General Periodical Databases
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOHOST) Broad subject coverage, including both scholarly and popular periodicals for thousands of titles. Can limit to peer-reviewed journals.	ProQuestDirect Broad subject coverage with thousands of articles from newspapers, journals and magazines. Has several "sub-databases" to choose from, including the "Washington State Newsstand" for the major Washington papers. - National and Washington newspapers full-text - Go directly into this portion of the ProQuest database
Specialized Databases	eBooks
CQ Researcher Reports offer in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Opposing Viewpoints - New! Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center brings together the information that’s needed to fully understand complex issues: pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including images and podcasts, links to hand-selected web sites, and more! Alt Press Watch Alt-PressWatch is a full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from the alternative and independent press. This interdisciplinary resource of over 170 titles provides a variety of viewpoints and perspectives to complement and challenge the coverage of the mainstream media. EthnicNewsWatch Ethnic NewsWatch contains the full-text of about 140 national and local magazines and newspapers from ethnic communities across the U.S. from 1985 to the present. Naxos Music Library Naxos Music Library contains full musical recordings from over 7000 composers and 15,000 CDs. This database consists of music from multiple genres including Classical, Contemporary Jazz, Jazz/Folk/Blues, World/Folk, Nostalgia, Chinese music, Pop/Rock and Adult Contemporary. ABI/Inform ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry includes in-depth coverage of companies, products, executives, trends, and other topics for more than 1,250 publications, with over 1,125 in full-text. Users can study and compare specific trades and industries, including telecommunications, computing, transportation, construction, petrochemicals, and many others.	ebrary - NEW! ebrary is a collection of more than 18,000 electronic books covering all subject areas. You can access content by doing keyword searches or browsing subject areas. You can also preview the table of contents for each book, and you can go to specific chapters or pages that are relevant for your topic. All of these books are full-length titles that have been previously published in print. Please note that individual pages and chapters can be printed, but it is a copyright violation to print out an entire book. Gale Virtual Reference Library - Newish!! The Gale Virtual Reference Library contains thousands of reference articles from major reference books with a focus on the humanities and social science. The focus of this database includes religion, philosophy, the arts, the media, law, education, psychology, sociology, political science and anthropology. You can search within a specific reference book or across all books, and print out articles in a PDF. Encyclopedia Britannica Online Encyclopædia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. Encyclopædia Britannica Online has an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors. You can find more than 118,000 articles and over 14,000 illustrations, including photographs, drawings, maps, and flags. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus has more than 215,000 entries--including definitions, pronunciation guides, and word histories.
Health, Science & Technology	Biography, History and Literature
CINAHL Provides indexing and abstracts for over 1,700 current nursing and allied health journals and other publications dating back to 1982. Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. Full text material includes 60 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments, clinical trials. PubMed An interface to MEDLINE, an index of articles from over 4,000 journals on health sciences, including medicine, veterinary science, dentistry, and nursing. - PubMed Central - A full-text portion of the overall PubMed (Medline) database. Health and Wellness Resource Center Use this Resource Center to find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, Prescription Drugs, etc. Included are links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases. The material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only. Access Science Contains over 8,500 online articles from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology 10th edition and  110,000+ definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms.   Has biographies of more than 2,000 well-known scientists from the Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography.  Also contains other media-rich content such as images, videos, animations, and illustrations.	Biography Resource Center This database combines biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search. History Resource Center - U.S. History The History Resource Center: U.S. provides integrated access to over 1,000 historical (primary) documents, more then 30,000 reference articles, and over 65 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes access to the citations for over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index. History Resource Center - World History History Resource Center: Modern World has always featured extensive coverage of the 20th century. History Resource Center: World broadens this focus both geographically and chronologically, with the addition of new content on the ancient Mediterranean, Near East, Asia, Middle East, Latin America, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. From antiquity to the present, world history curricula is reflected by content from over 2,000 primary sources, 25 reference titles and from 110 academic journals. Literature Resource Center Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
Education	OCLC
ERIC Index to articles from over 750 education journals and related documents from the Educational Resource Information Center and educational symposium report literature dating back to 1967. Testing and Education Resource Center Taking a college entrance or licensing exam? Looking for a college or graduate school? Need help finding scholarships? Use this database to search thousands of college and graduate school entries. Identify scholarships that meet their financial needs. Take on-line practice tests and use test prep eBooks to obtain your education goals. WOIS / Career Information System Here you'll find career-related information. Browse occupations or descriptions of schools in Washington state, search for occupations by keyword, or fill out a questionnaire about your interests (on the "Tools" page in the "Activities" section) to have the computer suggest careers you might like. Access is on-campus only. College Source Online Web access provided by the Career Guidance Foundation which acquires catalogs from nearly 3,000 U.S. colleges and universities, plus 700 international schools.	OCLC First Search Through one interface, OCLC FirstSearch provides access to ten databases, including ArticleFirst (citations for periodical articles ), ECO (Electronic Collections Online: citations to journal articles with many full-text items), WorldCat (OCLC’s international catalog of books and other materials with over 50 million entries), ERIC, and MEDLINE.

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