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Beginning in 1956 with coverage of 20 titles, CPI currently indexes over 100 selected publications from the broad spectrum of knowledge including science, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, history, sociology, nursing, and education. Coverage is representative of the major doctrinal positions within evangelical Christianity.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for more than 3000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL Plus with Full Text covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters, as well as Evidence-Based Care Sheet.

Clase and Periodica is an index of articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.

CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIÓDICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Together, they offer access to citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.

The Classical Music Library is the world's first recorded classical music collection provided on-line
for listening on computers. More than 50,000 tracks now available, a large and growing collection of classical music recordings for listening, browsing and searching are provided, benchmarked against the Music Library Association listing of essential sound recordings. Classical.com has licensed recordings from some of the most respected classical music labels in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe, and legally compensates artists and labels. Thousands of program notes, composer biographies, and images are cross-referenced to the recordings, and the latest classical music news and information are provided by the Classical editorial team. Advanced searching functionalities are available to aid research in a range of ways suited to user levels of knowledge. Methods are provided to organize, create, and save music selections.

The reviews are highly structured and systematic, with evidence included or excluded on the basis of explicit quality criteria, to minimize bias. Data is evidence-based medicine and is often combined statistically (with meta-analysis) to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies, each too small to produce reliable results individually. This database is updated quarterly.

The ComAbstracts database contains abstracts of articles and books published in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field as well as bibliographic records and audio materials. No other electronic resource on the world wide web provides more comprehensive coverage of the communication discipline's first line scholarship. (From Communication Institute for Online Scholarship.)

Communication & Mass Media Complete incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource in the communication and mass media fields. CMMC offers cover-to-cover (core) indexing and abstracts for over 390 journals, and selected (priority) coverage of over 200 more, for a combined coverage of nearly 600 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for nearly 300 journals. Many major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable citations from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915). CMMC contains a sophisticated controlled vocabulary and comprehensive reference browsing (i.e. searchable citations for all peer-reviewed journals covered as 'core').

Compendex is a comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database, the electronic equivalent of the print Engineering Index. Compendex covers the entire spectrum of engineering, in depth, with abstracts from over 2,600 international journals, conference papers and proceedings, and technical reports.

Each year, over 220,000 new abstracts are added from 175 disciplines and major specialties. Besides applied engineering, coverage also extends to manufacturing, quality control, and engineering management issues.

Subject keywords: Mechanical engineering. Civil engineering. Environmental engineering. Computer and Electrical engineering. Structural engineering. Process engineering. Materials science. Solid state physics and superconductivity. Bioengineering. Energy. Chemical engineering. Optics. Air and water pollution. Solid waste management. Hazardous waste. Road transportation. Transportation safety.

Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology with abstracts and indexing for nearly 450 periodicals and full text for nearly 300. Topics include computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software. This database features nearly 300 full text periodicals, some reaching as far back as 1985, covering valuable market information in computers, telecommunications, electronics, and the Internet.

Computers & Applied Sciences Complete covers the spectrum of the applied sciences, representing knowledge on traditional engineering challenges and providing material for research concerning the business and social implications of new technology. CASC provides indexing and abstracting for more than 1300 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources. Full Text is available for more than 500 periodicals. Subject areas include the many engineering disciplines, computer theory, new technologies, and social & professional context. Research is aided by the inclusion of searchable cited references for key journals.

Established in 2001 in response to the need for a freely-available computerized database of literature pertaining to the creation/evolution controversy, the goal is to archive every periodical ever published about the creation/evolution or religion/science debate.