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Academic Search Complete ­ designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
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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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ACM Digital Library  is a vast collection of citations and full text from ACM journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings. ACM stands for Association of Computing Machinery.  The ACM Portal also includes an additional tool. The Guide (to computing literature) is a collection of bibliographic citations and abstracts of works published by ACM and other publishers. Citations for all ACM published works are included in the Guide as a small subset of the total bibliographic space.  There are more than 750,00 citations from 3,000+ publishers which include books, journal articles, proceedings, technical reports, doctoral dissertations and master's theses. 

AGRICOLA - Discover the world of agriculture and life science with AGRICOLA. Compiled by the U.S. National Agricultural Library (NAL), this comprehensive source of bibliographic information consists of over 2.5 million citations to journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audio-visual materials, and technical reports. The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition.
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Alt HealthWatch – This alternative health database provides full text for 180 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.
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Ancient and Medieval History - Formerly called Ancient History & Culture, Ancient and Medieval History Online has been expanded to cover eight civilizations—ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient and medieval Africa, medieval Europe, the Americas, and ancient and medieval Asia. Users can research each civilization in depth or use the browse feature to conduct comparative studies of events and developments across civilizations. This expansive database offers an unprecedented amount of information about these civilizations and their places in history, with content drawn from Facts On File’s acclaimed print references.
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Archives of Americana (published by Readex) This family of historical collections contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera printed in America over three centuries.  Collections available American State Papers(1789-1838), Early American Imprints (1639-1819), Early American Newspapers (1690-1876) and U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817-1980).
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Bibliography of Native North Americans - Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. BNNA contains more than 80,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present.
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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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Bloom's Literary Reference Online  - Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.  Features: Author biographies, literary criticism, timelines, themes, characters and Harold Bloom's Western Literary Canon list.
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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.
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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 Complete - This is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the ultimate collection of bibliographic and full text content. Business Source Complete contains far more active, peer-reviewed, business related journals than any other database currently available. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals
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Ebsco provides another interface to search this business database.  It is called Business Searching Interface (BSI) provides an easy way to both browse and search for country economic data, company profiles, industry information and market research, and then use the results as limiters in a keyword search, if desired. 
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CINAHL with Full Text (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health) - CINAHL with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 520 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index - with no embargo. With full-text coverage dating back to 1982, CINAHL with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.
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College Source - A virtual library representing 34,673 college catalogs in full cover-to-cover, original page format with 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools.  
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Communication & Mass Media Complete - This database 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.
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Computer Source ­ This database provides the latest information on trends in high technology. Includes valuable information on such topics as computers, telecommunications, the Internet, and electronics. Over 120 full text articles, abstract and indexing for over 150 titles. Kept up to date with the latest in technology trends. 
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Consumer Health Complete - (CHC) is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc.
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Contemporary Authors -This database provides complete biographical and bibliographical information on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
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Contemporary Literary Criticism - This database collects more than 35,000 critical essays on contemporary authors, with biographical, critical, principal works, and further study information.
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CQ Electronic Library - This is a duel database.  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 - This database 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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The D&B Million Dollar Database - features 14 million company records, including all U.S. businesses and the most significant segment of Canadian businesses. It provides comprehensive marketing information on both public and private companies and their executives. Profiles include specialty information like executive biographies and proprietary eight-digit SIC codes. (One user).
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Dictionary of Literary Biography - This database provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
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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.   (Patrons have access to the state of Texas and Arkansas maps).
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) -Provides indexing, abstracting, and free full text access for selected international scholarly journals in many subject areas, including agriculture and food science, biology, chemistry, health science, languages and literature, mathematics, physics, engineering, the arts, business, environmental science, history, law, political science, philosophy, religion, and social science. Coverage varies by title (updated continuously).
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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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Ebsco Animals - A database with over 2,200 entries about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and dinosaurs. Ideal for junior and high school students.  
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Economia y Negocios - This database is the result of a collaborative effort between EBSCO Publishing and ESAN (Escuela de Administración de Negocios para Graduados). This continuously updated bibliographic database is an indispensable tool for research conducted in the areas of business and economics.
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Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,820 journals, as well as full text for more than 900 journals, and includes full text for more than 71 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers.  
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online -Use Eighteenth Century Collections Online to access the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 26 million pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
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ELibrary Curriculum - Designed specifically for K-12 schools and libraries. Students find the answers they need from more than 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, reference books, and transcripts-plus thousands of pictures, maps, educator-approved websites from Homework Central®, plus audio/video content.  
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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. EBSCO,  or Government Web Site.
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Ferguson's Career Guidance Center - is a comprehensive career research database, providing detailed and up-to-date profiles of more than 2,900 of today’s most popular jobs in 93 industries. Content is drawn from the new edition of the acclaimed Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance and from the popular Career Opportunities series. A searchable archive of articles from current and past issues of Career Opportunities News, a 16-page newsletter, provides timely information about colleges and the job market.
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Fuente Academica - This database is a unique collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. This database provides full text coverage (including PDF) for nearly 200 scholarly Spanish language journals. Content is provided in Spanish from respected publishers worldwide.
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Funk and Wagnall's New Encyclopedia ­ Meets the needs of elementary, middle, and high school students. Over 25,000 annually updated segments of the encyclopedia are included in this database.  
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Gale Literature Database- An interface that cross searches 3 databases-Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism and Dictionary of Literary Biography, at the same time.
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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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The Handbook of Texas Online - is a multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association and the General Libraries at UT Austin. (Free Resource)
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Health and Wellness Resource Center (with Alternative Health module)- 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 - is a comprehensive encyclopedic database containing thousands of hyperlinked entries organized into four major categories: conditions and diseases, mental health, health and wellness, and body systems.  It provides clear information on the causes, cures, key research, medical terms, symptoms, treatments and trends, and organizations in each field of study. Each content area is searchable by keyword and has a browsable A-to-Z index.
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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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Health Source : Consumer Edition ­ Authoritative information on health related matters. Find information on remedies, nutritional guidelines, and treatments. Search for information on health topics such as food, childcare, general health, and sports medicine. The database includes searchable full text for more than 150 popular health magazines.  Also included are indexing and abstracts for over 170 general health journals, 20 reference books, and thousands of essays covering eight major health related subjects. 
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Health Source : Nursing / Academic edition ­ Provides more than 400 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, with particular emphasis on nursing and allied health professions. Also included is searchable text for over 450 journals, indexing and abstracts for over 500 journals, and the reference volumes USP Pharmacopoeia DI: Volume II Advice for the Lay Patient, and Stedman's Medical Dictionary.  
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HeritageQuest Online™ - Provides a unique and continuously expanding collection of research materials to help patrons trace their family lineage and American culture. It is designed specifically for libraries and can be used from a remote location such as a home or office.  Beginning with more than 25,000 family and local histories, HeritageQuest Online is growing to include the complete U.S. Federal Census from 1790-1930, the Periodical Source Index (PERSI), the Revolutionary War Pension Applications & Bounty Land Warrant Applications, and the Freedman's Bank Records.
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The History Resource Center: World combines Gale's proprietary reference content, from imprints such as Gale Group, Macmillan Library Reference USA, and Charles Scribner's Son, with Primary Source Microfilm original documents, from collections such as Churchill at War, History of Women, and The Middle East from the Rise of Islam. Along with these resources, History Resource Center: World provides seamless access to the full-text from almost 200 periodicals and 4,000 maps and images.
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The History Resource Center: U.S. includes some material from Gale's proprietary reference content, including American Decades, American Eras, DISCovering U.S. History, Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations and our American Journey series. The History Resource Center: U.S. also delivers full-text periodicals, newspapers, primary source documents, radio/television transcripts, streaming audio and video clips, professional development tools, and student research tools.
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The Hoover's Online database - provides access to in-depth company profiles for more than 40,000 companies, public and private, worldwide, as well as to financial information, news, and industry information. This database is an excellent starting point for company research.
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Humanities International Complete - provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index (over 2,000 titles and 2 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 770 journals.
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IEEE Xplore - is an online delivery system providing full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. IEEE Xplore contains full text documents from IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, standards, and IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers) publications.
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Information Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA) - is a leading database in the areas of information science. ISTA indexes journal articles from more than 450 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings and patents, with ongoing comprehensive coverage of the most important periodicals in this field. Coverage dates back to the mid 1960s.
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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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InfoTrac OneFile® is a single electronic resource that provides instant access to an unprecedented number of periodicals. Users rely on InfoTrac OneFile for access to periodical and news content and indexing from a variety of mainstream and specialized sources — from The New York Times to refereed academic journals.
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Internet and 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. Over 400 of the most important trade publications, mainstream computer magazines, and professional journals are covered, including those that focus on specific topics such as Macintosh and Windows platforms, programming, web development and more.
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ISI Web of Knowlegde (Web of Science, Biological Abstracts and Zoological Records)
Web of Science provides seamless access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,700 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching. With it, users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans to uncover all the information relevant to their research. 

Biological Abstracts is a comprehensive reference database covering life sciences journal literature. An essential tool for researchers, librarians, faculty, and students, Biological Abstracts covers from 1969 to the present, and over 4,000 journal titles. 

Zoological Record® covers all aspects of modern animal research.  Literature sources for Zoological Record include: More than 5,000 serials published in over 100 countries, Monographs, books, newsletters, conference papers and abstracts.  Years of coverage are 1978 to present. (Move to Top of page, Bottom Of Page.)  

JSTOR - The JSTOR archive holds the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the 1600s. New titles and disciplines are being added regularly. Issues of journals are never "out"; they are always accessible, and in excellent condition. The capacity for searching across disciplines opens up vast possibilities for scholarship and research. The John F. Moss Library has access to all five Arts & Sciences Collections, the Health & General Science Collection, Biological Sciences Collection and the Business II Collection.
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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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Kids Search interface - is EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades K through 8. Kids Search provides elementary school students with an easy-to-use, graphically-appealing interface they can use to search their EBSCO databases.
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LearningExpress Advantage - provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help students and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.  Contact a the library for access.
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Legal Collection - This database contains full text for nearly 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. The Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.
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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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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts,(LISTA) - indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. 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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Literature Online Reference Edition - the essential companion to literary study, updated every month and featuring the latest criticism, leading reference titles and biographies.
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Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works and is an essential resource for public, academic and high school libraries.
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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 History, produced by Salem Press, combines content from their critically acclaimed history reference sets in a fully integrated single database. This database is comprised of approximately 10,000 records, more than 1,800 historical images, charts, graphs and maps, and an index of more than 13,000 names. In addition, this database includes more than 4,000 biographical essays which examine the lives of more than 3,800 historical figures. With essays on people, events, and cultures ranging as far back as 25,000 b.c.e.
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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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MAS Ultra : School Edition ­ General periodical database that covers general reference, business, consumer health, general health, general science and multi-cultural titles. Indexing and abstracts for the New York Times and 528 other titles. Over 459 titles have PDF and ASCII full text cover-to-cover coverage for issues beginning as early as 1990.   
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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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MedicLatina - is a Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals.
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MEDline - 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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Middle Search Plus ­ Designed to assist middle and junior high school students in learning how to research current events. The database includes searchable full text from over 150 of the most popular K-12 magazines, abstracts and indexing for over 150 titles, searchable full text of the Christian Science Monitor, and tables and graphs converted to ASCII text for a better understanding of the written article.
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Military and Government Collection - Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of these sites. The Military & Government Collection provides full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles. 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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National Crimianl Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) - is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
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Natural & Alternative Treatments - The database contains almost two hundred articles on medical conditions, presenting in an evidence-based manner the alternative medicine therapies proposed for use in their treatment. It also contains detailed, evidence-based information on herbs and supplements, functional foods, and other alternative therapies such as acupuncture and homeopathy. The evidence-based content has been developed and reviewed by a team of physicians and pharmacologists with the goal of providing consumers with reliable information.
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NetAdvantage - Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage is a comprehensive source of business and investment information, offering on-line access to popular Standard & Poor’s research products such as Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Corporation Records, The Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, The Outlook, Mutual Fund Reports among others.
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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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Newspaper Source ­ Cover-to-cover coverage of the Christian Science Monitor from 1995 to the present and the Los Angeles Times from 2000 to the present. Get the latest late-breaking news from around the world with daily updates from 6 newspaper wire services, as well as coverage of national and international newspaper titles.  
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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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Personal & Business Forms Online  - is a collection of reproducible forms and checklists for a wide range of personal, business, and government situations—from applying for financial aid to submitting a tax form to negotiating a rental agreement. With more than 2,700 easy-to-access, printable forms, this database is the most comprehensive and user-friendly resource of its kind.
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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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Primary Search ­ Designed for elementary schools and children's reading rooms, this database contains World Almanac of the USA and World Almanac for Kids, searchable full text from over 50 of the most popular K-12 magazines, abstracts and indexing for over 180 titles and pamphlets.
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Professional Development Collection ­ A valuable resource aimed primarily at professional educators and others interested in the field of education. Information on everything from child development to theories and practices of different teaching methods. The database includes full text from 440 journals (150 with images), and abstract and index coverage for 530 professional development titles.
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Project Muse -  is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
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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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Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection ­ Over 450 full text articles covering the topics of emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and much more. The database includes many PDF images and 350 peer reviewed journals.  
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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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ReferenceUSA an internet database that contains Business and Residential data.  Find a telephone number or address.  Business section contains additional information.
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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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Religion and Philosophy Collection ­ A tool for researchers of theology and philosophical studies. Over 250 full text articles covering subjects such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. 
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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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Sage Collections - Full-text sage journal collections for the subject areas: Criminology, Education, and Nursing & Health Sciences.
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Science & Technology Collection - The Science & Technology Collection contains over 800 leading full text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community. Topics include aeronautics, astrophysics, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, and materials science. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,700 publications.
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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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Science Online - This curriculum-oriented database offers a comprehensive, authoritative overview of a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive definitions, essays, diagrams, illustrations, images, biographies, experiments, and activities. The content is organized by subject area and type of resource, as well as by the National Science Education Standards. Boolean search capabilities help users maximize the potential of this powerful database.
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Scribner Writers - Gain access to 1,600 original and detailed bio-critical essays on the lives and works of important authors from around the world. Many authors in the Scribner Writers Series are seen from multiple perspectives through two, three or sometimes four essays. Students can go directly to an entry on a specific author, combine search criteria for a much more complex search, or explore thematic and chronological topics to make connections among writers.
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Serials Directory - provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials. This database contains nearly 184,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers, historical data for an additional 20,000 titles and data from nearly 83,500 publishers worldwide.
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SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 1,910,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 397 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1908, and 150 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 720 books and monographs, and full text for 6,743 conference papers.

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 Research Center (SRC) - is EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades 6 through 12. SRC provides students in secondary schools with the most appropriate research tools to easily obtain the information that they need from their EBSCO databases.
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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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Testing & Education Reference Center  Taking a college entrance or licensing exam? Looking for a college or graduate school? Need help finding scholarships? Use this database to search thousands of college and graduate school entries. Identify scholarships that meet their financial needs. Take on-line practice tests and use test prep eBooks to obtain your education goals.
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Texas Reference Center - Texas Reference Center includes more than 80 full text journals and books about Texas history, ethnic & cultural diversity, gender studies, literature, public health, business as well as home & garden and sports & leisure. The database contains biographies portraying famous historical and contemporary Texans such as George Herbert Walker Bush, Lady Bird Johnson, Dan Moody, Susanna Dickinson and Sam Houston. Also available in the Texas Reference Center is the Spanish-language newspaper El Sol de Texas with Texas and national news coverage. This EBSCOhost database is updated weekly.  
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TOPICsearch ­ Find topics for students to discuss and research in TOPICsearch. This current events database covers topics such as politics, social and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics. Includes 40,000 documents selected by the publisher's staff of teachers and librarians, selected full text articles from nearly 100 U.S. newspapers.  This database also offers 2,500 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
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Twayne's Authors Series - The Twayne's Authors Series of literary criticism 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. This online series features the content of nearly 600 books that comprise three print series --United States Authors, English Authors and World Authors.
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 Twentieth-Century American Poetry - This unparalleled collection includes 52,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy Song. The majority of the poems included are copyright works specially licensed from print publishers such as New Edition, City Lights Books, Houghton Mifflin, W. W. Norton and Yale University Press. The collection reflects the variety and dynamism of American poetic voices in this century of change: all major movements and schools are represented, form the traditionalism of Robert Frost to the modernism of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), the confessional poetry of Anne Sexton to the proletarian poems of Muriel Rukeyser. The Imagists, Beat Poets, Harlem Renaissance, Black Mountain and Deep Image schools are all featured. In addition, many contemporary writers of the 1980s and 90s who have gained recognition through national poetry awards or inclusion within leading print anthologies, are also represented.
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Twentieth-Century English Poetry - offers online access to the poetry of some of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. It incorporates the works of 285 of the most widely studied poets of the British Isles and beyond, including over forty distinguished authors from The Faber Poetry Library. Authors include the established and canonical such as Yeats, Housman, Lawrence, Sassoon, Eliot, Plath, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney, popular and accessible figures such as Kipling, Betjeman and Wendy Cope, lesser known but important names like William Empson and W.S. Graham and, among prominent contemporaries, Simon Armitage, Eavan Boland and Carol Ann Duffy. Many of the major themes of 20th century writing -- nationality, politics, war, sexuality, religion and gender -- can be understood anew through this vast and representative collection.
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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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Vocational and Career Collection - Vocational & Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals.
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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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World Atlas - This comprehensive database blends traditional map-related concepts and information with a flexible interface and stunning visual presentation. Users can retrieve a variety of political, outline, elevation, locator, and comparative statistical maps with ease.
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World History Collection - offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. World History Collection contains cover-to-cover full text for nearly 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964.
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