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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.

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 on.

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.

CPLI (Catholic Periodical and Literature Index)    citations 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.

DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals     some full text
This service covers full text, quality-controlled, scholarly journals.  As of August 2007 there were 2799 journals in the directory arranged by subject.

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."

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.

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.

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). 

JSTOR    full text  
Access to more than 100 scholarly, peer-reviewed journals, in 15 disciplines. We subscribe to the Arts and Sciences I package.

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.

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.

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.

MLA International Bibliography    some full text  
Indexes journals in the fields of literature, linguistics, and folklore from 1920s to the present date.

New Testament 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. (ProQuest)

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."

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."

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."

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)

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.


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