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Factiva Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company, provides comprehensive coverage of business news and information from over 9,000 sources. Coverage includes newspapers, newswires, business journals, trade publications, and company reports. International in scope; content is provided in over 20 languages. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Facts on File World News Digest A record of U.S. and international news that is updated weekly, World News Digest covers all major political, social, and economic events since November 1940. It contains more than 1 million internal hyperlinks. [Info]

FAITS - Faulkner's Advisory for IT Studies Reports covering such key technology areas as IT infrastructure, telecom, data networking, wireless communications, security, enterprise systems, the Internet, as well as technology vendors. [Info] Full Text Resource!

FAO Statistical Databases -- See FAOSTAT

FAOSTAT FAO Statistical Databases On-line and multilingual database currently containing over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics in the following areas: production, trade, food balance sheets, fertilizer and pesticides, land use and irrigation, forest products, fishery products, population, agricultural machinery and food aid shipments. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Fast Reference Facts Answers are provided for more than 5,000 frequently asked questions the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and the St. Louis Public Library. Sample questions: Who are represented by the masks of comedy and tragedy?; What are the seven wonders of the world?, etc. [Info] Available in Central Library only

Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center (FJSRC) [BJS] Information about suspects and defendants at each stage of Federal criminal case processing. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Fedstats Statistics from more than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government. The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains this site to provide easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by these agencies for public use. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index "Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. (Books written by a single author are not indeed in MFI.)" The database also includes records and abstracts for dissertations written between 1992 and 2002. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals FIAF Index to Film Periodicals is a bibliographical index offering in-depth coverage of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals from 1972 to the present day. [Info]

Fieser and Fieser's Reagents for Organic Synthesis The online site for the essential reference that has provided generations of chemists with the latest in reagent literature. Here you'll find the entire contents of all print volumes, including an A to Z listing of all reagents cited in synthetic literature with concise descriptions and illustrations of chemical reactions. To save you time in researching, all information about a particular reagent is collected in one single article. Thousands of entries abstract the most important information on commonly used and new reagents, including preparation, uses, sources of supply, critical comments, references and more. [Info]

Film Literature Index Online, 1976-2001 "The Film Literature Index (FLI) annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. The periodicals range from the scholarly to the popular. More than 2,000 subject headings provide detailed analysis of the articles."

"The FLI Online contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001." [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Fine Arts sites recommended by Vanderbilt librarians [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

First Research This resource has three main sections of key business intelligence interest: Industry Profiles, Industry Prospector, and States/Provinces. There are more than 200 Industry Profiles which are updated every 90 days. The Industry Prospector allows you to search for industry drivers and key economic metrics such as financial, industry and employment growth, and prices and spending. The State/Provinces section gives a state level view of key industries, growth factors and business news that define the market. [Info] Full Text Resource!

FirstSearch This database menu offers access to the 13 OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) databases providing access to indexes and full-text or abstracts of a wide range of academic and professional material. A direct link to each database is also available on the library databases menus. [Info] Full Text Resource!

FirstSearch Periodical Search Search a journal title and find where it is indexed and where it is available in full text. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

FirstSearch version -- See Medline

Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) [1863-1960] The official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. This site contains digital facsimiles of an incomplete run from 1863 to 1960 of Foreign Relations of the United States with missing volumes being added by Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison as they are acquired and processed. Produced by U.S. Dept. of State; made available online by Univ. of Wisconsin. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), 1861- The official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. Volumes published over the last two decades increasingly contain declassified records from all the foreign affairs agencies. Full text covers 1861-1976. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), 1960- The official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. Volumes published over the last two decades increasingly contain declassified records from all the foreign affairs agencies. Broad online coverage begins with the Kennedy Administration and continues through the Nixon-Ford Administrations. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

formerly Datamonitor 360 -- See MarketLine

Formerly Global Development Finance -- See International Debt Statistics (Beta Site)

Formerly LexisNexis Congressional -- See Proquest Congressional (PQ Cong)

Formerly LexisNexis Congressional Hearings -- See Proquest Congressional Hearings

Formerly LexisNexis Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports -- See Proquest Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports

Forms and Publications - Internal Revenue Service (IRS) [tax forms] Web version--most current Comprehensive site to download forms and instructions and to download or browse tax publication booklets. Fulltext. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Forrester Forrester is an independent research firm that analyzes the future of technology change and its impact on businesses, consumers and society. It provides a picture of the Internet economy through its research in Internet commerce, corporate technology, and consumer behavior. Jupiter media research and analysis is now incorporated in the Forrester database. Our license does not include direct access to Forrester analysts for research inquiries, please do not phone, write, or send e-mail inquiries. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Foundation Directory Online (FDO) "Foundation Directory Online Professional provides subscribers with access to an unprecedented wealth of timely, comprehensive information on grantmakers and their grants. Included is a database of the entire universe of over 96,000 foundations, corporate giving programs, and grantmaking public charities in the U.S.; a database of over 3,500 sponsoring companies, offering a quick pathway to corporate funders; a database of over 1.5 million recently awarded grants; and a keyword-searchable database of over 561,000 recently filed IRS Forms 990 and 990-PF." [Info]

Foundation Grants Index on CD-ROM "Database describing grants awarded to nonprofit organizations by philanthropic foundations located in the United States." [Info] Available on Central Library Reference CD-ROM workstation

France in America This resource focuses on "the role played by France in the exploration and settlement of the continent and its participation in several events which indelibly marked the history of the United States: the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the Louisiana Purchase. Includes books, maps, prints and other documents. (Will be completed in fall, 2006). [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

FRASER FRASER (Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research) "is the newest project by the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis to expand on its mission to provide economic information and data to researchers interested in the U.S. economy." This resource provides links to scanned images of historical economic statistical publications, releases, and documents." When used in connection with data contained in FREDŽ (Federal Reserve Economic Data), FRASERŽ allows the researcher to create uninterrupted data series by accessing sources previously available only in printed form and those currently available electronically (on FREDŽ). In addition, the ability to retrieve series presented in preliminary, revised, and final releases provides a powerful tool in recreating and evaluating previous economic research and policy." FRASER provides information from publications including the following: Bank Statistics, Annual Statistical Digest, Banking and Monetary Statistics, Business Statistics Supplement to the Survey of Current Business, Concordance of Statistics, and Economic Indicators. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

FRED II (Federal Reserve Economic Data) is a database of over 3000 U.S. national and regional economic time series and other economic information. FRED II allows users to view charts of economic data series, and to download data in both Microsoft Excel and text formats. "This site offers a wealth of economic data and information to promote economic education and enhance economic research." FRED II includes the following categories of economic data: Banking, Business/Fiscal, Consumer Price Indexes (CPI), Employment & Population, Exchange Rates, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Components, Interest Rates, Monetary Aggregates, Producer Price Indexes (PPI), Reserves and Monetary Base, U.S. Trade & International Transactions, U.S. Financial Data, and FRB-St. Louis District Data. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

French Language and Literature sites recommended by Vanderbilt librarians [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

French literature -- See ARTFL: Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language

Friedberg Genizah Project "The Friedberg Genizah Project is digitizing the entire corpus of manuscripts discovered in the [Cairo] Genizah, together with all relevant data, such as catalog entries, bibliographical references, translations, transcriptions and citations, and making it available to the world of learning" (from the Web site).

Note: Free registration required.
[Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Frontline Diplomacy: The U.S. Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection "Contains transcripts of 893 individual histories plus 48 country-specific "readers" that describe the events and struggles of U.S.diplomats in a changing world." [Summary note] [Info] Full Text Resource! Available in Central Library on Reference CD-ROM Workstation

Frost and Sullivan International, regional and country-specific market research reports focusing on markets, companies, consumers, technologies, research and development, and industry trends. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Full text and finding aids -- See GPO (Government Printing Office) Access

fulltext journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences -- See Electronic Collections Online


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