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General

Database Name
(Database host)
Description
ProQuest Central
(ProQuest)
Coverage: 1905-present
Number of Sources: 19,370+
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes, 90%
The most comprehensive database in the library that provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, literature, political science, and psychology.
Academic Search Premier  
(EBSCOhost)
Coverage: 1887-
Update Frequency: Daily
Number of Sources: 10,100 (mostly peer reviewed)
Full Text, Approximate percentage: Yes
, 50%
This is a multidisciplinary database, covering virtually every area of academic study.
JSTOR
(JSTOR)
Coverage: depends on journal
Number of Sources:
445
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes, 100%
All articles are from archived scholarly journals in art, architecture, folklore, language, literature, religion, philosophy, history, political science, music, sociology, performing arts, and more.
Wiley Online Library
(Wiley)
One of the most comprehensive database in the library that provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Science, Education, Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences, Information Science and Computing, Law and Criminology, Life, Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics, Medical, Veterinary and Health Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Polymers, and Materials Science, Psychology.
ArticleFirst
(FirstSearch)
Coverage: 1990-
Update Frequency:
Daily
Number of Records:
14.3 million+
Number of Sources:
12,000+
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
No
This contains information from journals in science technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.
GPO
(FirstSearch)
Coverage: 1976-
Update Frequency:
Monthly
Number of Records:
455,000+
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
No
This consists of records published by the Government Publishing Office including congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and more.
Electronic Collections Online
(FirstSearch)
Update Frequency: Daily
Number of Records:
1.3 million+
Number of Sources:
4,300+
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
No
This collection gives you access to a growing collection of journals in a variety of subject areas.
MasterFILE Premier
(EBSCOhost)
Coverage: 1975-
Update Frequency:
Daily
Number of Sources:
1,100+
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes, 45%
This is designed specifically for public libraries and is a multidisciplinary database, which includes reference sources, biographies, primary source documents, and images.
PapersFirst
(FirstSearch)
Coverage: 1993-
Update Frequency:
Biweekly
Number of Records:
4.4 million+
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
No
This database covers every congress, symposium, exposition, workshop, and meeting added to the British Library Document Supply Centre's vast proceedings.
ProceedingsFirst (Conference Proceedings)
(FirstSearch)
Coverage: 1993-
Update Frequency:
Biweekly
Number of Records:
135,000+
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
No
This provides tables of contents of papers presented at conferences worldwide.
Topic Search (Current Events)
(EBSCOhost)
Number of Records: 64,000+
Number of Sources:
3,000+
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes, 50%
This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political, economic, scientific, and other popular topics.
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Reference

Database Name
(Database host)
Description
Biography Reference Bank Select
(EBSCOhost)
Includes more than 461,000 full-text biographies, covering over 500,000 people and including more than 36,000 images.  Souces include American National Biography, Congressional Biographies, Notable American Women, and many other sources that are not available in other databases.
CollegeSource
(CollegeSource)
Full Text, Approximate percentage: Yes
This contains over 25,000 cover-to-cover college catalogs representing 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional, and international schools.
CountryWatch
(CountryWatch)
Full Text: Yes
Provides critical country-specific intelligence and data. CountryReviews has up-to-date series of publications for each country including demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental information. CountryWire gives daily news coverage for every country and archived articles. There is also CountryWatch Data (compare data of one or more countries), CountryWatch Map Gallery, CountryWatch at School (curriculum options), Global Guide (international hot spots and global thematic maps), and more.
Credo Reference
(Credo Reference)
Number of Records: 100 Reference Books
This contains a listing of library material held in most libraries worldwide.
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes, 100%
This contains 100 reference books from the world's leading publishers, from all disciplines.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
(Britannica)
Full Text, Approximate percentage: Yes
This is an online version of Encyclopedia Britannica.
Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia
(EBSCOhost)
Number of Records: 25,000+
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes
This encyclopedia covers a variety of subject areas.
LATLearnATest
(Learning Express)
Update Frequency: Yearly
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes,
Sharpen your skills and improve your score with online practice tests, instant scoring, personalized evaluations, and self-paced courses. Examples of tests; GRE, Praxis, NCLEX, GMAT, Law Enforcement.
LexisNexis Academic
(LexisNexis)
Update Frequency: Daily
Full Text:
Yes
, 90%
Full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications
NoodleTools
(NoodleTools)
Full Text, Approximate percentage: NA
Generate, edit, and publish an MLA Works Cited list or APA References list that complies with the rules of the current MLA Handbook and APA Publication Manual. NoodleBib takes care of punctuation, alphabetization and formatting, producing a polished source list for import into Word.
Vocational and Career Collection
(EBSCOhost)
Coverage: Current
Number of Sources:
400
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes
This database includes full text coverage for 400 trade and industry-related periodicals.
WorldAlmanacs
(FirstSearch)
Coverage: Current
Update Frequency:
Quarterly
Number of Records:
32,000+
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes, 100%
This provides information on five almanacs: The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the USA, The World Almanac of US Politics, The World Almanac for Kids, and Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia.
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Art

Database Name
(Database host)
Description
CAMIO
(FirstSearch)
Full Text (images): A premier resource of high-quality art images from around the world contributed and described by leading museums, all rights-cleared for education use.
JSTOR
(JSTOR)

 

Coverage: depends on journal
Number of Sources:
445
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes, 100%
Archived articles are from scholarly journals in political science, history, sociology, philosophy, mathematics, business, art, literature, language, music, religion, botany, ecology, etc.
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Books

Database Name
(Database host)
Description
WorldCat (Library Catalogs)
(FirstSearch)
Coverage: 2100 BC
Update Frequency:
Daily
Number of Records:
1 billion+
This contains a listing of library materials held in most libraries worldwide.
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Business

Database Name
(Database host)
Description
Business Source Premier
(EBSCOhost)
Coverage: 1926-
Update Frequency:
Daily
Number of Sources:
8,800+
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes
Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business.
eStatement Studies
(RMA)
You’ll find everything you’ve come to rely on in the two-volume set Financial Ratio Benchmarks and Industry Default Probabilities and Cash Flow Measures... and a whole lot more! eStatement Studies even enables you to break out the data by region.
LexisNexis Academic
(LexisNexis)
Update Frequency: Daily
Full Text:
Yes, 90%

Full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications
Regional Business News
(EBSCOhost)
Update Frequency: Daily
Number of Records:
75
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes
This database contains journals, newspapers, and news wires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
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Education

Database Name
(Database host)
Description
Education Full-Text
(EBSCOhost)
Coverage: 1983-
Update Frequency:
Daily
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes, 70%
This contains information relating to many education topics from around the world.
ERIC (Education)
(EBSCOhost)
Number of Sources: 3,200+
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes, most ED's
ERIC (Education)
(FirstSearch)
Coverage: 1966-
Update Frequency:
Monthly
Number of Records:
1 million+
Number of Sources:
1,016
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes, most ED's
The Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC) contains published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics. All "ERIC documents (ED's)" are full-text.
Primary Search (For Elementary Students)
(EBSCOhost)
Coverage: 1990-
Update Frequency:
Daily
Number of Sources:
260+
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes, 60%
This provides information from popular magazines for elementary school research.
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Health & Nursing

Database Name
(Database host)
Description
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
(EBSCOhost)

 

Coverage: 1982-
Update Frequency:
Weekly
Number of Records:
750,000+
Number of Sources:
1,200+
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes
CINAHL covers nursing, allied health, biomedical, and consumer health journals.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
(EBSCOhost)
Number of Sources: 1,547+
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes, 20%
This provides information on many health topics including medical sciences, food sciences, nutrition, childcare, sports medicines, and general health.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic
(EBSCOhost)
Update Frequency: Daily
Number of Sources: 1,450+
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes, 70%
This provides scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines, especially nursing.
LexisNexis Academic
(LexisNexis)
Update Frequency: Daily
Full Text:
Yes, 90%

Full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications
MEDLINE with Full-Text (Medicine)
(EBSCOhost)
Coverage: 1965-
Update Frequency:
Daily
Number of Records:
12 million+
Number of Sources:
9,584+
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Unknown
MEDLINE with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for more than 1,240 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Of those, more than 1,220 have cover-to-cover indexing in MEDLINE.
Wiley Online Library
(Wiley)
One of the most comprehensive database in the library that provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Science, Education, Engineering,
Humanities and Social Sciences, Information Science and Computing, Law and Criminology, Life, Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics, Medical, Veterinary and Health Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Polymers, and Materials Science, Psychology
.
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History

Database Name
(Database host)
Description
JSTOR
(JSTOR)
Coverage: depends on journal
Number of Sources:
445
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes, 100%
Archived articles are from scholarly journals in political science, history, sociology, philosophy, mathematics, business, art, literature, language, music, religion, botany, ecology, etc.
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Language & Literature

Database Name
(Database host)
Description
Critical Insights
Salem Literature
(Salem Press)
This comprehensive series distills the best of both classic and current literary criticism of the world’s most-studied literature. Each volume in the series focuses on an individual author’s entire body of work or on a single work of literature. Edited and written by some of academe's most distinguished literary scholars, Critical Insights provides authoritative, indepth scholarship suitable for students and teachers alike.
JSTOR
(JSTOR)
Coverage: depends on journal
Number of Sources:
445
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes, 100%
Archived articles are from scholarly journals in political science, history, sociology, philosophy, mathematics, business, art, literature, language, music, religion, botany, ecology, etc.
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Music

Database Name
(Database host)
Description
JSTOR
(JSTOR)
Coverage: depends on journal
Number of Sources:
445
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes, 100%
Archived articles are from scholarly journals in political science, history, sociology, philosophy, mathematics, business, art, literature, language, music, religion, botany, ecology, etc.
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Newspapers

Database Name
(Database host)
Description
LexisNexis Academic
(LexisNexis)
Update Frequency: Daily
Full Text:
Yes, 90%

Full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications
Newsbank Supports all academic disciplines

Provides unique primary sources not found in other resources

Offers complete electronic editions of thousands of authoritative U.S. and global news sources

Includes thousands of broadcast transcripts, newswires, video clips, and news blogs

Gives over 219 million current and archived articles— growing daily
Regional Business News
(EBSCOhost)
Update Frequency: Daily
Number of Records:
75
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes
This database contains journals, newspapers, and news wires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
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Political Science

Database Name
(Database host)
Description
JSTOR
(JSTOR)
Coverage: depends on journal
Number of Sources:
445
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes, 100%
Archived articles are from scholarly journals in political science, history, sociology, philosophy, mathematics, business, art, literature, language, music, religion, botany, ecology, etc.
LexisNexis Academic
(LexisNexis)
Update Frequency: Daily
Full Text:
Yes
, 90%
Full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications
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Psychology

Database Name
(Database host)
Description
APA PsycNET (PsycARTICLES & PsycINFO)
(APA PsycNET)
Coverage: PsycARTICLES 1998- ; PsycINFO 1872-
Number of Sources:
PsycARTICLES 49; PsycINFO 1,884+
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
PsycARTICLES Yes, 100%; PsycINFO No
PsycARTICLES - This contains full text articles from the American Psychological Association and selected Educational Publishing Foundation journals.
PsycINFO - Contains bibliographical references worldwide from psychological literature.
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Religion & Philosophy

Database Name
(Database host)
Description
JSTOR
(JSTOR)
Coverage: depends on journal
Number of Sources:
445
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes, 100%
Archived articles are from scholarly journals in political science, history, sociology, philosophy, mathematics, business, art, literature, language, music, religion, botany, ecology, etc.
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Science

Database Name
(Database host)
Description
ACS Publications
(American Chemical Society)
Number of Sources: 39 journals
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes, 100%
This contains 31 journals published by the American Chemical Society.
Botany Collection
(JSTOR)
Coverage: 1890-
Number of Sources:
8 journals
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes, 100%
This contains full text archives of 8 botany journals and 21 ecology journals.
Ecology Collection
(JSTOR)
Coverage: 1867-
Number of Sources:
21
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes, 100%
This contains full text archives of 21 ecology journals and 8 botany journals
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Sociology

Database Name
(Database host)
Description
JSTOR
(JSTOR)
Coverage: depends on journal
Number of Sources:
445
Full Text, Approximate percentage:
Yes, 100%
Archived articles are from scholarly journals in political science, history, sociology, philosophy, mathematics, business, art, literature, language, music, religion, botany, ecology, etc.
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