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Academic Search Premier: (EBSCOhost)
Offers thousands of scholarly journals including peer reviewed titles in virtually every area of academic study. Most subscriptions are full text, and many have PDF images back to 1985. The database is updated daily.
The Acta Sanctorum Database is an electronic version of the complete printed text of Acta Sanctorum, from the edition published in sixty-eight volumes by the Societé des Bollandistes in Antwerp and Brussels. It is a collection of documents examining the lives of saints, organised according to each saint's feast day.
Explores the rich and varied history of the United States through speeches, historical accounts, memoirs, poems, images, and multimedia.
Bibliographic database with over 5 million in-print, out-of-print, book, audio book, and video titles.
Business Source Premier: (EBSCOhost)
Contains full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily
Contains materials on a wide variety of subject areas from newspapers, magazines, books, maps, pictures, audio/video, and TV/radio transcripts. For access, please obtain the password at the reference desk.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online:
With over 73,000 articles, Encyclopædia Britannica is one of the most complete and accurate information sources in the world. It contains both short and book-length articles on every subject.
ERIC: (EBSCOhost)
Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 1,243,000 records and links to more than 224,000 full-text documents.
Family Studies Abstracts: (EBSCOhost)
Includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
A unique collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers including 200 scholarly Spanish language journals.
Health Sources-Consumer Edition: (EBSCOhost)
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.
Humanities International Complete: (EBSCOhost)
Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world.
A collection of 12 databases with many full text articles covering all academic disciplines. This resource also features newspapers, legal and business information, and information on computers. For access, please obtain the password at the reference desk.
Full text back issues of over 500 important journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
“LatAm-Studies” is a database service dedicated to the promotion and distribution of research in Spanish about Latin America and the Caribbean. It contains thousands of full text reports about 46 countries, covering all of South America, the Caribbean, Central America and Mexico. The content deals with topics related to business, economics, government, the humanities and social issues in general. The average report is 10 pages, and they contain research, analysis and predictions. In addition, tables, charts and original statistical graphics are available online.
LexisNexis provides customers with access to five billion searchable documents from more than 40,000 legal, news and business sources.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts: (EBSCOhost)
Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
MasterFILE Premier: (EBSCOhost)
MasterFILE Premier includes nearly 500 full text reference books, full text from 86,017 biographies, 105,786 full text primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 341,655 photos, maps and flags.
MedicLatina is a unique collection of medical research and investigatory journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers.
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
Contains selective full text for 375 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are also provided.
Original Sources…IN THEIR OWN WORDS…
More than 4000 quotations from both historical and contemporary men and women on a wide variety of topics can both entertain and provoke new ideas.
The Patrologia Latina comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes.
Full text access to over 300 high quality journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences.
A collection of 7 databases with many full text articles across all subject areas. One useful feature of this resource is that it allows users to simultaneously search all 7 databases for cross-disciplinary research. For access, please obtain the password at the reference desk.
RCL Web is the online version of the new Resources for College Libraries. It is a collection development guide that features recommended titles in 58 curriculum-specific subjects selected by bibliographers and subject specialists.
Regional Business News: (EBSCOhost)
Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications, with coverage of newspapers and newswires from many areas within the United States. It is updated daily.
SocINDEX with Full Text: (EBSCOhost)
SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database.
This database includes architecture and design, behavioral science, biomedical and life sciences, business and economics, chemistry and materials science, computer science, earth and environmental science, engineering, humanities, social sciences and law, mathematics and statistics, medicine, physics and astronomy, professional and applied computing, as well as the Chinese and Russian libraries of science. More than 150 Nobel prize-winners have published with Springer to the present date. Many of the Springer publications are considered authoritative works in their field.
Webster’s Third New International Dictionary Unabridged:
Thousands of entries with definitions, pronunciation guides, word histories, synonyms, and antonyms are available through the dictionary and thesaurus.
Combining detailed statistics with powerful tools for analysis and display, this resource features a unique collection of in-depth information about the countries of the world and allows you to create interesting and informational comparative charts and tables.