Research Databases by Title

Looking for articles? You've come to the right place. This section of the electronic resources is dedicated to research databases, most of which will allow you to search for full text articles online. If you know which database you are searching for, you can use the jump menu to go to the title. If you aren't sure, you can read through the descriptions to see if a database matches your search.

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Business & Company Resource Center (Gale)

The Business & Company Resource Center is a comprehensive research tool that meets core curriculum requirements in undergraduate and graduate case study work as well as the business research needs of the job seeker or casual investor. It offers dynamic, accurate, and up-to-date topical business information and company and industry intelligence on thousands of global companies.

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Civil Rights Digital Library

The Civil Rights Digital Library promotes an enhanced understanding of the Civil Rights Movement by helping users discover primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others on a national scale.

Clinicaltrials

ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry and results database of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world. ClinicalTrials.gov gives you information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details.

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Discovering Collection (Gale)

Thousands of overview essays, critical analyses, biographies, timelines and multimedia elements make this an original online resource ideal for developing and enhancing critical thinking skills so important to today's core curriculum.

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EbscoHost

EBSCOhost is a powerful online reference system accessible via the Internet. It offers a variety of proprietary full text databases and popular databases from leading information providers.

The comprehensive databases range from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases for public, academic, medical, corporate and school libraries.

ERIC Documents

ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center - is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.

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FAFSA On the Web

Federal Student Aid, an office of the U.S. Department of Education, ensures that all eligible individuals can benefit from federally funded financial assistance for education beyond high school.

Federal School Code Search Page

You can use the Federal School Code Search to search for colleges you're interested in including on your FAFSA. You can also find detailed college information, like tuition and fee amounts and graduation rates, and compare that information for up to 10 colleges at a time.

Findlaw

FindLaw's searchable database of the Supreme Court decisions since 1893 (U.S. Supreme Court Decisions: U.S. Reports 150-, 1893-). Browsable by year and U.S. Reports volume number, and searchable by citation, case title and full text.

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HBCU Gateway Search

The HBCU Gateway Search engine provides a searchable single point destination relating to HBCUs. 

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In the First Person (Index only)

In the First Person is a free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world.

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Learning Express Library (MOREnet)

Learning Express Library offers practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, eBooks, and information you need to achieve the results you want—at school, at work, or in life.

Literature Resource Center (Gale)

Literature Resource Center pulls together materials from many different print and online sources, including scholarly journals, literary reviews, reference books, authoritative websites, and more. 

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MEDLINEplus

MedlinePlus pages contain carefully selected links to Web resources with health information on over 900 topics. 

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NewsBank (MOREnet)

With unmatched U.S. news content from local, regional, and national sources, this resource is the largest of its kind. Its diverse source types include printed and online newspapers, blogs, journals, newswires, broadcast transcripts and videos. Explore a specific issue or event through the detailed coverage provided by local reporting or compare a wide variety of viewpoints from across the country on topics such as politics, business, health, sports, cultural activities and people.

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OCLC FirstSearch (Index only)

The OCLC FirstSearch service is a comprehensive reference service with a rich collection of databases supporting research in a wide range of subject areas. It includes bibliographic and full-text databases in addition to ready-reference tools such as directories, almanacs and encyclopedias. 

OCLC WorldCat (Index only)

The OCLC FirstSearch service is a comprehensive reference service with a rich collection of databases supporting research in a wide range of subject areas. It includes bibliographic and full-text databases in addition to ready-reference tools such as directories, almanacs and encyclopedias. At the heart of FirstSearch is WorldCat, containing more than 227 million records representing over 1.7 billion holding locations in libraries worldwide. WorldCat adds value to databases in FirstSearch by linking citations to holdings that helps users find these materials in their own libraries and through the WorldCat Resource Sharing service. You can also limit your searches to the collections of your own library or library group.

Online Periodicals

Our list of free Online Periodicals and Abstracts that might also be useful, but may be more popularly based than the reference databases. Note: Some online journals are supported by online advertisements.

Oxford English Dictionary Online

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.

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PsycArticle by OVID

Search and discover current full-text ejournals and ebooks, as well as bibliographic information, plus manage your results and all of your research documents—all within the  OvidSP platform

Presidents of the United States

On this site you will find background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites are also included.

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Science Direct College Edition

ScienceDirect® is the world's largest electronic collection of science, technology, and medicine full-text and bibliographic information. It offers a wide variety of features and content.

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TOXNET

This site provides databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.

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Westlaw Campus

Campus Research is an easy-to-use online research service that provides college and university students with access to a comprehensive collection of news and business information and law-related resources.

Wilson Education Full Text

WilsonWeb contains many databases on a wide range of subjects. This version focuses on Education Full Text.

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Online Periodicals 

Arts and Letters Daily

This site is a digest of select articles of interests as picked by the Chronicle of Higher Education. New material is added to Arts & Letters Daily six days a week.

Arts Journal

The site is a digest of some of the best arts and cultural journalism in the English-speaking world. Each day ArtsJournal features link to stories culled from more than 200 English-language newspapers, magazines and publications featuring writing about arts and culture.

The Atlantic

The Atlantic covers news and analysis on politics, business, culture, technology, national, international and life. 

BBC News

BBC News provides up-to-the-minute news, breaking news, video, audio and feature stories and is a trusted World and UK news source.

Broadcasting and Cable

A monthly news magazine for those interested in the behind the scenes of broadcasting and cable

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The Chicago Tribune

Chicago breaking news, sports, business, entertainment, weather and traffic.

The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.

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Ebony

EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

HighWire Press

HighWire Press is an archive of free full-text science journals.  There are 13 sites with free trial periods, and 49 completely free sites. 282 sites have free back issues, and 1271 sites have pay per view.

Jet Magazine (1950 - 2005)

Jet is an American weekly marketed toward African-American readers, founded in 1951

Kansas City Star

News, Weather, Sports and more from Kansas City.

NBCI Bookshelf

Bookshelf provides free access to books and documents in life science and healthcare. A vital node in the data-rich resource network at NCBI, Bookshelf enables users to easily browse, retrieve, and read content, and spurs discovery of related information.

NNDB

NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead. Superficially, it seems much like a "Who's Who" where a noted person's curriculum vitae is available (the usual information such as date of birth, a biography, and other essential facts.) But it mostly exists to document the connections between people, many of which are not always obvious. A person's otherwise inexplicable behavior is often understood by examining the crowd that person has been associating with.

PMLA Online

PMLA  is the journal of the Modern Language Association of America. Since 1884, PMLA  has published members’ essays judged to be of interest to scholars and teachers of language and literature. 

Popular Mechanics

Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.

Popular Science

Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.

Prevention 

Prevention magazine provides smart ways to live well with info and tips from experts on weight loss, fitness, health, nutrition, recipes, anti-aging & diets.

SPIN

From the concert stage to the dressing room, from the recording studio to the digital realm, SPIN surveys the modern musical landscape and the culture around it with authoritative reporting, provocative interviews, and a discerning critical ear.

USAToday

Breaking news on weather, sports, world, science, financial, technology, travel, national, economy and entertainment news.

US News and World Report

This news magazine provides top weekly news, focusing on politics, economics, health, education and other topics.

Wildlife Journals

The Journal of Wildlife Management (JWM), published since 1937, is one of the world’s leading scientific journals covering wildlife science, management and conservation.

Online Reference Assistance

Libguides

These are guides that contain listings of recommended resources for finding information, such as databases, journals, books, web pages and other useful resources most relevant to your area of study. They also provide access to a range of learning tools, for example, interactive tutorials.

Libanswers

LibAnswers is a reference (ask-a-librarian) platform with a built-in knowledge base. Users may search the knowledge base of answered questions and the auto-suggest feature points them to the right answer before they even finish typing their question. If they can’t find what they need users can submit their own questions, so the knowledge base grows as new questions are answered.

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