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Online catalog
The library’s online catalog contains information about the books, e-books, music scores, videos (both DVD and VHS), and sound recordings that the library owns. The catalog also contains detailed information about the print journal and magazine titles that the library owns, but it does not contain citations for individual articles. For more help in using the catalog, ask a librarian, review our FAQs.
Academic Search Complete
Find articles in all subject areas in over 17,000 journals and magazines, with full text for most. Updated daily. Dates vary, some as early as 1865 to present.
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CQ Researcher
Explores a single controversial issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to the environment, health, education and science and technology. 1991 to present.
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Please see our Appropriate Use of Electronic Resources (last revised Aug. 2013).

Here are the abstracting and indexing services used to find articles and other publications on library and information science.

Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Covers more than 450 information science journals, books, research reports and other publications. Varies, some as far back as 1960 to present.
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Library, Information Science, and Technology Abstracts (LISTA) Full Text
Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, search engines, printed and electronic information sources, the information industry, scholarly communication, and electronic publishing. LISTA indexes journal articles from more than 600 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings published 1966 to present.
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Eigenfactor : Ranking and Mapping Scientific Knowledge
A bibliometric method for determining a scientific journal's importance.
Journal M3trics [sic]
"The academic community has long been demanding more transparency, choice and accuracy in journal assessment. Currently, the majority of academic output is evaluated based on a single ranking of journal impact. Bibliometricians have been exploring new methods to provide deeper insight. Within the field of journal evaluation, two of the most exciting are Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) and SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), those values are provided here free of charge."

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