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Academic Search Premier (Ebscohost)

  • Search this periodical database to find citations and selected full-text for thousands of academic and general interest periodicals from all academic disciplines.
  • More than 4,700 journals are available in full text, and more than 3,700 of these are peer-reviewed.
  • View title list of journals included in the database.
  • Quick Intro to using Academic Search to find Periodical Articles.
  • How to cite articles from Academic Search using MLA guidelines.

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.

Business Source Premier

  • Full text for more than 8,800 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)

  • 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.
  • How to cite articles from CINAHL using APA guidelines.

Communication & Mass Media Complete

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

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.
  • How to cite articles from CQ Electronic Library Using MLA guidelines.

EBSCO Animals

  • Provides indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.

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.

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.

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.

Journals@Ovid (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Nursing & Health Professions Premier 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 begining 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.
  • View a listing, by discipline, of all titles in the collection.

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
  • How to cite articles from LexisNexis using MLA guidelines.

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.

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 provide 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

  • 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.

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.

Newsbank Newspapers 

  • Includes full-text coverage of the electronic versions of over 600 local, regional and national newspapers.
  • How to cite articles from Newsbank Newspapers using MLA and APA guidelines.

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.

Primary Search

  • Provides full text for nearly 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

  • 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.

SIRS KnowledgeSource 

  • Full-text articles on social issues (SIRS Researcher), as well as topics in the Arts and Humanities (SIRS Renaissance).
  • How to cite articles from SIRS using MLA guidelines.

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.


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