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Academic OneFile
Scholarly, peer-reviewed articles in many subjects.
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INFOTRAC
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Academic Search Premier
Academic multi-disciplinary database; full text articles in all fields.
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EBSCOhost
Database
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ACM Digital library/new & Transactions
A vast collection of citations and full text from the Association for Computing Machinery. Includes journals, newsletter articles and conference proceedings.
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ACM
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AGRICOLA
Materials relating to all aspects of agriculture, forestry, and animal science.
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First Search
Database |
AHSearch
Arts and Humanities Citation Index. |
First Search
Database |
Alternative Press Index
Index of journals (1969-1990) covering cultural, economic, political & social change. |
First Search
Database |
America: History & Life
Complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
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EBSCOhost
Database |
Ancestry Library Edition
This genealogy database covers the United States and the United Kingdom. It includes census, vital, church, court, and immigration records. |
ProQuest
Database |
ARBAonline - American Reference Books Online
A database for quality reviews of print and electronic reference works. Derived from the American Reference Books Annual. |
ARBA
Database |
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Comprehensive American guide to the current literature of architecture and design.
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EBSCOhost
Database |
A-Z Maps Online
The worlds largest subscription-based database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps. New maps are added to the collection every month. |
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BioDigest
Provides abstracts written in non-technical style to 600+ journals. Coverage is in Botany, Environmental Sciences, Health, Life Sciences, medicine, and Zoology. |
First Search
Database |
Biography Resource Center
Biographies for people in all disciplines with full-text magazine articles, images, and website links. |
INFOTRAC
Database |
Biological Abstracts / BIOSIS
a complete collection of bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical research literature published from more than 4,000 journals internationally. This database provides users with easy access to the latest information in virtually every life science discipline. FSC Coverage is 1998 to the present and most of the records include informative abstracts written by the author. It is produced by Thomson Scientific. |
EBSCOhost
Database |
BioOne
Provides full-text articles from 100+ journals in biology. Searching is available by individual journal, by article title, by author, and by keyword. |
BioOne
Database |
BioOne Abstracts and Indexes Database (BAID)
Provides indexing and abstracts to all journals in BioOne and linking to full-text articles. |
CSA
Database |
Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic
Full text journals in a variety of areas pertaining to medical study. |
EBSCOhost
Database |
Books In Print
In-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audios and videos, with optional reviews. |
First Search
Database |
Boston Public Library eCard Access
Fill out a form online to sign up for your temporary (6 month) BPL eCard.
BPL eCards are virtual library cards that give users limited access online resources.
Massachusetts residents have access to Online Databases for books, articles, audio, video and genealogy resources. |
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Buros Mental Measurements Yearbook
Descriptions and critical reviews of commercially available English language tests |
EBSCOhost
Database |
| Business and Company Resource Center
Offers dynamic, accurate, and up-to-date topical business information and company and industry intelligence on thousands of global companies. |
INFOTRAC Database |
BusinessOrgs
Information about organizations that serve business and industry. |
First Search
Database |
Business Source Premier
Full text coverage in all disciplines of business research. |
EBSCOhost
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CAMIO
Catalog of Art Museum Images Online — premiere resource for works of art from prominent museums around the world.
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OCLC Art Images Database |
Chronicle of Higher Education
Please see a reference librarian for campus login & password.
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Newspaper
Subscription |
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 560 journals indexed in CINAHL. |
EBSCOhost
Database |
College Source Online
A virtual library representing 34,714 COLLEGE CATALOGS in full cover-to-cover, original page format with 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools.
Note: This resource is only available on campus.
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Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
Comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. |
Columbia Press
Database |
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Quality research sources in areas related to communication and mass media. |
EBSCOhost
Database |
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete
Abstracting, indexing and some full text for academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources in computer science. Subject areas include engineering disciplines, computer theory & systems, new technologies, and social & professional context. |
EBSCOhost
Database |
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
Critical essays on contemporary authors.
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INFOTRAC
Database |
CWI - Contemporary Women's Issues
Provides full-text access to global information on women in over 150 countries. |
First Search
Database |
Credo Reference (formerly xrefer plus)
Access to the full text of the best reference books, along with images, customizable data, visual concept maps of results, sound, maps, and more.
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Creedo
Database |
Criminal Justice Periodicals
A comprehensive collection of U.S. and international criminal justice journals including information for professionals in law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security. |
ProQuest
Database |
Curriculum Resource Center
Provides a library of printable teacher-handout material for the middle school, high school, and junior college curriculum. |
Facts on File
Database |
Curriculum Resource Center: Junior Edition
Provides a library of printable teacher-handout material and other content geared for elementary-level students.
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Facts on File
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Daily Life America
A searchable, and ever-expanding, website that spotlights the day-to-day lives of average Americans, past and present. A virtual library of thousands of diverse sources: award-winning reference works, primary documents, illustrations, maps. This is not a journal database but does provide full-text essays. Users can browse by subject, time period, region, or title, Also available is the Teacher Resources section featuring lesson plans and curriculum correlations. |
Full text Primary Sources |
Dialog
This service consists of funded searching for faculty staff and librarians and fee-based searches for others. Please see a reference librarian for assistance. |
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in all subjects and languages. |
Website |
Dissertations - Dissertation Abstracts Online
Dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe.
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First Search
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EBSCOhost
Links to all of the library's database subscriptions provided by EBSCOhost. |
All EBSCOhost
Databases |
EBSCO Animals
EBSCO's Encyclopedia of Animals offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
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EBSCOhost
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EconLit - Economic Literature
Journals, books, and working papers on economics.
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First Search
Database |
EDGAR
The Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). |
Website |
Education Journals
Coverage includes primary, secondary, and higher education, as well as special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics; access to over 745 top educational publications, including nearly 600 of the titles in full text.
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Proquest
Database |
Educator's Reference Complete
A selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. |
NEW ! INFOTRAC
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Encyclopedia Americana
45,000 in-depth articles in all academic subjects; stropng in North American and international coverage. |
Grolier
Encyclopedia |
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
Aimed at researchers, students and teachers, these 3,900 articles provide comprehensive and authoritative coverage; articles written by leaders in the biological sciences. |
Wiley InterScience
Encyclopedia |
ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center contains full text, references, citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals. |
EBSCOhost
Database |
ERIC (Government Website version)
The Education Resources Information Center website is an internet-based digital library of education research and information sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. |
Website |
Expanded Academic ASAP
Scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers in all disciplines. |
INFOTRAC
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Facts on File: Issues and Controversies
Up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day.
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Facts on File
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FactSearch
Facts and statistics on topics of current interest. |
First Search
Database |
FindLaw
Legal Web site, providing the most comprehensive set of legal resources on the Internet for legal professionals, corporate counsel, law students, businesses, and consumers. |
Website |
FirstSearch
Links to all of the library's database subscriptions provided by FirstSearch. |
All First Search
Databases |
FORENSICnetBASE/ LawENFORCEMENTnetBASE
Forensic science and criminal justice references. Inccludes techniques in forensic analysis and case studies.
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CRCnetBASE
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Contents of this database are shown as e-books, electronic books. |
INFOTRAC
Database |
General OneFile
News and periodical articles on a wide range of topics. |
INFOTRAC
Database |
General BusinessFile ASAP
Access business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles with full text and images.
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INFOTRAC
Database |
General Reference Center Gold
Reference articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.
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INFOTRAC
Database |
GEOBASE
Worldwide literature on geography, geology, and ecology. |
First Search
Database |
Geological Society Of America - Online Publications
Online journals, maps and field guides from the Geological Society of America. |
Database |
GeoRef
A comprehensive geoscience resource.
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EBSCOhost
Database |
Google Books
Search the full text of books to find ones that interest you; learn where to buy or borrow them.
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Web
Search Engine |
Google Scholar
A search engine for scholarly literature. Searches across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
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Web
Search Engine |
GPO Monthly Catalog
U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments.
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FirstSearch
Database |
Grolier Encyclopedias
Access Encyclopedia Americana and Multimedia Encyclopedia, along with enhanced content such as news headlines, featured topics, and educators' resources. |
Reference:
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Health Reference Center Academic
Full text of nursing and allied health journals. |
INFOTRAC
Database |
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Authoritative information on health-related questions. |
EBSCOhost
Database |
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. |
EBSCOhost
Database |
HeritageQuest Online
This genealogy database
for both genealogical and historical researchers, with coverage dating back to the late 1700s. |
ProQuest
Database |
Historical Abstracts
Bibliographic database for historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). |
EBSCOhost
Database |
Historical New York Times
Search the New York Times from 1851- 2004. Articles will be in PDF format. Current full-text content of the New York Times is found in several other databases: LexisNexis, Proquest Newspapers, and Infotrac. |
Proquest
Database |
History Cooperative
A pioneering nonprofit humanities resource offering top-level online history scholarship. Includes the full text of American Historical Association articles. |
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In the First Person
A free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. It is an index to letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narratives |
Website |
InfoTrac
Links to all of the library's database subscriptions provided by INFOTRAC.
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All INFOTRAC
Database |
Issues and Controversies
Up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day. |
Facts on File
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JSTOR
Archive of important scholarly journals in many disciplines. |
JSTOR
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LEXIS-NEXIS Academic
Full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options. |
Lexis-Nexis
Database |
Library Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. |
EBSCOhost
Database |
Literature Resource Center
Current, comprehensive, and reliable online resource for research on literary topics, authors, and their works. Its coverage includes all genres and disciplines, all time periods, and all regions of the world. |
INFOTRAC Database |
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Massachusetts Community Health Information Profile (MassCHIP)
Community-level data to assess health needs, monitor health status indicators, and evaluate health programs. |
Website |
Massachusetts History Online
Contains full-text articles gathered from almost 50 sources that directly relate to Massachusetts history, both past and present, including people, places, historical events and more. Contains data from a range of publications, |
NEW ! INFOTRAC
Database |
Massachusetts Newspapers in ProQuest Newspapers
Full-text coverage of major Massachusetts newspapers including the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Quincy Patriot Ledger and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, plus selected coverage of other regional sources. |
NEW
Proquest
Database |
MAS Ultra - School Edition
Comprehensive database, designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for more than 700 popular, high school magazines.
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EBSCOhost
Database |
MasterFILE Premier
Full text for more than 1,700 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines. |
EBSCOhost
Database |
MATH (Zentralblatt MATH Database)
The longest running abstracting and reviewing service in pure and applied mathematics. |
Website |
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. Continuing in the tradition of the paper publication, Mathematical Reviews (MR), which was first published in 1940, expert reviewers are selected by a staff of professional mathematicians to write reviews of the current published literature; over 40,000 reviews are added to the database each year. Extending the MR tradition, MathSciNet contains over 2 million items and over 1 million direct links to original articles. Bibliographic data from retrodigitized articles dates back to the early 1800s. This web of citations allows users to track the history and influence of research publications in the mathematical sciences.
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MEDLINE
Authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and more. |
EBSCOhost
Database |
Medlineplus Health Information
Authoritative information from National Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. |
Government
Website |
Mental Measurements Yearbook - Buros
Information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests. |
EBSCOhost
Database |
Military & Government Collection
Current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. |
EBSCOhost
Database |
MLA Directory of Periodicals
Detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography.
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EBSCOhost
Database |
MLA International Bibliography
A detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. |
EBSCOhost
Database |
Morningstar In-library users / Off-campus users
Provides full-text financial and stock information on mutual funds, publicly-owned companies, and exchange traded funds (ETFs) that are listed on major U. S. stock exchanges. Information includes financial data and analysts’ reports and information on foreign companies that trade on major U. S. stock exchanges. It also compares companies’ performance within specific industries. |
Database |
Multimedia Encyclopedia
The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia is derived from the Academic American Encyclopedia; provides quick reference for middle school and high school. |
Grolier
Encyclopedia |
Music Online
A broad and comprehensive online music resource that cross-searches all of your library's Alexander Street Press music databases. |
Streaming Audio Database |
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NBER Working Papers
Founded in 1920, the National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. The NBER is committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community. NBER Working Papers have not undergone the review accorded official NBER publications. They are intended to make results of NBER research available to other economists in preliminary form to encourage discussion and suggestions for revision before final publication. Searching is by keyword (author, title, abstract) and browsing can be done by Archive of earlier papers, Journal of Economic Literature class, NBER Programs, Recent Working Papers, or Top 25 Working Paper downloads. |
Database |
NLM Gateway
"One-stop searching" for many of the information resources or databases at the U.S. National Library of Medicine . |
Website |
NCJRS (Government Website version)
Website of the U.S. Department of Justice's National Criminal Justice Reference Service, an information clearinghouse for people around the U.S. and the world involved with research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control.
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Government
Website |
NetLibrary
Includes digital version of books, journals, and database content. |
E-Books,
Electronic Books |
New York Times, current full-text content included in Lexis Nexis Academic.
Search the New York Times from 1851- 2004 at Historical New York Times. |
Newspaper |
Newspaper Source
Selected full text for regional, national (U.S.) and international newspapers; full text television & radio news transcripts. |
EBSCOhost
Database |
NIAA Alcohol
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) portal to support researchers and practitioners searching for information related to alcohol research. |
Website |
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PapersFirst
An index of papers presented at conferences worldwide. |
FirstSearch
Database |
Proceedings
An index of worldwide conference proceedings. |
FirstSearch
Database |
Professional Collection is now the Educator's Reference Complete
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INFOTRAC
Database |
Professional Development Collection
Designed for professional educators; provides high quality education journals, including peer-reviewed titles. |
EBSCOhost
Database |
Project Muse
An online collection of several hundred scholarly journals in the arts, humanities and social sciences; contains full text scholarly journals from univeristy and society presses. |
Project Muse
Database |
ProQuest
Links to all of the library's database subscriptions provided by ProQuest. |
All Proquest
Databases |
ProQuest Biology Journals
Access to a wide range of biology topics. The database includes over 285 titles, with more than 250 available in full text. |
ProQuest
Database |
ProQuest Computing
Search top computing journals in full text for research on subjects such as database design, software development, web commerce, LANs, WANs, Intranets, and the Internet. |
ProQuest
Database |
ProQuest Education Journals
Coverage includes primary, secondary, and higher education, as well as special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics; access to over 745 top educational publications, including nearly 600 of the titles in full text. |
ProQuest
Database |
ProQuest Health Management
Articles pertaining to the business side of hospitals and healthscare. Find non-clinical information covering all aspects of health administration, including public health and safety, hospitals, finance, personnel management, insurance, population studies, labor relations and law.
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ProQuest
Database |
ProQuest Newspapers
Includes full-text coverage of major national newspapers, inlcuding the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and NY Times, as well as Massachusetts newspapers including the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Quincy Patriot Ledger and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. |
ProQuest
Database |
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
Find complete, full-text information from leading nursing, allied health, and related publications. Includes reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more.
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ProQuest
Database |
ProQuest Psychology Journals
Full-text coverage from top psychology and related publications. Users get access to charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements essential to psychological research. |
ProQuest
Database |
ProQuest Science Journals
Search full text and images for the leading periodicals in science and technology. Subject coverage includes computers, engineering, physics, telecommunications, and transportation. Researchers have access to all the charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements so vital to scientific and technical literature. |
ProQuest
Database |
ProQuest Social Science Journals
Search full-text scientific journals covering the social sciences. Provides information on hundreds of topics, including: Addiction studies, Urban studies, Family studies, International relations. |
ProQuest
Database |
PsycARTICLES
Full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. |
EBSCOhost
Database |
PsycINFO
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.
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EBSCOhost
Database |
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Full text coverage on topics: emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. |
EBSCOhost
Database |
PubMedCentral
The National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences journal literature. |
Government
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Reference Universe
Search for articles/essays within our reference titles. Coming soon: Linking directly to our electronic Reference books. |
PARATEXT Database |
RefWorks
Manage citations from databases and the web to easily share or add to your research papers. |
RefWorks |
Regional Business News
Full text coverage for regional business publications. |
EBSCOhost
Database |
Religion and Philosophy Collection
Full text and abstracts for theology and philosophical studies. |
EBSCOhost
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Type |
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Safari Books Online
Search across the full text of thousands of technical books for programmers and IT professionals.
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ProQuest
Database |
Science Online
Presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments. |
Facts on File
Database |
The Serials Directory
Access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials. |
EBSCOhost
Database |
SIRSResearcher
Social, scientific, economic, and political issues worldwide. |
FirstSearch
Database |
Smithsonian Global Sound
A
virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. It includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. It also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies.
Note: Allows for free streaming of music;
downloading music is on an individual basis for a fee. |
Streaming Audio Database |
SocIndex with Full Text
Comprehensive sociology research database; contains full text for books and monographs, journals and conference papers. |
EBSCOHost
Database |
SPORTDiscus with Full Text
This database is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for more than 400 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus. Of those, 273 are not found with full text in any version of Academic Search™, Health Source® or Biomedical Reference Collection™. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the SPORTDiscus index - with no embargo. With full-text coverage dating back to 1985, SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of sports & sports medicine literature.
(Note: 4 simultaneous users)
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Teacher Reference Center
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators. The Database provides some full-text articles. The TRC has minimal overlap with either the Professional Development Collection or Academic Search Premier. |
EBSCOHost
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U S Law Week
National coverage of significant cases and key legislative and regulatory developments across all areas of the law, summaries of selected federal court, state court and administrative cases. Access Supreme Court Today via link on left side of screen.
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ProQuest
Database |
WorldAlmanac
Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs. |
FirstSearch
Database |
WorldCat
OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. |
FirstSearch
Database |
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