Online Databases - includes Magazines, Journals and Newspapers.

The widest-ranging and easiest-to-use online collection on African American life ever assembled, The African American Experience is the definitive electronic research tool for African American history and culture from one of the most respected publishers in the field. The two primary goals: to provide rock-solid information from authorities in the field, and to allow African Americans to speak for themselves through a wealth of primary sources. Drawing on over 300 titles, and designed under the guidance of leading librarians, this database gives voice to the black experience from its African origins to the present day.

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Gale Biography in Context provides access to biographies, bibliographies, full text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, and selected web resources on more than 185,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. 
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Books in Print, the leading publication of R.R. Bowker, provides the most comprehensive collection of information available today on the vast U.S. book publishing industry. Books in Print contains over 1.5 million active bindings of all varieties - adult, juvenile, popular, scholarly and reprints - with more than 77,000 subject headings by which to search. Nearly 50,000 publisher, wholesaler, and distributor profiles are included in the Publishers Directory. Books Out of Print enables the searcher to verify the status of 900,000 titles that have moved into an "out of Print" or "out of stock indefinitely" status from 1979 to the present. The Books in Print database includes: Books in Print; Books in Print Supplement; Subject Guide to Books in Print; Paperbound Books in Print; Books Out of Print; Forthcoming Books; Children's Books in Print; Subject Guide to Children's Books in Print; Publishers Directory; and, Book Reviews. The Book Reviews portion of the database provides over 600,000 full-text book reviews from fifteen leading book-reviewing media including CHOICE, Publisher's Weekly, Library Journal and School Library Journal, The Horn Book and The Boston

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Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. Can be used to search an Internet directory that includes more than 130,000 links to web sites, selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica

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Consumer Health Complete (CHC) provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine. This full-text database is designed to support consumer and patients’ information needs as well as foster an overall understanding of health-related topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, men’s & women's health, and children's health. CHC includes the world’s most comprehensive collection of high-quality consumer health encyclopedias & reference books (many available only through CHC). In addition, this database offers access to 4,100 evidenced-based full text health reports written for the lay person covering diseases, conditions, injuries, and procedures. CHC also includes full text for more than one thousand consumer health pamphlets & leaflets from trusted organizations. Cover-to-cover full text is provided for nearly one thousand health-related periodicals as well as selected articles from thousands more. Many consumer-friendly drug information resources including Clinical Pharmacology are included in CHC. This database also serves as the most comprehensive collection of full text alternative health resources designed for the lay person. In addition, 5,000 Spanish-language health reports and a Spanish-language health newswire are provided.

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CountryWatch.com is an information provider for schools, universities, libraries and individuals who need up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world and for the public and private sector organizations with global operations and interests. The management of CountryWatch.com has extensive international business and academic experience and, using this experience, has created, in a concise and useful form, a key set of political, economic, and business information, daily news and data for its clients in the form of Country ReviewsTM, the Country WireTM and CountryWatch Data.

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Contains in-depth articles on current and controversial issues. Each article contains a lengthy discussion of the issues, pros and cons, background information, a chronology, future outlook, a bibliography and links to related CQ Weekly stories. Dates covered 1991 to present. 

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Environment Complete offers in-depth coverage of environmental information such as agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete contains more than 1,772,000 records from more than 1,660 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,094 active core titles) as well as more than 100 monographs. The database also contains full-text for more than 600 journals, including many of the most used journals in the discipline, such as Environment (back to 1975), Ecologist, Conservation Biology, etc. Additionally, Environment Complete provides full-text for more than 100 monographs, such as Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (3 volumes), Advances in Water Treatment & Environmental Management, etc.

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From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers — many with full text and images.

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Databases including Facts on File World News Digest, Issues & Controversies in American History, Issues and Controversies: In-Depth Investigations of Today's Top Issues, Today's Science on File, and The World Almanac Reference Database. 

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History Study Center

History Study Center is an online resource providing a vast collection of digitized primary and secondary sources for the study of history. It is suitable for a wide range of users, from high school students looking for quick and reliable facts on a historical topic, to researchers examining hard-to-find primary source texts. History Study Center covers global history from ancient times to the present day. Contents include reference books, essays, journal articles, historical newspaper and magazine articles, maps, rare books, government documents, transcripts of historical speeches, images and video clips. Study Units offer editorially selected material on over 500 historical topics. History Study Center provides over 40,000 documents and articles, with over 50 reference works, 3,000 images and links to 2,000 Web sites.

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The Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) bibliographic database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. LISTA indexes nearly 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.

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Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. This database covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writes, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most studied authors.

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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

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A comprehensive art information resource with access to 45,000 articles, 500,000 biographical citations, 86,000 cross-references, 720,000 index entries, and images from the Bridgeman Art Library and other external image links. 

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Oxford Reference Online :Online Dictionaries

Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection provides over 100 dictionary (English & Bilingual), language reference, and authoritative subject reference titles covering the full academic spectrum including: art & architecture; biological sciences; classics; computing; earth & environmental sciences; economics & business; food & nutrition; general reference; history; law; literature; medicine; military history; mythology & folklore; performing arts; physical sciences & mathematics; politics & social sciences; religion & philosophy; and, science & technology. Over 50,000 in-depth articles from the acclaimed Oxford Companion series and all 20,000 quotations from the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations are available.

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Provides full-text articles from five national newspapers including the Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. Average coverage dates include 1986 to present with limited Deep Backfile Option (Prior to 1986).

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This new 100% full text science database includes all the full text content from Wilson’s acclaimed Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, and General Science Full Text, plus additional related full text science titles indexed by other Wilson databases including Readers’ Guide Full Text and Wilson OmniFile Full Text.

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