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Databases and Indexes - C through C

C19: The Nineteenth Century Index

C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is a growing all-inclusive bibliographic spine for 19th-century research. C19 is a one-stop finding tool covering multiple content types, providing records for millions of documents ranging from books and newspapers to government documents and periodicals at the article level.
 
Cabell's Directory Of Publishing Opportunities

Directory of thousands of journals in Business (accounting, economics & finance, management, and marketing), Education (curriculum & methods, psychology & administration, and technology & library science), and Psychology. Individual journal records (in PDF format) include contact information for each journal; information on the journal's topical scope, peer review processes, circulation data, and acceptance rate; and manuscript submission guidelines.
 
CAMIO: Catalog For Art Images Online

CAMIO is an online collection of art images—prints, drawings, paintings, photographs, textiles, costumes, sculpture, and more—from leading museums. The 95,000+ images represent the output of cultures from across the globe and from prehistoric times to the present. All images are rights-cleared for educational use.
 
Catholic Periodical & Literature Index

Index to about 150 Catholic interest publications, including journals, newspapers, books, reviews, and church documents (Vatican pronouncements and bishops' official statements). This online index begins in 1981. The print version (Ireland Library Reference) began back in 1930.
 
Chicago Manual Of Style

This resource is the online version of the 15th edition of the print manual. It also includes a “Quick Guide” for basics in citing sources, and a Q&A section. The main “Chicago Manual of Style” link provides access to the sections of the book through the table of contents. The index provides links to the specific pages in the online resource.
 
Child Care And Early Education Research Connections

This database includes scholarly research, policy briefs, government reports, bibliographies and other information sources related to the fields of child care and early childhood education. Focus on children, birth-age 8. Articles on school age child care cover up to age 13, but research on elementary education is outside the scope of thie collection.
 
Child Development And Adolescent Studies

Child Development & Adolescent Studies, produced by NISC, is today's source for references to the current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21. Book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations covering biomedical and social sciences worldwide are indexed.
 
ChoiceReviews Online

CHOICE reviews significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education. ChoiceReviews.online provides Web access to the entire database of CHOICE reviews published since September 1988. The database is updated monthly.
 
Chronicle Of Higher Education

Published weekly, The Chronicle is the No. 1 news source for college and university faculty members and administrators.
 
CIAO Online (Columbia International Affairs)

Source for materials on theory and research in international affairs. Includes working papers, conference proceedings, journal abstracts, books, policy briefs, economic indicators, and more. Dates and coverage vary.
 
Clase/Periodica

It indexes documents published in Latin America in Spanish, Portuguese and English. It covers science and technology, social sciences, and humanities. Offers access to more than 300,000 bibliographic citations from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports and other.
 
CLCLT Library Of Latin Texts

Available n CD-Rom in the Ireland Library. CLCLT is the world's leading database for Latin texts, from late 2nd century BCE to the 15th century, covering the classical period, important patristic works, an extensive corpus of medieval literature as well as works of recentior latinitas.
 
Columbia Gazetteer

The Columbia Gazetteer of the World is a comprehensive encyclopedia of geographical places and features. CGW contains 170,000 articles about 1) the political world—(named geographic places), 2) The physical world (major features) and 3) special places—(national parks, historic places, etc.).
 
Columbia Granger's World Of Poetry

Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry contains 250,000 poems in full text and 450,000 citations. The poems in full text are the most widely-read in the English language, as well as in Spanish, French, German, and Italian. Included also is poetry in Portuguese, Polish, Yiddish, Welsh, Gaelic, and other Celtic languages, as well as poems in the ancient languages: Anglo-Saxon, Provencal and Latin. The database offers complete coverage of the works of several individual great poets, including the complete poems of Shelley, Blake, Burns, Keats, Marvell, Poe, Unamuno, Heine, Baudelaire, and other major poets. Current poetry from some of the best poetry periodicals, such as Poetry Magazine, The Southern Review, and Poetry Northwest, is also included. A comprehensive Subject Browse option, commentaries, and biographies of leading poets are included as well.
 
Communication And Mass Media Complete

Communication and Mass Media Complete is an essential research tool in areas related to communications and mass media. It is also useful for literacy or ESL research in the field of education. It includes full or selective indexing of over 600 journals, a “Communication Thesaurus” tool, searchable cited references, and author profiles for the most frequently researched authors.
 
Complete Dictionary Of Scientific Biography

This respected resource is a biographical dictionary of the significant players in the physical, biological and related sciences. Each edition includes biographical entries on approximately 120,000 living scientists, providing birthdate; birthplace; field of specialty; education; honorary degrees; current position; professional and career information; awards; memberships; research information; and addresses for each entrant where available.
 
Computer & Information Systems Abstracts

Abstracts (summaries) of computer research & practical applications; includes conference papers; international scope. 1993- .
 
Computer Database

Computer Database covers computer science, electronics, and telecommunications. It includes full-text articles and abstracts from more than 800 journals and periodicals.
 
Conference Board: Business Cycle Indicators

Commentaries, charts, and data for standard economic indicators in the United States (Ignore any messages that say “U.S. Indicators are $35 per series.” UST subscribes to U. S. data only.) The commentaries and charts can be viewed online, and data can be downloaded.
 
Conference Board: Consumer Confidence

The Conference Board conducts a monthly survey of 5000 households to ascertain the level of consumer confidence.
 
 
Constitutions Of The Countries Of The World

Constitutions of the Countries of the World Online offers access to 187 country constitutions with extensive expert commentary from leading scholars worldwide. Accurate, original English translations, plus the ability to search for topics across all nations makes Constitutions of the Countries of the World Online a must-have for anyone involved in constitutional or comparative law.
 
Consumer Health Complete

Consumer Health Complete provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information from medical encyclopedias, popular reference books and magazine articles. Thousands of full text, evidence-based, health reports and cover-to-cover, full text access to nearly 570 consumer health related periodicals as well as the UPI English-Language Health Newswire are included in this database.
 
Contemporary Authors

Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on approximately 100,000 U.S. and international authors. Current.
 
Contemporary Women's Issues Gale

Contemporary Women’s Issues “provides full-text access to global information on women in over 190 countries. It indexes books, journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, and fact sheets. It includes links to full-text articles for many resources.”
 
Contemporary Womens' Issues

Index with some abstracts (summaries) of women's issues on health & human rights; includes bibliographies selected from indexed items
 
Country Commercial Guides

Country Commercial Guides: Present a comprehensive look at all aspects of doing business in another country, including the economic, political, social, and legal environment. Part of StatUSA
 
CQ Almanac

Since it was first published in 1946, CQ Almanac has been the definitive annual reference for studying the U.S. Congress.
 
CQ Electronic Library

Search all CQ resources together. Includes CQ Researcher + Archive, CQ Weekly, CQ Almanac, CQ Global Researcher and Political Handbook of the World.
 
CQ Global Researcher

CQ Global Researcher provides students with definitive, in-depth coverage of global affairs from a number of international viewpoints. Available exclusively online, CQ Global Researcher offers focused, readable, single-topic reports on vital world issues. Written by seasoned journalists with years of international experience, these reports make use of such popular sections as "current situation," "pro-con," and a new feature called "voices from abroad."
 
CQ Researcher + Archive

Original in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Each 13,000-word CQ Researcher report is a unique work, investigated and written by a seasoned journalist.
 
CQ Weekly

CQ Weekly includes sections called: Vantage Point, a section of intelligence reports designed to give the flavor of the Washington power game; In Focus: CQ's writers take you into the back rooms of official Washington. CQ Roundtable, will be a rotating column on critical issues of the day such as library digitization, courts, the law, etc. The Cover Story will occupy center stage of the magazine. The Weekly Report section will aggregate all the essential news and analysis from the week in Congress which includes legislative reports that tell you what's in the bill, how it got there and where it's going next. Every roll call vote in the House and Senate will follow.
 
Credo Reference

Resource of reference materials providing access to about 100 online reference books including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations from a variety of publishers. Covers both general reference and subject-specific reference titles for a variety of disciplines. Allows for cross-referencing across different books and provides a unique, graphics-based research Mapper for topic exploration.
 
Criminal Justice Abstracts

Comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines. contains indexes and summaries of international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on virtually any topic in criminal justice. Updated quarterly. 1968- .