Electronic Resources

Don't know what journals are in what databases?
www.atoz.ebsco.com provides that information

Managing your Citations

RefWorks *NEW*, is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies. Franklin College has a site license for this service. If you are new to RefWorks you can Sign up for an Individual Account . If you have used it before simply go to the log-in page and log-in. Further information can be found at the RefWorks home page.

Subscription Databases

Full text resources: General & Humanities
EBSCO, Academic Search Elite is a general resource; Communications and Mass Media Complete is specifically for communications & media.
ProQuest, the FC subscription includes Research Library for general topics.
Project MUSE, a full-text humanities source from Johns Hopkins.
JSTOR, important archive of scholarly journals and other materials.
ComAbstracts *NEW*, abstracts of articles and books published in the communication(s) field.
ARTstor, an art image database.
Lexis Nexis Academic Universe, newspaper articles and broadcast transcripts
Granger's World of Poetry, poetry both in citation and in full text
Columbia International Affairs Online, full-text articles, working papers and other publications in the field of Int'l Relations/Int'l Affairs, from Columbia University in NYC.

Full text resources: Business/Economics/Finance
EBSCO. Business Source Elite is a full-text resource; EconLit is a citation resource.
MarketLine, a DowJones company information resource
ProQuest. The FC subscription includes ABI/INFORM Global for business topics.
National Bureau for Economic Research [NBER]: a full-text collection of published and working papers in the wide field of economics
Lexis Nexis Academic Universe, newspaper articles and broadcast transcripts

Full-text sources: other
Opera del Vocabolario Italiana, a full-text source of Italian-language literature in Italian. The works are all out of copyright. (Ask the librarian for login information.)
OCLC FirstSearch; shows books in libraries all over the world, and bibliographies.

Reference sources
Chronicle of Higher Education; for education statistics and information. (Ask the librarian for login information)
Teacher Reference Center, a free citation database by and for educators and interested persons
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA), a free citation database by and for librarians and interested persons
The Stanley Foundation for Peace

Featured free databases
Federation of American Scientists/Congressional Research Reports; the page title says "Military Analysis Network," but the info goes far beyond this.
related: Congressional Research Services

Other Internet Resources

On Line Reference Tools: Statistics
Country Studies from the CIA
CIA World Factbook
Data Conversion Tool, free! converts UNIX to DOS, ASCII to Palm Pilot PDB, .xls to CSV, etc.
Dismal Scientist: Economic Analysis and Data for The World, a collection of links--FC does not subscribe!
EconData.net, socioeconomic data from a variety of reliable sources
European Union, official web-site of the European Union
International Monetary Fund homepage
OECD Online homepage
World Trade Organization [WTO] homepage
FedStats.gov, a portal to all types of US Federal government statistics
Congressional Budget Office, US taxes at work. This is the Subject page
National Statistics Office, from the UK
International Statistical Agencies, worldwide, a list of links from the U.S Census Bureau
O and A Currency Converter, includes historical conversions
2001-05 Statistical Abstract of the U.S., in .pdf format

On Line Reference Tools: Writing & Academic Research
INFOMINE, a U of Calif portal to "invisible web" resources, mostly from U of Calif sources.
Writer's Resources, collection of links, including links to online style guides
Style Guides and Resources, site edited by writers & librarians
RefWorks *NEW*, gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.
OAIster, an Open Archives Initiative search engine from the University of Michigan
Harvard University's Open Collections Program about Working Women, 1870-1930
Today in Literature, with many literary biographies and links
The Infography Professors, librarians, and other scholars recommend the best sources of information about their subjects of expertise. http://www.infography.com/
PubMed, the National Library of Medicine's search service
Federation of American Scientists/Congressional Research Reports; the page title says "Military Analysis Network," but the info goes far beyond this
Congressional Research Services
History of Science, Technology, & Medicine from George Mason Univ.
National Academy of Sciences online books, many of them free
Getty List of Geographic Names, includes latitude & longitude for specific places
Harvard Business School / Baker Library, some resources freely available
METAGRID, links to hundreds of fulltext newspapers & magazines
Swiss Newspapers Online

College Catalogs
Association of American University Presses (AAUP catalogs)
Braintrack - University Index
SmartStudent Guide to Financial Aid
U.S Government Information for College Students

Links to other Franklin departmental pages

Economics and Finance
International Relations

E-book Websites

Alex Catalogue - Collection of digital documents collected in the subject areas of English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy. Now includes photos also!
Directory of Open Access Journals; includes business, economic, and social sciences subject matter
Google free books to download
HighWire.org - Full text articles, many of a scientific nature
Internet Public Library, a collection of links to online books, texts and ephemera. Updated monthly.
Online Books - from the University of Pennsylvania
Project Gutenberg - an ambitious program to get all the important world literature online, more than 4,000 texts are included
University of California Press. This is the portal to search through a number of UC Press publications, both e-books and e-journals. The results are citations only; full text of articles can be purchased individually.

Search Tools: Engines (run on robots--results based on algorithms)
Google, the most popular search engine
Google Scholar, retrieves articles from scholarly magazines, but not of the quality of ProQuest or EBSCO or CIAO (which your tuition is paying for)
See also Google US Government, another way of finding government documents and reports--and notices of internships!
AltaVista, includes a versatile translation tool, Babelfish
Askjeeves, uses natural language for searching
Deep Index, "European search engine offering interfaces in English, French, and German"
Dogpile, a multi-search engine
Excite
HotBot
Mamma.com, "the mother of all search engines"
Vivisimo, uses a different algorithm from Google
Yahoo!

Search Tools: Directories (run by people--results based on a person's inspection of the site)
About.com, a collection of answers, written by real people
Invisible-web.net, an organized collection of websites you can't get to from Google, by a librarian in DC
Librarians' Index to the Internet, websites which have been examined & indexed by information specialists
Open Directory Project, "the largest human-edited directory on the web"