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Databases by Subject

Business and Finance

  • Business & Company Resource Center (Gale)
    Business, company and industry information. Locate company profiles, periodical articles, financial data, market research as well as up-to-date stock and financial information.  Entirely full text.
  • Business Source Premier (EBSCOhost)
    Business topics from 1965 to the present. Both full text articles and abstracts.
  • Entrepreneurial Studies Source (EBSCOhost) Provides material on topics relevant to entrepreneurship and small businesses. Full text articles, abstracts, and videos.
  • LexisNexis Academic Business Search
    Business and financial information. Both full text articles and abstracts.
  • Regional Business News (EBSCOhost)
    U.S. business journals, newspapers, and newswires. Both full text articles and abstracts.
  • Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
    Articles on the stock market, the economy, and long- and short-term prospects for equities, bonds, funds, and industries. Entirely full text.
  • Value Line Research Center
    Publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options, convertible securities and special situation stocks. Entirely full text.
  • Wall Street Journal (ProQuest)
    In-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as hard news. Entirely full text.
  • For more alternatives, please see the Electronic Resources A-to-Z page.

Communication

Criminal Justice and Law

  • Criminal Justice (ProQuest)
    Criminal justice topics, including corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and family law. Both full text articles and abstracts.
  • LexisNexis Academic Legal Search
    Legal materials and current events. Both full text articles and abstracts.
  • For more alternatives, please see the Electronic Resources A-to-Z page.

Education

  • Education Full Text (EBSCOhost)
    Education issues including government funding, instructional media, multicultural education, religious education, student counseling, competency-based education, and information technology. Both full text articles and abstracts.
  • ERIC (EBSCOhost)
    The Education Resources Information Center. Journal and non-journal material on education. Both full text articles and abstracts.
  • Professional Development Collection (EBSCOhost)
    Information for educators, librarians and education researchers. From children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice. Both full text articles and abstracts.
  • Teacher Reference Center (EBSCOhost)
    Popular K-12 teacher and administrator journals and magazines. Provides indexing and abstracts.
  • K-12 Databases
  • Book Collection: Nonfiction - Elementary Edition (EBSCOhost)
    Covers a wide range of subjects for elementary school students. Contains both full text articles and abstracts.
  • Book Collection: Nonfiction - Middle School Edition (EBSCOhost)
    Covers a wide range of subjects for middle school students. Contains both full text articles and abstracts.
  • Book Collection: Nonfiction - High School Edition (EBSCOhost)
    Covers a wide range of subjects for high school students. Contains both full text articles and abstracts.
  • Discovering Collection (Gale)
    Essays and reference works on the subjects of Literature, History, Biography, Science and Social Studies for K-12 students.  Entirely full text.
  • Kids InfoBits (Gale)
    Designed for students K-5.  Contains curriculum-related information on current events, arts, sciences, health, people, government, sports, history and more.
  • Kids Search (EBSCOhost)
    Search interface designed for elementary and middle school students. Full text of magazines and reference books for elementary and middle school students.
  • MAS Ultra - School Edition (EBSCOhost)
    Designed for high school students with general interest and current events publications. Both full text articles and abstracts.
  • Primary Search (EBSCOhost)
    Full text of elementary school magazines and reference books. Provides reading level indicators (Lexiles).
  • Science Reference Center (EBSCOhost)
    Provides middle and high school students easy access to a multitude of full-text science-oriented content.
  • Searchasaurus (EBSCOhost)
    Search interface designed for elementary and middle school students. Full text of magazines and reference books for elementary and middle school students.
  • Student Research Center (EBSCOhost)
    Search interface designed for high school students. Magazine, journal, and reference book content. Both full-text articles and abstracts.
  • For more alternatives, please see the Electronic Resources A-to-Z page.

Government and History

Literature

  • Bloom's Literary Reference Online (Facts On File)
    Contains critical articles on literary works, authors, characters, themes, movements, genres and other literary topics. Entirely full text.
  • Salem Literature (Salem Press) Online editions of Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Critical Survey of Poetry and Masterplots.
  • Twayne’s Authors Series (Gale/Infotrac)
    eBooks of critical work for over 600 authors and types of literature. Entirely full text.
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Multiple Subject Databases

  • Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
    Covers a broad range of subject areas. Both full text articles and abstracts.
  • CQ Global Researcher (Congressional Quarterly)
    Definitive, in-depth coverage of global affairs from a number of international viewpoints.  Entirely full text.
  • CQ Researcher (Congressional Quarterly)
    Social issues, environment, health, education and science and technology. Entirely full text.
  • Humanities International Complete (EBSCOhost) Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Both full text articles and abstracts.
  • JSTOR
    History, sociology, business, economics, ecology, literature, mathematics, political science, population studies, and finance. Entirely full text.
  • MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOhost)
    General interest resource with periodical and news information on a wide range of topics. With an image collection of photos, maps & flags. Both full text articles and abstracts.
  • Opposing Viewpoints in Context 
    Controversial social and political issues. Both full text articles and abstracts.
  • Project MUSE 
    Literature, history, the arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and more. Entirely full text.
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Newspapers

  • LexisNexis Academic News Search
    Major U. S. and international newspapers and other print and broadcast news sources. Both full text articles and abstracts.
  • New York Times - Historical (ProQuest)
    Articles published in the New York Times from 1851-2007. Entirely full text.
  • NewsBank
    Missouri, regional, and national newspapers. Entirely full text.
  • Newspaper Source (EBSCOhost) National, regional and international newspaper articles, and television and radio news transcripts. Both full text articles and abstracts.
  • Wall Street Journal (ProQuest)
    In-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as hard news. Entirely full text.
  • For more alternatives, please see the Electronic Resources A-to-Z page.

Nursing and Medicine

  • CINAHL with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
    Journal articles and other material on nursing. Both full text articles and abstracts.
  • Consumer Health Complete (EBSCOhost)Consumer-oriented health content that covers topics like food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Both full text articles and abstracts.
  • MEDLINE (EBSCOhost) Provides information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the health care system from the National Library of Medicine. Abstracts only.
  • For more alternatives, please see the Electronic Resources A-to-Z page.

Psychology

  • PsycARTICLES (EBSCOhost)
    Articles from peer reviewed psychology journals and chapters from American Psychology Association books. Both full text articles and abstracts.
  • Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCOhost)
    Emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Both full text articles and abstracts.
  • For more alternatives, please see the Electronic Resources A-to-Z page.

Reference - Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and More

  • CountryWatch
    Country-specific information. Entirely full text.
  • Credo Reference
    Electronic reference books. Encyclopedias, handbooks, and dictionaries, both general and subject specific. Titles can be individually browsed or searched simultaneously. Entirely full text.
  • Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCOhost)
    Includes over 25,000 entries covering a wide variety of subject areas. Entirely full-text.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library
    Electronic reference books covering topics in history, law, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, philosophy, religion and social science.
  • Historical Statistics of the United States
    Statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States from the 17th to the 21st centuries. Entirely full text.
  • LearningExpress Library
    Practice tests and tutorials for improving testing skills or furthering education or career goals. Provides instant scoring and customized feedback. Free registration.
  • Oxford Reference Online
    English dictionaries and thesauri, bilingual dictionaries, the World Encyclopedia, and subject dictionaries and Oxford subject companions. Entirely full text.

Science and Technology

  • AccessScience (McGraw Hill)
    The Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and the Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. Entirely full text.
  • Applied Science & Technology Full Text (EBSCOhost)
    Mathematics, computers, chemistry, environment, fire prevention, geology, physics, and other technologies. Both full text articles and abstracts.
  • Environment Complete (EBSCOhost) Covers a wide range of areas of environmental studies in journals and reference books. Both full text and abstracts.
  • GreenFILE (EBSCOhost)
    Covers all aspects of human impact to the environment. Both full text articles and abstracts.
  • For more alternatives, please see the Electronic Resources A-to-Z page.

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