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Academic Search Premier (Ebsco): provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Alt HealthWatch (Ebsco): focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.
Artstor : a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
Books in Print (Bowker) : A guide to books, audios and videos currently available for purchase. Includes brief reviews of many titles and other helpful features such as Bookwire for industry news and author interviews and tours.
Business Source Premier (Ebsco): provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles.
Career and Technical Education : Search vocational and technical periodicals covering all aspects of the Vo/Tech curriculum. For a guide to using this and other Proquest databases click here PROQUEST : Getting Started .
Communication & Mass Media Complete (Ebsco): incorporates the content of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study. CMMC offers cover-to-cover (“core”) indexing and abstracts for more than 460 journals, and selected (“priority”) coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 660 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for 350 journals.
CountryWatch : Provides full text up-to-date news and information on 192 countries of the world. It features current and in-depth cultural, political, economic, corporate, environmental, and other education-related issues through journal articles, newspapers, speeches, conference proceeding, research, and etc.
Credo Reference : Online access to over 300 reference books.
Encyclopedia Britannica : All the articles from the Encyclopaedia Britannica plus thousands of additional articles. For a guide to searching this resource, click here: ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA GUIDE .
ERIC (Ebsco): the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,243,000 records and links to more than 224,000 full-text documents from ERIC.
Ethnic NewsWatch : Covers current issues and events discussed from the viewpoints and perspectives of various ethnic groups and races. Includes full text access to magazines, newspapers, and research journals not in other databases. For a guide to using this and other Proquest databases click here PROQUEST : Getting Started .
Facts On File Reference Suite : Brings together selected content from six other core reference databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the last 60+ years.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (Ebsco): provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Gale's Contemporary Authors : Provides biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
Gale's Contemporary Literary Criticism Select : An extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.
Gale's Discovering Collection : A comprehensive database of reference content for the areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies. For a guide to using this database click here GALE'S DISCOVERING COLLECTION TOUR .
GreenFILE (Ebsco): offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
Health Source - Consumer Edition (Ebsco): Provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (Ebsco): provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
History Reference Center (Ebsco): offers full text from more than 2,400 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 130 leading history periodicals, more than 61,100 historical documents, 66,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 110,200 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
Issues and Controversies (FactsOnFile) : Explores more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture.
Issues and Controversies in American History (FactsOnFile) : Builds a deeper understanding of how historical events have shaped our nation by exploring the key players and the battles they fought.
LexisNexis : Provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options. LexisNexis provides authoritative legal, news, public records and business information; including tax and regulatory publications in online, print or CD-ROM formats. For a tutorial on using this database, click here: LEXISNEXIS TUTORIAL .
Magill On Literature Plus (Ebsco): includes all the literary works, reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries that are included in MagillOnLiterature, as well as all the biographies and author essays included in MagillOnAuthors.
MasterFILE Premier (Ebsco): this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, full text from 86,017 biographies, 105,786 full text primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 341,655 photos, maps and flags.
MAS Ultra - School Edition (Ebsco): this database contains full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines, also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 341,655 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
MEDLINE (Ebsco): provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
MedlinePlus : "MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news."
Military & Government Collection (Ebsco): Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.
Modern World History Online (FactsOnFile) : Covers the people, places, and events in the broad expanse of history—from mid-15th century to the present.
NetLibrary : Provides digital full-text access to over 8,000 books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction. These full-text, easy-to-use books are available to students, staff and faculty.
Newspaper Source (Ebsco): Provides cover-to-cover full text for 35 national & international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 375 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are also provided.
Points of View Reference Center (Ebsco): designed to assist researchers in understanding the full scope of controversial subjects. Students can use Points of View as a guide to debate, developing arguments, writing position papers, and for development of critical thinking skills. Each Points of View Essay includes a series of questions and additional material to generate further thought. Also included are thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications.
Primary Search (Ebsco): provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
Professional Development Collection (Ebsco): Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (Ebsco): a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 600 journals.
Regional Business News (Ebsco): provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Religion and Philosophy Collection (Ebsco): provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Religion & Philosophy Collection offers nearly 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles
SIRS Researcher: A general reference database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, historic, economic, political, and global issues. Articles are selected from domestic and international newspapers, magazines, journals and government publications. For a quickstart guide to this database click here: SIRS RESEARCHER QUICKSTART GUIDE .
Today's Science (FactsOnFile) : Bridges the gap between the science that students learn in the classroom and the discoveries pushing the boundaries of science today.
Vocational and Career Collection (Ebsco): designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals
World News Digest (FactsOnFile) : Brings together and enhances nearly seven decades of news from the renowned Facts On File World News Digest in print.
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