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GENERAL
Academic OneFile - InfoTrac Provided by 
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.
Academic Search Complete
Covering most areas of academic study, this scholarly, multidisciplinary database contains more than 6,100 full-text periodicals.
Academic Search Alumni Edition
Designed to meet the research needs of the post-college professional, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 3,190 journals.
Associates Programs Source
Containing nearly 1,000 full text journals as well as 11 full text books, this resource provides comprehensive coverage of the most relevant associate program level content.
Canadian Reference Centre
This database combines Canadian magazines, newspapers and reference books to create the largest collection of regional full text content available to libraries.
CREDO Reference
Credo Reference is a link to a nearly 300 full text reference sources covering a broad range of topics including art, medicine, history, technology and science. Also accessible from this database are images, audio pronunciation files, a citation formatter, and customizable data tables that can be exported into spreadsheets.
Gale PowerSearch
Search all Gale databases, including AcademicOneFile and Health Reference Center at once.
General OneFile - InfoTrac Provided by
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. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.
JSTOR
JSTOR contains the complete archives of a set of core scholarly journals. Current issues are not included which means there is usually a 2- to 5-year gap between the most recently published issue and the most recent in JSTOR. Coverage begins with the first volume of each journal, many of which date from the 1800s. The articles are scanned so that what you see is a page image, a replica of the original journal page.
MasterFile Premier
This resource contains full text for nearly 1,750 periodicals covering general reference, business, health education and more. The database also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and an image collection of over 400,000 items.
Opposing Viewpoints
Information on a wide range of social issues includes access to full-text magazine and newspaper articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents and websites.
Points of View Reference Center
This full text database is designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database contains 255 topics, each with an overview, point, counterpoint and Critical Thinking Guide.
General - Groups of Indexes
WilsonWeb
A collection of online indexes to journal and magazine articles. Search by subject, author, or keyword in one or several databases from 1982 - present. Nearly half of the articles are full text. Database indexes cover topics in art, business, education, literature, science, humanities, social sciences, and more.
FirstSearch Provided by
A collection of online indexes, including ArticleFirst, an OCLC index of articles, some full text, from about 12,500 journals; ECO, Electronic Journal Online, full text of scholarly journals; UnionLists, an OCLC union list of periodicals; and WorldCat, books and other materials in libraries worldwide.
SUBJECT
Art:
ARTstor
ARTstor is a non-profit image collection, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields. ARTstor serves as a repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data representing many time periods and cultures.
Business:
Business & Company Resource Center
Business & Company Resource Center is a fully-integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals.
Business Source Complete
This database provides the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content covering all disciplines of business, including marketing, MIS, accounting, finance and economics.
Business Source Alumni Edition
This resource is designed for the research needs of the post-college professional, providing access to 1,540 full text business magazines and journals.
Hospitality & Tourism Complete
Hospitality & Tourism Complete covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. This collection contains the full text of nearly 500 publications, and covers topics such as Culinary Arts, Food and Beverage Management, and Leisure and Business Travel.
Regional Business News
This database provides full comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Criminal Justice:
Criminal Justice Periodicals Index
CJPI provides indexing to more than 200 U.S., British, and Canadian journals, with approximately 25% giving full text articles. The disciplines covered include corrections, criminal law, criminology, drug abuse, juvenile justice, prison administration, rehabilitation, and others.
Education:
Education Research Complete
The world's largest and most complete collection of full text education journals. Education Research Complete also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding and related social issues.
ERIC
ERIC, the Education Resources Information Center, is a collection of education related resources sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences and the U.S. Department of Education. The database contains over one million bibliographic citations and full text links to a broad collection of education related materials.
Professional Development Collection
The Professional Development Collection provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators. This collection offers information on everything from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice. The professional Development Collection includes abstract and index coverage for over 595 well-known professional development titles, and searchable full text for 516 journals covering the most current topics in the field of education.
Health:
Alt Health Watch
This database focuses on the many perspectives of holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
This is the world’s most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for more than 750 journals, as well as full text for more than 220 books.
Health Reference Center
A full-text, multi-source database that provides health information for nursing and allied health students, as well as consumer health research. It indexes allied health journals, reference books, pamphlets, and articles in general interest titles. Full text is available for many of the periodicals, all reference books, and all pamphlets. Periodical coverage is 1995-present.
Health Source Consumer Edition
This comprehensive database is a rich collection of consumer health information, providing access to nearly 80 full text consumer health magazines and other related resources.
Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition
This resource provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, and offers access to 822 abstracted and indexed journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong.
Medline with Full Text
This is the world’s most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for more than 1,470 journals indexed in MEDLINE. With full text coverage dating back to 1965, this wide-ranging file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the MEDLINE index.
History:
America: History and Life
A bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of United States and Canadian history and culture from prehistoric time to the present. Included are abstracts and citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations. Searching provides links to Historical Abstracts.
HarpWeek
HarpWeek is the full-text, full-image electronic version of Harper's Weekly for the nineteenth century. The Civil War segment covers the years 1857-1865. It includes news, illustrations, cartoons, literature, editorials, and advertisements in one of the most popular magazines of that era.
Historical Abtracts
An historical bibliography and a guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding North America).
Military & Government Collection
The Military and Government Collection provides full text from over 320 military and general interest publications. It is designed to bring current news to all branches of the military and matters relating to the military and military life. Also indexes and abstracts over 360 magazines, including Military Review, Parameters, Army Times, and Defense.
Library & Information Science
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text
This database contains full text for more than 270 journals in the Information Science field. Subject coverage includes librarianship, cataloging and classification, and information retrieval.
Literature:
Humanities International Complete
Providing full text for more than 890 journals, this database provides comprehensive coverage of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.
Literature Resource Center
As online access to Gale's literary reference sets, this site provides full text biographies. bibliographies, and critical analysis of author's works. Search by author name, title, genre, literary movement, or literary themes.
LitFinder
Covering world literature and authors throughout history, LitFinder contains a wealth of literary works including over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. For students or patrons seeking a deeper view into literature, LitFinder also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more! From Shakespeare's sonnets to poems by Donald Hall or short stories from Edgar Allan Poe to works by Annie Proulx, LitFinder has you covered.
Religion & Philosophy Collection
Containing nearly 300 full text journals, this database covers topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, and philosophy.
The Twayne Author Series: Twayne World, English, and U.S. Authors
Twayne World, U.S. Authors, and English Authors each contain the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual authors, for a total of 600 full-text titles.
Newspapers:
Custom Newspapers
A full-text database covering a collection of 150 newspapers from the United States, Australia, England, Scotland, and Ireland, from 1996 to the present.
National Newspaper Index
An index, with citations only, covering 1977 to the present, to the top five U.S.newspapers: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post.
New York State Newspapers
A full-text database covering ten major newspapers in New York State including the Buffalo News, from 1996 to the present.
Newspaper Source Plus
Newspaper Source Plus contains comprehensive full text for major U.S. and international newspapers and features more than 583,000 television and radio news transcripts, videos and podcasts.
Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal provides world wide coverage of business, financial and economic topics from 1984 to the present. It is published daily except Saturday, Sunday and general legal holidays.
Physical Education:
Physical Education Index
The Physical Education Index covers a collection of academic and professional material dating from 1970. Records are indexed and classified from peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications. Some examples of the subjects covered are physical education curricula, sports medicine, sport law, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, health education, and physical therapy.
Psychology:
PsycARTICLES
This database provides full text articles on current issues in psychology from respected sources, spanning from 1988 to the present. PsycARTICLES includes more than 25,000 full-text articles from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. All journals included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO.
PsycINFO
PsycINFO contains more than one million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which spans from 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 35 languages.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
This resource contains 570 full text journals and 48 books, offering users access to many of the most prominent journals in the field. Coverage is particularly strong in child & adolescent psychology and various areas of counseling.
Sciences:
Computer Source
Featuring nearly 300 full text journals and magazines covering topics such as computer science, programming and software, Computer Source provides a balance of full text technical journals and full text consumer computer titles.
Computers & Applied Science Complete
Covering the research and development aspects of the computing discipline, this database provides full text for more than 730 periodicals, and indexing to more than 1,800 academic journals and professional publications.
Environment Complete
Containing nearly 2 million records, as well as full text for more than 680 journals, this resources offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, waste management and pollution.
GreenFILE
GreenFILE provides access to information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection includes scholarly, government and general interest titles on topics such as global climate change, green building and recycling.
GREENR
From the emerging green collar economy to enduring questions of climate change, environmental issues are shaping the future across the United States and around the world. GREENR is an authoritative resources that combines news, unique commentary, audio, video, primary source documents, images, conference reports, statistics and more.
ScienceDirect® Provided by
ScienceDirect ® provides coverage of the journal literature in science, technology and medicine. It offers access to over 1,200 journals in the Elsevier Science collection and indexing to over 30 million records, with links to 10,000 journal titles. Full text is included for over 1 million articles dating from 1995 to the present.
REFERENCE DATABASES
AccuNet/AP Photo Archive
The Archive is an electronic library containing the AP's current photos and a selection of pictures from their image print and negative library. It currently contains some 700,000 images with hundreds of new photos added daily.
VOCATIONAL
Vocational & Career Collection
This comprehensive resource provides full text coverage for nearly 350 trade and industry related periodicals, covering varied topics such as computers, electrical technology, interior design and construction.