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  • 19th Century British PamphletsSome full text. 
    More than 20,000 pamphlets from UK research libraries focus on the socio-political and economic history of 19th century Britain.

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  • Academic OneFile   AVLSome 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.

  • Academic Search Premier   AVLSome full text. 
    A multi-disciplinary resource that spans virtually every area of academic study.

  • 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.)

  • AGRICOLA  
    The catalog and index to the collections of the National Agricultural Library, this database covers materials in all formats and periods, including printed works from as far back as the 15th century.

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

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

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

  • ArchiveGrid
    An index providing nearly 1,000,000 detailed descriptions of library, museum, and archival collections from around the world.

  • ARTstor   Some full text.
    Provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences.

  • 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   AVLSome 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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  • Biography Reference Bank   AVLSome full text.
    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.

  • Book Collection: Nonfiction   AVLSome full text.
    A resource aimed at public and school libraries. Includes full text from over 2000 books.

  • Britannica Online Academic Edition   AVLSome full text.
    Includes World Data Analyst, Gateway to the Classics, and Notable Quotations

  • 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 Index ASAP    AVL Some full text.
    Abstracts and full text coverage of banking, investment, companies, industries and new technologies from over 800 titles.

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

  • Business Source Complete (Business Searching Interface)  Some full text.
    Provides full text coverage of a wide range of business journals, including over 1100 peer-reviewed journals. The BSI interface has the same rich content but displays different publication types near the top.

 

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  • Career Library AVL
    Includes tools to explore college and career interests, plan for college or the workforce, and to build résumés.

  • Catalog of Art Museum Images Online (CAMIO)
    Access to 95,000 art images—photographs, paintings, sculpture, decorative and utilitarian objects, prints, drawings and watercolors, jewelry and costumes, textiles and architecture—plus audio, video and mixed media. All content is rights-cleared for educational use.

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

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

  • Educator's Reference Complete AVL Some full text.  
     
    Searches our EBSCOhost databases simultaneously, covering different aspects of health resources.

  • EmeraldSome 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.

  • Enciclopedia Universal en Español  AVL Some full text.  
    Enciclopedia Universal en Español 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 (academic edition.)

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

  • ERIC (Institute of Education Sciences)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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  • Ferguson's Career Guidance Center   AVLSome full text.  
    Provides information on careers, college planning and financial aid, job-hunting and workplace skills, and more.

  • 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   AVLSome 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   AVLSome full text. 

    Accesses all Gale databases with a single search engine.

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

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

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

  • GPOSome full text. 
    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.

  • Highwire Press   AVL Some full text.  
    Offers over two million free full-text articles across a wide range of academic disciplines.

  • 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).

  • History Reference Center   AVL Some full text.
    Offers full text of leading history periodicals, historical documents, biographies of historical figures, photos and maps, and hours of historical film and video.

     


        
    Cross Search Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life

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

  • InfoTrac General OneFile   AVLSome 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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  • Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & CriticismSome full text.
    Contains nearly 300 alphabetically arranged entries and subentries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.

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

     

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  • LegalTrac   AVLSome 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.

  • LexisNexisSome 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.

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

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

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

 

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  • MasterFILE Premier   AVLSome 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 YearbookSome 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   AVLSome full text.
    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 Directory of Periodicals 
    Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920's and contains over 2.3 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers.

  • MLA International BibliographySome full text.
    Contains detailed information on over 5,500 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in MLA International Bibliography. The entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.

 

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

  • New York Times, HistoricalSome full text.
    Contains citations, abstracts and full text of the New York Times from 1851 to three years ago.

 

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

  • Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center   AVLSome 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 Dictionary of National BiographySome full text.
    Over 55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond.

  • Oxford English DictionarySome 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 JournalsSome full text.
    Full text from over 150 journals published by the Oxford University Press.

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

 

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

  • Points of View Reference Center
    Coverage of 270 topics with overviews, point and counterpoint essays, and Critical Thinking Guides for further research.

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

  • ProQuest NewspapersSome 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.

  • PsycARTICLESSome full text.
    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.

  • PsycINFOSome 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.

  • PubMedSome 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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  • 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   AVLSome full text.
    Includes over 2,000 essays on authors and literary genres, taken from the Scribner print series.

  • SIRS Discoverer   AVLSome full text.
    Interactive reference tool of full text articles and images from 1,100 magazines for young readers.

  • SPORTDiscus    
    A database covering sports and sports medicine journals.

  • 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   AVLSome 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