurance maps of California produced by the Sanborn Map Company from the mid-1880s to around 1970. The black and white digital images were produced from microform of the Sanborn atlases. Digital collection is searchable by city and date.

With more than 2 million entries, PQD&T is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses.

Earthquake Engineering Abstracts provides comprehensive, authoritative coverage of earthquake engineering and earthquake hazard mitigation.

Is a service which provides acquisition, access and management of a library's full text electronic journals from one convenient location.

ECONbase is your desktop reference archive for economics and finance articles. The database offers over 22,000 abstracts of refereed articles published in 67 economics and finance journals from 1995 to the present. It is fully searchable by Title, Author, Keyword, and Full Text. Full content articles are available in PDF format. The library holds a current subscription to the journal(s) concerned, and access is provided on the basis of fully paid journal subscriptions.

Subject indexing and abstracts of over 400 electronic journals, over 500 collective volumes per year, plus books, dissertations, and working papers (January 1969 to the present). Updated monthly.

Provides information from over 340 leading education journals. Covers all areas of education including administration, teaching methods, curriculum, etc. Most of the journals indexed in this database are held by Kennedy Library. Up-dated monthly, with coverage from 1983 to the present.

Elsevier Economics and Finance provides fulltext access to more than 80 economics and finance journals. Subject areas include: Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Business Economics; Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth Economic History; Economic Systems; Financial Economics General Economics and Teaching; Health, Education and Welfare; Industrial Organization; International Economics; Labor and Demographic Economics; Law and Economics; Macroeconomic and Monetary Economics; Mathematical and Quantitative Methods; Methodology and History of Economic Thought; Microeconomics; Public Economics; and Urban, Rural and Regional Economics.

This web-based library delivers access to over 130 journals in management, human resources, information management, operations, and training and education. Full-text coverage for most journals begins in the mid-1990s.

A comprehensive online engineering resource providing access to 5 engineering databases: 1.Compendex. The most comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering literature, containing references to over 5 million citations from 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and reports. 2.Website Abstracts. A database of over 10,000 engineering websites have been selected, reviewed and evaluated based on research value, technical content, and relevant information. 3.U. S. Patent and Trademark Office. An interface to search the U. S. government's full-text patent database. 4.CRC Press Handbooks. Fifteen major engineering, fully searchable handbooks. 5.Industry Specifications and Standards. This database has over 15,000 documents available for download in PDF format.

ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,300,000 records and links to more than 317,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.

Information (political, economic, historical, statistical, etc.) on countries and territories of the world. Comparative statistics can be produced if available.

From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images!

This is a comprehensive full-text business and current events database (formerly Dow Jones Interactive).

This database is sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts. For special expertise with the database, contact Dr. Greg Bohr at x62752.

Food and beverage research and development literature, patents, standards, and legislation.

The Gale Virtual Reference Library contains encyclopedias, dictionaries, and standard university reference works covering most subject areas.

A full text database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas.

This comprehensive geoscience database contains over 2.1 million records in mineralogy and crystallography, general mineralogy, mineralogy of silicates, and mineralogy of non-silicates. Records in the database refer to journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses, with over 60,000 additions annually. Geology of North America is covered from 1785 to the present, and geology of the world is covered from 1933 to the present. This database is produced by the American Geological Institute.

Includes sections on: Detailed market size data, Country marketing parameters, Marketing forcast data, Brand and Coompany information, Business information sources, Marketing profiles, and Full text market analysis.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles. Search results may be from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. See the FAQ for help setting Library Links to access Cal Poly resources.

The U.S. Government Printing Office disseminates official information from all three branches of the Federal Government.

Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.

Grove Art (formerly, the Grove Dictionary of Art) is a reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the 1990s. Grove Art provides access to images through its partnership with the Bridgeman Art Library and also points to additional image links on the web.

This resource includes the full text of several high quality music encyclopedias and provides biographical coverage of 22,000 composers, writers, and performers, as well as information on music terminology and topical essays. Within each article, a navigation bar links (when available) to illustrations, sound, related articles and external links.

Stanford University's site of electronic free journal articles in the sciences (life, physical, and social) and in medicine.

A very comprehensive index to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in the database, America: History and Life). Provides links to some full-text journals articles, with coverage starting in 1954. Of the 1,700+ journals indexed by this database, some journals may not be available in the databases or be listed in PolyCAT. Use the online InterLibrary Loan service to obtain articles from journals not held by the Kennedy Library.

Provides quick access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources from various universities, organizations, and local and state agencies.

Hoover's, Inc. delivers comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence that drives business growth. This database covers 12 million companies, with in-depth coverage of 35,000 of the world's top business enterprises.

Hospitality and Tourism Complete covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism.

Provides access to a vast archive of social science data (demographic, survey, behavioral, housing, etc.). Use of these data requires SPSS, SAS, or similar software.

The IEEE/IEE Electronic Library provides libraries and research professionals a single source to almost a third of the world's current electrical engineering and computer science literature, granting unparalleled access to publications from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). Available online through the IEEE XploreTM interface.

This Portal was developed to provide students and faculty easy access to a wide range of business, engineering, management, and technology-related resources available through the Robert E. Kennedy Library.

A virtual library of Internet resources relevant to the university level including databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, et.

CARL's Uncover system has merged to become Ingenta. Previous Uncover user access information works with the new Ingenta system. Ingenta offers access to article summaries from over 20,000 publications. Full-text access is set by each of Ingenta’s 140 publisher partners. Ingenta includes an electronic mail alert service. Create a list of journal titles for which the table of contents will be sent to you each time a new issue is available, or enter searches that will be run automatically on a weekly basis against the entire Ingenta journal collection of 20,000 titles. Notification is provided by e-mail.

INSPEC® is the world's largest bibliographic database in the field of physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computers and control engineering and information technology. With more than 7,000,000 abstract records and 330,000 new abstracts, 4,000 journals and 2,000 conference proceedings added each year, the INSPEC® Database remains the most comprehensive source of published reference literature in the world. Each record contains an English-language title and descriptive abstract, together with full bibliographic details which include the journal title, author's name and affiliation and the language of the original document.

Provides sitewide access to quantifiable statistical data, offering a systematic, objective way to determine the relative importance of journals within their subject

JSTOR is a full-text database of back issues for more than 130 scholarly journals primarily in the social sciences and humanities. The coverage for each journal begins with volume 1. Because JSTOR is an archival database, issues are not available for the latest 3-5 years.

JSTOR (www.jstor.org) is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. For complete lists of titles and collections, please refer to http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html.

Comprehensive archive of back issues of core scholarly journals in architecture and architectural history.

JSTOR (www.jstor.org) is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. For complete lists of titles and collections, please refer to http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html.

JSTOR (www.jstor.org) is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. For complete lists of titles and collections, please refer to http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html.

JSTOR (www.jstor.org) is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. For complete lists of titles and collections, please refer to http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html.

JSTOR (www.jstor.org) is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. For complete lists of titles and collections, please refer to http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html.

Comprehensive archive of back issues of core scholarly journals in folklore.

JSTOR (www.jstor.org) is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. For complete lists of titles and collections, please refer to http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html.

JSTOR (www.jstor.org) is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. For complete lists of titles and collections, please refer to http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html.

JSTOR (www.jstor.org) is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. For complete lists of titles and collections, please refer to http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html.

JSTOR (www.jstor.org) is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. For complete lists of titles and collections, please refer to http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html.

Comprehensive archive of back issues of core scholarly journals in paleontology.

JSTOR (www.jstor.org) is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. For complete lists of titles and collections, please refer to http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html.

JSTOR (www.jstor.org) is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. For complete lists of titles and collections, please refer to http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html.

Research areas in LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe cover news,industry, and market news; legal news and research; company financial information; general medical topics ; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; case law; U.S. Code.

Indexes periodicals, books, research reports and conference proceedings in the subject areas of librarianship, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage begins in the mid-1960s

Link+ provides a union catalog and user-initiated delivery system for more than 40 university and public library systems in California & Nevada, including: Cal Poly Pomona, Claremont Colleges, CSU Fullerton, CSU Hayward, CSU Long Beach, Hayward Public, Loyola Marymount University, Occidental College, Pleasanton Public, San Diego State University, San Francisco State University, San Jose State University, Santa Clara University, Sonoma State University, Saint Mary's College, UC Riverside, University of La Verne, University of San Francisco, and many others.

Description: Includes biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of over 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors. Search by Author Name, Title, Genre, Literary Movement or Literary Themes, or combine criteria to create a custom search path. Help: Literature Resource Center Guide to Conducting Literary Research

This service contains market profile reports, lifestye analysis reports, demographics reports and PRIZM reports.

Provides articles and images from the Los Angeles Times, 1881-1985. To access the text from more recent issues, search the ProQuest Newsstand database.

MarketResearch.com Academic, formerly Kalorama Academic, offers access to previously unavailable market research reports. This fully searchable and browseable repository offers the complete text of over 500 market research reports on dozens of topics, complete with graphs, tables and charts.

The MathSciNet database, covering international mathematics literature, contains signed reviews and bibliographic data from 1940 to the present. Journals, conference proceedings, and books of mathematics research are indexed. Items listed in the annual indexes of Mathematical Reviews but not given an individual review are also included.

Medline contains all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing from more than 9,000 titles. Corresponds to the print indexes - Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index.

MEDLINE is a comprehensive database of information on all aspects of biomedicine and serves as an index to the medical literature.

MedlinePlus is a consumer health database and will direct you to information to help answer health questions. Access to medical journal articles is available as well as extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news. Health professionals and consumers alike can depend on it for information that is authoritative and up to date.MedlinePlus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 650 diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical

The online catalog to all 9 UC campuses, MELVYL provides a guide to over 12 million records. MELVYL is an excellent catalog to supplement using Polycat if materials cannot be found at Cal Poly. Database commands are available and helpful to print out for first time users. MELVYL uses subject headings from the Library of Congress. A list of these subject headings is located in the Reference Department on the 1st floor. If relevant records are found that are not held by the Kennedy Library, request titles through the online Interlibrary Loan service.

Mergent Online is an Internet-accessible subscription service covering 10,000 public companies and their SEC filings. U.S. Annual Reports: Easy-to-access current and historical annual reports on 10,000 U.S. public companies, all in PDF image format that provides faster download and allows viewing the document. International Annual Reports: Hard-to-get, timely annual reports on all companies in our International Company Data database, available in PDF image formats.

ASM Handbooks Online features the complete content of twenty ASM Handbook volumes plus two ASM Desk Editions. To get started, enter your search term or phrase in the search box at the top of the screen and click GO. Selecting Advanced Search will take you to a page where you can target your search to individual volumes or specific types of content. Or, you can use the table of contents at left to navigate to content of interest.

The most comprehensive literary and language database available. Updated ten times per year, with coverage from 1963 to the present. MLA Bibliography indexes many periodicals, and some are not held at Cal Poly. Use the online Interlibrary Loan service to request articles from journals not held by the Kennedy Library.

Market research data available on consumer preferences, lifestyle and demographic data. Also includes data on newspaper/magazine subscriptions, TV viewing and other possible media vehicles.

Indexes articles in more than 640 international music periodicals covering all aspects of classical and popular music. Also includes book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries.

Provides 1)access to NASA generated and sponsored scientific and technical literature dating from 1917 to the present that is available on NASA technical report servers; and 2)selected aerospace literature on non-NASA servers. Includes some fulltext links.

Search and read the full text of over 1,800 books published by the National Academy Press online. Subject coverage includes Agriculture, Behavioral Science, Biology, Computer Science, Chemistry, Earth Science, Education, Energy, Engineering, Environmental Issues, Food & Nutrition, Industry and Economics, Math & Statistics, Materials, Medicine/Public Health, Natural Resources, Physical Sciences, Public Policy, Space Science, Science & Ethics, Transportation, Urban Development.

NSDL was established by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2000 as a free online library which directs users to exemplary resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and research.

Search a keyword or phrase through the full text of the 1,400 online book titles and retrieve relevant titles and sections. The database also provides 3,500 publicly available titles, primarily literary classics. netLibrary electronic books may be previewed with your browser or checked out for exclusive personal use for a specified period of time. About half the collection consists of single user titles, while the other half is licensed for 4 simultaneous users. If you access a title that is already in use, a message will appear to ask you to try the request later.

Provides articles and images from the New York Times, 1851-2003. To access the text from more recent issues, search the ProQuest Newsstand database.

Includes full text from California State Newspapers. Also includes access to AccessUN (some full text), special reports on topics of interest, and a step by step guide to searching the database.

Collection of free but previously difficult-to-access, academically oriented digital resources

Contains all electronic books available online that were cataloged by OCLC member libraries.

The Online Archive of California (OAC) brings together historical materials from a variety of California institutions, including museums, historical societies, and archives. Over 120,000 images; 50,000 pages of documents, letters, and oral histories; and 8,000 guides to collections are available.

Provides information on key current social issues and “hot topics” from a number of perspectives. Includes: topic overviews; “viewpoint” articles; primary source documents; profiles of individuals, agencies and interest groups; statistical tables, charts and graphs; and other useful material for debates and argumentation writing assignments.

OregonPDF in Health & Performance, a non-profit foundation, cooperates with colleges and universities throughout the world to make available graduate dissertations and theses in areas related to health and performance. The intellectual focus of the collection is physical activity. Academic areas of interest include biochemistry, biomechanics, dance, exercise physiology, history or philosophy of physical education, kinesiology, motor control, obesity, recreation, sports marketing, sports medicine, sports pedagogy, sports psychology, and tests and measurements. The collection has developed continuously since 1948. There are over 10,000 dissertations and theses, with over 200 added each year. Through this website you can access, search, and instantly download the material.

Traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources.

Search journals published by Oxford University Press.

The Philosopher's Index is a bibliographic database with informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy.

Provides citations to literature written since 1871 on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health conditions resulting from traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations. The database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Full-text searchable resource for applied plant sciences. Universities, companies, and associations are contributors to the database. Access is available to four peer-reviewed journals – Applied Turfgrass Science, Crop Management, Forage and Grazinglands, and Plant Health Progress.

Indexes and provides summaries of articles from journals and conference proceedings. Subject coverage includes air pollution, marine and freshwater pollution, land pollution, sewage and wastewater treatment, waste management, toxicology and health, noise pollution, radiation, and environmental action.

Online catalog of books, senior projects, journals, newspapers, maps, videos, and other materials held in Cal Poly's Kennedy Library.

Project MUSE was launched in 1995 by the Johns Hopkins University Press, to offer the full text of JHUP scholarly journals via the world wide web. In 1999, MUSE published online 46 JHUP titles in the humanities, social sciences.

Provides articles and images from the New York Times, 1851-2003, and the Los Angeles Times, 1881-1985. To access the text from more recent issues of these newspapers, search the ProQuest Newsstand database.

ProQuest Newsstand covers nearly 500 U.S. and international newspapers and business journals, with most articles available in full-text.

The PsycARTICLES® database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. The database contains more than 25,000 searchable full text articles from 40 journals published by the APA and 9 from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 49 journals. Coverage spans from 1988 to the present.

PsycEXTRA can search books and chapters, magazines, newspapers, gray literature (dissertations, technical and annual reports, consumer brochures, etc.) back to 1872. Contains 45,000 records with 30,000 added annually.

PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and technical reports, all in the field of psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines. Journal indexing (1887-present) covers articles from over 1,500 international journals written in 35+ languages, with full-text articles provided for 242 journals. Book and book chapter coverage includes worldwide English-language material (1987-present). PsycINFO is produced and copyrighted by the American Psychological Association.

PubMed was developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). It was developed in conjunction with publishers of biomedical literature as a search tool for accessing literature citations and linking to full-text journals at web sites of participating publishers.

Provides information, research reports and statistics on the California economy and public policy issues.

RILM offers broad international coverage base. It includes music related works from articles, books, bibliographies, dissertations, film & video to concert reviews and recording notes, provided the items are of scholarly interest. Subject areas include: historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, librarianship, performance practice and notation, theory and analysis, pedagogy, liturgy, dance, criticism, music therapy, and interdisciplinary studies on music and various other fields.

Cumulative index to SAE publications, citing mobility information used in designing, building, maintaining, and operating self-propelled vehicles for use on land or sea, in air or space. The SAE Publications & Standards Database contains bibliographic citations with abstracts for more than 85,000 documents (technical papers, journal and magazine articles, standards and specifications, technical books and research reports) published by SAE from 1906 to present).

SAGE publishes over 460 journals in a variety of disciplines including Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. Sage Journals Online is the database that provides online access to these publications. To view list of journal titles, at logon screen click on BROWSE.

To search the library holdings and learn about SLO City County Library go to: http://www.slolibrary.org/

Science Citation Index covers 164 scientific disciplines including: Agriculture, Neuroscience Astronomy, Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Oncology, Materials Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Pediatrics, Pharmacology, Physics, Plant Sciences, Psychiatry, Surgery, Veterinary Science, and Zoology. Cited reference searching, a search option unique to ISI-Thompson Scientific databases, searches the reference lists of indexed journal articles.

ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.

SciFinder Scholar is a research discovery tool that allows you to explore the CAS databases containing literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, matherials science, and agricultural science.

Comprehensive science-specific search engine, enabling access to over 250 million science-specific Web pages that pinpoint scientific, scholarly, technical, and medical data on the Web and find the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles, patents, pre prints, and journal articles.

Search Serials Solutions to see if specific magazines, journals and newspapers are available full text online in one of the library's subscription databases.

The SLO DataFinder began as a joint project of Cal Poly's Kennedy Library and the San Luis Obispo County Planning Dept. with the purpose of facilitating access and information to GIS datasets. The City of San Luis Obispo is now a partner in this project as well. Browse and download GIS datasets from the City, County, and Cal Poly.

This database is sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts. For special expertise with the database, contact Dr. Greg Bohr at x62752.

The ISI Web of Science provides seamless access to the Science Citation Expanded®, Social Sciences Citation Index®, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index™. It enables users to search current and r etrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. ISI Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching. With it, users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans to uncover all the information relevant to their research. Users can also navigate to electronic full-text journal articles.

Provides information about journal articles, dissertations, and book reviews that have been written in the fields of social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, and community development since 1979.

The Society of Automotive Engineers has more than 90,000 members - engineers, business executives, educators, and students from more than 97 countries - who share information and exchange ideas for advancing the engineering of mobility systems. SAE is your one-stop resource for standards development, events, and technical information and expertise used in designing, building, maintaining, and operating self-propelled vehicles for use on land or sea, in air or space.

Indexes and abstracts articles in the fields of sociology, anthropology, criminology, demography, educaton, law and penology, race relations, social psychology, and urban studies.

A funding opportunities database designed to provide up-to-date information on current federal, non-federal, and international funding opportunities. The Cal Poly Grants Development Office offers individual and group training on SPIN as well as assistance with searches.

This database offers comprehensive indexing of literature pertaining to sports, sports medicine, exercise psychology, biomechanics, psychology, training, coaching, physical education and fitness, physical fitness and related disciplines. Sport Discus includes over 565,000 records, with citations from over 1,200 periodicals (published 1975-present), books and theses (1949-present), conference reports, and videotapes.

Full-text journal articles in science, medicine, engineering, economics, architecture, construction and transport. Includes more than 1,100 peer-reviewed journals, comprising more than 600,000 individual documents. Most titles include complete back issues to 1996, with digital conversion of all back issues under way. SpringerLink now includes Kluwer Journals. Articles may be retrieved in PDF and HTML formats.

STAT-USA, a service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is the site for the U.S. business, economic and trade community, providing authoritative information from the Federal government on the domestic economy and international trade and investment.

TableBase is a database comprised of tabular information of a strategic nature. The tables provide such information as: market share, market size, capacity, production, imports, exports, sales, product and brand rankings, forecasts and demographics.

Comprehensive 25 volume collection of manufacturers of building and other products. 16 volumes list manufacturers by product category. 9 volumes contain excerpts from the actual catalogs.

Treesearch is an online system for locating and delivering publications by Research and Development scientists in the USDA Forest Service. Publications in the collection include research monographs published by the agency as well as papers written by our scientists but published by other organizations in their journals, conference proceedings, or books. Research results behind these publications have been peer reviewed to ensure the best quality science.

The Telegram-Tribune index allows searching of thousands of articles from 1990 to 2002. The Simple Search interface enables searching by keywords from the title of the article or by proper name. With the Advanced Search interface, limitations can be made by specific subject headings and date ranges.

Materials indexed in the TGIF database include articles from peer reviewed publications, technical reports and conference proceedings, trade and professional publications, local professional newsletters, and popular magazines as well as monographs, theses and dissertations, fact sheets and brochures, software, and web documents. TGIF indexes materials from government, college/university, professional organization, and private publishers. Coverage emphasizes English-language materials but does include coverage of non-English languages.

This database provides statistical time series for countries from around the world covering a wide range of economic and socio-demographic tropcs. Descriptions of the international sources and definitions used in compiling the data are included.

Searchable database of full text of 12 journals, some going back 37 years, 2500+ articles in economic development, economics, environmental science, planning practice, policy analysis, public administration, regional geography, residential and community development, social, spatial, and cultural dynamics, sociology, urban and regional planning, urban policy, and urban politics. All records link to full-text PDFs.

Formerly part of Stat-USA, this database provides annual import and export data (1997-present) by commodity from the U.S. government.

Quickly find, analyze, and manage information in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities with this versatile workflow solution.

The ISI Web of Science provides seamless access to the Science Citation Expanded®, Social Sciences Citation Index®, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index™. It enables users to search current and r etrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. ISI Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching. With it, users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans to uncover all the information relevant to their research. Users can also navigate to electronic full-text journal articles.

Wikipedia has rapidly grown into the largest reference website on the Internet. The content of Wikipedia is free, written collaboratively by people from all around the world. This website is a wiki, which means that anyone with access to an Internet-connected computer can edit, correct, or improve information throughout the encyclopedia, simply by clicking the edit this page link (with a few minor exceptions such as protected articles).

Full-text database covering over 320 journals in business, engineering, medicine, psychology, the sciences, and statistics.

Includes material from Women studies abstracts; Women's studies bibliography database; Women's studies database (1972-present); Women studies librarian which is comprised of New books on women and feminism (1987-present), WAVE: women's audiovisuals in English: a guide to nonprint resources in women's studies (1985-1990), Women, race, and ethnicity: a bibliography (1970-1990), The history of women and science, health, and technology: a bibliographic guide to the professions and disciplines (1970-1995); MEDLINE subset on women (1964-present); Women of color and southern women: a bibliography of social science research (1975-1995); Women's health and development: an annotated bibliography (1995).

Database of bibliographic records for over 30+ million items held in libraries worldwide. Includes citations for books, dissertations, media, maps, recordings, manuscripts, etc. (12th century-present).

A searchable image database created by various faculty, staff and students of the CSU system. Contains over 50,000 historical images from a wide variety of fields, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery. Images have been copyright cleared for non-profit educational use by CSU faculty, staff and students.

Zoological Record® is a comprehensive reference database covering all aspects of modern animal research, including: Behavior, Biodiversity, Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Genetics, Habitat, Morphology, Nomenclature, Parasitology, Physiology, Reproduction, Taxonomy, Zoogeography Sources for Zoological Record include: More than 5,000 serials published in over 100 countries, Monographs (including reports), Books, Newsletters, Conference papers and abstracts