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Academic Search Premier ­ Full text database of peer-reviewed academic journals, offering critical information from many sources found in no other database. Not only does it contain full text articles from over 2,940 scholarly publications, but one can also find abstracts and indexing for nearly 3,930 scholarly journals. The journals offered cover nearly all areas of study.
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The AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive is an electronic library containing The AP's current year's photo reports and a selection of photos from their 50 million image print and negative library. The Multimedia Archive also includes graphics, text and audio - all from The Associated Press.
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AGRICOLA - (Produced by the National Agricultural Library) indexes more than 2,000 serial titles as well as books, pamphlets, conference proceedings, research reports, government documents, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual content, and microforms pertaining to all aspects of agriculture. AGRICOLA contains citations to approximately 2 million records, both in English and non-English, with over 100,000 records added annually.  
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American Humanities Index  is a collection of bibliographic references to literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the United States and Canada. Produced by Whitston Publishing, this database covers over 1,000 journals published from 1975 to the present, many of which cannot be found in other reference works. All journals included in the American Humanities Index are indexed in their entirety (cover to cover). This database provides citation information for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including, poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations. American Humanities Index is a unique, essential collection, providing in-depth coverage in areas of the humanities not covered in other databases.
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The Biography Resource Center is a comprehensive database of biographical information on more than 185,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It contains approximately 250,000 biographies from respected Gale Group sources. The database also includes full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals.
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Book Review Digest  is produced by The H. W. Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that cites and provides excerpts of reviews of current English-language fiction and nonfiction books for children and adults. An abstract of each book is also provided. Periodical coverage includes leading magazines from the United States, Canada and Great Britain.

Books in Print.com ­ Find title, author, ISBN number( a unique number for the book) and publisher information for over 3.4 million books, along with 600,000 full text reviews of many of these books. Give the information to a librarian for easy ordering for their collection or through interlibrary loan. One can also search by "Children's Room" to find age and reading level specific books, cassettes and videos; or search "In the Media," which allows one to browse titles mentioned on such popular media as Oprah Book Club, Today Show, and National Public Radio.
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Business and Company Resource Center - Find dynamic and up-to-date company and industry intelligence of more than 300,000 companies. Displays company profiles, including parent/sibling relationships, industry rankings, products and brands, current investment ratings, and financial ratios and much more. Find contact information for a company in your area using the geographic location search option.
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Business Source Premier ­ This full text database is designed to help people find information on all aspects of the business world. Full text is offered for nearly 2,140 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more.  Also included are indicative abstracts and indexing for over 2,680 business journals, nearly 880 of which are peer reviewed. 
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CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health) - database provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health disciplines. Includes over 950 English-language journals as well as healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, and educational software. 
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Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. This database originated with the acquisition and subsequent merging of two popular databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies -- CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). EBSCO has combined the extensive coverage of these two resources, and has greatly expanded upon them (both in terms of content and scope) to create CMMC. In addition, Communication & Mass Media Complete offers full text for over 200 titles and contains citation coverage for additional sources.

CQ Electronic Library The CQ Researcher Online 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.  The CQ Weekly is your complete source for expert coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts - contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations, and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines.  The database contains indexes and summaries of international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on virtually any topic in criminal justice.    
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Criminal Justice Periodicals Index (CJPI)  Proquest's CJPI can provide information on virtually any criminal justice topic.  The database offers ASCII text, image, and Text+Graphics coverage for about 50 of the titles most frequently accessed by criminal justice researchers. CJPI also include complete indexing and abstracts for another 140 relevant U.S. and international journals. This is updated weekly.  
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D&B's North American Million Dollar Database provides the information professional, marketer and sales executive with information on  U.S. and Canadian leading public and private businesses. Company information includes industry information with up to 24 individual 8-digit SICs, size criteria (employees and annual sales), type of ownership, principal executives and biographies. 

Dissertations Abstracts ProQuest Digital Dissertations provides online access to citations and abstracts for every title in the Dissertation Abstracts database.  Titles published since 1997 are available in PDF digital format and have 24 page previews.
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eLibrary ­ This database provides a wealth of information from such diverse areas as books, television shows, newspapers, maps, and photograph collections. Full text articles from popular reference books such as Frommer's travel guides, American History textbooks, World Almanac, World Encyclopedia and international business textbooks. Newspapers and magazines from the United States, Africa, Asia, and Europe are also included. Also included in the mix are transcripts from such favorite television shows as 60 minutes, Good Morning America, CNN news, Fox News, and several National Public Radio Stations.
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online a comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century, the world’s largest library of the printed book on microfilm, available through its imprint Primary Source Microfilm™. In the most ambitious single digitization project ever undertaken, nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800 will be made available online over the course of the next two years. When complete, the product will allow full-text searching of more than 33 million pages of material, in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.

ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center) -Information culled from the journals included in Current Index to Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. (It indexes both journal articles and educational documents). Designed for teachers, students, administrators, researchers and others interested in the field of education. Full text of over 2,200 digests, including references for even more information. Citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals  EBSCOhost
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Expanded Academic ASAP – Provides coverage through 2600 indexed and 1400 full-text titles. Over 1400 of these titles are peer-reviewed. Expanded Academic ASAP serves the research needs of students, faculty, and graduate researchers.
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GPO Access– GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted. This free service is funded by the Federal Depository Library Program and has grown out of Public Law 103-40, known as the Government Printing Office Electronic Information Enhancement Act of 1993. 
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Health and Wellness Resource Center - Instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference resources such as Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence, and PDR Family Guide to Health and Nutrition. Key health web sites are also listed here, as well as 2, 200 general interest health publications, and over 400 health and medical journals. Reliable information can be found by searching under latest news, subject, or key words.   
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Health Reference Center Academic - A full service resource for people needing health related research. It provides an integrated collection of general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books and pamphlets. Records are available in a combination of indexing, abstracts or full text formats. Topics included in the collection include information about alcoholism, AIDS, fitness, psychology, cancer, pediatrics, and much, much more. 
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HeritageQuest Online™ New, comprehensive genealogy resource brings together census data, family records, local histories, and more into a single, searchable resource.

History Resource Center: Access both American and World history information. Modern World History draws on themes and trends from the history curriculum for the 20th Century, and seamlessly integrates reference sources from the Gale Group, Macmillan Reference USA and Charles Scribner's Sons, along with full-text articles from more than 100 academic journals, and maps and images. Full-text and facsimile images for over 1,400 primary source documents from Primary Source Microfilm collections are also included in the collection.  For American history information this database has a cross reference tab to the periodical index ABC-CLIO America: History and Life. 
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Hoovers Online Hoover's, Inc., delivers comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence that drives business growth. Our database of 12 million companies, with in-depth coverage of 40,000 of the world's top business enterprises, is at the core of our business tools and services that customers find vital to their business operations.

IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional association with more than 382,000 members worldwide. IEEE is a leading authority in technical areas ranging from computer engineering, biomedical technology and telecommunications, to electric power, aerospace and wireless, among others.
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InfoTrac Custom Newspapers - Search newspapers from in the United States for full text articles. Cover-to-cover coverage of the Austin-American Statesman form 1996, El Paso Times, Houston Chronicle from 1996, New York Times, Washington Post from 1996, The Financial Times from 1996 and The Times (London) since 1997. Search articles by title, headline, date, author, section or other assigned fields. Includes coverage of NY Times (most current year).  
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JSTOR  The Arts & Sciences Collections represent the building blocks of a single interdisciplinary archive of over six hundred journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Each of the core Arts & Sciences Collections introduces new academic disciplines into the archive.
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Key Business Ratios Use this comprehensive tool to help you: research risk, understand industry trends and identify a company's strengths and weaknesses.  The 14 key business ratios cover all critical areas of business performance—solvency, efficiency and profitability. And, using an individual company's financial statements with Key Business Ratios, you can generate a comparison of a company's own business ratios with the industry.                                               
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LexisNexis™ Academic Universe provides searchable access to a comprehensive spectrum of full-text information from over 5,600 sources, selected to meet academic research needs, including: National and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources; U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information; Shepard’s Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789 ; and Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news. (LexisNexis)
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LexisNexis™ Statistical Universe lets you find all statistics issued by the U.S. government back to 1973 through CIS' American Statistics Index and1,000 of the best statistical publications of private and state government sources from 1980 forward through CIS' Statistical Reference Index. There are approximately 2,000 indispensable titles from some 100 international intergovernmental organizations, all published annually since 1983 through CIS' Index to International Statistics.
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Literature Resource Center - This all-inclusive database contains information on both classical and contemporary authors and their works. Obtain biographies of authors, bibliographies of all they have written, critical essays and contextual information. Search by the author's name, the title of the work, or even by the title of the periodical or journal that is part of the database.  
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MagillOn Literature Plus This database Contains Magill on Literature and Magill On Authors. MagillOnLiterate database is the definitive, online source for editorially reviewed critical analyses. This database also includes brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature.  It contains all of Masterplots and Masterplots II, Cyclopedia of World Authors, Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Magill's Literary Annual, Magill's Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy as well as World Philosophers and Their Works.  MagillsOnAuthours database is a comprehensive reference resource comprised of information on over 1,500 notable authors. It offers approximately 3,000 articles and over 450 images and covers long and short fiction writers, poets, dramatists and philosophers.
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MasterFILE Premier ­ Designed specifically for the Public Library, MasterFILE Premier offers information on a broad variety of subjects, including general interest, multi-cultural, business, and much more. Searchable full text for over 1,820 journals, including Consumer Reports and Business Week. Also included are searchable full text for nearly 5,000 Magill's Book Reviews, nearly 1,400 journals with images, the Essential Documents in American History database, over 1.7 million company records from Dun & Bradstreet, and much more.   
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MEDline (EBSCO  - Offers users access to information from all journals indexed in the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE file. Gain access to information from such fields as medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and preclinical sciences. Links to full text of over 350 full text journals. Included are abstracts and indexing for over 3,800 current biomedical journals published in the U.S. and 70 foreign countries, and citations found in Index Medicus, the International Nursing Index and the Index to Dental Literature.
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Mergent Online is a subscription-based service offering over 10,000+ U.S. public companies. --  Formerly known as Moody's Financial Information Services.  Mergent has been publishing detailed business descriptions, corporate histories and financial statements since 1900.
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Military & Government Collection -Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles. Some publications covered in this database include are Air Force Controller, Army Reserve Magazine, Defense Studies, Global Security Review, Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, National Review, Defense, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Military Technology, Naval Forces, and many more. Many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.
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The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines. 
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MLA International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.
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netLibrary - is the most comprehensive collection of online books (e-Books) available.  Using netLibrary, you can access a wide range of scholarly and reference materials entirely online.  With netLibrary you can search every word in an e-Book, as well as cross-reference other e-Books.  
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NCJRS Database NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.

OCLC  World Cat (the OCLC online union catalog) ­ The world's largest database of bibliographic information, culled from the shared records of libraries from all over the world. Over 43 million records, in over 400 languages, that contain holdings information, and other information vital to collection development, cataloging, authority control, and retrospective conversion services.   
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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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Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to researchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing. This enables users to gain access to article citations that otherwise would not be available. Once the bibliographic records are complete, they are added to the CINAHL database and removed from Pre-CINAHL.
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The PsycINFO Plus Text databases cover the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Covering more than 1,500 leading psychological, psychiatric, and related publications, PsychINFO PlusText is designed for both undergraduate and graduate level academic institutions and their libraries.  
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PubMed – National Library Medicine's (NLM) search service to access the 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE, and other related databases.    
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Readex has embarked on a series of projects to create a digital Archive of Americana by combining searchable text and digital images with Internet delivery. From the formative years of the American nation to its more recent history, this robust resource provides students and scholars with a treasure trove of primary source material. Collections are "Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800), based on Charles Evans' historic “American Bibliography.” The collection has long served as a foundation set for research involving early American history, literature, philosophy, religion, and more. Early American Imprints, Series II. Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819) is a continuation of the "American Bibliography.” Early American Newspapers (1690-1876) complements both series of Early American Imprints and beyond, and is based on Clarence Brigham's “History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820. And The U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817-1980) with American State Papers (1789-1838) provides a record of American history and life from a different perspective.”
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Regional Business News - incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Included in this database are Arizona Business, Business North Carolina, Crain's New York Business (and other Crain Communications editions), Des Moines Business Record, Enterprise Salt Lake City, Fort Worth Business Press, Orange County Business Journal, Westchester County Business Journal, etc.
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Research Library - 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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Research Library Newspapers - Index and Abstracts to Barron's, New York Times Late Edition (East Coast), USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Eastern Edition.                                               
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Science Direct - was first launched in 1997 as an online host facility for Elsevier Science's full text journals, Science Direct has grown to become the largest online full text platform for scientific, technical and medical information. It is based on the World Wide Web, and now offers the full text of over 1,100 journals. Desktop access to information is provided via institutional library subscriptions. 
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STAT!Ref is an electronic medical library that enables users to cross-search more than 35 medical resources such as Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment, Mosby's Drug Consult®, the Griffith 5 Minute Clinical Consult, and more!
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Student Resource Center GOLD - Aimed at High School students, this database offers award winning content based on national curriculum standards. Students can find information they need whether working from home, the classroom, or the library. Information for homework assignments, research papers and essays can be found using this database of reference materials, primary source documents, and magazines about literature, science, history and biography. Included are more than 82,000 biographies, essays, and overviews, full-text articles from more than 1,000 magazines, more than 15,000 timeline event descriptions, articles from encyclopedias and almanacs, over 15,000 photographs, maps and graphics, and much more.
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Texas Digital Sanborn Maps ­ These digitized maps provide detailed property and land-use records that depicts the architecture of more than 12,000 U.S. towns and cities throughout the past one hundred years. The maps enable researchers to trace the architectural history of individual buildings or entire communities. One can see everything from building outline, size and shape, construction materials, height, building use, windows and doors, street and sidewalk widths, boundaries, house numbers, and more. Once displayed, the maps can be manipulated, expanded, printed, and downloaded.   
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Ulrichsweb.com ­ A valuable source for tracking items that are published on a regular basis, such as consumer and trade magazines, scholarly journals, newsletters, newspapers, and monographic series and electronic publication. Each record is highly detailed, showing a full description of the periodical, alternative formats of the periodical, publisher and ordering information, and reviews.
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Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education, General Science, Humanities , Readers' Guide , Social Sciences, and Wilson Business; plus five additional periodical databases: Applied Science & Technology , Art , Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature & Information Science.  Indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text coverage in 1994.  Each database has its own start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full text; start dates for full-text rights to individual journals vary within a database.
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