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Articles - Magazines and Journals (Multidisciplinary)
Art, Language, Literature, & Music
Biography
Books Online
Business
Career
Education & Child Development
Encyclopedias
Geography & Cultures
Health
History
Law and Political Science
News
Pro/Con
Psychology & Sociology
Science & Math
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Articles - Magazines and Journals (Multidisciplinary)
Provides full-text articles for 2,550+ periodicals, 1992 to present, including nearly 1000 peer-reviewed titles, and abstracts for over 1,300 periodicals, 1971 to present. Wide range of subject areas, including art, anthropology, dance, music, children, criminology, education, literature, multicultural, political science, philosophy and religion.
A core resource of scholarly information, with over 3,650 abstracted and indexed journals and full text for more than 2,100 journals.
An archived database of articles from academic journals in many fields, especially history, sociology, political science, ethnic studies, language & literature, philosophy, mathematics, religion, music, business, education, art & art history, law, and economics.
Full-text access to 5000+ publications. Includes news transcripts, corporate information, legal publications, foreign and domestic news, medical information, etc. Many periodicals are covered for the last twenty years.
Contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues, and much more. This database also contains the full text of more than 500 reference books, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps, and flags.
Contains full text for nearly 500 popular magazines. Content includes full-text biographies, primary source documents, reference books, and an Image Collection.
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Art, Language, Literature, & Music
Oxford Art Online is the most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day.
Literature Resource Center (Gale)
Covers more than 130,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. Provides biographical information and critical analyses.
Literary Reference Center Plus
A comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. Find poems, short stories, literary criticism, plot summaries, book reviews, and biographies.
LitFinder provides the opportunity for complete appreciation and study of great literary works by offering access to more than 135,000 full-text poems, stories, plays and more.
MagillOnLiterature Plus, produced by Salem Press, is the premier literary database, combining MagillOnLiterature and MagillOnAuthors. This database includes all the literary works, reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries that are included in MagillOnLiterature, as well as all the biographies and author essays included in MagillOnAuthors.
A comprehensive online music reference resource; includes Grove Music Online, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and The Oxford Companion to Music.
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Biography
Biography Reference Bank (Ebsco)
Contains entries from reference sources covering 500,000 people; includes 380,000 related full-text articles and 36,000 images. Subjects represent all fields and nationalities, and coverage is from antiquity to the present.
Books Online
eBook Collection (EBSCO)
6,296 online titles (2,891 copyright titles and 3,405 public domain titles). The titles can be browsed or checked out; the circulation checkout period set for the shared collection is four hours.
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Business
Business and Company Resource Center (Gale)
Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing 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
Full-text access to over 5000 publications. Includes news transcripts, corporate information, legal publications, foreign news, medical information, etc. Many periodicals are covered for the last twenty years.
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Career
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center (Facts on File Reference Suite)
This database profiles more than 3,300 jobs in more than 90 industries with career preparation information (including scholarships, academic programs, and non-academic programs) and web resources.
MissouriConnections.org (Formerly: Career Information System - CIS)
Full-text. Explore careers, schools, financial aid; find out about career assessment tools. Includes glossary of career-related terminology.
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Education and Child Development
Book Collection: Nonfiction - Elementary School Edition
Contains informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 1,300 popular nonfiction books. The database includes high interest titles on animals, weather, holidays, adventure, sports, Native Americans, United States, Canada, biographies, nature, civics, and more.
Book Collection: Nonfiction - High School Edition
Contains informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 2,450 popular nonfiction books. The database includes high interest titles on careers, health, life skills, ethnicity, disabilities, adventure, sports, technology, biographies, music, science, history, civics, and more.
Book Collection: Nonfiction - Middle School Edition
Contains informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 3,100 popular nonfiction books. The database includes high interest titles on careers, health, life skills, ethnicity, disabilities, adventure, sports, technology, biographies, history, science, women, civics, and more.
Discovering Collection offers easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering the core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, DC provides a premium selection of reference, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips. New to the database are popular topic picklists and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.
Access to education literature and resources. Contains more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents from ERIC back to 1966.
Use practice tests and tutorials to prepare for placement, vocational, entrance, and other exams. Access job and internship opportunities, plus resources to help with resumes and letters, with occupation-specific examples. Although access to these materials is free, you will have to sign in and register as a new user with a username and password of your choice.
LISTA: Library Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO)
World-class bibliographic database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Delivered via the EBSCOhost platform, LISTA indexes more than 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.
Contains full text for more than 140 popular middle school magazines. Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays; primary source documents; reference books; and thousands of relevant photos, maps, and flags.
Contains full text for more than 80 popular elementary school magazines. Additionally, Primary Search includes the Encyclopedia of Animals™; the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia; the American Heritage® Children's Dictionary, 3rd edition; and thousands of relevant photos, maps, and flags.
Professional Development Collection
Provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators, professional librarians, and education researchers. 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, Theory Into Practice, and nearly 520 high quality education journals. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.
Teacher Reference Center (EBSCO)
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
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Encyclopedias
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
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Geography and Cultures
Daily Life Through History (Formerly - Greenwood Daily Life Online)
Provides content from a vast number of reference works, monographs, and primary documents. Based on the six-volume encyclopedia, Daily Life Through History will be supported by an active publishing program to ensure an ever-expanding and updated base of content. Includes maps, statistics, photo gallery, and recipe collection.
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Health
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 covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc. Formats include full-text articles from consumer health related periodicals, full-text evidence-based health reports, health reference books and encyclopedias, medical images and diagrams, physician-generated videos, full-text consumer health pamphlets, and animations with audio narration.
Health Reference Center Academic (Gale)
Indexes articles on fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health and safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, etc. from 1980 to present.
Proquest Nursing and Allied Health Source
Provides journal articles ad dissertations for nursing and more than 70 health care disciplines, allowing for interdisciplinary searching. Includes 560 full-text periodicals from 1986 to the present.
ScienceDirect Health and Life Sciences Journals (Elsevier)
Access articles from more than 900 peer-reviewed journals, with coverage back to 1995.
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History
African-American History Online (Facts on File Reference Suite)
Provides material from core reference resources in African American studies. Includes biographies, subject entries, primary sources, images, maps, and timelines.
African American Studies Center (Oxford)
The Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 8,000 articles by top scholars in the field.
American History Online (Facts on File Reference Suite)
Contains about 1,700 important primary source documents from more than 500 years of American history. Hyperlinks guide users to related documents, biographies, and images.
American Indian History Online (Facts on File Reference Suite)
Provides coverage of more than 5,000 years of culture, legends, and leaders. Over 500 Native American groups are covered, including primary source documents, biographies, maps and charts, images, and timelines.
American Women's History Online (Facts on File Reference Suite)
Includes biographies, historical and topical entries, speeches, maps, timelines, tables and charts, primary sources, and photographs.
Ancient and Medieval History Online (Facts on File Reference Suite)
Explores six ancient centers of civilization - Africa, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Mesoamerica, and Mesopotamia. Spanning the period from the early Hominids 3 to 5 million years ago through 1522 CE, features subject entries, biographies, primary sources, images, maps and charts, and timelines.
Daily Life Through History (Formerly - Greenwood Daily Life Online)
Provides content from a vast number of reference works, monographs, and primary documents. Based on the six-volume encyclopedia, Daily Life Through History will be supported by an active publishing program to ensure an ever-expanding and updated base of content.
An archived database of articles from academic journals in many fields, especially history, sociology, political science, ethnic studies, language & literature, philosophy, mathematics, religion, music, business, education, art & art history, law, and economics.
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Law & Political Science
Criminal Justice Periodicals (ProQuest)
Search a comprehensive collection of U.S. and international criminal justice journals including information for professionals in law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security.
Search federal and state legal cases, Supreme Court cases, articles from law reviews and legal periodicals, federal and state codes, patents, and international legal materials.
Westlaw Campus (Only available to Paralegal students.)
Westlaw Campus is a version of the same research service preferred by most American Bar Association members. Provides access to the complete laws and statutes of the federal government, all 50 states, and D.C., federal regulations, case law, journal and law review articles, a legal encyclopedia, and other resources.
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News
Full-text access to 5000+ publications. Includes news transcripts, corporate information, legal publications, foreign and domestic news, medical information, etc. Many periodicals are covered for the last twenty years.
Provides full-text articles from "Kansas City Star" and "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" as well as several other U.S. newspapers.
Kansas City Star 1991-current
St. Louis Post-Dispatch 1988-current
Provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, selective full text for more than 370 regional (U.S.) newspapers, and full-text television and radio news transcripts from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc.
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Pro/Con
Founded in 1923 as Editorial Research Reports, CQ Researcher is a complete source for in-depth, analytical reporting on the most current and controversial issues of the day. Published by Congressional Quarterly, with its tradition of nonpartisan reporting and analysis, each CQ Researcher presents a balanced account of an issue on the public agenda.
Issues and Controversies (Facts on File News Services)
"Issues and Controversies" provides factual analysis, with opposing points of view, on about 600 controversial topics from 1995 to present, links to related articles and overviews, and statistical data (By the Numbers).
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (Gale)
Provides viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, court cases, statistical tables, images, podcasts, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
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Psychology & Sociology
Criminal Justice Periodicals (ProQuest)
Search a comprehensive collection of U.S. and international criminal justice journals including information for professionals in law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security.
Full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences (EBSCO)
Covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
Sociological Collection (EBSCO)
Covers all areas of sociology with full-text articles from 500+ journals, of which nearly 500 are peer-reviewed.
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Science & Math
General Science Full Text (EBSCO)
Provides articles from periodicals covering all areas of science, health, and mathematics.
Provides information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. This collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
An archived database of articles from academic journals in many fields, especially history, sociology, political science, ethnic studies, language & literature, philosophy, mathematics, religion, music, business, education, art & art history, law, and economics.
ScienceDirect Health and Life Sciences Journals (Elsevier)
Access articles from more than 900 peer-reviewed journals, with coverage back to 1995.
Science Online (Facts on File Reference Suite)
Conveys the visual nature of science with over 6,300 printable diagrams, including human anatomy in color, nearly 1,000 experiments, definitions, biographies, and thousands of essays, with citation information provided for each entry.
A comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full-text science-oriented content. Contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, animations, images, and videos. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology, and wildlife.
Today's Science (Facts on File News Services)
Bridges the gap between textbooks and what's happening in science today. Drawing on major scientific journals and other periodicals, "Today's Science" covers subjects of health, the environment, technology, life science, physical science, earth and space science, and science and society from 1992 to present, with glossary of scientific terms and biographies.
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TRIAL SUBSCRIPTIONS
Trial subscription evaluation form
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W
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Academic Search Elite
African-American History Online (Facts on File Reference Suite)
African American Studies Center (Oxford)
American History Online (Facts on File Reference Suite)
American Indian History Online (Facts on File Reference Suite)
American Women's History Online (Facts on File Reference Suite)
Ancient and Medieval History Online (Facts on File Reference Suite)
Art Online (Oxford)
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Biography Reference Bank
Business and Company Resource Center (Gale)
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Consumer Health Complete
CQ Researcher
Criminal Justice Periodicals (Proquest)
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Daily Life Through History (Formerly - Greenwood Daily Life Online)
Discovering Collection (Gale)
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eBook Collection (Ebsco)
ERIC
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Facts on File News Services
Facts On File Reference Suite
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center (Facts on File Reference Suite)
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
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Issues and Controversies (Facts on File News Services)
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K
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Learning Express Library
Lexis-Nexis Academic
LISTA; Library Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Lit Finder
Literary Reference Center Plus
Literature Resource Center (Gale)
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MagillonLiterature Plus (EBSCO)
MAS Ultra School Edition
MasterFILE Premier
Middle Search Plus
MissouriConnections.org(Formerly: Career Information System - CIS)
Music Online (Oxford)
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (Gale)
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Periodicals A-Z
Professional Development Collection
Proquest Nursing and Allied Health Source
ProQuest Research Library
PsycArticles (EBSCO)
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences (EBSCO)
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ScienceDirect Health and Life Sciences Journals (Elsevier)
Science Online (Facts on File Reference Suite)
Science Reference Center
Sociological Collection (EBSCO)
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Teacher Reference Center(EBSCO)
Today's Science (Facts on File News Services)
TRIAL SUBSCRIPTIONS
(Trial subscription evaluation form.)
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Westlaw Campus (Only available to Paralegal students.)