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Academic OneFile (Gale Group)  Academic OneFile provides coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)  Academic Search Premier contains indexing for over 8,000 publications, with full text for more than 4,450 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
 
Access Science (McGraw-Hill) AccessScience delivers the latest content of the  McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 9th Edition, and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th Edition.

Accessible Archives Full text databases of primary source material of 18th and 19th century periodicals

Accounting Research Manager  (CCHGroup) Searchable full-text database of  authoritative accounting pronouncements.

AGRICOLA  AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) serves as the catalog and index to the collections of the National Agricultural Library, as well as a primary public source for world-wide access to agricultural information. The database covers materials in all formats and periods, including printed works from as far back as the 15th century.

Alabama Virtual Library (AVL)
     
Alt HeathWatch (EBSCO)  This database focuses on the complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers  full text articles from more than 180 journals, reports, proceedings and association & consumer newsletters. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.

American Chemical Society Publications-ACS Web Editions (ACS) To access archival and back issues: click Journals and Magazines button (on the left in blue) select the publication title, select Back Issues

America:  History and Life  (EBSCO) This annotated bibliography is an exceptional resource for students and scholars studying the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
   
American Journal of Botany  (Botanical Society of America) The American Journal of Botany (AJB) publishes  research of interest to  plant scientists in all areas of plant biology, all levels of organization, and all plant groups and allied organisms.

Annals of American History (Encyclopædia Britannica via AVL)

Anthropological Index Online  Anthropological Index Online is based on the journal holdings of The Anthropology Library at the The British Museum (formerly Museum of Mankind) which receives periodicals in all branches of anthropology, from academic institutions and publishers around the world.

Article First (FirstSearch/OCLC via AVL) OCLC index of articles from the contents pages of journals that covers More than 12,000 sources and over 12.7 million records. Includes items listed on the table of contents pages of journals. Describes one article, news story, letter or other item from a journal in each record. Provides a list of libraries that have the journal title for most items.

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Biography Reference Bank (H.W. Wilson) Wilson’s largest biography database combines the in-depth, original profiles of Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated, plus the thorough periodicals coverage of Biography Index, full-text articles, page images, and abstracts from the complete range of Wilson databases (including biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches, or obituaries). Links to every article focused on any individual in nearly every WilsonWeb database,  covering over 500,000 people and includes over 36,000 images.

BioOne  (BioOne) Collection of bioscience research journals.  For a complete list of journals go to BioOne and click on Publishers, under About BioOne.
  
BioOne Abstracts and Indexes (BioOne) This bibliographic database is an indexed and fully-searchable collection of abstracts that link to the full text articles available from the BioOne organization.

Book Collection: NonFiction (EBSCO) Book Collection: Nonfiction is a research database for school libraries. A cross-curricular database, it provides content representing a wide spectrum of works.  It contains abstracts and searchable full text for more than 3,600 popular nonfiction books. The database includes full text entries on core subject areas, as well as information on careers, health, sports, adventure, technology and life skills.

Britannica Online Online version of Encyclopædia Britannica
  
Business and Company Resource Center (Gale Group) Business and Company Resource Center brings together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information

Business Database (ReferenceUSA)  Contains, in module format, detailed information on more than 12 million U.S. businesses.

Business Index ASAP (Gale Group) This resource is useful in for conducting research on management issues, economic indicators and business theories and practices, as well as on the activities of companies and industries worldwide.

Business Source Premier (EBSCO) Provides full text for more than 8,800 serials. Business Source Premier provides full text back to 1965 (or the first issue published for that journal) and searchable cited references back as far as 1998. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
  

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Children's Catalog and Children's Catalog Archive (H.W. Wilson) Children's Catalog is a selective annotated list of fiction and nonfiction books and magazines for children from preschool through sixth grade, along with review sources and other professional aids for children's librarians and school media specialists. 

The archive is a searchable database made up of items formerly included in the main Children’s Catalog, but that are no longer current.

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database

Chronicling America This site allows you to search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

CINAHL Plus with Full Text  (EBSCO) Provides full text for more than 560 journals indexed in CINAHL, with more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text includes PreCINAHL as a companion database.  PreCINAHL provides current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject indexing) that is available to searchers only while these articles are being indexed.

Clase & Periodica  (First Search/OCLC via AVL) Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities.  

Contemporary Authors (Gale Group) Provides biographical and bibliographical information and references on all of the more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors whose entries appear in Contemporary Authors and Contemporary Authors New Revision Series. Updated monthly.

Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select (Gale Group)  Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select is a collection of more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study. Updated monthly.

Criminal Justice Periodical Index (Proquest)  ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals Index is a comprehensive database of U.S. and international criminal justice journals.  The database includes abstract and indexing for over 235 titles, with more than 80 available in full-text.

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Dictionary of Literary Biography (Gale Group) Provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

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EBSCO  Academic Search Premier, Alt HealthWatch, BookSources: Nonfiction, Business Source Premier,  Clinical Pharmacology,  EBSCO Animals,  ERIC,  Funk and Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia, Health Source - Consumer and Nursing/Academic Editions,  History Reference Center,  MAS Ultra - School Edition, MasterFILE Premier,  Middle Search Plus, Military & Government Collection, Primary Search, Professional Development Collection,  PsychINFO, Regional Business News, Vocational and Career Collection, SocINDEX with Full Text.

EBSCO Animals This  database provides users with thousands of entries about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, dinosaurs and prehistoric animals. Each entry begins with a simple category breakdown of the animal including Kingdom, Class, Order, Genus & Species, and Geographical Locale as well as a detailed description. Many entries include color images.

EBSCOHost Electronic Journal Services (EJS) Access to full text articles in over 500 journals.

ECO Electronic Collections Online (First Search/OCLC via AVL) Electronic Collections Online is an electronic-journals service that offers Web access to a growing collection of more than 5,000 titles in a wide range of subject areas, from over 70 publishers of academic and professional journals.

Education Journals (ProQuest) ProQuest Education Journals offers a comprehensive research collection of more than 650 magazines and journals for professional development and continuing education.
 
Educator's Reference Desk  Resources include AskERIC's 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses. The Educator's Reference Desk provides a search interface to the ERIC Database, providing access to over one million bibliographic records on educational research, theory, and practice.
  
Encyclopedia Britannica

English Studies  (Taylor & Francis) A  journal of English language and literature

Entrez, The Life Sciences Search Engine Entrez is a powerful  search engine,  that allows users to search a multiple health science and biotechnology databases maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
 
ERIC  The Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources, including  information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC also provides full text of more than 2,200 digests and references for additional information, citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.  ERIC is available in three different search interfaces:

ERIC (ProQuest)     ERIC (EBSCO)   ERIC (U.S. Dept. of Education)

Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest) Ethnic NewsWatch is a full text subscription database containing newspapers, magazines, journals, and newsletters of the ethnic, minority, and native press.

European History Quarterly (Sage Publications) European History Quarterly publishes articles by  historians on a range of subjects from the later Middle Ages to post-1945.

Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale Group) Expanded Academic ASAP is comprised of more than 3,500 indexed and full-text titles, including 2,100 peer-reviewed titles all Over 20 years of backfile coverage
 

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 FirstSearch (via AVL)                   FirstSearch (via password)

Footnote.com The Footnote.com collections feature original historical documents, many never before available before on the Internet, relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, U.S. Presidents, historical newspapers and naturalization documents.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO)

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Gale Power Search  Searches all the following Gale databases concurrently.  InfoTrac OneFile, Gale Virtual Reference Library, Professional Collection, LegalTrac, General Reference Center Gold, Student Edition, Expanded Academic ASAP, and Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center.

Gateway to 21^st Century Skills State affiliates and the NEA have partnered with The Gateway to 21^st Century Skills in an effort to provide  free, comprehensive resources that will make your lesson planning easier. Includes materials from federal, state, university, non-profit and commercial websites.

General Reference Center Gold (Gale Group) A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.

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.

GPO Monthly Catalog (FirstSearch/OCLC via AVL)

GreenFILE (EBSCO) offers information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

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Health Source: Consumer Edition (EBSCO) This resource provides access to nearly 300 full text, consumer health periodicals as well as searchable full text for more than 1,000 health-related pamphlets and 129 health reference books. HSCE also features Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to 1,100 drug monograph entries and 2,700 patient education fact sheets.

Health Source: Nursing Academic Edition  (EBSCO) This resource provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong.  In addition, this database includes the Clinical Pharmacology database, providing access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs.

Highwire Press (Stanford University) 1,322,585 free full-text articles and 3,273,195 total articles. There are 50 sites with free trial periods, and 30 completely free sites. 220 sites have free back issues, and 789 sites have pay per view!

Historical Abstracts  (EBSCO) This annotated bibliography covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, featuring coverage of academic historical journals in over 40 languages since 1955.

History Reference Center (EBSCO) The database features full text for more than 1,500 reference books, encyclopedias, non-fiction books and over 100 leading history periodicals. History Reference Center also features 58,000 historical documents; 43,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 12,000 historical photos and maps; and more than 80 hours of historical video.

History Today  History Today has published top-quality articles by the best historians every month since 1951. This site contains of articles published since 1980.

Hoover's Company Records (ProQuest) Features profiles of more than 40,000 companies, 600 industries, and 225,000 key executives.

Humanities International Complete (EBSCO)   Humanities International Complete is a database of humanities content, providing full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world.  This database includes all data from Humanities International Index (over 2,000 titles and 2 million records) plus full text content for more than 770 journals.

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¡Informe! (Revistas en Español) (Gale Group) A collection of Hispanic magazines with full text. Covers business, health, technology, culture, current topics and other subjects.

InfoTrac (Gale Group) Source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.

InfoTrac Junior Edition (Gale Group) General reference resource designed for junior high and middle school students.

InfoTrac Kids Edition (Gale Group) Designed for grades K-6, InfoTrac Kid's Edition introduces young students to the research process.  

InfoTrac Student Edition (Gale Group) This periodical database is designed for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

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JSTOR Arts & Sciences III Collection Focused on the arts and humanities, the Arts & Sciences III Collection contains over 150 titles. The collection makes available additional journals in language and literature, as well as important titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture.

JSTOR Biological Collection Coverage in this collection includes fields such as biodiversity, conservation, paleontology, plant science, cell biology and zoology.

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Kid's InfoBits (Gale Group) Kids InfoBits is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5.  This database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more

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LegalTrac (Gale Group) Drawing on a wide variety of  legal publications, LegalTrac provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals.  LegalTrac also contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.

Library Literature & Information Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson via AVL) A bibliographic database that indexes more than 229 key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere from 1984 to the present. Includes indexing for books, chapters within books, conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets

LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts) (EBSCO) Bibliographic database providing free coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online info retrieval, information management and more.

LISTA with Full Text (EBSCO) Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text (LISTA with Full Text) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Over 100 titles are available in full text. 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.  

LION (Literature Online) (Chadwyck-Healy) Searchable collection of works of English and American poetry, drama and prose.  Includes biographies, bibliographies, key criticism and reference resources.

Literary Reference Center (EBSCO)      Literary Reference Center is a full text database combining information from major reference works, books, and literary journals. Resources include: plot summaries, synopses, work overviews, literary criticism, author biographies, book reviews, classic and contemporary poems and short stories as well as classic novels, author interviews, and images of literary figures. Notable reference works include: the Bloom Series, all of MagillOnLiterature Plus, and the Masterplots series.

Literature Resource Center (Gale Group) Find  biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world, supplemented by the scholarly materials of the Scribner Writers Series and Twayne's World, U.S., and English Authors Series.
   
LitFinder (Gale Group)  LitFinder is international in scope, covers all time periods, and contains a wealth of primary literature content, including more than 126,500 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, 5,000 full-text short stories, 2,800 full-text essays, 1,800 full-text speeches, and 1,000 full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary.
 

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MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO) MasterFILE Premier contains full text for more than 1,900 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. This database also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps & flags.

MathSciNet (American Mathematical Society) MathSciNet is an electronic publication offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature.

MEDLINE (FirstSearch/OCLC via AVL)

Mental Measurements Yearbook (Ovid) Mental Measurements Yearbook, from the Buros Institute, contains the most recent descriptive information and critical reviews of new and revised tests from the Buros Institute's 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th Yearbooks. The database covers more than 2,200 commercially-available tests in categories such as personality, developmental, behavioral assessment, neuropsychological, achievement, intelligence and aptitude, educational, speech & hearing, and sensory motor.

Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog and MJHSLC Archive (H.W.Wilson) Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog is a selective annotated list of fiction and nonfiction books for young people in grades five through nine, along with review sources and other professional aids for children’s librarians and school media specialists.

The archive is a searchable database made up of items formerly included in the main Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog, but are no longer current.

Middle Search Plus (EBSCO) Middle Search Plus contains full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Additionally, Middle Search Plus contains primary source documents including Essential Documents in American History, reference books including the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia and American Heritage Dictionary.

Military & Government Collection (EBSCO) Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. The Military & Government Collection provides 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.

MLA Directory of Periodicals (EBSCO) The MLA Directory of Periodicals contains all information available on the journals and series on the bibliography's Master List of Periodicals.  Over 7,100 titles are included; of these, over 4,400 are currently indexed. The entries list editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of the periodicals' scopes, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, and submission guidelines.

MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO) MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers.

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National Newspaper Abstracts (ProQuest) Abstracts and indexing for New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal   

New York Times - Historical (ProQuest)  Full page and article images with searchable full text dating back to the first issue published in 1851. Also available on microfilm in the library

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Online Career Library  (Vault) The Vault Online Career Library is the most popular career tool among colleges and universities around the world. Features downloadable full-length career guides, company snapshots, industry overviews and occupational profiles.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (Gale Group)  OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to websites. The database includes Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.

Oxford English Dictionary (OUP) The Oxford English Dictionary is widely acknowledged to be the most authoritative and comprehensive dictionary of English in the world, and the definitive record of English language development over the last fifteen hundred years. It traces the evolution of over 600,000 words from across the English-speaking world through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of sources.

Oxford University Press (OUP) Oxford University Press is a major international publisher of academic and research journals,  publishing over 180 titles, many in partnership with the world’s leading prestigious learned societies. Coverage includes  Life Sciences, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law.
 

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PapersFirst (FirstSearch/OCLC) OCLC index of papers presented at conference worldwide containing more than 2.3 million records. Every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre is covered

Patents Database  United States Patent and Trademark Office database of issued patents and filed applications. Full text from 1976, full pages images back to 1790. Applications date back to 2001. 

Patrologia Latina (Chadwyck-Healy) The Patrologia Latina covers the works of the Latin Fathers from Tertullian around 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. In 221 volumes, it covers most major and minor Latin authors, and contains the most influential works of late ancient and early medieval theology, philosophy, history, and literature.

Primary Search (EBSCO) Primary Search, designed specifically for elementary school libraries, contains full text for nearly 70 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets.

ProceedingsFirst (FirstSearch/OCLC via AVL) An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings covering every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre. Contains in each record a list of the papers presented at each conference.

Professional Collection (Gale Group) Professional Collection is a custom selection of more than 300 full-text journals for educators that is updated daily

Professional Development Collection  (EBSCO) PDC provides a  collection of electronic information especially for professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers. Includes full text for nearly 550 high quality education journals

ProQuest    Allows search of several ProQuest databases simultaneously

ProQuest Education Journals  ProQuest Education Journals offers a research collection of more than 650 magazines and journals for professional development and continuing education.

ProQuest NewsStand Provides indexing and full-text for over 500 newspapers from around the world.

ProQuest Psychology Journals  ProQuest Education Journals offers a comprehensive research collection of more than 650 magazines and journals for professional development and continuing education.

ProQuest Research Library (ProQuest) ProQuest Research Library provides  access to a wide range of popular academic subjects. The database includes more than 3,820 titles—over 2,550 in full text—from 1971 forward.

PsycINFO (EBSCO) PsycINFO contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed.  Journal coverage spans 1887 to present, and includes international material selected from more than 2,100 periodicals in more than 25 languages.

Public Library of Science (PLoS) PLoS publishes peer-reviewed, open access scientific and medical journals that include original research as well as timely feature articles. All PLoS articles are immediately freely accessible online, are deposited in the free public archive PubMed Central, and can be redistributed and reused according to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. PLoS journal subject areas include: biology, medicine, computational biology, genetics, pathogens, clinical trials, neglected tropical diseases

PubMed PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

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ReferenceUSA Business database containing information on more than 12 million U.S. businesses.

Regional Business News (EBSCO) Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). This database has full text for more than 50 sources

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ScienceDirect  (Elsevier) The world's largest scientific, technical and medical (STM) database.  NOTE: ScienceDirect, while not a subscription database, does offer limited  access to some issues with free full text articles.  Other articles are available for a fee.

SciFinder Scholar - This database is only available from dedicated workstations and is not available online.   In the library there are two workstations in the public area behind the networked printer.  Ten workstations are available in the library computer lab on the two back rows.

Scribner Writers Series (Gale G