Library - Articles and Databases
Databases by Source Type
Click on the headings below to view a list of databases.
E-Books
- Gale Virtual Reference Library - More than 90,000 reference articles from subject-specific encyclopedias across all major disciplines.
- Ebrary - More than 25,000 electronic books covering all subject areas. Can browse by table of contents and read selected pages and/or chapters.
- 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.
Magazines & Newspapers
- 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.
- 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.
- National Newspapers Core - Search for articles from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and Christian Science Monitor.
- 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.
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context - Features pro and con viewpoint articles, periodical articles, primary source documents, statistics, and multimedia.
- 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.
- Gale Biography in Context - Search for people by name, occupation and other criteria. Also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals.
- 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 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.
- Computer Source - Features a balance of full-text technical journals and full-text consumer computer titles covering computers, telecommunications, electronics and the Internet.
- 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.
- Science Full-Text Select - Provides 100% full-text access to hundreds of science periodicals, many of which are peer-reviewed.
Online Video & Audio
- 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.
- 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.
- TED: Ideas Worth Spreading - Watch the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes). Freely available on the web.
- Academic Earth - Watch full video courses and lectures from the world's leading scholars. Freely available on the web.
Professional & Trade Journals
- ABI Inform Industry & Trade - Features in-depth coverage of companies, products, executives, trends, and other topics from business and trade publications.
- 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.
- Vocational & Career Collection - Provides full-text coverage for more than 330 trade and industry related periodicals.
- Regional Business News - Provides full text for nearly 100 regional U.S. and Canadian business publications.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Professional Development Collection - Includes full text for more than 520 high-quality education journals and nearly 230 educational reports.
- 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.
- 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.
Reference
- Gale Virtual Reference Library - More than 90,000 reference articles from subject-specific encyclopedias across all major disciplines.
- 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.
- Salem Health - Authoritative reference articles covering diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, medicine, genetics, psychology and mental health.
- Salem History - Authoritative reference articles covering American decades, great lives and events from history, and primary source documents.
- Salem Literature - Features synopses from Masterplots and criticism from Critical Survey of Long Fiction and Critical Survey of Poetry.
- Salem Science - Authoritative reference articles covering global warming, global resources, environmental issues, forensic science, and the solar system.
- 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.
- Access Science - Reference articles, biographies and media from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology.
- 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.
- Encyclopedia Britannica - Includes articles, illustrations, photographs, drawings, maps, and flags; a directory 300,000 web sites; and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus.
- 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.
- 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.
Scholarly Journals
- 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 - 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.
- 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 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.
- PsycARTICLES - Publishes full-text articles from academic, research and practice literature in psychology and related disciplines.
- Science Full-Text Select - Provides 100% full-text access to hundreds of science periodicals, many of which are peer-reviewed.
- 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.
- PubMed Central - A full-text portion of the overall PubMed (Medline) database.
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text - Covers nursing and other allied health disciplines with full-text material from 60 journals.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Computer Source - Features a balance of full-text technical journals and full-text consumer computer titles covering computers, telecommunications, electronics and the Internet.
- 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.
- 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.
- Alt HealthWatch - This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness from international peer-reviewed journals and reports.
- Professional Development Collection - Includes full text for more than 520 high-quality education journals and nearly 230 educational reports.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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