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Academic Search Premier - This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.  *Highly recommended  (EbscoHost Database) Back to the Top 

 Ancestry.com – Find census, birth, marriage, death records and more.  An amazing resource both for the amateur and seasoned genealogist.  Availability: In-library use only.  Back to the Top

 AZ Library – AZ Library provides a gateway for Arizona residents to explore thousands of online articles and images from journals, newspapers and accurate, current research materials.  Be sure to visit    Gale: Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center for excellent “pro/con” essays about a variety of current topics. Back to the Top

 Britannica Online - Encyclopædia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, and the Britannica Student Encyclopedia. You can also use Encyclopædia Britannica Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 60,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors. Availability:  In-library use and Home Access. Back to the Top

Careers-Internet - Careers-Internet.org, by the Institute for Career Research provides information on hundreds of occupations. Also, career interests quiz, information about scholarships, and career bulletin boards.  Availability:  In-library use and Home Access Back to the Top

CQ Researcher - 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.  Each single-themed, 12,000-word report is researched and written by a seasoned journalist. The reader-friendly organization provides researchers with an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources.  CQ Researcher Online offers access to CQ Researcher reports dating back to 1991.  Availability:  In-library use and Home Access Back to the Top

Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) - CINAHL Plus is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. 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.   CINAHL Plus with Full Text also includes the Pre-CINAHL dataset. Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and is collection of records that provide basic bibliographic information before they are indexed with CINAHL Headings. As Pre-CINAHL journal articles are indexed, the records are replaced with complete CINAHL records.  (EbscoHost Database) Availability:  In-library use and Home Access Back to the Top

CollegeSource - An online library representing 44,815 college catalogs and over 37,600,000 course descriptions. Availability:  In-library use only. Back to the Top

Ebrary – Read over 19,600 books online!  Many titles available in nursing/health,computers and technology, business, and humanities. Other subject areas include construction and continuing education topics, law enforcement/criminology, and various testing guides. Some fiction is also available. Back to the Top

 Facts on File - Complete content from the Facts On File World News Digest since 1980 and selected content from six other databases, including Issues and Controversies, Today's Science, The World Almanac, and Reuters News Service. This archival record of domestic and international news covers all major political, social, and economic events since 1940. Editorial cartoons are also available. Availability:  In-library use and Home Access. Back to the Top

FirstSearch - (Multiple Databases) - 13 databases including ArticleFirst, WilsonSelect, ECO, "and WorldCat" (library catalogs). Availability:  In-library use and Home Access. Back to the Top

Gale Literature Resource Center  - is your most current, comprehensive, and reliable online resource for research on literary topics, authors, and their works. Its coverage includes all genres and disciplines, all time periods, and all regions of the world.

What you'll find in Literature Resource Center

• Full-text scholarly articles from more than 360 academic journals and literary magazines — the majority peer-reviewed — as well as excerpts from scholarly monographs, literary correspondence and diaries.
• Reviews of books of all sorts, from children's literature to adult fiction, from popular non-fiction to scholarly studies.
• Substantive biographical essays on more than 130,000 authors, providing insights into life and times, works, and critical reception.
• Full text of thousands of poems and short stories published in contemporary journals and magazines.
• Overview essays on thousands of books and literary topics.
• Links to editorially selected websites on authors and their works, as well as pictures of well-known authors.

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Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition - This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.  (EbscoHost database)  Availability:  In-library use and Home Access. Back to the Top

Health Source, Consumer Edition - This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source - Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text consumer health magazines.  This database also includes searchable full text for more than 1,000 health-related pamphlets and more than 130 health reference books, including books published by the People's Medical Society. Additionally, Health Source: Consumer Edition contains more than 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names; and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary. Health Source: Consumer Edition covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, women's health, etc. (EbscoHost database)Availability:  In-library use and Home Access. Back to the Top

HeritageQuest – Using HeritageQuest, you can look through census records, books and PERSI articles, records from the Revolutionary War, the Freedman’s Bank and the U.S. Serial Set.  Back to the Top

LegalTrac – Students, law school faculty and legal researchers will all find the legal publications they need in LegalTrac.  Drawing on a wide variety of the most highly regarded legal publications, LegalTrac provides indexing for approximately 875 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals.  Each title included in LegalTrac is selected on the basis of criteria provided by a special advisory committee of the American Association of Law Libraries.  This database also contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles. Back to the Top

Lexis/Nexis – Lexis/Nexis provides customers with access to five billion searchable documents from more than 40,000 legal, news and business sources.  Search major news publications, news wire services, and TV and radio broadcast transcripts. Back to the Top

 Military & Government Collection - Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.  (EbscoHost database) . Availability:  In-library use and Home Access. Back to the Top

Newspaper Source  (Ebsco) - Newspaper Source provides selected full text for 35 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 375 regional (U.S.) newspapers.  (EbscoHost Database) Availability:  In-library use and Home Access. Back to the Top

OCLC FirstSearch - (Multiple Databases) - 13 databases including ArticleFirst, WilsonSelect, ECO, and WorldCat (library catalogs). Back to the Top

Oxford English Dictionary – The OED allows you to look up the meanings of a word and how it developed, look up when words and meanings were first used, and find the etymological source of a word. Back to the Top

ReferenceUSA – ReferenceUSA is a comprehensive business database that can be used for a variety of purposes.  Students can find news articles for research on businesses and perform searches for papers and class projects.  Job seekers can conduct research about industries and companies, find executives, and company descriptions.  Small business owners can conduct powerful market research by selecting a location and viewing a radius search to look up the number of similar businesses in the area. Back to the Top

 ScienceDirect - Indexes over 2500 peer-reviewed journals from Elsevier Publishing, focusing primarily on scientific, medical, and technical subjects.  All articles are available in either full text or PDF format.  Has full text for approximately 6,000 books.  Also includes indexing of scientific book series, MEDLINE and psycINFO, with abstracts; and SCIRUS, a search engine for scientific information on the web. Availability:  In-library use and Home Access. Back to the Top

WorldCat (Library Catalogs) - Search the online catalogs of over 9000 member libraries worldwide.  Then request materials through Inter-Library Loan. Publisher's full description . . .  Availability:  In-library use and Home Access. Back to the Top 

World Almanac – See the description for Facts on File.  Back to the Top