Online databases by subject
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Alphabetical List of Databases
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General Reference:
World Book Reference:
authoritative encyclopedia, atlas, dictionary, articles and a Spanish
edition.
Ebsco Host Research Databases:
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Gale Virtual Reference Library:
full text business, history, law and medicine
reference books online.
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Business and Economics:
Business & Company
Resource Center: magazines, journals
and reference sources regarding business and economics.
Gale Virtual Reference Library:
full text business reference books online.
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Citations:
Citation
Machine:
IMSA
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy:
MLA
Citation Generator:
Noodletools:
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Health/Medical:
Health & Wellness Reference Center:
health related magazines, journals, and newsletters (1980 - present); Newspapers
(1999 - present); Pamphlets (current year plus two year backfile); and Reference
(latest edition).
Health
Reference Center - Academic: full text of nursing and allied health journals.
Medline
Plus: federal
government web site that includes health topics, drug information, medical
encyclopedia and dictionary, with current health related articles and medical
directories.
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History & Social
Studies
ABC-CLIO
World History:
Social
Studies database with focus on history and social studies resources.
Biography Resource Center: short biographies from reference sources and magazines.
Britannica: Annals of American History:
primary
source documents from American historical sources, speeches, memoirs,
literature, publications, and includes media formats such as pictures, video
clips and recorded materials.
CQ Researcher: assorted
documents and information on various government issues, legal matters and
current events.
CQ Supreme Court
Collection: historical analysis
with timely updates and expert commentary of Supreme Court decisions,
biographies of Supreme Court justices, Supreme Court institutional history, and
the U.S. Constitution.
Gale Virtual Reference Library:
full text business, history, law and medicine
reference books online.
Modern
World History Resource Center: documents
from reference and primary sources as well as information from journals and periodicals.
RandMcNally
Classroom Rand
McNally Classroom
is an authoritative, easy-to-use website for K-12 curriculum-relevant maps,
articles and teacher tools covering everything from the world right down to your
community.
Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Center:
current social issues information from selected published books,
topic overviews, full-text magazine and newspaper articles, primary source
documents, statistics, images, podcasts, and links to Websites.
Student
Resource Center - Bronze:
reference sources, full-text periodicals, newspapers, journals, pamphlets,
primary source documents, web sites, and student research tools on geography,
culture, history and literature.
US
History Resource Center:
United States historical based documents from reference and primary
sources as well as information from journals and periodicals.
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Literature:
Lit
Finder: full-text
poems, stories, essays, plays, and speeches with references and
citations.
Literature
Resource Center:
criticism, biographies,
bibliographies, work overviews and explications, Web sites, periodical
articles, compare and contrast pages, full-text author's works, and reading
lists.
Twaynes
Author Series: full
text discussions of an author's works and a chronology of the author's life.
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Magazines:
Ebsco Host Research Databases:
700 general reference publications with
coverage dating as far back as 1984.
Infotrac
Junior:
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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Newspapers:
Infotrac
Custom Newspapers: full-text newspapers from around the
United States and the world.
National
Newspaper Index: articles from Christian Science
Monitor , Los Angeles Times, New York Times, New York Times Book Review, New
York Times Magazine, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post from 1980.
Proquest:
scholarly
education periodicals and the New York Times Newspaper, including both the current
edition
and historical New York Times back to 1851.
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Sciences:
Ebsco Host Research Databases:
full text coverage for more than 60 of the most popular science
publications.
Science
Direct:
full text and citations to scientific, medical and technical
publications in Physical Sciences & Engineering; Life Sciences; Health
Sciences; and Social Sciences and Humanities.
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Test Prep & Careers:
Testing
& Educational Reference Center:
colleges' information, distance learning programs, graduate level
programs, career schools and test preparation for all types of educational
exams.
Occupation
Outlook Handbook: government
database for all types of jobs and employment with facts about:
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training and education needed
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earnings
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expected job prospects
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what workers do on the job
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