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CogNet
CogNet is a collection of searchable electronic texts for cognitive and brain sciences, psychology and neurosciences. Resources available on CogNet include: books, conference proceedings, journals, reference tools, "grey" literature and institutional profiles of graduate programs in cognitive science related disciplines.

Communication Abstracts Online
Communication Abstracts Online covers communication-related articles, reports, papers, and books from a variety of publishers, research institutions, and information sources. Communication Abstracts Online has recently expanded its coverage to include international literature in film studies, the role of technology in human communications, risk communication, crisis communication and public opinions.

Early English Books Online
From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this incomparable collection now contains about 100,000 items but will over the next few years include the more than 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. This collection can fulfill the most exhaustive research requirements of graduate scholars - from their desktop! - in many subject areas, including: English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.

L'Année Philologique Online
L'Année Philologique Online, published by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique, is a bibliographic database of over 350,000 citations and abstracts covering classical studies and related topics from 1969 to the present. Over 1500 periodicals as well as some collections and conference papers are indexed and 12,500 records are added annually.

Oxford University Press Journals Online
OUP publishes over 150 journals online. The Oxford University Journals Online Collection includes some of the world's most highly cited and prestigious journals, in a broad range of subject disciplines.

ProQuest Digital Dissertations
This resource includes doctoral dissertations and master's theses of authors from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities. About 47,000 new dissertations and 12,000 new theses are added each year. The full text of approximately 500,000 dissertations published from 1997 forward is available to be read or downloaded.

New eResources in the Law Library

The Law Library provides access to the following new eResources:

AGIS Plus Text
Indexes law-related articles from Australian, New Zealand and Asia-Pacific Law Journals and selected articles from the U.S., Canada and the U.K. Full text available from more than 100 journals from 1999- ; Indexes more than 400 journals from 1975-.

Dominion Law Reports Plus
Full text of significant judgments from Canadian courts, 1912-

Hein Online
Includes full text images of almost 400 legal journals, primarily from U.S; includes more than 150 titles from Canada, other jurisdictions, or related to international law. Coverage for most titles begins with vol. 1 and continues up to the current year, due to licensing agreements.

CHRR Current Law Online
Canadian Human Rights Reporter contains the full text of current decisions not yet published in the annual print volume

19th Century Masterfile
Includes Jones & Chipman's Index to Legal Periodical Literature
(1786-1922)

Index to Federal and Ontario Statues

LLMC Digital
Includes a full text image-based searchable database of legal and government documents from their origin to recent years. Collections include U.S. Federal-Executive: documents of federal departments, agencies, commissions and other rule-making bodies; U.S. Federal-Judicial: publications of the federal courts and organizations related to the administration of the courts; U.S Federal-Legislative: publications of the Congress, its committees and agencies. Launched in September 2003, the service will expand regularly over the next 5 years.

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