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Academic Search Premier This multi-disciplinary database 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. User Tutorial

LexisNexis Academic Use this resource for researching news, business, and legal topics. It contains more than 6,000 sources from all over the world, drawn from print, broadcast, and online media.Search:

TV and radio broadcast transcripts, Newspapers, Company information, and U.S. case law, including case summaries, headnotes, and Shepard's Citations for all federal and state courts. User Tutorial

Cambridge Histories Online Contains over 250 volumes published since 1960. Beneficial for anyone researching or studying a subject that has an historical element.

CQ Researcher Noted for its in-depth coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.

CQ Global Researcher  Locate in-depth coverage of global affairs from a number of international viewpoints.

Research Library Search for coverage of a broad range of subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.

JSTOR: Arts & Sciences I and II Locate core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This collection also contains titles in ecology, mathematics, and statistics. Overall, there are 243 titles in 20 disciplines. User Tutorial

MasterFILEPremier This multi-disciplinary 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 includes: reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an Image Collection.

Directory of Open Access Journals This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Its aim is to cover all subjects and languages.

Business

ABI/INFORM Dateline Search a unique resource focusing on hard-to-find local and regional business news coverage of large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. Provides access to business information not typically found in national news sources. Contains news and analysis, information on local markets, and more gathered from major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city, state, and regional business publications.

ABI/INFORM Global Most scholarly and comprehensive way to explore and understand business research topics. Search nearly 3,000 worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Expanded international coverage. Fast access to information on 60,000+ companies with business and executive profiles. Now includes The Wall Street Journal.

ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry Search more than 1,200 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus. Provides users with the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. Contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and many more.

Barron's A weekly publication for investors. Provides in-depth articles examining companies and industries to spotlight possible investment opportunities.

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.

Wall Street Journal The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as first-rate coverage of hard news.

Regional Business News 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.

Business & Company Resource Center Includes company profiles, brand information, company histories, SEC reports, periodical articles, and links to relevant Web sites.

History

Cambridge Histories Online Contains over 250 volumes published since 1960. Beneficial for anyone researching or studying a subject that has an historical element.

Nursing_Medical

American Medical Association This database contains titles published by the American Medical Association including JAMA.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 750 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index – with no embargo. CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature. User Tutorial

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This database 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.

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 more than 4,800 current biomedical journals.

ProQuest Health Management Find complete, full-text information from leading publications covering all aspects of health administration, including public health and safety, hospitals, finance, personnel management, insurance, population studies, labor relations, and law.

National Library of Medicine Search NLM’s database and electronic resources.

PLoSMedicine Search an open-access, peer-reviewed medical journal published monthly online by the Public Library of Science.

Rittenhouse R2 Library This is a web-based application that aggregates health sciences book content from leading publishers in a single platform.

Health and Wellness Resource Center w/ Alt Health This database contains articles from medical publications and general interest publications on medical topics, medical pamphlets, a health organization directory, medical and alternative health encyclopedias, a medical dictionary, drug and herb information, health assessment tools, and links to health news and Internet sources.

Religion

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals.

Education

ERIC The Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full-text documents from ERIC.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts  This database indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; 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 as far back as the mid-1960s.

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

ProQuest Education Journals   Search the leading full-text journals in education and related fields. more info...

Teacher Journals Search selected professional educators' titles covering current issues in education.

Literature

Gale Literary Index Gale's Literary Index is a master index to the major literature products published by Gale.

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 offers links to some full text.

JSTOR Language and Literature Developed with the help of the Modern Language Association, this collection includes PMLA and a range of core journals in the diverse fields of literary criticism that have emerged in the last thirty years. User Tutorial

Twayne's Author Series Contains the full text of the Twayne Literary Masters books which provide biographical and literarary criticism information on a wide variety of world, US, and English authors.

Psychology

PsycINFO From the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.4 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 98% of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to the present, includes international material selected from more than 2,200 periodicals in more than 27 languages.

PsycARTICLES From the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 134,000 articles from 63 journals--50 published by the APA and its imprint, the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF)-- and 13 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to the present; nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1.

Proquest Psychology Journals Full-text coverage from top psychology and related publications

Annual Review Each year, Annual Reviews critically reviews the most significant primary research literature to guide you to the principal contributions of the field and help you keep up to date in your area of  psychological research. Full-text access =

Newspapers

Black Newspapers A collection of significant black newspapers from the United States.

Newspaper Source Access cover-to-cover 35 national and international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for more than 375 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television and radio news transcripts are also provided.

Proquest Newspapers Includes a balance of national and regional newspapers chosen for their journalistic excellence and regional representation. All titles are available in full text. Papers include national titles such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, along with a selection of titles from across the U.S. such as the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Denver Post, The Sacramento Bee, plus other important U.S. papers.

Custom Newspapers This full-text newspaper database includes several New York newspapers including The New York Times from 1995 on, and more than 50 national and international newspapers.

National Newspaper Index provides indexing (1977 to present) of America's top five newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. Indexing only.

Science

Science Resource Center thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations are just a few clicks away and the latest scientific developments are covered in articles from more than 200 magazines, academic journals, and links to quality Web sites.

PLoS Biology Search a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science.

BioOne  Access interrelated journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.

Annual Review  Each year, Annual Reviews critically reviews the most significant primary research literature to guide you to the principal contributions of the field and help you keep up to date in your area of research. Search for articles on: Anthropology, MicrobiologyPhysiology, Stem Cells, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. Full-text access =

ProQuest Social Science Journals Search full-text periodicals covering the social sciences. more info...

Government

Military and Government Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals andacademic journals. Publications covered in this database include Foreign Affairs, Defence Studies, JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, and FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin.

Environment

GreenFile 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.

eBook

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Mathematics

MathSciNet An electronic publication offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature.

Encyclopedia

Britannica Online Use this resource to search or browse for information in encyclopedias, magazines, videos, and Web sites.

Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia  Covers an array of topics. The database includes images and brief biographies.

International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Original International Edition (17vols.) includes numerous entries on topics in social science research and practice

International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences   (9 vols.) Covers scholarship and fields that have emerged and matured since the publication of the original international edition. Highlights the expanding influence of economics in social science research and features new articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences.

Streaming Video

UChannel A collection of public affairs lectures, panels and events from academic institutions all over the world for you to view, listen to, stream or download. Led by Princeton University

C-SPAN Video Library  In addition to live coverage of House and Senate proceedings and local and general elections, C-SPAN Video Library streams government hearings, press conferences meetings of various political, media, and non-profit organizations; book discussions, and varied interviews.

The NewsHour (PBS) Only segments that the NewsHour has the legal right to stream over the Internet are available. Archive includes programs broadcast after February 7, 2000.

NOVA (PBS) "NOVA revolves around a simple premise: the world of science is exciting!" Note that most NOVA programs are not available for downloading due to rights restrictions.


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