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General/Multidisciplinary
Academic Search Complete a multi-disciplinary, full-text database with more than 5,990 full-text periodicals, including more than 5,030 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,990 journals and a total of more than 10,400 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887.
Article First via FirstSearch, index to articles from 12,500 journals; 1990 to present.
Directory of Open Access Journals covers free access, full-text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals.  Multidisciplinary.
Google Scholar searches scholarly literature, to include peer-reviewed papers, dissertations, book citations, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from a variety of content providers. Some content is available in full text. (About)
JSTOR a full-text, scholarly journal collection consisting of back issues (beginning about 5 years back from the current date) of journals in many different subject areas; some of the journals go back to the 1800's. 
LexisNexis Academic full-text news dating back 20 years, business, legal, and medical materials-great for newspaper articles.
NetLibrary full-text electronic books, approximately 63,000 titles, covering all academic subject areas.
Newspaper Source Plus provides cover-to-cover full text for 149 national & international newspapers and selective full text for more than 410 U.S newspapers. The database also contains full-text television & radio news transcripts.  
PapersFirst via Firstsearch, index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.
Polling the Nations full-text from 14,000 surveys by 700 polling organizations in U.S. and 80 countries.
Proceedings First via FirstSearch, index of worldwide conference proceedings.
World Almanac via FirstSearch, the famous almanac full text, online.
World Catalog via FirstSerach, includes millions of book citations from libraries worldwide.

Business
Business & Company Resource Center includes full-text articles, company profiles, financial reports.
Business Source Complete a scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals.  
Factiva a web-based information service that provides powerful tools for searching and monitoring global news and business.
LexisNexis Academic full-text news dating back 20 years - business, legal, and medical materials, includes full-text newspapers.
Mergent Horizon "seamless capabilities for finding, filtering and organizing information about companies and industries."  
Mergent Online Information on over 35,000 publicly traded companies -- approximately 12,000 domestic public companies, 24,000 international public companies, and 10,000 extinct (due to merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, etc)  global public companies.  Company histories and over 200,000 annual reports in pdf, 30 years of stock prices, and more.

Christian Studies
ATLAS Religion covers Religion Index One:Periodicals, Religion Index Two: Multi-Author Works, Index to Book Reviews in Religion, Research in Ministry and Methodist Reviews Index. Coverage includes journal articles, books, essays, dissertations, proceedings and book reviews. Full Text for over 75 journals (1949-present)
Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world.  This database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,100 journals and 2.47 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 890 journals.

Education
AERA

 

 American Education Research Association - Open Access Journals in the field of Education.  Scholarly, peer-reviewed, full-text journals.
ERIC through EBSCO



ERIC 		(Educational Resource Information Center), the world's largest source of education information, contains more than 950,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice.  Search via Ebsco's search interface.  Some full-text content

Same ERIC content as above, different search interface.  Use the thesaurus to know what search terms to use.
Education Research Complete 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 provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,840 journals, as well as full text for more than 950 journals, and includes full text for more than 81 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers.

Exercise and Sport Science and Health
Alternative HealthWatch Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine.
This database features indexing and abstracts going back as far as 1984, and full text going back as far as 1990
Consumer Health Complete EBSCO's interface designed for the everyday consumer of health care information. CHC provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. Consumers can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles.
Health Source -
Academic Edition
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.  Also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
Health Source - Consumer Edition This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.  Provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines
Medline a comprehensive database of biomedical literature produced by the National Library of Medicine, coverage 1966-present.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection provides coverage of more than 550 full-text journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles. The database covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full-text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO, a database of the American Psychological Association
SPORTDiscus     comprehensive source for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for more than 440 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus, dating back to 1985.

Fine Arts
   
Arts & Humanities Search via FirstSearch, citations referencing more than 1,300 of leading journals in the field.
ARTstor digital library of over 300,000 art images and associated information. Prehistoric to contemporary, international in scope, includes architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts and design. To use, enable cookies, Java scripts, disable pop-up blockers. Technical help.
Digital Library of Appalachia seeks to provide online access to archival and historical images and materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region. The over 1000 items in the database include reproductions of photographs, reformatted typed pages, published books, unpublished manuscripts, personal diaries and correspondence, journal and newspaper articles, musical recordings, oral history recordings and transcripts, and other related reproductions.
Humanities International Complete Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,100 journals and 2.47 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 890 journals.
NAXOS Music Library Listen to music online; search by composer, title, or genre.
(5 simultaneous users allowed)  Not available from off campus.

Literature, Language, & Communication
Communications and Mass Media Complete 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.  
Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world.  This database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,100 journals and 2.47 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 890 journals.
Literature Resource Center full-text literature resources for all research in literature.
MLA Bibliography index to information on languages, grammar and literature.

Sciences & Computer
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete CASC provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,800 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection. Full text is also available for more than 730 periodicals.  
Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete contains more than 1,957,000 records from more than 1,700 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,125 active core titles). The database also contains full text for more than 680 journals and 120 monographs.
GeoBase via FirstSearch, worldwide literature on geography, geology, and ecology.
Medline a comprehensive database of biomedical literature produced by the National Library of Medicine, coverage 1966-present.
PubMed a free ervice of the NLM, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's. Includes links to many sites providing full-text articles and other resources.
PubMed Central the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
Social Sciences 
American Civil War: Letters and Diaries more than 1,000 sources of diaries, letters, and memoirs to provide access to thousands of views on almost every aspect of the war, including what was happening at home.
Contemporary Women's Issues via FirstSearch, covers health and human rights issues.
Criminal Justice Periodicals Index includes full-text of 50 journals and indexes and abstracts over 190 US and international journals, from 1981 forward.
Digital Library of Appalachia seeks to provide online access to archival and historical images and materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region. The over 1000 items in the database include reproductions of photographs, reformatted typed pages, published books, unpublished manuscripts, personal diaries and correspondence, journal and newspaper articles, musical recordings, oral history recordings and transcripts, and other related reproductions.
Early American Imprints full-text digitization of the microform set Early American Imprints, Series I (1639-1800), which was itself based on the American Bibliography of Charles Evans (14 vols., 1903-34, 1955-59).
Early Encounters in North America sources from diaries, letters, and memoirs about the people, cultures, and environment
HarpWeek

 

 enables you to directly experience the full-text richness and historical significance of Harper’s Weekly, America's leading 19th century illustrated newspaper.
Legal Collection This database contains full text for more than 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. The Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.
LISTA
contains extensive abstracting and indexing content from over 600 of the library science industry's most well-known journals and periodicals.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries sources from diaries, letters, and memories from Colonial to 1950
Polling the Nations full-text from 14,000 surveys by 700 polling organizations in U.S. and 80 countries.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection provides coverage of more than 550 full-text journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles. The database covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full-text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO, a database of the American Psychological Association
PsycInfo from the American Psychological Association, contains over two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as 1840.
Women's Studies
International		  covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Coverage includes more than 586,600 records and spans from 1972 and earlier to present. This database supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education. Over 2,000 periodical sources are represented.
Women Working, 1870-1930 full-text books and pamphlets, explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression.

 

 

 

  

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