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Use the links below to find articles and reports in journals, newspapers, and other sources. Off-campus use requires your NetDirect username and password. News for Off-Campus Users

You may also want to try JumpStart, which arranges resources by subject, or use our catalog for books.
atoz journal finderLooking for a specific journal by title? Use our Full Text Journal Finder (AtoZ) to search our collection of full-text online journals.
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Academic Search Premier (EbscoHost)
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
A good place to start your research. This database covers many disciplines and provides electronic access to the full-text articles of more than 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. Citations and abstracts are available for another 3,500 journals. Some full-text journals date as far back as 1965.
Academic OneFile (Gale)
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
A comprehensive database containing articles from over 12,000 peer-reviewed journals in all subject areas, including medicine, social science, law and humanities. It also includes many news media sources, such as the New York Times since 1985 and NPR transcripts of every broadcast since 1990.
AccessScience
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Articles on science and technology topics, with references and links for further study. A good starting place for science research. Dictionary terms and biographies are included as well.
ACM Digital Library
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
Through the ACM Portal, you can access full text computer and technology articles and information. The ACM Digital Library is a Full text collection of every article published by Association for Computing Machinery, including over 50 years of archives. Full text access to literature by affiliated organizations as well. The Guide to Computing literature is citations and abstracts from major publishers in computing. It has an excellent subject-browsing feature (the Computing Classification System).
AGRICOLA
AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and its cooperators. The database covers materials in all formats, in the field of 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, and earth and environmental sciences.
AH Search (FirstSearch)
Arts and Humanities Citation Index indexes the world's leading arts and humanities journals, selected articles from social science and science journals, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews, and more. Although this database is not full-text, you can still obtain the articles through either A-Z or InterLibrary Loan.
Alt HealthWatch
Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers full-text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports.
Alternative Press Index (FirstSearch)
A comprehensive guide to alternative sources of information. Indexes over 500 alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines. Includes selected abstracts from research journals. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary, with extensive coverage in the humanities and social sciences. Although this database is not full-text, you can still obtain the articles through either A-Z or InterLibrary Loan.
Alternative Press Index Archive (FirstSearch)
This database is the same as the Alternative Press Index, but covers the years 1969-1990. A comprehensive guide to alternative sources of information. Indexes 456 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Includes selected abstracts from research journals. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary with extensive coverage in the humanities and social sciences. Although this database is not full-text, you can still obtain the articles through either A-Z or InterLibrary Loan.
America: History and Life
Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
AH&L is a database covering the world’s scholarly literature in the history of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. Articles are abstracted from more than 2,400 journals. For similar coverage of non-U.S. and non-Canadian history, see Historical Abstracts. Although this database is not full-text, you can still obtain the articles through either A-Z or InterLibrary Loan.
Art Museum Image Gallery
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
The Art Museum Image Gallery is a rich digital resource of art images and related multimedia gathered from the collections of distinguished museums around the world. This collection includes over 155,000 superior quality images with a full bibliographic record.
Association for Information Systems eLibrary
Available in Full Text 
The Association for Information System Electronic Library (AISeL) is an electronic repository for the ICIS, AMCIS, ECIS, PACIS, BLED, ACIS and MWAIS conference proceedings.
Basic BIOSIS (FirstSearch)
Basic information about biology and other life sciences. Covers the basic core of life science journals found in college and university libraries. Includes popular and scholarly science journals. Although this database is not full-text, you can still obtain the articles through either A-Z or InterLibrary Loan.
Biography Resource Center (Gale)
Available in Full Text 
The Biography Resource Center combines over 400,000 biographies on nearly 320,000 people from respected print sources, with full-text articles from more than 265 magazines.
Biology Digest (FirstSearch)
Life-science information written in a non-technical style. Provides detailed abstracts written in a nontechnical style for students and interested nonscientists, or for scientist studying outside of their specialties. Although this database is not full-text, you can still obtain the articles through either A-Z or InterLibrary Loan.
Books In Print (BIP)
Use Books In Print to find information on books, videos and audio material. It includes access to Bowker's Publishers Authority Database (a comprehensive database of over 165,000 publishers, distributors, wholesalers and book agents) an easy way to download, e-mail and print title information and search results, the ability to check stock availability with various wholesalers, plus you can check their discount schedules, return policies and more.
Business and Company Resource Center (Gale)
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
Business & Company Resource Center brings together in a single database company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals. It has full-text access to many trade publications. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.
Business Source Premier (EbscoHost)
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
This database covers virtually every aspect of business. Electronic access to over 3,600 full-text journals. The sources include many scholarly journals like the Harvard Business Review and the California Management Review. This resource also provides profiles on the largest 5,000 companies as well as country economic reports.
CCH IntelliConnect
This service provides access to many tax accounting resources including the Standard Federal Income Tax Reporter, the Internal Revenue Code, and the Federal Tax Regulations. CCH is incompatible with the Firefox Web browser; please use Internet Explorer. NOTE: Free registration is required for first-time users.
Choice
Available in Full Text 
Internet version of the print magazine CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. Subject specialists provide reviews on significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education. For faculty and staff only.
CIAO
Available in Full Text 
>Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. CIAO is also widely-recognized source for teaching materials including original case studies written by leading international affairs experts, course packs of background readings for history and political science classes, and special features like the analysis of a bin Laden recruitment tape with video.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Available in Full Text 
CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for 3,123 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with coverage dating as far back as 1937. There are also 391 Full Text Journals included.
CLASE and Periodica (FirstSearch)
Index of Latin American journals in the social sciences and humanities, science and technology. Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, etc. Although this database is not full-text, you can still obtain the articles through either A-Z or InterLibrary Loan.
Cochrane Library
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
The Cochrane Library contains independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It includes evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Available in Full Text 
Article database that incorporates the contents of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index along with numerous other journals on the fields of communication and mass media.
Communications of the Association for Information Systems
Available in Full Text 
The Association for Information Systems (AIS) began publishing two electronic journals in 1999 - Communications of AIS and The Journal of AIS. These journals are designed to be complementary and the first part of this statement of editorial policy is common to both.
Computer Database (Gale)
Available in Full Text 
Use this database to find computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology. A variety of full text business and technical publications.
Conference Board
Available in Full Text 
Research reports on key topics in the areas of business, economics, management and the marketplace.
Contemporary Authors (Gale)
Available in Full Text 
Find full-text information on over 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
Contemporary Women’s Issues (FirstSearch)
Indexes books, journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, and fact sheets. Broad in scope, this database contains global information on women around the world. Although this database is not full-text, you can still obtain the articles through either A-Z or InterLibrary Loan.
Corporate Affiliations
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
A guide to public, private, and international corporate families. This directory covers over 200,000 parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, and divisions. It includes company profiles, key personnel, directors on the board, outside service firms, product lists, and company hierarchies. Searchable by company name, geographical location, industry, and sales. Please make it a point to log off of this service when you are done using it. Thanks.
Country Reports (Walden & CIA Factbook)
Available in Full Text 
Concise facts & statistics about countries
CQ Global Researcher
Modeled after CQ Researcher, CQ Global Researcher provides readers with definitive, in-depth coverage of global affairs from a number of international viewpoints. Each single-themed, 12,000-word CQ Global Researcher report provides researchers with an introductory overview; background and assessment of the current situation; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; chronology on the topic; a sampling of related international perspectives; maps and graphs; bibliographies of key sources; and next steps for additional reading.
CQ Researcher
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
In depth research on current events and issues with a comprehensive review of the controversies, historical background, chronology, opposing views, bibliographies. The CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports.
Credo Reference
Available in Full Text 
Credo Reference is a searchable reference database featuring more than 300 dictionaries and encyclopedias from major publishers.
Criminal Justice Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts the major journals, books, dissertations, government reports and unpublished papers in criminology and related disciplines. Covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, drugs, government, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, law, police, political science, public administration, courts, punishment and sentencing. Although this database is not full-text, you can still obtain the articles through either Full Text Journal Finder or InterLibrary Loan.
CSA
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
Main interface to CSA databases including Criminal Justice Abstracts and Sociological Abstracts.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Available in Full Text 
Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals of all subjects and languages. There are 2588 journals in the directory; currently 773 journals are searchable at article level; approximately 127570 articles are included in the DOAJ service.
Dissertation Abstracts (FirstSearch)
Selectively covers masters theses and dissertations from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Europe. Although this database is not full-text, you may be able to obtain a dissertation through InterLibrary Loan.
EbscoHost
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
Provides access to the array of EbscoHost full-text databases that include: Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, Medline, and more.
EconLit (FirstSearch)
Journals, books, and working papers on economics. Provides citations for dissertations and articles in more than 620 collective volumes per year. Although this database is not full-text, you can still obtain the articles through either A-Z or InterLibrary Loan.
Education Full Text (Wilson)
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
Full Text articles on a variety of topics in education. Education Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere. Abstracting coverage begins with Jan. 1994., full –text coverage begins with Jan. 1996.
Educator's Reference Complete (Gale)
Available in Full Text 
Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database. The database is updated daily and provides 24-hour access from school or home.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Available in Full Text 
The online version of the classic encyclopedia, with graphs, photos and movies. Supplemented with the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus, a world atlas, a timeline, and a year in review feature. Articles include links to relevant websites.
ERIC (CSA)
Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. The CSA version provides access to the very useful ERIC Thesaurus through the Search Tools tab at the top of the screen.
ERIC database
Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
This link provides access to the ERIC database available from the U.S. Dept. of Education through the web. ERIC indexes two types of materials: articles that have been published in education journals, and unpublished documents.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
News, culture, and history from over 260 publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press in English and Spanish. Ethnic NewsWatch full-text titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.
Evidence-Based Resources from the Joanna Briggs Institute
Available in Full Text 
Valuable evidence-based nursing information from The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI). These resources include Systematic Reviews, Evidence Summaries, and Best Practice Information Sheets. The JBI's evidence-based approach opens a new world of education resources, with critical appraisal and meta-analysis that is highly respected in the field.
Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale)
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
This database meets research needs across all academic disciplines, from arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology. Access scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers - with full text and images.
FirstSearch
Provides access to the array of FirstSearch databases that include: WorldCat, EconLit, PAIS, AltPress Index, and much more. FirstSearch Databases are not full-text but articles can be obtain through either A-Z or InterLibrary Loan.
Gale
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
Provides access to the array of Gale full-text databases that include: Academic OneFile, Business and Company Resources Center, Biography Resource Center, and much more.
Gale Virtual Reference
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
Gale Virtual Reference is a collection of reference "e-books" that is searchable just like a database. The collection is made up of authoritative and respected subject encyclopedias and more. Gale Virtual Reference is a great place to begin your research, gather background information, or explore possible research topics."
Gartner Group
Available in Full Text 
Gartner provides full text reports from IT market reports and research. This resource is made available by MNSCU via the Metropolitan State IT Department. Thus, you will need to provide your MNSCU Student/Tech ID and PIN to access this database, rather than your Metropolitan State NetDirect account. Your Student/Tech ID number is found on the front of your Student ID card.
General Business File ASAP (Gale)
Available in Full Text 
This database is used to search business periodicals. Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.
General Reference Center Gold (Gale)
Available in Full Text 
A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources in one easy-to-use interface. Use General Reference Center Gold to find articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals, many with full-text and images. Find the latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.
General Science Collection (Gale)
Available in Full Text 
A collection of over 200 journals, providing researchers with the information needed to stay current on the latest scientific developments -- including such topics as particle physics, advanced mathematics, and nanotechnology.
GEOBASE (FirstSearch)
Worldwide literature on geography, geology, and ecology. Covers journals, books, monographs, conference proceedings, and reports. Although this database is not full-text, you can still obtain the articles through either A-Z or InterLibrary Loan.
Good Quotes for Speakers
Available in Full Text 
Over 10,000 quotes from the famous & not-so-famous.
Google Scholar
Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Many of these are not full text, but Google Scholar is now linked to the Metro State library resources and can connect to full text there.
GreenFILE
Available in Full Text 
GreenFILE offers well-researched 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. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
GuideStar Premium
A database that provides access to many IRS 990 forms. The IRS 990 form is the primary financial report of most nonprofit organizations.
Health and Wellness Center (Gale)
Available in Full Text 
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.
Health Reference Center Academic (Gale)
Available in Full Text 
Designed for nursing and allied health students, as well as consumer health researchers. Articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health & Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drug, etc. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.
Historical Abstracts
Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
Historical Abstracts covers the world’s scholarly literature in history (except the history of the U.S. and Canada – for works on U.S. and Canadian history, see America: History and Life). Historical Abstracts includes abstracts and citations of articles, books and dissertations on the world history. Although this database is not full-text, you can still obtain the articles through either A-Z or InterLibrary Loan.
Historical Statistics of the United States
Available in Full Text 
A standard source for the quantitative facts of American history. Users can search and download statistics and create customized tables and spreadsheets reflecting their own particular areas of interest.
Homeland Security Digital Library
Available in Full Text 
The HSDL collection provides quick access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies. The resources are reviewed and selected by a team of homeland security researchers and organized in a unique homeland security taxonomy. HSDL content includes state-of-the-art multi-media offerings and other valuable assets identified by CHDS master's degree participants and instructors.
Informe English Interface (Gale)
Available in Full Text 
A collection of Hispanic magazines with full text. Covers business, health, technology, culture, current topics and other subjects.
Informe Spanish Interface (Gale)
Available in Full Text 
Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
Journal of Cases on Information Technology (formerly ACIT)
Available in Full Text 
Online journal subscription.
Journal of the Association for Information Systems
Available in Full Text 
JAIS is the flagship research journal of the Association for Information Systems, publishes the highest quality scholarship in the field of information systems.
JSTOR
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
Historical, full text access to select scholarly journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Complete archives of these core journals have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s.
Kids Infobits (Gale)
Available in Full Text 
Kids InfoBits meets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine, newspaper and reference content for information on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Legal Trac
Available in Full Text 
Articles from all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals and legal newspapers. Included are articles on Federal and State Cases, Laws and Regulations, Legal Practice, and Taxation, and International Law.
LexisNexis
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
Business, legal, global news. The news is compiled from Newspapers around the world, television transcripts, legal reviews, SEC filings and more. There is also a reference section with full-text from items such as the World Almanac, Walden Country Reports, and searchable opinion polls, quotations, and biographies. An excellent resource for specific company information is available in the Business section, under Company Profiles.
LexisNexis – Reference – Biographical Information
Available in Full Text 
Find biographical documents on politicians, business executives & more.
LGBT Life (EbscoHost)
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
LGBT Life with Full Text contains the abstracts for 230+ journals and newspapers as well as the full text for more than 35 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines, and regional newspapers. LGBT Life also includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBT Thesaurus containing over 6,300 terms.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
LitFinder
Available in Full Text 
Covering world literature and authors throughout history, LitFinder contains a wealth of literary works including over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. For students or patrons seeking a deeper view into literature, LitFinder also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more! From Shakespeare's sonnets to poems by Donald Hall or short stories from Edgar Allan Poe to works by Annie Proulx, LitFinder has you covered.
MasterFILE Premier (EbscoHost)
Available in Full Text 
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,050 general reference publications with full text. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes more than 350 full text reference books, 84,074 biographies, 86,132 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
MathSciNet
A comprehensive index, with abstracts, to the research literature of mathematics. Published by the American Mathematical Society.
MEDLINE with Full Text
Available in Full Text 
MEDLINE (via EBSCO) is the premier collection of citations from medical and other health sciences journals from the United States and around the world created by the National Library of Medicine. It currently lists over 19 million citations from over 5000 health sciences journals. Please note: The citations listed in PubMed are the same citations listed in MEDLINE via EBSCO, but PubMed provides a different search interface and is freely available to all without a subscription.
MegaFILE (Ebscohost)
EBSCO MegaFILE is a multi-disciplinary database providing full text for over 19,100 total publications and indexing & abstracting for nearly 24,000 publications. Coverage spans every area of academic study and general interest subject area and offers information dating as far back as the 1800s. In addition, the database contains more than 85,800 biographies, 118,000 primary source documents, 10,150 company profiles and an image collection of more than 293,000 photos, maps and flags. EBSCO MegaFILE is comprised of EBSCO’s Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier and Regional Business News databases.
Mental Measurements Yearbook (EbscoHost)
Available in Full Text 
The Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY), produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. All MMY entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts.
Minneapolis Tribune Historical Database
Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
The Minneapolis Tribune (1867-1922) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
MLA Directory of Periodicals
This is a resource to find information about journals of literature and language. The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.
MLA International Bibliography
The Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography provides access to more than 1.5 million bibliographic citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations from 1963 to the present in academic disciplines such as: language, literature, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts. Although this database is not full-text, you can still obtain the articles through either A-Z or InterLibrary Loan.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 150,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research.
National Newspaper Index (Gale)
Available in Full Text 
National Newspaper Index provides quick access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.
NetLibrary
Available in Full Text 
Search for electronic books (e-books) that you can read online. E-books can also be accessed via the library's online catalog. For more information on setting up a NetLibrary account, click here.
New York Times Historical Database
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
The New York Times (1851-2001) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Does not include the previous two years, see National Newspapers for that.
Ovid Nursing Journals
A collection of full text nursing journals.
Oxford African American Studies Center
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
Combines major reference works, articles, primary sources, and images related to African American history and culture.
Oxford English Dictionary
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
The standard in the field. The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world. It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Oxford Reference Online
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
Oxford Reference Online brings together 100+ reference works into a single cross-searchable resource. Reference sources include subject specific dictionaries and encyclopedias, collected quotations, bilingual dictionaries, and more.
Philosopher's Index
Provides indexing and abstracts from books and over 270 journals on philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields published in the U.S. and the Western World. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, logic, and metaphysics as well as material on the philosophy of disciplines, such as law, religion, science, history, and education. Although this database is not full-text, you can still obtain the articles through either A-Z or InterLibrary Loan.
PILOTS Database
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events.
Professional Collection (Gale)
Available in Full Text 
This collection consists of more than 40,000 items covering professional topics relating to management, educational administration, curriculum development, syllabi, education history and professional development.
Project MUSE
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
Project MUSE offers nearly 250 journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
ProQuest
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
Provides access to the array of ProQuest, mostly full-text, databases which include: ProQuest Newspapers, Nursing Journals, New York Times Historical, and more.
ProQuest Newspapers
Available in Full Text 
Full-text collection of over 500 newspaper titles, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Financial Times and the Star Tribune. To search against only one of these newspapers, choose the newspaper you want in Browse Publications, and then do a keyword search.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
Offering complete information from leading nursing and allied health publications. All publications are available full text, and many articles include images and graphics as well.
PsychARTICLES
Available in Full Text 
PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. It contains all the material (with the exception of ads and editorial board lists) from nearly 50 top psychology publications.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EbscoHost)
Available in Full Text 
The Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database providing access to 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed journals. The database covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
PsycINFO
Available in Full Text 
PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association, contains over a million citations and summaries of articles from journals, books, book chapters, dissertations, and technical reports in psychology and related fields Designed for both undergraduate and graduate level academic institutions and their libraries. Linked full text.
PubMed (MEDLINE)
Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
PubMed provides free access to MEDLINE, the premier collection of citations from medical and other health sciences journals from the United States and around the world created by the National Library of Medicine. It currently lists over 18 million citations from over 5000 health sciences journals. PubMed also links to the free, full text articles available via PubMed Central. The citations listed in PubMed are the same citations listed in MEDLINE via EBSCO, but PubMed provides a different search interface.
Regional Business News (EbscoHost)
Available in Full Text 
This database provides full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Religion and Philosophy Collection (EbscoHost)
Available in Full Text 
The Religion & Philosophy Collection is a comprehensive database covering such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy, and the history of philosophy. The Religion and Philosophy Collection offers full-text access to more than 300 journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles.
RMA eStatement Studies
Available in Full Text Special authentication required 
Composite performance metrics derived directly from the financial statements of financial institutions’ borrowers and prospects.
Sage Full Text Journal Collections
Available in Full Text 
More than 500 journals from Sage in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.
Science Biographies
Available in Full Text 
Biographies of prominent scientists and mathematicians, from Access Science and the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.
ScienceDirect
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
ScienceDirect is a full-text database which covers the sciences, as well as social sciences and humanities.
Serials Directory
The Serials Directory provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials. It contains over 184,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers; historical data for an additional 20,000 titles; data from nearly 83,500 publishers worldwide, including e-mail and Internet addresses.
SIRS Researcher (FirstSearch)
Social, scientific, economic, and political issues worldwide. Contains records for articles selected from domestic and international newspapers, magazines, journals, and government publications. Although this database is not full-text, you can still obtain the articles through either A-Z or InterLibrary Loan.
Small Business Resource Center
Use Small Business Resource Center to find information as varied as: how to start a business; market a product; conduct industry research; or do financial planning.
Social Services Abstracts
Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
CSA Social Services Abstracts provides abstracts and citations of current research focused on social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,406 publications. Although this database is not full-text, you can still obtain the articles through either A-Z or InterLibrary Loan.
Social Work Abstracts
Social Work Abstracts offers extensive coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1965. Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the database provides indexing and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems.
Sociological Abstracts
Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides citations and abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Although this database is not full-text, you can still obtain the articles through either A-Z or InterLibrary Loan.
Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
Standard & Poor’s provides independent research, data and commentary on stocks, bonds, funds, and industries. Our subscription to S&P's NetAdvantage Business Analysis Package includes their well-regarded Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Bond Reports, Register & Company Profiles.
STAT-USA
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
STAT-USA/Internet, a service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is the site for the U.S. business, economic and trade community, providing authoritative information from the Federal government. It also provides very good coverage of international business opportunities, and marketing data worldwide. A few of the well-known series included are the Country Commercial Guides, and the Country Background Notes.
State Profiles (World Almanac of the U.S.A)
Available in Full Text 
Concise facts & statistics about each state
Student Resource Center Gold (Gale)
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
Access to content based on national curriculum standards.Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Gold provides more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts. Premier reference content includes the American Journey Series, American Decades, Career Information Center and the SRC Health Module. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals, an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards, and popular topic picklists.
TableBase (via RDS)
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
Specializes exclusively in tabular data on companies, industries, products and demographics. Includes market share, company and brand rankings, industry and product forecasts, production and consumption statistics, imports and exports, usage and capacity, number of users/outlets, trends and more. Data is culled from the more than 1000 trade and business publications, privately published statistical annuals, trade associations, government agencies, non-profit research groups, and investment research group industry reports.
Teacher Reference Center
Available in Full Text 
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Available in Full Text 
This database documents the forced migration of Africans between the 16th and 19th centuries, providing details on almost 35,000 slaving voyages. One may create listings, tables, charts, and maps using information from the database. In addition, one may identify over 67,000 Africans aboard slave ships, using name, age, gender, origin, and place of embarkation.
Value Line Investment Survey Reports
Available in Full Text Highly recommended by our Librarians! 
Investment analysis of over 1,700 companies, including stock price data and performance, business description, and detailed operating information. The ValueLine Beta measure, helpful in portfolio management, is unique to this resource.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Women and Social Movements in the United States is a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. It is organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. The collection currently archives with more than 3,600 documents and 150,000 pages of additional full-text documents.
World Almanac and Book of Facts
Available in Full Text 
Quick facts on any subject.
WorldCat (FirstSearch)
Enables you to search for material in libraries all over the world. A cooperative database of bibliographic records contributed by libraries, making it the world’s largest, most complete, and most consulted library union catalog.
Worldscope GLOBAL (FirstSearch)
Available in Full Text 
Basic financial information on public companies worldwide. Includes information from a variety of sources and documents from corporations all over the world. Displays full documents information as full-text option.


 

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