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Academic Search Complete: Academic Search Premier contains indexing for over 8,200 publications, with full text for nearly 4,700 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Book Review Digest: Book reviews from almost 100 American and Canadian periodicals covering adult and children's books in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
Contemporary Women's Issues: Global information on women in over 150 countries in fields such as sociology, psychology, health, education, and human rights.
Gale Virtual Reference Library: A database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research
Humanities Index: Single reference for periodical information in the humanities, with full text for selected journals from 1995.
JSTOR: Full text backfiles of core scholarly journals in the arts and sciences, searchable by journal, keywords, author, title etc. Files do not include the latest 3 -5 years.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe: LexisNexis Academic provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, medical, and reference information from nearly 5,000 sources, most of them available in full text. The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily.
MasterFILE Premier: MasterFILE Premier contains full text for more than 1,950 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, 84,011 biographies, 83,472 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps & flags.
Professional Development Collection: A highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators. This collection offers information on everything from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice. Includes full text for Chronicle of Higher Education, Educational Leadership, Journal of Education, Journal of Higher Education, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Theory Into Practice, and more than 550 high quality education journals.
Readers' Guide to Periodicals: Contains comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.
ScienceDirect: Full-text sciences periodicals database from Elsevier, contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.
SIRSResearcher (Social Issues Resources Series): Articles exploring social, scientific, historic, economic, political, and global issues selected from domestic and international newspapers, magazines, journals, and government publications.
Social Sciences Abstracts: International, English-language periodicals in sociology, anthropology, geography, economics, political science, and law.
SocIndex with Fulltext: This database offers coverage from all subdisciplines of sociology, including abortion, anthropology, criminology, criminal justice, cultural sociology, demography, economic development, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, politics, religion, rural sociology, social psychology, social structure, social work, sociological theory, sociology of education, substance abuse, urban studies, violence, welfare, and many others. It contains informative abstracts for journals, books, monographs, conference papers, and other sources in this subject area.
Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Mega Edition: A multi-disciplinary fulltext database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from Education, Science, Humanities, Social Sciences , Business and a variety of other subject areas.