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Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,144 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study.
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From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines.
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JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.
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One of the most comprehensive databases available through the ProQuest® online system, Research Library provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, literature, political science, and psychology.
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The CQ Researcher is the award-winning choice of researchers seeking original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Controversial topics addressed in a balanced, unbiased manner in the CQ tradition. Look for detailed analyses of current social issues, targeting controversial or "hot" topics.
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Thomson Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites.
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SIRS Knowledge Source (SKS) is a comprehensive database portal which is comprised of several distinct reference databases including SIRS Researcher®, SIRS Government Reporter®, SIRS Renaissance®, SKS WebSelect™, SIRS Discoverer®, and Discoverer WebFind™. Updated daily, SKS provides relevant, credible information on social issues, science, history, government, the arts and humanities. Full-text articles and Internet resources are carefully selected from thousands of domestic and international publications and respected organizations.
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CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 750 journals indexed in CINAHL.
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"CountryWatch include the CountryReviews TM, an up-to-date series of publications for each country including demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental information."
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Provides detailed profiles of more than 3,300 jobs and 94 industries, invaluable advice on career skills, more than 48,000 resource entries, and much more!
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"Learning Express Library offers practice exams and college preparation (such as SAT and ACT), graduate school preparation (such as GRE, GMAT, LSAT and MCAT), Advanced Placement, adult basic skills, civil service, law enforcement, EMS, military, real estate, citizenship, healthcare, and cosmetology. Interactive online course series available from LearningExpress Library include SAT, TOEFL, basic skills in reading, math, vocabulary and spelling, grammar, and ESL Spanish basic skills. The Standard Platform includes Resume and Interviewing Success Skills, Job Search and Success Skills and Business Writing Success Skills. The Efolio WritingProgram includes instant-scoring adult writing essays."
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Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
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PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 137,000 articles from 66 journals published by the APA, its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present; nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1. PsycARTICLES is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.
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Presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments.
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Virtual Reference |
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ABC-CLIO History Reference Online provides history students with authoritative reference information resources and helps develop a deeper understanding of history's major themes and lessons. |
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Credo Reference is a full-text online reference service. Including over three million entries from hundreds of well-regarded reference titles from some of world's the best-known publishers, Credo’s collection is intelligently integrated with millions of cross-references and contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases. |
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Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Browse or search for topics in an individual e-book, search subject sub-sets of e-books, or search through all of the books for a multidisciplinary perspective. |
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The Oxford English Dictionary:
- provides authoritative definitions of over 500,000 words
- traces the usage of words from their first recorded occurrence to the modern period through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international language sources
- offers the best in etymological analysis and detailed listings of variant spellings
- uses the International Phonetic Alphabet to show pronunciation
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"Salem Health brings online access to Salem Press’ award-winning health reference works. The first reference set included is Salem Press’ bestselling Magill’s Medical Guide. In its printed form, the current edition of the Guide has grown to five volumes and 3,500 pages. Even better, the purchase of the printed set entitles a school or library to free online access to the Medical Guide’s content through 12/31/10." |
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Salem History is a robust online database that includes the complete content of many printed reference sets. |
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