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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Accessible Archives

Accessible Archives provides access to vast quantities of archived historical information previously available only in microformat, hard copy form or as images. Diverse primary source materials reflecting broad views across American history and culture have been assembled into comprehensive databases. These databases allow access to the rich store of materials from leading books, newspapers and periodicals then current.

African American Studies

The Oxford African American Studies Center provides one of the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online which focuses on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture.

American National Biography

The American National Biography offers portraits of more than 18,700 men & women — from all eras and walks of life — whose lives have shaped the United States of America.

Anthrosource

An online service of the American Anthropological Association, AnthroSource offers access to more than a century of full-text anthropological knowledge, across the breadth and depth of the discipline.

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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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GroveArt

Oxford Art Online offers access to the most authoritative, inclusive, and easily searchable online art resources available today. 

GroveMusic

Oxford Music Online is the gateway offering users the ability to access and cross-search multiple music reference resources in one location. 

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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.

The Chicago Tribune

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

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.

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. 

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.

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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