Databases which are available for off-campus use by students, faculty, and staff are indicated
by an *. Please see a librarian for a user name and/or password.

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ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) - 1920 to present - Some Full Text
Available via LION - Indexes monographs, journals, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays, and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world in the areas of English language, English literature, bibliography, and traditional culture of the English-speaking world.

ABI/INFORM - 1971 to present - No Full Text

Available via FirstSearch - Covers nearly every aspect of business, including company histories and new product development.  Citations include abstracts and indexes of significant articles from current business and management periodicals.                  

*Academic Search Premiere - 1984 to present - Some Full Text
Available via EBSCOhost - A large multidisciplinary database, which indexes and abstracts journals in the social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, etc. There is also a searchable collection of photos of people, natural science photos, photos of places, historical photos, maps and flags.

African-American Poetry (1750-1900) - Full Text
Available via LION - Contains nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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AHSearch - (Arts & Humanities Search) - 1980 to present - No Full Text

Available via FirstSearch - Provides complete indexing for many of the world's leading arts and humanities journals in a broad range of disciplines.  Also includes individually selected, relevant items from thousand of the world's leading science and social science journals.  

American Drama - Full Text
Available via LION - Currently contains 711 plays that chronicle the history and culture of America.

American National Biography - Full Text
Reliable scholarly biographies of more than 17,400 deceased men and women in American history.

American Poetry (1600-1900) - Full Text
Available via LION - Contains over 40,000 poems by more than 200 poets, covering the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.

*ArchiveGrid - *Primary Sources* - No Full Text

Online access to nearly a million descriptions of archival collections owned by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide. ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching for historical documents, personal papers and family histories held in archives.
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ArticleFirst - 1990 to present - No Full Text

Available via FirstSearch - Offers searching and browsing of articles and tables of contents from thousands of journals.  Contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

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BioDigest - 1989 to present - No Full Text

Available via FirstSearch - Covers all of the life sciences.  Gives easy access to new scientific developments, with comprehensive subject-oriented abstracts.

*Biological & Agricultural Index Plus - 1983 to present - Some Full Text
Available via WilsonWeb - Indexes journals and book reviews in agricultural fields including agricultural research, chemicals, economics and engineering. Also covers biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, ecology, genetics, microbiology, physiology, zoology and other related fields.

Books In Print - Access is limited to 1 simultaneous user. Please use the LOGOUT button at the end of each search session.
Provides access to a bibliographic database with more than 4.5 million in-print, forthcoming, audio, video and out-of-print titles. Contains annotations, Tables of Contents, images, awards and full-text reviews when available.

Britannica World Atlas
Available via Encyclopaedia Britannica Online

BusDateline - (Business Dateline) - 1985 to present - No Full Text

Available via FirstSearch - Provides citations to articles from newspapers, city business magazines and U.S. and Canadian wire services.  An essential business information tool for monitoring the latest trends in industry, health, environmental issues, education, and much more.

BusIndustry (Business & Industry) - 1994 to present - No Full Text
Available via FirstSearch - Contains important facts and key events dealing with public and private companies, industries, products and markets for all manufacturing and service industries at an international level. Indexes trade magazines, newsletters, and general business and international business dailies.

*Business Source Elite - 1985 to present - Some Full Text
Available via EBSCOhost - Covers journals in business, management, economics, finance, banking and accounting.

BusManagement (Business & Management Practices) - 1995 to present - No Full Text
Available via FirstSearch - Provides information on business and management issues such as decision making; implementing new technology; planning for the future; dealing with internal and external issues; and expanding businesses. Covers business methodology with emphasis on case studies and practical applications.

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*CAMIO - Catalog of Art Museum Images Online - *Primary Sources*

A premier resource of high-quality art images from around the world contributed and described by leading museums, all rights-cleared for educational use. Every work in CAMIO is represented by at least one high-resolution image and a description. Many have additional views of the work, sound, video and curatorial notes. CAMIO art images span the following categories: photographs, prints, sculptures, paintings, decorative arts, posters, costumes, utilitarian objects, and jewelry.

Canadian Poetry - Full Text
Available via LION - When it is complete, Canadian Poetry will comprise essentially the complete canon of English-language Canadian poetry from the seventeenth century up to the early twentieth. Currently the collection contains more than 12,000 poems by 142 poets drawn from over 500 printed sources, many of them rare and inaccessible outside Canada.

*Communication & Mass Media Complete (CCMU) - 1915 (selected) to present - Some Full Text
Available via EBSCOhost - Contains quality research articles in the areas related to communication studies and mass media, combining two major indexes, CommSearch and Mass Media Index. Provides access to bibliographic references, reviews, recent encyclopedias and handbooks and full text of journal articles. Depending on the journal, coverage may extend back to the first issue of a title.

ConsumerIndex (Consumers Index) - 1986 to present - Some Full Text

Available via FirstSearch - Indexes periodicals with consumer-oriented articles.  Provides information categorized from general (the home) to more specific (automobiles), by periodical (Consumer Reports), or by a specific brand name (Coca-Cola).  Records include Web site addresses for free full text for some citations.

CQ Historic Documents Online - 1972 to present - *Primary Sources* - Full Text
A collection of more than 3,000 primary sources covering a broad range of subject matter, including history, government, and political science. Types of documents range from presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions. Documents are preceded by introductory materials to provide historical and intellectual context.

CQ Researcher - 1991 to present - Full Text - Access is limited to 5 simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.
CQ Researcher, published by CQ (Congressional Quarterly) Press, examines contemporary issues that affect the public at large. Each issue focuses on a different topic with background, historical milestones, an overview of the current situation, future outlook and opposing viewpoints (plus bibliographies).

CQ Weekly - 1983 to present - Full Text
CQ Weekly reports on the activities of the United States Congress. Each issue provides announcements of upcoming Congressional events as well as a summary of the previous week's news, including the status of bills, committee and floor activity, debates and roll-call votes. This online, full-text version of the printed CQ Weekly is searchable by keyword and by floor vote. Users can also browse issues by date or by topic.

CWI (Contemporary Women's Issues) - 1992 to present - No Full Text

Available via FirstSearch - Covers sources (periodical and nonperiodical) published by more than 100 organizations around the world.  Focuses on timely and relevant topics and meaningful issues for women, including health, human rights, the work place, legal status, and more.

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Disclosure (Disclosure Corporate Snapshots) - Current file - Brief Entries

Available via FirstSearch - Contains directory information on U.S. companies filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).  Includes company name, cross references, telephone numbers, ticker symbol, Fortune and Forbes numbers, SIC Codes, and a business description.

Dissertations (Dissertation Abstracts) - 1861 to present; dissertation abstracts since 1980, theses since spring 1988

Available via FirstSearch - Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years.  Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations.

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Early American Fiction 1789-1850 - Full Text
Available via LION - Facsimile page images and keyword-searchable full text for more than four hundred works of American prose fiction published before 1850, including key titles such as James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.

Early American Fiction 1789-1875 - Full Text

Available via LION - Offers the full text of 875 first editions of American novels and short stories by such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain, as well as a host of minor writers of the period.

Early English Prose Fiction (1500-1700) - Full Text
Available via LION - Contains 211 works in English prose by writers from the British Isles from the period 1500-1700.

Ebooks (Electronic Books) - All cataloged Ebooks to the present

Available via FirstSearch - Contains records for over 210,000 electronic books on all subjects cataloged by libraries in WorldCat.  Citations link to full text licensed from NetLibrary and other electronic providers as well as to free electronic books available from educational, government and other websites.

*EBSCOhost - Some Full Text
A collection of databases, many including full text articles.

*Education Full Text - 1983 to present - Some Full Text
Available via WilsonWeb - Covers 400 leading periodicals encompassing all areas of concern to today's educators, including administration, teaching methods, and curriculum.

Eighteenth Century Fiction (1700-1780) - Full Text
Available via LION - 96 complete works in English prose by writers from the British Isles.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online - Full Text
Provides access to the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use EB Online to search an Internet directory that includes thousands of related sites on the Internet.

English Drama (1280-1915) - Full Text
Available via LION - Contains 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century.

English Poetry (600-1900) - Full Text
Available via LION - Contains poems by more than 1,250 poets drawn from printed sources. While in most cases one version of a poem is given, there are exceptions where significant revisions have been made (Wordsworth's PRELUDE, for example). Poems excluded are those published in newspapers or journals only, or never published at all; translations into English after 1800; hymns published after 1800; and verse dramas intended for the stage.

English Poetry, Second Edition - Full Text
Available via LION - Contains more than 183,000 poems, comprising essentially the complete canon of poetry in English from the 8th century to the early 20th. Drawn from nearly 4,900 printed sources, the collection represents the work of more than 2,700 poets. The Second Edition also includes poetry written in English during the same period by authors from Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the world.

*ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center) - 1966 to present - Some Full Text
Available via EBSCOhost - Indexes published and unpublished sources on all aspects of education and educational research. ERIC also indexes library and information science. Incorporates ERIC Digests, full-text short reports on topics of current interest in education.

*Environment Complete 1940s (selected) to present - Some Full Text
Available via EBSCOhost - Environment Complete offers deep coverage in the subject 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 Complete contains more than 1,957,000 records from more than 1,700 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,125 active core titles). The database also contains full text for more than 680 journals and 120 monographs.  

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Farber Poetry Library - 1925 to 1999 - Full Text
Available via LION - contains the works of 50 poets comprising 140 volumes of poetry. The authors are all part of the Faber Poetry list and the database enjoys the active support of the publisher and the poets or estates.

*FirstSearch - No Full Text
A set of databases in a variety of subject areas using a common interface to search the literature.

Search Guide

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GEOBASE - 1980 to present - No Full Text
Available via FirstSearch - Indexes journals, books, conference proceedings, reports, theses, and dissertations on geography, geology, ecology, international development, and their related disciplines. Subject coverage includes cartography, climatology, energy, environment, geomorphology, hydrology, meterology, photogrammetry, sedimentology, geochemistry, geophysics, paleontology, petrology, and volcanology.

GPO (GPO Monthly Catalog) - 1976 to present - No Full Text

Available via FirstSearch - Consists of records published by the Government Printing Office.  Includes references for documents to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and more.

Grove Music Online

Grove Music Online offers the full texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Edition (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd Edition (2001), The Oxford Companion to Music (2002). These include 50,000 signed articles and 28,000 biographies contributed by over 6,000 scholars from around the world. Additionally, The Oxford Companion to Music (2002), which offers more than 8,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres; and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Second Edition, Revised (2006) are included.

 

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King James Bible - Full Text
Available via LION - The King James or 'Authorized' edition of the Bible (1611) was the standard edition of the Bible for nearly three centuries, drawing heavily on previous editions and providing the principal influence for many subsequent versions. The text is given in full, with all introductory matter, annotation, calendars, genealogies and tables included.

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LexisNexis Academic - Full Text
Provides access to news, business, medical, educational and legal (including law reviews, case law and legal rulings) sources. The sources include international, national, and regional newspapers; magazines; trade journals; newsletters; wire service reports; and transcripts of television and radio news programs.

LexisNexis Congressional - Full Text
Provides access to the CIS Index, 1970 to present, which indexes congressional information including committee hearings, reports and prints, legislative histories, etc. This database also offers full-text of congressional bills, testimony, reports, documents, selected prints, and the Congressional Record for recent years, as well as the U.S. Code, the Federal Register, and the Code of Federal Regulations. It also covers a wide variety of additional congressional information, including member biographical and committee assignment information, voting records, and financial data.

Literature Online (LION) - Some Full Text
Full searchable library of more than 330,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources.

*Literary Reference Center - (Ebsco) - Some Full Text - Contains plot summaries, synopses, work overviews, articles/essays of literary criticism, in-depth author biographies, literary journals, book reviews, classic and contemporary poems and short stories, author interviews, and classic texts. In addition, Literary Reference Center includes Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism, The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Literary Encyclopedia, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, and MagillOnLiterature Plus™.

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*MedLine - 1966 to present - Some Full Text
Available via EBSCOhost - Indexes journals in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and preclinical sciences.

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
Available via Encyclopaedia Britannica Online - A general, English-language dictionary that includes definitions (with the most recent meaning listed last), examples of use, pronunciations, etymlogies, and synonyms. Hyper-text "hot-links" are provided to related words.

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
Available via Encyclopaedia Brittanica Online.

Milestone Documents in American History - *Primary Sources* - Full Text

Online database version of Milestone Documents in American History by Salem Press.  Offers complete, online, full text access to all volumes of the books set. 

Milestone Documens of American Leaders - *Primary Sources* - Full Text

Online database version of Milestone Documents of American Leaders by Salem Press.  Offers complete, online, full text access to all volumes of the books set. 

Milestone Documents in World History - *Primary Sources* - Full Text

Online database version of Milestone Documents in World History by Salem Press.  Offers complete, online, full text access to all volumes of the books set. 

 

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*netLibrary - Full Text - For off-campus use, user must first create an account within netLibrary on-campus.
A collection of searchable online reference, professional, and scholarly books, found either in the "Library Collection" or the "Public Collection". It is possible to perform full-text searches of a single eBook, search thousands of volumes simultaneously, browse topic categories, or read eBooks directly online. Simply create an account for yourself and you can check out an ebook from anywhere in the world. The books found in the "Library Collection" are also listed in the TOMCAT Catalog.

Nineteenth-Century Fiction - 1782 to 1903 - Full Text
Available via LION - 250 novels from the period 1782 to 1903, including works by all the major Victorian novelists such as Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontës, Eliot and Hardy, as well as the landmarks of Gothic and other fiction from the Romantic period.

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OAIster - *Primary Sources* - Full Text

Available via FirstSearch - A union catalog of more than 19 million digital resources from over 1,000 organizations developed by the University of Michigan and harvested using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). Digital resources in OAIster include items such as: Digitized (i.e., scanned) books and articles, Born-digital texts, Audio files (e.g., wav, mp3), Images (e.g., tiff, gif), Movies (e.g., mp4, quicktime), Datasets (e.g., downloadable statistics files).

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) - Full Text
The OED serves as the accepted authority of the evolution of the English language since 1150. The text contains definitions for most of the words in the English language, information on their origins, and quotations showing their range of meanings from the time they entered the language to the present.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Offers the full 60 volume text of The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography which contains a collection of more than 56,600 specially written biographies, describing the lives of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond.

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PsycFIRST - Most recent 3 years plus updates for current year - No Full Text

Available via FirstSearch - Contains citations of journal articles, chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines.

*PsycArticles - 1988 to present - Full Text
Available via EBSCOhost - Produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), PsycArticles is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 140,000 articles from over 60 journals published by the APA.

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*Regional Business News - Some Full Text
Available via EBSCOhost - A comprehensive index for regional business publications from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Materials indexed include business journals, newspapers, and newswires.

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*(The) Serials Directory
Available via EBSCOhost - this database provides up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information and pricing for over 178,500 U.S. and international periodicals.