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Academic Search Complete: Full-text articles covering the fields of philosophy, news, science (general), communication and journalism, and reference works.

Accessible Archives: Primary source materials from eighteenth and nineteenth century publications assembled into databases with full-text search capabilities.

ACM Digital Library: Citations and full-text from the Association for Computing Machinery Journal, Newsletter and Conference Proceedings.

ACS Publications: Full-text documents from the American Chemistry Society Journals, Books and C&EN Archives.  Access to this database is restricted to on campus locations and computers in the Library Resource Center.

African-American History Online: Browsable biographies, events, topics, primary sources, timelines, images, videos, maps and charts for basic research.

Agricola: Bibliographic records of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library.

Alt Health Watch: Abstracts and full-text articles for more than 180 international journals, reports, pamphlets, booklets, original research reports and book excerpts covering holistic approaches to health care and wellness.

Annual Reviews: Full-text of critical reviews written by leading scientists within the Biomedical, Life, Physical, Social Science and Economic disciplines.

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials: Full-text of journal articles, book reviews and essays in the fields of religion from major religion and theology journals.

Art Abstracts: Search documents, art reproductions, video recording reviews, autobiographies, biographies, bibliographies, choreography reviews, corporate profiles, exhibits, fiction, television reviews, film reviews, opera reviews, musical comedy reviews, interviews and obituaries.

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Biography in Context: Full-text articles containing biographical information on over 185,000 people.

Biological Abstracts: Bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical research literature published in international journals.

Business Source Complete: Full-text journals in marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full-text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.

Bloom's Literary Reference Online: Biography of world authors; analysis and criticism of literary works and themes. Searchable by keyword, browsable by name or title.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education: Full-text news articles and information for the academe.  Includes job announcements, discussion forums and advice columns.

CINAHL Plus with full-text (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature): Abstracts and full-text articles from nursing and allied health journals.

Commerce Clearing House (CCH): Database of tax and tax law information. To process the required registration please contact a librarian.

Communication & Mass Media Complete: Abstracts and full-text articles from journals in the fields of communication, mass media, speech-language pathology and audiology.

CQ Global Researcher: Full-text single-topic reports on world issues from multiple international viewpoints.

CQ RESEARCHER: Full-text single topic reports on issues in the fields of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the economy.

Credo Reference: Full-text journal articles, books, images and videos covering the disciplines criminal justice, education, environmental studies, gender and women’s studies, general health, wellness, political science, psychology, contemporary issues and controversies.

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Dissertation Abstracts: Abstracts of dissertations and several sample pages. To obtain a full-text copy of a dissertation, please contact our Interlibrary loan Department or a librarian.

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eBooks: Full-text electronic books covering the disciplines art, biology, business, chemistry, communication, computer science, education, English, engineering, history, mathematics, music, pharmacy, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, sociology and theology.

Engineering Village:  The databases Compendex, Engineering Index Backfile, Inspec, Inspec Archive, NTIS, Referex, Patents from USPTO and esp@cnet, Ei Patents, EnCompassLIT, EnCompassPAT, GEOBASE, Chimica, CBNB, PaperChem and GeoRef may be searched through this interface.

ERIC (Education Resource Information Clearinghouse): Bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information.

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Funk & Wagnalls New World EncyclopediaFull-text articles updated annually and covering a variety of subject areas.  Images and some brief biographies are also available.

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GeoRef (1785 - present): Produced by the American Geological Institute, this database includes abstracts from articles, books, government reports, conference papers, theses and dissertations.

GPO Access - GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted.

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Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (CRC)Full-text contents of the current edition of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.

Handbook of Contemporary Neuropharmacology: Full-text contents of this nervous system pharmacology handbook.

HarpWeek:  Full-text medical journal articles including Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic EditionFull-text medical journal articles including Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs.

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IEEE Xplore- (Users are reminded to logout of IEEE after using the database: AbstractPlus records and full text published since 1998 from IEEE journals, transactions and magazines; AbstractPlus records and full text published since 2005 from Spectrum. (Users are reminded to logout after using IEEE)

IDIS  (Iowa Drug Information Systems): : Drug information database produced by the University of Iowa, College of Pharmacy with full-text articles about drugs and drug therapy in humans.

Informa HealthCare: Full-text articles from the journal Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods.

IOP Science:  Scientific information accessed through community websites, magazines and conference proceedings. 

IPA - International Pharmaceutical Abstracts: Provides international coverage of pharmaceutical science and health related literature from 1970 to the present, and is updated monthly. Subjects included are drug therapy, toxicity, and pharmacy practice as well as legislation, regulation, technology, utilization, biopharmaceutics, information processing, education, economics, and ethics as related to pharmaceutical science and practice.

Issues and Controversies: Covers topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture.  Updated weekly; searchable by keyword, browsable by name or title.

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JSTOR : Full-text journal articles published prior to the advent of digitization searchable by keyword.

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Lexis-Nexis Academic UniverseDatabase of news, business, legal research, medical, and reference resources.

Library Literature

LlibraryMusicSource - The largest collection of Western Classical sheet music ever assembled is now available via the internet from LibraryMusicSource.com.*Over 200 new full scores just added!*Authorized users have access and command of over 300,000 pages of sheet music from over 35,000 works including the entire piano works of Chopin, all the songs of Schubert, all the organ    music of J. S. Bach, and all the orchestra parts and scores of Beethoven, to cite only a few examples.Now the complete or nearly complete published works of the world’s great composers for    orchestra, chamber ensemble, piano, organ, voice, chorus, strings, winds, percussion and guitar are available online.

Literati by Credo: Full-text journal articles, books, images and videos covering the disciplines criminal justice, education, environmental studies, gender and women’s studies, general health, wellness, political science, psychology, contemporary issues and controversies.

Literature Criticism

Literature Resource Center- Biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.

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MAS Ultra

MathSciNet: Mathematics and science-related resources.

MEDLINE (1966 – present): The bibliographic database of the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Military & Government Collection.

MLA Directory of Periodicals

MLA International Bibliography

Mergent Online U.S. public company information on more than 10,000 companies (including EDGAR® (SEC) filings).

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NAXOS Music Library: Naxos Music Library [NML] is the world's largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 25,830 CDs with more than 369,000 tracks.  The library offers the catalogs of more than 50 classical, jazz and world music labels with more labels joining every month. Resources offered by NML include synopses of over 700 operas, a pronunciation guide for composer and artist names and a glossary of musical terms. The library can be searched by composer, work and label; by keyword search and by a sophisticated advanced search engine with up to 10 combined search criteria. 

netLibrary -Net Library is now a part of Ebsco.

Newsbank: With unmatched U.S. news content from local, regional, and national sources, this resource is the largest of its kind. Its diverse source types include printed and online newspapers, blogs, journals, newswires, broadcast transcripts and videos. Explore a specific issue or event through the detailed coverage provided by local reporting or compare a wide variety of viewpoints from across the country on topics such as politics, business, health, sports, cultural activities and people.

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OVID: (General link on the left, accounts link below) Professionals, researchers, students, and information managers in the scientific and healthcare communities rely on Ovid for the information they need to explore a new theory, fuel a new discovery, inform ongoing research, and improve patient care. We provide customized clinical, research, and educational solutions that help each individual and each organization transform information into knowledge.

If you have an OVID account please click here

Oxford African American Studies Center:

Oxford English Dictionary (OED): Guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of more than 600,000 words. It traces the history of words and of the language through more than 3 million quotations.

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Past Masters® Since 1989, InteLex has been publishing the Past Masters® series of full-text humanities databases. We are focused on the needs of the scholarly community in the human sciences.

PubMed Central: A free digital archive of life sciences journal literature at the U. S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) developed and managed by NIH’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM). PubMed Central gives users free access to over 250 full text journals. Although immediate free access to all content is desirable, some journals may delay release of their full text in PMC.

Primary Search

ProQuest: Index of periodicals and newspapers. Full-text of many articles.

PsycINFO (1887 – present): Citations and summaries in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines. Coverage, spanning 1887-present. Over 55,000 references are added annually through regular updates.

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Regional Business News

 

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Sage Journals Online:

Sanborn Digital Maps: Through this site, you can:

* Browse Louisiana maps by city, and date.
* View, download, and print the digital image of every map.
* Navigate of the maps with a thumbnail-image view.
* View images without downloading a plug-in viewer.

Science Direct

ScienceCareers: Career information for today's scientist - The magazine "Science" as well as daily news, career information, and other science-related information.

Scribner Writers Series: 1,600 full-text articles on writers and literary genres written by noted scholars. Bibliography of primary and secondary sources for further study.

Silverplatter Information Services

The Serials Directory

Something About the Author

Springer Ebooks : Science publications on-line

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The Twayne Authors Series - Twayne World, English, and US Authors: Literary criticism and critical introductions to the lives and works of nearly 600 authors and writers.

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Wiley InterScience: Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry

Wiley Handbook of Current and Emerging Drug Therapies: Authoritative, primary reference dealing with numerous biomedical applications, especially in the fields of therapeutics, pharmacology, and drug discovery and delivery

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Local Colleges and Universities Libraries

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