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(For classes using this database, more concurrent users can be added upon request.)

 

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X Central Search: Search across multiple databases       

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  • Academic Search Elite   AVL Some full text.
    A multi-disciplinary resource that spans virtually every area of academic study.

  • Academic OneFile Some full text. 
    Offers peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources in the areas of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.

  • ACS Publications   Some full text.
    Published by the American Chemical Society, this database offers peer-reviewed articles from journals in the chemical and related sciences.

  • Accounting Research ManagerSome full text. *
    Offers expert-written information about accounting, auditing, governmental, internal controls and SEC information as well as primary source data. Only allows access to one user at a time. (For classes using this database, more concurrent users can be added upon request.)

  • AlabamaMosaic  
    A repository of digital materials on Alabama's history, culture, places, and people

  • Alt HealthWatch   Some full text.
    Covers complementary and alternative medicine publications back to 1990.

  • Alternative Press Index
    The Alternative Press Index is a biannual subject index to over 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines.   

  • America: History and Life
    Complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
         Cross Search America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts

  • American History in Video
    Analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.

  • Annals of American History
    Annals of American History includes the full text of speeches, essays, historical accounts, memoirs, poems, editorials, biographies, images, and multi-media.  

  • Art Full Text   Some full text.
    Indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals relating to all aspects of art published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included.

  • Article First   AVL
    OCLC index of articles from the contents pages of journals.

  • Arts and Humanities Search
    Arts & Humanities Search is an international, multidisciplinary database that corresponds to the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. The database fully covers 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, plus relevant social and natural science journals, and has additional records from the Current Contents series of publications.

  • Auto Repair Reference Center  Some full text.  
    Auto Repair Reference Center contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1945.

 

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  • BioDigest  
    BioDigest reports on emerging identification technology covering fingerprint, voice, hand geometry, facial recognition, iris scan and other methods. 

  • Biography and Genealogy Master Index   Some full text.
    Indexes current, readily available biographical reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.

  • Biological and Agricultural   Some full text.
    Biological and Agricultural offers researchers convenient online access to the core literature of biology and agriculture—much of it from peer-reviewed journals.

  • Biography Reference Bank   Some full text.
    Contains biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images.

  • BioOne   Some full text.
    An aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals published by small societies and non-commercial publishers.

  • BooksInPrint  
    Books In Print
    database offers valuable information on more than 7.5 million U.S. book, audio book, and video titles, as well as another 10 million international titles, making it the industry’s largest bibliographic database. 

  • BookSource:  Nonfiction   Some full text.
    A resource aimed at public and school libraries. Includes full text from over 2000 books.

  • Business & Company Resource Center   AVL Some full text.
    Provides access to a wide variety of global business information including competitive intelligence, career and investment opportunities, business rankings, company histories and much more.

  • Business and Management Practices   Some full text.
    Business & Management Practices database contains information dealing with the processes, methods, and strategies of managing a business. Coverage focuses on those source publications that deal with management issues or business methodology from a practical approach. The database includes abstracts and full text of articles, and is enhanced with rich indexing that enables highly specific retrieval of relevant articles. Table of Contents records for core source publications contained in the database are also included.

  • Business Full Text   Some full text.
    Indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere, including the leading business magazines and trade and research journals, plus the full text of selected periodicals.

  • Business Source Premier   AVL Some full text.
    Provides full text coverage of a wide range of business journals, including over 1100 peer-reviewed journals.

  • Business Source Premier (Business Searching Interface) AVL Some full text.
    Business Source Premier includes the full text for more than 2,300 journals and provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998.

 

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  • Cabell's Directories of Publishing Opportunities
    The Library subscribes to the Business directories, which include fields of Accounting, Economics & Finance, Management, and Marketing. The library also subscribes to the Educational Psychology & Administration directory.

  • Central Search
    Searches multiple library databases simultaneously.

  • Child Development and Adolescent Studies
    Child Development & Adolescent Studies is today’s source for references to the current and historical literature related to the growth and development of children through the age of 21. Included are book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals, and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations that cover the biomedical and social sciences worldwide.

  • CINAHL
    Indexes journals in nursing and allied health professions, including communication science & disorders.    

  • ClasePeriodica   AVL  
    This index provides access to Latin American journal article citations and is actually two Spanish-language indexes joined together in one service. The CLASE database indexes over 1200 Latin American journals in the social sciences and the humanities, while the PERIODICA database indexes over 1400 Latin American science and technology journals.

  • Classical Music Library   Some full text.
     Access recorded classical music from leading recording labels for listening and learning.

  • Communication & Mass Media Complete    Some full text.   
    Covers journals in communications and mass media, including communication studies and communication science and disorders.

  • Contemporary Authors   AVL Some full text.
    Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.

  • Contemporary Literary Criticism AVL Some full text.
    Contains more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors. Users can search Contemporary Literary Criticism by entering author name, title of work, nationality, subject/genre, ethnicity, critic name, and more.

  • Contemporary Women’s Issues
    Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI) is a multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press, with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries.    

 

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  • Dictionary of Literary Biography   Some full text.
    Provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.

  • Directory of Open Access Journals   Some full text.
    This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals

  • Dissertations and Theses (World Cat Dissertations and Theses)         
    Selectively covers masters theses and dissertations including dissertations from Canada, Great Britain, and Europe.     

 

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  • EBSCO Animals   AVL Some full text.  
    EBSCO Animals provides thousands of easy-to-read entries about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, dinosaurs and prehistoric animals. Each entry begins with a simple category breakdown of the animal including Kingdom, Class, Order, Genus & Species, and Geographical Locale as well as a detailed description. Many entries include colorful images.

  • EBSCOhost Health Databases 
     
    Searches our EBSCOhost databases simultaneously, covering different aspects of health resources.

  • EBSCOhost Web   Some full text. 
    Searches our EBSCOhost databases simultaneously, covering a very wide range of subjects.     
      

  • EconLit             
    The American Economic Association’s electronic bibliography, EconLit, indexes more than thirty years of economics literature from around the world.  Compiled and abstracted in an easily searchable format, EconLit is a comprehensive index of journal articles, books, book reviews, collective volume articles, working papers and dissertations.

  • Education Full Text   Some full text.  
    Indexes English-language periodicals and yearbooks in education. Full text coverage begins in 1996.

  • Emerald   Some full text.
    Full text articles from over 150 journals in management and information science.

  • Enciclopedia Juvenil  AVL Some full text.
    Enciclopedia Juvenil is a Spanish language encyclopedia written specifically for young readers between the ages of 7 and 12. It is an entirely new database made up of more than 1,500 articles and more than 1,000 pictures selected for their relevance to the curriculum and their appropriateness for this age group.

  • Enciclopedia Universal en Espaņol  AVL Some full text.  
    Enciclopedia Universal en Espaņol database includes more than 47,000 articles and 8,300 photographs and images. The resource also includes a Spanish-language dictionary with more than 65,000 entries.

  • Encyclopedia Britannica Online   AVL Some full text.
    Online access to one of the most prestigious encyclopedias.

  • ERIC (EBSCOhost)   AVL Some full text.
    Provides indexing and abstracts for journals and ERIC documents in areas relating to education at all levels.       

  • ERIC (Institute of Education Sciences)    AVL Some full text.
    Provides indexing and abstracts for journals and ERIC documents in areas relating to education at all levels.

  • Ethnic NewsWatch   AVL Some full text.
    An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.

  • Expanded Academic ASAP   AVL Some full text.
    A combination of indexing, abstracts, images, and full text for scholarly and general interest journals embracing all academic disciplines Freely Accessible Arts & Humanities Journals.

 

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  • FirstSearch   Some full text.  
    OCLC FirstSearch provides electronic access to dozens of databases and more than 10 million full-text and full-image articles.

  • Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia AVL Some full text.  
    Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia includes 25,000 full text encyclopedic entries that are searchable by subject or keywords. Audience: middle school through college, general public.

 

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  • Gale PowerSearch AVL Some full text. 

    Accesses all Gale databases with a single search engine.

  • Gale Virtual Reference Library   AVL Some full text.
    A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. 

  • General Reference Center Gold   AVL Some full text.
    Provides one-stop access to general interest magazines, business periodicals, reference books, maps, historical images, and newspaper articles. 

  • General Science Full Text   Some full text.
    Provides indexing and abstracts for scholarly and popular journals in the sciences. Full text coverage begins in 1995.

  • GEOBASE    
    GEOBASE is a unique multidisciplinary database supplying bibliographic information and abstracts for development studies, the Earth sciences, ecology, geomechanics, human geography, and oceanography.

  • GPO   AVL     
    The U.S. Government Printing Office disseminates official information from all three branches of the Federal Government.      

  • GreenFILE Some full text.
    GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

 

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  • Health Source - Consumer Edition   AVL Some full text.
    Provides access to nearly 300 full text, consumer health periodicals and other health information written for the health consumer.

  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition   AVL Some full text.  
    Provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for more than 800 journals.

  • Historic Documents   Some full text.  
    These documents range from presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.

  • Historical Abstracts    
    Complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).


        
    Cross Search Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life

     

  • Historical New York Times    Some full text. 
    Contains citations, abstracts and full text of the New York Times from 1851 to 2006.

  • History Reference Center   Some full text.  
    Full text from more than 650 history reference books and encyclopedias, cover to cover full text from nearly 60 history magazines, 58,000 historical documents, 43,000 biographies and 12,000 historical photos, maps and other images.

  • Humanities Full Text   Some full text. 
    Covers journals in Archaeology, Area Studies, Art, Classical Studies, Communications, Dance, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, History, Journalism, Linguistics, Literary & Social Criticism Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Religion and Theology.

 

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  • Informe   AVL Some full text.
    Provides magazine articles in Spanish to meet the needs of the Hispanic community and those studying Spanish.

  • InfoTrac General OneFile   Some full text.  
    Provides access to periodical and news information on a diverse set of topics, including humanities, education, business, science, current events, art, politics, economics, social science, law, health care, computers, technology, environmental issues, and general interest topics.

  • InfoTrac Student Edition   AVL Some full text.
    Designed for high school students, with 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.

 

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  • JSTOR
    JSTOR includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.                                                              

 

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  • Kids InfoBits   AVL Some full text. 
    Kids InfoBits meets the needs of young students with simple, quick access to curriculum-related information on current events, arts, sciences, health, people, government, sports, history and more

  • Kids Search   AVL Some full text.   
    The Kids Search interface combines the EBSCOhost search engine with a child-friendly, graphically-rich design.

 

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  • LegalTrac   AVL Some full text.  
    Indexes 875 titles, many with full text articles, including all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals, and legal newspapers. Law-related Legal journals are selected using criteria developed by the American Association of Law Libraries. Additional full text articles are included from over 1,000 business and general interest titles.

  • LexisNexis   Some full text. 
    LexisNexis Academic provides access to full-text news, business, and legal publications, using a variety of flexible search options.

  • Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
    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. Audience: media specialists, college, general public.

  • LION (includes MLA) Some full text. 
    LION features an ever-growing collection of over 260,000 works of poetry, drama and prose with complementary reference resources

  • Literature Resources from Gale   AVL Some full text. 
    Searches literature databases including LitFinder, Literature Resource Center, Scribner Writers Series, and Twayne's Author Series.

  • Literature Resource Center   AVL Some full text.   
    Contains critical and biographical information on literary figures in a wide variety of genres and throughout history.

  • LitFinder   AVL Some full text.
    Locate poetry, plays, essays, short stories and speeches in publications. Also includes biographical information on authors.

 

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  • MasterFILE Premier   AVL 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.

  • MathSciNet  
     A comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature since 1940, including reviews of mathematical research from the Mathematical Reviews database. 

  • MEDLINE   AVL         
    Online database of 11 million citations and abstracts from health and medical journals and other news sources.

  • MedlinePlus  
    MedlinePlus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 750 diseases and conditions.

  • Mental Measurements Yearbook   Some full text.
    Contains fulltext information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas.

  • Mergent Online
    Mergent Online provides business and financial information for over 23,000 U.S. and international companies.Thirty years of historical stock prices are available. SEC filings (real-time and archived to 1993) are included for the 10,000+ NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ exchange companies.

  • Military and Government
    Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of these sites.

  • MLA International Bibliography (to search for
    full text in MLA, use LION)
    Indexes journals, books, and dissertations on literature and languages.

 

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  • Newspaper Source   AVL Some full text.
    Provides selected full text from US and international newspapers, newswires, transcripts, and magazines.

  • New York Times, Historical   Some full text.
    Contains citations, abstracts and full text of the New York Times from 1851 to 2006.

 

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  • OCLC FirstSearch   Some full text.
    OCLC FirstSearch provides electronic access to dozens of databases and more than 10 million full-text and full-image articles.

  • OCLC FirstSearch Core Collection   AVL Some full text.
    OCLC FirstSearch (Core Collection) is an aggregator of databases in several subject areas. Databases include ArticleFirst, ECO, Ebooks, OAIster, WorldCat and WorldCatDissertations.

  • OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition   Some full text.
    Electronic access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from over 4,000 journals.  

  • Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center   AVL Some full text.
    Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a full-text resource covering today’s social issues, from Terrorism to Endangered Species, Stem Cell Research to Gun Control.

  • Oxford English Dictionary   Some full text.
    The accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.

  • Oxford Journals   Some full text.
    Full text from over 150 journals published by the Oxford University Press.

  • Oxford Reference Online Premium   AVL Some full text.
    Allows cross-searching of prestigious reference works published by Oxford University Press.

 

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  • PapersFirst   AVL  
    Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.

  • Proceedings   AVL  
    Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.

  • Professional Collection   AVL Some full text.   
    A custom database of more than 300 full-text journals for educators, covering the areas of arts and humanities, child and adolescent psychology and development, drug and alcohol abuse, health/nutrition/fitness, learning disabilities, literature, school law, science and technology, social sciences and sports/athletic training.

  • Professional Development Collection   AVL Some full text.  
    Designed for professional educators. Includes full text for more than 550 education and library science journals. This database also provides full text for 167 education pamphlets and scholarly monographs.

  • ProQuest Newspapers   Some full text.
    Includes ProQuest Newsstand, Atlanta Journal & Constitution, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times , USA Today, Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.

  • PsycARTICLES
    PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group.

  • PsycINFO    Some full text. 
    Contains nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, all in the field of psychology.

  • PubChem
    PubChem provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. It is a component of NIH's Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative.

  • PubMed   Some full text. 
    PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to 1948. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

 

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  • Readers' Guide Full Text   Some full text. 
    Contains comprehensive indexing and abstracting of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada, plus the full text of selected periodicals.

  • RILM Abstracts of Music Literature  
    Offers a broad international coverage of music related works from articles, books, bibliographies, dissertations, film & video to concert reviews and recording notes.

   

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  • Scribner Writers Series   AVL Some full text.
    Includes 1,564 essays on authors of all nationalities and time periods.

  • SIRS Knowledge Source   AVL Some full text. 
    SIRS Knowledge Source (SKS) is a comprehensive database portal which is comprised of several distinct reference databases.

  • Social Sciences Full Text   Some full text. 
    Social Sciences Full Text covers the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.

  • Sociological Index  
    A primary resource for information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. More than 1,660,000 records are indexed from 750 "core" coverage journals (1895-present).

  • SPORTDiscus    
    A database covering sports and sports medicine journals.

  • STAT•USA   Some full text.
    STAT-USA/Internet, a service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is a single point of access to authoritative business, trade, and economic information from across the Federal Government.

  • STN/Chemical Abstracts (Contact  Dr. Houston Byrd)   Some full text.
    STN is an online database service that provides global access to published research, journal literature, patents, structures, sequences, properties, and other data.

  • Student Research Center   AVL Some full text.
    The Student Research Center provides students in secondary schools with the most appropriate research tools for easily obtaining the information that they seek from their EBSCO databases.

    

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  • Twayne Authors Series   AVL Some full text.
    Twayne Authors Series offers  the full-text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles.

 

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  • Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
    A source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types — academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more from around the world.

 

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  • World Almanac   AVL Some full text.   
    Offers a fundamental reference source for students, library patrons, library reference staff, and scholars alike.

  • WorldCat   AVL   
     WorldCat is a global network of library content and services. Use this database to search for books, articles, videos, sound recordings, etc., in other libraries.

  • WorldCat Dissertations and Theses   AVL 
    WorldCat Dissertations and Theses contains more than 5 million records of dissertations and theses with approximately 7500 dissertations and theses available in full text.

  • World Data Analyst   AVL 
    World Data Analyst offers quick and easy comparisons of the countries of the world.

  • World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
    The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online is a searchable electronic database consisting of the most comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide