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Title Description & Contents
Academic Search Premier Suitable for all classes; Contains professional journals as well as popular magazines. While the majority of sources are Full Text, some articles have only abstracts available.
CQ Researcher Suitable for all classes; Contains Full Text articles on current issues in society & politics
CINAHL Suitable for Nursing & Health classes; contains abstracts of professional nursing journals. While the articles in this databases are not Full Text, if the Full Text is available in another database, a link will be provided.
Current Biography Suitable for all classes. Biographies Plus Illustrated contains more than 111,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 32,000 photographs of the subjects. It also contains the full text of the articles from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference books published by H. W. Wilson, including all the articles from all volumes of Current Biography, the World Author Series, Nobel Prize Winners, World Artists, World Film Directors, American Reformers, and numerous biographical books on musicians and composers from throughout history. The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth, date of death, keyword, and presence of images.
Encyclopedia Britannica Suitable for general reference and research. 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. You can also use Encyclopædia Britannica Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
ERIC ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, is a national clearinghouse for educational research materials supported by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Library of Education, and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. It provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.
Health Source/Nursing Academic Edition Suitable for Nursing Program students. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for more than 800 journals.
Lexis Nexis

Suitable for all classes, very useful for legal classes. LexisNexis® Academic provides searchable access to a comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 sources, selected to meet academic research needs, including:

  • National and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news
  • U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information
  • Shepard’s® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789
  • Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news
Literature Resource Center Suitable for all English classes. Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series. Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 full-text titles
New York Times Offers full-text and full-image articles for the New York Times dating back to the 19th century. The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue--cover to cover--in downloadable PDF® files.
Oxford English Dictionary The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (volumes 1 and 2) and 1997 (volume 3).
Opposing Viewpoints Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles
SIRS Government Reporter Full text U.S. government agencies documents
SIRS Researcher Full text articles & documents on current issues and general topics
U.S. Government Documents Catalog Online catalog for U.S. government documents