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Academic Search Complete EBSCOhost

Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals and a total of nearly 10,000 publications. This scholarly collection offers unmatched full-text coverage of information in many areas of academic study including, but not limited to: animal science, anthropology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology and many other fields. Offers critical information from many sources unique to this massive collection. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in searchable PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals; updated daily.
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AGRICOLA EBSCOhost

AGRICOLA contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. This database contains more than 4.1 million citations and encompasses all aspects 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, agricultural engineering and technology and earth and environmental sciences.
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Alt HealthWatch EBSCOhost

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. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. The database provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. Information provided in this database should not be viewed as a means for self-diagnosis or a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
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Art Abstracts EBSCOhost

Art Abstracts produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for more than 450 international art publications. International coverage encompasses periodicals published in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Dutch, focused on a broad range of art topics, including advertising, archaeology, crafts, folk art, graphic arts, interior design, video, film, architecture and art history. Indexing spans from 1984 to the present.
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Biography Resource Center Gale Cengage

Biography Resource Center is your one-stop resource for biographies on notable figures in literature, science, history, government, business, art, gender and multicultural studies, religion, entertainment, sports and much more. This acclaimed resource includes more than 435,000 full-text biographies on more than 340,000 individuals from around the world, throughout history and across all disciplines and subject areas with magazines, photos, and links to web sites.
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Biological Abstracts EBSCOhost

Biological Abstracts is a complete collection of bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical research literature published from more than 4,000 journals internationally. This database provides users with easy access to the latest information in virtually every life science discipline and contains nearly 7.7 million archival records from as far back as 1969, with more than 370,000 citations added each year. Most of the records include informative abstracts written by the author. It is produced by Thomson Scientific.
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Book Collection : Non-Fiction EBSCOhost

Book Collection: Nonfiction is a rich research database for public libraries. A cross-curricular database and provides content representing a wide spectrum of works, including popular series from top book publishers. It contains informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 3,500 popular nonfiction books. The database includes full text entries on core subject areas, as well as information on careers, health, sports, adventure, technology, life skills and more.
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Business Source Complete EBSCOhost

Business Source Complete is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. It contains far more active, peer-reviewed, business related journals than any other database currently available. As part of the comprehensive coverage, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable and cited references, provided for more than 1,200 journals, detailed author profiles for the 20,000 most-cited authors are available in the database. It is a superior database of full text journals in all business disciplines, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
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CINAHL Plus EBSCOhost

CINAHL Plus is the world's most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for more than 620 journals. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals. The database also provides full text for 218 books/monographs. With full text coverage dating back to 1937, it is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.
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Computer Science Index (CSI) EBSCOhost

Computer Science Index offers abstracting and indexing of academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources at the highest scholarly and technical levels of computer science. The collection covers more than 670 periodicals and books, with coverage going back to the mid 1960s. It focuses on subjects including artificial intelligence, expert systems, system design, data structures, computer theory, computer systems and architecture, software engineering, human-computer interaction, new technologies, social and professional context, and more. Enhancements to the original database include hundreds of new titles and searchable cited references for key academic journals. This database also includes editor-selected articles from magazine and journal titles in related areas of study. Formerly Computer Literature Index.
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Computer Source EBSCOhost

Computer Source contains nearly 300 full text journals and magazines covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software. It provides a balance of full text technical journals and full text consumer computer titles.
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CQ Researcher CQ Press

CQ Researcher is recommended when original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news is sought. Founded in 1923 as Editorial Research Reports, CQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published weekly in print and online 44 times a year by CQ Press, a division of Congressional Quarterly Inc.

Dissertations & Theses ProQuest

Dissertations & Theses is a service for universities whose graduate students actively publish their doctoral dissertations and/or master's theses. It provides individual universities with access to the citations and abstracts of dissertations and theses their graduate students have published through UMI Dissertation Publishing. In addition to citations and abstracts, the service provides free access to 24 page previews and the full text in PDF format, when available. In most cases, this will be graduate works published in 1997 forward.
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EBSCO Animals EBSCOhost

EBSCO Animals This Encyclopedia of Animals is an extensive database that provides students with thousands of easy-to-read entries about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, dinosaurs and prehistoric animals. Each entry begins with a simple category breakdown of the animal including Kingdom, Class, Order, Genus & Species, and Geographical Locale as well as a detailed description. Many entries include colorful images.
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Economia Y Negocios EBSCOhost

Economia Y Negocios is the result of a collaborative effort between EBSCO Publishing and ESAN (Escuela de Administración de Negocios para Graduados). This bibliographic database is an indispensable tool for research conducted in the areas of business and economics. Search functionality is enhanced through the incorporation of author keywords supplied in Spanish and English. More than 73,000 records, dating back to the early 1980s, provide coverage for more than 320 Spanish and Portuguese-language periodicals published in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, the United States and elsewhere.
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Environment Index EBSCOhost

Environment Index offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Index contains more than 1,772,000 records from more than 1,660 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,094 active core titles) as well as more than 100 monographs. Environment Index features an in-depth thesaurus, and author profiles will be provided for 5,000 authors in the discipline. Formerly known as Environmental Knowledgebase OnLine (created by the International Academy at Santa Barbara).
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ERIC EBSCOhost

ERIC is the Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. The database contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full-text documents.
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Fuente Académica EBSCOhost

Fuente Académica is a rapidly growing collection of scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain. It is designed to make academic research readily accessible in PDF format. All major subject areas are covered with particular emphasis on agriculture, biological sciences, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public administration, religion and sociology. Continuously expanding archives include Boletín del CEMLA (1955 - present) and the complete backfile of Darwiniana, published since 1922. There are detailed abstracts in multiple languages and comprehensive indexing of every article. The database is updated weekly and currently offers the full text for more than 450 publications from 18 countries.
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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia EBSCOhost

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated annually.
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GeoRef EBSCOhost

GeoRef is a comprehensive geosciences database containing over 2.8 million bibliographic records of worldwide geoscience literature. Subjects covered include: environmental and engineering geology, hydrology, economic geology, geophysics, petrology, paleontology, marine geology and oceanography, and mineralogy. Over 3,500 journals are indexed, as well as books, maps, government reports, conference papers, and theses and dissertations. Over 90,000 references are added annually. Produced by the American Geological Institute.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition EBSCOhost

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong. In addition, this database includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
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History Reference Center EBSCOhost

History Reference Center is the world's most comprehensive full text history reference database designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research. The database features full text for more than 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers. The database also includes full text for more than 130 leading history periodicals. The database contains 59,640 historical documents; more than 50,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 110,200 historical photos and maps; and more than 80 hours of historical video.
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Hospitality & Tourism Index (HTI) EBSCOhost

Hospitality & Tourism Index is a bibliographic database covering scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. This collection contains more than 700,000 records from more than 650 titles, with coverage dating as far back as 1965. Sources are both domestic and international in range and scope, with material collected from countries and regions such as Canada, Australia, Europe and Asia. Subject areas covered include the culinary arts, demographics & statistics, development & investment, food & beverage management, hospitality law, hotel management & administrative practices, leisure & business travel, market trends, technology and more.
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Information Science & Technology Abstracts EBSCOhost

Information Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA) covers the area of information science. Subject coverage includes classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, search engines, printed and electronic information sources, the information industry, scholarly communication, electronic publishing, and more. Articles from more than 450 publications, books, research reports, and conference proceedings. It includes indexing and abstracts for 80 information science and technology titles, with coverage dating as far back as the mid 1960s.
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International Political Science Abstracts EBSCOhost

International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA) produced by the International Political Science Association, includes current indexing and abstracts of the world's leading journals in political science. This database contains over 210,000 records from nearly 900 journals published from 1989 to the present. Approximately 8,000 new records are added to the database every year.
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Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts EBSCOhost

Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts provides abstracts and indexing for literature related to personal computing products and developments in business, the Internet, the home, and all other applied areas. This resource contains content coverage that extends back to the 1980s. Over 400 trade publications, mainstream computer magazines, and professional journals are covered. Specific topics covered include Macintosh and Windows platforms, programming, web development and more. Special emphasis is also given to hardware and software reviews. The database includes editor-selected articles from hundreds of popular magazine titles. Formerly Microcomputer Abstracts.
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JSTOR : Arts & Sciences Collections JSTOR

Arts & Sciences I Collection includes the complete back runs of 119 titles in fifteen disciplines. Established in 1997, it is JSTOR's first collection and includes many of the core research and society published journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This collection also includes a selection of titles in the more science-oriented fields of ecology, mathematics, and statistics
Arts & Sciences II Collection is home to 125 titles. This collection adds depth to many disciplines introduced in the first collection, such as economics, history, and Asian studies. This collection also offers core journals in several new disciplines, such as archaeology, classics, and African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Slavic studies.
Arts & Sciences III Collection is focused on the arts and humanities and contains 150 titles. This collection makes available additional journals in language and literature, as well as important titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture.
Arts & Sciences IV Collection contains over one hundred titles. Law, psychology, and public policy and administration are the new areas introduced with this collection. This collection also includes business and education titles.
Arts & Sciences V Collection will comprise a minimum of 120 titles by 2009. It will include a number of important literary reviews and state historical journals, and widen the scope of core disciplines in the arts and humanities, such as philosophy, history, classics, religion, art and art history, and language and literature.
Arts & Sciences Complement Collection is intended to offer participants a method to seamlessly add journals related to the core collections. Coverage Journals may be focused in any of the more than thirty disciplines covered. The aim is to introduce important titles that were not included in earlier collections and to capture journals that cross discipline boundaries. A minimum of 150 titles will be included by the end of 2008.
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Legal Collection EBSCOhost

Legal Collection contains full text for more than 250 scholarly law journals. It is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world. The Legal Collection offers information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment and much more.
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LexisNexis Academic LexisNexis

LexisNexis Academic provides access to over 6,000 full-text news, business, and legal sources. The news coverage includes deep backfiles and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. Users may retrieve detailed company information and financial performance measures or identify and compare companies matching specific criteria. Access is provided for federal and states court cases back to 1789 through Shepard's Citations service.
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts EBSCOhost

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes nearly 690 periodicals, books, research reports and proceedings. It contains full text for more than 220 journals and a dozen full-text monographs. 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.
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Literary Reference Center EBSCOhost

Literary Reference Center is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It is a full text database combining information from reference works, books, literary journals along with original content. The database contains full text for 27,500 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism, 140,500 author biographies, more than 420 literary journals, more than 569,000 book reviews, 57,000 classic and contemporary poems, 14,500 classic and contemporary short stories, 4,700 author interviews, over 7,100 classic texts and more.
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Literature Resource Center Gale Cengage

Literature Resource Center includes biographical entries on more than 130,000 authors, more than 70,000 critical essays and reviews covering many areas and eras, overviews of frequently studied works, over 650,000 full-text articles, critical essays and reviews from over 300 scholarly journals and literary magazines, nearly 30,000 full-text poems, short stories and plays, over 4,500 interviews, author portraits, genre groupings, and 10,000 definitions of literary terms. Biographical essays are updated with death dates, major awards, major literary works, newsworthy events and career-related events to keep content accurate and reliable.
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LOUISiana Digital Libraries LOUIS

LOUISiana Digital Libraries is an online library of over 84,000 digital materials about Louisiana's history, culture, places, and people. Its purpose is to make unique historical treasures from Louisiana's archives, libraries, museums, and other repositories in the state electronically accessible to Louisiana residents and to students, researchers, and the general public in other states and countries. The LOUISiana Digital Library contains photographs, maps, manuscript materials, books, oral histories, and more that document Louisiana's history and culture. We hope that you find the items in the Digital Library as diverse and interesting as the people and places in Louisiana.
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MAS Ultra - School Edition EBSCOhost

MAS Ultra is a comprehensive database, designed specifically for high school libraries, containing full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is available for 84,774 biographies and 100,554 primary source documents. It contains more than 360 reference books, an Image Collection of 293,480 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
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MathSciNet American Mathematical Society

MathSciNet is a database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. Over 80,000 items are added each year, classified according to the Mathematics Subject Classification. Authors are uniquely identified, enabling a search for publications by individual author. Expert reviews of the current published literature are available. with over 60,000 added each year. It contains over 2 million items and over 700,000 direct links to original articles. Bibliographic data from retrodigitized articles dates back to 1864. Reference lists are collected and matched internally from over 300 journals, and citation data for journals, authors, articles and reviews is provided.
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MedicLatina EBSCOhost

MedicLatina is a unique collection of medical research and investigatory journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. This Spanish language database contains the complete table of contents and PDF full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals in native Spanish. A wide range of topics are covered including neuroscience, cardiology, nephrology, biomedicine, clinical research, pediatrics, human reproduction, clinical pathology, cancer research, and hematology.
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MEDLINE EBSCOhost

MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, this database uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
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Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) EBSCOhost

Mental Measurements Yearbook is produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, this database 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, this database contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. All entries contain descriptive information and edited review written by leading content area experts. A test must be commercially available, be published in the English language, and be new or revised since it last appeared in the series to be included.
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Military & Government Collection EBSCOhost

Military & Government Collection offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs. This database provides full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals. The database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 journals. Many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.
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MLA Directory of Periodicals EBSCOhost

MLA Directory of Periodicals contains all information available on the journals and series on the bibliography's Master List of Periodicals. This information has been gathered by the MLA staff with the cooperation of MLA bibliographers and the editors represented in these listings. Over 7,100 titles are included; of these, over 4,400 are currently indexed. The entries list editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of the periodicals' scopes, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, and submission guidelines. The directory also provides statistics on how many articles and book reviews the periodicals publish each year, as well as how many are submitted.
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MLA International Bibliography EBSCOhost

MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR's language and literature collection as well as links to full text. This database includes journal abbreviations and acronyms for almost 3,500 titles, with full journal names standardized and ISSNs attached. MLA International Bibliography also contains nearly 11,000 subject names and terms. Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included. In addition to the bibliography, the database includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals; the association's proprietary thesaurus used to assign descriptors to each record in the bibliography; and a proprietary, searchable directory of noted authors' names, with links to brief descriptive notes.
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Newspaper Source EBSCOhost

Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for five US and 20 international newspapers. It contains selected full text for more than 335 regional US newspapers, and full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from many major news networks.
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OED Online - Oxford English Dictionary Oxford University Press

Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
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Oxford African American Studies Center Oxford University Press

Available on-campus only. Oxford African American Studies Center offers more than 8,000 articles by top scholars. Content includes core reference works in the field. New entries are continually added as part of the regular update program. Over 1,300 images, primary sources with specially written commentaries, and nearly 150 maps have been collected to enhance this reference content. 150 charts and tables offer information on everything from demographics to government and politics to business and labor to education and the arts.
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Primary Search EBSCOhost

Primary Search designed specifically for elementary school libraries, contains full text for nearly 70 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). The database provides students with easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids.
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Professional Development Collection EBSCOhost

Professional Development Collection provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers. This collection offers information on everything from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice. This database includes full text for nearly 520 high quality education journals and contains more than 200 educational reports.
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ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source ProQuest

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and more. It is designed to meet the needs of researchers at healthcare facilities as well as nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions. Abstracts and indexes are provided for more than 700 titles, with over 580 titles in full-text. Topics covered include cytology, nursing, nutrition, oncology, pediatric care, pharmacology, public health, and radiology.
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Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection EBSCOhost

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. The database can be searched independently, but also allows users to conveniently link to full text from citations. These citations have the ability to link to articles from more than 500 full text journals.
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PsycINFO EBSCOhost

PsycINFO from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains more than 2.4 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the early 1800s. 98 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,200 periodicals in more than 27 languages.
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Regional Business News EBSCOhost

Regional Business News provides full text for more than 50 regional business publications.
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Religion & Philosophy Collection EBSCOhost

Religion & Philosophy Collection is a comprehensive database covering topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. With more than 300 full text journals, this database is an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies.
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Sanborn Maps of Louisiana ProQuest

Sanborn Maps of Louisiana Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed property and land-use records covering more than 12,000 U.S. towns and cities. Founded in 1867 by D A Sanborn, the Sanborn Map Company was the primary American publisher of fire maps for over 100 years, repeatedly mapping towns and cities as they changed. Maps provide a wealth of information, like building outline, size, shape, construction materials, building use, street and sidewalk widths, boundaries, house numbers, and more.
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Science & Technology Collection EBSCOhost

Science & Technology Collection contains more than 820 leading full text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community. It offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,740 journals, with topics including aeronautics, astrophysics, biology, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, marine sciences and materials science.
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Scribner Writers Series Gale Cengage

Scribner Writers Series provides access to more than 2,000 original and detailed bio-critical essays on the lives and works of more than 1,400 important authors from around the world. Each entry averages 15-20 pages in length and includes a concise essay, hyperlinks for cross-referencing, a citation and biographical information that places the author's work in personal and historical context. Multiple perspectives can be gained through up to four separate essays. It is designed to work the way students conduct literary research, combining search criteria for more complex searches, or explore thematic and chronological connections among writers.
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Serials Directory EBSCOhost

Serials Directory provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information and current pricing structures for popular serials. It contains nearly 212,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers; data from nearly 108,235 publishers worldwide, including e-mail and Internet addresses; and Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Classifications for every entry.
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SocINDEX EBSCOhost

SocINDEX provides users with information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. It features more than 1,918,000 records with subject headings from a sociological thesaurus and informative abstracts for more than 845 journals dating as far back as 1895. Indexing for books/monographs, conference papers, and other non-periodical content sources is included. Searchable cited references are also provided. Topic overage includes abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others. The database features over 10,000 author profiles including biographical data, bibliographic information, areas of expertise, and academic/professional focus. Author profiles are added and updated routinely. It contains full text for more than 4,300 journals, 735 books and monographs, and full text for 6,785 conference papers.
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SPORTDiscus EBSCOhost

SPORTDiscus is the most comprehensive, bibliographic database covering sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport administration, officiating, sport law & legislation, college & university sport, disabled persons, facility design & management, intramural & school sport, doping, health, health education, biomechanics, movement science, injury prevention rehabilitation, physical therapy, nutrition, exercise physiology, sport & exercise psychology, recreation, leisure studies, tourism, allied health, occupational health & therapy, public health and more. With full bibliographic coverage, this database includes well over 1,312,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800; over 20,000 dissertations and theses and reference to articles in 60 different languages. The content also consists of international references from journal and magazine articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and more.
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Twayne's Author Series Gale Cengage

Twayne's Author Series offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres. It features the content of nearly 600 books that have been carefully coordinated to include authors universally studied in high schools and colleges. It is a starting point for research papers on literary works and figures, special projects and presentations. Searches can be made for a specific author, by combining search criteria, or exploring thematic and chronological topics.
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Vente et Gestion EBSCOhost

Vente et Gestion provides full text coverage for French language business journals serving both the academic and the professional researcher. This collection also includes publications covering topics such as accounting & tax, administration, industry & manufacturing, marketing, logistics, technology and others.
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World History Collection EBSCOhost

World History Collection offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. This database contains cover-to-cover full text for 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964. These hand-selected information sources cover a wide range of historical topics including anthropology, art, culture, economics, government, heritage, military, politics, regional issues, and more. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Searchable cited references are also included in this database.
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WorldCat OCLC FirstSearch

WorldCat is a comprehensive catalog of books, web resources, and other materials of all OCLC member libraries worldwide. It contains millions of bibliographic records, representing 400 languages, with over 95,000,000 records added since 1971. There are records for everything from stone tablets to electronic books, wax recordings to MP3s, DVDs, and Web sites.
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