The Tufts Libraries and the Tufts University Alumni Association (TUAA) are happy to announce that Tufts alumni can now access ABI-Inform , Expanded Academic Index, and Ovid MEDLINE from their homes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week free of cost. This initiative, funded by the Friends of the Libraries and the TUAA, puts Tufts University in the forefront of its peers in providing services to alumni.
- Expanded Academic Index, a multi-disciplinary database with full-text articles and/or abstracts from some 1,500 scholarly and trade journal in a wide variety of fields.
- ABI Inform, a business, finance, and economics database with full-text articles and/or abstracts from more than 1,700 premier business and management journals in both trade and scholarly fields.
- Ovid MEDLINE, A database of international biomedical journal literature including over 11 million citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, allied health, and pre-clinical sciences. The database offers premier functionality including a MeSH thesaurus, full explosion and pre-explosion capability, subheadings, scope notes, and permuted index browsing. Alumni will also have full text access to seventeen of the Current Opinion titles through Ovid. Coverage, 1950-current; updated daily.
Accessing These Resources
Alumni can access these resources through the Tufts Alumni Online Community. Fletcher alumni can access the resources via the Fletcher Online Community. Likewise, Webster Veterinary Alumni can access the resources through the Vet School Online Community. Upon registration, alumni will select a username and password that will allow them to access the databases and other alumni services. Alumni must always go through the Online Community to access the databases via the "library databases" link. If you are unable to get into the databases, please send an email to the Alumni Online Community at olchelp@tufts.edu.
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Acronyms and Abbreviations
Almanacs
Archives
- Commonwealth
of Massachusetts: History Links to publications and agencies
concerned with Massachusetts history and preservation.
- NYPL Digital Gallery NYPL
Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary
sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library,
including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters,
rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
- U.S. National
Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
- Repositories
of Primary Sources Listing of over 4000 websites describing
holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs,and
other primary sources for the research scholar.
Associations
Calendars/Date/Time
Careers and Employment
- America's Career InfoNet A comprehensive career site developed
by the Department of Labor. It provides access to job banks, employment service providers,
and career education. Each career field has a general outlook section, wages and trends,
what it takes (education, certification, etc.), a career video and state profiles and
employment information.
- Tufts Career Services
The Career Planning Center Library includes career information,
directories, job guides, resume guides, and regional guides.
The library maintains some company reports, alumni contacts,
notebooks of internships, and job listings from on-campus recruiters.
Consumer Information
Conversion Tables
Dictionaries/ Encyclopedias/ Thesauri
Financial Aid/ Grants/ Scholarships
Maps and Atlases
Quotations
Sports
Statistics
Tax Information
Telephone Directories/ Yellow Pages/ E-mail
Travel
Voter Information
Weather
Zip Codes/Postal Codes
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