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Sharpe Online Reference -Core references in U. S. History and Culture

Sharpe Online Reference (SOLR) explores the broad range of events, people, movements, and political, social, economic, and cultural issues that have shaped the nation from colonial times to the present day.

/SOLR Web Links Collection/
Organized by historical periods and topical categories, this collection of links provides direct-click access to nearly 650 carefully selected and vetted Web sites pertaining to American history and culture. All sites have been selected for authority, depth and quality of information, and stability.

/Primary Source Archive/
This text and media module makes history come alive through first-person accounts, vintage illustrations, document reproductions, and a selection of multimedia features—including audio recordings and video clips—of seminal historic events, notable figures, speeches, court rulings, and social and artistic movements. Consisting of more than 250 documents, images, and audio/visual clips from colonial times to the twenty-first century, the archive also includes a visual timeline for context and navigation, and concise commentary on every text and media item.

/Image Gallery
/For users interested in exploring the photograph collection in the SOLR collection of encyclopedias, the Image Gallery provides easy navigation and ready access. Search for a specific subject or browse alphabetically, then click on a thumbnail for full-size display, caption text, and a link to the corresponding encyclopedia article.

LexisNexis Congressional Digital Archive Subscription - The LexisNexis Serial Set Digital Collection_* provides comprehensive, full-text access to over 337,000 Congressional and Executive branch documents and reports published in over 13,000
volumes of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set from 1817-1969. The /Serial Set Digital Collection/ also provides full text access to the
entire American State Papers series at no additional charge.

LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection II - contains all published House and Senate documents and reports from 1970 to the
present as text-enabled PDFs. The reports are usually from congressional committees dealing with proposed legislation and issues
under investigation. Invaluable to researchers because they explain the legislative intent of bills under consideration.

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Authorized persons may login to these databases from off campus by using their e-mail user name (everything left of the @xula.edu) and e-mail password.

How to access Xavier databases from off campus

Academic Search Premier- /Academic Search Complete/ is a valuable and comprehensive *scholarly*, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,990 full-text periodicals, including more than *5,030 peer-reviewed journals*. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,990 journals and a total of more than 10,400 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features Adobe PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 journals. Make certain to check the "Peer-Reviews" check box in the advanced search feature to search for that content if necessary.

ACM Digital Library - The ACM DL is a collection of citations and full text from the Association for Computing Machinery journal, newsletter articles and conference proceedings.
The *DL* is the full-text repository of papers from publications that have been published, co-published, or co-marketed by ACM and other publishers. The *Guide* is a collection of bibliographic citations and abstracts of works published by ACM and other publishers. Citations for all ACM published works are included in the Guide as a small subset of the total bibliographic space.

ACS Publications - American Chemical Society current Web Editions (1996 forward) and Journal Archives (1879-1995)

African-American History Online - Provides in-depth information on the people, events, and topics important to the study of African-American history.

Agricola - This database contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage for AGRICOLA dates back to 1970 and includes more than 4.6 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture.

Alt Health Watch - This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. This database features indexing and abstracts going back as far as 1984, and full text going back as far as 1990

Annual Reviews – Founded in 1932, Annual Reviews provides researchers, professors, and scientific professionals with definitive academic resources in 32 scientific disciplines. Annual Reviews saves time by synthesizing the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in the various fields. Complimentary online access has been provided by Annual Reviews.

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals. The ATLA Religion Database includes more than 416,000 article citations from more than 1,500 journals (571 currently indexed), more than 210,000 essay citations from over 15,700 multi-author works, and more than 432,000 book review citations. This database begins in 1949 although indexing for some journal titles extends back into the nineteenth century. This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association.

Art Abstracts - Art Abstracts, provided by EBSCO Host, allows the user to search specialized media with some full-text capability. Art Abstracts allows users to search through documents and other formats such as art reproductions, video recording reviews, autobiographies & biographies, bibliographies, choreography reviews, corporate profiles, exhibits, fiction, television reviews, film reviews, opera reviews, musical comedy reviews, interviews, obituaries and other varied sources. Among the search modes available to users is "Smart Text Searching" in which the users is allowed to "Enter as much text for your search as you want - a phrase, a sentence, paragraph, or even whole pages."