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Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,990 full-text periodicals, including more than 5,030 peer-reviewed journals.
CQ Press Electronic Library is the definitive reference resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. The Electronic Library offers one-stop access to the following CQ databases:
  • CQ Researcher Online is the award-winning choice of researchers seeking original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news in a balanced, unbiased manner.
  • CQ Global Researcher offers international perspectives on the most vital world issues with original, single-topic reports, written in the same balanced, unbiased style as the CQ Researcher.
  • CQ Historic Documents Series collects more than 2,500 primary sources covering current events around the world from 1972 to present and provides a clear, logical organization and tools for exploring these rich resources.
EBSCOhost is a comprehensive collection containing both multi-disciplinary and subject specific databases.
Global Issues in Context offers global perspectives on issues of international importance and current world events and topics in the news related to these issues.
JSTOR offers both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections.
LearningExpress Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial courses.
Lexis Nexis provides full-text articles and abstracts from newspapers, magazines, and reference sources.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues.
Dissertations and Theses provides abstracts and citations for doctoral and master's dissertations.
Use Ebsco A to Z to view the journals and other sources of electronic full text titles available through EBSCOHost.
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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Oxford Art Online includes the full text of The Dictionary of Art (edited by Jane Turner) , the foremost scholarly art encyclopedia covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art.
The Oxford English Dictionary is the definitive record of the English language.
Oxford Reference Online presents electronic editions of Oxford Press's award winning encyclopedias and scholarly reference titles.
Digital Sanborn Maps of Louisiana charts the growth and course of more than 12,000 American cities.
World Book is an online access to reference sources including encyclopedias and dictionaries.
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ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
JSTOR is a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It 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.
Oxford Art Online includes the full text of The Dictionary of Art (edited by Jane Turner) , the foremost scholarly art encyclopedia covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art.
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Biography Resource Center integrates award-winning biographies from respected Gale sources with related full-text articles from hundreds of magazines and newspapers.
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Business Source Complete provides bibliographic and full text content in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.
Lexis Nexis provides full-text articles and abstracts from newspapers, magazines, and reference sources.
Westlaw provides a comprehensive collection of news, law-related and business information sources.
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Book Collection: Nonfiction contains informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 4,000 popular nonfiction books, geared toward elementary and high school students. The database includes full text entries on core subject areas, as well as information on careers, health, sports, adventure, technology, life skills and more.
The Chronicle of Higher Education is the number one source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.
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Community College Times, the biweekly newspaper of the American Association of Community Colleges, provides coverage of community college news and issues, including job listings.
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Education Research Complete™
Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research.
ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center) contains more than 1,243,000 records and links to more than 224,000 full-text documents from ERIC.
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.
Professional Development Collection, designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles.
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Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text covers topics such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Science and Technology Collection contains over 830 leading full text journals covering topics such as aeronautics, astrophysics, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, and materials science.
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Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.
Lexis Nexis provides full-text articles and abstracts from newspapers, magazines, and reference sources.
SocINDEX with Full Text is a comprehensive and scholarly sociology research database.
Westlaw provides a comprehensive collection of news, law-related and business information sources.
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The American Journal of Physiology, published by the American Physiological Society, provides access to all 7 sections of the journal:
CINAHL Plus with Full Text is a comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 750 journals.
ScienceDirect offers more than a quarter of the world's scientific, medical and technical information online.
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Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text is a comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 750 journals.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
MedicLatina is a collection of medical research and investigatory journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. This Spanish language database contains full text for nearly 120 peer-reviewed medical journals in native Spanish.
Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
Search Nursing & Allied Health Source for full text articles from leading nursing, allied health and related publications.
ScienceDirect offers more than a quarter of the world's scientific, medical and technical information online.
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History Reference Center offers full text from reference books, full text history periodical articles, historical documents, biographies of historical figures, more than 110,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
Using primary and secondary sources, History Resource Center: U.S. covers U.S. history from pre-colonial times to the present.
History Resource Center: World seamlessly integrates Gale secondary sources, primary sources and full-text articles from academic journals and periodicals from around the world.
JSTOR is a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It 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.
World History Collection offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East.
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Legal Collection provides full-text articles and abstracts from newspapers, magazines, and reference sources.
Lexis Nexis contains full text for more than 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals.
Westlaw provides a comprehensive collection of news, law-related and business information sources.
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Literary Reference Center is a comprehensive 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.
Literature Resource Center includes biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world, supplemented by the scholarly materials of the Scribner Writers Series and Twayne's World, U.S., and English Authors Series.
Scribner Writers Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 2,000 authors and literary genres drawn from the acclaimed Scribner print series.
Twayne's Author Series includes 600 full-text titles from the Twayne Literary Masters series.
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Lexis Nexis contains full text for more than 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals.
Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for 35 national & international newspapers as well as selective full text for 375 regional (U.S.) newspapers. Full text television & radio news transcripts are also provided.
Westlaw provides a comprehensive collection of news, law-related and business information sources.
Remote access is not available for this database.
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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.
PsycARTICLES database is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods, offering full text coverage for nearly 600 journals.
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The American Journal of Physiology, published by the American Physiological Society, provides access to all 7 sections of the journal:
GreenFILE offers 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.
MathSciNet is a database covering the world's mathematical literature.
Search Nursing & Allied Health Source for full text articles from leading nursing, allied health and related publications.
Digital Sanborn Maps of Louisiana charts the growth and course of more than 12,000 American cities.
Science and Technology Collection contains over 830 leading full text journals covering topics such as aeronautics, astrophysics, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, and materials science.
ScienceDirect offers more than a quarter of the world's scientific, medical and technical information online.
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JSTOR is a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It 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.
SocINDEX with Full Text is a comprehensive and scholarly sociology research database.

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