Academic Search Premier some full text Large, scholarly, multi-disciplinary database containing full text for more than 4,600 scholarly publications, including more than 3,500 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing for all 8,040 journals in the collection. Good place to start your search.
ACM Digital Library some full text For students of computer science, provides full text access to every article published by ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), including over 50 years of archives. Link here to citations and abstracts from other publishers as well in The Guide to Computing Literature.
America: History and Life abstracts & citations Comprehensive coverage of articles from journals, book reviews, and dissertations published worldwide on the history and culture of the United States and Canada. From pre-history to the present.
Art Index indexing & citations This database offers indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications—now with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. In addition to articles, this database indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Coverage from 1984 to present.
ATLA/S some full text ATLA/S is the premier scholarly tool for researching theological perspectives on history, the humanities, and the social sciences, as well as biblical studies, world religions and church history.
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Bowker's Books in Print full text Bibliographic information about more than 2 million books and lisitngs for more than 100,000 publishers. Includes book reviews and the Fiction Connection, a reader's advisory section. Also contains databases of book awards and author biographies.
Business Searching Interface some full text Designed for business researchers. Searches Business Source Premier's publications and provides easy access to country economic data, company profiles, industry information and market research (from EBSCO).
Business Source Premier some full text Designed for business researchers, provides nearly 3,800 full text scholarly publications, including more than 1,100 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 4,600 journals. (from EBSCO)
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Chicago Tribune full text Full text coverage from 1996. For coverage from1985-current see ProQuest NewsStand
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database full text An independent reviewing source for children's literature designed to help teachers and librarians make appropriate literary choices for students. Reviewers include teachers, librarians, writers, and editors. Also included are interviews with children's book authors and illustrators, themed reviews, curriculum ideas, book awards, and links to related materials.
Communication Studies Collection full text Full text access to the SAGE Communication Studies journal collection (1982-current).
CPLI (Catholic Periodical and Literature Index) index only Covers all aspects of the Catholic faith and lifestyle, and includes over 370,000 index citations of articles and reviews published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers.
Criminal Justice Periodicals some full text Collection of national and international criminal justice journals with information on law enforcement, corrections administration, family law, industrial security, rehabilitation, and more. (from ProQuest)
Criminology Collection full text Full text access to SAGE publications in areas of criminal justice, corrections, penology, policing (1976 to current).
CQ Researcher full text Provides in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Including pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions, it is useful for term papers, debates, and speeches.
CQ Weekly full text Covers Congress, politics, and public policy. Includes roll call votes, floor action, Supreme Court decisions, and election coverage. Online reports from 1983 to the present.
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Dissertations and Theses citations, abstracts & some 24-page previews Index to dissertations and theses in all fields of study. Provides citations and/or abstracts, as well as a 24-page preview of any dissertations that have been digitized in the Humanities and Social Sciences fields (Education is included here). Coverage is from 1861 to present. (ProQuest)
Discovering Collection full text Use this comprehensive database to retrieve reference content for the core curriculum areas of Geography and Culture, Literature, History, Biographies, and Science and Health. Includes a multi-media gallery.
DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals some full text This service covers full text, quality-controlled, scholarly journals. It strives to cover all subjects and languages with an emphasis on science. As of August 2007 there were 2802 journals in the directory arranged by subject.
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EBSCO Host Databases some full text Choose from a wide variety of databases including Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, MasterFILE Premier, Regional Business News, ATLA/S, CPLI, Old Testament Abstracts, New Testament Abstracts, and more.
Education Collection full text Full text access to SAGE publications in the area of education (1965-current).
Education Journals some full text Offering complete information on hundreds of educational topics, this database covers almost 400 leading journals in the field. 1988-present. (from ProQuest)
Emerald some full text Contains over 58,000 searchable articles from over 150 Emerald journals. Subjects covered include management, HRM, marketing, librarianship, mechanical engineering, and electronic and electrical engineering.
ERIC some full text Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, ERIC "produces the world's premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. ERIC provides a public Web site for searching nearly 1.2 million citations going back to 1966 and, with contributor permission, accessing more than 110,000 full-text materials at no charge."
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Fiction Connection full text Reader's advisory. "Allows readers to find books they will enjoy by typing in a title of a book they already love or to browse book titles by selecting a topic, genre, setting, character, location, and timeframe."
FirstGov full text The official U.S. gateway to all governmental information.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library full text Includes access to Business Plans Handbook (volumes 11 and 12), Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration, and Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology.
Google News Archive Search some pay for view, some free full text Search the archives of newspapers, magazines, and other publications and create time lines.
Google Scholar some pay for view, some free full text Google Scholar provides a simple way to search for scholarly literature. When accessing this database through the link provided here you will find free connections to the pay for view materials that are located in our subscription sources. Just use the "Find It" button.
GPO Access full text A service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free access to a wealth of important information produced by the Federal Government. Information on all three branches of government, statistical abstracts, economic indicators, the Congressional Record, Supreme Court decisions, and much more.
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Harp Week full text Includes the full text of Harper's Weekly and provides a continuous record of what happened on a weekly basis from 1857 through 1912. The first segment includes the Civil War Era: 1857-1865. The next two cover Reconstruction: 1866-1871 and 1872-1877. The last six encompass the Gilded Age: 1878-1912. Covers much of the social, political, and economic history of the United States during this period.
Health Sciences Collection full text Full text access to SAGE publications in the health, public policy, health services & administration, health education, and community/public health nursing fields (1982 to current).
HighWire Press some full text, some pay for view From Stanford University Libraries, a collection of scholarly publications focusing on the biological and medical sciences with some coverage of the physical and social sciences as well. Free access is available to some 1.3 million articles together with pay for view access to complete articles from the remainder of the collection.
Historical Abstracts abstracts & citations Index to journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations in the area of world history. Covers topics from 1450-present and includes over 2,100 journals published throughout the world. Search with or without U.S. and Canadian history included.
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InfoTrac some full text Group of databases, includes the Literature Resource Center, the Professional Collection for educators, databases for K-12 libraries, and a Spanish-language database (Informe).
Informe full text Access to Hispanic magazines with full text. (from InfoTrac)
Iter citations only Iter, meaning a journey or a path in Latin, is an index that provides citations for books, journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies), dissertation abstracts, and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues) for the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
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JSTOR full text Access to more than 100 scholarly, peer-reviewed journals, in 15 disciplines. We subscribe to the Arts and Sciences I package.
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LexisNexis full text Provides U.S. and international news; company reports, news, and financial information; industry and market data; state and country profiles; legal news, research, and information, including Shepard's Citations; biographical and general reference information; and access to medical and health journals.
Literature Resource Center some full text Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. Provided by Gale's InfoTrac.
Literary Reference Center full text A comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works and is an essential resource for academic libraries. Provided by EBSCO.
LitFinder some full text Access to poems, short stories, plays, speeches, essays, and biographies of literary figures.
LISTA some full text "Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. 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."
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Management and Organization Studies Collection full text Full text access to SAGE publications in the fields of organization studies, management, business, human resources, marketing, public policy, public administration, and industrial relations (1947- current).
MasterFile Premier EBSCO some full text Provides full text for more than 2,050 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. Includes biographies, book reviews, travel books, and an image gallery.
Material Science Collection full text Full text access to the SAGE publications in the areas of molecular modeling, polymers, membranes for biological use, biomaterials, composites, plastics, and mechanics of solids (1947-current).
Medieval Sourcesonline full text From Manchester University Press, Medieval Sourcesonline is a web-based learning resource containing hundreds of original medieval history documents compiled for the teaching and study of history. Choose "Access the texts" to begin.
MedLinePlus some full text Brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.
MedLine PubMed some full text Scholarly index produced by the National Library of Medicine with articles on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care, and more. Now at the PubMed website.
Mental Measurements Yearbook full text Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. MMY provides coverage from Volume 9 to the present.
Mergent Online full text Access to U. S. and international company data including business description, history, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt and capital stock. Provides 15 years of detailed financial information. Includes country reports.
MLA International Bibliography some full text Indexes journals in the fields of literature, linguistics, and folklore from 1963 to the present date.
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National Agricultural Library Catalog (AGRICOLA) citations only Index to "resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences."
New Testatment Abstracts abstracts only "A product of a partnership between ATLA and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology, this database has become an indispensable research and bibliographic aid for scholars, librarians, clergy and students of the New Testament and its historical milieu. Contains more than 38,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 13,500 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts." (EBSCO)
New York Times full text Full text articles, 1995-present. (ProQuest)
Newspapers/NewsStand some full text Access to over 500 national and international newspapers. Includes full text for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. (ProQuest)
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Old Testament Abstracts abstracts only "A product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Biblical Association, this database features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and much more."
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Philosopher's Index abstracts only Informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. The literature covered goes back to the 1940s and includes journal articles, books, book chapters, and book reviews.
Play Index full text Search for plays by title; author; subject (culture conflict, marriage); style (symbolism, experimental theater); genre (comedy, melodrama, musical); cast type; and more. Covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including one-act plays, pageants, plays in verse, radio and television plays, and classic drama.
Political Handbook of the World full text Provides thorough and accurate information on the major aspects of each country's government and political party system. In addition, the Handbook profiles 120 intergovernmental organizations, such as OPEC, NATO, the WTO, world and regional banks, and the agencies and specialized bodies of the United Nations.
Political Science Collection full text Full text access to the SAGE publications in the areas of political science, American government, and policy studies (1974-current).
Professional Collection (for education students) full text Access to over 300 full-text journals for educators. (InfoTrac)
ProjectMUSE full text Access to "250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. As one of the academic community's primary electronic journals resources, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others."
ProQuest some full text A collection of databases: Criminal Justice Periodicals, Wilson's Education Abstracts Plus Text, ProQuest Psychology Journals, PsycINFO, Religious Periodicals, and NewsStand Complete (full text coverage of national and international newspapers including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal). Many full text articles here.
ProQuest Education Journals some full text Offering complete information on hundreds of educational topics, this database covers almost 400 leading journals in the field. 1988-present. ( ProQuest)
PsycARTICLES full text Contains the full text of articles from APA journals and selected EPF (Educational Publishing Foundation) journals, most from 1988 to the present (from CSA)
PsycCRITQUES full text PsycCRITIQUES is a searchable database of book reviews in psychology. In each weekly release, PsycCRITIQUES will deliver approximately 20 reviews of psychological books written by subject experts, most from the current copyright year.
Psychology Collection full text Full text access to the SAGE publications in the areas of applied psychology, assessment, child development, clinical psychology, cognitive psychology, counseling psychology, and social psychology (1969-current).
Psychology Journals full text Access to full text articles from 400 journals in psychology and related fields. Coverage from 1992-present. ( ProQuest)
PsycINFO citations and abstracts only PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association, contains over a million citations and summaries of articles from journals, books, book chapters, dissertations, and technical reports in psychology and related fields ( CSA)
Public Library of Science full text PLoS publishes peer-reviewed, open-access scientific and medical journals that include original research as well as timely feature articles.
PubChem some full text PubChem provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. It is a component of NIH's Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative.
PubMed/MEDLINE some full text Index to articles on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care.
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Regional Business News some full text "Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States." (EBSCO)
Religion Journals ProQuest some full text Provides a "comprehensive collection of journals covering religious issues and perspectives, including religious news and information, commentary on topics of general interest from the perspective of a particular religion, and formal theological studies." ( ProQuest)
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature citations and abstracts only Comprehensive, on-going guide to publications (articles, books, dissertations, reviews, and more) on music from all over the world. Contains some 400,000 entries.
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Sage some full text Full text access to high-quality, scholarly journals in the areas of Material Science, Communication Studies, Education, Management & Organization Studies, Nursing & Health Sciences, Political Science, Criminology, Sociology, Urban Studies & Planing, and Psychology on the CSA Illumina platform. Also links to RILM Abstracts of Music Literature and Philosophy Abstracts.
ScienceDirect some full text One of the world's largest providers of scientific, technical, and medical literature with a database of some 2 million articles and 59 million abstracts from all fields of science. Access to journals in mathematics, social sciences, arts and humanities, and business as well.
science.gov full text Fourteen scientific and technical information organizations from ten major science agencies have collaborated to provide reliable information about science and technology from across Federal government organizations.
Sociology Collection full text Full text access to SAGE publications in the areas of contemporary sociology, comparative sociology, and consumer culture (1965-current).
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage full text Good source for business and investment information. Includes industry surveys, stock reports, company descriptions and financials, and mutual fund research.
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Tests in Print full text Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).
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Urban Studies and Planning full text Full text access to SAGE publications in the areas of anthropology, economic development, economics, education, planning theory, political science, public administration, and urban policy (1965-current).
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Value Line Investment Survey full text, password required Access to Value Line's Ratings and Reports, Selection and Opinions, and Summary and Index. Current week and back issues of current year available. Log on, agree to the terms and conditions described, and enter User Name and Password (Ask at the Reference Desk for user name and password).
Video Librarian Plus full text Provides online access to a searchable database of over 20,000 full-text video reviews, a searchable database of nearly 1,000 video distributors, breaking news, and a months in advance video release calendar.
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Wall Street Journal full text Full text articles, from 1984 to current.
Wilson's Education Abstracts Plus Text some full text Indexes 820 journals in the field of education, many full text articles, excellent resource for education students. (from ProQuest)
Winona Newspaper Project full text Online archive of three late 19th century and early 20th century Winona newspapers. Includes available issues of the Winona Argus, the Winona Daily Republican and the Winona Republican Herald.
World Factbook CIA full text Country information - demographics, economies, climate, geography, government, military, and more.
WorldCat bibliographic information (catalog records) only FromOCLC, the largest, most comprehensive catalog of books and other materials, with records from over 55,000 libraries worldwide.
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