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Electronic Indexes and Databases by Document Type

Library Catalogs and Publication Lists
Title and Description	Some Fulltext	Coverage

Directory of Open Access Journals
Directory of scientific and scholarly journals freely available via the Web

English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)		To 1801
Union catalog of holdings in more than 2000 libraries world-wide, including the British Library. Covers monograph and serial letterpress items printed before 1801 in the British Isles, Colonial America, United States of America (1776-1800), Canada, or territories governed by Britain, in all languages and printed in any other part of the world, wholly or partly in English or other British vernaculars. Includes records for every item in Pollard and Redgrave's A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad 1473-1640 (STC); every item in Wing's A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America and of English Books Printed in Other Countries 1641-1700; every item in the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (the predecessor of ESTC), including items catalogued by the American Antiquarian Society as part of the North American Imprints Program (NAIP); and newspapers and other serials which began publication before 1801.

Faculty Scholarship Database
Citations to various types of scholarly research and activities of the Vassar College faculty.

Google Scholar
Links to peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations

GPO Monthly Catalog (FirstSearch)		1976-current
The most comprehensive finding aid for U.S. government publications. A catalog of and index to U.S. government publications received by the Government Printing Office (GPO). An electronic version for 1976 to date of The Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications.

IndexCat: the Surgeon General's Index		1880-1961
The online version of the Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, U.S. Army (61 volumes in 5 series, 1880-1961), is a comprehensive subject catalog of books, pamphlets, dissertations, reports, and journal articles published from the 17th-20th century and held by NLM.

LitFinder (Gale)		Antiquity-current
Includes fulltext of poems, short stories, essays, speeches and plays from antiquity to the present.

MarciveWeb DOCS (Marcive)		1976-current
Index to documents published by the U.S. Government.

OAIster
Freely available, difficult-to-access, digital resources (electronic books, online journals, audio files, images, movies, reference texts, etc.) OAIster is a project of the Univ. of Michigan Digital Library Production Services.

ProceedingsFirst (FirstSearch)		Current year plus most recent 3 years
Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre. Contains in each record a list of the papers presented at each conference.

WorldCat (FirstSearch)		Dates vary
Online catalog of books and other material cataloged by OCLC member libraries worldwide.