Databases & Scholarly Articles
Library Databases may contain:
- scholarly articles
- newspapers or magazines
- images or historical documents
- full-text books
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Academic Search CompleteMulti-disciplinary academic resource. Covers social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language, arts, literature, and medicine. Includes scholarly full-text articles from over 7,300 sources, with an additional 1,000 full-text sources. Indexes more than 10,000 periodicals
Other Databases with Important Content
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America: History and Life with Full TextCovers the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Indexing for over 1,800 journals from 1863 to present. Full-text coverage for nearly 260 journals and more than 80 books.
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Annual ReviewsScholarly coverage for 29 scientific disciplines in the biomedical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences. Identifies the principal contributions in the primary research literature.
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Historical Abstracts with Full TextCovers the history of the world outside of the United States and Canada, from the 15th Century onward. Includes essentially unique feature to focus search by historical time period. Indexing of historical articles from more than 2,400 journals in over 40 languages from 1953 to the present, with some coverage for titles back to the early 20th century. Access to the full text of more than 540 journals and 140 books.
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JSTOR** Until June 30, 2021, due to the COVID-19 crisis, JSTOR is providing free access to a much greater number of journals. **
Back volumes for 880 journals from the very first issue but excluding the most current 2-5 years. About 20 titles have coverage through the most recent issue, and about 5 have current but not historical coverage. General subject areas include art & architecture, Asian studies, botany, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, language & literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology and statistics.
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Nexis Uni (replaces LexisNexis Academic)15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
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MasterFILE CompleteMulti-disciplinary database with full-text coverage of more than 2,300 magazines and journals. Emphasis is popular, rather than scholarly publications. Contains over 870 full-text reference books, over 73,000 full-text primary source documents, more than 1.6 million photos, maps and flags, and over 70,000 videos from the Associated Press.
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Military & Government CollectionProvides current news for all branches of the military. Sources include military titles, trade publications, technical specifications and news weeklies. Full text for nearly 300 journals, abstracts about 400 titles. Includes government issued weapons descriptions..
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New York Times, The (1851-2017)Images of all material published in this important U.S. newspaper. Articles, advertising, letters, funeral notices and photos are all included. Fully searchable and browsable.
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Project MUSEFull-text of more than 680 journals, focusing primarily on humanities and language. Some coverage for the performing arts, social sciences, and education. Almost all publications are scholarly, peer-reviewed journals. 25 journals continue the JSTOR coverage of the publication.
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Public Administration AbstractsIncludes journal citations discussing significant areas of public administration, both theory and practice. 75 titles have full-text articles directly from other EBSCO databases, and others are available through the link resolver. Some of the important titles included are Journal of Public Economics, Public Administration and Public Administration Review.
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Web of ScienceSimultaneously search the most important journals in the social sciences, physical sciences, mathematics, the humanities, and visual and performing arts. Includes 'high impact' scholarly sources. Search by author, topic, affiliation, etc., or follow links to cited sources. Create an individualized sign-in to save results, set up search alerts, and gain access to citation management with the My EndNote Web service. Includes Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Science Citation Index (SCI).
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