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Academic OneFile (InfoTrac)
Academic OneFile is a comprehensive database that currently contains more than 12,000 journals covering a wide range of topics from science, technology, business, history, the humanities and more. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers--many with full text and images! This easy-to-use database is a great place to start almost any research project.

AccessScience
AccessScience provides full-text access to articles from The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology; "Research Updates" from The McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science and Technology; more than 12,000 illustrations; the latest Science News headlines; biographies; and more.

Britannica Online
This includes Britannica Encyclopaedia online, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the year. It can also be used to search an Internet directory that includes more than 130,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors. This database contains many images and some other types of multimedia.

Business & Company Resource Center
Business & Company Resource Center brings together a wide variety of global business information, allowing you to efficiently research business case studies, competitive intelligence, and career and investment opportunities. This database includes company profiles, industry rankings and statistics, financial ratios, business events and trends, and more.

CountryWatch
CountryWatch has real-time news articles and country report information for each of the 191 countries of the world. Information includes country background information, contemporary issues, cultural information, and much more. Additional resources include: statistical sources, social studies educational sources, and maps.

CQ Global Researcher
CQ Global Researcher delivers definitive, in-depth coverage of newsworthy global affairs from a multitude of international viewpoints. It includes major political, social, environmental, or regional issues from around the globe. Each original report is written by a seasoned journalist with years of international experience, and covers from 2007 to present.

CQ Researcher
This weekly publication provides in-depth, non-biased analysis of the most current major and controversial issues of the day, from 1991 to the present, with complete summaries, pros and cons, bibliographies and more.

Discovering Collection
This database has a variety of resources on the topics of history, biography, social science, literature and science. Some of the sources available are primary documents, multimedia content, plays, poems, and topic overviews.

eBooks
NetLibrary's eBooks provides electronic full-text copies of over 6,000 published print materials, such as reference books, scholarly monographs, fiction, and nonfiction books.

Expanded Academic ASAP
From arts and humanities to social sciences, science and technology, Expanded Academic ASAP meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers--many with full text and images!

Gale Literary Databases
This database contains Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography. Contemporary Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. Contemporary Literary Criticism Select is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors, containing a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works, and sources for further study. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.

Gale Custom Newspapers
This database contains newspaper articles from the Daily Telegraph (UK), New York Times, NYT Book Review, NYT Magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Gale Psychology Collection
This database is a subset of Academic OneFile that focuses on psychology subjects. This database contains journal, magazine and newspaper articles.

GreenFile
GreenFile is a collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

Health and Wellness Resource Center
The Health and Wellness Resource Center contains magazines, journals, newspapers, dictionaries, encylopedias, directories, and information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Prescription Drugs, etc. Included are links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases. The material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.

Health Reference Center Academic
The Health Reference Center Academic will find articles from magazines and scholarly journals on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Prescription Drugs, etc. The material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.

InfoTrac U.S. History
This database is a subset of Academic OneFile that focuses on U.S. history. This database contains journal, magazine and newspaper articles.

InfoTrac World History
This database is a subset of Academic OneFile that focuses on world history. This database contains journal and magazine articles.

LegalTrac
LegalTrac provides indexing for approximately 1,400 titles: major law reviews, legal newspapers, law specialty publications, bar association journals and international legal journals. It also contains law-related articles from more than 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.

Lexis-Nexis Academic
Lexis-Nexis Academic is a premier online source of approximately 5,600 local, national, and international news, business, legal, medical, and government information, mostly full-text and mostly from 1985 to the present.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports, and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, online information retrieval, information management, and more. Coverage extends back to the mid-1960s.

Literature Resource Center
The Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale's most used literary databases in a single Internet-searchable service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors. Search by Author Name, Title, Genre, Literary Movement or Literary Themes, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search path.

Los Angeles Times Online
Los Angeles Times database provides access to full-text newpaper articles from 1985 to the present. From ProQuest.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center contains information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, reference sources, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

Oxford Music Online
Oxford Music Online comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition (2001); The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992); and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition (2002). In addition, it includes over 500 of Grove's musical examples in sound as well as notated examples and links to other relevant web sites.

Professional Collection
The Professional Collection database is a collection of academic journals and professional newspapers covering topics and issues in education.

PsycINFO
PsycINFO (from Ebsco) is an abstract and citation (not full-text) database of psychological literature from the 1800s to the present. It provides scholarly literature in the behavioral sciences and mental health, and in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work.

Science Resource Center
The Science Resource Center, from Gale, provides an in-depth, one-stop source for all science-related research needs. It includes full-text content from three core encyclopedias: Gale Encyclopedia of Science, 3rd edition; MacMillan Science Library; and U-X-L Encyclopedia of Science. In addition, it includes over 300 reference titles; 150 science periodicals; newspaper science sections; over 8,000 multimedia records, including pictures, illustrations, audio clips, and video clips; links to over 500 relevant web sites; and a Science Standards Search that links to national and state science standards.

Other Free Online Databases:

The Aria Database is a searchable reference guide to arias by name, opera, language, and voice type including word-by-word translations into English, libretti, and MIDI files for many of the arias. It contains 1278 arias, 170 operas, 60 composers, 381 translations, and 223 midi files.

The Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University is a bibliography for designing literature-based thematic units for all disciplines, including health education. The database contains abstracts of over 4000 picture books for children, preschool to grade 3. Search over 900 keywords (topics, concepts, and skills) to locate books with storylines adaptable to your curriculum or program.

CIA Factbook offers information on various countries. This is a good source to use in addition to CountryWatch, which offers similar country profiles and statistical information.

ERIC is the world's largest source of education information. This version of the database, updated monthly with the latest citations available, provides access to more than 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education. Full-text is linked to the citation, when it is available.

PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the pre-clinical sciences. The PubMed file contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from approximately 3,900 current biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 foreign countries. The file contains approximately 9 million records dating back to 1966.