A-Z Databases

New / Trial Databases

The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.

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Platform: Alexander Street
Academic Video Online includes a variety of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, demonstrations, and raw footage. It delivers more than 70,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including business, counseling, film, health, history, music, media, exercise, theatre and performance, diversity, social movements, black studies, education, environmental sciences, etc.

Health Source: Consumer Edition

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Platform: EBSCOhost
This rich collection of consumer health information provides access to full-text consumer health magazines and reference books. It also includes searchable full text for current health pamphlets.

Health Source: Nursing / Academic Edition

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Platform: EBSCOhost
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition is a trusted full-text database covering nursing and allied health topics, including pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and more.

LGBTQ+ Rights

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Platform: HeinOnline
HeinOnline has recently announced the addition of LGBTQ+ Rights to its perpetually free Social Justice Suite of databases. This collection consists of materials relating to the gay rights movement in America from 1950 until present day, including an interactive timeline, as well as subject-coded court cases, scholarly articles, books, pamphlets, reports, and more.

Newspaper Source Plus

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Platform: EBSCOhost
Newspaper Source Plus provides a full-text digital collection of the world's major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires and news magazines. In addition, it offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.

Peterson's Test and Career Prep

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Platform: GALE
Peterson's Test and Career Prep helps students and adults better prepare for both college and their career. Offering vocational career exam prep (e.g. Praxis, law enforcement, social work), graduate school exam prep, citizenship exam prep, etc. Explore career options, search for jobs or graduate schools. To effectively use the site, you will need to create your own user account.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global

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Platform: ProQuest
The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (PQDT) ™ database is the world's most comprehensive curated collection of multi-disciplinary dissertations and theses from around the world, offering over 5 million citations and 3 million full-text works from thousands of universities.

Popular Databases

The most frequently-used databases

Academic Search Complete

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Platform: EBSCOhost
Academic Search Complete is a scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.

Ebook Collection

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Alternate Name(s): Ebsco Ebooks

Platform: EBSCOhost
User Guide
Ebsco Ebooks provides access to over 180,000 full-text e-books covering a wide range of subjects and includes powerful tools to find, use, and manage the information you find.

JSTOR

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Platform: JSTOR
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources related to Arts, Humanities, and Sciences. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform.

The JSTOR Understanding Series: Linking Original Works to Scholarship
JSTOR Text Analyzer: Use a Document to Search for Similar Documents
Organize your Research with JSTOR Workspace
Interview Archive: King in the Wilderness - Oral history of the last years of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
JSTOR Daily

Points of View Reference Center

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Platform: EBSCOhost POVRC
Points of View Reference Center contains more than 380 core topics, each with an overview (objective background / description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument). Each topic features a Guide to Critical Analysis which helps the reader evaluate the controversy and enhances students’ ability to read critically, develop their own perspective on the issues, and write or debate an effective argument on the topic.

ProQuest Central

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Platform: ProQuest
User Guide
Covering more than 160 subject areas, ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated database of periodical content. This award-winning resource features a highly-respected, diversified mix of content including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, reports and videos.