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Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)

  • Search this periodical database to find citations and selected full-text for thousands of academic and general interest periodicals from all academic disciplines.
  • Nearly 9,000 journals are available in full text, and more than 7,700 of these are peer-reviewed.
  • View title list of journals included in the database.

Alt HealthWatch

  • Full text articles for nearly 180 international and often peer-reviewed journals and reports
  • Focus is on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.

America: History & Life with Full-Text

  • Includes articles covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
  • With selective indexing for over 1,700 journals from 1955 to present, and full-text coverage of more than 230 journals and nearly 100 books.

Auto Repair Reference Center

  • Auto Repair Reference Center contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1945. All of the content in Auto Repair Reference Center has been created by ASE certified technicians. Database content includes:
    • Approximately 31,660 vehicles covered from 1945 to present
    • Over 205,000 Drawings and Step-by-Step Photographs
    • Approximately 75,000 Technical Services Bulletins & Recalls
    • Over 130,000 Wiring Diagrams
    • Specifications & Maintenance Schedules
    • Labor Time Guide & Estimator
    • AutoIQ and quick tips

Book Index with Reviews (BIR) and BIR Entertainment

  • Book Index with Reviews (BIR) provides information on over five million book titles, including over 800,000 full-text searchable reviews from the sources such as: Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, CHOICE, and others.
  • The BIR Entertainment component provides information on about 450,000 music titles and over 200,000 DVD/video titles. Find information about music or videos featuring a favorite artist or performer, or specific genre.

Business Source Complete

  • Full text for thousands of scholarly, trade and general periodicals covering all business disciplines.
  • Also contains non-journal content including market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.

CINAHL (Cumulative index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) Plus with Full Text

  • CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides extensive indexing and more than 600,000 full-text articles covering all areas of nursing and allied health literature.

Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC)

  • CMMC offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 600 titles, and full text coverage for 285 journals, in areas related to communication and mass media.

Consumer Health Complete (CHC)

  • Designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics, CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, and more. Content includes:
    - Full text for 200 health reference books and encyclopedias,
    - Thousands of full text evidence-based, health reports
    - 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names from - Lexi-PAL Drug Guide
    - Hundreds of medical images and diagrams
    - More than 700 physician-generated videos
    - More than 550 full text consumer health pamphlets
    - Cover-to-cover full text from more than 560 consumer health -elated periodicals
    - 200 animations (with audio narration)
    - Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1946.

CountryWatch

  • Presents "country specific geopolitical intelligence on each of the 192 countries of the world."
  • A basic overview of each country is included, along with political, economic, investment and environmental information.

CQ Electronic Library

  • CQ Researcher consists of reports on current and controversial issues. Each report includes a balanced introduction to the issue, a "look ahead," a chronology and annotated bibliographies for further research.

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text

  • Journal articles for criminal justice and related topics:
    • Criminology
    • Criminal Justice
    • Corrections and Prisons
    • Criminal Investigation
    • Forensic Sciences & Investigation
    • Substance Abuse & Addiction
    • Probation & Parole

Education Research Complete

  • Education Research Complete includes scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education.
  • Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.
  • Education Research Complete also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues.

English Language Learner (ELL) Reference Center

  • ELL Reference Center provides users with reference materials that are created specifically for ELL students and the educators that work with them. Customized content is designed to support ELLs' English-language proficiency and comprehension—including literacy, researching, note-taking and academic writing.
  • ELL Reference Center content covers a wide range of subject area topics—including Science, History, Civics, Life Skills and Literature—and is written in an age-appropriate interest level, using vocabulary and simplified structure helpful to non-native speakers.

Environment Complete

  • Includes journal and monograph literature offering deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, natural resources, marine and freshwater science, geography, pollution and waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.

ERIC

  • ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.

Ethnic News Watch 

  • Full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native presses.
  • Search in English or Spanish.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

  • This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

  • This multidisciplinary database contains over 200 full text eBooks including encyclopedias and specialized reference sources.
  • Articles cover all subject areas including the social sciences, the humanities, science, business, and law, with particular strength in the areas of social science, history, literature and biography.

GreenFILE

  • This 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

  • Includes information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
  • Updated weekly and featuring more than 130 full text, consumer health magazines

Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition

  • Focuses on many medical disciplines, with an emphasis on nursing and allied health.
  • Features nearly 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals.

Historical Abstracts with Full Text

  • This resource covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) focusing on the 15th century forward, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and much more.

History Reference Center

  • This full text history reference database features:
    • 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books
    • 120 leading history periodicals
    • 59,600 historical documents
    • 49,600 biographies of historical figures
    • 110,200 historical photos and maps
    • and more than 80 hours of historical video.

International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text (IBT&D)

  • IBT&D comprises a fully indexed, cross-referenced and annotated databank of over 60,000 journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries.
  • Includes full text for more than 120 titles, including Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and many more. Additional full text available includes more than 120 books & monographs such as Avant Garde Theatre, British Realist Theatre, History of European Drama and Theatre, Learning Through Theatre, Opera, Performance Theory, Shakespeare, Theory and Performance, Theatre and the World, Twentieth-Century Actor Training, Who's Who in Contemporary World Theatre, World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre and many more.

Journals@Ovid (Nursing Community College Extended Journal Collection)

  • Provides full text coverage of over 60 current, highly respected nursing titles covering both general and specialty subjects.
  • Content includes: AJN (American Journal of Nursing), Nurse Educator, Nursing Research and many other core nursing titles.
  • Note that all Journals@Ovid titles also are available by beginning your search the CINAHL database and linking out to content in Ovid.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences I Collection 

  • JSTOR includes complete "back runs," often starting with first issue, of core scholarly journals in the arts and sciences.
  • The current 1-5 years of most titles are not available in this archive.
  • Browse by title or search by keyword to find full-text articles.

LexisNexis Academic

  • A selection of full-text publications including newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings.
  • Includes the full-text of the New York Times back to June 1, 1980.
  • Begin your search by selecting a research category: News, Business, Legal Research, Medical or Reference

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts

  • Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings in librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

Literary Reference Center Plus

  • This comprehensive database provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. Content includes:
    • More than 35,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews
    • Nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism
    • More than 257,000 author biographies
    • More than 660 literary journals
    • More than 705,000 book reviews
    • More than 99,000 classic and contemporary poems
    • More than 23,100 classic and contemporary short stories
    • More than 7,300 author interviews
    • 40 full-text study guides
    • 72 literary videos
    • More than 8,200 classic texts

MagillOnLiterature Plus

  • Features 35,000 editorially reviewed critical analyses of individual works of literature, brief plot summaries, extended character profiles, and detailed setting discussions covering works by more than 8,500 long and short fiction writers, poets, dramatists, essayists, and philosophers.
  • Also included are 6,500 biographical essays, a glossary of 1,310 literary terms, and 395 comprehensive genre-driven overview essays providing details about important literary genres, time periods, and national literatures.

MAS Ultra - School Edition

  • Contains full text for nearly 500 popular magazines, more than 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags.

MasterFILE Premier

  • This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,730 general reference publications, nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags.

MEDLINE

  • MEDLINE provides citations to authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.

Military & Government Collection

  • Offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, including cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.

Newspaper Source

  • Provides selected full text for 25 national and international newspapers, full text television and radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 260 regional (U.S.) newspapers.

Political Science Complete (PSC)

  • This resource contains full-text for hundreds of journals, full-text reference books and monographs, and over 38,000 full-text conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association.
  • PSC has a worldwide focus, reflecting the globalization of contemporary political discourse on topics including:
    • Comparative politics
    • Humanitarian issues
    • International relations
    • Law and legislation
    • Non-governmental organizations
    • Political theory

Points of View Reference Center

  • This resource provides students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides more than 290 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide.
  • Topics covered include:
    • affirmative action,
    • cloning,
    • DNA profiling,
    • HIV/AIDS status disclosure,
    • immigration,
    • Iraq, Israel & the Palestinians,
    • Katrina and FEMA response,
    • nuclear proliferation,
    • separation of church and state,
    • standardized testing,
    • stem cell research,
    • tax cuts,
    • voting machines,
    • and many more.
  • Points of View Reference Center contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including more than 1,300 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents and reference books. Each of the main essays includes links to related full-text articles hand-picked by the editor.

Primary Search

  • Provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. Also includes the content of the Encyclopedia of Animals. 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

  • Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

  • This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles, covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

Regional Business News

  • Updated daily, this database includes coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Religion and Philosophy Collection

  • This database offers more than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles, on such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.

Science Reference Center

  • Science Reference Center (SRC) is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content.
  • SRC contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources, on topics including:
    • biology,
    • chemistry,
    • earth & space science,
    • environmental science,
    • health & medicine,
    • history of science,
    • life science,
    • physics,
    • science & society,
    • science as inquiry,
    • scientists,
    • technology
    • and wildlife.

SIRS KnowledgeSource 

  • Full-text articles on social issues (SIRS Researcher), as well as topics in the Arts and Humanities (SIRS Renaissance).

SocINDEX with Full Text

  • This comprehensive database contains full text for 890 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full text for more than 850 books and monographs, and full text for over 16,800 conference papers. Extensive indexing for books/monographs, conference papers, and other non-periodical content sources is included, and searchable cited references are provided.
  • SocINDEX with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include:
    • abortion,
    • criminology & criminal justice,
    • demography,
    • ethnic & racial studies,
    • gender studies,
    • marriage & family,
    • political sociology,
    • religion,
    • rural & urban sociology,
    • social development,
    • social psychology,
    • social structure,
    • social work,
    • socio-cultural anthropology,
    • sociological history,
    • sociological research,
    • sociological theory,
    • substance abuse & other addictions,
    • violence
    • and many others.
  • In addition, SocINDEX with Full Text features over 25,000 Author Profiles covering the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database. Each author profile includes biographical data and bibliographic information, which together allow users to quickly ascertain an author's areas of expertise and academic/professional focus.

Student Research Center 

  • Full-text magazine, newspaper, reference and primary source documents.
  • Designed specifically for secondary school students, this interface allows limiting according to appropriate Lexile reading levels.

Vocational and Career Collection

  • This collection provides full text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals.

Vocational Studies Complete

  • This database contains more than 1,800 full-text journals as well as nearly 300 full-text books. It is designed specifically for the research needs of two-year colleges, and provides comprehensive coverage of the most relevant associates program level content.
  • The database covers subjects as wide-ranging as:
    • alcohol & drug abuse counseling,
    • audiology,
    • biotechnology,
    • computer & data processing,
    • CAD,
    • cosmetology,
    • electrical technology,
    • fashion design,
    • forensics,
    • graphic arts,
    • health information technology,
    • interior design,
    • law enforcement & criminal justice,
    • paralegal studies,
    • robotics,
    • travel & tourism,
    • veterinary assisting,
    • and dozens more equally varied areas of study.

Women and Social Movements in the United States

  • "Women and Social Movements in the United States is a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding about U.S. history generally at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools."
  • The collection includes 102 document projects and archives with more than 4,050 documents and 145,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by some 2,200 primary authors. Also included are the online version of Notable American Women and the database on Commissions on the Status of Women.

 



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