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AASHE 
Sustainability resources and documents for higher education administrators and students from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. Users will need to create their own accounts at this site...

ABI/INFORM Global ProQuest
It includes in-depth coverage for over 2,890 publications, with more than 1,920 available in full text. ABI/INFORM Global offers the latest business and financial information for researchers at all levels. With ABI/INFORM Global, users can find out about business conditions, management techniques, business trends, management practice and theory, corporate strategy and tactics, and competitive landscape.

Academic OneFile InfoTrac/Tel
It includes in-depth coverage for over 2,890 publications, with more than 1,920 available in full text. ABI/INFORM Global offers the latest business and financial information for researchers at all levels. With ABI/INFORM Global, users can find out about business conditions, management techniques, business trends, management practice and theory, corporate strategy and tactics, and competitive landscape.

Academic Search Premier EBSCO
Academic Search™ Premier contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,200 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles

Access Science 
The database contains over 8,500 online articles, research updates, 110,000+ definitions, 15,000 illustrations and graphics, biographies of more than 2,000 well-known scientists, the latest news in science and technology from Science News® and ScienCentral® videos.

ACM Digital Library 
The ACM Digital Library is a vast collection of citations and full text from ACM journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings.

Alcohol Studies Database 
The database contains over 80,000 citations for journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and audio-visual materials.

American Chemical Society Publications 
The peer-reviewed journals of ACS publish cutting-edge articles across a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines—agricultural science, biotechnology, analytical chemistry, applied chemistry, biochemistry & molecular biology, chemical biology, chemical engineering, computer science, crystallography, energy & fuels, food science, environmental science, inorganic & nuclear chemistry, material science, medicinal chemistry, organic chemistry, pharmacology, physical chemistry, plant sciences, polymer science, and toxicology.

American National Biography 
The landmark American National Biography offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation. Over 18,300 biographies are included.

Ancient and Medieval History Online 
Ancient and Medieval History Online covers prehistory through the 1500s.  Users can research each civilization in depth or use the browse feature to conduct comparative studies of events and developments across civilizations. Features include: biographies, events and topics, primary sources, timelines, maps and charts and images and videos.

Annals of American History Online Encyclopedia Britannica
With over 2,000 primary source documents and 700 pieces of multimedia, Annals of American History is an excellent resource for expanding your understanding of the history and culture of the United States. Documents and media are grouped into different periods or they can be searched by author or subject.

Annual Review of Biochemistry 
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.

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 
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.

Annual Review of Genetics 
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.

Annual Review of Microbiology 
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.

Annual Review of Physiology 
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.

Annual Review of Plant Biology 
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.

ArticleFirst FirstSearch
The database includes items listed on the table of contents pages of journals, describes one article, news story, letter, or other item from a journal in each record, provides a list of libraries that have the journal title for most items.

ArtStor 
ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 700,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. ARTstor collections are comprised of contributions from museums, individual photographers, scholars, special collections at libraries, and photo archives.

ATLA Religion Database/ATLASerials EBSCO
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. Full text is provided for more than 211,000 electronic articles and book reviews, from more than 100 journals selected by leading religion scholars in the United States.

 

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Biological Abstracts Thomson Scientific
Biological Abstracts® is a comprehensive reference database covering life sciences journal literature. Areas included are botany, microbiology, pharmacology, biochemistry, evolutionary ecology, neurology and toxicology. Abstracts are available for over 4, 200 journal titles.

Biological Abstracts (EBSCO) EBSCO
Biological Abstracts (EBSCO) provides abstracts in the life sciences back to 1969.

BioOne  
BioOne brings to the Web a uniquely valuable aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of BioOne's titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form.

BioOne Abstracts + Indexes 
BioOne indexes and abstracts.

Business Source Elite EBSCO
Business Source® Elite provides full text coverage of scholarly business, management and economics journals. This rich collection also includes publications covering topics such as accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales, etc. The database offers full text for nearly 1,100 business publications and contains expanded PDF backfiles for 150 titles. 10,000 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included.

 

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Charles Darwin Online 
This site contains Darwin's complete publications, thousands of handwritten manuscripts and the largest Darwin bibliography and manuscript catalogue ever published; also hundreds of supplementary works: biographies, obituaries, reviews, reference works and more.

CINAHL EBSCO
CINAHL® with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 580 journals indexed in CINAHL.

CiteSeerX 
The database is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeerx attempts to provide resources such as algorithms, data, metadata, services, techniques, and software that can be used to promote other digital libraries.

Communication & Mass Media Complete EBSCO
CMMC offers cover-to-cover ("core") indexing and abstracts for more than 440 journals, and selected ("priority") coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 640 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for 326 journals. It also features features over 3,000 author profiles.

Computer Database InfoTrac/Tel
Computer Database provides full-text and image articles for a wide variety or research applications, including: competitive analysis of high tech companies and their products, research on industry trends in telecommunications, electronics, robotics and more, and research on software and hardware

CountryWatch 
CountryWatch is an information provider for individuals needing up-to-date news and information on each of the recognized countries of the world. Key publications produced by CountryWatch include the CountryReviews TM, an up-to-date series of publications for each country including demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental information, and the CountryWireTM ,which provides daily news coverage for every country in the world and a significant news archive made up of the compendium of regional news carriers.

CQ Researcher Congressional Quarterly
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. It provides researchers with an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources.

Custom Newspapers Thomson Gale
This newspaper database lets you search newspapers electronically by title, headline, date, author, section or other assigned fields. Coverage includes: more than 120 cover-to-cover titles including U.S. national, regional and local newspapers as well as the leading titles from around the world, selected full-text news and business coverage from another 280 sources

 

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Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences Knovel
Galileo is seen to have discovered, though not without many labors and long vigils, two entirely new sciences and to have demonstrated them in a rigid, that is, geometric, manner.

Discovering American Women"s History Online 
This database provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to Katrina Thomas's photographs of ethnic weddings from the late 20th century.

Dissertations and Theses ProQuest
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) database is the most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the world. Of the millions of graduate works listed, we offer over 1.9 million in full text format. The database includes Dissertations & Theses @Andrews University.

 

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Ebrary 
This database offers e-books in a number of disciplines using authoritative content from reputable publishers.

EBSCO Animals EBSCO
This extensive database provides students with thousands of easy-to-read entries about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, dinosaurs and prehistoric animals. Each entry begins with a simple category breakdown of the animal including Kingdom, Class, Order, Genus & Species, and Geographical Locale as well as a detailed description. Many entries include colorful images.

EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service EBSCO
With EJS you can: find a specific journal, browse through a list of all journals, browse a list of subject categories, find specific articles, find articles that cover a specific topic, read article abstracts and link directly to full text of the articles you find, create your own personal storage area, and set up searches to run automatically.

Education Research Complete EBSCO
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. Full text for more than 950 journals is provided as well as full text for 81 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers..

E G White Writings Ellen G White Estate
A number of search options are available including searching full text, by topic or a specific book or periodical and page. Also included on the site are archives, photographs, stories of the pioneers, study guides, online books and more.

Encyclopedia Britannica 
Find information quickly and easily by searching the Encyclopædia Britannica, magazines and journals, the Web’s Best Sites, and Britannica videos. Encyclopædia Britannica Online Academic Edition also offers additional content sources. You can compare statistics for all countries in World Data Analyst, browse phrases from famous authors in Notable Quotations, and peruse essays from great thinkers in Gateway to the Classics.

Encyclopedia Britannica Spanish Reference Center Encyclopedia Britannica
Gran Enciclopedia Planeta, the cornerstone of the PlanetaSaber product, is the most comprehensive Spanish language encyclopedia available today. It features 145,000 articles plus timelines, an atlas, and a dictionary. Enciclopedia Juvenil provides a Spanish elementary encyclopedia, images, videos, and Spanish language learning materials specifically designed for younger learners.

Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences Elsevier
It comprises 4,000 articles with topics on institutions and infrastructure, history of the social and behavioral sciences, ethics of research and applications, biographies, and integrative concepts and issues.

Engineering Problem Solving - A Classical Perspective Knovel
This book fills in many of the gaps in engineering education by showing students and professionals, the historical background of problem solving.

ERIC EBSCO
The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. The database contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full-text documents from ERIC.

Essential Practices for Managing Chemical Reactivity Hazards Knovel
This book, useful for safety managers, chemists, and engineers alike, helps both small and large companies identify, address, and manage chemical reactivity hazards.

Expanded Academic ASAP InfoTrac/Tel
Expanded Academic ASAP is home to more than 3,500 indexed and more than 2,100 full-text scholarly and academic periodicals.  It covers every academic concentration — from advertising and microbiology to history and women’s studies. It Combines indexing, abstracts, full text and images.

 

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Facts On File Online 
Facts On File World News Digest is a permanent record of the essential facts of the news as reported in the major newspapers, news magazines, and online news outlets of the U.S., Canada, Britain, Australia, and elsewhere in the world. The emphasis throughout is on the factual content rather than opinion or analysis. Issues and Controversies explores more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture offering in-depth articles made to inspire thought-provoking debates. Today’s Science explains important developments in biology, chemistry, the environment, space, physics, and technology.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia EBSCO
This encyclopedia indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated annually.

 

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Gale Virtual Reference Library InfoTrac/Tel
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. At least one eBook in each of the following disciplines is provided: Business, Environment, History, Medicine, Multicultural studies, and Science.

General Business File ASAP InfoTrac/Tel
This database will allow searchers to analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images is available.

General Business File International InfoTrac/Tel
This database provides indexing, abstracts and full text for research on a truly global range of business and management topics, industries and companies.

General OneFile InfoTrac/Tel
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.

General Reference Center Gold InfoTrac/Tel
From national news magazines and encyclopedias to core business journals, General Reference Center GoldTM has the full-text and image resources students and researchers need. It features hyperlinks between and even within sources, providing point-and-click navigation to related topics and articles.

Google Book 
Books available from Google.

Google Scholar 
Scholarly resources from Google.

GPO FirstSearch
This database covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.).

GreenFile 
Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.

Gutenberg Project 
A large collection of full-text books. These are mostly books that are out-of-copyright.

 

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Handbook of Mathematical Functions  Knovel
This 1972 book is a compendium of mathematical formulas, tables, and graphs. This handbook has been designed to provide scientific investigators with a comprehensive and self-contained summary of the mathematical functions that arise in physical and engineering problems. For people working in mathematical research or numerical computing, this Handbook is a "must have."

Health and Wellness Resource Center InfoTrac/Tel
Including the respected Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Health & Wellness Resource Center delivers up-to-date reference material as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources. Your results may include video content from Healthology. The Alternative Health module looks at health care from a holistic lens. The Disease Profiler module offers an empirical, statistical complement to the disease information in the database.

Health Reference Center-Academic InfoTrac/Tel
Health Reference Center - Academic integrates the full text and images of respected nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical overviews; and reference books. More than 750 full-text sources are included.

HeritageQuest Online InfoTrac/Tel
ProQuest's HeritageQuest Online contains over 40,000 digitized genealogy and family history resources, federal census records, Revolutionary War pension application files, and more.

Historical Newspapers ProQuest
This database includes The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor and Washington Post.

Hoovers Online 
The database allows the following: access to a comprehensive company database, insight into key executive profiles, analyze complete industry coverage, view detailed company fact sheets with financials, executives, and more.

 

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IBISWorld 
Our website provides instant access to over 700 United States industries. Each report, of 25-30 pages in length, is updated regularly, ensuring that they reflect the current state of an industry.

IEEE Computer Society 
This resources contains technical magazines, journals, and conference publications for computer science and related technologies.

Industry Information Resources 
This is a guide to industry resources and data for over 400 industries. Individual pages for each industry list resources and data available from trade associations, industry publications, and research firms which address subjects such as industry overview, issues, trends, and outlook, industry financial information and financial ratios, compensation and salary surveys, and business valuation resources.

Informe (Revistas en Español)  InfoTrac/Tel
Aimed at the needs of both serious researchers and casual browsers, ¡Informe! provides single-search access to the full text of more than 140 Spanish Spanish language and bilingual products, covering a wide range of subject matter from current events to academic interests.

International Critical Tables of Numerical Data Knovel
Featuring physical, thermodynamic, mechanical, and other key properties, it is a major reference source used by those involved in chemistry, physics, and engineering.

 

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JSTOR 
Arts and Sciences I: JSTOR's first collection includes 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 119 titles in fifteen disciplines.

Junior Edition InfoTrac/Tel
This database includes a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

 

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Kids InfoBits InfoTrac/Tel
The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines. This database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

Knovel Critical Tables Knovel
This important, interactive Knovel reference contains tables of physical, solvent, and thermodynamic properties.

Knovel Science & Engineering Units Converter Knovel
Enables you to convert 864 scientific and engineering units for 82 properties - from Acceleration to Volume - to other units as appropriate. It rounds results to the desired number of significant digits selected by you.

Kraus Curriculum Development Library 
This searchable database of curricula, frameworks, and standards brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education.

 

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Large Scale Adsorption and Chromatography, v.1-2 Knovel
This book presents a unified, up-to-date development of operating methods used for large-scale adsorption and chromatography. It groups together the operating methods which have been used or studied for large-scale applications.

Learning Express Library 
It is designed to help patron succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. In addition, a number of study guides and test preparation books are available in e-book form on the site.

LexisNexis Academic LexisNexis
LexisNexis Academic provides access to full-text news, business, and legal publications. News and business coverage encompasses newspapers, periodicals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires, blogs, corporate directories and financial information. Search deep backfiles of hundreds of local, regional, and national newspapers from around the world, in English and major European languages. Research business and industry topics in major periodicals and hard-to-find specialized sources. Take confidence in complete coverage of U.S. federal and state courts and access to hundreds of law reviews.

LexisNexis Primary Sources in U.S. History LexisNexis
Available through the service are primary sources on the civil rights movement, the NAACP's legal campaign against segregation and racism, late 19th and early 20th century peonage cases in the South, African Americans and the New Deal, the crusade against the movie Birth of a Nation, and much more. Also available are rare materials on slavery from colonial through antebellum years, the Civil War, reconstruction, and 20th century political developments.

LexisNexis Statistical LexisNexis
The Base Edition contains 160,000 tables, and 40,000 new and updated tables are added each year. Most of these tables come from basic compilations of statistics like the Statistical Abstract of the US, the New York State Statistical Yearbook, and the UN Statistical Yearbook.

Library, Information Science, Abstracts EBSCO
LISTA indexes nearly 690 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

Literary Index InfoTrac/Tel
rovides quick and easy access to author and title listings from over 130 literature products from Gale and the imprints Charles Scribner's Sons, St. James Press, and Twayne Publishers. The referenced products themselves will contain complete biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings.

Literature Resource Center InfoTrac/Tel
You will find full-text scholarly articles from more than 300 academic journals and literary magazines, reviews of books of all sorts, substantive biographical essays on more than 130,000 authors, full text of thousands of poems and short stories published in contemporary journals and magazines, overview essays on thousands of books and literary topics.

 

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MAS Ultra - School Edition EBSCO
The database contains full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines. Full text is also available for 85,639 biographies and 104,481 primary source documents. Additionally, MAS Ultra – School Edition contains more than 360 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book and World Almanac & Book of Facts), an Image Collection of 285,912 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.

MEDLINE EBSCO
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. Included are citations from Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, HISTLINE, SPACELINE, PREMEDLINE, AIDSLINE, BIOETHICSLINE, and HealthSTAR.

Metallic Materials Properties Development & Standardization Knovel
It contains extensive information and data for other material properties and characteristics, such as fracture toughness, fatigue, creep strength, rupture strength, fatigue-crack propagation rate, and resistance to stress corrosion cracking.

Military & Government Collection EBSCO
This database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those military sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals.

Military Handbook Knovel
It contains standardized design values and related design information for metallic materials and structural elements used in aerospace vehicle structures. It provides mechanical and physical property data, including fatigue-crack propagation rate; fracture toughness; fatigue, creep, and rupture strength for steel, aluminum, magnesium, titanium, and other alloys; and a whole chapter on joint allowables.

Military & Intelligence Database InfoTrac/Tel
With more than 500 titles and more than 7 million articles (80% full-text), searchers are sure to find answers to their reference questions. Many articles also provide links to related sources outside of the current article: reference books, magazine and newswire articles.

 

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National Newspaper Index InfoTrac/Tel
Included are The New York Times (Late and National Editions); The Wall Street Journal (Eastern and Western Editions); The Christian Science Monitor (National Edition); The Washington Post (Final Edition); and The Los Angeles Times (Home Edition).

NetLibrary 
In the database you'll find essential reference materials, the latest computer science and IT titles, best-selling fiction, and more.

 

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Open Access Journals 
A complete list of open-access journals in a variety of disciplines.

Opposing Viewpoints 
Included in the database are: more than 400 titles from Greenhaven Press Series, including Opposing Viewpoints, Opposing Viewpoints Digests, At Issue, Contemporary Issues Companion, Current Controversies and Teen Decisions.

Ovid Nursing 
This database is a subset of the larger Journals@Ovid database that is limited to only the journals to which your institution subscribes. All the journals in this database pertain to Nursing.

Oxford Art Online 
The database offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location. Precise search and browse capabilities allow users to refine their results by source and subject categories. Users can also choose to view biographies, subject entries, or images when searching or browsing.

Oxford English Dictionary 
The OED: provides authoritative definitions of over 500,000 words, traces the usage of words from their first recorded occurrence to the modern period, offers the best in etymological analysis and detailed listings of variant spellings, uses the International Phonetic Alphabet to show pronunciation.

Oxford Music Online 
The first article linked to by a search result is now the ‘primary’ Grove Music Online article on the subject, and it is subject to a regular updating and revision programme. Other articles, from specialist dictionaries such as The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, are now available via a link from this primary article. These articles are static and will not be regularly updated.

Oxford Reference Online - Premium 
Over 130 subject dictionaries, plus the World Encyclopedia, the Oxford Companions series making this “an authoritative, efficient, one-stop shop for quick facts, definitions, and dates."

 

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

Points of View 
The database provides 200 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument),counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide. Additionally, this database contains the Video Encyclopedia of the 20th Century, providing students with a searchable collection of some of the most important social, political, and cultural moments of the 20th century

Primary Search EBSCO
It contains full text for nearly 70 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). This database also provides the American Heritage Children’s Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image Collection of 285,912 photos, maps and flags.

Proceedings FirstSearch
this database covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Document Supply Centre.

Pro & Con 
Pro & Con Online is where you gain access to the archives of Congressional Digest, Supreme Court Debates, and our newest publication International Debates.

Professional Collection InfoTrac/Tel
Professional Collection is a custom selection of more than 300 full-text journals covering a variety of topics for educators. Included are: arts and humanities, child and adolescent psychology and development, drug and alcohol use, health/nutrition/fitness, learning disabilities, literature, school law, science & technology, social science and sports/athletic training.

Proquest Religion ProQuest
The database provides details on doctrines and philosophies, reports on religious history, and related archeology. ProQuest Religion also covers formal theological studies and commentary on topics of general interest from the perspectives of specific religions. Primary faiths represented in the database are Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Buddhism.

PsycARTICLES EBSCO
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. Nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1.

PsycBOOKS EBSCO
PsycBOOKS, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a database of more than 21,000 chapters in PDF from over 1,400 books published by APA and other distinguished publishers. It also includes more than 700 classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology dating from 1806, and the exclusive electronic release of more than 1,500 authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.

PsycINFO EBSCO
The database includes citations from all psychology and related disciplines. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others.

PubMed 
PubMed was created by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. It contains MEDLINE as well as other resources. Clickin on PubMed Central (PMC) will bring the researcher to the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

 

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Religion & Philosophy Database InfoTrac/Tel
Articles from more than 250 magazines and Journals on religion, philosophy, archaeology, and anthropology, and covers the impact of religion on culture.

Research Starters - Business 
It contains Abstracts, a Keyword List of words pertinent to the article, an Overview to explain why the topic is relevant to business and its implications to stakeholders, Further Insights/Applications to outline how the points in the overview can be applied to business, Viewpoints/Issues/Discourse to enable business students to develop a critical perspective on the topic, a glossary of Terms and Concepts, a Bibliography and a Suggested Reading list.

Research Starters - Education EBSCO
Comprehensive summaries of discipline-specific topics help students to grasp the broad outlines of a subject, realize its real world applications, critically engage it, and locate sources for advanced research. Articles average 3,000 words, providing concise yet more in-depth content than most textbook or encyclopedia entries.

Research Starters - Sociology EBSCO
A good starter database for doing initial searches in the area of sociology.

RIA Checkpoint 
This database provides unparalleled expert guidance, a powerful system to optimize research efficiency, practice development tools to help build revenue and the flexibility and integration that has revolutionized tax and accounting research. To use the database see Professor Jon Wentworth for a password

 

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Science Database Thomson Gale
It includes articles from over 1,600 magazines, journals and reference materials on all aspects of the sciences.

SciFinder Scholar 
SciFinder Scholar gives access to current, high-quality scientific information. A wealth of information for more than 34 million organic and inorganic substances is available. SciFinder Scholar is available after a user creates a free account / login.

Scribner Writers Series InfoTrac/Tel
Many authors in the series are seen from multiple perspectives through two, three or sometimes four essays — a broad biocritical overview as well as specialized treatments from literary genre- or movement-specific coverage. Included are a wide variety of time periods, geographic locations and cultures.

SDA Obituary Index 
The obituaries in this Index are found in a number of Seventh-day Adventist Church sponsored and published periodicals. Local church pastors report deaths in their church to the editor of the periodical for inclusion in a later edition. Not all church members are included. Only those members for which the editor received information will be found in the magazine and therefore in this Index.

SDA Periodical Index 
Currently the index covers the years 1973 to current, with updating done in real time. The exception is the Review and Herald which is currently undergoing retrospective indexing beginning with 1972 at the rate of roughly one year’s worth of articles a month. Online access may be available for recent issues of many of the titles. Be sure to verify your periodical’s title, issue, date, and article title, then go to the list of titles indexed for a web link to periodicals available online, in whole or in part.

Smithsonian Physical Tables Knovel
This classic reference source comprises 901 tables of common physical and chemical data. The information provided is broad in scope. It is of general interest to scientists and engineers, and of particular interest to those involved with physics in its larger sense.

Social Work Abstracts EBSCO
The database provides citations and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems.

SocIndex + Fulltext EBSCO
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.

Southern Life Thomson Gale
This specialized database contains nearly 5 million full-text articles on topics that relate directly to Southern living, both past and present, including people, places, historical events and more.

Student Edition InfoTrac/Tel
Now with over 1100 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this periodical database is designed for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

 

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Teacher Reference Center EBSCO
270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals are gathered together for educators. A variety of educational topics is covered.

Teaching Engineering Knovel
This book is organized to start with specific, practical teaching applications and then lead to more general psychological theories. It is written mainly for Ph.D students and professors.

Tennessee Electronic Library InfoTrac/Tel
The TEL databases include articles from newspapers and magazines, and a variety of reference sources, with information on health, business, authors, literature, and general reference, as well as Spanish language materials.

Tennessee Newspaper Collection 
The Tennessee Newspaper Collection consists of four newspapers, one from each of the major cities in Tennessee: Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga and Knoxville. Also included is a collection of America's news magazines. This consists of over 20 popular magazines.

Twayne's Author Series Thomson Gale
Twayne’s Authors Series is devoted to literary critical interpretation and discussion. It offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, to the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres.

 

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Ulrich's Serials 
This directory covers all subjects, and includes publications that are published regularly or irregularly and that are circulated free of charge or by paid subscription. It has bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types academic and scholarly journals.

 

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What Do I Read Next? InfoTrac/Tel
It includes over 134,300 recommended titles, more than 74,500 plot summaries, and awards information from 568 awards, all to help users uncover new reading adventures, find long-remembered favorites, and discover award-winning titles. Search by genre, subject, author, title, series, and more. A monthly highlights page allows the user to see selections of award winners, upcoming titles, and titles that revolve around different subjects each month.

WilsonSelect Plus FirstSearch
The database includes US and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines. Subjects range from accounting to education, healthcare, marketing, transportation and many more.

WorldCat FirstSearch
The database offers millions of bibliographic records and includes records representing 400 languages. It contains all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries.

World Digital Library 
An online collection of one-of-a-kind cultural materials digitized and uploaded from the archives of 32 nations.