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Academic Search Premier
Comprehensive index to scholarly journals and popular magazines in all academic disciplines. 4,365 titles indexed (3,228 peer-reviewed) and 3,432 full-text (2,568 peer-reviewed). Updated daily. Limited coverage before 1990.

ACM Digital Library
The Digital Library provides full-text access to 47 ACM journals and magazines including an archive from the 1950's forward. Also included in this database are abstracts of articles from Conference Proceedings and SIG Newsletters.
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Agricola
Sponsored by the National Agriculture Library. Covers every agricultural subject. Citations from journal articles, book chapters, monographs, conference proceedings, technical report, and other material.

Alternative Press Index
An international and interdisciplinary index of about 300 alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines. No full-text.

APA Style Guide to Electronic Resources (Available through E-Reserves)

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
Comprehensive database for religious and theological scholarship. Contains citations from 600 international journal articles, plus full-text for around thirty titles (The full text is ATLA Serials or ATLAS). Also indexes book reviews, multi-authored works, and the Methodist Reviews Index.

Aviation Reference Library
60 separate InfoBases with FAA, EPC, and FCD regulations, FAA publications and reports, Advisory and Maintenance Circulars, and US Code. Updated quarterly. Available on CD. Campus network access only.

Aviation Scholarship Directory 2008 (Available through E-Reserves)

BibleWorks 7
A Bible concordance, it offers six English versions, the Greek New Testament, the Hebrew Old Testament, the complete Septuagint, abridged versions of Hebrew and Greek lexicons, and parsing of every grammatical form in the Bible, plus foreign language Bibles, and older Bible dictionaries and reference works. Available on CD. Campus network access only.

Biology Digest
Indexes and abstracts 375 journals and magazines in the life sciences. Designed for college students who are not biology majors. 1989 to the present. Updated nine times per year.

BioOne
Search a broad selection of the full-texts, peer-reviewed journals and bulletins published by American Institute of Biologial Sciences (AIBS) member societies and other closely related organizations.

Books in Print with Reviews
Bibliographic information about books, plus reviews from journals.

Britannica Online
Includes the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and thousands of Web links and other Web sites selected by the Britannica editors.

Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 3,800 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business.

CareerNoodle
An interactive career exploration database that includes an interactive resume wizard, multimedia tutorials, etc.  Funded by the Office of Career and Life Services. 

Catholic Periodical Literature Index
The database covers all aspects of the Catholic faith and lifestyle, and includes over 370,000 index citations of articles and reviews published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers.

Checkpoint - RIA
This database is the leading tax and accounting research database, published by the leader in advanced research, practice materials, and compliance tools for tax, accounting and corporate finance professionals, Thompson RIA. Coverage includes information on financial management, controllership, internal auditing and GAAP and SEC compliance. Also included are in-depth explanations and annotations for all tax types for all 51 jurisdictions and archives of cases rulings and regulations. Users will be able to search for tax code by state, receive alerts on changing tax laws and obtain expert advice and analysis from authoritative sources.

Chicago Manual of Style Online

Chicago Tribune (Available through Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe)
The Chicago Tribune covers international and national news with 20 bureaus. The Tribune provides in-depth profiles of the more than 85 Fortune 500 companies, along with superb biographical sketches, criticism and comment of research-worthy topics, coverage of social issues, urban affairs, sports, politics and government, cultural affairs. From 2000 - Current.

CINAHL
The authoritative source of information for the professional literature of nursing, allied health, biomedicine, and healthcare including references to books, book chapters, pamphlets, audiovisuals, dissertations, educational software, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, nurse practice acts, critical paths, and research instruments. Although a bibliographic database, CINAHL includes selected original and full-text material.

ComAbstracts and CIOS
Sponsored by the Communication Institute for Online Scholarship (CIOS). Provides title, author, and keyword indexes all key communication periodicals in addition to topical bibliographies and more.

Communication & Mass Media Complete
This database is a merger of two key communication indexes: CommSearch and Mass Media Complete. Provides many full-text articles.

Contemporary Women's Issues
Covers sources published by more than 100 organizations worldwide. Provides full text of journals and other sources. 1992 to the present. Updated weekly.

Credo Reference
Search online encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference sources to find definitions, statistics, images, etc. 

Dictionary of Information Science and Technology
The Dictionary of Information Science and Technology is a continuously-updated, full-text database including the latest terms and definitions in the fields of information science and technology.

Digital Karl Barth Library
The collection features the entire corpus of Barth's Gesamtausgabe. Published under the TVZ imprint, this definitive edition of Barth's works in German currently comprises more than 40 volumes of sermons, letters, lectures, conversations, and academic writings. Also included in The Digital Karl Barth Library is Barth's magnum opus, the 14-volume Kirchliche Dogmatik.

Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts
Provides access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras including theological writings, biblical commentaries, confessional documents, and polemical treatises.

Dissertation Abstracts
Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the United States at an accredited institution for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations.

EconLit
Published by the American Economic Association. Contains citations and abstracts to economic journals, plus subject indexing of books and dissertations.

Electronic Collections Online
Indexes over 3,700 academic journals in all academic disciplines from 1995 to the present. Updated daily.

Encyclopaedia Judaica
Updated edition of this lauded work on Judaism features more than 21,000 entries on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists.

Endnote Web

ERIC
Published by the U. S. Department of Education, it is divided into two parts: RIE (Resources in Education) and CIJE (Current Index to Journals in Education), 1966 to the present. Updated monthly.

Foundation Directory
Information on the 10,000 largest foundations in the United States. Call the Circulation Desk at 563-589-3100 for the password.

GEOBASE
Covers books, conference proceedings, reports, and journals in geography, geology, ecology, international development, and their related disciplines from 1980 to the present. Updated twice a month.

GPO Monthly Catalog
Consists of records published by the Government Printing Office since 1976, including references for documents to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, executive department documents, etc.

Health Source (Consumer)
Provides access to over 130 full text consumer health magazines. This database covers topics such as medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.

Health Source (Nursing/Academic Edition)
Provides access to over 575 scholarly full text journals in nursing and allied health.

Humanities International Complete
A comprehensive database of humanities content, providing full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world, and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals with more than 1.5 million records.

JSTOR
JSTOR I, II, III, and IV provides full text access to 506 core journals in the social sciences, the humanities, as well as journals in ecology, geography, law, mathematics, and statistics. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR.

Lexis/Nexis Academic
Wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information, with full text of 2,000 journals and magazines. Especially good for legal research.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
Literature Resource Center - LRC, Scribner, Twayne US, Twayne English, and Twayne World Authors
Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series. Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 full-text titles.

MAS FullTEXT Ultra
Developed for high school libraries. Provides full text for 460 general interest periodicals.

MasterFILE Premier
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,050 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, it includes full text reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an Image Collection of photos, maps and flags.

Medline
Sponsored by the U. S. National Library of Medicine. Covers all areas of medicine, dentistry, nursing, health services administration, and more from over 9,500 journals, 1965 to the present. Updated daily.

Middle Search Plus
Designed for middle school libraries. Contains full text of 140 popular, middle school magazines.

MLA Directory of Periodicals
The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.

MLA International Bibliography
MLA International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. The electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.

National Library of Medicine Gateway
Provides access to various National Library of Medicine databases including MEDLINE/PubMed, Toxline, and MedlinePlus (consumer health resources).

Naxos
This online collection of music includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo, and Dacapo catalogues. Genres covered include Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Limit to 5 simulaneous users.

NetAdvantage
Published by Standard and Poor's. Contains their Bond Guide, Corporation Records, Dividend Record, Earnings Guide, Industry Survey, Mutual Fund Reports, The Outlook,Standard & Poor's Register of Corporations, Stock Guide, and Stock Reports.

NetLibrary
Full text of books from major academic and general-interest publishers available online.

New York Times (Available through Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe)
Full text, 1980 - current issue. No financials.

Newspaper Source
Full text for about 225 regional, national, and international newspapers and newswires plus transcripts of major television and radio news broadcasts.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

Philosopher's Index
Covers all major fields of philosophy such as aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics, etc., and philosophy of related interdisciplinary fields such as education, history, law and religion. Contains citation information and author-written abstracts for journal articles, books, contributions to anthologies, and book reviews, published from 1940 to the present. Indexes over 560 journals from more than 40 countries in 30 languages.

Presbyterian Book of Confessions
The Constitution of the Presbyterian Church (USA): Part I, Book of Confessions, available online as a PDF document.

Primary Search
Designed for elementary school libraries. Contains full text for over 50 popular, elementary school magazines. Also contains an elementary school-level encyclopedia, dictionary, images, and more.

Professional Development Collection
Full text articles for about 480 international journals in education.

PsycINFO and PsycArticles
Summaries of the world's literature in psychology, including about 9,900 international journal, books, chapters of books, dissertations, and technical reports. 1887 to the present. Updated weekly. PsycArticles contains more than 45,000 articles from 57 journals - 46 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. Coverage spans 1985 to present.

Regional Business News
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Religion Databases
Searches multiple EBSCO religion databases: Old Testament Abstracts, ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, and Catholic Periodical and Literature Index.

Simulation in Healthcare: The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare
Articles involving areas of research and applications in healthcare simulation technology.

SocINDEX with Full Text
The index features more than 1,300,000 records with subject headings from a 15,000 term sociology-specific thesaurus designed by expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 235 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 545 books and monographs, and full text for 6,601 conference papers.

Telegraph Herald (Available through Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe)
The Telegraph Herald is a newspaper published in Dubuque, Iowa with coverage online from 1995 - Current. The TH is the primary source of information in the tri-state area of northeastern Iowa, northwestern Illinois and southwestern Wisconsin.

The International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship
Papers involving research, innovations, issues and perspectives about nursing education, as well as responses to articles are published. The web-based publishing environment includes video-clips, sound bites, supplementary tables, or even hypertext links.

The Washington Post (Available through Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe)
With daily circulation of more than 800,000, and over 1.1 million on Sundays, The Washington Post ranks as one of the top five newspapers in the U.S. The Washington Post is known throughout the U.S., and the world, for its hard-hitting style of journalism, coverage from 1977 - current.

TOPICsearch
Designed for K-12 students. This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in todays classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 139,800 articles from more than 4,800 diverse sources.

Ulrich's Periodical Directory
Detailed bibliographic information on a quarter-million publications from more than 130,000 publishers in 200 countries. Content includes comprehensive data for consumer and trade magazines, academic and scholarly journals, peer-reviewed titles, monographic series, newspapers and newsletters, electronic publications, and many other types of serials publications -- including irregularly published titles -- updated weekly.

Vault Online Career Library
This database provides access to career information including resume and cover letter guides and samples, company and industry profiles, and career advice articles.   Sponsored by the Office of Career & Life Services and Diamond Program. 

Vocational & Career Collection
The collection provides full text coverage for nearly 350 trade and industry related periodicals including American Machinist, Pediatric Nursing, Wireless Week, Drug Store News, Video Business, Reeves Journal, Hotel and Motel Management, Restaurant Business, Advertising Age, and many more. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for over 600 journals.

WorldCat
Bibliography of books, documents, multimedia, Web pages, and more from libraries worldwide. More than 49 million bibliographic records cover material from 2100 B.C. to the present.