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Alphabetical List of Databases
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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| Academic Search Premier | |||
| A multi-disciplinary database which provides full text for more than 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. HELP | |||
| AgEcon Search | |||
| Agriculture Network Information Center. A full-text library of scholarly literature in agriculture and applied economics: includes energy, environmental, resource, and consumer economics. Subject repository of working papers, conference papers, and journal articles. | |||
| AgeLine | |||
| From the AARP: abstracts of social gerontology and aging-related articles, books and reports. | |||
| AGRICOLA | |||
| The National Library of Agriculture's Article Citation Database | |||
| Ancestry Library | in-library use only | ||
| Search public records for information. Genealogy collection contains more than 4,000 databases and 1.5 billion names. Only accessible from inside a state library. | |||
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| B | |||
| Biography Reference Bank | |||
| Narrative profiles of 500,000 people, with links to over 380,000 full text articles. Search by name, profession, place of origin, gender, ethnicity, birth/death dates, or other information. | |||
| BioMed Central | |||
| Provides access to peer-reviewed biomedical research, covering a wide range of topics. | |||
| BRIN Biomedical Journal | |||
| Electronic resources for Biomedical Research: includes journals, databases and bioinformatics software. | |||
| Business Source Premier | |||
| This database provides full text for more than 8,500 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. Includes full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. HELP | |||
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| C | |||
| CCH (Commerce Clearing House) | |||
| The CCH Internet Research Network is an information service with resources for human resource professionals and students. Coverage includes compensation, equal employment opportunity, employment relations, OSHA compliance, personnel practices & communications and state employment laws. | |||
| CiteSeer | |||
| CiteSeer (formerly ResearchIndex) is a digital library that aims to improve the dissemination, retrieval, and accessibility of scientific literature. | |||
| Contemporary Authors | |||
| Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. | |||
| The CQ Researcher | |||
| Offers comprehensive reporting and analysis on political and social issues in the news. In-depth reports include coverage of topics such as health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. | |||
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| D | |||
| Discovering Collection | |||
| Comprehensive database for grades 5-12 retrieves in-depth reference content for core curriculum areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies. Tutorial | |||
| DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) | |||
| The directory contains full-text, open access scientific and scholarly journals hosted by Lund University Libraries Head Office. | |||
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| EBSCO MegaFILE | |||
| Provides full text for nearly 12,000 total publications, with indexing and abstracting for more than 16,000 publications. Coverage spans every area of academic study, offering information as far back as the 1800s. Contains more than 84,000 biographies, 86,000 primary source documents, 10,000 company profiles and an image collection of more than 107,000 photos, maps and flags. MegaFILE is comprised of EBSCO's Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, MasterFILE Premier and Regional Business News databases. | |||
| ECOTOX | |||
| From the US Environmental Protection Agency, the ECOTOX (ECOTOXicology) database provides single chemical toxicity information for aquatic and terrestrial life. ECOTOX is a useful tool for examining impacts of chemicals on the environment. | |||
| Education Index Full Text | |||
| Comprehensive coverage of a broad range of education topics and educational specialties, featuring in-depth abstracts as well as full-text articles, links to cited websites and images. Search by keyword, subject, personal names, title words, publication, year, type of article, or any combination. | |||
| Educause | |||
| eLibrary: Elementary Interface | |||
| Offers a wide range of full-text and multimedia content selected for young readers: includes magazines, newspapers, books, transcripts, maps and pictures. | |||
| eLibrary: Standard Interface | |||
| Offers full-text and multimedia content to support student research with a larger selection of full-text magazines, newspapers, books, transcripts, maps and pictures. | |||
| ERIC | |||
| The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world's premiere database of journal and non-journal education literature. | |||
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| FirstSearch | |||
| A pay-per-use advanced search if other sources do not provide desired information. Please ask librarian for assistance. | |||
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| H | |||
| Health & Wellness Resource Center | |||
| Includes magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on a variety of health and wellness topics, including: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, Prescription Drugs, etc. Contains links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases. | |||
| HighWire Press | |||
| HighWire Press is a free full-text science journal database with the online publication of 957,778 free full-text articles and 2,719,868 total articles. | |||
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| I | |||
| InfoTrac Junior Edition | |||
| A periodical database (formerly SuperTOM Junior) designed for students in grades 5-9. Includes magazines, newspapers and reference books (most are full text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. Tutorial | |||
| InfoTrac Kid's Edition | |||
| A periodical database (formerly PrimaryTOM) designed for elementary students, with easy access to full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books. | |||
| InfoTrac Student Edition | |||
| A database (formerly SuperTOM) designed for high school students (grades 9-12), with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on a variety of topics. Tutorial | |||
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| J | |||
| Junior Reference Collection | |||
| A comprehensive, cross-curricular database for schools and libraries featuring current, relevant, organized, and easy-to-read information from the U*X*L product line, covering science, biographies, authors, multicultural topics, and people and places. | |||
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| L | |||
| Lexis-Nexis (Academic) | |||
Provides full-text documents from more than 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of search options. Sources include: national and regional newspapers, wire services, U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, law reviews, citations for U.S. Supreme court cases back to 1789, business news journals, company financial information, industry and market news, and many others. |
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| Library Literature & Information Full Text | |||
| Indexes English and foreign-language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, library school theses, plus hundreds of books as well as other resources. Also provides enhanced access to the library's periodicals collection and links to Websites mentioned in articles. Click here for Searching Tips. | |||
| LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts) | |||
| The LISTA database provides coverage on librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Indexing more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports and proceedings, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science. | |||
| Lit-Finder | |||
| Offers access to more than 135,000 full-text poems, stories, plays and more as well as biographies, essays and explanations. | |||
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| M | |||
| MasterFILE Premier | |||
| This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,050 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering many general interset subject areas, it also includes more than 350 full-text reference books, 84,074 biographies, 86,132 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. HELP | |||
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| National Academies Press | |||
| The Natinoal Academies Press (NAP), operating under charter granted by the Congress of the United States, publishes reports issued by: the National Academy of Sciences, the Ntaional Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research council and it publishes over 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health, capturing the most authoritative views on important issues in science and health policy. Currently there are over 3,000 e-books on this site. | |||
| National Institute on Aging | |||
| Provides information on aging research. | |||
| Native Health Database | |||
| The Native Health Databases contain bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations. The databases provide information for the benefit, use, and education of organizations and individuals with an interst in health-related issues, programs, and initiatives regarding North American indigenous peoples. | |||
| NCBI Bookshelf | |||
| A growing collection of full-text biomedical books that can be searched directly by typing a concept into the search field. | |||
| Northern Prairie Publications Database | |||
| Selected publications of the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center are accessible through this database. | |||
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| O | |||
| OAIster | |||
| A collection of academically-oriented digital resources such as online books and journals, audio files, images, movies and reference texts that are easily searchable. Allows basic or advanced search of unlimited subject areas. A project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service, this database includes more than 6 million records from 604 institutions. | |||
| Opposing Viewpoints | |||
| Provides information on social issues, including: viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to Websites, as well as full-text newspaper and magazine articles. | |||
| OSTI | |||
| The Virtual Library of Energy, Science, and Technology is hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information. This resource provides access to scientific communication on research and development findings in the form of full-text publications, reports and books. | |||
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| Professional Collection | |||
| Provides full-text periodicals for the Professional Development Collection, with 1,946,039 articles. | |||
| ProQuest Psychology Journals | |||
| Provides complete information from more than 400 top psychology and related publications Almost all offer full-image and text format. | |||
| Psych Web | |||
| Contains psychology-related information for students and teachers. Offers subdivisions for browing as well as search capability. | |||
| PsychINFO PlusText | |||
| Combines ProQuest Psychology journals with online newspapers for a broader search. | |||
| PubMed | |||
| The U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM®) database of biomedical citations and abstracts that is searchable on the Web at no cost, which covers over 4,800 journals published in the United States and more than 70 other countries, primarily from 1966 to the present. | |||
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| R | |||
| Regional Business News | |||
| This database provides comprehensive full-text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropoloitan and rural areas within the United States. Updated on a daily basis. | |||
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| SCOPUS | |||
| A citation tracking database. The world’s largest abstract database, covering 25 million abstracts from more than 14,000 titles and 4,000 publishers. Offers extensive searching and browsing tools. | |||
| SerialSSolutions | |||
| SerialSSolutions is a journal index that links you to the database which contains the magazine or journal title you are looking for. | |||
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| V | |||
| Value Line | |||
| A trusted resource for investment research. | |||
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| Wiley InterScience | |||
| Provides web-based access to publications from John Wiley & Sons, Inc., featuring more than 1,000 journals, major reference works, online books, lab manuals, and databases. Also includes a suite of professional and management resources. | |||
| An advanced search for full-text articles in science, humanities, education and business, enhanced with WorldCat holdings information. Please ask librarian for assistance. | |||
| Wilson's Children's Catalog | |||
| Selective annotated list of books and magazines for children from preschool to grade 6, along with review sources and other professional aids. | |||
| Wilson's Senior High School Catalog | |||
| Selective annotated list of fiction and non-fiction books for grades 9-12, along with review aids and other professional aids. Consists of fiction titles, non-fiction titles, and and short story collections. | |||
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