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General - Great places to start your research
EBSCO Academic Search Complete This is a great place to start for research papers, projects, essays, etc. This database provides access to 1,000s of journals in all subject areas--English, History, Math, Science, Art, Philosophy, Psychology and much more.
Credo Reference This is a great database to get background information on your research topic. Credo provides access to reliable information from encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, bilingual dictionaries and more.
Films On Demand A comprehensive collection of over 6,000 educational videos covering a wide range of topics organized appropriate for academic research.
US Major Newspapers Provides access to the five most respected newspapers in the U.S. including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and the Chicago Tribune.
Biography Reference Center this database offers a comprehensive collection of 450,000+ full-text biographies, as well as thousands of unique narrative biographies
Business
Business Source Elite provides full text for over 1,000 business publications dating back to 1985. More than 10,100 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included.
US Major Newspapers Provides access to the five most respected newspapers in the U.S. including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and the Chicago Tribune.
Communications
Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.
Films On Demand A comprehensive collection of over 6,000 educational videos covering a wide range of topics organized appropriate for academic research.
Current & Controversial Issues
Opposing Viewpoints in Context covers contemporary issues facing society. An interdisciplinary resource that includes includes pro/con viewpoints, reference articles, interactive maps, infographics, and more.
EBSCO Academic Search Complete This is a great place to start for research papers, projects, essays, etc. This database provides access to 1,000s of journals in all subject areas--English, History, Math, Science, Art, Philosophy, Psychology and much more.
Films on Demand A comprehensive collection of over 6,000 educational videos covering a wide range of topics organized appropriate for academic research.
Points of View contains resources that present multiple sides of an topic, and provides information for developing persuasive arguments and essays on controversial issues.
ProCon.org offers research on controversial issues, presented in a balanced, comprehensive, pro-con format.
US Major Newspapers Provides access to the five most respected newspapers in the U.S. including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and the Chicago Tribune.
eBooks
eBook Academic Collection contains nearly 120,000 eBooks, including titles from leading university presses such as Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, UC Press, Harvard University Press and many others.
eBook Community College Collection Featuring more than 48,000 titles, in subject areas such as the Humanities & Social Sciences, Business, Science & Technology, and Literary Criticism.
Education
Education Research Complete covers areas of curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding, and related social issues, from early childhood to higher education.
ERIC A searchable database of annotated citations for education-related research, technical and journal articles.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.
SocINDEX with Full Text is a comprehensive sociology research database with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers.
Environment and Geography
CountryWatch A comprehensive database of information on countries around the world. Find up-to-date maps, flags, current economic, political, social, and other extensive country information.
Environment Complete offers deep coverage in the areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, and affiliated areas of study.
Health
AHFS Consumer Medication Information covers patient drug information, available in both English and Spanish.
Health Source: Consumer Edition provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
MEDLINE includes 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, it uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.
PubMed PubMed comprises more than 23 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
History
America History & Life covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
History Reference Center features full text for more than 1,990 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction titles from leading history publishers as well as more than 200 leading history periodicals.
European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.
Legal and Career
Legal Information Reference Center is a top consumer legal reference provider, offering access to popular, full-text legal reference books from NOLO Press as well as thousands of downloadable legal forms.
Vocational Studies Complete covers education and training on varied topics including: alcohol and drug abuse counseling, biotechnology, CAD, forensics, graphic arts, health, law enforcement, paralegal studies, robotics, and dozens more.
Library & Literature
Literary Reference Center Plus is a comprehensive, full-text database that providing relevant information on thousands of authors and their works, giving students, professors and researchers a complete foundation of literary reference works to meet any and all of their research needs.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
Political Science
Political Science Complete is a comprehensive database with scholarly journals, reference books, monographs, and conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association.
CountryWatch A comprehensive database of information on countries around the world. Find up-to-date maps, flags, current economic, political, social, and other extensive country information.
Psychology and Sociology
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.
SocINDEX with Full Text is a comprehensive sociology research database with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers.
Reference
Credo Reference This is a great database to begin research on any topic. Credo provides access to reliable information from encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, bilingual dictionaries and more.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Science
Environment Complete offers deep coverage in the areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, and affiliated areas of study.
MEDLINE includes 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, it uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.
PubMed comprises more than 23 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.