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Academic Search Complete - Provides full-text articles from more than 6,100 multi-disciplinary periodicals including 5,100 peer-reviewed journals; and more than 10,600 publications including monographs, reports, and conference proceedings, etc.

African-American Newspapers - Full scans of various African-American Newspapers between 1827 to 1998, with full page scans.

Agricola - Provides more than 4.1 million citations from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Library. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture.

Alt HealthWatch - Provides for 180 alternative health publications, including many peer-reviewed journals, special reports, pamphlets, booklets, original research and book excerpts.

American Historical Newspapers – Louisiana - Full scans of Louisiana Newspapers, ranging from 1805 to 1900.

American Press - Allows you to access the local American Press and its archives.

Art Abstract - Provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for over 450 international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins.

Biography Resource Center & Marquis Who’s Who - Provides full-text biographies, magazine articles, images, and website links for more than 900,000 people

Biological Abstracts - Provides bibliographic references to life science and biomedical research journal literature published in over 4,000 international journals. This database contains more than 10 million archival records from as far back as 1969, with more than 370,000 citations added each year.

Book Collection: Nonfiction - It contains informative abstracts and full text for more than 4,400 popular nonfiction books. The database includes full text entries on core subject areas, as well as information on careers, health, sports, adventure, technology, life skills and more.

Business Source Complete - Provides full-text articles from nearly 1,200 business-related journals and contains 40,000 detailed author profiles. Topics covered include 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.

CINAHAL Plus with Full Text - Provides full-text articles from more than 750 journals nursing and allied health journals and publications. It is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.

Computer Science Index - Provides abstracting and indexing of more than 6,500 computer science periodicals and books dating back to the mid 1960s. It focuses on subjects such as artificial intelligence, expert systems, system design, data structures, computer theory, computer systems and architecture, software engineering, human-computer interaction, new technologies, social and professional context.

Computer Source - Provides full-text articles from more than 300 publications, and indexing and abstracting for over 450 technology related periodicals.

CQ Researcher – Provides original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Researched and written by seasoned journalists.

Dissertations & Theses - Provides abstracts and citations to 2.4 million doctoral dissertations and master theses. Some titles published since 1997 are available in PDF format online with a free 24 page review. 65,000 entries are added each year.

EBSCOhost – Search all or select EBSCO databases at one time!

Economia y Negocios - Provides indexing to more than 300 Spanish and Portuguese language business and economics periodicals published in Latin America, Spain and the United States.

Environmental Index - Contains more than 1,957,000 records from over 1,700 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,125 active core titles) as well as 120 monographs.It includes an in-depth thesaurus, and author profiles on 6,500 authors in the discipline.

ERIC - The Education Resource Information Center contains more than 1,282,000 records and links to more than 314,000 full-text education related documents.

Fuente Academica- Provides access to multi-disciplinary Spanish language scholarly journals covering many academic areas of interest including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia - Provides over 25,000 full-text encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subjects.

Virtual Reference Center

GeoRef - Provides citations and abstracts from over 3,500 journals pertaining to geosciences, as well as records for books, maps, and government reports.

GreenFILE - Provides information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment, including over 4,700 full-text records.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition - Provides full-text records from 550 journals focusing on healthcare and medical topics. It includes Lexi-PAL Drug Guide which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.

History Reference Center - Offers a wide range of full text information: 2,400 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, 135 leading history periodicals, 61,100 historical documents, 57,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 110,200 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.

Hospitality & Tourism – Provides bibliographic coverage to scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. This comprehensive database contains more than 749,000 records from nearly 650 titles, with coverage dating as far back as 1965.

Information Science & Technology Abstracts – Provides access to journal articles from 450 publications including books, research reports, conference proceedings and patents.

International Political Science Abstracts - Provides current indexing and abstracts of the world's leading journals in political science. It covers over 1,000 journals published from 1951 to the present.

Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts - Provides indexing and abstracts for articles in over 400 important trade publications, mainstream computer magazines, and professional journals including those that focus on specific topics such as Macintosh and Windows platforms, programming, web development and more.

JSTOR:The Scholarly Journal Archives - Full-text scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and Sciences. Interdisciplinary content, not for current events.

Learning Express Library - Provides a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course sites. Includes hundreds of e-book study guides. Must create a personal login account.

Legal Collection - Provides full-text articles from nearly 250 scholarly law journals pertaining to current issues, studies, thoughts, and trends of the legal world.

Lexi-PALS Drug Guide - Provides over 1,450 full-text Patient Advisory Leaflets that provide vital education on medications for patients.It covers over 1,450 medications and natural product leaflets, with an additional 600 Spanish language leaflets representing the most subscribed and commonly used medications. It is updated monthly.

LexisNexis Academic - Provides full-text articles and abstracts from newspapers, magazines, and reference sources, includes legal resources, company profiles, and biographies.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract with Full Text - Provides indexing to 500 core journals, 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. This database contains full text for more than 240 journals. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

Literary Reference Center - Provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. It is a comprehensive database that combines information from over 1,000 monographs, literary encyclopedias, reference works, and literary journals. It contains information on the most studied authors and their works.

Literature Resource Center - Provides current biographical information, overviews, and full-text literary criticism and reviews of more than 130,000 writers.

MAS Ultra - Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines. Provides more than 360 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 440,207 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text back files (back to 1975) for key magazines.

MathSciNet - Is produced by the American Mathematical Society. It is a comprehensive database containing reviews, abstracts, and bibliographic information about mathematical literature since 1940.

MedicLatina – Provides access to a unique collection of medical research and investigatory journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. This Spanish language database contains full text for 130 peer-reviewed medical journals in native Spanish.

MEDLINE - Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the health care system. Created by the National Library of Medicine it offers citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

Mental Measurements Yearbook - Provides a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments in psychology, education, business, and leadership. It is produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska.

Military & Government Collection– Provides current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. This database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content. It offers access to full text articles in nearly 300 journals and periodicals with indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.

MLA Directory of Periodicals – Provides detailed information on over 5,500 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.

MLA International Bibliography – Offers a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association it contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. Coverage is international and includes 60 titles from JSTOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text.

Newsbank - This family of historical collections contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera printed in America over three centuries.

Newspaper Source - Provides cover-to-cover full text for 35 national & international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 375 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are also provided.

Nursing & Allied Health Source - Provides full-text information from leading nursing and allied health journals. It includes Systemic Reviews, Evidence Summaries, and Best Practices Information Sheets from the renowned Joanna Briggs Institute.

Oxford English Dictionary - The OED is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words in the English language.

Primary Search - Provides full-text articles from more than 70 popular magazines for elementary school research. Includes a database of reading level indicators

Professional Development Collection - Provides full-text articles from over 520 high quality education journals and over 200 educational reports. For professional educators

PsycINFO - Provides 2.4 million citations and summaries of psychology-related journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences - Provides full-text coverage of over 550 journals and publications pertaining to behavioral science fields

Regional Business News - Provides full-text articles from over 75 business journals, newspapers and news wires in the U.S.

Religion and Philosophy Collection - Provides full-text coverage of over 300 journals pertaining to religious history, theology, and philosophical studies.

Sanborn Digital Maps - provides fire insurance maps that chart the growth and development of Louisiana towns and cities for historical research.

Scribner Writers Series - Provides fifteen to twenty page essays and critical reviews on over 2,000 authors and literary genres.

Science & Technology Collection - Provides full-text articles from over 800 scientific and technical journals, and abstracts from 1,700 other science periodicals.

SocINDEX with Full Text - Provides Sociology articles and information with over 390 full-text journals, over 720 books, and over 6,700 conference papers.

SPORTDiscus - Provides citations and records of articles and publications pertaining sport, fitness, and related disciplines.

Teacher Reference Center - Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators

The Serials Directory - Provides accurate bibliographic information for popular serials from over 108,000 publishers worldwide.

The Twayne Author Series - Provides full-text information and biographies on World, U.S., and English authors originally published in the Twayne Literary Masters book series.

Vente et Gestion (French Business Source) - Provides full-text coverage of French language business journals for academic and professional researchers.

World Book Advanced - A full-text encyclopedia, atlas, dictionary, image gallery, primary documents, news, and a Louisiana Resource Guide.

WorldCat Union Catalog - contains more than 52 million bibliographic records with holdings information from over 57,000 libraries around the world.

World History Collection - Provides full-text articles from nearly 150 journals and publications pertaining to world history. 1964 to present.

 

 

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