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– Changes to OCLC’s FirstSearch:
Though these databases may be available from other sources, beginning June 30th, 2011 FirstSearch from OCLC will no longer offer access to the following databases:
• ABI/INFORM
• Applied Science & Technology Abstracts and Index
• Art Abstracts and Art Index
• Biography Index
• Biological & Agricultural Index
• Biology Digest
• Book Review Digest
• Books in Print and nooks in Print with Reviews
• Business Dateline
• CA Student Edition
• Contemporary Women’s Issues
• Dissertation Abstracts Online
• Education Abstracts
• Education Index
• Essay and General Literature Index
• General Sciences Abstracts and General Sciences Index
• GEOBASE
• Humanities Abstracts and humanities Index
• Index to Legal Periodicals & Books
• Library Literature
• Newspaper Abstracts
• PAIS Archive
• PAIS International
• Periodical Abstracts
• PsycINFO
• Readers’ Guide Abstracts
• SIRS Researcher
• Social Sciences Abstracts
• Social Sciences Index
• Sociological Abstracts
• Wilson Business Abstracts and Wilson Select Plus
– Taylor & Francis Online
“Taylor & Francis’ new online platform, Taylor & Francis Online, www.tandfonline.com, will replace access to the 1,600 Journals and Reference Works currently on informaworld…We are currently in the advanced stages of testing and plan to migrate from informaworld to Taylor & Francis Online over the course of the weekend beginning 25th June 2011…The new site will then be live from 27th June.”
Electronic resources such as e-journals and databases are generally accessible only to Duke community members such as faculty, staff and students.