Library - Articles and Databases

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  • Academic Search Complete - Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.
  • ProQuest Research Library - This database includes more than 4,730 titles - over 3,315 in full text - from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers from a wide range of popular academic subjects.
  • JSTOR Arts & Sciences - JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a digital archive of hundreds of academic journals and other scholarly content.
  • Ebrary - More than 25,000 electronic books covering all subject areas. Can browse by table of contents and read selected pages and/or chapters.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library - More than 90,000 reference articles from subject-specific encyclopedias across all major disciplines.
  • Films on Demand - Choose from thousands of educational titles and watch them online, 24/7. Special features allow users the ability to bookmark clips, share playlists and personalize folders.
  • Google Scholar - Search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
  • TOPICSearch - This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints.

Anthropology & Geography

  • JSTOR Arts & Sciences - JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a digital archive of hundreds of academic journals and other scholarly content.
  • CultureGrams - Cultural reports for more than 200 countries, including categories such as land and climate, history, economy, education, health, and events and trends.
  • Academic Search Complete - Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.
  • ProQuest Research Library: Social Sciences - This subset of the ProQuest Research Library covers sociology, psychology, communications, political science, linguistics, criminology, and education.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library: Social Science - This subcollection of the Gale Virtual Reference Library contains reference information on psychology, sociology, anthropology, geography, history, political science, education, and economics.
  • Ebrary - More than 25,000 electronic books covering all subject areas. Can browse by table of contents and read selected pages and/or chapters.
  • Ethnic News Watch - Articles from national and local magazines and newspapers from ethnic communities across the U.S.
  • Films on Demand - Choose from thousands of educational titles and watch them online, 24/7. Special features allow users the ability to bookmark clips, share playlists and personalize folders.
  • Google Scholar - Search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
  • CultureGrams - Cultural reports for more than 200 countries, including categories such as land and climate, history, economy, education, health, and events and trends.

Art & Music

  • Oxford Art Online - Features articles, biographies, images, timelines of world art, and access to the full-text of leading art encyclopedias.
  • Naxos Music Library - Contains full musical recordings from over 7,000 composers and 15,000 CDs from multiple genres.
  • JSTOR Arts & Sciences - JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a digital archive of hundreds of academic journals and other scholarly content.
  • Academic Search Complete - Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.
  • ProQuest Research Library: The Arts - This subset of the ProQuest Research Library covers music, theatre, film, TV, dance, architecture, art and design.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library: Humanities - This subcollection of the Gale Virtual Reference Library contains reference information on art, music, drama, literature, language, philosophy, religion, film, communications, journalism and the humanities.
  • Ebrary - More than 25,000 electronic books covering all subject areas. Can browse by table of contents and read selected pages and/or chapters.
  • Films on Demand - Choose from thousands of educational titles and watch them online, 24/7. Special features allow users the ability to bookmark clips, share playlists and personalize folders.
  • Google Scholar - Search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

Business & Economics

  • Business Source Premier - Business Source Premier contains articles from 2,100 business journals as well as market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
  • ABI Inform Industry & Trade - Features in-depth coverage of companies, products, executives, trends, and other topics from business and trade publications.
  • RMA's eStatement Studies - eStatement Studies is the industry standard for comparison financial data. It features data for over 762 industries derived directly from more than 250,000 statements of financial institutions' borrowers and prospects.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library: Business - This subcollection of the Gale Virtual Reference Library contains reference information on Business and Economics.
  • ProQuest Research Library: Business - This subset of the ProQuest Research Library covers business, economic conditions, corporate strategies, management theory, management techniques, business trends, competitive landscape and product information, accounting and finance.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library: Business - This subcollection of the Gale Virtual Reference Library contains reference information on Business and Economics.
  • Ebrary - More than 25,000 electronic books covering all subject areas. Can browse by table of contents and read selected pages and/or chapters.
  • Films on Demand - Choose from thousands of educational titles and watch them online, 24/7. Special features allow users the ability to bookmark clips, share playlists and personalize folders.
  • JSTOR Arts & Sciences - JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a digital archive of hundreds of academic journals and other scholarly content.
  • Google Scholar - Search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
  • Regional Business News - Provides full text for nearly 100 regional U.S. and Canadian business publications.
  • Vocational & Career Collection - Provides full-text coverage for more than 330 trade and industry related periodicals.
  • Academic Search Complete - Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.
  • Economists' Voice - This online-only publication contains thoughtful yet accessible articles focused on economic topics and social issues.

College & Career Guides

  • College Source - Web access provided by the Career Guidance Foundation which acquires catalogs from U.S. colleges and universities and international schools.
  • Testing and Education Resource Center - Search thousands of college and graduate schools, identify scholarships, take on-line practice tests and use test prep eBooks.
  • WOIS - Browse occupations, descriptions of Washington state schools, search for occupations, or fill out a questionnaire about your interests. Access is on-campus only.
  • Films on Demand - Choose from thousands of educational titles and watch them online, 24/7. Special features allow users the ability to bookmark clips, share playlists and personalize folders.

Criminal Justice & Law

  • Legal Collection - Offers information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment and more from more than 300 scholarly law journals.
  • ProQuest Research Library: Social Sciences - This subset of the ProQuest Research Library covers sociology, psychology, communications, political science, linguistics, criminology, and education.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library: Social Science - This subcollection of the Gale Virtual Reference Library contains reference information on psychology, sociology, anthropology, geography, history, political science, education, and economics.
  • Ebrary - More than 25,000 electronic books covering all subject areas. Can browse by table of contents and read selected pages and/or chapters.
  • Google Scholar - Search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

Current Events

  • CQ Researcher - In-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues,including health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.
  • Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context - Features pro and con viewpoint articles, periodical articles, primary source documents, statistics, and multimedia.
  • ProQuest Research Library - This database includes more than 4,730 titles - over 3,315 in full text - from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers from a wide range of popular academic subjects.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library: Current Events - This subcollection of the Gale Virtual Reference Library contains reference information on current events, primarily from the Information Plus and Battleground reference series.
  • Washington State Newsstand - Search Washington State newspapers for local coverage.
  • Alt-Press Watch - Articles from newspapers, magazines and journals from the alternative and independent press.
  • Ethnic News Watch - Articles from national and local magazines and newspapers from ethnic communities across the U.S.
  • World Conflicts Today - Explores protracted, unresolved world conflicts, including Afghanistan, Darfur, Iraq and the Palestinian Territories.
  • Academic Search Complete - Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.
  • Google Scholar - Search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
  • MasterFILE Premier - This database contains full text for nearly 1,700 general interest periodicals; more than 500 reference books; over 107,000 primary source documents; and an image collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
  • TOPICSearch - This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints.
  • Newspaper Source - Provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers and selective full text for more than 330 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
  • National Newspapers Core - Search for articles from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and Christian Science Monitor.

Education

  • ERIC - Index to articles from education journals through the Educational Resource Information Center. No full-text articles.
  • ProQuest Research Library: Social Sciences - This subset of the ProQuest Research Library covers sociology, psychology, communications, political science, linguistics, criminology, and education.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library: Social Science - This subcollection of the Gale Virtual Reference Library contains reference information on psychology, sociology, anthropology, geography, history, political science, education, and economics.
  • Ebrary - More than 25,000 electronic books covering all subject areas. Can browse by table of contents and read selected pages and/or chapters.
  • Films on Demand - Choose from thousands of educational titles and watch them online, 24/7. Special features allow users the ability to bookmark clips, share playlists and personalize folders.
  • JSTOR Arts & Sciences - JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a digital archive of hundreds of academic journals and other scholarly content.
  • Google Scholar - Search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
  • Professional Development Collection - Includes full text for more than 520 high-quality education journals and nearly 230 educational reports.
  • Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) - LISTA indexes more than 560 journals with subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. No full-text articles.
  • Teacher Reference Center - TRC provides indexing and abstracts for 280 periodicals covering assessment, best practices, continuing education, current pedagogical research, curriculum development, elementary education, higher education, instructional media, language arts, literacy standards, school administration, science & mathematics, and teacher education. No full-text articles.
  • Testing and Education Resource Center - Search thousands of college and graduate schools, identify scholarships, take on-line practice tests and use test prep eBooks.
  • Vocational & Career Collection - Provides full-text coverage for more than 330 trade and industry related periodicals.

Health & Medicine, Nursing & Dental Hygiene

  • Salem Health - Authoritative reference articles covering diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, medicine, genetics, psychology and mental health.
  • ProQuest Family Health - This database includes articles important general medical journals such as The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine as well as a strong selection of consumer and news magazines.
  • CINAHL Plus with Full Text - Covers nursing and other allied health disciplines with full-text material from 60 journals.
  • PubMed Central - A full-text portion of the overall PubMed (Medline) database.
  • Infobase Deadly Diseases and Epidemics - Forty-eight volume ebook collection covers all aspects of a disease, from its history and causes or method of infection to its treatment and prevention.
  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition - Access the full-text of more than 500 journals, most of which are peer-reviewed, in the nursing and medical fields.
  • ProQuest Research Library: Health & Medicine - This subset of the ProQuest Research Library covers medical science, nursing, allied health, public health and pharmacology
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library: Health & Medicine - This subcollection of the Gale Virtual Reference Library contains reference information on Health & Medicine, including Nursing, Dental Hygiene, and Veterinary Technology.
  • Ebrary - More than 25,000 electronic books covering all subject areas. Can browse by table of contents and read selected pages and/or chapters.
  • Films on Demand - Choose from thousands of educational titles and watch them online, 24/7. Special features allow users the ability to bookmark clips, share playlists and personalize folders.
  • JSTOR Arts & Sciences - JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a digital archive of hundreds of academic journals and other scholarly content.
  • Google Scholar - Search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
  • Health Source: Consumer Edition - This collection contains 80 consumer health magazines, health-related pamphlets and health reference books on topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, and women's health.
  • Academic Search Complete - Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.
  • MEDLINE - Search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals covering medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences. No full-text articles.

History, Political Science & Biography

  • Salem History - Authoritative reference articles covering American decades, great lives and events from history, and primary source documents.
  • Gale U.S. History in Context - Contains reference sources, primary documents and articles from academic journals covering U.S. history from pre-colonial times to the present.
  • Gale World History in Context - Contains reference sources, primary documents and articles from academic journals featuring extensive coverage of world history from antiquity to the present.
  • Gale Biography in Context - Search for people by name, occupation and other criteria. Also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals.
  • Academic Search Complete - Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.
  • JSTOR Arts & Sciences - JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a digital archive of hundreds of academic journals and other scholarly content.
  • ProQuest Research Library: History - This subset of the ProQuest Research Library covers civilizations, historical studies, military history, periods & events, U.S. history and world history.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library: Social Science - This subcollection of the Gale Virtual Reference Library contains reference information on psychology, sociology, anthropology, geography, history, political science, education, and economics.
  • Ebrary - More than 25,000 electronic books covering all subject areas. Can browse by table of contents and read selected pages and/or chapters.
  • Films on Demand - Choose from thousands of educational titles and watch them online, 24/7. Special features allow users the ability to bookmark clips, share playlists and personalize folders.
  • Google Scholar - Search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
  • CQ Researcher - In-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues,including health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.
  • World Conflicts Today - Explores protracted, unresolved world conflicts, including Afghanistan, Darfur, Iraq and the Palestinian Territories.
  • Military & Government Collection - Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of more than 300 periodicals.

Literature, Film & Communications

  • Salem Literature - Features synopses from Masterplots and criticism from Critical Surveys of Long Fiction, Short Fiction, Poetry and Graphic Novels.
  • Literature Resource Center - Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers.
  • Oxford English Dictionary - The OED, widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language, is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words from past to present.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library: Humanities - This subcollection of the Gale Virtual Reference Library contains reference information on art, music, drama, literature, language, philosophy, religion, film, communications, journalism and the humanities.
  • Ebrary - More than 25,000 electronic books covering all subject areas. Can browse by table of contents and read selected pages and/or chapters.
  • Films on Demand - Choose from thousands of educational titles and watch them online, 24/7. Special features allow users the ability to bookmark clips, share playlists and personalize folders.
  • JSTOR Arts & Sciences - JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a digital archive of hundreds of academic journals and other scholarly content.
  • Academic Search Complete - Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.
  • ProQuest Research Library: Literature & Language - This subset of the ProQuest Research Library covers English, American literature, world Literatures and linguistics.
  • Google Scholar - Search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
  • ProQuest Research Library: The Arts - This subset of the ProQuest Research Library covers music, theatre, film, TV, dance, architecture, art and design.

Philosophy & Religion

  • Religion & Philosophy Collection - The 300 full-text journals in this database cover topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
  • JSTOR Arts & Sciences - JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a digital archive of hundreds of academic journals and other scholarly content.
  • ProQuest Research Library - This database includes more than 4,730 titles - over 3,315 in full text - from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers from a wide range of popular academic subjects.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library: Humanities - This subcollection of the Gale Virtual Reference Library contains reference information on art, music, drama, literature, language, philosophy, religion, film, communications, journalism and the humanities.
  • Ebrary - More than 25,000 electronic books covering all subject areas. Can browse by table of contents and read selected pages and/or chapters.
  • Films on Demand - Choose from thousands of educational titles and watch them online, 24/7. Special features allow users the ability to bookmark clips, share playlists and personalize folders.

Pre-College (ABE, GED, ESL)

  • eLibrary - This general reference collection contains 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts, plus thousands of maps, pictures, weblinks, and audio/video files.
  • MAS Ultra - Designed specifically for high school libraries, MAS Ultra contains full text for nearly 500 popular high school magazines as well as biographies, primary source documents, reference books, and photos.
  • Middle Search Plus - Contains full text for more than 150 popular middle school magazines as well as thousands of biographies and historical essays.
  • Primary Search - Designed specifically for elementary school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 80 popular elementary school magazines and articles from Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia.
  • Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia - This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

Psychology & Sociology

  • DSM_IV-TR Online - This database features the full-text of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines.
  • PsycARTICLES - Publishes full-text articles from academic, research and practice literature in psychology and related disciplines.
  • Salem Health - Authoritative reference articles covering diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, medicine, genetics, psychology and mental health.
  • JSTOR Arts & Sciences - JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a digital archive of hundreds of academic journals and other scholarly content.
  • ProQuest Research Library: Social Sciences - This subset of the ProQuest Research Library covers sociology, psychology, communications, political science, linguistics, criminology, and education.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library: Social Science - This subcollection of the Gale Virtual Reference Library contains reference information on psychology, sociology, anthropology, geography, history, political science, education, and economics.
  • Ebrary - More than 25,000 electronic books covering all subject areas. Can browse by table of contents and read selected pages and/or chapters.
  • Films on Demand - Choose from thousands of educational titles and watch them online, 24/7. Special features allow users the ability to bookmark clips, share playlists and personalize folders.
  • Google Scholar - Search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
  • Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection - This comprehensive database covers information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.

Science, Technology, Engineering & Math

  • Science Full-Text Select - Provides 100% full-text access to hundreds of science periodicals, many of which are peer-reviewed.
  • Salem Science - Authoritative reference articles covering global warming, global resources, environmental issues, forensic science, and the solar system.
  • Access Science - Reference articles, biographies and media from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology.
  • PLoS One - This open-access online only journal from the Public Library of Science publishes peer-reviewed articles in science and medicine. Freely available on the web.
  • Academic Search Complete - Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.
  • ProQuest Research Library: Science & Technology - This subset of the ProQuest Research Library covers agriculture, biology, chemistry, environmental science, materials science, computing and engineering.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library: Science & Technology - This subcollection of the Gale Virtual Reference Library contains reference information on biology, chemistry, physics, earth & space science, engineering, and math.
  • Ebrary - More than 25,000 electronic books covering all subject areas. Can browse by table of contents and read selected pages and/or chapters.
  • Films on Demand - Choose from thousands of educational titles and watch them online, 24/7. Special features allow users the ability to bookmark clips, share playlists and personalize folders.
  • JSTOR Arts & Sciences - JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a digital archive of hundreds of academic journals and other scholarly content.
  • Google Scholar - Search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
  • Computer Source - Features a balance of full-text technical journals and full-text consumer computer titles covering computers, telecommunications, electronics and the Internet.
  • AGRICOLA - Search more than 4.8 million citations covering agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, agricultural engineering and technology and earth and environmental sciences. No full-text articles.
  • GreenFILE - GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

Spanish

  • Fuente Academica - This collection of scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain covers all major subject areas with particular emphasis on agriculture, biological sciences, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public administration, religion and sociology. Articles in Spanish or Portugese.
  • MedicLatina - This collection of medical research and investigatory journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers covers topics including including neuroscience, cardiology, nephrology, biomedicine, clinical research, pediatrics, human reproduction, clinical pathology, cancer research, and hematology. Articles in Spanish.

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