Databases Listed Alphabetically

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A [Key to Initials]

Academic Search Premier: (varying dates) ID, FT Includes material from most academic disciplines.

Agricola: E Includes materials relating to all aspects of agriculture, forestry, and animal science. From the National Agricultural Library.

America: History and Life: ID Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from  prehistory to the present.

B [Key to Initials]

BioOne: (varying dates) ID, FT Is an aggregation of the full-texts of 85 high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of BioOne’s titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form.

Business Source Premier: (varying dates) ID, FT Includes material from the disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, econometrics and economics.

C [Key to Initials]

CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature): (1981+) ID, FT Includes indexing for 2,931 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health and full text access to about 20% of these journals. Offers complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association. Covered subjects include nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.

Contemporary Authors: (Updated monthly) ID, FT Includes biographical information on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.

CQ Researcher: (1991+) ID, FT Contains original, full text, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Includes coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.

Criminal Justice Abstracts: (1968+) ID Includes coverage of the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, coverage of books, and access to reports from government and nongovernmental agencies.

D [Key to Initials]

Discovering Collection: ID, FT Includes reference content for the core curriculum areas of literature, history, biographies, science, and social studies.

E,F [Key to Initials]

Education Full Text: (1983+) ID, FT Covers leading publications in the field of education.

Encyclopædia Britannica Online: ID, FT A comprehensive reference product which includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Collegiate Thesaurus, and the Britannica Book of the Year.

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center): (1966+) ID, FT Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. Is the U.S. national bibliographic database covering the literature of education.

G [Key to Initials]

GeoRef: (1785+) ID Is the American Geological Institute's geoscience database. Contains over 1.9 million records of North America since 1785, and other areas of the world since 1933. Is the equivalent of four major reference publications: Bibliography of North American Geology, Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America, Geophysical Abstracts, and the Bibliography and Index of Geology. Additional items come from special bibliographies produced on request for state surveys or societies, and annual subject and author indexes.

GreenFILE (varying dates) ID, FT Offers information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Includes scholarly, government and general-interest titles on subjects such as global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.

H,I [Key to Initials]

Health and Wellness Resource Center: ID, FT Includes medical, health, and wellness information. Included are links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases.

Historical Abstracts: ID Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada).

INBRE (IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence ): ID, FT Offers access to hundreds of online, fulltext journals that primarily cover the sciences. Provided through BRIN (Biomedical Research Infrastructure Networks), which is supported by the NCRR (National Center for Research Resources), a component of the NIH (National Institutes of Health).

IngentaConnect: ID Is a comprehensive collection of academic and professional research articles online - over 23 million articles from 30,000 publications.

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J-STOR: (Journal Storage): ID, FT Consists of a comprehensive archive of older, scholarly journal literature (some go back as far as the 19th century) covering many subject areas.

Junior Edition - K12: ID, FT Formerly SuperTOM Junior, this periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school. Includes access to magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

Junior Reference Collection: ID, FT A cross-curricular database featuring information covering science, biographies, authors, multicultural topics, and people and places.

K,L [Key to Initials]

Kid's Edition - K12: ID, FT Formerly PrimaryTOM, this periodical database is designed for elementary school students. Includes access to magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

Kid's Infobits: ID, FT Designed for students in kindergarten through grade 5. Features subject-based topic tree search and curriculum-related magazine, newspaper and reference content for information on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

LexisNexis - Academic: (varying dates) ID, FT Provides full-text access to over 6,000 news, business, and legal publications. Includes over 350 U.S. and international newspapers, over 300 magazines and journals, company information and financial performance measures, and also includes access to over 500 law reviews. (Click here for more detailed information about what LexisNexis Academic covers.)

LexisNexis - Congressional: (1970+) ID, FT Provides full-text access to congressional hearings, public issues, legislation, history, congressional testimony, and legal research. (Once the database opens, click the "Congressional" link in the bottom left of the screen.) (Click here for more detailed information about what LexisNexis Congressional covers.)

LLBA (Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts): (1973+) ID Includes material from disciplines concerned with the nature and use of language. Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.

M [Key to Initials]

MasterFILE: (varying dates) ID, FT Designed for public libraries. Contains general reference works, biographies, and images.

Medline: (1950+) E Corresponds to the print indexes Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index. Produced by the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. (This database also offers links to many other health-related resources).

MegaFILE: (varying dates) ID, FT Indexes all four of the following databases: Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, MasterFILE, and Regional Business News.

MLA (Modern Language Association International Bibliography): (1923+) ID Covers international scholarly materials on language, literature, linguistics, and folklore.

MLA Directory of Periodicals: ID Lists over 4,400 periodicals in the areas of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore that are covered regularly in the MLA International Bibliography. Provides addresses, advertising rates, and information about submissions for publication.

N,O [Key to Initials]

New York Times, Historical: (1851+) ID, FT Includes the complete full text of every issue of the New York Times newspaper published since 1851.

Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI): (varying dates) E, FT Provides access to a wealth of energy, science, and technology research and development (R&D) information from the Manhattan Project to the present.

Oxford Reference Premium Collection: Is an online reference collection which has access to over 175 Oxford Dictionaries and Oxford Companions from broad subjects including Medicine, Humanities, Social Science, Language, Science, Business, and General Reference.

P,Q [Key to Initials]

ProQuest Newspapers: (varying dates) ID, FT Includes fulltext access to five major U.S. newspapers: Los Angeles Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. Also includes fulltext access to over five hundred other U.S. and international news sources.

PsycINFO: (1800s+) ID Covers material in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.

R [Key to Initials]

Regional Business News: (varying dates) ID, FT Provides comprehensive fulltext for regional business publications.

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ScienceDirect: (varying dates) ID, FT Provides fulltext access to over 1600 journals that focus on the fields of Physical Sciences, Social & Behavioral Sciences, and Health & Life.

Science.gov: (varying dates) FT Hosted by the Department of Energy’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI). Provides public access and unified searching capability of the U.S. government’s stores of scientific and technical information. Is an interagency initiative of 17 government science organizations within 12 federal agencies. Covers topics such as agriculture, astronomy, biology, earth sciences, energy, mathematics, medicine, and more. Can search across agency resources via one query.

Social Services Abstracts: (1979+) ID Includes current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.

Student Edition - K12: ID, FT Formerly SuperTOM, this database is designed for high school students. Includes access to a variety of magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

Teacher Reference Center (varying dates) ID Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines designed to assist professional educators.

W,X,Y,Z [Key to Initials]

WorldCat: ID A worldwide library catalog (has access to books and other materials but not articles) that includes the catalogs of 69,000 libraries in 112 countries.