| Alphabetic List of Databases: "P's" |
| PAIS International with Archive |
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| The PAIS International database from CSA contains references to more than 553,300 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. The PAIS Archive database comprises a retrospective conversion of the PAIS Annual Cumulated Bulletin, Volumes 1-62, published 1915-1976. At completion of this conversion, the PAIS Archive contains over 1.23 million records. |
| PapersFirst |
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| PapersFirst indexes papers from every congress, exposition, workshop, symposium and meeting received at the British Library since October 1993. |
| Patent Database |
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| The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) offers access to bibliographic and full-text patent databases. These databases cover the period from January 1, 1976 to the most recent weekly issue date (usually each Tuesday). The database can be searched by 27 fields, including title, number, date, assignee, inventor, abstract, class and examiner. Users must have a TIFF viewer to view the full image of patents. |
| Periodical Abstracts |
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| Periodical Abstracts has more than 3,000,000 records describing significant articles from more than 1,500 of the leading general and academic journals. Each record provides full- bibliographic information. Covered topics include current affairs, business and industry news and analysis, cultural events and issues, academic topics of general interest and editorial material that includes commentaries, sports, leisure and travel information and reviews of books, concerts, exhibitions, films, restaurants and theater. |
| Physical Education Index |
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| CSA Physical Education Index allows all researchers and professionals in the field to acquire accurate and scholarly information in this comprehensive database. These abstracts feature a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology. Health education and physical therapy are also covered as they continue to become more prevalent in our society. |
| PILOTS Database |
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| The PILOTS Bibliographic database is provided by CSA and covers the published literature on Traumatic Stress. Its purpose is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental- health issues caused by traumatic events. |
| Plant Science |
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| Plant Science is a bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts of scientific literature on plant science, focusing on all plant scientific aspects, especially on pathology, symbiosis, biochemistry, genetics, biotechnology, techniques and environmental biology. Over 250 primary research journals are scanned by specialized scientific editors to add approximately 23,000 titles to the database each year. |
| Population Index |
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| Population Index, published since 1935, is a primary reference tool for the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers and other material on population topics. Available on this website is a searchable and browseable database containing 40,243 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986-1999. |
| Primary Search |
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| Primary Search, designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children's rooms, contains full text for more than 60 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines. Full text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets. |
| ProceedingsFirst |
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| Proceedings First provides the tables of contents of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Each record contains a list of the papers presented at each conference. Like its companion, PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst provides access to the British Library Document Supply Center's vast collection of conference proceedings. |
| Project Gutenberg |
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| Project Gutenberg contains over 25,000 free full-text electronic books, including many titles from renowned authors. Most disciplines are included in this resource and books from many other languages are also available. |
| Project Muse |
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| Project MUSE provides only full-text articles from over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. Every title in Project MUSE is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal. |
| Proquest Historical New York Times |
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| Proquest Historical New York Times provides full-text and full-image articles for the New York Times dating back to 1851. For most dates, the collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue--cover to cover--in downloadable PDF files. |
| PsycARTICLES (EBSCOhost) |
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| PsycARTICLES provides full-text articles on current issues in psychology from respected sources, spanning from 1987 to the present. It includes more than 34,000 full-text articles from 43 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. |
| Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCOhost) |
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| Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection provides coverage of nearly 550 full-text journals, including more than 500 peer-reviewed titles. It covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. |
| PsycINFO (EBSCOhost) |
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| PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports, all in the field of psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law. |
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