Indexes and Databases
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Indexes and Databases |
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These electronic databases are licensed by Fogler Library. Access is limited to students, faculty,
and staff of the University of Maine. Many of these databases provide access to journal article
citations and abstracts, with some full text. Check with a librarian for further assistance.
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You may also wish to consult these more general indexes:
| Academic Search Premier | Provides full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications of which 3,100 are peer reviewed. Academic areas of study include: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Licensed Number of Users: Unlimited
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| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| ADAMS (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System) | The Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) is an information system that provides access to all image and text documents that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has made public since November 1, 1999, as well as bibliographic records (some with abstracts and full text) that the NRC made public before November 1999. Fogler Library at the University of Maine is the repository for an NRC technical report collection on microfiche, numbering nearly one hundred thousand documents. The fiche are housed in the Library Annex, with 24-hour advance notice required for staff retrieval. Fogler Library's collection dates only through October, 1999. However, the NRC continues to add several hundred new documents to ADAMS daily. | ||
| Alt Title: ADAMS | |||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Annual review of population law | database of summaries and excerpts of law and regulations worldwide relating to population policies, reproductive rights and health, women's status and rights, children and adolescents, HIV/AIDS and related topics. | ||
| Coverage: 1974 to present | |||
| Locations: LAW | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Anthropological Index of the Royal Anthropological Institute | Index to the more than 600 periodical included in the Anthropological Index to Current Periodicals in the Museum of Mankind Library. Topics covered include archaeology, ethnomusicology, physical and cultural anthropology and human biology. Search by author, title, keyword, or journal title (or combine terms). (If search form is incomplete, click Reload button.) International in scope. | ||
| Coverage: From the 1970*/39/*s to the present | |||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Avalon Project at Yale Law School | Contains digital documents relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government | ||
| Alt Title: Documents in law, history and diplomacy | |||
| Coverage: Pre 18th Century to current | |||
| Locations: UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Book Index with Reviews | Book Index with Reviews has information on over 4 million book titles (including audiobooks), around 700,000 music and DVD/video titles, citations to millions of reviews in peer-reviewed journals and popular magazines, and links to 800,000 full-text reviews. Also includes full-text first chapters of many books, an all-editions grouping function, Lexile scores, a rating guide based on retail and library sales, and the opportunity to save searches or create alerts. A one-click URSUS search is available from each title listing. | ||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, LAW | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Britannica Online | With access to four encyclopedias-Encyclopædia Britannica, Britannica Student Encyclopedia,
Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia and Britannica Concise Encyclopedia- Britannica Online is a
site for all ages. Users can locate information quickly by using Boolean operators; browsing A-Z;
or typing in words, phrases, or questions to receive a list of relevance-ranked articles. In addition to
providing answers to a multitude of questions, Britannica Online also leads users to additional information about their topics though related articles, links to outside Web sites, and bibliographies.
Licensed Number of Users: Unlimited | ||
| Alt Title: Enclyclopedia Britannica | |||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| CogPrints Electronic Archive | Searchable electronic archive of full-text papers in all areas of psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics, as well as computer science, philosophy, biology, medicine, anthropology, and any other areas of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition. Includes pre-prints and reprints from published journal articles, conference proceedings, books, and personal collections. | ||
| Alt Title: Cognitive sciences eprint archive | |||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Congressional Bills | All published versions of bills from the 103rd (1993-1994) Congress forward | ||
| Coverage: 103rd (1993-94)- | |||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Congressional Research Service reports | Includes selected Congressional Research Service reports, indexed and searchable. | ||
| Locations: USM, USM-L/A, LAW | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Cooperative Forestry Research Unit (University of Maine) | This database focuses on ecology, economics, and growth and management of Maine forests. Contains the full-text of University of Maine's Cooperative Forestry Research Unit's (CFRU) reports as well as other publications resulting from research by CFRU staff and associates. Searchable by subject category such as hardwood management, harvesting, and thinning. The database can be browsed by author, subject, and title. | ||
| Coverage: 1970-present | |||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| CRIS - Current Research Information System | A searchable database of U.S. Department of Agriculture funded research. Covers on-going and recently completed research projects in agriculture, food and nutrition, and forestry. Search by keyword, investigator, agency, institution, state, and project status and type as well as by classification codes. Database records include listings of publications resulting from the funded research. | ||
| Alt Title: Current research information system | |||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Directory of Open Access Journals | Provides full-text articles from over 1145 free peer-reviewed journals covering all scholarly and scientific subjects. Over 310 journals can be searched by article title. Most articles are in English. Records for articles in foreign languages have English abstracts. | ||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Esp@cenet | This patent database provided by the European Patent Office covers patents from over 20 countries and the World Patent Organization. Links to the full text of the patents and applications are provided. | ||
| Coverage: From 1920 | |||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Foreign Law Translations | This site is a resource for French, German, Italian, Austrian and Israeli legal materials in the fields of constitutional, administrative, contract and tort law. | ||
| Locations: LAW | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Gateway to Digital Collections: University of Maine System Libraries | The Gateway to Digital Collections provides online access to thousands of selected, digitized materials in all formats ---- full text, image, sound, video,and finding aids. The materials are among the special collections made available by the UMS Libraries, in collaboration with other campus units, and in partnership with other cultural institutions in Maine. The University of Maine System Libraries are pleased to present this searchable database and its content for public use, and in support of the education, research and public service mission of the University. | ||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, LAW | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Global Legal Information Network | A public database of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations. | ||
| Alt Title: GLIN | |||
| Locations: LAW | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| IngentaConnect | Index to the tables of contents of 17,000 English language periodicals. Covers all disciplines. Updated daily. NOTE: Full text access available ONLY with subscriptions to individual titles. Check your library for holdings. | ||
| Coverage: Coverage from 1988. | |||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Justia Regulation Tracker | Provides free access to Federal rules, proposed rules, notices, administrative orders, executive orders, and proclamations. | ||
| Locations: LAW | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Maine Music Box | The University of Maine's Fogler Library in partnership with the Bagaduce Music Lending Library and the Bangor Public Library has launched the Maine Music Box. The Maine Music Box contains digitized images of five collections of manuscript scores and sheet music. Most of the collections are from the Bagaduce Music Lending Library in Blue Hill, Maine. A total of 22,641 titles will be accessible when the digitization and cataloging of the pilot project is complete. Selected scores will have an associated computer generated sound file. Other scores, based on faculty request, may have associated “Scorch” files. Scorch software creates a file that allows one to listen while following a cursor through the score; the viewer may also manipulate key and instrumentation. The database currently has 22,641 titles with 600 MIDI files and 100 Scorch files. | ||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Maine News Index Online | Created by the Portland Public Library, the Maine News Index Online is a database of Maine newspaper and magazine citations and abstracts. The library's Portland Room, which houses special collections, maintains a web page listing titles indexed at http://www.portlandlibrary.com/locations/portlandroom.htm#newsindex | ||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Maine Revised Statutes | Maine Revised Statutes current to the [Session Number] Legislature | ||
| Alt Title: Maine Statutes | |||
| Coverage: Current to the [Session Number] Legislature | |||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Maine Serials List | |||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Maine Superior Court Decisions | Full text PDF documents received by the University of Maine School of Law Donald L. Garbrecht Law Library from the clerks of various courts dating from January 2000 through present. Decisions cross referenced by Plaintiff, Defendant, Judge and County. Includes citations and references. | ||
| Coverage: January 2000 through present | |||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Maine Town and City Ordinances | This is a collection of links to Maine town and city ordinances, organized by county. | ||
| Locations: LAW | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| MEMAP (Maine Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program Index) | This index lists long-term projects and programs that are systematically monitoring or assessing environmental factors in Maine, from breeding amphibians to ozone, weather and water quality. It includes information about each project such as the resource being monitored, the watershed in which monitoring occurs, the geographic scope of the project, the year it was started, monitoring objectives, basic sampling plan, whether or not volunteers participate, and who to contact for data, findings, or more information. | ||
| Alt Title: MEMAP | |||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Municipal Code Corporation online library | A collection of municipal codes, organized by state. | ||
| Alt Title: Municode.com | |||
| Locations: LAW | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database | Contains summaries of more than 140,000 federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research on criminal justice. Topics covered include corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, and victims of crime. | ||
| Alt Title: NCJRS abstracts database | |||
| Coverage: 1970-present | |||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| National Technical Information Service Technical Reports | This is a subset of the NTIS database. This Technical Reports database indexes government reports from 1990 to present. Over 350,000 publications are included. Searching is by keyword, which includes authors' names. No abstracts are presented. Bibliographic information provided includes title, author, author affiliation, total pages, date, and document type | ||
| Alt Title: NTIS | |||
| Coverage: 1990 + | |||
| Locations: UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Newspapers (Proquest) | Full text of more than 500 U.S. and international news sources. Includes The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires. Years of coverage vary by title. Maine papers included: Bangor Daily News (1992+), Portland Press Herald (1995+), and selected business coverage from Maine Times (1994-2002) and Central Maine Morning Sentinel (1993-1997).
Licensed Number of Users: Unlimited | ||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Nuremberg Trials Project | This database contains nearly one million pages of information and digital images relating to the 1945 trial of the Nazi leaders before the International Military Tribunal. | ||
| Locations: LAW | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Palmer Collection | The William P. Palmer III Collection of archaeological material from Mexico and Central America and ethnographic holdings from the Northwest Coast of the United States and Canada is the Hudson Museum's pre-eminent collection. The Palmer Collection features an internationally significant assemblage of 2,828 Precolumbian ceramics, lithics and gold work dating from 2000 BC to the Spanish Conquest. In addition to its Precolumbian component, the collection includes over 200 objects from the Northwest Coast that date to the heyday of Northwest Coast collecting, 1875-1930. (More about the collection: http://library.umaine.edu/hudson/palmer/about.asp ). | ||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| PEARL (Public Education Access to Environmental Information in Maine) | PEARL is designed to improve access to information on over 5700 Maine lakes. It is a cooperative effort initiated, coordinated, and maintained at the University of Maine by the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research ( GMC ) and the UMaine Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering ( SIE ). | ||
| Alt Title: Public Education Access to Environmental Information in Maine | |||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| ProQuest Newspapers | Full text of more than 500 U.S. and international news sources. Includes The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires. Years of coverage vary by title. Maine papers included: Bangor Daily News (1992+), Portland Press Herald (1995+), and selected business coverage from Maine Times (1994-2002) and Central Maine Morning Sentinel (1993-1997).
Licensed Number of Users: Unlimited | ||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Robert Venn Carr, Jr. Online Gallery (University of Maine) | The Carr Collection is a subset of the Museum Collection held by the University of Maine Museum of Art. The Carr Online Gallery contains digital surrogates of the nearly 300 modern and contemporary prints that comprise the collection. The gift of Robert Venn Carr, Jr., Class of 1944, the collection includes works by Pablo Picasso, Josef Albers, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney, Joan Miro and Robert Delaunay, as well as a ine collection of nearly 90 paintings and World War II political cartoons by William Gropper. | ||
| Alt Title: Carr Collection Gallery | |||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Royal Historical Society Bibliography | The Royal Historical Society bibliography, which is hosted by the Institute of Historical Research, is an authoritative guide to writing on British and Irish history from the Roman period to the present day. It contains over 300,000 entries including articles in journals and collective volumes, and including data from London's Past Online. You can SEARCH by author, by publication details, by subject or by period covered. | ||
| Alt Title: Royal Historical Society bibliography of British and Irish history; RHS bibliography | |||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Statistical Abstract of the United States | This electronic version of the Statistical Abstract provides access to approximately 1500 statistical tables drawn from published and unpublished data from federal agencies plus some state and private sources. Click Contents and Index to find specific tables. Use the Table of Contents to select tables from a list of broad topics (e.g. Population or Transportation). Use the Index A-Z to identify more specific topics (e.g. pets or jogging). Updated annually. | ||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Statute Law Database | The UK Statute Law Database is the official revised version of the primary legislation of the UK made available online. SLD carries most types of legislation, both primary and secondary. | ||
| Alt Title: UK Statute Law Database | |||
| Locations: LAW | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Techstreet: Technical Information Superstore | Techstreet is most valuable for its comprehensive coverage of technical and engineering standards published by ANSI and other organizations. Many standards can be purchased and downloaded online. Techstreet also indexes books, software products, physical property data, and free engineering trade magazines. | ||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Thomas Register | Directory of over 170,000 manufacturing companies in the United States and Canada. Includes over 70,000 product listings. The directory may be searched by company name, product or brand name. Requires free registration for access | ||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| TOXLINE | Index to journal articles, books, technical reports, thesis, and conference proceeding covering all aspects of toxicology including pesticides, pharmaceuticals, food additives, health and safety issues, and risk information. Coverage is from 1992 to present and is updated monthly with over 7,000 records | ||
| Coverage: From 1992 | |||
| Locations: UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| TOXNET | Cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas. Includes TOXLINE, Hazardous Substances Data Bank, ChemIDplus chemical information database, and other resources. | ||
| Coverage: Varies | |||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| TRIS online | Contains citations and abstracts for books, journal articles, and technical reports in all areas of transportation research. Search by author, title and subject. Produced by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Science. | ||
| Alt Title: Transportation Research Information Service | |||
| Coverage: 1960’s + | |||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Windows on Maine | Windows on Maine is a searchable Web database of video programs and clips, and other primary and secondary digital resources, from distinguished Maine collections, made freely available via broadband and wireless connections. It features a searchable database of complete programs and video clips from Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s award-winning historical series, Home: The Story of Maine, and its signature science series, QUEST: Investigating Our World. Windows on Maine explores the promise of video on-demand: streaming media and its potential to be a force in evolving a new educational paradigm. Multimedia resources have been selected from the collections of Fogler Library’s Special Collections and the Maine Folk Life Center at the University of Maine, Northeast Historic Film, the Maine State Archives, the Maine Historical; Society, and the Web for their importance in enriching the broad themes that portray Maine’s history and the Gulf of Maine science: forestry and lumbering,; fishing and fishermen, hunting, trading, fur trading; shipping and ship building. A special focus has been given to the selection of resources that support the study of Native Americans in Maine (LD 291), and their history, cultural and economic systems, government and politics, and tribal territories. | ||
| Alt Title: Windows on Maine - Video and Multimedia about Maine for Students and Teachers | |||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| WorldCat.org | WorldCat.org is a free version of the OCLC online union catalog. It contains millions of bibliographic records cataloged by OCLC member libraries worldwide for materials including books, manuscripts, websites and internet resources, maps, computer programs, musical scores, films and slides, newspapers, journals and magazines, sound recordings, articles, and videos. WorldCat.org identifies the closest member libraries that own an item, based on one's zip code, province, state, or country entry. Updated daily | ||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
| Wright American Fiction | A full-text collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently (August 2002) 2,341 texts included of the 2,923 in the original bibliography (2,027 unedited, 314 fully edited and encoded) by 1,150 authors. | ||
| Alt Title: Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875 | |||
| Locations: UM, UMA-BCL, UMF, UMFK, UMM, UMPI, USM, USM-L/A, BPL, LAW, MSL, LEG | |||
| Format: Internet | |||
| Remote Access: Available | |||
foglerweb@library.umaine.edu | Revised: 09/05/2008
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