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ABI-Inform
Index to periodicals and news sources covering all aspects of business
Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete
Index and full-text source for over 3,600 scholarly journals and magazines in all subjects.
Access Science: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online
Access Science: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online Encyclopedia articles, illustrations, definitions, biographies, bibliographies, and learning resources appear in full-text in this online, searchable reference database.
Access World News
Access World News
Articles from over 700 International newspapers, and 600 US newspapers.
AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive
AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive

Associated Press' Image database containing the year's photo report and a large selection of images.

African Writers Online
African Writers Online

 The key texts of modern African literature. 181 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose.

African-American Poetry 1760-1900
African-American Poetry 1760-1900 Full text of almost 3,000 poems written between 1760 and 1900.
America's Historical Newspapers
America's Historical Newspapers
Search or browse early American newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 present states.
American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1
Broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900. Part of the Archive of Americana American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1
American Civil War: Diaries and Letters
American Civil War: Diaries and Letters
Primary source database of more than 400 sources of diaries, letters and memoirs.
American Film Scripts Online

Full text database of approximately 1,000 film scripts digitized and searchable to provide access to the scene or character level.

American Film Scripts Online
American Poetry
40,356 poems from 1,288 works by 209 influental American poets, along with six landmark anthologies of American poetry. American Poetry
Annee Philologique

An index with abstracts to scholarly work covering all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity from the second millenium B.C. through the early middle ages (c.500-800 A.D.); .

Annee Philologique
Asian American Drama (Alexander Street Press)
Asian American Drama (Alexander Street Press)

Collection of Asian American plays with biographical, production and theatrical information from 1891 to present.

ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials
ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials Citations and some full text to international periodicals, books, and book chapters on religion and theological studies.
BioOne
BioOne
A scholarly journal collection focused on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
Black Drama (Alexander Street Press)
Black Drama (Alexander Street Press)

Full text of plays by more than 100 playwrights from the mid-1800s to the present.

Black Short Fiction
Black Short Fiction
A full-text collection of over 4,000 short stories by 272 authors from Africa and the African Diaspora. 
Black Thought and Culture
Black Thought and Culture
Collection of non-fiction published works of leading African Americans from 1700 to present.
Black Women Writers
Black Women Writers
Fiction, nonfiction and poetry by women from North America, Africa and the Caribbean.
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
This primary source database contains the immediate experiences of approximately 500 women from 1500-1900's. British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier
Indexing and full-text articles on all aspects of business. Includes: country economic reports, detailed company profiles, market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
CAMIO - RLG's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online
This digital image database offers rights-cleared, high-quality art images. CAMIO - RLG's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
CINAHL Plus with Full Text Indexing, abstracts and full-text for articles, books and other publications in nursing and allied health.
Classical Scores Library
Spanning the time periods from the Renaissance to the 21st century,  score types include full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions. Classical Scores Library
Cochrane Library
Cochrane Library
A unique source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of treatment interventions in health care.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
A full text source for theory and research in international affairs. Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
Community of Science
Community of Science Community of Science (COS) is a multifunctional service helping researchers find funding, identify collaborators or experts, and promote their own research.
CQ Congress Collection
CQ Congress Collection
Want to compare Barack and Hillary's voting records? 
This database provides non-biased analysis and data relating to all aspects of Congress and its legislation.
CQ Historic Documents Series
CQ Historic Documents Series

Published annually since 1972, the Historic Documents Series contains presidential speeches, international agreements, U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings & cultural discussions.

CQ Weekly
In-depth reports on current issues in U.S., the previous week's news, status of bills in play, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, debates and all roll-call votes. CQ Weekly
Criminal Justice Abstracts
Criminal Justice Abstracts This criminology database contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines.
CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences
CSA Illustrata:  Natural Sciences

Graphical content in many different natural science areas such as Biology, Earth Science, Agriculture, Food and Food Industry, Pharmacology...

Dictionary of Old English Corpus
Dictionary of Old English Corpus
The Dictionary of Old English electronic corpus is a complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts.
Digital National Security Archive
Digital National Security Archive A comprehensive collection of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy.
Dissertations Abstracts Online with Digital Dissertations Dissertations Abstracts Online with Digital Dissertations
Indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for doctoral dissertations and master's theses.
Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876
Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876

Cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of U.S. historic newspapers, fully text-searchable. The collection is based largely on Clarence Brigham's "History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820."

Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment
Primary source collection of personal accounts of traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, and native peoples
eBrary e-book Collections in the Humanities and Social Sciences
eBrary e-book Collections in the Humanities and Social Sciences Full-text electronic books in the humanities and social sciences.
ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Full-text English-language books, broadsides and other publications from 1701-1800.
eHRAF World Cultures
eHRAF World Cultures

Full-text information on all aspects of cultural and social life organized into cultures and ethnic groups.

eHREF Collection of Ethnography
A full-text cross-cultural database that contains over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life. eHREF Collection of Ethnography
Encyclopedia of African American History (Oxford)
Encyclopedia of African American History (Oxford) Focusing on the making of African American society from the 1896 "separate but equal" ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson up to the contemporary period.
EnergyFiles

Portal for energy-related collections including web sites and databases.

EnergyFiles
English Verse Drama
English Verse Drama contains more than 2,200 works from the Shrewsbury Fragments through the Elizabethan and Jacobean period, to the end of the nineteenth century. English Verse Drama
Ethnic NewsWatch
Full text and indexing for ethnic, minority, and international newspapers and magazines. This database contains titles in both English and Spanish. Ethnic NewsWatch
Europa World Year Book
Europa World Year Book Provides the latest information covering covering political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
Facts.com Reference Suite
Facts.com Reference Suite
Current events, issues & controversies, and ... facts!   Political cartoons on current events.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library

A searchable online reference book collection covering all subjects from the arts to zoology.

GeoRef
Journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses covering the geology of North America from 1785 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. GeoRef
Grove Dictionary of Art Online
A comprehensive art reference work of the visual arts from prehistory to the 1990s. Grove Dictionary of Art Online
HAPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments)
HAPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments)
Descriptions of behavioral tests and measurements in health fields, psychosocial sciences, and organizational behavior.
HarpWeek
HarpWeek HarpWeek, a full-text database of Harper's Weekly text and images from the 19th century, now includes full content through 1912, increasing our access to 1857-1912.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Indexing, abstracts, and full text for scholarly journals focusing on nursing and allied health. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
History E-book Collection
Collection of over 500 books of major importance to historical studies online! History E-book Collection
images.MD

images.MD compiles over 48,000 high-quality images spanning all of internal medicine. Each image is accompanied by detailed and informative text.

images.MD

Interactive Functional Anatomy

Detailed multi-layer graphics of all areas of the human body.  Includes animated graphical simulations of common muscle movements, information for patients with explanatory text. 

Interactive Functional Anatomy
International Index of Performing Arts
International Index of Performing Arts Full text and indexing for the performing arts, including film, theatre, dance, stagecraft, and television.
JSTOR Full online text and images for back issues of selected scholarly journals.
Latin American Women Writers
A collection of poetry, prose, essays, and drama written by women writers from Mexico, Central America, and South America. Latin American Women Writers
Latino Literature
Latino Literature
Full-text poetry, fiction, and drama written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latin authors working in the United States.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
 Contains several full-text databases: current news, laws and legislation, business and company information and more
Madison Scholar
Madison Scholar This journal features the scholarly activity at James Madison University. Read about faculty and student research.
Market Research.com Academic
Market Research.com Academic

This database provides thousands of full-text market research reports, many with global coverage, from leading industry publishers.

Material ConneXion
Material ConneXion is a comprehensive database that includes descriptions, uses, properties, and images of over 7,000 materials.
MathSciNet
MathSciNet

Indexes mathematical journals from 1940 to present, including reviews from 1980 to present.

Medieval Sources Online
Thirteen online, full text books provide hundreds of primary sources in medieval study. Medieval Sources Online
MLA International Bibliography

Indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from worldwide publications, including periodicals, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies.

MLA International Bibliography
Newspaper Source (EBSCO)
Newspaper Source (EBSCO)
Selected full text 1975-present for U.S. and international newspapers. Full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc.
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories
A collection of primary sources providing personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories
North American Women's Letters and Diaries
North American Women's Letters and Diaries Collection of letters and diaries from 1675-1996 reflecting on the immediate experiences of 1,017 women.
OmniFile Full Text Mega OmniFile Full Text Mega
 An index with abstracts and some full text covering all subjects, including humanities and social sciences.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
This source includes thoughtful commentary from newspaper and magazine articles, reference sources, websites as well as statistics and images.
Oxford Scholarship Online
Oxford Scholarship Online
Full text collection of core scholarly books in economics, finance, philosophy, political science, religion and theology.
Primary Search
Primary Search Articles from 60 popular magazines for elementary school research.
PsycEXTRA
A gray literature database, companion to the scholarly PsycINFO database. Newsletters, magazines, newspapers, technical and annual reports; government reports; consumer brochures, and more. Includes abstracts and citations plus full text for a major portion of the records.
Psychiatry Online!
Psychiatry Online!
Contains the DSM IV-TR and other  notable reference books and online journals.
Radical Scatters: Emily Dickinson's Fragments and Related Texts, 1870-1886
Eighty-two documents carrying fragmentary texts written by Dickinson between 1870 and 1886, as well as fifty-four poems, letters, and other writings with direct links to the fragments. Radical Scatters: Emily Dickinson's Fragments and Related Texts, 1870-1886
RefWorks

Tired of formatting bibliographies?
Import references into RefWorks, which will format them in APA, MLA, or other chosen styles.

Sabin Americana:  1500 to 1926
Sabin Americana: 1500 to 1926

Full-text digital edition of books published in "The Americas" from 1500 to 1926, includes items from the entire Western Hemisphere, Arctic, Antarctic, and the West Indies.

Safari Business Library
Hundreds of full-text business books covering a wide range of topics:  problem solving, leadership, customer service, and employee performance and more!
Safari Tech Books Online
Fully-searchable e-reference library of technical books from industry-leading publishers including Sun, O'Reilly, Microsoft, Macromedia, and New Riders.
Scopus is here!
Scopus provides abstracts and citation searching for science and social science scholarly literature.  It covers 16,000 titles across 4,000 publishers, providing access to over 36 million records going back to 1966 and cited reference searching back to 1996.
SPORTDiscus

SPORTDiscus
Indexes articles and book chapters on sport, recreation, exercise physiology, and related subjects.

The Business Plans Handbook
The Business Plans Handbook

This database contains sample small business plans, including statements of mission, competition, suppliers, customers, advertising, pricing, and financial plans.

The Heart of a Culture is found in its music
Smithsonian Global Sound is a virtual streaming encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions
The Heart of a Culture is found in its music
The Papers of George Washington Digital Edition

Contains the entire text of the fifty-two volumes of the print edition published by the University of Virginia Press through 2005, in six series: Diaries, Revolutionary War, Colonial, Confederation, Presidential, and Retirement.

The Papers of George Washington Digital Edition
The Times Digital Archive
Search every word of every page of The London Times 1785-1985, and view PDF facsimiles of either a specific article or a complete page. All articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.
U.S. Congressional Serial Set U.S. Congressional Serial Set
An incomparably rich collection of primary source material on all aspects of American history originating from Congress and other federal agencies
United Nations Common Database
United Nations Common Database Provides statistical information for every country in the world on numerous topics. Country Profiles presents data by country, while Topics List displays the categories of information for which statistics are available.
Vanderbilt TV News Archive

Watch NBC news programming back to 1968 and CNN video back to 1996!

Vanderbilt TV News Archive
Web Gallery of Art
Web Gallery of Art

Virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850).

Women Writers Online
Women Writers Online Full text collection of essays, fiction, and poetry written by women from 1400-1850.
WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)

Financial datasets, Compustat corporate information, CRSP stock information and supporting research in the fields of finance, accounting, banking, economics, management, marketing and public policy.

  
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