Online Article Databases
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Databases offer citations and full-text articles from magazines, journals, and newspapers, and other resources.

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Academic OneFile
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Coverage of most academic topics including science, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and more.
Academic Search Premier
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Coverage of most academic topics including biology, business, chemistry, education, engineering, law, mathematics, music, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, religion, theology, and more.
AccessScience*
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Offers searchable content from McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and other McGraw-Hill publications. Encyclopedia articles, scientific definitions, multimedia, and other content is organized into browse-able areas including Agriculture, Forestry and Soils, Anthropology and Archaeology, Astronomy and Space Science, Biological and Biomedical Science, Chemistry, Computing and Information Technology, Earth Science, Engineering and Materials, Environmental Science, Food Science and Technology, General Science and Technology, Mathematics, Medicine, Military Science, Navigation, Paleontology, Physics, Psychiatry and Psychology, and Veterinary Medicine.
Biography Resource Center & The Complete Marquis Who's Who
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Biographical information on over 1 million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas; combines access to 250,000+ narrative biographies from 70+ biographical sources, 1 million biographical entries from The Complete Marquis Who's Who, full-text articles from about 250 periodicals.
Books & Authors
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Books & Authors offers new ways to explore books, authors, genres, and topics. It combines over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of preferred reading lists to help library visitors find the books that they want to read. Books & Authors includes content for both genre fiction and essential non-fiction.
Business & Company Resource Center
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Company profiles, histories, chronologies, and full- text articles from international trade and business journals and industry newsletters. Includes Predicasts' PROMT, Newsletters ASAP and Thomson Financial's Investext Plus databases.
Business Source Premier
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Full- text access to 7,600 scholarly business journals and other sources; covers many business topics including management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business; offers country economic reports.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Comprehensive source of full text articles from nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 620 journals indexed in CINAHL.
Computer Source
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access This database contains more than 300 full text journals and magazines covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software.
CultureGrams Online*
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Current information about the world's countries and people. The World Edition section offers historical, social and cultural information about people living in one of 182 countries or territories. In addition to country reports, users will also find maps, biographies, statistics and data tables, glossaries, photographs, and recipes. A Kids Edition section features 66 country reports, and a States Edition features the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
Custom Newspapers
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Access to full-text newspaper articles from New York Times and other select newspapers from around the U.S. and the world.
EBSCO Animals
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access EBSCO's Encyclopedia of Animals offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Some image links are available.
Educator's Reference Complete
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Database of 450+ full-text academic journals, full-text reports, and other reference sources. Coverage includes educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education.
Encyclopedia Americana*
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Online encyclopedia that contains 45,000 articles contributed by over 6,500 specialists in their respective disciplines. Covers all academic fields and curriculum topics.
ERIC
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access The premier U.S. national bibliographic database of education literature. Sponsored by the US Department of Education, ERIC consists of two files: Resources in Education, covering document literature, and Current Index to Journals in Education, covering published journal literature from over 775 periodicals. Also includes some full text of ERIC Digest records, written specifically for teachers, administrators, and other practitioners to provide topic overviews and references for more information.
Expanded Academic ASAP
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Database for research in all academic disciplines combining a wide variety of sources from every academic concentration including astronomy, communications, current events, history, humanities, law, psychology, religion, social sciences, sociology, and the general sciences and technology.
Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia*
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Encyclopedia offering 25,000+ entries on a variety of topics.
Gale Literary Index*
	All Access Master index to the major literature series published by The Gale Group. It combines and cross references more than 130,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and more than 140,000 titles into one source.
General Business File ASAP
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Includes 200,000 company profiles as well as 50,000 full text broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.
General OneFile
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access A source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics with coverage of some titles dating back to 1980.
General Reference Center
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Full text articles and citations from magazines, newspapers and reference books covering topics such as current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, etc. At present 315 of 415 indexed titles are full text.
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia*
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Thousands of new and expanded encyclopedia articles with bibliographies and links to other Web sites.
Health & Wellness Resource Center
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Provides subscription-only access to medical, health, and wellness information. Includes the respected Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine and delivers up-to-date reference material as well as full-text periodicals and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources. Also provides descriptions of and links to several...
Health Reference Center Academic
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Citations, abstracts, and full-text articles from 220+ publications, covering fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health & safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, health and wellness research, etc. Medical and consumer periodicals, health newsletters, reference books, referral information, topical overviews, and pamphlets.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Full text access to 550+ scholarly journals; contains abstracts for 800+ titles. Topics focus on many medical disciplines with strong coverage of nursing and allied health.
History Resource Center: U.S.
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Designed with the research needs of undergraduate history students in mind, this multimedia resource offers primary documents in monographs, pamphlet, and first-person account formats. Access to multimedia clips, periodical articles, and encyclopedia entries are also available.
History Resource Center: World
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Collection of reference, full-text articles from scholarly publications, primary sources, images, maps and charts relating to the study of world history.
Junior Edition Grade Level: K-12
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Now with over 330 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Kids InfoBits Grade Level: K-12
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Kids InfoBits is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. Featuring a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, the most popular search method is moving from a broad subject to a narrower topic using the subject-based topic tree. The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines. This database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
LegalTrac
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Locate articles in all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals, and legal newspapers on Federal and State Cases, Laws and Government Regulations, Legal Practice, and legal subjects such as Taxation and International Law. British Commonwealth and European Union cases and law are also included.
Lexis-Nexis Academic*
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Provides full-text news, business, legal, medical, and reference information.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access 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.
Liebert Online*
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access | Learn More Delivers electronic access to peer-reviewed journals in the fields of biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine and surgery, and law. Content exceeds 28,000 papers from more than fifty-five authoritative journals, all full-text searchable and linked to external bibliographic databases.
Literature Resource Center
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Over 120,000 authors from a wide range of literary periods and disciplines are addressed through biographies, bibliographies and criticisms.
MAS Ultra Grade Level : K-12
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
Medline
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Citations and abstracts to global biomedical literature including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services. Includes reference to articles from 4,600 current journals published in the U.S. and 70 other countries.
Military & Government Collection
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Current articles on topics pertaining to all branches of government and the military from almost 400 periodicals; offers 245+ pamphlets.
MLA Directory of Periodicals
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Detailed entries for 7,100+ journals that include contact information, frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.
MLA International Bibliography
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Index of international scholarly materials on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore.
Nature*
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access | Learn More Nature is a weekly international journal publishing peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology. The journal also publishes news and trends that would be of interest to both scientists and the general public.
New Book of Knowledge Encyclopedia* Grade Level: K-12
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Thousands of new and expanded encyclopedia articles with bibliographies and links to other Web sites.
Newsbank
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Database of newspaper articles printed from a variety of U.S. newspapers including The Greenville (S.C.) News and The State Newspaper (Columbia, S.C.).
Nursing Resource Center
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Designed for nursing students, this database offers disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams.
Opposing Viewpoints
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Resource for viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites.
Ovid's Nursing Collection II (Lippincott Premier Nursing Journals)*
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access
Pre-CINAHL
	Campus Access | Off Campus Access Citations for new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject s