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ScienceDirect

ScienceDirect from Elsevier offers more than 11 million full text journal articles and book chapters from peer reviewed periodicals and critically reviewed monographs. ScienceDirect’s extensive and unique full text database covers authoritative titles from the core scientific literature, including high-impact factor titles such as The Lancet, Cell, and Tetrahedron, covering the full range of current scientific research across all fields.

Access to Science Direct is available to the general public, and full-text articles can be obtained through arrangement with the Reference Services Dept. of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh through e-mail (info@carnegielibrary.org) or phone (412.622.3175).

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Scientific American

This resource is only available from inside Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

Full text archives of Scientific American beginning in 1845 through 2005. Select archive from the content menu on the left side (right under the title heading.) In the center of the page, under Issues, select the appropriate time span, or if you have a citation, use the search box in the upper right of the page to find the article.

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Short Story Index Retrospective: 1915 – 1983

This resource is available to CLP cardholders only.

Short Story Index Retrospective is the definitive tool for locating historical short stories written between 1915 and 1983, Content Includes bibliographic entries on more than 150,000 short stories published over 150 years, citations to short stories published from the 1830s to the 1980s, from some 350 periodicals and collections of short stories. Subject Indexing Includes: locating stories according to topics and themes, locales where stories take place, genres, names of individuals, peoples, or professions that stories are about.

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Slavery And Anti-Slavery: Parts I-IV

This resource is available to CLP cardholders only.

Slavery and Anti-Slavery includes collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions.

Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition                           

Part II: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World

Part III: The Institution of Slavery                                           

Part IV: The Age of Emancipation

 

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Small Engine Repair Reference Center (SERRC)

Detailed repair guides for all types of small engines. Offers assistance in providing routine maintenance (tune-ups, brake service) as well as extensive repairs such as engine and transmission disassembly. Search by product type, brand, model/engine type, specific area of model/engine type and model numbers.

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Smithsonian Collection Online: Trade Catalogs & Merchandising

The evolution of business is inextricably linked with American and international history and identity. You can now explore this aspect of American and international life via catalogs, pamphlets, advertising materials, and ephemera on essential industries that emerged in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries — steam engines, railroads, motorized vehicles, agricultural/farm machinery, building and construction, mining, and more. The collection exposes technological advances over time, changes in fashion/design, architectural advances, societal changes, and business history. Trade Literature and the Merchandizing of Industry is comprised of items selected from the National Museum of American History, and contains about one million pages of primary source content.

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