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A companion to ProceedingsFirst, PapersFirst indexes individual papers presented at congresses, symposiums, conferences, expositions, workshops and meetings received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.

Records represent the individual paper and note the event at which the paper was presented.

Produced by OCLC, the PapersFirst database is updated semimonthly (twice a month).

Philosopher's Index is considered the most thorough index of journal literature on the subject and features author-written abstracts covering scholarly research published in journals and books, including contributions to anthologies and book reviews. Approximately 570 journals from 43 countries are indexed. Fields covered include:

• Aesthetics
• Axiology
• Philosophy of Education
• Epistemology
• Ethics
• Philosophy of history
• Philosophy of language
• Logic
• Metaphysics
• Philosophical anthropology
• Metaphilosophy
• Political philosophy
• Philosophy of science
• Social philosophy
• Philosophy of religion

Produced by the Philosopher's Information Center.

A companion to PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst indexes every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.

Records represent the event and include a listing of presented papers.

Produced by OCLC, the ProceedingsFirst database is updated semimonthly (twice a month).

This database abstracts and indexes over 720 journals and provides full text for almost 550 of those titles. In addition, the Professional Development Collection contains over 200 education reports.

Full text journal titles include:

• Chronicle of Higher Education
• Educational Leadership
• Journal of Education
• Journal of Higher Education
• Journal of Learning Disabilities
• Theory Into Practice

Search or browse the electronic versions of over 300 high quality journals from 60 scholarly publishers. All titles offer cover-to-cover full text.

Full text articles, reviews (books, performances, art, music, etc.), fiction and poetry, and enlargeable illustrations and photographs are available. Subject areas covered include:

• economics
• education
• film
• literature
• history
• philosophy
• political science
• religion
• women's studies

ProQuest Healthcare Administration combines full text coverage for over 550 journals with more than 4500 Doctoral Dissertations and Theses. Subject coverage includes:

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Additionally, ProQuest Psychology Journals includes 4,000 full text dissertations representing a range of psychology disciplines including behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial, personality, physiological, psychobiology, psychometrics and social psychology. Dissertation content is available for the years spanning 2000 through 2005.

Full text articles include charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements.

ProQuest Research Library indexes over 3800 titles and offers more than 2500 of those in full text. Titles are a diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines and newspapers.

ProQuest Research Library also offers Topic Guides, a tool that offers a guided search experience. Topic Guides are available for:

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ProQuest Newspapers indexes 27 newspapers and with 12 titles offered in full text. Also included is complete, cover to cover full text coverage for:

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution (1990-Present)
• Barron's (1988-Present)
• Boston Globe (1980-Present)
• Chicago Tribune (1985-Present)
• Christian Science Monitor (1988-Present)
• Los Angeles Times (1985-Present)
• The New York Times (1980-Present)
• USA Today (1987-Present)
• The Wall Street Journal (1984-Present)
• Washington Post (1987-Present)

Produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), PsycINFO indexes and abstracts articles, book chapters, books and dissertations from the 1800s to present.

PsycARTICLES is the authoritative source for full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in general psychology as well as specialized, applied, clinical and theoretical research.

The full text coverage for 59 journal titles (48 APA titles and 11 allied associations) includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata. Coverage of full text titles span 1985 to present.

The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others.

PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals.

PubMed provides access to bibliographic information that includes MEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, as well as:

• Out-of-scope citations (e.g., articles on plate tectonics or astrophysics) from certain MEDLINE journals, primarily general science and chemistry journals, for which the life sciences articles are indexed for MEDLINE
• Citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing
• Some additional life science journals that submit full text to PubMedCentral and receive a qualitative review by NLM

Offered by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), PMC includes full text articles for over 270 peer-reviewed life science journals. Participation by publishers in PMC is voluntary. Participating journals must meet certain editorial and technical standards.