Article Databases (interdisciplinary various subjects)

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.  

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 .

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 .

Expanded Academic ASAP : Provides access to a wide variety of disciplines including: social science journals, humanities journals, science and technology journals, national news periodicals, general interest magazines, newswires, The New York Times and many others.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (Ebsco): provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

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 .

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 .

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.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.

NewsBank (Global) : An online program providing expansive coverage of global issues and events from multiple perspectives and diverse primary sources from around the world.

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.  

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 .

World News Digest  (FactsOnFile) : Brings together and enhances nearly seven decades of news from the renowned Facts On File World News Digest in print.