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Academic Search PremierComprehensive 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.
Alternative Press IndexAn international and interdisciplinary index of about 300 alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines. No full-text.
CareerNoodle
Funded by the Office of Career and Life Services.
Dissertation AbstractsCovers 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.
Electronic Collections OnlineIndexes over 3,700 academic journals in all academic disciplines from 1995 to the present. Updated daily.
JSTORJSTOR 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, 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.
MasterFILE PremierThis 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.
NetLibrary Full text of books from major academic and general-interest publishers available online.
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.
WorldCatBibliography 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.
Reference Britannica OnlineIncludes the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and thousands of Web links and other Web sites selected by the Britannica editors.
Credo Reference
Search online encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other
reference sources to find definitions, statistics, images, etc.
Foundation Directory
Information on the 10,000 largest foundations in the United States. Call the Circulation Desk at 563-589-3100 for the password.
Scholarships, Fellowships, & Loans
This online directory provides sources of scholarships, fellowships, loans, internships, work study, and other education-related financial aid at all levels of study.
Specialized
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.