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Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)

This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

Art Museum Image Gallery

The Art Museum Image Gallery is rich digital resource of images and multimedia gathered from the collections of distinguished museums around the world.

ArticleFirst (OCLC)

OCLC index of articles from the contents pages of journals.

ArtIndex (OCLC)

Index of leading publications in the world of arts.  Includes information compiled by specialists with expertise in all fields of art to provide an international perspective on many art subjects.  Provides access to a wide range of bibliographies, notices of competitions and awards, reports of conferences, exhibition listings, review articles, interviews, and film reviews.

Book Collection: Nonfiction (EBSCOhost)

Book Collection: Nonfiction is a rich research database for school and public libraries. It contains informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 3,600 popular nonfiction books. The database includes full text entries on core subject areas, as well as information on careers, health, sports, adventure, technology, life skills and more.

Business Source Premier (EBSCOhost)

Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.

Catholic Periodical and Literature Index Online (EBSCOhost)

The Catholic Periodical and Literature Index Online is the product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Library Association. The database covers all aspects of the Catholic faith and lifestyle, and includes over 380,000 index citations of articles and reviews published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers.

ChemAbsStudent (OCLC)

Indexes and abstracts from widely held chemistry journals and dissertations.

CINAHL (EBSCOhost)

CINAHL is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for 2,857 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982.

ClasePeriodica (OCLC)

Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities.  CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities.  PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology.

Clinical Pharmacology (EBSCOhost)

Clinical Pharmacology provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.

CQ Researcher

Founded in 1923 as Editorial Research Reports, CQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published weekly in print and online 44 times a year by CQ Press, a division of Congressional Quarterly Inc.

Credo Reference

Credo Reference, formerly known as Xrefer, is a digital reference library. Containing a selection from 169 high-quality reference books from the world's leading publishers. Offering access to over 1.7 million individual entries, Credo Reference contains all the types of reference books: dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and books of quotations.

Criminal Justice Abstracts from CSA Illumina

CSA is a worldwide information company, serving as a guide to researchers to help them be more effective in their work by enabling and expediting discovery, aiding the management and organization of quality information and providing tools to assist in its subsequent dissemination. CSA specializes in publishing and distributing, in print and electronically, 100 bibliographic and full-text databases and journals in four primary editorial areas: natural sciences, social sciences, arts & humanities, and technology.

Ebooks (OCLC)

OCLC catalog of online electronic books available through libraries worldwide.

EBSCOhost Web

EBSCOhost Publishing offers a broad range of full text and bibliographic databases designed to meet the reference needs of all library types worldwide. EBSCO has designed its search interfaces to seamlessly interact with other electronic resources held in a library's collection -- effectively creating a one-stop research requirement. Databases available: Business Source Plus, CINAHL, the Serials Directory, ERIC, EBSCO Online Citations, MEDLINE, Business Source Premier, Regional Business News, Health Source: Nursing/ Academic Edition, Academic Search Premier.

ECO (OCLC)

An OCLC collection of scholarly journals (Browse Journal Titles).  Includes all of the original content and images of articles.  Includes bibliographic information for all journals.

Encyclopædia Britannica

Search Encyclopædia Britannica, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, Britannica Internet Guide and Video & Media, as well as the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus. You may also browse alphabetically and by subject, and explore the World Atlas or Year in Review.

ERIC (OCLC) / ERIC (EBSCOhost)

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.

GPO Catalog of U.S. Government Publications

The GPO Catalog is a search and retrieval service that provides bibliographic records of U.S. Government information products. Use it to link to Federal agency online resources or identify materials distributed to Federal Depository Libraries. Coverage began in January 1994 and new records are added daily.

Health and Psychosocial Instruments

Health and Psychosocial Instruments provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCOhost)

This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.

History Reference Center (EBSCOhost)

History Reference Center offers full text from more than 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 120 history periodicals, more than 59,600 historical documents, 49,600 biographies of historical figures, more than 110,200 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.

JSTOR

Offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.  JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR.

LexisNexis™ Academic

LexisNexis™ provides authoritative legal, news, public records and business information, including tax and regulatory publications in online format. Search Forms available: News, Business, Legal Research, Medical and Reference.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCOhost)

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

MAS Ultra - School Edition (EBSCOhost)

Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides 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. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

MEDLINE (OCLC) / MEDLINE EBSCOhost)

MEDLINE 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.

Mergent Online

An Internet service that provides information and financial professionals with access to fully searchable databases covering over 27,000 global companies. Mergent Online offers databases of public company information -- US Company Data Direct,  contains public company information on more than than 10,000 U.S. companies and International Company Data Direct,  contains public company information on more than 17,000 non-US companies.

MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOhost)

MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text.

National Library of Medicine

The National Library of Medicine offers a wide variety of resources related to the biomedical and health sciences, both past and present. Resources are available in a variety of formats: searchable databases, bibliographic citations, full text, archival collections and images.

OCLC FirstSearch service

The OCLC FirstSearch service connects you to information in a wide range of subjects in 12 databases. OCLC FirstSearch is a comprehensive and complete reference service with a rich collection of databases and with links to the World Wide Web, over 10 million online full text articles, full-image articles from over 4,000 electronic journals, library holdings, and interlibrary loan. It supports research in a wide range of subject areas with well-known bibliographic and full-text databases in addition to ready-reference tools such as directories, almanacs and encyclopedias.

PapersFirst (OCLC)

Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.

Pre-CINAHL (EBSCOhost)

A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to searchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing.

Proceedings (OCLC)

An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings.  Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.

Professional Development Collection (EBSCOhost)

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. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.

PsycInfo

SilverPlatter is a global leader in providing comprehensive and seamlessly integrated databases of scholarly reference information in electronic form. Databases available: PsycINFO.

Regional Business News (EBSCOhost)

This database 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. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Teacher Reference Center (EBSCOhost)

Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

WilsonSelectPlus (OCLC)

Full text articles in science, humanities, education and business.  Provides indexed and abstracted records with accompanying full-text periodical articles.  Includes US and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines.

WorldAlmanac(OCLC)

Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs.

WorldCat (OCLC)

OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.