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Alphabetical List of Databases |
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| Academic Search Premier |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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. | ||
| AP Images | ||
| Associated Press(AP) Image Database. To access the database, please drop us an email at Library@vcsu.edu and ask for the login and password. | ||
| AP Images (Authenticated) | ||
| Associated Press(AP) Image Database. | ||
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| Biography Reference Bank |
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| 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 |
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| Provides access to peer-reviewed biomedical research, covering a wide range of topics. | ||
| Book Review Digest Plus | ||
| An index of reviews for both fiction and non-fiction books, with coverage back to 1983. Includes descriptive annotations, citations, review excerpts, book summaries, and more than 100,000 full-text reviews. | ||
| BRIN Biomedical Journal |
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| Electronic resources for Biomedical Research: includes journals, databases and bioinformatics software. | ||
| Business Source Premier |
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| 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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| Child Care and Early Education Research Connections | ||
| A collection of research and data resources about childcare and early education for researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and others. | ||
| CiteSeer |
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| CiteSeer (formerly ResearchIndex) is a digital library that aims to improve the dissemination, retrieval, and accessibility of scientific literature. | ||
| CLCD
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| Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) is a subscription-based information retrieval service designed to meet the needs of organizations and individuals who work with children's books and non-book materials. To access the CLCD database, you will be prompted for a login and password, but you can leave them blank and simply click ok to log in. | ||
| Contemporary Authors |
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| Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. | ||
| The CQ Researcher |
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| 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. Index (Click on binoculars/Search button and enter desired term to search index of articles). | ||
| Credo Reference
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| A one-stop reference source featuring information from encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and more. Includes images, audio pronunciation of terms, maps, data tables, quotations, citation assistance. Subjects include art, biography, quotations, technology, medicine, and more. | ||
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| Discovering Collection |
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| 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) |
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| The directory contains full-text, open access scientific and scholarly journals hosted by Lund University Libraries Head Office. | ||
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| EBSCO GreenFILE |
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| GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well. | ||
| EBSCO MegaFILE |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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| Search current and past articles of EDUCAUSE Quarterly (EQ) and EDUCAUSE Review, as well as contributions from EDUCAUSE committees and community members. Topics covered include new and popular issues such as cybersecurity, information systems and services, information technology management, networking and emerging technologies, policy and law, and teaching and learning. EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association that promotes the use of information technology to advance higher education. | ||
| eLibrary: Elementary Interface |
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| 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 |
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| 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 (free Web site)
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| 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. | ||
| ERIC PlusText (ProQuest)
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| Combines the ERIC abstracts and index with full-text ProQuest Education Journals. | ||
| Essay & General Literature Index | ||
| A guide to approximately 65,000 essays contained in anthologies and collections. Provides citation information to assist in locating a specific essay or article. | ||
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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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| Government Periodials Index (Lexis-Nexis) | ||
| Provides access to articles in U.S. government periodicals. | ||
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| Health & Wellness Resource Center |
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| 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 |
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| 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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| InfoTrac Junior Edition |
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| 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 |
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| A periodical database (formerly PrimaryTOM) designed for elementary students, with easy access to full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books. | ||
| InfoTrac Student Edition |
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| 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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| Junior Reference Collection |
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| 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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| Lexis-Nexis (Academic) |
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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 |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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| Offers access to more than 135,000 full-text poems, stories, plays and more as well as biographies, essays and explanations. | ||
| Literary Index | ||
| An index to literature products, with listings and search options by title and/or author. Indexes ONLY products published by Gale. | ||
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| MasterFILE Premier |
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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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| Mental Measurements Yearbook Online |
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Mental Measurements Yearbook(MMY) contains full-text information about, as well as reviews of, most English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology and related areas. The full-text for each record includes an overview of the test, a description of the test materials and time needed to administer the test, as well as one or more reviews of the test including reliability and validity of the test. MMY DOES NOT provide the user with a copy of the standardized test. The test must be purchased from the publisher. Hints on how to use the MMY can be found at the publisher's website. |
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| National Academies Press |
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| The National Academies Press (NAP), operating under charter granted by the Congress of the United States, publishes reports issued by: the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. 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 |
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| Provides information on aging research. | ||
| Native Health Database |
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| 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 interest in health-related issues, programs, and initiatives regarding North American indigenous peoples. | ||
| NCBI Bookshelf |
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| 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 |
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| Selected publications of the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center are accessible through this database. | ||
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| OAIster
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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| Play Index | ||
| An index of plays which provides full publication information to assist in finding the published work. Includes plays published individually as well as those located in anthologies/collections. | ||
| PressPass | ||
| Need the fulltext of an archived article? Ask the librarian for assistance with the login and password...and we will purchase the article for you! | ||
| Professional Collection |
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| Provides full-text periodicals for the Professional Development Collection, with 1,946,039 articles. | ||
| ProQuest Education Journals
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| Provides information on hundreds of educational topics, with literature covering primary, secondary, and higher education, as well as special education, home schooling, adult education, and related topics. | ||
| ProQuest Psychology Journals |
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| Provides complete information from more than 400 top psychology and related publications. Almost all offer full-image and text format. | ||
| Psych Web |
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| Contains psychology-related information for students and teachers. Offers subdivisions for browsing as well as search capability. | ||
| PsychINFO PlusText |
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| Combines ProQuest Psychology journals with online newspapers for a broader search. | ||
| PubMed |
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| 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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| Regional Business News |
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| 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 |
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| 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. | ||
| SCOPUS Topcited |
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| Provides an at-a-glance overview of the 20 top cited articles across 26 subject areas over the past five years and shows where they were published. | ||
| SerialsSolutions |
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| SerialSSolutions is a journal index that links you to the database which contains the magazine or journal title you are looking for. | ||
| Short Story Index | ||
| An index to short stories published in collections or selected periodicals. | ||
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TumbleBook Library |
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| TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of animated, talking picture books which teach young children the joys of reading in a format they'll love. | ||
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| Value Line |
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| A trusted resource for investment research. | ||
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| Wiley InterScience |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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. | ||
| World War II Publications | ||
| Hundreds of historical World War II publications available to the public, digitized by Southern Methodist University Central Libraries. Includes World War II reports and documents such as: Choosing Women for War - Industry Jobs, America's Biggest War Plant and Air Raid Shelters in Buildings. | ||
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