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Databases by Subject: General
| Academic Search Premier | Provides full text for over 4,700 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, and education. |
| Article First (FirstSearch) | Index of articles from the contents pages of journals. |
| Biography In Context |
Gale Biography in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people. The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content (including Lives & Perspectives) with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while also allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text. |
| Britannica Online |
The award-winning Britannica Online® delivers fast and easy access to high-quality, comprehensive information. The rich combination of the insightful Encyclopædia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools provides the variety of reliable sources that students need to consult when conducting thorough research-all from one database. |
| Chicago Manual of Style | The CMOS online is a searchable resource based on the Chicago Manual of Style 15th edition for citing sources and writing styles. It also contains tools, i.e., sample forms, letters and style sheets. |
| CQ Researcher | Offers comprehensive reporting and analysis and in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. |
| Credo Reference | A database that features online content from a hundred reference books in a broad range of subjects. |
| InfoTrac | Provides a variety of different subject databases providing access to scholarly journals, popular magazines, and newspapers. Databases include the Expanded Academic ASAP. |
| EBSCOhost | Many different subject databases are listed including PsycINFO, Medline, MLA, CINAHL, and Academic Search Premier. |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library | A mix of more than 20 full-text reference books covering the arts, biography, business, the environment, history, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, geography, and science. |
| General Reference Center Gold (InfoTrac) |
A general interest database for searching magazines, reference books, and newspapers for information on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, etc. |
| JSTOR | Search back issues of core journals (117 titles) in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. |
| MasterFile Premier (EBSCOhost) | Provides full text for 2,000 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more. Some titles indexed back to 1975. |
| Oxford English Dictionary | The OED is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources. |
| WorldCat (FirstSearch) |
Catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide. Includes millions of bibliographic records with records representing 400 languages. |
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