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General & Reference databases
Databanks (Collections of Databases)
- EBSCO Databases
- Several scholarly and general index databases, some with full text
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- InfoTrac databases
- A collection of academic and general interest databases
- New PowerSearch interface
- Original InfoTrac interface
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- LexisNexis Academic
- Provides the full text of many news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications, including national and regional newspapers, wire services, and broadcast transcripts
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- FirstSearch databases
- A collection of about 30 databases, mostly journal indexes
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General interest and reference databases
- Academic Search Premier
- An all-purpose academic database covering many disciplines
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- Alternative Press Index [password required]
- Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change
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- ArticleFirst [password required]
- OCLC index of articles from the contents pages of journals
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- Books in Print [password required]
- In-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audios and videos
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- Britannica Online
- Browse or search more than 100,000 articles from Encyclopædia Britannica. Includes photographs, illustrations, sound files, and video clips; a dictionary and thesaurus; and statistical data for the countries of the world.
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- Credo Reference
- A digital reference library of dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, books of quotations, and subject-specific titles, covering many subjects, all from leading publishers.
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- Dissertation Abstracts
- Indexes dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe
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- EBSCO MegaFILE
- A "catchall" conglomeration of other four other EBSCO databases
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- Electronic Collections Online (ECO)
- An index to more than 5,000 journals
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- Expanded Academic ASAP
- A multidisciplinary database; a good starting point for many academic research topics
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- FindArticles.com
- A curious mixture of articles from popular magazines and scholarly
journals that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains
articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 periodicals on a range
of topics, including business, health, society, entertainment, sports
and more. A free service of LookSmart and the Gale Group.
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- General OneFile
- An all-purpose database covering a wide range of subjects, providing access to more than 5,500 scholarly and popular full-text journals
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- General Reference Center Gold
- A multidisciplinary database indexing mostly popular or general interest magazines such as you would find in a public library
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- Google Scholar
- An Internet search engine for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports
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- InfoTrac K-12 databases
- A variety of databases for kindergarten through high school
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- MasterFILE Premier
- A multidisciplinary database designed specifically for public libraries
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- OCLC databases
- See ArticleFirst, Electronic Collections Online (ECO), FirstSearch databases, PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst, and WorldCat.
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- OED Online
- Online version of The Oxford English Dictionary, the authoritative guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past, from across the English-speaking world
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- Oxford Reference Online
- Full-text dictionaries and other reference books in many subject areas from Oxford University Press
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- PapersFirst
- index of papers presented at conferences worldwide
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- Periodical Abstracts
- Abstracts from more than 2,000 general and academic journals
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- ProceedingsFirst
- An index of worldwide conference proceedings
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- WorldCat
- The world's most comprehensive bibliography of books and other materials from libraries around the world
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