Articles & Databases

This scholarly collection offers unmatched full-text coverage of information in many areas of academic study including animal science, anthropology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women’s studies, zoology, and many other fields.

BNNA contains more than 141,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present. The database is an essential research tool for anthropologists, educators, historians, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, legal and medical researchers, linguists, theologians, ethnobotanists, and policymakers. BNNA will appeal to anyone interested in exploring the contributions, struggles, and issues surrounding North America’s indigenous peoples.

The DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) was launched in 2003 at Lund University, Sweden, with 300 open-access journals. Today, the independent database contains ca. 12,000 open-access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science, and humanities.

Because this is a directory of peer-reviewed journals freely accessible on the web, the titles cover a wide range of topics; careful searching may be necessary to discover relevant articles.

We subscribe to three JSTOR collections:

Arts & Sciences 1Ⅰ

Core research and society publications in the represented disciplines (economics, history, political science, & sociology).

Arts & Sciences 12Ⅻ

Extends coverage in the social sciences, focusing on disciplines with high usage and broad appeal across all levels of higher education; education, law, and political science disciplines anchor the collection, and include journals from the American Bar Association, Brill, Lynn Reiner, and Springer.

Life Sciences

Merges the Biological Sciences and Health & General Science Collections together into a single multidisciplinary collection; extraordinary depth in the field sciences and coverage in medicine, nursing, epidemiology, and public health.

The Retraction Watch blog chronicles news stories about prominent retractions.

The collection provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,850 academic periodicals and includes full text for more than 1,800 journals, 550 books and monographs, education-related conference papers, citations for over 4 million articles including book reviews, and over 100,000 controlled and cross-referenced names of educational tests.

Coverage in Education Source spans all levels of education from early childhood to higher education and also includes educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Subject matter includes adult education, continuing education, distance learning, government funding, multicultural/ethnic education, social issues, student counseling, and vocational education as well as many others.

The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books dating back to 1966. When provided by ERIC, there are links to the ERIC full text or links to other sources such as publisher websites or DOIs.

This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. This is the most comprehensive and most valuable collection of full-text education journals in the world. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 700 journals. Examples of titles offered in Professional Development Collection include Booklist, Curriculum Administrator, Education, Education Digest, Educational Leadership, High School Journal, Journal of Education, Journal of Educational Research, Phi Delta Kappan, Reading Teacher, School Library Journal, and many others. The majority of full-text titles included in the database are available in native (searchable) PDF or scanned-in-color. Full-text information in the Professional Development Collection dates as far back as 1965.

Since 2002, Mometrix has developed and fine-tuned study materials for over 1800 different standardized exams including teacher certification, nursing and medical, college and graduate school admissions, K–12 state standards, professional certification, and many more!

The Mometrix eLibrary includes test-preparation materials for:

• ACT
• ASWB
• CNA
• GMAT
• GRE
• LSAT
• MAT
• MCAT
• NCLEX
• OAT
• OGET
• OPTE
• OSAT
• PCAT

It contains content from journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to the present; nearly all APA journals go back to volume 1, issue 1. APA PsycArticles is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA’s Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.

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.

Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. All MMY entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts. To be included in the MMY, a test must be commercially available, be published in the English language, and be new or revised since it last appeared in the series. First published by Oscar K. Buros, the MMY series allows users to make knowledgeable judgments and informed selection decisions about the increasingly complex world of testing.

Also produced by the Buros Center for Testing at the University of Nebraska, Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).

Project MUSE offers open-access (OA) books and journals from several distinguished university presses and scholarly societies. Through our open-access hosting programs, we are able to offer publishers a platform for their OA content, which ensures visibility, discoverability, and wide dissemination. These books and journals are freely available to libraries and users around the world.

This database provides access to more than 530 full-text journals including Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, European Archives of Psychiatry & Clinical Neuroscience, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, European Journal of Neuroscience, International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, International Review of Psychiatry, Journal of Clinical & Experimental Neuropsychology, Journal of Mental Health, Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology, and many more.

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection also provides particularly strong coverage in child & adolescent psychology and various areas of counseling.

Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. The database features more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. This product also contains informative abstracts for more than 1,300 ‘core’-coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. In addition, this file provides data mined from more than 450 ‘priority’-coverage journals as well as from over 2,900 ‘selective’-coverage journals. Extensive indexing for books/monographs, conference papers, and other non-periodical content sources is included. Searchable cited references are also provided.

This database provides complete full text for more than 500 important journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all 523 journals in the collection. Examples of titles offered in the Sociological Collection include Addiction, Adolescence, American Journal of Sociology, Applied Psychology, Bioethics, Child & Family Social Work, Classical Philology, Ethnicity & Health, Feminist Studies, Journal of Social Behavior & Personality, Journal of Social Issues, Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, Sociological Review, Sociological Theory, and many more. The majority of full-text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF or scanned-in-color. Full-text information in this database dates as far back as 1965.

This database also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an image collection of over 502,000 photos, maps, & flags. MasterFILE Premier offers PDF backfiles (as far back as 1975) for key publications including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Judaism, Library Journal, National Review, Saturday Evening Post, etc.

The database contains comprehensive full text for major newspapers such as Christian Science Monitor, Irish Times (Ireland), San Francisco Chronicle, The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), The Times (UK), Toronto Star, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times (DC), and others. All staff articles are also included from many newspapers, including The Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle, Star Tribune (Minneapolis), The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Seattle Times, etc. In addition, Newspaper Source Plus features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts, including ABC News (American Broadcasting Company), ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), CBS News, CNBC, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, MSNBC, National Public Radio, PBS, and more.

This content is monitored by EBSCO, and relevant results are provided when users enter searches in EBSCOhost. This collection includes AP Financial News, AP Top News, AP WorldStream, AP U.S. Politics & Government, AP 50 State Reports, UPI Security Industry, UPI Emerging Threats, UPI Business, UPI Entertainment, UPI Sports, UPI Top News, Arabia 2000, and more. End users can immediately access the full text of the web content by following the link in the record. The index to the full-text content in EBSCO Newswires is held for a rolling thirty-day archive by EBSCO, so users can enjoy the previous thirty days of news relating to their search interests.

Students can use either the dropdown menus for Current Events or Topics to easily locate relevant articles. TOPICsearch contains full text for more than 90,000 articles from nearly 250 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO’s unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.

This collection includes over 14,000 feeds covering a range of business and general news topics. End users can immediately access the full text of the web content by following the link in the record.

Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double-clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images and offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated annually.

Topics include biography, history, careers, cooking, literature, genealogy, health, parenting, personal finance, politics, architecture, science, current events, social–emotional health, sports, and travel.

As a historical dictionary, the OED is very different from dictionaries of current English, in which the focus is on present-day meanings. You’ll still find present-day meanings in the OED, but you’ll also find the history of individual words, and of the language—traced through three million quotations, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

This new collaboration extends the work started in 2014, when EBSCO and the H.W. Wilson Foundation created American Doctoral Dissertations, which contained indexing from the H.W. Wilson print publication, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities, 1933–1955. In 2015, the H.W. Wilson Foundation agreed to support the expansion of the scope of the American Doctoral Dissertations database to include records for dissertations and theses from 1955 to the present.

Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions.

MAS Complete also provides more than 440 full-text reference books, 85,670 biographies, 105,786 primary-source documents, and an image collection of over 502,000 photos, maps, and flags, color PDFs, and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.

All full-text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary-source documents, and a school image collection of photos, maps, and flags.

All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines. Examples of publications covered in Primary Search include Appleseeds, Boys’ Life, Cobblestone, Cricket, Highlights for Children, Hopscotch, Jack & Jill, Ladybug, Ranger Rick, Science World, Spider, SuperScience, Time for Kids, Turtle, and many more. This database also provides the American Heritage Children’s Dictionary, 3^rd Edition, from Houghton Mifflin, and a school image collection of photos, maps, and flags. Many full-text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF or scanned-in-color. Full-text backfiles go as far back as 1990, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as 1985.

It contains informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 1,300 popular nonfiction books. The database includes high-interest titles on animals, weather, holidays, adventure, sports, Native Americans, United States, Canada, biographies, nature, civics, and more.

It contains informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 2,450 popular nonfiction books. The database includes high-interest titles on careers, health, life skills, ethnicity, disabilities, adventure, sports, technology, biographies, music, science, history, civics, and more.

It contains informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 3,100 popular nonfiction books. The database includes high interest titles on careers, health, life skills, ethnicity, disabilities, adventure, sports, technology, biographies, history, science, women, civics, and more.

Topics include biography, history, careers, language arts, literature, government, health, math, science, current events, and social–emotional health.

Multiple versions of the Explora interface provide unique, age-appropriate content for primary schools, secondary schools, and public libraries. This also includes an Educator’s Edition, which offers lesson plans, support materials, and professional development resources.