Browse Databases by Title: S
http://0-proquestcombo.safaribooksonline.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
An electronic collection of over 3,600 computer-related technical books. Topics range from desktop application software to network engineering, and from application to theory. Publishers included are O’Reilly, Sams, Peachpit Press, New Riders, Microsoft Press, Cisco Press, Adobe Press, Addison-Wesley and others. The license allows for 5 simultaneous users.
http://0-online.sagepub.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/browsejournals.dtl?coll=COMM&journaltitle=Browse+by+Journal+Title
Includes the full text of 19 journals published by SAGE and participating societies in the areas of journalism, public opinion, political communication, mass communication, interpersonal communication, cultural studies/intercultural communication, television/film studies, media studies, business communication, organizational/management communication, written communication, rhetoric, and literacy studies.
http://0-www.sbrnet.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu
1996- .
Full text of current market research and industry news covering all facets of the sports industry: sports equipment sales, sports participation, sports broadcasting, sports sponsorship and sports marketing. Data comes from National Sporting Goods Association, U.S. Department of Commerce, various sports governing bodies, newsletters, and full-text articles from 14 magazines and newsletters published by Miller Freeman. SBRnet also has buyTRACK, by Harris Interactive, a tracking study of sporting goods purchasing habits on the Internet.
Science Citation Index (Web of Knowledge) ![]()
See Web of Science
http://www.thieme-chemistry.com/thieme-chemistry/sos/prod/
1909 - .
Currently contains approximately 2,000 generally applicable synthetic methods in organometallic and heterocyclic chemistry covering 18,000 reactions with roughly 80,000 structures. If you are looking for methods in a field not yet covered by Science of Synthesis, use the Electronic Backfile, which provides immediate access to 146,000 product specific experimental procedures, 580,000 structures and 700,000 references in all fields of synthetic organic chemistry, dating back to the early 1800s.
Location: Houben-Weyl Methods of Organic Chemistry, SCIENCE Reference QD258 .M44; Science of Synthesis, QD262 .S35 2000
http://0-www.sciencedirect.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu
1995- .
ScienceDirect contains over 1,800 journals published by Elsevier. The full text of most journals is available to Georgetown users. ScienceDirect covers mainly science and medicine, with some coverage of social sciences and humanities, particularly business, economics and psychology. You can browse or search in an individual journal or search across all journals.
SciFinder Scholar ![]()
1907 - .
A database for chemistry and related subjects which allows searching by chemical structure or reaction. Like its print equivalent, Chemical Abstracts, it covers journals, conference proceedings, patents, dissertations and books from 1907 to the present day.
Dates: 1907 - .
Additional Instructional Materials: SciFinder Scholar Support and Training Page
Available: GU faculty, students and staff only.
Print Versions: Chemical Abstracts
Notes: Client-Version Installation Instructions and Web-Version Registration Link; CAS SciFinder user agreement.
Location: Blommer Science Library. Ask at the Blommer reference desk.
http://0-galenet.galegroup.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/servlet/Scribner?locID=wash43584
1,600 full-text biocritical essays written and signed by noted scholars. Each entry averages 15-20 pages in length and includes a concise essay, hyperlinks for cross-referencing, biographical information placing the author's work in personal and historical context, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources for further study. The collection spans a wide variety of time periods, geographic locations and cultures (e.g., African American writers; English Romantic Period 1798-1870; Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome; Latin American Writers; Renaissance Writers; Modern Playwrights; Bible as Literature). Included in Literature Resource Center.
http://0-shakespeare.galegroup.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/shax/dispAdvSearch.do?prodId=SHAX&userGroupName=wash43584
The Shakespeare Collection provides online access to:
--The Arden Shakespeare (full text of scholarly editions of the complete works of Shakespeare)
--Full-text scholarly journals on literary and interdisciplinary topics (e.g., Renaissance, Elizabethan studies, Early Modern English studies, film studies)
--The First Folio, key Quartos, and major editions and adaptations from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries
--Prompt books detailing productions from the 17th century onward, from The Folger Shakespeare Library Collection, The Harvard Theatre Collection, The Shakespeare Library Collection (Birmingham, England), and The Shakespeare Centre Library Collection (Stratford-upon-Avon)
--Selected works by Shakespeare's contemporaries and other works available during Shakespeare's time
--The Gordon Crosse Theatrical Diary (eyewitness account of more than 60 years of Shakespeare productions)
--Reference materials providing background and context (e.g., Scribner's Shakespeare: His World, His Work, His Influence and Encyclopedia of the Renaissance)
--Photographs, line drawings, maps, and other illustrations of performances
http://0-cco.cambridge.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/collection?id=SSurvey
1948-
A yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Each volume is devoted to a theme, play or group of plays; each also contains reviews of that year's textual and critical studies and of the year's major British performances.
http://www.sharkrepellent.net/
Updated daily.
This database compiles information from a company's articles of incorporation, bylaws, and shareholder rights plan (poison pill). It includes state takeover statutes and all source documents.
http://0-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=SHSI
1915-present
Indexes short stories published in collections, anthologies and periodicals. Short Story Index contains the full text of over 4,000 short stories, starting with works published in 1984. Use Short Story Index Retrospective for 1915 to 1983. Search by author, title, keyword, source, date or subject, including people in the stories, genres and locales where the stories take place.
http://0-epubs.siam.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
Date varies by title.
Electronic edition of SIAM journals. Published on an accelerated article-by-article basis. They are the definitive editions for SIAM journals. Electronic articles in SIAM's nine research journals are now published in final form months, and in some cases years, in advance of their print counterparts.
http://us.subscriptionv3.skqs.com/skqs/download/
The SKQS is the single largest collection of literary works in the world, with 3,460 works and 36,000 volumes. Compiled by edict of China's Emperor Qianlong during the period from 1773-1782, its title can be translated as the Complete Library of Four Treasures (Classics, History, Literature and Biography). Requires installation of client program. Install setup.exe file.
http://0-georgetown2.classical.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
Electronic collection of music, songs, and aural traditions produced with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. It includes a variety of styles including folk, blues, bluegrass, old time country, American Indian, international, jazz, classical, Broadway, children's, and spoken words and sounds.
Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Knowledge) ![]()
http://0-isiknowledge.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/wos
1980- .
Web of Science is a multidisciplinary bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Distributed by the Institute for Scientific Information -- ISI, Web of Science at Georgetown University is a cumulation of three databases: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. In addition to traditional author, title and keyword searches, the citation databases offer access to articles' cited references -- the footnotes from authors' bibliographies. You may take a known, relevant paper and find other, more recent papers that cite it.
http://0-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=SSFT
1985-
Indexes the major scholarly journals in the social sciences, including public policy, since 1983. For prior years, use Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective.
Social Sciences Index
See Social Sciences Full Text
http://0-www.csa.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=hoya&access=hoya202&db=socioabs-set-c&adv=1
1963- . Citations and abstracts. Earlier years have citations only.
A primary resource for accessing the latest research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Based on an international selection of over 2500 journals and other serials, conference papers, books, and dissertations. Includes book, film and software reviews. Major areas of coverage include anthropology, collective behavior, community development, disaster studies, education, environmental studies, gender studies, gerontology, law and penology, marriage and family studies, medicine and health, racial interactions, social psychology, social work, sociological theory, stratification, substance abuse, urban studies and violence.
Location: Ref. HM 1 .S67 1952-2000
http://proxy.library.georgetown.edu/login?url=http://legacysocrates.kld.com/Socrates/CompanySearch/Home.asp
SOCRATES has in-depth profiles of over 650 US and international major corporations. Corporate social responsibilities issues covered relate to community, diversity, employee relations, environment, non-U.S. operations, products, alcohol, tobacco, gambling, nuclear power and military contracting.
http://0-new.sourceoecd.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
1998-
SourceOECD is the online publications portal of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Contains over 1,500 books, 20 journals and newsletters, 10 statistical periodicals, reference works, and 600 interactive statistical data tables in over 25 database products published since 1998. Text can be searched by theme or country. Statistics can be searched by title and theme. Statistical databases allow users to build their own tables from the latest data, draw graphs and tables, and download to Excel or as .csv files.
Location: All titles also received in print. Check George
http://0-www.specialissues.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
Indexes special issues of magazines. Special issues are any regularly published special editorial content from over 3,000 trade magazines, e.g. Supply Chain Technology News, World Oil, Hoosier Banker. Examples of special issues include: industry outlooks, overviews, or surveys; statistical issues; company ranking lists; buyers guides; salary surveys; product/industry focus issues; membership directories; who's who registers; tradeshow specials; etc. Many special issues are available on the Internet and are designed to be interactive/searchable and provide greater content than the printed versions. Additional information for the magazines' websites are also inlcuded: industry links, market report, buying guides, dictionary, or archives. Also contains Gary Price's List of Lists (LOL) in the right frame of the website. LOL has selective free webpages from trade magazines arranged by industry.
http://0-scitation.aip.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/vsearch/servlet/VerityServlet?KEY=ALL
Date varies by title.
The SPIN database (Searchable Physics Information Notices) provides the most current indexing and abstracting of major American and Russian physics and astronomy journals. SPIN contains the abstracts of over 80 scientific journals published by the American Institute of Physics and its Member Societies since 1975, as well as selected articles from other scientific journals, totaling close to 1 million articles.
http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=sph
SportDiscus provides access to full text and bibliographic references in sport administration, facility design & management, sport law & legislation, coaching and training, officiating, college & university sport, individual and team sports, intramural & school sport, sports medicine, sport & exercise psychology, physical education, health education, corporate wellness, sports science, sport history, sport engineering, sport sociology, sport tourism, recreation and leisure studies, sports and disabled populations, movement science, physical therapy, and other related fields.
http://0-www.srds.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/library
SRDS Media Solutions provide access to publications with information about advertising rates and deadlines, editorial or programming content, circulation, links to online media kits, Web sites, audit statements, and other basic information for a variety of advertising media: radio, business magazines, consumer magazines, direct mailings, out-of-home (billboards, airports, etc.) and interactive (Internet). This source is designed for the media buyer, but also is helpful for identifying target audiences or choosing publications for submitting articles.
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
http://0-www.netadvantage.standardandpoors.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
Various
Company information for publicly-traded and some private corporations. Also includes over 50 U.S. industry surveys. Print equivalents include Standard & Poor's: "Stock Reports" "Company Profiles" "Bond Guide" "Corporation Records" "Mutual Fund Reports" "Security Dealers of North America" "Register of Corporations, Directors & Executives" "Industry Surveys" "The Outlook"
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/
This scholarly, full-text encyclopedia is being developed by Stanford University. High standards of quality and authority: sophisticated, easy-to-use interface. Brief definitions are followed by deep analysis. Aimed at undergraduates through professionals.
http://www.stat-usa.gov/
The focus of this U. S. Dept. of Commerce database is export and opportunities for U.S. businesses. Offers reports and statistical information on markets in individual countries and demand for products. Other trade related data included exchange rates, international transactions and agricultural information. Available on most public terminals within Lauinger Library.
http://0-ebooks.greenwood.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/reader.jsp?ws=WS_GW_EBOOKS&as=reader.jsp&x=OLILS&p=DICTxP-1&bc=EOLILS
Provides the full text of three reference works: Dictionary of Irish Literature; Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook; and Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Included are profiles of more than 1,300 novelists, playwrights, humorists, politicians, publishers, and arts organizations. Entries analyze and place in historical context major works and themes.
Location: Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook LAU Ref. PR 8727 .G66 1997 Dictionary of Irish Literature LAU Ref. PR 8706 .D5 1996 Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995 LAU Ref. PR 8789 .I67 1997


