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Ebscohost Premier Collection of Databases
Full text periodical databases. Indexes and provides full text to thousand of titles. Subject coverage is broad and includes scholarly (peer reviewed) publications. Includes the following individual databases: MasterFILE Premier, Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, Health Source Nursing/Academic and Consumer Editions, Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection, Religion & Philosophy Collection, Professional Development Collection, Vocational & Career Collection, Military & Government Collection, Newspaper Source, ERIC, MEDLINE, and CINAHL/PreCINAHL and more.

Proquest Direct
An extensive magazine, newspaper and journal database covering social issues, business,health, science, economics, current events and more.

Encyclopædia Britannica Online

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Full text coverage of over 50 national and international newspapers. Also includes business, law, medical and general reference resources.

Ebscohost Ebooks 
Digital versions of books from a broad range of subject areas and topics. Electronic full-text copies of published print material, such as reference books, scholarly monographs, fiction, and nonfiction books.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a source for information on today's hottest social and controversial issues. OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.

Reference

Credo Reference
Credo Reference contains content from hundreds of reference books covering every major subject. There are over 2 million entries, 65,000+ images (art, diagrams, interactive maps and photos), and over 93,000 audio pronunciation files.

Encyclopædia Britannica Online

Encyclopedia of Anthropology
This five-volume Encyclopedia of Anthropology is a unique collection of over 1000 entries that focuses on topics in physical/ biological anthropology, archaeology, cultural/social anthropology, linguistics, and applied anthropology. Also included are relevant articles on geology, paleontology, biology, evolution, sociology, psychology, philosophy, and theology.

Ethnographic Video Online
Ethnographic Video Online provides the largest, most comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behavior – more than 750 hours and 1,000 films at completion. The collection covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.

Auto Repair

Auto Repair Reference Center

Business

Business Source
Available in the Ebscohost Premier collection of databases, the BSI includes approximately 8,940 full text resources (peer reviewed journals, trade publications, general magazines, monographs, country economic reports, market research reports, industry reports and yearbooks). Areas of coverage include: business, marketing, accounting, MIS, finance, econometrics, economics and more.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History

Regional Business News
Available in the EbscoHost collection of databases, Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Career Guidance Center
Provides detailed profiles of more than 3,300 jobs and 94 industries. Advice on career skills, interviewing, more than 48,000 resource entries, and much more.
Download sample resumes and cover letters.
More information: Info Sheet (PDF); Flash Demo

College Source
15,772 College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format representing 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools.

Learning Express Library
Contains an extensive collection of test preparation and study materials for college students, job seekers any anyone seeking to improve basic skills (math, vocabulary, grammar, writing, reading, etc.) Interactive test preparation materials, searchable electronic books, and skill improvement courses are included in the collection. Test preparation materials include college and military entrance exams (SAT, GRE, ASVAB, etc.). Also includes civil service tests for a variety of jobs including: EMT, paramedic, firefighter, and law enforcement. Professional licensing exams for: real estate, CBEST, ASE (automotive) are also available.

Vocational and Career Collection
Available in the Ebscohost Premier collection of databases. the Vocational and Career collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full text coverage for nearly 400 trade and industry-related periodicals.

Dance in Video
Contains dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance. Can be browsed by composer, choreographer, genre, performer, ensemble, and role.

International Encyclopedia of Dance
With nearly 2,000 articles written by scholars from fifty countries, the Encyclopedia covers the full spectrum of dance—theatrical, ritual, dance-drama, folk, traditional, ethnic, and social dance.

Ebscohost Ebooks
Digital versions of books from a broad range of subject areas and topics. Electronic full-text copies of published print material, such as reference books, scholarly monographs, fiction, and nonfiction books.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (Electronic books from Gale Publishing)
A collection of reference books and encyclopedias on a variety of topics. 

Springer Ebooks
Over 23,000 titles covering biomedicine, life sciences, behavioral health, mathematics, chemistry, materials science and medicine

College Source
15,772 College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format representing 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools.

ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center
Abstracts of documents and journal articles in education, lesson plans, virtual library, question & answer service, and more.

ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center
Available in the Ebscohost Premier collection of databases. Some full-text available.

Learning Express Library
Contains an extensive collection of test preparation and study materials for college students, job seekers any anyone seeking to improve basic skills (math, vocabulary, grammar, writing, reading, etc.) Interactive test preparation materials, searchable electronic books, and skill improvement courses are included in the collection. Test preparation materials include college and military entrance exams (SAT, GRE, ASVAB, etc.). Also includes civil service tests for a variety of jobs including: EMT, paramedic, firefighter, and law enforcement. Professional licensing exams for: real estate, CBEST, ASE (automotive) are also available.

Primary Search
Available in the Ebscohost Premier collection of databases, Primary Search provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research.

Professional Development Collection™
Available in the Ebscohost Premier collection of databases, the Professional Development Collection provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers.

Country Watch
Provides up-to-date information and news on 191 countries of the world.

Alt Health Watch
Available in the EbscoHost Premier collection of databases, Alt Health Watch focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Offers full text articles, from more than 180 international, and often peer reviewed, reports, proceedings, association and consumer newsletters.

CINAHL + Full Text Nursing Journals
Available in the Ebscohost Premier collection of databases, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) is an index to more than 1,200 journals in the health and medical fields.

Consumer Health Complete
CHC is a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content, including full text from many health reference books and encyclopedias and thousands of health reports as well as physician-generated videos and hundreds of medical images and diagrams.

Health Source®: Consumer Edition
Available in the Ebscohost Premier collection of databases, Health Source Consumer Edition provides full text of more that 300 consumer health periodicals, more than 1,000 health related pamphlets, 140 health reference books, prescription drug information, patient education fact sheets, 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); and Stedman’s Medical Dictionary.

Health Source®: Nursing/Academic Edition
Available in the Ebscohost Premiercollection of databases, Health Source Nursing Academic Edition provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.

Medline
Public access version of Medline. Indexes medical journals. No password required.

Medline
Available in the Ebscohost Premier collection of databases.MEDLINE® provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing and includes abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals. Included are citations from Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, PREMEDLINE®, AIDSLINE®, BIOETHICSLINE®, and HealthSTAR®. Access to full text articles is provided if the journals indexed are contained in the Ebscohost databases.

Nursing Reference Center
The NRC is a comprehensive reference tool designed to provide relevant clinical resources for staff nurses, nurse administrators, nursing students, and nurse faculty. Includes the best available and most recent clinical evidence from thousands of full-text documents. NRC has approximately 4,000 evidence-based lessons on procedures, diseases & conditions, legal case sheets and drugs; reference books point-of-care drug informa­tion from; patient education information (more than 3,200 documents in English and Spanish); continuing education modules; and more.

America History and Life with Full Text
America History & Life includes literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. The collection includes some 1,700 journal titles that are indexed selectively, 230 full text journals and 100 books.

America History in Video
This streaming video collection includes hundreds of hours of documentaries as well as thousands of newsreels from the 1940s through 1960s, including the entire series of both Universal and United. This collection is an exclusive collaboration with A&E Television Networks and features some of their most important documentaries and series from The History Channel®, A&E Network®, and Biography®.

American Decades Reference Book Series
The Fifities in America, Sixties in America, Seventies in America, Eighties in America books online.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle Newspaper Online, 1841-1902 – Brooklyn Public Library
Freely available to the public, this is not a subscription database.

The Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment

Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

History in Video
**Cross searches American History in Video Collection and World History in Video.** This site allows you to search across all of the video content in American History in Video and World History in Video. This capability significantly expands your historical research options, offering in-depth coverage of historical events, themes, eras, and movements from a variety of geo-political perspectives

History Reference Center
Available in the Ebscohost Premier collection of databases. Provides full text from more than 2,300 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 130 leading history periodicals, more than 61,100 historical documents, 66,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 110,200 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.

Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium

Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance

Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt

Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation

World History in Video
This online streaming video collection contains a range of documentaries  to explore human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century. The video content is global in scope, covering Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania. Upon completion, the collection will contain 1,000 hours of streaming video that offers access to more than 1,750 important documentaries from filmmakers worldwide.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Full text coverage of over 50 national and international newspapers. Also includes business, law, medical and general reference resources.

Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales

MagillOnLiterature Plus
Available in the Ebscohost Premier collection of databases. 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.

International Encyclopedia of Linguistics

Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature

Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature

Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature

African American Song (This collection has merged into American Song)
Documents the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection features recordings from the first half of the 20th century, and contains genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives.

American Song
Contains 50,000 tracks that allow people to hear and feel the music from America's past. Includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Also includes songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more on 17,859 tracks.

Classical Music Library
The world's largest multi-label database of classical music recordings. Coverage includes early music (Gregorian Chant) to the present, and ranges from vocal and choral music to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.

Contemporary World Music
Contains tracks from the sounds of all regions on every continent. Such as, reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
Comprehensive online encyclopedia devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. Each volume has an overview of a geographic region; a survey of the region’s musical heritage, traditions and themes; and a description of its musical genres, practices, and performances.

Jazz Music Library
Contains thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres. Liner notes to all the albums are included (in PDF format) as well as static URLs to each track and album in the database. Content is added on a regular basis, so check back regularly for updates.

Music Online
Music Online brings together on a single cross-searchable platform of the library’s  Alexander Street Press music and video products.  Music Online cross-searches all of  these databases:
    *American Song 
    *Classical Music Library 
    *Contemporary World Music 
    *Dance in Video 
    *Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
    *Jazz Music Library
    *Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries

Smithsonian Global Sound
A virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. It provides educators, students, and interest listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Full text coverage of over 50 national and international newspapers. Also includes business, law, medical and general reference resources.

Los Angeles Times - Electronic Edition
Online access to the last year of the Los Angeles Times. Note:Check your student e-mail or contact the library for username and password.

Newspaper Source Plus
Available in the Ebscohost Premier collection of databases, Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers (including the New York Times), providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.

CQ Researcher
Weekly analysis of current and controversial issues, pros and cons, bibliographies.

Military & Government Collection™
Available in the Ebscohost Premier collection of databases, Military and Government collection provides current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. Includes full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals, 245 pamphlets and indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles.

RAND California
CA economic and public policy issues. Statistics, demographics, & more on the state, county and city level.

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection™
Available in the Ebscohost Premier collection of databases, the Pscyhology & Behavioral Sciences collection includes over 500 peer reviewed journals and general periodicals in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, anthropology, etc.

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation

Religion & Philosophy Collection™
Includes more that 300 full text journals covering a variety of topics, such as: world religions, biblical studies, history of philosophy, moral philosophy, religious history, philosophy of language and political philosophy.

AccessScience
McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. Also provides science biographies, illustrations, weekly updates on new discoveries and breakthroughs in science, and more.

Energy Citations Database
Contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the U.S. Department of Energy. Includes bibliographic records in fields of chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science and related disciplines. Includes citations to conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents. Coverage: 1948-present.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Evolution

Oxford Encyclopedia of Global Change
Encompassing tsunamis, elephant conservation, ocean pollution, mining regulation, and permafrost melt, the 300 authoritative articles in this unique and wide-ranging encyclopedia investigate all types of phenomena that change life on Earth.

Science Accelerator
Science Accelerator is a gateway to science, including R&D results, project descriptions, accomplishments, and more, via resources made available by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), U.S. Department of Energy. Science Accelerator was developed and is made available by OSTI as a free public service.  No password required. (freely available to the public, this is not a subscription database)

Science.gov
Science.gov searches over 40 databases and 1,950 selected websites, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information, including research and development results. No password required. (freely available to the public, this is not a subscription database)

WorldWideScience.org
WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway—accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals. No password required. (freely available to the public, this is not a subscription database)

Country Watch
Provides up-to-date information and news on 191 countries of the world.

CQ Researcher
Weekly analysis of current and controversial issues, pros and cons, bibliographies.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a source for information on today's hottest social and controversial issues. OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States

International Encyclopedia of Linguistics

RAND California
CA economic and public policy issues. Statistics, demographics, & more on the state, county and city level.

Theatre

Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance

Theatre in Video
Contains definitive performances of the world's leading plays, film documentaries, online in streaming video, and titles that represent hundreds of leading playwrights, actors, and directors,scenes, monologues, and staging can be bookmarked.

• American History in Video
• Area Studies Video Online
• Art and Architecture in Video Online
• Business and Economics Video Online  
• Counseling and Therapy in Video
• Criminal Justice and Law in Video  
• Dance in Video    
• Education in Video
• Ethnic Studies Video Online            
• Ethnographic Video Online    
• Filmakers Library Online 
• Health and Healthcare in Video
• Humanities Video Online      
• Opera in Video
• Philosophy and Religious Studies in Video 
• Politics and Current Affairs Video Online
• Psychology Video Online
• Science Video Online           
• Theatre in Video  
• Women's and Gender Studies Video Online    
• World History in Video
• World Languages and Literature in Video  

  
America History in Video
This streaming video collection includes hundreds of hours of documentaries as well as thousands of newsreels from the 1940s through 1960s, including the entire series of both Universal and United. This collection is an exclusive collaboration with A&E Television Networks and features some of their most important documentaries and series from The History Channel®, A&E Network®, and Biography®.

Dance in Video
Contains dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance. Can be browsed by composer, choreographer, genre, performer, ensemble, and role.

Theatre in Video
Contains definitive performances of the world's leading plays, film documentaries, online in streaming video, and titles that represent hundreds of leading playwrights, actors, and directors,scenes, monologues, and staging can be bookmarked.

World History in Video
This online streaming video collection contains a range of documentaries  to explore human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century. The video content is global in scope, covering Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania. Upon completion, the collection will contain 1,000 hours of streaming video that offers access to more than 1,750 important documentaries from filmmakers worldwide.