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- ABI/INFORM Complete
- Provides full-text business periodicals and news sources, covering scholarly research, businesses traditions and trends, corporate strategies, management techniques, and competitive and product information. The above link takes you to the ProQuest main page - select Business ABI/INFORM Complete from the Database drop down menu.
- Academic Search Elite
- A multi-disciplinary database offering full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals. Covering virtually every area of academic study, it offers full text information for many of it's journals dating as far back as 1985.
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- The ACM Digital Library
- A collection of citations and full text from ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings.
- American Chemical Society Journal Archives
- Provides access to 120 years of the most cited chemistry research. This new online archive lets you search the full text of all titles published by ACS from 1879. The ACS Journal Archives is an online database that is rolling in nature; that is, every year, a new year's worth of content will be added.
- American Physical Society Journals
- Provides a dependable resource of worldwide developments in the rapidly evolving area of atomic, molecular, and optical physics and related fundamental concepts. The journal contains articles on quantum mechanics including quantum information theory, atomic and molecular structure and dynamics, collisions and interactions (interactions with surfaces and solids), clusters (including fullerenes), atomic and molecular processes in external fields, matter waves (including Bose-Einstein condensation), and quantum optics.
- BasicBIOSIS
- Focuses on general life science research from around the world. BasicBIOSIS contains coverage of nearly 300 of the most popular life sciences publications as well as meeting reports, reviews, and newspapers.
- BioMed Central
- Over 100 Open Access journals covering all areas of Biology and Medicine. Most journals are peer-reviewed.
- Britannica Online
- Includes the Encyclopedia Britannica, Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Collegiate Thesaurus. Search results include articles in the encyclopedia, web sites, and links to relevant journal articles.
- Business Source Elite
- Provides full text coverage for 1,133 scholarly business, management and economics journals, including more than 500 peer-reviewed publications and offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,800 journals. Business Source Elite contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals including Business Week, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Marketing Research (JMR), Journal of Marketing, etc. Detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies is also provided.
- CCH Tax Network
- A database offering access to the Internal Revenue Code and information on the following tax related topics: tax news, federal and state income tax, sales tax, financial and estate planning, internatinal tax, accounting and audit, and tax forms.
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- CINAHL(Cumulated Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
- Offers complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, covering nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters.
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. There are now 1608 journals in the directory. Currently 402 journals are searchable at article level. Subject areas include: Biology and Life Sciences, Chemistry, History and Archaeology, Philosophy and Religion, Arts and Architecture, Business and Economics, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Health Sciences, Languages and Literatures, Mathematics and Statistics, Physics and Astronomy, and Social Sciences.
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- Emerald Full Text Journals
- Emerald currently publishes more than 150 journal titles in the fields of management and information science. A dynamic database product, Emerald Fulltext today offers an expanding collection of 40,000 articles from titles published by Emerald. Subscribed titles are available full text.
- FreeMedicalJournals.com
- Provides access to free medical journals online. Many are available immediateky, while others have a waiting period of 6 to 24 months. Some will require registration (free) to access the articles.
- Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
- Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
- Globus & NTDBPassword Required - ask at Reference Desk. Library Use Only.
- National Trade Data Bank. Provides trade data and information, including, but not limited to: Current exchange rates, current Trade Leads, Global Business Opportunity Leads, Market and Country Research, and International Trade Library Highlights.
- Health Reference Center
- Provides an integrated collection of general interest health and
fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books and pamphlets. Records are available in a combination of indexing, abstracts or full text formats. Designed for nursing and allied health students, as well as consumer health researchers.
- Health Source - Consumer and Nursing/Academic Edition
- Provides access to nearly 300 full text, consumer health periodicals, as well as, full text, indexing and abstracts for more than 300 periodicals. Also included is searchable full text for nearly 1,100 health-related pamphlets; 135 health reference books, including books published by the People's Medical Society; more than 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); and Stedman's Medical Dictionary. In addition, this database includes Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs.
- Highwire Press
- Free Online Full-text Articles. HighWire Press is a division of the Stanford University Libraries, which produces the online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly content. They provide a repository of free full-text life science articles, with more than 850,000 free, full-text articles online. Since 1995, with the launch of the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC), to the continuous online production of hundreds of prestigious journals, such as Science Magazine, the New England Journal of Medicine, PNAS, and JAMA. Many are free, while others are not available until 6 to 24 months after publication. Some journals do require registration for free content.
- NEW!IEEE Computer Society Digital Library
- Provides access to 22 computer society magazines and transactions, and more than 1,700 selected conference proceedings. Subject areas include: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Computation, Graphics & Multimedia, Internet & Data Technologies, IT & Security, Mobile Computing, Networking, History, Hardware, and Software.
- JSTOR Scholarly Journals
- Offers back issues and current issues of 117 journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This collection also includes a selection of titles in the more science-oriented fields of ecology, mathematics, and statistics.
- Legal Collection
- Centered on the discipline of law and legal topics, Legal Collection is a collection of respected, scholarly peer-reviewed publications including law journals, documents, and case studies. offers full text for more than 250 of the world's best law journals. This database provides information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment and much more.
- Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
- Provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options.
Library Literature & Information Science Full Text
- A bibliographic database that indexes articles and book reviews in more than 234 key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets are also indexed. Full-text coverage begins in 1994.
- Libro - The Library of Iberian Resources Online
- The Library of Iberian Resources Online (LIBRO) is a joint project of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain and the University of Central Arkansas. Its task is to make available to users the best scholarship about the peoples and nations of the Iberian peninsula.
- Lois Law Library To use click on MEMBERS. Call the Reference Desk (450-5224) to get a user i.d. and password.
- Offers a wide range of legal content and supporting materials, including: up-to-date cases, statutes, rules and regulations, and other primary law for all 50 states and federal jurisdictions; expert-authored online treatise libraries, focused around practice areas, including Wigmore on evidence, Ginsberg and Martin on bankruptcy, and Price on estate planning; and extensive public records for individuals and corporations.
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- NetLibrary
- Provides access to 10,912 eBooks and 3,407 publicly accessible eBooks.
- Newspaper Source
- Provides selected full text for 25 national(U.S.) and international newspapers, as well as full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
- Ovid Nursing
- An aggregate of hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies. Full-text available for subscribed journals. Subject areas include: Clinical Medicine, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Nursing, and Physical Science and Engineering.
- Public Library of Science
- A nonprofit scientific publishing venture that will provide scientists with high-quality, high-profile journals in which to publish their most important work, while making the full contents freely available for anyone to read, distribute, or use for their own research. Published papers are peer-reviewed.
- PubMed
- The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
- Professional Development Collection
- Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of more than 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles, as well as, more than 200 educational reports. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 900 journals.
- ProQuest Biology Journals
- Provides full-text access to 321 journals in the Life Sciences, including Biology, Health, Medicine, and Nutrition.
- ProQuest EIU NewsViews
- Offers in-depth coverage of 195 countries, EIU ViewsWire delivers decision support for doing business in fast-changing world markets, highlighting up to 250 important economic, political and market developments around the world and provides concise analytical briefings on their implications for business.
- ProQuest Research Library
- Provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.
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- Reader's Guide Full Text
- Readers' Guide Full Text is a database containing comprehensive indexing and abstracting of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada, plus the full text of selected periodicals. Full-text coverage begins in January 1994 for most titles.
- Regional Business News
- Incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Included in this database are Arizona Business, Business North Carolina, Crain's New York Business (and other Crain Communications editions), Des Moines Business Record, Enterprise Salt Lake City, Fort Worth Business Press, Orange County Business Journal, Westchester County Business Journal, and more.
- Sage Journals Online
- Provides full-text and abstracts for journals in a variety of subject areas including Education, Geography, Health/Nursing, History, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Writing. Full-text available for subscribed journals only.
- ScienceDirect
- Offers an electronic collection of science, technology and medicine full text journals and bibliographic information. Full-text is available for subscribed journals only.
- SpringerLink
- Complete tables of content, abstracts and full-text articles from more than 650 journals. Full-text available for subscribed journals. May search using keyword or publication title. For article searching, click the Advanced tab next to the top Search Bar and select "Articles by Text" or scroll down to Browse and Explore.
- State of the Nation Password Required - ask at Reference Desk. Library Use Only.
- Provides current and historical economic and financial releases and economic data. Direct access to the Federal Government's wealth of information on the U.S. Economy.
- United States Code
- Provides access to the most recent official version made available by the US House of Representatives.
- Wilson Business Full-text
- Wilson Business Full Text is a full text database that indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere, including the leading business magazines and trade and research journals, plus the full text of selected periodicals. The abstracts range from 50 to 150 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full text coverage begins in January 1995.
- Wilson Education Full Text
- A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere. English-language books relating to education published in 1995 or later are also indexed. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source documents. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996.
- Wilson General Science Full Text
- A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain plus the full text of selected periodicals. Periodical coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals. General Science Full Text also covers The New York Times Science Section (published weekly on Tuesday). Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in March 1993. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full text coverage begins in January 1995.
- Wilson Humanties Full Text
- A bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals, plus the full text of selected periodicals. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Full-text coverage begins in January 1995.
- Wilson Social Sciences Full Text
- A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere plus the full text of selected periodicals. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals. Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in January 1994. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full text coverage begins in January 1995.
- Wilson Web
- Provides a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere plus the full text of selected periodicals. Includes the following indexes: Applied Science and Technology, Art, Biological and Agricultural, Business, Education, General Science, Humanities, Legal, Readers’ Guide, and Social Science.
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WorldAlmanac
- Click on the database tab to access WorldAlmanac. Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia as well as The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Alamanc for Kids, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., and The World Almanac of U.S. Politics. To select the almancs, click the drop down arrow in the "Limit to" field.
- World Data Analyst Online
- Offers detailed comparisons around the world, using both the most recent statistics and historical figures. Users can create tables and charts and export data to a spreadsheet for printing. Highlights inlcude: country snapshots, comparative statistics, historical statistics, and ranked statistics.
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